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The Brussels Post, 1907-5-2, Page 7ti 4 04-o-Po+o+o+c?+ o+ o+o-t-o+o+-a4' 0+0-e-04.0.0.0+. of DR, A SAD LIFE situ Vbo4-04-04' A+44o+0 4e0+0 4aA+v'f 04'0+04o+0+0+0+00-0•+, CHAPTER XXVII. The sun rides high, as Burgoyne issues into 1110 Open-air, and beats, blindtug hot, upon the great stone (lags that pave 1110 Florentine streets, and seem to have 0 .peculiar power of absorbing and re- tuning light and heal. . Ile runs( have been longer In the Piazza d'Azeglio Hien ht had thought, told the reflection quick- ens Ills slop as he emotes, regardless of the lnldsunlmer blaze -40r, Indeed, it is more than equivalent to that o1 our mice' .sunhnet'-- back to the Anglo-Americaln. As he roaches IL, be hears, with annoy- ance, the clock sleeting one, He is an- noyed, both because the length of itis .absence seems to argue an indifference , to the tidings he is expecting, and also because he knows that It is the Wilsons' •luncheon flour, loud that he will proba- bly find that they have migrated to the •salla -a -manger. In this case he will have to choose between the two equally 'disagreeable alleenathres, of following •end watching them al their food, or that .of undergoing a tete-a-tete lvith Sybllla, who, 11 Ls needless to say, does not ac - torn -ninny her family to the public diling- r0om ; a tete.a-Leto with Sybllla, which L. of all forms of social intercourse, that for witch he has the least relisi1. But as he apprehensively opens the .scion door, Ilesees that his fears are un- founded: They have not yet gone to luncheon; they aro all sitting in much the same altitudes as he had left them, .except that Sybilla is eating or drinking something of a soupy nature out of a .cup. Them are very few hours of the •day or night in which Sybilla is not eat- ing something out of a cup. There Is that about the entire idleness of the other •couple' which gives him a fright. Are. they too unhappy? Have they heard loo had news to be able to settle to any oc- •eupation? Urged by this alarm, its tfuestion shoots out, almost before he is inside the door "Has not he come yet? Has not 111e doctor come yet?" "He hos been and gone;- you see you have been such a very long lisle away," replies Cecilia. She has no intention of conveying reproach, either by her words or lone, but to his sore eonscienoe it seems as if both carried it. "And what did ile any? "Ho did not say mucin." "Does he --does 110 think that it is any filing -anything serious?" "Ile did not sal." "Do you mean to tell me" -indignant- ly -"that you did not ask him?" "If you had been there," replies Ce- cilia, with a not inexcusable resentment, "you mighthave asked him yourself." "But did not you ask him?" in too real anxiety to bo attended at., o1' oven aware of, her neer. "Did not he say?" "I do not think he knew himself." "But he must have thought -he must have had an opinion 1" growing the more uneasy as there seems no tangible ab- ject for his fears to lay hold of. "Ho says 11 Is impossible to judge at so em9y a stage; it may be a chill -I told him about, that deteslablo excursion yesterday, and the considered it quite enough to accolmt for anything -it may be measles--ihey•seeni to be a good deal about; 11 may be malaria-thero is a good deal of that, too," "And bow soon will he knew?, IIow soon will it declare itself 1" "1 do not know." "13u1 has he prescribed? Is there no- thing to be done -to be clone aL ones" asks Vin feverishly, ciueing al the idea of this inaction, which seems inevitable, with that helpless feeling which his own entire ignorance of sickness produces. "Ike not you suppose that if there was we should have done it?" cries Cecilia, rendered even more uncomfortable than she was before, by the contagion or his anxiety. "We are to keep her In bed - then is no groat difficulty about that, .poor soul; she has not the least desire to get up; she seems so odd and heavy 1" "So odd and heavy?" "Yes; I went in to see her just now, and sho scarcely took any notice of me; only when I tote her that you had been to inquire after her, she Mt ftp a little. I believe" -with a rather grudging smile -"that If she were ,.cud, and some ou0 mentioned your name, she would light up" A sudden mountain rises in .1)01's throat. 91 0110 Is not better to -morrow, Dr. Coldstream will send a nurse." "But does he think it will be neces- sary?" lie does not know." Jim writhes. It seems to I81n as if too were being blindfolded, and 'having 111s arts tied to his sides by a hundred strong yet invisible tihreads. "Does no one know anything?" ha cries miserably. "1 have told you exactly what the daa- thr said," says Cochin; with the venial crossness bred of real anxiety, "1 sup- pose you do not, wish me to • invent something that he did not say?" "01 000100 not; but 1 with 1 find been here -1 wish I had been hero 1"--re,st- lessly, "Why were not you?" No immediate answer, "Why were not you '1" repeats she, curiosity, for the moment superseding bel. dist(uiet. "what prevented you? t thought,. when you left us, that you meant to 00.110 hack at once?" "ho I did, hut--" "13ut what?" "1 could not; I was with Ayng." ""With Byeg?" repents Cecilia, too genuinely astonisihed to remember even to prellx a "Air." to Byng's name. "Why, 1 should have thought that if there were one day of ifs life on which In could have done without you better than another, 1t would have been to- day 1" ' "Were not you rather de trop?" chimes In Sybilla's languid voice from the sofa, "rather a bad third?" "1 was not a tilted at all," "Do you mean to say," cries Cecilia, her countenance tinged with the pink of a generous indignation, "that you were four -that Mrs. Le Marchant stayed In the room the whole tine? I must say that now that they are really and bona - fide engzged, 1 think she might leave them alone together." "Mrs. Le Merchant was not there at all." Then, seeing the open -moulted astonishment depicted on the faces of his audience, he ..:aces his mind to mono Iia Inevitable yet dreaded an- nouncement. "I toad better explain at once that neither Mrs. nor Miss Lo Mar- chant were there; they are gone." "Gone!" "Yes ; they left Florence at seven o'clock this morning." There is a moment of silent stupefac- tion. 1 suppose," says Cecilia, at last slow- ly recovering the power of speech, "that they were telegraphed for? Mr. Le Marchant is dead or 11 1? ono of the married sisters? one of the brothers?'" Never in his life hes 1101 labored tut - der so severe a temptation to tell a lie, were It only the modified falsehood of allowing Cecfia's hypothesis to pass un- contradicted ; n -contradicted; but even if he were able for once to conquer his constitutional Incapacity, 11e knows that in this case it would bo useless. The truth must transpire to -morrow. "I believe not" "Gone 1" repeats Cecilia, in a stir more thunderstruck key then before - "one where are they gone?" "I do not know." "\Vhy did they go?" Jim makes an impatient movement, fidgeteng on his chair. "I can only tell you their actions ; they told me their motives as little as they did to you." "Gone! \Vhy, they never said a word about it yesterday." This being of ane nature of an asser- tion -not en interrogation -Tim feels with relief teat it sloes not demand an. answer. "Gone at seven o'clock in lila morn- ing! Why, they could not have had lime to pack their things 1" "They left thein behind." The moment that this admission is out of Burgoyne's mouth, he repents having made it; nor does his regret at all diminish under the shower of ejacula- tions from both sisters that it calls forth. "Why, it was a regular flied they must have taken French leave." There is something so horribly jarring in the semi-jocisity of the last phrase that Jim jumps up from his chair and walks towards the window, where Mr. Wilson is sitting in dismal idleness. Mr. Wilson has, never cared much about the Le Merchants, and is now far too deeply absorbed in his own trouble to have anything but the most Inatten- tive indifference to bestow upon the topic which to his daughters appears so riveting. Jim blesses him for his cal- lousness. 13ut the window of a 5111011 room is not so distant from nay other part of it that sounds cannot, with per- fect ease, penetrate thither, as Jim finds when Cecilia's next eager question pur- sues him,. Did Nh'. Byng know that they were gcing?o."" N There is a pause. ' "It is absolutely incomprehensible!" seys Cecilia, with almost a gasp. "1 never saw any one human being so mucin In love With another a5 she was yesterday -there was so little disguise about Ire that oine was really quite sorry toe her -and this morning at cockcrow she decamps and leaves him without a word." - "You nee mistaken --she left a note for him." "1'oor deer boy 1" sighs Syhilia, "is not hu quite prostrated by the blow? I nm not apt to pity men generally -they aro so coarse-grahled--hub he Is much more delicately strung 11100 the general run," "I suppose he is frlgh.lfuliy out up,' says Cecilia, with that inquisitiveness es to the deinns of a great alilietioe which w0 are alb apt to experience. For some perverse raison, lnexplienble even to himself,. Jin( would like to bo able to answer Ilial his friend Is not cut up et all; but truth again asserting its 00000i:.".04400496414606Oda The effect of malaria lasts a long time. You catch cold easily or become run. down u n - down because of the after effects of malaria. , Str"elag&hcrl yourself �with,•SaoVtr .g' E' vngtj'Yp•94.. It buildsnew bt blood tones up your wzervoa s system. ALL DIRU0C11STS1 60o. AND $1.00. 31(1 '' ti�'4'"!a'e ' em°c 1�a° s or'1n>;uiE 40041. yu 0 "1'1" 4:51 fu ear11lplrey1'' ,. , 110 assrv110 )aconically, "fright - "Hew did he tacco it?" "flew do people generally take such things?" The Impatience of the key in which lints Is Uttered, coupled whit the Implied side-allesloll to 8111 aetpuoi ranee .with ecrcows of 11 somewhat sltit)lar suture on. her own pert, slleneee the younger and eoundot' Miss Wilson for a moment, but only for 0 moment -a moment long enough to be filled by another slatting "Poor dear boy 1' from +y,billu. ""You soy that she left a note for hbn ?" --with a renewed light of curiosity in her eyes -"have you any idea what Lees Ito it?" )lm hesitates ; then, ")'es," he replies ; "but us ll was 1101 addressed to me, 1 du not think (hut I have any right to repeat 11." "Of course not l" --reluctantly ,' "but dtu 11 throw no lIght-absolutely no light at all -upon this extraordinary stanl- pede ?" "Did not she oven tell frim whore they were going?" "No, "Nor whether they were coining back?" "Nor ask him to follow iter?" "If she did not tell him where she was going, is IL likely that she would ask 11 tin to follow her?" cries Jim irritably, deeply annoyed to end that 11e Is, by the series of negatives that is being forced. from him, doing the very thing which 11e had just dented his own right to do. "11 is the most incompreliensible thing 1 ever heard In my life. I wonder" - with an air of even a101Let' interest than before -"what Mr. Greenock will say? Perhaps he w111 now tell what he knows about theta; if they are gone, there will no longer be any need 10 conceal it, 1 am alrala this looks o'attter as If there was somelhtng 1" For the second lime In one day the mention of an amiable flaneur's dame males Jim vault to his feet, "Well, I will not keep you any longer from your. luncheon," he cries hastily. "1 will call in again later." "Are you going?" asks &I1'. Wilson, dully lifting his head from his chest, upon which it is sunk, "Well, you are about right; eve are not much good to any one when our mainspring is gone." The phrase strikes Bold on Jim's heart. "Are you going back to the poor dear Goy?" inquires Sybilla as he passes her. "By -the -bye, if it is not leo 0111011 trouble, would you mind tucking the Austrian blanket a little closer in on 1110 left side?" and as be sloops to perform the asked -for service, she adds : "Let him know how sincerely I sympathize with him ; and if ile wants anything quieting for 111s nerves, 1o1) slim that Utero ie nothing that I can more con- scientiously recommend than—" But what Sybilla can conscientiously recommend ie skit Into the closing door. Outside that door Jim finds that Cecilia has, joined him. Anxiety has quite ban- iseed the not altogether disagreeable curiosity of .five minutes ago, (ram the troubled 'face .she lifts to his. "You will come bade, will not you?" sho asks. "You are not of stitch use, I suppose; but still, . one feels that you are there, and we are all so much at sea. You have not an idea how much we ere at sea -without her." "I think that I have a very good idea," 111 aliswers mournfully. "Tell me, Cis; de you blink sho is really very ill?" As he puts the question, he feels its irrationality. He knows that the person to whom 11e is making his futile appeal has already given him all 111e scanty tidings she has to give; yet he cannot help indulging a taint hope that her res- ponse to this last query of lots may per- haps set Amelia's condition in a slightly mare favorable light. A look of helpless distress clouds Cecilia's already cloudy 1aoe. "I tell you I do not know ; I are no judge ; I have seen so little real Illness.' Sybilla would kill me if she heard me say so, would not 'she?" -with a slight parenthetical 5mtle-"but I have seen so Melo real illness, that I do not know what it means that she should be so heavy and stupid. As I told you before, the only time that she roused up at all was when I mentioned your—" Ho stops her, breaking rudely into her sentience. He cannot bear to hear that it is only at the magic of his name that his poor faithful love lifts her sick head. "Yes, yes ; I remember." "Someone ought to sit up with her, I am sure," pursues Cecilia, still with that helpless air of disquiet; "she ought not la be left alone all night; but who? I should be more than willing to do it; but I know that I should fall asleep in five minutes, and 1 am such a heavy steeper that, when once I am off, there Is no possibility of waking me. I am a dreadfully bad sick -nurse; father can. navel' bear to have me near him wine Ito loas the gout." Burgoyne Ls too well aware of rho per- fect truth of this last statement CO at- tempt any contradietlon of it. "`Amelia hos always been the 0110 to s l up when any ono owls ill," Continues she, \voluUy ; "and even now, by a stu- pid confusion of Wens, I catch myself thinking, 'Oh, Amelia will sit- up with her 1" 140101'1 I canmem that her is Amelia herself." 31011 can well sympathize with this same confusion, when, several times daring his walk back to the Piazza d'Azeglio, a muddled thought t ought of comfort i'a 110 idea that he will go and loll Amelia what a terrible day of anxiety about some one he has been having, laps 1.11 the door of his heath, The portals of No: 12 tiro once again opened to him by Annunziate, who Indicates to him, by a series of emnpassionetc gestures aid' liquid Tuscan sentences, that the poyei'o. is still within, and Iho Pedi'one, wlio (his Ihno also appears 01) the scene, a1d 00110 IS possessed Of sonnlwdlnt more inglisit then her handmaid, intimates, albeit with a good deal of syulpnllly for Lie sufferings, yet with still more of de- termination, !hot it would be 110 had thing wore lie to be remelted since, whether the sun shines or the rain falls, people must live, end the apartment has le he prepared for new occupants, Anything Lhnt scent s less iulrnli nn f Y 1 n 1, nemtt ng then 13 u s pose, !IIs ��fileel friend l joins iia , 11 would be difficult to 11111 1s'. lin Ise steetehed upon the parquet Boor, with his heed lying on the small foul*tool 1101 has Leon wont to seppru'l. 1?,lizebe!h's feet; her pilled work- basket steeds on the floor 111511e hint, while 1111' hit of embroidery halt shrouds Ili) distoried taco, The noodle, esti]) slicking in 11, may prick his oyes out for n'1 be cares; the book sloe Jest road Is open el the pogo where she has put het' murk o! a stwin of pale silk ; and the yellow unemenes, that he must have 1aluckad for her yesterday in drenched eenti tenosa, am crushed under his 1301 cheek, But outwardly be is quite quiet. Jin1 pule bis hand on les shoulder, "Colne away, there Is zoo use In your el/tying here any longer," ('bo .be conllnued). ON TUFFRMJ wkovvkAAA/www,osAANW INCI1i3ASINO '1'111 0011N YIELD. To increase tete yield of corn per acre, means jest so much more melt from each acre, 13y judicious management and careful study, most fields of Cara could he increased at least live to ten bushels per acre, without Increasing the cost of production, writes Mr. C, W. St'li1n1,1n. To do this means to be 011 lime, but sol ahead of time. The ground should be well drained; fertile and waren, if a good stand Is expected, Don't crowd the season in order to be 1110 first roan plant- ing in your neighborhood when the ground is 3 -fie cold and wet. New a weed just here: flow many year: have you hod that ground in corn? Did 1 nndersiund you to say two years? Well, don't plant 3t to corn. It peels a change, !'here is no satisfaction In eels - Ing a half crop of corn, and most of that nubbins, when the same ground can bring forth same o1110r crop bountifully. '1'oo many farmers corn Moir land to death, then wonder what Ls the matter at gathering time. 11 is o1 vital importance in get a good stand. T110 seed should be the very best, and must be tested b1 order to know els germinating power. Next., it should be graded, so that the grains may be uni- form end of lite same length and thick - floss. Many farmers open up the furrows with the lister, then follow these furrows with a two-lorse corn planter, This method, a little more expensive, has one great advantage -the corn planter wheels press elle soli firmly over the seed in pressing down the furrow, thus con- serving the moisture in the soli for the use of the little plant. As soon as the corn is two inches high, plowing should begin. Thele is a culth valor now on the market which is next to the gorden lice for small corn. The first plowing consists in throwing the dirt farther away from the corn, while two small shovels loosen up the flirt in rho bottom of the furrow next to the little plants. Tho Next plowing is just the re- verse -the dirt 15 brought nicely up to the earn, covers all creeds, and leaves - the lister rows In excellent shape for the common cultivator, which is used after. wards, Let me drop a word of caution. Never plow corn when the ground is wet or turns nap slid:. Now, let us return to the seed prob- lem. Many intelligent farmers believe It is not the -best plan to get seed for gene- ral planting from some other slate 1n a different latitude. I believe climatic changes will affect the yleld the first year when the seed is 116111 some dis- tant latitude. If this is true, it would be advisable to procure seed for general planting In your own latitude as near as possible. Perhaps the bast way would be to sot apart a plot of ground on which to raise your seed corn for another year. This plot should bo made fertile with barn- yard manure and put ht the best possible condition for planting. Now procure seed corn in the ear from some reliable Chen, and plant it when the ground is warns. One acre thus planted will give ample seed to select from another year. The yield can be materially Increased by selection of well -lectured, solid, heavy ears, with 11 good-sized grain. Each locality hes its favorite variety. It is for you l0 determine which variety to plant to increase your yield. If you wish to get Interested in corn, plant four or [Ivo varieties in, the same field. I would suggest len rows of each kind, and keep a memorandum of ,date of planting, where seed was procured. method of cultivation, the condition of season, and which variety was the most droulh-resisting. Gather each variety separate and weigh 11. Nolo which var- iety has' the most good solid ears and least nubbins. 'i'Itut variety will do to 113 on to !or another year to raise more corn. ` LIVE STOCK NOTES. Early lambs, and Meer mothers, os well, ,toed to be ]rept wain. for quite awhile. They will soon get a' good hold on life so that they will endure almost anything. But they will do much bet - in return for good treatment. Close up the louse tightly -; place an iron vessel on bricks -in the centre of the 110113e and sprinkle in 1t sulphur, ellen a 11111e alcohol, and then lucre sulphur. Apply a 11101011 and get out of the house quickly. Keep lltn hens dut and the door closed for 1111 hours. This will Moen out both file vermin and disease. Different feeds Vary widely in the quantity of the food nulrIeree they con- tain, . For instaloe, cottonseed steal eon - nine about flue tones es much as corn of Mat Ingredient so important In milk prnducliOn, but fails tar Below corn in the amount of some of the other ingre- dients which they contain. So with litany foods as with lheSe lots, m11111 is to be gained by arising them In definite Proportions. It is possible for a feed or ration to contain one or snore of the nutrients in sunt amounts above letizo1 the 5011101 requires or can use of them lint about es serious results may occur es if some nulrlents MVO lacking in the ration. The 11501111 of nue 100111lel may or may not be injured by this oval'-nbun- donee and the quality of the production injured, but the method of feeding is wasteful. lr:V1\1 NOTES. The. farmer would do ivral la remem- ber. Iha1 while the weather luny torr once Yrxellausly mieerieln, R is nothing like toe nncerhlin ns ine stock merkll. 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Toronto %function, • Ontario, may be lacking. If you wait till you want the tools, you stay have to reek° several extra nip' to rho shop or stere before you can go to work. !hese extra trips whittle elle season away. In OUP corn, grasses and varied legu- minous plants, we in America grow the cheapest animal foods in the w'orid and with these in abundance, properly grown and harvested, we can feed our farm slack without any very expensive addi- tions of commercial feeds ; and one of our endeavors should he to the making animal appetites and needs balance to our feeds. As a Ume and labor saver, the manure - spreader ranks with the self -binder and other implements of that class, Ono roan with a good team will haul and spread with a spreader as flitch as two 00t11d possibly handle by hand. In Riese sec- tions where farm help is seas(' tihis lat- ter feature is no small Item. In the steer: - lion of a ma0111110 the proposition Is very similar to that of any other farm Imple- ments. Tiley are all good -they have to he 111 order la sell in these limes of coon - Petition, sect tlhedr seleotiuu is largely a matter of taste. :----- PICKED UP MAO Rt"CTS. Eminent Vienna- 'Barrister Slrurk 011 the Rolls. An eminent Viennese beree' h`,' wits recenlly'struck off the 1 8111 f,u• a 1111111, lice. when ens pr"alnunce,l t, 1„, d, rog0101') to the dignity of iii, Alun, nm,icly the picking up mil ing of the flag ends of e(grn• in 0)(1.818. streets. 11 0vis plendrd Jnr i)'.• Leh' lltel. 110 wen soft" ring !r.nn t, l , S eillt.l. ' tprtuu di fir i (;err. ul0rrthl, tli rostra 1 ,t ill nu•tl 1(1111llec11c r1y nn)1 rutle11110uhlo;.t 11, 01, I y ::• (nite- hlnt1, of lite oilier sIeb inmt 1.1 n, n10)1).' 0,11111101111$ rallilrine.1 Ii1C h\1,:enep ni Iiia pocttl)ar cines of u) i 4nnti 'li i ort,e- ur) ul, wllh'h ca'cnrs Inosite• Is) pt i tiun5 rf sunnier oiler()lion and Ii11!, 1)15115 meets, t'ases cu'e riled of pr•r-nna otherwise sane, of p004 social poeilion, who are unable to withstand the Im- pulse of picking up bits of paper, corps and midi like \which are lying on pave- ments. One 4s reminded by this story of Dr. Johnson's alleged uneonteellabie ion - pulse to touch every street post as he walked through Fleet Street, Crandon, returning it ho happened to notes one. A LANDLUBBER Al' SEA, A fellow who had never been to ,sea applied to the skipper of a merchant Ves- sel for a berth. "Very well," said the skipper, "1 will take you on as an able seaman." On the night that the vessel tett poet the newly -made able seaman was cold off to keep a sharp look -out and report any- thing he saw. Presently L y he saw rho lights of a vessel ahead, and shouted out "Bridge ahoy." "Hullo," sting out elle skipper, 'There's something on ahead of us," replied the etile seaman, "Can't you slake out what it is?" asked the skipper, "Well," was elle answer, "11 looks like a chemist's shop, for it's got a red and. green light." NO PLACE FOR THEM. All English tourist in the West Indies had been warned (molest bathing in a river because of llbIIgelere, so he went ipl swimming 01 the 11001' mouth, where his guide assured him Utero would be none, 'How (10 you know thea',' nee 110 hIll. go) 110 horn) lie netted, 11)1011 he had - waded out nook -doom "You 000, ah." said the gulch degas a tinny 0l' 1 loo tar 1 how, 0 I alitF . t ter. LS 13 <t , et 0d one les n ia't no place fur host, et) h." C\C113Gi1. 1Sttil: "When we are married, my love, we shall have n io1• to struggle 111)11," 1:110 (consoliegiy) 'We shall have 150)1 other." VOUNO FOLKS 0.0.000(1P00000000010-0-0 "Hallo, boy I"' qul"italickasa V, 111111asi1"l, the mower came ilaelA e ':Stop a lnlnuto, will you?" gri `17oanning, boy stopped, And turned about Mr. Arthur Mitnion, artist, had stroll- ed beyond the vitbgo limits, looking for the pleturesgne to feed itis sketch -book, Catching sight of a tattered urchin, swinging: an empty, tattered basket, it looped es 11 toed found something to Jill lh0 bin, or rather a page of the book. The bay's face was keen, but full of 4 folly good nedur0, "\Wh's your na1110, my son?" ""Chlps1at" 'I'lte word cattle with 4 twinkle, "Humph," Mr. Millman -muttered, "bright youngster." Then aloud, "Bap - Lived 'Chips'?" 'Not zacily; but folks call me that 'count of my business," and Chips swung his basket proudly, "Oh, I see! \\'c'll, Chips, if ,you want to earn a quarter easily, you stand still a little white just as you aro and lot me Make d. picture of you." Chips grinned in delighted apprecia- tion end the artist sketched away. Chips was really to noted character ---ha was a inonopolist. 'J'he men who owned the large wood -yard let him have all the loindlings. They were willing to da it wi(buut cost, In view of the foot that he was the mainstay of his mother, who was too feeble for much • work, 13ut Chips was no beggar; Ile meant to do business on b'lstness methods. There - More, he paid a small price for the kin dlings, and sold them out. by basketfuls, supplying most louses in ilio village, Everybody 1Uced Ciltl>.s, ha was s0 in- t o t• l 0r duslnious, so kind his mo h t , s0 ready to give and Luke a joker lie had a gay word for every housewife or ser- vant maid; 1i0 grabbed off his 00.9 and said, "Thank you," with •1 rough polite- ness, every time ho was paid for the kin dlin, Itgsmay be thought strange that other, urchins did not poach on Chip's pre` serves. Indeed, it was tried once or twlee, but Chips could light as well as work, and lie pounced on the offender in a fashion not to be desired. After that the manager of the wood -yard, wishing io give the boy the best chance, and not being devoid of humor himself, posted the following notice; "The ownens of lits yard have sold the rights to steal In lcindtngs to Richard Holmes, otherwise known as `Chips.' Anyone trespassing on this will be handed over to the police." So Chips was really a monopolist, though ho didn't know it, until Mr. Will- man, the artist, said so, after Chips had explained his occupation. 'Mr. lvlilrnan topic a. great liking to the bo Chips," he said one day, "I'ni going back to the city pretty soon to paint pictures. There are sever'el things I'd like to put such a boy as you in. IIow would you like to go with me? You could learn to take care of hey rooms, and then pose for me when I needed you, I'd give you lets sea." Mr. Milman thought a minute, and then named a sum that made Chip's Dyes dance. "Think it over, and ask your mother." Chips face fell at the word "mother. Chips marched off, frowning hard. That night the lay awake --an unheard 011. proceeding. One thing he resolved. "I'll not trouble mother 1111 I've settled it my- self." It was not the first time lie had shielded her from anxiety. Toward morning ho event off to sleep. When he had awoke and had plunged his lowsled head in cold water, every. thing cleared up. He knew! bfI1 sons like him to go straight to Mr. llman. "Well?" the artist asked. "I've thought it over, sir. .I'd like to go mighty well, but n10111er couldn't spare. me. les, sit', I know it's big money to what I get now, but It's just this a -way. You wants me three months. Then I comes back and some other boy has got my place., 'cause they can't have the Medlin' lilteen. An' maybe 1 would- n't like to 'sell Medlin' after 1'd been a city feller. An' the wood -yard man has promised me a place's quick's I'm big enough, se its slow an' sure. But its mother mostly. She'd grieve every min- ute 'Tain't like she was strong. Thant you, sir, but I've 'ceded:" There was pretty nearly tears in the honest eyes, Mr. I,illman grasped the boy's hand he never wanted so much L: paint him as at that moment. "I'm proud of you," was what 110 said. "and when I alma back next year, we'll none up for what we can't do nibs Whi- ter, eh?" As rho boy turned away, the artist thought to himself, "Chips has a goad head and a good heart." NO CAJOLERY T1IEN. A certain lady took hee four -yea' -old daughter to a photographer. - The iittle ono would not keep still. Tho knight oil the camera was es nice and suave as he could be, end called the cdljid all the sweet endearing names he could .thunk or, while using every device of gentle persuasion to mance the little wriggler keep quiet Finally h0 turned to tho de- spalring mother and said : "Madan, if you will leevc your darl- ing with nue the to few minutes, I think 1 can :succeed iii. taking her lovely face to perfection." The mother withdrew for a short tome. Soon the photographer summoned hen bock, and exhibited n. highly salislaclary, i nega nUI etiel ve,,amkeWlClten-they reached home lho : . "Nellie, what dict 11101 Mee gentleman 8l' t [oY au when I '[ ee a ieft you alone with 5 11111\1\7'11, am\Vo?n. 1l, he said," replied Nellie, "'If you don't sit still, you ugly, 5g011nt-eyed mon- 11.1 shake ilio life out of your them - inning carcase,' viten I sat very stili, mamma," Doctor's .tee) aro the reieeed for 00011e doing.