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THE MYSTERIOUS KEY OR, PLANNING FOR THE FULURE. CHAPTER XIII.--(Cont'd) "Have you children of your own, Mr. Lyman?' questioned wady Bromley. "None at heme, | ay sorry tO) her since you went out. : have. tWOl terribly excited over the déscovery married sons living in the far West, | and I confess I shall sadly mics my} present #gentle little companion) say, madam, though I when sho is taken from me," saic day," he continued, quickly recov- ering himself, well enough, I have wheeled her out in the open air, and we often spend | un-| derstuod you to say that her name | 'hours together in this way. ja Allison Brewster?" be conclud- ed inquiringly. "*Yos." "Then I think it will be Tan remarked. thing in our power to arouse the ant.'" "Yes, yes; that will be well,"' | paid Lady Bromley _ eagerly, and just then her companion pausod be- fore the imposing entrance to ex- e, Mrs. Brom- ley," he quietly observed. "Will ou come in with us? I shall be hanpe to introduce you to Mrs. Ly- man, and then we will all talk fur- ther about our plans for our pro- bs ale y Bromley glanced up as he spoke, to find herself standing be- fore an elegant residence. The house was built of brownstone, and Was surround beautiful grounds, laid out and ornamented in the most tasteful ranner, the whole estate indicai::s5 unlimited means. now. % unexpected denouement to converse - eonnectedly with any one," her ladyship replied, with a tremulous emile. "I will, however, if agree- eble to you, call later in the day, for there are still many questions which I would like to ask about this dear girl."' She bent down as she ceased speaking, and earnestly studied the invalid's face. . Again the maiden looked up and smiled confidingly at her, and 1t was ail she could do to refrain from sobbing aloud. "Allison," she «could control her voice, "where is | Gerald?' | The fair face clouded at the ques- tion; a perplexed, wondering ex-| ression crept iuto and led bome. ; Lady Bromley bent lower still, and pressed her lips almist pas- siouately to the white, upturned Tow. "God grant that you may soon go home, and in your right mind," she muraiured brokenly; then, turning sbruptly away, she walked swiftly back to the house of her friend. She went directly to Mrs. Bry- ant's boudoir, where that lady was impatiently awaiting her return, and throwing herself into a chair, bowed her face upon her hands and wept as she had not since those first hopeless days after her hus- band's deat Mrs. Bryant regarded her won-! deriugly, but seeing that she was teo much agitated to converse up- cn any topic, considerately left her to herself fur a while, and went be-| lew to give some orders regarding household matters. | Spon ker return she found her) guest more composed, whereupon | Lady Bromley related all that had, occurred in connection with the dis- | covery of Allison. | "What a wonderful story!" said: Mrs. Bryant, ag she conclud-d, | acd I think. Mabel, you have shown rare wisdom in advising Mr. Ly- man to allow the surgeons to carry | out their plans, rather than arouse} the anxiety and fears of Winches- ter, and thus, perhaps, delay the operation indefinitely. Of course, uf the result should not prove to be all they hope, you could telegraph him. and he could come on immedi- ately. But if, on the other hand, | she does recover her reason, he: will never fully 'realize what her condition has been, and that, ac-) cordiig to my way of'thinking, will, be a practical illustration of the eld adage regarding the 'bliss' of ign orance."" "Sc it almost seemed like pre- sumption on iny part tu assume any authority in the matter." Brentey replied, and flushing sen- sitiveiv 4 "and yet Tam sure that Gerald. of whem Dam very fend. will focltthat f was actuated only votives. Ey} ot Tart open gayle 1 at cr the outcome is,' said her} friend. 'Besides, your discovery of her to-day was the merest accident. But fur Ellen, you would have known nothing about her, and then the operation would have been per- formed and the dié cast. The Ly- mans are fine people, and very wealthy. I have never happened to meet them.- Ido not believe they go ovt much. But I have friends who know them, and they speak very highly of them. I haye often seen Mr. Lymen wheeling that pret- ty givl by the house, but, of course, I vever dreamed but that she was his own danghier, or that such a ro- mance was asseciated with her." with « suspicious) aitin's 'since she became | I am too agitated over this-terto- the innocent! She spent a Then! wady r | "Itis avery sad romance, in some respects," said her ladyship, with an sigh. "By the way, He!en, where is our little maid?' "T don't know. I hiavea't seen She was cf Misz Brewster. How did she happen to know anything about her i" : : Lady Bromley related the story of kindness to the poor, 'downtrodden girl, after which she |went in search of her. She found ber in her own room lying upon her 'hed, her face awollen and discolor- ed, her eyes bloodsrhot from long- continued weeping . She had been emitten to the soul upon realizing that the beautiful girl whose image she ha en- well to/Shrined in her heart was @ sense- addrees her so hereafter," Mr. Ly-| loss creature, "We will do every-| sweet a one. ;on memory which has sv long lain dpr- | ha: albeit so gentle and Her first emotion up- beholding her in the wheel-chair been one_of wildest joy; but when she fully comprehended the meaning of that vacant stare which greeted her expressions of delight-- when she heard the childish bab- bling which flowed from her smiling lips, the shock of horror and re- pulsion which went through her was one which she never forgot, and which almost broke her heart then and there. Lady Bromley, pitying her grief, sat down beside her and tried t comfort her. She talked long and kindly to her, and encouraged her to hope that all might yet be well with the fair gir] whom she £0 loved. fhen she had succeeded in calm- ing her somewhat, sho told her to go to sleep and have a long rest, for sho saw that she was almost prostrated by excessive grief. | Then she went away to her own room, where sho wrote a long let- ean ' : -€On: all that had occurred, and asking him if she had done right in allow- ,ing the operation upon Allison to 'proceed without first consulting 'Gerald. She cautioned him not te betray anything to Gerald until after he should hear from here jagain. If he thought wel! of what 'was being done, or otherwise, she 'wished him to telegraph her im- | mediately upon receiving her let- ter. She would receive the mes- sage in season to communicate with Mr. Lyman and stop the work of |the surgeons if he thougpt it best said, when she t delay their experiment. Her letter written and posted, she rested a while, then repaired to the home of the Lymans, as she had promised. honr or more with ithe gentleman and his stately but 'charming wife, between herself and whom there immediately sprang up a strong feeling of friendship, and _ed: | "May I come to stay with you to- morrow while the surgeons are here ]' "Certainly you may. Mrs. Brom- ley"--they had not learned of her jtitle yet. "IT shall he very glad to have you with me; it will be a great comfert," Mrs. Lyman heartily re- sponded. "Of course, I know,"' she ndded, "how anxious you must fecl 'on Mr. Winchester's account; but something seems to whisper to my heart that great Things will result ifrom to-morrow's experiment."' And with her own heart feeding 'upon these comforting words, Lady Eremley went back to her friend and tried to possess her soul in pati- ence until the following day at twelve, which was the hour set for the momentous test of surgical skill. Ten o'clock the next morning brought her the anxiously looked- for message from her brother, and his hearty approval of the course which she had pursued did much toward. bracing her nerves for the coming ordeal. It read thus: "Wonderful news! Let them co ahead, by all means. Telegraph result immediat@y. G. must not know until crisis is passed.--R.L."' So, a little before noon, with a sense of restfulness and a calm though grave face, Lady Bromley preeeeded to the residence of the symens. Mrs. Lymaa received her very graciously, and with apparently the utmost composure, altheign an un- natvral pateress betraved that she was by no means freo from anxiety. A few mo ts betore the clock struck the fatefal she con Cucted her guest te a conservatory at the rear of the hou-e, where. sur- rare sith birds -inging joyously at ust aod the musi ta whain as a9 t, fea talke | lat ang tes Betsey A Sh MS OSs IETS. She was charming in her delicate tactfulness, and did not allow the conversation to flag for a moment. There was always some rare exo- tic or a profusion of bloom to call her attention to if there was the slightest pause, while she occipi herself by culling here and there a ud a lossom, which she ar- ranged into a tasteful bouquet for Lady Bromley to take to Brs. Bry- ant when she returned. Thus more than an hour passed, and then a step sounded upon the marble floor at the entrance to the conservatory, when Mrs, Lyman, with a start, turned abruptly and wert to meet her husband He-was very pale, but a look of im| very sure that wo have helped to be i a -beautifat rT the sailors could have for dropping to her friends indescribable joy and triumph il- lumined his face. "'Mother,'"' he said, laying a fond hand upon the shoulder of his wife, "all is well over, and the very best upon herself. She sank weakly up- on a chair which stood near. She led, while her eyes still eagerly searched her husband's face, as he continued: : - "It was exactly as Doctor Lati- men thought--there was a fragment «f bone pressing upon the brain, and the moment it was removed, Allison cried out, as if from suddea ear: 'Gerald, save me!'"' CHAPTER XIV. There was a profound silence for a moment. Then ly Bromley eagerly exclaimed: "Ah! that shows that the portion ef her brain which has so long re- mained inactive has resumed - its normal condition."' "Yes, or, as tne surgeors explain it, those words formed partyof a sentence which was prabublyie her mind at the time of that terrible railroad crash," Mr. Lyman return- ed. "They think that she may, per- haps, have had a momentary rea- lization of her danger, and her first thought was naturally of her lover an desire for his presence to protect her." "That certainly seems a reason- able conclusion," said her ladyship. "But how did she appear when she recovered from the influence of the ether ?" "She was very quict. She did not speak, but Inoked curiously and inquiringly into the faces about her. A sleeping-potion was admin- istered to her, and they are now putting her to bed." "And Doctor Latimer is really hopeful that all will be well?' o| queried Lady Bromley anxiously. "Very hopeful. There is a tiny spot that has to be trepanned, but it will in no way disfigure our dear girl, for the hair can easily be ar- ranged over it," said the gentle- man, smiling cheerfully into the white faces looking up. at him. Mother," he added, with visible emotion, "we have lost 'our baby'-- she has seemed such to us," he ex- plained to their guest, "but I am give able little woman and to the world. "For which I give most hearty thanks," said Mrs. Lyman rever- ently. Then, rising, she put the flowers which she had gathered into Lady Bromley's hand. 'Let every blossom bear a sweet messago of hopo to. your heart,"' she said, with a smile; "and just as soon as Allison is able to see you, you must come to tell her of the one whem you both love so well"? Feeling weak and almost exhaust- ed from the reaction of suspense to hope, her ladyship. bade her new friends adieu, and rettirned to Mrs. Bryant's, when she despatched a ae gee to. her brother, reading thus: "Everything is well over. Case r ce ks F rery | s Sho then wrote him a letter, to follow the telegram, giving details | dition. and he could use his ow judgment about revealing the trut to Gerald. (To be continued.) "4 TEACHING BY n bh STORIES. How an English Teacher Drove Home a Moral Lesson, The simple manner in which a moral lesson can be conveyed to the mind of a child was delightfully de- monstrated recently at the house ef Mrs. Eric Hambro, London, Eng- land. The children sat round a slightly raised platform with their backs to the audience. Mr. Gould, with the aid of a blackboard, com- menced straightway to take them into his confidence. "'I am going » draw a map,' said Mr. Gould, with a smile; "and I wonder if you can name the country--I wonder." It was a crude outline. but thie teen hands went up simultaueously. 'India !'" came a chorus of then i "And the religion of the people?' "The¥ are Mahometans."' And there and then he told a-story of Jelal, the Mahometan teacer, who bowed acknowledgment to a street child that had bowed to him. "Now, what trait had the great delal displayed in bowing to tat child?' Thirteen children mace thirteen guesses, but the word that expressed the situation was not named. "Never mind," said Me Gould; "it will occur to you pre ; sently,"' and with charming tact he ;commenced to relate a story of a gentleman who, while traveling in ja Parisian railway carriage with a 'number of miners, was asked if he _ objected to their smoking. He re- plied in the negative, although suf of '-' féring from a bronchial affe-tion. "Any way, the miners put away their pipes," the story-teller pro ceeded. "Now, what, had. they shown!" "Respect.'" came the an- swer in a flash. Then back the childrea were taken to India and the stury of Jelal. They saw the point, and sv at the end of tweive minutes a great lesson had been taught in the simplest of ways. So by story-telling Mr. Gouid built up "a golden ladder" of re- spect--respect to a child, an inva- lid, a teacher, other nations, Other religions and to animals. * pe The grocers boy was lumbering up the kitchen stairway with his arms full of packages. "Boy," said the mistress of the house somewhat sharply, "are your faet clean y _"Yes'm," he answered, still climbing the stairs, "it's only me shoes that's dirty," results are looked for." Gal hs Then it became apparent-what a strain the woman hed beén labor- ing under--what 4 cu e had put spoke no word, but her lips tremb- e ics, and an electrical them of interest. Mr. J. E. Warren, the author of Adventures power of giving shock is "what makes ome. ~ A friend, at whosg-house we were visiting, had a small eel of the elec- tric kind, which he kept in - - ya. of water placed in the search of water, chanced to see this vessel, upon the side of which he perched himself and began very inconsiderately to drink. In a mo- ment he received a shock which made all his feathers to stand on end, and which magnified him twice his ordinary size. But the duck was more valorous than any one would have supposed, for he re- turned to the attack with such vio- lence that he wou ave soon de- spatched his slippery enemy had not a servant interposed and pre- vented so tragic @ termination of the battle. : Two incidents as amusing as the foregoing took place on board our vessel while we were on our return voyage to the United States. Among our living curiosities we had two young electrical eels, which we kept in a large tub on deck. Wish- ing one day to change the water, we upset the tub, leaving the crea- tures for a few minutes on the dry toards. Having replenished the vessel with fresh water, we request- ed one of the sailors to put them in As he proceeded to do so, he received a strange thrill. which caused him to let the fish fall from his hand in a moment. He attempt- ed it again, but with no better suc- SS. Infinite was the consternation of ibe other sailors, who tried in turn to put the diabolical fish into tho tub, and truly laughable were their looks o d t d by the mysterious sensations which they had severally experienced, No one, however, was more amazed than the captain's mate. Being himself wholly unacquainted with the properties of the fish, he was unable to imagine any other reason thirsty duck in rambling about in' : ABOUT MALAY PIRATES WHAT THEY ACTUALLY WERE IN THEIR GREAT DAY. _--_-- Recorded That the Worst Malay Pirates Were Not Malays at All. Dumber of those who swept the coasts of Borneo alone, going and returning with the monsoons, at five thousand. When. Consul at Bruni, somewhat latter, St. John estimated the population which lived, as one may say, by piracy, included, with their women and children, it would have been vastly larger. writes Freder- ick Boyle in the Pall Mall Gazette. he judicious reader instantly replies that trade must, have come to an end promptly under this in- fliction. But the ruffians did not depend on plunder. It was wel- come, but they sought slaves--and blood. Inexplicable as it seems te us, the parompaks, though most- ly Mohammedans, regarded their employment as a callinlg or profes- sion to which they were born. With no thought of wrongdoing, appar- ently, they murdered harmless fish- ermen, sailors or peasants dwelling on the shore, if too old or feeble to be worth transport, and tortured se whom they carried off. Among the most dreaded pirates aiso were the Seribas and Sakarran Dyaks, Rajah Brooke's future sub- jects, who wanted heads and no- thing more; alt plunder they sur- rendered to the Malay chief, who provided the praus and navigated them. But these were A LOCAL SCOURGE. It is not very surprising to leara that the worst Malay pirates were not Malays at all; that unfortu- nate race bears a good many im- putations which it does not deserve. The Lanuns, or Illanuns, dwelt ori- ginally in Mindanao, a great island of the Philippines, where Damp- ler found them peaceable enough, working gold. They were not a seafaring people then, though the chiefs had their gorgeous barges. The Balinini came from Slul; ia | MONARCHS AS SMOKERS. Some Like Cigars and Cigaretces, "Others Fond of a Plain Pipe. rkey was shut up ia the Yildiz Kiosh he is said to have smoked over thirty cigarettes every hour to "cool hi rves,"' For years Abdul Hamid has smoked doz- ens of strong cigarettes every day, and it can be said without fear cf contradiction that he has been the About 1550 Rajah Brooke put the} moest-ardent devotee of the frag rant weed that was ever seated up- on a throne, says London Tit-Bits. King Edward likes cigars, cigar ettes and a pipe, He, however, has no liking for American made cigar- ettes, his favorites being mild Lur- kish. In his yotng days his Ma jesty smoked cigarettes and nothi.g else, but now he is more fond of @ good cigar than "tobacco wr ia paper." His everyday cigar is specially made for him in Gaba of the finest tobacco. e German Emperor smokes cigars and cigarettes out of doors, but when in the privacy of his study he puffs at a small wooden pipe of the type favored by the average smoker and costing about half a dollar. The Kaiser consumes vari- ous kinds of tobacco, sometimes a mixture, and his cigars, which come from Cuba, cost about fifty cents each. : The King of Spain keeps strictly to the cigarette. This is rolled in paper ungummed and requires very careful smoking to keep whole. Al- fonso's cigarette is about as pecu- liar as the cigar which the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria used to smoke. The latter was fitted with a straw tube and had to be held in a candle flame for a minute or two before it could be made to raw. The Czar of Russia and the Prince of Wales favor the pipe when in private, but their smoking imple- ments are of little value. A small pipe of the "bulldog" type is af- fected by each and the tobacco they consume is of the common, inexpen- sive kind. Bismarck was an ardent devotee of the weed and it was his boast that he consumed over 100,000 ci- gars in fifty years. Thomas Alva Edison probably holds the record for the number of cigars smoked daily by one man, for he has con- fessed that while ten cigars are his normal 'all e consumes dou- them than the difficulty of holding such slimy and slippery things in one's hands. Fortified with this opinion, the mate walked boldly up to the larg- est cel and seized it with a power- ful grasp in order to prevent the possibility of escape on the part « the fish. He was soon forced to let go his hold and to yell out as lus- tily as if some one had touched him with a bar of hot iron. After much laughter the captain finally pro- cured a shovel, and we returned the cels to their native clement with- out any further difficulty. "SCOTCH," A CANINE HERO. a Dog. t is a touching story of canine fidelity which Mr. Enos A. Mills tells of his dog 'Scotch' ia '*Wild Life on the Rockies."". Master and dog had been out on a four days' excursion on the bleak mountain tops, when a little above timber- line Mr. Mills stopped to take some photographs. To do this he had to take off his sheepskin mittens, which he placed in his coat pocket, but not secufely. as it preved. He goes on: From time to time; as I climbed the summit of the continental di- but on the summit the cold pierced my silk gloves, and I felt for my mittens, to find that one of them was lost. s I stooped, put en arm round Seotch, and told him I had lost a mitten, and that I wanted him to go down for it to save me trouble. Instead of starting off willingly, ss: he had invariably done before in obedience te my commands, he stood still, i thenght he had mis- understood me, so I patted him, and then, pointing down: the slope, said, 'Go for the mitten, Scotch. I will wait here for you." He started for it, but went unwil- lingly. He had always served me so cheerfully that I could not un- derstand, and it was not until late the next afternoon that I realized that he had not understood me, but that he had loyally, and at the risk of his life, tried to obey me. My cabin, eighteen miles away, was the nearest house, and the re- gion was utterly wild. I waited a reasonable time for Scotch to re- turn, but he did not come back. As it was late in tse afternoon, an reasoned that he me. When at midnight he had jnot come, [ felt something was wrong. I slept two hours and decided to ge to meet him. The thermometer showed fourteen below zero. [kept en going, and at two in the after- l noon, twenty-four hours after ihad sent Scotch back, I paused on a crag and lowked below. There ta ithe snowy world ef white he lay by the mitten ia (2 snow. He hed it. Ee . After waiting for him to eat & lun n, we started meryily to- wa a 3 where We arriv one o'clock in the mornings ad I not returned, I suppose Scotch would have died beside the mitten. Ina region cold, cheerless, gppressi: ss aps to dle, AR because he understood that T told him to. In the annals of dog heroism, I know of no greater deed. It takes an expert female shopper to got rid of a dellar's worth of en- ergy in an attempt to save 2 cents, Story Showing the Faithfulness of vide, I stopped tv take photographs, | misunderstood w2, and had gone back to guard the mitten instead of to get i ed at fact;-that---was-a-piraticat-name-tor the islanders, otherwise called Su- lus. Perhaps it was they who start - ed the abominable practice, for ti. Spaniards were provoked into send- ing an expedition against them a early as 1589. t fniled, as did anethe:, "and from that time," says the old historian Zuni- ;ga, "it is incredible what a num- ' ber of Indians (Filipinos).have been | made prisoners, what villages have {been destroyed, and what vessels have been captured." jut the Spaniards succeeded at length in making Mirdane tov hot to huld the wanun = freebooters, who dispers- ca, forming settlements up and down the China Sea, each of which became A CENTRE OF PIRACY. One can understand that this way of life fosters courage and enter- [prise as well as seamanship. The 'daring of these two peoples espec:- lally was superb. In their praus cf fifty to a hundred tons burdon they started every year with the moonsoon for a cruise of six or twelve or even eighteen months. Nothing daunted them until the treacherous European invented sieam. Once the Lanuns sent a for- ithe Dutch fleet to a duel en regle; ithey did not turn up at the rendez- lvous, but experts believe that the cartel was delivered in good faith. | The length of their cruises is scarce- ily credible, Wallace says the Sulus | not infrequently -- reache Ceram jand New Guinea. They were brave ;to madness, full of life and energy. | Some boys were taken in the fight | between the Rainbuw and a squad- leon of Lanuns in 1862, of whic | To | Bishop MacDougal wrote a fam- jous account in the Times. Carried to Sarawak, these urchins instant- ty put themselves at the head o the native youth, and organized it for mischief. I once heard the com- mnandant say to Rajah Brooke: "We shall never have good order in the town again until you send those Lunan brats away!"' It is a question whether these races took to piracy because they were more intelligent, o STRONGER CHARACTER, than their neighbors, or whether piracy developed their faculties; but certainly they were the most vigorous and hopeful of the peo- ples called Malay. Crawfurd ad- mits that the Sulus had attained a 1 ble civilization" of their own; in fact, Hunt's report on the main island, drawn up for Sir Stamford Raffles, pictures it a gar- den, admirably cultivated by a free and happy people. Doubtless the pirates were law-abiding and in- dustrious when at home. But the high prosperity represented by ear- ly travelers-came to an end under the repeated attacks of Spanish, | Dutch and British squadrons. In /1878 the Spanish were able to con- 'quer Sulu. That incubus has ibeer removed, happily, and-we may jhope that the former pirates will 'show those éapacity as leaders in ® i thg march of progress, under Am. erican rule. ------EEE PROUD. "They say he's proud of his new baby." " actually believes that something has occurred in his family that no cther family has ever experienced." et HAPPY ENDING. He--"So you've read my novel. How did you like it?" She--"'I laid down the volume with intense pleasure,'* new ma! challenge to Batavia, inviting; "Proud! I should say heis. He During the last few days the Sul- |. .jtan of On the Farm DAIRY WISDOM. | Do not neglect to use some good fly repellant in the days of fly tor- The fly plague costs a greate'r; sum than any dairyman can afford. The shrinkage will amount to n per cent. or more every day. Not only is there a-loss in milk and butter fats, but the cows shrink in weight, causing still further loss lve cows comfort in the stable and pasture, and the profits of the dairy will be doubled. Keep the stable and yards abso- lutely clean and spray or sprinkle with a good disinfectant so there wil] be no breeding places for flies. go ormula for spraying the cows is the following: To one quart of kerosene add a tablespoon- ful each of oil tar, fish oil, carbolic acid and oil of pennyroyal. is mixture, thrown in a fine spray on a cow, is death to tlies and mosqui- toes. See that the cows have access to pure water at all times. Add a pure-bred Jersey or Guern- sey or two to herd. It will improve the butter. Keep rock salt in all the mangers and in a box in tbe pastures, Clover is pastures in good while it lasts, but it is soon crowded out or dies out itself. If the grass in the pasture is tall and plentiful, do not let the cows stay in it all day when they are first turned out. A few hours will down the grass much they will not eat. By having a new field to turn them into each week, you will give the grass # chance to straighten up and be washed clean by the dew and shower. Then the cows will eat it and do much better on it. Set the cans and other right down into them. germs and things will scramble to get to some other farm. ble that nurhber when deeply ab- s« bed in 1 Edwin Booth, the tragedian, 'n smoked twenty- five cigars a day and his dresses used to stand in the wing with a lighted cigar in his hand ready for the great actor when he made his exit.. Dr. Norman Macleod, a fam- ous Scottish preacher, used to keep a iwith a ' |f his elders. Tennyson's love for his pipe was 'proverbial. It was the great poet's hoon companion and an Irish clay was his favorite. Baskets of clay pipes ready for use were stacked arourd the walls of his study and as many as 200 were to be fa@hd lying loose on the floor. ---- RESTORED HIS SIGHT. Blind for a Year, but Operation was Successful. How the skill of a London surgeon 'has brought back sight to a mar | who had been blind for more thana | year was told by Mr. B. Cahl, reéc- fently treated at the Reyal London ! Ophthalmic Hospital. The injury which caused total blindness in both eyes was the re- sult-of-an éxplosion in_a gold mine at Johannesburg in March, 1903. "After the explosion,' Mr. Cahl . "I called out in the dark- ness for some of the boys to bring a candle. When one of them final- ly insisted he was holding a light- ed candle before my face I knew I was' blind. was in hospital in Johannesburg under. several doc tors for the next three months, and then in July came to London and was treated at the London Ophthal- mis Hospital. "Becoming impatient I went to Vienna, where I consulted two dif- ferent specialists. Both told me there was absolutely no hope of my ever regaining my sight, and ad- vised-me to enter a home for the blind. I returned to the London Ophthalmic Hospital, and in Feb- ruary of this year en operation was performed on my ieft eye (the right having been totally destroy- ed), and now, by means of glasses, I can see fairly well-and even read fine print.' ee BABYLON'S ANCIENT WALLS. Primgyai Dwellings 5.000 Years Old. Beneath Euphrates. The most ancient walls of Baby- lon were constructed of sun-burnt brick, scarcely distinguishable from the closely packed earth, and some idea can be obtained of the extreme difficulty of the work of excavation. The oldest Babylonian houses which have 1 rest On rubbish heaps and ruins, but deeper diggings is impossible ewing to the fact that water levy} has been reached. The Euphrates the bottom of one of these pits a the little heap of prnaments, a cou- ple of coppér bracelets and the beads of a necklace that had been worn by some Babylonian woman in the third millenium before Christ, and were restored at last to the light of the sun. emer. PEATE TT - REFORMED, i 'My lazy son has at last decided on a profession that he thinks he'll like."' -- 'Good. What has he chosen?" 'He wants to be a lineman for a wireless telegraph cémpany.'" f lf your cows ever get to breath- ing hard, look up their nostrils and see if a stick is lodged there. LIVE STOCK NOTES. A good dust bath does more to keep the chickens free from lice than does the occasional dosing with djlouse powder, and for this.reason should always be a part of the poul- © try fixtures. Skim milk and grass fed together make a valuable ration, and in the ease of growing pigs the milk is sold |at a good profit. Carefully con- | ducted experiments prove that such milk is worth twenty to forty-five Paige per hundred weight when so fed. At this time of year horses suffer a great deal from hard, dry hoofs. A good soaking dogs them good Just to drive through a bit of water once in a while is better than nothing. During the hot months a small lot near the stables !with a gocd, smooth, firm sod where the workhorses can be turned doose for the night, after the even- ing meal and grooming, is ideal, and will prolong their usefulness. In the days of our grandfathers it was a disputed point whether the slightest benefit could be gained by causing ewes to rear "two lambs instead of one. ~~ Nowa- 'days, the utility is held to be un- ; questionable, very much in conse- quence o subjected to more liberal feeding. n the old days, farmers employed auxiliary feeding substances only sparingly. If the lambs had to be attened off early, the advantage of giving a little special food was seen, ut, as a rule, was restricted to fattening sheep, hence the almost universal opinion 'that it was better to have one strong lusty lamb thar two weak ones. FARM NOTES. It is a goud idea to cut off the corners of a field surrounded | by wire fence with a heavy pole. This will keep the stock' from crowding into the corners and being injured. The future happiness, welfare and existence of the country depends upon the cultivation of the soil. Any country that depends upon any other source as a chief depend ent has failed. The cultivation of the land is the first and greatest element of success and permanens prosperity. ; ' Nearly everybody knows that milk in a jar or bottle can be kept cool on a warm day by covering the ves- sel with a wet cloth, but not every- body knows how to keep the cloth wet, This can be dune by setting the vessel in a shallow dish of water, whieh will be taken up by capillary attraction. Bevkwheat is one of the few Stain crops which may be planted about the middle of July with a | prospect of a good yield, the crop /maturing about the middle of Sep. tember. A good point of the crop is its ease of growth, not being at all particular about rich land or fertilizing. In fact, buckwheat will row almost anywhere on land that it good for any commercial crop. -Seeds should be put in with the seed drill, using about.ere bushel to the acre. ' SRE ; HER iNFORMATION ACCURATE "JT understand that young mat has quit calling on you?" : "How do you know!' "Because he's ontling on me." Next to saying you are jealous, a girl would rare have you tell her she inspire' you to 'noble things. :