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a womans love v v v a a a a a or a brothers prohise chafter vh continued when the waiter hall gone hector went to one of his portmanteaux and drew out the bundle of documents which had been giver him by queen waddalena on tle ova of his de parture how often had ho read and rcicad them during the short voy age often enough at least for him to know them by heart vet ho wished to consult tho particular ono that convoyed instructions how to act and comport himself during tho first days of his stay in tho island tins was what lie read in brayo fi angular handwriting if any one shows you a cross-hilt- ed dagger or poniard bearing tho letter u in silver unhesitatingly ask him for the password he should reply for 1 al met t o freedom jf he does not he 1ms come by tho sign wrongly and you should find out who he is so as to be able to re port him to our friends that he may be watched on receiving the correct reply you will say free dom is but half the reply is freedom and maddalena is all you will then say her majesty queeu maddalena and the answer must be whom god preserve there after you may conauct the conversa tion as you please only having re gard to preserve your character of envoy of her majesty anil in all things to comport yourself in ac cord with tho dignity and honor of your position hector then turned to tho direc tory of persons and looked up the name of the colonel of gastaldis re giment don miguel ortona y cajal ho read resides on his estate of fri- gancta in the district of telde fif teen miles from palm city believed to be a worthy man but not very enthusiastic bound to the cause chiefly through the devotion of his daughter tho senorita asunta whoso hatred of llispaniola and adoption of our side dates from the death of her favorite brother man- rlco as a hispaniolan conscript in san domingo- don miguel can be reached through his daughter among your documents you will find a letter of introduction to her while hector was debating in his mind in what way best to spend his firstday in palm city whether to roam about and familiarise himself with the town and its environs or at oncu to seek out tho lender in dlcatcd iu bnivos memoranda the matter was being hcttkd for him by the orange king that jalert per sonage burst into the room as hec tor was packing away his papers j glad to sec youre up so early grant lie cried airily the early bird may not catch the worm but at least he stands an excellent chancu he waved his hand towards the window been taking in the view what do you think of it a little bithho the scenery of a comtc opera said hector reverting to his first impression wait tho hills will remove the idea they impress even me an un imaginative business man its all so uusty hero dust tobacco manana oranges these aro palmetto answered mr thomas smith didnt know you made epigrams i dont i make money and queens youre too clover by half this morning young man now v look hero- this- is what i came to say these troops in camp aro on their way home to hispanlola they are only stopping hero to recruit their health after tho malarial fever of the west tho general is stopping in this house i caught him this morning ho has heard of mo everybody in palm city knows me and ho invited me to accompany him to parade in half an hour will you come youll kco the sort of mat erial youve got to tackle itll be worth your while of course ill come all right get downstairs as boon asyou can im going to got something to cat hector ate his fruit nud drank his wine us he dressed and in ten min utes he was seated in the dining- room opposite general stnmpn one of the sauvest of hispaniolan gen tlemen anil one of the cruellest of tho century his record as com mandantgeneral of the forces ui aruba hispnnlolas chief colony in tho west indies waa unenviable even among a people not particularly noted for kind luess of heart fiie and rapine had marked his progress of pacification he had had tho task of quelling a potty rebellion and he had transformed an insignificant ris ing into a chronic insurrection last ing over years death and wholesale robbery had raged wherever his tent- pegs had been driven his name was used by hispaniolan mothers as a bogey to fright their babes and his soldiers hated him as much as they feared him ke was now re turning home laden with the fruits of years of peculation and thiovcry smiling and bland as a professor of moral philosophy seeming to live only for his coffee his cigarillo and the sight of hisjiomc ah tenor- to tho weary oxilo what a beautiful word is homo with tho loved ones waiting with open arms if report were true the general lived up to tho maxim that tyranny like charity should begin at home i sorrow over the dolay that keeps mo in durance here jeven though it be a paradise there is a villa in the shadow of- the sierras whero little ones are longing not for the general tho soldier no for the indulgent parent but thank tho holy virgin i duty is my watch word duty duty and he lit an other cigarillo reflectively while hector wondered if this softspoken softheartod gentlemun were really tho ogre bloodstained and crime- stained common talk had made him wondered too if this were tho man he might have to oppose in the day of battle ah yes murmured stampa duty i have other children the kings ten thousand of them here we go to pay them a little morning visit in their nursery come gen tlemen time flics at the door of- the hotel they found three fine andalusian barbs at the head of each a hispaniolan orderly i have taken the liberty sonar smith i stampa indicated the horses with a courtly wave of the hand you are more than kind said mr smith but they are as gentle as lambs itnyv no fear 0r ctyvmc wo clu rvl onble about fashions here coiiv they turiiet mr horses heads to the right and ive slowly along to the alameda where tho generals staff glittering with gold awaited him lie tor conicious of his own strcnplh and fine physique nurtured amorg the purple hills of tho north felt v certain amount of reasonable cotempt for the puny individuali ties of the generals ontourago and to hinuclf ho commented adversely on their slovenly appearance most ofahciik wore beards in no very kempt condition while some oven grow small muttonchop whiskers nor washe impressed much by their demeanour some were openly ser vile while others had an air of bor ed haughtiness that could bo read to moan tho indifference of the de generate thore was not ono open frank countenance among them suspicion cunning dissipation the marks of these wore plentiful tho staff sululcd perfunctorily and fell in behind the general and his friends they came soon to the camp a littlo city of white tents beautiful in tho sun as they passed through on their way to tho paradeground a parallelogram of lavadust hoc- tor noted that tho tents were not so beautiful as they had seemed at a distance they wero tatteved and old and had they belonged to any other nation than llispaniola would have been condemned long since fortunately in tho glorious almost rainless climate of palmetto tents did not matter suh the fact made another point towards his est invito of the hispaniolan army tho paradeground was quite a mile long by about half a aiilo in breadth- hero jlectcr had his first view of tho palm trees that give their soft name to tho island thcv enclosed the ground on three sides their feathery green tops casting a grateful shadow on the hot black grit that to walk on was a torture along ono of the sides stretched a lino of carriages the smart victorias and lumbering barouches of tho is land aristocracy and tho rickctty turtanas of tho less welltodo while on the opposite side in tho full glare of the morning sun sprawled tfc common people with hero and there a mountaineer seated on his donkey or mule in the centre of the space tho troops stood to attention shab by in bleached blue and dingy white tho general turned his horses head towards tho line of carriages our first duty he said twirling his grey moustache with a fat hand is toward the fair beauty and duty the soldiers twinstars from time immemorial good rhymo in your knglish tonguo and most de lightful reason in all tongues tie orango king grunted on stampas right and on his left hector remembering the mans re cord grew hot with disgust wo liavo to make distinctions here senor went on the general we do not recognize or only dis tantly thefo palmetto animals still there are sufficient of our own coun trywomen here to make hfo not all an eveless eden tho palmetto wo men aro not devoid of charm but they are what shall 1 say treach- is r in regard to health whero do you tire moal easily what orjan gives out first most people arc not constructed like the deacons onehorso sdmy which was equally strong at every point and showed no sign of weak ness until it all went to pieces it may bo weak action of the heart lungs or stomach pain and weakness of tho back failure of memory eye sight or hearing some weak point of which you at 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orange king traitois and rebels rejoined stampa i only hope that they tako it into their heads to rise while i command here i promise they shall have short shrift but i always thought the pal mettos were the most peaceable race then my dear senor smith you thought wrongly why only yes terday our governor had news from our ambassador in your gay capital transmitted from madura that a plot is being hatched there a jplot to overturn the ride of his most catholic majesty hector stiffened himself in the sad dle j myself i place small faith in tho rumour it is nothing but ono of these iviarcbist scarcsi ltft iflj should be true well slay with us a little while and ill show you how i deal with such cattle he reined up beside a large open carriage in which sat a dark beau ty radiant by the side of a prophcb- like hidalgo with a long white outcry at beard and flowing moustache stam- pa bowed low f senorita asunta he said this is a redletter day in my calendar two euns shine on me and he made a grandiloquent sweep of his arm as if to include the heavens and the fair lady don miguel i greet you idesiro to present to you my friends senor thomas smith and senor hector grant the senorita flashed her wonderful eyes on hector who for ono dazzled moment sat his horse in silent ad miration then ho bowed and mur mured something inaudible i go said stampa to my duties i leave you sonores iii hos pitable hands farewell senorita farewell senor fortuno thought hector was be ginning to smile upon him nothing happier could have been destined surely for a moment ho resented the almost cavalier fashion in which the hispaniolan general had should ered smith and himself into tho company of tho ortouas and left them there in their moment of sur prise and then he realized that stampa had all unwittingly done him a service ho would have been nt some troubfc to accomplish for him self a moments glance at tho soft sunlit blue of sky and sea and he took new courage between his two hands ho turned towards asun ta her face was surely the morning the clear blue of sky and ho had just been invoking for inspiration was in her eyes in the flash of her white teeth was the snowy sparklo of foam that marked tho surflino her hair no that was not morning it was the hour of night that comes before the dawn she was beautiful indeed not as maddalena the in comparable queen was lcnutiful hers was the loveliness and brooding fairness of night but nllvo and quiv ering with tho life ami brio of a palmetto morning why you could see her dancing as she sat smiling half lost in tho gaping depths of tho great family carriage you aro from iondon then con or the cpicstlon was a sigh a curve in the silence moro than a bieak from london last and you arrived but last night yet you must have lcen afoot early we take a weeks sleep ho- forc coming to a morning parade but the english are a sleepless race they make a work of pleasure say rather they make a pleas ure of their uork thiifs why they succeed ah do you nuo boast like all other knglish xo no i only speak for them i am not knglbh i ntu a scot nnd perhaps 1 do not ovcpiyi brothers ovcrmudi yet ljnnfltobe t when rolld virtue is attacked but arc not scot and ftngll like comet it ion between traders the higher national rivalry makes us re spectful of each other ah so you are a scot worse than that laughed hector much worse i am what is called a highlander a littlo shadow of inquiry darken ed the whiteness of her biow how shall i explain perhaps vou have the same distinctions bore it is tho difference between one born ou tho monte and one born down iu palm city or the plains sho took tho point y 1 myself she smiled nob a lit tle proudly was born in tho monte then the subtle distinction o yes i feel it ilut tell me nd she paused as if finding her grasp of knglish irsuuicicnt to ex press her meaning as if too sho knew her question was abrupt why aro you here for pleasure or for work 1 mean do you make holi day or are you like mr smith on business v hector looked at her strulglit she had turned away her eyes seeming intent on nothing but the swaying line of troops that hied by with a tired halfawake sort of plod a slouch that was the outcome of or- dors not of will both ho answered work not business i know and i hope pleas ure too she flashed on him again it is difficult to combine the two duly does that for us you have the inst word sho cried very pleased it pays to have it said hector half conscious that by saying it ho ftg- for farmers j a- 5usoname and profltabte j hints for tho busy tillers of the soil i t man and woman alike i had spoiled her implied compliment was but so and that ins tall the yet she nodded in agreement smith was doing bis best to carry on a conversation with don miguel it was rather a onesided affair for smith s knowledge of tho palmetto tongue was limited and don miguel knew no other but by dint of ox- prcssivo gesture he managed to con voy to tho oragc king a quantity of interesting misinformation tho parade was nearly over slam- pa and hie staff finished their march of inspection through the opened ranks ami took up their places at tho salutingbase under tho limy folds of the hispaniolan flag tho troops were wheeled into long wav ering lines for the march past the massed bands made a prema ture dash at tho hispaniolan na tional anthem but at tho end of two bars a staff officer sprang at them with windmill arms and they fell asleep or lit their cigarillos again as the whim took them asunta looked up at hector and smiled contemptuously he smiled back a question the anthem 1 she said that oni of tho shadows vshadpws comjjjng events you kow ah jjr niscycs gloomed henrwcred lightly enough you sad our poets senorita p we have a proverb oursclve oyer the shadow is the cloud there was somo commotion tho salutingbase stopped hectors reply tho paniolan flag drooped from a ami heavy pole fixed loosely ir shifty lavadum came a sudden flaw and the silk flapped out to its full glory all tho morning it had hung lazily this was its effort and it was too great tho pole came down with a crash on a little group of officers who scattered with strange unmanlike cries of conster nation and the flag of llispaniola the old orjflammc of conquest cast a cloud of block sand to the sun hectors superstition look tho sign and met a companion superstition in asuntas eyes she stood up in the carriage and laughed her father spoke to her sharply and sho gavo him tho explanation he too stood up and so they remained until a squad had raised tho flag again the shadows gather fast fiho said tho clouds too said lies tor the clouds with tiio lightning donna asunta luftiblcd with her hand among the chiffons on her breast slie drew forth something which she held but to hector a tiny brooch a silver crosshilt dagger with the significant it he was not taken by surprise jivome tho word for palmetto freedom it was the merest whisper freedom is but half freedom and maddalena is all her majesty queen maddalena who cod preserve i ho gave her back the jowcl tho march past was now going on to tho blare of trumpets and tho clang of cymbals and drums wo must sec you soon at frlgan- cta she said as soon as it is convenient for you to receive me sho whispered to her falhcr tho old man glanced round swiftly there was none to socrovcry eye was fixed on tho undulating lines of sol- dlory he raised his hand and in military fashion saluted hector tomorrow said donna asunta then silence fell and continued until the parade was over tho troops filed off to their camping- ground and tho dark plain dull and hot and dusty was soon filled with tho breaking crowd smith and hoc- tor fell in one on each side of the ortona carriage chatter began again lust outside the town nud at the edge of tho paradeground a road turned off to the left our way lies hero snld asunta for ten miles straight through tho orange groves the road is easy then till tomorrow farewell said hector unlll tomorrow she laughed don ualdcspare buldtsnro no lielorkttpre hs you wryt he replied n4ttno weill flint- may come lomt jm jlnjijjpwc rqhmiadesr j thk typical dairy cow at tho recent annual meeting of the ayrshire breeders association in albany a very able paper by secre tary wiuslow on structure nnd char acteristics of tho dairy cow was read we have space only for tho conclud ing portion after describing tho structural characteristics of the beef type and the difference between that and the dairy form ho said in studying tho outward form of the cown of all breeds that have giv en the highest yields at tho dairy yau will find them lacking in that shapeliness ascribed to tho beef ani mal and which to a beef breeder would be considered homely and ill- shaped it has always seemed that the breeders of dairy cattle was trying to obtain tho highest results at the duction oail from a lcef typo nnd let go tho straight contour of tho beef producer with tho greatest reluctance it is almost proverbial that a great producer in tho dairy breeds stands no show in tho ring beside her more shapely sister of tho best typo in winning tho ribbons which should denote superiority i have heard our canadian cousins in the ring condemn a scrumpled horned ayrshire co regardless or her milk ing appearance because her horns wero not characteristic of the brood and should be upright tho highest excellence of a dairy cow is her capacity to give the larg est dairy product from the least food consumed and when you study the outward formation of the great pro ducers you do not find them having large horns or straight backs while you may now and then get a fairly good product from a cqw lacking in one or moro of tho dairy characterise tics still it is the exception and in breeding should not be encouraged perfection in all those points that in themselves fit the cow to do her highest work should be encouraged and those points which are not found in cows doing the highest work be discouraged constitution is the foundation of excellence because without it the best of other points are useless by constitution in a dairy cow i do not moan that sho is like a beef animal any more than i would require a run ning thoroughbred to have the form of a clyde or a percheron i have heard it said that you must have and here indicate that toe greatest dairy yiolds come from a different looking cow frcm tho one you usu ally sac led into the sow ring a cow of more distinctively dairy type vx ww two imported ayrshire cows at tha kvperituehtel farm at ottawa and tho record of the dairy typo was far auvud of tho show type there is no good reason why there should be such a scarcity of 10000 pounds ayrshire cows and if breed ers would pay more attention to tl dairy type of their ayrshire cows the ftoo pounds cows would be mor plentiful i see no good reason why our am erican breeders of ayrshire should fol low after the scotch typo of large horns and small teats if tho ayr shire breeders of scotland have do parted from the original typo oi their breed that about the time oui early importations were made aue from which the best ayrshires of thi united states and canada have do scended i do not see tho wisdom o our following their lead especially when it gives us poorer dairy cows because removed from the standard dairy tyro that excels in milk pro- why horses shy an expert in jiorsellesh writing to an knglish paper says shying is first caused by genuine fear thoa it becomes a habit in the majority of instances in fact always excepi in the case of nervous or hysterical shyers had the horse from the first been gradually accustomed to the ob jects he fears nnd shown that they would not hurt him he would novel novo become a shyer nearly every horse for instance it terrified by tho beating of a drum il heard at close proximity for tho first time and yet i have repeatedly prov- cd that a green colt from the pas ture will quietly allow a drum tc be tied round his neck or put upon his back and beaten loudly within five minutes of his first introduction to it the way i do is as follows first i let the colt look at tha drum and smell it then i tap it lightly and stop again permitting him to look atit and smell it then i tap it harder and gradually in crease to the loudest sound it is cap able of it is astonishing to ont who has never seen it done how soon he will allow tho drum to be tied to him swung loosely against him and beaten loudly the while why simp ly because he has been shown that it will not hurt him in like manner the horse when first broken to harness should bo ac customed to every object that fright ens him but too often he is not ho meets an object that he fears perhaps it is a log by the roadside which his imagination transforms in lwtrniltilrilnyliiti nerve each of u alivo and itrong i to be continued width botwecn tho forelegs of a dairy j to some great beast ready to spring cow to insure constitution but which has the stronger constitution to endure ahard strain tho race feorso or tho caaft which has tho stronger constitution tho dairy cow thin in the withers and light in tho shoulders that can produce ten times her weight in milk during the year and a half her weight in butter or tho beef cow that can in tho two or three years of her lifetime pro duce half a ton of meat perhaps the next point in import ance is the inclination and abilitv to consume and digest a large amount of coarse fodder then follows the perfection of udder and milk development and while wo would allow a material departure from straight lines in shape of tho dairy cow her udder should when young have a good degree of con formity to straight lines because other things being equal the squarer and straightcr tho udder tho greater capacity and the lines of beauty aro hero tho signs of utility our interest hero todnv centres in the ayrshire breed of cattle and it is for us to inquiro how we may broed the ayrshire cow bo as to have her constantly progressing in ability to produce a large amount of dairy product of good quality at a mini mum cost it is only recently that any concerted action has been taken to find out what was really her dairy ability and while we havo not ns largo a number of cases as wo would wish to allow qs to compare tho form with tho dairy result wo have a few and as far as i have been able to observe the same rulo holds true in ayrshire as in other breeds as to tho dairy form that excels at the pall as you depart from that from tho form the yield as a rule decreas ed- tho question for ayrshire breed ers to decldo is whether they will hold to tho ayrshire model as laid down by scotch breeders for the show ring or will chnngo somewhat the idoal typo as laid down in tho scales of points and allow a moro decided dairy to bo tho standard of excel lence aro tho breeders of ayrshire to stand still nnd keep tho stand of tho ayrshire cow at a medium grade or aro they ready to push her to the front on a producer thore is a limit to tho product al most in proportion to her shapeli ness as laid down in the scalo of points for the show ring the ques tion is nro you breeding show ayr shire or dairy ayrshires tho scale of points as issued by tho associa tion is supposed to be tho standard of excellence nnd tho rule to guide breeders now let nny breeder go through his herd and keep a careful record of the dairy yield and compare it with tho lcrfect type ns laid down in tho scalo points and seo whero it lands him are tho cows that scale the highest tho ones that pay tho best every breeder should as far as he is able have his herd cloco to the tyjkj of tho breed and which shall he sac rifice looks or utility if the scale of points is not such us will encour age breeding ayrshire of the highest utility then the scale should bo upon- him instead of being shown his error in a ratlomi presently engaged in with his driver and ith that before it is over mjsh some measure ban got the bestor thereafter even though he gets ovci his fear of that particular object h will feign terror whenever he sees it ho will also from association ol ideas constantly find fresh objects ta shy ot to cure the shyer when his feai is genuine there is no way but tc do as should have been done in tht first place and properly accustom hin to all objects that ho fears applying manure green an oxiericnced farmer being askef tho question whether it was better tc apply manure green or well rotted replied there is less loss in putting manure on land green than in rotting it before it is applied besides this there is a special advantage that in putting the manure on in tho wintei time it is done nt less expense in rotting tho manure under tho most favorable conditions chemists tell is that it loses go per cent how ever when it is on the land in th green condition itiiu the fermentation allowed to take place in the soil as soon as any plant food is liber ated it is in the place where it is most readily taken up besides this tho decay of manure in fermenting has a beneficial effect in warming up a soil fxperimcnts carefully con- ducted at guclph ns to applying ma nure fresh nnd rotted proved that the ordinary way of leaving nianun exposed to the weather was wasteful- wlion protected from rain it was still subject to loss and when puton frcsj the best results wero obtained ehnnged sn ns not only to allow but ncottrntj 1r3euers to icvclojoiihe ijjghssjtfyiocclairjl aynmfbra xshoi 1 tfeobortt- pirn u or 7mm aytf- hirent thepailvbotfa death due to motheks prof bungo of tho university bale who has been making research es for many years on tho incrcosini incapacity of women to feed their in fants has just published an alarm ing report on the subject ho state that tho mortality among children ai tlficially nourished is far greater thai among those nursed by the mother also that once the power of fcedinf is lost it is never recovered if tl mother has not nourished her chil dren the daughter is equally incap able prof bunge in order to obtain tin opinion of the leading medical mei in euroe issued a circular on th subject and out of 3000 question received 1020 satisfactory replies after an examination of tho opinloi of the european doctors prof bung adds that he finds that in 1029 cas efl only 519 won nro capable of feeding their children and 1110 havi entirely lost tho faculty studying tho causes of tho diminu tion of the ability to nurse ainonj women the professor adduces ns th principal alcoholism which habit ht adds is increasing to a frightful do gree among women w chases catarrh cure g it sot direct to b diseased funtfcy he latptortd mower itetlt tl oloeis leu he fig puueet ttopi rfrojfnr la iia ihroai and rcavouy eorer ag8d wme ft dr a w ch