The Brussels Post, 1909-4-29, Page 2Time Heals Most Wounds
A Tie of Love and Disappointment
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CHAPTER XXV.
With all the pomp and circum-
Stauot> attendant upon his position,
the body of the Earl of VI'olver
holm,& was laid in the family vault,.
The tragic circumstances attendant ed herself far itis happiness? And
upon his death had intensified the
what was the 1.081116, The wretched
man that she saw before her very,
eyes. Might it not be possible that
after all it was she he loved, and
not Ethel Fetherston.
A mad joy surged to her heart,
and her bosom rose and fell rapid-
ly with her emotion, The thought
very being. Should she tryand
win this man ehe loved so devoted
ly/ Should she snatch at the
ohenco that "seemed in her very
very grasp? Might she not bo able
tc move him, she who had sacrifice
grief that Cyril felt ab his father s.
death, funeral,
Joel was present at the fun ,
and with quiet aympethy bad en-
deavored to comfort Cyril in his
grief, but for a while he was be -
%e mbed and resented the presence
of any one, His sorrow was groat,
but he was sufferfug physically from of the delirium of happiness
tsa
t
the effects of the long mental his love would bring her seised1r
strain that he had endured. He, in its grip. She made- a movement
endeavored to occupy his mind by forward, her eyes filled with love.
the arrangement of the Earl's al- He looked up suddenly, ant, there
fairs, but he was incapable of the was revealed to him in a flash the
intensity of her passion. He re-
membered her devotion to his fa-
ther, the plucky fight which she
had made for his happiness; her
abnegation of self, and her whole-
ehambers at the Albany; for Wol- hearted desire to give him the wo-
man he loved.
She read his thoughts, and she
was struck by a sense of the un-
worthiness of her wild longing.
said timidl "Won't
t
"Cyril, she Y
mental concentration that this ne-
cessitated. His manner was list-
less and he appeared to have lost
all interest in life.
He was living in Loudon at his
verholme Castle had become dis-
tasteful to him. One afternoon, a
week or two after his arrival, he
received a call from Joel and Re-
bekah.
"I do not understand Lord Won
verliolme," Joel had remarked that you try to make me happy/ Be
morning to his daughter, "He yourself again. Do you want me
to think that what I have done has
been in vain? Don't go away, I
implore you."
She eagerly watched the effect of
her words, and save an exclama-
tion of disappointment when she
saw that he was unmoved.
"You owe me something," she
said at last, for she was determin-
ed to rouse him from his lethargy.
"You expressed your gratitude for
what you thought I had done for
you. Do you want Ethel Father -
sten to come hero on her knees
and beg for your level Are you
acting the generous parte Think
of what she must he suffering. She
wronged you. I admit that; but
clo you wish her to think that she
remains unforgiven /"
Her fierce words had their ef-
fect.
"I will try to explain," he said
nervously, `but it is very difficult.
I want to see Ethel, but I don't
know that I could be myself. I am
not myself. I should hurt her by
my manner, for I should be con-
strained and unnatural, She would
think that I did not love her. I
must wait till the recent happen-
ings are not so vividly before me.
1 should imagine that she was I could not stay her longer here,
thinking of my father's confession, passage way. g She's gone, 1 kn aw not whither !
and I should be miserable." narrow ansa 'e tivalkin
"That is nonsense. I understand through that and out at the back,
Ethel now. Your father's disgrace one sees the only staircase the But did I know I do protest
would never have influenced her; house possesses. It closely resem- (I speak it not to flatter)
she would have clung to you all the hies afire escape, as it is on the 01 all the women in the world
seems to take an interest in no-
thing, but broods all day. It is
not natural, and het wants rous-
ing."
But what can we do? I wonder
if he has seen Ethel Fetherston.
I think I had better call on her."
"Yes. Go this morning."
Rebekah found Ethel at home,
and the mourning which she wore
seeraocl to accentuate her fair
beauty. But her eyes were trou-
bled, and she eagerly greeted her
visitor.
"Piave you heard from Cyril?"
Rebekah asked at once.
"No. Be has not written once,"
Ethel replied wistfully. "Perhaps
he will not forgive me, and I dare
not go to him."
"Father tells me that he is ill.
Something must be done at once.
You see, father and I are going
abroad for a long time, and I can-
not leave England with a contented
mind unless I see you two happy."
"It is my punishment, and I de-
serve it. I may have lost his love,
and I am so miserable, Rebekah, I
have no pride. Shall I go to him/"
"You must remember the terrible
trouble he has gone through. He
loves you, you may be sure. Cyril
is not one who would ever change.
Shall I go and see hien/"
"Yes, and give him a message
for me. Tell him that his sorrow
is my sorrow, and that I long to
comfort him," Ethel said eagerly.
"I will go this afternoon," Re- I more closely. It was what she
bekah replied tenderly. "You thought to be your treachery that
must not be miserable."
Joel consented to accompany Re-
bekah on her call upon Cyril, but
it was with much trepidation that
she looked forward to the inter-
view. At the sight of his changed
face she gave a cry of sympathy.
"You poor dear boy," she cried
tenderly, '''and you have been all
alone."
Joel was looking round the
room, which was littered with
travelling trunks, and there was
every sign that Lord Wolrerholme
was engaged in packing up his ef-
fects.
"Are you moving from. here /"
he asked anxiously.
"I am going abroad at once. I
am in need of a change," he said
curtly, but Ids eyes did not meet
Rebekah's, who gave a cry of con-
sternation.
"But Ethel? Are you going to
see her I" she demanded eagerly.
"I don't know. Not yet," he ad-
ded quickly, "I must have time;
1 am weary and sick at heart.
Can't you understand 1" he wound
up helplessly.
"No. I cannot," she cried firm-
ly, `Cyril, I must speak with you.
Father, will you run away for a
while 1 '
Joel took up his hat and obedi-
ently left them together,
"What is the matter, Cyril?" she
asked with simple directness.
"I don't kuow," he replied list-
lessly. "Only that all niy feeling
seems dead."
"Don't you still love Ethel Feth-
ereton/ Don't you still wish to
mingledofs" women.n , Bold 1ti°ImT1']of uuturally the tiny hoose stands idle W4t DECLARED ON eteeee,
• p the loversunused and is a small, bute Image Done by Them
was tenant,. Ina few strides he ono the lose undoubted, white Iuaaneuse 1)i
el ossed the room and t t apples/it,Tai lingla1atl.
were face to face. 7'ho sisteof onvelit have arid aai
Ethel tool= wistfully at him, and reserved thrse rightthe toewalk in dt hats aro more numerous a
passionate words struggled to her :bhe Nut door and through the .greasfve than they 'ewe ever been
lips, but she was unable to utter ground floor passage into the lane before, said Sir James"(lrichton-
thatu. tit the back which leads into their Browne, speaking the other day at
Cyril gazed at the woman he garden any time they please, but as the first annual mooting o£ the So-
leved, and the sight of her seemed er mutter of feet they only avail piety for the Extermination of
to drive away the evil spirits that themselves el the privilege once a Vermin at 20 Iienover Square,
had possessed him. With a, glad year and then they Erle slowly along London,
cry he held forth his .arms, and It by twee, just to keep the right Ib was oflioially estimated he
France, he added, that the damage
5 00 -
to craps by field intoe was $ ,0 ,
ed Of course, there tl g f i 400 per annum, The calculation
have been blasted out by the touch serest to see it t the there } is
clasped her passionately to him,
There was no need for words, for
still tli:o wrekohed pest seem to
ro t nes
thou
ei. o
property of way through p
cording to English law.
ere is nothing of n-
i he little house, t v, tine rat to every
of love's healing hand. But Ethel The one 'room is distinctly ugly and acre in England and Waiee, and
was not content. She could not evidently no one has eves' lived in that each rab did damage to the
know happiness until she lead re= it long enough to take the slightest esctent of one farthing every day,
lieved her heart. interest in decorating or embolimaking the total lose per annum
"I mast toll you, Cy til, she Iishing it, so if tourists were able $75,000,000, was, if anything, short
pleaded, as he tried to silence hee to avail themselves of the privilege of the mark,
"I shall ever blame myself for not of going through it it 'would only A poultry hooter in'Dorsetehire
having trusted you. When I think be interesting a8 an example of told them his loss last year by rats
c f the suffering that 1 caused Sou, rho absurdity of some of the. Eng- was $400, Tho owner of a flour
I wonder that you can still lovo lish ground laws and land leases, mill lest $750 per annum by 'the
me. But I, too, have snlleiecl, __,I, gnaning of sacks alone. Some
these last few weeks, and I have factors of house property in Gins
learnt m lesson. Rebekah, has GLAD' WIDOWERS.
i 1 F r dam -
taught me my meanness, Oh, Cyril 1 gene stated that'tlieir b 1 0
w owe her a debt of gratitude that Some Spiteful
Epitaphs (hilted age by rata amounted to $2,000 per
e g annum. The secretary of a soap
we can never repay. each passing From Country Gravoyaads• company said that $2,500 per an -
hour shall we likve our lives together, One. might imagine that When a num was the smallest computation
1 thank God for or Y man has been liberated from even of the company's loss through rats.
"Butfshe will always be our the most shrewish wife he would be A. leather. enmehant lost $5. per
It,
dear. She loges meus both.
content to let her rest in peace week through the gnawing of his
7t was she who brought a without
perpetuating her little goods, and a silk merchant in Lon-•
to senswhenTsheis morning I me,l, weaknesses on her tombstone; and on said that rats got in les ware' -
and rate Caine to
and now—" yet all men do, not talcs this ra- house and in ono night did $400
He stopped expressively. tional and charitable view. worth of damage.
"She is our good angel, dear. Such an unforgiving husband was By boring communications from
Shall we go to her?" Ethel said the man who had these lines en- drains into dwellings, by gnawing
Happily. graven aver his Tato spouse: through water pipes and gas pipes,
But they were not to see Rebekah by gnawing at food, by causing
that evening,
nor for many, many Hre liesa Raman, no man can,
loss
o
f sleep
and nervous s
i
re
ids
-
nolttha to come, for Mrs,. Gold- deny it tion, rats had been responsible ibis f r
berg told them that she hatretired That rests in peace, although she sickness, debility and death to a
to her room with a bad headaolis lived unquiet. large extent, Precesser Anderson
Nay—heartache was her trouble Her husband prays if by her grave said that the damage done by rats
(To be continued.) You walk, in England was greater than the
You'll gently tread, for it awaked damage' dorso by the cobra an the
she'll talk. tiger in India.
laxly may not The society must not promise ins -
After all, this good la
have had a spiteful, if a too garru- mediate extormiefo cn: It would
lour, tongue; but we cannot be un- be some time before the last rat
der any delusion as to tike charm -
That
granted a retiring pension.
STUCK T1 CENTRE OP THE iwho inspired Her That much might be done rapidly
ter of the wife P in the extermination of rats was
13ES7? RESIDENCE DISTRICT. husband to write these words as shown by Denmark. Under a law
her epitaph : which came into force in 1907 pro-
Ileee rests my spouse; 00 pair vision was made for the payment of
It's Six Feet Wide and Thirty Feet through life a premium for every rat delivered
Doep and Ilas Been UnusedSo equal lived as we did; to the local authority. In the first
for Years. Alike we shared perpetual strife, year 1,398,000 rats were handed in
I knew no cost till she did, •and the premium paid for them.
Another happily bereaved hus-
band was content to confine bis
the sightseeing tourists who visit feeling to two words, but they were
the metropolis as care to penetrate very eloquent of what he had suf-
LONDONI'S SMALL HOUSE
This spring the hitherto inhospi-
table door of "the smallest house
in London" was opened to such of
into its tiny interior.
In the heart of ultrafashionable
London, opposite Elyde Park, this
little house is flanked on either side
by imposing stone residences, but
its own dimensions are width six
feet, depth thirty feet and in height
it reaches halfway up the second
story of its tall neighbors. It bas
a front door that leads into a long
fered. They were these: ""Pacem
habet—He has peace."
There was no such reticence,
however, about the widower who
commemorated his wedded life
thus:
We lived one and twenty year
As man and wife together ;
forced her to act as she did. The
thinking that you were disloyal.
Will you dine with us to -night?"
she wound up abruptly. "I must
convince you that yon are wrong.
You can't refuse me. that."
"Yea. I will come."
"Good-bye then. I see father in
the courtyard. We shall expect
you at seven o'clock sharp."
And with a sm.le she left him a GREAT MANY YEARS PAST.'
alone with his thoughts. Loudon might well bo christened
She did not return to Ethel Feth- "the city of wasted space," as any
erston, but sent her a letter. one known who has roamed around
"Come round at six -thirty to the streets and seen the unused
night and stay to dinner. I want and unbuilt upon land ie. otherwise
to tell you all about Cyril. Don't crowded districts. This absurd,
be miserable, all will be right," tiny, useless house right in the
she wound up. midst of one of the most fashionable
But in her heart Rebekah was residential districts in the metro
not so sure. She could only hope. polis is an example•of wasted space,
She was guilty of rudeness when, and the lanes and squares in other
Ethel arrived, for she did not make parts of the city which serve no
her appearance till within a few purpose, and which might have been
minutes of seven, She was not added to the buildings on either
anxious to bo cross-examined by side of theta, ai'e further evidences.
her. Why the smallest house was not
"I am sorry to be so late, she divided between the two residences
said apologetically. which flank it is a problem. A11
Cyril?" / Ethel asked the you see y the land around it belongs to a
eagerly, rich convent situated in an Delius
"Yes, but not a word about him cut street. When the two large
until after dinner. I forbid it ab- houses were put up evidently the
solutely," she said playfully."�"'
y huilders leased just enough land His sire was Nott before hint;
But it was evident that Rebekah from the convent to erect such Ho did Nott live, he did Nott dio,
was nervous, for she constantly houses as they wished and left be- His tombstone was Nott over bin.
looked at the door. At last it tween the two residences this six
opened and a servant stood silently foot of space• It was not wide Over the body of a cobbler those
there, in accordance with the in- enough to cut a street through, and lines were written;
struetians she had give him. besides a street would only have
"Excuse me a moment, dear," led into the convent gardens. Tho Come, gentle Readers gentle friend,
she said to Ethel, and quickly fol- sisters, perhaps, fearing some such And her behold poor Comer's
lowed the servant. contingency, built this shell of a
outside of the building and is I swear I'd ne'er come at her.
scarcely more 'than an iron ladder.
At the top of the ladder is the
one and only room, a long narrow
hall like place lighted by one large
window. It is easy to stretch from
one wall to the other, so limited is
its width. There is no fireplace,
for no chimney was ever put in the
house and no water pipes have ever
been laid in it. In fact, no one has
attempted to live in it for
But I suppose she's soared aloft,
For in the late great thunder
Methought I heard her very voice
Rending the clouds asunder.
There is a lot of meaning, if very
little poetry, in the following qua-
train penned by a net too disconso-
late husband:
Here lies my wife,
Who's gone on high;
If I said I eves sorry
I too should lie.
•
The following arithmetical epi-
taph shows what a submerged sort
of creature the husband must have
been during his wedded years:
We wore not one, but surely ten,
I and the wife I sigh for ;
For while my better half was one,
I ne'er waS but a cypher.
Punning would sorely seem just
as meth out of piase in an epitaph
as spitefulness; but there are many
most interesting examples of this
rather. grim kind of humor. Here
is an enigmatic one on John Nett:
There was a man who was Nott
b
marry herr she demanded firmly. "Where is Lord Wolverholme V' },Dose which preserves the contemn_
Longer length his life gone,
"Yes, but I must have time,' he she asked quietly. sty ei the handsome block of resi-
dences
that he had no Last had Long.
repeated earnestly, I feel that ''I0 the library, miss."dances and now -a -days is let with 0 But that
ty Death ! whose art can
1 want her, hitt yet T cannot give So you've came, she began the house to the right of it, though kill
her the love that I did."quietly, `and I'm very glad to see it. is absolutely d?stinet from it and
She ruse mp':Isively and took you. Father will be down in a The man that made soles at his will,.
him by the art minute. 14-on't you come into the — --•-*
I could shake you," h di h 1> FOOLISH.
It is a h fp h "A man's a fool if he believes
you were utterly miserable that she had ripened the door she 1
you could not marry Ethel. Life n, tl',ned him to preced bor. Then large house, for they must keep it everything his wife tells him,"
he's
wes desolate to you, Now all she she r.uietly closed the door on him, painted on the outside and have the Philosopher of Folly, '
il,',,ltles have been removed and she and sees(' just for a moment, her fresh curtains and window-br es a bigger fool if he doesn t pretend
he does."
u tae she criedawin g -room'
fiercely, "But a short time ago, Site led the way slowly, and when
has no
CONNECTING DOORS AT ALL.
most embarrassingpos-
session indeed tote owners of the
is longing to brake yin to her arms, eyes abiding with tease so that it will not spoil the appear -
Why do you hesitate? Are you T•, Tlr,hekalt it was the crowning ance of the other houses in the row.
fickle -minded. I am ashamed of morsrnt of her Self-sacrifice, for Its one room is, of course, quite
youCy;
'1.." she had rnnquered every bitter useless, for a five foot wide room
lie did not make any reply to her thought, and had emerged purified with no heat or water is like White -
vehement ,snlburst, but sig.ied from the struggle, chapel in discomfort, yet 'the rent
TRUE,
A sharp tongue, however, is apt
to dull friendship.
deeply, ere Rebekah was assailed And Cyril? He
steed still, and they would have to ask would be Church•going has cured many a
by a temytat'lon. that moved her .the shaded lights only disclosed the, like Park .Lane in its figures, so man of insomnia;
SICK HEADACHES.
Those who suffer from sick head-
aches should correct every hanit
and avoid all indiscretions which
they know are likely to be followed
by an attack. They should also
overcome every derangement of the
system which exists, if possible, and
strengthen every part and function
of the same. In fact, they should
treat at first, not the head and its
aches, but endeavor to build up
/the general healbh. In the at-
tempt to do that they must not in-
discriminately dose themselves
with drugs, but rather depend upon
pure air, exercise, and sufficient
measures of like chareeter. One of
the greatest essentials in treatment
will be a careful selection of the
diet.
NO REASON.
Friend—"Don't the police know
anything about the burglary1"
The Victim—"I don't think so. I
don't suspect the police."
"After taking three
bottles of your wonderful
medicine, our baby was
entirely well and needed
no more medicine. At six-
teen months of age she
weighed thirty pounds.
She had cried eight months,
night and day, and nothing
did her good until we tried
ScotesEmuision."—MRS.
E. C. SIvIJTH, Villa Rica,
Ga.
c S
sion
probably saved. this child's
life. Four doctors had been
tried. Scene's Emetsrouo
seemed to be just the thing
needed, and it is just the
thing needed by thousands
of other children. It's so
easily digested, so pure and
harmless, yet most poweiful
in building - up the most deli-
cate child or adult. But be
sure to get Sco'r•r's Emeesio.t,
there are so many worthless
and harmful imitations.
AU, DRUGGISTS
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many othora of a .lmllor nature, tu,uthor
with eomo of our aaiunblo 11.10,0 uro'fo.
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On the Farm
THE MILNEIR..
In a recent bulletin issued by the
SJtorrs Agrioultura] Experiuieatb
Station el Uonnecticut, the authors
discuss the milker 08 a source of
bacteria in milk and base their dis-
miss n an praeticai observation
anti experiments conducted at tee
station.
The kinds of bacteria, they say,
that the milker is likely to intro-
duce" into tate milk include nearly
the whole list of those found in
milk. It seldom ocaura to the av-
erage milker that it isas neces-
sary to wash the hands before
ing as before eating a meal' of milk -
along the edge, and b the brook
victuals. The number taab come g y
from soiled clothes and dirty hands grew an eider -bush. Polly. an$
which get foto the milk; ere largo. Amy Ann called this bush Choir.
The ,hands of a ' milker working
house, -and under it they always ate
around the farm curing the after- their dinner. There was only one
noon wore tested, just before milk -
both,
The bush was just a lit
ing time, for the numbers of bas-
tee bit too small to shade them
feria that could be washed off in both. Tf Polly's head was in the
a quart of sterile water: The num.- shadow, Amy Ann's pink sunbon-
ber was found to be 40,000,000• This net was in the sum
washing did not remove all the "Wish we caulrl build a wing to
bacteria,but it did remove all
our house 1" said -Polly.
those tht would liaise dropped cif "Why, so we can!" cried Amy
during the milking. Another ex -
The
madding her bonnet f'emrt-
perinient was tried to determine ly. "Let's 'e o do it 1 Two of 'om !"
how many bacteria were left on
The little bonnets bent close to -
the hands after thorough washing Becher while they planned it all
with soap and water. The number out. After school Amy Ann ber-
ths
could be washed off thein in rowed her father's spade, and they
sterile water was found to be 000, -
dug
off for the woods. There they
ii d twobabyelm-trees and they
fone
nts''show
, y
000. These two experime du them n with the wee tiny
that 08 per cent. of bacteria can g P'
be crashed fromthe hands, roots and all, They planted the
The clothes of the ordinary dairy -
end
trees by "their playhouse —
nian carry immense numbers of or Amy Ann on one side of the brook
ganisms with dust from all sorts of and Polly's on the other. They
contamination. The milker has a did not know that they were kever
much wider tango for the colleo- ing Arbor day, for it had never
tion of a larger number and great -
little
heard of then. So they had
e1. variety of organisms than the no singing nor speeches; only the
cow. The only proper attire fora little wren that lived' in the elder -
milker is a white suit and cap to hush kept saying, "Chirp! Chirp!"
be worn only at milking time. A And her nine children pelted their
white suit shows dirt very readily little brown heads over the edge of
and when made. of white duck will the nest, and said, "Chirp i' all
last a long time and can be sten- in concert.
lined almost indefinitely, The little trees grew and grew;
The milker may not only be the so did Polly and Amy Ann. They
source of a very large number of got to be young ladies, then mid -
d la
harmless bacteria, but the largest nobody caled led them Polly ies, and then �an Almy •
source of disease germs that can
Ann now; they were Grandma
get into mills. The milker may be
White and Grandma Grant,
the immediate sautes of disease Grandma White lived a long way
germs or may transmit them to from Grandma Grant and the mea -
another person. Tlie disease germs
dew and the old schoolhouse. But
that get pito milk are largely from she did not forget them, and there
human origin, infectious diseases
was no story that her little rimy
that pass from individual to indi- liked so well as the story of the
victual. A grave mistake has been two little -elm-trees and the nine
made in the past by allowing per- little wrens. So when Grandma
sons ill with contagious diseases to White went to 'Visit Grandma Grant
enter a cote stable or dairy whore she had to take Amy with her.
milk is handled. Many an epidemic You should have seen how happy
of diphtheria, scarlet fever and ty- the two grandmothers were! And
phoid has been traced to a case of 1 mi should have seen what fun little
illness on a. dairy farm, which was Amy and little Polly had together t
not properly quarantined and eared And how the first thing they all did
for, One high grade milk handling was to go down into the meadow
concernrequires that if a ease of to look at the little elms.
contagious disease arises in the But they were not little elms an
dairy of ono of its patrons, that longer 1 They were tall, beautifn
the milk supply be withheld till the
patient has passed the danger lim-
it of conveying the disease germs.
The milk produced, however, is
paid for duriag the quarantine. It
is very difficult to make average
individuals understand or even be-
i'UUNQ
FOLKS
licoope0000000poci-000
Tl�[E IiAI*ULY TREES,
A great .many years ago 'Polly aid
A.rny Ann went to scllooi together,
Tire sohoolhouso looked like a.
square box, There were no trees
rcohunilddren'it,s and foot, uo playigrasng s, tagfor the
and
leap -frog, bad worn the ground aa
Bard as a floor.
Tho other .children ate their
lune/mon in is little crowd on the
door -step, but Polly and Amy Alan
knew a pleasanter place. It was a
secret; they never told anybody.
Just behind the schoolhouse was a
beautiful moudow, belonging to
eras, Antes father. Through the
meadow ran a brook, with little
fishes in the bottom and blue flag
trees, and they held out their long
green arms to each other over the
litt?e brook.
'\Vhat is it that says 'Chirp,
chirp?' " asked the little girls.
They looked up, and saw a little
wren's nest in the tree.
lieve that our worst diseases are "Perhaps these aro the grand -
caused by special kinds of bacteria, children of the wren that lived in
and that these bacteria can be the elder -bush," said the grand-
mothers. "Thus muste their
family tree."—Youth's Companion.
transmitted to a healthy individual, b
who is likely to contract the same
disease
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
A soft cloth is better to rub the
dirt from a horse's legs than a
comb. Some horses aro very sensi-
tive about the use of a comb on b r, R. T. Gorynclon, Commis -
,Sometimes
legs; a cloth they will never stoner fur Swaziland, left England
object to, a short time ago his return to
, n their
la we may get ewes to Mbabane, the Swazi capital Die -
situation their lambs by feeding them cussing the .situation theta, Mr.
by baud till the dams hats a good Ger ndon said that the natives hc,J
supply of milk. To hasten this
Y
time, give the ewes plenty of Hour- come under Imperial protection of
D
is urg food. their own free will, and they had
During this time of year the never been conquered. On the
fowls will have to remain inure u1. whole their attitude is one of un-
less indoors. To keep up their goad st4c:wingloyalty.
work, and to maintain good health, Tyne Ghief /regent, said iV1r.
ndi-, woman nP advuno•
it is necessary that the premises '"-:?'-"--,e,""
be kept scrupulously clean, anti o`l age, o reains a wonderful
that the floors be well littered so alertness of mind and diplomatic
that there will be an inducement experience. She has ruled Inc twee-
for exorcise. Without this prepara-
tion the fowls will not be conifor-.
table.
Shropshire sheep are descended
from a hardy variety found in
TF1E FEMALE ELEPHANT.
Wonderful W'omun Chieftain Whit
Rules in Swaziland.
ty-live years. She lives very simply
in her native kraal, about seven-
teen miles from the capital, and
comes up once every six months to
ser. the Commissioner, with a great
Shropshire and adjacent counties in following of cltiess anti natives,
England for the last two or three
centuries, formerly known as the.
gray -faced sheep, According to
the best authorities now living, they isle chant,
have not been brought to their pre- 1
sent state of perfected development "Tho Paramount Chief Sob -
by the crossing of other bleeds, heiza is a pleat -sant mannered boy,
but by judicious selection fromthe ten, Sears of age, .who, Navin;*
shown no •sighn of vice up to the
present, gives promising indica-
tions for the future. There are
foe !: or five chiefs in the eotuit57
who are hereditary: legislators of
great importance, the chief of them
being an old man named Jokovu..
A native called' exists, but it is
somewhat dominated by' the very
eapabl•e personality of the Chief
Regent, The country has never
been more properous than at pies
sent.
ilhttggins "My wife always
makes over her old gt:wnc."
travelling in a cart with six mules,
which were presented to her by
Lord Selborne; Her native name -
is PLC' dhlovukozi, meaning Female
best of its own species, They were
first exhibited as a distinct vari-
ety at the royal show at Glouces-
ter, in 1858, eine which time they
have attracted attention from all
quarters of the globe, and are still
increasing in popularity,
Mistress (to cook)—"Now, Brid-
get, I'm gong to give a party: 1
sincerely hope you will make your-
self generally useful." Bridget
(unci flattered)—"Shure, mum,
01'11 do my best; but" (confidenti-
alij) "(i'm so sorryOi can't dance,
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