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One of the Garrison; Or, A Hysterious Affair. CHAPTER 1. I, James Fothergill West, student of law in the University of St. An- drews, have endeavored in the tn- Buing pages to lay my statement be- in a concise mand anywhere for the only mental wares which he had to dispose of, we should have been forced to re- tire into genteel poverty, consol- ing ourselves with the aphorisms and precepts of Firdousi, Omar (,'hiani, and other of hie fore the public in a concise and business-like fashion. It is not my i[' tllan .'' an ? , ot . ner * nlfi *: te wish to achieve lierarv success; nor j favorites, had it not been for the have I any desire by' the graces of ! "l"? 1 *!*^ u kln ^ ness ?J5* l^erahty my stvle, or bv the" artistic order- ! of > half-brother William * ann- ing of my incidents, to throw aj^ sh ' ^JffF deeper shadow over the strange pas- 1 V \ 1 _K^ w " 8h r e - ages of which I shall have to rhls . William peak. My highest ambition i, proprietor of of in . Fanntosh was the anded estate the that those who know something of the matter should, after reading my account, be able to conscienti- ously indorse it without finding a single paragraph in which I have either added to or detracted from the truth. Should I attain this re- sult. I sh;i'! rest amply satisfied with the outcome of my first, and probably my erature. last, venture in lit- acreage of which bore, unfortunate- ly, a most disproportional relation to its value, for it formed the bleak- eat and most barren tract of land in the whole of a bleak and barren shire. As a bachelor, however, his expenses had been small, and he had contrived from the rents of his scattered cottages, and the sale of the Galloway nags, which he bred upon the moors, not only to live as - The Choicest Product of the finest Tea-Pro- ducing Country In the World "SALADA" its flavour and strength are preserved unim- paired In the sealed lead packet. ___ m MB BLACK, GREEN end MIXED. It was mv intention to write out a laird 8 ho..ld,_ but to put by a con- the sequence of events in due or- der, depending upon trustworthy hearsay when 1 was describing that which was beyond my own personal knowledge. I have now, however, through the kind co-operation of friends, hit upon a plan which promises to be less onerous to me and more satisfactory to the reader. This is nothing less, than to make IIM of the various manuscripts which I have by me bearing upon the subject, and to add to them first-hand evidence contributed by those who had the best oportuni- of knowing Major-General J. eatherstone. Ill pursuance of giderable sum in the bank. We had heard little from our kinsman dur- ing the days of our comparative prosperity ; but just as we were at our wits' end, there came a letter like a ministering angel, giving us assurance of sympathy and succor. In it the Laird of Hranksome told us that one of his lungs had been growing weaker for some time, and that Dr. Easterling, of Stranraer, had strongly a-d vised him to spend the few years which were left to him in some more genial climate. He had determined, therefore, to our household needs, and bright- ened the dark old building. Such was our simple uneventful exist- ence until the summer night when an unlooked-for incident occurred which proved to be the herald of those strange doings which I have taken up my pen to describe. It had been my habit to pull out of an evening in the laird's skiff and to catch a few whiting which might serve for our supper. On this well- rembered occasion my sister came with me, sitting with her book in the stern-sheets of the boat, while I' hung my lines over the bows. The sun had sunk down behind the rug- ged Irish coast, but a long bank of flushed clouds still marked the spot, and cast a glory upon the waters. The whole broad ocean was seamed and starred with crimso-i streaks. I had risen in the boat, and v/as gazing round in delight at the broad panorama of shore and sea and sky, when my sister plucked On the Farm this design public tho 1 shall lay before the testimony of Israel Htakes, formerly coachman at doomber Hall, and of John East- erling. F.R.C'.P. Win., now prac- ticing t at Stranraer, in Wigtown- shire. To these I shall add a ver- batim account extracted from the "journal of the late John Berthier Hi'.ithr rstone, of the events which occurred in the Thul Valley in the ..juitumn of '41. toward the end of tK;~ftm ^Afghan war, with a de- irnji!.i'!i of the skirmiBh in the Terd.-i defile, and of the death of tli>' inan Ciholab Shah. To myself the duty of filling up the and chinks which may be loft n tii.- narrative. Hy this arrange- ment 1 have gunk from the posi- tion of an author to that of a com- piler, but on the other hand my work has ceased to be a story and has expanded into a series of affi- dai :'.-. My father. John Hunter West, a well-known Oriental and set out for the South of Italy, and j at my sleeve with a little sharp cry ne begged that we shoulu lake up ol surprise. our residence at Branksomc in his absence, and that my father should act as his land steward and agent at a salary which placed us above "See. John," she cried; "there is a light in C'loomber ToVer!" I turned inv head and stared back at the tall white turret which all fear of want. Our mother had ] peeped out above the belt of trees, been dead for some years, no that As I gazed I distinctly saw at one there were only myself, my father, of the windows the glint of a light, and my sister Esther to consult ; which suddenly vanished, and then and it may readily be imagined that shone out once more from another it did not take us long to decide up- higher up. There it flickered for on the acceptance of the laird's | some time, and finally flashed past generous offer. My father started 'two successive windows under- for Wigtown that very night, while t neath before the trees obscured our Esther and I followed a few days j view of it. It was clear that some afterward, hearing with us two po- ; one bearing a lamp or candle had tato-sacks full of learned hooks, I climbed up the tower stairs and nnd uch other of our household ef- j had then returned into the body of fecta as wore worth the trouble and : the house. A Useful Gate. In feeding the little pigs with older hogs, it is necessary to have some sort of a separate feeding pen for the pigs. The older ones can be kept out and the pigs prevented from enter ing the pen while the troughs are being filled by means of a swinging gate. This gate swings outward ouly. It is held up while the little pigs en- ter the feeding pen, and being light, they can push it forward and go out at will. It may be used to advantage in fattening hogs that run with the stock hogs. After putting out the feed the feeder raises the gate and lets in those to fatten, then lets it fall ; all others are kept out, yet those in the pen may go out when through eating. This style of gate is also conveni- ent for the lamb lot where one uses a creep. The gate should be just large enough to admit a good-sized lamb. Dairy Notes. A scientific education combined with common sense and a natural love for the cow is the foundation of success in dairying and getting together a choice herd of cattle. There is no better system of feed- ing for milk than to give each cow a ration according to the work she is doing and properly to nourish her body. Opposition to a few reasonable reforms by a few crooked dairymen not only brings the dairy industry into bad repute, but turns people from the use of dairy products. In connection with the feeding problem, do not underestimate the expense of transport. CHAPTER II. "\Vho in the world can it be!" I exclaimed, speaking rather to my- ! self than to Esther, for I could see a poo pared to the house of an English Kquire ; but to us, after our long residence in stuffy apartments, it was of regal magnificence. The Sanscrit scholar, and his name is building was broad-spread and low, still of weight wi:h those who are with red-tiled roof, diimond-paned interested in nut-h matters. He it; windows, and a profusion of dminj?- was who first after Sir \Villiam ! rooms with smoke-blackened ceil- Jones called attention to the great I iK and oaken wainscots. In front value of early Persian literature, and his translations from both Ha- and effects of the eea spray Mr-hind lay the scattered hamlet of Kranksome- Hr-re a dozen cottages at most in- Branksome might have appeared I b >" the surprise up,,, her face that poor dwelling-place when com- [ ? h hatl no solution to offer. ''May- was a small lawn, girt round with a thin fringe of haggard and ill- fiz nrid from Forideddin Alar havc|K':' w n beeches, all gnarled alighting earned the warmest commendations ! withered from from the linr- .1 Von li.immer- Purgstall, of Vienna, and other dis- tinguished Continental critics. In the issue of the Orientalishches the blatt for January. 1H01, ho is described as "l)er heruhrnte n.id rhr gelehrnU- Hunter West von Ediiibui-gh" a Tia*::a;,- which I wel! r'-mcmber that he cut out anti stowt-d away, with a pardonable vanity, among the nivst revered family archives. He had Iwen brought u;> to be a solicitor, or Writer to the Signet, a* it is termed in Scotland, but his learned hobby absorbed r.t> much of his timo that he hnd little to devote to the pursuit of his profession. Mli!-n his clients were seeking him at bin chambers in George street he was buried in the recesses of the Advocates' Library, or poring over some nn 'I. manuscript at the Philosophical Institution, with his brain more exercised over the code whi'-li Menu propounded ix hun- dred years before the birth of Christ than over the knotty prob- lems of Scottish law in the nine teentli c< ntury. Hence, it can hard ly be wandered at that as his learn- ing- .v'Uiimlated his practice dis solved, until at tho verv moment habited bv rude fislier folk who looked upon the laird as their na- tural protector. To t'he west was tin- broad yellow beach and the Irish sea;' while in all other direc- tions the desolate moors, grayish green in the foreground and |>urple in the distance, stretched away in long low curves to the horizon. Very bleak and lonely it wan up on this \Vigt c-uast. A man be some of the folk from Brank- Bome-Bere have wanted to look over the place." My sister shook her head. "There is not one of them would dare to set foot within the avenue gates," she said. "Besides, John, the keys are kept by the house-agent at Wig- town. Were they ever so curious, none of our people could find their way in." (To be continued.) RKAL MKAMNti OF POTI.ICK. One Plunge of the I .nil.- and Take What You (..i. The real origin of the word "pot- luck" is unknown to most of the people who use it. In Limoges, France, however, one runs into pot- luck itself. In a certain corner of that quaint city of jostling roofs there is still (segregated, much ax if in a ghetto, a Saracen population, uii im vruKVvitu tx'naiy. n m.iti i i i * i_ * might walk inanv a weurv mile nnd ! P"' b ly a remnant of the wave of . *" v >* f r i /* t J u tltnf aii'fttti j>t-ik*> l<ii f, .mi Saracens that swept over Europe hundreds of years ago. Here th^y live in their crooked, narrow strfets, following old customs hand- ed down from generation to genera- tion. There are many butcher no sign oi the works of man shops in the quarter, and outside of only where the high white ! *' adl *teams a great pot of soup in her Hall shot, un. lovpr a |WWU1 brazier. In each never see a living tiling except the white heavy flapping kittiwakes, which screamed and cried to each other with their Khrill sad voice*. Very lonely and very bleak ! Once out of night of Hranksome nnd there was save tower of CI<H)inber Hall shot up, A new effect in spring millinery the girl with the Bulgarian turban hat and sailor collar. like the headstone of some giant ', from amid the firs and larch es which girt it round. This groat house, a mile or more from our dwelling, had been built by u weal- thv Glasgow merchant of strange tastes and lonely habits; but at the | butcher has time of our arrival it had been un- tenantcd for many years, and stood . . w '"' '' ll| ' ** when he had attained the /enith of j hi. celebrity be had ah-, reached ' nt stanng wmdo^looking ; blank- the nadir of his fortunes. There be ing no chair of Sanscrit in nny of his native universities, and no d<; . <> ut ovcr . hc '""'I" 1 "- Km ' )l >; n.slduwed, it served only as a land mark to the had found by fishermen, for they experience that by ^ DYOLA ih CLF.A\KT. *!MPtST, <! DEST )IOMR Kvr, ..n. , ,,i i.uy -wiir ran don't ><rn b/ to frnow wlut UVIiof Cloth jro.ir <.<".' '"' Of '..<> MUtdl.o* rA fmp>..lhV. Sr<t r r IVf Color C<r,l, Starr KooVU. .1 llmi'.ii I Rlv.nu !! ol Vrttmg arrt aHlrf colon. Th J<1!|NIV.m<:lfAnnON CO., Limited, >|.,ou.l. Omit*- keeping the laird'n chyimcy ami the white tower <jf Cioomber in a line they could sleep their way through the ugly reef which raises its jagged back, liko that of Home sleeping monster, aliove the troubled waters of the wind-swept bay. To this wild ajxit it was that 'ate hnd brought my father, my sister, nnd myself. Fur us its loiieline:,H hnd no terrors. After the hubbub nnd bustle of a great city, and the weary tank of upholding appear- ances upon a slender income, there) was a grand :- ail-southing serenity in the long sk\ line and the oagcr air. Here ut least there was no neighbor to pry and chatter. The laird hn<l left his phaoton and two pot elands a ladle as ancient as the pot. WhoD a customer cornea with a penny, in goes the ladle and comes up full of savory broth and chunks of meat, odds and ends, that the ^^^^^^ f t over. And what comes up the customer has to tnke. One can imagine how anx- iously the hungry urchin or the mother <-f seven must eye the inex- orable ladle/ and how a protty girl might get another draw from the butcher's boy. At any rate "to take pot.luck" means to take what you get -and say nothing whether the pot is in Li- moges or in the flat of the man who eagerly invites a friend of his vouth to dinner. When a man gets engaged to a girl all the other fair maids of his acquaintance begin to talk about his poor taste. "Look here, now, Harold," said a father to his little son, who was naughty, "if you don't say your prayers you won't go to heaven." '*! don't want to go to heaven," sobbed the boy ; "I want to go with you and mother." i ponies behind him, with the aid of wJiieh my father and I would go tho round of the estate doing such light, duties as fall to n agent; ._-____ f _ --^^^ while our gentle Ksther looked to ^"i rt mf for Ct-up and Whooping Couth. Shilohm necessity of inducing the cow to drink large quantities of water. Bulky llor-cs. Whenever you see a balky horse you may be sure that the fault lies with the man who trained him, or who over-loaded him, or beat him, or in some way robbed him of part of his senses. No horse balks from pure meanness, much as we may sometimes think so, and we have never yet discovered anything that will cure a balky animal. Occasion- ally a fine tempered beast may bo coaxed and petted until his fear or anger is allayed and be taught to do his share of the work, but as a rule the horse that balks in the harness should never be used ex- cept under the saddle. Farming. There is one thing about farming, which is not true of some othr in- dustries, and that is that each far- mer is really benefited by the suc- cess of his neighbors. In a pro- gressive neighborhood, where good stock is kept and where farming is generally profitable, roads and schools are better, the price of farm land is higher ; and, owing to the fact that a great quantity of farm products is offered for sale, mar- kets are better; so boost your neighbors, and by so doing help yourself. Tho Compost Hrnp. A few old fence rails, built to- gether in a square in the garden, will hold all the rubbish that is fit for decomposing. Add to it the weeds from the garden and manure and all ashes from the house. Pour the wash water over it and allow it to pack thoroughly. It will be of value for next spring while it con- centrates now all tli.- waste refuse A 5 Per Cent. Solution Of TUs Compound Will Kill Germs f DISTEMPER i PFNK EYE EPIZOOTIC < Catarrhal Vein and InBnenia. nader th nioTcaeepe. Given on the Horse's Toarue, It untten with the fluid* of! , the alimentary canal, thrown into the Bleed. pa*&ri throufrbf the Qland* and expel* the Oermi of Diaeane. Absolutely Mkto and sur for Brood Marea, Baby Colts and all other*. Do no* depend on any powder In thin claw of Dlaeaees. Q!T U M brood mares In times of Distemper. Booklet. "DUteniBer. Cauiea, Onr tat Prefention," free. Drucriatu mil Bpehn c Cure. SPOHN MEDICAL Co., BaelerioUglUs, Cejhen, Ind. and prevents the hens from broad- casting it again. Farm Notes. One way to supply forage is to save all forage from the corn field by cutting the tops of the stalks off just above the ears. Of course this should be done before the fodder becomes quite dry. Oat straw is a pretty good sub- stitute and makes very good rough- age when fed with plenty of grain. A feeder may have his bin full of grain, but unless he has sufficient roughage to balance up the ration he will be shy on his profit at the end of the season. The feed cutter should be in use on every farm, the corn shredder is an excellent thing, but why not put all of the corn crop in a silo as the best probable position to get every pound of value out of it. It takes a little more_ than two per cent, of an animal's weight to keep it up to normal condition without making any gains and if exposure to cold and rain and storms is to be counted against it the feeder can easily see where his profit goes glimmering. HIS MAJESTY INVITED OUT PEN PICTURE OF AN EVENING IN 01 R RULER'S LIFE. How lie Is Guarded From the Time He Leaves the Palace Until lie Returns. His Majesty dines out to-night. Not at a great dinner party, but at the house of an old friend. It is to t)c quite a quiet, informal enter- tainment, as i evident from the fact that the King is not wearing Court dress, but nn ordinary dress- suit and white waistcoat. It is 7.30, and his Majesty is go- ing through his short toilet in his dressing-room. The chief valet un- locks a very heavy, solid old gold jewel-case, selects from a treble row of sleeve-links a pair of old purple enamels, gold framed. These are perhaps the most valuable links his Majesty poss-o-sse^. They were a present from the Tsar. The enam- els are many hundreds of years old, of the rarest quality, and are worth several thousand pounds. Instructing the Guardian. The valet selects these links be- cause he knows that the Russian Ambassador is to be one of the King's fellow-guests to-night, and his Majesty, when putt'ng on his shirt, catches eight of the links, and nods his approval of his valet's selection. At 7.45 thr King leaves his dress- ing-room and passes into the King's Room, where the equerry who is to be in attendance on his Majesty for the evening is engaged in conversa- tion with a alightly-built man of medium height, diossed* in a dark- grey suit. His eyes are keen, and the mouth firm and well-cut. He is listening attentively to the equerry, and occasionaJ'y jots down a few notes in a pocket-hook. \Vhsn the King enters the room the man in a grey suit salutes, and retires to the ante-room. He is the chief de- tective at Buckingha.ni Palace, and is engaged in completing his ar- rangements for tho evening. In a few -moments tho equerry follows him to the- ante -room, and informs the detective that tho King will leave the Palace at a quarter- past eight, and tells him of the route he will take going to and com- ing from the houso wl-ere he is din- ing. Our Sovereign's Safeguard?. "Thank you. sir!" says the detec- tive, shutting up his notebook, and then rushes off. Ho is at tho tele- phone, in another couple of minutes, and ere the King leave* the Palace every policeman on duty in the streets through which live King will drive that night has been notified to expect his Majesty ; and a -111111- ute after the King loaves the Palace the chief de-tective himself will fol- low the Royal carriage on a bicycle, and will enter the house- of the King's host a minute or so after his Majesty, and wiU not leave it until tho departure of the Royal guest. Whilst these arrangements for safeguarding the sovereign are be- ing unobtrusively carried out. let us return to the King's Room, where his Majesty is being helped on with his overcoat by the equer- ry. A servant enters the room with n pile of letters and telegrams, which are placed on the King's desk. The equerry runs through the telograms, and takes up two of the latter, the envelopes of which are marked with ac "R." This sig- nifies that they are from member* of the Royal Family, and the King opens them. One is from the Queen, who left London that morn-- ing for Sandringham, and announc.- es her safe arrival. The other ia! from the Duchess of Fife on a pri-< vate family matter. Guests of Distinction. Whilst the King is reading these messages, th equerry has pressed the electric button on the King's desk, which summons a clerk on night-duty in th private secre- tary's department. The equerry hands him the letters and tele-- grams, and they will be sorted, opened, and got ready for the King's inspection on his return to the Palace, and, if necessary, any' that require immediate attention will then be answered ; otherwise the replies will go into the morn- 1 ing's correspondence. Twenty minutes later the King j seated at a round dinner-table, beautifully decorated with crimson^ roses and white carnations. The room is filled with an exquisitely soft light, thrown from a myriad of little rose-shaded electric lamps with which the beautifully-painted*^ ceiling is studded. The butler of the King's host- stands behind his Majesty's chair, and it is he who attends on the- King during tho meal. To the right of the King sits his hoet, and on his Majesty's left the Russian Am- bassador. The other guests, who number but six, include a well- known figure in the political world, a distinguished French artist, a peer who is a famous shot, and two> members of the Royal Household. The conversation is bright, amus- ing, and very "anecdotal." The' King tells a kindly but amusing- story of a famous diplomatist which- makes the Russian Ambassador laugh very heartily, and his Excel- lency replies with an equally witty anecdote concerning his early days in the diplomatic service. The French artist later on greatly: amuses the company by some light-, ning sketches which he makes on the back of the menu-cards, at the King's requests-good-natured, but exceedingly clever caricatures of present-day celebrities and the King honors the artist by asking- him to present him with one of, them. Direct From the Premier. After coffee and a cigarette, the King rises. A servant at the same moment comes up to the King's host, who at once approaches his Majesty and informs his Royal' guest that a messenger has arrived from Buckingham Palace with a let-' ter for his Majesty, and he conducts the King and the equerry in atten- dance to his own library, where a> Palace servant is standing with a long white envelope, which he hands to the equerry, who opens it., The white sheet of paper is from, the Prime Minister, seeking for an\ interview with the King the follow-! ing morning. His Majesty sits* down to write a short note to Lord; Knollys at Buckingham Palace to inform the Premier at once that the interview will be granted the follow- ing morning at eleven. The ser- vant from Buckingham Palace then departs. The Silent Rider. A few minutes later the King is playing a game of bridge with his host and two of the other guests. | Aft-er the rubber his Majesty in- spects his host's collection of stamps, in which he is much inter- ested, and gives his host quite a useful and interesting little bit of information about a very rare class of Spanish stamp. At 11.15 the King takes his depar- ture, and, as the- Royal carriage bowls rapidly along- Berkeley Square, there comes stealing" swift-, ly after it the grey -clad figure of a man on a bicycle, who has appear- ed suddenly apparently from no- where. Ho passes with the Royal carriage through the gates of Buck- ingham Palace unchallenged, and speeds away to the back entrance of the Palace. He is the chief de- tective, and when he g^te his report from the night detective on duty his day's work will be over.. Lon- don Answers. LAXATIVES 1 re best for nursing- mothers because they do not affect the rest of the system. Mild but sure. 2fc. a box at your druggist's. National DRVM no cHtmutt GO. OP CAHD. I.IM.TID. J