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Or The Mystery of a Brother's Legacy.
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OHAP'ISER VII.
"Languagel language!"
nen-. klookham turned. A now -com-
er• was stending in the doorway,
holding the open door in her hand.
It was a wontan, who was carry
ing one of those dainty little teethe
bags which some women earrsr to
hold their bandkerchiefs and purses;
she closed the door, and entered..
"I hope I nian not intruding, but
I'm iu e hurry, and wouldn't take
your clerk's %tense that you were
engaged. Mr. Schwabe, are you
ill?" •
"I — 1 don't quite know."
Mr, Schwabe made 'no attempt to
greet her, not even rising from. his
chair.
"Wbat was that that you, threw
down? I saw it sparkle in the Air."
The new -comer glanced round the
atom; her eyes lighted onthe stone;
which had traveled over ethe carpet
until the wall had stayed its ' pro-
gress. "Why! — is that a dia-
l:maul?" Moving forwarel, -she bent
over it. "What a lump of light!
May take it in my hand and look
at it?" . Without waiting or per-
mission she stooped and picked it
up. Its splendor seemed to fascie-
e ate her. Her face grew radiant
"What a diamond! It laughs at
me!"
"That's something in your line,"
said Mr. Schwabe, ivhe was eyeing
her proceecling$ With considerable
curiosity.
"In my line? How do you mean?"
she laughed. "But of course it's in
my line. I should like to know the
woman in whose line it wasn't."
"That's a magic stone."
"A magic stone? You're jesting!"
she laughed again. "But of course
it's a znagie stone. It's bewitching
me already."
Mr. Schwabe turned to • Mr. Hook -
ham.
"Hookham, tell this lady your
tale, she deals in nuirvels, This is
Madame Nurvetchky, the great ma-
gician."
"Mr. Sehwabe is satirical, s•ir, —
the great humbug is what he
means."
"That is your gloss, not mine.
You have' heard of the Sphinx's
Cave, Hookhtun, and of Monsieur
and Madame Nurvetchky? They pre-
sent an entertainment which is en-
titled 'Mau -vele and Mysteries', —
back seats one shilling. This Ss
Madame, Hoolcham. Madame Nur-
vetthky, will -you excuse -any uncere-
monious presentation of my friend,
Mr. Samuel Hookhana?"
.Ma.daine Nureeteliky bowed, Mr.
1tfooklinen bowed too — rather , awk-
wardly.
"Is this your diamond, Mr. -Hook-
ham?"
"It is mine."
. Mr. Hoolcham's tone was con-
strained. His manner was that of
a. man reho is not at his ease with
women.
"It's a -magic diamond," said Mr.
Schwabe. "It gave me Bts just
now, I know."
The lady addressed herself to Mr.
Hookharn..
"'What does he mean? He is such
a far-ceur — Mr. Schwabe!"
Mr. Schwabe forestalled Mr. Hook-
baen'e answer,
• "Don't you feel anything peculiar
about it yourself?"
"Peculiar! I feel something very
peouliar inelead; I feel. it is the finest
stone I ever saw, and in my time I
have seen some fine stones too."
"Would you like to buy it?"
There was a glitter in Mr.
Sehwahe's ; eyes as he asked the
euestion.
"Buy it'? Ali, would I not • I
would give — mon Diouf"
"I thought you would feel some-
thing peculiar soon," • said Mr.
Schwabe, who seemed himself to be
a little startled.
"Mais c'est extraordinaire! How
do you do it, sir!"
• Madame Nurvetehky asked the ,
qtzestion of Mr.- Hookhaan. Mr.
Schwabe turned to Mr. Hookbam,
too.
"Yea, that ts what I want to know.
How do you do it'?"
"Do- it? I don't do it at alll It's
a mystery to ine!"
"Of course it's a tricic, and a good
trick too, Can you do it again, to
oblige a lady, Mr. Hookham?"
"Supposing you pick it up again."
Acting on Mr.' Schwabe's sugges-
tion,. without •the slightest hesita-
tion Matlaiste Nurvetthky picked. up
the diamond from where it lay upon
the carpet. AS he watched her, the
;diamond merchant's eyes glittered
even more than they had done -be-
fore,
"Would you still like to buy it?"
he a.siked.
The lady was examining it very
curiously and closety, as though she
were endeavoring to diseover from
internal evidence how the trick Was
done.
"If the trick is in the stone itself, )
I would give — dell" •
• She WaS . holding it close to her s
face. Suddenly something, which i
seemed to be -a tiny serpent, sprang,
as it appeared, from the center of the •
stone, and hissed at tlie lady's nese. f
With a little scream she dropped the c
stone to the flo.or. Immediately the, o
serPent -- if it was a eorpent --dis-
appeared. The diamond, in its glit-
tering beauty, lay at her feet. -
, "It is the best trick I' ever saw! lt
seems mervellousl"
"Yes, it floes enem marvellous,"
muttered Mr. Schwabe, who lutd beat
e hasty retecal, from the neer neigh-
norhood of the stone.
yott• will show no how it is t
done, T. WIIJ give you any ammelt, 11t d
reason,• eou like to none, Show f
me. -flint is, 1.0 that 1 Can he nate to 1:
perforei it on in (eve account." b
The lady, thus atlicheseingMr tI
lIoolthara, seemed quite exeltcdt
"You do think it is a trick then?"
said Mr. Schwabe.
"A trick! Of eouree it's a trickl
inbat is it if it is not a trick?"
"Hookham, don't you think you
7 had better loll Madame Nuevetchky
that tale of yours?"
"Tale! -What tale? Is there then
a mystery indeed? Mon Dien; znon
ami." Maelaine Nurse:talky advance
ecl and laid her gloved hand on Mr..
Hookham's arm.. "If there is. e
mystery, a veritable mystery, and
you tell it to me, I will be your
friend unto e-ternity."
''Oh, my •friend," she said, "if
there is a mystery, tell it me, and
will be your friend unto eternity."
It was a kind of thing to which
Mr.- Hookham was unaccustomed.
Dainty svoinen hex: not come his
way, Probably so exquisite a be-
ing's hand had never pressed his
mon before. The circumstances were
sofficiently peculiar, without her ad-
ding • to his emberrassment. • Mr.
•• Schwabe's voice supported bla,d-
tune's pleading. .
•
"Come,. Hooklmea. tell her the
whole tale — mysteries are in Mad -
tune's line." "
Thus urged, Mr, 1-Ioolchaan ventured
upon articulate speech, •
"The fact is, .Madame Nur — Nur
•
"Nurvetchlty."
"The etone's as great a mystery to
nie as it it to you."
"nol Is that so? You are not
professor too?"
"A professor? Dy profession I'm
a barrister, but I can't say that any
briefs have ever corao my way."
"You are not then — what do you
call it? — a conturer?"
"A conjurer! Good heavens, no!
What made you think ofsuch a
thing?"
"Then. as an amateur you aro su-
perb, my friend. I pray you — I
conjure you, as one who desires to
be your friend" (lfitudaine'e face came
very close to Mr. Hookham's), "tell
rae how the trick is done."
"The trick — if it is a. trick, and
goodness knows if it is e, trick, I
don't — is quite as mysterious to
me as it is to you. One moment!
perhaps you will allow inc to ex-
plain. That — that stone was be-
queathed me by my brother; it Was
accompanied by a letter. Schwabe,
where Matthew's letter?"
"Matthew's letter?" Ho thrust his
hand into his right trousers pocket.
From its deepest depths he produced
the letter in a very crunapled con-
dition, having apparently put it
there iIi a passing fit of absence of
321±1111. "Hollo1 it's not very pre-
sentable." He smoothed it out.
"However, it's tolerably legible." He
passed it to the lady. "Madame
Nurvetoincy, allow inc to can your
attention to Matthew's letter."
"Ain I to read it?" ,
"Certainly. Matthew's letter is
the key to the position, at least,
as much a keyas we have at pre-
sent."
She read it to the end.
"I don't, understand it be the
len.st."
Arr. Schwabe smiled.
"That's not at all surprising, since
we don't understand it either."
She read it again.
"Is it possible? ca,n it be? is it re-
ally h magic stone?" She turned to
Mr. Hookham. "Oh, sir, I beg you,
do not laugh at me."
"I don't know if I look as though
I were 'laughing. I don't feel as
though I were, at any rate."
"Tell her, Hookham," said Mr.
Schwabe, "about those little games
you've he d."
"Little games? Then it is a jest?"
"Jest!". snarled Mr. Hookham. "I
don't know what you call a jest. It
is written that it 'brings ill -luck to
its possessor. I, became its pos-
sessor yesterday and already I am
the poorer by seventeen thousand
pounds."
"Seventeen thousand pouniCs!"
the lady gasped, "since yeetenclay!"
"And it's almost driven me mad,
besides."
"It's burnt my hand." Mr.
Schwabe held out ids palm, and ex-
hibited the scar.
"It's burnt mine, too." Mr.
Hookhem held out -his,
"Ilurnt your hands! It is won-
derful."
"And just now it gave me an elec-
tric shock," seid. Mr. Schwabe.,
"which was o11 the very 'creme of
demonstrating --'12 it • needen. de-
monstration — the precticability of
electrocution."
"And it stuck to Mr. Golden's fai-
ger and thumb,"
• "And singed the policeman's I
beard."
"And, lifaclaree, it barked, at you,"
"And almost bit your nose off,"
asserted Mr, Schwabe.
"But" (the lady put her hand to
ler forehead, as if to collect her sena
es, which wore perhaps a little
cattered) — "but how do you Make
t perforate?"
"Perform!" Mr. Schwabe la,ughed.
It Is easy enough to znake it Per -
Orin.. The &Incense is to make. it
ease the performance when it hat,
rico begun."
"It is certain" (the lady seemed
o be -revolving a problem in ber
Wed; her words came from ber con-
saientiously—one by etc) -- "it Ss
certaln thal there is feich a thitig al;
whist the 'vulgar fonts/ call mee'e
that there are Mysteriee of whi..h
cannot eecn t'r'ilu 1 know Vi.o. it
ti so, Of iny °eel lc no to 1 dge 1 1:11VIW
bat 1ts ee11)2' c 1 at 1, ro . ;1 (1
• 1 not .' t! Oil 1110)\? Moe 11,••!"
She, claspel her how's in a •.orr ..r
c1L110', end VI: ftP ! 2 1, tee.,
leo r3ees up towards the eviller; of
• room). "We, will inelede the
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performance in the, programme for
this afternoou."
She was silent; the gentlemen were
silent, too, but for reasons which
presumably differed from•hers. They
were silent because, although they
were taken • somewhat aback,they
had Lot the faintest notion of what
it was she meant. Suddenly she
went on:
"This. letter" — holding Matthew's
letter in One hand she tapped it with
the forefinger of the other — "is not,
froni the point of view of the litter-
ateur, • a good letter; that is, it has
no elegance of form, no grace of
style, no beauty of expression; but,
from the point of view of truth, it
is Superb; it is the letter of a man
who has no great powers with the
P021, and who simply desires to tell
the truth , in the fewest possible
wordS. We will placard this letter
on every wall in. town!, Yes, we will
placard it in letters of stupendous
She wagged her 'finger at Mr.
Bookham, as though he had been
Contradicting her unto the death. .
"I don't think I follow you,"
he murmured.
His bewilderment seemed to be ex-
cessive; but Mr. Schwabe began to.
"Oh, you shall follow me; I will
make your fortune, and you in your
turn shall make raine. I willget
you back your seventeen • thousand
pounds, and seventeen thousand, at
the beckof them. Where are pa-
per, pen and ink?" --
"You will find them there."
Mr. Schwabe waved his hand to-
wards his writing table. His
smile was now pronounced. Mad-
ame seated herself and prepared to
write.
"First- —" she paused; she knit
her pretty brows. "But there is no
time to have the letter set up and
advertised to -day; we will have it
done to -morrow; and yet — I will
tell them to use dispatch."
"Now for the bills to be sent out
to -day. They must be put on sand-
wich -men." She paused; she glanc-
ed at Matthew's Setter, which she
had laid beside her on the table.
"The Devil's Diamond! Quel nom,
dell wbat a name to put upon a
double crown, -or right across a
hoarding by-and-by! 'The Devil's
Ditenend,' — that to go upon the
front of the sandwich -man. 'This
Afternoon at Three,' — that to go
upon the back of him.. -Up•ou the
back of alternate sandwich. -mon —
'To -night at Eight.' Two dozen
sandwich -men to go in a row, the
first and the last to nave, the one in
the front, the other at the back of
bim — The Sphinx's Cave.' "
AU this thne the lady was con-
tinuously writing,- and the gentlemen
were looking on — Hookham
continuously open-mouthed. Mr.
Schwabe's smile became a very en-
joyable smile indeed.
"We will have, two d•ozen men in a
row, on both sides of emelt street —
Piccadilly, Oxford Street, Regent
Street, Fleet Street, and the Strand,
and as many in tJae city and, suburbs
as we can manage."
The lady folded what ahe had writ-
ten, enclosed it in a largoblue en-
velope, and ad,drassed it.: "Mr.
Sohwabe, cen you send this for inc
to .Thillipson and Marks, the print-
ers, immediately?"
Mr. Schwabe touched a hand bell.
A clerk came in.
"Morris, take that letter round;
lose no thue; it's an important mat-
ter."
The clerk took the blue envelope
and disappeared. The lady rose
from her seat; she advanced to Mr,
Hook:ham,
"Now to arrange our little. pro-
gramme.''
"Arrange our little programme?"
repeated Mr. Hooldmins •
"Of course you understand that
that wonderful stone ef yOUrS 15 , to
be a feature of our entertainment?"
"A feature of your entertain-
ment?"
Mr. Schwabe, Who had seated him-
self on the edge of the writing table
from width Madame Nurvetchky heel
risen, leaved back ancl laughed.
"My dear Mr. I-Tookbam, you know
who T xirn. My husband and 1 con-
duct an entertaitment of mar -eels
and mysteries. You don't sem:Jose
that WO hould allow molt a marvel
mut Mystery es, that wonderful tone
of yours to, escape eel No, net for
worlds,"
Kr. ITookham took out his halide
kie•chief unit wIpoi1 hie brow.
lerly tented. With her eyes she
sae 2'( he'd the' floor. •
"a hem!' le Abu stone?"
it Tay where she had deoppetl it.
e oopeti met picked it UP.
"are S011. 310 t afraid that it will
bite you?" asked Mr. Schwabe.
"Bite me? I wish it would! What:,
bitten, really bitten, by a diamond!
And such a, diamond as this! Why,
would make a fortune by showing
myself at sixpence a head.
"Ah, you're a, born show -woman,
Madame NurvetchIcy."
"I flatter myself I ane Now, Ur.
Hoolcham, to business, if you
please."
- (To 13e Continued).
SURE OF HIS PRISONER.
A Hebrides policeman in charge of
a prisoner in custody adopted the
following ingenious method of keep-
ing surveillance over him. •ICnowing
that the man could not escape from
the island, he let him out to fish ev-
ery morning- with injunctions to fish
for his subsistence and collect en-
ough wreckage to cook it. As a
penalty for non-success the Prisoner
wee+ locked out for the night, which
was punishment enough in those cold
and stormy regions.
MUST KNOW LANGUAGES.
Linguistic cabmen have just ap-
peared itt the streets of Dresden.
The police of the place where the
china comes from have issued a. de-
cree enacting that cabmen who
speak foreign languages must indi-
cate on a leather armlet in color
the particular tongues they have
mastered—English, French, Italian,
Russian, and so on. One of the
cabmen, a Hungarian, can.. scarcely
find space on his armlet for the in-
scription of the numerous languages
he professes to speak, for thSre are
eight of them 1
DFUuWq CHASE'S
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Li sent direct to the diseased
parts by :es Improved Blower.
Heals the ulcers, clears the air,
passages, stops droppings in the
throat and persaanantly cures
Catarrh and Hay Fever. Blower
free. AU dealers, or Dr, A.. W. Chase
Medicine Co., Toronto and Buffalo,
THE EMPEROR'S TEA.
The tea used in the immedia.te
household of the Emperor of China
is treated with the utmost care. It
is leased la a, garden surrounded by
a wall, so that neither mart nor
beast can get anywhere near the
plants. At the time of the harvest
those collecting these leaves must
abstaia from eating fish, that their
breath may not spoil the arouoa. of
the tea.; they must bathesthree times
a. day, and, in addition, must wear
gloves. While picking -the tea for the
Chinese Court.
MILIC SELLGRS' STRIKE. •
Two milk WOZnen were fined at An-
ton, in France, for watering their
milk. A locel trust was th*rn forme
ed, anti priees were raised fifty per
cent. A, intik strike has resulted.
The magistrates who imposed the
nnes have been. boycotted ; they can
only get milk by having it bought
for them surreptitiously.
Owing to tbe intense cold the wa-
ter froze in the hose -pipes while the
fire brigade was endeavoring to ex-
tinguish a, fire recently at Marien-
burg, Prussia,
At Intoid, France, a signal man
and a station master, who were re-
sponsible for a railway disaster in
whick eeveral persons lost their
lives, were slined and sent to prison
for four and six months respectively.
The teacher asked the class where-
in.lay the -difference in meaning be-
tween the words "snfacient" and
"ertougsh." " 'Sufficient,' " answered
Tommy, "is when mother thinks
it's time for me to stop eating pud-
ding ; 'enough' is when I think it
is." •
Lawyer (meeting friend in the
street) --"I'm sorry for you, Short,
but Snippe, the has put this
aceount against you in my heeds for
collection." Short --"And you're go-
ing to collect it, eh ? Well, /nu sor-
ry for yote Ta, ttt, olcl man ; you
know my address."
Peterby is rich and sting,v, In
theevent of him death his nephew- 123
to inherit hie property, A friend of
the family :mid to the old gentle, -
male ",1 hear your nephew is going
to many, On that occasion you
ought to do something to make 111111
happy." "I will," said 'Mr. Peterbse
'I'll teatend that; 1 am dangerously
eite.tfies•W
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Seasonable end Profitable 1
%.,.' • 'tints tor the easy Tillers Pit
;tir ot the sell. 1
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13EST 11 01181•1 IfOlt 10,AitliTitt4
The principal use for the drat
horee as to haul enormous loads at
a want, generally in cities on payed
or bard roads. ' Strength is the only
consideration, and, broadly speaking,
weight is the principal element, If,
however, the znecheniten of the horse
is to endure the strain, be enust have
strong hind legs, especially at the
hocks, a heavy loin with short
coupling, and strong front legs and
dense hoof, because so large 0 pro-
portion of his weight is, or should
be, in front.. With the draft horse
it is not a question of lwight, but
of Weight. -Indeed, the nearer the
ground he is, the better both for
service and endurance. lre must
weigh not less than 1,000 pounds
and lie Is all the more valuable if he
weighs 1,800 pounds to 2,000 or
even more. Ile cannot be too heavy
it hal bone corresponds to hi$ 21'eigh14
Such a horse should be blocky
though _smooth, short in the back
with rounded' hips, wide, strong
hackie fiat bones, moderately short
pasterns, medium straight shoulders,
heavy in front, with full breast and
legs placed well apart, though not
extremely wide, The animal should
should • carry a 'good covering of
flesh, should be smooth all over,
with good disposition and possessed
of march patience.
• These qualiDcations, as Prof,' E.
Davenport points out, must be
possessed by alt drat horses to sell
well. Other things beingequal, the
price of a draft torso depends large-
ly upon his weight; and ranges from
$195 to $300, with an increase of
about 10 per cent. whett matched in
teams. These prices are sometimes
exceeded and clearers insist that
prices were never so low that a
span of draft horses would not
bring $000 if they were good en-
ough.
THE .DRAFT HORSE.
is the horse for the farraer to raise.
Only the heaviest and best stallions
aro suitable. Even then the demand
for extreme weights necessitates the
use of large mares that aro good
milkers. In no other way can colts
be produced with sufficient bone and
feeding quality to attain the size
and finish demanded by the markets.
The young annuals must be supplied
with the best of feed in large c
amounts from the very first. Plenty c
of good pasture, clover hay, oats
body.
in preparing butter for the Market,
and to get a profitable yield • of
butter. .Ae sooti AS the cream gots
about as 1114* as maple synip,
testes slightly sour, alai luta beguzi
to Separate inta tguaii particles, it
is ready to chum and the chtirn
It without allowing it, to stamt a•nY
longer. (Mr average teinpe,reture for
churniug is 02 degrees, Varying 1 or
2 degrees higher or lower, according
to circumstances. The cream ,is
brought. to this thtuperature itt the
manner similar to ripening, 11 is
then strainect. through 34, linen strain-
er into the churn. The cream can 113
rinsed out with a little water. To
every ten pounds dream we add elle-
halt teaspoonful butter cotor. This
Is done -before starting the churn,' to
impart a A.TUne graSS C0101.' to the
butter.
TWO On TII.RIfffil TIMES •
during the first tell minutes of
thiening the plug at the bottom of
the chum is removed to 'allow the
gas to escape Churning seldom oc-
cupies over a half-hour. As soon as
the butter breaks, which eau be told
by the swishing sound, we add a
quart of water, fresh pailful of
cream, the temperature`of the water
varying with the temperature' and
condition of the cream. The water
flutes the buttermilk, allowing more
perfect separation of the butter.
The churning then continues until
the granules are about the size of
wheat grains, or a, little smallext
when the churn is stopped, the but-
termilk drawn off from below and
strained Ahrough the cream strainer.
This strainer serves to catch • any
pavticles of butter which may eorne
out with the buttermilk ; but if the
separation has been complete, the.
butter will float on top and none
appear in the buttermilk until the
very last.
We next add cold water or weak
brine in quantity sufficient to float
the butter and wash out the butter-
milk.' We usually half fill the churn
with water, give it a few rapid
turns, and draw off the milky wa-
ter. The operation is repeated with
pure cold wetter, which generally
comes away nearly . clear. If not,
clear water is added the third time.
The butter Is then allowed to drain
in the churn for 15 minutes or a
half-hour, and sometimes the salt is
added while still in the churn, but
as a rule the butter is removed from
the churn, placed in a tub and
weighed. Fine salt at the rate of
one ounce- to the pound of butter as
it conies from the churn is sifted on
by means of a hair seive. After
sifting on about half of it the butter
and salt is gently stirred, whets the
rest of the salt is added and the
butter receives final working. We
work sufficiently to remove the ex-
ess of water, and to thoroughly in-
orporate the salt in every particle
f butter, inaking a firm, compact
and corn are imperative, end there
is nothing better for young horses
than green corn cut from the neld
and fed whole. Only the best blood
sh.ould be used, and then every effort
met be made to keep the horse
gaining from the first if he is to
top the market.
All this is much. like growing beef,
and the draft horses are the ones to
produce on the farms. They can be
grown nowhere elect to advantage 1
and when it is remembered that the c
draft horse is really the highest t
priced standard horse on the mar -if
ket, it is easy enough to see what 1 g
horse the fanner should raise. He I
not only solls'for more average mo-
ney, but if bred with the same care, f
there are fewer culls aud no training
is required beyond light„ common
work to familiarize him with the
harness and with drawing loads. The
dispogitiou of the draft horse is so
docile, and his ancestors have labor-
ed so long that he works almost by
instinct and requires no special
training before being put upon the
market.
13TJTTPIR MAKING.
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i11.11P5 FOR WINTER EGGS.
er
Green food, white bens will lay a
to some extent without it, is strict-
ly necessary for good laying in
winter, writes Mr. Geo. H. Town-
send. Bow to produce the cheapest
green food must be governed by
what the farmer may have at band.
Mangles may be fed at a profit dur-
ng the winter and spring months by
utting them. lengthwise end letting
he fowls eat them. They should be
ed itt a manner to avoid their
.etting in the litter and becoming
filthy. Nice, green clover, properly
cured and cut fine, Makes a good
eed, hardly equaled when steained,
Cabbage is the cheapest and most
eOnVenlent food on many farms. The
fowls eat it heartily and clean with-
out much trouble.
Grit is another factor -which must
be available, and is constunecn ±21
considerable quantities. Small pieces'
of crushed stone, ihnt or crockery
answer very well. Crushed oyster
shells to a large extent will supply
TITEIRE ARE ZI
rooDs DItXX111*.
Harincleoenelbired, IhreeiTexlVilegy sA
Ventritito 13;A:4:ti:ill:el any netive
will warn you agitiest drinking with, -
key immediately after eating ban
-
amts. Violent colic and internal
cramp is a"common reeult of such
proceeding. The misieldef is worse
when -the ordinary fiery spirit of the
country distilled from maize and
ceown as aguadiestte, is the liquor
swallowed.
People who aro fond of 233313121
Stioulci vane eat a bearty weal. at,
the sante time, The vinegar in a
salad delays digestion, Even eo
as OnC Part of vinegar in a thole-
Sqtrlirdetlilfeorrcasetsliethdeigleesntiott °off tajnm ea rrtc1.--
f cial digestivot mixture from, four to
hirty minutes. Whea the propor-
tion of vinegar rises to one in 500>
digestion entirely ceases for it time.
spVeciinaeigiyarhawrimthf 4.7,altiiauPirtgalu''Sestte was
ield some little time ago at Lough
on, in, Staffordshire, Eaeglaad, uPon
a girl of fifteen. who had died frent
driaking a, daily dose of salt and
vinegar, She had taken IL from
some foolish notion that, it weal('
improve her complexion.
At Kansas ,City there wits recently
an epidemic of smallpox. •A uum
ber el people got it into their heads
that a liberal admixture 01 vinegar
with their food was a good preven-
ive. The doctors attribute at least
a dozen 'deaths to this cause.
Meat teas have ruined thousands
f digestions. Tea always exercises
retarding effect upon the digestion
f any food, even of bread and other
tarchy substances. But upon meat
t has
A FAR WORSE EFFECT. •
Good China tee, contains fully 9
er cent. of tannin, and tnis sate
tan.c,e it gives up to boiling water
Imost instantaneously. Tannin
urns meat into a substance some -
hat resentbling leather, and renders
t extremely difficult for the cliges-
ive organs to deal with. That
,ell -known authority, Sir William
loberts, M. D. says that t,he best
ay to minintfee the inhibitory ate
ioe of tea -upon digestion is to
ake the brew very weak, an.d
rink it, not during a meal, but af-
er ea.ting.
He also dechtres that a small quail-
ity or bi-cerbortate of soda added to
ea completely removes its deterrent
ffect upon digestion. So little ,
ne part in efty, or ten grains of
oda to an ounce of tea is sufficient
r this ur os ,
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There is a popular idea that cheese
digests everything but itself." Nev-
was a more foolish error perpetu-
ted by a popular proverb. Al-
thou;gh cheese contains a. great deal
of nourishment, no one who is not
blessed with a very powerful diges-
tion should ever eat it. The feels
mg of comfort which reople of strong
digestion experience after partaking
of cheese is caused by the increased
flow of dige.stive fluid provoked by
the attempt of •the internal organs
to deal -with an almost entirely in-
digestible substance. The greatest •
mistake of all is to eat cheese after
meat, particularly after sa-lt meat.
Meat gives the digestion quite sel-
1 ficient to do without further bunien-
ing it. Another most unwise mix-
ture is that of
CHEESE SITITH RAW ONIONS.
The oyster is almost the only ani-
mal substance which we make a
practice of eating raw. There is
very sound reason for doing so. The
greater part of the oyster is amply
a mass of glycogen, or animal
starch, mingled with a substanco
which digests it. The eyster is,
therefore, selferligesti-ve. The great
mistake which many of us make hi
eating oysters, is to cover them With
vinegar. This does away with most
of their digestive properties, and
renders them almost useless as food
—at least to those whose digesticn
is not of the strongest. To drink
spirits on top of a. meal of oysters
is an equally foolish proceeding,
Many people will toll you that it
is a mistake to take milk in tea --
that it makes tea indigestible. As a.
matter of fact it does very' little
harm in, this respect. At the, sanle
time we often make mixtures with
milk which' are little better than
poison to people whose digestions
are not strong.
Wo tam) nailk or cream. with stewed
fruits. Acid fruits, such as plums,
curdle the milk and render it ex-
tremely unwholesome. Milk mixed
with alcohol in any greater propos-
tion thatt one part of Spirits to
twenty of milk is also to be avoid-
ed. — Pearson's Weekly.
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WHAT HE DID MEAN.
We churn twice a week, writes 'Sfr.
J. A. Macdonald. The night before
we churn the cream is warmed to
about 65 degrees by setting the
creaxii can in a vessel containing woe
ter at about 95 degrees. The cream
is stirred until it gets Ao the proper
temperature, when, it is placed in a
ripening vat, usually at this time of
year near the kitchen stove. Our
vat is a large dish insulated with
several e0VeringS of cloth. and other
material, so as to maintain a pretty
even temperature. Then the cream is
left until the next afternoon, when
the churning is done. In the summer
we churn in the early morning.
This matter of ripening or souring
the create is a yeeseimportant one
the material -for grit in grinding
food, and also furnish lime for egg
shells. It is bad practice to feed
shells in other foods, as the hen may
be relied on to use proper judgment
by ,fielping herself. Grit should be
before the fowls at all times.
Meat foods in winter are called for
to supply the egg factory. Finely
cut green tone or' meat ec,raps. are
commonly used. A good substitute
is skinamilk where it can be had,
and -in- many cases it answers the
purpose. The warm mash I think
is being overdone. The fowls wi 1 eat
greedily and in a short period, and
then stand or sit around inactive,
More hard grain and more exercise
are needed. Do not feed too much
corn, as it is too fattening. It is
good to sleep on.
Hence the Backaches, Rheumatic Pains and LUMN
bago—Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills Prompt to
, Relleve,and of Lasting Benefit.
It is not only the lungs that suffer
dating the cold, damp seasons. The
kidneys are almost equally suscepti-
ble , to sudden changes of temper-
ature, and many a eerious 'case of
kidney disease has, its beginning with
a cold, which settles On the kidneys.
, Persons working out of doors are
111051) likely to he victirns of such
troubles and suffer frain backaches,
lumbago, rheumatism and crippled,
aching limbs, but Einyono is liable to
sit in a, !draught or expose his hack
to a current of cold air.
Cold settlieg oh the kidneys talitleS
congestion, a clogging of these filter-
ing ongans and consequent derange-
ment of the whole digestive and ex-
cretory syetems.- The liver toile' to
work, the bowels become constipated
and the stontach jets tirest.
Ilocaute of their direr% er.41' com-
bined aatioaott three mysatte,
*Chase's Kidney Liver Ville aye of
ltflost Pronipt and most lasting bene -
:fit for snob. derangements. They are
Fositive their effects and are book-
ed by the experience aril integrity of
r. A. W. Chase, the famous Re-
ceipt Book author.
Mr. Wien Boyne, of 19 Mc.t4ee St.,
Toronto, says: "I was afflicted se-
verely with kidney disease, stone in
the bladder, ineontinence, deposits in
the urine, severe paths in the hack,
and strains. over the loins. 1 Was
so bad thet I had to get up two or
three times in the night and could
then only make water with great
pain.
"Though long a sufferer and unable
to work, I was confined to my bed
for three • weeks, and during that
thought I could not possibly
testier() greater misery. It was then
that I began to use Dr. Chase's Kid-
ney -Liver Pills. It is with grati-
tude Unit 1 Say that they hare freed
me of all tbese :symptoms, and setede
me n. well man," .
Pr. Obase'e Kidney -Liver Pitts.
One pill ct dose; 25 cents a, box; at
all stealers or nelniamon, Dates &
"Yes," said Mr. Jones, when a cer-
taitt girl's flame had been mentioned,
"1 know; her to speak ±0, but not by
sight," - --
"You 3nean," cut ' ht the prompt
corrector, "you. mean. "that you kaow
her by sight, but not to *speak to."
"Do I?" asked Mr. Jones anXiOUS-.
"Of course you do, You have seen •
her so often that you know who she
is, but,have never been introduced
to her. Isn't that It ?"
"No, that isn't it. I never saw
her at o11 to know her, but, I 'speak
to her nearly every day."
"I-loW can that be ?"
"She, is the telephone girl at the
Exchange."
Trainp"I Ins' dropped in, mum,
to oiler my now cure for indigestion,
dyspepsia, and kindred ailments,
mum. It may prove a great, bless,
hig to your family, inufa, and
charge you nothing for the persCriP-
tion„" Lady --"Well, .1 must saY
that's reasonable enough. What is
the cure '7" Tranp—"1.,Ive on plain
food, and give your rich and in-
digestible, dishes to the poor. I'M
the peer, mutt."