HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1908-08-06, Page 6sitic plants and animals gaining ac-
cess to the body. These invisible
foes wage a continual warfare
against both strong and weak, rich
and poor. Civic duty as well as
self preservation demands that
these life -destroyers should as far
as possible be shut out of the hu-
man system.
The evidence condemning the use
of the common drinking vessel upon
any occasion whether at school,
church er home is derived from
three sources: 1. The frequent pre-
sence of disease -producing bacteria
in the mouth ; 2. the detection of
pathogenic germs on the public
cups; and 3, the discovery that
where a number of persons drank
from a cup previously used by the
sick, sono of them became ill. SIGNED ON FOR LIFE.
A cup which had been in use nine An amui,ing story is told of a re -
gas in a school pi was broken
was
and properly stained a clear thin tired Lancashire manufacturer who
ser of p
Bl!ass. into a num- owns a beautiful house surrounded
for examination with a microscope by several acres, and takes great
magnifying 1,000 diameters. The delight in donning shabby clothes
human cells scraped from the lips and working in the garden.
of the drinkers were so numerous Otte clay a fashionably -dressed
nn t.hc upper third of the glass that woman, who had never seen bitn,
the head of a pin could not be called on his wife.
placed anywhere without touching No one answered the bell, so she
several of these bits of skin. The walked out among the (ower -beds,
where the millionaire was hoeing
sonic geraniums. Ile bowed, and
she asked him how long he had
worked for the J 1►nsous.
"A good man -ears, madam,,
he replied.
"I)o they pay you well l"
"About all I get out of it is my
clothes and keep."
ever 20.000 human cells or bits of "Why, come and work for neo,"
dead skin. As many as 150 germs he said ; "1'11 do that, and pay you
were seen clinging to a single cell, so much a month besides."
and vory few cells showed less than "I thank you, madam," he re -
ten germs. Between the cells were riled, bowing very low, ''hut I,
thousands of germs left there by the signed on with Mrs. Johnson for
smears of saliva deposited by the life."
drinkers. No less than a hundred -Why, no such contract is bind -
thousand bacteria were present on ing: that is slavery."
every square inch of the glass. — "Some may call it that, but I
hrom "Death in School Drinking Lase always called tt marriage.'
Cups," August Technical World.
EMPEROR P1.AYl1) GYPSY.
•1 esti feat Emperor !lade Himself
al Home ill Gypsy Camp.
The aged Emperor of Austria is
one of the simplest of men, and
seldom misses an opportunity of
mixing with his subjects nn the
friendliest of terms.. A few years
ago he had a novel experience
while out on a shooting expedition. when the time came for her to ap-
ilc had wandered a long way from Pear, a messenger arrived to nay
that the lady was suffering from a
cold and, therefore, the chairman
had to excuse tier to the audience.
`'Ladies and gentlemen," he said,
"I have to announce that Mils
Brown will be unable to sing. Ai
announced, and, therefor, Mr.
Green will give us 'A Song of
Thanksgiving.'
"
CAUSE FOR THANKS.
It was at a social gathering of
-.ne of the mutual improvement so-
cieties which help to pass the shin-
ing (or otherwise) hour in an edi-
fying manner.
A little singing was to be indulg-
td in by some of the members, and
about half -way down the pro-
gramme the na'ne of Miss Molemy-
Brown figured. Alas, however,
the rest of the party, when he sud•
denly discovered that he had lost
Iris way. After walking about for
some time he fell in with a band
of ldnngarian gypsies. who were
quite unaware of his identity. The
Emperor was tired out and was only
too glad to share a meal with his
new acquaintances. The gypsies
were strolling musicians and were
going to perform at a neighboring
tillage. Entering thoroughly into
the enjoyment of the thing, the 1-.rn-
peror offered to accompany them,
and even went so far as to play a
tune on a violin himself. The chief
gypsy was so pleased with his Ma-
jesty's performance that he pre-
sented him with a small coin for his
services.
When a fellow has more money
than brains he also has more
friends than he knows what to do
with.
It may be all r:ght to bow to the
inevitable hut we can't make s
thing inevitable by ling off our
hats to it.
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A lloitsc o I was still alive, thea in
that comfortable room, to poss,s
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six years of my past lost and a::-
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OR, GIRL IN BLU[:
Beyond the lawn the shad;,w c.f
ei the great trees looked cool and in-
viting, therefore I went forth, wan-
* dering heedlessly across the spaci-
ous park, my mind full of thoughts
of that fateful night when 1 had
fallen among that strange company
and of Mabel, the woman I had
loved so fondly and devotedly.
Street were the recollections that
came back to tae. How charming
she had seemed to me as we had
lingered hand-in-hand on our walks
across the Park and Kensington
Gardens, how soft. and musical her
voice, how full of tenderness her
[.right dark eyes ! How idyllic was
our love! She bad surely read my
undeclared passion. She had
known the great secret in nay heart.
Nevertheless, all had changed. In
a woman's life half a dozen years
is a long time, for she may develop
from girl to matron in that, space.
The •worst aspect of the affair pre•
tented itself to me. I had, in all
probability, left her without utter
ing u word of farewetl, and she—
o'a her part—had, no doubt, ac-
cepted some other suitor. What
more natural, indeed, than she
should have married 1
That thought held me rigid.
Again, as I strolled on beneath
the rustling elms which led straight
away in a wide old avenue toward'
where a distant village church
stood, a prominent figure ii► the It has been eoncl,tsivcly proved that
landscape, there recurred to me vi iia sectio weather the whole of the
vid recollections of that last night nutriment contained in the food is
'if my old self --of the astounding
discovery I had made in the draw-
ing -room at The Bolton(,.
How was 1 to account for that.
I pe- -ed and glanced around up-
on the view:. All was quiet and rear at least 20 per cent. more pegs
peaceful there ;.1 the raid -day sun- at less cost per head than will flied
Fight. Behind me stood the great young sows with their first litter•:,
white facade of Denhury; before besides this the proportion of west'c-
a little to the right. lay a small vil- ly pigs will be smaller.
Inge with its white cottages --the Naturally there exists a Consider
village of Littlleham, I afterward; able difference of opinion as to the
discovered—and to the left white type or style of pig most genteelly
cliffs and the blue stretch of the profitable. The first point cone'der-
English Channel gleamed through ed is the market, which the pig
the greenery. breeder proposes to supply. hi
From the avenue I turned and London and other largo citiss, the
( wandered down a by-path to a stile, chief demand is for pigs some four
and there I rested, in full uninter- to five months old and weighing
rupted view of the open sea. Deep about 60 pounds dead weight; for
below was a cove—Littleham Cove, this the .diddle White Yorkshire is
it proved to be—and there, under kept, and often crossed by a Berk -
shelter of the cliffs, a couple sf shire boar.
CHAPTI•:IR XXI.—(Cont'd).
I think I should have grown con-
fidential towards (ledge were it not
that he apparently treated me us
one whose mind was wandering.
He believed, and perhaps justly so,
that my brain had been injured by
the accidental blow. To him, of
course, it seemed impossible that
1, his master, should know nothing
of my own affairs. The ludicrous-
ness of the situation was to me en-
tirely apparent, yet what could I
dr. to avert it 1
By careful questions I endeavored
to obtain from him some facts re-
garding my past.
'•You told me," I said, "that I
have many friends. Among them
arc there any persons named An-
son 1"
May. had been swept away and ef-
faced fur ever.
"Have I often visited Heaton —
my own place?" I inquired, turning
suddenly to Gerin r.
"Notsince your merriage, I be-
lieve," he answered. "lou have
always entertained some curious
dislike towards the place. I went
up there once to transact some
business with your agent, and
thought it a nice, charming old
heuse."
"Aye, and so it is," I sighed, re-
tnembering the youthful days 1 had
spent there long ago. All the year
round was 'sunshine then, with the
most ravishing snow -drifts in win-
ter, and ice that sparkled in the
sun so brilliantly that it seemed al-
most as jolly and frolicsome as the
"Anson?" he repeated reflective- sunniest of sunlit streams, dancing
P and shiminering over the pebbles
ly. '� No, I've never heard the all through the cloudless summer.
name. I)id it ever rain in those old days
"Or Hickman 1" long ago? Why, yes; and what
He stook his head. splendid times I used to have on
"I lived once in Essex Street, those occasions—toffee-making in the
Etrathose
I said. "Have I been to schoolroom, or watching old Dixon,
thoseose cha mbers during the time— the gamekeeper, cutting gunwads
the five years you have been in my i,t the harness -room.
service?" And I had entertained a marked
"Never, to my knowledge." dislike to the place ! All rry tastes
"Have I ever visited a house, The and ideas during those blank years
Iioltons, in Kensington 1" had apparently become inverted. I
"I uhiok not," he uesponded. had lived and enjoyed a world ex -
served,
! Very curious !" I t h- actly opposite to my own- :'ie world
graceful,
dark-eyedkng Mabel deeply of the m I or sordid money -making end the
had loved sixyearsf�abefore,oand glaring display of riches. 1 !r'd, in
who was now lost to me for ever. a word, aped the gentleina ►.
"Among my friends is there a There was a small circnlar mir-
man named Doyle 1" I inquired, af- ror in the library, and before it I
tor a pause. stood, marking every line upon my
"Doyle 1 Do you paean Mr. Rich- face, the incredible impress of for-
ard Doyle- the war correspondent i" gotten Years.
"Certainly," I cried excitedly. It is amazing. incredible!"
I
"Is he back I" cried, heartsick with desire to pe -
"He is one of your friends. and netrate the veil of mystery that en -
has often visited here," Gedge re- shrouded that long period of un -
plied consciousness. 'All that you have
"What is his address? I'll wire told me. (ledge, is absolutely be -
to him at once." tont' belief. There tenet be. some
"lle's in Egypt. Ile left Lon- nd5take. It is impassible that six
don last March and has not yet years can have passed without my
returned." knowledge."
I drew a long breath. Dick had "I think," he said, "that, after
evidently recovered from fever in all, Britten's advice should be fol -
India, and was still my best friend, lowed. You are evidently not your -
although I had tie knowledge of it. self to -day, and rest will probably
restore your mental power to its
actio IIs yin those lsix cy-ears ofad cuncoen n proper calibre."
scieusness 1 Mine were indeed "Bah:" I shouted angrily. "You
stiange thoughts at that monicitt. still believe I'm mad. I tell you
Of all that haat been told me I was I m not. I'll prove to you that I'm
unable to account for anything. I not.
stood stunned. caufounded, petri- "Well," he remarked quite calm-
fied ly, "no sane man could be utterly
T; r knowledge of what bad tran- ignorant of his own life. It doesn't
*pied during those intervening stand to reason that lie could.
years, or of my own career and ac "I tell you I'm quite as sane as
tions during that period I had to yeti are," I cried. 'Yet l'se been
rely upon the statements of others. utterly unconscious these six whole
•
My mind during all that time, it ,
"Nobody will believe you.
appeared, had been a perfect blank, „goat I swear it to be true,'' I
incapable of receiving any impres- protested. "Since the moment when
glen whatsoever. eenseiouanees left me in that house
Nevertheless, when I came te
in Chelsea I have been as one
ronsider how I had in so marvel -
(lend."
Ions a manner established a rept Ile laughed increduounly. The
nation in the City, and had amass -el ,liKhtly confidential tone in which
or sum now lying at my banker i had spoken had apparently in-
t reflected that I could not base
duced him to treat me with indiff•
acci,n►plished that without the ex teepee. This aroused nay wrath. I
sedge of considerable tact and fres jn no mood to argue whether
menti
nivenl capacity. I must, after all,•
• nr not I was responsible fur my ac
have retained shrewd senses, brit tic�nQ.
they had evidently been those of ,"""'• inan surely can't be uncun-
my other self—the self who had se'"".while at the same time he
lived and moved as husband of that 'tlansacts business and lives as nai-
wornan who called herself 1►Irs. is as you lite," he laughed.
neaten. ' Then you irnpute that all I've
'Tell ir.c,'' 1 said. addres•i• , said is untrue. and is due merely
tr the fact that I'm a trifle dement-
ed. eh 1"
''Britten bac said that you are
suffering from a fit of temporary
derangement. and that you will re -
(seer after perfect rest."
"Then. by taking me :round this
house. showing me those books. ant
explaining all to me you've mere[',
been humoring me as you would a
harmless lunatic:" 1 cried furi-
ously. ''Yon don't believe what I
say. that 1'nt perfectly in nay richt
mind, therefore leave mc. I hat c
,a� an no further use for your presence.
ret 1 had grown 5qconfidential with and prefer to be alone," I .ads -d
tam. He seenietfl to be the only
rcrsen who could present to me the
plain truth.
'those six lost years were utter-
ly puzzling. i was as en- returned
from the grate to find his world
taa,i•hed. and all things changed.
1 tried to retied. to see some ray
of light thieii,h the darkness of
that lost period. but to me it seem
ref utterly inexistent. Those years,
if 1 had really lived than. had melt-
ed at. ay and left no trace behind
11;,, eweti • s ..f int life era's to that
ter -Mal night when 1 had dined et Ile is a (,fiat -hearted ct. i• r,•
The Boltvne had no affinity to those indeed whc. while struggling : •a,s
af the pr-cnt. 1 but ceased to be some desk lane of life. Cane .r at
rig old self. and by some inexplic- lest intermittently. extra• i s.,eie
able transition. mystorieas and un- cotufert t.) biniseif from the tile; :;:nt
herd of. 1 had. while retaining my that the tare need come at last --
ts r, l.&-;tere An entirely different the tui n which. presumably. e,';
r n , bring hien out up'.n tate well-nie it'
`.v pre( irns tears et golden led high r. ad .�f [,appy e„ntent•
, th ha.-1vanisbr•d in s +tingle ment.
, .-)it. All my ideals. all my love. i do is t hr that I was met
allmy hope, pay, mgr tery petPPO$ 1y faint hearted The mystery f
Gedge again, ''has my married life
Leen a happy one'.''
Ile looked at me inquiringly.
"Tell me the truth." I urged.
"Don't conceal anything from Inc.
for I intend to get at the bottom
of this mystery.
"Well," he said. with consider-
able hesitation. "scarcely what one
might call happy. 1 think."
" Ab. I understand.'' f said. "I
(,now• from your tone that y oil 'y in-
pathire with me. (+edge."
He nodded without replying.
Strange that i had never known
this titan until
' hour ago and
harshly.
"•Very well." he answered. rather
piqued : • if yon wish 1.11. of co:a. sc.
go"
"Yes. go: and don't return till
I send for von. Understand that
I'm in no hnnu,r to he fo.i.e I. or
told that I'm A lunatic."
He shruig'd his shoulders. a:ad
muttering some word* I lid :1st
catch, ti-rned and left the !lis ry.
CHAPTER XXII
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which have proved net to pro Luce
gond bacon. First, feeding on fish;
the bacon tastes and smells of it, e
combination of flavors But accept-
able. Second, the waste products of
breweries; though they stem to
nourish the animals, they produce
soft, watery bacon.
Finally, the great aim of breeders
is to get a breed that will at once
COSTLY Ii0NET.
A Traveller in Africa Tells of to
Lively Experience.
In Afri'•an forests the natives
find quantities of honey in hollow-
ed trees. The honey is generally
at the summit of the tree, and the
mon knuck down the tree, and
BRITISH PIC: BREEDING A:`.'i) • feed and mature quickly and pro smoke the bees out u th, it lodging
FEE'.DING,duce a fine, lean marketable pork, with burning grass. c !minty is
t - then quickly collected anti taken to
To manufacture a first class car- but the two things are not so eastcatnap Mr. A. Henry Savage Lan -
bredof pork from an ill -fed, badly attained. A breed of pigs with lung der, in "Across Widest Africa,"
bred pig is nearly as difficult as to noses certainly pr:.duce in England gives a story which proves that the
leaner meat than do those with the honey is nut always a blessing to
those who secure it. His caravan
had halted in the shade of some
fine trees, and the men had secue
cd a quantity of honey.
We wore ail gaily enjoying it, I
with a plateful before me, and all
my men squatting round tae, titl-
ing
ing off huge chunks from the hone
cotubs. Suddenly an alarm was
raised. The men jumped to their
fret and threw the combs away. A
significant buzz was fast approach-
ing, and behold! an array of bees
had descended quickly upon us and
surrounded my camp, stinging the
naked men all over. They held
their hands upon their faces and
stampeded in all directions, each;
oue with a large contingent of bees
after him.
My poor Somali, who, bci,ii a
strict Mussuln►an, never would
touch anything that had been fin-
gered by.unhelievers, was the only
make a "silk purse out of a sow's
ear." The selection of the parents
of the castrated boars and the spay-
ed sows, which are to be fattened is,
therefore, of vast importance.
Co.isiderable attention is now be-
ing given to the system of roaring
hut one litter of pigs, and then fat-
tening the sows. One of the sea -
very short snout; but when that
breed gets into the corn belt., it fat-
tens so rapidly on the corn that in
three or four generations the new
pig is producing as fat meat as his
predecessors; so it is a pity ►:e can-
not find out a method of feeding,
something like that of the Irishman,
who feel his pig well one day to make
sons given for this plan is that young fat, and starved it the next day to
sows, when fattened, 'rill take the make lean meat.
place of a fattened castrated male,
or spayed female, and thus would 4'
realize more per pound than would DEATH IN SCHOOL DRINKING
gal aged sow when fattened; also CUPS.
that in certain districts the majority _. P
of pigs are fattened within a certain The greatest achievement of sci-
few months, and therefore it would encs in the opening decade of the
not pay to keep the older sows to twentieth century is the awaken -
produce only one litter per year, ing 'of the people to the fact that
says W. R. ts.iberL, of Alberta, Can- moat human diseases are prevent-
ada, in the Prairie Farmer. able and a large proportion of early
hither of these reasons is a good deaths avoidable. At least 700,000
one since it is generally acknowledg-
of the million and a half deaths ac-
ed that the most successful pig feed-
er is the one that has fat pigs to sell
at all seasons of the year, but pars
ticularly in July and August, as the
highest price is then generally ob-
tained fcr pork, while it has cost
less to produce a given quantity of
pork in warm than in cold weather.
required to keep up the animal heat
of the pigs, so that no increase in
weight is made.
Again, a well matured sow will
yachts were riding gaily at anchor,
oke -trail showed
the track of a steamer outward
bound.
(To be Continued.)
Tho form and weight of the fat saliva by running down on the in -
while far away upon the clear lin- pigs required in other districts side of the glass had carried cella
i tzon a dark am varies from the so-called bacon and bacteria to the bottom. Here,
curers' pig of some 160 pounds dead however, they were lest than ono -
weight to the 2b0 pound to 300- third as abundant as at the -brim.
pound fat pig wanted north of Eng- By counting the cells present on
land. For this finer quality Large fifty different areas on the glass as
White is the moro general favorite, seen under the microscope, it was
while in some districts the Tam- estimated that the cup contained
worth, both pure and crossed, and
the Largo Black are preferred.
Consumers generally are much
more particular as to the quality of
the pork which they purchase so that
those pigs which furnish the great-
est proportion of the higher priced
points are tho most popular to
breed and to fatten.
The term of life for the fat pig is
so short that climate cannot ma-
terially affect its growth and thrift;
in fact the life of the pig should con-
sist of only one part --the fattening
period --not, as is far ton frequently
the case, a long slow period to be
followed later on by a more or Tess
long period of fattening; by this an
enormous loss is sustained, for after
three months the cost of producing
a pound of rneat incrcnscs, 110 that
a loss results in a few months.
In England. it always has been
Red will remain a moot point es to
whether it is more profitable to
breed pigs and then sell them when
they are eight or nine weeks old or
to keep them for six months and sell
at strong stores, or to breed and
fatten them ; at present the last is;
in greatest favor. Apart from in -
rotting was necessary in order to dividual gain this system lends it -
pass from one to the other. As self to the improvement of the pig
a matter of fact. the statue was not stock of the country, as the bree 1-
a striding one, and its height nes er and feeder is given a strong in-
t•; feet only. as compared with the centive to breed his pigs that they
Iso feet of the Statue of Liberty will grow more quickly and fatten
more readily on a smaller quantity
of food.
The management of sows and
young pigs varies with the district.
In many, if not in wort instances,
the sow may be kept at little ex-
pense during the three months after
the rearing of her pigs- a run iii
the grass fields being nearly suffi-
cient ; then when the grass loses its
quality. an addition of peas. beans
or corn (soakedi is given, or roots
of every kind are g:►en raw ---pota-
toes only being *teamed or boiled.
In regard to feeding, the Wiltshire
bacon is made from pigs largely fed
on barley meal, but there is no
deny ing there is s thinness about
the shape of the hams. The cele-
brated fork pigs are largely fed on
potatoes and ground nets, which
produce fine. well shaped meat with-
out being to fat in Ire:and the
general feed is corn meal and pota-
toes. and as the Irish hams are just -
church are dusted now and then, lir celebrated it would seem that the
Tombs!" Tom)•s ache sexton) -- 'f mixture is a R,., d food. it is genet -
do. sir : the congregation does it ally ac.•epted among pig feeders that
evert `sundae morning. sir." a mixed and varied diet is the beet
for pigs, just as it is beat for human
The bigger the fish, the less ne- beings.
cesaity for lying about it. Tbere are two kinds of feeding
muting annually in the United one hi camp who had not partaken
States result from the minute para- of the honey. As, however, he had
a perfect horror of bees, he was
the first one to dash away when
he first beard them. The result
was that he who had not touched
tlae honey at all had the greatest
number of bees after him. At ono
tiene the whole army seemed to have
concentrated round him. Piercing
were his yells and high the leaps
be made in the air.
Curiously enough, I, who had
still the plate of honey upon my
knees, and remained motionless
like a statue, did not receive a.
single sting, although myriads of
bens kept buzzing round ins in a
most alarming manner.
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ANCIENT BABYLON.
London is Seven - 'Pluses Rigger
Than the Old City.
Another historical lie has been
nailed to the counter by the Ger-
man Oriental Society, which has
been engaged recently in uncover-
ing the ruins of ancient Babylon.
In their report they state that
practically the whole area of the
city has now been laid bare, and
the foundations of the inclosing
wall traced throughout its entire
length.
The spree, occupied by he city
was barely one square mile—as
compared '.t ith London's seventy—
and the buildings were plain. un-
pretentious structures of sun-dried
bricks. The famous wall was about
thirty feet high by four miles long,
and was pierced by four gates.
Hcredetus made this same all
fifty miles long and a hundred feet
high. with one hundred gates. But
then these old historians were prone
te exaggeration. They gave the
world to understand. for instance,
that the ('t lessus of Rhodes be-
strode the harbor with its feet so
wide apart than an hour's bard
which dominates New fork Herber.
And as it is with this. so it is with
most of the other wonders of the
ancient world. Pompey's Pillar,
for example, would he dwarfed if
[.laced alongside the Nelson Col-
umn. The Albert Manorial, erect-
ed in H'. de Park by Queen Victoria
i i ntennery of the Prince Consort.
's larger and more splendid than
the temple -tomb built by Queen
Artemisia at Halicarnasstis in hon-
er of her husband Matteotti*. :1
score of Ninivehs could he contain-
ed within the area 1)1 modern Lon-
don ; while the Pa'aco of ('y rus,
which we wer• grately assured was
cemented with gold. was quite an
ordinary edifice by compari!"n
with, say, the new War Office in
Parliament Street. — Pearson's
Weekly.
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The S'it'ar (to sexton) ---"Why
rl,.n't von see that the seats in the
Start the Day Right by Eating
SHREDDED WHEAT
for breakfast with milk or cream and a littto fruit.
it is a musjle•huilding food, easily distated by the most
delicate stomach.
Puts Yin and %lgor Into tired nerses and •weary brains
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