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There are Many literary, pessimists
emeng us, as there are in every other
country, nato solemnly and mournfully
proclaim tram the housetops that literae
tura and art are doomed. We are in
the throes of a book "crisis," and, all
Modern tendencies are away from letters
and art. People prefer trashy and tri-
vial to refined and meritorious fiction,
and the serious, conscientious novelist
simply Itas no chance" in competition
with the "comniercial" scribblers and
quacks,
How much truth is there in such
sweeping indictments and lainents?
Our contemporary, The Outlook, turns
to the statistics cif "the best sellers"
which certain periodicals furnish front
time to time, ,statistics based on reports
of librarians and publishers, and pauses
to consider the qualities of the novels
that are at this moment enjoying
ec-
ceptional popularity. Tiasre are just
now six "best sellers," the number ia-
eluding Mrs. Wharton's "House of
Mirth," Tarkington's "Conquest of
Canaan," "The House of a Thousand
Candles," "The Wheel of Life," "The
Truth About ToIna" and "Barbara Win-
ston, Ftebel."
e. Wharton's remarkable story has
won high praise not only W this coun-
try but in England from competent and
independent literary critics, Mr. Tark-
ington'e novel cannot be placed in the
same literary category, but, as our con-
temporary says, "it is a delightful piece
of work, sincere, touched with emotion
and charmingly written." Another
°best seller" is described as possessing
thorough woramanship and dignity of
attitude. The fourth novel on the list is
a wholesome story of the romantic sort
—not original, but interesting and plea-
sant in its way, The fifth popular novel
Is "an effective tale with a touch of bril-
liancy," and the sixth has its good qual-
ities.
At least three of the best sellers, there-
fore, are of high literary and artistic
quality. They interpait life seriously,
study actual types, are well constructed
and show care and earnestness on the
part of the authors. The other three,
even if they cannot, be regarded as pet-
manent contributions to any class of
real literature, have the merits of charm,
dramatic interest, color and vivacity.
Not one is bad, unwholesome, sensa-
tional or cheap, artistically speaking.
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No doubt there are thousands of people
who waste precious time on worthless
stuff while neglecting elevating and ad-
mirable forms of literature, especially of
classical and earlier literature, but to
talk of decadence, corruption of the
general taste, growing indifference to
art, preference for the nasty and the
artificial and pompous, is to multiply
idle words without real knowledge of
the literary situation and the present
mental status of the reading classes.
Good books do not fail, and the demand
for them has not decreased; bad books
do not succeed because of their badness.
Not onnt has there been no retrogres-
sion, there has not even been stagna-
tion.
THE
BROOK IN THE WAY
This World 'Httrigry for th0..-•Life.
of. the Spirit
He shall drink of . •the brook in the
way: therefore shall he lift up the head.
—Ps. ex., 7.
Nature has a prodigal way of scatter-
ing rivulets down the hillside and. along
the pathways, little heeding whether men
walk there or not. The practical eye
sees waste; these treams leggin, have
been made to turn wheels; the needs of
the traveller, weary with the way, might
be met with faucets at regular intervals.
It Is well for us all that the power ef
Rio practical man finds its limitations,
else all poetry would have gone from the
world, and great and glorious as might
have been our physical perfections our
bodies would be but the empty habita-
tions whence souls had long since fled.
The utilitarian would have stolen front
us the bliss of the deep draft from the
pebbly brook.
The man who is proud of being prac-
tical tells us we are wasting time and
nervous energy in stopping to think ef
Ideal things; we must take the world as
we find it, he says, forgetting how fair
and poetic we once found it and how
bleak and ugly we likely are to leave it.
But to him trees are always lumber,
grass and flowers but hay, bird songs
spell poultry, wind and water energy.
Many are too busy making things ever
to enjoy anything that Is made.
IN THIS STEEL AGE
Science Is beholden to commerce in
the matter of deep sea knowledge. It is
difficult for the scientist to imagine a
more thoroughly satisfactory method of
survey than that employed by the sub-
marine cable companies. Through them
have been discovered details in the con-
figuration of submarine gullies, of fresh-
water outlets beneath the sea, and of
alterations in the bed of the ocean it-
OeH. Prof. Platania of Catania has
directed attention to the fant that in thel
straits of Messina there are deep water
currents of sufficient velocity to cause
the interruption of the cables joining
Sicily with the mainland. in one case
a cable seems to have been corroded
Dy a sulphurous spring. The surface
currents attain a speed of five miles an
hour. They have always been a danger
to navigation. The existence of corre-
lated, strong, deep water currents had
been suspected. M. Thoulet and others
have repeated the classical experiments
of Capt. Richard Bollen, made In 1675
in the straits of Gibraltar, and have
demonstrated the existence at twenty
fathoms of an undercurrent flowing in
a contrary direction to -that on the sur -
feu, but these currents have not yet
been as systematically studied as their
importance warrants.
A LABOR MAN.
Mrs. Jones "No wonder she looks
fired ; she's up most all night with a
tick tbaby."
Mr. .Tones : "What's the matter With
ater husband ?"
Mrs. :tones : "He's busy all the time
trying to get an eight-hour day for
workmen."
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO IT?
"That flimsily constructed public
building is a Scandal," excloireed the
patriot.
"Never mind," attswered Mr. Degraft,
smoothily, 'Ot will eoon bloev over.
It. may seem folly and waste to stop and
think of sacrifice and courage and love,
to admire and answer to the thrill of
human passions; but alas for him who
never sees the light of heaven in
another's tear, nor hears the brush cf
angels' wings when men and women fly
to their fellow's aid.
If you haven't time in your busy life
to turn aside to drink of the brook of
human affection, to look deep into the
eyes of friendship, to sympathize, to
comfort, to taste this strange sweet and
bitter cup of our common fellowship,
then is your heart going dry and thirsty
and life becoming a whitened road that
knows no wells or springs.
But something there is in man that
calls for drafts at yet deeper streams
than these. Foolish and unlearned 00
may be, ignorant ot the wise coraclu-
sione of philosophers who have looked
into these things with their lanterns,
but through• the ages he has been drink-
ing eagerly at the waters of eternity.
In every man there is a thirst after the
deep, immeasurable things divine; the
deeper the nature of the man the greater
his necessity for diankieg often leare.
The consciousness of the great life
that embraces all life, the sense of its
rtearnes,s to us all, has been a perennial
refreshing to all great hearts. In some
way to bring the life into touch with
the infinite is to take down its limita-
tions, break its barriers, and give it a
sense of infinitude, to Wt up the head in
vision of the divinity of our lives and of
every We. We who walk in the dust
often need to be filled with the divine
lest we become
OURSELVES BUT DUST. - -
This world of things is hungry for the
We that is more Wan things, We lite of
Rio spirit e that is why. so many love to
sing of heaven and dream of a fait world
peopled by strange .and glorious celes-
tial ones. Heaven is nearer than we
think; like the brook by the way, the
life of the spirit flows beside this life;
happy they who drink of its waters, who
already enter into eternity, who find
strength for this life's way and work by
the contact with the life that. Is life in-
deed.
Is it any wonder that life Is a weari-
some thing, a dead drag, when you are
starving its very sources ?a You neglect
the soul at the peril of all. So anxious
are you to tun. this race that you have
no time to allow him who rides in the
chariot to drink of the water ot life,
This is not utilitarianism; ibis is suicide
from the centre out.
The roost practical common sense de -
mends that you feed the inner places of
your life, the heart that bas gone so
long thirsty and longing for love,. for
things loo deep for words, for things that
cannot be used cannot be quoted in
dollars. Give your inner life its deep
drafts of the infinite life and Your outer
Mb e shall take its place and do its work
in the world.
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• DOMESTIC RECIPES.
Water Crackers.— One pound of flour,
one tablespoonful of lard, one table-
spoonful of salt, one-half tablesponful
af soda. Mix with water, beat well, roll
thin, stick with fork, and bake in a hot
oven.
Breakfast Coffee Cake. — Take a piece
of bread dough and add oae-hall cup
of sugar, and a tablespoonful of melted
butter, then roll out an inch thick and
put on a greased pie -pan, brush the top
with melted butter, and cover thick with
cinnamon and sugar; let it rise and
Lake quick. Cut in long narrow strips
to serve. Eat hot or cold. 11 18 nicely
made Saturday with the other baking,
to use Sunday morning for breakfast.
Apple Custard Filling. — Two eggs,
fcur or five apples grated, a little nut-
meg, sweeten to taste. One-half a pint
or sweet milk or cream. Pour Into
pastry and bake without an upper cruet
Chocolate Filling. --- One cup of milk,
two tablespoons grated chocolate, three-
fourths cup of sugar, yolks of three
eggs. Heat chocolate and milk together.
Add the sugar and yolks together, beat-
en to a cream. Flavor with vanilla,
bake with underorust, spread meringue
of the whites over the top.
Parboil a three pound piece of salmon.
It should be a broad, flat piece that can
be rolled. Prepare the following stuf-
fing'. Twelve oysters chopped, a half -
cupful of dry bread -crumbs, salt, pepper,
a little nutmeg, and a tablespoonful ef
minced parsley. Mix these and spread
on the salmon. noll together and tie:
Place in a hot oven with a large piece
of butter. Bake twenty-five minutes and
serve with its own gravy.
"A writer gives some sensible advice
about eggs. There is a general impres-
sion that eggs, acknowledged to be a
complete food, may be safely eaten un
all occasions. On the contrary, as the
writer alluded to. points out, invalids
and young children should never be
given eggs unless they are very fresh.
Persons suffering from biliousness, gas-
tritis and several other troubles find
difficulty in digesting even fresh eggs.
Some physicians declare that the slight-
est tendency towards rheumatism makes
eggs undesirable. The white of eggs
whipped to a froth wtth e little water is
;ag. good thing to give fever patients, a
a rule, but the physician.should be con-
sulted before even this is given to a
sick person.
Mayonnaise dressing is a little heavy
for a dinner, salad, yet this one eaten
at a recent club luncheon Was Very
dainty, and also pretty to look upor.
The salad was shredded pimentoee,
green peppers, and lettuce hearts, and
the mayonnaise was lightened with
whipped cream.
Coddled eggs are the perfection cf
boiled eggs. and enee eaten Will always
be preferred to the other. Have a deep
cup or sirniter receptecle, heated by
rinsIngswith'very hot water. Put in the
eags arid pour hotting water over them,
Cover aloe* and let tand five minotes
it the eggs are Reel soft; longer, if fee-
ther cooking is desired.
Walnut, Filling. ()ne cup chopped
welnufs, one-half cup sour cream, one-
half leasenonful of vanilla, four tefl.
sprione pulv,leezed eirgar,
Lemon Filling.—One cup sugar, one
lemon. one egg; boil all, and when the*
spread between enkee.
Canc.:ohne Fflllflfm. — One cup slime,
one teospoonfill canoe or eller:elate:, mix;
laneala presents medals to those ecu- mid even thblespoons sweet mita; boll
, plee who cillebrete either their diamond five mtnotes or more, odd honey size ot
A„ etnoUldering or dull lire MaYbe
-
cleared for boiling by 4 handful Of salt,
Instead of toasting bread for soups,
Out into ale() and roast in the oven until
crisp.
Kerosene will soften leather hardened
by water, and render it as pliable as
new.
Spots of candle grease or wax may
be removed by means of blotting paper
and a hot Iron.
A bowl of lime in a damp Closet will
dry and sweeten it.
To keep nuts fresh throughout the year
they should be pm:keit an casks be-
tween layers of flee sated.
Half a lemon placed in the water ai
which dish towels and kitchen cloths
are soaked is said- to Sweeten them won -
Coffee Icing.—Six ounces icing sugar,
ene tablespoonful melt strong coffee and
water, mix together in a oucepan, and
pour over cake.
°ranee Icing. — Quarter pound sugar,
tablespoonful orange juice, put in a
pan melt, but don't boil, stir well.
When the bride's health is to be drunk
here is a beverage worthy of so import-
ant a rite: Grate the yellow rind from
twelve lemons and i,wo oranges and
mix together with two pounds of sugar.
Place in a porcelain lined kettle and
cover with one quart of water. Stir
until the sugar is dissolved, and after
boiling ten minutes strain through a
muslin bag. While the liquid is hot
add one tumbler of blackberry jelly,
one tumbler of raspberry jelly, and one
tumbler of currant jelly. Allow the
mixture to cool and add half a pint of
pineapple chunks chopped very fine;
one pint of canned strawberries, and, if
desired, one quart of canned peaches,
and one quarter of a pound of canned
cherries. Stand away over night, and
just before serving stir in three quarts
ot apollinaris, one bottle of sarsaparil-
la, one pint of grape juice, and one
quart of ginger ale.
derfully.
When milting folds it is waste to turn
the materials over frequently to make
quite sure that it is keeping quite bias.
The least devnition will mean that the
folds will twist when sewed to the 1114-
terial of the gown.
To Clean Looking Glasses. — First
sponge with a little spirits of wine, then
dust the glass with powdered blue tied
up in a bit of muslin. Rub this oft with
a cloth, and finaIly dust with a clean
silk handkerchief. Treated in this way,
the glass will not have that cloudy ap-
pearance afterwards.
Restoring Kid Gloves,— Ink and olive
oO mixed in, equal proportions, painted
on the glove with a feather or soft
brush, and then allowed to dry, will
improve stabby kid gloves immensely.
Suede ones also may be treated in the
same way. Remember to use as little of
the mixture as possible, or you will do
more harm than good.
WITH RHUBARB.
Rhubarb Sherbet. — Simmer one
quart of rhubarb out in inch pieces with
one quart of water until son. Add the
grated rind of one lemon and two cup-
fuls of white sugar, •stirring until the
latter is dissolved. Cool and strain.
Keep on ice until time to serve. It should
bm very cold,
To can rhubarb by cold water process
select tlie rhubarb when young and ten-
der and of a pretty pink color. Wash
thoroughly, peel and cut into small piec-
es as for pies. Pack into glass jars that
have been sterilized, fill the jars to over-
flowing with freshly drawn water, put
on the covers and let them stand over
night. By the next morning you will
find that the rhubarb has token, up more
or less of the water, and that there Is
quire a vacuum to be filled. Drain off
the water and again fill to overflowing
with fresh cold water, seal the jars
closely and put away for winter's use.
This when opened will be found to re-
cmire less suger than fresh rhubarb, and
will make delicious pies and sauce, Cran-
berries and green gooseberries may be
canned in the same way, and will keep
for years.
For preserved rhubarb, wash, peel and
cut the rhubarb into pieces, then Weigh.
Place in a preserving kettle without
water, and cook thirty minutes. Mean-
time put an equal weight of sugar in a
'saucepen, allowing a pint of water to
each fonr pounds of sugar. Boll with-
out stirring until a little poured in a
cupof ice wn 1 er breaks like glass. When
the rhubarb has been cooked enough
pour the syrup over it, coek five minutes
stirring, gently, so that It will not, stick,
then pour into jars and close tightly.
Keep in e cool place,
hi making rhubarb jam allow to each
pound of cut rhubarb one pound of
sugar and one lemon. Pare the lemon
ns thin as possible into an earthen bowl,
taking cure to remove all the white, bit-
ter, mebrane, ;tad slice the pulp of the
lemon into the bowl, discarding all seed'.
Cul the rhubarb into inch pieces, and
put in the bowl ori top of the lemon and
the sugar on top of the rhttharb. Cover
and stand Way', in a cOol place oVee
/eight. In the morning empty into the
preserving kettle, simmer golly three-
fourthe of ai hour, or until quite thick,
take from the stove, cool a BIM ,and
pack Into jean Cover with pareffin rr
bettered teapot'.
Anethen deliclotie jem is made hy ono
hining plaeapple, rhubarb and cran.
beetles in equal proportions.
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SENSIBLE SUGGF,STIONS.
A few drop of lemon jelee give
scrambled eggs a delicious ilevier,
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
JULY 8
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A WILD ANIMAL DENTIST
SOME OF TriE RISES RUN IN BIO
TOOTII-FULLING.
Mr.
WIlwaa•sostin a KI‘Peevnroot:cti.oursirSsitbcOripaeora 4"
It may nOt be generally known that
the work of pulling big animals' teeth
is just as much a profession as the
more ordinary kind of derniStre, besides
lacing a good deal more exciting, One
of the 1110St 41140e8Sttil animal dentists ob
the day is Mr, Howard Kent, who hae
probably attended a greater number Cf
ferocious patients than any other man
living- His work takes lam into almost
every circus and menagerie in the Unit -
ea States, while Ills serviees are also m
constant requisition at tbe principal zoo-
logical gardens both there and abroad.
"It is not a profession 1 sbould reaom.
mend my best friend to enter," Mr.
Kent remarked to the wrIter, "for, there
is no doubt about it, the man who at-
tempts to yank out ah aching tootht
from the jaw of a lion or a tiger runs
a certain amount of risk. Why I took
al- time work I can hardly say, or it is
not one to which big fees are attached,
but I have been in the business now far
scare thirty odd years, and I don't sup-
pose I shall ever gun until I get past
working.
"I remember the first animal 1 operat-
ee on was a particularly ferocious Si-
berian wolf that had a malformation ni
an upper tooth which was beginning
to grow into the roof of his mouth. I
was new to the work then, and conse-
quently a bit nervous. The keepers
bound my patient all right, and after
Rio gag had been placed in his mouth
I BEGAN TO OPERATE.
I bad just gat my hand between his
jaws, and was beginning to work We
pliers, when the gag slipped and the
brute's jaw almost met. There was,
however, still sufficient of the gag re-
maining to keep his mouth open about
an inch and a quarter, so that only the
skin and flesh of my wrist were lacer-
ated. But I can tell you I was not
sorry when the keepers rushed up, forc-
ed the wolf's mouth open, and released
my hand. I put off the job of remov-
ing the tooth for a week or so, while
my hand was healing, when. I performed
the operation without further mishap.
"Lions and tigers are not so difficult
Lesson II. The Duly of Forgiveness.
Golden Text:, Matt. 6. 12.
TIIE LESSON WORD STUDIES.
Note.—The text of the Revised Version
is used as a basis for these Word
Studies.
Verse 21e Then came Peter—Having
spoken on occasions of stumbling, bate
external and internal, in the lives of his
disciples, Jesus called their attention to
Rio altitude which they themselves as
his disciples should assume toward
those who went estray into sin, that is,
those who gave occasion for stumbling
(verses 15-20). The suggestion of Jesus
that they should first seek in every pos-
sible way to bring an erring brother to
acknowledge and forsake his evil way
prompted Peter to oak the question,
How oft shall my brother ,sin against
me, and I -forgive him?
Seven times—According to Rabbinical
rules no one could ask forgiveness'of his
neighbor more than three times. Peter,
prompted by a generous impulse, yen -
Weed to suggest one more forgiveness
than twice the number permitted by the
nabbinical rule.
22. Seventy times seven — An infinite
Dumber of times is the real meaning of
the answer of Jesus. The limit to for-
giveness had already been pointed out
by him in verses 15-17 of this chapter.
The limit is fixed by the attitude of the
one committing the wrong. An impeni-
tent spirit on the part of the wrong-
doer makes impossible even the first
forgiveness, but where sorrow and
repentance are found, there is to be no
limit, '
23. The picture given us in this verse
Is of an Oriental court, Governors, and
farmers of taxes, and other officers of
Rio king are summoned into the royal
presence to give an account of their ad-
ministration.
Servants—Literally bond -servants er
slaves. So throughout the narrative.
Every subordinate of an Oriental mon-
arch is his slave.
24. Talents—Probably the Attic talent
is here referred to, in which ease the
amount would be approxiMately $10,-
0°°25"'
. Had not Wherewith to pay—The
printing of a word in italics, as the
word "wherewith" is printed in this
verse, indicates that the word does not
occur in the original but is added to
make the meaning clearer in English.
Commanded him to be sold, and his
wife, ,and children—According to the
cruel custom of the time.
26. Worshiped—Bowed down to him.
An act of humble obeisance merely, not
an act of worship in a religious sense.
Forgave him the debt—The sense of
the word forgave is here "remitted."
28. Went and found—Possibly even
hunting out his fellow -servant.
A hundred shillings—Literally a hun-
dred denarii. The denarius was worth
about seventeen cents. In actualpur-
chasing value, hoWever, one hundred
denarii was equivalent ?c, about three
months' wages for an ordinary laborer.
The amount, of the indebtedness, there -
fore's for one who was apparently of
equal rank with this tax collector who
had squandered the • fabulous sum of
Many millions, was very small, and
payment of the sum quite within the
range of possibility, •
31. His fallow-servants—In reality the
fellow -servants of both men.
Their lord—The king.
32. Called him—The man to whom he
had remitted the immense debt..
Forgave—In the sense of remitted, xis
above.
34. Wroth—In a state of wrath or
anger. The word le 110W archaic, that
is, old and going out of use.
To the tormentors—Those whose busi-
ness it was to inlet cruel punishment
in accordance with the decrees of the
king.
85, From your hearts—That Is, fully
and freely.
LOOKS DIDN'T COUNT.
"Are these strawberries tbe best, you
eared get, lime?"
"They were the best looking straw-
berries on the Market,"
-"Buy the worst looking ones next
time, latte."
Thick tertguee ire reeliebeibie for n
lot Of thin idoin.
be and the tooth parted oolloPeR7/
was so grateful that he licked my band
"Boors often suffer from toothache
and, as a rule, they, are the most un
reasonable of all wild animals wh
having their teeW extracted,
"No, I have not dope much in the eta
Q stopping animals' teeth, though
did perform that °panacea Once on a
Old hyena that bad only a few feet
remaining in bis head. The work w
n°arotr t;vbertYh es utcl ges s sf lel le neti thoc' rirRiotlndjob,c414'cel
l
was done more cl', an experiment tha
anything else, and perhaps as art a
vertisement also, for the animal h
longed to a travelling circus, and peopl
come from all parts to see the Anima
that had had Ins teeth stopped. Th
filling consisted of a porcelain composi
tion, and lasted well, though a feel
smtroanyteha,,,safte_rwards 1,47 peer beast be
cathat me so feeble at it had to be d
BETWEEN AN ELEPHANT'S FEET.,
Narrow Escape of a Hunter in the 'Wildst
of Africa.
Toward the end of the summer cf:-
1850 William Cotton °swell was on ah
elephant -hunt in Africa, and nearly lost
his life. In his biograpby his own de.
scription of, the adventure is given. An
elephant was close to him. There was
no time to wait if the hunter was to
, get a shot. The beast was on the move
t and the dust new from his" side as the
heavy ball struck him.
Screaming angrily he turned full front
in the direction of the tree by which I
stood, motionless. For a moment w
confronted one another, and then the
rumbling note of alann uttered by his
cempanions decided him on joining them
I regained the path, and rode along th
line of their retreat, which, as shown by
1, the yielding bush, was parallel to it. Af-
ter a time the thorns thinned out, and
1. he ant? dgihntg s..gile ot u orst e tiolef hieVa0Unnwdend aelieipt tIg to
the left of his fellows; and when he en-
tered the tropical forest beyond I was
in his wake, and very soon compelled
te follow where he broke a way.
A. little extra noise from the pursu are
caused the pursued to stop; and whle
clinging like Gilpin to the horse, and
peering at the broad stern of the chase,
I saw him suddenly put his head wheel
his tail ought. to have been. The trunk
was tightly coiled. Forward flapped the
huge ears, up wont the tail, and down
Ile came like a gigantic bat ten feet
across.
Pinned above and on each side, by din -
mounting I could floe neither to escape
suffering badly from toothache they are , lugged eny unfortunate animal round,
to rnanoge asone would think and when nor to am my opponent. I therefore
only too glad to have the molal out.. i and urged him along. The elephant
8SoOliguticihneps aitnhetheattetiohnumernspesatiteliners-i, i
which we were obliged to go round, and
1 tbundered straight through obstacles
they forget themselves and retaliate on an fifty yards we were fast in a thick
the dentist. 1 remember a couple of . bush, and he within fifteen feet of us.
an op
nexcietpatingignna
neidenAs a last chance I tried to get off, but
t 1
yearshappened ago wli ratheri ie1
vin rolling round in my saddle my spur
lion called Rhaja for an ulcerated tootle , galled the pony's flank, and tbe elephant
Mahe occupied a cage with Victoria, a screaming over him at the seine mo -
very tine lioness, and both beasts were , ment, be made a conclusive effort and
i
very -tame and tractable. So tame were, freed himself. That deposited me in a
they, in fact, that I thought it unneces-, sitting position immediately in front ot
sary for my patient to be roped. I the uplifted forefoot of the chargin
"As soon as I entered the cage Rhaja, I, bull.
who knew me well, opened his bigSo near was it that I mechanically
mouth and allowed me to examine his; opened my knees to allow him to put it
swollen taw. I soon located the offend- 1 denim, and throwing myself back, cross-
ing tooth and at once decided to ex-, ed my hands upon my chest, and obsta
tract it I had provided myself with a
pair of
BLACKSMITH'S NIPPERS
(an excellent instrument for the pur- ways, one foot between my knees and
pose), and having laid hold on the ach- ane fourteen inches beyond my bead,
ing molar I proceeded to pull with anand not a graze! Five tons at least.
my strength. But. the tooth wouldn't, Out of all my narrow esoapes this is
budge, and, as the animal seemed to the only one that remained with me in
be very forbearing, I began to twist the recollection for any time. One hears
inairunient round.
of nightmares. Well, tor a month ota
more I had nightelephants.
HUMAN SACRIFICE.
nately puffed Myself out with the idea
Of trying to resist the giant tread. I
saw the burly brute from chest to tail
as he passed directly over me length -
"That was a little bit too much for
Rhaja, and with a roar of agony he
raised his paw and struck me a blow
on the shoulder that out it open and
almost exposed the bone. I still hung
on to the tooth, however, at which he
let out his left foot, and one of his
claws caught in a 'heavy signet-ring
which I wear on my left hand, and I
thought my finger was off. Then Vic-
toria, thinking, probably, that I was ex-
ceeding my duty, joined in the scrim-
mage, and I should have fared badly
indeed had not the keepers entered and
beaten off the animals. I was not much
Strange Society Discovered in a Russiarla
District.
The following remarkable description;
of the rites of the "Society of Scarlet
Death" is quoted from the Ural by
St Petersburg correspondent, who atatee
that the votaries of the strange society{
are located near the Savodsk Leke, ancit
injured, and when the scratches were that the exposure has been inade in mi.
healed I had Rahja properly bound sequence of the disappearance of one of
and soon extracted the tooth, for which the citizens: el
he was becorningly grateful. I find al- "The Scarlet Death is surrounded with
most all animals of the cat tribe show much 'circumstances.' In the house de-
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gratitude when one relieves them of signed for the sacrifice there is a room
pain, and are slow to forget a kindness. in which there is neither window nop
"But it is not only fer the purpose et fireplace. - It is a, grave without a ten -
extracting teeth that our services are ant The room is lined with scarlet ma-
rcquired at menageries and zoos. If terial, but one of the walls is covered
that were so we should not have enough with a black cloth. 'The floor is covered
work to make it pay. No. the teeth et with scarlet. Two cushions are placed
wild animals must be examined and in the 'middle of the floor.
atteneded-to just the same as those ef "The victim is then ledein, and hi
horses and dogs. Every once in a while or her head is placed on one of the
It is well to have
THE ANIMAL'S TEETH SCRAPED,
for tartar seems to gather quickly on
Rio grinders of wild beasts confined in
cages, and if not removed will lay the
foundation of decay. But It is a quick
Job, and the animals get so used to the
inspection and the scraping that they
come to look upon it as a rnatter of
co'll'Ars.
llemy instruments, most of which
are made specially for nee, are con-
strueted of the best tempered steel and
are graded according to the class and
size of the animal to be operated upon.
For instance, in the case of lions and
tigers one sat of four instrumente for
extracting purposes is all that is nec-
essary—two pairs of nippers for the
top jaw, left and right, and two pairs
for the loner, left and right. These
instruments are so construeted that one
can, with the minimum amount of ex-
ertion, obtain so firrn a held of a tooth
that even 0 lion cannot dislodge it.
Tben, enth 0 few twists of the wrist,
the molar usually conies oat cis Cleanly
and evenly as though It were a Childs
tooth.
orne of the extracted teeth I used
te keep as mementoes, though now I
generally give them to the Reepers, who
regard them as charms. Here is the
tooth of a big African lion which I ex-
tracted aboot five years ago"—and Mr.
Kent handed me an object that looked
like
A ItlystATung MILKING STOOL,
'There nets an abscess ni the root of
,
clientele. Then all the attendants leave
the room. After a few minutes the young
woman, clad in scarlet, comes from be
hind the black cloth. She slowly ep
preaches, takes the second cushion, and,
places it over the face of the recumbent!
figime. Then she sits upon the cushion,
and does not rise till the condemned
one has ceased to show signs of life.
"Wbat leads tip to the sacrifice is vari-
ously explained by, the local intin.bitants.
Some say that it iS to expedite the pro-
gress of the sacrificed to Paradise; and
others' hold that it is a punishment for
the commission of some mortal sin."
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CONT1IOLLING FLOWER COLOnS.
. is generally known that the colors
of vegetation vary in intensity in a
direct ratio to the ,amount. of sunlight
combined with coolness of terriperatore,
within eertnin limits. Examples ere the
intense' redness of tipples gDOwn in.
northern climatee, end the deep colors
of Alpine vegetation. nut the eel and
other influences. else have an effect upon
.plara colors. Mie, Henry' gareMer has
•r,etierilly experimented upon the, nrtift.
dal content ot the Colors of planta
through the introduction of ehemieale
into 'the sell .they grow in. In very
small guaranies such chernicele are ab-,
.sorbed without appareta injury, but the
effect upon the eelors Le slight. YelloW
roses, for instance, npeared beeorne
deeper in color under the inning:ice a
aluminum sulphate 'arid petescium sun,
Pilate.. With the Use. of theee sem°
ellemtents the ponds Of the wait° cernta
that tonth," Mr. Kent confirmed"Arid. `
li
When the meter came 'out the nervee, etni-Tel;o1s1,r)Wwt's(a
illernilisendlvlan ftlfeft'll ''*'‘v-t‘t1411.1P Ard
me.
which \vete eattched,,lecitied IiIce a big, moliturn sulphnits, 11111m11)1116 $1111)11616,
1111110t1 Ot Menne, eeasveed. The- animal ken citrate and citric ne,d4 seerlet ,tar.
Must have. endered torture, and When mittens tended to form white. sIret410.:
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