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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1909-04-08, Page 2o Unexpected €oofcssioo; Or, The Story of Miss PercIval's Early Life. i CHAPTER I. Our story opens in the far West —in the town of Oakland, C'alifur- u ie. It was a wild, tempestuous night fu late January. A cold, heavy rain had been fal- ling all day, and the wind, which bad risen to a terrible gale, seemed to moan and sigh and shriek like eoruo human soul in torment, or likes the howls of wild beasts upon the trail of their prey. Upon the edge of the town there stood an humble cottage. Behind it there arose, abruptly, ahigh trill. Across the road, in front of and beneath it, there flowed what in summer was a lovely, placid stream, but which was now swollen to a mighty torrent, foaming, rush- ing, surging onward toward the ocean, thus making a hoarse ac- companiment to the weird lamenta- tion of the wind. Inside, the house was cozy and homelike, although poorly and mea- gerly furnished. There were but three rooms be- low ; a sitting room, kitchen and bedroom, with corresponding chambers above. In the sitting rooru, upon a lounge drawn close beside a cheerful fire, there lay a tnan who, apparently, was in the last stages of consumption. He was covered with what must pnco have been ahandsome and costly India shawl, though it was 'tently. "I know I have never now worn and darned in many places, and was evidently s relic amounted to much—I know I M- Obetter days. ways leaned upon your mother, There was not an atom of color, from the day we married until she In thea invalid's face; his eyes were I died. She had been nicely reared, sunken, and ho was emaciated al- and she couldn't be content to re - most to a shadow, while in spite schemdo, ando she earned and vi his covering and his proximity 'schemed d tog, to keep up ap- btits fire, ho shivered, and his ,pearances, and to give you eth chattered with almost dyer ages, such as she had enjoyed her - panting breath. y' soli, as long as her strength held Opposite hits, and seated in a put; and you've had to shoulder low rockerob • a tabid a. youngher burdens since. hor all that your tow enby able, wasg stoctongue was like a two-edged sword She is painfully plain at sixteen that day, I have derived some. corn- She young Western heroine of 'furl from one thing that you told mine. me—that you would never be guilty of the same blunder that your mo - Having grown very rapidly, she ib unusually tall for her age. ther made—that you would never duties as a family man, I want to marry a man who could not, at the know that I have not been unmind• Having been obliged to labor be aril served, querulously, while Ile watched her face closely. She flushed a vivid crimson at his words and her bps twitched spas- modically, but she made no reply. ,Slie had heard the lament too .)flea. "You needn't took so guilty over it," hepersisted, bitterly ; "no one could blame you for getting weary - of slaving, day in and day out, for is fretful, exacting invalid." "I have never complained, fa- ther," returned his companion, in a repressed tone. "Oh, no; you've borne your bur- dens without a murmur—like your +nother before jou; but, all the same, I know you've borne no love in your heart along with them. 1 don't suppose you could help it," he went on, as he saw her cringe as if from a blow, and now there liras a note of pain in his weak voice; "I don't claim that I have cleserved much of eetiou from you, but I haven't been able to forget the very plain language you re- galed me with a year ago---" "Oh, father, perhaps I was wrong, but I was wild with grief over losing ntanima," Esther fal- tered, great tears flashing forth up- on her dusky lashes and falling up- on ber now tensely folded hands. "Well, I don't deny the truth of what you said, even though it wasn't exactly palatable," the man continued, still watching her in - hat of debt ; that I never saved a fuller to give away. And I don't snow that anybody wants to take .he credit from Dora for what good she did in the world. I loved her, :hild--1 did love her," he cried put, passionately, "for all you said :hat 1 had no real affection for her -- that. there is no true love without sacrifice, and that I was never known to sacrifice my own comfort 'or her when I could help it. You ee I haven't forgotten your words, or what you said about drifting. inclletting other people do the rowing. You were pretty hard on :tie that day, Esther; but you've :peen a good child to me since—you have taken good caro of me all Through my sickness, and filled 1•our mother's place as far as you were able. It you could only have loved me a. little more," be added, ,with a sigh. Again there was silence within the room, while the rain still beat against the windows, tho wind howled, and the swollen stream foamed and plunged and roared over its rocky bed with added fury. Tho sick man seemed to have fal- len into a doze, while the girl by the table was motionless but for a long sobbing sigh which now and then shook her slight frame. "I read somewhere, the other day," Mr. Wellington resumed, as i' his ramblings had not been in- terrupted, and arousing suddenly, "that when we die we shall take up our lives, on another plane, just where we leave them here. I know that I am going to die very soon, and I have been wondering if I shall find Dora again, and we shall go on together just as we used--" "Oh, father, for ,Heaven's sake stop, or talk about something else !" suddenly interposed Esther, springing to her feet and turning a white, set face upon her compan- ion, a look of keenest agony in her midnight eyes. That, her suffering mother should .awake in another world, to take sip again the burdens she had borne in this, was a thought which drove her almost to frenzy. She was Quivering in every nerve of her son• sitive body, and her voice shook with an emotion which she strove iu vain to control. "Ah," she added, as the clock began striking the hour of eight, "it is almost time for you to go to bed; shall I bring you. your milk punch now?" "No, Esther," replied the man, •regarding her curiously, "I am not ready for my punch yet, and I have REMARKABLE CAREERS THE ROMAN('E OF GREAT BUSINESS HOUSES. Gigantic Houses of Trade Had Their Origin la a Very Small Way. ITheFrmI ♦++♦♦+++♦++++♦+♦++++++ SKIM MILK FOR SWINE. The feeding of skim milk to swine "Itis no exaggeration to say that is but imperfectly understood by four out of five of the greatest busi- many of those who feed it. The ness houses in the world have cradled in poverty and obscurity." een once thfulluiwnereto: The aim shoulmay be said d be to So said one of our great kings of feed the milk as soon as it is pus- comruerce the other day, and the sible to do so after it has been ob- statement is as true as it is re- •tained, as, espocially in said wea- markable. ther, it is adistinct advantage to MARSHALL FIELD'S MILLIONS. feed it with the animal heat in it. Fifty years or so ago the great No, better food cart be, given to Chicago store out of which the late young swine aside from tho milk Marshall Feld made his millions of the dart while they aro yet un - had its very modest beginning in greened. At such a time they will a tiny Lake Street shop, in which turn to good advantage all the skim Mr. Field himself sold pins and milk that they will consume. tape over the counter. A few Subsequently to the growing years earlier he had been driving period they will tarn to the best a plough in his father's fields on advantage•not more than, say four the bank of the Hudson, as a pre- pounds of skim milk to one pound liminary to doing clerk's work in! of grain when they do not have a Durham store, and it was with ai any grazing. When furnished with few hundred dollars thus saved grazing and grain not more than that the Lake Street shop was three pounds would be needed to stocked. one pound of grain. Much more To -day the business thus cradled may be fed, but tho relative profit is the largest retail ahop in the will not be so great. Not more world, occupying a block more than than four or five pounds to one 1 a hundred yards square, with a pound of grain should be fed to floor area of thirty-six acres. It swine that are being fabtenctd. boasts a single sales room of 135,- Brood sows can turn to good ac - 000 square feet, is visited daily by count largo quantities of skim milk, ever 100,000 customers, and yields but not to such good account, as $5,000,000 a year in net profit. the young swine which nurse them. WANAMAKER AND ItOUSS. Jt would seem correct to say that The great department stores of the younger the swine to which the Mr. Wanamaker, in New York and skim milk is feel, the better will Philadelphia, aro the gigantic de- be the return from feeding it.— velopment of a small clothier's shop Prof. Thomas Shaw. which $2,000 would have bought out- Notice how authorities differ. But! scorn a eotvue right forty years ago, when Mr, conditions are not always the same commence his working life by earn- \\'anarnaker, wal- had been glad to t•y any means, and must be taken into consideration when applied by ing a dollar and a half a week as the feeder. • "1 can truthfully say that 1 believe that, but for the use of your Emulsion 1 would long since have been in my grave. I was past work-- could not walk up -hill without coughing very hard." THIS, and much more was written by Mr. G. W. Hower - ton, Clark's Gap, W. Va. We would like to send you a full copy of his letter, or you might write him direct. Ilis case was really marvelous, but is only one of the many proofs that ott9s Emulsion is the most strengthening and re -vitalizing preparation in the world. Even in that most stubborn of all diseases (consumption) it does won- ders, and in less serious troubles, such as anemia, bronchitis, asthma, catarrh, or loss of flesh from any cause the effect is much quicker. Do not dela, flet a bottle n1 ae0TT'9 EMULSION.• b. sure 34. 8U0T ii sod tr7 IL ALr. 1,2170GISTS Let 110 seed you Mr. uo,s.rtou's latter and sem. Men -atone on boasumpti.,n. Just send us a Veal Card sad mention tat. p.o.r, 126 Wel(inston St., W. Toronto an errand -boy, first put his modestf, The proper thing to do is to post, savings into a venture of his own, i yourself on alt sides of the clues- 'FROM ERIN'S GREEN ISLE little dreaming that they were to tn, ioconsider how conditions sur - bo the nucleus of millions And ( rounding you Wright affect results, Mr. 0. B. Reuss, the blind mil -j and then plan things fur yourself. single room rented at a dollar al Experiment a little, but sticking to day, the gigantic business in New York which has now an annual turnover of $15,000,000. HOW KIRUPP'S ROSE. Tho world-famous Krupp steel- works, which to -day employ 40,000 some other things which I wish to 1 men and yield a net revenue of .say to you before I retire. Even '.85,000,000 a year to their fortunate though you have thought me so owner, derive their origin from a morally irresponsible regarding my village blacksmith's shop, in which the grandfather of their present owner plied hammer and bellows Fond her strength, she is extremely thin, and there is an awkward stoop in her shoulders. Her head is well -shaped, but, with its wealth of ehou hair and broad, full fore• head, it seems far too large for her slender neck. Her features aro sharp, her Cheeks hollow, and her eyes --great, wide, wistful orbs, intensely black —give her fate a weird, cadaver- ous look that almost makes ono shiver. Her nose is good ; but her mouth is rendered very unsightly by a set of exceedingly uneven teeth and two great tushes, one on each side, which cause her upper lip to protrude and give a peculi- arly unpleasant expression to her whole face. She is npparently absorbed in hor work, although, now and then tear rolls over her pale check and drops into her lap. Suddenly a heavier blast, of wind than usual shakes the little du -el - ling to its foundations, dashing the rain against. the window panes with a sound like sleet, or like gravel thrown against the glass by a vie - loos hand, and causing the invalid to shiver afresh. "Are you cold, father 1" inquired the girl, as she observed the move- ment, but without glancing up. "No, Esther, not really ; but the sound of the tempest sends a nerv- ous chill over me," the man re- plied, in a hollow tone. "It must be terrible out of doors," ho ad- ded, after listening a moment. •'it is," his companio;t respond- ed ; "it has rained steadily all day, and the river had overflowed its banks before dark." "Is that so 1 I hope the bridge will hold." Esther started, and her face grew w slutdo paler than before at hia remark. The bridge referred to was a railway structure, and spanned over the river almost opposite the home of the \Vellingtons which we '}lave described. It had been twice swept away by heavy storms, dur- ing their remembrance, although the fact had been discovered in Sea- son to prevent a disaster ; but peo- ple had predieted thnt there would come a time when there would be A tragedy at that point. because the roadbed had not been sufcient ly raised above the stream. Nothing more via%said for several minutes, both father and daughter being a pnrently absorbed in their e invalid be lied in A coil, one, which to curl the ref to you, my no- -41.1s1" lie ob- set, provide you with a comfor- ful of your future welfare. Some table borne. Do vote remember, time ago I wrote to John Cushman Esther?" —your mother's adopted brother— But the girl mado no reply. Her who, you know, resides in New ,head had sunk upon the table in York, asking hire to give you a front. of her and she satmotionless home, after I aro gone, allowing in dumb anguish. Did she remember? Ah i could she over forget that day l—how, as with a breaking, ply 1" eagerly inquired the young The founder of the great firm of [erred. Spread the shod grain out ar tans have ap- pointed she had stood beside her neo- l girl• Bass, which supplies to thirsty hu- on the barn fluor and sprinkle un- pointacl isle O'Sullivan, II h ther's casket, looking down upon I "Yes; one of those letters thatl manity over a million and a half til gtiite moist, with a solution of 1 as teacher of Irish in the workhouse the still, cold face, noting its lineal ['auto yesterday was from him. Ile+ barrels of ale every year, was a�a Pound of formalin (a pound is not' at a salary of $fi0 per year. of care and weariness, lines be- 1 says you aro more than welcome(Staffordshire carrier, who thought, quite as much as a pint) in thirty- i The Local Governme:,t Board has traying disappointed hopes and to a home with him, although he i his fortune made when he turned � two to thirty-five gallons of water, i renes oned a loan of $100,500 to aspirations and that had made her has never aeon you since you wore' brewer and supplied his neighbors, using the stronger solution if the, Thurles Rural Council, to carry vi old before her time, she had de - . e �A baby in your mother's arras. But, with a few dozen barrels a month., grain is badly infected. Shovel the new Laborers' Cottage Scheme notenced her father—who was bit ;•fur the sake of Dora, whom—al- The nursery of the mammoth busi- over a few times, applying the so The Lord Chancellor has appoin icily bemoaning his loss as the in -1 though there was no tie of blood' Hess of Messrs. W.H. Smith and' lotion as the turning proceeds., ea Murtagh McCann, of 73 \\'itle you to pursue your education until you yourself are fitted to teach." "And have you received a re - certain fixed principles laid down by experienced breeders. Then write down the results. TREATMENT FOR GRAIN SMUTS. From smutty seed a smutty crop results—unless the seed is treated before sowing with a fungicide that will destroy the spores. As much of our seed oats and wheat i3 to for a pound or two a week; and the a greater or less extent infected, great Armstrong manufacturing treatment is called for in a great works at Elswrek, England, which many cases. Three different lines employ over 25,000 bands at wages et treatment have been advocated o[ $200,000 a week, aro the out- in turn, to wit: Hot water, blue -- Tyneside of a very small factory on stone and formalin. The last is Tyneside the best; and, of tho two ways of applying, viz., sprinkling and im- mersion, the former is usually pre-; NEWS BY MAI( }R031 IRE- LAND'S SHORES. Happenings in the Emerald Isle et Interest to Irish. men. William Harding has resigned bis seat on tho Ennis District Council. Mr. T. Collen, Ballynock, Tan- deragee, has been appointed a mag- istrate for County Armagh. The death is annouaced of Mr. P. McAvinney, who was for over thirty years butter iuspector in Sligo market. James McGuire, a "dose 'ern cure-all" has bee,• fined (8100 for + posing as a qualified physiciau at Dungannon recently. Ratixlown Guardians at down, SCHOOL FOR YO /I ON KING EDwARr Sat,NDRIN Success of Alex tort in Teach Dairy 1 Queen Alexand taken a deep per tiro welfare of th estate at Sandrin London cvrrespuu her project of 0 dairy for the bent cultural tenants, i a school of noedl and one of carpentr Queen's model dairy I a great success, ai well. In addition t 1 fir from the farm, th course of two years number of young w complete charge of t and there are applic cn hand for the Queer g •\s he Ica r0' the n eke sea iia The Queen's new it' also met with success, f� P\ ing point of view, an turned out front her' i school aro finding excellent p tions among the nobility in man parts of the country. Several have gone into business for themselves, end are holding their own even against the fierce competition in this line in London. SCHOOL FOIL NEEDLEWORK. The Queen's school for needle- work is located in a pretty little cot- tage, builtin the Gothic style, and scarcely a stone's throw from the Queen's own rooms in the royal residence. Her majesty takes w keen personal interest in this school and very often spends her morn- ings among the girls, watching them at work. Tho curriculum embraced at the Queen's needlework classes is a very thorough one. The students begin with plain needlework, and then take up in their order embroi- dery, dressmaking, fine needle- work„ drawn-threadwork, and cro- chet trimming. The course .covers everything that has to do with a - woman's dresses, including under- clothing, the snaking of trousseaux, layettes, cutting -out and so forth. Those who show the greatest proficiency aro further instructed iu a special course of Norwegian tapestry, in which the Queen her- self takes a deep interest. Her house in Denmark is full of ape mens of work turned out by scholars. The girls are also taught the spinning and weaving of cloth . and tho making of torchon an 1 honiton lace. 1 Ono of the best features of the Queen's school is that there is no regular hard and fast system fol. lowed. The bead instructor trice to find out what each girl's indi- vidual tastes are and to develop her in conformity with - HER OWN ARTISTIC BENT. There are no timetables, no schemes tr l Son which distributes 300,000,000 pstreet, g to erect cause of that broken, wasted between them—he loved as a dear "hen all as well dam coed, shovel' Lur an builder, to the Com life,res, wasted, because ho had ! meter, he will gladly, assume the !imperil a year and supports an army! the grain into a conical heap and mission of the phaco fur tho count left her to bear his burdens and care of you as long as you chooser of over 8,000 workers, was a tiny cover with old blankets fur two or' of Armagh. responsibilities, as well as her own, to remain with him." 1 newspaper ',bop in the Strand, three hours; then remove the blan- Francis Irwin Houston, a brothe and it had been an unappreciated "Manana and Mr. Cushman were London, where its founder, in his; kots and spread the grain out to of a Tyrone landlord has been se sacrifice. reared under the same roof," said ' shirt -sleeves, might have been seen' dry, stirring occasionally. It is tenced to two months' i She had been wild with grief, as Esther, musingly. at four o'clock any weekday morn - she had said, and all the pent-up "Yes; when Dora was ten, and ing packing newspapers. indignation of years over tate pats- John Cushman was twelve, your START OF PICKFORD'S AND e•nt woman's hard lot, had burst grandmother became the second forth in an irrepressible torrent wife of Mr. Cushman, and for years FRY'S. ,upon him. they lived like brother and•sister, Yet, while she know that she had 'as. you know," Mr. Wellington re - uttered only truths—truths which I plied. "But, between you and me, he ought to have realized years l Esther," ho continued, flushing, before—he was dying now, and she! "John became very ford of her, was wretched over having arrogate and, upon his return from college hid to herself the right, to judge him would have married her. Sho did so severely. t d "I begin to believe, as you anid," he rambled on, without appearing to observe that he had received no response to his query, "that all sense of my awn moral responsi- of instruction, and on display of methods. Everything in the school is of the moat up-to-date pattern. The whole series of classrooms are beau - tautly lighted, artistica 11 d y y CCora. ted, and the girls work under ide.tl r conditions. n_ About half a mile away from the girl's school is the boy's Technical School of Woodwork. The number of pupils in this school is limited —only six being taken, and, as a consequence, there is keen competi- tion among the tenants on the ea - tate for admission The boys re- main in the school froni their`'hf- tcenth to their twenty-first year ah:d when they conic out are egluip- 1•ed with sufficient kno•,wledwe to enter any department of tho ingor cabinet-making trades. Naturally enough, the Queen has reatly added to her popularity by lis new departure. She has sl- ays taken an interest in what ight be called the common peo- c, but it has only been in t he . st, few years that she has had ucational works opened under r close personal supervision. r,wt- better to mix each time just enough ' mon• by Sixmilecross magistrates, to treat the grain that can be sown on a charge of assault. within three clays. After trratment,1 Tho Leitrim County Council has keep the seed free from infection !entered a strong protest against by contact with bins or sacks int the extra police tax unposed on the Less than a century ago apie- `which smutty seed has ben con -1 ratepayers of tiro county. neer Pickford was running a van tained. Tho police muds a raid on acv - between Manchester and London, A pound of formalin (which is cent nest fishers in Clortgrnnnah coveringg the journey in the then( simply a 40 -per -cont. liquid solo Ilay, on [Jpper Loch Erne, recent-. wonderf-,il time of four days and a tion of the gas formaldehyde) Costs' lY• Thirty-five nets were ca to half. The original Fry, of cocoa about 7e. cents, and may be had At but their owners escaped. p red, fame, email barely a dozen men any drug stare. This quantity will ; Ennis Urban Council has applied no reaper to his affection, how-' in his small fnctvey in Newgatel suffice for 27 bushels of seed oats, tc the Local Government Board for over, choosing instead, the ne'er-! Street, Bristol. To -day his sac. or 32 of wheat. a loan of $25,000 for the purpose g do -well, who, according to your be -i cessors keep 4,400 pairs of hands I Be careful not to use the solution' of building houses for the working 41 lief, has trade her lot so hard. Ilbusy and have a capital of $7,t>(to,- stronger than advised, or the si classes in Ennis, w know it. was hard, child; but 1000. The Cadbury cocoa business tality of the germ may bo injure I)elvin Guardians have elected m never ill-treated her. I was never was cradled lees than two genera- ously affected. I11iss Elizabeth J. McGuinness to p1 hility was left out of my composi- unkind or discourteous to her. I tions ago, in a small Birmingham the position of nurse in the work- la tion. Lying here so long sick, 1 did love her, Esther; don't you be- shot and the gigantic industries house at a salary of $125 per year, cd have taken a bird's-eye view of my lie a it.? controller[ by Sir Christopher with rations and ttparttnonts, he life. I guess you were right — I What Is`love,' fathers the�I'ttrness had their nursery behind cies, grazing fa f Major}' have had an ease -loving nature girl gravely questioned, while she the counter of a provision dealer's Government b d USE A LITTLE COMMONSENSE Carelessness about the farm, farm c• e probably more than anything else 1 1 amen oar in - USE Y y g specter, situated at (Simms. near �' cuts into tho profits. And what Iiallyrnote, was completely cleared g g e soap we call and like to think of as bad p y shop in Bolton , 11fr. Thomas Cook, y g numbered lt) head. of tourist celebrity was n journey- leas than rank enrciessness; or, I Professor R. J. Anderson, M.A., y perhaps it. •nay please us better to man printer when he first struek'sa , a failure to be thorou h and sial).' J.P., Queen's College. Gal - the road to fortune by cheapening y g way, and Buckhill, Newry, has been P 4 a willingness to take a long chance. appointed examiner in geology for facilities for travel ; and Mr. If we sit down and figure over' the year 1909 in connection with Thomas Beecham sold his first box the year's work we will be ver of pills from a fish -tub stall in the' Y the Royal 1'niverbity of Ireland. market -place- -- much surprised to find that, thought Bryan ('u nniffo, a private in the don Tit Ibis. -' "'"" fortune has favored us very often, } King's Liverpool Regiment, was Velar, balance is deeidcclly against arrested the other clay at Kinsale, her, and that the reason we aretCounty Murk, charged with the not able to show as good resultal as our neighbors lies in this very Athe�nr3-, oar hrT�mashymorning. fact. 1007. Don't• take a chance on lr•asin At a meeting of the St Patrick's an overheated burse unblanketrd Division, A.O.H , }tun•l<,ran. the in front of the store because you'll resolution rete-tl • passed le the bo only half a minute. It's not Hibernian. of Belfast, advocating humane, it's not safe, And you are 1 compulsory teaching of Irish in the more likely to stop a quarter of ani new university was unanimously disable me for a month to come." bout. passed. Manager of Company—"YoungIf you re not sure you tied the 1 Rnsoomrnon County Council hay - disable mare, better light the lantern again( ingrefused to ay the claim for lain, I have taken the trouble to) � � ( p investigate your case, and I find and trudge tot a herr, rather than; cost of extra pollee in the county. you are nrlt entitled to anything. take a chance of her being ki.ked. !the Government have reduced the It could not be called an accident. �••------ grants due the county by Ku% You certainly knew the young On an ares- e, the 1.•! <•r I ited no arrangenneote bare been lady'. father wag at home." occurs 137 times iu 1)e.O wure:�, lir' tt' in the new raft to meet this , •sA fl .,i at has prompted me to get through the world witli as little worry and trouble as possible. But I never was niggardly-y—nobody could accuse me of that. and I al- ways gave Dora money, when I had it; though I confer I spent a great deal upon my own pleasures, and didn't consider that. f ought to have been laid by for a rainy clay—and we've had n Vied many of them first and last. Still, Dora always mnnng••d to pull through, somehow. anyway, we never got into debt, and there WAS a;ways something to give away to a good cause------" "Oh, father, father:"' sobbed Esther. as she caught. the little thrill of pride in those Inst ►cords, and rememberev) the midnight oil which her 'nether had burned to keep out of dela. pay doctors' and xrot•ers' hills, hut• the minter's coal and even give a little to the church and .clissiOns. ''1 know --1 know.'the reran cnn- tholed, quernl„utsly. "YOU might just as weil have eatd that it was ail your mother's d,,i tg: that it ,was no planks to rho Lb t se kept held his eyes with her own stead- shall. r. Lever's i anti busi- ness had its source in a buck, ie in realit nothin more a r .oil I oto. 10, of ail the stock, which ('t grocer's fast gaze. The man looked startled at the question, and a faint. (lush again diffused itself over his thin face. The next moment a fit of cough- ing seized him. lasting for cseteral moments, and his daughter's query remained unocowered. ('To be continued.) ♦ DIETARY OF APPLES. During a visit to the South of England, a gentleman was recently met who for the last three years has lived on one meal a day, and that meal composed chiefly of np- ple.s. He stated that the juices of the apples supplied him with all the moisture or drink Ito needed, this, he claimed, WAS of the purest kind. being in reality water dis- tilled by Nature, and Havered with the pleasant aroma of the apple. He partook of his one meal about three e•elesk in the afternoon, eat- ing what he felt satisfied him, the !heal oveuprieg hire from twenty minutes to half an hour. AT ITIS OWN DUSK. C'alier (on crutches and with a har.dage over one eye) ---"I have come, sir, to make application for the amount due on my accident in- surance policy. 1 fell down a long (light of stairs the other evening and sustained damages that will REWARD FOR 01.1) A(.1;. triose Imperial Edict Sent Olt From Pekin. That longevity is deserving of re- nard in China is proved by fl lowing curious imperial edict Pekin : "The sons of those who are over 70 years of a to be exempted frotn the eery the government ; the brevet button of the ninth rank is to he given to Owes who are over AO years of age; he brevet button of the eighth rank is to be given to those who are over 00 years of age; the bre- •et button of the seventh rank ;. o be given to those wire are over 00 years of age; the hrewet hut - ton of the sixth rank is to be gitcn o those who are 120 years of nee; nd tp moments are also to he rect.d f,,r those who are 100 scars age and over." ----'l---_-- "Mrs. Barkley, Are poi fau,i'iar ith 'Songs without wont.,' t'' Ob, yes --quite' Mr. Barkley t ► t 1 t a e 1 requeatly aings theta v. hh-n he comes bene early in the uturuiug "'