, ' i . 1 e t " . * 5 . / _ 7 -- ~ a Sa rrAt 2 "Sy i de 'a 4 Ges 2 2 have fallen at her feet and kissed the | should a likewise be a medium between ; hem her t. How had he the high bred animal apa the old FUTURE DISOOY. 5. a fy é dared to say such a thing to her, his scrub. "That is, eath shoul --_--- Thea ~=--t The SL is ee oma and be able to bentls cutie nit; |SOME GREAT CHANGES Xam : give! And no harsh ford, no single living without suffering therefrom, VERE S. NEAR. pa . Wooing reproach, no shment, save papa ih and a be. able to do work, : in the compelling of him to re- f-or milk in good quantities | Searchlight _of { Inference Throws Se 1 Cc nstantia ceive that gentle smile. a i or praducs pork or wool n wtrwaxd) Mot rr 33 Co ° 0: c eodquests animals show a degr or. D , ~ % |the groves below grew louder. The of success on the average farm which| yr. Hy. G. Wells, the scientist and : > : yeecon strutted oa gaye up prt bagi bp Re cueaion ites Mr. C. D- Simpson. I was _ Sater em of gone value, hey novelist, who out-Darwins his mas CHAPTER XXXI. ven if this goes on," said he bitter- shadows Siar tene. -- pa Sods a a ---- ~~ bap ralsi first hog | car tite anh wet hg ie rh es ee ter, i ag nd dares ~ direct a : "a : S ave raising and feedin ° pnasaee gaze na future sti ' 'The servant told him she was in| 1°. You Should wave this place A "You I prophesied truly,' ehe INFALLIBLY KILL = ag for t and pleasure ainoe uh peete auleiy. to the inpreved geo! nt, deiceted a lecture at the fake rden, and O'Grady turned is madness your remainin sed said at last. "'l told you you would first log was a Poland-China environmen the "Royal Institution, London, © re slowly towards the walk that Ted' to F does not sit you; and the | shortly-go--to this Arcadia of yours, If, therefore, -mow_cossed, oh --which-was--presented--to--me- cant "H ofthe ate: it. His step was tardy, and almost -reghaminn. Wena? eae rth om I trust, if e sored oa "3 le of Northers y father. Wo had no aiike = "THE USE 0 oF OXEN, rene * This did no an aerial hesitating. It seemed to hin & Very | tear tint n, = a ees "A vai pe. abandon | Europe, Asia, an rds then and the Poland-China h The--gencral aband t of the|Mlight or any single development of er ear that was consuming him. "Why OW ke | disa na hog gi 'cm abandonment o ec} fig: iy x levelop jong er og: mor his da Hela should you consent to look on?' he eae a he you tl wad naoa ie staie the northern limits Shey more often "Smit nown as /Use of oxen has been a mistake. The |science, but discovery of the future i iimaatt ak oe Cadied he Gest |S ¢ | Said in a low tone, and with a hea-/ 1-01)" yis- moody eyes, and he was|intense cold the timber supply would pone sain or Smith hog in this | steers, trained to to do light work ee 2las . whole. : Ne glance. vy_trown. in calm. He stooped and pressed | indirectly er. mo My sow raise fine lit 7 see old, will « Pb bees old do ii 'tel a lines a" th toe : He 'went through one of the ma: She paled. For a moment she look- | his lips respectfully to her hand. logs of red-wood supplied by Oregon ia Bei nD Sige of pigs nip as a pair of good horses bod mitations, ie ued, a wor Find Wakint- Gpentn [4 is =. Ola cand ed as though she were about to drive "wy BO. aaertielean?" a asked.|and Nor California are brought very ranidi ¢ per rr increased ; arm. They may go a little |knowledge of the things of the ue a : ae ot Gene him from nce; but then the} ,.., own from the mounta on the A pidly for a e€; in fact my |Slower, but they will endure ten Was practicable and possible. ae -- ae y he h = light died from her eyes; and a for- "And soon?" spring freshets of untain rps a that I owned about | hours' work in a day as well as the |As during the past century the amaz- Ieacts: They lay iors and there m2 ey Mee al ae 5 gag Bae "Decide 'that too,"" he said bitter-| stret But without' snow in the | ie rar © oe nwa oe horses will endure eight ho urs. The i ear blight of inference had erywhere; they made"a carpet of |S5,"20USh she had suid to herself: ), "air you bid me go jnow, this|mountains there would be no snow- sn wan' tion fend e old gentle Ps about 7 years old }passed into the remoter past, so be hy ass be ae a Just freshly fal-},2¢ 18 no use." She clasped her moment, i sing obey you.' Water to supply these freshets,' an 8 free boartl * ee ee ace h ake ty ihe n to-do nocd 'service ff pera x sont light of 1 len, dying, dead; in. ell stages bear-( 22 pgs and compelled: herself "What have I to do with it?" she| consequently the logs would have to SOTIE tik ae won winter quartirs ave known them to do good service jof for fossils the scarchlight of | in- ing on yr last said end "they lay. ares SS se said coldly. She rose to her feet, as | be proughe out at an cnormous ex-| 0 ae te a a os eed meine ig Pre yin foes oni 7 : Mpa into - - They struck him with a peculiar mel i atng what a meen," sha & : if to bid him farewell. PONS, along specially Salk in cremains coe hd aj Seer Sarin Siem ited them: tor oe | ut at e re eee _-- rt ancholy; as they were, crushed, with- speattig yesenty and with uncorta m| "Shall I answer you?" demanded | roadw promised him that as long . as he fed; mature size, and = 'ok as fixed, settled and "un- ered, dead, so were her hopes of hap- ---- pa Many Ne bie her ips he, with a stormy look in his eyes. Rivers, "al over --_ ge world. be me and the hogs: tree '3 a oats eid a i nt a yoke hameetious those of A. D. 26000 pines sharply, "the whole i She caught it full, and all at once et oom 2 pd streams | keep a few after that, which I did|. Beside the fact that the flesh of the with the exception of the affairs of He wondered if she quite knew of the full. extent of Varley's inconstan- ly into a pericct life, had conquered | * him, and brought him once more to her feet. Yet he shrank from mee touch of cowardice rende ing her. A 1 his step he hoped, yet feared to seo her strength forsook her no,"' she entreated faint ly. "Forgive me,"' said he' quickly. ao tae = Te took her hand w r tale that is ia Besides,"' with 4 touch of passi "T am tired of pre- tending!"' Then all at once her sud- den vehemence died from her. Her voice sank. "Nevertheless," she said, | ..,, with a touch of that simple dignity | "Parewe i. perce il that ever sat so sweetfly on her, ~Ahs would not have you speak to me of--! of anything that hurts me When ! you are gone I shall like to think of} ia you as one altogether set apart from | all but ee memories.' "You speak o bn I , Boing. 0 you know of tha "T think you will a" all things slip from me. friend, I feel; I know; "But everyihing o have, escaped her. could not resol a word he had said, What/ and the vain struggle to remem niy distressed her the more. Daylight faded as she still sat on | there, motionless. t she scarcely By degrees i° are a 'Te went very ong admonish- ; as w he aenare | fa | j ; : ' z hat, until the vague chill will fade out of my life. ope,"" 1 that falls even into pla she said with a strange smile, 'that | night oppressed and sent a shiver it will be a short one; but I am through her. She rose then heavily, airaid--I am afraid not! and went in-deors. and up to her not talk like that," he said He got up abruptly, and pushed his chair from him, and be- brent to walk with rapid ia up and own rooms, and told her woman she would not dine below that night. All the week she had shrunk from that 'roughly. ond Tomot all he had aareneatl to solitary dinner, compelling herself to cay. own the velvety gras Was undergo it, and endure the scrutiny was sitting in a low garden- growing towards evening, and as he! of the men, who doubtless knew on- chair, ey in simple white |oved, his tall, gaunt figure cast 2!) to9 well where their master was gown, and with her hat dying on the pape shadow that fell across her col that hour. But to-night she' felt 6Ward beside 'her. She was knitting; °°S) - he had passed her utanost limit, and some pretty, gaudy bit of fancy wie not --or like that," he said that she could bear no more. work in a listless, uninterested fash- ion, and the sun shone gayly on the steel needles, sending tiny glints | of | &4n light upwards, as they flashed to and fro. He remembered that when last he saw her thus occupicd she Was making wee blue silken socks, and the remembrance cost him a pang for her. She was looking very pale, very ill he thought; and her hands were thin to emaciation. Such lovely little hands! but transparent, too delicately traced with biue veins Be to death too, who had widen | an ell to joy of any kind. She mou np quickly as he ~ proached, ; Went as that one es alinost doubt its having bee t O° mr did not doubt; and a a 2 of appiness extrava- gantly keen thrilled him through and through. Oh, that he could keep. her. ae hat he dared! were far away from all this misery, how would it be with her?......And that sweet life wastcd lis thoughts ran so riot, that scarcely heard her first words. greeted him in ~g pretty, way, and told hin see hii. He stranger lately. He would stay bry and let her give him his tea? Ile he She he supposed Was ordinary conversa- tion, though he could _never after- wards recall a word of He knew that he was watching her, and not- change in her face since A There Wus no vaguc- est expectation, as there was °o bliss. in his devotion. To him "love Was a barren sea, bitter and decp."' He might see her--he dared not touch her. He should never be more to el than he was to-day, unless--un- less--- Tresently tea was brought to them He » came up close to where she sat, and at to have e rou t up abruptly, an c darkened Pushed his chair from him, and be- a Cereal Poon. ie De ced up eat own, now swiftly as thought overcame her, -- with languid foot- ie d had drawn the cur- fi ght the tom s, and in the soft dusk gigantic imate that fell across her // Sf the s : night she dreed her w "You grow morbid sitting here] -[yer, ery passion of di day after day," he said presently: | pair a Ten an awful sense ot as the Rhine, Rhone, Danube, and Wany others, are largely fed by the melting of the mountain If no snow fell terrible floods during rainy winters would result; while in summer the rivers would be nd pebbles. Al- up Wastes of 'sand « : y nits streams most all of India's are snow-fed ese to run dry in summer the elaborate system canals buil y our Government u be i constant occurrence, ha the 300 millions we now err the Far Fast would 7 "diminished ie a population of not o FORTY TO =a -- t lives on snow. Without the mere brooks, trickling through dried- pa until I went into business for myself. I don't say this in a spirit of ego- tism, but only to iy herd, as my neighbors ie testify, in was a little bad Ryton rene and neglect that caused it o fs gel that one time. I owe to the hog the greater part of my liv- ing and small worldly possessions; and in the past 30 years just spoken sorry to say 1 have not a great deal no The hog and I are personal friends. We like cach other. I like him be! cause when I feed and treat him well, he gives me money to dive on. [) less dwindle owas, and disappear i the desert, like other of treams of the Sahara makes Egypt 'the finest farming soil | on earth, would 'still be in its na- | tive mou an fgypt itself ould be a bare and burning desert. Glaciers are made entirely of snow converted into rough ice by the enor- mous What thout Winding their way down into the val- | tioned that if any snow the Alps tains would have been there had n ig ago scene, as well as of--peo hdestro. She struggled against "Would change of but it was thought?"' "I hope so, I be "you want change. Entire change * loneliness thins threatened to rise and scene kill elieve --so."" permit herself to put her last grief | into a bodily presence; but the vague | shadow that would not be reel Was almost too strong for her. what Was there left her, she should fight so in tg dd thing stood looking down struck her colorless and t thing unusual in his glance 'No,"' she said, "'thery a be no chance for me while life clings to me. There will be only patience, pa- hee at) her what there, to which she pe re She was standing shore, where everything that should make life bearable was It was a spot she had cast upon, bereft of all things desirable. Her child was in heaven: her hus- had betrayed her. Nothing remain- { Nothi s O'- = Grady' Ss face rose before her--gaunt, im . earnest, impassioned For a while that --e looked like a sad gieture he! she succumbed to the visfon, and let She repeated the word slowly as if trying to impress it on her brain. pe folded her hands gently upon her ye t O'Grady thought it was the saddest he, had ever seen. had somewhere, in her white fet her memory dwell upon it; but after clinging gown, adorned with its som- a while she rose angrily to fer feet, re bows of morning ribbon. and cast, 1% front her: Silence followed her voice. . could think of nothing he dared say, | houshty gesture with her hand, "de though man were burning on scriptive of deep self-contempt, and, iilig trl a, There was something in, 8°"S over to the est window, - ; Pulled the curtains apart, as though n ~ folded hands, in her whole aspect rent rendered him dumb. She wa: © he stly atvay from him, i ooking carnes nol upwards, "but straight before her F 9 flood of enrly poo rushed into sgme land unknown to -- {into the room. ined to come farther than cye could pierce straight from heaven, the heaven Then all nee she came bac where her child dwelt. It encompas- earth. Her clusped hands loosened, uns ssi _ ve 4d her, a | and a lop miserable sigh escaped strung state, to have been sen har, &. 6 . ¢ little one as a sign, a token that! t broke the bond of reverent si- she Was remembered Pcie by her lence that held him. There was in To be Con and rain. | mountains n the Arctic, however, the changes | eaused by the absence of snow would | be most mark Greenland, instead Snow is the protector of jo a Vast, smooth mound f ice, ould be a riven mass of fantastical- ay frost-splintered crag There Winter would be colder, sum- mer hotter. In al! probability hu- ome life would be impossible beyond © north and south of seater, ne een ---- ARMED TO THE TEETH. Britain Is Not Again Going to Be Caught Unprepared. | Many British battleships, armored jeruisers | and pro tected cruisers are ry t the | Admiralty has "just invited Clyde ' shipyards to tender bids for the con- [struction of two battleships, each of |16,500 tons ; five armored first-class ----s of some sort was indispensable, cruisers and two grotected cruisers. | 't These are in addition to like sbips: jto be built in the Government yards. , Work on 20 -- : now in course lof construction o be expedited. Tho new battleshipe will have erasies |; gun sie nm any vessels w the vy. Naval stations ariaid | Lhe wartd are being rapidly cmaruod and re-arnmed with -- best moder guns. The forts alo the home and laid upon a gypsy-table. As she that sigh. more of cruel nal care one Sees coast have also just ees ee poured it out, he once again noticed | that resignation for which the lage Ne army, in aie. as Bm the white langour of the hands as prayed. He heard it, and it ee ped P THERE WiRE No SNOW as t ritish regiments there, ave they moved wearily amongst the ed him. His right mind grew ig al received magazine rifles said to be guudy Crown Derby cups and sauc- {¢d; the blood surged around eng than the Mauser. An army of ers, and the quaint old silver that had been new oa hundred years ago; and, as he noticed, a dcadly fear |, grew about his heart. } "You are not well," he said at last, feeling he could no longer re- frain from speaking of the one thing i She looked at Jee she only too There is nothing the matter Nothing! Do you eat?' "'Let me tell i something," she 1ade a discovery! I have found out that it. is possible to live bag either of these so-called necessar And f for long? Have you discov- ered that, too? you think it is " said he, Do you sleep? me! 'all, say a you ma "How I wish F! iia sey = returned she so 'o kno tay days were Ha ceca No; there is no such comfort: "" She broke off abruptly. t 2 the winter I Sball be myself again heart. He hardly tried to -- ae IT WOULD BE '" BAD LOOK-OUT /° the words that rose to his lip j FOR EVERYBODY. "T ner ian see | _ ands."' he said deliberately, but un-/} . steadily, his eyes on the ground. | | What Effect the Absence of Snow "And there is one who would -pray ould Have on the Busi- you on his knees to be permitted to ness of the World. devote his life for yours. And--hap- Piness must be somewhere. Wet feet, chilblains, leaxy ges "Surely, my friend, but not for stopped traffic--these are lew me," replied she very gently. vee) the troubles caused by a heavy Was a determined "ignoring of of snow, and many people in this inéaning that roused him, and dcova country 'would be only too glad to him farther on his vain quest | be assured that snow would nev er be in k,"* he said, '* think of the scen again, says London nswe life here, and of that other. What | Yet the fulfillment _ such a wish binds you to this pbace. nd all. would be a great disaster, that I have told you of, lies at your | Few would imagine a feet if y up ou would only stoop to pick | sence of snow would probably eae them . |~--certainly double--the price of tim "Fo stoop!" The Words were so | ber. It can be casily proved, hoe low as to be almost a whisper. They:! ever, that such e cuse. amped Involuntarily | timber omes he looked at her, but if she had felt Seaudinavin. Russia, anada, any emotion, anger, reproach, or sur-'all of which <--res sufier from P ge tm -ytins told! that is, 62 degrees of fro' himself--but she had, too, estimated| Snow huppens to te ins of the the depth of his temptation, and so! best non-conductors of heat or cold "In the winter you will be in hea- forgiven him. He felt as if he could in the world, and when the fall is a Distress of Sleepless Nights Is Too Well Known to Hosts of Nerve-Exhausted Men and Women---The Fatal Error of Using Opiates. Cured by Using Dr. Chase's Nerve Food. To lie awake night after night, the mind in never-ending variety, is During s _-- nights pede a --_s is Instead of bei and exhausted an , the use of © it is Wier to rg patie a ogee completely restore urely ine ong which g wn to izing th wanted Serv is o' Chase's Nerve Food. ae own celle. only one of the almost invariably they or Edmanson, Sates # Go,, Torontay ~ ; a petavinocnies my another day's wear and tear the body rther weakened and Fae pee is o unbaienced by this terrible waste of energy which the -- of life is rapidly urning It is in this ee yy that many men and a attempt to drug and deaden the nerves 1 step which hastens many @ t is a positive cure for w arise from oxb the brain on fire with nervous excitement: and thoughts oe defore --_ so experience of persons whose nerves are weak and exhausted, a tremendous ra' s fd. "the nerves A using Food, a foundation of the difficult; ty and effecta Dr. Chase's. Nerve permanen Its by revital- the t resu istressing 2 pone iylese's entirely disappear with the use of Dr. of ne dy,.and is specific for woman's ills dealers porves, "50 = @ box, 6 boxes for $2.50, at r 225,000 men is kept in ealning in "South Africa, and more men are k than w D He Add to this t began at the navy is stronger than ever faces and = efficient, owing to the vast amounts Spent on it since the war ionaed the exchequer's purse-strings. The o Portunity of the Boer war is taken to repair deficiencies or fa ama and fit the empire to hold i in the new era of fierce competition for colonics and markets > GRANARY OF THE EMPIRE. Winnipeg Siaiinans Man Has Vi- sions of Bright Future. "Tl firmly believe that before very long there will be enough wheat rown in Canada to supply the de- mands of the whole Empire. That ps a consummation which we should a prise om uttering them, it was all} very severe winte for some div | marvchiou in -- crop thine ast. "tT ae -- hah that months their om is buried ut ver ¥ e larger area will b Arcadia of Peak,' she!under a mantie of snow, aly the | nder 1 ae pei senson, and if said with ile. Por my- thermometer in the heart of the | the elim, rob smli tions are equal to self I shall remain here." She held greatest pine forests not uncommon- what w Teal vod last year, there will out to him Jender hand She! ly falls to 3U degrees Ler o-- = enjoyen " 3°" biornejeam man with the western cemanery here is one feature about t the de velopment of the west that should be noted,"' he continued, and that is the manner jm which Americans are be- ginning to swarm across the lire, and snap up the best farming propo- sitions. This movement has been a most noticeable ong during the "past year or two or ell ceninead Irate Customer--'*Look here, you said this gun would shoot a hundred yards. I've ried it, and it only carries fifty."' I "Vell, 1, bu mine friend, there ar are two barrels!" "You see," said ja Uncle Job, "my wi She sk month. She ie a curious Woman."' ae trate--"You are charged with M stealing chickens ; have you an witnesses ?" Priso} "I have 'not. ore I don't usually steal witnesses.'* ' e ce Nile would doubt | Pig right quick, as soon the The rich mud, which {led corn he will clean up three _-- Incidentally it might - men- | ut right about th bee go ood. os and Pre moune (them, just large enough for four or le- |five i velled by the free action of the frost pigs to sicep in. u want to make a hog out of a as he wil ie all the swegt mil k, t, oats and soake ed shel- feed whea eat, 'ground w "times a day, and you will notice his hid ! stretching every time you go in to feed him: Do not feed him any medicine keep him from getting sick, but give Mr. Porker a dry, warm, clean house to sicep in during the winter its ; Don' t say you = "t alford it; I say snow-capped peaks and giant glaciers |} you can. HN to keep him with 'and == without shelter and know I have small tight floors in bn ' houses or one sow and Give them the run arge shoates their dinner over the You would not enjoy yours served in that style. But give them a clean dish, or in other words a trough or clean -board floor to eat fr rom. Have your spring pige e them and 'the pigs. em more laxative food. it is while Am 'ea are nursing a mone some costly expe only a few days old. lx producing food for hogs a year or more old and the cheapest I have ever found are corn, and ground oats, and shorts. Feed often; but don't around them all the them clean up what you give them, I like to hear them beg or squeal when I go to give them their meals. Give~ them all the water they will drink at all times. have known some people to quit giving their hogs Water because, as they said, it would keep them from dying with cholera. ety do you think of this method? How would you like to try it your- self to keep off the smallpox or sonicthing else? Just gs reasonable. have lost money raising wheat, but I never lost on hogs MANURE FOR TREES. For use among young trees we pre pare a heap of compost almost a season in -- ance, says Joseph 30 of 5S oVer We e€0 wane from our own stables and from those of many of our neigh- bors who have no use for it is haul- on our At the same time the top soil of a mea- dow is Secured and hauled to the same plac We then _~-- a large square heap, composed of the manure and soil, one layer on the other. At intervals few weeks, as materials accum- ulate, we continue the work, keeping i -he cold of winter prevents e is taken of open in- tervals th winter to add to the heap. At the present writing we have such a heap 50 feet square by four feet high, which will be used before spring is over Our method of using it is by plac- ing a layer in the bottom of trenches opened for trees, before the trees aro also "by broadcasting before plowing for the reception of trees. A great deal is used in winter for spreading on the surface of the ground. Young blocks of trees which along the rows, and in this way the whole surface is manured in suitable weather for the sled in the winter ree o gther manure has been 'used for years, and the results are highly satisfactory. SELECTING FARM ANIMALS. Probably the ideal farm horse best illustrates the kind of animals need- ed for them A low horse r farm rse is a b not clumsy, animal, d one capable of exerting r and endurance in plowing or hauling. At the s time the anima t be a fair road horse, not a trotter, but one tha can gel across the country roads at a moderate pace. The animal should also be a fast walker, and not a slow clumsy mulelike creature. gine ideal farm horses are bred n to be found on pomp of "arms No farmer iy progres: would think of walking Petting soune ye considered, swamps, wherg t n go through snow- drifts where cin horses must ~~ He is less subject to disease than t horse, and not least, it costs itEH his children. p ing orbit of the earth in future until \ the tidal drag hauls one unchanging face at last toward the sun it is to back to the 'plazing, molten past. It might be argued that man, indi- vidually and collectively, was an weerere: factor, A NEW ELEMENT less to equip him for work than it does the pair of horses or plated or brass trimmed ee n the harness of the ho F Ox-Wagon is no and painted as the horse } two-whecled ox-car i where the horse wagon caniet. v \* they turn round in smaller space and are much better for use iii rocks and stumps pa « |POOR HAND WITH HORSES, JOHN BULL Is RASPED IN A' oT. The Saturday "Re view Says He! Knows Nothing About Man's Best Friend. The London Saturday Review recent issue says:~--'*Wh tated aguinst the of this latter part of the is still in progress, ina t has mili- war, Which is the is simply a question of horse management. if there is one thing on which an Englishman prides himself ae re then another, it is be-| ing a sp iai., and understanding | horseflesh, oT he caut of sport infects all classes, T wretched factory hand who staryes his wife and chill- ren to have his half-sovereign "each animal he has never seen, has a dim sort of idea that he and that when he 8 Sacrificing some- thing on the altar of the presidin genius of his country. The overfed, apoplectic oc a who has di his pile wants FIGURE AS. A SPORTSMAN. toe, though he cannot shoot and is aid to ride; and he has his string in the sporting papers as a -self- sacrificing and useful member of the community because he eats big lunch- es at race meetings and loses money to the bookinnakers. Yet we are ex- hibiting ourselves to the world as the most stupid of horsemasters, and more ignorant of the animal we take 50 great a pride in than the sleepicst Neapolitan who has smoked and'idled in the sun all his lif 1¢ ignorance permeates all ranks. --- have een glee off the ship soft and weak a a sea voyage, in spite of the enhances of the officers who had the care of them, put to' mrd work at once, and in conse uence have often yeni rendered per- manently useless after a few days. Mounted officers as a ite, --_ un-, derstood their trade, but our gener- als, drawn principally from infantry, ave never been brought up to con-| sider horsefl pas have often asked the | under their Bors been far more ne caus alties among our horses than the bullets of the Boers. IT IS WANT OF HORSES which has ever hampered and is still hampering the mobility of our col- urns; and the same results will al- Ways appear and idiosyncrasies of the animal are r not by ed who issue the orders eri af- Undoubtedly the "aa the private letters have placed that fact on record, but it would be idle to dény that officers and men of many of our units have also in some cases shown deficiencies in + horse- mannugement. If we are to have Yeo- mounted infantry we inculeate in all ranks a knowledge of the powers and limita- tions of the animal they have charge of, and insist on an intelligent ap- preciation of his needs and necessi- tie: t is well to remember that the Manttdhtaee who cnlists, even at five shillings a day, can neither ride nor shoot and knows nothing of field port or country life. He is simply masquerading as a ycoman. HFlis ucation as regards horses has to~ be begun as completely | from bo begin: ning indeed he g os experiment of converting artillery nto riflemen. The years of labor at drill and training with guns are to be wasted and good gunners are to be rned into bad infant every mounted man at the most use, is not, however rough an really the method, necessarily a false does not strike us as a popeted sign, however, and we must be hard pressed for men and horses when it is adopted. She--"When are you golhg give me the mon to new dress ?'° Ho--*'Rext week.'* 'That's megs 'you said last week." "Yes, d that's what I say now, am one mone thew next week." of the old slow-walking farm horses siaeeineanit of a dozen years ago. Such an ani-| "What are the names of that new- mal performs about one half the/ly-married couple = the next flat ?" work that a model farm horse "Oh, we can't find out for a. few a day. - weeks ; each me calle other The ideal farm cow, sheep or pig | 'Birdie. ene ir path ¢ swift termination |* want of ; mobility displayed by our columns. | 1 ~y horses at Newmarket and is laud- }the greatest | prot ught"' Hit To in diversion. opposing the nature of the inquiry and stamping vain and h °o some juggling ime nesar, Napoleon, William the Conqueror and other great oe had been chang- lea at bi it would not have pro- duced ane Mh dislocation of the ae of destiny. Great men were jno more than {mages and symbols nd instruments taken at haphazard ty the incessant. consistent forces behind them. They were the pen ae which fate used in her writing, d the more inclined to trent these ae, behind individuals the mor believe in the |Possibility of a reasoned inductive view of the future that would serve us in polit ics, morals, social contri- n a thousand ways direction f his torical, social 'study toward and courageous reference © the future in moral and religious iscussion would be enormously pee and profitable to the in- tellectual | hat man is not final is a great jand disturbing fact in seientifice dis- jcovery in the future and the ques- |tion, What is to come afte 8 the most persistently fascinating, 'insoluble question in the world. B |\for the near future some few general ;statements hav GROWN MORE CERTAIN. o- years ago it was an irrespon- sible suggestion, but now it was the te "opens v- differentiat ndly, it Was inevitable that mass of the white population of Yy, roa- sons had been collected showing that in the comparative near future hu- manity would be definitely ae con- 'sciously 'great world state jot much that and purge 'it is mean and bestial rid. 'and dreary in this wo T lecturer amet. Why should | things cease at man ? No creatures 'lived under ging conditions |without oe ey changes. Human eee dl he said, was never static and would presently cease in iis at- {tempt to be-static. Mr. Wells de clured H "We are at the beginning of the greatest change that humanity has lever undergone. There will ho ock as there is lelo udy daybreak. We are creatures 'of twilight, but out of our minds and the lineage of our minds' will spring minds that will reach forward a footstool, and they shall laugh and -- ou their hands among the when the constitution 'stars n en crowded assembly that lis- tened interested - Armstrong, Lord Rayleigh and Sir Frederick Bramwell. The lecture jhas already aroused widespread in- terest and will probably be much d, discusse: --_----4--___. WEARING OUT THE NERVES, Many people weaf themselves needlessly ; their conscience is a ty- rant, An exaggerdted sense of duty leads Wany a person to nxious, ceascless activity, to be constantly doing somcthing, over-punctual, never jdic a*second of time, would have been heir best and greatest work in after oar Self- contro! of nerve force the eat gre fpeson of of health, and Cavalera of life self. To understand to relax is to understand how to strengthen nerves. Hearty laughter is a source of relaxation, as are also all high thoughts, as those of hope, beauty, trust Relaxation is found Husband--*'My dear, I want to ask you one favor before you oO and jgn that long visit !'* ee thousand, my love. . What it ? "Don't try to put the house ia order before you leave. "It isn't hard "Perhaps not, but think of - the expense of -- telegraphing to you every time I want something." Maude--"Mr. De Jones asked ' hffh the o after had Clara--"And what did you sing Maude--"Why, o do Sou know that I sang at all 7° Clara--"Well, I noticed that he didn't ask you to sing to-night," Biggs--"I sous der what make! es my ota so wea DI ME ang 9 know, unless it' : because they are a place."*