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The Brussels Post, 1913-8-21, Page 2A Dark Shadow; Or, A Coming Vengeance CHAPTER Iv:--(Cont'dj. ('live .lu a hod at his t'moma on a thou. boiled potatoes, ai1da bottle of bitters; then he lit a pipe, and turned to his table. But be found that he could not work. Haying paid his call, and sent the piano. probably a rather Foolish thing to do. he had certainly done all, 0101 more than the cireumatenees demanded; and he ought to have been able to have dismissed the girl, Tibby, and EIisha fromhis mind.; but be could not do so. Ile must go out. and forget them. Suddenly he remembered -it was strange that he. should have forgotten -itis pro- 'tafse to call at the Clleeterleighs'. with a carious reluctance 11e changed his loungesult for the regulation one, which. included a long froth coat and silk hat, and set out, for Groa,cuor S0uar6, He found a line of carriagea drawn no out- ' side the great house. width i5 one of the landmarks of the fashionable world. and, ushered by a footman in rich livery. as- cended the staffs to the Famous drawing - room. in which for generations grand ladies. and famous statesmen bad been wont to ateet for social and party funs - tions as farrows as the nelsons who moved In them. The magnificent room was crowded and Lady Edith was surrounded by a group of men and women whose names were as familiar as household words,. as Clive made his way slowly to- werds her. Young as she was -a girl in her position matures early -she was hold- ing her own with the best of them, her Froud lies drooping, her beautiful face looking just a trifle weary: but suddenly the saw him, and, as suddenly. the ex nreseton of ber faro changed; a smile flashed to her eyes. and curved and soft. ened the haughty line of her lies.s. !Youare Mr. fHarvey," she said. "1 tboughtClieyoukhad andhand brat aver it, the contrast presented by the tutstoe5ens room, this she dainty vend aristocrat's back," , to the enface "second flim r Dock," and the hale face. and slight form of the poor little street singer, emote him with the sharpness of a sudden.blow. CHAPTER V. Of course, Clive's entrance had attract- ed attention; nearly every one's eyes were levelled at him, and there was a moment- ary hill in the buzz of chatter; for no- thing is 60 Quirk as a Lender] fashionable crowd to scent the "coming man," or so eager to reeognize- the individual who promises to be famous; before the inter- estine indication of his approaching greatness ho is, very naturally, an lumen- eidered Quantity. The man who happened to be seated near Lady Ldith rose promptly, and. with a little nod of acknowledgment. Clive took the chair. A week ago no one would have levee place to him. "It is very good of you to come." said Indy Edith; 'I know how very busy you must be. There is a full account of your life and works in several of the moruieg pa ers,, The Beacon especially." ".1. didn't know The Beacon went in for notion," said Clive, with a smile, 'I. hope you. don't believe all the things they may have eaid of me, Lady Edith?" 'Oh, they have nothing but good to say; it is 'roses, rases, all the way. How haupy yon must. 130—" Count no man happy till—" he mur- mured. She made a charming little grimace. "I know; but I don't believe it. One can be happy without being dead. And is there anything so delightful as emcees!' "Failure is sometimes satisfactory," he suggested. .I hate failure," she retorted. "But I can't associate it with Clive Harvey, the friend of the people.' Father says -- But I think I have said quite enough pica things, and here is some fresh tea. Do you take sugar? You will and I ehall only ask you this once; it isthe one thing I remember. Are you going to speak to- night?" "It's wednesda he reminded her. "Ab, yen. 1 wish you'd let me know when you are speaking next; I -father and 1 -want to go down to the House and hear you.;th but you must 50 you webe re Hist night." All this was very pleasant. and Clive enjoyedit, though he modestly nut it aside with a few words of self -deprecia- tion. "But it isn't all work and no play with yon. is it?" she asked. Clive laugbed. "By no means. 'I have my amneements, such as they are." t•You don't goout much?" elle inquired. "No," be admitted. "I'm afraid I speed most of my leisure prowlingabout the streets:" "And. smoking a pipe,"n lie put in. "Oh. but yon ought not to confine your- self tostudying one class only, eha went an. It seems to me --I dare 'say I'm wrong -that what le called 'the people' absorb all the attention nowadays. The other claesee-the one to which yon be- long, for instance,is worthy of .notice: I'm afraid I don'tbelong to any class now." saidOlive musingly. "11 a oFrather r an outcast from Society; ank sheep. "Black sheep are more pietureenue, and sometimes more interesting, than the white," she rejoined with a nod. "But. I thinkyou will find that you are not re- garded as an outcast. Seeing that you are so ]find tie to per- mit me to be here--" he began. She gave a little shrug of lior shoulders. "I didn't mean that. I meant that every- body --excepting the Conservatives the old bite Tories -will be anxioue to welcome you. And that remtnde me that I am monopolizing your etiolation, and that all those people want t0 talk to you. I can see it in their faces, and in the way they are wetnhing ue; some of their faces ex- press their indignation and impatience yretty plainly." "Te that a dismissal?" he naked, "No," she said, with a touch of color and a swift glance. No; yu a may11 ;Aar, way, five minutes longer; them up in telling you bow much I envy you. You Mile, of course, But think! To have all the world before 911re that your ambition will be gratified. that Succese 15 waiting with the laurel wreath in her hand, ready, when your liighneee pleases to beckon her, to place it on your brow. 0h, it is good to he a ,.lever. man! Yon are free to step into the arena, to fight for all you are wort to Pluck Victory from the grip of Difficulty, to--- But you are laughing. Howwould you. liketo change places with merward, Olive looked at, her ass her expression certainly not one a dpride "I was wondering what ambition you could have which could not be easily gratiRed, Lady Edith," he said. "You ]penal that I am Lm'd Chesterfield's daughter, daughter of an ex -Cabinet Minister -- "With youth and" --he paused before the word beauty"—"with all the means of obtaining your heart's desire--" "Who, knowing his heart's desire and having it, is eattsfied?" she put. in quigli- ly; then alio laughed. 'flow serlcu'e wo have become, and --how personal! 11 ie lay fault. You did not want to talk about, yourself; and I—well, I'm not usually given to talking of mine." She had dr'awn herself up with a return to her usual hauteur'. "I think 100 must go now—to the other people. Oh, wait," she added quickly, as ha resp at once, "my aunt, Lady Dalrymple. ham a dense on Monday. I will welt her to send you a card, if you ears to come?" Of course Clive expressed his cense of Iter gracieueness; and site .lotted down a memorsudum on an ivory tablet, and die - missed him with a slight tuelfnation of her hend. Clive would have pas;=ed out; but Lady Edith's assertion proved to be correct and he was stopped by the first group he came to, and was quickly sur- rounded by persona. some of them even distinguished enough to be called per sonages, who appeared desirous of ex- changing a word or two with 31r. Clive Harvey. Shiny a young man's head world have been turned by so mucic flat- tering attention; but Olive's was not given to swelling, and all with whom he snake were impressed by his modesty. Lady Edith's eye followed him—though be did not appear to be looking in hie direction—and when he had left her, her manner to those who remained became cold and unresponsive. When the visit- ors had all gone she rose, and went to the window, and looked out at the Saterc with her delicate brows drawn etraight, and her 1!us shut tightly. For the first time iu her life she had gone out of her way to be pleasant to a men; she had been more than pleasant" indeed; and her face flushed as she recalled some of the things she bad said to him• She had stooped to flatter him, and bed reached a climax in offering to get him a card for her aunt's dance. Offered"? Had eho not virtually asked him to come? And he—she bit her lir as she recalled his manner—had not only not met her hall -way. but in his self-poseeseed fashion had seemed to hold her at arm's length, "At arm's length"; her mental ahrate made her color deepen; -her eyes flashed with sudden scorn of . herself, and resent- ment of his reserve. lee, Lad,v Edith Cltesterleieh, had deigned to stoop to this man who called himself a social outcast; and he ---i Site caught up a flower from a. vase, and metalled it in her hand. She would not see him again; would deny herself next time he called. Already he .was spoiled, she told herself. by his sudden success; but even as the thought passed through her mind, she knew it was an uniust one. Knew, too, that hie very reserve, the re- rusel to fall at her feet and worship her, se most men would have done, bad ren- dered him more interesting to her. For the first time in her life Lady Edith had met a man who possessed the power of impressing her. She had felt drawn to him on the »receding night, when he had entered the roam ,just note something warm—was it her. within her had grown war Heart?—andel hie approachfi a thrill of pleasure, surely the first of its kind, had shaken. off the coldne e, the pride, in. which hitherto she had encased herself. " No; I will not see him again," she said; but even as she made the assertion her mind darted towards Monday w.th a .wist- ful longing, and she knew that she would g The tdoorball opened,the and her meeting came in. Edith? All one?" be said, Ail alone, g putting his arm round her shoulder. "Has Mr. Clive Harvey been here?" Mr. Clive Harvey? Yes:, I think so; oh, yes, he has," she replied indifferently. 'Tuts I'm sorry I missed him," said Lord Oheeterleigh. "Mr. Graham wants him to speak at a big meeting in the East End. He's just the man. I told Graham I should probably find him here, and would ask him." Since when have you been Mr. Graham's messenger?" she asked. Lord Oheeterleigh looked at her with nurpriee. "What's the matter, Edith?" he asked. "Anything 'wrong?" Nothing.' she replied coldly; "but it seems to me that Mr. Clive Harvey is— rather too much in evidence. You will spoil him between YOU, father.", "Oh., he'll take a -lot of spoiling," he said. "He's that rare avis, 11 modest younman. But I mustn't praise him, I see, Edith; for you don't like him, elf?" "I neither like nor dislike him," she said an coldly as before. "You forget that 1 have seen him only twine, and that I know very little about him—" And care less?" he finished, pressing her shoulder and laughing. He was, though he did not know it, rather proud of hie beautiful' daughter's exelusiveneee and insusceptibility. Anti care less, she calmed, tenting away with a little gesture of profound in- youe kuo v. 1 must go fan 1 dress.' sight She went to her own rooms, a. suite so luxurious that Olive, if he had seem them, would have been still more etruck by the contrast between the dens of Lazarus and the palaces of Dives. Decorated. furnish- ed with the minutest regard for taste.. and none at all for ccet, they were remarkable even in this age of artistic luxury. Rare books, choice pictures, priceless bric-a- brae, they, were all here to minister to the girl's roving fancy. As she opened the door- of the sitting -room a woman. who was at needlework by the window, rose quickly, and nofeelesely approached her mielrese, her eyes scanning her facto with. a strange eagerness, Slto was a Hindoo of little more than middle age. but looked older than her years by reason of the sallow face covered with a mesh of lino wrinkles, and the snow-white hair, which showed no vividly against her dusky skin; her dark eyea.a almost black, had a peculiar Misstate la as they rested on Lady Edith, one at once proprietorial and annealing, The woman, who Was called Sara --a con- venient contraction of her native name, Surya--and was not known by any other name had been Lady. Edith's nurse; and was the most important person in the do- mestic side of the household. She bad al- most taken the place of a mother to the girl. and had an affections for her which combined maternal love with the devotion of the faithful slave. To say that she and ha 11001 at that mamen l,,. rather surprised and�astartl ',theettrlda liorsn,npYp+ triveit extravagant: ertioi;sgho Woiiltl den leve. a t 8e6rZl i d but a mask have willingly aid down her life to give i tion I „•rich he had not co wore --tout, it had elinpecl the girl a moment's transient measure, and that for assdk.' She cathetcolor left her regard ce Qand his droppees, the dropped back with a little gesture, no if she was almost ashamed of her va- henlenee. "Other prisons were their ambitions: 06 Well as afr. Olive iiarrveY/'apologetic "Why explanatory and dN you rentein so' relent?" she added with a touch of impatience.._. 1.E,ET 0. Outing; Shoes For Everybody Tile PERFECT SHOE! FOR SUMMER SPORTS ASK 'YOtrii bEALEU, andwould have cheerfully committed any crime for the like trifling reeult, Sho seemed to live with only one object: to watch over Lady Edith, and minister to her ease and comfort; and in the pursuit of her object she was quite ready to 9aer1- flee not only herself, but all the world, No doubt. the wemarl'0 tireless minfetra- Clans had done not a little to faster the epirit of pride and --1t must be written— selfishnens, which characterized Lord O.hesteeleigh's daughter; but, even if she had beenaware of the feel:, Sara would have gloried in it. In her eyes the girl vote .perfect in body and mind. Sho wee as vain of Lady Edith's beauty and grace as if they bad belonged to a daughter of her own; and she spent, most of her time Planning and devleing dresses and other adittnete with which to net off that beauty, Sara had co010 front India as ayah, or nurse, to Lady Chneterleigli. That the exorcised n, great. though Overt inlleceme over ,her young mistress was evident, 11111 not surprising; for it wee only natn1r0l. that the girl ehtnild repay the woman who, next .toLord Ciiesterloigh, led been her closest companion eino0 babyhood, Witha feellee somewhat warmer and more eon- fidentlet than that with which a 01151re28 generally rewards her maid and oormit- tett her famielieritlen bf eneech and ser- viceitis a,complaieanee which astonished her friends. In the servants` ball Biro W'15 he r0 means popular, for site Was rceerved and highhanded, and kept herself aloof from her fellow'aervants, whom eha appeared to 1'egifrd as her inferiors; but they had come to beat' Iter meaner of auperiorlty 1;t silence --in her hearing, at any rate - for on one or two cteeasfcms the woman had displayed a temper 80 pasoionate e0 volcanic, that they all went in absolute £ear of her. The dart eves rested only for a moment on Lady ridithe face. and were then swiftly entered; but Sara, in that brief, flashing gltnee, saw that something hall her young mfsfeess'e usual ei'oud serenity. She said nothing, but In silence began to ]help Lady Edith to re• move her dress. "I'm late, I think, Sara," natd Lady Editlt, rather, listlesely. Yen, yes;will be quickmissie," said the lwc•non in n subdued voice. 'You will Wear "Anything you like," replied Lady Ed`th, as she sank Into her chair before the gloss. "1 don't care which it i.e.' Sara wrapped her in a peignoir of while ellk. and, unfastening the golden hair, let it full, a cascade of flossy silk, over her betide, stroking it admiringly, dot- ingly, as 0 mother utight have stroked the hair of iter first-born. "Your ]lead aches, mieeie? Sara make it well, Yes, yes!" Gently, as it eho were touching thistle. down, site poured some linuid from an Oriental flask into the palms of her halide,and drew them caressingly over the white brow. .That. better, mise]e? Bow slid it come?The heat, the talk -you were late at tea, and the sahibs pressed round you? Yes?" his eetd proudly, 'They always do and will, "Not when I'm old and ugly. Sara," re- marked Lady Edith. Never old and ugly!" responded the woman proudly and defiantly. There are some wameu w310 will never' be old, and my child is one of them. She le a daugh- ter of the gods—" That'e Tennyson; though you don't know it." said Lady Edith, with a anile and a suppressed sigh. No. w'oader I am vain, Sara; and I am." Sara laughed softly as she bound 11.0 the hair, ,,till caressingly, as if elle were handling something 211050 precious than the virgas gold it resembled. "11 is not Slim alone, missie," she said with a vanity which even surpassed Lady Edith's; "doesnot every one who cornea near my girlie tell her. that she is beauti- ful, cs tIf not with ie their lis with theey p. thatAcannot fl lie?" A faint Rush rose. W Lady Edith's .face, and she frowned slightly. "No; not every one," she said, rather to herself than the woman. Sara east a keen glance at the.mirror, and her hands paused for a moment in their rapid but smooth movements. "Not every one? Then, it it is a woman, She is envious; and if it is a man, Ile is a pig," site responded frith a flash of an. ger and contempt dartmg across her dark face. Lady Edith laughed a trifle wearily. "1 should like Mr, Clive Harvey to hear you call hint a pig," she said. Sara held the brush suspended. and looked at the mirror again, and kept her eyes there while she repeated the name. "Aft. Clive Harvey? I 'don't know him; but he is a pig all the seine," she added resentfully, as the flush grew deeper on the face reflected in the glass. No; ho ie uot, Sara," said Lady Edith, "He is a very ('lever man, and beautifully mannered. And perhaps it ehoWe his good taste that he does not admire your child." "He mist be blind, this Mr. Olive Har- vey,as if she were stat- ing an incontrovertible and self-evident fact; "blind or au Imbecile. Who ie he? I should like to meet him. to whisper, 'Fool l' Just that: Fool!"' Lady Edith laughed, but not very mirth- fully. 'No; he is anything but a fool. Sara; he is going to be a great man, a 5053' great man, I think. All the world will be talking of him -le beginning 'to talk al- ready." Miosis kaow 31]01 long?" asked Sara with assumed indifference; but her eyes. though apparently vast down, were watch- iatr her mistress's face. Not long, Sara. 1 caw him for the first time last night." What's he 1111e, this clever fool -man? Young?" aslted Sara, still casually. "0h, yes; and very good-looking. You knave the kind, (14150: tall and straight and strong -with dark grey eyes—" The woman made a gesture of depreeia- tton. Itis jest like the young English sahib rhe 'Paid contempt. --they are all alike,' i nously. "Not suite," said Lady Edith. "111115 one is different, Sara. He says little. and be does not pay compliments and bow and smile like the others; at least, not to me,' she added, with a laugh, the wistful note in which wee not lost upon the wo- man's watchful ears. I would like to see him, this young 0a- hib, w310 is so different, sq clever, and yet so imbecile," she said slowly, (To be co ntinitod.) QUEER IDEAS AMONG POOR: London Mothers Have Theories as to Care of Babies. Remarkable revelations concern- ing the life of London's (England) poor fire contained in the annual report of Dr. Thomas, the medical officer of health for Finsbury. Their social customs, superstitions and ideas of babies' diets make a strange chapter in the records of human ignorance, as the following extracts from the report serve to show. In a family where the father was a casual laborer the mother had kept the home together for many months by pawning things. She pawned her husband's shirts and trousers for 62 cents, and spent the money as follows: Tea duet, 4 cents; sugar, 4 cents; condensed milk, 4 cents; oleomargarine, 4 cents; coal, 9 cents; gas, 2 cents.; potatoes, 4 cents; sausages, 8 cents; bread, 11 cents; tobacco and cigarette papers, 3 cents; borrowed money repaid., 4 cents;; pawn tick- ets, 2 Dents, and paid woman for pawning clothes, 1 cent. - The superstitions of the poor are many and curious. One father thought that next to good food there was nothing like a day in the cattle market to euro a suffering baby. He put hie theory into prac- tice, taking an infant once weekly to the market. A woman had twins. One died and the other wasted and got ra- pidly worse until the mother, on the suggestion of a neighbor, put a large doll in bed with it, From this time, the mother averred, 11 immediately began to improve. "Dolls often eure babies," said the woman, "especially when doc- tors have no hopes 'and give them u The weighing centers, where ba- bies can be examined and weighed and their mothers advised, have to contend with the diffloulty, that, in some instances, mothers will not bring their babies because they have been told that it is unlucky to have a baby weighed until it is a year okd. 1').r. Thomas `says; "In the slums it is not nn1Omm031 to find that fathers eonbribute:little or nothing towards the support of their Wives and children An occa- sional father is found 'who has not given his wife asingle penny since their marriage." The babies' diets. in Finsbury, ac- oording to the report, include cur- rant cake, bath buns, patent bis- cuits, boiled bread, boiled potatoes, chipped potatoes, dry oatmeal gruel, fried Sieh, tomatoes, coffee and apples. *— ALFRED WALDRON SIIITHERS. Important Western Division. Point Named Atter U.T.R. Official. Right in the heart of the great fruit orchard of British Columbia— that pictureeque spot known as the Bulkley Valley—surveyor's and en- gineers and all such are busy on a 15011' town. That town has a reason. So has its name, The first is the fact that it is the only general freight and passenger division point between Prince Ru- pert and Port George. The second is—Smithers. And a very good reason the town has for calling itself by the name of its godfather. Not only because Mr. Alfred Waldron Smithers is chairman of the Board of Directors of the Grand Trunk, although:that alone would seem sufficient reason. A. W. Smithers. • Not only because, as the highest officer of the Grand Trunk Pacific, he is called the counsellor of the Grand Trunk official family. "Still, that is not the only reason why the first general freight and passenger division point east of the western terminus of the 0015 rail- way should he called after the good counsellor of the official family. . He was asked -to be the godfather of many western towns—towns which look calmly on huge glaciers and rushing torrents, on mighty cascades and forests of cedar; towns which are springing gradual;.• ly from canvas and tent prosperity into the more substantial forms in - lumber and brick, And now comes the reason why the last town—and »lost decidedly not the least—came to be named after the great man who is quick to recognize good work, and just as quick to clothe criticism in silence. "Serve the others first," was his motto. And that is how they have Edson and Watrous and Biggar and Wain- wright, not to forget Melville, misled after the great man, Charles Melville Hays, in whose brain the whole Western scheme originated. It was all so characteristic of Al- fred Waldron 'Smithers to wish to be the last godfather on the West- ern line. But we must speak of Smithers, the man. His modesty has been hinted gat above, Forty years ago when he was a youth. of 23, he join- ed the London Stock Exchange, and remained a member until four years ago, when he resigned, to devote his energies to the development of railroads in Canada. Being the eon of the late William Henry Smithers of the Bank of England, it seems natural that !ro should be recognized as a financial authority throughout the British Empire, In 1.896 he beeame a director of the Grand 'Trunk, later being elected vice-president and chairman, , England still claims much of his attention, he being a director of the South Eastern .and Chatham Railway, and chairman of the Eng- lish Association of. American Share and Bondholders. And apart from all this, from hie interest in things of national im- port, he is possibly the moat inter- esting in his private life. Children. are his weakness, and wherever he isf he is seen ,surrounded by laugh- ing tote, all delighted to be enter- tained by the "big lean of finance." Stilt Yea Sugar Taste. 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There are several important: points in con- nection with this work worthy of consideration, probably the most important of which is honesty, writes Mr. S. B. Shaw. "Every grower's pack should be as good as his bond." Customers want hon- estly packed goods and they are us- ually willing to pay good prices for them. A grocer never loses by placing honestly packed produce on any market, be it at home or abroad. Each package should be filled with the same grade throughout. If this is done the top may be "faced." "Facing" is the arrangement of from' one to three layers of fruit on the top, thus. increasing the at- tractiveness of the package. This is^an honest .,and perfectly legitim- ate practice provided the entire con- tents. are fruits of the same grade as those placed on top. Seconds and inferior grades should never be faced with prime specimens. There is neither cash nor character in this practice. A few seconds or culls scattered in with a lot of fancy specimens gives the buyer an op- portunity to discriminate against the whole package and ruins the reputation of the grower as an hon- est packer. Produce should be cool and dry before being packed. Heat and moisture promote decay. Condi- tions of this kind should be guard- ed against, for decay means loss. Allow all fruit and vegetables to cool in the packing house, and have. them dry before racking. They will keep longer and -present a better appearance at the time of sale if handled in this was. So much of the success in marketing farm pro- ducts depends upon the packing, .that growers, cannot be too partic- ular -in seeing that this work is done in such a way as to show their pro- duce to best.advantage when put on sale. While it is of the utmost im- portance that each package be filled with the same grade throughout, it is equally as important that it be done carefully. With the softer varieties of fruit and vegetables, such as peaches, plums, tomatoes and egg plant, that are usually put in small packages, each specimen should be placed by hand. This not only makes the pack more attrac- tive, but it lessens the liability of damage restating from bruises. Produce of a firm nature, as apples, potatoes, etc., will not bruise so readily, and as a result it is not so necessary to handle eaohindividual specimen in packing. Grass and Silage an Ideal Feed. "When I get my cows into grass again there will be more milk." This is . a statement frequently heard during the last month that the herd is confined in the yard. When once on pasture the. yields show a marked increase even though the animals may have had plenty of good grain and forage previously. What is there about grass which makes it siich an excellent and very satisfactory food for a milk cow 1 Is it not its succulent nature? Succulence means frill of juice, and the juicy ration for the dairy cow is the correct one from all view- points. Large quantities of 'water are required by the cow in order to make large quantities of milk. A large part, in fact, all but about ten or twelve per cent. of milk, 18 water, and, consequently, the cow that produces 8,000 pounds of milk in a year makes 11 fie. of something like 7,000 pounds of water, or a lit- tle over, for milk alone, to say noth- ing, of what is required for her body, Thus theeilnpOrtan0e of a 81141111- lin F m the fir lent ration, as well as a pure supply of drinking water, is apparent. Realizing the great stimulus to production which grass is, the dairy- man anxious for large yields should seek to pattern his ration as nearly as possible the year around after this natural food. Grass alone, of course, would not be satisfactory for winter feeding, for it keeps the body of the cow too full of water and allows her to suf- fer from the cold, but in conjunc- tion with more fat -forming foods, such as grains and folders, grass would be a part of an ideal winter ration. The nearest approach to grass, however, is silage, and it is for this reason that silage is held in such `high esteem by those who feed it, HOLIDAYS IN TURRET. One Would Not Know That Turk Is Celebrating on "Holy Day." In nothing tis the natural sober- ness of the Turk more manifest than in his holidays, -says a writer in Soribner'•s Magazine. He keeps fewer of them than his Christian compatriot, .and most' of them he celebrates in such a way -that an outsider would .scarcely suspect the foot, This is partly, perhaps, a mat - tel' of temperatemt, and partly be- cause Islam has not yet passed a certain v ' .i stage of evolution. 1 at g A birthday, that is, is still a holy day. Secular and patriotic festi- vals are everywhere of compara- tively recent origin. In Turkey, where church and State are one to a degree now unknown in Western countries, there was mi. Veal na- tional holiday until 1909. Then the first anniversary of the re-estab- lishment of the constitution was celebrated on the 23rd of July (July 10, old style). A highly pic- turesque celebration it was, too, in Constantinople _at least,' with its magnificent array of rugs and me- .diaeval tents -on the Hill of Liberty, its review of troops by the Sultan, its procession of the guilds of the city, and its evening illuminations. Illuminations, however, , were not invented by,.the constitution. Long before a 23rd of July was, the splendor -loving Sultan A'hmet III. discovered how unparalleled a the- atre for such displays were the steep shores of the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus. The accession day of the reigning sovereign made an annual occasion for great fami- lies to set their houses and gardeny on fire with an infinity of little oil lamps and, in all literalness, to keep open house. This was the one purely :secular holiday of the year— unlees I except the day of Hidl' Elyess. Bich or Hizr Elyess is a distant relative of theProphet Eli= jab, of the God -Apollo, and I sus- Pect of personages still more an- tique. His day coincides with that of Greek St. George, namely April 23rd, old ,style, or May 0t11, accord- ing to our mode of reckoning, I must add that he is frowned upon in orthodox circles, and feasted only in Constantinople or other localities: subject to Greek influ- ence. Honesty and Policy. "Pat why is honesty referred, to as a policy 4" "Probably because eo high a pre- mium is placed on it," :replied the Weary insurance solicitor, Na-Dru-Co Laxatives, are different pit that they do riot gripe, purge nor cause nausea, nor: does continued tise lessen their effectiveness. 'holt can always depend on thein. 250, a box at your Druggist's. (78 �Named Drug and Chemical Ce. .. of Canada, .Limited, a...` taat�raelte FROM MERRY OLD ENGLAND !. NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN DULL AND 1115 PEOPLE, Occurrences In the Land That Reigns Supremo in the Com- mercial World. In London there were 0,333 births and 801 deaths last week. The King has sent a subscription of $50 to the Royal United King- dom Beneficiary Association. Lard Tennyson has aecepled the presidency of the Isle et Wight Small holder's' Association. For one night's catch of herrings, the Lowestoft herring boat, Lord Wenlock, has realized $1,080. The Duke of Connaught presided at the National Rifle Association dinner at Princes' Restaurant, Messrs. Pearn and partners have formulated a pension scheme for their o$icialsretiring at the age of 99. Wireless telegraphy has been sue- cessfully installed at Biahop's - Stratford College by one of the scholars. The King has sept to the Natural Museum of Wales, Cardiff, a fine tiger which he shot in India two years ago. Mr. Francis Reckitt, brother of Sir J. Reckitt, 11as given $100,000 t0 the Newland's Seamen's Orphan- age, rphana'ge, Hull. The King, as squire of Sandring- ham, Norfolk, is presenting to his employes a now club, which is being built at Babingly. 13y n. fire at the Star Motor Car Works, Wolverhampton, 5125,000 damage was dono and over 30 mo- tor cars destroyed. In England and Wales the births registered last year numbered 872,- 707, the marriages 283,195, and the deaths 486,967. Stafford has decided to hold a+ pageant to commemorate the thou- sandth anniversary of the buikling of its first fortress. Mr. Peake, sixty-nine, n master builder of Kingston-ou-Thanes, was found hanging dead in the workshop at the rear of his ]louse. Princess Louise, Duchess of Ar- gyll, laid the foundation stone- of the new South London Hospital for Women at South Side, Clapham Common. tl strike of elder male choristers is in progress at Holy Trinity Church, Rusholme, because a 811r- pliced choir was proposed. 11r, Geo. li,utherford, station- master at Belside, the oldest sta- tionmaster in the employment of the N. E. Railway company, has just retired after 43 year's' service. There is at the present time in the Royal Hospital for Inott1'ables, Putney Heath, a male patient who was born in 1857 ab Lucknow during the siege. An angel fish has been found stranded o -n the beach at Mary- port, Cumberland. It was seven feet long and had. a great skate in its mouth. Princess Henry of Battenburg visited Herne Bay, and opened the King Edward VII. memorial Hall, sand, also , unveiled a medallion to the late King. The Lord Lieutenant of Surrey has presented to the county a num- ber of old prints, one of which is lu plan of a royal review in 'Wimble- don Common in 1789. .. Epping Guardians have decided to purchase a fifteen shilling wig for a pauper inmate of the workhouse, whose baldness gives rise to an_ kindly comments. Made Him homesick. A man walking into a restaurant inadvertently left the door open. A big man eating his hinob immediate- ly yelled, "Shot the door, you fool 1 Where were you ' raised—in a stable 4" The man who had left the door open closed it, and then, drop- ping into a seat, buried hie face in his hands and began to weep. The big man looked somewhat uncom-r fortable, and finally rising walked up to the weeper and tapped him on the shoulder. "My friend," he said, "I didn't intend to hurt your feelings. I only wanted you to close the door." The man who was weep- ing raised his head and grinned. '"Old man;" be said, "I'm not cry- ing because you hurt myfeelings, but because you ask me if I was raised in a stable, and every time I hear an ass bray it makes me' homesick." ,a4,3 People Travel. Because they think' they are going to learn something, and it is only by travelling that they eat' discover that knowledge does not come by travel. Because it helps them to get better acquainted with their neighbors—some -of/whom they are bound to fall in: with on their tra- vele. Btxeauso the -doctor tells then( they ought to. Because it 'gives them. the illusion of: superiority and furnishes them .With topics of conversation. Beeatile it costs. more than they eun afford. 'Because they don't know all the ali?agree- , chin things that will 1lappen tet; tihcxit 13oca14se ii; is the only p in which. the ` can discover howay Vie, • • comfortable they are at b.ome,•--' - 9 : '