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The Brussels Post, 1904-9-8, Page 2eetieweentewenritennevwste., emmeeseirwe.' e-Liwiam weirrn MCC f crty OR, A MIDNIGHT CALL CHAPTER VIL—(Continued.) a clue without sacrificing a, Jot of iler self-possession anti courage your line leiyalty to—well, others. I were cowing back to her now. But would not Mistress you for tho world the spasm or fear that had sbaken Miss Gatee: Don't you think that her to the soul was not lost upon this has been the most extraordinary fe t eel. intex•view?" "I truet not," he sake gravely. The tears trembled like diamonds -llid you know that 1 s -us here two on the girl's long lashes and a emile eights ago?" flashed over her face. The sudden "Herelh the girl cried. "Impossi- transformation was woudorfully fas- hie! In the house! The night before Mewling. lase! Why, we were all in bed long "What you might call an_ impossi- before midnight." bis interview," she laughed. "And eI am not aWare that I said any- 011 the moreimposslhle thing, about midnight," David re- was quite impossible tbateyou could /mended, oddly, ever have been here before." An angry flush came sweeping over When 1 was fit tbis• the face of the girl, annoyance at her nights ago," David protested, "I own folly. David thought. She add- saw—" ed quickly that she and her uncle "Did you see me, for instance? If lied only been clown In Brighton for not, you couldn't have been here!" three dues. A small, misshapen figure, with the Neverthelees, I was in this room face of a Byren—Apollo on the bust two nights ago," David replied. "If of a Satry—canie in from behind the you know all about it, I pray you folding doors of the .back dining - give nee certain Information of vital room carrying some letters M his importance to me; if not, I Shall be band. The stranger's dark, piercing eompelled keop my extraordinary eyes were fixed inquiringly upon story to myself, for otherwise you Steel. would never believe it, Do you oe "Bell," the latter cried; "Hntherly do you not know of my visit liere?" 73011 you have been listening!" The girl bent her head till Steel The little man with the godlike mulct see nothing but the glorious head admitted the fact, cooly. Ile amber of hoe hair. Ile could see, had been writing letters in the back eon, that the fine old lace round her room and escape had been ewes -Able throat was toeeing like a cork on a for him. tit ream. "Funny enough, I was going to "1 can tell you nothing." she said, look you up to -day," he said. "You "Nothing, nothing, nothing." did nee a great service once, and I It was the voice of one who would ara longing to repay you. I came have spoken had she dared. With clown here to give my friend Gates anybody else Steel would bave been the benent of my advice and assis- furiously angry. In the present case tance over a large philanthropic he could only admire the deep, al- scheme he has just evolved. And, most pathetic, loyalty, to somereody writing lettere yonder on that sub - who stood behind. Wet, I heard your extraordinary con - "Are you sure you were in this 'rotation.. Can I help you, Steel?" house?" the girl asked at length. "My dear fellow," David cried, "if "Certain!" David exclaimed. "The you offered roe every intellect in Eur - walls, the pictures, the lurniture—all ope I should not choose one of them the same. I could swear to the place so gladly as yours," anywhere. Arise Gates, if I cannot. Then let as shake hands on the prove that 1 was her at the One 1 Inu•gain. And now I ain going to nnme, it, is likely to go very hard stagger you; I heard you state Posi- with me." tively that two nights ago you were "You mean that a certain bacon- in this very room." ven len ce—" "I ani prepared to testify the fact "Inconvenience! Do you call a on oath anywhere, my dear Bell." charge of murder, or manslanghter at "Very well; will you be good best, inconvenient? Have you not enough to state the hour?" seen the local papers? Don't you "Certainly. I was here from one know 'chat, two nights ago, during o'clock—say between one and two." uiy abeence from home, a strange "And I wag here also. From eleven man was practically done to death o'clock till tWO I Was in this very in my conservatory? And during the room working out, some calculations time of the outrage, as sure as Bow- at thls very table by the aid of my en is above ue, I was in this room." reading -lamp, no other light being in "I am sorry, but I am sure that the room, oreven in the house, so you were not, "far as I know. It is one a my fads • "Ah, you are going to disappoint —as fools call ehern—to work in a mee And yet you know something. large, dtmk room with one brilliant You might have been the guiltiest of light only. Therefore you could not possibly have been in the house to say nothing of this room, on the night in cm esti on.' ' David nodded feebly. There was no combating Bell's statement. "I presume that this is No. 210?" he asked. "Certainly it is," Miss Gates re- plied. "We are all agreed about that." "Because I react the number over the fanlight," Steel went on. "And there was everything as / see it now. I came here by arrangement. And Bell, you must either cure ole of this delusion, or you must prove logically to me that I have made a mistake. So far as I tun concerned, I am like a child struggling with the alpha - start now," said Dell. "Come along." Steel rose none too willingly. He would fain have lingmed with Ruth. She held out ber hunk there was a warm, glad smile en her face. "May you be successful," she whis- pered. "Cotue and see me again, because I shall be Very, very anX- balls to know. And 7 am not with- out guilt. 71 you only knew I" "And I may come again?" David said, eagerly. A further smile and a warnl pres- sure of the hand were the only re- ply. Presently Steel was standing outside in the road with Bell. The latter was glancing at the house on either side of 210, The leig•her house ereatures yourself when / disclosed my identity. No prisoner detected in some shameful crime ever looked more guilty than you." The girl stood there, saying noth- ing. Had she rang the bell and 02, tiered the footman to put him. out of the house, Steel would have had no cause for complwint. But she did nothing of the kind. She stood them torn by conflicting emotions. -"I ean give you no information," she said, presently. "But 1 am as nositive one way as you are another that you have never been in this house before. I may surmise things, but as I Impe 1.0 be judged fairly I Otto give you no information. I a111 onin a Poor, unhappy girl, who is doing, what 5110 deems to be the best for all parties concerned. And I can tell you swilling, nothing. Ole won't yon believe thet I would do anythltig to serve you if X were only free?" She held out her hand With an im- ploring gesture, the red lips wore quiverieg, aOcl her eyes were full of 'tears. David's warm heart went out to her; he forgot all his OWn troubles and dangers in his sympathy for the lovely ,creaturo in distress. "Pray Say no 1110re abOlit It," be cried. ITe caught the outstretched hand in bis and carried it to his lips. "I don't wish to hurry you; In fact, haste is dangerous. .And there is ample time. Nor am I go- ing to press you. Still, before long you may find somo way to giro me n Fire ;VVth Ece iVieDoug,a11 Was for Twelve Years a Dre Sufferer—Now Proclaims the Virtues of Dr. °hose's Ointment. legeenia's iteli is torture, the eke., seems on ere with the burning, sting- ing limner; at times it becomes al- most unbearable, and in desperation Solt could tear the skin to pieces. You dare not eXercise for fear of ag- graveling tlie itching, neither can v011 Sleep, for no sooner does the body become warm then the trouble begins, and Instead of restful re - nestling sleep, it is scratch, ecratch, sere tch 1,1 1 night long. There is weateely a morneet's ,respile trom this maddening inalady at any titne. Of rourse you have tried nearly all tho waehes, salves, lotions and meth (11(4 (1 soaps, hut like thoueargle of ()fliers have been diSilppoInted atel disg int ed. Mr. .A eelellougall, poeterteeter, Blom! rove Mame), N.S , Writes: "For I we've years I was a great eureme 11.0111 11**111i1. 00 the inside of the leg, There was u raw paleh of flesh Wend three leehee weave, (nal the ilehieg vete eomeeeing tear- , h1. ovc.bolt box of lir, C11eece5 0 i n nen t compel iltlted 1111', look *may the !felling Abel healed up the tore. T hove no hestilatio(1 In en- I commending it, a), a wonclerfel cure for itching skin disease." You may be skeptical regarding the ability of 'Dr. Clitiee's Ointment to cueo you. Most, people are, after trying in vain to m 1, relief frent a host of leineclien, but Dr. Chase's Ointment will e• t disappoint you. You will be surprised at the reauwel- lous control whleh it bias over all itching, burning inflammation of the !skin, and the wonderful healing pow- ers which it possesses. It takes Urea to Von -mein/ tut 11 temente, but. Dr. Chase's Ointment will do it. Yoe will fed relief afLer a few ap- plications, and gradually and natee- ally the cure Will follow. Deekles being a positive cure Inc °amnia, Dr, Chase's Ointment comee venire (11 a hundred Wept in every home for every form of skin irritation and eruption, Dr. flemea'S Ointmene, en cents a. hoe, at all dealer, Or I'M Man Ren, no I & femmany, Poronto, 0o pro - tort emu agairist, linitallohs, the por- trait. anti signature of Dr. A, W. Chase, the femme; i•oreipt book ne- ther, ere oh (leery bon, • was iet; the ono nearest the sea -218 —Wee empty. A hill be the window gave the information that the pro - Party was in the bends Pi MOM'S. Wallece and. Brown, Meat% Quad- rant, where keys could be obtained, "We'll ueakef a, start straightaway," said Bell, "Coin° along." welbere are you ping to at that pace?" Steel asked, "Going to interview Messre. Wal- lace and Brown. At the present Mo- ment 1 am. a gentlemen who Is in soarch of a house al residence, and I have a weakness for Brunswick Square in particular, especially for No, 218. Deities I am greatly rats - taken I am going to show you. some- thing that will startle evea the most Callous novelist," CHAPTER VIII. The queer, enisshapere figure striding along by Steel's sida would have at- tracted attention anywhere; indeed, Fatherly Bell had been an attractive personality from his schooldays. A straege naixture of vanity and bril- liant mental qualities, Dell had al- most as many enemies as friends. He Wile, morbidly miserable over the score cl his pereonal appearance de- spite the exteitordinaiy beauty of his fnee—to be pitied or even sympathiz- ed with almost maddened him, Yet there were many women who would gladly have sinned the lot of Rather- ly For there was strength in that per- fectly mouldel face as well as beau- ty. It was the face of a man pos- sessed of marvellous intellectual pow- ers, and none the less attractive be- cause, while the skin Was as fair as a woman's and the ayes as clear as O child's the wavy hair was absolute- ly white. The face of a man who had suffered ilercely and long. A face biding a great sorrow. Time was when Dell had promised to stand in the front rank of opera- tive physicians. In brain troublee and mental disorders he had distin- guished himself. He had a enctrvel- hies faculty for psychological re- search; Mcleod, he bad gone so far as to cleclaro that insanity was merely a, disease and capable of euro the same as any ordinary malady. "If Bell goes on as he has started," a great German specialist once declar- ed, "be will inevitably prove to be the greatest benefactor to mankine since tbe beginning of the world." Bell was to be the seen of nis time. And then suddenly he had faded out as a star drops from the zenith There had been dark rumors of a ter- rible scandal, a prosecution burked by strong personal influence, myster- ious paragraphs in the papets, and the disappearance of the mono of Hatherly Bell from the rank of great medical jurists. Nobody seemed to know anything about it, but Dell was ignored by all except a fow olcl friends, end henceforth he devoted his attention to criminology and the evolution of crime. It was Dell's boast that he could take a dozen men at haphazard and give you their vices and virtues point-blank. Ile had a marvellous gift that way. A few people stuck to him, Gilead Cates amongst the member. The millionaire philantheopist had need of SOnie0110 to pick the sheep from the goats, and Bell made no mistakes. David Steel had been able to do the specialist some sligbt service a year or two before, end Bell had been pleased to magnify this into a great favor, "You are a fast wielker," David said, premed/a*. "That's because I are thinicing fast," Bell replied. "Steel, you are be great trouble?" "It needs no brilliant effort on your part to see that," 'David said, bitterly. "Besides, .you hoard a groat deal just 21.010 when you—yol.t "Listened," Bell said, coolly. "Of course X had no intention of planing eaVesdropper; and 1 had no idea who the Mr. Steel was who wanted to see Miss Gates. They come dey by clay, my dear fellow, garbed in the garb of Pall 'Mall or Petticoat Lane as the case may be, but they all come for money. Sometimes it is a shilling, sometimes £100. But I did noL gather from. your chat with Miss Gates what your trouble was." "Perhaps not, but Miss Gates knew perrectly well." Bell patted his companion, ap- provingly, "It, is a pleaeure to help a lucid - minded nine Hee yourself," he said. "You go straight to the root of the sore and cut all the superflious mat- ter away. I was deeply interested in the conversation which I over- heard just now. You alV in great trouble, and that trouble is connect- ed with 210, Brunswick Square—a house where you have never beeu before,'' "My dear chap, I was in that din- ing -room two nights ago, Nothing will convince me to the—" 'Where yoll are wrong, became, I am, going to convince you to the eontrary. You may smile and shake your head, but before an hour has passed 1 am going to convince you beyond all question that you were never inSide No. 219," "Brave words," David inettered. "Still, rin hour is not a long time to wait." "No, But you meet enlighten Inc if 1 am to assist you, I ara Ore - roundly intereetod, You come to the house cif my friend on a desperate nr- ram?, Miss Gates is a perfect stran- ger to you, and yet tho mere 'dis- covery of your identity fills her with the most pnInfel agitation. There- fore, though you have 1101,00 been in 210 before, you are pretty certain., and I am pretty certain, that Ruth Gates knoeve a deal about the thing that is tenching you. On the con- trary, X knosv nothing on that head, Won't you let inc int° tha secret'?" "I'll thll you part," Steel repliol. "And I'll put it pithily. mere argument WO assume that X am sel- wend to assist a damsel in 'Melrose who lives at No. 219, Brunswick Square. We will assume that tho coneersation leading up to tbe flat - teethe Mention took nlaca over the telenhoee. As ti matter of Met, it did take place over the telephone. The 011114 Was inVolVarl With so 101101 seerecy diet 1 no eurally heeitated. WAS,orfeelnd e11,000 for my servicee; anio t wng emelecied by 1115 Inweee ineeeenger that 1 ewe in dire need Of that "And wero you?" "My dear fellow, 1 don't fancy that I should have hesitated at bur- glary to get IL. Mn all I had La do Walk to meet a lady secret- ly in the dead of night at No. 2.19, mid tell her how to get out of a cer- tain difliculty, It all resolved itself round tho synopis of a proposed new story of mine. But I had better go into details," David proceeded to do so, Dell, with his arm crooked through that of Ids companion, followed the Maier with an intelligent and flattering tercet. "Very strange and very dascinat- ing," he need, presently. 'I'll think it out presently. Nobody could pos- sibly think of anything but their toes In Western leered. Go on." "Now X ani cornier; to the point. I had the money, I had that lovely cigar -case, and subsequently X had that battered and bleeding specimen of humanity 'dumped clown ill the most antazing mauler in any 0011500- Vatory. The eigar-easo My on the conservatory iloar, remember—swept off tbe table when I clutched for the telephone bell to call for the police. When Marley mune ho asked if the ogar-case was mien. At first I said 'no, because, you see--" I see quite plainly. Pray go a."e "Well, I lose that cigar -case; X leave it in the offices of Massa, to whom I pay nearly 111,000, 110850, to spite me, takes or sends the case to the pollee, who advertise it not' ,knowing tbat it is mine. You will see why they advertise it presently—' "Bemuse it belonged to the injur- ed man eh?" David pulled up and regarded his companion with amazement. "How on earth—" he gasPecl. "Do you mean to say that you know—" "Nothing at present, I assure you," Dell weld, coolly. "Call it intui- tion, if you like. X prefer to call it the result of logical modal pro- cess. I'm right, of course?" "01 course you are. I'd claimed that case for any own. I had cut my initials inside, as I showed Mar- ley whoa I went to the police station. And then Marley tells me how 5 paid Mossa nearly 111,000; how the mon- ey must have come into my hande in the nick of tinae. That was pret- ty bad when X couldn't for the life of me give a lucid reason for the possession of those notes; but there was WOrSe to come. In the pocket o tho inJured num was a receipt for a diamond -studded, gun-Inetal eigar- case, purchased the day of the out- rage. And Wake., the jeweller, prov- ed beyond a doubt that the case I claimed was purchesed at his shop." Bell nodded gravely, "Which places you in an exceeding- ly awkward position " ho said. "A mild way of putting it," David replied. "If that fellow dies the police have enough evidence to hang me. And what is nay defence? The story of my visit to No. 219. And who would believe that eock-and-bull story? Fancy a draino like that be- ing played out in the house of such a pillar of respectability as Gilead C ates." "It ien't his house," said Bell. "He only takes it furnished." "In anybody else your remark would be puerile," David said, hwitably. "It's a deeper remark than you are aware of at present,' Dell replied. "I quite see your position.. Nobody would believe you, of course. But why not go to the post -office and ask the number of the telephone that called you up froin London?" The question seemed to amuse Dav- id slightly. Then his lips were drawn Inunorously. "Wben my logical formula wame back I thought of that," he said. "On inquiring as to 'whom it was who rang mo up on that fateful oc- casion T learnt that the number waS 0017 Kensington ne'M that—" "Gates's 01011 number at Prince's aaielteces. "u,Bell exclaimed. "The plot th (To be Coatinued.) MUNDT.= MET IDS MATCH. The classical confidence trick has been neatly 12111yet.1 on a WOU/cl-be swindler by bis intended victim. The latter, a COOk On a transatlantic, liner, had been done himself before, and was too old 0 bird to be caught again. He Mruck 1.19 011 aeglikkintance with an engaging but obviously sham American millionaire in the train to Paris, conlidleg to him that he had 40,000 francs in his bag, and meant to abuse himeelf on the boulevards. "Well met, indeed.," amid the mil- lionaire; "1 have also inade my pile, and intend seeing the inerry side of lite in gay Paree.''. They Warted the evening with an expansive dine nor, paid tor by the Anaericae mil- lionaire. At coffee the latter ex- claimed : "Hullo, I have not any cigaes; suppose you go and buy some. You can letIVO 50110 bag here, where it Will be quite Safe, 1310, as you might be stomicious, heee!s any noceetbook. Keep 11 1.111 500 301/1 nie again." As soon as the copies back was turned the Ameriean millionaire of course bolted with the bag, but the latter only contained old newspapers and tile cook's curd, with the words: have hem here before; yoti have met your match this time," In the would-be swindler's pocketbook was a stun of 1124 in French 'rotes, which tho cook took to the police etatiort, asking the officer to whom lie toll his tale with enclerstamla,ble relish to give the 01101103' the poor. __+ When We 111011e a poor guest; we reolize thee te err i.s human; , but when WO make a good one We aro convinced that, foreeight is a matter of intellectual superiority, • The Bruto--"What are you think. Mg of, Mary?" 'Mary—"I am dream- ing of My youth." Tim Bride -- "X thoeght you hid a far-awny loolc in your PilesTo rove to azr7;:akt:-',:l.tlizig and every form of itching, bleed in gan d protruding M105, ille lailandliettleare 1133.05 etierenteca d. Bootee brioeitile le the defile own end ask yeur notch lois 11155 111(510 of it, Yee 1111 )116011 tree ?casein money back if not eured. (1100 boreal cleeters ere Bottiteede.Beres & Can vottitee Dre Chase°6 Oirdtrioni 0%63%609600 Oh THE FAR 7' M. q56/%04M199677419,19 0A.RE Ole PIGS IN SUIVI1M11. A. Correspondent writes that the past two years he has lost most or his pigs by cholera during the month of August, He says : "I have no trouble with them at any other 11010 01 tho you', and always haVO n 11110 lot of spring pigs. wbich I can get along as far tts August, when I lose most of them. The trouble seems to be juet plebe cholera,. It may be something oleo, but 1111 is I don't see what it can be." X rather sus- pect It is disease brought on by bad water—probably a disease of the liv- er. Ire says their water -supply conies from a. small stream tha± flows through the lot, and lee ad- mits that it becomes "a little foul" during the sumsner. 11 seems strange that there are still quite a number of farmers who think that any, old stuff is good enough for a hog, and that it should remain healthy, no matter what it eats or drinks,. The fact is th'at to be healthy, a pig needs Olean food, pure water and San- itary surroundings, the same as any other animal. Without a doubt that little stream is the real source of the 'disease that has destroyed this man's pigs the past tem 60111311C1'S. One would thinIc that this would oc- cur to him, and that he would promptly take ineneures for keeping thoin away froc . it, but he continues to allow them access to it, and ro- lled on some quack compound to pre- vent disease. Many farmers think that hogs should have a mud -hole to allow it to keep cool during the hot weather, and some provide one in the form of a nasty paddle that gots covered with green mum in hot woe- ther and is about as foul as any- thing can be. There is no necessity for anything of this sort. The shade of trees is vastly better. During Geo suuuner months bogs need lots of pure drinking water and succulent green feed. The water should be kept hi a large covered trough, all outside of the yard or pen except about a foot of one end , which should protrude through an OpnNING T1I11 1315(011. Hake this end of the trough especial- ly strong, and tbe opening to the water just large enough for one hog at a time to drink. This arrange- ment will insure clean 'feeler all the time. If the whole trough is inside the yard the hogs are certain to befoul the water more or lose, and also upset or damage the trough unless it is secure to strong posts. A. friend of mine who annually raises about twenty pigs and does little else, haat arranged a fountain, which he allows to play on the herd during the iniddle of hot days, anel I never saw animals enjoy anything more than they do this. His tank is a barrel sot up on a frame about six feet in height. The steak -well is fitted with a force -pump, and to this is attached a. piece of hose fifteen feet long roweling up to the top of the barrel. Tightly screwed in the bottom of the barrel is a piece of iron pipe, covered at the outer end and having five Very small holes through this cover. When thee•o is water in the barrel, live tiny streams BOW out oi these holes with consid- erable force, and fall on a section. of 'the yard that is paved with brick. It the day is sultry the barrel is fitted by means 61 the force -pump and hose, the cutoff in the Iron pipe opened, and. the fountain begins to play on the brick pavement, which is sheltered from the sun by three large maple trees. The hogs gather there and appear to enjoy the shower -bate as much as a. boy does a plunge in the old swinerning-hole in the creek. My friend thinks that this clean shower -bath o liot days (the foun- tain flows About an hour and a hall) has much to do with preventing his little herd from taking cholera when it is prevalent in the locality. At any rate Ids little herd lute never been attacked by this dread disease during the nine years lie has lived on the place, while his neighbors •hexe lost all their stock at' two different times. X rather think that these care- tul of feeding and clean housing am more leotard, factors in warding off disease than the shower bath, but it is a mighty nice thing for the pigs, and it is 0 plensuro to see them =Joy it. THE MILK VEINS. The rallk veins found along the; stomach of the cow should be very tortuous. They wind arinind the belly and pens into the body through orifices in the rear of the fore flank. Their duty is to conyey the Venous blood to the lungs for purification. Hence, the larger the vein and the greater its rarailications, the better indicationit is that the circulation of the blood through the wider is very large, and naturally the larger the circula Lion of the bleed the greater will be the inilk produetion because milk allele all Is really a product of the blood, DOES 11.' PAY ? Doos 11 orry to rale° serubs? Vllble tho•e may, be a few fermis wtio will contend that It does ,and that it 19 9 clear gain, as "they pick ep a living for ;met to nothing," there aro very few men who can stop to think Who will sey that it does, No =a- tm. how little le coste to feed thon, there is no peat in them. Some may turn out Miley Well, but the OtIta01031 18 always uncertain, For the hamlet's of 0011050 the very best specimens of a chess are Iloilo to geed cted 1.111e is tree (tiff° of the farmer, lettt tho 1(110 Wishes to iinprove leis stock, finde that the sery best, spechlions coeL considerable money, If he out afford it, it will Pay to buy the 'very best. 13ut, if ha cannot he ehould get the beet he Can afford. There me thmietiods of mire 'bred horsee, rattle Oyler, and hogs, the 1 Weigel not, lake 11 13111e bole at the nee Ma ere et111 baii- l1100Wll'OLll5Y idtperior to I lie writhe on Cho !WM deal eltheugh they ato ficit prize "glance's; 011 the other hand do not cost ao much as prize witinere and yet will uplift, the sten- clerd of the farmer's Mock and being In such immediate i•eturns in the way of theme:sod profits as to enable 111111 in a 1'017 few years to purchase the best. The beef animal that will these 600 (mods Is more than 0110 - half better than one that will dress 400 pounds, because there is not so much wnste and the best fetches a better price. And tlie two cost about the SUMO 10 keep. This is the etilaject. upen which the careless fanner is not apt to do much thinking, but, it will pay him well to turn a eesv leaf, Fawning lins arrived at the point of the sur- vival of ilia fitteet and le lie wishes to make a living he must keep up with the proceesicni. lTo should go to the nth, first of all examine care- fully the finest etook on exhibition, ask questions and find out all he eau about them, He will find tho breed- ers of the various classes of stock ne less willeng to give hini indoenuttlon than ho is to receive it. Ile will find out that although they oMy have such specimens on exhibition. as will coidalen to oontlition for prizes they baxo others at home that, while equally pure bred do not poesess the uocessary show for prize winners, but on the other hand can be bought for a price evithin bis reach, He will ties° find out, perhaps much to his astonishment, that pure bred cattle do not require to be stall fed and groomed and that the roam re- quirements to maim them profitable are good feed ancl plenty of pure wa- ter and they will give a good ac- count of thonselvee. There is noth- ing about the handling of flno stock, All that is necessary is te give it such care as every animal on a farm should get anti it will return it ten fold to its owner. Let the farmer who is always complaining of his luck get sonic goo+d_stock and fry it once fairly and see if ho is not satis- fled with the result. A CLOSE SHAVE. A Sailor's Awful Experience in the Day of Bengal. One of the narrowest escapes I ever had, says Mr. .7. le. Kean, in "A Wanderer's Life," was when I was 013 the sailing ship Atlantic King, bound from the Cape to Cal- cutta. We had entered the Bay of Bengal at the first burst of the southwest monsoons, and were niak- ing a good run: As we wore short- handed, 1, the second mate, had 110 time for independent navigation or for studying the charts. I did not know there was an island called "South Sentinel," two hundrecl miles from the coast and directly in our course. The only explanation I can tnake for the captain's negligence is not telling me of the existence of this rock is that he supposed the rnate would do it. When I went below at eight o'clock the captain gave nie no night owe ders. At midnight I turned out to relieve the first hate, It was rain- ing torrents, blowing fresh, and very dark. Tile mate, after standing for three hours in the cfownpour and straining his eyes in the pitchy black- ness, was not in the best of humor. "Perhaps you'd like the gas lit," he remarked testily when I made some comment on Wee dark. Then he went below, but lett 310 orders. The wind was hard but steady, and Saar no reason to shorten sail. The worst feature of the night was its blackness. At four I hove tha log, and. ae. I went along tho port side to enter the account in the log -book, I leaned over to the starboard, raid let iny head go outside the rigging for a look ahead. The moon had just risen, and there was a little break In tho clouds above. Right across the boeve, standing up bold and bigh, stood huge precipitous rocks, the sea dasliteg in, fury against thou. To me, who believed we were two or inore hundred miles from shore, it Was a lacer. It must have been fifteen seconds before I 0011/0 commend myeelf to give an Order. It flashed aceoss me that whatever I did I 'nest Jeep the men in control and iree from Jeanie. whieHsailai.r.: starboard!" I called in a my reason. I repeated tae order. calm, even tone to ihe man at the "Sir!" he said, thinking I had lost Then I yelled, "Aye, ayel" he an- swered, and rattled the helm hard up. It must havo eoemed like down- right madness to him to bring the sbip to, wind blowing half a galo and every stitch of cannon on her. As sbe answered the helm the men saw the . rocks, and gasped. The clin' Was only two ship lengths off, An instaot mom and the horrible faco of the precipice glided by our stern, .and we W000 safe. I felt all unnerved. t could haVe laughed or cried or danced. The bands all gathered alma, looking helpless and frightened. X sent below to wake the captain, He came on deck and looked at the 000115 aidern. He made no com- ments before the men, afterward, in the cabin, ho thanked me warmly for having managed with so little fuss, I did not, feel very celm, however, end I clid not close my eyes thni. night for thinking cd that awful !odic. 5011 TM MOIL A lot of minetrels went to a coun- try town arid acIvertieed to give ce polfotneance for "the benefit of the retie; Tickets eecluced 1,, 1.2 emits," The hall was crammed filth The next mcreitig 0 committee for the poor called npOn the treasurer or tho ooneoro for the amount tho said bent: - 01 filed netted, The, treaeurer ex- preesed astoniehtnent al, the demand. "I thought," maid the chairmen of the committee, "you advertistel this concert, for the benefit, of the poor?" 'Replied the treasurer:— , "Didn't wo put the tickets down to 12 cents so flint the poor eceold ell 1,1107; p1tit 137 oi '4)0141 nt the bi yonr heel/wee," "(level- ly. 1 all) !dole ejac kl" t YOUNG FOLKS HEIL PORTRAITS, My mamma bas a meta ef gold, 11. tells the time of day, Ii/in told, Mid in the front where she can Ole A. little pieture is, of me. HIM hes moro pictures„ in a book, That the photographer-anan took, When 3: NVilfl tIVO ancl three and four; And when Pm five there'll be one more. But you don't know lhow X was siprised When I looked in my pepa's eyes To see as plain a13 plain could bo Two little pictures there, of me, 15014 tellA.Nfil WON, eea 'A ye A. prize of one hundred dollars, to be used for educational purposee, ea• was offered in a school for boys. Among the contestantewas a boy of seventeen, named Frank Harlow. ilo did not succeed in winning the prize, and, a day or two later, one of his schoolmates, named Harry Minks, said to hint. "Didn't get the prize, did you, lerank?" "No, I did not," replied Frank, ell'e'le'rofeurYkind o' cut up over it, don't you?" • "No; not particularly." "Well, l'd hate to make on hard a fight as you made to win that maze, and then th enraiti" ieTdnlc that I have failed, Harry." "Well, I'd li/ce to know oily you iV baven't failed! Didn't George Day- yea. ton win the prize?" "Yes, X kuow he won the money; e see but I 10011 just. as inuch as George in that which comes from hard study. But you lknoW, Harry, if you'll ex- cuse me for saying it, your failure grge has been most marked." "My Maitre! Why, what do you mean. 'T diceft go in for the prize • r f at all. I made no attempt to win it." • "I know it," replied Frank, and then be added. "They fail, and they alone, who have not striven." "Oh, 0 eeo what you mean," said Harry, rather soberly. "I suppose that there is something in that." "There is a good deal ill it," re- plied Frank, "It is so true that not ono of the eighteen boys who com- peted for the prize may be said to have failed. All of us won the prize that 0011205 from honest effort, and it was a pretty big prize for most of us. 1 thought at first that I would not compete for the prize, for I .felt, made confident thee some of the other boys were so much further ad- vanced than I was that I had very little chance of winning in tho con- test. Ind. One day I came across e this verse; 'Straight, from the eneglit§ bow this truths,. deiVelie dr ti• They fail, and tihey alone, who have not striven.' 'That's a fact," I said te 1117 - self, and I went straight to work, and did my very best." "You stood next to Georgo Day- ton at the examination too,", said Harry. "No"lio. Frank, you did not fail after all." Harry was right. How could Frank fail to be a winner, after the honest effort he had put forth? • • ELEPHANT AS NIIRSEL • A 'Went= in /mita tens this story of an elepliant's sbiflb as a nurse: ""Thou art hungry, doubtless, blg mother,' said Rennin, emerging pres- ently from tho hut with the baby in her eirms. beautiful elephant, take care of baby; 0 am going to seo to your dinner.' 0110 put the little restless brown bundle clown on tho ground between Ishta's two feet. Then dhe fetched the earthenware jar. of unglazed rad clay and filled ta with live charcoal, setting it clown to get heated thrinigh while she mix- ed flour and water into doligh. With dm skill of frequent practice she spread the rough mixture three or four inches thick all over the outside of the jar. While the dough woe slowly baked by the heat from the ember,s insids bshto, patient and do- cile, as wen her wont, cared for the baby, gently restraining' tho little truant, who would have crawled ahoy. Now and again, when the baby limbs moved quietiar and arblev- ed a few paces of freedom, Islita'e trunk would carefully wind round the little bony and lift it bark to safety between the hue barriers of her feet and the tip would gently pet and fondlo away baby's fretfulness and impatience tat coeleol." CB -MKS -1e 0501.1100. Wo niwnys think of the Chinese 08 having and doing things in a sort of upsidedown Sashion. Porbaps this is because they are 00 the Other side of the world. In the matter of their play even they are different from ourseivee. For instance, their Most palmier game le a sort of bettledore find shuttlecock, but not, played with bets ancl 11(11 35 as Wo play it, Tn. stead, the senittlecock ,is 0 piece of copper anoney and the feet, hands, head, back oe any part of the body thnt 18 handy Inc the momeet is ttsol er, place of a bat }lettere, The piece of money (called a "each") is 00000- 01 with a piece or cloth, to which 111 (1 11(4110(1 a 131111c11 Of teethe's. Then the first player either. kicks or tees. es the shuttlecock into the eir. The other players Mand amend in ri, group, and ne tho sbuttlecock cometi clowo 1111 make a rush for It to knock if, up again. It is then that the dif- feeeat Wayfi Of (heeler; the shutele. cock are brought out. Meybe one boy will ealth it oe the too or 111(4 head mid seed It up tete the ale. Another may catch if art his Who% Another will Meta& On 41114 handse throw him feet into flie neti kick the slinteteeoele. OW, Way.