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as yel : , 1 knew that what had n el Yu lie actual truth--the ike Kesbury. The great okt m sel' I riod excitedly. "Icon pctor--and: the light--and the you: acknowledge that what I you was the truth--that I did pot you en I told you that your was. ond recovery?™ "Certainly. You told "me {he truth," 'hastily. "At the {ime it seemod Improbable, Hut now that you Fave Wn me proof, I must ask your. par- any of mine have given you ofte : ! An? "You've not offended me in the slight- my dear sity" he answered pleasant- "Persevere with: the treaiment, and continue for another few days in dark- y then. I feel confident that a ifactly sedisfactory cure will have been effected, Of course, we must not expect a clear vision ab once, but by egress your sight will slowly become' gsttongor. 7 £4 3 And with those words he closed the o 3 and drew 'fhe curtains close, s0 the room was again darkened. agine the thankfulness that filled heart! It was mo illusion. I had actually seen the narrow rays of sun- "flight between the half-opened blind and ihe dark silhouette of the short, stout, eareded man' who was effecting 4, marvellous cure. 'gtpped his 'hand in the 'darkness, d-thapked him. si How "can 1 sufficiently repay you?" This service you have render- ened up to me an abso- 'désire no repayment, Mr, Heaton," nswered. in his deep, hearty voice. Phat' my "trealment of malignant scle- fitis is successful, and that I have ii the means of restoring sight to one 'my. fellow men i sufficient in itself.' "But 1 Bae one vuestion' I wish to | of the Heatons. Omit that Twas po longer blind, she "| deciared that the man Slade was an emissary of the Evil One; and express eda pious hope 'that ho would. never "darken my door" again.- ? o It was a fancy of mine to go down tothe Home of ny yuuth, Heaton Ma- nor, .a place well known to these uc quainted with the district around Tew- on, stand- ing in the centre of a wide, well-wooded park thal slopes. down to the Severn close to. tha Haw: Bridge. had been closed, and in the hands of the old ser vani Baxter and his wie. Indeed IT had never lived there since, on my father's death, it had passed into my possession. The rooms were opened for my inspec- tion, and as 1 wandered through them and down the long: oak-pannelled gal- try, from the' walls of which rows of my lime-dimmed ancestors, inv their ruffles, velvets, and laces looked down solemnly, -a flood of recollections of my sunny days of childhood crowded upon me, Seven years had passed since my last visit there. The old ivy-covered manor was, indeed, dilapidated, and sadly oul of repair. 'The furniture and hangings in many of ihe rooms seeméd rotting with damp and neglect, and as I enler- ed the nursery, and was shown my own teys, it seemed as though, lke Rip Van Winkle ,I 'had returned again io life alter a. lorg absence. Alone, I wandered in the park down the avenue of grand old elms. The wide view across the brimming river, with Hasfleld Church, and the old Tithe Barn at Chaceley standing prominent in tho landscape, I saw that it had in no way changed. 1 looked back upon ihe house--a grand old home it was, one that any man might have been groud of, yet of what use was it to ne? Should I sell it? Or should I al- ow il to still rot and decay until my will 'became proved, and it passed into the hands of my heirs and assigns? "1 felt loth 10 part with if, for the old place hat been build soon after the fierée and historic battle had been fought at Tewkesbury, and evor since Richard Healon-had commanded onc of the frie gates" which went forth to mcet the Armada it had been the ancestral home Indecd. 'the village of rich; Water Heaton, now-a-days quite an Wi puzzling, Do you w nothing of lidy named mars? know _her--that is all" Where does she live?" . ; I regret that I am not abies to answer ol" question." You are bound to secrecy 0 may as well admit the: truth -- I s 1 ejaculated; "ds (he recovery 's_sextraordinary," extraordinary!" "Not so extraordinary Your vision," he "Remain "perfectly quiet, and "donit take upon ourself any mental problems, 'A great al. upon. your. own fact that my sight was gradually regarding gl How strange it aM was! ancient place, with its little squat squarcsspired church and quaint strag- ghng street, had sprung up around the 'manor. To me the place was some- thing of a white elephant, yet, as the last of a stalvart race who had ever rendered Joyal service to their sover- eign, and the sole descendant of an henorable family, it seemed incumbent upon me to retain it, and not allow :t fo go under the auctioncer's hammer. My personal needs were small, and 1 was nob in want of money. therefore, ere I" returned to Tewkesbury, and thence to London, I gave orders for coplain necessary repairs to be done, and that a couple of rooms might be | cleared and kept in readiness for my use whenever I. might require them. b Al every turn 1 peered upon the warld through my grey glass spectacles, and took as keen an interest in il as does a child, A'l seemed new to me; my brain, like | @ child's, became filled 'with new im- in| Dressions: and fresh ideas. After my séen | dull colorless. existence of "sound and | touch, this bright life of movement fill- od me 'with a" delight thal pen cannot deseribe." Imagine, however, what, joy one wha hos been pronounced | and taste'of its pleasures. - IL was y. Whiclt. gave "lightness: to my | ncurably blind (0 Jcok upon the world Yet over all 'was ape remenibra, ihe. nr ince of that fateful might tragedy. Who was Edna? he? What was she? her instrutentality 1 had re: sight, but her identify bouts still oA of attaché stil bad in that moment of my utter help- lessmess' given 'my promise to conceal id the 'mysterious «rime. "Yet, when I re- 7 "collected "with - what exiraordinary in- genuily 1 had been dece'ved by. the man whom I had believed to bo .a police constable, the deep cunning which had teen displayed in obtaining from my lips a statement of all the facts I knew, and the subsequent actions of the coakheadd- al Edna, my mind became confused. 1 could see no solution of the extraor- dinary problem, save (that 1 believed her tobe" deeply implicated in some plot which had culminaled in the murder «f the young man, and that she her self had some strong personal molive In concealing the terrible truth; I ought, I knew, lo have gone to Scot- lond Yard and made a full and straight. forward deposition of the whole mat ter. Nevertheless, my story was a very strange one--stranger, perhaps, than of the many curious romances which are daily laid before the Director of Criminal Investigations. After all, # Tnight not have been believed. I had no idea where the scene of the tragedy was situated, and, having becn sight. less at the time, had actually witnessed nothing. Theory upon theory 1 formed, but when I dug down to their roots I found that they merely drew their strength from my own lear or imagin- ation, and were utterly worthless. Once of twice 1 contemplated disregarding my promise and making a full stale ment to the police; but on calm reflec- tion I saw that such a course was now absolulely useless. Two months bad clapsed sinze the fateful night, and the body--aor bodies--had, without doubt, teen disposad of long ago. Such in- genous evildoers would exert the ut- most care in the dispositions of the cor rus dilecti, and would never run risk of detection. They feared me, 1 felt as- sured, and It was this thought which toraslantly harassed me for if such ware actually the case, thes they had every incentive to teke my life on the well established principle that dead men {ell no tales. With the return of mv vision my sence of hearing had, curiously enough, become both weakened and distotted Sounds which 1 heard when bl. pre- sented quite a different impressi~n noe that I could sce. The blind hear where those with eyesight can detect nothing The ears of the former train themselves te act as eyes also, yet the mo aan! the vision is recovered the sharpened scnse of hearing again assum-s its nor. mal capacity. Hence I found that I cou'd not now distinguish voices and sounds so quickly as before; midend. the voices of those abo'it me sounded sero how different now that I had recovered my sight. My friends, into whose circle they declared 1 had returned like one from the grave, welcomed me everywhere, and 1 confess that, notwithstanding the oppression. constantly upon me, 1 en- joyed mysel{ to the top of my bent. 1 still remained fm my dingy, smoke grimed rooms in Essex Street. really more for Parker's sake than for my own, and also, of course, in order 10 be near Dick when he returned, bul nearly every evening I was out some- whore or olher, going here and there about town. I had long ago been a member of Lhe Devonshire, and had now returned, and pent a d deal of time there, even though hr main distinction of the club was. the number. of old fogics who af- tocted it. But I fund it a conveniently central place to dine and idle away any hears of the day that I had to spare. In the middle of Octgber, when most men | knew were. away on the moors, I had a dinner engagement one even- ing with the Channings, in Cornwall Gardens. Colonel Channing, a retired officer of the Guards, was a man I had known during the grealer part of my lifetime. His' service had been mainly of a diplomatic character, for he had served: as British military attache at Berlin and Vienng, and now lived with .| ha wife and daughler in' London, and seemed 10 divide his, time mainly be- een: the St. es and the United A Quis, Be was a aierry oul fellow, with white hair and moustache a . i lexion, 'the dandifled 'clinging 10 him. His distinctive, save' when in ent upon. head of his table, in his eye, and the {hich no eruption has 4A. D. 1198), known .as the Solfatara, an | White sulphureous . fumes; jets of 'sul- A thousand. (imes 1 regreited that i] ®y A, Banker) A few miles west of Naples is the vast crater of an extinct volcano (from taken place since But, although in a sense extinct, yet at various points it is always belching forth dense, suffocating = volumes of -phur vapor issuing from yawning olelts and gaping fissures and rents in the solidified mud floor of the crater in all directions; and even from ihe cliffs en- compassing the great hollow sirange pufls of smoke are from time to lime seen breaking out -amongst the bushes and shrubs growing thereon. It is stal- 'ed in a guide book that & roaring sound a3 of thunder or of musketry fire ac: companies these eruptions. This, how- ever, is certainly not always the case. But even when there are no swelling blasts, and no booming stridor caused by these outbursts from this safely valve of Nature the scene is so weird and mystfe that an uncanny, unearthly Spell appears to pervade the place, for- cibly reminding the visitor of Gustave Dore's terrible picture of the nether re- gions in his illustrations of Paradise Lost. - The great crater--it is about a mile I: circumference, and, unlike other vol. canoes, is not at the summit of a moun- tain, but on almost level ground--ap- pears 'to be a vast caldron of boiling waler, upon which floats a crust of sol- idiffied mud about three feet in thick- ness. Here is a small lake of water furiously boiling: here an island on which the beautiful Mediterranean white heather is blooming luxurfantly, mnol- withstanding the sulphur fumes (owing, however, probably to these fumes the flowers decay very soon after being plucked); here a rift from which issues a stream of noxious gas and steam; while the mud floor, many acres in ex- lent, upon which the visitor is cautious- ly walking reverberates with a hollow sound if stamped upon. In fact if a regiment of soldiers were to march across ithe crater; in all probability the crust would collapse and they would all be plunged into the huge caldron beneath. And perhaps this strange sulphureous euarth-vent may remind some of the fig- urative "fire and brimstone" which is the fate of those shut out from the glory. Bul tthe fires of remorse implied by this metaphor need not be the fate of any. Ter by making the reparation demand. ei by Eternal Justice by undergoing, on the transgressors' behalf, the chastise- ment due by them, the Saviour of the world has provided a means by which all, without any exception, may, if they will but come to Him in conlrilion and penitence, attain to that Realm of Glory. --_-- LETTING GO OF A GRUDGE. A Frenchman's Opinion on \What Makes the British Great. To a writer for the New York Times a French soldier expresses his amaze- ment at the ability of the British soldi- er fo shake hands with his enemy after a fight, whether he is conquered or a ccnqueror. He declares that the Latin races have so litlle of this virtue that they hardly understand its existence. One day the Frenchman, who was in South Africa during the Boer War, saw two British ofMicers walking through the camp with a Boer, all three engaged in earnest conversation. He turned aside so as mot to have to salute one who, he supposed, had come to give in- fcrmation in regard to the Boer oul- posts. 'Presently he met one of the two officers. "Be sure to be on lime for luncheon," said the Englishman. "Were going fo make a noble spread for the Boer you saw with us." The Frenchman's anger broke out. He declared that he would not sit at meat. with a traitor. "Who's a traitor?" retorted the ofticer, much amazed. "The poor man's cap- tured, and as he's had such beastly bad luck, we thought a lunch would cheer him up." "From that day." remarked the French- man afterward. "I saw what made the British great, The Boer War was car- ried on with the bitterest feelings be- tween. the two nations. To see the English now, building up the country in the same spirit thal moved the offi- cers of that regiment, is a wonder to us Latins. "We do not forget and forgive easily. When my Italian friends are annoyed with me, they still reproach me with {he murder of Conrad of Hohenslau- fen by Charles of Anjou in éleven hun- dred and something, ' An ~~ QUESTION POINTS. Money doesnt bring happiness, bul where is the man who wouldn't like to {ry out this expcriment for himself It ig the Tittle things that count. What wouldn't a smoker give for a match in a house healed by "steam and .lighted by clectricits? All things come to him who wails, but wouldnt he get them more quickly if he went after them? The world's 'blind yumber 1,000,000, they include in these business-men who don't oR Rp iy i * betore casting their fers, ask themselves, {0 be mentioned ons well cleaned and oiled. Pulting on help problem, fhe 'question of - trans: HECPI Et E40 44404 4 0004 About the Farm REE 44 400400004000 0402 PERMANENT PASTURES, "Permanent pastures," writes Prof. C. A Zavilz, of the O. A. C., "have never occupied as prominent place in the agri- Culture of Ontario as they have in the agriculture of Great Britain. The scar- city of labor and the great development of our livestock . industry are factors Which are causing some of our most thoughtful farmers to consider the advi- sabilily of securing a first-class perman- ent pasture, ins'ead of relying so much on timothy for pasture purposes, Fields which are located long distances from the farm buildings, or which are diffi- cult to work on account of the presence of steep hillsides, crooked rivulets, low spots, etc., might be converled into per- manent pastures, and thus prove of great economic value. This arrange- ment would not interfere malerially with the regular crop rotation of the farm. From more than {wenly years work in testing different varieties of grasses and clovers, both singly and in comb'nation, I would suggest the lol- lowing mixture for permanent paslure ¢n an average soil in Ontario; Alfalfa, 5 pounds; alsike clover, 2 pounds; white clover, 2 pounds, meadow fescue, 4 pounds; orchard grass, pcunds; tall oat grass, 3 pounds; meadow foxtail, 2 pounds; and timothy, ¢ pounds; thus making a total of 2% pounds of seed per acre. These varie lies are all very hardy. Some of those used in Great Britain are not perman- ent in this country. None of the smal- ler-growing varieties, such as the blue grasses and the bent grasses, are men- tioned, as there is scarcely a farm in Ontario in which the Canadian blue grass, the Kentucky blue grass or the red-top will not grow nalurally. The varieties here recommended are strong, vigorous growers. Some of them pro- duce pasture very early in the spring, and others later in the season. Most ol the variclies are superior to timaolhy in producing a growth during the hot, dry weather which occasionally occurs in the months of July and August. The 6cod can be sown in the early spring. either alone or with a light seeding of srring wheat or of barley. Such a mixture as this, when well established on suitable land, should furnish a pas- ture, abundant in growth, excellent in quality, and permanent in character." DIRECTIONS FOR SEEDING TO ALFALFA. "There are different ways of laying down a plot or a field to alfalfa, and wa would suggest the following method as,one which is likely to give very excel- lent resulls," says Prof. C. A. Zavitz, O A. C., Guelph, in his bulletin on Al- falla or Lucerne. "Select land having a clean, mellow, fertile surface soil overlying a deeply-drained subso.l hav- ing no acidity. Use large, plump seed, [ree from impurities and strong in ger- niinaling power. Inoculate the seed with the proper kind. of bacterla, pro- viding alfalfa has not been grown suc- cessfully on the land in recent years. As early in the spring as the land is dry enough and warm enough {0 be worked to good advantage, make a suitable sced-bed, and sow about {wenly pounds of alfalfa sced per acre from the grass-seed box, placed in front of the grain drill, and about one bushel of spring wheat or of barley per acre trom the tubes of the drill. Smooth the land with a light harrow or with a weeder, and, if it is very loose and ra- ther dry, also roll it, and again go over it wth the harrow or the weeder. As soon as ripe, cut the grain, and avoid lcaving it on the land longer than nec- essary. Give the alfalfa plants every ¢pportunity to get a good start in the autumn, in preparation. for winter. If fo~ hay, cut each crop of alfalfa in the following year, as soon as it starls lo bloom. In curing, try to reclain as many of the leaves on the stems as pos- sible, and to protect the crop {rom the rain. Never cu! or pasture alfaHa sul- ficiently close to lhe ground to remove the crowns of the roots, and thus in- jure or possibly kill the plants. If these directions are followed, the alfalfa may be expected to produce large and valu- able crops for a number of years with- cut rezeeding." FARM NOTES. Thepe is a bright prospect ahead 'or the farmers who know, and the oppor- {unity to know is wilhin easy reach of cvery wideawake boy who has the nec- eysary industry and perseverance. This is tho season of the year when we need to keep the axles of the wag- more oil is not enough: Wipe all the old, hard, gummy- oil off, and make the spindles shine before you put on the oil. This makes the wagon run eusier, and so helps the team. The farmer is only incidentally in- terested in the violent: fluctliations in stocks, which occur periodically and which are brought about for speculative . There are other and larger s affecting agriculture than the operations of the stock gamblers, The portation and the extension of our ex- 'who is unable to hear the noise port trade are concerns of real import ance. sent in easily digested form LOW PRICES PROMPT SHIPMENT Metallic Roofing Co., . LIMITED Manufacturers TORONTO & WINNIPEG (47) Cut sead-potatoes into pieces, having lwo or three eyes each. If you fear scab, soak the seed two hours in a so- lution of one-half pint formalin diluted with fifteen gallons of water. lave the pleces quite large, as a large piece in- sures suffcient strength to support the sprout til the plant can begin to draw nutriment from the soil. Make the rows about three feet apart, and drop single sced about fifteen inches apart in the row. Do not get the hills so close together as to prevent the proper maturing of each plant, Use a good brand of potalo manure in the rows, Je---- = "LOOK PLEASANT, YOUR MAJESTY.® An amusirg story is related by a Pa- risian photographer of the King of Por- tugal, which brings into light his Me- jesty's deligh!ful sense of humor and keen appreciation of the fact that ha is not so symmetrical and sylph-like in {igure as ho once was. His Majesty, having consented to give ar artist a sitling, dropped into a chair Ltefore the camera. "If your Majesly pleases," said the photographer who was nol at all satis- fied with the pose, "and will stand, we occuld get the whole figure." "What!" cried King Carlos, rising heavily, "do you, then, ocontemplale a panoramic view of me?" The Sultan of Turkey is tlie photo- grapher's despair. Only twice within the last ten years has he consented lo leing phko'ographed, and on one of these occasions he betrayed so much nervousness Lhat it was impossible to make a good negative. His horror of Leing photographed has been explained by the story that it was once discover- 1 that a nalive photographer, who had long sought permission to make a ne- ative ol his Majesty, had constructod a camera which was nothing better than a miniature gun. The Sultan is not wanting of personal courage, but face a camera is one of (hose things he will not do now-a-days. A FEW FACTS. The bracelet is once more the most popular form of jewellery. There are 64 blind persons to every million of the world's population. The Salvation Army is established in over fifty counlries and colonies. Air is estimated to surround tho earth to a depth of from 120 to 200 miles. Alaska was purchased {rom Russia In 1867 by the linited States for $7,200,000. Treasure trove belongs by law to the Crown, and the retention of it is a pun- ishable offence. Five boys were recently find at Wind- sor, England, for placing broken botlles ot tho roadway lo cul moter-tyres. The sea is much more sall in the trop- ics than in the northern latitudes, owing to the grealer evaporation. Organ-grinders are not allowed to play iv Vienna in the morning or evening-- orly between midday and sunset, Stammering Arm, Red Finger, The Bees' Nest, and Cold Water are samples of the names borne by some Welsh farms, IN NO DANGER. As the philanthropic tourist pursued his course he saw many things which ba felt needed sympathetic attention. One day he stopped to gaze at a bare- headed man, who was turning a wind Inss which clumsily hoisted a bucket filled with sand. "My friend," said (he philanthropist, as the man paused to mop his forehead, "why do you not cover your head? Thia hot sun is likely to affect the brain." "Brain is ul?" said the man, staring at him. A "D've think if I had any brain I'd be here h'istin this bucket?' MISTAKEN, "Ah, I see you are married," exclaim. cd the merchant, "No, sir," replied the applicant for a pcsition, "I got this scar in a railroad accident." ---- "he Japanese. House of Pers hos 378 members. A large proportion are lifa peers, and of hereditary peers only one: fifth sit. These are elected by their peers. . There isn't'much hope. for a deaf man of a. papec dollar, poi