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Ro IGANS Fayor Of e is boonas n , t(. Wells, . Franme ruuh-a he Wal e i list : David State, aring m im eÂ¥ k w York, nan â€"Emâ€" mber 04# ne iden t s States o% The Red Arthur stay EL rd Eagle o W.XA _ of the Fisher, laennerâ€" lice Mcâ€" Camillie Rexv. Dr. o. Those r of the rtridge, rk : 1 est ow eB letter ince‘s W iL "erce. etary 8 givâ€" i1nce. Will O@griap desig n Vocke, of the onsular Henr y red b:1 el _ por led b j olline nferred he s J 10 her u}â€" HENRY I Honors nt € sef the ) W n y PV ihe he, se OQ rallzed ceby e« No F@ United V‘q AC : W nt 6 Uhe L PC ER' Lrie# D 00 B, & eh se he 5 t 16 tow the bue t por ‘Cm O 0 re The private roawd which led through my owr plantation to the house was divided from the public thorough{are by no lodge, no gate ; but ran mo«dâ€" estly down between borders of grass, which grew bong and ran‘k in the sumâ€" mer time, for about Imaif a mile, unâ€" tH1, the larches and Scotch firs growâ€" ‘orm of a V, the southernmost one lowling to Larkliall through a mile ol firâ€"{forest. Would the very apâ€" proach of their new abode through tlus dark and winding road depress the poor little woman into looking upon the cottage as a prison, after the life and movement they were used to? Juit before that stream runs into the Dee. 1 stopped anad â€" looked around â€" me. There was a faint wihite light over the western hills which enabled me to see dim outâ€" lln@s of the objects I knew. Just beyond the bridge was the forsaken lttle _ churechyard of â€" Glénmauick, which not even a ghost would care toe haunt, where now a cluster of Waunt, bare ash trees thrust up spectral arms froimn the ground among ie mildewed graveâ€"stones. The loneâ€" !y manse, a plain, stons house, shaâ€" liwael by dark evergreens, stood bick a little from the road on the vpposite side. A mile away, with the rushing Deo between, the spire of Dallater Church stood up among the roofs of the village. flanked by firâ€" crow ned Craigendarroch on the «orth, and the Pannanich Hills on tie south. Straight on my road lay beiween _ flat Lowland fields to a ragged fringe of _ tall firs behind which, on a rising ground, the shell o1 an old deserted dwelling. known as Kknock Castle, served in summe»r as a meagre shelter for the Highâ€" land sheep in â€" sudden storms. _ At this point the road turned sharply to the left, the fringe of fir trees g:rowing thicker upoa the skirts of the forest ; a few paces further }.Nf‘ road divided loto two branches which struck off from each other in the Lwo delicate women be frightened away by theâ€"coldl and the loneliâ€" hoss from the nest I was building for them, I wondered, as I turned t tho right to cross the little stone bruige that arched over the Muick Just before that stream runs into the Dee. I _ stopped and looked around â€" me. There was a faint white light over the western hills which enabled me to see dim outâ€" It wase getting dark before the train stopped at Ballater, a few minutes before 6. I hat to go through the viilage, over the rickâ€" 6ly woolen _ bridgeâ€"for the new ne of stone was not built thenâ€" arml along the road which lies on tho south side of the Dee. The hills were on my left, their bases covâ€" crel with slim _ birchâ€"trees, whose bars branches swayed and hissed like whips in the winter wind ; on the right, below the road, ran the vrooked, turbulent little stream of Do, ow swolien with late autumn rains. . swirling round its _ many curves, and rushing between the piles of the bridge till the wooden slructure rocked again. Would those Lwo delicate women be frightened whiskey, nobody but himself â€" could tell when he bhad had more thaa enough ; so that hope was vain. It was not that I was afraid ol Ferguson; far from it. But his punetuality, _ his unflagging, meâ€" chanical industry, his many uncomâ€" prowising virtues made him a perâ€" son to be reckoned with,;, and it woull have been easier to own to a caprice Iinconsistent with one‘s prigciples to a more intellectual person than to him. Elimer. Not knowing much about these things, I bad to tuy in a wholeâ€" #als (ashion more, I fancy, to the adâ€" vantage of the seller than to my own. However, the business was got through somehow, the tilings were to be sent on the following day, and I ameaked back to Ballater by the 4.35 train, wondering how 1 should break tho news to Fergason, and wishing that by some impossiple good luck the immaculate one might have commitâ€" t=l in my absence some slight breach ol disciprine which would give me for cuce the superior position. If I could only find him drunk ! But though second to none in his fondness for What would Ferguson say ? CHAPTER VIL 1 made a hasty tour of the secâ€" oniâ€"hand shops# in Aberdeen, being wis»: esough to know that if she wore to find the cottage too spick aimi span, Mrs. Elimer would in a moment discover my pious â€"fraud. MHaving got together in this way a very odd assortmeat of furniture, 1 was rather at a loss about kitchâ€" en _ utensile, when I was seized with the happy inspiration of buying a new set of them for my own serâ€" vice, and handing over those at progevnt in nse in my kitchen to Mrs. "I worked hard for it." she sald at last in a yery soft whisper, her red lips (orming the woras carefu.ly, near to my ear. "Goodâ€"bye, Mr. Maude," sashe then said aloud and demurely, but with her eyes dancing. _ And aho gave my hand a warm aqueeze as she shook it, and let me out Into the nipping Scotch air in the gloom of the darkening afternoon, with a new and old sense of a flash of brightness and warmth into the workd. Theo I walked quickly along, deâ€" vising by what means that cottage, which my guilty sou!l told me was bure of a single stick, could be furnished and habitable by Friday. Aund a cold chill ecrept through my bones as a new and hitherto unâ€" . thoughtâ€"of question thrust itsell up . in my mind. J What would Fermuson sae?» are Pets w4R «PP T Lo ds cami TB us PT did not hbelp him, 1 sent for Baby‘s Own Tablets, and they did him a wonderful amount ol good, and he is now getting on eplendidly. I gladly give my experience for the benelit of other mothers." If your druggist does not keep these Tablets they will be sent by mail post paid at 25 cents a box by writing direot to the Dr. Williams®* Medicine â€" Co., Brockvilie:; Ont.. or Schenectady, N. Y. t think he would live. Then he was atâ€" tacked with dysentery, a feverish «kin ani cough. As the doctor‘s medicine 1 CL C . 7 Them . ; 9n TOP, m Mn tty on it e tain neither opiate nor harm{ul drug. Crushed to a powder they can be given with absoute salfety toa new born bab». Mrs. R. Ferguson, 105 Mansiield street, Montreal, says: *I have used Baby‘s Own Tablets and havefoumi them the best medicine I have ever given my children. My baby has always been small and deliâ€" cate and suffered so much last sumâ€" mer with his teeth that I did not Baby‘s Own [Tablets will promptlly cure all stomach and bowel troubles, anl are a great relief to teething children,. â€" The Tablets are sold under a positive guarantee that they conâ€" 1. Py ue n S o e s Foc Weak and Sickly Children Durâ€" Ing the Hot Weather. Thouwsands of children die during the hot weather montlis, because sumâ€" mer complaints and stomach troubles come swildenly, and mothers do not have the meaus at hand to promptly check and cure them. In homes wuere Laby‘s Own Tablets are usod theso procious little lives can be saved, and no bome where there are infanots andi young clhikiren should be without them. i o This dark suggestion was but the echo of my own fears. I was so anxâ€" lous to secure a coâ€"operation in my plan, not merely perfunctory, but zealous, knowing well, as I did, the highlyâ€"sensitive mood in which the elder at least of my new tenents would arrive, that even after this * Ladies wou‘t keep the dry rot out ol a place, sir," answered Ferguson, with dry coutempt. "However, you know best, sir, what kind of cattle you like to harbor in your own barnos, and I dare say they willt be snug enough till the snow comes." "1 have no more objection to seeâ€" ing a woman‘s face about the place than you have yoursel{, Ferguson," 1 aAdded coruially ; "in fact, L have just given permission to two poor ladies to pass the winlter in the cottage at the back, anod I want you to help me to put the place straight a bit for them. They come in on Friday. I don‘t want the place to fall to pieces with dry rot for want of some one to live in it." 1 jumped at the news z;illâ€"lvéougratu- lated lum upon his forethought with great hearliness. to ask an old and very respeciable female that was staying in the vilâ€" lage to give me a littie helpâ€"Jjust for this evening, sir. She is very clean in her wava. sis and a most respectâ€" able and uodâ€"learing body." Ferguson was glad to see me, and welcomed me back with a cordiality which made my mind easier on the subject of the announcement L had to make to him. L went up to my room and linding, everything preâ€" pared for me, told him L was ready for dinner. Instead of going downâ€" stairs, he only said, "Yes, sir ; it is coming up," and knelt down to pull off my boots." "All right," said I; "I can do that." ‘"No doubt of it, sir," he answered, but did not stir. "The fact is, sir, that knowing you would come home hungry, and maybe very much faâ€" tigued, and thaut to be in the kitchâ€" en serving dinner and up here atâ€" tending upon you at the same time is a morai impossibility, 1 made bold tWed rooi, =mall irregular windows, and a me. lile porch. It was only saved from .zliness by a growth of Iivy over the lower portion and by & freak of the designer, whereby one end was raised a story above the rest, and the roof of this portion made to slope north and south, inâ€" stead ol east and west, like that of the rest of the building. At the back the firs and larches rose to a great height, the house seeming to nestle under their protection whenever the winter storms burst over the bleak hills around. 0E AEMCCC AURCTC WVLCEOHIH, The house was a most unpretenâ€" tious building, in the plainest style of Scotch country house architecture, with rough creamâ€"colored walls, _ a tHGC POOI;: ~mAll iErooutur arindmcres «0J more sparsely to the south, one caught wider and wider glimpses of bread, green meadows where itwo or three horses were turned out to find & meagre pasture. Here the drive was carried over a little iron ornaâ€" mental bridge," which crossed | a stream that was but a thread in the warm weather, and leaving the grass and the trees behind, one came upoun a broad lawn which ran right up to the walls of the house, flanked to the north by more grass and more trees, which shut out the view of the staâ€" bles and of the unused coltltage ; to the south the land made a sudden dip, and the hollow thus formed was laid out as a garden, while the great bank that sheltered it formed _ a succession of terraces from which one caught glimpses of the rushing Muick between the birches that lined the banks of the impetuous little stream. riw _ T0 BABY‘S QOWN TABLETS P3 8. K On the north wall was the fireplace â€"wide, high, oldâ€"fashioned and warm â€"with a discolored white marble mantelpiece, decorated with fat, beâ€" wigged Georgian cupids. Above it hung an old cavalry sword with which my father had cut his way through the Russiins at Inkermanr Close to the fireplace, and with its back to the bookâ€"shelves, stood hy own especiai chairâ€"big, roomy, wellâ€" wornâ€"covered with dark red morâ€" occo, like the rest of the furniture. A readingâ€"table stood in the corner beside it, and on the right hand was a bigger table, piled high with books and papers, cigars, bills and rubbish. There was a writingâ€"table in one corâ€" ner, at which I never wrote ; a sofa covered with more literary lumber ; two cabisets crammed with curiosâ€" ities collected on my traveis, tossed in with little attempt at arâ€" ra ngegment ; a â€" cardâ€"table ol‘ which stood a quantity of oldâ€" as improper as to scrape of{ the wallâ€" paper would be; but with the oddest of cdd lots of literary ware, in â€" a dozen langnuages, in all sizes and all varietiee _ of binding and laci of bindâ€" ing, no two yolumes of anything toâ€" gether, and not a book that 1 didn‘t love among them, from Montaigne, in dear, dirty paper covers, hanging by a thread, to Thackeray in a beastâ€" ly edition de lux». EU So e . o. SA e AEMOmTEs. l the plainest kind ; these were filled, not with the student‘s methodically arranged collection ol sombre and wollworn volumes; not â€" with the "gontleman‘s‘" euspiciously neat and bright ‘"complete sets" in , morocco and haltâ€"call, which to remove seems The eventful Friday canre. I was in the cottage as soon as it was light, making for the last time the tour of the two bedrooms, kitchen, and sittingâ€"room, trying all the windows to see that they were draughtâ€" tight, passing my hands along the waulis in a futile attempt to find out ’it they were damp. In the sittingâ€" | room I _ stayed a long time, moving | about the furniture, a secondâ€"hbhan<( ’ suite, covered with dark red reps ; I was diegusted with the mournful _ bareness of the apartment, and wonâ€" _dered how I could have been so stuâ€" pid as to forget that women ljiked ornaments. I swent back to my house and ransacked it furtively for nickâ€" nacks, without much success. First, I reviewed the pictures :; a regular bachelor‘s collection they were, not objectionable from a man‘s point of view, but for lidiesâ€"â€". No, the picâ€" tures were hopeless, with the excepâ€" tion â€" of huge engravings, ‘"The Reâ€" lie. of Lucknow,"" and "Queen Philâ€" ippa Begging the Lives of the Burâ€" gesses,"" which, though perfectly inâ€" nocuous to a young girl‘s mind, were not exhilarating to anybodv‘s. _ Beâ€" sides, _ rancy _ being caught _ by: Ferguson _ staggering â€" under the burden of those ponaerous works of art. 1 had not known before how meagre were the appointments of my home. My five years of wander: ing bad given me a traveller‘s indilâ€" {erence tw all but necessaries, _ so that, as I looked round the study, where I speut nearly all the time that I passed indoors, 1 saw little that could be spured. It was a comâ€" fortable looking room enough, with its three big windows, two looking | south over the terraced garden and | the wooded valley of the Muick,. thel remaining one east over the lawn and the drive, and more trees. The west wall of the room was filed from floor to ceiling by book shelves of a family secret and n{t;.&;_;u‘) indisâ€" creet inquiries. to me the respectable Janet ; he had, indeed, not overâ€"rated her magâ€" nificent lack of meretricious charms:; for in tha wooden face and hard blue eyes I recognized at once the fenâ€" turee of my faith{ul attendant, adâ€" ditional wrinkles taking the place of the sabreâ€"cut. She was his mother. As, however, neither made any refâ€" ence to this fact, I treated it as to That old beast took all the pleasâ€" ure out of the little excitement of furnishing. _ On the morning _ after my return, he took care to present $ Bs FE . > 2 in one of the upper rooms, which he persisted in calling "the nursery," a small wooden horss of the primitive straighitâ€"legged kind, a penony rattle, and a soft, flully parrot; and when I impatiently pitched the things out at the door, he seemed dismayed, and said "he had thought â€" they would please the wee bairn." _ Whether this was a warning to _me not to be beguiled into a {atal trust in the power of my _ own beauty, and an obscure hint that in his opinion I was in danger â€" of making a fool of myself, Ferguson‘s face was too wooden to betray ; but the manner in which he gave his serâ€" vices towards putting â€"the cottage was unsatisfactory, not to say vyenâ€" omous. He veiled his displeasure with my new freak under an officious zeal for the comfort of the coming teuants, which made much bharder to deal with than stubborn unwillingâ€" ness to work for them would have been. My assurances that one was an invalid and the other a child only supplied him with fresh forms of indirect attack. He was surâ€" prised that I did < not â€" have one of the two rooms on the groundâ€" floor fitted up as a bedroom, as inâ€" valids canonot walk up and down stairs;, he was kind enough to place s on n n _ "Plain Janet, gir ; she leaves tities to her betters, And the kitchen does very well for me, sir, and for Janet, too, if you care to engage her as housckeeper, after due trial of her capabilities." " Oh, if she satisfies you sho will satisfy me." s ‘* None the less I should wish you to see her, that you may understand it was for your better service and not for my own pleasure that I inâ€" troduced her here. I have no opinâ€" lon of women, sir, until they are past the age for frivolity, and I‘m not hairrndsome enough to go courting myâ€" gelf." poiipatinie:" Prig diliints: a w04 1. ns "Neither Mro. or unl anything, did I say was her name," nswered Ferâ€" guson, wgth grave deliberation. PSE 200 SE OOCCCY * 0_ HOnnUCu ’myselt more than was meet. "Byâ€"theâ€"by, Ferguson," 1 began again after a short paude, during which he helped me on witi my coat, "I‘m thinking..ol having . the little sorth room upâ€"stairs _ fitted up for you, as .& sgort ofâ€"sort 6f housekeeper‘s room, butler‘s room, you know." Mina was such a nondeâ€" script household that it was not easy to find a designation for any of thie apartmenots, but I wished thus neatly to intimate that if my mayor of the palace had matrimonial intenâ€" tiong, his domothgg king would not stand in his way. "Now that my houeehold is becoming larger, 1 daresay you would like to have some place where you and Tim and Mrs. â€"Missâ€"what did you say her. name was? could sit in the evenings." 11 0 0CPE RAINE O Apttieine AWhe scantilyâ€"gracious speech, 1 humbled began | massive last c jluring | duck, a Dutch _ my | elk‘s horus and .. the | mounted by a fitted | the top of the rt 6f | plain, fourâ€"fold room, | rest of the tin ropdeâ€" | the door, and . s pot | dogâ€"kennel, wit any | and replaced b " ‘Then you are not Lebensmude? he said. ‘Ach Gott! Iwatched all the _night for nothing. " Ho finally explained that Coblenz was just then in the midst _ of one of ‘the periodical epidemics of suiclde. Three couples had taken their lives within a week and he nad takeon us for another lifeâ€"sick pair.," "‘You are happy this morning, he said. * You want to die no longer.‘ **‘We stared at him in amazement. "‘Want to die!" I exclaimed, finâ€" ally. ‘What do you mean ? We never wan‘ted to die." . God helps the early riser.â€"Spanâ€" ish proverb. my door and then at hers. We were loughing over this in the morning, when the proprietor entered tha breakfast room. _ He seemed much surprised at our exhibition of spirits. " There was a strange reluctance on the part of the innkeeper to whom we applied for quarters to admit us, but he finally gave us rooms at the opposite ends of a long hall. _ For the rest of the night he tramped the length of the hail, listening first at Landlord Thought His Guests Inâ€" tended to Commit Sulcide. Arthur Farwell, the musical comâ€" poser, whose development of Ameriâ€" can Indian music is attracting atâ€" tention, tells a story of how he had once been takeu for an intended suiâ€" slde. " While living in Boppard a few years ago," he said, "I went to Cobâ€" lenz to attend a concert. A German musician, a young woman, acâ€"omâ€" panied me, and there would be no story if we had not missed our train home after the concert. We waited itmp i cafe until 3 @‘clock for a later train, only to find that it did not stop at Boppard. Mr. John Wilison, a retired carpenter, who has lived in Welland, Ont., for 30 years, writes :â€""Some years ago I was atltacked with kidiney trouble. andIbecame so run down and emaciated that my enti¢e appearance was suggestive of physical decline. As time went on the complaint grew worse and became complicated with liver trouble. Ihad bad pains across the back and up the spinal column, bad spelis with my bheart, pain under the right shoulder, bilious headache about half the tim e, indigestion, fever and restlessness at night, and depression of sepirits. "At times I was incapacitated for work,. and had spent probably, one hundred dollars in different medicines with no perceivable results. Doctors‘ advice proved likewise of no avail. 4 "Finally, on the advice of a friend I began taking Dr. Chase‘s Kidneyâ€"Liver Pills, and in a ‘short time the bad symptoms began to gradually disappear, and by the time I had uased five or six bores I was enfjoy= ing better health than I had‘4in many years, all of which is due to the virtues of Dr. Chase‘s Kidneyâ€"Liver Pills. "Since my recovery I have advised others to profit by my experi>nce. Some have done so and are well, while others did not and have succumbed to this dreadful dissase. Iam a living witness to the value of thise great medicine, and I am full of enthusiasm in imparting the good mews to others who are afllicted as I was.* Dr. Chase‘s Kidneyâ€"Liver Pils, one pAll a. dose. 25 canl« a box. At all dealors ot Elmanson, Bates & Co., Toronto. + 7 An Old and Highly Respected Resident Cured of Kidney Disease and Liver Troubles By Dr. Chase‘s Kidneyâ€"Liver Pills. HAD HIS VIGIL FOR NOTHING | mue, wase named Taâ€"ta, haa from our |lirct introduction, treated me with such marked tolerance, that I, .{ in | my loneliness, had begun to feel a sort of superstitious fondness for the | brute, and fancied I saw more reaâ€" son and affection in his blinking brown â€" eyes than in any . of the Scotch pebbles which served as organs of vision to my Gaelic neighâ€" bors. _ When I first bought him it was mild enough for him to live in the yard ; but when the weather grew cold, he was brought into the kitchen, he got on so ili with the powers there that I had to take compassion upon him and them, and remove Toâ€"to to the study, where he justified his promotion by the reâ€" serve and gravity of his manners, his only marked foible being a furiâ€" ous jealousy of Tiâ€"ta, whose restingâ€" place was just beyond the utmost tether of the monkey‘s chain. Rarely did an evening pass without some skirmish between the two. Perhaps Taâ€"ta, seeing me smile over â€" the book I was reading, and anxious to thare my enjoyment, even if she | could not understand the joke, would incautiously get up and wag ber tail. / Whereupon Toâ€"to would dash across the hearthâ€"rug and assist her, and much uanpleasantness would follow, | the dog barking, the monkey chatâ€" tering, the master swearing â€" all three membors of the menagerie trying to come off conquerer in the / melee. Orelse Toâ€"to would fall from ‘ the top of his kennel to _ the floog, with a loud noise, and would ; lie stiff and still on the rug, as if in a fit; and then the simple / Taâ€"ta would walk oyer to investiâ€" | gate ‘the case, and the monkey | would seize her ears and twist them ‘ round with jabbering triumph. kept a amall whip to separate the, combatants opy these occasions, but‘ I only dared use it very fi'paringly:’ as, though its effect upon Toâ€"to‘s } coarser nature was salutary in the extreme in.reducinug him to instant love and obedience, as the boot of the costermonger does his wife, the gentler _ Taâ€"ta would lopk up at me with such piteous proftest in her dark eyes that I felt a brute for the next half hojir. From ‘this ropm, the scene of most of my domestic life, I took a pair of silver candlesticks and a Dregden cup and saucer. Into the unused drawingâ€"room which I had fittel up years ago in the Lquis Quinze style; I just peeped ; but there wase nothing very tempting in white and gold curlyâ€"legged furniâ€" ture tied up in brown Holland on _ a _ cold polished _ floor so I lockeq the dopr again, and carried away my prizes to the cottage, where they certainly imâ€" proved the look of the sittingâ€"room mantelâ€"piece. I A GREAT CURE IN WELLAND E yoâ€" 0 i ht s > mm otgis â€"Ascichudwins 3 but which bhad belied its character by allowing ma to bring it home on my ghoulders. Toâ€"to, so called for no ‘better reason than that my collie, whase favorite resting place was now well defined on the goatskin hearthâ€" and replaced by a strong iron gratâ€" img, formed the winter home of a large brown monkey, which I had bought at a sale with the fascinatâ€" 5 regutgtlyn of being dangerous, ‘dsiitoned sliver, such as tali candleâ€" sticks, govlets, a punchâ€"bowi and a massive last century urn. A stuffed duck, a Dutch tankard, a pair of elk‘s horus and a bust of Daate, surâ€" mounted by a fox‘s brugsh, occupied the top of the book shelres. A high, plain, fourâ€"fold screen, as dark as the rest of the timeâ€"worn {furniture, hid the door, and close to the screen & cbg-kenx_:el. with the front taken out {agltioned sllver, such (To be Contirued.) wingâ€"room which I had vears ago in the Loquis e; I just peeped ; but nothing very tempting in gold curlyâ€"legged furniâ€" Mhat% Aps That there is a royai remedy for seas‘ckness one is inclined to doubt, but shutting the eyes at onee when lying down in the cabin is a hint to the wise. Never look in the opposite way to that which the boat is going is an exeellent plan. Nibbling a dry biscuit or an apple from time to time is recommended. French prunes, figs and lettuce are good articles of diet, A little carbolic acid added to the | water in which buros, bruises and ; cuts are washed greatly lessens the | sorencess, After applying icdine to the skin, if it smarts too intensely to be borne, it is well to know that it can be washed off with ammonma. A disinfectant to use in â€"Aifferent paris of the house, which wiil sweeten the whole place, may be made for ten cents or less. Take one pound of comâ€" mon copperas and eight ounces of crude carbolic acid and dissolve in one gallon of water. Use frequentiy. Peppermint is an old friend, but not on this account to be snubbed. Noâ€" thing is better for a bee sting than the application of a drop of pepperâ€" mint. 6 In case one is near the promises or apartments where there is diphâ€" theria, the simplest yet â€" effectuai modgde ol fumigating is to drop a little sulphur on a hot stove or on a few hot coals carried through the rooms. In this way the spread of the disease may be stopped. ( Drugs Which should be Kept on Hand in the Household. Things which one should have ready at hand in case of need are, first and foremost, essence of cinnamon. When exposed in a sick room it will kill the bacilli which aro f»ating round. A decoction of cinnamon is reâ€" commended as a drink to be taken Ireely in localities where malaria or fevers prevail, for cinnamon has the power to destroy all infectious miâ€" crobes. Removing the New Born Calf without allowing the motner to lick it. _ Rub it dry with a wisp of straw, put it into a roomy, dry, warm pen, {free from frosts or drafts, and give it no milk for the first twelve hours. When a calfl is hungry it is not nearâ€" ly so much trouble to teach it to drink. The first two weeks it should have a quart of whole milk three times a day, care being taken that the noon milk is warmed to new milk heat. For the next three weeks hall a quart of skim milk should be added to the â€"whole milk at each meal. When the calf gets to be five weeks old discontinue the noon milk, also the whole milk, givâ€" is always a disturbance in the cow stable; the. mother gets excited, and some nervyous cows remain so for the best part of a week. Better reâ€" sults are obtained by When a calf is dropped it is not good practice to allow the cow to fondle and lick her offspring. When the separation does take place there tar or fall call is quite as bheavy at two and oneâ€"hal‘ jears as a spring call is at three yeurs old. There is a wain of six months in the age of the call, the reason for this being that it i# weaned off the mik in June, goes on to grass, is fed a little grain or meal all summer, and in the fall it is a good. sirong, lusty yearling, and winters much better than a spring call, which is just weaned in the fall and goes info winter. ally comes with % A Weakened Vitality and does not make as rapid or satisâ€" lactory & growth in the first six months, as when the cow has had a Iair period for rest and recuperation. After a long term olf experience 1 have come to the conclusion, considâ€" ering the increased price of winter buiter, the long miiking season, restâ€" ing when the grass is poor, that in winter dairying, cows give at least 20 por cent. more milk in the season than if they came in fresh in the spring months. Again, an early winâ€" each cow, it i# very important that the cows should have two montis‘ rest out ol the twelve. When the cows are milked to within a couple of weeks of calving they get no chance to recuperate. The call generâ€" ally comes with % "For a number of years I have had most of my cows drop their calves in the late fall, or early winter," says Duncan C. Anderson, of Rugby, Onâ€" tario, "and I have come to the conâ€" clugion that there is a decided gain in so doing. The milking season is lengthened ; cows coming in fresh beâ€" fore Christmas, by liberal feeding in winter, milk nearly as well in the early summer when the pastures are at their best, as cows that come in fresh in March. We milk ten moutlhis, giving the cows two months‘ rest. They are rested in the early fail, when the pastures are at their poorâ€" est. At that time the grass is generâ€" ally dry, parched, and burned up. As we raise on the skim milk one call to &A FEW SIMPLE REUMEDIES. ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO peneas 9 ty a Teddyâ€"I wish I hadn‘t licked Jim my Brown this morn.ng. Mammaâ€"You se> how wrong it was, don‘t you, dear ? Teddyâ€"Yes, ‘causa I didn‘t know till noon that he was going to give a party.â€"Ram‘s Horn. "I have rheumatiz #some, Bu!f otherwise I‘m purty smart." The bridegroom said that he, too Pulaski Smith, of the Magee Bapâ€" tist Church, drove up lo the little brown @welling. There was a simâ€" ple but touching ceremony in _ the parior. The Widow _ Brainerd was agair a bride. When the clergyâ€" man had gone Samucl Decker went out to work in the garden He was working there next day when acorâ€" respondent called. The bride callâ€" ed him in. When he learned of the mission he hastened to put on bis Suncay ctothes,, When asked about her health the bride said : Almost a Centenarian, Mrs. Samuct Decker is a Bride. At the age ol 98 years a woman of Waterloo, N. 1.. has just taken upon hersell the yows ol matrimony ard is prowd of the fact that she is probably the oldest bride in the world. _ In 1832 she was first marâ€" ried to Thomas Preston, with whom she lived happily for many years and at the age ol 68 became a widow. In 1873 she was wooed and won by Albert Brainard. The union was not altogether a happy one, but the husâ€" band put an end to his wife‘s misâ€" ery about a year ago by dying Then Samuel Decker appeared _ upâ€" on the acene and immediately {«ll in love with the gay and festive widow, and a few days ago _ Rev. and there is wonderful virtue in bot water, taken as hot as hot can be, from time to time, from the firat day of the voyage to the last. The main point in calf feeding is to never allow them to stop growâ€" ing, and in the case of beet aniâ€" mals, keep them in good fiesh In feeding calves, as in every sysatem of feeding, the extrem»s of over and under feeding are to be avoided. C se e e en In warm weather calves s*ould be kept in during the day time, and turned out in the evening. Thus they will mvoid the Jhot sun and flies. Whole or chopped oats should be fed, _A mixture of whole and chopped oats, about a cupful twice a day for an ordinary sized calf on good pasture, will be sufficient. For fall feeding, until the roots are harvested, there is nothing equal to green corn run through the cutâ€" ting box and mixed with some chopâ€" ped oats, well bedded. Caives can in this way be raised much more profitably in winter than in summor. When ® separator is used it is best to c:u the froth off the sklmmed milk not feed it to the young calves, esâ€" pecially those under three months. It has a tendency to disturb the norâ€" mal action of the stomach, and set up scours. Whenever a call is scourâ€" ing Iteduce the Queantity of Skim Milk. Be careful to have the pall from which the calves are fed as cloan as possible With skim milk at the right temperature, fes out of paile as clean as your milking pails, in not too large quantities and fed regularly, there (will be but little trouble from calves scouring _ "" _V _ fTO JGAL ° seed, put it into a common stove pot and fill up with water. Do thi@ after dinner and allow it to simmer all afâ€" ternoon and evening. Next mornâ€" ing boil smartly for about one half hour, stir in some wheat flour, until the mixture is wbout the consistency; of thin porridgoe. A calf three monthe old will take a cup full of this flax® seed tea porridge in its skim milk. The flour is used to counteract the loosening effect@ of the flax sned, Care must be used at first aot to overâ€"feed but to work up gradually to what I have mentioned, with skim milk, flax seed tea, roots. nhopped oats, and clover hay, and with comâ€" fortable warm pens, kept clean and well bedded. Caives can in this wa y Bese i. cecalgccama ) _ 1 L ie there is no remedy. Whaen a calf is not doing wel!, break an egeg Into its milk; this acts as a tonic, and adds strength to its ration. To supplement the loss of butter fat in milk, take for 12 calved over two month old, four cups of Nax Should Aiways be Warmod up to new milk heat before belui fed. II 4t is fed cold or too hot i is apt to produce bloating and scours. When â€" through â€" careless feading, scouring is allowed to become chrone hay. I( a separator is not usoad and the millk is set in shallow pans or deep setting cans, it ing abost three quarts of sakior milk twice a day. By this tims the astomâ€" ach will be strong cnough to asgim« late and digest other food. The noom meal should then be puiped roots, _choppod oats and well saved clover WORLD‘S OLDEST BRIDE. Regretted it Too Late. it