HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1896-2-20, Page 3A. FEMALE STANLEY.
MISS KINGSLEY SEES THE GOR-
ILLA AT HOME.
78he Travels Among West African Canni-
bals --Returns to Kensington With Many
Singular Trophies to Add to liar Remark-
able
emarkable Collection.
Miss Kingsley, niece of the late Charles
Kingsley,daughter of his talented brother,
Dr. G. H. Kingsley, has been the object
of a great deal of attention since her re-
turn to England from West Africa. This
prominence is somewhat of a surprise,
because, as she says herself, she once
name bank from the same quarter of the
world ebefore, and there was no groat
blare of trumpets then to herald her
asoming. Moreover, on that occasion she
brought with her acute evidence of the
risks she had run in the form of a lame
toot, the result of being shot at. This
time she returns soathless; but yet her
experiences have been more remarkable
than ever, and then we are beginning to
know her better as a traveller. To call
her an explorer and her repent travels an
expediti'bn would be pretty certain to
provoke something of a protest from her.
"Oh," she would remark with a laugh,
MISS MARY SINGSLEY.
°tI simply puddled about here and there
to study fetish among the natives, native
laws and oustomes and collect specimens
of fish "
Miss Kingsley has always had a taste
for travel and natural history and she
turned to West Africa—first in 1893 -as
yielding, perhaps, the freshest field avail-
able. The history of her present absence
from England covers a period of just
upon a year, and of that time she spent
more than five months in the interior of
the French Congo. It sounds simple
,enough, "five months in the interior,"
but that means an undertaking which,
from the point of view of physical endur-
ance alone, might well tax strong men.
Miss Kingsley is litho, and as vigorous
as you like, but perhaps her abiding salva-
tion from fever and otter ills of that ter-
rible climate has been her buoyant and
esourageous spirits. She landed in Old
Calabar, and oarriod on some collecting
work on the Old Calabar river. 'Phis was
interesting and valuable scientifically,
but hardly so exciting as her subeequeut
.experiences in the Gamboon territory. Da
Cbaillu brought notable information of
this slice of French Congo, which no sub-
sequent traveler has been able to contra-
dict, and, like him, Miss Kingsley made
the acquaintance of the gorilla at home.
Owing to the assistance given her by
the French, she went up the Ogowe river
as far as N'Djole by a little French
steamer whioh plies on it. Arrived at
N'Djole she got together a canoe's Drew
ad natives and started further inland, and
this trip proved singularly adventurous.
The oanoe and its 000upants were upset a
:snore of times, but somehow these risks
were always passed through successfully.
Miss Kingsley went nearly a hundred
miles beyond N'Djole, and she made
:sketches, of the Ogowe Rapids—a pictu-
resque stretch of tumbled waters—and ot
.ether scenes through whioh she passed.
Then she came baok on the Ogowe to a
place called Kangwe, and with six or
seven natives set out for the Bamboo
River. Du Ghaillu had turned to the
right, going inland, from the Ogowe
giver towards Ashengoland; while she
now turned to the lefty or in a north-
easterly direction.
It was a journey of many days from
the Ogowe to the Upper Rambus, and,
moreover, in large part through the region
edly glad that she had returned safely.
Next abe proceeded to Victoria in the
Cameroons, whioh is German territory,
and made an ascent of the Great Came-
roon, a peak rising nearly 13,760 feet into
the sky. Here again she was told that
she would never get natives with courage
enough to a000pmany her, but she led her
little party up the Cameroon Peak and
down again.
She asked the men if they would trinket
the journey with her once more, provided
on a subsequent occasion she wished to
climb the peak by a different route. 1
g
Yes." they said; "we go; you take care
of us proper!" This was rather a reversal
of the. European order of things, but ,per- {
tainly it was a compliment to Miss I ings-
ley's leadership; and taking all her ex- i
perlenoes in West Africa, her words about
"those villians of blacks" are only words
of kindness, not to say of appreoiation.
Now she is hack in Kensington, with
more trophies to add to her very remark-
able collection—among the new ones an
ugly looking Kabenda god, a murderous
knife which had been used by West Afri-
can natives in connection with their sacri-
fioial rites, and a pair of teeth that be-
longed to one of the numerous gorillas en-
countered. Before many months are
over Miss Kingsley will be setting out
once more to gather tribute to science
and knowledge from the fastnesses of
West Africa,
An Old Tiers Inscription.
The old bell of St. John's Episcopal
church, Ellinottville, N. Y., has an in-
teresting history. It hung originally in
monastery in Malaga, Spain. The mon-
astery was saulced in 1882 and this bell,
with others, was shipped to New York.
Nicholas Devereaux, agent of the Hol-
land Land Company, at Ellioottville,
bought it and sold it to St John's church.
Tho inscription on it is as follows:
"Abe sci labos del angel qve en alto
svena Maria Gracie plena Barges Mefoci
Malaga 1708." The meaning of this was
a mystery for a long time, until Bishop
Cox studied it, and said it was in cor-
rupt Spanish, in which b was often
used for v, and which changed many
other letters. "Thus," ho said, "abe"
should be "ave" and "labos" should be
"la vos." The inscription put in pure
Spanish follows: "Ave (sol la vos del
angel qve ne alto svena) Maris, plena
grade." The English translation he
made thus: "Hail (I am the voice of
the angel who on high stands forth)
Mary 1 full of grace." The last words,
of course, mean "Barges made me, Mal-
aga, 1708." --New York Tribune.
A Twenty -Five Cent Bicycle.
Among the numerous bicycles which it
bas been our fortune to present to our
readers in this era 'of the wheel, it is
questionable if any has been shown which
is more novel than the one illustrated
here. This wheel was bought in the
market from the manufacturer for 25
cents. This was no chance find, it was
not an old curiosity from a lumber room,
but was a genuine new wheel made for
NEWS OF ELECTRICTY.:
A Simple Street 'Car Track Cleaner.
In the cleaning of street car tracks;
as in everything else, >prevention iS
better than cure. Ono of, the difficul-
ties railway companies have to con-
tend with in heavy winter weather is
to bring their more or less cumbrous
snow -clearing devices into operation
over large sections of their lines with
sufficient• promptitude to prevent the
accumulation of large quantities of
snow on the rails. To meet this ex-
igency a new device has been. brought
out, which is based on the principle
that each street car shall be its own.`
tract; cleaner, iP.wo circular brushes,,'
suspended from beneath the car plat- I
form, are laicl at a suitable angle to the
direction of the track. As the car
goes along the brushes are revolved,
and all snow or dirt is dashed outward
from the rails. The brushes are made
of either rattan, brass or flat galvan-
ized spring steel. The steel gives the
best service, as it cuts the snow and.
ice cleaner and wears better. The
brushes can be applied to any make of
car, and can be raised or lowered by
the motorman.. :6y the equipment of
cars with this device a fall of snow is
dealt with from the start, and the cars
themselves are sufficient to keep the
road entirely clean without expensive
sweepers and plows being resorted to.
To meet the hardening of snow into
ice and other emergencies a steel nose
plow a foot creep is provided. When
tho use of this is necessary it is fixed
in front of the brushes, taking off snow
to the depth of 1 1-2 or 2 inches, the
brushes taking caro of the rest. The
fixed track brooms now ordinarily em-
ployed for street car track work are 6
inches long and 2 inches wide, with
bristles 4 inches in length, while the
brushes of the improved track cleaner
have a diameter of from 18 inches to 2
feet, according to the height of the car,
with a width of 6 inches and S inches
of bristles. This, of course, gives a
much greater wearing surface,
sale at the price of 25 cents. The out,
wbioh is an exact reproduction of the
machine, tells its own story. It is built
of strips of wood and of boards, Is fitted
with brake and tool box, and Alms an ad-
justable leather saddle,the latter having a
I
stretching or tension screw to take up the
sag of the leather. It was sold without
driving gear, so it was fitted by one of
' the Scientific: American staff with sprock-
et wheels and cranks, and with a perfor-
ated leather belt in place of a chain.
Thus equipped, it proved ridable, not ex-
actly equal in comfort, easy running, and
speed to an 18 or 20 pound modern wheel;
but it was ridden up and down the
Scientiflo American office. Its construc-
tion does not conduce to the maintenance
of a straight track.
The wheel is constructed by Fred Dod-
son, a boy of fourteen years, who resides
at Fishing Creek, Columbia county, Pa ,
and who manufactures the wheels for his
own amusement. They are very ingeni-
ously and strongly made, and are very
creditable, considering tbo low price. Mr.
Dodson Will furnith the wheel complete,
with pedals, driving chain, eto., but of
course this increases the expense some-
what, This is, the only wheel on the
market whose tire surface is non-destruc-
tible.—Scientific American.
THE RING` OF' OLD CALABAR,
nooupied by the cannibal Fangwes. Mies
Kingsley guaranteed the members of her
little native party safety from the dread-
ed Fangwes, and by one resort or another
she carried them all through, although,
indeed, their skins were often in real
-danger. The, picture whioh she gives of
the Fangwes' and their manner of living
chows'them to be a completely barbarous
tribe, and she also tells of a race of savage
dwarfs who live in the recesses of these
African forests. The case of the Fangwes
—since they have pressed down from the
-center of the continent -suggests what a
world of strange thinus and beings may
yet be hidden away in "Darkest Africa,"
Miss Kingsley knew that the surround-
ings amid whiob she found herself here
and there meant danger; but she .never.
blinked the danger. if asked if she felt
nervous at any time she would say, "Oh,
J- =dear, no; why should 1? _Iknew before
I started that I Was running certain risks,
and I had just made up my mind to
them."
On her way back to Gamboon,
via the e
Bamboo, she visited Lake N'Covi,whioh
is still unexplored, and the west spurs of
the Sierra del Crystal range of mountains.
'3ome of the mountains rise to the height
of six. and .eight thousand feet, and the
range s belted rina,v mud -swamps.
The French ° a ssie at GaMboon were
perhaps somewhat amazed tohear of her
1 daring rambles, and they Were und'oubt-
How Ile Got the Land.
"Aunt" Chloe's small patch of ground
was entirely too near Biltmore house for
the delicate fancy of the Vanderbilt
scion, and he said unto his agent, my
old friend McNamee, of this city:
"Mac, get me that land ; I care not how
you get it, but get it. "•
McNamee went to work in the moat
reasonable way. Ho offered Aunt Chloe
F300, then $600, then 51,000, then $2,000,
then $3,000. She laughed in his face and
vowed she'd never leave that spot. The
poor woman of 80 years, living entirely
alone on the mountains, got water from
a spring that bubbled on George's land.
Tho branch flowed down the distant
mountain side, far from her cabin. Mc-
Namee closed up the spring. He built
a wall around it and covered it over, so
that Aunt Chloe was unable to get a
drop' to drink. It brought her to terms
She sent for hien.
`"It looks hard, Aunt Chloe," he said,
"but we must have your .land. I'll
give you $2,000 more' for it, whioh. mak-
es 85,000 in all. Wo don't want you to
feel that we have robbed you in, any
way. "
Without water she knew - she would
lie, so she agreed to take the $5,000 and
move away. McNamee called upon' her
with the money and deed and asked her
so sign. Oh, no, not till she knew
What was in the deed. He had to read
it for` her, every.. word. d.
""I vin' gwine sign no etch paper,"
'Ilse declared. "Mis'h Va'erbil'-' seer 'e'
eiv'n' Arun' Clhoe $5,000 f' bar fan'. I
ies' won' tek de money, no I won'. Ef
terso i Aun'
fou en him wants settle w d t o
D hloe os' set down en contras' dat yo's
G ,j
titan' Aun''Chloe ' $3,000 fer de lan' en
12,000, for shett'n' de ole' 'omen off from
le spriug, .1V'eu"yo: does dat I signs,"
Of course they had. to do it; Mcl'iamee
°hanged the deed a000rdingly,,and Aunt
Chloe moved into Arhvills.-New York!
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As Others See IIs.
They were pretty girls, perhaps six-
teen and eighteen years of age, both
gay, lighthearted creatures who seem-
ed for an instant to brighten even the
dingy corner of the waiting room, as
the crowd jostled each other this way
and that.
"How did you enjoy the lecture?"
queried the dark one.
"Enjoy ! Don't mention it ! I suf-
fered agonies."
"Why, you take my breaeh away.
How so ?"
"It was vile."
"Forevermore ! and I've always sup-
posed he was way up in G."
"Oh! that's all gammon. He's a
perfect stick."
"But what did he say?"
• "Oh ! I don't remember ; but it was
too utterly awful for anything."
"Can't you remember some of the
awful things?"
"No indeed ! I didn't even try to
hear them. He was hideously homely,
the lecturer, I mean, and the only
wonder is I didn't faint outright."
"But very clever,'isn't he?"
"I really don't know. Homely
people are too awful."
"You went with Fred didn't you ?"
"Yes ; isn't his new overcoat
lovely ?"
"And you play to -night, I suppose."
"Yes, of course. The whole thing
would be a fizzle if I didn't." And the
pretty face was turned from one to
another of the bystanders, fancying
she had impressed them with a proper
sense of her importance, when the uni-
versal sentiment was one of sorrow
that such rare external beauty , should
be but the cloak with which she tried
to cover the ugly scars left by over
weening conceit. Hyperbolical ex-
pressions failed to impose upon the
people about her, and while she fancied
she was showing her superiority by
voting the lecture "vile" and the like
her audience wished devoutly that she
might see herself as others saw her.
FAIiMILIA1 'HYMNS.
"Tillilag IS A L A,ND OP POSE
DDL10l1J:'
Dr. Telma Watts.
Dr. Tsaae. Watts wasthe ,on of a sehool-
Master .it Southampton and was born in
1604. His parents were eminently pious,
and suffered much in the persecuting
times of Charles II., the father haviug
been imprisoned more than once for his
noncomformity, In a niemorttnchun by
Dr. Watts at this time odcimrs this note
"1683, my father persecuted and imprison-
ed six months for uoncoinformity ; after
that forced to leave his', family. and live
privately for two years."
The boy grew up and in his eighteenth
year startled the grave deacons' of his
father's church by declaring that the
hymns they sang in church were sadly
lacking in taste. "Give us something
better young man," was the reply. The
young linin did so, and the church was in-
vited to close its evening service' with a
new hymn.
"Behold the glories of the Lamb,
Before His Father's throne:
Prepare new honors for His name,
And songs before unknown,"
This was his first hymn, and to Watts
Hurst be assigned the praise of beginning,
in our leng.,age, a class of hymns which
has taken a decided hold on the Christian
mind of the world.
In the year 1707 Watts gave to the
churches an original volume, entitled
"Hymns and Spiritual Songs," and for the
copyright he received the munificent sum
of fifty dollars. If kept to this day it
would have yielded to its owner a solid
million. This book was followed soon
after by another. In the second volume
the famous "Old Hundred," which began
with the voids,
"Nations, attend before His throne,
With solemn fear, with sacred joy,"
first appeared. John Wesley altered these
lines to the grander ones :
"Before Jehovah's awful throne,
Ye nations bow with sacred joy."
That he ever composed one sacred song
which can take rank with Toplady's
"Rock of Ages" or Charles Wesley's
"Jesus, Lover of My Soul," we do not
claim. But he wrote more of the great
hymns of our mother tongue than any
other man. No lay of a crucified Saviour
has ever Vet approached in pathetic
grandeur that offering which Watts laid
at his Redeemer's feet:
"When I survey the wondrous cross
Oa which the Prince of Glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride."
The Wrong Word.
There is in the city a certain young
attache' to one of the legations who has
communicated to the world his resolve
to eschew its pleasures for the present.
This determination is by no means due
to the fact of a cold shoulder being
turned toward him by the fashionables,
but on account of the numerous con-
versational slips that he is conscious of
making. Telling of a certain occasion
where he "put 1 ze foot" more than
usual, he says : "I talk to ze ladees
and smile and be agreeable, and all at
once zey grow quiet and look at me so
var' queer. I exclaim, 'What haf I
done ?' and ze ladees zey make answer :
'It is not what you haf done, monsieur,
but what you haf said-' And. zen I feel
so decayed, oh, so decayed."
His confidant here reminded him
that he had made another faux pas and
proceeded to explain to him the differ-
ent
iffer
ent applications of the synonyms, de-
cayed and mortified, and the despair-
ing foreigner replied : "Haf.I not told
yon I spilt bad all ze time?" -Wash-
ington Star.
Tempted by the Stamps.
1 once talked with a man who had
served a term in prison for'embezzle-
ment. He said that the first step in his
downfall was the stamp drawer, ` The
clerks in that store, as in many, helped
themselves to stei:mps from this drawer
for their priva,teletters, using the firm's
stationery also. What more natural
than that they slioulcl take"a few more
stamps if they were ordering some trifle
by mail? Having"made this start, and
seeing no trouble therefrom, how' easy
it was to take a larger amount when a
more expensive: article was wanted.
The step from the dollar's worth of
stamps to the dollar itself was not a
vera long one, and ' then to larger
,Y
amounts, followed at length by discov-
ery and
iscov-eryand prisonl This was the man's
g
set to thinking.—
Hardware.
h` Iwln .
Story, and it me lrl „
Hardware.
This hymn was written after hearing a
sermon from the text, "God forbid that I
should glory, save in the cross of our Lord
Jesus Christ."
He was one of the little great men,
never measuring five feet in height, and
was proportionately narrow. He was
never a favorite with the gentler sex,
though once he secured the affections of a
young lady and retained them sufficiently
long to formulate an engagement for
matrimony, but was soon doomed to per-
petual bachelorhood by her fickleness and
fondness for a larger and handsomer man.
His loss in this case p''oved a gain to the
church, for this circumstance was the
origin of a hymn, frequently sung in some
of our churches to this day, which was
written on the day of her marriage:
allow vain are all things here below,
How false, and yet how fair ;
Each pleasure has its poison, too,
And every sweet a snare.
"The brightest things below the sky
Give but a flattering light ; •
We should suspect some danger nigh
When we possess delight,
"Our dearest joys and nearest friends,
The partners of our blood;
How they divide our wavering minds
And leave but half for God.
"The fondness of a creature's love,
How strong it strikes the sense;
Thither the warm affections move,
Nor can we call them hence.
"Dear Saviour, let thy beauties be
My soul's eternal food,
And grace commanding heart away
From all created good."
It is an evidence of wondrous ver-
satility of genius that while Watts com-
posed the lines which Daniel Webster
murmured on itis dying bed, "Show pity,
Lord, 0, Lord, forgive," he also wrote
the most perfect child hymns in our
language. In 1696 he became tutor to Sir
John Hartopp's children, and wrote for
them "How Huth the Little Busy Bee ?"
"Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite,"
"Whene'er I Take My Walks Abroad,"
and "Hush, My Dear. be Still and Slum-
ber."
But Dr. Watts especially challenges our
admiration by the transcendent vividness
with which be pictures the life beyond the
grave. He seems to have lived constantly
on heaven's border land. One who could
say, "I call lay any head back to -night and
die without altirni," might well write of
glories that shone so near.
He died in 1748, leaving over seven
hundred hymns, and to -day they are being
sung by God's children all the world
around. His body rests in Bunhill Fields,
the Westminster Abbey of the glorious
Puritans; close by the gate, and not far
from Bunyau's grave, is 0 plain. tomb,
which bears the name of Isaac Watts, the
father of the English hymn.
By his own request, at his funeral, the
hymn so often sung even in this day, was
chanted:
_"Wily should '.ye tremble to convey
This body to the tomb ?
There the clear form. of Jesus lay,
And left a long' perfume."
Tradition places the home of Dr. Watts
near the' little battery on Southampton
water, looking out on tlie, green ,gl !des of
the New Forest,' He was invited t .spend
a few weeks with friends in Southampton,
where, owing to sickness, he spent thirty -
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From this rural home the little invalid•
had many opportunities of courting the
muse. Nor is it to be wondered at that so
many stanzas 'should be evidently sng-
gested to his mind by gazing aline ocean
or b calm.
au iful
in wrathful storm e G c r.
Wever did be strike a happier vein than
when one morning, from the mainland he
booked across •to the Isle of Wight. Be-
fore hint dressed in all the ,glory of spring -
tide werethe gently rising fields, bestarred
with flowers, A group of people lint^d the
shore waiting, a -transport. Ile touched
the lyre and sang of the green immortal
slopes, the perpetual blaze of glory that
kindled on the never witheringflowers,
the narrow .stream of .death dividing it
from the present state of being, and the
timorous crowd of mortals on the bank,
shivering at the thought of „crossing over.
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for i nfMft5 and Children.
anti E RS, Do li o u . Know that Paregoric,
Bateman's Drops, Godfrey's Cordial, many so-called Soothing Syrups, and
most remedies for children are composed of opium or morphine ?
].Do Yon Snow that opium mad morphine are stupefying narcotic' poisons ?
Do Yon Know that in most countries druggists are not permitted to sell narcotics
without labeling them poisons 7
Do You Know that you should not permit any medicine or be given your child
unless you or your physician know of what it is composed ?
Do You. Know that Castoria is a purely vegetable preparation, and that a list of
it:: ingredients is published with every bottle ?
aa o Yon Kalmar that Cactoria is the prescription of the famous Dr. Samuel 'Pitcher.
That it has been in use for nearly thirty years, and that more Castoria is now sold than
of all other remedies for children combined ?
Do Ton Know that the Patent Office Department of the United States, and of
other countries, have issued exclusive right to Dr. Pitcher and his assigns to use the word
" Castoria" and its formula, and that to imitate them is a state prison offense i
Do Yon Know that one of the reasons for granting this government protecrionwas
because Castoria had been proven to be absolutely harmless?
Do You Know that. 35 averagedoses of Castoria are furnished for 35.
cents, or one cent a dose ?
Do Yon Know that when possessed of this perfect preparation, your children may
be kept well, and that you may have unbroken rest ?
Well, those things are worth knowing. They are facts
The foo -simile $e o ne_ very
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signature of setgataell, .1.Z.44" wrapper.
Children Cry for Pitoher9s Castoria.
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Ell Perkins's Advice to Young Ladies.
"Young Ladies," said Eli Perkins to the
Nashville Seminary girls, "I want to talk
seriouly to you about your mothers: "It
may be that you have noticed a careworn
look upon her face lately. Of course, it
has not been brought there by any acts of
yours; still it is your duty to chase it
away. I want you to get up to -morrow
morning and get breakfast; and when
your mother eomes and begins to express
her surprise, go right up and kiss her on
the mouth. You can't imagine how it
will brighten her dear face.
"Besides, you owe her a kiss or two.
Away back, when you were a little bit of
a girl, she kissed you when no one else
was tempted by your fever -tainted breath
and swollen face. You were not so at-
tractive then as you are now. And
through those years of childish sunshine
and shadows, she was always ready to
cure, by the magic of a mother's kiss,your
dirty little chubby bands. whenever they
were injured in those first skirmishes
with the rough old world.
"And then the midnight kiss with which
she routed so many bad dreams, as she
leaned above your restless pillow, have ;
all been on interest these long, long years. 1
"Of course, site is not so pretty and kiss-;
able as you are; but if you had done your
share of work during the last ten years,
the contrast would not be soanarked.
"Her face bas more wrinkles than
yours, and yet if you were sick that face
would appear far more beautiful than an
angel's as it hovered over you, watching
every opportunity to minister to your
comfort, and every one of these wrinkles
would seem to be bright wavelets of sun-
shine chasing each other over the dear
face.
"She will leave you one of these days.
These burdens, if not lifted from her
shoulders, will break her down. These
rough, hard hands, that have done so
many things for you, will be crossed upon
her lifeless breast.
"Those neglected lips that gave you
your first baby kiss will be forever closed,
and those sad, tired eyes will have opened
in eternity, and then you will appreciate
your mother; but it will be too late."
•
Fried Iee-Cream.
Fried ice cream has become very popu-
lar in Philaolphia. A small, solid,
cake of ice cream is enveloped in a thin.
sheet of pie crest, and then dipped in
boiling lard or butter long enough to
cook the outside covering to a crisp. If
served immediately, the ice cream is
found to be as solidly frozen as when it
was first prepared. The process of frying
is so quickly accomplished and the pas-
try is so good a protector that the heat
bas no chance to reach the frozen cream.
.Another novelty is baked ice cream,
which has a meringue top.
Restoring Cane Seats.
To restore Dane sears that have become
sagged and to make them tight and like
new, a German paper gives a simple.
remedy. The chair is turned over and the
caned seat thoroughly moistened and
washed with very hot water, a sponge
being used. The cane should be allowed
to absorb the water freely. The chair is
then iilaoea either in the open air, or still
bettor, in a draft, where is is allowed to
dry. After drying the cane seat will be
found white and stretched as tight as new.
A pound of pork in a well bred pig can
be made more cheaply than a', pound of
any other kind of moat. Tho whole
effort ot the breeder of pigs is to secure,
the cheapest meat product. Concentrat-
ing his effort thus it is not strange that
he is successful. The bog has a ,smaller
proportion of bone and intestine than
any other domestic animal. Even his
_feet when cleaned and cooked are excel -
east eatiug. . There is perhaps another
reason why the hog prodaces meat more
cheaply. Its excretions are less in pro-
poetieu to its food than those of other
animals. It does riot even .sweat except
through the small tissues which are found
in its front legs. ft is necessary, there -
ore, that the other:exoretory organs be
active and in healthful working order,
This is one reason why it is a goocl practice
to give occasional doses of sulphur tie
ening hogs, together with a little
fattening, ,, i, , :=
c4arooal. If these are given frequently
the bowels will be; kept open, which, in
the pig, is especitilly neeimehry in main-
taining health. There should also be
given some green food to hogs that: are
fattened on corn.
CHEESE AS FOOD.
Much differenoe of opinion bas pre-
vailed in regard to the value of cheese as
food, but we are beginning to get at real
facts with a better understanding of the
relations of the digestive functions to food,
elements. Cheese has been much lauded
by many because of the great amount of
nutritive food elements it contains, and
people have been urged indiscriminately
to eat it freely, some enthusiasts making
the most extravagant claims for it as a
health diet. But many people who have
sought to follow this oounsel find them-
selves the victims of indigestion and dys-
pepsia. They would consider it as little
short of treason to charge their disordered
digestion to the cheese, but the truth is,
the cheese is the most probable cause in
any such case. Although, so far as its
constituents are concerned, cheese is fair-
ly entitled to its fame as a model food,
yet in raw cheese these constituents are
very difficult of solution by the digestive
juices -that is, raw cheese is indigestible
to a degree that makes it unavailable as
food except to the strongest and healthiest
stomachs, and should not be eaten by any
one who finds on trial that it gives bis
stomach the least discomfort. It is found.
however, that cooking the cheese removes
this difficulty and makes cheese easy of
digestion, and as nutritious as tender
meat or more so, Various methods have
been adopted for this purpose, from plain
broiling, frying or toasting to the most
elab gate compound dishes. The main
point is to get the cbeese cooked so that
the stomaoh can digest it --Good House-
keeping.
The Bridegrooms a:Wei115.
The marriage statistics for 1893, whioh
are just out, show that the Nestor of bride-
grooms at Berlin during that year was a
widower aged eighty-three, whose bride
had arrived at the age of three score years
and three. Nine men, all widowers over
seventy, married again in the same year.
At the other end of the line stand forty-
four girls, aged sixteen, who married men
of various ages, the youngest bachelor be-
ing just nineteen.
A Typewritten Newspaper.
Caliente, Cal., has a newspaper edited
by a woman, which is written entirely
with a typewriter and issued twice a
month.
The despotism of custom is on the wane.
We are not content to know that things
are; we ask whether they ought to be.—J.
S. Mill.
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
When she had. Children, she gave themcastoria,
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