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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-07-05, Page 7000.0,000001000--- CURRUNT TOPICS There are Many literary peertimists 4imOng U51 69 Otero are in every other • cOuntry,w1eoleninly end rnourrtfully, proctaim from the bousettips Ode literat, 'lure arid art ore doomed. We ere In the ebroesof aebeelt "elided' end, 'all Modern teneleneles are away front letters and artt leceple prefer trashy and trie atal to relined and ineritorlous ..and lite seriouscoriecientious -riovelist simply "has no chancel? In .competition with the "eerninerciel" ecribblers and, quaelts. How Much truth is there in such sweeping ' indictments and, laments? Our contemporary, The Outlook, turns to the statistic's Of "the best sellers" which certain periOdidals furnish from time to nine, stattstics based on reports of librarians and publishers, and pauses to consider the qualities of the novels, • that are at this .moneent enjoying ex- ceptional popularity. There are just now six "best sellers," the number .in - eluding Mrs. Wharton's "House of Mirth," Tarkington's 'Conquest of Canaan," "The House of a Thousand Candles," "The Wheel of Life," "The Truth About Tolna," and "Barbara Win- slow, Rebel." - eta, Wharton's remarkable story has won high praise not only in this coun- try but in England from competentand independent !Reliever critics. Mr. Tark- ingtores novel cannot be placed in the seine literary category, but,asour con- teMporary says, "It Is a delightful piece of work, sincere, touched with emotion and charmingly written." Another "best. seller" is described as possessing thorough workmanship and dignity of attitude. 4The fourth novel on the list is a wholesome story of the romantic Port —not original, but interestlog and plea - ant In its way. The fifth popular novel is "an effective tale with atouch of bril- liancy," and the sixth has its good qual- ities. - At least three of the best sellers, there- fore,, are of high literary and artistic quality.. They interpret life serlotisly, study actual types, are well constructed -.and. show -care and earnestness on the part of the authors.' The other three, even tif they cannot,' be regarded as pen- rnanerit contributions to any class .of . real literature, have'the merits of charm, dramatic interest, color and vivacity., Not one is bad, unwholesome, sensa- tional or cheap, artistically speaking. • No doubt there are thousands of people who waste precious tune on worthlees stuff while negfecting. elevating and ad- mirable forms of literature, especially of classical and earlier literature,: but to talk' of decadence, corruption of the general 'taste, growing indifference to art, preference for the nasty and the • arlifitial and pompous, is to multiply idle words without real knowledge of the literary situation and .the present . mental status of the reeding •classes. Good books do net fall, and the demand 'for them has not •decreased, bad books 'do not succeed because of their badnese, Not onlit has there ben no retrogrefin elan, -there has not even been stagna- tion. Science is beholden to commerce` In ' the Metter of deep sea knowledge. It is difficult for the scientist to Imagine a more tthereughey satisfactory method of survey than' that employed by the subt marine cable companies. Through them eave been discovered details Inthe con- figuration of submarine gullies, of fresh water outlets:beneath the see., and of alterations in the bed of the ocean it- self. Prof. Materna: of Catania has directed attention to the ftiat that in the straits of Messina there are de6 watee eureents of 'sufficient velocity to cause the interruption of the cables joining Sicily with the mainland. In one ease a cable seems to have been corroded -thy a sulphurous spring. The surface currents attain a speed of fivemilesan hour, They have always been a daoger to navigation. Theexistence of core - kited, strong, deep Whter currente had been suspected. Me Thoulet and others bave repeated the •classical experiments ed Capt. Richard Bolton, made in 1675 in the straits of Gibraltar, and have demOnetrated 'fa' existence at, twenty fathoms of an undercurrent flowing In it contrary direction to that on the sur- filee, but these currents have net yet been at; systematically studied as their inapertariee warrients. A LABOR MAN. Mrs. Jones : "No wonder she looks tired; fate's up most all night with a Ick .babe." Mr. :tones'"What's' the matter With tier husband?" Mrs. Jones: "Ile's busy all the time trying to get an eight-hour day for workmen." WilAT WILL HAPPEN TO In?' "That flimelly constructed publie lufldlng Is a scandal," exclaitted the patriot. "Never mind," anewered Mr. Degreft; tanoothily, it will aoon blow ove1. lituneln proteins piglets do thoet tete; who celebeate either their dianion golden d I E BROOK IN THE This World Is Hungry for the Life of the Spirit 'He shah drink of :the brook in the Way: therefore shall he lifteup the head. cit.; ' • • Nature has` a prodigal Way of scatter- ing rivulets down the hilleide and along the pathways, little heeding whether men walk there or not, The practical eye sees waste; these streams might have been made to turn wheels; the needs of the traveller, weary with the way, might be met with faucets at regular intervals. It is well for us all that the power ef the practical man finds its 'limitations, else all poetry would have gone from the world, and great and glorious as might have been our physical perfections our 'bodies would be -but the empty habita- tione whence scents had lciag sioce fled. The utilitarian would have stolen from us the bliss ef.the deep draft from the pebbly brook, The man who is proud of being prae- Mal tells us we are wasting time and nervous energy in stopping tit think if Ideal things; we must take the world as we find it, he says, forgetting how fair and poetic we once found it and how bleak and ugly we likely are to leave It. But to him trees are always lumber, grass and flowers but hay, bird songs spell poultry, wind and water energy. Many are too 'busy malting things ever to enjoy anything that Is made. IN THIS STEEL AGE It may seem folly and waste to stop and think of sacrifice and courage and love, to admire and answer to the thrill of human passions ; but alas for him who never sees the light of heaven in another's tear, nor hears the brush rf angels' wings when men and women fly to their• fellow's aid. t If you haven't time In -your busy life. tot turn aside to drinlc of the brook of human affection, to look deep into the eyes of friendship, to sympathize, to comfort, .to taste this strange sweet and bitter cup of our common fellowship, then is your heart going dry and thirsty and life becoming a Whitened roadethat knows no wells or springs. ' But something there is in man that calls for drafts at yet deeper streams than these. Foolish and unlearned be may be ignorant of .the whit) eollelett Slone of philosophers who belie looked, into 'these tidags wine, their lanternet but through th.e ages he lies been drink- ing eagerly. at. the waters of eternity. In every nian there is a. thirst after 'the deep, immeasurable things' (thine, the deeper the nature orthe man the greater his necessity for drialthig often here. The consciousness of the great life that embraces all life, the sense of its nearne,ss to us all, has been a perennial refreshing to, all great hearts. In some way tg bring the life ditto touch with the infinite is to take-down its limita- tions, break its barriers, and give it a sense of infinitudeoto lift up the head in vision of the divinify of our lives and of every life. We. who walk in the duet often need to be filled with the divine lest we become - OURSELVES BUT DUST. - This world of things is hungry for the life that is more than things, the life of the spirit ; that is why so many love to sing of heaven end dream of a fair world peopled by strange toed glorious celes- tial enes. Heanen is nearer than we think; like the brook by the way, the life Of the spirit flows beside this life; happy they who drink of its waters, who already enter into eternity, whofind strength' for this life's waen and work bed the contact with the life that is life in. deed. Is it any wonder that life is a weari- some thing, a dead drag,'when you are starving its verytsources ?e, You neglect the soul at -the peril of All. So anxious are you to fun this race that you have no time to allow him who rides In the chariot to drink of he water of lifee ThiS is not utilitaelatilspe ;ibis is suicide from the centre out. The most practical common sense de-: mends that you feed the inner places of your life, the heart that has gone so long thirsty and longing for love, for things too deep for weeds, for things that cannot be used cannot be quoted dollars. Give your inner life its. dedp drafts of the infinite life and Your outer life ,shall take its. place and -do its 'Work in the world. ******4****** HO ***0010101f***** DOMESTIC RECIPES. Water Crackers.—One pound of flour, one tablespoonful ol lard, one table- spoonful of salt, one-half tablesponful ef soda. Mix with water, beat well, roll thin, stick with 'fork, .and, bake in a hot oven. - „ . Breakfast Coffee •Cake. Tettt . a piece 0! bread dough and add one-half cup of .sugar, end a tablespoonful of Melted butter, then roll out an inch thick and Put on a greased: pie -pan, brush the top with melted batter, and, cover thick with cinnamon and sugar; let it rise and Lake quick. Cut in long narrowstrips no serve. Eat hot or cold. It is nicely made Saturday with the other baking,. to use Sunday morning or breakfast. Apple Custard Filling. — Two eggs,' fcur Or five apples grated, a little nut- meg, sweeten to taste. One-half a pint ot sweet milk or cream. Pour into pastry and bake without an upper crust. Chocolate Filling. - One cup of milk two tablespoons grated chocolate, three- fourths cupof, sugar, yolks of three eggs. Beat chocolate and milk together: Add the sugar and yolks together, bean en to a cream. Flavor with vanilla, bake with undercrust, spread meringue of the vvidtes over the top. ' Parboil a three pound piece of salmon. It should be a broad, flat piece that ean be rolled. Prepare the following stuf- fing: Twelve oysters chopped, a half- -crpful of dry bread -crumbs, salt, pepper, a little nutmeg, and a tablespoonful et minced parsley. Mix these and spread en the salmon. Roll together and tie. Place In a hot oven with a largeplebe of butter. Bake twenty-five minutes and serve with its own gravy. A writer gives some sensible advice about eggs. There is a general impres- sion thin& eggs, iecknowledged to be. complete food, may be safely eaten en all occasions. On the 'contrary, • as the 'writer alluded to. points out, invalids and young children should never be. given eggs unless they are very fresh. Persons suffering from biliousness, gas- tritis and several other troubles find difficulty in digesting even fresh eggs. Some physiciane declare that the slight- est tendency towards rheumatism makes eggs undesirable. The white of eggs Whipped to a froth vvith a little water is a good thing to give fever Patients, as nrule, but the physician should be coo - gutted before even this Is given to a sick person: Mayonnaiee dressing 'Is a little heavy for a dinner salad, Yet this one eaten eit a recent OA hzricheon was very dainty, and alio) pretty to look upon. The salad was shredded pimentoee, green peppers. and lettueo hearte, and the mayonnaise, was lightened with whipped erearri. Coddled eggs are the perfection ef boiled eggs. arid once eatenwill elwaye be preferred to the ether. Have a deep Our) or similer receptacle, heated by rinsifigewitht very hot water. Put in the eggs and pour boittpg writer over-thern. Cover °Way and let stand five minutes if the egne. or liked earn longer, if fur - the molting is desiren. Walnut- Filling. — One cep chopped ¶. 011111 nnethalf eine sone treat% one. half teaenoortful of vanilla, four tea- spoOne pulverized sugar. Lemon Pilling. --One cop mon, Ohe ' Coffee hi/lg.—Six ounces icing sugar, one tablespoonful each strong coffee and water, mix, together in a s,oucepan, and pour over cake. , , * . • . Orance --t Quarter pound sugar, tablespoonful orange juice, put in a pan, meta but don't boil, stir well. • - • When the bride's healtb. is to be drunk here a beverage, worthy of so import- ant a rite: Grate the yellow rind from twelve lemons and two oranges and mix 'together With two pounds of sugar. Placo in a porcelain lined kettle and cover with one quart of Water. Stir until the sugar is dissolved, and after boiling ten minutes 'strain thecae& a muslin bag. While the liquid is hot add- one tumbler of blackberry jelly, one tumbler -of raspberry jelly, and one urnbler of currant jelly. Allow the mixture to cool and add half a pint of pineapple chunks,. chopped very fine; one pint of canned strawberries, and, if desired, one quart of canned peaches, and one quarter of a pound of canned cberries. Stand away over night, and just ,before serving stir in three quarts of anollinaels, one bottle of sarsaparil- la, one pint of grape juice, •and one quarte of ginger ale. _ WITH RHUBARB. Rhubarb Sherbet. --: Simmer one quart of rhubarb out in inch pieces with one quart of water until soft. Add the grated rind of one lemon and two cup - Nis of white sugar, .stirring -until the letter is dissolved. , Cool and strain. Keep on ice until time to"enfitint It should b) very cold. To can rhubarb by cold water process select the rhubarb when young and ten- der, and of a pretty pink color. Wash thoroughly, peel and cut into small piec- es as for pies. Pack into glass jars that have been sterilized, fill the jars to over- flowing with freshly drawn water, put 'on the covers and let them stand over night.- By the, next morning you will find that the rhubarb has taken, up more or less of the water, and that there is quire a vacuum to be filled. Drain off the water and again fill to overflowing with fresh cold water, seaa,the jars *closely and Put away for winter's use. This when opened will be found to re- ouire less su arothan fresh rhubarb, and will make de icious Met and sauce. Cm - berries and green gooseberries may be canned In'the same way, and will keep ,fol years. "inte For preserved rhubarb, wash, peel and cut the rhubarb into pieces, then weigh. Place in a preserving kettle without water, and cook thirty minutes. Moen - line put an equal we ght of sugar in tt saucepen, allowing a pint of wilier fo each four pounds of sugar. Boil with- out stirring until a little poured in a cup of ice wafer breaks like glass. When the rhubarb has been cooked enough pour the syrup over •it, milt five minutes stirringtgently, so that it will not stick, then pour into Are and close tightly. Keep in a cool place.' In making ,rhubarb jam allow to 006 pound of cut rhubarb one pound of Sugar and one lemon. t Pare the lemon es thin as possible into an earthen bowl, taking tare, to remove alt the white, bit- ter thebratie, fiael elice the pulp of the lemon into the *nowt, disearding all eeeit. Cut the rhubarb into inch pieces, and put in the bowl on tem of the lemon and the sUgar on . top MIN rhubarb. Cover and etand . away in a cool place over night. In the Morning ,emply into the preserying kettle, (aimmer gently three- fourthe of an hour, or until quite 011014 I take iorri the Move,' cool a little, .101(1peen hito Jaye. Cover with melanin cr. RI, butter d paper. .• ; n AtiO her delielous jam lemade by con1. trtlet apineapple, , rhuberb and crans beeries in equal proportions. lemon. one eaw boil all, lend %viten Nett nevem! between eincee. Chegolete Filling. ;el- One mita; eireiir, one teeepooriful conna elmeolatit: mixt 14(1(1 neven iteiblesPoolit sweet nein:: boll Ave Minlitee or Mete, (01(1 ))utter' tilze of a withiut. I .viNTstrir,r: 8uoonsTroNs. A. few drope of lenion juice give ectainbled egge a delielous flavor. _„_ 4 - •-. A smoulaThrag or dun to Maly Le elen,red fo betinig ety hentifet ef eint. leeieeti of toileiinn arced for S.Iztpo, eut into clica cited real in tint even tattil crisp. — eroeene rim6artal teettiee Lan:ter:ra- ta- wetera Lad rattier te ait pitehie 1,10 11CW. , eitote' of candte orettee or' V.M7Z rn0-57 he reniovel by meanof WittUfint ;baiter 'end ce hot teon. A bowl of linle in a diedeip toteset, air/ atedtPaieeten To keep. huts fresb throogliout the Year Uv ehould be Netted in -cue/is be - ?tempi layers 'of flue sand. • " Half a lemon; plaeed in the watee Whieli. dish totvela and kitchen ciente ore soaked is eat& to sweeten there -won- derfully., Winn cutting folds it is avasteoto turn the materials over frequently to make enite.sure that it is keeping quite biae. The least devaition will mean that the folds oyill twist when sewed to the ma- terial of ,the gown. To Clean Looking Glasses, — Fleet siponge with a little spirits of wine, then oust the glass with powdered blue tied up in a bit of muslin. Rub this off with a cloth, and finally dust with a clean silk handkerchief. Treated in this 'a ay. the glass will not hove that cloud a - pearance afterwards, Restoring Kid Gloves,—. Ink and olive oli mixed io equal proportions, painted on the glove with a feather or soft btush, and then allowed to dry, will improve eliabby kid gloves immensely. Suede ones also may be treated, in the same way. Remember to use as little. of the mixture es possible, or you will do more harm than good. • THE SIINDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JULY 8 Lesson II. The Duty of Forgiveness. Golden Text:Matt. 6. 12. TIIE LESSON WORD STUDIES. • Note.—The text of the Revised Version is used es, a basis for these Woid Studies. Verse 21. Then came Peter—Having Spoken on occasions of stumbling, both external and intern, in the lives of his dineiples, Jesus, celled their attention to the altitude which they themselves as his disciples should atsuite toward those who went, astiay into sin, that is, thoee who gave occasion for stumbling (verses 15-20). The sugge,stion of Jesus that they should first seek in every post sible way to bring an erring brother to acknowledge and, forsake his- evil way prompted Peter to ask the question, How oft shall my, brother sin against me, and I. forgive him? Seven times—According to Rabbinical rules no one could ask forgiveness of his neighbor more than three times. Peter, prompted by a generous impulse, ven- tured to suggest one tnore forgiveness than twice the number permitted by the feabbenical rule. e2. Seventy times seven — An infinite number of times is the real meaning of the answer of Jesus. The lirnit tg for- giveness had already been pointed out by him in verses 1547 of this chapter. The limit is fixed by the attitude of the one committing. the wrong. An impeni- tent. spirit on the part of the wrong- doer makes impoesible even the first, forgiveness, but .where sorrow and repentance are found, there is to be no limit,' 23. The picture given us in this verse is of an Oriental court. Governors, and farmers of taxes, •and other officers of the king are summoned into the royal presence to give an account of their ad- ministration. . Servants—Literally bond -servants er slaves. So throughout the narrative. Every subordinate of an Oriental mon- arch le his slave. 24. Talents—Probably the Attic talent is here referred to, in which case the amount •would be apprOximately $10,- 000,000. Had -not Wherewith to pay—The printing of a weird in italics, 08 the word 'wherewith" Is printed in . this verse, indicates that the word does not occur In the original but is added to make the meaning clearer in English. Commanded him to be sold, and his wife, And children—According to the cruel custom Of the time. 26. Wershiped--13oeved down to him., An rot 01 humble obeisance merely, not an act ef worship in a religious sense. 'Forgave him the. debt—The gCnSe ol the word forgette is• here "remitted." 28. Went and Sound—Possibly even huntingeout his fellow -servant. A hundred shillingsd-Literally a hun. deed denaril. The denarius was worth about seventeen cents. In actual pure chasing value, however, one hundred &mail was equivalent to about three months' wages for all ordinary laborer. The aniount of the indebtedness,, there- fore,' tor one who was apparently • of equal rank with this tax collector who had squandered the fabulous sum of many millions, was very small," and payment of the sum (mite within the range of possibility. "31. His felloweservents—In reality the fellove-Servants of both men. Their lord—The kind. 32t Called tim—The man to whom he had remitted the immense, &R. Porgaven-In the sense of remitted, as above. . 34. Wroth—In t state of wrath or anger. The word is now archaic, that is, old and going out of use. ''"rie the torinentors—Those whose bust - /Ms it was to innict eruel punishment in accordance with the decrees of the king. 85. Prone your hearts—That Is, fully and freely. LOOKS,' impivr COUNT., "Are thee strawberries the be you, eOuld get, Jane?" 1 "They were the best beolting draw- berrite on the market." "Buy the worst loolditg ohes neat time, Jane.'" Thick tongues are reapOneible, foe a lot of thin ideatt. ' A WILD ANIMAL DENTIST''w" s and chitcP9th Pfri.4 aso guatt that he bete riy ers often softer • !min toottuct one, ae. a ride,. they see the moet, 41 4•Ca'T;Priai:49 ‘:)1 wild aniniale eeli eve, heving- their teeth eatreefedi • , ' ''Ndt have, net defie intieti Jil Melo of. animai,6? teeth, ttieugh did tierferm that, eperution' once on tiota. ply tee regain:ion in" Lie r' i. The -warn w fleet very 'taieeeeeful. eithceeecinet ecereel worth the eletteapent Oni.tiie eoati eerie More,- tee expereMentt the OF WW1 RISKS RUN IN Mr. ellowattte, Kends First Operatic Wos on. a yerodioureSzn Wolf, It May not beefeenerally nnown ttret snything elee, and lwrbar,?S -‘,4; an a the vivant of pidinig big tintinalze teeth vaticenneent fileet fen the animal'. i feht tet much .4 vrolic,,i0.33 Yont;cci to a: travelliett• circus, and people( more ordinery hind of denlietry, beeidee "me from all Parts to see the anima Thet) obfeit114' ma' o*Irsducdceeasisfunr arueirteraelitdiregiletiUsili opii 7 fihanint h g4ed°n1l Slitledd5 f t(C'ielP110r6etelPA ailin('e*orriP0814 t tion, and bitted well, theugh a fend he day ie Mr, Ihrtvard Kent, who . has probably attended a greater number cf • rh°11tils afterwards the stroyed,e' poor beast b ferocious patients than any other man came so feeble that it had to be d living. Ilis work takes him into almost every circus and menagerie In the Unit - ea States, while Ole -services are also in constant requisition, at the principal zoo. logical gardens both there and abroad. "It is, riot a profession I should recom- mend, my best friend to enter,n Mr. Kent renaarked to the writer, "for, there is no doubt about it, the man who at- tempts to yank out ari aching tootil elephant -hunt in 'Africa, and nearly los from the jaw of a hon or a tiger runs his life. In his biography his own de, • a certain amount of risk, Why I took , scriptiou of the adventure is given. Ani uj the worle I can haedlY say, for it 18' elephant was dlose to linen. There was not one to which big fees are attached,! no time to wait if the hunter was to but I have been in the ,business now fel': get a shot. The beast was on the move scme tini ty odd years, and I don't sup -i and the dust ilew from we side es the heavy hall struck lihn. Screaming angrily he turned full fron in the direction of' the tree by which 1 stood, motionless. For a moment w confronted one another, and then th 'BETWEEN AN ELEPHANT'S FEET. Narrow Escape of a Hunter in the Wild ••of Africa. th Toward the end of the summer c 1850 William Cotton °swell waS on die pose 1 shall ever quit unlit I get past 'working. "1 remember the fIrst animal 1 operat.. ed on was a particularly feroolous Si- berian wolf that had a .malformation. ef an upper tooth which was beginning rturibling note of alarm uttered by his to grow into the roof of his mo:uth. I cempanions deckled him on joining the was new to the work then, and come- I regained the path, and rode along th quently a bit nervous, me keepers line of their retreat which, as shown by bound • my patient all right, and after the yielding bush, was parallel to it Af the gag had been placed in his mouth ter a time the thorns thinned out, and I caught sight • of the wounded- elepharia BEGAN TO OPERATE. holding a course of- his oven a little to 1 had just got my hand betwah his the left of his fellows; and when he en rjawsiiers,, awlenwatsnebeggeignnsilnipgpetdo awnodrkthe Ibe In his wake, and very soon compelled tered the tropical forest. beyond I was brute's jaw almost, ,met. There was, te follow where he broke a way. however, still sufficient of the gag re- A little extra noise from the pursute maining to keep bis mouth open about caused the pursued, to stop; and whie an inch and a quarter, SO that only.the clinging -.like Gilpih to the horse ten skin and flesh of my wrist were lacer- ,peering at the broad stern of the chase ated. But I can tell you I was not I saw him suddenly put bis head when; sorry„when the keepers rushed up, fore- his tail, ought to. have'been2 The trunk ed the wolf's mouth open, and released was tightly coned,. Forward flapped the my hand. 1 put 91f the eob, of rernOv- huge ears, up went the tail, and down ing the tooth for a week or sot 'while he came like a, gigantic bat ten fee my hand was healing, when I performed across. the operation without further mishap, I Pinned above and on each side, by di to"rnLieolnlesgeaneds otnigeerwsouairde tnuoint ksa°ndcliffiwchtlpilit: nor to kin my opponent, I therefore nfountirig "J could hope neither to escape suffering badly from toothache they are lugged „my unfortunate animal round, only too glad to 'have the molar. •oul,-; and urged him along. The elephant 6S00Tineuticlilhepseitnhetheatriai.kcetionnuncleanuspesatitehnetn4thundered, straight through obstacles , orinch we were obliged to. go round', and they forget themselves and retaliate on in fifty weeds we were fast in a thick the dentist. I remember a cajole • Of bush, and he within fifteen feet of tis, years ago rather, an exciting incident' As a last,chance I tried to get off, but happened while r was "operating on a i in rolling round in my saddle my spur lion called rthaja for an ulcerated tooth.. I galled the pony's flank,. and tbe elephant lehaja occupied aa cage with Victoria, a ; screaming over him at the smile mo - very fine lioness, and both beasts were, ment, he made a conclusive effort and very -tame and tractable. So tame were freed himself.. That deposited me in a they, in fact, that I 'thought it unneces- sitting position irnmedia.tely in front of sary for my patient to be roped. • the uplifted 'forefoot of the thargin "As soon as I entered the cage Rhaja,, bull. who knew me well, opened his bigSD near— wait that 1 meetanically mouth and allowed me to examine his opened my knees to allow him to put it swollen jaw. I soon_ located the offend- down, and throwing myself baek., cross. ing tooth and at once decided to ex- ,ed my harcla upon my chest', and obsti- tract it. 1.hadprovided myself with a 'lately puffed Myself out with' tile Idea pair of ' of ,esying to resist the giant tread. I BLACKSMITH'S NIPPERS . . as he passed directly over me length. eaw the burly „brute from chest to tall (an • excellent instrument for the pure waerst one foot between my knees and pose), and having laid hold on the ache brie fourteen inches beyond my head, ng lar I proceeded to pull with all, and not a graze! Five tons td my strength. But. the tooth .wouldn't, Out Of all my narrow ,escapes this, is budge, and, as the animal seemed to the only one tbat remained with me in be very forbearing, I began' to twist the. recollection for ariv time. One. hears instrument round. ; of nightmares. Well, or inonth o Rhaja, and with a roar of agony he raised his paw and struck me a blow e on the shoulder that cut it open and almost exposed -'the. bone. I still hung on to the tooth, however, at which he let out his Mit foot, and one of his claws caught in a heavy signet-ring which I wear on my left hand, and. I thought my finger was off. Then Vic- toria, thinking, probably, that I was ex- ceeding my duty, joined in the scrim- mage, and I should have fared badly "That was a little bit too 'Much fer more I had nightelephants. HUMAN SACRIFICE. Strange Society Discovered in a Russiand District. The following remarkable descriptiont of the rites of the "Society of Scarlet Death" is quoted from the Ural by at Petersburg correspondeed, who abate indeed had not the keepers entered and 1 that the votaries of the strange societ beaten off the animals. 1 was not much! are located near the Savodsk Leke, an injured, aod vvherr the scratches were!, that the exposure has been made in con healed I had Rahja properly bound sequence of the disappearance of one * and soon extracted the tooth, for which the eitizense he was becomingly grateful. I find at. "The Scarlet Death is surrounded witl most all animals of the at tribe show much 'circumstances.' In the bouee de. gratitude when One relieves them ,of- signed for the sacrifice there is a room pain, and are slow to forget a kindnessm whieh there is neither window no "Rut it is not only for the purpose of fireplace. It is a grave withoutta ten. extracting 'teeth that our services are ant. The room is lined with -scarlet rna aaquired atnmenageries and zoos. If terial, but one of the walls is covere ttied were so we should not have enough with a bitten cloth. •The floor is eoetre work eo make it pay. No the teeth et with scarlet Two cushions are plUe. wild 'animels must be examined. and In the middle of the floor. attenededeto just tthe Mine as those ef "The victim is then led in. and hi horses and dogs. Every once In a while it is well to have THE ANIMAL'S TEETH SCRAPED, for tatter, seems to gather quickly on the grinders of wild beasts confined in cages, and if not removed willt lay the foundation of decay. But it is a quick job, arid the animals get so 'teed to the inspection and the scraping that they come lo look :upon It as a' "matter of course., my instruments, most of which are made speeially foe me' are cont etruoted of the best temperedsteel and are gradedaccording to the class and size of the entrnal to be operated upon. For Instance, In the case of liens and tigers one set offour- histrumefite for exlracting purposes is all that is nee- ettsary—two reties of nippers for the top jaw, left and right, and two pairs for the lower, left and right. These instruments are to conStructed. that one can, with the minimum amount of ex. erlion, obtain so firm a hold of a' tooth - then even a lion , cannot° dislodge it. Then, with a few twists of the Wrist, the molar usually comes out as cleanly and evenly As though It, -were a child's loot h. "Some of the extracted teeth I Used fit keep as mornehtoeK though now I generally give them to the keepers, Who` regard them tig eharins. Hero is the tooth of a big African lion whMit I con bawled about five years eaten -end Mr. .Kent handed nie an object that looked like A MINIATURE MILKtNet 'STOOK,. "There was an, abeeese at the, Poet of that tonna!' lefr. Kent, .continued, "and when the molar eaine Mit itut oterece, 'which were. attached, looked Iiite .4 big bunch of ecoaree eeaweed. The itnimal must, liave endured torture, and when or her head is pieced on one of th cushions. Then all the attendante leevei the room. After a few minutes the young wOlnan, clad in eeerlet, comes frombee hind the biotic cloth. She slowly ep proaches, takes the second cushion, and places it over the face of the recumben figure. Then she efts upon the cushion, and does not rise till the cOndenmed one has ceased to show signsof lite. "What.leeds up to the sacrifice i varin oiisly explained by the local inhabitants. Some say that it ifteerh expedite the peoa gress of the sacrificed to Paradise; and< others hold that it is a punishment toe; the cOMMISSIOn of scime mortal sin," t . - 4 CONTROLLING PLOWER COLORS. It le genetally knovine that the colors - of vegetation vary in inteneity in a. direct ratio to Alio .amount of sunlight ('(1111 hind with ceolness of tetriperantre, within certain limits. Examples tire the intense redness of tapplett -grown in northern clintatee, and the deep -ceders of Alpine vegetatien. Rut the !eon. end other influences. els° have an CR:et upon plant .colore. Mr. Henry Kromer hag geeently experimented upon the liana., eial control of the colors of Marital through the innalduetion of thene nale into the eon they grow in. In very mete quarititiee712011 chendeale ere 5!)- 50013011 without Apparent injury, but tho effeet upon the colors is 71l 11i. Yellow rosee, for irielanee, epitered to beeeinei " deetwr hi coloit under the influeriee of ShinhinUnI euipliede and petastimo phatd. With the me of ilieee eeme IlMville.* the petele ofwidte c.ottiat thowed tetitleoey to ileveleo reef etrettne, whereae when fed wet eine namitim nulphale, nultnetle, erten citrate anti cliveJ 5: 41, nowlidfrt 0:ats nations 1.11(1. 41 form white stream.