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lo and id Six x «P «10e Wce 14 ing the [t8 abonee t t M 8. ectiOn ‘rely + cut hos los®e been iny ) in 9.1 for uL i _ €Bbâ€" a. un + np_ slow. J PS 13 1y« to h 20â€" 1t bHad iD ala> C 1€ 1# e 1 Li 13 18 t the land, and the brooks ran slowâ€" ly over the pebblesâ€"a day when the wind was still, and rfot tho faintest whisper of a brooezge etirred the leaves or bhossomsâ€"a cruel day. He reâ€" memberawl it all through his life, for the warm sunlight gcemed suddenly to change into a fire that burned kim; everything bright and fair apâ€" pearod to wither before his eyes. It was a day which brought him a pain that never quite left him while life lasted. 4 °0 We I h“"‘f' thought so for some time, >"‘There was bad nows in the letâ€" my dear," was the quiet repy. "Your ter," he said ; "but whero has he ongngement was folly ; your marriâ€" Fone with it cpen in his hand like age wou‘«l be madness." that ? Then Violet went up to her mothâ€" | _ More than ons person whom FeL‘x er â€"wLonsdole met asked thomselves the * amima," sho i 99 iame thing, more than one spoke to nw all trouble *" him ; but he did not hearâ€"he walked "Yes," replied Mrs. Haye, "you may @D, looking straight before him, his salely leave it all to me." PR ;’.wa fixed on vacancy, his white ;ret And so wealth w ; lace without change or expression poble enough to u‘.oo;lox.u 30’::;_“ not ;untll he reachoed The Limes. â€" What CHAPTER xx ! he suffered as he passed the old landâ€" k cruc! day d e | marks, the trees, the stilss, the lilac s i day dawned for Felix LORSâ€" | Lushes at the gate, was known only ‘L"k'â€"? day when the sua shone so | to Heaven. brightly, and with such hoat that | IHe went straight into tho house, tha grass, Nlowers, and leaves withâ€" | and Mrs. Haye horself was tho first erd peneath his fervent rays, when lxm-sou that he met. n golden hase seemed to ie over | She was hal" "â€"imntenmi whan her Ho was it *% offics in the High Stroetâ€"the office that had once borno auch gignse ol prosperityâ€" whore thn great iron safes had been filled with deeds, and hugo billâ€"files lnul been loaded with documentsâ€" whon the tablkes had been strown with papore Aird lettorsâ€"where busy clerks uwl prazsed the day, all too short for ize work they had to doâ€"where poople were always going and comâ€" Ing with the air of having important businesgs on kan«d. It was all gso different now. â€" One by one the clerks had gons. There It was all gso different now. Ore by one the clerks had gons. There was nothing to do. One by one the neighboring a«quires and farmers had witimirawn their busincss from the o@‘d office. There was so little to transact now that Felix could manâ€" ago with one clerk. Still he had hope,, He felt sure that in time this state of thicgs nmust improve. When peoâ€" pe began to think calmly they woull know that his father was inâ€" wocent of that which had been in puted to him. Eudden‘y the postmian‘s knock was heard in the quiet street, where on that ecorching day even the vory houscs seemed to sleep. The @sound did soot interest Felix; he expected mo letter. _ Violet seldom sent him a littlh mote; when she did so it wias like the finest cordial to him â€"ho worked the better for itâ€"he was haprpier asd brighter. Perâ€" haps il she had known how happy thoso letters made him she would havo written oftener. Presently, to his surprise, came the sharp, sudden knock of the postâ€" man at his own door. . The clerk quickly disapposared, ansd _ then reâ€" turced and paced a letter in his hasdsâ€"a lady‘s letter, with a faint odor of viokts. He opased it and looked at the sigzsatureâ€"*" Martha Hay®." It waw from Violst‘s mother. What could she have to say to him? It was an invitation, probably. He put aside his essay anrd began to read the rete. "My Dear Feliz,â€"That which I h@ivre to «ay will pain you, I know, ut [ cansot help it, it must be said. Tho engagement between you and my daughter must come to an end. The «Greumstanceg under which I gave Felicx was seated in his office. It was too warn for businessâ€"no one cam> is. There were no messages, to interviewaâ€"he had nothing proâ€" Iessiomi to co. The clerk â€" was busy copyliog a deed, and Felix was making the most of his time by writâ€" Ing as essay upon the "Inequaillties of Rritish Law." amd I am rot willing to see her beâ€" come a mere domestic drudge. . Mr. Hayo aml mysol{ wigh the engageâ€" ment to er«l at once, as under no cirâ€" ecumstances coukt we consent to the marriage. Violet sonds her love, and d@esires me to say that all this is written by her wish, and that she hopos always to be your friend. She is poing away on a long visit to one of her relativas. Hoping you will wee the necessity for this step. I am yours very gncerely, Martha Haye."* He read it through, at first with the feeling and conviction that it must be a practical joke, then with keop ber in anything like the position in which who lives evon at present, my consent were quite different from ibose existing at present. Your prosâ€" pocts hbave quite altered. If you marry my «dlaughter now you cannot a deadly assurance that they were going to trake Violet from him. the handsome worn face grew deadizy pale:; a dazed, dim look came into his eyes; a great, teariess, voiceless sob rose to his lips ; the sunlight secmed to change to a bloodâ€"red mist, and a sound like the roar of distant waters filled his ears. HMe sat with the letter open in his Wind, dazed as a man who hRad received a terrrible blow. How long he sat he never knoew. It seemed to him that years of torture rolled over Ns head. _ He was literally â€" stunned. He had borno all his sorrrows with a brave, strongz heart _ because he had a itrue hopeâ€"& beautiful warm love. To take that from him was to leave him with no ground tostand took his hat from the the clork looked after terrilied . gaze, wond gould have hbappened Slowly thought and reason came back to bim. He rose, still with the open lotter in his hands, with a white set jook on his handsome, haggard young face? which migzht have touched a heart of stone. He took his hat from the stand, and MC* Juk taoked after him with i NRMRAABRET _ lccooecoumeremmeeeceremecceccmapendeae omm T CC 000 0OE CC NC C uie stt k t * ras mss n _ k PB n & & yR 5 e h) e "aily, : es 3 'S “' ‘); u‘)}' “ f ".v‘ 5 :"4 'A{ y ' 4 fls [z Es 2 F [ Cl LoR L LLLB 42 iase a#f ihma_stamdae tha henviest strainâ€"nrevar 20L TKE PAGE WIRE FENCE CO. Li d g"rn‘ wonderiag â€" what have hbappened to him. It is the fomce that has stood tha test of timeâ€"stands the heaviest strainâ€"rever kazsâ€"tho standard the world over. Order %r.;om eur local agent or direct from us. LIA"] the was half frigntened when her cyes fell upon his faco ; so unlike was it to any face she had ever seoen, go changed by his great woeo, she coukl hardly recognize it. She held cut her hand to him with some comâ€" monplace words of welcome. Ho did not hear them. "Come in here," ho said ; and, takâ€" inz her arm, he led her into the nearâ€" ost rcom. "‘Tell me," he asked, "did you write this ?" . There was nothing to be said but the truth, yet in all her liie Mrs. Hage had never been more frightened. She had to deal with a desperate man. "Surely Iknow best. Ican work â€"I do work. I would work night and day with that one hops before mo of making my darling my wife. Shoe loves me ; sho knows what trouble has come to us ; she is willing to wait a few months louger, and then to share my lot. It wiil be brighter in time ; everything will come right for us yet. I have no fear." "I am not wiliing, her father is not willingâ€"we see no use, no sense in the best and brightest years of her life being wasted in waiting for " Because you â€" cannot afford to marry ; you must not burden yourâ€" selft with a wife." a marriage that, when it comes, will be the worst thing that could happen to her. We are not willing; and I tell you frankly that Vioiet sees matters as we do. Sho wished me to ray all this." bAmdâ€"â€"yom=_s@y"~thaut Violet is wilâ€" lingâ€"that Violot knows about it ?" "I wrote it with har express eanction," she replied.. Pesgporat "It is false! 1 would not believe you if you swore it! I will not believe it ! Heaven is not so oruel." "There is no crueity in it," said Mrs. Haye; "it is what must be done." " Do you know what you are doing to meâ€"what you are taking from me ? Do you understand," ho cried, hoarsely, "that you are killing me?" "Will you tell done this eruol motive ?" "Yes, I wrote it, Felix; it w w i s Oner*RTTiTpegpts =â€"pyeeg ue ame cesc nnennnneat "Must be done! Do you know that she is my life itsellâ€"that I have no life apart from her, mo bope that does not begin and end with her? If you take her from me you leave a dead bodyâ€"she is my soul itself !" "I know tirat you are very fond of her," Mrs. Haye said, gently ; "still it can not beâ€"it can not, inâ€" deed." â€""I am sorry, of courseâ€"it is very hard, I knowâ€"but such a life as you offer Violet would kill her." § lHe paused, for the passion of his words overcamoe him. How was he to tell this woman what Violet, his beautiful love, was to him? How weak and impotent words were 1" "I do not believe it!" he cried. "You changed to me when my forâ€" tune changed. You were _ willing enough to give me my darling when you thought that I was the son of a rich man. I shall be rich again in time. I have seen the change in you; you have given my cold looks for kind onesâ€"you have been barely civil where you have been warmly cordial I understand itâ€"you love Mammon. Wealth, razk, luxury, are more to you than the heart of an honest man. But my dariing is not like you, and I will reccive the stateâ€" ment you have mado from no lips but hers." " But you cannot do as you proâ€" pose ;she is engaged to meâ€"she is my promised wifeâ€"no man or woman living has the power to break such a bond. She could not break it herâ€" self." % "I am sorry for him," said Mrs. Haye, when describing the scene to her husband. "But what can va do? There is one thing I am really thankiul forâ€"he has not the least idea about Sir Owen. I am rot nervous, but I d&o believe that if he suspected what has hapâ€" pened be wou‘ld kill hiw." ber." " Â¥ou will find you are mistaken there," said Mrs. Haye. And then Felix saw plaial« that it was useâ€" less to say mure to herâ€"there was something of animosity in her tone. e left her, still hoiding the open| letter in his hand. I Uo tried to look ‘ indifferent, to emils, but e couei not ; his pride ard scliâ€"control broke down at these pitying words. * aar? "Do forgive me, sir," she sail ; "but you have always been so good to me, and I know all about it. I am so sorry for rou, sivr, that I canot sleep for tbinking &f it." HUo tried to look ‘ indifferent, to _ As Folix left the house to Teturn Lome, Jenunis, a #@mart housemaid, who had often opened the door for Lim, and who thought him a noble= looking gontleman, ran after him. . "Toll me what you know, Jennie," he saig. "Thoy have sont her away, sir, so that you should not sce her and perâ€" TED,. ‘ My dauchter is not at home, and u will gain nothing from seeing o d c o t us t 3 1010 agich 122221228 12800 20000 Andprmity P h e 7i nds dig ~. OQrder tn:ough our local agent or direct from us. Walrgcna te, Cnt. â€" Moentrcal, Qcze. 6t. John, X.B. me why you have deed ? What is your a8 @usso hor. Traey have kopt it quite a sroret winre she is goreâ€"no one knrowsâ€"pit I «#to‘0o into her reom, and saw her trunk addressed to North Aiton, and I know that Mrs. Hoye has a cqusin living at North Aiton. She is goue there, &ir, and noâ€" where elze." ® Jennie would not tako the sovereign he offercd her, and the sympathy he read in her fa:ce cheered him. "It will be all right when I scee Miss Haye," ho said. "They have overpersuaded hor. She loves meâ€" and I trust her." " ‘Thank you, Jennic," he said ,"you have proved yoursoi{ a friend." P CiuiAPTER XXIL Felix sent his clerk to Vale House with a note erying that the family were not to be alirmed if he did not return that evening, as he had some important business to trausâ€" act in a town some milss distant, and Darcy Lonsdale, who was too ill then to feel an interest in anyâ€" thing professional, feebly blessed him as he listened. "He works hard," said Kate, as the read the noto; then she sighed, think ng how @‘fLierent matters would have been had Felix loved Eveliyn instead of Violat. Whe Hayes had stood aloof from them in their troubles; they had expressel Lbut litile sympathy, and Mrs. Lonsdalse folt it keenly, Violet haudl not been to see them, as Eve Lester had been; and Kate sighed again as she thought of the dififerâ€" ence betwoen the two girls. North Alton was quito forty miles from Liford ( Fclix knew that the name of Mrs. Hayo‘s cousin was Mirs Western. He had oiten heard Violet laugh about hor mother‘s cousin, who was an old maid. He said to himsclf that he would go to North Alton by the night train; then he could se Violet in the morning, and be at home again in the evening. w Ho little dreamed that people look ol at him earnestly as he went to tho station. His handsome young face boro the impress of unutterable soiwâ€" row, his cyes were cim and shadowed, with groat, Cark circles round them ; his lips wore pale and trembling. Ho bad never thought of taking foodâ€"â€" e had not even drunk a glass of water to cool his parched lips. So ill, so sorrowâ€"strickem, ko unlike the hangsome, gallant, noble Felix of the cay bofore was he that Mrs. Lonidale would hardly have known him had ghe geen him ; he looked like the ghost of himself. t 4 When he stood before Violet »he utâ€" tered a ery of sorrow, and dismay. He had left the lhotel to go to her aunt‘s house, and met her just as, dressed for a walk, she was leaving tho little frout garden. Sho was frightened, scared, at the wild eyes, the hoarse voice, the {face so full of pain. She dared not have s2ail to him : "I have made my choice, Felix, botween love and goid ; I have choser gold." And, wretched as she was, â€" thocgh ibs had gijes hm up, and never meant to marâ€" ry him. her whole heart went oat to him with greater warmth and greater love than it had ever gome before. She hold out her hands to him, but started at the touch of hisâ€"they burned hor Cke fire.. m“"\’c;'-l';ro-r-l;;{fixigi;\'ours‘ 17 i11, Felix,‘ sho said. mtp Afet+ * "NL!" ho repoatedâ€"and his laugh was more terribWe to her than any words. "How would you feel, Vioâ€" let, had anyone tried to tear the living, beating heart, from _ your bojy ? Oh, my darling, tell me it 1s not trucâ€"tell me #o, for Heaven‘s sakoe! Say that it is falseâ€"that they persvaded you, urged . you, wrote without your knowledze! Speak to me qcuickiy, fos I am going n}a(l." Sho was only a womanâ€"at the very bost a woeak oneâ€"ar«l ghe loved even after the weak fashion in which some women love. She could not enâ€" duro the sight of his pain. She dared not tell tim the truthy; she dida what weak women so olten doâ€" she temporized. s "I thought it bast, Felix, toâ€"to| give you some years free that you‘ might work the better. I should not ; like to hbe a burden to you." ' Heo drow a deep breath, like one râ€" lieved from an intolerable load, from am unbearable pain. #Is that all? Oh, my darling, my I wi‘l not reproach you. But why have you given me this fright ? I havre been almost dead. I am fifty yeara oller with tnese hours of Horrible pairn. Why did you not tell wo, sweet, what you dreaded ? There is nothing to fear. Violet. I am :o strong when I think of you that I could work by night and by day yet never feel fatigued. _ Such love as mine pits nerve into a man‘s right Land. Oh, Vioiet, sweet, you need not fear ! You shall have a home as beauâ€" tifol as love can make it. You shall Lave a life so easy and so free from care that whea it ends you will look back in wonder to see Low it has pagssed. You shall never know train or fatigue thiat I can save you from. You shall be served and waited upon ar«l atternded to unceasingly." Still she kad rot the courage to look at him and say, "I love you, She made him no answer, but ner harnds touched his gently. " A burdern? he repeated. _ ‘"You were afrmmid of betag a burden to me ! Oh, YViolet, life of my life, I ought i0 laugh at you ! Sweet burden, that I woukl fain carry until death claims mo! Woukl to heaven that the time were sear when I could make the dear barden all mine !" M Vice, CHE LEUS TE red not lla\'el Tho' egge for hatching should be de my choice, i kept in a cool placeâ€"â€"40 to 60 deâ€" goid ; I have i grees. The chickess should not be tched as she ‘ hatched later than the middle of d â€" gises hm .]uno. Mayâ€"hatched chickense are preâ€" it to marâ€" , lerable. 1t is quite possible for alâ€" heart went | most every Tarmer to increase the ter â€" warmth f rumber of chickens reared with llitâ€" o i+ had everd tloe extra labor. but I love â€" riclre betterâ€"I . have 3 chosen them insgiead of you." She was frighten . »ven to remember it. "You will nevor feel this fear again, Violet, wili you?": heâ€" said, speakâ€" lnbdbindieaseitet es ing more like himscl( than he had yet. "It is a> absurdâ€"yet perhips | THE LIVES OF ALL WOMEN BESET it is natural to a sensitive mind By sECREi 1ROUB like yourm 1 am sane now, but 1 Y x‘ LES. have been mad. Doxs my face alarm mmummmmmme you? You necd only laugh at it.{ eweot. I have forgotten to cat andl A Simple and Certain Method by drink since your mother‘s letter came. , Which the Iils of Girihood and Grink eince your molmer s IDiLICT LELTE! The sun was shining brightly andl warmly, but it seemed to change all at ofnce into a «corching fireâ€"ball, and I fvent mad. Yet I did not lose my faith in you, Violet. I kncw that you would never have «poken as your mother did, never have writâ€" ten as gho diJd. I can forgive her ; i:l is only natural that she should think | m» much of you. I am not good enough, but I love you so dea.rlyl that my great love stards in, the placo of great richas or great rank." i There is a great loss in farmâ€"rearâ€" ed chickens, caused by the mother hen haviag hor liberty. The hen wanâ€" ders throug» the wet grass, the chckess _ fo low her and bcâ€" come chilled sad the weaker ones die. "This loss can i»> prevented by confinâ€" ing the hers in a brood coop. It is more satisfcc:ory to have a large brood coop ‘!~t will be a shelter during inclam it weather. A packing box of three o# four feet, each dimenâ€" sion, is none too large. The cover of the box can be used for the floor. The box is reversed, open end on the ground, and an opening one foot high is made across one side of the box against the open end. Two one inch by two inch cleats are nailed on tha two ends of the box at the ground ; the cover of the floor is reduced in size so that it will slide in on these cleats. This allows the floor to be removed for cleaning. The box shou!d be coveredl with tar paper to make it waterâ€"tight and there should be a 10 by 14 ioch pane of glass in the front. This glass should slide in cleats for ventilation. In front of the one foot opening at the ground there should be a crate 15 inches high covered with latha, two inches apart. Th ho>s com> out intoth la h rate to be fed and wotered ; the chickons run through the laths. This form of coop will house safely one hen and 20 chickens. The number of coops is thus reduced. The hen and chickens should be placed in a grass field. This will reduce the mortality due to the chickess beinz reared on inâ€" ‘fected ground around the farm buildâ€" iings A number o{ cases have been renorted to the poultry division of lchlckens and turkeys dying tecause of feedinz on ground previously inâ€" . fested by diseased fowls. Yours very tlml:. W. A. Clomoss, publication clerk. Â¥ Still sho uttered no word â€" she dared not telil him the truth. ‘Y‘ou are strangely silent, Violet," hes aid, "Have I frightened you?" "No," #heo replicd ; "but you have startled ms. You look so ill, Felix, and so unlike your own sell." . "No wonder, my darling," he reâ€" turned. "But I will not startle you again â€"I willl remember how senâ€" sitive you are." C is Sho looked up at him with a smile â€"so sirens smile at men they lure to destruction. \ "I cannot help it; my mission in life is to love you." "I cannot ask you to come in and seo me," she said, "M.ss Western does not like gentlemen ; she never reâ€" ceives visitors." + "Felix," sho gaid, "you should rot love me so much, dear. You know what I have always toid you about idots of clay." A . Departmont of Agricultare, Commissioner‘s Branch, Thoro Is every Indication that there wili be a great consumption of poulâ€" iry in Canada this year. The demand for every class shows a striking inâ€" crease during the last few years. Mr. F. C. Hare, Chief of the Dominâ€" ion Poultry Division, does not beâ€" lieve it possible for the farmers to rear, for at least five yearsa _ to come, more utitityâ€"typa _ chickens than can be sold with prolit on the Canadian markets alone. Moreover, commisgion merchants in Great Biiâ€" taim can handle profitably at least $1,000,000 wortu oi our poultry yearly. 5 How the Farmers Can Make Money With Their Hens. It will pay almost every farmer to improvre his flock before the breedâ€" ing weason bogins. The old fowls vhould be kilied. There is a greatiy increaged profit from breeding from utilityâ€"type spscimens father than from common barn yard stock. It is preferable to select the eggs for hauching from a breeding p>n of the best ten or twelve hens and one cockerel, â€" rather than from _ the larger number of laying hens on the larm. As a general rule, the eggs that ara incubated on the farm are the eggs from the poorer layers. A utilityâ€"iyp»> Piymouth rock co.kerel should be bough: and placed at the head of the breeding pen. A great improvement will b» rot‘ced in any {lock ‘of farm fowls by crossing with the Plymouth rock. Ritting hens should not be allowed to hatch chickong in any place they chooso about the farm buildings. Tjoy should be in one pen, set apart for this purpose. The nest boxes ghould be made without a floor, and placed around the @ides of the pen. Two or three shovelfuls of _ earth whould be thrown irto each nest box ard a hollow, spaco scooped out for the egge ; the earth should be covâ€" ered sparingly \'w_.'..ith straw. A board is required in front of the nest to corfine the hen at will. This nest will give outdoor conditions in an inrdoor pen. The sitting hens should be thoroughly dusied with suighar to kill tho vermin. All of them should should b»a placed on the nests and watered at the one time. The heng »hould be placed on he nests _ and clossd in when feeding. It is advisâ€" able to start several hens together. The infertile eggo can then be tested out on the n‘nth day and one@ or more of the hens roeset. REARING CHICKENS, (To be Continued.) ONTARIO ARC TORONTO Womanhood May be Overcome. j _Every woman‘s health depends up-l on her bloodâ€"its richness and its reâ€" gulurity. SBometimes it is hard to beliove that nearly all common disâ€" eases spring from the blood, no matâ€" ter how daiferent they may seem. It is hard, for istance, to realizse that rheumaiilsm and indigesiion are both the causo of bad biood, and both cured by good blood. But there can be no doubt in the case of the secret troubles of a woman‘sâ€" life, from fifâ€" teen to !ifty. The blood is plainly the cause 0J all her irregularities in heaith. Then comon the signs of seeâ€" relt illlnoss, the hoadaches, backâ€" achos and sideaches ; the pale cheeks and dull Cyes; the failing appetite and irritable nerves; the hysteria and billiousness ; the weakness and langour; the distress and despondâ€" ancy and all the weary wretched feelings that attack wom>»n in their times of illâ€"health. And the biood is to biams for it all. Whoen; the blood is rich and red and regular, thore is little trouble in the iife of maid or mother.â€" That is why Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills for Pals People are wotth their weight in gold; to every; woman. They _ actually make new blood. Every dose sends galloping through the veins pure, strong, rich red blood that strikes at the cause of the secâ€" ret illâ€"health. ‘The new blood reâ€" stores regularity and braces all the special organs for their special tasks. Ia this way Dr. Williams‘ Pisk Pills banish the backaches and headaches, sharpen the appetite and the enerâ€" fies, soothe the nerves mnd bring batk the ro«y g ow of hcalth to fadâ€" ced cheek. Tlus is the special mission of Dr. Williams‘ Fink Pills and there is no other modicine in the world canr do it 10 successfully. Mrs. Goo. Danby, of Tilbury, Ont., has proved the truth of these statements. and says so for the benofit her experâ€" ience may bring to other suffering women. Mrs. Danby says; "I think Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills a blessing to suffering women. For a long time I was a great sufferer from the uilâ€" ments that afflict so many of my sex. I was cxtremcly nervous at all times, suffered a great deal with headaches and indigestion. In fact I was in a most miserable condition when I began the use of Dr. AWilâ€" liams‘ Pink Pilis, but after taking them a short time I began to imâ€" prove, and through their further use I am altogether like a new woman. } I am sure i‘ more women; would <ake Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills they would } be conviaced of the great good they can do." 1 s What Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills have dons for Mrs. Danby thoy can do for every growing girl and ailing woâ€" man in Canzda, if they are given a fair and reasonable use. But you must make sure you get the genuine pilis, with the full name, "Dr. wWilâ€" liams‘ Pink Pills for Pale People," on the wrappeor around every box. To be had from ali doalers in medicinge or by mail at 50 cents a box vr six boxes for $2.50 by writing the Dr. Williams‘ Modicine Co.. Brockyille, Ont. s Nonâ€"Partisan Wise Men Who Advise the Mikado. There is something very fascinating and feudal, not to say patriarchal, in that small knot of Japanese statesmen known as the "Genro." They are, as :t were, the verzy cream of talented and cnlightened patriotism, the top strawâ€" berries in the basket of Japan, who in their abnegation of self, their freedom from passion and political bias, their faithful endeavors for the good of their country and their compatriots, bring forcibly to one‘s mind the famous lines in which Lord Macaaay speaks of the good old days: When nore were for a party, And all were for the State. The members of the "Genro‘" are men who have done the State some services in the army, navy or other public purâ€" suit, who on admission among the elders, as they are called, completely sceparate themselves from all party excitement and strife; and when summoned by the Mikado to give him the berefit of their advice, do so dispassionately, and solely on the merits of the question befors them. Keep the Children Healthy. It would seem that every cure tuinâ€" der the sun bhad already been recomâ€" mended for that dread of nervous womankindâ€"insomnia. But here is still anotherâ€"a simple little device in the form of a bop pillow, that haos beon tested with excellent rcâ€" sults. Fresh hops and leaves are best, of course, but before this can be secured, in the s#pring, use the dried hops which should be sprayâ€" ed with a litile fresh alcohol beâ€" fore going to bed each night. Enâ€" cas> the hbops in a thin muslin slip, and use the thin hop pillow instead of the Nuifly feather pilow, or if it is used tn thor%:other pillow â€"have the latter os t as possible, and the head kept low, while breathing If the childrea‘s â€" digestive _ orâ€" ganse are all right. They wili be hearty, rosy, bappy and hungry. They will elcop well, and grow well. You can got your children right, and keep them right by the use of Raby‘s Own Tablets, which cure all stomâ€" ach and » bowel troubles, nervousâ€" nees, irritation while teething, break up colds and fever, < prevent croup and destroy worins. And you have a positive guarantee that there is no opiate or harm{ul drug in this mediâ€" cine. Mre. Joseph Herbeort, Killarney, Ont., saysâ€""I am glad to say that Paby‘s Owzs Tablets havo done my little one a great deal of good. I I havo als> given some of the Tabâ€" loets to friends who have found them equally â€" satisfactory. "All medicine doaloere sell the Tablets or they will be sent by mail at 25 cents a box by writing The Dr. Williamg Mediâ€" cine Co., Rrockville, Ont. the soothing odor of the hops. THE JAPANESE " GENRO." Novel Remedy for Insomnia. ET Holstein Grages in the Dairyâ€"Ey George A. Martin. A poor man cannot afford to keep a prur cow. Nothing wili more sureâ€" ly keep a man prr than to keep a hbera of cows which produce | otiy! enough to pay ithe bare cost _ of keeping. ‘The aggregate yie.d from five cows, at an average of 3,000 pounds each, is only| as much Aas that inom two cows at 7,500 pounds each, while the cost of keepng the additional three cows uses up all the ppofit. To start right a farmer had bettor buy one good, wellâ€"bred Ho!â€" steinâ€"Friesian cow than invest the same money in a lot of mongrele. In tho first place, he can, by broedâ€" ing his cow to a pureâ€"bred buil and raising all the heifer caives, in time possess a herd of choice pureâ€" bred cows ; but with a herd of scrubs bred to serub bulls he wiill keep his nose on the grindstone to the end of the chapter, as too many dairy farmers are dobng all over the counâ€" try. But many, if not most, of our dairy farmers have in ‘their herds of "natives," some indivigcals . of more than average merit. By breedâ€" ing these to good, pureâ€"bred Holâ€" steinâ€"Friesian bulls and continuing to grade up the heifer calves in the same way,a hord of high grades may be established. If not as good as pureâ€"bred cows, they will be far betâ€" ter than a â€" misccllancous lot of mongrols. Aside from a moderate serâ€" vico fee to begin with, it costs no more to raise a grade calf than a scrub. A valuable object lesson on this subject is given in Bulletin 169 ' Running a newepaper in Russia is preâ€" eminentlya risky operation, The Czar‘s Government snends more on the press censorship than it does on education, and quite recently the staff of press censors had been increased by eight. Cerâ€" tainrly the censor earns his salary in Russia. Last year 83 rewspapers were suspended for periods amounting in of the Cornell Experiment Station. It contains in tabulated form the gistoryr of the milk secretion of the niversity hord of about twoenty cows, largely| composed of Holstein grades. Jt is remarked in the beâ€" ginning, that "in building up the herd the aim has been to form one that would furnish an object lesâ€" son to those farmers who desire to improve their herds, but go not feel able to _ purchase pure bred stock entirely." Accordingly the herd han been developed from the ordinary etock of the neighborhood by tho use of pure bred bulls and a rigid sclection oT the best heifors. At tho rtart the average yield of milk per cow, was a little more than 2000 pounds. Th descendants of these same cows are now producing over 7,500 pounds of milk per cow. This increase of two and a hbalf times is the result of judicious selâ€" ection 0% #gire and dam, together with careful feeding, and is a result which every farmer may obtain by follow» ing a #gimilar course. In fact, taking the Holsteins alone, the average yield of milk was over 9000 pounds of milk per year. . The groatest production for one lactaâ€" tion was by Ruby, threeâ€"fourths Holâ€" stein, who gave in 64 weeks, 16,089 pounds of milk, containing 531.32 pounds of fat, equivalent to _ 623 poundse of butter, contqning 85 por cont. fat. The leeson is & most impressive one for every farmer who keepa cows. RBy tho use of pure bred buils, the rolection of the best heifors and careâ€" ful feeding, a herd was in a few yeare graded up from an average yield which scarcely paid the cost of keeping, to a highly profitable ayâ€" erago. â€" The result is one "which every farmer can obtain by following a ®lmilar course." Jf there is no available Holetein bull in the neighâ€" borhood, an§ the farmer does not feel able to buy one, he can almost anyâ€" where find neighbore who can be persuaded to join him in a club for that purpose. _A few of the poorâ€" ost cows in each herd, if fed and sold to the butcher, would bring enough to buy a good bull, and the herds would be better for the sift. ing. all to thirtyâ€"one years and ten days; twontyâ€"six papers were forbidden to acâ€" cept advertisements, and 256 editors were officially threatered with Siberia if .cy did not mend their ways. The censorship even pursues the unfortunâ€" ate after it ejects him. One eminent eonductor of a scientific journal who was dismissed at the instance of the censor is practically condemned to starve or emigrate. All the papers and publishers in Russia are forbidden to accoept "copy" from him.â€"Lordon Tattles. ,» The bidding of my crafty sire, Who drew me out of clay, And sent me forth, on paths untrod, To slay his puny clan; A slave of hell, a scourge of God, For 1 was made by Man. Too confident of strength to heed ‘The menacing faint sound, As from their leash, like bloodhounds freed, The snub torpedoes bound; She does not note them quartering wide, Nor guess what lip is this Where tossed on turbid waters lies Iis biting Judas kiss. When foul fog curtains droop and Athwart an oily sea; My rhythmic pulse begins to beat ; ‘Tis hunting time for me. A breathing swell is hardly scen, To stir the emerald deep, As through that ocear jungle gre I, velvetâ€"fooied, creep. And lo! my prey. a palace reared Above an arsenal, By lightning‘s viewless finger stecred, Comes on majestical. The mists before her bows dispart; And ‘neath that Traitors‘ Gate The royal vessel. high of hbeart, Sweeps queenlike to her fate. TiN with a roar that frights the stare, Her cracking timbers rend, And Jurid smoke and flaming spars In one red storm ascend; Whose booming thunder Jrowns the eries Of myriad souls in, pain: That press on her stately side My quarry, torn in twain. â€"Edward Sydney Tylee. The Destroyer. A dwarfish thing of stecl and fire; My iron nerves obey JOURNALISM IN RUSSIA. KEEP THE BEST. le green meet