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The Brussels Post, 1898-11-18, Page 2THE BRUSSELS POST, Nov. 18,1898 lle;=t5-/kgt,,zitg 4ttiMity Diamond Cut Diarnond_.. OR, THE ROUT OP THE ENEMY. PtzctzzninscJ4s4tr5v:at Pt 1 I entinued She came towards him very slo §iowly indeed, tbat he had le 'taa aefierVe MillatO17 every detail o bes8, and every outline of ber form, Her head was so bent that he could not eateh a glimpse of her face under the shadow of a wide penthouse of Meek silk, of tbe kind to which our grandmothers were addicted, and to which their descendants have given the descriptive epithet of "Poke bon- nets"; a long cloak, also of black silk, puckered round her neck into a frill, descended therefrom down to the very hem of her dress, but as her arms were raised tbe cloak fell back from her bosom and displayed to view a figure eased in ruxset brown, whose absolute perfection of outline a aurto might well helm regarded with envy and des- ' pair! as to those upraised arms, from the elbows to the finger tips they were 0154 is rough tan leather, and be- tween the hands was a book — not a er. She never turned her head, eh w1Y, was evidently quite unconscious Ilia isure he was _following aer, so the infatuate f hee young man continued his onwar course, the ehase—if so tranquil no leisurely a pursuit ean be called by turbulent a name— Game, howeve very speedily and ahruptly to an end ust gsyond the churchyard a very neat brougham, of a dark choeolate colour, stood waiting. The coach- man touched his hat the lady turned the handle of the door and stepped Ine. - side, and then the carriage drov rapidly away down the road and wa Wet to sight. That was all. The adventure wa over. There was nothing more to b learnt; no further complication to b discovered. Cieoffrey Dane turned anelY disheartened and diepirited, and with a general sense of failure and disippointment about him. After that tbe sunehine seemed to be less bright, nd the October breezes move chilly, he trout no longer afforded him itny museneent, and the ripple of tbe wa- er bed ceased to be musiettl in his ars. He sauntered slowly home to his ether's vicarage, with his hands in his °clots, his brown eyes sadly cast gravelled approach or pleasant avoune —only a rough end steep road, that ied up to its grey stone gateway from a winding lane beneath it. It was, moreover, seven intim from it railway station and three from Me post office and village of Coddisbazu. Withiji the house the furniture was meagre and dilapidated, the carpets thread, bare, the curtains dropping into holes, the batterie de cuisine of a most ele, neentary character, and a whole legion s were wont to Nvanclor at their a own sweet wilis unmessed and unehid- t .1e,L3',Fspeshtitatturiatzti,.!! downstaire and In neY a Ana net, with all these practical Ms - a 0dvantages, there wam a charm 80 about the old house which well nigh ee counterbalanced all else. It might be bereft. of every modern comfort, and edvoi4 of alt that neakcs a house desirable to live in, but it was pic- turesque — exceedingly, The grey stone walls, -discoloured by time and weather and the growth of oanny-bued e lichen, nto delimous mellow tone, At the twisted spiral chimneys; the heavily mullioned windows, all had a e special and delightful beauty of their • own. As Feu passed through tbe gate- • way at the top of the long,steep,ohalky road, 3ou entered upon a small, sbel tared valley, choked up with trees an undergrowth, in tbe very centre c, which the old house was so completel hidden away that you SSW nothing o It until you eraerged at it s very doors A square patch of. grass was all 1h garden it could boast of, end to 111 eight mule old farm buildings ha been converted into very passabl stables and coach -house. There was however, an aspect of warmth an comfort altout the building; the soli was so o and so ven arable, inspired one with a certain con I Ddence in its capacity for resisting wind it d • and the rell 04 crimson virginian ereeper flung across the porch supplied, at this season 0 the year. just the dash of colour width WAS 10 relieve the otherwise scooroulivreing.soleranity of its uniform 01! view, there was none from any of the windows of 1 he house, save the tangle of "briar and. brake," and of beech end chestnut trees with their undergrowth of wild juniper and holly bushes, aod yet the house stood high above the plain, and a 'five minutes walk behind it, up the greeo shoulder of the Down, commanded as extensive prospeet as any to be found in the whole county. T.lure was only one slaing-room in the house that could boast of allY prelentions to comfort, end thet was a long, tow rOOM With three windows to the left of 111-. front door. This, in other days, had been termed the drew- ing-roorn, but was now more aptly Called the library. Across a tiny square hall a smaller room served as dining-roora, which was now, how- ever. but seldom used; for Monsieur bed his meals in an uppev chamber, a long roem, also with three windows, that was immediately over the lib- rary, whilst as to Madame, well, what Madame ate, was scarcely worth men- tioning, awl was usually brought to her on a trey ana set down on a chair oy her nide, so thet she need hardly time her book to partake of it. a novel from Messrs. Nudes, not a t flaunting yellow -backed "cheap edi- tion," 1101 Zolees latest, or the tewest t paper "shilling startler," not even the e last of the Laureate's lyrios — only a little shabby brown calf volume, not , more than four inches long, dog's- ` eased, thumb-stained—an old edition P thet had been out of print for years, and fereolous, oh, precious ascending- lyl lead anybody ever seen so strange a vision Coddisbam lanes before? c, Geoffrey did not believe it poseible; 10- a deed, sio singular and unprecedented I was the appearance of this invader of his 3:soon-day reveries that he was al- most inclined to believe that his senses ea , were °heating him, and that some ,` waking dream was exerting a cations e , influence upon his imagbaation. • The lady might have stepped straight oul. aer frame in .ome an- e dent family picture gallery, so uni- ktus and so unaccuetomed was her as- ta meet. ear garments were those of an old woman, save for that glitriPse of the figure in russet anown cashmere which betrayed her to be a woman in the very prime of beauty. Only he could not see her face; he became poi, studied with a mad desire to look at it; but apparently there was no chanee that his eueioeity would be gratified. Sim was so absorbed in her book that she was absolutely unconscious of his presence; no such electric current us lead warned hira of her advent, had itwakthed her to a sense of theprosim- ity of a young man who stared at her with large brown eyes filled wit h amazement. Either the mystic w... one-sided in its operation, or else the sacred fluid was totally annulled and counteracted by the engrossing nature eif that odd little volume of Bacon which she was studying so deeply, and which had probab!y transported lux miral and soul and spirit to some far- away region where Coddishave trout etreem en.1 brown-eyeet young 3.11011 de W010 not. Be that as it may, she had In eroseed the bridge, passed within at. helf-a-dozeo yards of its occupant, er ant was beyond bun already, and yet nevei glimpee of that down -bent. faoe hid been vouehased to Lim! Teeo paces more of her slow-moving footsteps, and the mystery of that face would have vemeined for ever hidden from him -- and thin veracious history would have remaieted unwritten! Therl thole ocedered one of those el tiny ituddents, which are to minute as all to be scarcely noted at the time, Yet upon winch often hang such momen- tous issues. The lady turned over a page of her book; nothing more than this; and yet, tesIse turned it, a page of Geoffrey Dane's fate turned with it, and his eel life, all unknown to bimself, aesunied rn 43. new complexion. For, as the p of ed, the tiny volume turned., there fleeter- " eel ouL from between its well-worn ind leaves a small coloured print, which, 1:x unseen by her, fell to the ground at tio her side; a tittle breeze and an eddy of " brown and orange leaves carried the did snitIl white object yet farther away dim Lebint her, depositing it, with some- "Jo thine surely of mince prepeaee, at ant Geoffrey's very feet. the Now, Geoffrey Dane, from his Eton eve days upwards, had never yet Leen An known to miss an opportunity—a rare eel faculty, which perhape bis brillitut doo play, both its school and college eleven, talt had served to sharpen into the metier- is tions of an acitual talent. and which:eve aad already stood him in good stead in 'heel snore than one atter instance of hie " London career, At this moment, then, !up be was true to aimself and to his gen- !Iwo ius. Re picked up the little picture ther that had fluttered to his feet at so op- ;But portune a moment, and in three strides you was side by side with the my- " steriou lady, handing it back to her, "Ab hat in hand. fell "I beg your pardon; I think this sen be e dropped out of your book? She started, good still, and lifted leer bead; and he saw before him ane T of the most, beautiful facies he had, ever was beheld. "Thank you," she said, simply, and took beak the little picture from his hand. Even at that moment be had time to notice that it was a little common painting of the head of a eabat, math a Roman Catholics keep in their books of prayer. Then there ratified upou bine beevildered realise, tion of the loveliness which he leaked upori—of tho pale oval face, the curved red lips, end the eyes of divine and _heavenly blue, all set In a framework of dark auburn hair that fell some - What loosely from beneath the stiff outlines of that diseiguring black bon- net. &mailing Perhaps 04 bis bewilder - Mont ami his admiration betrayed it- . ottynadnetsannriderinl a ivtery ferm ant nnan, Wbo was the? pleYbeeixicey.cliit she ome? Where was the going? Why ad he not spoken more to her when he chance was before him? Where - ore had he not seized upon the weath- r. the wind, or the whirling leaves, ny triviality in short. an nn oxruse o continue a conversation which he ad. so providentially been allowed to egin? "Oh, fool, and slow of heart!" e cried out to himself in his Impotent rritation, and Hung himself wearily Own upon the oda in his father's Ludy. 'Maui is the lady who walks about the roads in a black poke batmen reading a bookr he enquired of his family generally. when they had gall:a erect around the luncheon table at a later hour. "My dear Geoff, hive you been day -dreaming?" laughed his father. "I know noboly in Coddishatu parish who answers to such a deserip- lion. What is she like?" "She is beautiful!" he replied em- phatically. "I know wit° Geoff means," here put in Grace, the youngest of the family, aged twelve, commonly called "Grace - les; Grace," trona her tom-eoy proclivi- ties; "it's one of the people up at Hid- den House, on Chalk Cliff Pre seen her about too, Geoff," she added, nodding at bim across the table, with her mouth ful/ of roist beef, "and she wears the hideousest bonnet and cloak I ever saw—it's the most beastly "Grace! Grace!" eried Miss Jones the mure governess, whose sad portion life it was to look after the man- es and ruorak of the Vicar's young- (1,111i:titers; "my clear!" Is Hoiden Route. let, then?" en- quired Geoffrey, with interest. "Furniehed, for six months," replied his eldest stet er. "We know nothing of the people; they clre half Lorelg.ners, think, and, I fear, Papists," the added much as she might have said "Pagans." "We beve not, of course led, although they have been here m ye Why duet you oTtltiat tell now? They might be nice neighbours." "My dear Geoff! When they don't attend our services!" 'How should they if they do not ong to our religion?' persistal her h tr. "Yi,u are rather narrow -mind - Flo, it &NMI.; to me." A rtertrym in's family should not be iscri in in I te in ehoo 'lug acquairt- mes " replied. Mies Dane. senten- usiy. It wouldn't be much good tf Flo call," here put in Amy, the second 4ht,tr, who was nearly fifteen. t's brother works in their garden, 1 he say,i not,oily ever goes in at doors except the priest. who comes ✓ from Lilminster twice a week, Itionsieue Brefour ie always in . and Mademe de Brefour flits in - es reading all day, except when she • walk3 or drives, and then she always reading too; and no visitors r get in—they say 'Out' to every - • Who has culled on them." My little Amy seems to have picked a great aeal of gossip from Joe'e thee," slid Ma. Dane, exulting at story. and pinching her rosy cheek, Geoffrey was drinking in his ng sieter's words with avidity. .Madame de Brefouti" he repeated, I she is mareioa then!" and there upon him unaccountably a dull se of disimpointraent and regret. CHAPTER II, be Hidden House on Chalk Cliff . as its name denoted, buried in a Meta aux Truffles from the 'master's dinner, or even a elice from the hot gigot that is evert now cooking at the fire fax the Servants. Alas, 111 this terrible country it ever beet end IntbuintgtonzemIntton and beef, and 110" Rose laughed. outright'. Martine's face W100 the picture of misery. "Ana you know how I hate them both, rny good alertinel No. get me My eggs, find leave me in peaee, assure you arn happier so—" A Round of quiek wheels along tla rough drive outside, the rapid dashin up of scene valeta to the door, un tbe ereaking eating of the rusty bell. ''Ah. God in Heaveo, what is thatl Martine flew to the windows, an with an instinot of self-proservatio rapidly dashed the window -curtain together. 'A carriage, to tide house at this hour!" she ivied, tromblinglY ly terrified by the unaccustome Sslotleintams.s white to the lips, and evident Even Medrone do Iirefour strnighten eel herself it her ehatr, nmi a look o aPPrehenslon came into her blue eyes, 4iToilidheerhacnogleosnr went and came with HINTS FOR THE FARMER. FORETELLING FROSTS AND COLD WAN ES , At Me reaston It may be well Lo re- mind our ;Tudors of two or three fads in regard to Irosts, with which they a are no doubt more or less familiar, but g minas possibly have forgotten, There I are two kinds of fall in temperature one due to an advancing cold wave, d which may memo the thermometer to s read ten, fifteen or even twenty de - 1 grecs lower one morning than on the • day before at tbe same hour. This elm be foreseen by a man Nolte has infor- d mution about the condition of the - weather 1,000 or 1,500 miles west of "See that ,Torques goes to the dear - once, Martine," she said, rather cl brut Mess Ey, 51 Was evident that yf OvfisiitioidrsdelntutHorteulsdemn. tang nt. the doors 5 "Tut, tut I atiequ'es, indeecl. I" mut- . tared Martine, burrying out, "What e are men in a difficulty ?—poor, weak e things t hat lose their beads, F1134 Say el out everything,' Jacques is but a poor 4 (meal:lire, an imbecile," Jacques, . the Ivey, was Marline's husband. "Of hwilatnait goodIsims vas, isti.1,1,y addle -pate like - 'fen seronds later she burst into - the room again, breathless, and aim- $oo with delight. and excitement, bear- ing In her both lianas a great bunch of game all tied together by their legs. f "P001 see, madame I" she exied Joy- fully, "here is enough for your din- ner for days. You who hate the beef and the mutton. Here etre faisans, ; perdreaux—and smaller birds they eall here woodcocks—enongla, God he praise ed! to neve you from elating those MISSIVIble eggs for a week." The I faithful creature could not oontein ' her joy and delight at this welcome addition to the 'birder. , • "Rut, Martine I" cried her mistress, gazing with profound surprise upon the sleek, fentbered birds, and touch - Ing with a puzzled finger the speekled breasts nth "ginger hackle," held out 1 triumphant ly for liem' inspection, "Where do they come froml and who ' has arought them? Are you quite 1 certain they ati meant for me, that there is not a mtst eke?" ' ! "No, no—ees on this card. it is writ- ten 'Madame de lerefoun with Geoffrey bane's compliments.' Can anything ; be plainer? Besides he is here bine- ' self, a beau jeune horame 1 asking hune- ' bly if madame witl deign to accept: his offering—he 11 on his way home from • Shooting—and he waits to see If there is any =neer. Madame might perhaps see him and thn ilk aim "I added the old woman, insinuatingly, Geoffrey's brown eyes and pleasant smile had ; evidently not fallen on barren ground. ' "Ab, my good Martine," replied her mistress with a sigh, "what is a beau jeune homme to me 1" then she paus- ed, debating. ''No," she said deaided- ly after n moment of silence, "5 shall not see him; but you may go and thank him ire my name, and say that I gratefully aceept Ms kind present." And presently the wheels of the dogs cart were benrd ootside, going away from that closed door, not with the impetuous haste with whieh they had driven up, but mlowly and linger- ingly, as though tbey were sett and dispirited to leave Flidden House again so qniokly. So it seemed to her as she sat on by the fire in her solitude twisting the little c,arcl about in her fingers. To Be Continued, D is ofternoen, ana darkness is com- ing on, The three wintinws are still uneurtained, nni the brigbt •glow of a blazing wooa fire is flung far oat in O warm streem upon the sranbre gloone of the trees beyond. Madame de Bre- tour bas rung for the lamp, an 1 her book is open upon her lap, for it is too dark to see any longer. She ties back in a deep eauseuse chile, her dainty feet in buckled shoes are set upon ihe edge of the fender, end her lovely eyes ere fixed dreomity noon lbe dames, le hat is she thinking of ? Not of the evelaworn volume of Eras- mus that lies upon her k.nees, foe sure- ly not all the wisdota of that wise old writer could conjure up so tender a smile as that which hovers about the (Timers of her red curved lips. Is it not rather some memory of a pair of brown eyes that lint bets wifh SP in- tense a look of wondering admiration only Yesterday /peening1 only yeeter- day l—is that why Madame de Brefour smiles to himself, and why her book has for owe failed to abeorb her as usual t • The maid, an aneient French wo- man in a stiff white cap with wide' strings tied under bet" chin, brings in the lamp and sets it down on a Low table by her mistress' side. The silt, glow lights up the long rosy room that is litera lly lined wii h books—it was the empty book-vames that: had, mule Madame tnke Hidden House, so that .1 sill' might. bring down her great mask-. t ing cases full of rtiasures, and set up her thole in due a y. Martine, 1 Mande with her at.1110 nlcitnbo, an tittle' tude by the tray that is uatural to a French clomestie as the air she 1 hbere;inithiz—reasnsit gaSeS dew eeverely at I 0 "Whit will Madame please to eat , 0. for her dirtner'r 'd "Eggs, Martine," replies Mahone 1 briefly, She has 'liken up bee book again, and does not raise her eyes from Ilet page as she answers. Marline is silent for the space oL a. few seconde, then site hued; forth with a 11 sort of rage Thisi 114 the euurth day running hat Madame. has ordered eggs! Ata ut it is too moth! We are not in Lent, I eupposel It is not, always Jour rnaigre I Eggs ace not enough tokeep 1. life in the body. IL is a theme, a clia- grave, that Madame should starve t hereelf like this day after day 1" Thus adjured, Rose de Brefoutt luid beck her head against tbe cuehions of 8 her arin-clittir„ and looked up with lo ughing eyes a 1, the indignant old • t woman. PA.CKING OFF OF wrricrws. A. pastime which obtains among the farm classes of Corea, known as the "packing oft of widows," consists of a raid by some disconsolate widower and his friends on some village known to contain a young widow, tbe foroibla abduction of the laay in question, and her marriage to the widower. 'An in - dance of this kind has reoently come to our notice, A widower living in one of the villages of Kangwha with eleven friends went to a hamlet Mose to the walls of Kangwha City, where a widow lived, and seized and earrifial off after somewhat of a battle, a, young ady. It so happened, however, that hey had mistaken the house, and un- tortunately got hold of tbe wrong ady. :Early the next morning an in- dignant posse came in puxsuit but the men who bad op/omitted the clas- -n.rdly deed succeeded in eludin them, t The young lady, however, was reamed, .nd after the house of fhe widower a ntl its contents had beat eomplately emolished cite was esoolted home in e einmph by her busband and his a amide. him, but otherwise can be exPea only as the result of a earewd gue The other drop in temperature le on half of the ordinary diurnal osolllati The mercury in the thermometer go upward during the 'lours from 8 or a.m. to 8 or 4 paa., and atter the la ter hour it falls again, This dal ohange varies in extent in the MID place from time to time, On som days the range will be fifteen twenty degrees and others mile' Live ten. Now, the same general conditio of affairs that makes a wide range i the diurnal wave possible is Ilheely 1. be the forerunner of a cold wave the firsamentionea kind. If, for 1 stanoe, a cold wave is connote and 111 situation in any locality is eavoreh toe deeper clip than the average in th ordinary daily osoillation, the two.will combine and make a fall of from twenty or twenty-five, possibly even thirty, degrees from early in the afte noon one day to the hours just befor dawn the next. Those ale the night to look out for. But if a cold war from the west is coming and the situ: then in a certain region is not favor able to a good. diurnal fall of temper ature, the result will be differen When the cold wave arrives there will be cloudiness or rain, alai a raw, chilly day, but no frost. That which makes this difference is the derapness of the nix. ad:018We° in the atmosphere ser ves as a sort of blanket, even though it ratty be invisible. When the tem- perature falls to a given limit the moisture condenses in the form o clouds or rain, and this operation par tially checks the drop. But if the air is very dry the temperature not only can, but probably will, make a much bolder tumble. Dryness of the air can be ascertained in two ways. Sone hint of it Is given when the cloud disappear and the wind swings to the northwest. A. clearing sky, with the wind 51111 in the south or no wind at airis seldoin attended with a dry air. 13ut the best way to tell about the humidity of the air is by means of the wet -and -dry bulb thermometer. When the wet bulb reads within three or four degrees of the dry bulb the. air, is dump. But when the interval is as great as seven or eight degrees—tbat is, in cool autumn weather—the air is dry and there is danger of a drop. The limit to which the teraperature can fall before condensation begins is milled the dew point, and 1± 10311 be found in this way: Suppose the dry- bulb instrumenc reeds fifty degrees ana the wet bulb forty-sovem the di,fferenee is three degreee. Multip- ly this by two and one-half, and you get seven and one-half degrees. Gall It eight for convenience. Subtract this from the dry-bulb reading fifty, and you get forty-two. That is the .dew. point. In anal a case there is no danger from frost, But suppose that the dry bulb stands at fifty degrees and the wet bulb at forty-two, which is eight degrees difference. Multiply this by two ana ote-half and you have twenty, and subtract the twenty - have twenty, and subtract the twenty from the idry-bulb reading fifty and you get thirty. 7.11us, one 'discovers hat the temperatuee may drop o thlity degrees without any interfere noe from emuleasation. Suoh dif- seethe does not insure a frost, but it bows that a outain protection that xists at other times has been with- drawn and that the mitamtion xs risky. Complete or eonmarative oalm hi also essential to a severe frost. If there is a /alga wind, with no indication a sub- sidence, the temperiture will not fall, as it will in a calm. .A. plant rah.- ntes heat in a °elm and often acquires temperaeure twelve or tieteen degree owea Ian that shown by thermo- star hung six or eight feet above the arth. But if the air is kept oirculat- ng freely no sortie difference will oc- me In a calm, with a drop in the ight to thirty-five or thirty-eight agrees indicated by inetrutneots, the enaperatuxe in the plant may go down o twenty-tive degrees, which means estruetion to some kinds of vegeta- Ibe is a good dent in the dork, And yet, if a num will watch an oediriary thermometer eloselY, and note bow fast it falim from 8 to 0 uan., and. from 0 to 9 pan., be oat tell from tht HEALTH. ROW TO MANIC MIR, eale et the drop what the temperas Aire will be betweeu midnight and 8 , --- POULTRY RAISING' FOR FARMERS. A. fair sized flook of good fowls, well attended to, will be Sound to be the beet pitying stook farmer toin keep; espeolally if the farmer is limited, in his means eve a writer, They will furnieh him an Income taut is cone etant and are not like much oe his produce that bring returns but once a year, thus leaving him pinched for ready money most of the time. If suitable yards and buitdiogs aro 111- vided for the flock, only few MO - manta' time eaoh day will be required ea for their care, wbile the ttetual value se, of food oonsumed will be smaller In peoportIon to returns; than with any 00 other line of live stock, By all means es keep thoroughbred fowls even though you do not wish breed for fancy points. t- Do not keep but one breed. unless you ly keep a non -stetting breed and nave to O keep afewol some Rotting variety toi e raise your young chit:kens. As to the 01. breed you keep, the demands of your 01, market and your own likes and dis-a n likes will have to settle that. If eggs! e and not meat axe in demand, I would I O advise that member of the Leghorn of family that you most adnxire. If both a- eggs and meat are wanted, then one O of the Plymouth Rook or Wyandotte la eamilies that have been bred. long O enough to breed reasonably true, will be a good,thoice. If eggs are not in I demand and roasters are, large fowls are then needed and the Brahma or r- Cochin will supply that trade. The e advantages of keeping thoroughbreds 8 Vdolmiletlekind y saarLe yscitzle. gLets tveg e perature, hence, evil1 all require the e- same care and feed. If large and small. varieties are kept - together, - either the lame hens will become too t. a'et a small bowl or finger gloss and dissolve therein 51114.11 Ot Vitra &nip 501110 hot water, Tim monk • the linger tips for five minutes, wipe drY and then with a knife or an lea,/ manicure Implement gently looeeita III laeetiel of skin around the root o e s01131 80 thelaLi its°011 10 , meeudr veldt 145'elit tams fox' Lite nail, and mese the skio well baok to distinetly show tee ball moon or "onyx." allis may not bel!me- •elide at once, when the nails have een • si,IttelgeleettleecaLtrnefinttils1, two or three moni, littprovergent. Wie4allthsehotwvoraymirauerkteel mane remove any dirt from under the nails. Trim them oval shape with eatielmeciesorst rub down any uneven- , ness with prepared toilet emery papen, • warm water, Nefille wallandant' !then !Lpply the nail powder,rnuw.bilitsbui:a 'ohomi , nails egain with polisher or with the paltn of the hand and do this aftent washing, whieh wil,l serve to keep tbene poroilletteda, ufdOr dry, teveeta, uk all itthtete nvattiesse lei nree • over them each night. Perfect. °Metall - Lir trala,eat.nitstdaodjunl twin 1)30ayUtuye 1 11 11.11dS leo often. Watikefd salon) LI' thorougbly they will keep in it ear nic- er conditibn tha.n if they are cent:Ina. onsly being "xineed" as it were, which sinalpy serves to grind the dirt bete the paree. When gloves are worn at night, be careful that they aro pent fectly clean Inside, otherwise the grime and dirt are absorbed by the. over -heat - et glands and the effect is opposite from what was desired,' FOR A. NEM, shAouipdeerrfsecit nook is not often seen. 5'he may be n e skin white and fine, and yet ugly bole lows and distinct shadows of eollan bones completely spoil Lhe contour. This can all be remedied, and that Let -any girl who bas such a neek try the effects of gymnastics fifteen min- mutoesnthe.very night and morning for a The result will surprise her, Stand with the toes turned out well o the knees rigid and keep the shoulders still. Vow, evith the neck of year drese and all bands loosened, be very deliberate and slow in ell the movements, as trete- b/e is likely to result in the way of "stitches" and' strains. Let the hands hang at tbe sides. Now drop the head es low upon lbs neck as possible, as Ilniply as you ean, without moving any part of the body below the neck. Revolve the .head slowly, keeping it drooped as low as possible. At the Ana symptoms of weariness of vertigo rest until relieved; then re- peat the movement, turning the bead es slowly as poeeible. This will do more to strengthen the undeveloped muscles of the emelt. duce large, ugly cords, and give the head a free, graceful poise 1111111 boxest of skin food, although coeoa butter slowly and patiextly massetted into 1 he flash before and niter the exercise will belp wonderfully in the good results, The back of the neck amt the OPPev part of the shoulders will become eta peoially beautified, and the "salt' eel - tars" lent rapidly disappear. famillax to everyone, The tIvla:le"teig BRUISES. The appearance (A a Simple bretisielbt and discoloration are caused 1.13s. .the rupture a small blood-veseels beneath tho skin, and the consequent escape a the blood and serum tell, beet, Att-, plication is cold lo 801.110 handkerchief ow old piece -Ofeilettialis dipped in cold water, or in equal parts 0thleililictu°4°.1 Thisautnivautsetr,botturae-n,e/41 ef dpig ficiently often to maintain' ita Voidness; or an ice -beg may be used, the ice chopped very fine and enclosed in le piece of nanslin or linen, or in a rub- ber ice -bag. Equally good appllea- Hens are extvaot of witoh hazel, and laudanum and water applied in the anee way. These remedies shonld be sect- as long es any tenderness is pees- nt, when they moy be discontinued, id, in their stead., the part rubbed nee sex twiee dolly with spirits 03' sonde niment. When the head is the eclat cif inmry, a physician should be co» - nutted, as sometimes serious conse- quences result; from a blow on this part of the beds; particularly is this true when paleness or vomiting follow the accident. fat to be profitable, or the , smaller ones be skimped and starved until they are unprofitable. If ot the same size all can be kept in about the same condition and each individual ben will do her share toward building up your income. If you tvill live far enough north so that the winters are cold, your house should be warm. It need not be made of expensive material but should be so arranged that it can be easily kept clean. It sleould be well lighted and large enough so that on stormy days all. may stay within it and yet receive exercise enough to keep them healthy. Grain scattered in litter either of straw, bay or leaves 18 e nioe way to get fowls to work ' DIA stormy days when they can not get outstde. In the summer time if your e flock Gan run at large they will find s most of their own living., but in winter and summer too, if shut in yards you will have to provide most or all of the food consumed. Do not forget that a hen likes a variety in ber diet fully as much as you do, and if she is to do her best must be provided tvitb 44 Variety.. If you are feeding for eggs try prong her some of the waste or sour railk AS Well aS the scraps from the table, and you will be surprised at the way she will shell out the eggs. ered hollow ninociget the low range of Downs which ;sheltered the village of Coddiehain to the north- west. The house was small, inconven- ient, end old-fashioned. It belonged to 10 baehelor oi the name or 'wrighi, who had atherited it as it stood—furniture, pictures, nnd. all—from a wielowed aunt, the last of a me of. gentlemen farmers who had lived in it for many generations. Mr, Wright was busi- ness man who lived in London; he had never visited his inheritance since the , clay he came down to hiss aunt's fun- eral, soma six years ago. On 1 hat occasion he had given orders that an a old couple sbouill reside in the house and take, mire told that a board ° s ou AT THE TicKET WminoW. When does the next train that tames alcAllistersville leave her? You'll have to wait four hours. I think nal. Well, maybe you. know better than a , ' Yes, sir, and maybe you know bet- m er Onto I do whether len expeeting e an 'Tavel on that. train myself or wlie- her I am inquiring for a relative c hat's visiting at iny house and wanted n ne to mill here and ask about it rind d sVe her the trouble h80141185 She's peek. ng up her things stud expeots to teke t het tmiet herself, and nut me, and d ehe will have to do tbe waiting end ot me, and maybe you. think We your usiness to stand behind there and try o instruct people about tbinge they 130W SS well as you do, if hot better, ut my idea is that you're put there (sesame they eouldn't uSe you in the vitching department, and perhaps ou'll learn some day to give people ivil nnatvers when they ask you civil uestions; young 100/1, 1317 OPinien ie ou won't' With a gasp, Yes, ma'aM. A. sudden need serious !noose attack - d a lady ih Cleveland, Ohio, inunecli- tely after drinktn cup of coffee, "Don't weld me so dreadfully, Met- n int: I What, does it wetter what b at, Ian 1 whet do I care? .Britlg me t nything you like, only let it be settee"! lc Ling fled I NIA eat With ° furk with"' b with my book."- tlt looking at it. so that I can go on b "Ah, that. is what it is with you 1 y books, books, books, all tbe day and 0 bait the night—till you will ruin Yell,4 pretty eyes, and muddle your • brains ' y wit h them, As for itte, 1. would rihe," ilh a eomprehensive tweeep of bee toil round Um TOODI, "I would like burn every book in the, P1ttee, eear7i e 10 of them I" e young man ti earnest faee, that for suddenly, yet without a shade of by t enibarrasement, tha lady amiled and turn said anew, "Tbank you; I am very tash much obliged to you." ibe Nothing more eould possibly be said me either side. She turned away and left him, With a slight bow; yet so profound was the impreeeion created 'upon him by her few simple words, end by that /mile so mtrangety sweet— td be placed outstn1 11, stating it was to be let, by the year 01' be week, on lease short or long, 'shed or unfurnishesl — rifler any 1011. in short, which tem fancy of euee might suggest. Atter whith he tioUlded his head no further about ,w it, end the Hidden House, with rare and spasrocelhe exceptions of a few" C. mouths on one or two 0e0S.S10118. 1111,4 0' remaine4 untenanted ever abuse, . uth to say, there was bue little to t anyone, however adventurous, I it. It had. never, indeed, even in almlest days, been more then ri Tbere were no flowery ens about. it, no green iaWns or glittering oonservatortee; no sraooth , t y eat —that Geoffrey wae total- temp 17 unable to resist the tempta,tion of Luke Walking after the slowly vanithing its p bleier° alone the leaf -strewn way. Paet farm the ehOrch she went, round mm ourve geed of the road, and Geoffrey went after "Ah, doh% say that, lVfarlinel" re- aelieed the Young woman evith a sigh, ealeY ore my only friends. Wliet should T do, where should I turn, with. Iout my books?" il."Let, 1106 bring alluirune a little mite t aux haricots," pleaded Marline in- nusitingly, or (s portion of Filet do, St It was dumoverett 'het In the coffee was a fly which bad. oaten 80100 of tho •poison On fly -paper. The verdict in a. recant erintinal one in North Carolina lees 11u114184 by the diseovery that one ef the Ames • er 06 years pf ago. In 11011,, juror must bo nroltr tion. On a calm night the co)dest air will at first be on the hills, bub later the dottier air Will slide gently down the slopes end n00=1411.1.8 at the hot - lows. Henee a frost is most likely lo occur in the latter locitlitiese 'elm temperature is sometimes five or ten degrees lower txa a valley than on the adjacent hills, for a period of a few hours. neve, them is the combination of cireumsbances most frameable lo aroma' A clear 03' clearing sky, s sub - Aiding northwesterly wind that dies away almost to S. 0S1M, 31 tenaperture of fifty degrees or less at nightfall and a .dry eir, as shown by a wot.and- dry bulb ayrometer. With eueb a, etete oe eiliktre end 5, differ.. once of tteeba *seven to nine degrees; In the routings of the two thevotometere of that instrutoortt, the 008u1'rent:0 of a hard treat is highly probable, I3ut if one loot:Malta ohly a dryebulb thee- morneter end hag 310 [dew 10 Ole matte of 185))414}16 151 tbli Manoophero WHAT TO CALL THEM. hew te Pronennee (amain Bomb Natula —11nr1931111% el' °mewl:3%1111Y* Among the. names whose spelling gives no clue to their pronunoiation, S01338 are familiar enough Owing to their uso as back illustrations. Such are Cholmondeley, pronounced Chum- ley; Marjoribanks, pronounced March - banks; Cockburn pronounced Coburn; and Cowper pronouneed Cooper. Again Mainwaring is Mannering; McLeod is MoOloud. In Elgin and G'ilot the "g" is hard. In Gifford and Nigel it is soft. In Johnstone the "t" should, noL be s sounded; in Molyneux Lhe "a" is sound- la ect, and the name le pronounced aloly- noox, with at very slight accent on o the last syllable; izt Vaux the "x" is li else sounded, Put it is .1.13 II 0 ill .Des Vaux, and lukewise in Devereux. In lame Berkeley and Derby, the "e" has a sound oe "a" in for. In Weide- grave the second syllable "de" h0AId be dropped, and so sbould the eche in Blythe Dillwyn is pronounced Dillun, and. Lyveclen, Livden. In Conynglitan, Monson, Monkton und Ponsonby, the "0" takes the sound of "tie! end Blown should be pronouneed 0$ Blunt, the "o" being mute. Boolean should be pronounced Buch- an, and Beauelerk oe Beauelare is Do- Dol:res,byth,e aceent Wog on the Beet syllable. • Wemyss thould be pro- nounced Weems, and D'Eresby, In Montgomerien the "t" is elided, and the two "o's" lame the sound of u," the accent being on the eecond syllable.. In Hertford the "1" is elided and Um "ix" has the Sound of "a" in far, straehan should be pronouneed Strawne Colquelioun, Koohoon, the au ceot being on the last sylleble; Beau- champ is Beacham and Coutesis None. nother formidable name 1.0 1 Ile Un- ini(sted is butheene, which should be' pronounced Duke ; Het /tune should be Beeton, and. in Abergavenny the "Hy" is not sounded. Menzies is protmunced Menges; Koollys 35 Knowle; Sandys us Sands; Gower es Gorr; and eallnes as Mills. Finally Delziel thould be pro- nouteoett "Dimon," with the accent 00 the first sylloble; Charteris Is Char- ters; Glarnis is Glarmal Goghogen ;Mould be pronounced Ge,ygan; and Rutlivele it Riven. The ocean; is frequent13! mispInced In pronounring British proper nomes, In Tadema and Millais the eccent. is en the first sylinble; Isa Cilenvicade and Brettilelbaoe, 071 the wend; wbile 10 Burnett, Burdett, Kennaird, Palmate and Tremayne, the last syllable Is 56 - meted. As at toile, In a AMMO Of Iwo syllables, the assent thould be planed upon the Hest end. 14i scowl sbonld be slightly slum& IDS HEAD. A paseenger ou a Cunard steamship had 031 experience vonieb led her to • betieve that a Reisman is not apt le waste many thoughts on her pereon- al troubles. The sailor who brought her to this opinion had 0 fell which remitted n n and oot on the head, the eeconcl day out. She was -solicitous In tier inquir- ies as to his welfare when tam saw the captain that night, und 110111(1 un- doubtedly have eontinued her sympa- thy had not n eough NOR milled to mired aer own sufferings, Four elnys later, when she emerged, mvbii.e nod weak, from her etatevoom, he suddenly remembered the poor IA the course of the day she may htee, with a strip of palette on Ids fore - hen it. " Row Is youo head ?" sbo risked kMd- 17, 0 0 he pn.ssed by lier, bent on some " West ity smith, instant' Wag the Ye. ply, delivered with rempeolful but 130 0- ly clear/mete and he woe gone. 1,00ltiog into the 7en101e,-4 4110:38 I, might Ile well quit school papa, Baia the boy. , Why, my son? Oh, there ain't any nse going, except to be Ulla to help any little, boy evlion. I grow op,, and if they have &bunged the wny of doing things since you were II boy so that you Can't help mo now, It's I'm just waging nay thne getting eeady to help ray little 111,7, Ho got the help he wanted, but it was a good thing he didn't hear IOW his father heel to eay rhout newfangled Pelmet - books 0.410 ht had gone to bed