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Exeter Times, 1903-7-9, Page 2fRtir.ttitiet.e.ce4m4,440E41 iK,E« [ zeifd444E4diii<4$‹�t (46.40(43404 E PAST OF OR, THE WATERMAN'S SONS. lis V 1H V V! i►.6164 0,oes4aSnenean 4o -ween en444S.4v<<aE+E4(4‹';!F' neem risen( CRAP. VSIIi—(Continued). "The iac$ was," said Corney, !a 'that wo had had a fearful time of it that winter--biowin,' great guns an' snow nearly every night, an' what w -i' heat at the flees an' cowld a' the streets, an' Trot wather pour - in' en us at wan minit an' freezin' on us 'the nixt, aimed every man. Jack of us was eoughin' an' sncez- in'., and watherin' so bad at our eyes an' noses, that I do behave if we'd held 'em over the suction -pipes we aright ha' filled the ingins with- out throublin' the mains at all. So the doctor he said, says he, 'Lads, I'll send ye a bottle o' stuff as '11 put ye right.' An' sure enough down comes the bottle that night when we was smokin' our pipes just afther roll -call. It turned out to he the host rnidcine ever was. `Mushal' says I, 'here's the top o' the m.arn- in' to yo, boys!' Baxmore he smacks his lips when he tastes it, opens his eyes, tosses oil the glass, and holds it out for anothe., 'Howld on; fair play!' cried Jack Williams, so we all had a. glass round. It was just like lemonade or ginger -beer, it was. So we sat down an' smoked our pipes over it, an' spun yarns au' sung songs; in fact, we made a jollification of it, an' when we got up to turn in there warn't a dhrop left i' the bottle! " 'You better go to the doctor for another bottle,' says Maxey, as he wint out. 'I will; says 1; 'I'll go i' the marnin',' "Sure enough away I goes i' the marnin' to Doctor (Miley. 'Doctor,' says I, howldin' out the bottle, 'we all think our colds are much the bet- ter o' this here midicine, an' I coin- ed, av ye plaza, for another o' the same.' "Musha! but ye should ha' seen the rage he goes off into. `Finished it all?' says he. 'Ivery dhrop, doc- tor,' says I, 'at wan sittin'.' At that he stamped an' swore at me, an' ordered me away as if I'd bin a poor relation; an' says he, 'I'll sind ye, a bottle to -night as'11 cure ye!' Sure so he did. The second bottle would have pison'd a rat. It lasted us all six months, an' I do behave yc'21 sind the most of it in the cup- board at this minnit av ye look." "Come, Willie," said Frank, while the men were laughing, at the re- membrance of this incident, "I'm going down your way and will give you a convoy. , We can take a look in at the gymnastics as we pass, if you choose." "All right, Blazes, come along." --.,.ad.-Erving they left the station, and set off fins e. brisk pace in the direc- tion of the -City. are going to see the remains of just now was too far from us for our engine to turn .out; but we got the can to send a man on, and I was sent. When I arrived and reported myself to Mr. 13raidwood, the two top floors wore burnt out, and the fire was nearly got uaitler. There were three engines, and the men were up ,en the window -sills of the second floor, with the branches, playin' on the last of the flames, while the men of the salvage corps were getting the furniture out of the first floor. Conductor Brown was there with his escape, and had sav- ed a whole ' family from the top floor, just before I arrived. He had been changed from his old station at the west end that very day. He's a wonderful fellow that conductor! Many a life he has saved; but in- deed, the satire may be said of most of the mon in the force, especially the old hands..—Here wo are, laci. This is the lrousA," Prank stopped, as he spoke, in front of a ruined tenement; or rath- er, in front of the gap which was now strewn with the charred a.nd blackened debris of what had once been "a house. The street in which it stood was a narrow mean ono, inhabited by a poor, and, to judge from appearance, a dissipated class. The remains of the house were guarded by policemen, 'while a gang of men were engaged ii digging among the ruins, which still smok- ed a little hero and there. "What are they diggin' for?" ask- ed Willie. "I. fear they aro looking- for dead bodies. The house was let out to lodgers, and swarrned'.wit-h people. At first it was thought that all were saved; but just before I was order- ed borne, after the fire was got un- der, some ono said that an old nem and, his grandchild were missing. I suppose they're looking for thein now." On inquiring of a policemen, how- ever, Frank learned that the re- mains of the old ruin and his grandchild had already been found, and that they were searching for the bodies of others who were miss- ing. A little beyond the spot where the the fire had occurred, a crowd was gathered round a ratan who stood on a chair haranguing them, with apparently considerable effect, for ever and anon his observations were received with cries of "Hear, hear," and laughter! Going along the middle of the narrow street, in or- der to avoid the smells of the old - clothes' -shops and pawnbrokers, as well as the risk of contact with their wares, Frank and Willie elbowed their way through ,the crowd to within a few yards of the speaker. "What is he?" inquired Frank of a CHM-31MR IX. rather dissipated elderly woman. As the brothers drew near 'Co the "He's a clown, or a hacrobat, or busy region of the city which lies to sometlrink of that sort, in one of the north of London Bridge, Prankthe theaters or music -'ails. Flt's turned aside into one of the -rfai•rowtziie "ti'•''i+ out oft his 'ono last night, streets that diverge from the rnninan's a-selIfn' olT'iil1 'lrc"s been • able, thoroughfare. to save by hauction." "Where are ye goin'?" inquired "Como now, ladies an' gents," Willie. cried the clown, taking up a rath- "Thire was a fire here last night,"er seedy looking great coat, which cold Frank; "T want to have a look he held aloft with one hand, and at the damage," pointed to it with the other, " lkho's "A fire!" exclaimed Willie. "W3ry, agoin' to bid for this 'ore garment- 131azes, it strikes me there's bins hextra superfine, double -drilled, more fires than usual last night inkershimere great coat, fresh from London." the looms o' Tuskany — at least it "Only two, lad." • was fresh from 'em ten years ago "Only two! Iliow many would(that was when my father was Lord you have,?"' as'ked, , :{Willie, .with , aldayor of London), : an', it's •bin re- laugh, newing its youth - (the coat, not the "Don't you - know," said Frank, Lond Meyer) ever since. - It's more "that we have about four fires every glossy, I do assure you,. ladies, and night? Sometimes more; some -gents, than w'en it fust coned from times fewer. Of course, we don't alithe looms, by reason of the pile of us turn Out to them; .but some of havirr' wain.. off; and yoni'Il obearve. the brigade tern out•to that nurn-that tha'glossiness ismost beautiful beg on an average, ever night f and brightest about the elbows an' , ±a''. , �'' g O g the year." the seams o' the back. Who. bids "Are ye jokin', Frank?" • for this 'ere ' venerable garment? "Indeed I am not. I wish With Six bob? Come now,' 'don't all bid all my heart I could say that I was at once. Who said six bob?" joking. It's a fact, boy. You No reply being made to this ex - know I have not been long in tbecopt a laugh, the clown (who by the force,. yet I've gone to as i-aany as way, wore a similarly glossy great six fires in one night, and we oftencoat, with a hat. to match) protest - go to two or three. The one weed that his ears must have deceived THE REST of D TWE Pry: ER CHASE'S NERVE FOOD illustrated h the Case of i rg. Turner, Who Was Thoroughly Ro' stored By the Use of This Creat Food Clare. Tho human body is composed of "For some months past I found curtain elements, such as iron, pot- myself growing verynervous, and ash, Iime, soda, magnesia, etc., and gradually becoming a victim of nature replaces wasted cells and tis- sleeplessness and subject to frequent sues by extracting these elements attacks of nervous headache. About from the food we cat. Consequently six weeks ago I• began using 'Dr. errors in diet, insufficiency of food or Chase's Nerve Food and cannot failure of the digestive organs to speak too highly of this medicine. 4 rroperly, perform their work are can sleep well now, the headaches among the most usual causes of dis- have entirely disappeared, and I he, ease. lieve that my system generally has . Once the syttom Is weak, run down been much improved by the use o} pr exhausted tbenatural process of this treatment." reconstruction is tediously slow, usu- Nervous prostration and exhales - }ally slower than the wasting pro- tion, headaches, dyspope-1a, dizzy and cess, and the end can only be physi- fainting spells, paralysis, locomotor 1 al bankruptcy and collapse. ataxia, feelings of weakness, depress It ie just at this point that Dr. Bron and despondency are readily Chase's Nerve Food proves its - Won- overcome by this treatment, work., SerfuI power as iii assistant to na- ing; as it dogs, hand in hand with turn. This great food cure contains nature. Though gradual, the results acendenned pill form Wsvery ole- are all the more certain and lasting, entq l'ecftlired by VA. -titre to revital- and bp noting your increase in to bath.WllM up- the sy stew: T'heao. Wept An can prove to youx_.saties ,. -,o lmmeulaLacy enter the blood atl'oanlnl, iactiOtt that iie"sii, fri:'t'd iiosn and tis - and through the medium of the err- sue Ts being added. Dr. Chase'q culation of the blood and .the nerv- Notate Food fifty cents a box, six ours system carry strength and vigor boxes for, $2.60. At all dealers; or Co each and every organ of the body, jl'dmanson, Bates 6t' Co,, 'Toronto, ! ltfxs. y'. Turner, a86 Aylmer Street To protect you againet imitations, feterbpre rgh, O)'rt., and whose hue.. the portrait and signature of Dr. A.1 and Vii ' emioloyed at 12he Uainllten W Chase, the famous recipt booIl; Ou dr s: 4411 9r. 40 Ql? Q\(O, T box," hila, or his imagination had been, whispering hopeful things .:- which WAS not unlikely, for his inaaginae tion was a very powerful one --when he noticed Frank's tall re ani- ons the crowd, "Conte now, fironasan, this in the wery !-article you wants. You corn- ed Out to' buy it, 1 know, an' 'ere it is, by a strange coincidence, ready --nacho to hand. What d'ye bid? Six bob? Or say five, I know you've got a wife an' a large family o' young firemen to kecap, so I'll let it go cheap. P'xaps it's too small for- you; but that's easy put You've right. ou ve only got to slit it up behind to the neck, which is. a' infallible cure for a tight fit, en' you can let down the cuffs, which is double, an'. if it's short you can cut oft the collar, an' sew it on to the skirts, ht's water -proof, too, and fire -proof, patent asbestos. W'on it's dirty, you've got nothin' to do but to walk into the fire, an' it'll come out neo; Wen it's thorough- ly wet on the houtside, turn it in- side hoot, an' there you are, to all appearance, as dry as bone. Whet! yogi won't have it at any price? Well, now, I'll tempt you. - I'll make it two bob," "Say one," cried a baker, who had been listening to this, with a broad grin on his floury countenance. "Ladies and gents, cried the clown, drawing himself up with dig- nity; "there's an individual in this his hands, who is uncertain as to his means of escape, in the event of his retlurn by the stair being cut aft,. will be too much concerned about crowd --I beg pardon, .this assemblage as asks •me to say 'ono.' I do say `one,' an' I say it with melancholy feelln's as to the liberality of my species. Coe bob! A feller roan as has bin burnt hout of 'is 'ome an' needs ready money to keep 'im frost' starvation, offers his best great coat — a ]extra superfine, double - drilled (or milled, I forget w'ich). kershinrere, from the looms o' Tusk- any—for one bob!" "One -and -six," 'nattered an old- clothesman, with a black cotton sack on his shoulder. "One -an' -six," echoed the clown with animation; "One -an' -six bid; one -an' -six. \-Vho said one-an'-sev- eb? Was it the gent with the red npso?—No, care -an' -six; goin' at the ridiculously low figure of one-'an'nn ridiculously low figure of one -an' - six — gone! as the old 'oomaai said Wen her cat died o' appioplexy. Here you are; hand over tho money. I can't knock it down to you, 'cause I haven't a hauctioncer's 'anuner, Be- sides, it's agin' my principles. I've. never knocked nothin' down, not even a skittle, since I joined the Peace Society. enables 'trim to give his undistracted cows, and keep his calves, may fin - "'Cause I'll tome eua'•see you, • Jinn -. I'd like to see a live fairy in plain clo'se, with her wings oiir-" The rest of the sentence Was out short by tlxo clown, who, ]retying disc• posed of the old arm -chair to a chimney -sweep, ordered. Jim to ",and. up another harticlo." At the same moment Francs touched Willie on .the shoulder and said: "Let's go, lad; I'll be late, I fear, for the gynanantics," At the period of which we write the then, Chief of the London Fire Brigade, Mr, Braidwood, had intro- duced a system of gymnastic FOR ERS: , - ;Seasonable, and Protltable Mite for the Busy Tillers . Of the Soil. eennoinaestaseasesaasoaseaontieesieieineeni THE FARMER'S PROFITS. There .are hundreds of farmers who have become wealthy, yet they have handled very little money, and have had difficulty fn meeting their ob- ing arn.ong the firemen, which be had ligations, There is one bank as- tound from experience to be a most count which they do not draw upon, useful exercise to fit the neon for and the deposits accumulate for the arduous work they had to per- years, and that is the soil, Afarm- forrn. Before going to London to , er can take a poor farm, work it, take coni;nrand of and reorganize the' add manure and receive but little brigade which then went by the •oyez expenses, but by doing so every name of the London Fire EnI..s year his farm will become more fer- tablishment, and was in a very un-- tile, and also increase in value. In satisfactory condition, Mr. Braid- ten more years the farlir will be wood had, fora long period, been chief of the Edinburgh Fire Brigade, wort!- five times the original cost ttrhieh Ire rht to a state of and it represents j(tst as much pro - great aifihadciencby.ougTaking the re -,fit as though the farmer had receiv- ed the money. All farms aro, to a service into consideration, ho had .certain extent, banks • of deposit, come to the conclusion that the best ;where- the profits of the. farm slowly men for the work in that city were accumulate, masons, house carpenters, slaters, A farmer owning a $1,500 farm and such !lite; but these men, when will borrow 8,000 to build a barn a.t their ordinary employnnents, be - with house, Then his trouble begins ing accustomed to bring only certain with the mortgage and the interest muscles into full play, wore fouald • and ends with the sheriff and the to have a degree of stiffness in their .foreclosure. .Moral: It is not the general movements, which. prevent- ed them from performing their duty as firemen with that ease and cdl- mortgage that causes the downfall. HE MUST KEEP OUT OF• DEBT. ority which aro so desirable, To A farmer will balance and regulate obviate this evil lie instituted the the rations of his live stock and peuver- gymnastic en ereises, which, by eatingry, preventing thorn eatingobad bringing all the muscles of the body good into action, and by increasing thfoods, thus bringing them to a high development of the frame generally, state of perfection; but the same farmer will fecc: hi rendered the •men lithe and supple, himself anything he and in every way more fit for the likes, and when he finds himself "all performance of duties in which their run down," he will go right .on and lives frequently depended on their stuff injurious rations into himself. prontitptitude and vigor. Thorn ate seasons of the year when addition to these advantages, it it is difficult to curtail expenses, but In ti r on g , was found that those exercises gave if the farmer will avoid entailing up - the men confidence when placed in on himself ururacessary expense ho certain situations of danger. "For will have performed for himself ah example," writes Mr, Braidwood, ,important service. It is not out of "a fireman untrained in gymnastics, Place to claim that the farmer is in the third or fourth floor of a as frequently a subject for improve - burning house, with the branch in ! ment as- the stock. his own safety, to render much ser- I Better breed of animals are forcing vice, and will certainly not be half; upon the farm bottor breed of farm - so efficient as the experienced gym -,ors; new systems of farming appear nest who, with a hatchet and 80' and farms become - more desirable. feet of rope at his waist, and a wiry ! Buying a cow is a greater risk than dow near him, feels himself in tom- : buying a horse, yet some farmers, patativo security, knowing that he who will not trust themselves in has the -means and the power of . judging horses when buying, will go lowering himself easily and safely in- out and take up fresh cows from to the street," -- a knowledge which any one wlio has them to sell. The not only gives frim confidence, but farmer who will breed for better "Now, ladies an' gents, the next thing I've got to "offer is a harm - chair. Hand up the harn-ehair, Jim." A very antique piece of furniture attention to the exigencies of the'agine that it does not pay, but if fine. I the will avoid buying• worthless cows, It was to attend this gymnastic he will discover that he can make a Class that Frank now turned aside, iprofit on fewer cows anch also have and proposed to bid Willie good by; less labor to perform in so doing. was handed up by a little boy, but Willie begged to be taken into Nothing can constitute good breed - whom Willie recognized as the little the room. Frank complied, and the � mg that has not good judgment for boy who had once conversed with him in front of the chocolate shop in Holborn H411, - "Thank you, my son," said the clown, taking the chair with one hand and patting the boy's head with the other; "this, ladies and gents," he added, in a parenthetical tone, "is guy son; he's bin burnt hoot of 'ouse an' 'ome too! Now, then, wile WS. fee the old harm - boy soon found himself in an apart- , its foundation. meat fitted up with all the appli- ST PrP AND ANGORA GOATS tomes of a gymarasivan, where a nuan- ber of powerful young men were are of great help to the farmer, they leaping, vaulting, climbing, and in devour the weeds and do not charge other ways improving their physical anything for the work. On the powers. Frank joined them, and for other hand, they pay the farmer for a long time Willie stood in rapt and the privilege of pulling weeds. They envious contemplation of the busy turn the weeds into meat, fresh, scone. juicy and crisp. When they consume At first he could not avoid feeling weeds they take out some of the chair? — the wery identical harm- that there seemed a good deal more nitrogen, a little of the phosphorus chair that the song was written of play than business in their do- I and potash to . supply their own about. In the embrace o' this 'ere ings; but his admiration ,of the, needs, and the residue they put back chair has sat for generations past scene deepened when he remembered over the land to stimulate the the family n'. tlr, •Cattieye-- that's my name, ladies and gents, at your service. Here sat my great-great- grandfatlicr, who was used to say that his great-grandfather sat in it too. Here sat his son, and his son's son — the Lord Mayor as was—and that very night, in all probability, indicates can be sold at a profit. In his son, my father, ladies and gents, be called upon to exert these•powers this latter department, good, sound Shia held iteffl-Or- hes feee tea ."4- ;'ev- growth of the crops that are yet to only Square, and recognized some of sown. the faces of the men who had been I The correct plan for general farm= on duty there, and reflected that ing is to raise feed, and the animals those very men, who, seemed thus to t to cat it. Ater .this raise anything he playing themselves, would on which a careful study of, the market who died in it besides, and whose sternly and seriously, yet coolly, 171. 5011 now ho.lrors it to the 'iglrest 'bidder. You'll- observe its anti- quity, ladies an' gents. That's its beauty. It's what I may ,call, in the language of the - haristogracy, a •harticle of virtoo,: w'ich means that it's a harticle as .is• surrounded by virtuous memories in connection with the defunct. Now, then, say five bob for the hold harm -chair!" • While, the clown was endeavoring -tb get, the chair disposed -of, ; 'Willie pushed his way to the side' of jina Cattles'. "I lay, . youngster, would you like a cup o' chocolate?" began Willie, by way of recalling to the boy their former meeting. Jim, whose face wore a sad and dispirited look, turned angrily and said, "Come, I don't want none o' your sauce!" "It ain't sauce I'nrtalkin' of, it's chocolate," retorted Willie, "But, come, Jim, I don't want to brother ye. I'm sorry to see you an' yer dad in sitch a fix. I1ane you lost much-?" "It's not what we've lost that troubles us," said John, softened by iWlllie's . sy mtpathetic Mono more than by his words; "but sister Giza is took batt, an' she's a fairy at Drury Lane, an' Lakin' her down the fire - escape has well-nigh killed her, an' we've got siteh a cold damn cellar of a place to put her in that I don't think she'll get better at all; any- how, she'll lose her engagement, for She can't make two speeches an' go up in a silver cloud among blue fire with the 'flooeneer, an' 'er 'air all but singed off 'er 'cad." Jim almost whimpered at this .point, and Willie, quitting his side abrtu,ptly, went back to Frank (who was still standing an amused audit- or of the clown), and demanded a shilling. "What for, lad?" "Never you mined, Blazes;, but give me the bob, an' I'll pay you back before the week's out." Frank gave hint a shilling, with which he at once returned to Jim, and thrusting it into has hazed, said, "Where, Jim, your dad's hard up just now, Go you an' got physic with that for the fairy. Them 'fl000nzers is ticklish to play with. Whore d'ye stop?" "'Well, you - are a queer 'un; thank'oe all the same," said - Jim, pocketing the Shilling. "We've got a sort o' cellar just two, 'deers east se the burnt 'ouse. Wlh g'c the midst of scents of terror and confusion, and in the face of immin- ent personal danger. Brooding over these thirfgs, Willie, having at length torn himself away, hastened .on his pilgrimage to 'Lon - den ,I3 -ridge.. ;To Ile Cautioned). ELECTRIC TRAINS. Electric • trains. have • now supersed- ed 'Stearn -driven trains 'on the Mer= sty Railway; -which is • the first line in Great • Britain -to 'undergo this' change. This line is five miles in length, consisting partly of a tunnel under the river. The system in op- eration is similar to that which will be used on the London District Rail- way, the track being fitted with two insulated rails, one for•the feed and one for the return. Almost tho whole of the old locomotive stall has been retained, as drivers of electric trains or in other capacities, and at the old rate of wages. OATS AND BEANS; The growing of oats and beans in the same field increases the activity of the nitrogen -gathering bacteria. This pis thought to be due to the fact that oats remove nitrates from the soil. In some German expert- indite the yield of oats when sown with peas was greater than when sown alone. • 4 Mr. Howell—"What's all that screaming in the parlor?" Mrs. Rowell—"Carrie is singing till Char- lie conies, just to kill time." Mr. Howell—"Time seems to die hard." "I am afraid, madam," said a gentleman who was looking for apartments, "that the house is too near the station to be pleasant." "It is a little noisy," assented the landlady; "but from the front ver- anda one has such a fine view of people who miss the trains," she ad- ded, with an air of triumph., "Young man," said the stern par- ent, With the accent on the young, "do you intend to Stay hero all night holding nay daughter's hand and looking her in the face like a sick calf?" "No sir." "What do you intend to do, then?" "Well, I had thought 'When you -lid us the kindness to retire 1 Would put my arm round her waist, • and 11 she did not object too forcibly .1 might rink kiesisq• Judgment and all the information available is demanded. Evety•farm- or who pursues this system industri- ously and intelligently will prosper. When foods, aro fed . on the farm and sold. zn , geme.,.other forl}'r,,,: the vola able elements pf , fertility aro r'etain- ed at home; and ELS long as .this is done the farm may be celtiN ated to its highest limit of capacity and it becomes more` valuable every year to its owner: COOL .THE MILK. The importance • of thorough aera- tion and rapid cooling of milk after it is drawn is shown by a. count of the bacteria or germs fn_ it under the microscope. In milk which contains 975 bacteria when drawn, and kept at 39 degrees, they multiplied 1.06 times, or a little more than double in three hours, 21 . times in - six hours and five times in nine hours, But when the Milk was kept at 95 degrees In three !tours they had mul- tiplied four times, in six hours 1,- c 2J0 tunes,and in nide hours 8,7^94 times. In other words, in trine hours there would be at the higher temp- erature, 8,690,1.0 germs, and in tho cool milk only 4,875. As these bac- teria are the gorms of decay, or a.. largo proportion are, it is not strange that milk sours rapidly if put away when warm in a warm room. If the milk could be kept et the temperature of well or spring water, usually a little below 50 de- grees, there would be but little bac- teria in 24 or 86 hours, by which time all the cream should have ris- on. MILK, FAT, - OR BEEF. There seems to Pe considerable dis- cussion at present as to whether we have an "all round cow," Somo claim that there is no such thing that a cow is either a milk or a beef animal. Others assert, with equal positiveness, that in certain breeds there is such a combination of the essential elements of beef and milk as to make these breeds Profitable to the farmer both for milk and feeding purposes, It pray or may not bo essential to the best interests of the farmer to settle this question, but one thing is of vita, • importance ta him, viz., that; his feed may be assimilated for milk, fat, . or beef. Knowing this, ho may choose the animal best suit- ed to his purpose. In any of - the milk breeds the food is used, largely in the production of milk. In beef breeds this is not true, but it goes to make beef. The same law holds, to a considerable extent, in feeding steers from. these breeds. In a steer from 1t milch cow such as a Jersey —the food builds low down --just as itwent to the udder of the mother— and forms not beef but fat. In the Short Horn cow the feed does not go to udder, but builds higher up, forming beef. And in the Short Here steer fat is not formed, as in the Jersey, but choice steak. This accounts for the difference in the price of these animals in the market. One is rich in high-priced beef, the other in fat. If beef is a better price than tallow the Short Horn will sell for more than the Jersey. This should help ono to determine the kind of cattle he wishes to keep. If he wants cattle for the beef mar- ket only, the farther he gets from mills stock the more satisfactory will be his feeding. To prove to yon that Dr. aCtihe abso1s Oluntetmcntisaf euroorcortain each and and every form of itching, bloodin„andprotrudin piles, the manufacturers have guaranteed it Seo tee. timonials in the daily press and ask yourncigh• bore what they think of it, You can use it and get sour money back if not cured. 60o a box, at all dealers or L;nMATso1,13rTEs 81 Co., Toronto, Dr. Chase's 09 F -.trent SUCH LANGUAGE! There are two words in the whole range of the English language con- taining all the vowels in their regu- lar order. They are abstemious and facetious. The following words each havo them in regular order: Authoritative, disadvantageous, encouraging,, efficacious, instantane- ous, importunate, mendacious, ne- farious, precarious, pertinacious, sacrilegious, simultaneous, uninten- tional, unobjectionable; unequivocal, undiscoverable, and vexatious. A search through the dictionary might bring several others to light. It is usually said that 'there are but seven nine -lettered, monosyllable words in "Enzglisa--vfz., scratched, stretched, scruriched, scraoched, screeched, squelched, and staunched, Bore - are Some of the shortest sentences into which the 'alphabet can be compressed: "J. Gray, pack my box file dozen quills” — 83 letters. "Quack, glad, zephyr, waft my javelin box" -31 letters. ... ': Pltigc, . .: styz_ ,- waning buck flame, , , quib ' - ,26., letters. "I, quartz, pyx, • who fling muck -hods" - 2o letters. '`Fritz! quick! land! hew gy'psein box" -- 26 letters. "purapty quiz! whirl back ,frogs, neietin 27. Tetters.. 'Si:Sipe-it .my fund. • Quiz bleek Whigs" — 26 Tet ters... "Get nym.ph, quiz and brow, fix luck" 26 letters. . . The use • of "j" for "i" is, however, necessary in. most cases, and allowable. . i� 1 We are wont 'to look forward to troubles with fears of what they will inflict, but back' upon them with wonder at what they have sav- ed us (roan. Jim, Dumps found Mrs. Dumps distressed About ars unexpected guest. "There's nothing in the house to eat I" a{ There's something better far than meat." The guest endorsed Jim's view with vim When helped to "Force" by "Sunny Jim." The Roady-to•Bor ve Corral ready for any emergency,. Farmers s,ro P lath g "" lfi QWaf a «xh�ulce fort off..: ' i a t is wee. t @d a oil, o] : oa1�nq.c !tiny Tails Bolam aM.x. ;a1iv o � Abe edtn tfiY Intl; l; 0 en. .titapatxd cu there on oohotoeynett. ' a Wade: '.•" tad l!4 li1'2YEE SEE ,ti rr 1U.11 1t�,Li.� UNDERGROUND FEiNE$ FED BY G THE E 0 VIaItNlYIE1TT, A Big Colony is Located in; the, Vast Granaries at Val- etta, in iVEalte. The recent alterations to the Sa- voy Hotel, in the Strand, have re- sulted anion other things in calling: attention to a remarkable colony of semi -wild cats,that has long four-- ished in the vaults beneath the building. Their ancestors aro sup- posed to have been i pair abanfdon- ed by the workmen when the hotel. was being built. As their progeny increased in numbers, they took up' their abode in the blackest and least. accessible vaults beneath the lowest• basement, whence they emerged only- at nlyat night. They are extraordinar cats; black and white as to col with enormous heads; and many them aro nearly eighteen inches -.t: , and fully tlu'ee feet in;•lerigth from. tip of the tail to•'tho• snout. - Similar semi -wild cat colonies ex- ist elsewhere. In Naples, for in- stance, is a race of nocturnal felines. that breed in the vaults beneath the. churches. They aro regularly fed by the authorities, but not too bounti-- fully, for they exist to keep down, so far as possible, the hordes of mice which infest all old Neapolitan buildings. During the daytime they aro invariably invisible. But at. dusk they leave their lairs, and at the evening services they may fre- quently be seen walking unconcerend- ly among the worshippers, or perch- ed, gravely imunobilo, upon high al- tar or crucifix. - It is a fact not generally known, by the way, that some hundreds of cat colonies are kept by the British Government. The animals receive a• regular subsistence allowance, which, figures each year in the estimates, and the large majority of there spend their lives almost entirely under- ground, , TRIM BIGGEST COLONY. of the kind is located in the vast subterranean granaries which havo- been excavated from the living rock. just outside the city of Valetta, in Malta. Here are stored grain and other provisions sufficient to main- tain the entire population of the is- land during a period of seven years; and quite a little army of cats is constantly employed in waging war against the rats and mice that would, if they wore free from moles- tation, play sad havoc. Like the !Savoy cats mentioned above, these Maltese pussies have, in the course of years, developed into a special breed, very fierce and of great size, the reason being probably that; in accordance with the law which de- crees the invariable survival of the fittest under such circumstances, the weaklings have been continually kill- ed off by the rodents with who they are engaged in perpetual bat- the. - In England cats are similarf.ly ono' ployed by the postoffice authorities for the protection of mail -bags, a sum being granted for their main- tenance from tho public purse. The, actual number of animals required in this connection depends, it may be rioted, not so much upon the amount of property to be pro, ected as upon the age of the buildings. AT THE TOWER OF LONDON, too, the ordnance department finds it necessary to employ a considerable but over varying number for the pro- tection of the large quantities of military stores deposited thane from time to time. Their subsistence con- stitutes a standing charge ti,pon tlr War Office. A carefully tahulato - statement, made out by the officer in charge, is prepared each week of all moneys expended on their behalf, and is, after having been solemnly initialed and countersigned by this high. functionary and by that, • for- wai`i--ile'd to ilio District•Pay'O•flice for settlOinent. ' . pock companies regularly employ underground'' eats in considerable nuiubers, as, do alse. all railway com- panies, - breweries, .—shipping and storing. houges, "mills; • end factories;.' Occasionally .song) firm or, 'other -will try to substitute traps, en poise on, but in the end they are.goncrally only too glad to revert to the pus- sies. "You see," remarked to the writer one day recently the foreman of one of London's biggest flour mills, "it -Oa is not so much the vermin the .cats kill as the vermin the cats frighten away. Given plenty of cats of the right sort, :and neither rats nor nice need be very greatly feared. Without them they will play havoc," The trutli of this dictum was con- clusively proved sone little time back by the Midland Railway Com- pany. They placed about 850,000 empty corn sacks in one of their storage depots . during the slack seat, Son, and gave eight cats the run 'of the vaults, . feeding then regularly • once.a day to keep them from stray- ing, but otherwise compelling' them to forage. In an adjoining store- house wore placed a similar tale of bags, but unguarded, save for a num- ber Of patent ' traps, and sundry' other vermin -slaying contrivances of a like .nature. The former were found intact when the time carne to take them into use again; while over thirty per cent. of the latter were so badly torn and gnawed as to bo entirely useless.—Pearson's weekly. ADVICE TO A MAN IN LOVIII, Agree with the girl's father in poll - ties and with. hor mother i t religion. If you have a rival keep an eye one, him; if ho is a new -made widower„ Ikeep two eyes on hien. Don't lout too much sontf:nrent o>it.. paper. - C,o 1101Y.re not later thee.�wle Don't wait untilgirl s,tn given? her whole soul into f yawn, which -. she can't cover with both hands. Onto a is afclen ,uuh to kiss her, Swooklte 'wino''$ ttp{:t•eela.toagOtos kindness if you are °volt go.ueroue.