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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1902-3-20, Page 2eet a�s.a elc'>.4i4*tome ett t.*gaet,eA., ct t* e .rw , to ria v ry t� � rr v Or Gentility �> 1 �! fd �.J _ l!'l! l he d F CAS ' it. d -4f 5. de illi il Ite * Nobility of Soul. I 44 9-rr 'r iq * w4 r -4s -rano q it k rivia SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING did not speak, Then suddenly, "Why CHAPTERS.—Evil tongues have - ` 1.etty, what is the matter ?--are you gun to clack about the relations be- ill 2" ho exclaimed quickie, es he tweesn Mr. Treloseuey, a scholarly re- saw her white face. close. tend his housekeeper's niece, i She said, "No, sir." almost in a. ,Letty. whisper. She had closed the door 11, tressed and agitated voice, and then stood silent. Each sob :she gave was like a. knife piercing him. Ile stood still, doing nothing.; to give her com- fort, -not knowing what be could dare to do. When that minute of wild weeping had passed, in her humiliation and wretchedness she would have ' gone away, and perhaps* it would hate been well if lee hail let her go—only how could he bo hard enough to do it ? .As she made a, movement to- wards the door, he put out his hand and touched her a second time, "Lefty, you must not leave me like thio --you must not, go thinning we are not friends," he said. "We may not see ane another again for a good behind her, and she carne tanudty Mr-. . while • but, my child, 1 shall never CHAPTER V1, ward till she stood near to his forget you, Wherever I go I shall r writing table. "1--I only wanted to hiss you -believe that l I shall al-. "Well, yeses --g,1 to Brighton," Mr. spear: to you, sir, for two or three sways think of you. I. shall clts:xys Gibson said to his patient, '"1 have minutes," she said. ,be grateful for your of eetion." lie told you before that you couldn't do i "Wait a lnoinent, then, and I shall ; had taken her hand now, and the better." e bo ready for you."' he answered. 'His little lifeless (*tigers were tamed tight And so it was settled that in four d heart had smote him at the sight of in his, or fire clays Mr. Trelewney should her. He began to gather some Peet `"I cannot bear to go thinking that go. ; pers together that were on his ie leave you unhappy, ' he s id, after "I could start sooner than that if ;desk. "Sit down, Letty," he said. ; another silence. "You ought not to you liked," he had said, when this He made a feint of occupying pian- . be unhappy, Letty. You must tell time was proposed, but the other self for a few seconds to give her mo that you will try not to be- I The comfortable long eoat that. answered indiberently that the be -1 time to recover herself (perhaps to', know it is hard to part --it is hard closes to the neck is a favorite style ginning of the week would be' soon. give himself breathing time too, that Ito me as Well as to you. Do you for cold weather. The stylish ex- quou; to : set it remained settled taws. he might. thiah, or try to think, think I should not like best to stay :staple here illustrated combines with 3t was Letty's taunt wino told her Ito; what he should say to her/ ; then het here, and let us go on as we have this feature the triple capes and may was going away : he told her a:o-L• clos' d his desk, and, turning to heel been doing during these last months? be varied by the omission of one, tering. He Would spear, to her al -d. (she had not sat tdown), "Wel1,1But, my child, it cannot be," two or all three. Dart; red kersey ways if he met her :anywhere about.' Letts, -chat is at . he quietly ashei Ile held her hand still ; he put his cloth is the material chosen, the the house. and always kindly* ; but ed. other hand upon iter shoulder. "lee- edges being smartly tailored with Semetimes be would only hid her Ai She was .standing with One hand' ty, , it cannot be, he said again ; machine stitching in black, and brief -anted mornings" at, the most! leaning 011 his (:(brei looking at Wine and then ail at once he felt here emolied pearl buttons close the Le would never hall; more than a i with wide. childish, .Pathetic eyes, . quivering and sobbing, and with to � double-breasted frontal. Hat of ittutute` tti her ; and many little of-. whose wistful pleading even before! quick irresistible pity (almost white black , beaver, trimmed with soft nets that sale had done for Wm off, she spodie cut 1ain1 to the heart. ,; tho words in which he was telling her loopsof red Liberty satin ribbon late he hid now for hien'elf, or let ;When be put his question to her she i that they must part were on Ids lips) d and * black tips. The fronts are them retrain undone ; the sad haute), to answer it at once. but she he drew her to him. "MMfy poor stylishly loose in box style and join passed. and the Fad days passed, • made two efforts before ' her tioice ¢ child—my poor child," he said. hall p to the back and underearm seaans soand ar. e nherever,nor kall'pt e(lhforerif herOho carn. laoeer cameonly wanted to ask you, slr t , l aloud, and tale next ivent the d i. with the centre back curves beeoni- u a . "Iface was on his breast.nSa' ingiy to the figure, wide revers roll + i! „ , as a. r,e. "What have 1 done ? she began to , don't lino what I've done, she He held her eipsa Oto him, :anti mese back above the. dosini, and the tie b think piteously-, after two or three' said at hart, faltering, "but=' -1'm ed her ; he caressed and soothed her ;is finished with a turn -over collar days bled gone, Had she done some- afraid Ito made ,you ;angry ?" till her leave ceased. Perhaps even that closes invisibly in centre. The thing to tire print, or to make bins "Made ane angry ?" he exclaimed while be was caressing her he knew I sleeves are in regulation coat style, angary with her ? She began to go;' nuielily. He (would a,ot let her ere with a heavy heart at how great a finished at the wrist with rounded about with a wistful sorrowful face 1; how her question pained him. Ile that tthough she did not know it) , almost tried to Laugh. Why, child, trent to the hearts of the other two how could you do that ?" he said. who watched her.",I don't know, sir.•" -Voted hest. not notice Iter. fits ; t "Well, but what 1°419 put it into goat can't do anything for her," Mrs. lemur head ? I have never been Marl -dem would :gay to pftr. T're-!angry with you in nay life"." lawnen t'aeseeehing;l . fthe could not i "I--1 thought you un*st he sir." Watt to luta of trh, t it was that n "1'011 are entirely nlistaien. You emote e" tl;e girl either so. and yet. with ; were :letter noire mlistaaken fibre**, aw- n, ere sL 0f meant' that was initial thing. 'Moat must not let your: t if be c nwa COAT. 4 to 12 Years. era:el le, she feared that he knew: it. run tinny: with by sale% ftltielee." Ile Eila,,w how her child loved huts, f "lint • it'o cal--•so--dil 4'rent," and Le w. s osiy her master, who "let you mean that I have leen, c(•ultt tie nothing; been to her. i� searing id -s of you t—that I have 1 roll It lid bean Fettled (het he should letting you do ices for Inc since 1, go itienv early in the ween—era the ; have been leet ter ? 01 tour se. if Twee i (etas(vin t1n lS price he had bought the rorentaly leufis. The capes fit smoothly over pleasure of comforting her, and hal, the shoulders, and may be included -Melted the act undone : but though i� in the neck seam or finished separate - 110 might almost wish it undone iv and hooked on under the collar. ' ho could not undo it then. Coats In this style may he Made r lie staid to her quietly, after a few from any suitable wool fabric. iel iniitattea. ,act, corduroy or cheviot, all being "'Well,. Letty', fro shall not haaye fats:laionable. To cut this coat fora girl of to part now, you .sea and when.R ^scarcely delilig to think. that she eight years ii yards of matrial 21i, tuelhreloticl him, land tet with rush ii1_'11CS Wide, 4a yards 27 inches absoltate faith believing in him and wide. 2/ yards 44 inches wide or DOES FIJI IING PAY. We are being continually told that notwithstanding the growing pros- perity of our country; i1otwithstand $ng ear increasing; wealth, labor-sav- ing abor-sawing machinery, comforts and even luxuries there is less real enjoyment of life than there Was i i the days of the sickle and the hoe, the scythe and the pitchfork. We aro told, too, that notwithstanding the increased value of farm product consequent upon larger yield and better prices the actual net profit of the farm is no greater than it .was fifty years ago, That there is considerable foundation for the contention we ad- mit, but we are not inclined to take it at its face value. What was real enjoyment to our forefathers might, under the conditions of to -day be ab- ject misery, and in arriving at the net profit of the farm to -day we have many an item of comfort and luxury on the expenditure side of the ae;- count which found no place there life tar years ago. While we cannot pro- perly compare any two periods of our history—separated by years and by changed couditious.-it is quite evident that THE 0001) OLD TIMES of which we read and bear so tnuclt, while they served their day and gen- eration well, would be extremely ills. tasteful to us of to-d;ey. Condi- tions are constantly changing al- though human nature appears to present the wino surface through succeeding generations. The good old days Wart/ not the elouellees elaye which the fond historian, looking backward through the mists of me- mory. would have us believe. Ile sees only the rainbow—not the thus - der cloud behind it; only the sunny slopes on the distant hills—not the frowning precipice nor the di:atnal Titero (sero in those days onlay :after- s that is what you have, been I11I11 I;g POOP^Mr:., Meridiem wan tilts) ptach-i�of, it• i9 trine." ire' hie portmanteau ; then some mei •"`�eS Fir." pet. hag was found to be wanting. G The meet, dejected,. Filet assent awl in the dvcninv, she 5.1id that :the ° 1italcte It heard for hien to 140 on wsauld go to the village and got it. spte ,lacing;. "Von s"l (nay as ►veil conte math need "Well. but 1 OM rn luueh St MUM' too, l c•tty,"" aiie raid, but at. thea 'now. that you See I don't twist _any Lett•r looked up wistfully front soma longer to take up your time. It was :,�..' ti^•t'v nice to haa'V you t.o read to rite. Cimino ihaat wan in 3°«s' hand. and tat a ni'{':ots� hints of way astoid that Ghee and to rim 0n utv lu t'ee:lees, but of might stat at bonie ;anti US Sht+ co gee ail that betimes to a time smite elle located so tired that Ilia. that isa parasaing, away now. I ion Merhhntn said no more, 1►ut left laer.;Baste you understand it. I.etty. It is and vol: her wall; .tho ('Tars a zlbt 1lec41100 1 c I1* sexed with ,you alone .For. except to rh3Gw her: that I u: -k less from you—never think neilehhors that Laity was safe under that for a moment. 1 tun tan grate - her .,mss wing. she diad not in reatllty 9fur to you :ra ever. I have just as Care tthnrit having the girl with ber•.;much regard for you as ever. You bemuse Letty's `:iter face, she feared, :Meet, not tubuli-" only blade people talk ; and 09 foal lie Wan going on, adding sentence leaving her at homeo even though 'to sentence laboriously : trying --and dirt. "1'aci:iwraw Was there tea, slh, feeling that he was tl;vil)g vainly -- ,V i ' icy - � to say , e antthin to s. �::ssure her, m to sf, ( that uf�ly nun h the e a when 1 ► all at once 1 � Soce t le sad. eyes over - her l renes., now. she went away to do, e• her work. not 1reamiug that any flow nig and without a sob or a word Italia cooter happen in her absence. the Silent tears rolled down her. But an eager pian had been farm- ; cheeky. i»g; itself for days in poor Letty's . At that sight—for it struck hint distorted mind. Before Mr. 'i're-,]tkc' a blow—his 5l1eeelt suddenly lawrey went away she must surely ceased ; there were two or three try to speak to Bila once. she had ; viotnents' painful silence, and then said to herself ; she must have of- Sin a different tone— fended hint (though she could note ` Letty, you must not cry," he tell how she had offended him); and.sttid, hurriedly. "I cannot bear to it seemed to firer that she meat us]: kV) you cry. You are ve::ing your- it what she had done- before be went. or she should break her heart. Since the scheme had came into her mind no opportunity had arisen for putting it into execution • but now her aunt Would be absent for an hour, and Mr. Treiawney was in his study, and site linen, that, if she could gather courage enough to go to hien. she .alight ask him tale ques- tims that she longed so intensely to ask. .lint she must go to him at once, or she should lot be able to go to hint at all ; she knew that too, ifs for ten minutes after her aunt had gone away she sat with her sick heart beating fast, and her courage dying out of her. More than once she had"almost said to herself that she could not do it, before at last, with a passionate despairing feeling that her one chance was passing from her, she summoned all her strength. and rose, and went to the study door. She knew that Mr. Trelawnay was in that room.. She knocked, apd he told her to come in, and then she turned the handle of the door .and entered. He was sitting at his desk, and he looked up. For a moment or two he trusting him. she- ventured to look; the question that she could not athe --. "If we eyelet to be together we nilall have to marry one smother. r You :see that POW -410 you not ?" he `:iiia. And then --•'I had •thought tsf this before. betty-. That was why I had resolved to go away--boeause 1 bad thought it• was haet perhap —that we should not marry ; Hitt now. if you care for ane enough t.. stay with 180, you must he toy wife. _you know." "Olt. sir 1" she said breathlessly. "Oh. you cannot r can that 1" r ' saiid ream, next moment, itiinas.t a whisper. The prospect that be opened to ..her Wan (to ter poor a,:eS' al► darn l- ing that she could not ieeeive it. ""You dIlunot mean. it," she repeated. and yet. even while she sep.,k5. with a wild timid te11elerness . aar if her own worths frightened Molest they • should be true. she clung to 111111. "loo you think I could do :anything, but mean it ?" he- asked. "Most cer- tainly I (lean it. if it will make you happy. �. u u You must 1 will P 1 tel me if it tic that ? Will it., my 'mote ell]la3 2" He inane her lift her face to •11m, and looked into her eyes. After that look he did not, ash: ber resits to answer him. 'lith a feeling of curious sadness—a feeling that was DD. A. I. CHASE'S el 'CHARME fa seat direct to tam diecased pits by the Imercvcd Blower. Heals the ulcers, camps the sir pes7a;ea, stops droppings lo the threat sail permanently cures Catarrh and ifayy'r eves Illcwcr \a `� free. All dealers. or Pr. A. W. Chas .^ledicino Co,_ Tc route and Buffalo. self about a thing that ought not to vex you. If I have had you less with me, do you think that has not made me sorry too ? Ito you suppose I have not missed you ? There—dry your eyes. You must not go on do- ing this. I Cannot have you do it." From very pity for her he spoke almost harshly ; lie rose from his seat, and in his embarrassment put his hand upon her arse, almost as if (or at least so, in her timid sorrow, she interpreted it) be meant to push her from him ; and she yielded to the touch, poor thing,' and for a moment turned her face to the door, as though she would go away, and then suddenly the flood -gates of hez' heart burst, and she broke out sobbing like a child. For more than a minute she stood with her hands covering her face. crying unrestrainedly, in bet helpless sorrow and weakness—ail the misery that she had tried to hide from him through these weary days laying it- self bare before him at last, with a pitiful, wild abandonment. She cried as a girl cries who feels, in her first sorrow, as if the world had ended for her and her heart had. broken. He said her name once in a dig - 2 yards a2 inches 'aide will he re- epuired, quarter of an hour ; then all he could think: of graying to her teeuled to baro been said, and he hissed the ode young check again, and let her leave bine. Ile sat alone in his study far half au hour after she bad genii away. I'.'r•haps ho scarcely repented yet of what he had done, for in a waey she w.is surely dear to hila ; but, as lie thought of the life he bad imposed upon hint'�eelf. Ills heart tank. In the shah. atft:r a gond while bad pasted, ;he heard ethe click of •the latch at the garden door, and loolang . out saw Mrs. Murllhant coating back to the house. Ile rose up their, and go- ing to the garden called her. ,. 1• want to ;peak to you ; come here."" he said • and when she fol- lowed him indoors. and into his study, he shut the door of the room. and "Mos. Markhelm , be said, quiet- ly. "we may make new plans for ourselves now, for I limo stilted Lettyto marry ,. 1 to r me. y (To I o Continued.) half tenderness, and yet, even at that moment, half an almost bitter re- gret—ho read till that her eyes said. He was very kind and gentle to her: He made her sit down beside hint, and talked to her for a little while, soothing her, and saying again those sweetest of all words to her ears—that they should not part. The pool• little lips had begun to curve into faint tremulous smiles be- fore he let her leave hirn. "I don't know how to believe it," she said softly, once. In her humility, under the burden of her meek and passion- ate love, she sat beside hint with bet head drooped down. listening to his voice as she might have listened to some divine music. She scarcely, on her side, spoke a word to him ; she was too overwhelmed by the weight of the incredible happiness that had come to her ; yearning to give some sign of how she loved him, she could only bend her face down over his bands and kiss them. He kept her with him for perhaps a Legsr' s: �5. ' K 1 1 e w1ildr:'t Kidney and Urinary Troubles were Followed by Dropsy- Perfect Clare by Dr Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills. Tbis case of Mr, James Treneman. the well-known buthher, of 536 Adelaide street. London. Ont., is an- other proof that Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills are effective in'the most severe and complicated diseases of the kidneys. The double action which this fan ous prescription has on - both the kidneys and liver is m a large measure responsible for its wonderful curative effects. When there are backache, frequent, difficuIt or painful urina- tion, dropsical swellings, biliousness; constipation or stomach. derangements, you may depend upon it that the kidneys are dogged and the liver sluggish. • It is at such tunes that Dr. Chase's, Kidney --Liver Pills prove themselves prompt to give relief and cer- tain to effect, a cure. The; evidence to prove this fact is simply overwhelming. Mr. Janes Trenesnau states: --"'Two years ago I was laid up with kidney disease and urinary. troubles. Besides the pilin and inconvenience caused by these troubles I became' dropsical, and my legs would swell up so that I could scarce1y go around at all: hearing of Dr: Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills I procured a box and continued the use of this valuable medicine. until new.1 can -say .Tor e; coytafnty that I am entirely cured. I nnv;er took any medicine that did me so much good, and am firmly convinced that if it had not been for this medicine I would', not be working to -day." • As a family medicine of tested and known worth, Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills have never been ap- proachat.` They act directly on therkidneys and liver, regulate the bowels and ensure the perfect action of the digestive and filtering systems. One pill a dose, 25 cents a box. At all ,dealers, or,.I+3 lmanson, Batee Co., Toronto, eh -- TRADE TRADE F0E. CANADA. swamp, the sante comparisons with a former cigarette a low, vile tiling. quite too letter age that aro trade toeley, y, the ' commou and vulgar to tempt their sante enjoyment of life, the same sot- well -brought -up rensihle boys. and row, the mine heartache. Wealth ',while they rest in this fancied se - and poverty. profit null loss. con- cu1'ity, the well-bred boys are tempt- tcntment and ditnontent. life anti ed. secretly ,yield, and form the loabit death roiled titan; then es naw, that rains then(. The race was not to the swift nor THE STREET C'1111.D. the battle to that strong then any more than it is to -day. and when the ahote matter is summed up it must be admitted that man bears talo :time relation to his surround - the sante articles, but with one pint of finely pulverized charcoal mixed with their food. Ther had also a plentiful supply of broken charcoal in their pen. The eight were killed, and there was a difference of one and one-half pounds each in favor of those supplied with charcoal.. They (vete the fattest, and the meat was superior in point of tenderness and flavor. How - TE CIGARETTE, Its Use Affects Boys.—An. ,Anti -Cigarette War. "Open your mouth, my little man" said a Toronto doctor, bending over a seven-year-old patient. Thus adjured the lad obeyed, and +!( disclosed a flabby, discolored throat with a chronically diseased look. A. prolonged examination terminatea in this question to the another : "Has your boy ever smoked ? The appearances suggest nicotine poison- ing," "No ; nothing but cigarettes." "Cigarettes 1" "Yes—there's no harm in them. is. there 2 The child is so fond of them," We need not chronicle the remarks that followed. The doctor put it strong. In the sitting room. oG tbe bed= room. two sallow faced boys of 12 and 14 were lounging about. The fond mother thought the doctor had better prescribe for theca, toe. They were also home from school witle sore throats. Here again the darken- ed. inflamed tensionless tonsils told the same story. The -doctor's stern words of reproof Were evidently an atrazernent to the another, watt ex- plained that "Iler children's nerves Were so unstrung (!) they seethed to need the stimulus elf the cigarette. Indeed they could not got through a. night without a stroke, so she ale ways left a light burning low, to ao- comtnodate theta." You did not suppose there were any such silly mothers ? But there are. They are not NO - numerous as those who account the China. Will. Buy Heavily Prom This Country. "The recent treaty between Eng- land and Japan has certainly wrought to vast amount of good in the far Eastern countiles, and will also prove very beneficial to Great Britain." Such was the statement made by 1fr, C. W. Wrightson, of the firm of Peron, Daniel & Company, of Shang- hai, who was recently in Montreal. Mr. Wrightson has resided in China for the past twenty-three years, and is at present on his first visit to Canada. "R hat is the general condition of business in China at present ?" "Why, there is perhaps no country in the world that can show .such great recuperative powers as can China. It will not be long stow be- fore the railway between Cauton and Pekin will be completed, and this will also mark another great epoch in the advance of c•• "�'t.i:m, "And will trade between Canada and China become much greater ?:' "Of late years it has increased in a very marked spanner, and there is every probability that it will in- crease even more rapidly during the next few years. Where formerly tbe bulk of the trade was done with. England, the greater part of it is now done with the States and Can- ada." "I heard a queer story- about that mountain overyonder from our nae tive driver to -day." "What was that ?" :'4 young lady and gentle- man went out for a walk on that hill ; they what up higher and higher and=never came back again." "Dear me ! What became of the unhappy .pair ?'. '`They went . down on the other side." Mrs: Meek—"Of course, 1 am wor- ried. As a dutiful wife I can't help feeling so, for I am sure my husband is keeping'.soinethiug from me, and,1 shan't be content until I . know what it is." errs. Freak "My husband is keeping something from me, too, and 1 am worried because 1 know what it is." Mrs. sleek—"Indeed i What is it ?" itili s. :creak—"It's money.' The street child is;, the readiest NUM. In the recent preen records of Magistrate Jeff's court. Hamil- ton. we find au account of the con ung h to -taws that: he tut in any rather 'action of n bar -tender for felling to age: that he elle cannot mew a little Tommy Toner. a lad so ;mall jalaentlt oast of laving t° -day ("ad not lie came into court holding his fath- er's and, and he and the 11017 ofprimeval, of the Sic'l;lc and the hoe,called as witnes es (nil or the scythe and the gitcltforl;, snto;ycrS) were fetid by the herald to look like v. section of a Sts. in- fant class. The hotel -keeper paid the ROOTS AS PIC: FEED. :i:p. iiaar-tender :s $30 fine. and that ended the .matter, ha far as they were coir Popular opinion is btginninto c."rned. The geestian for the public realize the Importance of feeding is, what will bo the endof it for more succulent fads to all sorts: of domestic stock. In dairying silage has become such a recognized fetor that no dairy- man W110 i , f.atniliar with its bene- fits attempts to get aloug without it. IRootr, are generally considered ra- ther expensive for cattle feed. but most swine lien regard then( as tin- ecptsated as a Succulent feed for bogs. Silage. through exceptionally good in the dairy burn. is entirely out of ► i hog -house. trse. place i the o co n h I !x - The great virtue in feeding roots to swine is not so much the real in- trinsic value of the =angel as a feed for pigs, by itself, but its impor- tance in affording; a, variety to the feed. Again, roots exert another strong influence over the animal, and this is in maintaining, a free anti healthy condition of the whole digestive sys- tem. We have yet to meet the first ex- perienced swine -raiser, who was also an advocate of the root crop as a feed for pigs, who did not urge that care be exercised in not overfeeding during the winter season. The root in nature is essentially a summer feed, and it fed in abundance it also requires summer conditions. Provide warm shelters and feed suc- culence in moderation. In our observations of experiments carried along the lines of feeding roots to hogs and determining re- sults, the Drovers' Journal has not- ed two things quite invariably, viz: First—Feeding of roots in addition to grain and other feed quite infre- quently produces a better gain than is the case where the roots are omit- ted. Second—If the addition of roots does not actually produce a gam in flesh, it prevents the possible falling behind by. producing 100 pounds of flesh at a less cost of feed. Mangels servo the best purpose when they are used as an auxiliary rather than as a staple feed. such experiments indicate that excessive use retards fattening, Experiments conducted et Ottawa, Utah .and Ohio stations indicate that 400 pounds of mangers equal about 65 pounds of grain, or one pound of mangoes twill equaI015 po and s of grain. According to experiments conducted in Denmark it was found that one pound of. barley equaled from six to eight pounds of mangels. Elsie—`:'slel.ville says he thinks platonic friendship is the thing, arid that he -,will never marry," Itfaud-- "1 used to know a fellow who said tars.( 'too." Elsie—"Where i5 he now a" Maud -"Upstairs ` playing horse with baby" CHARCOAL ,I"OR POULTRY. Pure charcoal, or the charred wood from the stove, when fresh, is an ex- cellent aid 'in, arresting bowel com- plaint, and is both simple. and Harm- less. Where the hens have not had a. variety, parched.' grain, partly burnt, affords an agreeable change, and serves nearly the same purpose as charcoal. Oats, wheat, or even bran, will be readily eaten by hens when they have been regularly fed on a sameness of diet, and such .food will ,greatly aid in arresting diar- rhoea hoea or other bowel disorders. In experiments made to determine the benefits of charcoal feeding, if any, four turkeys were confined in a pen and fed on meat, boiled potatoes and oats, and four others of . the seine brood were at the same. time confin- ed _in another nen and fed d:tly on the boys ? 31, Broughton, M,I)„ physician la charge of opium and other drug patients, tit the Leslie E. Keeley Gold Cure Co.. says "shore young Haan are led to the opium habit by cigarette smoking than: by patent anti proprietary medicines. Sixty per cent of all males under forty years of age, treated at Dwight for opium, mor- phine, or cocaine using. in 18:16, had been smokers s of cigarettes, and sixtyper Cent of these hal 110Gtlll p other excuse than that they needed some stimulant more thiol the cigarette furnished them." THE MOTHERLAND. AND. We shall soon have the company of our OW11 nationality in the suite - cigarette war now waging. The Birmingham Age -Herald (Eng- land) says :—"Tho ,British public is fighting an invader that is almost resistless. It possesses neither heart nor conscience. It allows nothing to stand in its way. The American Tobacco Trust derives its revenue from every thin faced child in Am- erica, It draws into its swelling purse the pennies of clhildreE who suck poison out of their baleful pa- per rolls, They have grown fat on the corpses of immature children, poisoned to death by the product of their. factories." From Scotland comes the news that in Dundee calculations show the weekly consumption of cigarettes not less than half a million, and that the Commissioner appointed by the '-G Sunday School Chronicle has gather- ed the evidence, of the most eminent men, heads of colleges, head masters of grammar schools, employers of labor, etc., and finds it the unani- mous opinion that the "paper pipe" is a menace to intellectual, physical and moral character. • The officers of tho Boys' Brigades of Dundee meditate an attempt to legislate the cigarette into oblivion. Everywhere the battle rages. as. • the Arkansas "Traveller" says :— "The anti -cigarette forces show no disposition to smoke the pipe • of peace." AS A SUGGESTION. -A young married' lady is often, criticized by her friends because of the freedom. with which she accepts. little Attentions from - friends of the: other sex,` At a recent gathering which shes attended she drew from her pocket. .we. her` lace handkerchief, in which a. knot had been tied in order to call: to her mind some, trivial duty. ''Pear 'me," said the: popular young married lady to several gal- lants about. her, "why is that knot in my handkerchief ? I tied it there: to remind me of sonicthirg. What could it be ?" "My child," said an old lady, who overheard her, and, ,who is noted for the acrid wittiness of her repartee, "it was probably tied in order to remind you thatyou are inarriccl.",. Purchaser (angrily)—"Your told me this horse could go with the speed of the wind. It was all I could do to get : into town before noon. Dealer—"He ain't hacla feir show. yet. Wait till yo tur.ri him: home'ard:. 'Coin' home. lie's greased lightnin' 1"