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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-3-4, Page 7............w.. RALPH'S MOTHER. L., 1 He was a cabinetimaker, who Worhoo all day in beautiful eheets a rosewood and blackwalnut. She was a book -folder They had becorrie acquainted on the stormy autumn night when the wind turn, ed her umbrella Ned° oat end elle had ix, ° run half a block after her flyiog dinner baaket. And then they emit once to twice at church and at the Bible class a Sunday afternoon, and old Mra. Tyson, the rainieter's wife, asked them both tc tea. She had been young heraelf, and he underatood the signe and aymptoms. So they were married and hired a neat little flat, furniehing as beat they could. "Isn't it rdise 7" said Enoray. "Oh! Ralph, don't you wish we had aorne one to visit n" "Thitigeeld be company for you, my dear," Said Ralph Crystal, smiling, • "But there's no one that I know of," • said Emmy, "Except some fawaway con sins in Manitoba. And I never krona mucla about them. Oh! Ralph, haven't you any relation?" Him face (deluded over. "I don't know whether I have or not," said he. "Oh, Emmy. God help me I've left my past behind me." He had aunk into a chair, with his head in his hands. She went softly behind him and laid her cheek agaiusb hie fore. head. "Tell me Ralph," raid she, "what la it 7 Why !Lye you never spoken to me about it before 7" "Becaurie," he answered, "1 didn'1 want to appeer like a savage. Although I don't think I have a claim to be called anything else." "What la it, Ralph?" he repeated. "I ran away from home when I was 16, Emmy," he replied, moodily. "Father was strict and cross with me. I don't say he was right, but now, as I look back to it, I know that I oleo was wrong. "I ran away from home and I came to the city to fight my way for myself. And When I had earned enough to make a little home I came back to get my mother out of the atmosphere that wasn't natural to her any more than it was to me. "I was a fool to suppose that time was going to stand still for my convenience. when I gob back to Hickory Falls father was dead and the folks had moved away— no one knew where. Emmy, I can't tell you how I felt when I heard it." "But, -Ralph," soothed the young wife, "you will find her. No one could ever be lost." "I've tried, Emmy—I've tried my best and it's'of no use," he sighed. Emmy was silentafor a second or two. "I've always wanted a mother," she mother won d. ell the same as my own." murmured hittito hereelf, "and Ralph's After that sheincretly devoted herself to the task of restoring to her husband the dear old mother whom he had loved and lost. One day this little Mrs. Crystal, being economically diamond, was searching through a second-han1 establishment ler a coal -scuttle and fire -arms. "I'm not going to pay ontrageouz prices when I can get a bargrlin only a little used," said she, thriftily. "Couldn't sell you something else, ma'am 7" said. `e dealer, with that in- sinuating andille" ich is peculiar to pro- prietors of second-hand shops. 'Tye a set of red damask curtains—" Emmy shook her head. "No," said she, "I need no curtains." "Half e aozen dining -room chairs, then?" snegeated the man. "Or a pair of real oldifashloned girandoles with cut - glass drops?" But Emmy Cryetal did not hear what he was saying; her eyes were fixed intent- ly on a certain old bureau of ancient mahogany, darkened with age, almost to the scanblance of ebony, withodd, brass ornaments under the draw -handles, and curious claw -legs. Just such a one, in truth, as Ralph was making in the odda and ends of his time at the shop, became as he said, his mother had a bureau like that. "Where did you get that bureau?" she asked, quickly, "Ma'am 7" gasped the dealer. "I mean who sold it to you ?" "It was brought in yesterday from a place down the Lake—one o' them little one-horse settlements where they dont have no second-hand emporiume. Bat I assure you, ma'am," fluttering over the lesmaa of his ledger, "you wont get it no cheaper by going to the principale. I've bought it out and out I" "I don't wish to purchase in," said Mrs. Crystal. "But I would like to see thei person that—that sold it to you." "There was a lot of other truck from the same pine," said the man. "They're breaking up house, I gness, Oh, I've no objection to give you the addreas, ma'am! There ain't nothing underhand in my way of doing business," aud he wroto off a few words on a alip of paper. "It's an old woman with a hooked nose and a tongue like a mill heel." Mrs. Crya towever, did not allow herself to be d couraged by this tinpre possessing deecription, bat pretending to Ralph that she was going sornevaltere to attend an auction • sale for the purnon of acquiring some table furniture, china, , cutlery, and such like'she took the horn Para vshich Mok her to the shore of the Lake, where there was a etraggling settle- ment of little houses around a tell factory, In the fartheet of them all—a queer lit - tie cabin where the spray eprinkled its chitianey•stacks at the equinox tides, and a roy of beats was pulled up on the edge of axe sand, lived Mra. Peter Pepinatall, the woman who had Bold the clew, footed bureau to the dealer hi senond-hend fur- niture, The minute Mrs.Crystal saw her beak shaped hoe°, peeping through the crack of the door she knew that she had come In the right piece. "Anything pa'tiekler a -wanting 7" eind Mre. Pepinetall. "Became I'm mortal busy to -day aertovite. I'm goin' to live with his folks up in Jew Lendon, and I've gob all the hard things to packr,and my boarder to send off to the poor.honee afore 1 can set down to rest. If you're a book.egerib, or One 01 thora travelin' photograph peopio .----Thore comes Simon Doolittle's one -hose wag& now atter ray boarder," She bounced beck into the house like Inclia.rubbee ball, but Emmy puehed Pest her into the carpetlets, Unftuninhed room. -,vhore the vivid Norentber un shine printed off the pattern of the Win. dow-paners en the boar& of the floor with e Bort of forlorn glory. "Ie your boarder aia old lady !";sald she, "You'll fiei her in the ,back room," atireeched Mee, Pepinstall, "settire fl ready 1" And Sure enough, hi the hock room, eolvering in the scant warmth of the sun beams, eat a little old lady in a black silk quilted hood, snuff -colored cloak, and mittened hands, farmed meekly over each other, as if waiting for imme expect. ed suramone. Her wistful eyes raised themselvea piteously in the direction of the new -comer. "Is it the waggon from the poor-houee7" ehe'asked. ready—yeti, quite ready. I didn't think I should ever come to this; but I'm an old woman. My money is all spent, and I've neither kith nor kin in the world—and I'm an old woman 1" "I hate to send her to a place like that," said Mrs. Pepinstall, reappearing on the scene with a bandbox and two bundles, "but its just as she says—her money's all gone, and she hasn't no foes of her own, and what be I to do? His Mika up in New London don't want to take ha no out Skiers." Emmy Cryetal's eyes, shone through her tears. She held out both her hands to the poor little shrunken woman in the silk hoed and the snuff -colored cloak. "Come with me she said aoftly. Who are you?" asked the old woman, wonderingly. "I am Ralph's wife. You are Ralph's mother." "Ralph ran away 1" faltered the old vrornan, her lips beginning to quiver, "I always said his father was too hard on Ralph ran away and never came back." "But you are going to' him," said Mrs. Crystal. "Come with me." , "Be you her folks 7" said Mil. Pepin - stall. "Well, I never did 1" Simon Doolittle's one-horse waggon drove away from the door without its ex- pected passenger, and the little old wom- an trudged along to the horseicara leaning on Emmy Crystare arm "You're not afraid 1" soothed the younger woman as a little isbiver went through the doll -like frame of her coun panion. "No," raid the other, "I'm not afraid of anything any more. I'man old woman. If Rslph had come back they never would have taken me to the poor -house, for Ralph always loved me." That night when Ralph Crystal came home to supper he called cheerily to hia wife from the back room where he was washing his hands: "Well, Emmy, what did you buy 7" The old woman started to her f set with dilated eyes and figure projected breath- lessly forward. Evidently she recognized the voice. Mrs, Crystal, with her arm tenderly around the wasted figure, an- swered: "Come here and I will show you." And entering the room Ralph Crystal came face to face with his mother. "Ralph, Ralph !" she cried, groping in the air with her slender, withered hands. "Mother 1" he gasped, and then they were in each other's arms. Emmy atole away with a mist of tears before her eyes. From that time until the day of her death old Mrs. Crystal sat by her son's hearth, serenely happy in Ralph's love and Emmy's tender care. The poet and the present were alike a blank to her— she dwelt in the prennt alone. "Ralph ran away 1" she kept repeating to herself, "long, long ago But he has c3me back. I always knew he would come back ; and Emmy is here, too, and although I am an old woman, they are good to me 1" A CURIOUS DREAM. -- A London Lord rayor's Story of the Dick Wit maven Glass. We may, perimps, be pardoned for here introducing an arousing anecdote, concern. ing a former Lord Mayor of London, whose catly life was connected with the town of Uxbridge, timely, Sir Wm. Stakes, who wasLondon's chief magistrate in 1801. He started En life as a brick -Yager% laborer, and at city banquets'with great glee, he need to introduce thefollowing anecdote : When he was a youngster, he was employed in re- pairing the parsoeage house at Uxbridge. One day, going up the ladder with his hod of mortar, he was accosted by the parson's wife who told him that the had a very ex- tol anrdinary dream. She told him that she had dreamed he would one day become Lord Mayor of London. Astonished at such a prophe:. y, Slabaeo iotild only scratch his head and thank her for such a vast promo- tion, Ile said he had neither money nor friends. Ihe parson's wife, however, was not Eo easily to be turned font her prognod- tication, and thin dream had evidently bit a great impresaien. Her mind was now bent on young Staines, and Lord Mayor he should be. The same dream incurred again, and the came communication was re- peated to him that he was to be Lord Mayor. Tho matter passed off, and,young Staines bit the parsonage house at Uxbridge with no other =pt.& mon, than the kind- ness which had been shown and the notice which had been taken of him. It was not until he became eheriff that his dream came to be talked about, though there is little doubt that the dream made a lasting im- preseion upon his own mind, and was an in- centive to laedable industry through life. The Uxbridge pareon'had by this time be- come old bee he lived long enough to be al,apla'n to Staines when then:if, and he died during hie Shrievalty. Debtor (furiote)— D:d you tend me that billTAil"—Yei4;ter (mollifiedY—Well, I did ; and I'd like elle thought you epenet it, but I wanted to be money, too. cute. There are hundreds cf men, in this °nun - try who epell itaimperfeetly as tholete Joch Billings, yet their nernee nsver appear in the tapere, ee they always manage to fill government offices. A St. Louis savant has discovered a new elan disease. Ile woald confer a greater favor en an admiring world if he would manage to etumble open a euro cure for some of the old epee. In Nerway it le bollixed that Wolvee aro frightened away by telegraph lines. It ia field that however }Meg) y a wolf May be his will never go into a epot that 15 ertolOsed by repel stretched ea pinta. Sham the first telegraphic lino was established, twenty years ago, wolves have never appeared in ltai icghohs5a THE LIME-KIEN cLui3, WIseu the meetly% had been duly opened the Seoretiog aroommed the dismal of Brother Gilmartin Co; oi Sarnuel Shin moved that a remolution, of condolence be ferwarded to hie wife. &meet Jackson moved that Paradise Hull bo elored forlthe apace ot thirty doye. Pieties Smith moved that some mombee be aelected to deliver an enlegy on the dead brother% oh araoter. "Why abi dis icitement ober de death of a member V' indeed Bretner Gardner, as he Inked up and down the aisle% "We knowed Se dead brudder as a poet ea' a teokturer. We can't tell whether his wife am grieved or rejoiced. We Mean' know whether he was 'meetly hoofed or a great rascal. lie may hey had a tender heart, an' he rimy hey bin a brute in his ways. Ele may hey bin sober ,an' lawabidiur and Ste may hey bin a hard drinker an' a law- breaker, "Befo' deliberin' an eulogy on a dead man we ought to be posted as to what he was in life. " Moas' grave -stuns am silent liars, " Mon' eulogies contain fon r faleehooda to one troof. "Mon' of de tears shed fur de dead out- side our families am worked up by is fo'oe- pump. " If is man em honeet an' upright de heck needn't be pieced on hie grave -stun to make people remember it. "1! is man has had charity -1i he has bin forgivia'—if he has airned de reverence and resent of men an' women, you kin leave his grave unmarked an' it will be hunted out an remembered, "Do usual enablena of sorrow will be tied to de doah-knob fur de space of ten days, but beyand dat pint it will not be prudent to venture." BRANCII LODGE REPORT. The Branch Lodge at Findley, 0,, made the following report: FINDLAY, Q. Secretary Lime -Kiln Club. The Plum Duffs, No. 3, "Findlay branch of the Limo -Kiln Club," held their month- ly meeting at the Gas Well Hall, Saturday night at 12 o'clock, the new hell having been completed since the Deeember meeting. The meeting was called to order by Da- mascus Joy, Chairman. After roll call the minutes of the last meeting were read by Headlight Peters, Secretary. Treasurer Anthony Smith moved that an assessment of $10 a head be levied to re- plenish the treasury. He said that he ex. ceded to pay a visit soon to hia cousin in Canada and might need the money, Mo- tion no; seconded. Poker Winterson was called upon, and delivered his lecture entitled, "Natural vs. Sewer Gas." He was tendered the re- ceipts of the collection hat, but declined, aaying he preferred the hat. Maj. J. Sty having been detected digging a tunnel from hisicellar to the street to trip the gas mains was fined $104 and suspend- ed for four months. The election passed oil quietly. Town- ship Marston being elected over his compet- itor, Bony Cartuthers by a majority of 16 votes. He was immediately escorted to the chair and seemed very much at home. One. eyed Orinson was elected watchman for the ensuing year and Perpetual Motion Barker was eleoted doorkeeper. The derrick having been removed, and thereby putting an end to the lookout, is motion to build is watch tower was carried, the necessary glue to be raised by a lecture by Midnight Sorkins at 85 per ticket on his renowned subject, "Sure Things," Jack Plumstead was authorized to have peeters printed announcing the same and to send free passes and complimentary tickets to the officers of the Lime -Kiln Club., Applications for membership were receiv- ed from seven brothers, and they were laid over for the Februray meeting. A huge wreath bearing the motto of the order, " Keep in the middle of the road," was received and placed over the President's chair. Doughnut Henderson arose to make a mo- tion and was fined $0 for not having on the leather medal voted him at thejaet meeting. President Township Marston, after e - questing eaoh member to be on hand early at the next meeting, sang an old plantation song, which so affected hira that he released all the fines Imposed and dismissed the meeting. Respectfully subroittod, HEADLIGRT PETERS, Secretary. On naotion of Giveaciam Joues the report was accepted and placed en file INDEFINITELY PO.tTPONEDJ Whalebone Howkor announced that he bai received a rostal card from Indians, to the effect that Prof. Featherweight &Lab, of Kentucky, who started for Detroit two mouths ego to deliver an address before the Lime -Kiln Club, was in jail. He he.d been arrested on suspicion of being is horse -thief, but was tea innocent as a child three weeke old. He fondly hoped and exp4oted. the Lime -Kiln Club would at once take the necemiary steps to secure his release and clear his reputation. "Does you wish to make any moshun in de case ?" eoftly laqnred the Preaident. "Yes, sah 1 1 inoshons clet we git hire oat." "De raoshun can't pr ail, BrudrIer Hate- ker, In de lust place, we dean' know de Purfesser, an' in de last place die am fiat. rate weather fur *gin' outer jail. De hull bizness am largely postponed." WILa so useuese, A petition from fourteen oolorml citizens of Kalamazoo requested the Llmo-Kiln Club to use its hefluence with Congrees to hove the name of Nigger Shoal, Lake Huron, ohanged to Colored Shoal, Also, to have Coon /eland, at the mouth of De Wein River, changed to Bruce Island. Tho President replied that the influence of the Club would be eo wed. • Tile Piesiclent then announced the follow.. ing . Joe Johnson's Room Mokinley, Alis - Sekretary ob de Lime -Kiln Club, Detroit, Mioh. : Oa 'count ob de many Chrietmas frolioks do attenshun ob de meet intelligen' portion ob de cuil'd populeshun of Central Alabama hey been declined away from de outtide wurld, tied de recent aokshuns of Bruddor Gardner in puniahing conspiratere hes just nome before de oull d populashun of Mo Kinley Beat fur its estimashun. Da following am de proof sheet ob de rem. lushuns I am direoted to send to you by de pusteffice 38 abidance ob aympathy fur de oull'd pussons ob de North : Whereas, De high handed perceeding ob Brvdder Gardner, Prenident oh de Lime Kiln Club, in communicatin' with conspira- tors am recently reported to de oull'd popu- lation ob Mainly Beat, and Whereas, Accordin' to our best maim - shuns such prenedins am unbecoming is gentleman' ' now he it Resolved, DMsuch derrionstraahuns on de part ob Brudder Gardner ara ebb:lance ob too much centralized power, and if de mem. bers ob de Lime Kiln Club am looking aster der best interests dey will purvide de neces- sary impooishun for conspiracy at der next meetin'. Resolved, Dat a copy ob die resolushun be sent to the Sekretare of de Lime Kiln Club wid de request dat it be read in open:needle' to show to de world whether de oull'd pop- ulashun oh de North am allowed freedom of speech. P. HUNTER, Seoreta,ry Joe Johnson's Clab. The rreeting then adjourned for one week. Early Emalsh Doctors. The history of British medicine is not is very old one. It begins, one may say, with the man who founded the London College of Physicians, and with that act constituted medicine forever as a deduct profession, instead of the alternative purault of apothecaries, barbers'herba- lists, and other nondescripts. This found- er of British medicine was one Thomas Linacre, who combined the offices of tutor and physician to Prince Arthur, eldest son of Henry VII., in the year 1501. He was born in Linacre near Chenterfield, educated at Centerbury, and afterward went to Oxford, where he practiced as a tutor, and numbered among his pupils the great $ir Thomas More. Later he went to holy, where he made valuat le acquaintances—among °there Lorerzt de Medial. who admitted him to the companionship in study and:amuse- ment of his own sons. After receiving tho degree of RI D. at Padua Linacre came beck to Oxford and was also incor- porated M. D. there. After the death of Priece Arthur ',Macre abandoned tutor - fin work for the zealous study and prac- tice of medicine, and in the time of Henry VIII. we find him the chief royal physa dam numbering among his petienbs Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop Warlaam, and F. x, Bishop of WI/whetter. It was at hie nolo oxpence that the Reyal College of Physticlana and eurgeone in London were matted an one "faculty," with a President, it common seal, and the power to hold lands, and the function of holding examtnatiOns in medicilne'controlling the practice of phyeic, correcting its profes- sors, and punishing affanders. This last power none vagus, and probably was so until, in a subsecivent reign, it special statute was paned, directing jailers to receive person% commitbed by the college for selling "faulty apothecary wares." Another straute decreed that no person, exoept is gradeete of Oxford me Cambridge ehould be permitted he practice physic in Maslen& unlesa examined and approved by the President or appointed members ef the College of Phyeicians. Linacre himself wee the firs- Peeoident, and held the ffi re until his death, which ()marred in 1524. He left hie Mame and library in Loudon to the college, whose property it rem:Anal down till 3860. An English stage manager is said to have invented e method of preparing a stage army without the uee of too many supernumeraries. He heat eighty wax heath; oarofally naodeled, and theon: were fitted sos dummies of wicker work doled in suitable uniform or armor. Estah " Znpra in the company carries two of t hese figures attached to it sort of frame- w ork, ao that i•s; seems as if three warriors w-ro romrchi.ng obroast. As this army marched pest with all the paraphernalia of war the aThiktOG WAG completely deceived. 1 Gre'thelP (747/410 to 114 861,81"g): Now, brAllEt, kOLT Mr WIIY YOU DIDN'T PUT TRAIL' QUARTER 1 GAVE Y'00 INTO TY11.1 :PtATE Atr ountort TIII8,141010.1INKE Gr 1 LI TO 8F.R., A LITinn omf, 61,VE crtirvamotty mo) INCA' 'MT, 1114,33, ,nlonT MAYO, KNOW 1,vnAT SIMI. LEFT ItAND :Dorm" Incorrigible dretnactughte,r (who the money /or candy ) AT'8'aust Ilisk TROInittE, GRANDPA. My 311(111T ITAD T.:WI/WIT MY ,LITT WAS -PtTT:O.TO IT IN. AND MY LEFT MUM. TktonOut AVY PiGIVI, WAS, AND SO 1ffu,w1,tkzi num r hibteT GET PUT IN AT ALL FIEA.LTI-I, Diet in Disease. Y Our hopessIpA'A°T2,p, rerlt:13:in4thoprevention and (cure of (linens lie more in the direction of investigation of its (SMOGS than the dis. oovery of epecafics. Heroes as great as any who never faced a shower of bullets, have rauseaked the bodies of then who died of infeetions disease', with thia objet in view, and enough has been acoompliehed in VMS line to raise the meet extravagant hopes for the future. But there is is large clan of dims, which, although not so fatal, are yet the warn of a great deal of suffering and lra, pairment of usefialuese, in which we do not make equal progress. We have made vett ntridee in the study of disease, in which we can trace the causative agent to his lair, (retch him and feed him, and breed and atudy his habits, and discover his 'miner. able points ; while in various affections having their cause in the conditions of every day life, we Move advanced little shooe the days of Abernethy. Foremost among these oonditions is the food we eat. When we consider the in &knee of the food on the flesh and products ef the lower animals, may we not Infer that the influence of our food on the ems - alien and cure of disease would be very great? Indeed, even in the vegetable world, it is well known that is tree fed en good son will produce healthy, well•de veloped fruit ; while that of its neighbor, which has been fed on some badly -drained soil, will be small and frequently spotted with disease. Coneiderations such as theca suggest that there may semetimea be a cause behind the ubiquitous germ, and without which it might not be able to aurvive. It certainly indicates the importance of a careful study of our daily bread. The purpose of this paper is merely to show that several disorders of the system have their origin in the consumption of more nitrogenous food than the constitution or cirournetances of the per:en require, and consequently that the regulation of the amount of albuminous food oonsumed, quently constitutes a valuable and definite therapeutic resort. Oar food may be said to consist chiefly if albumen, starch, fat, and sugar; and it would seem evident that the first principle of dietetics should be the knowledge of when to increase or decrease any of these elements. A great deal has been done la Shia llne, but much still remains to be learned. The effects of diet in the treat- ment of diabetes, Bright's disease, scorbut- us, eto., prompt the hope that the treat- ment of disease by a skillful regulation of diet may be still further extended, and that is corresponding decrease in the use of powerful drugs may ensue. If we inquire what becomes of any excess of food taken into the system beyond its requirements, we find that if an excees of fatty or 'starchy food be taken, it may be deposited as fat. If too much ancharine matter be indulged in, it may be deposited as fat or carried off as is temporary gly- casual ; but au excess of albumen has no such outlet. It demands a ;plentiful eupply of oxygen to fit it for elimination; and if, through sedentary habits, diseased lungs, or other cense, this be not forthcoming, the blood is flooded with offensive matters which all the emunctories of the body are not sufficient to renaove. The breath from the limns under such ciroumotances haa is heavy oder, the skin becomes glark.colored) the conjunctiva yellow or muddy, with all its vessels eegorged- The prophet Daniel discovered long ago these truths; and it may be that if vegetarians lied set them- selves to discover the precke conditions call- ing for such is diet, rather than going to an absurd extent, they might have conferred a, real benefit on humanity, ' I shall now, as shortly as possible, men- tion a tew ollnioal facts that seem to sup- port the theory that tGO much albuminoua fond sometimes produces disease. My attention was forcibly called to this matter when etudeing certain forms of hemicrania. Some of then, I noticed, were completely cured by a diet from whiett albuminous food was almost entirely excluded, and indeed of the patients' run- ning down and becoming weak, in several instances they gained in weight and strength. In one instance the patient gain- ed fourteen pounds in is short tirne after the change of diet. Of course'outdoor exorcize might have anawered the same purpose, but that is .a prescription which has obvious objections. In spasmodic asthma and bronchitis, I think there be no therapeutic meature that will give greater satisfaction than lessening the amount of albuminous food consumed. These affections are sometimes curable by this; measure alone, even in cases where the hereditary tendency thereto is distinct- ly marked. I might cite several such eases, but let one svffice. Mr. S. was very asthmatic, as were also two of his brothers. His children, when quite young, were severely troubled with sparmodic bronchitis'and was often sum- moned in the night to some of them wee were suffering from that affection, This went on two or three years, and I frequent. ly wondered if it mintoontinue coning their whole lives. In truth, it had gone on during the greater part of the life of the father, who was now a pretty old maia. Finally, I requested them to try the experl. inent of feeding their children chiefly on milk and cereala ; and from that time I was hardly over summoned to any of them for is similar cause. Sleeplessness, when accompanied with a dark elfin, tense arteries, and a deposit of lithatee in the urine, ia very much benefited by this meastire. Of armee, the opposite class of cases are met `vvith, where an ex- hausted syetern calla for rest and genoroue nourishment ; but well selected C3SOS will be feratid to yteld very satis,factory r4sa1ta. In Bright's disease, whether acute or o'aronin, the diet shouol not include allm- Mint)118 food, The ransom for this are 'eh obvious that no further reference used be made to it, Foul breath, not due to any local affeo- time, will frequently be cured by thin diet evithout the aid of =acne°. Not leng ago is young lady with is vigerorte apectice for animal food, and who had become is nuisance to the rest of the family on am comet of the foul breath, WAS entirely cared by this simple moms. I might easily extend my list of disown, and relate more ones dna were mired ht the same way after needled treatment had felled ; but enough has been field to ehow the dtift of inY opinion on thin important 'Subject. Thie very morning a young man, an asthmatic patient of Mine, called to tell me that one month of this diet had done more fov him than alt the medicine he ever took ; that during the mouth he had only tasted 1703ti mime, and that night he had nymptortin of the return of his old trouble. There Is an absurd notion prevalent that a person Will grow Weak under this regime; no far to tine /torn befug trilo, Oat I have had patients gain several pounde in weight; Got weak, indeed, on a. diet whioh has pro. duced so many splendid „Sootelamea and Irishmen, aiad enables the Arab to travel. from fifty to 044, miles is day, and, insdergo, the greatest hardship 1 Albundriotis food is a true Stimulant» causing increased vigor and power Of en- daranoe, and the want of It la iserteinly felt by the patient ; but we must not take sensations for reality, nor the patient's feels Jogs RV our guide in prescription. Nor remit we forget that if more coal is put into the female than le comp 'ly burned, the grating will become oho d with too much waste. — • 'OLD MAN LUOAB.' Soniethlus' about the 'Oldest Blau In the When old "Dad" Freeman was buried bbs Windsor a few days ago, it was believed that the oldest man in the world had been laid to nat. "Dad" was , 122 YEARS OLD' as oonclusively proved berme his death. and Mt 138 cleacenclanta. Shoe Freeman was buried come relic Minters have brought for- ward is num whoa° authentic record fixes hie age at the remarkable, figure ,of 127 years The proef furniehed leaves no room for any sort of &inst. 'The name of thia man ie An- drew Lucas, He is the father of P. A. Lucas, who for nine years past' has kept o. barber shop at 81 Learned street West, Des troit. Mr. Lucas was born A SLAVE UNDER THE FATHER OF GENERAL JACKSON, him of "eternal" fame, and WAS a grown man when the General succeeded to the pa- ternal estate. Be remembers the revolu- tionary war distinctly, and recalls many very interesting incidents of the seeond war between this country and Great Britain. He deolares that it is as distinct to him as yes- terday, WREN GENERAL JACKSON WENT TO NEW ORLEANS during that very memorable ;struggle whorl he accompanied the General as his body ser- vant. He describes the eotton bales piled, up as is temporary fortification. Soon after this at is time when the Gem- ent' was away, Limas was whipped for some, reason and ren away. He remembers very well why he was whipped but does not give. the reason. He worked his way slowly north. and crossed into Canada at Black Rock on. the Niagara River. Andrew Kirby, then, Customs Collector at Fort Erie, sheltered, him and helped him to cross into the King's domain. Lucas FOUND EMPLOYMENT IN THE FAMILY or GENERAL BROCK, who was killed in the war of 1812 at Queens. ton Heights. Next he raia on the Niagara, River under Captain John Clinch, for whom, he worked nine years, and was then dis- charged by hie employer became the latter considered him too old to be useful. Lucas was then 62 years old. FOUND EMPLOYMENT AT KINGSTON. Lucite soon found employment again, this time at Kingeton, Ont, where .he wearied his second wife. Hie slave wife had borne him seven children. Hie second and free, wife bore him seventeen. Ono daughter by this union is still living at East Saginasv, Mich. Her name is Mrs. Williams, and she le 71 years old. Fifty yeare ago Lucas REMOVED TO BRAETFORD Ontario. There he got Work from the father of Judge Stevenson, of Cayuga. Tbe judge, though now an old men himself, remembers' Lucas' aa a man about 70 years old when he an a boy was going to school. For '29 years Lucas was a DRIVER FOR THE EXPRESS COMPANYAr BRANTFORD, and resigned tte place ten years ago for the reason that he was getting along in years and felt the need of rent. He has the frame of a once poweiful man and stands six feet three inchee in his stockinge. A year ago this; month he sawed and split 25 cords a wood for Vifilliem E. Walling, of Brantford. Up to three yeti's ago he never wore spec- taolea, and during the summer hf 1883, when visiting his son in Detroit, Mr. Lucas read. the any Hall clock from in front of the Kirkwood House across the Campus Mas- titis. He then walked without the a:mis- t:Ince of a cane, being 124 years old! This in is most remarkable ease of longevi- ty. Lucas be certainly as old as dated and from his appose:nee to -day promiaea to hang on for some time to come. This man is pro- bably the oldest person living. He has wit- nessed the development Of the most wonder- ful era in the world's history, and has per- sonal recollection ef all the many groat events in the career of thia nation. PRINTERS' INK. now the Surcessna Business Nen Have Mae e their Fortune. Don't expect an advertisement to bear fruit in one nignt. Bread is the staff of human life, and ad- vertibing is the staff of business. You can't eat enough in a week to lust it year, and you can't advertise on that plan, either. If you can arouse curiosity by an adver- tisement ib bit is great point gained. The fair sex don't hold all the curiosity in the world. People who advertise only once in throe months forget that most folks cannot re- member anything longer than about seven days. A constant dropping will wear is rook. Keep dropping your acivertisement on the publio and they will soon melt under it like rock salt. Trying to do htteinees without advertising Is like winkhig at a pretty girl through is pair of green goggles. Yon may know what you are doing, but no one else does. It is a mietaken ham that a fine store in an eligible locution, surrounded by attrao- tive eigne, bit o nuperior advertisement ; for Ole experienee of moat enterprising merelaanta is that it pays better to spend lees in rent and more on advertising. • . Enterprising people &TO 'beginning to learn the value of advertising the year round. The persittexicy of there who are net intimidated by the ory of "dull time," but keep their names ever before the publics will surely place them on the right aids he the end. To tell what it man says pay attention to the tongue. To ascertain what he meanen, pay attention to the eye, To talk in oppo- sition to the heart le one of the easiest things in the world; to look this opposition la more, diffieult than algebra. • , William Rowley and a gang of men wore, working in the gravel pit of Biddeford, Mar when a cave-in began. All menegod terjump out except Rowley, who as he wee caught.' by the falling gravel, threw hit shovel an far as he could, This aot ;saved his life, for ovory other shovel was hurled by the si/d; by working with Rowleede shovel Mid their Mends tile men deg him cutolot much hurt, bit vory btdly taistosi.