The Brussels Post, 1907-4-25, Page 7OR, A SAD LIFE STORY
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' CIIAPTER XXVI,-Coullnued), "Yes, Yes, no (Muhl, There you tiro oh -
There is a slleri00, auicl when it is 100- 'solrulaly wlthouL a clue r
lceu it is infringed by what is net -Much 'Absolutely,"
more than a whisper, "1)o you mean to say Ihrt up to yes.
"\Vial -what do you olefin whet- aerday--all thlougil yesterday, even -she
wont sort of a sorr'ow'g" never gave you a blit! of any intention
"1 loll you, I do not know" of loaving:hloi'in o' 1'
Byng's tears have stopped flowing, end Never, never, 'On the' contrary, in
he now lifts ills eyes, full of a loudness 1110--" (hit Is going, to say "Ilia woo(1,
of exultation; to the ceiling. but thinks better of Il), "ave were :plan
"1 will go to Iter," he cries; "f sorrotb Sting many Snor0 such expedlllons as
has the audacity to approach' her again, yesterday's. At least, 1 was planning
it will have to reckon with me, Thera is them."
no sorrow, none in the whole long "Anci she assented?"
gamut of woe, for which love such as "She did nol dissent. Sho met mowilh
mine i5 not a balm, Beclprooal love I'- a look of divine acquiescence,'
trailing lite words in.a sort of slow'rap• Jim turns away itis brad, 110 is hovel -
lure -"no ono that had seen ;her in Lhe unlurlly picturing to hhn$elf what that
Wood could have, doubted tgiat. it was re. look was like, and with what sweet
olprocal," dumb -show 1L rya's accompanied.
"No doubt no doubt." "What powers . of hell -bonging itis
"1 will go to her 1" -clasping his hands head clown upon lire table again -"could
high in the ale -"I will pour the oil and have ovrougOL such a hideous change In
sldiccnaedof my adoration into her gap- eo few hors? • Only ten l for it wits
ing wounds 1 I will kiss the rifts to- eight in the evening before I left them,
golher, though they yawn as wide as and they vera off at six this morning,
!tell -yes, f will." They could have seen no one ; they had
"For heaven's sales (le not falls such received no Mlle's, no telegrams, for C
dreadful giberish," breaks in Jim, at inquired 01 Anuunziala, and she assured
length at the end of his patience, which 1010 that they had not. Oh, no I" luting
hod run quite to ilio extreme of ils his face with a gleam of moislhopo upon
tether' indeed at the lost mention of Ilial i. -"there is only one tenable hypothesis
ever -recurring -wood. "1L is a knock. about 11 -IL is not her doing at all. She
down blow for you, I own, and I would
-do what I could to help you ; but if you
will keep on spouting and talking such
terrible bosh---"
"I suppose S ata making an ass of my-
self," replies Byng, thus brought down
with a ren from his heroics, "I beg your
pardon, I am sure, old man. 1 have no
right to victimize you," his sweet nature
asserting itself even at this bitter mo-
ment ; "but you sec IL is so horribly
sudden. If you bad seen her when I
parted from her last night at the ' door I
She lingered a moment behind Mrs. Le
Merchant -Just a moment, just time
enough to give me .one look, ono word-
less look. She dtd.not speak; she was
so divinely dutiful and submissive that
nothing would have persuaded her by
the lightest word to imply any censure
of her mother; but she gave me just a
look, which said plainly, 'lt is not hay
fault that you are turned away I I would
have welcomed you in 1' Upon that loots
I banqueted in heaven all night."
He stops, choked,
"Well?"
"And then this morning, when I got
here -I ti -tide I ran all the way ; 1 am
sure I did, for I saw people staring at 010
as 1 passed -to be met by Annunziala
witch the news that they were gone 1 I
dict not believe her; 1 laughed in Her,
face, and then she grew angry, and bid
mu come in and see for myself I And I
rushed past her, in here, with my arms
stretched out, confident that In one short
71101ne11 more she would be Ogling -them,
01011 instead of her" -dropping upon his
knees by the table with a groan -"1 Iind
this I" -dashing the note upon the floor -
'all that she leaves me to fill my em-
brace instead of her is this poor little.
pillow, that still seems to keep a faint
trace of the perfume of her delicate
Stead 1"
Ile buries his nwn in it again ns he
speaks, beginning afresh to sob loudly.
Jim stands beside him, -his mind hall
lull of compassion and half of a burn-
ing exasperation, and his body wholly
rigid.
When did they go? at whet hour?
last night or this,morning?"
"This morning early. quite curly."
• "They have left all their things behind
then!" -booking round !lie room, slrewn
with the traces of recent and refined oc-
cupation.
"'Yes" -idling his wet Inco out of lois
oushlon-"and al nest, seeing everything
just as usual, even to her very work-
baskel-she has left her very workbas-
ket behind -1 was quite reassured. 1
felt certain that they could have gone
for only a few hours -for the day per
haps ; bttto.
ihe breaks off,
"Yes?"
"'They left word that, their things were
to be packed and sent oiler them to an
addreSs they would give." •
"And you do not inlow where they
have gone 7"
I know nothing, nothing,' only that
they aro gono
"'Then tell, oh tells how thou
didst murder me?
0151 oh1l oh III"
"You never heard then speak of their
plans, uilen1on any place they intended
to move to on leaving Florence?"
"Never I" - -
"IL is too late for Borne," says Tim,
musingly ; "England? I hardly think
Englend,' recalling Elizobelh's forlorn
achiilssion made to hind at Monte Sen
a'1o, "\Vhy should we, go hone, we have
nothing pleasant to go to?"
"I do not think they had any plans,"
says 13yng, speaking in a \Pelee which is
thick with rondo .weepin ; "they never
seemed to me to have any. She woe se
happy here, so goy, there never was tiny-
thiug more lovely than her gaiety, ex-
cept---except-her tenderness,'
thrown bank and clasped stands high
lift ; and 111 his rapt ;poet voice ;
'"Since you 10ft rte, taking no
!unwell,'"
1 !Host ftllaw you, sweet 1 Despite your
prohibition, I must follow you.
"Wo two that with so many
thousand sighs,
Aid buy esen outer,
Then, condng abruptly down to prose- -
"Thouglt they left no address it will of
course he possible, easy, to truce :them.
1 will go to the station to make is
quirtes. They wilt have been seen, I1 is
out of Ilio question chat she can have
passed unnoticed l No eye that h05
an0 been enriched by i110 sight 01 her
can have forgotten that, heavenly vision,
1 will telegraph to 1301ogna, to Milan, to
Veniee, Before night 1 shall have learnt.
her whereabouts, I elu111 he in the traiin,
following her Ireek, I shall he less than
a duy behind her. L shall fail al lier
feel, I
\U41 are hilliing, nonsense," A'Swel'S
Burgoyne impatiently; arid yot with a
distinct shade of pity 111 his voice; "you
cannot do auything 0i the kind. When
the poor wernrtn has given ,so very Un-
equivocal a proof of her wish to avoid
you, es Is4lnlpiled 111 le0vhng( the place
tit a moment's notice, without giving her -
herself even time to pack her clothes, It
Is impossible that you can force' your
company again upon her --it would be
persecution."
"And do eo11 mean to tell me," asks
13yng slowly, and breathing hard, while
the fanatical light dies out of tris face,
and leaves it chalk while. ; "do you mean
to say !hut 1 tuft to acquiesce, to 011
down with my hands before one, and
submit without a struggle, lc the loss
at--- 0 Icy God -breaking out into an
exceeding bitter cry -"why did you
nialce mo
"'So rich in having such a Jewel,
As twenty stns, if oil their sends
were pearl,
The water dealer, and the rocks
pure gold,'
if it wore only to rob roe of her?"
"I do not see what other course is
wrote this under pressure. It is her open to you, 013)11es Tien, answering
!land -writing, is It not? --though 1 would only the first part of lir, young sufferer's
not swear even to that, 1-I hovel appeal, and Ignoring 110 rhetoric, teed -
Played the mischlef with my eyes"- lily genuine as is the feeling of which it
Is the Ilo19d expression.: "It is evident
that she. has sortie cogent reasons -or at
least that appear cogent to Iter -for
breaking off her relations with you."
"What !Agent reasons can she have
that she had not yesterday?" says ilyng
violently -"yesterday, when sho lay in
My arms, and her lips spoke their ea-
quieSeence in my !worship -if not lo
words, yet, oh, fur, far mors----"
"\Vhy do you reiterate' these asser-
tions?" cries Burgoyne sternly, since to
hint there seems a cer'tuin indecency in
even In the insanely of loss -dragging to
the oyes of day the record Of such sacred
ended monis. "1 neither express nae
feel any doubt as to the terms you were
or yesterday ; what L maintain is that
to -day --I do not pretend 10 explain the
!thy --she hos changed her mind: It is
not" -with a sarcasm, which the himself
as the very moment of uttering it feels
to be cheap and unwo'Ihy-"il is not the
first time in tho world's history that
such a thing lies happened. She has
changed her mind."
"I do not believe il." cries 13'yng, lits
voice rising almost to a shout in the
energy of, his negation; "Lill her own
mouth 1e11 rale so I will never believe it.
If I thought -for a moment that it was
true I should rash to death to deliver 100
from the intolerable agony of such a
Thought. You do net -believe it yourself,"
-lifting•hls spoilt sunk eyes in on ap-
peal that is full of patios to his friend's
harsh face. "Think what condemnation
it implies of iter -her whom you always
affected la litre who thought so greatly of
you -her whose old friend you weer.=
Iter whom you knew in her lovely
ehildhooci r'
"You are right" replies Tim, looking
palling out Itis drenched pocket -hand -
Reedier, and hastily wiping thein -"so
that l cannot see properly; but it Is
hers, is not it I"
"I do not know, 1 never saw her hand-
writing ; sbe never wrote to me,"
"It was evidently dictated to her,".cries
Ilyng, lits sanguine nature taking an
upward spring again; "there are clear
traces, even in the very way the letters
are formed, of Its being written to :order
reluctantly. She did it under protest.
See how her 'm00-.111110 hand was shak-
ing,
haking, and she was crying all the while,
bless her I There, do not you see a
blister on the paper -here. an this
Burgoyne does riot see any blister, but
as he thinks it extremely probable that
there was one, he does not think himself
called upon to wound his friend by say-
ing
ayingso.
1 declare 1 think we have got hold of
the right clue at lost," cries 13yng,
dimmed eyes emitting such a flesh as
would have seemed impossible to them
rive ntlnules ago. "Bead in this light, IL
is not nearly so incomprehensible:-'!
shall never marry you 1 have no right
to marry any one.' Of course, I see
now I What an ass 1 was not to see it
at once1 What she cleans is that she
has no right to leave her mother 1 To
any one who knew her lolly sense of
duty as well as I ought to have done 1t
is quite obvious that that is what she
means, is not it quite obvious? is not
IL as clear as the sun in heaven?"
Jim shakes his !read,
"I am afraid that It Le rather a forced
interpretation."
"I do not agree with you," rejoins the
eller holly ; I see nothing forced about
it You Yeo not ]snow as well as I do-
bow should you ?-her power of delicate,
self-soorillceing devotion. 11 is over-
strained, 1 grant you: but there it is -
she thinks she has no right to leave her
mother new that she is all alone."
"She is not alone, she has her hus-
band."
"I mean that all her other children are
married and scattered. .,ter'e are plenty
more --are, not there ?-though I Clever
could get her to lane about them."
"There are two sisters and two bio.
tilers."
`But they are no longer any good to
their mother," persists 13yng, clinging to
his theory with all the greater tenacity
as ho sees _that it meets with 110 very
great acceptance in his friend's eyes;
"as far as she is concerned they are non-
existent."
"1 do not know wild. right you have to
say Thal."
'And so she, with her lofty idea of
self sacrifice, immolates her .adm hepp%
Hess on the altar of her [!hal affection.
Itis just like her I'" -going off into a. sort
of rapture- "buret mole that I was not t0
-divine the motive, which her .ineffable
delicacy forbade' her to put into words.
She thought she had a right to think
that I should have comprehended her
without words 1"
IIe has talked himself into a condition
of such extolled confidence before ho
Teaches the end of this sentence that Jim
Is conscious of a cet'taln brutality In ap-
plying to 111111 the douche donlainod in
his next words.
"I do not know why you should credit
Mrs, Le Marchant with such colossal
selfishness ; she ,never used lo be a sel-
fish. woman.".
But Durgoyne's cold shower -ball does
not appear even to damp the shoulders
for which it is intended,
"'Since you left me, taking no -
farewell,' "
murm1100 13yng, beginning again to ramp
up and down the lilllc room, with head
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clown, moved and ashamed; "I do not
believe that she hes changed her mince,
Whet I do believe is that yesterday she
let herself go ; sho gave way for one
day, only for one day, after all, pool'
soul, to that tontine for happiness which,
I suppose" -with. a sigh and a shrug -
"gnaws us all now and 1hm-gave way
to it even to the pitch of forgetting that
-that something in her past of whose
nature i am as ignorant as you are,
which seems to cast a blight over all her
life."
He pauses; but es hie listener only
hangs silently on his tilleranco he goes
Oil
"Atter you left her, recollection cane
bock to her; and because silo could not
trust herself again with you, probably
foe the very reason that she cared ex-
ceedingly about you" -steeling himself
1'. make 'tho admission-"she_fel7 that
there was nothing for It bit! to go,
Either the increased kindness of his
friend's tone, or the eonvlolioe, that there
is,
ahleast, sonelhl'hg of truth In his ex-
planation, lots loose again elle I'ounlnin
'of Byng's tears, ;and once more he
throws his head down upon his hands
and cries extravagantly.
"17 is an awful facer for you, I know."
says Burgoyne, standing over him, and,
though perlectly dry-eyed, yet probably
not very much less miserable than the
young Mourner whose loud weeping
fills hien !villi an almost utbenrnble nod
yet, compunctious exnsperelion.
Witat is he made el? how con lie do
it?" are the questions float he keeps ire-
fully putting to hhnself; and for fear
lest in an 000e00 of uncontrollable irri-
tation he shall ask them out loud, he
moves to the door, At the slight noise
he makes h1 opening 11 Byng lifts his
head.
"Are you going?"
"Yes ; if it is ony consohllien to you,
you have riot 0 monopoly" of wretched-
ness to -day, 'Things are not lodldng very
bright for Inc either. Amelia is 111."
"Amelia," repeats the other, with a
hazy look, as if not, at nest able to call
to mind who Amelia is; Men. with a
return of Oonsciousness,.'Is Amelia. 111?
011, poor Amelln. Amelia was very good
10 her, Amelia tried to draw her out
She lilted Amelin I"
e
" "-with on impatient sigh -"un-
fortunately
p g
fortunately that did not hinder Amelia
from falling i11,"
"She is not ill really?"—itis unborn
kind-heartedness struggling - for mo-
ment to
.ear
e head agaInst the selfish.
tress of his abserlonnon1
"1 de root know" -uneasily --"I ern go:,
ing back to tho hotel to hear the doctor's
Verdict. 'WIbI you walk as far as to the
Angio-Anierioahl with me? There is no
use In your slaying here."
But at tints propositon the lover's until 8 in the evening,
sobs break out more infuriating than
over.
"I will slay here 1191 1 die -1111 1 em
carried over the threshold that her cruel
feet have Crossed,
""`!.hen loll, oh 18111 how thou
(WA murder 111e,'"
Against a resolutloll at enoo so fixed
and so rational. JIM sees 11141 it 18100104S
to Cent(Ilid,
('l'o he continued).
GERMANY'S CHEAP LABOR
SEVEN OF A, 'TAMELY EARN EIGHTY
CENTS A RAY,.
Polishers of Pencils Receive 51,45 for 75
flours Work -'-Other Labor
Paid In Proportion,
Purchasers often tvand.'r how it is
that Geminely can pay (hinges and sell
,lhhlgs so cheaply. A visit lu the 1101-
nuu'bellauseleliuug-- the 114nu'-workers'
Exposition, recentlyy opened in Unter
den LInderi—explains the question,
At some kinds 01 work a mean, bis
wife, and live children, working 10 1.0 111
hold's a day, can average 80 cents a day
wages, In .many classes of work the
pay is from half a cent to one cent an
hour, according to Um skill of Igoe
worker. '!'Ito beautiful toys that the Ger-
mans send abroad at Christmas limo
are made, by men and .women who do
not average three-quarters of ai•cent all
hour. The beautiful loalhei' Easter novel-
ties, the paper novelties, are made bythe
50010 deft hands that toil for 0 pelt* that
would he scorned by a newsboy for ten
1110011CS' work,
These figures, posted In the Ileimar-
beileusslellung, apply only to adults;
Hite children cannot earn nearly as largo
sums. Ono family of seven earns 45
cents a day; ,another, with eight mem-
sums.
AGGREGATES 82 CENTS,
In TImeingla the workmen malting toy
animals for 92 pieces receive Shout 1
cent an hour. hor 00 wooden soldiers,
on which an adult and three children
work 30 hours. 27Y cents is paid ; col-
ored /casks boring M cent an hour, and
2M cents an lour Is the wage for the
whole faintly. The makers of doll pests
are not better off.
No better wages aro paid for musical
instruments. At Klingenthal, In the
Saxon Voglland, Harmonicas are matte.
Only a small part of this wo19c is done in
the factories, and most of 11 is made by
the hehnarbeiler. The different parts of
Um harmonicas are put togellier in the
homes. The material which the herr1100-
ice maker needs he must furnish him-
self, and often IL happens that he barely
earns the cost of the sane, The highest
wages among the harmonica makers are
rem:teed by the tuners. They earn $2.25
to $2.40 for 18 or 10 hours' work, hl
other branches of the harmonica indus-
try" orale wilrkers receive only 2 to 2%
cents an Motu' and children only 1 cent
an hour. Two men and 0110 1V0111011
earn $4.50 together Car 102 lours' worts.
A. child working 42 buoys earns from 50
to 62 cents. The mnlcer of the handles,
working with his wife, earns $3:751 or 32
hours' work.
Mu3IGAL INSTRUMENT MAKERS.
Equally sad is the condition of the
makers of outer musical instruments:
The centre of the prudualion is M1u'Ionen-
kireberl, in Saxony. The dil'lerent parts
o: the violins ora made in 13ohemka and
sent across Ike harder to be put toge-
ther by the heimarbefter. They earn
from $3.00 to 83.85 for '70 or •80 hours'
work. Miltebwald, in Bavaria also, is a
well-known centre for the production of
violins, guitars, and mandolins. 1101110
workers begin work al 5 or 0 o'clock in
the morning, and never finish before 8,
and often not before 10 or '11 et night.
For these !tours the worlcnian receives
frau 25 to 30 cents a day, many receiv-
ing only 17 cents ri day.
Boslcet making is nuc of the most un-
profllable of German industries, but yet
a large number of families aro employed
in it. In Bcrlhi willowmnkers receive 3
cents gni hour, while in Thuringia wages
ere even worse, being only 2 to 2% cents
formen and % of 11 cent t0 1 cent for
women. It is, therefore, not to be won-
dered that these workmen are ongnged
from 00 to 100 hours a week.'
Nurnberg is famous for cls pencils.
Women who do the polishing -receive
from $1.24 to 41:32 for 75 hours' work.
As in Americo, the lowest wages are
paid for' clothes made in sweetshops,
The average wage_ which the home
workers of PUosia receive for men's
clothing is from 2% to 0 cents apiece;
in Schwiehns Mark Brandenburg 22
cents is paid for the making oI .n emit
requiring seven lours' work, which,
after deducting the sewing materials,
IIAIyISS 23 CENTS AN HOUR,
lOw producing al underskirt wllh e111-
beeider,y :12M cents is paid ; a woman's
simple undergawn, 4 cents. For a ntglit-
51111.1. with embroidery nod insertion, 10
creole is paid ; for a doyen Aprons, with
embroidery and insertion, 3) cents. Cor-
sets ore produced in Saxony wiIh the aid
of churl labor. 'rimy bring, per piece, (1
cents for two hours' work.
The number of children employed in,
Germany is estimated al 330,1100. They
ore found i11 all inchulrles, liven ehil-
dh'on only 3 y care old are employed in
home week.'rite reasons for the em-
ployment 01 children ore Twofold. Ila
the first, place, the chihh'eu fit hath cheap
labor ; aid, second the parents are de-
pendent on their as r. !Huse. Of course,
much of llien'>vark is purely nu'ehlntical,
111 Ilia SOy industry they paste together
the parts of lite small churches, for
which They receive % cent to 'le cents
an hour. In the Erzgebirge they 'nuke
Ina animals of the Nonlis ark for
cents an loin', working 00 boars n
For erl1llelnl .11010'ers n mother and three
children are olso employed to paint the
soldiers. 1,11iltlreil pull 111e 80111118 and
threads tor melting .clothes. in fancy
goods children drew the hrucls on
threads.
The thousands who hove visited Obel'-
anitlergatr and lava, taken may with
prem- wet -silently carved image and
crosses twill he Inlrreelctl to 1011111 111050
ore produced al lots wages. The average
wages of the ea't'en in Obelrwirmergatl
rungs from .36 to 70 cents 0 day, 1'he
work begins et 0 o'0locic and continues
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terior woodwork, baro—you will foul
the right paint to do the painting right,
in RASAY'.S PAINTS.
Mk your dealer for Rsplsay's Paints—or
write'ue for frost Card $erle9 "C," showing'
flow some houses are painted.
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which aro paid at the option of the Policyholder as fully paid bonus :addl-:
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1906 shows large gains over 1905. New business
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was written in Newfoundland and the balance entirely
within the Dominion. The following aro some interest-
facts from the Company's 37th Annual Statement.
INCOME.
Premiums, less reassur-
ance.. .. .. .. t3 1,004,5E1.74
Interest and rents 404,640,08
Profit fro., sale ofReal 9
Estate .. ,r .. ,... 8,194,41
, 2Ay2,�A2&13
DISHITBSE111ENTS.
Berth .Claims ..g 387,975.50
]natured Endowments 103,486.00
Purchased Policies 88,007..47
Surplus.. , , 83,947.65.
d nnrcttiec .. 10,046.68
Expenses, "taxes,.. etc.. 338,717.40
Balance ., ., .1,054,043.53
ASSETS.
Mortgages.. ..9 0,013,047.48
Debentures and Beads 3,429,025.40
Loans on Polidea ... 1,179,517.26
Premium Obligations 25,780.38
Steal Estate . . 900.20
fi Company's.
Head Office ... . . 30,875.70
Cash in Banks . - 207,65.0.05
Cash at. Head OEM. 3,540,53
Due - and 'Deferred
Premiums (net) .. 280,081,81
Interest null rents duo
®a.d accrued ,.;e .. .. 107,712.83
910,385 5 lnl.S-A
ig�;42s�ia
LIABILITIES.
Ileservee,'4,." 3B. and a
per cent:. ....9 0,028,332.18
Reserve on lapsed.pol-
Icles Mable to re-
vive or surrender
Death. Globus tined -
Matured Endowments
unadjusted .
Paescnt Value of
Death Claims pay-
able itt instalments .
Premiums paid In ad -
Amount due for rnedl
cal fees.. ... ....r
Accrued rents •
Credit ledger balances
Sundry current se.
colons ,
Surplus on Company's
Valuation Standard. 1,203,370.08
3,001.90
43,033,00
3,000.00
45,338.00
13,751.50
0,482.00
805.00
10,307.00
2,300.00
17,100.12 51rti
Tho Company has a surplus on Government standard
of valuation of $1,552,364.26. The following r are some
striking gains made in 1906. In Income, $115,904.22 ;
In Assets, $1;089,447.69 ; In Surplus (Company's Stand-
ard) $251,377.46 ; In Insurance in Force $2,712,453.00.
Send to Head Office, Waterloo, Canada, for bookletg iv-
ing Annual Report and proceedings of Annual Meeting.
Robert Melvin, President A. Hoskin, K.
C. �Viced
Geo. Wegenast, Manager Hon. Justice Britton1 dd Pres.
W. H. Riddell, Secretary
11005 i.0I3 '1'1114 aitlar1 MAIUtti"r,
kauWet alweienlboiys atm' Lto¢, 11avoand 0wWo' piss 01i061110ltefh
.' oplet
,run t1'blbt ihey Ilii= sowshave untilbeen Nruovnnembering evlJSlll,
0r about eight or nine peeks, Inuring
Iho hors
ate sows we have been slopping them
nit skim milk and Wheat middlings, if
awe have the mink, and 11 not wo mix
l(to middlings with water, 13y 1110 time '
glia pigs are eight or nlno weeks old
Iliey era gniling Inst .af (halt 1111n1
by' bustling Lor iheriiealves, and atter
trey are weaned] there Is no cheek lit"
their growth, We iet the pigs have a
goodrunInpastureawoods to Idtis 111plentyetn
where Iherc
of gond tuning oyster, and where they
are: atblo to get all the mots and herbs
I118.1 Ihey care for, These keep their
digestive organs in good condition and
give illein an appetite when they coma
home to get their feed.
We find chat ground corn and oats
Mixed together is about the best food
That wo can give then, as this will keep
them growing and also keep them in
good condition.
Stove coal, or better yet, if one can
gel it, cbm'coal,'is a 'good thing to give
the pigs. es It will sharpen their apps'
ries and keep theirdigestive organs in
good shape.
If a person Ls going to keep wlnler
plgs he.need not expect to Malta a suc-
cess of it unless he has comfortable
(rouses for thein to sleep in. 'These
houses should always have plenty of
good bedding and should not be allowed
to become damp, for if they do the pigs
trill contract colds and coughs and will
became- stunted, and it will require
many days of careful attention to get
them book to the condition they were
l;1 before they caught the cold. Too
rrany pigs should not be allowed to go
in one house, for if they do they will
pile on Lop of ono another and will not
do well.
One of the essen(ial things to do with
the pigs is to 'keep the lice off them.
Nothing is better for this than coal oil.
k good way to put it on Is with a sprink-
ler while the pigs are eating. Mix the
011 with water, about one-fourth oil and
three-fourths water. Wherever the til
strikes a louse it will hill it, bul it will
not kill the eggs, so the pigs should
be oiled every two weeks until they are
free from lice, If the pigs are attend-
ed to in this way they will coma
n out
In the spring in a good, thrifty, gr, g
condition. We then put them In good
clover or some good pasture and begin
to get them ready for market. \\e do
not begin to fallen at once, but Wekeep
them growing and gelling larger frames,
so that when we do begin to fatten
there is something to build upon. When
we commence fattening we do not allow
the hogs to run over as large a range
ars they had been in the habit of doing,
but we put them in a field of clover
with plenty ofclean, fresh water and
then we begin feeding 1115111 all the corn
that they will eat. We do not stole
slopping them,but use a slop made cf
wheat middlings mixed with water, 'fho.
Dogs should be given salt and ashes,.
about 'every other day, es it will keep'
them in better condilion. 1t is a good
plan to have a box filled with salt and
ashes, so they can go to it at their
pleasure,
Keep the feed lots and 'sheds in a clean
condition, for the hog is not a (11017
animal because of choice, but only when;
he cannot help himself.
If hogs are eared for in this. way 7.7,
,June they can be turned Into a round
sum of money and the farmer can re-
joice in seeing a fine lot of hogs leave
his place.
MILK FIIOM SICK CONS'S.
It would seem unnecessary to say
anything on this subject but we know
that some do not realize the seriousness.
of using milk from sick cows while some.,
do not care. They reason that as llleyi
take the milk to the creamery no one
will know the difference and they will
be that much money ahead..
That sort of a thing must slop, Some•
slates have said that he who sells'ar
offers for sale or he who buys such intik
shall be fined or imprisoned. Things.
Save' got to gel mighty serious before
stoles canenact laws" to prevent any
practice.
In the first and fast place, milk frotte
sick mow 1s unwholesome and in some
cases positively dangerous. 7'he dread
disease of tuberculosis is being spread
broadcast because farmers sell nlillc
from tuhereelous cows. '!'rue, some
farmers do not realize that their cows
are diseased, others don't want to know,
while a criminal few do not care.
\Then n cow has gorget, or an Milano.
million of the udder, has any siclmes$
that is noticeable,her mint should bo
drown into to pail not used in milking
and tloe silk fed to the pigs if you dere
to use it, or thrown. away. Paint a
fence with it and it will serve a pod
purpose.
No cow's mgllc should be used for Im-
am. food as soon after she drops lar
calf. Until the feverish condition hes
left the row and udder .her milk is not
considered Ot for human food. The law
should forbid tite sato of milk taken
within Arleen clays previous and five
days after calving.
DAIRY 'NOTES.
Fewer amus aro injured not by high
feeding than by unbalanced feeding.
A clean cow and a clean stable go
with clean mills, good butter and clean
ensIs.
Tho mat tvho falls In love with cent°
will soon and that they Pay him pont.
Dairymen who keep poor scrub cows
and 1teep Item half starved steal from
themselvestwiceover.
Good , !•nr and
spr�ng 011grahtCmn lnorationsregrasslhinex!i
t 70te100 (11101
year after.'
Don't get so proud of that one extra
good cote ilio!, you forget to weed out
the extra poor ones in the hash
Can milk farmers afford to Lather
with young stock? Not unless the
solves coma from stock fairly sure 10
produce good milkers. • Homy raised
00000, well- managed, Will be free from
tricks and tree from disease. But the
home raised scrub calf is a failure. It
Is cheaper to buy a poor COW than to
raise 11,