town," he remarked with friendli- . hative but to accept the proffered Fa Time Heals Most Wounds A Tale of Love and Disappointment CHAPTER IV. _ Mr. Ackroyd was busy consider-| ing his position. The evening of the day that he had obtained the cipher letters, he fought a great temptation, but his heart was not in the struggie, and he went to bed with the firm intention of using the papers to his own -pecuniary ad- vantage. In other words, he meant to blackmail the Earl. But to him- self he did not use so odicus a word. He was merely going to ob- tain a@ quid pro quo. e held pa- pers which were of value to Lord Wolverholme, and he would hand them over in exchange for a sum of money. The amount that he shculd csk was the question that was troubling t must necessarily be 'arge, for he was not the man to risk his skin for a mere soag. ut ho large? Just so much as the Earl's purse would stand. The following morning he rose early and proceeced to rrake dis- ereet enquiries. He had many sources of gaming informaticn, and he tapped the most likely ones. He ascertained that the Earl specu- lated, and that he had met with both successes and reverses. had always settled, and sometimes the sums were great. + He learnt, too, of his friendship with Joel, but} this did not give him unalloyed| pleasure; for he had met that gen-| z not emerged with too much ered:ti from the encounter. This accomplished, hour, and he calculated to be at} the Castle by about three o'clock. A stiff whisky and sede with a sub-| stantial lunch preceded his arive, te the station. Nothing but a first-cless ticke fortune that -he was about to put into his pocket. There cf the villain iu Aekroyd's appear- a1ce, adventurer. Ke found that he had ten min- utes to spare, so he went to the re- freshinent rooms, bought half a duz en shilling cigars, and partook of onother whisky and soda. Alcohol is a wonderful aid to the perpetra- tion of crime. Next he visited the bookstall, and laid in a liberal sup- ply of current literature. He was cne who must always be doing. It was beyond him to sit quietly with his thoughts, probably because they were generally unpleasant. x the greater part of his life-time he bad not been abie to say to himself, "T have no iminediately pressing «worry."' He walked along the train, but all the first-class smoking carriages were empty. comfortable in the corner of one nearest the cnd. Just as the train was about to start, a porter opened the door and flung a kitbag and dressing case on to the seat. The luggage was quick- ly followed by its owner, who took Rg seat in the opposite corner to Ackroyd. The train moved from the etation and the newcomer produced a book from his bag and began to read. Ackroyd snipped off the en «1 a cigar, which he lighted. His newspapers were piled up on the teat beside him, and the jolting of the train suddenly sent them on to the floor. € leant to pick them up, and as he did so his eyes met those of the stranger. Askroyd smiled ingratiatingly, and mede a banal remark about the weather. Lord Harecastle, for it was he, replied politely but coldly, and gave no encouragement for the opening of a conversation, but Ackroyd was not easily discouraged and he longed for company to dis- tract his thoughts from the coming interview. He had made up his mind as to how he should proceea, and he did not want. to dwell his decision. "It is pleasant to met out ness. "Yer, it is,"' was the curt reply. Again there was silence for a few minutes, but Ackroyd was not bea- ten. "That isa remarkably interesting book tnat you are reading. There is a review in to-day's Times if you " a would like to see it. "Thanks, yon are very kind," Harecastle replied, but he still con- tinued to read his book. ment, for the case was empty. Ackroyd leant across the carri- age, and Harecastle had no alter- cigar, unless he wished to be down- nght rude--and this way quite con- trary to his disposition. : "Thanks, very much," he' said. "A smokeless railway pourney is not pleasant--my man_ evidently forgot to refill the case." ne cannot very well deliberate- ly snub a man after receiving a favor at his hands, so Harecastle's manner thawed,-and they were soon engaged in conversing upon the cur- rent topics of the day. Ackroyd eculd be a charming companion when it suited his purpose, and it was now his wish to please. He had n. 'Joa that the stranger was Lord die. castle, and the son of a man whom he was about to blackmail. Not that the knowledge would have fi rts to please. stranger was to come i he decided to: , th would satisfy him, and be felt us if doubt if she Joved him. he was already speadigg the small was "none His clean-shaven face was refined, and his eyes mei one frank - y, ons. of the greatest assets of an ri long stay: He did not care for solitude, but finally made himself d| "I of Ycice was ste Semething seemed tu tell him that his good-looking with him. ans The short jouraey came to an end and as svon as the train came to & stand-still, at the station for Wol- verholme Castle. a footman in liv- ery ran to the door. of their carri- age, and after a salute, quietly be- gan to gather together Lord Hare- eastle's belongings. A high dog- tart was waiting outside, and he mounted the driver's seat and took the reins into his hands. "Who is that gentleman'"' Ack- royd asked a porter. "That ig Lord Harecastle, the son of the Earl of Wolverholme," was the reply, and Ackroyd cursed himself for a fool in not having grasped this during the journey. He le, and when he found that it was about fire miles distant, he decided that walking would enable him to reach there about the time he wish- ed Harecastle commerced his drive in the best of spirits. He was filled | with the joie de vivre, for he was! in that state of exaltation which| when he knows that his leve for a woman is recip-| comes to a man rocated." He felt, too, that his fa- ther would join with him in his hap- piness. Ethel Fetherston was in ' ee every wav a fit wife for the future) Uemun upon one oc sasion and had! Earl of Wolverholme. - Well-born | f her reserve ®gain and again that I-am not act- ed her fromiing withoat very weighty reasons, of her | Which at present I am unable to Society explain. and of ample means, and pride had alone sav the honor of the publication portrait in the various : weeklies. she had no desire. Until the day of her engegement en ittle certainty and suspense accentuated hig present happiness, and it was with a light heart that he estered the Castle for the purposs of an- newncing his engagement to his fa- ther. 'He ascertained that in the brary, and the Parl was He found bis father in cheerful spirits, and met with-a-wernr wel- come. "So you are here at last, Cyril, and T am very glad to see you." "You look better, father. I hope you have no return of those at- tacks," Harecastle said with soli. citude. . "No, I am feeling very fit. Of course you are going to make There is a lot that I want to talk ever with you, L am rapidly beccming an old man, T think that it is time that you r lieve me of some of my duties.' said grav ely. "What is that?' it is time you settled down.' about my marriage 'come to see you."' | The Earl started violently, and | looked anxiously at his son. should have spoken to you when you were in town yesterday, lbut I was so upset at what you told | Frincipalship of Dr. |me about the state of am engaged, father. "To whom?" the hoarecly. with surprise the strangeness of his father's voice. "Ethel letherston. her, I think." The Eerl rose from paced to and fro. i your health. Farl asked You know his seat and for a moment epeak. "Quite impossible, Cyril. I shall never rive my consent to this en- gagement.' Harecastle's face was drawn and | white. He faced his father and his rn. "IT do not think you can under- stand, father. This lady is in every way suitable to be my wife. re- peat that I have asked her to mar- ry me, and that she has consented," he saidin a tone of finality. "It is quite impossible that you t Earl said nervously. know, Cyril, that 1 would do nothing, willingly, that would cause you unhappiness, but I tell you seriously that I shall be unable to give my consent."' "Ethel will never marry me with- cut it. She is too proud," Hare- castle said, and he 'was surprised to see that his father welcomed the statement. . "T am net a boy, father. You! must give me some reason for this opporition."' "T can give you none,"' the Earl replied firmly. He was rapidly as-| suming control over himself. "But it is absurd.' Hareerstle continued warmly. "You tell ime, first of all, that you want me to marry, and when I propose a mar- riage that is eminently suitable, I mect with your opposition. What am I to think?' "You must trust me. as I can, I will explain y g but for the present you must not Bs As soon Fries me. "What am I to say to Ethel? I cannot accept this position. I must hold to my engagement. 'I repeat that this marriage will not take place with my consent, I my power. made any difference, save that he might have made even greater ef- "You cannot realize that I love -;be -suppressed--his-- knows that.J-am here to tell ou of was not made publi : The Earl thought cheque which lay in the derk near by, and oo belie: Saeki "This interview is telling Cyril. Won't you trust met **T am sorry to worry you, father, but you do not seem to appreciate what this means to me. My whole future is at stake. "T am truly sorry." I wieh you liad consulied me before taking this € ae on -me, Ld in contact) step 'That was impossible. I had no real reason for knowing that Ethel This is not one o: those-women who wear their hearts on their sleeves, su that all the world can judge the state of their affections. I really aera adcept this decision," he re- te 3 en . The Earl again rose from his seat, and moved to the door as if to end the interview, but Hare- castle firmly stood his ground. "T await your reason,'"' Father and son stood facing one another. Cyril- looked appealingly inquired how far it was to the Cas-} °°, t For fame of that kind ge _\satirfy her, if she hhs pride. after a hasty, wash he at once went to that room. | | } | | shall oppose it by every means in|] , " Ethel. My honor is bound. She- at the Earl, The latter's eyes fell, and he fidgetted nervously. A knock 'at the door, and « footman enter- Mr. Ackroyd desires to see wour lordship," he announced to the' Earl. "Tell him that I am engaged," the Earl said irritably; and as the door closed, he wes sorry for his decision; for it would have put an end to an interview that was em- barrassing in the extreme. "T am utterly bewildered at your corduct," Harecastle continued. ; 'You make me imegine all kinds of things." | n "In due tire I will explain my 'actions,' the Earl said with a piti- ful attempt at dignity. 'I repeat Run up to town at once, put an end to the engazeme:.t. give you permission to give my j That will opposition 2s a reason, | "It is of myself that I am think- As your sun, I owe you my a limit to my fear you have ? ' ever his forehead, and 'footrran entered. : ; | ."fhe gentleman says that his, bu- siness is of the utmost in.portance, my Jord, end that he has come from London for the express pur- rose of seeing you." "Ask him in here," the Carl said hurriedly. . (To be Continued.) ~-- FORESTRY, again the TEACHIN Canadian Universities now Train- ing Forest Engineers. There are few subjects of great- er Importance to-day in Canada han thé preservation of the coun- a and try's forest wealth. Never, probab- @-j ly, has the question been brought jhome to the people at large more "T will do anything that I can."?/¢™phatically than during the pre- "There is one thing that lies very 5¢nt season, marked as it unfortu- 'close to my heart, Cyril,'" the Earl, nately has been by a series of most destructive forest.fires which have wrought so many millions of dol- "You are an only son, and 1 lars worth of damage. How to pre- should deariy love to sce you with vent such devastation in future, an heir to carry on the name. You 'how to preserve this great asset to are nearly thirty, you know, and the country and improve it for fu- ture generetions are questions of "Strangely enough, father, it is Paramount importance. It is timely, that I have | therefore, that the study of the sci- le e and art of durestry should be . 1 J ged an To this end a school of forestry was inaugurated a year ago in we University of Toronto under the . E. Fernow, who is now assisted by a staff of two lecturers and one assistant. Dr. Fernow is well equipped for And Harccastle noticed his work, being a graduate of the Forest Academy at Muenden and having received additional training at the University of Koenigsberg, Cermany, of which country he is a native. For twelve years (1896-1898) 1 His face was ex-| he held the position of chief of the pressive of extreme agitation, and! Division of Forestry in the United he was unable to; States Department of Agriculture, & ich he left to become head of the College of Forestry connected with Cornell University. Later, after several years passed as consulting furest engincer, he organized the forestry department of the Pennsy)- vania State College, leaving there last year to undertake the organiz- ation of the Faculty of Forestry at Toronto. The University of Toron'o con- fers the degree of Bachelor of Sci- ence in Forestry B.S.F.), obtain- able after a four years' course, and there is a post-graduate degree of Forest Engineer F.E.), to obtain which. a graduate of the forestry course must have two years' prac- tical experience and submit an ap- proved thesis to the: faculty. This fall the University of New Brunswick has inaugurated a four years' course in forestry, leading 'to the degree of Bachelor of Sci- ence in Forestry (B.S.F.). The department has at its head Prof. kK. B iller, M.A., M.F., a gra- duate of the Yale Forest School, one of the foremost schools of for- estry in the United States. A third school is shout to he es- tablished in the Province of Que- hec, and courses in forestry, or pre- paratory thereto are offered in other universities and agricultural colleges. --_--_----} "HIS WISH FOLFILLED. A German peddler rapped timid- ly at the kitchen entrance. Mrs. Kelly, angry at being interrupted in her washing, fiung open the door and glowered at him." : "Did you wish to see me?" she demanded in threatening tones. The peddler backed off a few teps. . "Vell, if I did,"- he assured her with an apologetic grin, "I gct.my vish, thank you," " loved mc, until her lips told me. 2 IN GRANDFA MANY OF atk NECESSITIES ARE NOT so he =. Important Inventions Which We Enjoy of Comparatively Recent Origin. One thing which very fow of us realize is how very many of those articles which we call necessities cur grandfathers jbad to do with- _Themodern match, tho lucifer, cid not come until 1834,' when tie so-called Congreve match was put on the market. such, has only passed a man's life- time of three score and ten by four years. : The oil-lamp is a little older, yet still a comparatively modern in- vention; while it was the Swiss Argand, who discovered the princi- ple of the glass lamp chimney; yet the modern lamp, with its wick and the whcel device for raising and lowering the wick, was only patent- ed in the year 180U. Its patentees were two Frenchmen, Carcel and Carreau. : The common, so-called paraffin oil which we burn in our lamps-is « far more receut invention than the lamp itself. Petroleum oi springs were known of centuries ago, but until petroleum was foun mm America in 1859, it was never used in lamps. Before that date we burnt expensive vegétable oils costing as much as half a crown a gallon. Cheap lamp oil does not celebrate its jubilee until next year. t_seems curious that coal gas is s¢ much oldar a form of light than coal oil, §o Jong ago as 1798 Mr. fMurdoch used gas for . artificial 'lighting. Ne less an authority than 'Sir Humphrey Davy Was bitterly | opposed to coal gas. He sarcastical- [ty inquired whether it was intend- 'ed 'fo take the dome of St. Paul's for a gaSometer."' PLUCKY JONAS HANWAY. _ The great trouble with early gas illumination was that the modern gasometer had not been invented. In 1853 gas was actually kept in huge, waterproofed, canvas bags; regular balloons. Some awful ac- cidents resulted, and a Bill was passed to prevent any gas-holder being constructed of. more. than. 6,- 000 feet cubic capacity. gasometers hold hulf a and some much more. Two household necessities, which are both considerably older than is usually supposed, are wall-pa- per and the piano. Wal)-paper was made in France as long xgo as 1555. Before that date walls, if they were covered at all, were hung with tap- cstry. As for the piano, it celebrates its 200th anniversary in the year 1916. In 1716 there was shown to the Academy of Sciences, in Paris, a clavecin, whose strings were vibrat- ed by hammers. The first pianos made in England were the work of a German named Zumpe. This was' in the year 1760. Still another common 'article, which ic of not nearly so recent ori- gin as generally rmagined, is, the umbrella. As« a school child who invented the umbrella, the answer is, Jonas Hanway, the Quaker, who died in 1786. This is not the fuct. Hanway was merely the first man to carry an umbrella in the streets of London. The article it- self dates back to the very begin- ning of the eighteenth century. In these days of motors we hecr a good deal of the dust and defects oO r million feet, 2 THE MACADAMIZED ROAD. We are apt to forget that our roads --ns such--are not yet a ventury old. It was not until the year 1819 that Mr. John Macadam came from Scotland and introduced his method ct breaking stone to pieces weigh- ing about six ounces, and the use of clean flints and granite chip- pings. Next year will see the seventeen- th birthday of the penny postage stamp. ore 1839. our grandfa- thers paid 1s. 14d. to send a let- ter from London to Edinburgh, and all sorts of devices were em- ployed by the public to get the bet- ter of the Post Office. , The steamer is exactly 120 years ola this year. The first steamboat was a pleasure one, which steamed on the lake at Dalswinton in the summer of 1788. The engine was made by William Symington, and the little vessel travelled at more than six miles an " Aquatic navigation has progress- ed much more rapidly than that of the air, for the balloon is actual ol'er than the steamer. ontgol- fer's first balloon ascended on, June 5th, 1783. Biscuits form one of the common- est foods of to-day. It is hard to imagine that, prior to 1841, was no biscuit known, except the herd tack served out to sailors. Barely sixty-seven years ago the frst sweet biscuit was made at Read- ing, and one result has been to raise that place from a mere vil- lage to a great niinufacturing, town of over 70,000 peuple. ~ --_4---_---- BRUDDAH BEN'S PHILOSOPHY "Wimmin folks am queer institu- tions,"' said Bruddah Ben. "In what_way?" asked Bruddah ickey. "Why, during yo'. courtin' days dey «m always réady to fall.on yo neck, an' aftah de wedding cere- mony dey am always ready to fall on yo' pocket-book."" s°- 5" ----4 The shelves of the British Muse- r E EARTH WILL BE A DESERT - | gold. So the match, as! M WATER WILL THEN BE AS DEAR AS GOLD. 'A Boston Scientist Draws Concl2- sions from Conditions in Mars. | a) "Tt is the doom of the earth," said Professor Percival Lowell in his lecture before the College Club, Boston, "to be covered with des- erts like Mars, and the time will come when water in this world of me wil be far more precious than With the aid of stereoptican views, many of them photographic transpsrencies, Mr. Lowell sketch- ed the fresh. evidence which has heen obtained at, the Lowell obser- vatory in Arizona of the existence cf intelligent beings on the plan ars "Schiaparelli,'? he said, "saw these lines in 1877, and his map of them promptly met with universal condemnation. But the world made a rash step in denying his observa- tion of the canals, for time was per- fectiy sure to prove their existence. li 1877 only one man saw them, but we have now a dozen men who have not only seen thent, but have seen them very much better-than he did. We have much better in- the knowledge of what te or and our observers are be.. . We have pushed Shiap. s researches very much farther, and now the curious thing is the com- plete disappearance of the men who ten years ago denied the very ex- istence of the canals."' POLAR CAPS SNOW. Having shown, against objec- tions, that the polar caps of Mars are snow, and not solidified car- benic-acid, and that. the tempera- ture cf the planet is such as to en- able it to support life.- Professor Lowell went on to say. "The Knetic theory of mattor reminds us that'a small body. will lose its gases rapidly as compared witha larger one, and that is why the moon has al y lost its air. For hile reasons the Seas pass away, and though Mars gnce had seas, there are none on the planct now, and no accumulations of water rore than twenty" miles across. The oaly water. left in Mars is that which is gathered semi-annually at its polar caps. Marg thus lacks water supply, and leaving out the question of canals, we are led to recognize from the general condi- tions of-the planet that it supports o ern) come form of argauic life--a form which is peculiarly and manifestly ling in hue the deserts of Arizona, are the deserts of the planet; the dark areas 'are unquestionably are- as of vegetation. DARK REGIONS OF WATER. "Then there are the canals, which show a surprising network of lines connecting with one another and with the polar caps, At the Flag- staff observatory these canals have been greatly multiplied as well as greatly reduced in size. The bet- ter the lines are seen the mere ab- solutely straight und geometrical they become and the narrower they turn out to be. The canals are in the dark as well as in the light re- gions, showing that the dark re- gions cannot be water. The lines are about ten miles in width, and not more than fifteen. They always appear in the same places. "There are msny markings on the planet like' dots and the canals run into the dots, sometimes four- teen lines centring in one of them. None of the dots is isolated, and there is no canal which is not con- nected with its neighbor and even- tually with one of its polar caps. ""Tn one. season the canals are mere gossamer lines. only to be seen with great difficulty. But six weeks or a month later, after the melting. of the polar snows, the lines come out with insistence, and ttieir increasing visibility makes a regular progression down the disk ef the planet. WAVE IN SUCCESSfON. 'There is evidently a wave which starts from the polar cap an sweeps over the disk of Mars, and is succeeded six months Jater by a contrary wave from the opposite pole. The lines show bluish-green as the water brings out the vegeta- tion; they turn gold-brown towar autumn." Professor Lowell also speaks of the mysterious doubling of the lines concerning the cause of which _no- thing is yet definitely known. Only about one-eighth of the canals, said e, are seen to be double at the proper season, and they occur only in the equatorial, never in the polar regions. One of these doubles is 400 miles from side to side, and an- other is connected in a curious way with the polar cap. nnskas eam sateprammenin SMART. Slick (to Blossom)--"Is this Mr. Bloomer's office?" . Blossom--"No. His office is on the other side of the passage." Slick (leaving the door open 23 he walks out)--"Thank you, sir."' ossom--"Hey! Come back and close that door! Haven't you any doors in your house?' * Slick--"Yes, sir; but they all 'em. Allow me to show "you, sir, my patent double- back-action-door-spring. It closes the door without a bang, and will last a lifetime." have springs on SoA evs A BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT Belle--Did Fred find marriage as slovating as he thought it would 's : tain thirty um are estimated to co! aine miles of books, "$eck--No} it failed to lift kim cut of debt, = | era struments, we have accumulated si L} gutten by every one, the pump and yflames in 4 FIRE IN GHINA FIGHTING STRANGERS HELP TO QUENCH ~~. THE FLAMEs,--___-- babes ; ; Travellers Come Upon a Burning Bridge and Fiud Strange . Sighcs. Following the main rvad we found it only thirty miles' north- west, to the Fu city of Yuencheo, but several presses had to be climb- ed, the days were hot, and in spite of the 1,000 or more feet of altitude we were nearly roasted, entirely tired out and looking for a couple of days of rest with fellow foreign- ers. Little did we dream of getting the most unusual fire experience |} that -we did, says a correspondent} of the Shanghai Mercury. It was a Saturday morning and the 'first day of the Chinese fifth month or '"'moon," when * "a ent custom" and that settles it. We had just crossed the long four- teca span bridge which connects the city with its busy western suburb, called Kiangsi Street, and had no- ticed blazing candles, one or more in front of each of the 103 shops or booths lining the bridge on both es. The bridge and booths seemed to be all of wood,*and it was remarked that this looked somewhat danger- us. However, a nice inn was found at the end of the bridge which hed a back veranda facing the river and giving view of the bridge. As usual with sights seemingly werth it, we took a SNAPSHOT OF THE BRIDGE, put the camera- back in the box, ] DO YOUR HENS PAY? a paying basis. find poultry-raising a profitable and pleasurable _Keep a C Pp try unprofitable, but all the year Bae: eep continuots records. *harge up every cent of outlay on the fowls, and credit them with stock. and eggs sold at the actual price received. ~-- . " _And if it should be found, at any time that, taken for the Proposition is a losing one, it is time for a thorough consideration cf ali the causes which contributed to that end. The records, if carefully kept, will show some facts which might not be so apparent otherwise The beginner is advised to watch every detail of the business, close-- ly. It may be that the females are not from good egg-laying strains and, therefore, the desired success may be impossible with them. It may be that the feed is too costly und not of the right kind to ensure either the proper development of the growing birds, or the greatest possible output of eggs. "The breed that laysis the breed that pays" is a wéll-worn axiom in poultry cu' ture, But it has been demonstrat- ed, over and over again, stra'n of any breed may be devel- oped in the egg-laying habit to such an extent that were it alone ofits breed considered, that breed might be well termed 'The breed that were soon more preseatable for city life and found our way to the hospitable mission compoune ia the! middle of the city, As usual a! warin. welcome was found at the; hands of thé six'or seven foreign: | ers here. These were all of the Ger- man branch of the C. I. M., and! we were just enjoying breakfast | and-telling' and receiving all the! news whea the fire trumpets were sounded, Soldiers were pesrading the, streets aud warning the people that) a,fire was oa, and that they shouid, be watchful. -This is doubly neces- | sary here, as so much wood is used iu construction, being the cheapest | material at hand, and fires get icar-! ful headway and burn out very rap-! idly. The missionaries, having a} pump.and. hose-for»celf-protection, sumetimes go to big fires, where they can be of help. In this case breakfast was for- hose got ready, and by this time! some one said it was the bridge tliat | was on fire. This being near the) personal, effects of the writer, and of special interest now, a hurried visit was meade, in the wake of the "Gospel Hall Fire Departmeat,"' and sure enough, there wes gieat crowded bridge a mass of i the centre, where the cundles had been thickets, in front c* the idol, and there secmed no hope of saving the 100 odd shops c1 the bridge itself. THE PUMP AND HOSE were soon go to work, and did splendid work for their size, but there were three men to manage that, and the writer seemed to be of no use. Hearing that the Hsien Mandarin who should come to such fires and supervise some effective roeasures was absent on business tn the country, and that the two other pumps native owned) in the city were not coming, and also not- ing that there was but one small official helping to quell the fire, and that with only about twenty coldi- ers, the writer hurried to them, snapped two more pictures of the tridge burning, sent the goods and the coolies into the city and himself appeared on the scene in straw san- dals, short clothes, and with a large wet towel wound around the head, held in place by the useful queue. A great fire brigade we all were, not an axe, saw or hardly a pail among us all! A raid was again made on my friend the innkeeper, and down in the basement a two foot coal poker | was found, while next door we com- | nandéercd a small pail from an ;cld lady. The poker was not much jfor power and the pail was small | and lonesome, but a big noise was ' made on the light woodwork of the \fuur booths (two cn each side) we | were trying to get out, and the tiles | flew as well. The pump and poker jinspired the soldiers, and the fire | was stopped at the east end of the 'bridge, to the good wetting of the "flooring by the G. F, D. In three ; hours all that could be. seen was the fouricen stone pillars, and the blackened debris cover river for miles, and told its own\story until.the last piece was dragged ashore by the hundreds out eager- fv for "something for nothing.' Seats. eae A eatin "You say the officer arrested you while you were guictly minding your own business?" "Yes, your honor. Ile caught ne suddenly by the coat collar and threatened to strike me with his staff unlers | accompanied him to the station- * You were quietly attend- ing to-your own business, making nu noise 'or disturbance of any kind?' 'None whatever, sir." 'It scems very strange. What is your business?' "Pm a burglar." "Sorry, sir," telephoned the but- cher, "but we are out of sirloin. Why don't vour wife order you a round?' © "What's that?" exploded line. -'I say, y de ' fe order you a round?' "Why don't my wife order me-around? Man, that is-all she does from morning until night! If you were nearcr, Fd-----" but the startled 'butcher lays." : tsut in the creating of an egg- laying strain, feeding -has a great deal to do'wich the number of eggs produced. For instance, supposing you have purchased birds from a strain noted for its egg laying qua- lity; if youewere to efarve your birds, or to fecd them solely on corn, you would nut get a good egg yield, no matter whether their aa- centurs for twenty generations be- fore thom had laid 200 eggs per hon per year. So we see that feeding has a vitel influence in the preduc- tin of eggs. ; If your fowl do not '"pay," your records will be of great assistance to you in locating the cause, and tien it is 'up to you" 'to rencdy t=O': ia Canadian' Dairy man. LIVE STOCK NOTES. A well-shaped borse's foot is large, rather than smell. The wall rhould be very smooth, even shiny, end fashioned so that the fibres of which it is made can be seen { farm stock could hibernate through the winter, so that we he! should be at no expense for wintery ing them, we could afford to have ftlhem poor in the spring, but so long as food must be given to re- pair the waste of the system, the only way to profit 1s to add enough food to enable them to do their best. It is not the nature of young stock to be overfat, and when they are found in this condition it is a 'sure sign of overfeeding or injudi- cious feeding. The focd they eat at this stage of their life should be of such # nature as to develop bone end muscle rapidly, and this is the end which all breeders ought to work for. . No other article will so enhance the profit of the poultry yards as kerosene diligently and intelligeatly used. For painting the inside of nest boxes for setting hens, there is nothing equal to it, as it surely kills all vermin with which it comes in contact, and prevents other ver- min from entering the nest, until it is entirely evaporated, which, if the crude oil is used, will give the hen ample time to hatch her brocd. A few drops in the drinking water occasionally, has a good effect upon the general health of the flock and for colds or roup there is nothing better if carefully applied. NOW TO HANDLE SICK STOCK. Place the sick animal in a well disinfected and dry box stall with plenty of bedding and sunlight (avoid drafts). 1 place a blanket on the animal, feed sparingly with digestible food, such as bran mash4s made of linseed tea; <eep manger sweet -and_ clean. Water should be pure and clean, ond warmed when necessary. It is always necessary for new milch cows to be given warm water. An injection of warm water (per rectum) should be given all sick animals, excepting those afflicted with looseness of the bowels. a THE SULTAN'S CIGARETTES. Troubably the most particular smnoker in the world is the Sultan of Turkey, whose recent granting of a constitution to his subjects has attracted universal atteation. His cigarettes must be of the Raest pos- sible qrality, and to ensure this, they are made in a sinall factory in the Royal palace itself.- Some half-dozen workmen, the most skill- ed to be found, are daily engaged in a light, airy room, containing a _ couple of hand-cutting machines of the simplest pattern, and-here they » examine the of Turkish- grown tobacco: raised for the Sul- tan's use. The crops in the country are marked for his special benefit, and what is not actually elected for making into cigarettes must' be destroyed. A hundred- weight of leaves may be turned over before a und sufficiently fine and flawless for the Royal lips is found. And the favor is unde- had hung up the receiver, " niably superb. : OW THE FARML 3 year, the © that a- In cold weather - * Sh