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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1908-02-20, Page 20 0 *i♦tic+De!Old0+0+ 01+0N0+O+0k+0+O-a-e.e4-04-0-+-0+o+o P 4 THE SACRIFICE; OR FOR HER FAMILY'S SAKE. A 0 0 0 4 0 St+0+ 0E4)1+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+ o+o+o+o+o+a♦o-a-o*c +off'♦ . - CHAPTER XXXII!. Tito nutuurn bad comp round again, a dL,mal, rainy November. A bright `re was burning in the doctor's study, and ho was sitting on the sofa, with a letter in his hand. Hey was reading the two sheets for the lwcsnticth time since they had boon giv- en 14, hen the day betore. Frau von Totten had corse to see him; quiet and depressed she sat down be- side hair on the sofa, and asked about his health, and tow he had borne the Venture out after his illness, which had taken him to his old class the day be - tore. "Thanks," he replied. "I coughed a little more last night, and now the doc- ter insists upon my spending the win- ter in the south. It is very hard. I was glad to see my bcys again! A fee- ling of new life came over inc when 1 saw all their happy, smiling Rices, and the j•ey expressed on their coun- tenances at having their old tyrant tack again, whom they had almost giv- en up for lost. Afterward I went to the ehure,hyar'd,' he added in a low tone, and ho laid his emaciated hand on that at the Frau Majorin. "1 have something to give you, dear doctor, that Katie lett for you. 1 did not give It to you before, for I was <ufreal of ngltating you, but now—" and she laid the letter that Katie had written the night sho wa.s taken i1) down before him, and pressing his hand :die tot up quickly and left the room. It gave him a strange feeling to see th's crushed loiter, which bore his mono written in hurried characters. The slender little hand that had written 't had long been mouldering in the dust. tfhfs hist sign of her thought of him, 'like a message from another world, bavo hint a strange feeling of courage. Ile had been thrown back in his re- covery for weeks by the news of Katie's Ueath, aItheugh it had been broken to him as carefully as possible. The an- nouncement that that young, fresh life was snatched away had overwhelmed him. Poor little Katie! lie felt remorseful for every tine he had shown her n grave face. Stto was such a child of sunshine, and sho was co very fond of him. Almost reverently he opened her let - ler, but for a moment his heart beat eo fast that he was unable to read it. It seemed almost like a voice from the grave. At length he forced himself to read. 'Dear f:rncst: "I scarcely know how to begin to tell you all I have to say in this letter. "In the first place 1 must beg your forgiveness for nil the wrong 1 have tlono to you that you know of, and for nit that you do not know of, which is the worst and greatest. Dear Ernest, it Is very hard to confess this to you, but 1 know you will console yourself, for you do not love me; you love iora. Don't shake your head, Ernest, I know it as well as you do. You have never k,rgotten Lora, any more than she has forgotten you. I really fancied at one tame that I loved you, and so i did not givo you Lora's messages. 1 tore up the fetter she entrusted to me for you, find i made you think 111 of her, and When she absolutely refused to marry Ilecher, i urged her to do it, and told her that her duty to her family ought 10 come b9fore her own inclinations. And when she had sacrificed herself khe wanted me to ask you to forgive tier, and I would not do it. I don't know why I write this, 1 did not mean to. but 1 cannot help 1t—it seems as if tiotnoone verb starving behind me and a:lying. 'Confess, confees, L'efere it is kr: later "Forgive mo, too, for breaking my engagement with you now. i have known since yesterday that whnt I felt for you was not love, but caprice, jea- lousy, perverseness. f wanted you to belong to me. and i succeeded in my ,nulenvor. i love !Inns Wegstedt; and yesterday, at the riling lesson, I gave trine my promSe, i had ro right 14) give. So now 1 take it hack from you. dear Ernest. and beg you to for- give mo it 1 have given you pain. i k1c, not love you. really—not at all - 1 only love you ns n girt is fond of her toucher. i confess frnnkly that 1 can ) my be hippy in such a position Ln life ns !fans has to offer nee. and 1 should be 3or'fecUy rurs.rable as a pour man's wife. 'I know I ant very wicked and 1 shou'.d like to be better. When 1 am Hans Wegstedt's wifo, I will bo kind to the poor and do all the geed I can. Only forgive me, Ernest, and 4.1e not despise me. It you shorn me 1 shall never be happy again, not even as Ilan's wife. I cannot help lov:ng Hans. if only Lora 'might bo happy again, Ernest! Ask your mother to tong ve me, and do you 'forgive me, loo, Ernest, and keep one kind thought for your 'KATIE VON TOLLEN." Ile dropped the letter and hid his face -Iii his liands. And this child, this light, frivolous, foolish girl, without one serous thought, had been the cause of all this frightful misery. Ile threw the letter on the table end clenched his fist in his wrath and 'his grief. Ile sat thus for a long time 'until the twilight gradually stole over the quiet room. it scorned to him aTI rat once es if she were silting beside 4i1m in all her sweet freshness and lovo- 1 ness. The breath of violets. which came to hien from her letter, made the illusion perfect. He could hear the rust- ling of her dress t•eside him, he seemed to see her magnificent eyes, which had smilingly betrayed him, and to hear the sweet, caressing voice saying: "You do not levo mo, Ernest, you love Lora; you could not forget her any more than she could forget 'you." What a riddle is a man's heart! The wrath that had seized upon hire against the dead, when he had read her letter, melted at these words. A great tear 'rolled down his cheek, beneath the hand that covered. his eyes, and fell on his beard. "You shall be forgiven for the sake of these words," he murmured to him- self. And ho took up tho letter and tread it again and again. Th..s explained Wegstedt's anger. Poor fellow! Who had ever looked into those eyes without suffering for it? ditlori to their long engagement. "Yes,' and us 1 NILS going :o say, lot e.:r the oere- rnony 1 congratulated the new.y-married (allele and the rnu joi Lt, to >, only very clu.ckly, for we have ectad a great deal of each other in all this trouble—and then illy eyes tell on Lora, and," she .continued with a deep sigh, "and 1 must say, Ernest, 61:0 is 511.1 beautiful, 'tx rhups even more leautiful thin she was before., hnd alto looks as if she had grown, she seemed so tall bud slender les:do the old general—buto—" sway "Wen. I felt anxious about her --her thee lee hs as if it were cut out id war- ble, with great bine rings under the eyes: :f I were the majorin l .should he afraid she was going to lx: i!1." "Is she going to stay here, mother?" "No, the rnujot'in said the old general veiukt not let her go, and had gone and insisted on trot' leaving the hos- pital. He declared ho was ill himself and neeik'd a nurse, and the family ought to comp first. Sho will stay all '<v.nter with him, the majorin told me. They have already gone back to Ber- lin. Frau}ein Melina is piing to stay with her sister-in-law for the present. We have ente:ed into n compact that am to go to her sometimes and she 's to:. come to me sometimes. 'hue winter will pans somehow." \Vegstodl did not come back to \Vegt- 'enberg again—only once, when Katie 'vas buried, and at that tinge he had teen here at the Schonbergs, and had hemanded to see the doctor. But the another had refused this in her grief, %nd, moreover, the doctor was very I11 then, and could not have understood 'anything. Then Wegstedt had spent tomo Urne at his father's estate; then the doctor had seen in the paper that fi. had exchanged into an Test Prus- lan garrison—far away from the place tvi ere his youthful love had had so tragic an ending. But first ho had un - ',crone his punishment for his share In the duel—imprisonment in the fortress at Magdeburg. The doctor had this still to look for- ward to when his health was restored. His mother came up and asked if sho disturbed him. "No, no, mother.'' itis voice aoundod clearer nnrl fresher than it had done Torn long tinne. "Your trunk has come, and the bur- gomaster has sent you a passport, Er- nest; so now you can go mny day you like. You have only to decide when." "it is hard to go, mother." "Yes, but you must do all you can to get your health back again. I think myself it takes sono resolution to un- dsrlake a journey to tho Mediterranean; 'they tell such tales about it. I shall bo 'glad when you get sato honno again. 'Ernest." "Ah, i am not afraid of the south," he said smiling. "I have always wanted 'to go thoro, but now 1 feel as if tho only good thing In lite. was to be well Irl body and mind.'' "Oh, yes; it Is all very well to wander in foreign lands. but not to be ill there.' "And hove will you get on all alone here, mother?' "I? Eli. 1 am no better than other people; the poor Frau Mojorin is all alone. But I was going to tell you— Helen is married at last to her long- suffering betrothed. i sat in our pew and saw tho ceremony. There wnsn't n soul in the church except the young couple. the norther, the old uncle, who is an excellency, and i.era." Ho started and his mother's story droned on in his ears; how sorrowful Ib: black -robed company lookel before the altar. though to be sure the poor things had suffered enaugh, and ought nol to wait another whole yenr in ad- 0.0414.00.400000000044. d - 0.0 .00.40000000004 4. Is your baby thin, weak, fretful? Make him a Scoit'J Ernutsilon baby. Scotis Erna/.r/0n is Cocl Liter Oil and Hypophos phites prepared so that it is easily digested by little folks. Consequently the baby that is fed on Scott's Emulsion is a sturdy, rosy. cheeked little fellow full of health and vigor, ALL DRUGGISTS' 80o. AND 81.00. CHAPTER XXXIV. Tho general had engaged the same 11t - t1 apartment near Trajan's Forum. In spite of tris rheumatism the old gentle- man had remained longer in Berlin than he intended: first, in order to be with his deeply -tired sister-in-law at the time of her daughter's mer:iage, and -then—ho would not go without Lora, nething would induce Mine to. Every afternoon he got into the horse -car and rode out to the Augusta hospital, wt:ere his "little girl" met Viii with cheeks growang paLr day by day. And every day sho said, "Leave me here, uncle, I arri really quite well,' in fainter tones. It was not until he took to his bed with an atta'k of rheumatism, brought on by the damp autumn weather, that she wavered in her resolution; and when los went to Helen's wedding and Lora, who accompanied him, saw with her own eyes that he really could not go 'alone, she yielded and agreed to ac- bompany him to his beloved Rome. Whether the old gentleman had made himself out worse than was really the case, she could not determine. At all'' events, as soon as the train hcd passed the St. Gothard and. was rushing to- ward Logo Maggiore, he had seemed quite another being, and had become entirely the erect old soldier, the atten- tive cavalier. "Il is the chango of air, child," he said seriously, as she looked at him in amazement. They had stayed in N'npl s until Christmas, spending tho day itself at Capri, in Pagano's oomfotrable hotel, with its garden of palms; New Year's Day they wont to Pompeii, and had leekhl hack with curious feelings on all , that the last year had brought to them. t Three hundred nnr! sixty-five days -1 what were they in comparison with I theso ruins, which were n thousand! years old, and yet what hnd they not brought to them of joy and wool She had sat. on the slops of the Forum anti written a telegram to her mother , and aunt, and sent it oft from the sta- tion at Pompeii: "A greeting for the present from remote antiquity. "Tiine rolLs on we pass away with it, and with us all our poor little joys and sor•rowc, ,that scan so important to us in our blind arrogance!" So thought Len to herself, while her uncle remark- ed, "flow an old Roman, who meet,' to coma here for his summer vncnt!on, would open his eyes at the railroad and telegraph." They returned to !tonic toward! the, end of January, satiated wl'h beauty 1 and color. ,refreshed and st-rengthene.11 by their sojourn among the wonderful scenery, ,ready to take up their quiet and yet busy lite in old and new Ronne, the charm of which is never exhaust- ed. Ikown in the court below the silver stream of water was still plashing out of the old Iton's mouth. Gernma looked ae unattractive as ever, and the carpets and curtains had, perhnps, a few hobs more. Otherwise everything was the sumo. And after breakfast the eceel- lenza end the beautiful signeern went to walk, as they came back. ate their dinner, and sat by the open flrc, nt which tho signors warmed her fret, after she had carefully spread an af- ghan over the old gentbeman's knees, for a ltomnn room, even n saletto, is cold in February, even thout_rh the stone floor is onverd with carpet. To-dsy they were preparing to vLs't several churches. born wanted in see ilaphael's "Sibyls," in Santa Maria. Tho streets were bright and sunny, with the blue sky above, ,nnd a mild, spring-like air. The fountains were playing In the Piazza Navone. The g"nernl and inra I walked on through the groups of chil- dren nt play. and of leisurely tourists, and turned lite the dark, narrow street that leads to the church. Tho great .door was closed, nnd nn eager hut mis- erably crippled boy led them mum! the I ch'esa into n narrow cloister, and there hegnn to knock furiously at a side door. At last it was opennl; the litho cripple received his fee, and Lora went with her uncle into the church, in which a dim light penetrated through the pant - ••,1 wiedevve. A faint tutor of Incense fltlod the .,thy moo) and Wonted away to little ,ds under the ootngonal dome. No one sees to the old church, which was erowded with pictures nnd beauti- ful cnrvines, .except a gentleman, who was standing b'!ore a sides:.ape1 look- ing up nt n picture. Silently the sireristnn hel.nned the young gel nrrrss to where the stangir stood. '`E cot" he said, painting to the "Sihyle." She eteod there, with the leek of quiet roverener which alwnys came over her Mee when she, found herself tn the house of Goa. though now this expreseton WAS heightened by her ni- tration of the work of an artist by Inc Agit. bed eonwi e'eco tin to the gentle. m; Ike rills! that her sholrller nl. :fes: ' uct.od his gray cool, but she did not notice it, her eye` were flied so eagerly on tate beautiful picture above her. She did not even glance at hien when he hastily stepped back. "Loral" sounded In her ear, in a doubUul, quts'tonitig tone; then she looked up at hien qukkly, and her hand grasped the back of a prie-dieu, which stood beside her, as of se. k.ng support. But .she could not speak u w. rd. It is true she had heard Isom her mother that Ernest was in Italy for his health, but she lied s p•oke'n of Nee and hlentone. And hence he was in lio:ne; here they were together, within the same walls, in the solemn stillness of the little church, alone -quite atone. The general had disappeared watt► the sacristan into a side -chapel behind the altar. tiei reel's angel -heads looked .town wonderingly upon there; they aright have seen many a young pair her,- 1>e - fore, for all Ilia yetrng couples in Tome try -keepers have a passion for feeding came to Santa Maria della Paco for b • rule of thumb; they aro anxious to their first mass after the cor.�nuony. But pave the right quantity. ,and consult surely a pule young maple as this they hooks or fellow poultry-keeperit and are had never seen before. told the general rule, ,wtiich runs thus: Lora as the first to recover, and she. A !amp of soft trod ii)c sire e,f a duck's held outwher hated, egg ler the morning meat, enol n hare, - "I have not seen you since my Sk- ill, of corn at night. As a gear). nal rule this is a suitable allowance, but we must not regard the hen as an engine, working contititi usly and requiring ex- actly 111" snnt' amount of fuel every twenty-four hours. A laying hen re - mane far more than n hen wh'ch is not laying; while in cold, frosty wea- ther fowls need more fool than in the mild, damp, muggy days which we of- ten get R1 winter. \Ve believe the con- stant variations in temperature which fowls in this country experience Is re- apotns'ble for many a disappointing egg return. Yet it is practically impossible to ap- portion the right amount of food for each fowl in a flock of fifty. Some will he laying, and some not, and though the former will be moro raven- ous at fecdin't-time, and perhaps get n mere than the ',there, they will probably not get all they need; but if more food were given, enabling them te. have ns nnrcli as wns good for thein, 1 1 et 4 FM440i101811M/44's4 The 11-11-#+"14+3 1)0 \\'E OVERFEED? 3 parts corn chop, 1 parts oil meal, PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. give one pound for Each 3 lbs. of milk - — the cows yield. Gossip About Sotne of the World's These rations are for cows we'gl:lr•- Prominent 1'e•epk. abut 1,00J Its. and giving from 20 The Earl of Mansfield, who recently ::, its. of milk per da. , where less Intik succeeded 10 t!:.' title, Is hav in ' his is given the grain si:ould bo reduced, :f more the grain may be increases proportieriato'y. - Fariner's Advocate. WOMEN KAHN 20 CENTS A DAY. Does the modern poultry -keeper over - ---- feed his fuwie? The queser.,n has been french Government Report WI!! Show raised itt uior' than cane quarter recent- Miser:es of Homo Labor. ly, and decided in the uliirmutive; yet. The French M:nstr•y of Lab)r has in .11 my opinion, the ounuutuln srr.)r is not ih Dress a volume of 70t1 pziges on the so mu^h overfeeding as ur:w.ee feeling c>a.idlti..)ns of women's k at I:ome. --the (owls are not continuously over- Some a xtructs from it wh.ch leave Leen fed, but merely overfed at certain sti _.- rum shoo Masa o extreme rn.sery, sons, and perhaps underfed at others; especially unioirg setnstress_s. These in other words, they ars fool without condit:ous, the report states, have any discrimination. Too many pout- grown worse instead of better Or recent years. Tho fac:coy laws requiting ven- t -tat on, to let accommodations, safety devices en inechir.o y iu d shorter lours et labor have closed a great number of small factories and workshops. The result is that the virk is now done in garret,: and teneetiioiit rooms through oontr©ctors and sub contractors. The c.,mpention among these and the con- sequent price cutting has beoeme so acute that they can hardly make a liv- ing thtemre1vc3, end those whien they employ aro cut literally to starvation hers death," she said, without looking et him. `I can csure you that I mourn with you deeply the loss of your be- trothed." When sho had said this she breathed more freely. n these few w- rds she bad marled out for Wm the only com- mon ground on whteh they cult meet. lie touched her hand for a momesrl ani said, "1 thank you so - tins. Pale as she had been before she now turned scarlet. "Uncle," sho cried, turning quickly, and as the old gentleman cline up too her she added, "This is our poor Katie's betrothed." The gentlemen shook hands. Tho general muttered s nmething between his teeth that sounded like condolence. un.l then he looked with some surprlso at the unusually handsome Ivan, whose Intelligent eyes and fine fare, on which still llrgered the 2rao0's ct illness, great. ly intonate"! him. (To be Continued.) SIMPLE PRESCRIPTION EASILY MIXED AT HO11F AND CURES ALL RHEUMATISM. the others—the non-layers—wauhd be cver•fed, and overfeeding +s disastrous. i t is a common supposition that to feed howl generously is the way to got to'enty of eggs, but it does not follow that if a hen is not laying an abund- ance of feed will hasten the productive period. It mny merely make the hen fat, ,and a fat hen will not lay. The best way to meet the dilllculty Ls to keep the fowls in as many separ- Full Directions to Make and Take This ate flecks as possible, to try when giv- Simple ilonle-Made Mixture — Makes ink; their food to hit the happy mean between over and under -feeing, and to Kidneys Filter Acids. filter the quantity acoorcling to the sea- son and the number of them laying. Tho poultry -keeper must use his own judgment and intelligence. and not work by rule of thumb. Tloi owner who lakes a real Interest tet lois fowls s -on gets to understand them, and can tell how much fond they lICed. A hen In full lay needs good feeding, as the drain on the system consequent on egg production is severe; but, for all that, some are overfed even on big and up- toelatc establishments. it used, especi- ally on farms, to bo the other way nixed—the iinfortimale fowls were ex- pected to etek up their own living, nnd then blamed because so few eggs were produced. Some fowls at liberty need 1 ut one moat a day --it depends on the (1' and take in teaspoonful doses after k:ncl of land they range over—hut al each meal and at bedtime. These are! Si wire runs are entirely dependent C en ail stmt g Ile in redtents, milking en rib- I then owner. We firmly believe ..'int in solutely harmless home remedy at Little ' many vas's where tho egg yield is dis- cost, n, printing, the fault Iles not in the Rheumatism, as every ono knows, is cowls themselves. or in the housing. or a symptom of deranged kidneys. It Is in the nunlity and kind of food they get. a condition produced by the failure of hist simply • the kidneys to properly filter or strata Honed to them. from the blood the uric acid and otheA matter which, 1t not eradicated, either in the urine or through the skin pore, remains in the blood, decomposes and forms about the joints and muscles, cnnaing the untold suffering and de. k ratty of rheum. id to be a splen - This pre."criptionatismis sa did healing. cleansing end invigorating tonic to the kidneys, end gives almost irr.mcdialo relief in all forms of bladder and urinary troubles and backache. \Vhen an eminent authority announc- ed that he had found a new way to trcat that drend American disease, Rheuma- tism, with just common, every -day drugs found in any dreg store, (he phy- sicians were slow indeed to nttach much importance to his claims. This wns only a few months ago. To -day nearly every newspaper in the country, even the metropolitan dailies ire announcing it and tho splendid results achieved. It is se simple than any one can prepare it it home at small cost. it is made up as follows : Get from any pod drug- gist Fluid Extract Dandelion, one - halt ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce; Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, throe ounces. Mix by shaking 1n a bot - that ALTERATED TO FiT. Customer --Yes, 1 like this suit. i suppose you will make any alterations I may require tree? Tailor—Oh, yes, sir; certainly. 01F-tomer—Very well, then; just alter the price fr-en1 812 to 810, and I'll lake it with me. 'Thr man who gets whnt Stene! of what ho deserves coming. Many nn jc.ys aeeinit of it. Tcncher—"Now. Johnny, whet dk.,s the busy bee tench us?" Joheny--"Te keep away from the hive.' Prince Alexander of Balt••nteurg has cc.me of age. Ile spent his school days at \Vcllington. and Ls famous in the isoyal Eternity for his stock of conic songs, which he sings to Lenoir infinite nmuserne.nt. 1t is of interest to note that he and the Queen of Spain were. nniong the last relatives ulron whom Queen Victoria'$ dying eyes rested at Osborne in 11101; roil that one of her Inst acts was to order a piece of fur- niture for the young Prince's private sitting -room. A funny story has beet. told of Prince Alexander of I3nttenberg. Like many other little boys, ho ren short of pocket -money, and when at a prnparetory selton! wrote an ingenious letter to his nugust grandmother, ask- ing for pecuniary assistance. Ile re- ceived In return a just rebuke. telling him he must wait until his allowance become due. and thnt little boys should be economical. Shortly after, the un- defeated little Prince resumol the onr- respondenee es follows: "My dear crran.lmamma,-1 em sure yon will be gad to hear that I need not troulele you for any money Net new. for i Feld your lest letter to at ether boy for Lis." the v. nets tn. tins ne kick otherwise good mnn en - other men get the worst it i3 wrongly a P1"0 1. - RATIONS FOii DA11i1' COWS. Atth<iugh the ghortaga In feed flits winter may cause some loss nnd d.f- fletuity, it will net be altogether nn un- mixed evil, if it induces e;ur farmers to look more closely than they hnve done heretofore in food values. Fur- thermore under slurs of necessity, it '3 cc rtaln that in many cases herd..; will have to bo snrn-i what reduced urd in the weeding out process it Is to t'c hoped that a majority of 11' unpr'ent- ubk caws will he disposal a f. in the meantime the question, "What shall we fced1" is continually asked. 'Phis is not so easy to answer. as so n.rteh depends upon the circtunstancosof the farmer nnd the location of the tarn. Where passible the roughage of tn•-iuta production should bo supplement,- ed upplement.ed by commerc.nl food stuffs which can in many cases tuts year he profitably substituted for grain. In some CtiFCS .t might pay to sell some hay and with the proceeds purchase oil meat or 4- Vier I oncenlrated food to fool with strew, corn stover nr such other roughage as niny be available. We august a few ravene which mey t•^ serviceable under present circum- stances. 1t ,hound be temenibered that it is rot always economy to st.nt cows even when feed is high. The point 's that n certain amount of food is roes's- ssry to cherry them through the sea- son nnd if by adding to this a dollar's worth of extra teed, a rolurn of a do: - !at nnd n half in milk can leo obtained, it is good business to supply the extra feed. \fixed h:'y .... .... .... floc. Linseed meal .... .... 4 Mg. Corin meal .... .. .4 lbs. tiny .... .... .... S lag.. Ve) 11.C, ti C. 1. c. 1} i Linseed meal .. ...... Corn meal .... 3 illy .... .. .... ... .... .... Bran.... . . .... .... ........ 2 1 • ... .... .. 6 4 ('nen .... . flay .. ...... . Oala Corn e. von ges, One cxainpki quoted is that of an old woman, a cvidow of 69, who has sup- ported t:ereelf as a seamstress for twen- ty-five years. Sometimes she makes pillow closes, Fornetimes sho sews the buckles on garters and suspenders. She 1s able to earn about a cent and a fifth an hoar and last year made only 130 francs, or $26. This, with $24 from chs Assistance Pub'.ique, was all she had to live on. No doubt this woman's age was one causo of her extremely low earnings, !.tet the ensu of a shirtwaist maker, 40 years okl end. a skilled workman, is g•ivcn as typical. This woman, who is deserihed es Mme. FF., works at her trade seventeen hours n day. She spends besides two hours on her household duties, sleeping only five hours. Her net earnings. after she had paid for thread, needles and the like, is f08 francs or S101.60 a year. Another woman of the same age, Mme. T., who sleeps only four hours and gives seventeen of halo working ones to sewing on shirtwaists, pelt!. coats nnd aprons. corned in the twelve months for which her record was taken S87. Tho ense of a young woman. Acme. 1 28 years old, is abo itluslr}:lI+'c. .She makes corset covers, which come to her [torn a sub -contractor. Sho has n sew- ing uraehire and Is paying for it at the rate of $2.41) o month. She works four- teen and a hitt hour: a day and erns :lel (rams or SG a month. Until her ma - chino is paid ler she has to be content with Iwo meals a dry and goes to bed at midnight supperlebs. Another young wornan, who makes underwear for the dry goods stores. ( tt me:l 861.20 in a year. 51111 anoth• r, 52 years old, says that in twelve years she hes never been able to make more than 81(0 a year by seventeen hours work a clay. in the "0O pages of the G-)vernment report there are saki to be nt :Hist 10,- 000 cases equally distressing. No rem- edy for the evil is suggested. res. 4 lbs. P,tDa. 5 Illy .. . ...... .. ...... .... 20 0;1 moai .... .... .... ......... 2 1 Shorts ........ .... ....... 6 6 !t0 The. OAP, ail the out straw n 11av mix "l the c :w•Q Will at w 11, waste and of a mixture 3 parts br r,en. be. }1s. nr1 tont an, SENTI«NCE SERMONS. Deets Cure doubts. \1.1ny a rich life comes out of tine school of poverty. Tito mean weir a grouch always waters mansion at Ken \V. od, near Hampstead Heath, London, lighted by electricity. This is intesrsting owing to the tact that previous Earls of Mansfield have used the primitive wax candle, always having declined to have gas installed, Sir James Crichton-l3rowr.e, who fa- vors meat as an article of food, was recently challenged by the jaguton Vegetarian Associallon to disc... on a public platform Ile respective ',writs ct flesh and vegetable diet. Sir James declined, humorously stating that the iiuld vegetvl' an whom they proposed to put.against him would have no chance in agast a fierce carnivorous animal like himself. Lady Ilelen Grirnstan, the eldest daughter of Lord and Lady \'erularn, has just secured her certificate as a9;e export butter -maker from the Essex County Council. She went through the three weeks' ceurso In the work of cool- ing nnd separating milk, churnintlse, mnaking Mitten., and managing a dairy at the County Dairy School at Chelms- icrd, and propos's to take over the superintendence of tho dairy at Gur- hambury. The recent visit of the German Ein- per or and Empresa in England reminds Cna u. 'Talking with an Americnofan, once,storyabout Canadian cnn(wing►,delightfthe L n,pelror was so delight- ed that he said all his boys should learn to paddle their own canoes. When the Empress heard of it she said: "Oh, no! I shall never allow my boys to de such a thing; it is too dangerous." "But the Emperor has already given Ws per. mission," exclaimed the American gen- lleman. Looking at her lambent), with a sweet smile, the Empress replied: "That may be; but though he is the German Emperor, 1 am the Empress of my nursery!" That, &Allied it. Bishop Thornton, now of Blackburn, England, when Bishop of Ballarat in Australia, rode into a little towrnthip cno night and knocked at the door of th • only building which happened to be lighted. 1t was a newspn,per office. "Who's there?" asked a voice. "1 am the Bishop of Ballarat," was the mild reply; "would you kindly direct me to the nearest hotel?" A burst of ribald laughter came from inside the build- ing, and putting his head out of a win- dow one of the compositors gave this advice to the prelate: "Look hemi, old man, you've had quite enough hotel for one night. Go home and go to bed, or you'll bo run in as sure as eggsl" According to the fgture. given by rE famotes firm of hatters, the standard sizes in hats worn by leading mien of to -day are 6K„ 7 and 7I'. The King wears the latter sire, as does also Lord Wolseley, Lord Itrassey, A1,r. Birrell, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Lord Loreburn, and Sir Thomas Lipton. In art, music, and the drama, size 7 13 more in demand, Mr. Beerbohm Tree. Sir \V. S. Gilbert, Herr iCubelik, Sir Charles Santley, Mr. Edward t Wyd, road Sir E. Poynter requiring this sire. '! Duke of Connaught and the King .'t Norway take 111s sainll size o! Ce!„ while 7'% Ls taken by such men as l'ierpont Morgan, i'rofesoer• ltay-- kestcr, and the Duke of Argyll. The most costly necklaces in the woald belongs to the Countess Ilenc- kel, a Lady well known in London and Paris societoy, the value of which is said to to 8250,000. it is really oom- pcsed of three necklaces, each of his- toric interest. One was the prc\perty of the ex -Queen of Naples, sister of lire late Auetrinn Empress; the second, once the prole'rty of a Spanish gran- dee: whip, the third was formerly owned by the Empress Eugenie. Not long ago a yi'eklace composed of 412 pearls, in eight roves. the property of the bile, McNees of Montrose, voles sold for $e0,100. The i:mpre.ss Frederick t t Germany Is snid to have possessed a necklace of thirty-two pearls. worth at least 3200,000; while Lady ilchaster's necklace of black pearls is valued at about 1125,000. The tato Lori Chesham was a good sportsman and a typical country gen- tleman. His place, Latimer Iiouoe, la in many ways remarkable. In the park, not far fion1 the house, s}anis the remains of a Roman villa that def es from the ',coma century, and which has lossel'ntod pavements that are even now !rt a fair state of preservation. Then i.r,t'nier has become noted for its Black Farre, tilt antillia,ts of the Whits Farm at Crichel, Lord Alington's home in Iiorsetsh re. On this farm aro kept black horses, black sheep and goats, bleak cattle, black rahhits, black poultry -- black everything! Even the door -pests and pahnge aro sa'd te Le painted black. i.atitner house conning some curiosi- ties. Among these Ls the identical card cn which the Duke of Cumberland wrote his order for the bukher•y of Highland prisoners, nfter Cul'oJen. This card is a nine of diarnean41s. w!ii 11, in consequence, has gone down to hLsSory aa 'The Curse cot Sccctlnnet." It is through no feeling of tikresocel that the men of the lower deck rcfet to Lord Charlet Flores:cord es "Char- lie" when speaking of hien nnt. ng3! ther»_sslves. It is simply because flog feel that "ha -is one of us," and ce:tlin- ty ro naval cominnnder has tho inters est; an1 welfare of the men tooter hi more at heart than ttte 1►rc'zy Charles. As a middy he was It 1 o' a boy." Ilia pranks and ion jokes were witrout numlcr. with increaoe'd years cane t1 Condor epimode. 'Dial was pit e" ri unadulterated daring. No ether ma would have even thought of taking nn unnrinorod gunboat right under tho nose of a fort. The eurre tale of de- lightful escapade runs all through his life—naval, political, domestic. Even In the (louse of Cotnnion's he would have his little joke. Ile los said to Moo even gone so tar ns to force a member to go into the division lobby minus his boots! A solemn M. P. wns in the ha- bit of taking off his boots during a do. hale. for greater ease. Sor.l Charles noted this, and welted until he was dozing, when hi' secreted the l cots. cn'ieng the M. 1'. to gnik through the dtv:8;er) lobby in hi.s Atnekings! There v.a.i a hole to bLi stockings, tool his (7vvn MIN -'es. The life spy n cca 'S t(, rise when p) it forget to 4;flen look up. The highc-st in humanity ie the best we knew ear divinity. '11/13 bist way to get r!d of an enemy ie to make a friend. No church is more needy than the (.roe that neglects Ude needy. It's an empty business feeding the heart on brain food alone. Genius 1s simply drudgery converted by the glory of a vision. Defining religien always tends to be- ccmo a sukititute for doing 1t. Charity without cheer is likely to kave the world only moro chilly. All real religion is fed by a deep do- slro for reality in religion. Habitual right.ousness Is just as posy slide as habitual crookedness. No man ever found his soul refreLe.t by elecping in the hour of duty. No man ever died from thinking too much, unless tie was thinking et him- self. The largest rooms of destiny may he entered through the smallest doors of duly. Great thoughts aro those that go deep enough to lake root and hear fruit in Vika. \Vhen n mnn tries to hide his religion he is wasting time covering up an in- visibility, There is nothing itnaginnry nhont the w•cnkness that results from worry over lmarinnry Ills. A man'4 pince in the heavenly race will depend much on his relation to the huntnn Ince. The lows we make for others ere of- ten framed by the plans and loves of cur own lives. He la a poor strt of a mnn who ni- v: nys thinks of hie own poverty iii the limo of h:s brothers adversity. The deeds of e teh day are hanging the Whirrs en the, wale of memory, the room win re Ihc! soul must live. NITROGEN i IIOMM THE Ain. 'The industry of mnnttfnch,ring ferll- Ii.ers by making nitrogen direct from the nir hy electrical process is expanding in N rvvny. A project ins on foot to utilize the great njukanfes Fall to supply dee- Irk power for lhic purpose. The Rji►k- nnfos Fall is on. of the most beautiful in the world, and of extraordinary height, mere Than 1,550 feet. 1t is calculated that when fully utilized it will furntet) 220,000 effective horse -power. Rut at the beginning only half the height of the fall will be utilized. the upper part Toeing Left undisturbed. 11 Is ndmittel that the acNMc beauty of the fall will bo de- stroyed. 1