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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1895-1-17, Page 6AIISCELLANEQUS READING GRA.Y'E AND OTHERWISE.. Interesting Reading for Old and Young Culled from .Many Sources but All Worthy. "After the. Ball." After the leather football, After opponents' blood, After some noses are broken, And fades daubed with mud; After the ball has been under, And scrimmage has "heeled to halves," After the game we wonder Who 'twos who was kicking our calves. After we've beaten them soundly, We feel's if the earth was ours ; But wuen they've done to us ditto, Wo have no more strength than flowers. But •. Rugby's" the game for the sturdy, Tho weaker ones go to the wall; And the best pleasure, after a touchdown, is after the ball. saso$ sn> Ns'roiiE The Singer. In the church I stood in silence, Not a footfall nota sound, Broke the husned and dreamy quiet Of tnvreverieprofound. I was thinking of the morrow Whoa, before the altar grand, In the service of the Maker, All repentant, I would stand. And I wondered if the people Gathered there His name to praise Woulu nut be, through my endeavor, Led to purer, better ways, For I felt within my bosom all the true heart of the song, And I thought some tiny portion Ought to touch that worldly throng. So I turned unto the organ, And began to play the air Of the tender, sacred opera "Angels, Ever Bright and Fair." Ah! I never sang so sweetly, All my soul seemed upward turned, All my holiest endeavor Through those earnest carols burned. Then the heavenly spell was broken, , i'or, beside the great staircase Stood a little ragged maiden Gazing wondering in my face. She was shabby, poor and crippled, Not a bright or winsome child; She has spoiled my inspiration, Andl spoke in anger wild "Child," I cried, "what is your business?" And't paused, with mien sublime. "Why stand there in stupid silence? Come. make haste, I'mwasting time." But she did not move or answer; Only gazed vi ith open eyes Full of disappointed wonder, And a pained and grieved surprise. "You were singing 'bout the angels 1" Here her voice was low and sad, While with cold her slight form trembled— She, poor child, was buthalf-clad. "You were singing 'bout the angels, Sot came to look at you, And I land o' thought fyou was one; Now I know it wasn't you.'' Years have Passed since that brief moment, But sometimes I seem to hear Through my busy life of duty, A child's accents, soft and clear, And I always pause and harken, As with silent lips, alone Isend, not a song of triumph, But aprayer to heaven's throne. Works of Genius. Paper spindles for yarn spinning are now used as a substitute for those of steel, Steel barrels, made from sheets ranging in thickness from one -sixteenth: to a quar- ter of an inch, are coming into use, A. car shaped like a bathtub, in which the passengers either sit or recline as if in a bed, is in use in Berlin. It has three wheels and is propelled by a naphtha motor. A baby carriage designed especially for the use of tlfase who lwe in flats, looks just like any other baby carriage when it is in use, but it can be folded together so that one person can handily carry it up and down stairs. It is said that window panes of porous glass are being made in Paris. The.min-, ute holes in the glass are too fuse to per- mit of a draught and yet large enough to pause a pleasant and healthy ventilation in a room. A spoonless mustard pot is a recent in- vendors. By pressing a piston rod in an air -tight receptacle the requisite amount of mustard is forced through a suitable sprout. The air beingexcluded, the mus- tard is always fresh. Wanted. a Determined Effort. The liquor traffic is now entrenched in politics, and it is there we must meet it • so unless the people in the majesty of their political power, are aroused to com- bine in one grand, united phalanx of op- position, and through the virtue there is in the ballot hurl these autocratic de- spoilers, this piratical horde of unscrupu- lous liquor dealers and their sympathizers and abettors, into an abyss of annihila- tion, there is nothing left but certain anarchy and destruction for our country. The moral revolution and the grand re- sults of prohibition can only be brought about by the united effort of an earnest, determined people, with their combined will and purpose, without compromise, concentrated and crystalized into votes at the ballot -box. This makes an imperative necessity for a distinctive prohibition party—a party composed of concientious and determined voters—a party not only combined to se- cure just law, but a party with moral and political power to enforce the law for entire prohibition without compromise or conciliation. Sentences by Judge. The seed. is stronger than the soil. - False alarms create false securities. Our pre-existent habits are our present tendencies. In the whirligig of time some one must take the dust. Life is a combination of which the sec- ret is not given. The mundane world is conducted on the defensive plan. Fidelity is the conservative preserver of type, custom and race. When a thing is hard to endure some- aing harder may come to make it easier. If nature were to disclose her processes man would have the audacity to patent her inventions. Praise not a servant too greatly, lest he be puffed up and masterful ; nor too little, lest he be discouraged. Homely truths are like home remedies —apt at times, but applied upon every oc- casion whether they fit the case or not. his foot against it with all his strength. The hat flopped over, and a brick which lay under it was moved about a foot. Johnnie fell down with the worst stubbed toe --he was barefooted—of his lively and always more or less bruised young career. He arose painfully and faced the three young men, who were laughing immoder- ately. "He's going to cry like a little baby," said the first young man. "I wouldn't cry fer such trash as you big stirs," said Johnnie slowly. Then he turned, and though zigzag lightning was running from his toe clear up his spine he walked away without a limp. Just before passing out of hearing he turned again and shouted: "I'll get evenwith you big duffers some day," And that is the reason he wants to grow to be a man in most a month. MISS WILLARD'S FIRST APPEAL. A Very Pretty Story of the Temperance Worker's Career. A pretty little story is going the rounds about Frances Will and and Mary Liver- more. Miss Willard, according to the gossips, had been engaged to be married to a wet: -known educat ,r. For reasons best known to herself, she broke, the en- gagement. They were both teachers in the same institution and he made things so disagraeable for her that she resigned. At about that time the t mperance cru- sade was beginning and Miss Willard longed to throw herself into the fray. But she had her mother to support and there ware other responsibilities which she could not ignore. She wrote to Mrs. Livermore for advice. "She told me all the circumstances of her life," said Mrs. Livermore, in telling the story a few days ago. "She explain- ed all about her engagement, why it had been broken, and why she had given up her educational work; she told me she had her mother to support, and asked me if I thought she would be unwise to de- vote herself to the work towards which she felt so strongly drawn. I had known something of her, and of her wonderful power as a speaker, shown in a marked degree by her influence over her pupils, and without any hesitation I sat down and wrote "'Burn your bridges, Frank, and go in. It comes upon me with a mighty rush at this moment that God has ordained you to take up this work, and that you will not only succeed, but that you are to be a leader of women in one of the greatest movements of the age.' "She took my advice," continued Mrs. Livermore, "and she was successfulfrom the very first. She is a much more powerful speaker to day, of course, than when she began, but from the very be- ginningall who heard. her felt that she. had a winning power. She met with some difficulties—it was only natural that she should but when she once ob- tained a hearing her victory was per- tain." So intensely has Miss Willard devoted herself to the work as a speaker that other sides of her nature, if not neglected, have been allowed to develop in their own sweet way, and she often joins with her friends in laughing at her own un- practical lack of system. Anne Gordon, her private secretary, is her main sup- port and pillar. Miss Willard, whose busy brain is always filled with thoughts of her temperance work, knows nothing of money matters, and only knows that it is time for her to meet her numerous appointments when her faithful secretary comes to her with the information that she has five—perhaps ten—minutes in which to take her train.—New York World The Friendly Relations of England and Ameriea. The relations between Englishmen and Americans in China, Egypt, and Samoa, and last year the visits of the Blake to the United States and the Chicago to Eng- land, showed how genuine and hearty is the feeling of goodwill existing between the two countries. Efforts also are being made by different sections of the com- munity on both sides of the Atlantic to bring about some sort of practical union or alliance between Great Britain and the United States. With such sentiment openly and repeatedly expressed, surely it might be possible to effect an alliance so advantageous to each other in the event of war and so invigorating in times of peace. Putting aside question of senti- ment, however, the selfish interests of both countries would appear to encourage the idea of reunion. It is notable that after the most bloody battles but before the actual Declaration of Independence, the colonists strained every nerve to ef- fect a peaceable conclusion of the diffi- culties ifficulties which were upsetting the hitherto happy relations existing between Great Britain and the States, although it was through the imbecility of Great Britain. that the rupture ever occurred. No one can think the colonies were wrong in fighting the War of Independence, under the circumstances forced upon them. In fact, they would not have been worthy descendants of Britain had they not done so. The Crown Prince. Queen Victoria brews her own tea and has a decided fondness for orange pekoe. Gopal Rao, maharajah guitowar of Ba coda, has an income of $7,500,000 a year, out of which he runs the government. Prince Waldemar of Prussia, the only son of Emperor William's sailor brother, Prince Henry, is deaf and dumb, a fact of which scarcely any one outside of court circles is aware. Marie Henriette, the handsome and soft - voiced queen. of the Belgians, is espeeially fond of driving, and does it particularly well. She also rides well, talks well and is an uncommonly good musician. King Charles of Portugal leaped from his carriage recently to interfere with a fight and prevent a probable murder. His majesty overpowered the stronger party and turned him over to the police. The Sultan. of Turkey always eats and drinks alone, although he generally has a forge retinue in attendance. He uses neither table, plates, knife or fork, but only a spoon and his fingers, from which he fishes out his food from a series of little saucepans. The Shah of Persia has five sons and thirteen daughters. His three married sons have twenty-one children. The Persian official year book mentions in the royal family three brothers and two sisters of the shah, while the uncles and the cousins number 140. Public speaking is the Duke of Teck's greatest trouble in life. He is an ex- tremely modest man and nervous to a de- gree. He is, however, very gentlemanly, and no one can get better through a pub - lie function than he can, provided there is no formal speaking for him to do. Shoes were not made "'rights and lefts" earlier than 1472. A woman's night. dress was at one time called a night rail, Buckram was at first any sort of .cloth stiffened with gum. Chaucer mentions the apron, calling it the "borate cloth." Hats were first made in England by Flemings about 1510. Roman gentlemen wore a gold or ivory crescent in their shoes, The glove is first mentioned as a, com- mon article of dress in 1016. Bombasin was made and worn as early as the 12th century. A foot mantle was the name originally given to a riding skirt. The earliest form of the glove was a mere bag for the hand: Jewish women wore silver half moons in their shoes as ornaments, Two hundred years ago the skirt of a dress was always called the base. The boots of the time of Louis XIV. were often two feet broak at the top. Diaper was first made at Ypres, in Flanders, it is believed before 1200. Brotherly Love' in a Tenement Street. But the most significant expression of the spirit of village life in Bulfinch street, and a truly beautiful one, is the readiness of neighbors to help each other out of trouble. Prudential motives force this exercise of brotherly love to be kept so far out of sight in streets of this kind that, as a rule, its amount is absurdly under- estimates.. The well-dressed visitors of charitable societies, however remote from charity their fabricated excuse for calling may seem to be, are yet known for what they are—a charity picket line. Eighty-year-old Bridget Mulcahy, toothless, but still bright-eyed, may be seen almost any fair day smoking her pipe on the stoop of No. 20. Her hus- band, Jim, a day laborer, died eighteen years ago. For seven years before his death ke was blind, and his misfortune, joined to his good nature, made him a favorite. Soon after Jim's death Bridget dislocated a shoulder, ,thereby perman- ently losing the use of her right arm. She became destitute. The neighbors lent her many things (cooking dishes and a comforter among them) and after a little Michael Roe, who was himself behind with his rent, gave her a home with his family. Then her friends, "the boys from Ireland," "put up" a rats for her which netted $40. She rented a cellar room for fifty cents a week and took in two girl lodgers at ten cents a night. From that time to this she has lived in a cellar or a garret and shared her room with girl lodgers ; but she has depended largely for her support upon the raffles the "boys" have continued "to put up" for her once or twice a year. Three years ago Michael Roe, by that tiros a widower, was stricken down with a fatal sickness. Then the "boys from Ireland" got their heads together and "put up" a benefit ball for Bridget's former bene- factor. Tickets were fifty cents each, and the ball netted $75. There was some- thing left toward funeral expenses when the old man died. Then another ball was given for the benefit of his orphan chil- dren.—Alvan F. Sanborn, in the Janu- ary Forum. Fondles of Fashion. Fancy pencils for the watch chain are an old fashion revived. Linen. lawns with blue or red dotslaun- d er beautifully and wear well. Serve iced ten in long, thin glasses with a thin slice of lemon floating on top. The modern smoking set has a chased silver receptacle to hold cachous, snake root, etc. Boating serges come in ivory white, blue and ecru, ancl are quite the thing for summer wear. Round fire opals set with diamonds form abeautiful scarf pm. Turquoise shares the opal's. favor. Blondes should not try to wear the new butter color ; it's only for the riehscolored, clear, olive -skinned brunette. New white morocco purses and card cases have flat bo rders of old or silver g gilt, not ornamented but highly burnish- ed. These are very elegant and quiet. A new thing is a toothbrush mounted in ebony er polished ivory, The brush N alba � tand hollowed ndlpplaced, if required, Many colored ribbons were worn on the hair of ladies from 1426 to 1500. An English lady's state gown was, in the time of George I., called a cycles. Silk hats began to supersede the old- style beaver or wool hats in 1820. Galoshes, a sort of bonnet, were invent- ed by the Duehess of Bedford in 1765. Handkerchiefs first came into notice in England during the reign of Elizabeth. Among the Greeks, breeches indicated slavery. A free man never wore them. One history of costumes gives 1847 dif- ferent styles of head-dresses for women. ,e: Calico was first introduced from Cali- cut, in India, as stuff for gentlemen's clothes. Joseph's coat of many colors, probably an embroidered tunic, was made B. C. 1729. Over 17,000 different kinds of buttons have been found in pictures of mediaeval clothing. The furbelow was at first separate from the dress, and a distinct article of ap- parel. The doublet was a close -fitting coat in- troduced into Franee from Italy about 1100.; Feathers, as an article of dress, were at first only worn by men in their helmets. The leathern apron worn by the black- smith is mentioned by Pliny as in use in his time. The soldiers in the Assyrian army wore a sort of breeches, reaching down to the knee. The alb, so often mentioned as a priest- ly garment, was a long gown, fastened with a belt. Bombast was cotton padding for the clothes, to make them stand out from the figure. Breeches .reaching to the midcalf are mentioned as parts of the Roman uniform B.C. 67. The muffler was originally called the muzzier, because it went over the muzzle or mouth. Gally-gascoynes, commonly corrupted to gallygaskins, were a combination breeches and hose. From the thirteenth to the seventeenth century a blue coat in England was the. sign of a servant. Bonnet was originally the name for a man's head covering. The word is still so used in Scotland. The slashes or openings in an outer garment to show the one beneath were formerly called panes. The baldriek, so often mentioned in early dramas, was an ornamental belt passed diagonally across the body. The earliest shoes were simply pieces of hide or skin drawn in purse -fashion round the ankle with a string. The Industrial Christian Alliance. As to the origin of the Alliance : Some four years ago a few men engaged in res- cue work became convinced that the ex- isting methods for the reclamation of these men were spasmodic and ineffectual; that to reform a man whose life is all out of joint, something more is needed than a night's lodging, an occasional meal, and a fervent exhortation to e good. He must be removed from evil influences into a new and pure atmosphere. There must be thrown around him the strong arm of human and Christian friendship, with patient and loving endeavor to re- awaken manhood and a love of right- eousness in him. Employment must be provided. The Alliance believes the G os pel of Labor to be an intreg d part of the Gospel of Christ, and that after arousing hope in a man and a desire to do better, the best remedial agency is regular labor, under friendly, sympathetic leadership. Self-respect is developed in men when they feel that they are paying for what they get, and steady work enforces regu- lar habits in lives that have long been irregularity itself. Therefore, these gen- tlemen incorporated The Industrial Chris- tian Alliance, and November 80, 1891, opened a small home on Macdougal street, stating their objects in these words :it"A temporary, Christian, industrial home for friendless and fallen men. The only requisitd's for admission are a desire to lead a better life, and willingness to work. The manlwho will not work when work is offered is not regarded as a help - able base and will not be received." The Alliance motto, already widely copied, is "Helping Men to Help Themselves." Society generally dismisses this class of men as helpless, "because," it says, "they will not work." This assertion, however, was quickly disproved. The building was in a most degraded locality, and in a deplorable condition. Men be- gan at once to apply for shelter and em- ployment. Those that were received were set to work to put the house in order. The cheerful zeal they displayed in this very hard labor, in an unheated building in a winter month, proved conclusively that, however hopeless their permanent reformation might seem, they were not only willing but anxious to work. The word "industrial" has kept away the men who would rather beg than work.—From "The Industrial Christian Alliance of New York," by Arthur W. 7►i'llbury, in the January Review of Reviews. A MOUNTAIN fEROLNE, KR man from Chicago had told hisstory, and while the listeners in the smok- ing ear were digesting it, a quiet man, smoking a bad cigar, gave a slight cough indicative of beginning a yarn himself. The listeners gave him their attention at once. "Let her go," said the man from Chi - cage encouragingly,. "How did you know I had anything to say ?" asked the man. 'You looked it," said Chicago. "Well, I have," said the man, "and I've got an affidavit to go with mine. Have you got one for that you told?" "Oh, yes," grinned Chicago, "and I'll show it to you when you have had your say," "Don't forget that, gents," said the man, turning to the listeners. "And now for mine. Five years ago I was a deputy United States marshal in southeastern Kentucky, and most of my business was with moonshiners. I had pretty fair suc- cess and bagged a lot of them, but there was one, the chief of the gang and the worst of them all, that we couldn't get our hands on. One day, however, word came to me that he was at his casein in the mountains, and if I could get there with a force of men we might surround the place and capture him, as he had just come in and expected to get out again be- fore we should hear anything of him. In ten minutes I was on my way to his cabin with ten men, all armed with heavy re- volvers, and all moving out by different ways, so as not to excite suspicion and let him get on to our movements. We were to meet at a point about half a mile from his house and then swoop down on it and take him in. The first part of the pro- gramme went off all right, and an hour after I had heard he was at home I had his house surrounded. Then. I rode up to the door and yelled "hello," and a woman came out. " 'What do you want uv him ?' she re- sponded. "'I want to see him.'a " 'Well. you can't.' The Greeks, when travelling, wore hats in the winter of cloth and felt ; in sum- mer of plaited straw, with broad brims. A. cloth for the ahead or face was for- merly called a coverchief, just as one for the hand was called a handkerchief. The hoopskirt was in full feather in 1596. It was then made of iron, and sometimes weighed as much as thirty pounds. "'But I'm going to, just the same. I heard he was here not an hour ago, and he's got to come this time.' " 'i reckon not,' she said, and dodged in, shutting the door after her with a slam, and barring it on the 'inside, as I could very plainly hear. "Then, before we had a chance to make a rush, a gun went off in the house and a bullet went 'spat' against a tree near me. I thought it was time to get under cover, and did so with promptness and despatch, and at once ordered my men to close up and fire on the house. This they did with pleasure, but we might as well have fired at a stockade, for the cabin was built of heavy logs, and nothing short of a mountain howitzer could have had any serious effect upon it. We banged away, though, and every now and then, a shot came from the inside and whistled dis- agreeably near us. One time, when one of my men showed up where he could get shot at the only pane of glass vis- ible, two shots came after him so closely that he stayed in hiding for the rest of the time. This was about 9 o'clock in the morning, and we at last conclud- ed that, as there were children and a wo- man in the house with our mountaineer we could not very wellburn it down, even if we could get close enough to fire ,it , we would simply camp on their trail and starve them out. So we took our places to command every point to prevent escape and waited. At intervals a shot would come from the cabin, but we would pay no attention to it, thinking that our man might think we had gone and come out, but he didn't, and the long day wore on. It was raining, too, after noon, and we were decidedly uncomfortable, butwe had our game caged and we were bound to get him or stay there a year. However, it was not to be that we were to remain quite that long, for about 8 o'clock in the evening, when it was so dark we couldn't see our hands before us, and had come up so close to the cabin that we trusted to our ears instead of our eyes to catch the moonshiner in case he tried to get away under cover of darkness, the door was thrown open and the woman called : " 'Whatis it?' I asked from behind a stump in the yard. "'You can come in ef you wanter,' she replied. "'Tell your old man,to come out.' "''I won't do nothin' uv the sort,' she said in a most womanly fashion. 'Ef yer want him, come in after him.' "I parleyed awhile, fearing treachery, but when she handed me two guns and punched up the fire on the hearth, until the cabin was brilliantly lighted, I called up my men and went inside, the woman standing meanwhile in .the middle of the floor, with four or five children clinging to her skirts. Every man of us hadhis revolver in his hand, and we expected trouble, though it was hardly likely un- der the circumstances. Once inside, we had made a thorough search of the one room of the cabin in a very few minutes, and as the floor was mostly earth we did not feel like going for a cellar, notwith- standing there was no sign of the moon - shiner in the room where we were. He was clean gone, and there could be no doubt on that point. It was so unexpect- ed and disappointing that I looked at the woman helplessly. In reply she laughed' at me. " 'Where's your husband?' I asked, be- cause there wasn't much else to say. " 'How do I know ?' she answered pro- vokingly. - "'Hasn't he been here all day?' "'Course he hasn't. He ain't that big a fool.' ''Who's been doing the shooting then?' " 'Me,' and she gave me the laugh again. "'You?' I gasped. "'Course me. Why not me?'' she laughed again. 'Can't 1 shoot?' "I knew that she could, and did not compliment her on it. "'Hasn't he been here?' I asked. "On this occasion she shook herself loose from the children and stood straight before us. "'Yes, he has.' she said; 'he wuz here not five minutes afore you some with yer gang I seen one uv you that I knowed, and I shoved Bill out and.told him to run, and I'd take keer uv the balance.. Bill run, and you fellers know the rest, He's got twelve hours the start uv you'uns, and of yer want ter go atter him, you kin ;; but it's powerful dark goin' in the mountains, and yerid better stay and take supper with me and try it in the daylight:" It was a true story, too, every word she said, and We tried to do something with her for resisting officers, but not much, for somehow we felt she acted the heroie, and we let her off with only a re- primand. As for Bill, he never came back while I was there." "You needn't show your affidavitu " said the man frons. Chimp, when thostory had ended and the ex -deputy ut smiled at him ,blandly. He Could Kick. The other day Johnnie's mother 'told him he could go out and play for an hour. As he trotted around the corner three young men all of whom he knew, hailed him. Johnnie hopped over to where they were, and then saw that an old battered hat lay on the sidewalk. "Johnnie, can you kick ?" inquired the first young man. "C'n I ? Well, I guess." "You can't kick as far as Willie," said the second young man. "Him t" answered Johnnie with great scorn. 'I c'n kick far ag'n 's him. I gutter bigger foot't hint and more mus'." "Willie kicked that old hat across the street," declared the third young man. "I c'n kick it acrost the street 'n over the fence." "hats 1" chorused all three youn g men. Johnnielast n o more time in words. He . went at the hat with a run and planted 01311 CLOTHES. Why the Western Farmer is a Phil- osopher. The western termer is a philosopher from necessity. Rapidly tending toward poverty, he demands to know why, and is intelligent enough to answer his own question in the light of reason. He be- lieves the prime cause of all his woes is the manipulation of the money system of the country by unscrupulous and mer- cenary interests. He believes the decline of prices follows the shrinkage of the volume of money in circulation, and that shrinkage in volume results from legisla- tion. He does not believe that the gov- ernment should increase the interest bur- den by borrowing gold, while our native hills are filled witb silver, and labor stands idly awaiting an opportunity to take it from its hiding place. He believes that government is, or should be, for the good of all the people ; that legislation should be for the multitude rather than for the few, and he is beginning to be- lieve, if government can guarantee him nothing but hopeless poverty, that gov- ernment has failed its mission. He be- lieves that government should afford pro- tection to the weak -the strong are able to care for themselves;. and he believes, finally, that if government, which as- sumes to guarantee life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, in reality guaran- tees nothing but wretchedness and want, he is living in an ,age of exquisitely re- fined barbarism rather than in the noon- day light and love of Christian charity and progressive civilization,—From "Pro- blems Before the Western Farmer," by the Governor of Kansas, Hon. L. E. Le - welling, in North American Review for January. Some Interesting Information About the Clothes Our Ancestors Wore. Frieze was originally called falling. gi Silk brocades were first used in the dress of men. Shoes with heels were first . made in Paris in 1527. An almoner was the purse carried by ladies at their belts. Ruffles for the wrists were originally called hand -ruffs. English leather gloves were sold all over Europe in 1247. The Sews made shoes of rushes, leather, linen and wood. to Your i•o;orabie Wife" --Merchant of Venice. and tell her that I am composed of clarified cottonseed oil and re- fined beef suet ; that I am the purest of all cooking fats ; that ray naule is that 1 -ra better than lard, and More useful than butter; that I am equal in shortening to twice the quantity of either, and make food much easier of digestion. I am to, be found everywhere in 3 and 5 pound pails, but am Made only by The N. K. Fairbank Company, Wellington and Ann Sta,p MONTREAL. How to Breathe Deeply. With the preliminary, but important matter of clothing satisfactorily settled, we are ready to breathe. If very weak, lie down on an easy couch—lie flat on the back. See that the air is fresh, but avoid a draught. Draw in a long, slow breath, letting the diaphragm and abdomen ex- pand as . fully as possible. Then by a contraction of the diaphragm— a quick drawing in of the muscles of the stomach —fonts the air into the upper part of the lungs, and hold it there a moment or two before allowing it to pass up into the throat. This is done by a contraction of the vocal cords, and is not usually diffi- cult. But if the cords will not close, and the air is not readily controlled, close the lips and hold the nose for a moment, which will prevent the air from all leav- ing the apex of the lungs. With practice the vocal cords will come under perfect control. Some have difficulty in establishing the abdominal breathing, especially those who have been in the habit of breathing entirely from the chest But when the clothing no longer forms an obstruction, this will gradually right itself. The na- tural mode of breathing asserts itself most readily when one is lying down, therefore that position is recommended for the daisy practice, which should be persist- ent, but also very gentle. Do not allow yourself to become really fatigued, and be careful not to make the lungs ache. If one deep breath brings wearmoss or dizzi- ness, stop with the one breath, but try again when fully rested. The upper part of the chest will gradually expand, and in time will round. out beautifully. The careful practice of deep breathing will cure consumption in its incipiency, if not in the later stages. It will bring fresh vitality to any organ not incurably diseased. It will enrich the blood more than any preparation of iron or cod liver oil. It has greater power than any ano- dyne to soothe and restore exhausted nerves. It will round the throat, straight- en the shoulders, fill the chest, give a sparkle to the eyes, a color to the cheeks. Those who like to sing will rejoice to find their voices gaining marvelously in strength and purity of tone. When the common earth worm is cut in two, to the tail there grows a head and to the head there grows a tail, and two animals are formed. As the wound heals a small white button is formed, which afterward develop into rings and a perfect extremity. The recent trials on the Thanes of a small torpedo boat, with steel framework and aluurnunum plates for the hull, "have shown an unusual speed, which the mak- ers state is partly owing to the use of the light metal, and partly to the better bal- ancing Of, the machinery, as well as the use of water tubo boilers in place of the ! usuallocomotive type," When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Oastoria- When she had Children, she gave themCastoria. 1€e ilad to Speak. "Speak and you are a dead man." The pistol barrel gleamed under the nose of the patient looking party who was reclining on the combination sofa. "Do your worst," he cried, leaping to his feet, "I will speak. I demand to know how in thunder it is you walk all through this house without falling over the rugs?" 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