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11 HOW SHE WON.
"Let ens 1n%. it is 1-Ledy Leigh."
Twice has elle knoeked ad received
no Ramer, but now, oe elle 'vomits,
there is only a moment's nanSe and ,
the door is thrown open. The room 18
perfectly dark and there is the ;muds-
takable eneell of suddenly extinguished
ole
"1 beg your pardon, your ladyship
did not know it was you."
"Are you. ill. or hurt 9- site questions
curiously, trying to peer through the
gloom, and 11 possible to see his face.
"Ole! no; I am all right, thank your
"Then why were you shut up here in
the dark, and why did you refuse to
oome u.p stairs?"
• 'The lamp has only just gone out."
he explains, "and I was feeling a little
tired."
But Rollo is so ill, and keeps ask-
ing' for yens"
"Poor little fellow!"
Won't you come to him even COW?"
she asks, taken aback by what it seems
to her can only be intense selfishness,
and yet it is not like him, not like what
she hes proved so of ten in his Maras -
ter, to be thus unmindful of the feel-
ings of cabers.
"If you wish it, I will,"
"Of course I wish it, or I should not
have come myself. Why did you hesi-
tate before?"
"A. MOM naturally pauses before he
resolves by his own act to lose Jill."
"Der, Dare, what do you mean? What
is all. this mystery ?" questions Lady
Leigh, angrily.
He hesitates. HOW can he tell, her
all? And yet further concealment is
impossible. In the confusion of the
fire he has lost both wig and glasses,
and is at last himself confessed. Ile
had hoped that perhaps he might suc-
ceed in finding them again at night,
when he could steal out and look for
them, without the fear of meeting any
one, bat Rollo's illness has made this
ant of the question now, he feels he
cannot longer refuse to go. The child I
at least shall not suffer from his
mad lolly. But what shall he reply 9
Lady Leigh settles it for the pres-
ant.
"Come to Rollo first," she seys, nu- '
patiently; "afterward I shall expect to
hear your explanation."
"And I shall expect a patient hear-
ing." he answers, with a touch of grave
1
pride. " think that at least is my
due; it is the due of those who hare
committed the gravest faults -and
mine is not that.'
She bows her head and ttirning, goes
up stairs, he following meekly until
they reach the nursery. Then she
goes in and, standing under the full
glare of the chandelier, beckons him
to come in, and he obeys.
At last they stand face to face, and
though still ignorant of the motive, she
guesses what his offense has been. Her
first thought nowis for her child -that '
his already overstrained nerves should
uot be further taxed by the discovery
that has so bewildered her. Quick
as thought, she reaches up and puts
out the lights.
"Rollo, he 'is here. Try to go to
sleep )10W MS you promised," she whisp-
ers, laming over the boy's bed.
The child stretches out his hands
with a glad cry as Colonel Dare comes
up, and then sinks back exhausted,
with closed eyes, only now and then
smiling contentedly as the quondam
tutor soothe and comforts him, hold-
ing his hand in a firm yet gentle clasp
the while.
By and by Real.; falls esteem and Col-
onel Dare, quietly releasing himself,
goes clown again to where he guesses
Lady Leigh is waiting. She is seated
in a huge armchair close to the table,
on which she is drumming imeatiently
with her fingers. Her face flushes a
little as Colonel Dore enters.
"Well?" she saps, questioningly,
hardening herself into the air of
hauteur which lately has been dis-
carded.
"Rollo is asleep,"
"I did. not come here to speak oE my
eau. He has been the excuse of your
presence here too long."
He winces and does not reply.
"Why have you done this thing?"
she goes on, passionately. "Why must
yoit select me as an object for your
era:aeon joke? Surely my sufferings
Might have made ree sacred?"
"Forgive me I" he murmurs, humbly.
"How can I forgive you? 'You do
not know how much you are to blame.
Yea made me trust in the goodness of
neon once more, only again to show
rae that sash goodness does not exist
in any single ease."
"That I have deceived you does nob
make mywhole sex false. All are not
like me.",
"I trust not," she returns, sharply.
"I know that I am guilty, doubly
guilty, in that I deceived where faith
already was so weak. I know I deserve
• your most scathing scorn, and yet -
and yet -forgive me if you earl."
He stands before her, tall and strong,
but very patient under her rebuke, his
heed bowed in shame, and only ask-
ing for forgiveness es a boon to be
given it merty, n ot claimed as a right
In return for the bravery he has shown
that evening. He does not even men-
tion thwt he has that and other claims
upon be gratitude, and she is too
indignant to remember. She turns
a deaf ear to his pleading voioe.
"You should bave thougbt of that
before -before you held up a defense -
lase woman to the world's ridicule and
censure."
"The world will never know; you
need not fear."
• "How can I trust your word when
you have lied to me so often?"
"Spare me 1" he almost groarte,
• "Why should I pareEiyou'? Have
you spared me? Before you came we
were happy -Rollo arid I; and if I had
not forgiven ray wrongs, I had almost
• forgotten them. I told you my sad
• etory-you, a preset stranger; and
Merely, if you had had a heart, it might
• !neve been touched then, and very
eleatne might have kept you from cone
tinning your deceitful course when
with that confidence I had so trusted
yenta 13u].no, you had no shame and
no pity."
• She bas risen frora liereeet and cone
fronts him defiantly, her Might tome
drawn to its full height, her glorious
eyes hashing, and her 110 wreathed
90 880T52 of his misdeeds. Looking at
them from her point, of view, his Wine
is trebled in =paean, and she only
woorlors how howit S that the earth dam
not, open and swellow apSuch a Menge
ter of inapeita.
"You he neither the feeling Of a
1)98 1108080 seer the honer of soldier I"
she goes on, angrily, lashing herself in-
to greater fury is.t eaoh word she
speaks, and irritated by his silence.
BM this last insult he does not bear
so tamely. Colonel Dare Is not gener-
ally so slow in self-defense,
"1 was not the only me," he says,
haltamlienly; "there were others as
81.11011 to blame, only It happened you
'hose me,"
"Tell me what you mean 4" says Lady
Leigh, peremptorily.
"It was a bet that in spite of your
reputed hatred of men you would
Moose the handsomest that presented
himself for your son's tutor," he ex-
plains, unwillingly.
"So you made me the subjecti of a
bet -you and your boon companions?"
she questions, writhing in the 'agony
of her wounded pride and suffering as
only an intensely-seasitive women can.
Knowing what is going on in her
mind, ha forgives the insolence of her
words and does not resent them.
9 alone believed that the sentiments
you professed were really felt, and I
proved the troth of nay belief, Lady
Leigh, if 9 hate injured you I aua in-
deed guilty, for it is through you that
the faith in true womanliness incul-
cated by my dead mother is now
strengthened and revived.
"A Roland for my Oliver!" answers
Lady Leigh, disdainfully. "Is this a
pretense, too, Colonel Dare?"
He shakes his head sadly.
"I have bad as little reason to think
well of your sex as you have of mine.
It a man has wrecked your life, the
best years of mine have been laid waste
by a woman."
"Wrecked twice," she murmurs, in
slightly softened mood; but the words
were so low that he does not catch
their sense.
"Nothing that you can say can make
roe more ashamed than I already am,
than I have been ever since I came,
and each day more than the last."
"Then why did you stay? Why did
yo10 not voluntarily confess all, and
go f"
"I could not."
His voice is so firro, and self-contain-
ed that, not guessing the truth, she
questions him again in haughty sur-
prise, tempting him to tell what at
present he would keep secret.
"Why not?"
"Beceme 9 love -I love you I" he
cries, fiercely, and clasps her by the
hand. "Better men than I have done
worse things for love's sake, Lady
Leigh."
She springs back and faces him fear-
lessly.
"Your love is like your honor, Col-
onel Dare - defective. Is it a manly
way of proving either to win your way
into a lady's house by fraud and re-
main by falsehood? If that is love,
I am thankful that eight years ago
I renounced it -forever."
"Listen to me this once!" he pleads,
passionately, gazing earnestly into her
eyes and letting his whole heart hang.
upon her reply.
He grasps the table tightly with one
hand to support himself, and with the
other pushes back the hair that in
leaning forward has fallen over his
face.
"There is nothing left to be said,"
she answers, moving away. "Once for
all, 1, tell you, Colonel Dare, I doubt
your honor and decline your love."
The wordsin their icy coldness kill
all hope, and, without an effort to de-
tain har, he lets bar go. Then, di-
rectly he is alone, he sinks back in his
chair, utterly despairing.
It is all over ; the gems is played out,
and there is nothing left for him, but
to go. His small portmanteau is soon
packed, and yet for a moment he ling-
ers still, looking over every book to
eee if he can Rind oue with her -name
in its.
At last his search Is rewarded. It is
only a small lesson book of Rollo's, but
it has once belonged to Rollo's mother.
In it is written only one word-lert.
ny." And then, lest she should add the
crime of Lheft to those others of wbicb
she has eocusea him, he loosens the
watch from his chain and leaves it
there with a written slip of paper:
"For Rollo, with Gervase Dare's
love."
Practically, le is of more than equal
value, but in reality he knows the, lit-
tle shabby dog's eared book is to him
worth a dozen watches, however anti-
quated and however quaint. All his
life he shall prize it as a memento of
the purest, proudest woman he has ever
known Silos 1118 mother died; and when
death comes to him, too, he will only
ask that it may be buried with him.
Yes, it is all over I He never for a
moment doubts that she has meant all
sho said, and perhaps he loves hen bet-
ter for her indignation and horror at
his falsehood. She would have been a
little less perfect had she been able
to condone his faults at once; he is
almost content to have her shine far
above him., like a star, in cold, unlov-
ing splendor, rather than by a human
frailty lose one iota of the purity of
her glory. In his present mood, he
takes a savage delight in abasing him-
self and exalting her,
Had any one told hina that her words
were those of an angry woman, and
would be repented of almost as soon
as uttered, be would have treated the
idea as an accusation, and repelled it
with scorn. To him she appears as a
justly outraged goddess, an offended
queen, and for a]1 the world. he would
not bave her otherwise, ley and bee
perhaps, he may admit that mercy is
a womanly quality, widen it had been
bettor II the ba4 not lacked, but now
be only exults in her faultlessness.
• Once more hit looks round the room,
bis eyes resting regretfully on the
chair on winch she sat and the foot-
stool where last her delicately slipper -
ed feet were placed. All around is
still fragrant with her presence, and
Colonel Dan sees that it is an even
crueller wrench than he thought 'to
banish himself from her vitinity.
Ile gives a net look, and then throws
the window wide open and Steps out
into the daekness. The rain 18 falling
heavily etill, and the wind is high, ad
it la not till early morning tbatsweary
and web through be reaches Castle
Dare.
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CHAPTER IX.
Lady Leigh is up early the next
muting, looking very pale and with
dark shadows under her eyes, wbieb
tell of the vigil she has kept. Sbe eine
been in the nursery,several Wee,' dur-
tag tbe night, and found the child
asleep each tittle; but 13501N ho is awake,
•
and evidently refreshed by rest. There
is no fever, ana he Is only a little ex -
(sited, by the stirring event of the ev-
ening before,
Where is Mr. Dare ?" is his first
remark.
" You will aeo biro 00005 my ‘1.
Ing," is the soothing reply,; but even
as the worths are spoken the speaker
knows that it must ba for the last time
-that, after what has passed, the tutor
must not stay,
" Mother, 1 have not thanked him yet
for saving me I"
Ditty Leigh starts. She, too, has been
reprehensibly negligent; not the slight -
ma acknowledgment has she giveu to
him for risking his life to name that
which is dearer to her then her own,
Can it be possible that she has been
so ungrateful, so unwomanly, as never
to offer even a word of thanks?"
What must he have thought of her
reraissneas ? Surely ha must have in-
wardly termed her a monster, callous
to her son's danger, and too hearth Is
to care about his safety. Instead of
loading lam with abuse, as she had
done, she ought to haye fallen at his
feet and almost worshiped him as her
child's preserver.
And now it la she who will have to
plead for pardon and perhaps he will
be as herd and as unforgiving as she
was before. Her cheeks are dyed crim-
son as she remembers all the cruel,
insolent things she said, and how meek-
ly he bare them, never reminding her
of the obligation she was under to ban,
She must go to him at once and apo o-
gize, and if he goes -as she supposes
he must -well, at least there will be
peace between them.
"
1 have never thanked him myself
yet, Rollo," she says humbly. " Isnust
go and find him now."
Catching up her dress, she rises from
her seat and runs down stairs. She es--
periences a little fright when she fine:
the door of the schoolroom wide open,
but at first reassures herself with the
idea that perhaps he is not up yet,
or, on the other hand, he me be out
of doors alread.y.
She advances timidly into the room,
and to her fancy it wears a strangely -
deserted. appearance. Then she notices
that his bedroom door is open, too,
and coming more forward still, she can
see that the bed has not beent slept in
and his portmanteau is gone.
That he has left is plain, but there
Ls the hope that he may return to say
farewell. If he loved her es he said
he did be could not leave her thus;
but surely what she said was sufficient
to kill a passion of even a longer and
stronger growth than this I Ohl bow
she despises herself when she remem-
bers what she said to hint! How she
wishes she had bitten out her tongue
rather than allowed it to utter such
heartless, meaningless words 1 For now,
with a sudden revulsion ot feeling, she
decides that he has not deserved the
least of them. He is all that is good.
manly and brave; how could she re-
ward hini so ill for the patience he has
shown her child?
Since bis advent Rollo has become
so much stronger, and yet more obed-
ient and pantie in his manners; the
dreary ol(1 house, too, has been per-
ceptibly brightened, and even Tabithe,
has softened toward the new inmate.
Now the old routine will recommence,
and there will be no break in it; she
realizes at once how much they will
raise hint.
Then she catches sight of the
watch, with the penciled words beside
it, and begins to weep -not storinily,
but eery, very sadly, as one who has
lost a dear friend.
And Rollo -how is she to break it
to him? Tabitha, entering, disturbs her
reverie. She looks utterly aghast at
'se,eing her mistress in tears,
" What, is it, my lady -has anything
happened?" she asks, in great eon.
0011.
" Mr. Dare has gone," answers Lady
Leigh, with a stifled sob, and to her
surprise, Tabitha gives a decided grin
of satisfaction.
"I knew bow it would be ; 9 knew
he'd never like us all crowding round
end thanking him, and he such a quiet
man, too! I thought as how he'd keep
out of the way for awhile."
"Itis not that, Tabitha; he's gone
altogether.
Not he, my lady; and, begging your
pardon for contradicting you, he is too
fond of the young lord to go away
like that without a word."
"You don't know all," says Lady
Leas, meekly ; " you don't know that
I never thanked him for saving Iloilo,
and last night I was very rude end.
said things he could never forgive,. Af-
ter that he oould not stay."
1' Never thanked hien 1" -and Tabitha
Iooks the rebuke she dare not utter.
The silents) that ensues is so condom-
netory that Lady Leigh, with all her
haughtiness, is &bashed. She goes back
to Rollo and tells him the bad news
and his reproachful comment upon it
crushes her altogether.
"Mother, bow mina you let bim go ?"
After this she has no thought harsh
enough for her conduct and no praise
warm enough for Colonel Dare. To her
son she often speaks of him, and always
tendert/ mot no other tutor comes to
Leigh Park She will not risk another
erivertisement, and besides who would
be worthy to take bis please
Two or three months pass. It was
the spring when Colonel Dare first ,
came, now it is late autumn, and, he is
almost forgotten save by one. That one
is wandering listlessly through the
grounds of her estate when she meats
a toll, elderly man, evidently in search
of some one. Ouriosity prompts her to
accost him.
Are you looking for any one ?" she
asks gradously.
"Yes, T wanted to see bis lordship,
if not inconvenieut to him," ho says,
taking off his hat and bowing low.
"My son is at his lessona, and, ex,
mese me, but I cannot think why you
should wish to see him," is the bewil-
dered reply.
It is his turn to look puzzled now'.
"9 mean bis lordship himeelf, Is he
ill he asks, ire sudden fear.
1197 husband it dead," aays Lady
Leigh, and then, seeing the surptiee
and sorrow written on his face, else
adds, quickly, "he has been dead smile
years '
And the young Lord Leigh ?"
Is not yet eight years old. I 0011100 -
Ty think you can have business With
bios."
Tho man mimes his bat with a blank
stare.
"1 beg you' parden; I must breve
made some mietake-but 9 met him in
the park,"
You mean the tutor that was here.
The man laughe In some denotement.
Shore are not many Wove, my
lady, Who eat afford to give awey
hundred and twenty pounds a goer."
•, ,
hundred and twenty pounds a year,
That was the very sum abe bed gives
as salary. Could it be that,' diadeen-
ing to take money from her hands,
he had given it to this man?
" Tell ine all about it," she says,
quiekly.
He complies at once, Iseeping back
of tbeir interview, only inter-
spersing bis information with Praises
of his benefactor, praises which do not
is the least degree bore his hearer,
but find a fervent mho in her heart,
"And you bave never seen hirct
since?" Mee asks at the conoluition,
longing more than she will admit even
to herself for news of his well being
and whereabottee
" Never. Two months ago I had &let-
ter from him inclosing sixty pounde,
six raontlis' donation in advance. He
said be Mould forward me the same
min twice more, and by that time, if
I had the riecht stuff in me, Mould have
carved out my fortune for myself, and
should need his help no more."
" Well?"
The man raises his head proudly.
"I have done so;.my foot is on the
first rung of the ladder, and I shall
not tett now, having ones succeeded, I
came to tell him this and to thank him,
but for his opportune bounty I should
have remained all my life struggling
for mere bread, with no hope or ambi-
tion for the future -end now I cannot
11114 hint You do not know where he
is?"
She shakes her head,
"Heaven bless him, wherever he is I"
is the earnest ejaeulation.
"Amen," says Lady Leigh, solemn-
ly, then, conscious that sho has betray-
ed herself to a perfect stranger, sbe ex-
ol iin i quietly, ''You knothe sas el my
boy's life."
Loug after the min has gone she
lingers there, thinking of the would-be
lover whom she bad so scorned, and
whom she now yearns to see again that
she may recompense him for all the in-
sults she bas heaped upon him, by
pleading humbly for forgiveness and
avowing her mistake. Whoever he is
and wherever he is, the trusts him en-
tirely, and has all faith in his nobility
of mind, whether bis lineage be high
or not, and if he asked her again to for-
get all and be his wife, she would not
again say my.
Bat a woman Is so powerless, she
muses. It may be that she WO ilever
see him again -never have the Mame
for which she longs. 'Indeed, unless
he loves herso well that in sleets of all
she has said, he is constrained to see
her again, how can they ever hope to
meal? Her own life is so isolated, and
where he is she does not know.
Then a thought comes into Lady
Leigh's head which she resolves to pat
into execution. She will live in this
seclusion no longer She will go out
into the world and into misty, and if
she cannot find him at least it will
help her to forget. The idea gives a
new incentive to life, and her step is
as buoyant as it was years ago, before
trouble came. when she returns to
the house.
Tabitha is dusting the ornaments in
her room when she goes in, and makes
a movement to go, but Lady Leigh
stops her.
"Bluish what you are doing," she
says variously ; "I am only going to
write an advertisement."
"011, any lady I not again !" says
the woman in dismay, for she knows a
little and has guessed more ot the his-
tory of the last.
Her mistress blushes.
"Not for a tutor, Tabiths; I am go-
lag- to have a couple of Tooth:ten and a
butler."
"I am sorry if haven't given your
ladyship satisfaction," is tbe stiff re-
joinder,
Lady Leigh laughs, and places her
tiny hands on the woman's shoulders,
meeting her defiant gaze with a glance
of deprecation.
"Don't be stupid, Tabitha; the tact
is, I -I am going into society again
and—"
"And you must keep up your 1)089' -
tion, of course," answers the woman,
with quickly-aroueed pride." It would
never do to be behind any of the other
geatlefolks-you, the flower of them
all. I'll never seated in youx light, my
lady; but if you will just let nee wait
on you. when no one is there--"
It is Lady Leighs turn to interrupt,
which she does with a reproachful
smile.
"Tabitha, do you think 1 could part
with you.? The man -servants can wait
on my guests; but you -you shall al-
ways be my own maid and truest
friend. What should I do without you
cater all these years?"
Tabitha bursts out crying and buries
her face in the duster.
"I'm main glad you'efi going out
again," she says, presently, when the
sobs have subsided; "it will do you
good, although 9 know yon are only
doing it for his little lordship's sake,"
Lady Leigh looks uncomfortable, and
turning away, busies herself at the
writing table tearing up sheets of pap-
er and selecting a pe11 with greatest
care,
She is at a loss bow to reply. It
hurts her to take the credit for an nob
of self-sacrifice when it is so purely a
matter of self -consideration, and yet
how can she, even to Tabitha, confess
the motive that is calling her into the
evorld again
Womanliness torbids her to tell all
bur thoughts; honesty prompts her to
disown a virtue that in this ease she
does not possess.
"There are many reasons why it will
be best," she answers evasively,
(To Be Continued.)
FEET AND TEETH.
et, young woman suffered agony from
her feet. Standing continuously in a
store bad caused callous spots to grow
051 her soles, and they gave quite as
mush pain as the usual corn does at
alma Pumice -stone wee recsommend-
ed as a remedy. The best kept heels
become :bard; 11 18 nature's way of pro,
tooting tbe foot from the friction of
solo leather, With purnice-stone, used
directly after the foot bath, any pall -
mut places may be quickly and pain -
Jessie' removed.
Myrrh is an unrivalled dentifrice,
Tenentre of myrrh is excellent, for a
elean mouth and hard gums. The beat
dentifrice .8)10)0 4. not be used more than
three times a Wadi,. Even white Cas-
tile soap, Which is harmless, will, if
used every day, make the gums senst-
Live. The teeth must be clean, That
means a mouth toilet after every meal,
'brook trout grown in the
New Zealand eivere are now exports
Cod book to England in meld storage.
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On the Farm, 11,20
A. SUBSTITUTE FOlet PARIS GREEN.
Perla green is a good insessacide, but
acenewlatt troableetome to 11.130 in li-
quid form es it does not dissolve
readily, and needs constant agitation
to keep 91 15000 eettling,
It allowed to settle s.,t all, the dis-
tribution is not uniform, and injury is
likely eo result to the foliage of some
plants, While the insects on other
plants escape. Moreover, it is unduly
expensive, whether used dry or in the
form of a spray.
White arsenics, in a soluble form,
costs about one-third as much as Paris
green, and givee no trouble In the
way of settling. Dissolve WO postale
of commercial white arsenic and four
'mantle o'E carbonate of soda (washing
soda) in two gallons of water and on
one and one-half pints to a barrel of
Bordeaux mixture (50 gallons).
The easiest way to make the solution
is to put both the white arsenics anti
carbonate of soda in a gallon of boil-
ing water and keep boiling Mout fife
teen minutes, or until a clear liquid
is eormed, and then dilute to two gale
ions.
One and one-hald pints of this solu-
tion to each barrel of Bordeaux
turf is sufficient, to use when sprayiag
for ootato Lingle and potato bugs, for
apple swab and apple worms, or for
any other purpose where a combines
tion mixture ,for fungi and thanes is
rem ired.
This combination hes been fully
tested at the Ohio Eaparimentel Ste-
tiom and found to be quite as effective
as the Paris green and Bordeaux mix-
ture eombivation, and' for the reasons
given above is much to be preferred.
The oaseuic and soad solution, or
eremite of soda, is more safely used be
combination with 03ordeaux mixture
thea atone, as when in combination
with Bordeaux mixture than alone, as
whoa in combination it witl not in-
jure the foliage, but alone it is liable
to Darn the laves. mci SUMO objection
ho de good, however, with reference to
Paris Green and London purple. 11
is better in almost every case to use
tea isombination anixture, as fungi are
nearly always present, and unless they
are kept In cheek there is but little
we of lighting inseets.
The arsenite of soda may be prepare
we in any quantity desired, but bong
a most a clear liquid is dangerous to
keep on hand. The danger may be ob-
viated, to some extent by coloring the
liquid with some Mines aniline dye, 'us-
ing enough of the latter simply to
give sufficient color so that no one
would mistake the solution for an in-
sfeensive drink. It takes but a short
time, bowever, to prepare sufficient
for a day's spraying, which is, per-
haps, the least dangerous method. It,
is a rank poison and should be pro-
perly labelled and carefully guarded,
the came as all other poisons.
insects may be the means of spread-
ing fungous diseases and fungi may 50
enfeeble planta as to make them an
easy prey to insects, nes beetles, bits,
ter beetles (old fashioned potato bogs)
and the larvae of the Colorado potato
beetle not only make entering places
for potato blight germs but may ac-
tually carry tbe infection from one
plant to another. Probably the flea
beetle is the worst offender of all,
bemuse of the numerous punctures
which it makes in the leaves, With
plum and cherry trees the ease is re-
versed. Fungi attack else leaves, amus-
ing them to drop prematurely, thus
weakening the trees and rendering
them an easy prey to the bark beetle.
Similar relations between insects and
fungi may not be evident in all oases,
but tbe necessity of treating both can-
not be too strongly emphasized, for
very often when one is allowed to go
unchecked and the other destroyed,
the work is partially or. wbolly lost.
This may often happen when tbe rea-
son is not apparent.
In some cases !there is no needsof an
application of a combined mixtureeme
these are exoeptionta, if we exclude
those rases where insecticides or fun-
gicides other than those above named
are required.
Whenever there is any possibility
that blames and fungi are both pres-
ent, it is well to use the combined
mixture, even tinseled)! evidence to that
effeta is not conclusive, It is hardly
possible to do any injary to plants by
thin treatment, while the extra cost
is trifling,
BLACK CURRANTS.
E. 0. Orpel; writes that he Is enlarge
ing his almetation of black currants
this spring, Ile finds that they 5,115
much ih favor for their peculiarly
pleasing flavor when cooked, either
o.tone or blended with other small
fruits in pies or preserves. Bleak Nap-
les is the best to plant, and should
be set out early as' possible, tie cur-
rants start earlier than most fruits.
Mr. Orpet says: ',reference should bo
given to a cool, moist soil, one that
has a clay subsoil is best for all bush
traits, as it holds well in a dry pe11.
A great assistance is at the hands ot
the oultivator in, the shoe of a mulch
ander all small fruits; we have got
In the way of it and do not stir the
soil at all,' as the roots are so near
the eternise, brought; up there by the
moisture usually present near the Lop
of the son, and it IS 05 revelation to
soo how all bush fruits on dry soil
have pue ore growth under this treat-
ment, and when the fruit is ripe it
is kept, clean by the strew that 18 used
for a teach. It is the strawy por-
tion oe. the manure that we use, cold
it contents a good proportio8 of plant
food to Itself, but we spread a good
sprinkling of fertilizer under each
bush before putting on the Mulch.
•••.*•41
DAINTY DAIRYINO,
Dairymen able to prepare their goods
1.1131 attraotive manner will find cus-
tomers in even small villages, where
others cannot make rialtos • Tho
•
•
euesautue pleases, and when the qual-
ity is found as good as the looks, tbe
market bemuses permanent. , A cake of j
good butter, wrapped in fresh ouch.
ment paper, vitai a bright trademark
and the owner s ne!euo upon it, will
bring more for the Ilea -pound or the
pound than a, chunk of the same
mieke eutt out of a tub, A reci ribbon
tied eround the wrapper will help to
sell every cake so wrapped before one
of the same lot not so wrapped can be
disposed at. To pleases the aye itis
necessary to reach the palate wine -
times,
WEIGH EVERYTHING YOU sum.
scales swum im used in every house
and tarn. There Is more money in
knowing than in guessing. The foe.'
lowing proverb ought to be heeded:
"Deliver all things by measure and
weight " Weigh the pigs, stock and,
grain, and Say es well as fertilixers,
so es to deal justly and be fairly dealt
with, In selling, live stook the weight
is usually entimated by the drover or
butcher who comes to buy, and long
practice 011 their 1104'6 gives them a
decided advantage over the seller,
TO ISCEND GRAIN BAGS. ;
Cut the petit two or three inches
longer than rent in bags. Make flour
paste ebout consistency of cream.
Paste the patch to the bag. Then with
a hot iron press well on both sides.
Leave about one day before using and
you will find that the bag will last
one or two seasons,
SPRING SMILES.
Fax -The diamond is the hardest
knowne:substance. De Witte -Yes -to
gt
elle-Guterreling lovers are really on-
ly amusing themselves, 031 -And mar-
s:s:
Idcouples in
a row amuse the neigh-
b
n
a.
They
don't have near the fun they
did when I was a boy. Yea mean you
do
.A Good One -Is your new traveling
man entexprising 7 Enterprising ? That
man could sell a carved -ivory cord -ease
to an elephant.
Husbancl angrily, after a somewhat
heated anemone with his batter half. -
Do you take MO for a fool? Wife,
soothingly -No, John. Bat I may be
Plic,ks-Tillat was Nen Blank. Strange
-you didn't know him His picture
has been in all the miners, -Wicks-
that was probably. the reason why 1
didn't recognize him.
Observing Brother -Mr. Smith is
down stairs wailing for you. Sister
Gladys-Olis is that so? 1 wasn't SX-
pecting a caller this evening. Observ-
ing 13rother-Did you think he was
deal?
Wetts-They say it coats 67,000 tor
every man killed in battle. Potts -
That is away too mush. Why it a
man will hire a good. lawyer, he can
kill a whole family for that much.
Billings -A man never learns to real-
ly know his wits until after they are
married., no matter Iho w long they may
Lave been engaged. Darrow -You're
wrong there. Sometimes the girls have
Mae brothers.
"Albert dear, while looking through
some of your old clothes, I made such
a lucky find that I ordered a new dress
on the strength of it. What was it,
doer? Half -a -dozen checks that had
neves even been written on.
Webster -Yon ought to do something
for that cold of yours. A neglected
cold often leads to serious conseque
ences. Poss--TIhis one isn't negleolea.
For or five hundred of my friends are
looking after it.
Little Rennie -Papa is there any dif-
ference in the word fool and foolish?
Papa -Mere is. For instance, people
who worry are foolish, while people who
don't worry are fools. Now, pexthaps,
you, can figure it out to yourself.
The Same Old Formula -It appears
that Li Hong Chang's head has bean
demanded because of his alleged com-
plicity in the Riussian scandal. That
seems a Chinese variation of the old
formula: Heads I wim keels you lose.
Family friend -I congratulate you,
my dear sir on the marriage of your
daughter. I see you are gradually get-
ting all the girls o 1 your hands.
Old Olivebeanch.-Off my hands -yes I
But the worst of itis, I have to keep
ilheir ,husbands on their feet.
Mos, Hoyle -What was that yothwere
talking in your sleep lase night about
standing pat? Isn't that something
about card playing Mr. Hoyle-
Stuntling pat? 011 nol Pat is our of-
fice boy, and I was talking about not
being able to eland his impudence much
longer.
OUR UNSATISFIED WISHES.
0.01 ranCieS ilia 'We Ilay elle Ash '('hr, ugh
115151, 111111 7411. 51,1'01.
"I suppose that all cet us," said Mr,
Billtops, "have some. 'eat ambition. or
some wish Mee we nevem realize; that
we carry thentigh life, perhaps quite
unkriown to our friends, and down with
us to the grave unsatisfied. Some of
these hopes and fancies on the part
oe owe friends would soma strange en,
auglh to us 19 we knew them, but no
more strange to us than ours might
seem to them. There aro plenty of
eteadnegolag, limed -working people that
Beene fuel of business only 11h101 really
cherish, with all their ocoupations, the
most, rreman,tn ideas, though they may
be indeed about the simplest things in
the *mild.
as 02 t8eln, 80808-
Ethimg gives oceasion for the expression
of them, and then they come to ths like
a reventien. We boicL never dreamed
that So -and -So had. that strain of fancy
in him, nut- for the most part these
)leas are personal guests, Whit% we en.
eertean Within our Own Wattle, in whose
compel:1y we tie4 pleasure and 'which
eve take With OS nakintined When we
go,',
MILLIONS ON MILLIONSh
COST OF WAR IN MONEY ,,NND MEN'
IN THE LAST FIFTY YEARS.
"rue Hest Costly Luxury in Widen Any
Makin 05113 llalialse-Es,Seasc 09 the
nlirereltt NIlt10118 or the World 10 Time
et Pease.
Here are some facts of a liwely Inter-
est st this juncture of affairs. They,
s'how very clearly that war is the most
costly luxury en whiet, any nation can
indulge. The Mate oe the national
debt forms a war thermometer whioll
by' its rapid rise en times of strife and
Us steady, though alow, fall in times of
pettee, indioa.tes very clearly the ef-
fect of warfare on national finance.
Thus, ha the French war that began
im 1792 England's debt, increased tosthe
extent of nearly $1,500000,000,
again clurlag the Napoleonic wars about
911,600,000,000, la the forty years of
peace that followed it deoreased $455,-
000,000 but 'over $100,000,000 was added
daring the Craneen War and Indian
mutiny. The decrease during the oom-
perative peace that Britain Sas enjoy-
ed. since that time is aver $750„000,000,
the deit now amouluting to 08021Y $5,-
285,000,000.
At the preemie; time every nation is
u'oo only extuLag its soldiers with the
newest and most destruotise weapons
ever devised by man for the
slaughter of his fellow man, 534 510 un -
teal expenditure of millions of pounds
-Britain alone emending aver $200,000,-
000 per annum -but, many have already
stored up for Munediate use in the
event, at war large 411,018 02 Money, am -
aunties, in some cases to seven or
EIGHtl` MILLIONS 011 POUNDS
sterling. Such sums as Wiese, however,
merely represent the expend's/Wire nee-
essary Leer the intent operations of en
internasteonal campaign.
Leven itn times of peace the bare pos-
sibility of war adds a heavy item to
the taxpayer's yearly bill. In France
the annum cost per inhabitant. is moue
914,25, while in Britain it is only tweet-
ty-fise cents less. aLresige sity,, the
peacefui Hollander comes next with
913.75; then the Nititake German with
$2.50. In Denmark every man pays
4495; In Russia and Slain, See in Aus-
tria Italy wad 13e1gium, $1.75, and in
Portugal $1.50; while Donde Sam es -
cases with the cemparathvely small
outlay of $1 per annum for the main -
team -nee of his army and
As long as peace endures tease sums
just suffirte tto secure the neoesse.ry ef-
Cioiency W11050 war breaks out alley aro
wholly inadequate.
What a great war really casts may
best be ,gatlihared fxcni a short review
af the sums that have been spent in
warfare during the last hale century.
ossa a the recent, Gra,eoo-Turkish
war cannot be separetely estirnatea yet,
but even taking 11115 saortness of the
campaign into oonsideration, it must
be nearly enough to ruin both the utie
Lions concerned.
By far the most (testily Mangle of
recent tomes was the
AlVDARIOAN CIVIL WA.R.
of 1861, when the outlay of the North
amounted to $4,800,011(1,000, and that of
the Soubh to $2,3110,000,000--a total ex-
penditure Of ne less Shan 917,100,000,000.
Na European war within the last eli-
te Sears has incurred suoh an immense
outlay as this, but the Fromm -Prussian
war cost, at the lowest estimate 02,-
500,000,000 while the Crimean, eaumaigue
involved am expendebure of 911,700,000,-
000, and the Rosso-Turkistt weer of 1877
over 01,000,000,000,
These sums undoubtedly represent
the cost of the preatesb of the world's
wars during the present century, bub
tee $830,000,000 spe,ne by Au.surta and.
Brassie, In 18613 ane ithe $800,000,000
which was the cost .of the Italian war
of 1850 are not inconsiderable items
ere ilhe great bell 01 Internationel but-
chery. Besides these, the Zuslu and
Afglhan wars of 1079 oost abonle 6500,-
000,000; wihele 91280000,000 is a small es-
timate tor lihe various expeditions to
Mexico, Morocco, Paraguay and Cochen-
Chins,
The sum thus accounted tor is over
9110,000,000,000 and the (11111151118DOUS
small -
81? struggles of the last twenty years
well easily Laing up the total to some-
lihing like the gigantic amount of $15,e
000,000,000, a sum, Which, if divided,
wooed allow about $12.50 to every per-
son1 on the globe, or anther mors than
$5,000 to- ovary mans woman and shied
in /condom
So much for the pecuniary aspect of
war. But, What about
THE COST IN SIMIAN LIVES.
In the American cavil wair, ethane
again !heads elle black list, the N,orth-
exa States test about 200,000 men and.
the Soutlier,n States 520,000, a toter
'Mee to America or 800,000 lives,
The RuseoeTurkish oar 89115 in pro-
portion to the Money spent, still more
deseructive, no fewer then 225,000 nem
baize Main, stile the Exenoa-Prussian
Wax is volved the loss of 00,000 men to
the violets and over 150,000 to the van -
quested,
The netar number also represents the
total Loss aturiag Uhe Orman War,
While the Italian', Warr of 1869 and the
Austrian War of 1860 ilea% resulted in
the elaughtex of 45,000 mere, Party
thoueand lives omen sacrificed in the
Zulu and Afghan campaigns, while the
various exatuations to Mexico, Morocco
Paraguay and Coolbln-Obina cost about:
10,000 mese
This number brings has total up to
same 4/0,000 MO% and the other wars
of lase acepottance increase it to the
appalling number a 2,500,000 human
lives offered up to the god of War,
an tworto,go cost of $8,000, within the
last fifty years.
PROV/NG IT.
Keep up your courage., old man, said
the passenger who was a good sailor
to another who was leaning 1171‘,1 the
railing and paying tribute to N,Mime.
Never mold esmo the &newer be-
t,w6an gasps, 1 always heard that it
took travel to bring re'k. "bat there is
in a man