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The Brussels Post, 1907-4-18, Page 2se p::0 pee,gq'0.+.0+ "re:4;01p04l0 this horrible pain 7-0 God, you cio not know what pain it is I" t"`ido not I r anidei --"of 11e1' own free will," "1 do not know ; las you euy, I do not kaww her well.' QR, A SAD LIFT' STORY laoeso oho o-o•o leaele04'ofsee0 :w4-o-yo-poeSo-4o-0-0-e-oeI-0-4e0-4: C1IAPTER SXV,-(Continued). strous to be so helplessly ignorant Of the tee Is out of the room end out of the Iangunge of the cuuuh•y you ere living betel before his companions can Luce )n- sin spm has lost her wits, or-.-- 110 exception .t0 hie dis(Ippeihi'a111ee, 1''or, !lad thought t e mom imply, but OS he 80010 time he walks along ainllesaly, his ndt ujs eo a step further into it, he die - mind a jumble 0!inlsery, and dull, re- covens that he k not the sale occupant, 010rs0101 anxiety about Amalin ; inloler- that lying stretched upon the hoot', with able comparismis -between his own lot his fair head buried in a Idle pfilow, and hls frtend'a; shar'1 lcnivss el jenl against. ohhemnlen have nfbsn seen Oust' as often es-whioh is olnlost Inter- kliznbeth's small white cheek resting, is mltenlly--his imagination wings its tyng!-the Byng 01(000 riotous, ins0- cruel way to the Piazze d 1ztgli0- Ie 11 h(1ilpine58 lin had doubted his own through one opulent week, 1110 Diana. B'o'ers of witnessing witllont murdering At this moment (his moment .,ne 1(h hue !-the splendid fcliuily of whose lat own leaden feet are treading goalless the he lues Ixot'n 110 bitterly inyhlg beside ids (lot (lags teat 'for, hint lead nowhere_ own do .liuy--the Byng whom he lead Byng is enthroned with her in the hca- been gnashing his teeth al the thought of ven of the mean !!tile Salon, Ile unc(71(. -'et the thong., of tum lying in Ellza- Selously shows his teeth in a stern smile beth's ohms to the surprised passers-by. He had jeered Byng for his hyperboles, and 100 CHAPTER XXVI. he is out-hyperi)aling him. What a de- „ testable verb' ho has invented 1 110 What docs this mean?" laughs 'out loud. Are they sitting at the The question has to be twice repealed window, looking out at the Judas tree; before the person to whom it is address - and the Paulowma7 Not they 1 The cd gives oily sign of having heard it. Window. is commanded to a certain ox- Ills ears must be so deeply embeuded in G geis hear- 1 Sa to his the pillow that the a. dent by the roadway. The window is P n for acquaintances, banal acquaintances, ing is blocked. It is not 1111 the interne - like himself -no place far the permitted g11liem is put a second time, in a louder ' freedoms of exquisite pew love, Are they then on the solo, the vulgar walnut. sofa, over which Elizabeth has thrown her blue Neapolitan table -cloth? 1t is a little sofa, scarcely room for two upon it, oh I plenty of room for them! Or are they at the piano? Is she singing him some sugared ditty "lovely well" until fie breales into her song with the storm of his kisses, and her little white hands drop from the keys, and they 11e sob- bing with ecstasy in each other's arms? 1L is quite certain that Byng will sob. He is always delighted at having an op- portunity for turning on the water- works. Is there a bore possibility that Mrs. Le Marchant may carry Iter disap- probation to the pitch of impeding by her presence their tele -a -tete? The idea gives hint a momentary alleviation. Why should not he go and see for ilial - self whether it is so ? 11 .. ill be a method elf passing the tedious interval before, he can Bear the doctor's verdict on Amelia. He amust, at some time or other comply with Byng's pressing prayer to him to offer his congratulations to Elizabeth, and be may as well have a day of com- plete and perfect pain -pain of various flavors and essences mixed into one con- summate draught -a day of which not one hour shall be without its ache. Having come to this conclusion, his aimless walk quickens, and changes into a purposeful striding through streets and piazzas, till lie linds himself stand- ing at the door of 12a. He looks up at the enh'esol windows -they are all open, but no one is either sitting In or looking out at them. Itis as he had thought. The window is too public for them; neither can they be at the piano, for not a sound of either voice or Instrument is wafted down to him. He runs up the stone stairs, and rings the lectrbo bell. The standing befere the unopened por- tal and the trembling jar of the bell, bring back to him with a vividness he could do without, those other long -ago days -(They seem to him long ago -ween he stood there last, with no easy heart even then, but yet with how different anticipations. He hes found It hard enough to bear the brunt of Byng's furious inhuman joy when Melo: with. him. How will he stand it when he sees them together? He is recalled from these reflections by the opening of the door, and the appear. once in it of (he (ministering angel who has usually admitted hint into his Eden- Annunziata. It strilces him that Annun- ziata looks older and more disheveled 111011 ever, and is without that benevolent smile of welcoming radiance which her hard -featured face generally wears. Nor does she, as lips been her wont, stand back to let him pass in almost before he has put his question, es if she could not admit him quickly enough. But to-dny she stands, on the contrary, 1(n the door- way without a smile. In a second the proved it as a specimen of caligraphy ; idea flashes across Jim's mind that Byng but it never in its best, day could have has forbidden nnyone to be let fn. It been a very legible document. -And yet it Is not long. Its few words, when al length he makes them out, run thus "Good-bye, I eves mad yesterday. I shall never marry you; I been no right to merry any one. For God's sake do not ask ine what I mean; and oh 1 don't, don't, don't cone after me I" '!'here is neither dale nor signature. As 11111 stands staring at the five crooked, straggling sentences, a great. swelling compassion tilts his heart. Did ever poor little scribble make it so easy to construct the small shaking hand, and the tender breaking heart ihaL penned 11? An immense pity 1111s his soul; vel does itn uite fill it? Is there room be- sides, in one corner, for a small pinch of devilish joy? "Ilion .te1l, of tell 1 how thou didst murder me?"" says Byng, beglnning to walk up ant.) down the room cvi111 the tears still roll- ing dole 11 his 011051111, but in his spout- ing w0100--1,1 Ve100 01(1111 at 011ce 11s - sures Jim of an luneliurulien Ili lits frieurl's condition end 11111%iells his 113011 agaiusl him, As u :broad rule, indact . it clay be lllid down thin time sorrow which cumirs lluuugh one of the nulu- bcrless channels rut by lir poets for it will net bring lis vette'. to Waterloo Bridge, "Ind what um 1 saying l lapsing nut of his quolulien Inti brolclfl-hearted prose again. "11. was 1101 shed 1f I thought it wore she, multi 1 live a mo- menl? 11. is her 111011111': 00 sane per. 0011 01111 1100111 111(11 11 10 her 1111311e1'5 do- ing 1 Stu' wok alwees stn severity <100110, end her mother has conceived 501110 pre. judice againet me, Ui(1 not 1 1e11 you how berbllrmwly she shut the door upon me last eight ?-shut the door of nay s lloghl 1 heaven 111'rug face lus t IL 1 1 1� had won the right to enter ft. Who would not here thought that it was won who had seen us together in the wood?" Jen writhes. "Oh, never mind the wood now I" "Some ono 1(11e prejudiced her against me, but who 7 1 did not know that I had tut enemy in the world. Smn0 one has told her about --about Oxford -about my (Icing sent down." Jing Is silent. "It 1l Is only that----" a tearful buoy- ancy beginning to pierce through his deepair. It Is not that." ' spoke In e s ut;1n] ' "Same on has y P wheel, but who? You are the only per- son who Could, and you, dear old chap, are the last person who would, though key. and accompanied by a not very you were not very eneam'aging to 111(5 gentle shake of the shoulder, that 11e a1 last night' You did vol?'' length looks up, and reveals what 11111 There is so direct an interrogation in 111e last words, aecolllp011iel1 by so con- fiding a look of affection, that yet has an uneasy touch of doubt in it, that Jinn is obliged to 1111.0w01. "No, I did not put a. spoke 1(1 your wheel; but" -his hnnesly forcing the ad- mission ---"1 au not at n11 so slue that 1 am the last person who .would have done so. if I could." Byng has wiped ids eyes to clear his vision of the blinding tears, and has again direcled (bent lo the note, which he has all the while been alternately pressing against his heart, laying upon his forehead, and crushing against his mouth. "It seems blasphemy to say so of any- thing That came from her hand," he says, poring for the hundredth time over each obscure word, "hut it reads like non- sense, does not it? 'I shall never Marry you! I have no right to marry any one d' No right? what does she clean?" Jim shakes his head sadly. "How can I tell?" "Do you think it is possible" -lifting his disfigured eyes in )horrified appeal to this friend -"it is a dreadful hypothesis, but I can think of no oilier -that that bright (ubdlbgence was clouded -that - that iner dear little wits were touched when she wrote this?" "No, I do not think so." "You -you are not keeping anything from me?" -coaling a step nearer, and convulsively clutching his friend's arm - "you -you do not know anything -any- thing that could throw light upon -upon this? 1 do not know whether you are conscious of it, but there is something in your manner that might lead me to that conclusion. Do you know -have you henrd anything, "1 know nolhtilg," replies Jim, slowly, and looking uncomfortably away from the questioner, "but I conjecture, I fear, I believe thal-hint-" "That what? For God's sake, be a Mlle quicker 1" "That -that -there is a -a -a some- thing in her past." Byng falls back a pace or two, and puts up his land to his head. "What -what do you mean? What eve you talking about? Her past? 411 convulsive] y •, and thrusts f1 into hist What"-soarin(1 into extra.a(1ance again -"what can there be written on that hand. • while "It is the terse letter I ever had from Page? -so white that it bedazzles her," he says, the words rushing out Ibe eyes of even the angels who read it." broken and scarce) intelligible upon n I da not know what (hero is," replies y P him miserably, irritated almost' beyond violet of sobs,and flings hes henduennee by this poeto flight, aid e0n- violently dawnnupon-The floor again 111ead a dared even more wretched than he was new access of furious weeping. before by the rola that seems to be forced Burgoyne holds the paper in his un- upon hint, of conjecturally blackening able, out read it.a moment or two 1y is swim- Elizabeth's character. "flow many limes able to oThere is an thin swim- must 1 tell you that I know' no more Klan ming before 11(11 lyes for:one thing; to' another, Byng's treatment has not 1111- roll, only from -from various indica- tions I have been led to believe, that she has something -sonde great sorrow be- hind her?" (To be continued). knows to be, and yet has some diffi- culty in recognizing, as the features of Pe -lag -features so altered, so distorted, so swollen by 0x0085100 weeping, that no one less intimately acquainted with (hem than the person who bas been already contemplating .--em under the influence of a vuriely if circumstances for a couple of months, could possibly put the owner's name to thent. Jim has expected that his young friend would spend some portion of this clay in crying, ]snowing well both his powers of, and his taste for, "turning on the water -works," as be but lately cruelly and 011010111y phrased it to his own hind. But the warm tears of emotion, few and undistiguriug, with which he had credited him, have not much kinship with the scalding torrents that have made his handsome young eyes mere red blurs on his ashen face, that have furrowed his cbeelcs and dampened his disordered curls, and token all the starch out of his Imnlacu- late "masher" collar. They have welted, loo, into a state of almost pulp, a crump- led sheet of note paper, which his head seems .to have been burrowing in, upon the pillow. "What does it mean?" repeats Bur- goyne, for the third time, a hideous fear assailing him, .a1 the sight of the young man's anguish, that he himself may have mistaken, Annuuziala's meaning; that her "gone" may have stood for the final one; that some instant stroke may have snatched lovely Elizabeth away. out of the world. Surely no catastrophe less than death can account for such a metamorphosis as that wrought in Byng. "Why do you look like that 7" he goes on, his voice taking that accent of rage which extreme fear sometimes gives. "Why do not you speak?" The other, thus abjured, plainly (lakes a violent effort for ilrllculation; but his dry throat will lel pass nothing but a senseless sob. . "What does that paper mean?" goes on Burgoj'ne, realizing the impotence of his friend to obeys his behest, and rendered doubly terrified by it; "what, is 1t? what does it say? Does it -does it -explain anything?' He points as he speaks to the blurred and rumpled billet, and Byng catches it turns him half sick for the moment, and it is with an unsteady voice that lie stammers 1 "The Signorina? The Signorina?" Annunziala lifts her shoulders in a dismal elu'ug, and stretches out her hands : Gone 1" "Gone? You mean gone out driving?" Then remembering that her English is as minus a quantity as his Italian, be adds In eager explanation. "en nacre?" She shakes bier head, and than nods vaguely in the direction of 111e whole of She rest of 1(15 world -the whole, that is, that is not 12 1315. "No, gorse I" "But where? Dove?" cries he, frantic with irritation at his own powerlessness either to uilderstand or be understood. Again she shakes her head. "I do not know; they did not say." IIe gathers this to be her meaning, and hurriedly puts another query. "When? Quando 7" But her answer being longer and Mora vOlulilr, 1(0 ran'! lake in its delft, seeing which she ach'eiats a step, and, motion- ing 111111 wulh her Lunn( to enter, points down the pften(1e. 11e does not regnire to have 111e dumb-.1ll00 of invitation twice repeated, but rushing post ler hurries .down the well-known Iii Ie 10111. dor to the salon dear. It is open, and he stailids Within. At the 11rst glance f1 scans to ben to weer notch its uusual air, There is even a settee of musk: :Sending on the piuun, the copper 1101 aro fall of rose brmmhns, and the seal 11(11( l:u'imming w1111 Firenze`s Own librs, 11111 bit of red Venetian lenegde, with the little old tinsel fringe, still hangs over the al'm-chair by the lire -place, and the Neapolitan labke•covcl' still disguises the vulgnrily of 11171 sofa. Be has misunder- stood Ani 'n.:.'i tie -1l, se really _ mon- "There's many a slip "I'wIxI the cup and the lip." His own words of ihalalured croaking, uttered not an hour ago, to Ceciha Wil- son, recur to his mind. How little he thought ilial that prophecy would so 5fulfliled. Ile renluln- s r , eon be � , n long motionless and silent, his iUli,crs still holding the pairs, whose oenlente he has lung ago mastered, that Byng-- the violence of his p 11 <1ysm of grief et length exh11usie"i bu„ghss to his feel mud speaks -speaks as well as the teeth in his sobbing breath and Ills quivering 11110 will let hien, '7t is not her doing I Yon may think it is her doing, but I know it is not' I bettor " • , ' dlL1 than you 110. knew her I y "I never made_ 031y pretensions to knowing her well," refines the other sndly, and relinquishing ne he spce s the note to its owner. • "Is it likely, f ask you?" !'les Ryn excitedly. "I put it to you fairly, is it likely that elle, with her seraph nature, all love and burning, .elle that is tender over drowniog flies, Would have put me CAMMORRIST iiEADS CAUGHT. Chief Escapes to the United States as a Stowaway. Some floe hundred Cemomist ring- leaders huve been arrested at Naples as the result of 111e determined crusade undertaken by the Italian Government against secret criminal societies, The Neapolitan prisons are full to overfiow- ing, as many as twenty culprits being ledged in a single 0011, On this account, and beraus0 the' Canlorrisls were found to be holding committees among•ilrenl- seles and regular communication with ceinrodcs outside by me0118 of their own Meng code., the aulholilies have 1100 begun h'mgsferring them to different provincial houses of detention till the trial is fixed. which probably will not begin bin alio her twelve (months, "ho lu1 ori! hs have been obliged to transfer le Capri Signor Ca ezzuli tho n p gallon! me i'shnl,af cerbinteri, who slt- periniendcd the military pollee 1'ebde,. 'met lits repeatedly threatened esseseinn- ldon shnnld Lo (,(abed, and 11101011' 11i- enetke- the difficultes of an alrendy 1lnve situation. Deepile elan orale preemildone taken I„ effort his 1111111re. Lrrleone, the no- torious supreme rhir•f of 1110 Naples f gs oe un hila 110.. s1ir cdr rl inthin o elear g r, 500)33 to the United Slates, Memo, he despatched 11 inr sone to his per it ra 'myths he. lad 1(1)5117' hiker' e nen voy- age al 1110 doctor's nrdele, 511<1 fits ab- sence from his pest. 11118 Only 1e11p00- m'y, h:rri1011e manner(' to hnnr(l an emigrant Inner in the dlsgaiee of 31 cnn1- benver, 'and censer) the Allnntic as a slownwmy. its 1 WerlifesseWeteslivseesscositesteeeVesjil DA1R1 WISDOM, To 11111115 a prafit In the dairy there milst be en even doer of )(line during the wlude of the mllising ported. The feed (nest be unifolhn, (1o01 1131111' ag31110111 run 111011y 111111th lhls possible, l'1041111.111, changes of piihlure and plenty of soiling crops are within 5118,3' reach 01 every intelligent (Nie miain A fresh bite will sliiuulalo the wiper Ute, The more a cow cels with relish the mere she will erodes+, Seine dnirymeu try to 500 11010 lillle they can keep their races alive o1. No wonder they a'e always in1 "hard lUch," i)cul'1 allow 1110 !lies to eat ell 1)10 calves. iienlelnher that their skin is thin and clelivate and the flies can sap mole blood than the calves can make. Sive the cadcrs a drink of pure, clean 1.5111, 0001y day, 110 mailer if they ere getting milk. Abwuys have a cheek .of rock salt in every pasture, also in the cow yard. Did you know that it lees mance a dil- Ismeuc'e whether or not a cow stands in her 011'11 stall at milking time? Just look into this a little. You will see that not one cow out of n dozen will act or feel a'. bonne in a stall where she is not in the habit of going. This (teak that her mind will be on something else. It may be she is having a tussle over Ole p011111011 01111 another cow. Anyway, her milk will show a lack in quantity and surely In quality. Unless the bull is better than the herd, the ex 1will not b. as good i next o of calves o e 4b as the herd. The best machines on the 151711 are the dairy eow 'and the dairy hen. Both should have the best of care. SHEEP NOTES, Qunlily in mutton can be improved by careful breeding and feeding. It is not the mal who cures his sheep 8o nlllell as the one who prevents tiled' becoming sick who makes the most out of them. To pay in the highest degree is a busi- ness (hal the sheep industry must con- template, malting the most possible out of the different products. Only the very best sheep, animals which nee true to their specie and varie- ties of breeds and full of promise, should Le selected. for breeding purposes. Tho secret of successful sheep bus- handl,, does not lie so reueh.in ability to doctor diseased stock as starting with healthy flocks and keeping them healthy. '1'hi'ift in sheep is generally secured 011011 people think enough of sheep to take proper care of them, and are most subject to disease when most neglected, No better food for sheep and calves can be wanted than well cured second - growth clover. It usually has a smaller stalk and more leaves than the first growth. hl sheep breedng there is but one way of keeping the ideal sheep and that is by trying i0 improve it. Sheep aro either deteriorating or else they two improving. As all qualities are either invented or accidental, it is obviously dangerous to use a ram which has any -glaring de- fects, even if they do not 311010 In his immediate offspring, for at some time or other these defects will be reproduced. As a rule, that sheep breeder is most, successful 0110 breeds as nearly in a straight line as the requirements of his flock for new blood will permit, and who is best able to judge the points of an expected choice animal befo'o they are fully developed. ON THE FiRNL LIVE STOCK NOTES. The noon meal of the horse should be of the most concentrated teed. Feed most of 111e grain then, and but little hay. At night give the most hay. 1t is not easy for the horse to work hard with his slomnch stuffed with boy. For lice on hogs use equal parts of kerosene oil and buteimillc thoroughly mixed together, or one quart of kero- sene, one quart of soft soap and one. quart of grease or boiled fat with e gal- ton of soft water so as to thoroughly mix. Sprinkle lightly on the hogs two or three tinges len days apart. When handling a horse self-control is essenlal. Don't gel out of patience and. leielc and fume if lire animal does not de just as you wish. Try again, for pro- bably the poor creature did not quite understand what you expected It to do. First decide what you want him to do, and than give your. horse the oder; don't expect tee poor animal to guess at what you want done. It is claimed that recent experiments at one or two experiment stations de- monstrated that in comparison with dif- ferent methods, the largest slumber of eggs was obtained when the food was placed in hoppers end given In dry con ditiol, the fowls being allowed to cat as much ns they desired, and al n)1 tines, There was also a saving of labor, and with varied food the fans did not be- come loo fat. It is possible, however, that certain conditions affecting the fowls under experiment may not affect Them in other cases, but ole results are of a character to warrant the method of feeding being tried by all lemon and poultrymen, so as to give hopper feed- ing a fair test. !IF: QUITE DIFFERENT. Life is 511011 a constant rush t0 a well- known physician that to secure a. little pectination he has recourse to ruses. A visitor called ono night, and began a s155511 to 11(5servant :- 11 "1 .vent Iho. doctor to tomo as qupcisly ns lien caul" "He enn't do 111" the servant answered. "Ile left ordure lint he was so busy null, lndess it was nbsoluleiy a 111511er of life and death, he couldn't go out at all ibis eV3n iib "Ihd,' said the, 01)1.1131', "i1 15(11 illness- at 1(1030at all" "Whit. Then?" "We witnt. him 10 001110 neer and take, a 71und in a grame or whist." "Oh, Ilia's different." 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A serious effort is being made to se- cure the entire profit of the trade for France by raising ostriches and produc- ing the planes on French soil. The ex- periment was begat five year's ago. A site for the ostrich farm .vas se- lected just outside Nice, in the most genie) climate of France, IL is still a comparatively small affair, but an as- sured success. The beginning was made with twenty- five birds imported from California, Later seven Abyssinian ostriches wore added. These are considered the finest of all species. They are handsomer than the South African breed and pro- duce finer plunges. Tile thirty-two birds .have produced 150 others. This makes a smallequip- ment when compared with the Texas and California ranches, not to speak of the Cape fa'ms,where it is estimate?' !het there are 350,000 ostriches in cap- tivity and whence 15,000,000 plumes are exported annually. But the multipli- cation of the Socks is likely to ADVANCE BY RAPID STAGES. The hen ostriches lay eggs twice a year; good ones produce as many as GJ eggs. 1L is true that out of every G00 eggs the Nioe farm only calculates or, bringing sixty bh'ds to maturity, but even at that the management counts on doubling its !lock every y'eal'. As the ostrich lives about eighty years, and the oldest bird in 111e farm is only (10, it will be some years before any death rale has to be ovel'come. Al'r'eady the farm is a highly profit- able investment. 'Twice a day the birds are fed with a mixture of chopped hny, maize andarle .' b y, with unrestricted wad', inlesummer baths are provided for them, in which they take great delight. In 111e pairing season the couples are fenced in together 10 prevent the bloody and sometimes fatal combats in which the males engage at that time. Tho hens, spelled •by the instinct of the burning sands of the desert from which they originally cane, refuse to sit an their eggs at all. The males will do so from tole' to eight days, at night only. As a result, the eggs have to be placed in Incubators. 1L takes forty-two days to hatch them, and they (lust be kept at a. temperature of 105 to '112 degrees. At the end of ten days the sterile eggs con be detected and eliminated. The chickens are hardly bigger than 0 partridge. They are covered wit i fluff more like wool than 131111ers. They spend a clay or so in the warmth of the incubator; the second day they are taken' 11110 1110 a 1; 0 thrd and of daysfor11101(111110, theyon aro11)1U1i'rl- ed loose IN A FIELD OF CLOVER. In addition to what they pick up they aro fed Morning and evening on chop- ped meth. Their 11051111 for six weeks 13 extremely precarious. At the age of about the years 111e young 081'101( begins to have plumage of conulerclal value. Then he is pluck - en lase his elders every six months. The process is said not to be painful as only ripe feathers are taken -that is to say, feathers which aro almost ready to 1110E0311011.1 ou„ Eac11.h bird yields about limey tail fea- thers, which are the most highly re- garded, and fo'(y-eight wing feathers. Each plucking of the bird realizes in the 11ud0 stale about. 1,000 francs or $200. The cost of feeding an ostrich at Nice is reckoned at about. GO rents n Month. Counting in the general expenses of the plant, the cost of raising the birds, la- bor and all other expenditures, the out- lay on each bird is about 70 felines a year, or $14. As it produces in its two pluricinge 8400 worth of feathers, the profit is $386 a year. \Vhe11 tine nlanufaciurer buys his fea- thers at, the form nt the rate of about 8150 to 810() e pound, they aro find., thin, still and d1i1l in color. They m'e placed in. mechanical washing machines and after an elaborate cleansing the cock feathers cone nut an inl)neulale white. 'Phe hen feathers are a dull gray. They are blenched with peroxide of hydrogen, but they are never rntod as highly as the nalural while ones. Dye- ing 1115111 is quite an art, Tease which are tipped with pink or some other fash- ionable hue, which grades downimper- ceptibly to 111e pure white; are the pro- ducts of A HAND PAINTING PROCESS. 'they are tinted by expert workmen who 1000100 :63 a clay. Outside at France the biggest ostrich plume market in the world is about the 1.0ntt dockT(helve 0f feltal11e1'S fns. 1110 1-0he11(111annual statesales Ore sa)d 10 50101101 01 66,000,000. Flnished plumes sell fn Frnn.ce at 11011) 82 to $10 tor ordinary specimens. Fine ones, however, run mucin higher and 840 Is a common enough price. For ex- traordinary samples there is no rude. They fetch all sorts of fancy prices. Some of the finest plunges in 1118 world ere in England, where they 810 worn he the hale as a 1501010 of court (Ness. Queen Victoria had a set of plumes valued et 84,000. The Duchess of Con- naught is said to have n set that cost 1000. Some ladies c 8 , s Dolle .L osh'icil plumes, end 1110 D lciless of Cumberland is said to have plumes worth $2.000, 'There is no weste in the trade now, All emelt fragments of feathers, 1110 odds and entls of t110 term, are used lo manu- facture feather furs, Bnas, stoles, lip leets end Caines are (lade of what was 01105 111101011 away as 10111se. Some teenier capes sell in Paris as high as g , . 100, I' cl Consumption is less deadly than it used to be. W. e 000000.0 00 8 e 0 *, Certain relief and usually complete h'ea ovely will result from the following treatment: ,phiHope, rest, fresh air, and-,�'CQile.a` "ar' Ernr.d.6iona ALL DRUGGISTS; 600. AND 51,00. 0000 ro a:01)4000 ' ' 000 0.0000 Ifoc*00-0**00,004aGoaaaaato YOUNG FOLKS D,OOa000008pao a•cyGoaos \\:1111N JACK USED 1115 BYES AND' 17/11(11. What was the 011 11411 of that great round teal' which 01)111011Cd 0.101011 015 Jacks 141100, followed by another nod (mother. Wily, only phut the small boy had planned to male! a visit that bright rll0rntng, 0nd, ns salnelhing buil oeour- recl In llrev0311 11., all bile joy hied fled away been life, leaving' tet a sit(1ley, Idling for a fellow to do, iior anything. for him to look at, That et Ienst w'lls what Jock was say- Ing ay111(1 to himself when, a few' moinenla later, his cousin Godfrey.came out en the piazza, Tektite no notice whatever ni' the slrcnl<cd little face, he simply said„ "what, a lot there Is going on hl the' world to -duly, Jack," "\Vhy, what do you mean, Cousin God- frey " asked ,lack, a good deal surprised,. "1 hm'an't sten auylhing," " Yuu huven'f7 Well, in the first place there Is a new house being built out. there an the lawn. I have been watch- itg 11 file half un hour from the win- dow jest behind you." "0 Meisel" Jucic heisted about and glanced hastily over the great beautiful lawn; but, of cmu'n0. as he had very' well known, there was no sign of a house. "Ahl but you're loolcing in the wrong' direction," said his cousin. "Just look up; lance a peep into that greet elm yonder, ihreu(1h the opening 1(1 thee leaves just before your eyes.' "For a 111111010 the boy gazed. Then he exelnimed, "Look, Cousin llodfrmy! there. conies the n1a10 01111 a long horsehair, 1 never saw a nest being 101111 before. What full ft isl" "And their," Godfrey went on, otter they lead watch's] Iho building for aL few moments longer, "those little block peo- ple down on the path are doing fine wore. I thine the whole army must he• out this 11)o111iing," "Black people? Where?" cried Jack.. But his eyes were beginning to open. now, and, running dowel the steps, 11.5' hunted about lin Irmo! path. "Anis!" he excleirned with a inngh. "Why, Cousin Godfrey, wind, are they doing? And tinging himself down at, full length on the clean gravel, with hbs chin in the palms of his bailee, he lay watching eagerly the busy, hurrying; throng of tiny "binelc-people." Jack had often walked over a.nl-hills, hu, it never had occurred le him to watch Illeln. Now ire thought. Ihnt ire never had seen nnylhiug MOM Interesting than the man- na in which they ran out of the holo "with a grain of sand between their teeth." His cousin explained how the anis were digging underground passages and leaking store-ro0n15 to hold (heir whiter fool!. Jack's eyes were very •wide open, in - decd, by the time he came hounding fp the steps 511,ain; but, before he could say n word, tluusin Godfrey eslced him suddenly if ho had heard the concert. Jack shook his head with a merry laugh, and, silting down on the steps, bent his head old listened eagerly. 110• had(, heard a tiling; but now, sudden- ly, the whole world seemed full of music and twitter. It appeared to him to Lave just begun, and he could hardly believe that it had been going on all the, time. Robins, thrushes, bluebirds, and wrens -what IL glorious chorus! Who would have imagined that there was so much to see and hear 011011 a boy once began to use his eyes and ears. F FROZEN TO DEATH IN IRELAND. Five Men Go .Astray In a Fog and Res- cue Comes Too Late. A mountain tragedy, involving the death of three risen, was reported from County Antrim, Ireland, last week, Five men, named Connolly, Keilty, While, Millar and Smith, started on Wednesday on a shooting expecltio i on the mountain range which overlooks the beautiful Vale Of GlenarifL Two or three bolus later they lost themselves in n dense ling. They wandered aimlessly about,and endeavored to ilnd one of the beaten tracks, but without success. At length hunger brought on extreme fatigue. The men, alone and lost In the mountains, had scarcely the strength to walk, and the billetly cold wind partially paralyzed their limbs. Darkness came on, and the (len were still ignorant of their wherabouts: After a while Connolly said he could go no further, 01111 he fell to 1115 ground exhausted. 111s four companions, al- though almost as weals as he, picked him up, and, by 011 effort .which taxed their remaining strength to the utmost, carried him over boulders and through gullies until they themselves were of 11(8 point of collapsing, 'Then they put him dawn, placed him hinder shelter in a site ling position, wrapped him In their greatcoats, and, having thus clone all - they could for his comfort, left !him and went away to look for assistance. Stiller and Smith went in onedirec- tion end Keilty and While in enOthcr. The first:named pair reached the mai- deuce of Conway Dobbs, at Parlona'o. They were in the Last stage of exhaus- tion, and as they entered the house they sank helplessly on a couch. Restoratives were applied, and when they had regained sufficient etrenglh they related their terrible experience. \ search panty was at Once organized, ani( with Millar and51111111 actin as . u (1 guides, They all 'vamped to the spot where Connolly bud been left. Ile 3008 sitting Blore Vro ed in his ou mn11m15' coats, hal dead. Ile badnbeen frozen to don 111, 1.111e' in Ibe afternoon the dead bodies of Keily and White were f0uncl in ileo bed of a frozen mountain 111('511111. Tho 111)1) 111(1 evidently stumbled (hero, and had been tee 130010 10 1400. 11:13 SI'hr.,bAr; t'Y. "My son," said the millionaire, "IS e, politic matelot." "Indeed 1" rejoined the 11110 man andi- ence, "Whellas lie invented'?" "About 1,100 0311110)11 why l should give hive (honey," replied the fetter.