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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Times, 1902-11-20, Page 317,7 rFetete ---4t; 4 \ fe By Sr. GEORGE RATIMORNE, eikaitia:tref Vdctor Jacks Wife/' uCiiPtain Toner °Bum sicolP %Iles Pauline of New Wan 411VIles Capriest" Eta The wearleorne jouitney draw e near an end, and • with the morning then find thernetelvee doze to their -goal. Great Inroads have been made in the • old time' habits of the Turktd by the progress or civilization rushing eaet- ward. The ad•vent at the railroadhae changed many of their customs, and come oe the meet intelligent among the officiate woula follow after the .. ways of their Vattern neighbours if 11 ' ., the mew �f people were not so set- x tied in their sad degrees. '• Gradually tae Turk is being pushed , out of Xurope—rnany of his faireet prot , vincee have been taken away and. ' made into new statee that, formerly • a coalition, will put a nation betweene Austria and the Blattle Sea. Borne day tatere wite be an upheaval, • and Mr. 'Iatele will cross the Bosphor- • us in a hurry, to return no tnore, when • Constaatinople, • taken originally by force, will revert to new °enterer% The Turk its nothing if not philosophical and when this dreadful day of disast- er comes he will probably say, resign- edly :--" Kennet I • Allah is Allah, and Aloharnraecl is his prophet." • At a quarter to ten jack calls their attention to a sight that inspires them into a burst of enthusiasm. The sun has climbed half way up in the hea- vens,and am they chance to be upon •ei elevation where they ean gee the .. aue waters of the Boephorus, before eir vision comes a glimpse of Con- .'aatinople. Never, while they live, ill they forget that drat view of the dental city. It seems like the iantasy of 'a. dream, with the golden light flashing from numerous mos and miriarete, marking the osques, of which thdre are several ,ndred in Stamboul—as the natives 11 the city. Soon the train reaches the station. Jacle" having been here before, knows the ropes, and pilots his party by . _means of what seems to be an under- grelend railway into the city proper. Here they emerge, and find them- selves in Staniboul—around them are • the thousand and one strange sights that greet the traveller in Turkey to- • day. „ Jack takes them to a house—here be Ends an old friend with whom Aleck • and himeelf lodged on the former oc- • casion, and who now receives him warmly. •H.otels are .alnen' ost aUnknown lux- ,• ury in Turkey, and what inns there are Europeafe etisitors avoid as a k. -general thing, seeking some private '. ottees...tp.hyleich they have been reterr- ey friends who have been here be- - „ fore. . ._ • —Avis—iv—i."1-Tehen .Tack closely—she rea- lizes that everything depends on bine and does not desire to divert bis mind • from the business on band. She be- lieves he will succeed, but the posi- •- tion is grave, and nothing must occur to annoy him. . ' As for Larry, he Is in for seeing the • eights, and without any loss ot time • - proceeds to take them in, wandering • about the crooked streets under the • tare of a man he has engaged, whose ordinary business is that of a hamal, or porter, but who nevertheless makeo a good guide. • • One can spend rAcks in Staanboul • ,sight seeing—the mosques, almost al- • teengayte crowded, are a, daily spectacle— •,"ilien there are other things upen tlee ' streets' -to attract attention, such as the bazaars, venal their glass roofs, • where the Turitesh tradesmen offer for • sale the strangest things one can ima- gine—where are crowded In their stalls, elboW to elbow, men who carry on every,buelnem known to the Otlent, and the display of goods is so varied, ranging from the jeweler and sellerof' henna, down to ehe maker of the na- tional headgear, the fez, that one can ;easily imagine ahnielf in an enchanted. land. - • . lees, . Constantinople is a splendid lounging place, to pass away a month --new sights can be seen every day," and one - does not even grow weary of the old ones. • Jack Evans has not corne here for eueb a purpcnte, however—no man bas a greater weight on his mind than he. Somehow he ha o reached the conclus- ion that his own fate depends 'upon hie guccerds in this ganie—that if be Saves Aleek he 'whes la1i3 sister, and, indeed, remembering the desperate nature Of the work before him, it is not mit of the Wag to believe that he must remit) Aleck or lose his own life in the at- tempt. f Having seen the ladies safe In the,houte, Sack gives them a few di• rectlons, and than sets out to make at rargemente. Meet teurfsts when • vleiting the Turkish capital lodge at Pera, on the outskirts, Whore the Eng- lish and American people congregate, and where. the cm:F.111;11.es are general- • ly located, but jack, prefersto be irk • the city itielf, where he can hear the , 1 ben.uagteeedamfeanala call trio Moelem '1 'etc prayer, or the ldua voice of the • seuezzip upon the minaret chanting the adan at blinriti—memories that • never leave the mind in later years. • He has another motive, lf tbe Pasha reaehes Stamboul before the grand finale of the game, he will look toe hie tamer -in Pera or Galata, the fashion- • able suburbs ef the tad city, where, of course, ht will not find him.. The deteettye'foree of Constantinople ie hardly equal to that of• Patis—when a inan desires to lade himself In the former city he can cagily do so, ;Lila ft, will only be by eccident his where- abouts maY :bo,corne known. • So leek belfeeres ciireaelf eeoure. He terrehtthee a tad les the /lest thing, and aeloteirng this, reridc.rte hinutelf tette cope ealcuotis, for ninny of the Tarke have , come to wearing luta such gannente as Irienctitnete—they cannot quite to the usually lea* costteint of the avert ;tee lattgalfeN tatlelet. It may be pet down for granted that Jr:Pk has hie haat& full, but he is feel- ing like a lighting cook, and Was nev- er bettor in his life, so If he fails, he cannot offer as an excuse that he was not in condition. Two days and nights—that is the most ae can count on ere Abdallah Pasha turns up—perhaps even now the Turk in on the way, driving fat as a Feuropean train can take him for the city on the Roephorue, eager to thaiart the ecliemes of Lis shrevrd Yenkee enemy. • Jack's first desire is to find this out —th'ere is a telegraph line to Paris, and he seeks the Hotel de Londres in Pero, where lee sends a message to the prefect of police, carefully -worded, and desires an answer. Then, knowing that it will be sorne hours before he can receive his reply, he asks ehe operator, a Frenchman, to hold it for him, after which he saunters away. • The Turks are accuetomecl to seeing Franks la all places, and derive much ineeme from therm so that they pay no attention to them so long as they saun- ter about. • Hence Jack is too wise to rush along, no matter what eagerness he may t.e reatraining, but makes up for this by perfstence, so that he gets there ell the same. • Leaving' Pera, he makes enquiries, and finally enters the shop of an armorer in a bazaar. The man lecke at him closely. gives a cry of "Allah le great l'it le iny master," and kisses biz hand impulsively. This Turk te a man whom Doctor Jack has made his slave—when here before, circumstances allowed him to do Achmed a, great favour, and the man fairly wershipe the ground he walks on. • • Jack needs him now—he tette him what the risk is, hut the man thrags his shoulders. His life would have been taken before but for Jack, and he is quite 'willing to jeopardize it no., if by so doing he may prove his gra- titude. Such words ple-s.se the .A.riterican, end he knows Achmed means it, too. He will do wbatever hb is told to the best of his ability. Jack becomes more positive in biz belief that It Aleck is alive they will save him. Be is very dogged in his way, and having set his course, will mei it until the neret is blown out, be- fore changing. ' 3Ie gives, the Turkish armorer cer- tain work id do, and declares that he wen return to the shop to hear his re - pert at delete. Achrned knows where Abdallah Pasha has his residence -- just outside of the great city, and overlooking the blue Goephorus—one of the loveliest sites the human mind could conceive. His grounds are not- ed for their magnificence. Certain European friends of the Pasha; who have travelled a great deal, have seen and admired the palace and its sur- roundings, but none of thein have, with the owner's consent, ever set eyes on the interior of the harem or the ser- aglio, eithere the beautiful houris ot the Orient pass their life of luxury. Achmed hes a bard task before him, but he is more than ordinarily shrewd for a Turk. It was froneehim jack got his hint that his frlendfAleck had not been killed, but was a prisoner in the Turk's palace, and he is now sent out, well supplied with money, to as- certain the exact truth. eor Doctor Sack himself, he hies away to the water front. • His idea is to buy a fast boat of some sort, and have it in readiness for immediate flight. There are a number of men-of-war at the °olden Roan, and among others Jack sees one bearing the Stars and Stripes.' What a thrill the sight of the dear old flag gives hini. It he ccuid only rescue Aleck, and all of them get under tbe Shelter cif that flag, they would be Safe, but he knows the commander 'would not dare shelter them after they have entered a Turk- ish palace and defied the power of a Pasha, so he makes no bis mind to de- pend Indy on himself. * Making enquiries lie lindss a vessel for [laic, and discovers the is an Eng- lish yacht, small in build, but well manned. He meets the owner on board, has earalvrete talk, and in half an hour the Thistledown is hie. The crew greet their netv master, and Jack is in charge. ele has a talle•wrth the captain, and . examines the • interior of the yaeht, making some suggestions regarding the hold, where a fine biding -place can be made between two bulkheads. Having given e-xplicit orders, Aera- tor jack again lands. la is long past high noon, and he has done remarle- ably well for the few hours he has been at werlt. • Something to eat is molly obtained at a cafe, and Jack is enough of a Turk to know what Is beet, so he fame a ell where a stranger might almost stare. Altar thio Is over he again seeks the hotel in the Pere. suburb, 'eager to rice what the Rowe may be from Paris. A dispatch ie awaiting him -- it is brief and to the point, "He left Paris ori the night of the feurth." Tack caleulete,e Quickly, consults his red-crier:red wale mectitn, which givee the arrival and. departure of trains. UnItee the •pasha is detained on the way, he will arrive at Starnbottl eorne time early on the second night, but jack ham neyer knoWn a train to be on time here, en& he ,e0tuite on hav- ing both nights eidirelY• Third its as inneh en he expeeted, The work 1l efore 'them, and tlitY irraSe make bgete4Th hurleee to the elven That 'ii"Orfity " 110t and he les.e to, wait, At 0.111ele he eees the annotteer claming throUirll the crowd., Already the erneking lamps have been lIghted .in many ot the booths, giving the seen* att ade altional 'weird utspeet tee the dark faces and manY-Coloured garniente Of the groups are aeon 'under the gellpar o tbese jUun1nattr agent. 'jack cannot but notice the thinge even while his mind is engromed with the bueinege in band, for he.ls eorrie-. thing of an artfet in hie waY, arid •al- ways grasps the picturesque, ' Aeluned make.* an obeisance as he comes in—Ifis veneration for the• Ara. erican is great. As Is his usual cue - tem, Jack proceeds to get the tante from him • inirriediatelY, He learnthat the Turk has leeen in :the palace of the pasha, bribed. one of tho servitors, and,even looked upon Aleck Morton in, hie prison. This he describes to Jack as a dungeon be- neath the ground, where Aleck has been kept all these weeks and months. Hie garmentare in tatter, his face thin, but hie Tankie spirit unbroken,. Twice he has attempted to egeape, and came near doing it, but the Vigilance. of the guard prevented him. Teter° is a 'grating of iron covering an air hole that lete a ray of light into the dark dungeon during the day time. Could Achmed lead him to it after nightfall ? The 'faithful Turk pros- tratee himself and declares it is im- Poestble. Jack mite more questioned, makes an appoiatenent, sena hurries • aveaar, He hiea 'himself to the home of the American minister—lt is peesible that this gentleman may interfere and save, Aleck, for no matter what .his offence has been, he is an American eitizen, and entitled to the protection of hie The fates are against him. He finds that the minister, together with the British ambamador, has done off' for a cruise on a new Irene' that has Just been built • for the a.ntique,ted 'Turkish navy., "Nathan will he be back ?" • • "With rare good luck, if the en- gines do not break down, In a day or so, but," with a shrug, " we always allow for accidentin Stamboul." Just so, arid tilts sets Doctor Jack back a peg or two in his calculations. He remembers the Quinnebaug, the old style American man-of-war, then In port, and wonders if her captain, dares to &sena him, shakes his heatd,! grinds his teeth together, and says, emphatically :--- •, I • "Before I could set the -wheels go - Ing he would be here—no, I see very plainly this good. arm alone Stands be- tween Aleck and death." FOR FARMERS •$t410044/ble oad Prefleable olptre iSreilithe BUSY lee****Wee'*94Fee*****44K4e4k°'*4444 TEE WINTER PROBLEM, fl J. Blanchard, an extensive breeder of White Legherms, gine his 'Views and experience on this subject, which we copy in a condensed forzn for the benefit o$ our readers, • From our own experience we ean endorse them as eminently practical and seneible. lie says: "The whole problena of winter feed- ieg for eggs can be expressed in one sh.ort, sentence—turn winter into sum - mar, This is easy to say but very hard to accomplish, and the best we can do is to supply some of the con- ditions which exist in summer. The first'essential is warmth, but it must not be supplied by artificial heat, as this :makes the fowls tender and susceptible to colds, but by warm houses, to keep out wind and frost and conserve the natural heat of the birds. Drynese is next to be considered, and this is best brought about by keeping the house clean and the floor well litterect with straw and some absorbent inaterial like chaff. Also ventilateea little by the windows every mild day ber opening them a little, according to the wee - titer. This will carry out moisture, purify the air, and keep the fowls ac- custemed to tho outdoor tempera- ture, so they will not be affected so much by extremely cold pells. A straw filled loft in the poultry house is a great aid in keeping it warm arid dry in wintee. This loft floor may be made of cheap boards and should have pleuty of cracks to let moisture Pass up and be absorb - in the straw above. Of course, they need good food and enough ,of it, but. I firmly believe it is not so much the kind of food but the way they are fed and managed that makes them lay best. I can do no 'better than to give our own poultry bill of fare. Our whole grains are come wheat, buck- wheat and oats mixed, about equal parts. In the morning a very scant ration of the Mixed grates is given, not more than one-fourth of what they would eat, scattered in litter on the floor. Next comes water SLIGHTLY WARMED CHAPTER XX. If ever' Doctor jack was aroused in all his life, he egrtainly is now—a lion at bay could not exhibit more anima- tion, • for saccess or failure means much to him. There are ram quali- ties about this man that make hirn an enemy to • be feared—his usually quiet manner can be thrown off, andt a fierce aggressiveness takes its place: Passing along through the streets he heads toward the bazaar. Crowds jostle hira—they are composed of re- .presentatives of many• nations-01r- cassians, Arabs, Russians, Jews, ne- groes, Greeks. Armeniane added to the Turks themselves, Servians, and natives of Montenegro—each In his na- tional costume, make a spectacle not to be found elsewhere upon the globe. • Looking neither to tbe right nor left, Jack more than once stumbles over some mangy cur, of which.. mil- lions, one coula almost say, roam the crooked thoroughfares and alleys of old Stamboul, where day and night magnificence and squalor go hand in hand. . • A pilgrim with 'a camel, direct from Egypt or perhaps Persia, adds to the Oriental interest of the scene, while a fellow who has • a performing bear from the Ural Mountains, draws quite a crowd but mighty few piastres, for the Turks, as a rule, are close with their small coins. So Jack pushes in. He is so wrap- ped up in thought that he overshoots his mark, and finds himself opposite a mosque, which he reniernbers in far- ther down the street than the bazar in which Aeluned has a stall. • His attention is attracted by the loud voices of a band of howling der- vishes in the mosque, and he glances In for a moment to hear their con- tinual shouts of "Le. ilia ha ilia Al- lah I" and evilness their contortione. Jack is no stranger to the sight. He has looked •upon dervishes of all grades, from the dancers of Stamboul to those of the slurring tribe, who take the place of our "little German band" in Persian cities. Turning back, he is Soon • in the bazar—it is tests crowded now, but A.chmed is there, waiting, • ready to lead the daring American to the prison of his friend, no • matter what the danger. They pass out, and once upon the street, Jack manages to disguise him- self a little more, so that at firet sight he may be taken for a Turk. tinder the guidance ot the faithful Achmed they gradually leave the buoy •mart behind, and enter upon another portion of the city. They are aiming for the suburbitt the direction of the Sultan's palace, which is situated upon ari elevation, so that the Grand Mogul ot the Turke may TroOt his flat roof under, the shot - ter Of the canopy, lounge and look up- on the fairest scene mertsa eyes ever heheld—the wonderful city flashing in the tun, the blue BosPhorus With Ito White sails, and .the shore of, Asia be- yond, whither softie day the lest ef the Turkel win retreat when RUaala has her will. • The paleee af Abdallah Patha is not 4 great disitance from . the grand rereldenee of his Suiten, and though not attempting • to rival the letter, it' iti a place of no mean nretentionis—the btifiding being ef marble, sptcd oestlY er- • namente bought in Weetern empitele like Parte, and the grounds of epaelotid extent, walled in, and, idled with tteee ete# entrubbory thee charm ths eye. ille'contuttiati,), The average French person eon- etnnes in It year 68 tlinee as much wine as the English Autdect, French people drink 21 gallons a head year - tea • in coldest weather, They are kept busy scratching for grain and running to the water pan for an hour or more, and the exercise thus Winced warms them zoom effectually on a cold morning than would a Warm. mash. • They are next glean cabbages ',or mangel beets cut in halves and placed on the door. The birds are thee kept busy all the forenoon working for a little food, and at noon are hungry and ready for et• big dinner .of warm mash, which is fed in troughs, all they will clean. up. in a short time. Our mash is made as follows: Ground oats, corn meal and -wheat bran, about equal parts by measure ,for the base. To this we add one 1pound oil meal and three pounds [high grade' beef scrap for each 100 fowls, all well mixed while dry. To each .100 hens we also 'allow two quarts , of clover cut in one-eightba inch lengthe, and soaked in hot wa- ter, in which has been dissolved a little. salt. The whole is then thor- ough*. mixed 'with a shovel until in a moist and crumbly state, . neither dry nor sloppy. It is then fed while yet, warm. We sometimes substitute boiled and, mashed potatoes or tur- nips for • the clover for a change. After this big dinner of warm mash the birds are not very active for awhile, but as it is easily digested they are ready for their supper of inix-ed whole grain, which is fed in the litter early enough so they will have time to scratch. it out 'before dark... At this time the water pans are inspected to see that all • have water enough, as a laying hen. al— most always takes a heavy drink, shortly before going on the roost. Oyster shells. and granite grit are always within reach of the hens. When the ground is bare the birds run at liberty outside the houses, but when covered with snow they are- kept inside." THE PIGS. There was a famer a few winters ago who mahitained that fattening hogs did not need a roof over them, and that it was foolisimese -to pro- vide a windbreak for • feeding grounds. He changed his mind. when his hogs' backs were broken so badly that great patches of flesh and skin came off. Have the hog heuse in shape for the reception of the swine when win- ter comes. Mend the windows, stop the drafty places, bailk the outside if necessary. •The floor planks should be placed directly on the ground, or a, grout floor ehould be proVided, having a Ink platfortie fer a bed, The hog house sheuld be placed on a hill where there is 0, goad drain- age, Proper Ventilation Must bo Provid- ed, Roots and clover hay should be stored heady by the. pig, They will the be Cagily obtateed when wanted to feed the swine, The Sow with a. bad disposition shmeld not be retained as a breeder; her pigs are likely to inherit her temper, It will be better to ellecard thearaerntilk4 Svsew pigs from largo lit' ter; they are likely to be prolific. Look to the iittle fall pigs; do not Jet them get cold and stunted. Keep them in a, wenn pen and keep the= growing. Give the hogs Wood ashes, sulphur and b alt; they will keep the diges- tive syetem. toned. WO find that grinding corn. increaSes its value as pig food =aerially. Meal, consisting of cob and grain ground together, is equal and often proves, euperior in feeding value, pound for pound, to th6 clear corn meal, This superiority of corn .and cob meal is caused by the light, por- ous character of the cob, rendering; the • mass More assimilable in the hog's stomach than the solid mass formed by the clear corn meal. FEEDING TURKEYS. Turkeys that are left to wander and hunt for their • own food until almost killing time cannot be got into proper condition until they have been fed for quite a while, or else Confined and fed up for killiug. If they wander for miles he an aimless search • for food after Itis nearly gone in the fall they will run off rill their flesh. •Those who are ever watchful of their toWl will be on hand just at the proper tam with a feted of grain for their turkeys just at or before roasting time; and gradually they will be taught to come home at night for this feed of corn. And as the weather grows cooler they should have some corn in the morning as well. Keep add- ing to this feed until you have them so used to being fed -that they will know they can have all the corn they will eat; and by this gradual increase you will have them on a strong full feed of corn by the time frost comes, and they will not have the setback they might have if they had 'been negleeted.' HORSE TALK. If he' is watered the grain will he tvashecl into the intestines, there to ferment and give trouble. • The oil will clear him. The starved colt will never reach his lull development in size and Every man who fails to make a go of it in other kinds of business thinks he can be a horseshoer. But he carht shoe my horses. Half the poor crippled -up horses we *iee are made so by poor shoeing. It is a shame, and we ought to be ashamed of ourselves for patronizing such bl acksmiths Barley, wheat and rye are. all dan- gerous feed for a horse, as they are liable to cause indigestion, colic, etc. When these • grains are fed they should be boiled and mixed with cut hay, roots, etc. • In this shape they are far less dangerous and are well adapted to fitting horses for sale or show. When fed dry they should be ground and fed with oats and bran and should not • form over one- fourth of the mess at any one meal and should not be fed more than once daily. • Exercise is essential to the health- fulness of a mare and foal. If a horse breaks locade and eats his fill of grain do not water hire, 'but, give him a dose of oil. il To prove to you that De. ,dea chase's Ointment is a cort•aitt tares and absolute cure for eaoa sera' and every form of itchina bleedingand protruding piles, the manufacturers have gunamateedit. &setae. tie -mute's in the daily press arid ask Tour neigh. bora wbat they think am Yell Can USa it end est your money- beck if Lot oure4.1. 00 a box, at all dealers or YeantexsceaBeers 51Ceatrezeuto, Kehaser's Ointment • ALUMINUM - GOLD. 'New remarkable properties of al- uminum are still being discovered. Its lightness, ductility and strength. are well undeeeeood, but even these qualitie.s are constantly being de- veloped and enlarged. Mixed with a small quantity of gold a beautiful ruby -tinted metal is produced that can be used for decorative art. It is said that a comparatively thin sheet of the metal will turn a bullet. Wire ha.s been drawn. from it as fine as and not much heavier than a fine silk fiber. In violins it produces a tone as fine as the most perfect Stradivarius. The racing shells made of it are construtted of sheets of only one -nineteenth of an inch thick, that are as strong es an inch board and less liable tobreak, 11 dOes not tarnish and acids have no effect upon it. • Wounds are sewn up with the wire. 116S•anattrif eseWenifeRIM.I. TRE VIROLE WORLD E011111) IIN MERRY OLD NOTES OP MANY FROMXIMNT NPTABLES. And Renee • of General Ineeres of All Cities and. All Lands, Y-epution has at present a •large number of homeless Russian refu- gees. Major Gente, of Fairfield, 14-, is 36 yeare old, weighs 80 penende and le 18 inches high, Wineton Spencer Churchill is gila lag all bis time to the preparation of his father's memoirs. gherry is the best wood for &bon- izing; the counterfeit oan only be detected by ten expert. Plarrisburg man on his deathbed recently direeted the payment of a board bill of 80 years' standing. Lieut, -Col. Andrew Haglgard, brother of Bider Haggard, author of "She," has opened a barber shop. Bishop Clark of Rhode Island, 90 Years old, is the oldest bishop of the Anglican communion in the world. Popular Mechanics declaree tbat there are American firms that make "pure fruit, jellies" out of old boot legs. Theodore Parker, the famone preacher, bought his first book with money earned • by picking • huckle- berries, A Chinese official in Shangemi re- cently entertained a nunaber of for- eign officials to a dinner of 126 courses. - Loeis W. Thornburg, of Ottunewa,, . ,is the oldest settler in that State and • his wife was the first white child born in Iowa.. Two women have conceived the idea of utilizing a hottseboat on the Thames at Windsor for the sale of light refreshments. Italy's first lady University Pro- fessor is Dr. Rina 3Aastio, who has been appointed professor of anatomy at the University of Milan. Mrs, Florence Spicer Kirkpatrick has been appointed as one of the five trustees to build and manage • the new Carnegie library at Oneida, N. Y. If all the land in the United States planted in corn this year were =ASS. ed its area would equal the British Isles, Holland and Belgium com- bined. Dr. Edward Everett Hale has giv- en sonic 'Boston .boys fed towards buying uniforms for the Edward Ev- erett 'Hale Baseball Club, named in his honor. After five years' Steady search a factory inspector .at Halifax found an attendant at a joiner's planing machine who nva.s in the possession of all of his fingers. Miss Mary Morton,youngest daughter of the former Vice-Presi- • dent of the 'United States, devotes intich 01 her time and income to the slum children of New .York. Felix Adler, president of the Ethi- cal Culture Society, believes . throwing the schools open at night as club rooms in: order to keep the children off the streets. M. P. Grace, who has leased his- toric old Battle Abbey, will admit the people one day each week upon the payment of twelve cents, the rnoney to be devoted to the aid of local charity. Gifford Pinchot, of the St. Louis World's Fair department of forestry, will soon start for the Philippines to examine the island's forests and make a collection of the forest spe- cimens. Rev. Wilson Carlile, the noted London Minister, has introduced moving pictures into his church ser- vice and furnishes all. persons desir- ing it with a free cup of coffee as they leave the church. . Making paper from wood, a me- thod discovered by Dr. Hill of Au- gusta, Me., haa in a few years be- come one of the most important in- dustries in the country. He .got his idea from a hornet. • Every Russian going to it theatre or other public entertainment is re- quired to pay something. towards the support of an institution estab- lished by the Government f or the benefit of the poor. Ripon, -Yorkshire, Eng., keeps up a custom 1,000 years olcl. Every night a w a 1 ce m a , " -attired in °St- elae costume, appear e before the Mayor's house and blows three sol- emn notes on the "horn of Ripon." Sixkiller, the aged ex -chief of the Cherokees, has just died at his home in the Spavinaw Hills, Indian Territory. • His death -witnessed the passing of one of the most pictur- esque,figures in the southwest. The Island of Ascension in the At- lantic Ocean, is the property of the British Admiralty and governed for -them by a Captain -in -Charge, Money is useless there, as there are no rents or taxes and food is issued in rations. The Chinese are not so archaic as they might be. Miss Cheong-Chuk- Xwan, a rich Chinete girl, has, startedon a tour around the world, and on her return to China will write a,' book and lecture on what she has observed. in Union Fretting and Worry Brings on Nervous Diseases Ard Shortens Life—Nr. Chase's MATO Fo:.d --The Greatest of Nerve Restoratives, To this age cif exceesiae competition men are wasting their nerve force and mental power et a tremendous rate. Overwork, • excessive mental effort, robbing one's self of proper nourisinnent, rest and sleep, whipping up the tired and jaded facultiee whet: they falter from sheer exhaustion—these are the causes of nervous • prostration and collapse, ot the tVeakneas an helplessness which frequently affect inied and body, Little wonder that men and woreelt grow old before their time, and find their health capital wasted away, Little wonder that men find their eflorts crowned With failure, and women fall vintirree to the ills that are peculiar to their sex. 'Little wonder that gloom. and. deSpenedetcy temet many to put ell, end to thele bur- dened life, • - Dr. Oheme's Nerve food has brOught hope and confidence to maey a faltering, wornout man, It • has cheered the heart of many' a nerve -wrecked, suffering women. This food cure ie different to any medicine you ever treed. • Most medicines tear donn the tiesueie, but Dr. Chase'a Nerve Food builds up nete ones, Most Metlicinee aro Weakening to the system, but Dr. Chagets Nerve Food add e strength With every dose. • If you read the testimonials which appear in the newtpapers ire= 'day to day oh behalf of this greai systent builder you can fern' Some slight. idea of the euornioes good this preparation 10 doing to the weak and exhausted. • :1,/ut this treatment to the test byweighing yotirself eskeh week while using it, and you will be rearprised with the restate. By enrichieg the blood it forms nee; tissues, roundn out the angular form and permanently benefits the syttem. Dr, °Inlet's NerVe roo'cl, 50 cents a box, at all clealere, or t'elmanacin, I3e,tee de Co., Toronto, NEWS 1$Y IVA= AEQVZ 40111,4 BULL AND HIS r -Z.$1'14.:,. Occurrences in. the Land That ReigAS Sttpreme in the Oorn- neeecial Bolton barbers have left Of ehav- ing fer a Penny. Their charge is now three half -pence. Several thousand acres of laud are being reclaimed from the Wash, ticar King's Lynn. Twenty-one pounds is the aggro - gate \reheat of sixteen potatoes grown at Yarmouth Workhouee, Four of the Dover -Ostend Mail, eteamers aro now fitted with wire- less telegraph apparatea. One hundred years ago there were -carriages to each 100 pereens England. Now there are 17. Fifteerf thousand London ethool children obtained certificates for cam- petency in swimming last yeer. Last year 640,003 gallonsof vari- ous kinds of Australian trines were imported into the United Hingdorn. The Prince of Wales has purchased for i7,500 the Hill House estate at Dersingham, which adjoins the Sand- ringham estate. In two parishes ia Northarapten- shire, which have neither church nor chapel, the veters' lists are hung on pigsty and fastened to a tree. In future no member of the Brad- ford Oity Council having a direct pecuniary interest in the liquor trade is to lee elected to the Watch Committee. Cobham, Surrey, is proud of the possession of an ancient chime of bells, Three of them were cast in the reign of ..Tames II, and two in the time of George III. Wililam Henry Hawkin, a yo-ang Abingdon publican was stung by a wasp on the wrist, and died within half an hour, apparently from shock and a weak heart. Men going down in the new sub- marines for the first two or three times becorae almost stupefied by the strong fumes of the gasoline used in, propelling the veseels. Volunteers who take their dis- charge in South Africa, are entitled to a passage home at the expense of the War Office if th.ey apply within 111 months atter discharge. The death of hir. William Nath, member of the Bughenden •(33ucks) Parish. Council, was due to a sting at the root of his tongue by a wasp meat. was contained in a piece of ' The value • of the ecclesiastical buildings ceinhected with the Presby- tetiala Church of England is estim- ated at, £2,067,787. while the debt resting on the same amounts to £87,858, being only al per cent. • The author oP some recent robber- ies that have puzzled the residents of Fonthill road, Finsbury, London, has been discovered to be a monkey. 'A soldier brought home the monkey from South Africa. • Newbury pleasure fair, dating from the reign of Edward IV., was held a,t Newbury last week. Ono of the town sergeants, representing the steward to the -manor, in accordance with a prescriptive right, collected two pennies from each licensed vic- tualler in the town. , The elevation of Mr. Balfour to the British Premiership is another plume for Trinity College, Cam- bridge, Mr. Balfour, the Duke of Devonshire, leader of the House of Loris, and Sir Henry Campbell- I3annermann, leader of the Opposi- tion in the House of Commoria, be- ing 0,11 Trinity men.. There has not been a Cambridge Premier slam the Earl of Derby. • Mrs. Hirst, an old lady living at Middlesborough, has just had a gra- cious message from the Xing, sym- pathizing with her in her illness, and. expressing His Majesty's boPe that she will • speedily • recover. Mrs. Hirst, who married a soldier, had five sons, all of whom entered the army. Mrs. Hirst's on* daughter is tbe widow of a soldier, and has two sons serving the Xing, REWARD OF LONG- SERVICE. The Prussian Ministry of Educe. - tion • has resolved on conferring a special mark of distinction, upon lady teachers in the municipal schools when they retire from ser- vice. 11 has been felt that years of faithful and exceptionally valuable serviee in the cause of education call for recognition on the part of the , Government, and the Ministry, con- vinced that the thing should Ire done handsomely, therefore decided that each teacher • who has displayed marked ability in the performance of her duties shall, on retirement, re- ceive a colored portrait of tlee Em- press in a, gilt frame. Middle-aged teachers who fail to attain the prize may console themselves with the re- flection that an article of this kind is• to ''be obtainel for twenty-five cents or so in meet art shops in 13er- lin. TREE THAT GIVES SHOCKS. There is a peculiar tree in the for- eets of Central. India whieh has rnost cerioue characteristics. 'The leaves of the free aye of a highly sensitive nalure, and so fell of electricity that whoever to -ethos one of theni receives an electric Shock. It has a very singular effect upon a magnetic needle, arid will influence it t a dia- tance of eVei't seventy feet. The elec- trical strength of the tree vaeles Ac- cording to the time of day, it being strongest at toidday 00,c1 weakest at midnight, In Wet Weather its pow- ers dieeppear eltogether. Birds nev- er approath the tree, nor haVe iti- 8aets ever been seen upon it. 011 WITH A eAVON. The New Boarder—"X .etonder whY they call IhLC steff heti th The Old 00r---"XlecauSe 1,1 a ;Man hes got, good health 1,e tet.n oat it ,With imptint