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THE ROUT OF THE ENEMY.
CHAPTER V. earthly—land° to battle and to fight
A wide expanse of flooded meadow lin the think of life's combat—whilst
land, frozen completely over, a lame- Angel was but a dream -child, fost.
dary of stunted willows in a long mel-{ erect upon tender fancies, and erad-
auaholy nue to the rising ground to) led in a poetic atmosphere of beeu-
the north, nnl.ufttded ever with clumps of tiful imaginations.
bare and blackened trees, surmounted! "You had much better wish us
by o the east fog, and flatness rand wil ' as de ht�ooand Less ler so o they reasaid
hed Duane
he
lows—and over all the grey gloomy ; front door—Angel had gone on. "You
curtain of an afternoon winter sky. 'can't like tea—not really!" she added
A melancholy scene indeed, save for with a comical persistence.
two moving apatite of vivid life, which ' 1 don't in the least," lie answered,
transfigured the whole picture into "I like you and your sister,"
brlghtnesa and vitality—two girls The dran•ingroom at Harliford Grange
skimming over the face of the frozenwas ruddy with the firelight, it look -
water, the swish swish of their thoroughly homelike a,nd cosy in eon -
skates keeping time to the rhythmicaltrast to the greyness and coldness
movemeuts of their figures. Never a', without. It was untidy end lit -
word do they speak, only as they bal-! tered over with feminine trumperies,
gnoe themselves easily on their flying for there was no careful mother to
feet, they approach and part, andwhirl put things straight when the girls
in wide circles round each other with had gone out; their fancy work and
e certain method in their evolutions,' painting materials lay scattered about
that eaoh seems to know and act up- the room, the open piano was strewn
on. with music, the table covered with
Never Ran a woman's graceful form novels and magazines ; there was a
have a mare becoming baokground than general sense of irresponsibility about
that of snow and ice—every curve, ev- it, an aspect of womanhood in her first
ery undulating movement of these +youth, unrestricted by maternal or
charming figures is thrown out into maiden -aunt -like snpervision, yet it
sharp relief against the surface of icewas homelike for all that—there was
upon which they move. They are I a charm in the very disorder, for it
both of them perfect mistresses of the! told of the daily lives, fall of interests
art of skatutg. As they advance and j and ocoupations, which the two sisters
retreat by turns, as they skim fleetly lads
together over the frozen surface. or Angel had but rung the bell for tea
describe wonderful patterns at almost in passing, flung ber bat and skates
inconceivable angles, no ungraceful or down upon a sofa, and sat down at
awkward movement disturbs the ab- once to tbe open piano. When Dulcie
solute security of their well -poised at- and Lessiter came in after their short
titudes—each glia. keeps her bands well passage at arms in the hall, her voice,
tucked into her muff, and seems as a pure high soprano, was ringing
much at home upon the slippery sur-', through the room in the npening notes
face Be though she were walking across of one of Tosti's songs—Dulcte, on her
ber drawing -room in the grey house ; knees upon the hearthrug poking the
beyond on the slope of the hill. •fire, joined in with a second; music
So absolutely speechless are they, and i was a part of their Alfa, the piano a
so perfectly still are their bodies, save friend that filled up all the unoccupied
tor the swift flying feet and the slight Intervals of -existence. The song nev-
er movement of their dark, er got further than the first vrrse, for
red skirts, that there is at last; aeon Angel got up and joined the two at
In the awift darkening twilight, some- the fh'eside.
thing almost akin to the uncanny in' Do you know that ?" she asked of
the sight of them—a. something that I'essiter-
aauses a stealthy watcher, who has "You sang it to me the last time I
been standing motionless for some was kers," he answered.
time under one of the willows along Ah, yes," she murmured softly. So
the ditch to the south, to exclaim he remembered, then I She gazed
aloud, more however to himself than with dreamy epee into the fire.
- for the benefit of tbe actors in the "My dear Angel, do take your jacket
scene he watching: atch' off, you will get so hot," suggested
"Great is ns are you never go- Dulcie the practical—she was for ever
ing to stop!" The volae sped through cutting in upon these moods of Angel's
the keen frosty air with preternatural Oh' why world she not sec, why would
distinctness. The skaters slackened she not understand? she said to her -
their speed, drawing nearer to each I self with in, sort of anger at the bliud-
other as they did so—each reached out nese of the sister she adored. For
n band to her sister, and the rough Angel was Duloie's idol—her beauty
grating of their arrested skates croak -:and her talent, her sweet temper and
ed out harshly and inharmoniously to- i her poetic
er temperameIIt, of all hely ped
her
gether. younger sister, a divinityover which
Did anybody speak, Ange!?^ I it seemed to Inc it was heprovince to
"I-1 think so, Dulcie—what did it watch and to guard, lest trouble or
sound like?" vexation should in any fashion come
"It sounded like a—man," replied' near her. And now, despite her ten -
cis solemnly, with the noun quite der care, this dreadful thing had hap -
iii
capital letters. "Pray Heaven its
nota tramp I"pend that Angel had fallen in love
It was remarkable that neither •of ' with Horance Lessiter. Horace,
them was in the very least degree out whom every child might have seen to
of breath.be infatuated with herself. It is pos-
"I think it moat be Captain Least -
i.' that, but for Angel, Dulcie might
ter " said Angel. with a flush upon her have responded to the adoration ex-
ialjt, peach -like face. pen ed upon her, for Lessiter was an
A tall young man now name walk- idle, good-looking young fellow, for
Lag across the ice towards them, from ever at the house, and the girls' Lives
the shelter of the willows. He was moreover
strangely solitary and lonely;
dressed in a reugh shooting coat and moreover Lessiter, nithoiigh not en -
leathern gaiters. It was difficult at dowed with any very noble qualities,
first, in the fading light, to distin- had agreeable manners and was like-
sh his face; but as he name near -able and companionable, and love, as
like -
gash everyone has beau told, begets love.
er, they recognized him.
"Stand and deliver!" cried mkt.. as a factor of possible misery i o Angel,
"Are you a burglar, or a tramp 3—or, she almost bated him; every misdirect-
a pleasant compound of both?" ed and misunderstood sentence that. he
'Which did you take me for ?" uttered, every misappropriated look
"Neither, Captain Lessiter ; I knew and word which Angel in her blind -
you at owe," said Angel, softly. nese took to herself, pierced the heart
By Jove! bow splendidly -you girls of her sister with impotent wretched -
do skate! I never saw anything like Hess. She did not dare to tell her the
it—it quite frightened me, at least. Itruth—she might indeed have said to
began to think you were not alive— her, "Horace Lessiter does not love
only automatically wound up. I never you," but should Angel question, "Why
saw Englishwoman skate like that—" than is be always Here?" it was not in
"We are not English—we are Can- her nature to wound the gentle heart.
adians," cried Dulcie, with her little by the reply, "Ha comes hero for me,"
nose in the air. "It would be a die- This was the serio-comedy that was
grave to us, if we couldn't skate pro just now playing itself out at Harliford
perly, after spending five winters in Grange. Soon, new actors are to be in -
Canada with our mother's people." traduced and new sreuea placed upon
"Ah, that accounts for it then. So ta stage, but at this moment there aro
your mother was a aCnadian—but Mr.but these threw. The tall, fair-haired
Halliday, surely he !s an English- Young man, indolent, impecunious,
man?" without. any settled home or accupa-
"Papa? Oh, he's John Bull to his tion, having Fold out 00 his profession
finger-tips," answered Dulcie, with a from sheer idleness, existing vaguely
little scornful, careless shrug of upon his position of heirpresumpliv° to
her shoulders—"but we, Angel and I a childless brother but a few years old -
her than himself, and livingfor e
a Lh
e like betterto belongto our moth
w
Present uponnn what allowance flat oro
-
er's people."
By this time they had. reached the l:har °hoar to give him, and the two
side of the foe nearest to the house— Halliday girls, with their bright nom -
the girls skimming along slowly, with Alexions and gracrfui figures— Angel
swaying backwards and forwards move- positively beautiful, and Dulice dangn''-
masts; the tall young man walking, Dusty piguante and a.ttea otive—such is
with long atrid:as, between them, They the trio gathered about the little tea-
with
off their skates, nimbly and swift- tabPeo le don't understand the ly, declining masculine assistance. lof skating in this ban' hted.countjoys
y s
of telt?"
.said Horace J.essiter verive me a y humbly, Dulcia was Baying, with her mouth
„ standing, like a plaintiff at the bar, full of bui.t.ared toast. "When we gat
before them beth. Ii c looked at a good frost nobody seems lo make the
Angel—but there was a furtive move- most of it. Doesn't your sinter -in-law
went of his whole, broad -shouldered skate?"
person towards .Uulci.e. "Lady Instiller'? Ohl after a fashion
"Of course—coma up to the house to
—she wrote to town for some skates
I
tea," murmured Angel, with down-,Yesterday,I believe."
and ,eyes—but Dutch: lifted. hers bold- There it nal Why hadn't she got
ly--and somewhat defiantly—up to her skates all ready?" .
his. "Oh, Dulled" exc•lnimed Angel,
"Tea'? You Englishmen take five "don't you wish we could have anight
o'clock tea like women. What a mise procession with lamps, as we used to
erable, soft -nurtured set you all are]' ;have in Canada? It was so lovely,
"You refuse me hospitality, then?"Captain Lessiter; we all used to go out
be said bitterly, turning upon her— 'after dinner in couples in a long pro -
"the hospitality of a cup of tea--" 1oession, hand in hand, each couple car-
Dullae laughed. "Oh, if you care to ried a lantern. You can't ;think bow
come," alta began, Iovely it looked — all the moving
"i do care," --he answered eagerly-- lights, and the dark figures, and the
"Miss Halliday turning to Angel, strange, mysterious echoes, Oh, Dui.
"you know that I carol" loin! dona you think we might get it up
They were walking up to the house ham?"
--Angel's peifeet profile was turn -1 "My dear child, where is the procea-
eel aside—a flush of happiness—the i —thesten to come from? You and S with
happiness vvhiah the presence of the Captain Lassiter to carry the carriage
man. whom she lovas gives to a wo- lamps behind us? That wouldn't: make
Mall, was upon her face—s e ad noIt ver 'striking ex ihilion as regarded
courage to lift ]tar oyes to his—pear, i in the light: of a midnight illumina-
shoriesighted Angel, Dulcie walked I tion—now would it?"
on her other eide--eha was not neer- I "Wouldn't Sir George and Lady
ly so lovely as her deter—the had s,!Lessiter join!"
part,' rehouses nose, and a wide! "'.i'ee, I daresay they might," admit-
latughinu mouth -but Dulice was a wo-'tad Horace, to whom the idea of amid -
Men, with all a woman's keen, quiek!night skating tete-°'tote, hand In hand
instincts. She was of the earth, with either sister, presented, by no
means an uutempting prospeoi, "and
then we could send for soma of the
neighbours perhaps; that ,is, if Vene-
tia fancies the Idea, and takes trouble
about it -she would give us all supper
at the Hall afterwards, too, I dare-
eay!'
,Antisl clapped her hands with de-
light.
Oh, do ask heel It ought to be to-
morrow, because the ice is in such per -
perfect order--"
"And one never knows what a day
may bring forth in this detestable all -
mate," interpolated Delete.
There was a sudden soaad of car-
riage wheels outside,
"Here comes papa. How early he is
bank to-niglttl Be must. have. caught
the four -thirty train."
There was a slight confusion of nois-
es in the hall outside, then the draw-
ing -room door opened, and Mr. Halli
day, still muffled up, stood in the
doorway, and his eyes rested, not al-
together delightedly, upon the fam-
iliarity of the little trio at the tea -
table.
A chorus of voices greeted him:
"Oh papa, how nice and early you
°rel"
"\Ve have got such a delightful plan
to tell you aboutl"
"Captaiu Lessiter is going to ask
Lady Lassiter—"
"It will be such fun] Just what we
used to do in Canada."
"lf only we can manage it for to=
morrow! Sit down, and we will tell
you all about it."
All this time the two girls were
dutifully attending to their father,
pulling off his cant and muffler, and
taking his gloves and parcels out of
his hands.
"Softly, °oftly, my dears. What
is It all about? Don't you see that 1
am not alone?"
And then they looked behind him to-
wards the door, and saw, standing
upon the threshold of the room, a
slight young man with brown eyes,
who seemed to be taking everything in
with a good deal 01 amusement.
"My dear children," said Joseph
Halliday, somewhat formally, turn-
ing to the young man in the doorway,
"allow are to present to you the nep-
hew of my excellent partner — Mr.
Geoffrey Dane—my eldest daughter,
Angel—my second daughter, Dulcie.
Mr. Dane has come down to stay over
Sunday with us; give orders, my clear,
for a room to be got ready for him."
The girls shook hands mechanically
with the new comer, they were smit-
ten with a sudden dumbness. Angel
poured him oat n cup of tea and hand-
ed' it him in silence, and then she rang
the bell in obedience to her father's
directions concerning the room. Mr.
Halliday spoke in the background to
Horace Lessiter,-Geoffrey stood with
his book to the fire sipping his tea,
and looking with critically apprecia-
tive eyes at the fair beauty of his
young bostesses. Tben Dutoie sud-
denly found her voice again nndapoke
to him.
"Have you got skates with you, Mr.
Dane?"
"Yes, Miss Halliday, 1 have."
"01, then you'll do for the proces-
sion," said Dulcie, with decision. But
whether the procession was of a religi-
ons or secular character. where it was
to ba formed, whither it was to wend
its way, and of what nature were to
be its compouanL parrs, were all mys-
teries to whioh Geoffrey was unable, es
yet, to form any conclusion.
CHAPTER IV.
Venetia Lessiter took to the idea
not ouly with delight, but it may al -
moat be said, with passion. She was a
woman of sudden freaks and fannies,
she pursued things and people hot-
headed for a short season, then she
turned aside and rushed wildly and
breathlessly after something else.
Anything that was to be done in a
hurry commended itself to her volatile
fancy. A few days ago she bad taken
it into her head to send for a friend
whom she had not seen since the days
of her girlhood, and who for some years
had been living in great retirement;
nothing had satisfied her till, by
dint of telegrams and letters, she had
induced this friend to consent to come
and spend a few days with her. When
she had gained her point, she- had tele -
'graphed to town for some friends of
her husband's, "to make the house
lively," although she bad expressly
promised to her friend that her visit
should be strictly quiet, and a strong
detachment from London was expected
down for Sunday. When her brother-
in-law propounded the plan of the
lamplight procession to her, as sug-
gested by Angel and Dulice Halliday,
she was enchanted, and flung herself
into the scheme with rapture. Grooms
with notes were sent flying on horse-
back in all directions that very even-
ing, to beat up recruits throughout the
naigbbourhood. The cook was bidden
to prepare for an unlimited number of
dinner guests, and strange orders
were Issued to the housekeeper er and
the b mulled. vines
utter com•erning m a %
and hot. punch that were to be in re-
quisition towards the small of the fol-
lowing night. Horace, too, was des-
patched up to town by the first train
on the Saturday morning with diteo-
tione to bring hack as many bull's-eye
lantern as he could lay hands upon.
Letters, too, were sent flying between
the Hall and the Grange, so that by
five o'clock arrangement was com-
pleted.
Meanwhile, Geoffrey Dane was
spending a quiet and pleasant day et
Etrliford Grange. bfr, Hi.laidey had
gone up to business as usual for the
Saturday half-day, but Geoffrey had
hie uncle's directions to take a whole
holiday. and he had remained with the
girls. He was interested and pleased
with them bath; Dulcie's liveliness and
smart talk diverted and amused him,
but Angel's superior beauty and an-
complishments attracted him perhaps
the most. She exercised a vague fas-
nination upon him, reminding him in
some undefined manmer oe another
woman whose image floated nonstantly
before. his imagination. During the
morning hour he played the accompa-
lraniments to Angels songs, for he
was a bit of a musician in en unpre-
tending way, and then they fell to
talking of books and poetry as they eat
over the fire, whilst Duioie ran in and
out of the room, joining in now and
than with her laughing criliolams or
her-preetieal common sense.
To be Continued, .
STRANGE GRAVE MARKS,
In Zululand the graves of the dead
are deeoral.nd with the bodies ol,the
attending doctors,
THE BIOME OF LORD MINN,
SOMETHING ABOUT HIS EXCEL-
LENCY'S PATERNAL ABODE,
fps ]Relies or the Past -There Souvenirs
Along %witn a Large Nmuher of 4'arlaus
Mahe nu 'meet -ding pllleulen-lila
l:zevllenoy as 8 nest.
Minto Castle, the home of Lord Minto
six miles dtstant from the quaint old
town of Hawick, is situated in the
more mountainous partione of Rox-
burgahlre. Nature has endowed the
district with mush beauty in hill and
dale, and history has invested it with
romantic charm associated with deeds
of arms in Border wars, Additional
interest is evoked by the fact that the
home of Lord Minto is not only in clos-
est touch frith the land of Scott, but
the ,great novelist himself visited Min-
to Castle. In "The Lay of the Last
Minstrel" he alludes to the well-known
Crags, which, washed by the Teviot at
their base, are prominent objects
throughout the countryside. You can-
not fail to notice this natural pinnacle,
capped by a tower recently restored
and now guarded by a gun taken by
"Elliott the Brave" from the French
admiral Thurot in the action off the
Isle of Man in 1760, as you proceed
along the road from the little station
of Hassenden on lbs Hawick end Edin-
burgh line. On arriving, after a drive
of a mile and a half at the ornamental
West Lodge, you at once enter the deep
woods of Iine old timber bordering the
drive; while in the open park you may
notice some shaggy Highland cattle,
Presently you cross a deep glen,
through which .flows the stream that
supplies the lake Jying at. the base of
the steep slope on vvhiah
• ' MINTO CASTLE STANDS.
The house which is of stone, is of some-
what unusual architectural construc-
tion,, Originally it consisted of two
wings placed at right angles, with a
porch at the junction giving admit-
tance to a eiraular hall. Afterwards,
when it Was altered, and added to in
the beginning of the present century,
the new work consisted chiefly of a
duplication of the old, not only giving
far greater depth to the honest but pro-
viding two halls, ono leading into tbe
other, while a. naw handsome semi-eir-
cular Corinthian porch was a further
addition. 'Trophies of arms and the
old colours of the Border Militia, rais-
ed to resist the threatened invasion of
Napolean decorate the first hall, which
is panelled with oak, ns is Lord Minto'°
study, removed from the old law courts
at Westminster. ' The second ball is
domed and floored with oak. J1'rom
above, the light sbines down on the
bust of Pius IX, presented to your
host's grandfather when on a spe-
cial
DIPLOMATIC MISSION TO ROME.
while a marble dog, an antique, which
was a gift from Caroline, Queen of
Naples, sister of Marie -Antoinette, with
some bureaux, are suitably placed. On
leaving the annex hall you enter the
south ante -room opening to the draw-
ing -room on the right, and to the left
to the splendid library, unsurpassed in
all Scotland for its wealth of choice
and rare edition, while it is the favor-
ite resort of every ono at Minto.
To reach Lord Minto's study, you
have to pass through a long corridor,
which is hung with all kinds of weap-
ons, shields, snowshoes and deer-hoads;
and similar trophies decorate his
pleasant oak -panelled sanctum, which
looks over the lawn and the surround-
ing woods. His study strikes you as
particularly interesting from the num-
ber of engravings, miniatures; and
medallions to be seen oP the distin-
guished members of the Elliott family.
For instance, there aro portralta of the
first and second baronets, both Sir
Gilbert. Elliots, who were each succes-
sively Lord Minio as Lords of Session
in Scotland. Near these there hangs
an engraving
01' THE FOURTH BARONET;
who, on the British evacuation of Cor-
sica, was created' Baron Minto, and
who, on bis return Iron filling the
appointment of Governor-General of
1 r
a created Earl of Minto. He
Bengal, was l; .
t f Nelson, and un
friend N
was a great f ie. n ,
leaving Corsica was a passenger on
Nelson's ship, the Minerve, when she
fell in with the Spanish fleet off Cape
St, Vincent. After the battle Sir Gil-
bert accompanied the despatches home
on board the Lively, bringing with
hien one of the swords surrendered by
the brave commander of the San Josef.
to Nelson. This eword is one of the
most prized of tiro historical treasures
at Minto Castle, while a pastel of Nel-
son Prem life, executed by Schmidt in
1800, finds a fitting resting -place over
n bureau. By Royal license the first
Earl of blinto assumed the surnames of
his mother, Murray-li'ynynmound, the
heiress of Melgund and Loehgclly, pro-
perties in Iforfarshire and 1"ifeshiee,
and it is interesting to hear from your
host that a branch of these :Ltynyn-
mounds settled in France about the
thirteenth oentw•y, where they aro
now known as Lha Comtns de Q.uine-
nront.
As you might expect to find in the
home- of a soldier, there are nanny re -
mindere of rho profession at arms at
Minto Castle, Besides several battle
pieces illustrating the conquest of In-
die—one of which portreys the battle
of Mnhideore, its 1817, where Lord
Mlnto's grandfather, General Sir
Thomne Hislop, was in command—there
are many memorials to remind your.
host of engagements and campaigns in
which be has takeu part, ].'hese Egyp-
tian spearheads and rifles, for in•
stance, are souvenirs al the time when
he gave his services as a volunteer in
the Egyptian campaign of 1882, serving
as a captain in the Mounted Infantry,
and getting wounded at Under, just
before Lord Wolseley fought the battle
of Tel-e!-110ir, , Those Turkish tro-
poles, too, vvi11 probably recall his at.
turbulent. to the Turkish forces during
the Russo-Turkish war, an appoint-
ment which he obtained from Sir
Henry I,nyard, at the Instance of Col-
onel Meme, of the Intelligence Depart-
tnent of the War Office. Ile was pre-
sent nt the bombardment of Nieopolis,
and was with the Turks at the passage
of the Danube by the Russians under
Sknheloff, and then crossing of the Bal-
kans a day after Gourko's force, he
joined Beouf Paella at Slivno, 'Then
he was with Lord Roberts throughout
the Kurrum Valley campaign, and
stayed at the front till the signing of
the Treaty of Oundemuk, when he
went to Simla; and Lord Minta may
add ]bat be was very nearly ,joining
the mission of Sir Louis Cavagnai'i,
who, with his retinue, was
MASSACRED AT CABUL,
A very handsome " oshteen," or Af-
ghan sheepskin jacket, beautifully em-
broidered, which formerly belonged to
Lord Roberts, may remind you that he
was his secretary en his proceeding to
the Cape after the disaster of Mnjuba
Hill. But, as Lord Minto could tell
you, his experience In South Africa was
very limited, being confined to twenty-
four hours on shore, in consequence of
an armistice being arranged with the
Boers. Although Lord Minto has not
seen native service since be was Chief
of the Staff, under General Middleton,
in the expedition for the suppression of
the Riel insurrection, yet since 1888 he
has had the command of the "Scottish
Border" Volunteer Infantry Brigade,
brigadier -general, and still retains the
same interest in military subjnots as
when be was a lieutenant In the Scots
Guards; while he occasionally aonCri-
butes articles on them to the Edin-
burgh Review, the Nineteenth Century
and the United Service Magazine.
After luncheon in the dining-room—
where you may notice many fam-
ily portraits, among them a full length
pastel of Lord Minto in the Ilhakee
tunic and buffalo -hide patrol jacket he
wore in the North-West campaign —
Lady Minto, who Is the most charming
hostess, takes you to the drawing -room,
which is s. harmony in green and gold,
generally suggestive of the Louis -Seize
period. At once you are attracted
TO A LIFESIZ.E PORTRAIT;
—which occupies one side of the room
—of Lady Minto, who is wearing a soft
white muslin gown, on the shoulders of
vvhiah there rents a rose-colored man-
tle edged with fur. Though you can-
not perhaps examine every one of the
numerous miniatures and curios by
which you seem quite surrounded in
this daintily furnished room, you
should not omit to notice u miniature
of Marie Antoinette, given to the first
Earl of Minto by Mirabeau, end anoth-
er of Napoleon, painted by Isabey. Then
among the medallions you will find one
of Queen Caroline of Naples, presented
by her to Ms. Hugh Elliot when Minis-
ter at Naples; while the portrait of
General Sir Charles Grey, private sec-
retary to the Queen and the Prince
Consort, is doubly interesting as being
the likeness of Lady Minto's father.
Presently your host suggests a work
round the grounds and a look in at the
stables, giving you, however, before
leaving lbs house, a peep into the In-
dian room, another repository of Af-
ghan and Eastern curios well displayed
against a vermilion background. There
is nothing surprising in the conversa-
tion turning to the aubjeots of hunting
and racing, for Lord Minto has been
devoted to the "pig -skin" from very
early days, when he, then Lord Mel-
gund, was an undergraduate at Cam-
bridge, and rode in a silk jacket over
hurdles as "Mr. Holly," a pseudonym
borrowed frons Eton ,where he was a
very respectable oar, and, after being
second in the sculling, distinguished
himself as a member of the Kingston
Rowing Club, In athletics, also, he
was well to the front, winning the
Third Trinity mile at Cambridge,
Lord Minto rode in tunny races on aha
flat and aoross country, and in' 1874
brought. Captain Machel!'a Defence in
fourth for the Grand National at Liv-
erpool and won the Grand National
Staepleebaae of France at Auteuil on
bliss Hungerford ; and in many other
events over hurdles he rode winners
trained by Mr,,Ricbardson. It is re-
lated of Lord Minto that at the Lincoln
Spring meeting of 1875 he passed the
post first on five different mounts. He
was also well known as a bold rider
with the Duke of Grafton's, Lord Yar-
borough's, and the Bicester Hounds.
EQUAL TO OCCASIONS.
'rwo leatden's WIdch Show 'What (find
ol'a Man lord whltnvorlit was.
Lord Whitworth, who bold various
posts of honor in English diplomatic
circles, was a kindly, gracious gentle-
man, as Well as a wit and a man of the
world. In his viceroyalty of Ireland,
he proved to be so destitute of bigotry
and bitterness that he was sometimes
amused of lacking
energy;
but
the is-
land government probably seemed a
small thing to him who had been the
voice of England at St. Petersburg and
Paris.
He bad, indeed, almost measured
swords with Napoleon, at the 'Tuileries,
%viten that despot .railed at England for
not having evacuated Egypt and Mal-
ta, accused her of having violated trea-
ties, and ended -by flourishing a cane
dangerously near the face of Lhe Eng-
lish ambasead:or.
Lord Whitworth put his hand on the
hilt of his sword.
"'What would you bane done, if the
emperor bail str•u.ck you? he was af-
terward naked,
"I would bave felled hint to the
ground," was the quiet answer.
Perhaps the hest story told of him
is one showing how his quick wit die-
Posed of a rival. When be was at the
Russian court, Vox sent there, as a
sort of ambassador of his own, a man
named Adair, the son of a surgeon.
One day .the empress, speaking in
French, soul to Lord Whitworth:.
"Ts he a very important man, this
Monsieur Addict"
"Not so very, madame," replied Lord
Whitworth, 'although his father was
a grand seigneur" --a remark which
readers, of French will recognize es a
vary good pun, for the word las need by
Lord Whitworth means "blood -letter,"
while by Its sound it also meant a
great lord.
A girl doesn't froatltle herself much
about the superiority of the pen or the
sword; it's the uniform that cutches
her eye.
Agricultural I
GOOD TEETH PREVENT LAMENESS.
Some years ago a lest was made by
an expreaa ocmpany, who had 000
boyars in constant use, twenty-five of
which were indlsoriminataly selected
for proper dental treatment, and sep-
arately weighed, Their oats and maize
were reduced two quarts per day each,
After the first month a great improve-
ment to (hair general condition was ap-
parent, continuing during the second
and third months, when they were
again weighed, and it wee found that
an average increase of forty-eight
pounds per head was the result. The
test lasted during the bot months of
July- August and September when
flatulent °olio was very apparent in
the citable, yet not one single case had
occurred among these twenty-five
horse! Since ibis trial and whenever
a carload of newly purchased young
horses arrives, it is considered a waste
to feed them until their teeth are
examined and put in proper shape,
As a preventive for lameness, to
commence operations on the teeth
would appear to some very ludicrous,
yet common sense and practice would
convince them that this would be the
proper means of preventing interfer-
ence, ono of the chief causes of lame-
ness in young horses.
Young horses fully developed show
signs of fatigue and weakness after
a journey, and interfere. Some grab
the quarter of the fore foot with Lhe
toe of the hind foot, or overreach.
In such oases the ordinary prnoti-
tioner would treat locally, possibly ad-
vise different shoes, order tonic balls
or condition powders, and a few days'
rest, the latter would benefit mostly
and give temporary relief.
Now supposing there were irregulari-
ties of the tooth, as is usual with all
young horses, the first treatment
should be to put them in perfect or-
der, so as to promote mastication and
good digestion, to enable proper assim-
ilation of the nutritive qualities of the
food, and there ensure increased
strength end condition, thus remov-
ing the original cause of tba weakness,
1t may seem equally absurd to some
of our readers to assert that operating
on the teeth will prevent pulling and
other vices, but that it is not so is
proved by the following ineident: A
pony that we treated had changed
owners for no other cause than that
none of them had been able to drive
him with ease, although various bits
and contrivances had been tried. The
primary cause must first be discovered,
which in this instance was a decayed
toot]', the removal of which affected
an instantaneous cure. Tho pony is now
driven in plain straight bit without
a curb chain, by the present owner, an
elderly gentleman who appreciates the
animal's quietness and docility so much
that no amount of money could part
them.
MAKING THE MILK.
The man who owns the cow is the
one who makes the milk. He Ran make
little or mush of it, he can make it
clean or dirty, cheap or expensive, in
fact, ho can vary the milk to suit him-
self. The ooW is only a complicated
apparatus, in which be burns his var
nous fodders, and out of which he ob-
tains his finished product in the shape
01 milk. Like all other machines, the
cow is subject to the laws of thermo-
dynamics. She must use a certain am-
ount of her fodder to keep the vital
machinery in motion. This inolndes the
keeping of the animal heat at the right
point, the circulation of the blood the
digestion of food, the elaboration of
milk and all the other vital actions
whish go to make up the life of the
animal.
Experiments have shown that it re-
quires sixteen pounds of dry organ-
ic matter to keep this machinery in
motion, that is to keep the animal alive
and in health. it'rorn the meat of the
food given above that weight, the
dairyman may expect greater or less
returns in the form of milk, Here comes
the first point. Now, how natal fodder
does it take to keep that cow? Six-
teen pounds or twenty pounds? Tliere
is n wide margin here—all the differ-
ence between profit and loss. Ask the
cow and see what she says. If she is
using twice as much fodder us she
ought to, to keep her matahine in mo -
Lion, then she is not a profitable ant
cannot If. she use the excess of
feedg ivenher over the maintenance
ration, to produce a profitable amount
of butter fat, she is not worth keep-
ing and should be disposed of as soon
as possible.
No dairyman can afford, under pre-
sent conditions, or even under any con-
ditions, to keep animals that eat food
that they cannot return a greater
value for in Ma milk pail. If he does
keep such animals, his progress down
the financial hill ns neither slow nor
comfortable. His life is one long strug-
gle againa conditilons that he might
change if he only would. There are
many roads that load to loss of pro-
fit on the farm, but the broadest,
smoothest roe with the steepest down-
ward pitch is the one (:raveled by the
unprofitable cow.
TIIE .13.EST 10001) FOR 114(19,
The best food for marking lien ley is
lean meat, \('hen the supply of eggs
1 foods l •a
fails slap all ocher oo and feed lean
meat or liver, any cheap meat will
answer, and it will be found superior
to anything that can be used. Green
hone that contains a large proportion
of lean meat is even bettor, provid-
ed the fat portions are removed from
the bone. It will be found enamor
than grain because it will make eggs,
One renaon why hens sometimes faail
to lay when they have plenly of grain
is that: they' require a change, and
meat oontaina the motorial for sup-
plying the nlhumen of the eggs, and
is therefore it sultatntaoe that the hens
,must have or they cannot, perforin ser-
vice. If. the hens are fat give one
mince of '.can meat each day, allowing
no other food, Por a week or two,
Ufa. 9, 1898
lG 1O'IIIC...
,Among Elle nrany radinui °henges in
farm monagenrent during the last
quarter of a oentury there are few
that have brougli1 the farmer greater
profit than that of marketing pigs at
six or seven months old, instead of
keeping them three dines as long. The
beat market demand at present is for
good, fat pigs, and they command the
highest price, It hue been demonstrat-
ed over end over again, that the noel
per pound increases with the age of
the pig, and so it iee in the line of
economy to push the pigs from the
°Cart and sell early. I have no data
to determin'exnatly -tubal• the saving
is, but 1 venture the assertion that a
ton of pork ran be made from pige six
to seven months old, for one-third less.
money than from mature hogs, says
Waldo '13, Brown, Probably the best rea-
son 1 can give for this is that in add-
ing one hundred pounds to the weight
of a pig after it reaches 200 pounds,
you must furnish food for support to
repair the waste of Lhe 200 pounds,
while adding the extra weight. Again,
the gain in the first place is made up
of growth as well as fat to a much
greater extent than when hogs near
maturity are fed. The risk of loss from
disease is reduced at least in propor-
tion to the shortest time the hogs are
fed, and 1 believe even more than this,
for I find it easier to keep young grow-
ing hogs thrifty than those of mature
age. There is also a saving in labor,
for every farmer knows that there is
a large arnount of hard work In feed-
ing hogs ]haat must be attended to
every day, and it is much easier to
feed 200 days (bar 100.
BROAD TIRES.
The tests thus far made have shown
in the main that the draught is less
when wide tires are used, yet these re-
sults have not been accepted as con -
elusive and final by Lhe public, and
there yet remains in the ,minds of
many intelligent farmers and teams-
ters a well defined and positive con-
viction that the wide tire will draw
very much heavier over roads in what
may be termed average condition, and
that in mud they will draw so much
heavier as to positively preclude their
use, Clearly, all efforts to induce the
farmers and teamsters to adopt the
broad tires must be futile so long as
thereis any question as to the rolaa-
tive draught of the two classes of
wheels on roads in the different condi-
Averaging all the trials on pasture
lands, it was found that a team could
haul a tan and a half on the broad
tires with the same effort required to
draw a ton on the narrow Urea.
In nearly all conditions of meadows
end pastures the broad tire benefited
the surface, rather than injured it,
In no case can a ton load be hauled on
the ordinary narrow tire eve such a
surface without injuring the sod.
The tests on stubble land, including
corn and stubble in every condition,
from muddy to dry enough to plow,
were also uniformly favorable to the
broad lira. ;-
Averaging all the results, it is found
that 8,000 pounds could be bauled with
required to haul 2,000 pounds. with the
the broad tires with the same effort
narrow tires.
On plowed ground, both ,thoroughly
plowed and harrowed and ready for
seeding, the results are strikingly fav-
orable to the bread tire, and asaving
of about one-third of the draught was
effected by using the six-inch tires.
SOME "LADIES."
The word "lady" still has about it
a pertain halo which ought to prevent
its indisoriminat'ivc use. In this coun-
try we can hardly expect to see social
distinctions reflected in the use of the
word; and yet we might, perhaps, ex-
pect to see it employed more equitably
than it was by a certain <ley -goods
storekeeper in a Massachusetts town
not very long ago.
The daughter of a senator of toe_
United States drove one day from box
father's summer cottage to a store in
a city near by, and ordered some arti-
cles to be sant to her father's house.
When the goods were sent a mistake
was made, and the senator himself
stopped at thestoreto aorrect it, The
proprietor called the saleswoman, and
after consulting with her, apologized
for the misteik .
s
"You sae err," he
explained,lained "the
lady who took to order didn't alto
unerstand whet the girl said]"
i.
A somewhat similar story was told
of n remark made by a Yankee ser-
vant of the :enmity of John Lathrop of
Motley, the historian. On one occas-
ion, when the historian svaa at home
OD the ancestral estate near Boston,
and when Iris brother James was also
there, an intimate friend of thefamlly
who was eojourning at the house carne
out from Boston on a late afternoon
train The family coachmen met him
with a carriage et the station. On the
tvay to the house the guest said to the
driver:
train?"
'pfd any one comet out on the earlier
"011 yeas," sand the madman, "the'
Ives four; the' was John and Jim and
two ladies,"
The guest know that "John and Jim"
were the historian and his brat ber, but
he wondered who the ladies were,
Afterward, ho found out that they
woredl
it seamstress and, a now ollap11)er-
nrni
The Met extraordinary use of the
term that we aro likely to find any re -
mord of is related from England. The
home surgeon of a London hospital,
we ale told, woe attending to the in-
juries of a wotnan who earl been be (1-
ly bitten on the arm. As he was
deveang the wound he said; -
"1 cannot melee nal: what sort of a
eyenture let you, 71 is too email for at
horse's bite anritoo largo for a dog's,
"01, sir," said. the patient, "It wasn't
a bammal--it •was another rydyl
There is nothing like an 'inr'tbquakc
for opening up naw fields,
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