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Exeter Advocate, 1901-7-25, Page 2+ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++,, ift of ahattria. -4- -Whilst looking through the papers running off the cold, water which has etood la tee hot-water pipe, before the hot will come. Dunstan's man- ner was a triumph in the art of re- establishing the old relatieltS at once The man himself was hardly at all changed. His Very dark hair had scarcely a streak of white, His face, always rather old s' and thin, looked no older and no thinner. Time had not been so kind to me. I had more figure than in undergraduate days, and less hair, 'Dunstan (lid not seem to notice it as we spoke of the old times. "I ,do not find you changed," he said. "In fact, I knew you would not be. It was yourself, your ea- ture, that made you able to be my friend then, as you will always be." ''But one does change all the saine," I said. "Those deep, meta- physical problems that we used to discuss—one gives them up, learns the futility of discussing them, as one grows older, Have you not found it so ?" . . "Had I been an Englishman I should nave found it so, no doubt," he said. "You all do. The material forces—things that you can touch and see—are everything to you; it is not altogether so with Ifs, with my mother's people." You have -pursued those studies— if they were to be called studies— th.en '?" "Those studies—well," with his smile, "not preeisely those perhaps; but such stnslies as they ionised a kind of groundwork for, no doubt. I have spent twe.nty of the last five - and -twenty years in Lhasa." ,"I.hasa, I said with great excite- ment, "Lhasa! Do you mean it man? Why, do you know you are the first, the only white inan—or the only one for many generations (you are a white man, you know)— who has been to Lhasa! , Why, man, you will be the lion of the season --of the world!" inays treated me as if I was his ben- "Yes," he said again, with an ap- „Pf4cter e.nd he in my debt a thou- preciative smile. "I shall lecture sand deep. , ..... before the British Association and While he was at Oxford his father at St. James's I-Tall—like De Itouge- mdied, and he went to India without moat. Thank you, my friend.” taking his degree, so I doubt wheth- "Go on," I said. "What will you er his name will be on the College do, then ?" books, though of course the buttery "I shall do, of this kind of thnig, lists, and so on, of our day would that gets fame and notoriety, just show it. nothing. I have been allowed to For five -and -twenty years, a guar- come over here on business quite dif- ter of a century, 1 never saw him, ferent from that, business that I never had a line from him: uergr may not tell, even to you. But one thought of him, I may say, until a thing I may do; before I started 1 certain evening, the day before the received leave to do you, my friend, Oxford and Cambridge match—great, my only English friend, a good occasion for the reimion in Lord's pavilion of old pals, and for the re- turn." "Really," I said, not a little cm- suscitation of high hats on various beerassna fossilized strata. I was smoking i "I am very much obliged -rk to you, but what can you' do for my rooms, making a mild pretence me? There is nothing that I want of reading, and as reading, towards particularly, so far as I know. And midnight, lapsed to reverie, inY in. any case I aln not aware that thoughts, for the firgt time for you are indebted in any way to me." years, as it seemed to me, dwelt on "You are not aware—no, that is Ralph Dunstan and the weird, and just it. If you were aware in all at whiles mystical, talks that we probability it would not be the same used to enjoy in the old College at all. But without being aware rooms. So much so was this the you gave me, when we were friends case that the next day at Lord's together at . Oxford, the one thing when an old undergraduate friend that is most precious to us—to us said, "Whom do you suppose I saw who are of my mother's peopie. Ale in town to -day ?" I replied without you English do not understand it," a moment's hesilation, "Perhaps it he went on, warming up to an un - was Dunstan." "Oh," said the oth- usual enthusiasm in his subject. er; "you knew he was in town ?" "You do not understand what it is And then only did I perceive the sin- to have some sympathy given us— grila.r coincidence that he should the in that it is to us. You Euro - have been so much in my thoughts peens do not know what it means. at the time of his coming. For that Apd, besides, You do not want it so he had but just come I learned from much in this climate." my friend. Dunstan, had that morn- I laughed aloud. "You speak of it ing landed in London from the SS. jest as if it were whisky," -I said, 0-111000. that you can driek more oin the ''Very curious," I commented to Highlands than you can in southern myself (I did not say anything about En2-,iande, the coincidence to my friend, who He did not resent my comparisons would very ProPeAY have laughed). or my laughter in the least. It had "I hope he will come and see Inc." always been one of his attractions I was quite coualent that he that he never did resent laughter. would; and had a kind of conviction "You are quite right," he answered that he would come late at night, gently. "It is like whisky. It has at the hour of our old talks togeth- tee same eget}, an setae you woitld er. S° after a veltr cheery dinner call (it is the nearest expression to with some old 'Varsity friends, I designate your non -comprehension of went .home and sat in what I knew these things) sensitive nerves. It to lie a foolish state of expectancy— strengthens, helps, braces them, to expecting Dunstan. I really did feel use your words. Only, with sympa- rather curious to see whether. Thy' thy there is no reaction." convictiOn that he would come world "And what words would yea use?" be realized, although I felt a fool i asked, for expecting it, and further hall a o.r would use words that would doubt whether Dunstan would have have 110 SeriFe to you," he said, "for retained enough. of English Ways to they would be in t language that think of looking for my address, on you do not know; but perhaps if for the hypothesis that he might wish ,serisitive nerves' you were to read to find it, hi. the -Red Book. 'soul' it would brieg what we mean I came in about ten -thirty, and at nearer to your understanding-, eleven -thirty was beginning to call "So you mean to tell me that myself names for my folly, when .1 whisky is good for the soUl—very heard a quick, light step "'ming excellent conclusion, tut, I thought along the practically deserted street' you Orientals were SO Careftli III your and pause, hesitatingly, before my use uf alcohol ?,, door ' I put nlY head out 01 tilc "That is the reason," he said with ' of a lately cleceaeoci relative who had made me 11i5 QXeCUtOr, came kleress the follOWing ;3Lory, which he expeessly authorised me to publish 11 1 deemed it of eullicient interest. On that point I have not the slight- est hesitation. It is in itself so very remarkeble that leel that I need neither preface nor apology cm my part, and leave it, with all confid- ence, to speak, as it speaks so eloquently, for itself. When I was at OxPord, one of nay Chief friends was Ralph, Dunstan, a quaint creature whom all that were at the same College and some few besides, cannot fail to remember. He was not a game -playing man, nor even a distinguished scholar; his name therefore was not at all gener- ally known la the University. But for those who did know him lie was always a remarkable man, in some ways rather a sMister man. Re had a, very dark complexion, and a nasty an -British habit of smoking out of a queer Oriental pipe. We like nele ther of these things about him ; and yet, we ought to fitive made every al- lowance, for his father, who had been an Englishman in the Indian , Civil Service, had cemmitted the un- forgivable sin of marrying a Hindoo lacry, away up in some distant pro- vince where caste distinctions—that Is to say, English ones— grow con- fused. So Italph. Dunstan, in spite of his name, was hall Oriental. There is only one place where class distinctions of the most childish kind are observed more strictly than in India, and that is an English public school or university. Dun- stan had a true Oriental's sensitive- ness and I think it was the fact that I did not offend this sensitive- ness by sharing all the prejudices of most of our fellow undergraduates about him that made me his friend. I never did him any important ser- vice, that I am aware of, but he al - la so English, so hopeless. Unless you bring a thing tbrougn all the Courts of Appeal right up to your House of Lords you will not believe it; and yet your British A,ssociatioe. ei all the savants ewallpwed Rougemont like an oyeter, whole,'' "Never mind De leoegemoiet," said, rather- annoyed at his. persist - eat gibe at the great British Associ- ation, which I had been taught, to revere. "Do you remember," he went on, that wonderful discovery that we thought we had made one night in the old rooms at Oxford, when it dawned on us that if we were in a certain star whose rays took eine- teen hundred years to reach us (and there a.r0 many that take many more), and had only sufficieat power of vision, we should See the events happening on the earth' not that are taking place to -day, but the great event that took place close on nine- teen hundred years ago—the shep- herds being led, by the star of Beth- lehem, and the rest of the wonders? Do you remember that ?" ''Yes,'' said. "And do you remember, too," he went on, "how we extended that idea and sug,gested to each other (I forget who was the flimst diseoverer, but he was mighty proud of himself at the time) that if we were travel- ling away from the earth just a lit- tle faster than the light, we should „see (always supposing still that we had infinite powers of vision) events happening not in their present order but in the reverse order? We should see the bullet coming out of the man's body and going leach into the muzzle of the gun, and so on. We should see a man. diving into the water; but he would appear to us not going down o� the diving -board into the watey, but coming up out of the water to the divieg-board. We should see the Derby being run, but the horses going backwards. Do you remember how we multiplied in- stances of that kind, how interested we were, and yet what a little shock it seemed to give us, for the time be- ing, to find all our previous ideas of time mid space, of before and after, so badly upset? There is z,iot an act that has been done since the world began, we concluded, it you remem- ber, that is not photographed for: us at some point in space ie only \VC could get there with our infinite vision to regard it. The thought frightened us rather at the time." "Yes, can remember all that," I said. "If you can imagine," he went on, "that at Lhasa speculations of this kind, or beginning with this as a kind of alphabet, have been. contin- ued for chuntless ages, not by schoolboys or undergraduates, not haphazard, but by grown men who have devoted their lives to specula- tion and recorded its. results, begin - ming on the previous results recorded in the same way by generations of speculators who have gone before; if you can realize this you may be - beim, perhaps, that they have discov- ered facts even a little more remark- able than some that we patted our- selves on the back so warmly for discovering when we were andergran dilates Oxford.'' "Yes," I said, "I dare say." "And the climate favors specula- tive research. You laughed at me a while back when said that one wanted sympathy in one climate more than another. What is sympa- thy hut your own animal magnet- ism—to use your Western phrases? And do not you know that ehypnot- ism'—again to use your word— is found of very much more value in the hospitals in Calcutta than it is in this country ?" open window and said, "Dunstan I' a smile, foe he was •e,v no means I could not see the man plainly, without, seam of humor. " We bnt I was convinced it was he, and know that it acts directly on the the next moment his gentle voice an- soul, on the nerves (oh, how will swered, just as when he used to yoti say it in your stupid modern knock at my oak at Oxford : language ?). You believe that it "May I come in? Am I too late?" 'ruins the soul,' aS your temperance The lift-irian went to bed at clev- preachers say; but they rnenn only en, so I let my visitor in myself, and after it hos ruined the body. you we went up the stairs together. do not understand, I suppose, how He ha,d said no more than " How tbe universal soul is present in eve d'you do ?" in the old unemotional cry particle, atom or whatever you way, as if. we had parted tee pee -se- are f,leaseci to call it, of matter, ?,, ous day instead of twenty-five years ',No " I said. oo 40-1, think before. Involuntarily I felt a little do emlerstand." chilled by this gree.ting for 1110 mo - "You look, you Englishmen, on inent; but presently as he sat clown and began to talk very iamb in the matter as a solid thir'g' old manner, without the least eine barraSsment by reason of the quar- ter-century gap in our intercolirse, I fell to perceive that it was in fact the Iiighest triblite that noilid be paid to the value of our friendship that he aceept it thus as the same, mid at the same temperature, as eve had lcnown it all those yeers ago, Tbere WEIS 1100e, of that ex - Change. of COMMODplacos which, at a meeting of old friends long separat- ed, is often necessesmy before, one can ssrrive at the old Warmth—like thing that you can 1)1110,11; end then, by and by a bit of matter gets af- do it. I can't do that, I am too fected in some singular waY, end all, Besides I bare just bought a you say it is alive; it has a soeln lot of light Post, very good Port, at but cannot you understand 1,1net the Christie's, It wants drinking' at soul inheres in eeeh etom once, Forgive me if I am talking and that it is onIv the braining, an runlet), 1 dare 54(1 1 am; but, you gather of certain atoMs in a certaie know, yohr Eastern ideas are a lite way that means a soul and life? It tie bit disconcerting to us." is not that the atoms differ," "T dare Say they are," he replied "f dare say you ,are quite right," al)(11°g°tic "Oh, you may drink yottr pot all right. I dare say you T. said: "I don't see how you prove it." have seen., in the stege exhibitions I had to confess that I had. heard something of the sort. - "And that climate of the wind- swept Thibetan plateau seems, for reasons that I need not speak of, even if I dimly understand them, most favorable for the acquirement of knowledge ancl advancement of speculation in the trance state', which is the most favorable State of all for the human soul's investi,ga- tion of the secrete of Nature." "And what of all this ?" I asked. "I am coming to that," he said; "I knew that with your, 'solid Brit- ish common-sense' "--he smiled a gently ironical sraile---"you would want to know what good material thing, what slice of roast beef or plum pudding, was to be yours after all this. I came to you to give you a gift. Every man. desires some- thing. Consider that I have come to you like the fairy godmother in the tale, and can give you a picture of anything that will happen in the course of the world to come. It is no miracle, this, my friend. The soul of mail, as I have told you, be- longs to the universal soul, but by virtue of the arrangement of the particles of the man it ha.s come to ha-ve life and a special intelligence. Tri virtue of this the soul; of man is able, when his body lies in trance and is then soelless, to pass into other particles and reconstruct Cf use the word reconstruct, but pre - construct would be more correct) any arrangement of particles that will take place in the world. And when the soul returns to his body and the man rises from his trance, he will have knowledge of the thing that liis soul in its wanderings has pre-constructe,c1. Only, . I must gills you this warning, you may see mie thing only, one revelation of a thing thee is to be. I'm not allowed to show you more." "But," I said aghast, "I see ! How should I see it? I have heard of NvOnderful things, indeed, done in the East by men in et trance. If tliey are not Sheer imposture they transcend miraeles. ,But all the con- jurors, or iniracle-mongers or wIlitt- ever they are, say that it requires years of preparation, of fasting, of oraying—lleaven knows what all—tO merie trance, or get the patient to obey, by laying his fingers on the. DOViCu'6 W,TiStS, ,9omowliat af- ler this manner that I will enable you to see the vision tbat you. ask for, I shall first put you in a tranee, and I shall then pat myself into the same state, in order to tiCE) t11(4,t W1.0,011. you desire to see. Wlien you are in that condition I shall be able to communicate the experience lx)",137tot.d.1;esn't hurt at all, I suppose, does it ?" asked, doubtfelly. He laughed. had not known before that a mystic could realize the hu- morous side of tliings so fully. '`Absolutely painless, I promise yon,'' he said, rather as my dentist says iatni not in the habit of going into the trance state, you tenow." "No," he, said, taking me quite se- riously, "but I shall be able to put you into it easily enough." ,"The deuce you will," I answered. (To be continued.) 4. BOIL THEIVISELVES ALIVE. Peculiar Method They Have in ja- pan of Taking a Ba.th. This is not a "Shanghai tele- gram," as you might think, but a fact known well enough to residents in Japan, namely, the (to us) pecu- liar method they have in that coun- try of taking a bath, and which has been in vogue there from the remot- est ages until to -clay. Let us enter, in imagination, any hotel of the better class. Having settled the usual preliminaries on arrival there, a servant says: "0 yu ga wane imasu." You decline to do anything of the sort, and prepare to floor him, when it is explained that he merely told you in Japanese that "the hot water is boiling," and you are led into a room containing a wooden tub about four feet long, though very deep for its length; but one is puzzled to know why a stove pipe should arise out of it, running upwards and passing through the roof or wall. On examination, however, you will discover that this is not so mach a bath as a boiler, for fitted under the bathing part proper there is a sheet - iron stove nailed to the inside of the wooden exterior intended for a charcoal fire, more rarely firewood. If through negligence the water is poured away before the fire is put out, the thin metallic sheet quickly wears away, and the wood -work then catches alight, causing a more or less serious conflagration—an t:10 - stance of which the writer lately saw in Hakoslate, when about a hun- dred wooden. houses were destroyed. THE SIGHT OF A HUMAN IIDA.D appearing above a tub under which o red-hot charcoal fire is burning reminds one of scarce 'Mediaeval tor- ture, with the difference that. the owner of the head nicty get out whenever he or she desires to. The Japanese can and. do endure a far higher degree .of temperattire in their baths than. any Europeans, even up to 180 deg. as for example, at the Natural Hot Springs of Ata - mi, reputed to cure skin. diseases, and into which a number of afflicted persons, having jumped simultan- eously, sing a song of certain length, then jump out again more or less cured. Of course they have resolved before hand to endure the intense agony of the ahnost boiling water so long as )he agreed -on song lasts. As to Europeans, acute pain is felt on entering one of the above described baths, at about 120 deg. to 125 deg., perhaps becoming grad- ually hotter, but strange to say owing probably to the closing of the pores, this pain suddenly sub- sides and gives place to a rather pleasant feeling, changing some min- utes later to a sensation of giddi- ness and nausea, whereupon it is highly advisable for the bather to get out. Any actual washing must be done outside the bath, though one must mention that the Japanese until re- cent years never used any soaPat all—their word for it, namely "sa.- von" being obviously of French ori- gin. Hence there was (in their old method) so little sco 1 or ation of water, and so little loss of heat, that it is said, as many as forty persons could coneecutively use the tub without requiring any change of the water inside it. ''013 Of sheen:C. sm. a pact:ISO:1 performer " he said in deSpair, " that enable a zicivicc to induce the sties- , HE DIDN'T GET EVEN. Sorae people are philosophers en- ough to accept defeat gracefully ; others nurse their wrath and spend much thne trying to get even. A man came to a Chicago hotel Id' one day, and he took dinner out- side with a friend. When he went to pay his bill he found that he had been cluirged for the .meal. He pro- tested strongly. . The clerk tried to explain that the American plan was based entirely upon time, and, if he chose to eat elsewhere, it was his look -out ; but the man would not be pacified. Ile asked whether dinnsr was 'still on, arid was informed that it lasted un- til 9 p.m., "Then, I'll go and tackle ii„" he exclaimed. ''I've eaten one dinner already, but I'm going to get my money's worth out of this old house, or bust !" lin rushed into the dining -room, grabbed a bill of fare, and ordered everything he could think of, his sole idea being to get even, What he couldn't eat lie messett up so that it would be of DO 050 to anybody else. Wheit he got through the waiter handed him a bill for $3.75. "What's that for ?" he asked in silik)reiseer' dinner, sir," said the' wait - "But I've already paid for it in ley bill," he proteeted. "I'm stay- ing here on the AD1OVICC1,21. “Then you should havo gone to the other dining -room," said the c•elelit.,er; "this is the European plan fo, The man paid the bill and Walked Out, farther away than ever from getting even., le441).0-00.0.4144.-IPS1i004.00.043.404 4, 4 About the HOESC. OltelOter040415404).04)**D.14.0 1 t 1Ple '1'0 Si ATO ES. • On a :el eoint:'; irc in; cal dal(saon, eNc.711 s)si 1015sge- 0 e a 1 Modes pf fryiug tomatoee, but prefer the following Method; which is. original, as. far as I know Take seven inediumesized toinateee, jest ripe, not eolt, wasle but do not skin them, cut in slices about one- third of an Men thick and lay them OD something to drain. while .you take .1 teagep riper, 3 level tea- sPoons sugar arid teaspoon black pePper. Pet all hitO a howl and thoroughly mix with a, 'fork. . Pet some lard (or butter, if you prefer) into the frying pan, let it get hot, take eacli slice of toinato oe a fork and dip it into the prepared flow; allowing as much of it to adhere to each side as possible, lay the 'shoes In hot Tat and. let them fey slawly a golden brown. Turn carefully, in order not to break .the slices, and fbartol.lvtiltelelLoatri,iyer side, adding More Fritters; One quart tomatoes eg teltephosiegeound clove,. a little par- sley or Mint, 6 peppercorns, 8 table- spoons sugar, 2 tablespoons minced onion, 1 dessertspeen salt, 1 cap 3.c: oil div Cracker, 1 egg' and a little hwetii:btesr.poPpipitercotrinies, 01111001 cti o0e1s1-, ion and cracker dust all on together to cook. Mix tbnd stir nearly all the while for 10 minutes, while honing. Then sift and. throtigh that is possible. Return to the fire and add sugar, Salt' and 'better; and When mixture reaches the boiling point, add the .flour, that has been wet with cold water. Cook two or three minutes and turn into a large tureen to set. When cold turn out into fencY elapse, dip in beaten egg and water and fry in hot fat. . Staged: Out thestoPs from 6 medi- uM7sized ripe tomatoes and remove the seeds. Mix together 1 cap rolled -s,red„ paddotte adocisoiqua ecespeere ley, e- teaspoon celery salt, tea- spoon minced onion, 11.- teaspoon Minced onion, * teaspoon White pep- per and 2 level tablespOonS butter. Cook the pulp a little before strain- ing it, to remove the seeds, and. add enough boiling water ,to make a smooth paste. After these seven in- gredients are thoroughly ranked, fill the tomato shells, put on the tops, place in buttered .thiS and bake till tender:in a moderate oven. THE BABY. Two serious dangers menace the baby dtiring the heated term,. name- ly improper feod and excessive, heat. The almost inevitable result of giv- ing the child at this time improper food—either that which is in. z1., state of commencing decomposition, or that which is incapable of digestion fhayntt—hsiendnidaeivrehlooePae.d organs of the in- fant—is baby should never be weaned in late spring or in summer, if it can possibly be avoided. If it must be weaned, or if it has all:early been bottle-fed, it is most important to remeraber that milk is its proper food. If it does well on diluted goat's or cow's milk, nothing else should be given. In cities during the hot weather the milk should be sterilized, but in the country, where it can be had perfectly .fresh, it is better given in its natural state. But no matter how fresh the milk may be, or how thoroughly sterilized it has been, it will be turned to poison unless the nursing bottle is absolutely clean. This bottle should be of an egg - Shape, so that there can be no cor- ners where particles of curdled milk can collect, and the nipple 'should fasten on the bottle directly, without any intervening tube. There should Pc two bottles, so that there may al- ways be a clean one on hand. After nursing, the bottle should be thoroughly washed out with soda and hot water, and then boiled for several minutes. The nipple should he carefally washed in soda and wa- ter, and then thoroughly rinsed in boiled water. Both bottles and nip- ples, when not in use, should be kept in water which has been steril- ized by long boiling. There is much. more danger, espe- cially in hot weather, in overfeeding than in underfeeding the baby, and the habit of nursing it, or giving it the bottle, every time it cries is fraught with peril to its frail life. Feeding every two or three hours in the day time and twice at night is often. enough, and if the child is fretful in the interVals, it can be given a little cool Nvater to drink. When diarrhoea. Occurs, no food 'whatever should be given for a time, water being substituted for the milk at the regular nursing hours. The body should be sponged with cool water, and the child taken in the everting upon the roof or elsewhere in the open air. Summer complaint, if treated early, Call often be easily checked, but it may become a serious and even fatal. illness if allowed to run on untreated. Hence the wisdom of seeking early medical advice. USEFUL THINGS TO ICMOW. That dandelion greens are much more delicate and palatable if boiled in salted. water until done, drained quite dry, chopped with a sharp knife and then seasonecl with butter, than if they are boiled with salt pork or a ham bone. That windows may be quickly cleaned with a preparation made as 10110WS: Procure fifteen cents' worth each, of 'liquid ammonia, Spanish whiting and rotten -stone, dissolve in one,,gallon of rain water and bottle, When the glass begins to look dingy, Wet a soft cloth with this and rub the windows. 1Visen dry rub with flannel chasm's and they are per- fectly clean and bright. That the best tiling to clean hard - finished walls is tepid water, in which half a cep of aminonia has been put, changing as eoon as the water begins to look dirty. That carpets not taken up this seeing can be wonderfully freshened by sweeping thoroughly and then going over them with a cloth wrung out of water to whicli about half cep of ammonia, has been added, That "clandelion ceffee" is an ex- colleut spring tonic. The roots 91101,1111 be dug. dieted in the oven I gr ound and made like coffee, only, that cold water is put on the pow-` der instead of boiling water, ' That a hem boiled with, a cup of' molasses arid a few' cloves and pep- percorns In the water will be seas- oned deliciously. Let cool in the water in which it boiled, To make' it extra good, take ofT the skin, .rub with brown sugar, and brown in tit& oven for one hour, basting every fif-, teen minutes with the stock in Which It was boiled, That if you happen to get out of starch you can wash and pare (thin- ly) a good-sized. potato, grate it in- to a bowl of cold water, strein it and let it settle. NoW pour off the water and thin the residue in the Dolt= of the bowl with cold water. Age' S'et on the stove, pour on boiling water ancl cook till clear. • The bedroom is the mdst import- ant in the house to keep cool, if we would have our sleep invigorating. A very simple plan is to place in it a bowl of water containing thick, slices of cucumber. These will keep fresh for some days, and the room.' Will feel cool and refreshing. Also, when cleaning the floors Of rooms, mix a half-pint of vinegar with tea -leaves, sprinkle about the room, then brush off. This not only cools the room, but moths and other insects vanish, e DOMOSTIC RECIPESI Preserved Cherries.—Allow a pound of sugar to a pound ol fruit, choos- ing large, ripe, sour cherries. Stone - them, sprinkle the sugar ever them, in layers as you put them in the, preserving kettle ; let them stand an hour or two (add no water), bring very slowly to the' simmering point and let them boil gently until the fruit is clear and the syrup thick ancl rich. Put in cans while boiling-, and seal like canned fruit. Spiced cherries.—Take five pounds. of large, ripe, stoned cherries and al- low tIvee pounds of sugar, a pint of strong cider vinegar, oae small cup ol water and two tablespoonfuls () brokencinnamon and scant table- spoonful of whole cloves. Tie the spices in Muslin bags. Put all toge- ther in, a, preserving kettle and sim- mer gently until the fruit looks cl-ar. Seal while hot. Cherry Jelly.—Cherries make a de- licious, but not very firm jelly. They are improved in this respect by add- ing one-fourth currants, also by not using fruit that is over -ripe: Mash the cherries slightly after they are in the preserving kettle, and place the kettle on the back of -thc stove where its contents will cook slowly. Ll.se no water. When thor- oughly done, put a Sew of them into. a jelly bag •and press out the juice (yon get more juice if you stone them i cherries; then the process of extrac- tion is the same as for any jelly-) , To a pint of juice allow a scant pint: of sugar.' Boil the juice alone twen- ty minutes; add tlie sugar, made hoti 1 in the oven, stir till dissolved, let boil briskly one 111111.1ite culla 111 into. the jelly glasses. Very nice to serve with game, or for sandwiches., - 4 A HARD LIFE. Mental and Physical Life of Mail. Car Clerks Unremitting. The life of a railway mail clerk or route agent at the -best is not easy., He travels under a constant strain and is subject to unremittingi mental and physical hardship. He is not always overworked, but he must be ever alert, expert and ac- curate, The business of a continent' done/ids on the correctness of his in- stantaneous mental processes and' his rapid manipulations—a letter "mi-Sthrown" may'break a heart or burst a bank or ruin a railway cor- poration. • • , The lurching of cars going at tre, Incurious speed around sharp curves; the continued succession of efforts te maintain equilibrium ; the monoton- ous vibrations terribly destructive to nerve tissue, to spinal column and to brain texture, are the daily and hourly concomitants of his ordinary work. Probationers often relent a.nd go back to their former duties. One aspirant for employment in this field was assigned to a notably vig-, otous rout,- He never finished his first trip ; he went half way, bought a ticket for ,home, and returned as a passenge,. Replying afterward to some ques•tions as te the labor in- volved, he replied. : "Lifting and un,ocking 200 -pound pouches, shak- ing out contents, arranging semen removing pouches. locking same,. carrying on mail matter, re-arrang- '..- ing sacks, then going. over same .01F• , work continuing same 17 hours,t without rest, with trains flying, round curves and slinging eyou against everything that is not slung ' agates you ' t " 55 Vigor, vitality and resolution are essential in a beginner as well as keenest intelligence and unwearied' spirit of application., Bat the physical qualities are slowly sapped and undermined by such eteady ex-, actions of cluty and the inentai qual- ities .are proportionately deteriorat- ed. ' Hence the railway mail system "is a huge Gorgon, incessantly, cruelly, , devouring specimens of the best man. hood of the nation. Under present. conditions it must ,continne to de- mand. and devour, in order that the: currents ,of trade and the tides of civilization may continue to flow,' Suspend the man -wrecking PrOCOSS a single Week ' for ,needed universal rest and social chaos would enSue. 1 espsiniccilsgee. 01Tilaymlotoille'ecal t °al I 1;V 0t11.111:1 1, edatiC'se; lying about on the furniture; it i$ six months olcl at the very least. Bridget (very dignified); Then it is no fault of mine. Yoe knows very well, nausn, that I have been with you only' three months, 4. Thc suli is traVelling at 4.0 „mildl a second', about 4,000 tirries"as fast as an express train.