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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1903-7-23, Page 2' iK4 1K41**dt?4'g'01 4g4442<g41E1Ct1411414K44144400E41 14448 4444K '1 Pin AT I J' OB THE WAT.ERMAN'S SONS, teee asese 0,04 orEv44,0ese&emsOCv4 C$01492 eEe2,,E‹<<•Celf*ia*F. *csCsee (Chapter X. continued.) holding a saw in his right hand, and "Mere, let me look," said Barret1 a piece of wood hi his left. " bust - taking the note from the boy. !fell, my lad, what's your buss This is Tippet:, not Tupper. Ile lives on the top floor, --By the way, Auberly," said Barret. glancing over his shoulder, "isn't Tom Tippet a sort of confection of youI'S?" "Yes; a distaet one," sail. Dred,. carelessly, "'too distant to maks it worth while our becoming acquaint- ed. He's rich and eccentric, I'm told. Assuredly ho must be the lat- ter if ho lives in such a hole as this. —What are you staring at, boy?" This question was put to Willie. "Please, sir, are you the Mr. Aub- erly who was a'most skumfished with smoke at the Beverly Square fire 't'other day, in tryin' to get hold 0' yer sister?" Fred could not but smile as he ad- mitted the fact. "Please, sir, I hope yer sister ain't the wuss of it, sir." "Not much, I hope; thank you for inquiring; but how canto you to know about the fire, and to be in- terested in niy sister?" " 'Cause I was there, sir, an' it was xny brother, Frank Winders, as saved your sister." "Was it indeed!" exclaimed Fred, becoming suddenly interested. "Come let me hear more about your bro- ther." Willie, nothing Ioath, related every fact ho• was acquainted with in re- gard to F'rank's career, and his own family history, in the course of which he revealed the object of his visit to Mr. Tippet. When he had finished, Frederick Auberly shook hands with him and said;— "Now, Willie, go and deliver your note. If the application is success- ful, well; but if it fails, or you don't like your work, just call upon me, and I'll see what can be clone for you." "Yes, sir, and tbankee," said Wil- lie; "where did you say I was to from morning till night in a dusty call, sir?" wareroom, where the light is so feeb- "Cali at—eh—ah—yes, my boy, le that it can scarcely penetrate the call here, and lot my friend Mr. Bar- dirt that incrusts the windows, writ- ett know you want, to sec me. He I ing in books that are so greasy that will let me know, and you shall hear the ink can hardly be got to mark from me. Just at present—well never mind, go and deliver your note r.ow. Your brother is a noble fel- Good-night.—And you're a fine little fellow, yourself," he added, after Willie closed the door. The fine little fellow gave vent to such a gush of "Rule Britannia" at the moment, that the two friends turned with a smile to each other. Just than a man's voice was heard at the foot of the stair, grumbling angrily. At the same moment young Auberly rose to leave. "Good -night, Barret. I'll write to you soon as to my whereabout and whatahout. Perhaps see you ere lad, if I were to take you in, what long." would you say to £5 a year?" "Good -night. Cod prosper you, Fred. Good -night." As he spoke, the grumbler came stumbling along the passage. "Good night again, Fred," said Barret, almost pushing his friend out. "I have a particular reason for not wishing you to see the fr—, the man who is coming in." "All right, old fellow," said Fred, as he passed out, and drew up against the wall to allow a drunken man to stumble heavily into the room. Next moment he was in the street hastening he knew not whither; but following the old and well-known route to Beverly Square. www floss?" he impaired, in the voice of a stentor, and with the beaming smile of an elderly cherub. "Please, sir, a note—from calmly." I wish your message had been, verbal, boy. It's so difficult to read ladies' bands; they're so abominably angular, • and.—where aro my specs! I've a mind to have 'ent screw -nailed to my nose,—Ahl here they are." Ho found them under a jack -plane and a mass of shavings; put thew on and read the note, while Willie took the opportunity of observing that Mr. Tippet's room was a drawing - room, parlor, dining -room, work- shop, and old curiosity -shop all in one. A half -open door revealed the fact than air inner chamber contain- ed Mr. Tippet's bee, anct an indes- cribable mass of machinery and models in every stage of progression, and covered with dust, more or less thick in exact proportion to their respective ages. A dog and cat lay side by side on the hearth asleep, and a small fire burned in a grate, on the sides of which stood a vari- ety of crucibles and such -like articles and a. glue -pot; also e. teapot and kettle. "You want a situation in my of- fice as clerk?" inquired Mr. Tippet, tearing up his sister's letter, and throwing it into the fire. • "If you please, sir," said Willie. "Ha! aro you good at writing and ciphering?" •. Middlin', sir." "Hum! D'you know where my office is, and what it is?" "No, sir." "What would you say now,'a asked Mr. Tippet, seating "himself on his bench, or rather on the top of a number of gimlets and chisels and files and pincers that lay on it,— "what would you say now to sitting the paper? Now would you like that, William Willders—. h?" "I don't know, sir," replied Wil- lie, with a somewhat depressed look. "Of course you don't, yet that is the sort of place you'd have to work in, boy, if I engaged you, for that is a correct description of my warehouse. I'm a sleeping partner in the firm. D'yo know what that is, boy?" "No, sir." "Well, it's a partner that does no work; but I'm wide-awake for all that, and have a. pretty good notion of what is going on there. Now CHAPTER XI. When Willie Winders knocked at Tom Tippet's door, at the top of the house, a rich jovial bass voice cried, "Come in." So Willie went in, and stood before a stout old gentleman, whose voluminous whis- kers, meeting below his chin, made ample amends for the total absence of hair from the top of his head. Mr. Tippet stood. without coat or vest, and with his braces tied round "It don't sound much, sir," said Willie bluntly; "but if you take me in with the understandin' that I'm to work my way up'ards, I don't mind about the pay at first." "Good," said Mr. Tippet, with a nod of approval. "What d'yo think of my worshop?" he added, looking round with a cherubic smile. "It's a funny place," responded Willie with a grin. "A funny place—eh? Well, I dare- say it is, lad, in your eyes; but let me tell you, it is a place of deep in- terest. and, 1 may add without van- ity, importance. There are inven- tions here, all in a state bordering more or less upon completion, which will, when brought into operation, modify the state of society very ma- terially in many of its most promin- ent phases. Here, for instance, is a self-acting galvano-hydraulic en- gine, which will entirely supersede the use of steam, and, by preventing the ruinous consumption of coal now going on, will avert, or at least postpone, the decline of the British Empire. Able men have calculated that in the course of a couple of his waist, at a carpenter's bench, hundred years or so our coal -beds .rix res s K'Er ing l Doctor Wanted to Burn the diiin With a Red Hot Iron—Fatient Wa Cured by 3R. CHASE'S OINTMENT. Mr. Alex. McLean, Tarbot Vale, N. S., writes'—"For two years I worked as sectionman on the Domin- ion Coal Company's Railroad be- tween Sydney and Glace Bay, N. S., and during that time was exposed to all sorts of weather. Gradually my health failed, and I became a vic- tint of protruding piles. At first I. did not know what my ailment was, but consulted a doctor, and though he treated mo for piles, they only grew worse. "I was forced to give up work and return to my home. My suffering could scarcely be described. I could not walk or lie down, but while the rest of the family was sleeping I would be groaning and aching from the excruciating pains. "A.gain I decided to consult a doc- tor. This, one stripped me, and gaid the piles would have to be burned with a red-hot iron. I shiv- ered at the thought of burning the flesh, and told him. X could not think of undergoing such an opera- tton, so he gave We some salve, for avhich he charged me two dollars, but !,,alit no do Mo any good. "I was in a desperate condition, and had about given up hope of ever be - Mg freed from this dreadful suffer- ing when a friend told me about Dr. Chase's Ointment, He said he had ''neon so many cases that it had cured that he would pay for It him- self imself if it failed to cure. "My experience with Dr. Chase's Ointment is that the first applica- tion did me more good than did the two doctors, and it has made me as well and as free from piles as any man. Since being cured I worked during the winter in the lumber woods send experienced no return of my old trouble, I am not putting it too strong When I say that Dr, Chase's Ointment was worth 8100.'a box to me. You aro freo to use my testimonial for the benefit of others, as I feel it my duty to make known this great ointment." Dr, Chase's Ointment, 60 cents a box, at all dealers, or Edmanson, Bates and Co., Toronto. `. To protect you against imitations the portrait and signature of Dr. A, W, Chase, the famous receipt . boob author, aro on every' box of hie rent' odlee. will be exhausted. I have gone aver their calculations and doteetod sev- eral flaws in thein, which, when cor- rected, show a very different result, namely, thatnr seventeen or eighteenktecn years from this time—probably about the year 1tl'6`'—then o will be an ounce of coal in the kingdom!" Mr. Tippet paused to observe the elTec.t of this statement. Willie hav- ing nover heard of such things be- fore, and having a thoughtful and speculative as well as waggish turn of mind, listened with open eyes and mouth and earnest attention, so Mr. Tippet went on— "The frightful consequences of such a state of things you may con- ceive, or rather .they are utterly in- conceivable.' Owing to the founda- tions of the earth having been cut away, it is more than probable that the present coal districts of the United Kingdom will collapse, the ocean will rush in; and several of our largest counties will become salt- water lakes. Besides this, coal be- ing the grand source of our nation- al wealth, its sudden failure will en- tail national bankruptcy. The bar- barians of Europe, taking advantage of our condition, will pour down up- on us, and the last spark of true civilization in our miserable world will be extinguished—the last refuge for the hunted foot of persecuted Freedom will be finally swept from the face of the earth!" Mere Mr. Tippet brought the saw down on the bench with such vio- lence, that the dog and eat started incontinently to their legs, and Wil- lie himself was somewhat shaken. "Now," continued AIr. Tippet, ut- terly regardless of the sensation he had created, and wiping the perspir- ation from his shining head with a handful of shavings,—"now, William Willders, all this may be, shall be, prevented by the adoption of the galvano-hydraulie engine, and the consequent restriction of the applica- tion of coal to the legitimate pur- poses of warning our dwellings and cooking our victuals. I mean to bring this matter before the Home Secretary whenever I have complet- ed my invention, which, however, is not quite perfected. "Then, again," continued Mr. Tip- pet, becoming more and more en- thusiastic as he observed the deep impression his explanations were making on Willie, who stood glaring at him in speechless amazement, "here you have my improved sau- sage machine for converting all ani- mal nimal substances into excellent sausa- ges. 1 hold that every animal sub- stance is more or less good for food, and that it is a sad waste to throw away bones and hair, etc., etc., merely because these substances are unpalatable or difflcule to chew. Now my machine gets over this difficulty. You cut an animal up just as it is killed, and put it into the machine— hair, skin, bones, blood, and all— and set it in motion by turning on the galvano hydraulic fluid. Deli- cious sausages are the result in about twenty minutes! "You seo my dog there—Chips 1 call him, because he dwells in the midst of chips and shavings; he sleeps upon the chips, and if he does not exactly eat chips, he dives upon scraps which have a..strong resemb- lance to them. The cat has no name. I am partial to the time- honored name of 'Puss.' Besides, a cat is not worthy of a name. Phy- sically speaking; it is only a bundle of living fur—a more mass of soft animated nature as Goldsmith could express it. Intellectually it is no- thing—a sort of existent nonentity, a moral void on which a name would be utterly thrown away. Well, I could tale those two animals, Chips and Puss, put them in here (alive too, for there is a killing apparatus in the instrument which will effectu- allydo away with the cruel process of slaughtering, and with its accom- panying nuisance of slaughter- houses and butchers)• --put them in here, I say, and in twenty minutes they .would be ground up into sau- sages! • " I know that enemies to progress, ignorant'° persons and the like, will scoff at this, and say it is similar to the American machine, into one end of which you put a tree, and it comes out at the other end in tho shape of ready-made furniture. But such scoffs will cease, while my in- vention will live. I am not bigoted, William. There may be good objec- tions to my inventions, and groat difficulties connected with them, but the objections I will answer, and the difficulties I will overcome. "This instrument," continued- Mr. Tippet, pointing to a huge beam, which leant against the end of the small apartment, "is only a specu- lative effort of mine. It is meant to raise enormous weights, sueh as houses. I have long felt it to be most desirable that people should be able to raise their houses from their foundations by the strength of a few men, and convey them to other lo- calities, either temporarily or per- manently. T have not succeeded yet, but I see my way to success; and after all, the idea is not new. You can see it partially carried out by an enterprising company 'in this city, whose enormous vans will re- move the whole rurnituro of a draw- ing -room, alzn.ost as it stands, with- out packing. My chief difficulty is with the fulcrum; but that is a diffi- culty that met the philosopher of old. You have heard of Archimedes, Williain,—the pian who said he could make a lever big enough to move the world, if he could only get a fulcrum to rest it on? But Archimedes ;vas weak on that point. no ought to have known that, even if he did get - such a fulcrum, ho would still have required another world as long as his lever, to enable him to wank out to the end of it. No, by the way, he might have walked on the lever itself! That did not occur to roe be- fore. Me might even have ridden along it. Come, that's a new idea. Let mo see." In order the better to "see," Mr. Tippet dropt the piece of wood from his left hand, and pressed his fingers into both eyes, so as to shut out all acart sW abLiete. and enable hire to take an undistracted survey of the chambers of Ills mind. Returning suddoxelalznenlyed from the investigation,. ho "Yes, l?s William, dan t qt rte see MY wav to it, but I can perceive dimly the possibility of Archimedes having so fornxed his lover, that to line of rails might have been run along the upper side .of it, from the fulcrum to the other end." "Yes, sir," exclaimed Willie, who, having beeutue excited, was entering eagerly into his patron's specula- tions, and venting an occasional re - merle in the height of his enthusiasm. "Such a thing Wright bo done," continued Mr. Tippet, enmphatically; "a small carriage --on the galvano- hydraulic principle, of course—aright run to and fro—" "With passengers," suggested Wil- lie. "Well—with passengers," assented' Mr, Tippet, smiling. "Of course, the lever would be very large—ex- tremely large. Yes, there might be passengers." "An' stations along the line?" said Willie. Mr, Tippet knitted Isis brows. 'Ye-yes—why not?" he said slow- ly. "Of course, the lover would be very long, extremely long, and it might bo necessary to stop the car- riages on the way out. There might be breadth sufficient on the lever to plant small side stations," e "An' twenty minutes allowed for refreshments," suggested Willie. ""Wily, as to that," said Mr, Tip- pet, "if we stop at all, there could be no reasonable objection to re- freshments, although it is probable wo night find it difficult to get any one sufficiently enterprising to un- dertake the supply of such a line; for you know, if the lever were to slip' at the fulcrum and fall—" "Oh!" exclaimed Willie, "wouldn't there be a, smash, neither!" "The danger of people falling off, too," continued Mr. Tippet, "might be prevented by railings run along the extreme edges of the lever." "Yes," interrupted Willie, whose vivid imagination, unused to such excitement, had taken the bit in. its teeth and run away with him; "an' spikes put on 'ens to keep the little boys from swingin' on 'em an' get - tin' into mischief. Oh! what jolly fun it would be. Only think: we'd advertise cheap excursion trains along the Arkimeedis Line, Mondays an' Toosdays. Fares, two hundred pounds, fust class. No seconds or parleys allowed for love or money. Starts from the Fuddlecrum Sta—" "Fulcrum," said Mr. Tippet, cor- rec "Fulcting.rum Station," resumed Wil- lie, "at 2.80 a.in. of the moznin' precisely. Stops at the Quarter, Half- way, an' Three-quarter Stations, al- lowin' twenty minutes, more or less for grub—weather permittin'." "Your observations are quaint," said Mr. Tippet, with a smile; "but there is a great deal of truth in them. No doubt, the connection of such ideas, especially as put by you, sounds a little ludicrous; but when we come to analyze them, we see their possibility, for, if a lever of the size indicated by the ancient philosopher were erected (and theo- retically., the thing is possible), then the subordinate arrangements as to a line of railway and stations, etc., would be mere matters of detail. It might be advertised, too, that the balance of the lever would be so regulated, that, on the arrival of the train at the terminus, the world would rise (a fact which might be seen by the excursionists, by the aid of enormous telescopes, much better than by the people at home), and that, on the return of the train, the world would again sink to its anci- ent level "There would be considerable risk, no doubt," continued Mr. Tippet, meditatively, "of foolish young mon and boys getting over the rails in sport or bravado, and falling off in- to the depths of illimitable profundi- ty, bug—" "We could have bobbies stationed along the line," interrupted Willie, "an' tickets put up warnin' the passengers not to give 'em money on no account wotsomedever, on pain o' bein' charged doubie fare for the first offence, an' pitched over the rails into illimidibble pro -what's -'is name for the second." "I'll tell you what it is, William," said Mr. Tippet suddenly, getting off the bench and seizing the boy's hand, "your talents would be wasted in my office. You'll come and as- sist me here in the workshop. I'm greatly in want of an intelligent lad who can use his hands; but, by the way, can you use your hands? Here, cut this piece of wood smooth, with that knife." Ho handed Willie a piece of cross- grained wood and a blunt knife. Willie looked at both, smiled, and shook his head.• "It would take a cleverer feller than me to do it; but 7'11 try." Willie did try; after a quarter of an hour spent in vain attempts he threw down the wood and knife, ex- claiming,. "It's impossible." (To bo continued.) 8 CURIOUS "GOOD-BYES." When a Turk bids farewell to a friend he solemnly crosses his lends on his breast and makes a profound bow. The natives of New Guinea, on. the other hand, exchange cho- colate, convoying an osepression of ocnfi'dence in each other as well as a ea ut'ation. In the Fiji Islands two cardinal -colored feathers are crossed, and the Biurnese getiitlem'an inurneurs sodtihingly, "Bab! hib!" In Japan your friend takes off one of his slippers and says, "I regard thee." WEDDING 4tltTAfrIONS. A ctlergylnan in Melbourne skiver - flees himself as always in reaklin es to tie the n,upticti knot, at :E'folt's Matrimonial 'Chambers, 448, Queen street. His tariff of nates is roe - sortable, Here are two of the Hanes; "yla.rriege fee, $2.62; or marriage, with guaranteed gold ,weeldisig ring a.tul necessary witnesses p!eotvekled, $5.25, More costly wadding rings rx cele if eo. r uirtrd. I in t OA R SeasonabPt'iee 5!� Hints for thele Busyand ofi Tillebirs i§' • of tiro Soil. sit STOOW IN TITE ORCITARD, Edward Van Alstyne, in a recent article on orchard management, has the following about sod orchards. It will bo observed that the stock . he would turn into an orchard dons not include cattle or horses, which could roao'lt up and mutilate ;bearing! branches: "There ,rthose who have followed the practiceae (and the writer is one), when the trees have come into a full. bearing, of stop- ping cultivation, seeding down to a variety of pasture grasses, then all the orchard with stock; sheep, swine or calves, feeding the stock some suppleineetary food in addition to what they get from the orchard. They will keep down the grass, de- stroy worm -infested apples, and fer- tilize the trees at the same time. The trees will not make so' rank a growth, but it will be solid wood, and there will bo greater tendency to produce fruit buds. Tho differ- ence in the expense of caring for the orchard as compared with the above is reduced vory materially; no small item in this day of scarce and high- priced labor. I have followed this plan with two orchards for 25 years, and with a third for 10, and have had largo annual crops of find ap- ples, in some cases when cultivated orchards did not produce. I could also name not a few others who have been equally successful by following this method. I do not say that this will work in every case and on all soils, for I do not believe there is any one only and best method, nei- ther do I .believe in the orchard be- ing turned into a meadow from which annual crops of hay aro re- moved. I am glad to record that the time has come when the man who follows this plan dares lift his voice in public and take his place in. ,the same society as the excessive cul- tivator. It is results we are after." MANAGING A FRIGHTENED HORSE. Many young and spirited horses become utterly panic-stricken at the sight and sound of a moving rail- road train or an automobile. When so frightened no amount of reassur- ing talk or restraint of the reins can control thein for they lose all con- trol of themselves. John Gould has found a method which is at once hu- mane and safe. He writes: "When we seo trouble coming we get out of the carriage, throw the lap -robe over the head of the horse, take the four corners of it in the hand, grasping the reins close to the bit, and just let the Monster pass. A horse hooded in this way is abso- lutely in the holding control of the driver, and while it may imagine things, so lotig as it cannot see, it will stand by the man wno holds it. Many a time- when bridges have looked 'scary' or trolley cars caught me, the lap -robe has bean a sure protection against trouble, and many a horse, whose driver takes his life in his hands driving into a city with its—to the horse— many objects of fright would drive like the best with a light blindfold. It may not be considered by some as a mark of horsemanship to blind a horse to control its fear, but . it lessens the danger of accident great- ly, and horse and driver are on quite as friendly tomes when the danger is over, as though a strenu- ous time had been risked with doubtful results." FARM TOPICS. Dried blood as a food for laying hens is said by those who have used it to give much bettor results as re- gards increased egg production than either meat or cut green bone. Tho quantity to feed is about one ounce for each fowl at a meal. A good cow should produce at least one pound of butter per day. This is not an extraotdinary per- formance for an individual, but it can be claimed as a good record when all the animals in a herd come up to such requirements. When nature did not intend a cow for a dairy animal, you can't make one out of her, and you should send her to the butcher where she belongs, instead of keeping her in the dairy herd and wasting feed on her. Rempin- ber that it Geste about as much to keep a poor milker on the farm as it does a good one. There aro three essentials necessary • wilt yield and tazec,envea.goadgra of farm crops. They are: A good soil thoroughly prepared, good seed planted in good season, and thor- ough cultivation at the proper time. Each is important and one is de- pendent upon the other, and a failure to give either the required attention will effect, to a more or less extent, the results. Those farmers who are sowing test tracts of alfalfa should not expect the same results as though sowing clover. The alfalfa ee first is a slow grower, it dons practically nothing the first season, and many a. plot is ploughed up by a. clover farmer, and the crop denounced as a failure at just about the time itis beginning to make a little progress toward showing up "a stand." • ALWAYS IN DEMAND. Fresh eggs are not easily obtained even when the market is well stock- ed. It is only when egg§ are used that the consumer learns that they aro not fresh, and as a rule he is always willing to pay a ,larger sum for eggs that ho knows to be good and that are delivered to him from the yard. In order for the farmer to procure double prices, customers should never receive an egg over ono 'aouopnnuoo alone. e.mu0S 'plo Ane and deliver the eggs to them in per- son. Invite them to visit your farm, and give them every opportun- ity to know your methods. IIido nothing, and never allow a stale egg to come on your place. When once you have secured the confidence of your customers, they will pay a high price rather than buy elsewhere. s To prove to you that Dr. Chases Ointment is a certain and absolute cure for each and cvo-y form of itching, ble:.dingand protruding piles, e manufacturers have guaranteed it. Seo toe onials in the daily press and ask your neigh• bora what they Ythink otic. You can use it and avet ll dealeeerrs or,Enzbaexsonot nA�i cured. o, To°ronta+ "a so. Oha &9s Oimment ADMINISTERING A DRENCH. The usual method of giving liquid medicines to domestic animals is by means of drenching—that is, pouring it down the patient's throat. This is usually done by means of a junk bottle. But it is awkward to Handle and liable to be broken by contact with the animal's teeth. A drench- ing tubo is much more satisfactory and ono should be kept on every farm. It may be made of an ordin- ary funnel, a piece of half inch rub- ber hose three feet long, and a piece of iron gas pipe five or six inches long, and of proper diameter to fit snugly into one end of the rubber hose. Into the other end insert the narrow end of the tin funnel and the instrument is complete. To use this. raise the animal's nose just high enough for fluid to run down its throat, insert the tube between its teeth and pour tho medi- cine edscine into the funnel. This requires two men, one to hold tho animal's head steady and manage the tube, while the other pours down the medicine. THE GREED. EXECUTIONER. In Greece the death penalty is Old to be often pronousieed, but the difficulty of obtaining exectution,crs was for a long time a1nsost isissidter- ablo. It was at last euran.•ouss'ted by giving to a murderer the choice be- tween his own death or acceptance of the office of permanent execu- tioner. The man livee alone in an old tower built by Vemetiaris on art islet outside the pont of Na'uplia, where necessaries •are taken to him every morning by the boatman, who is careful to exohnnge no woad with him. Twice a year a steamer calls for him and his instruments of death, and he leaves upon a tour of executions. A WARNING. Be careful how you go to sleep 'at an auction. A gentleman settled himself in a comfortable chair and, his senses soothed by the auction- eer's lullaby, soon dropped asleep, When his nap was over he left the place. The next day he was astoun- ded atreceiving a bill for -nearly 8250 worth of carpets and other things. The auctioneer has received his somnolent nods for bids. ,elm Dumps' physician once fell ill. Said he; "I'll have no .� draught or pill." Said Jim: "Ho, ho, you're on the shelf, You who cure othere, cure yourself." Then Jim sent up some "Force" to him, "That's what he needs," quoth " Sunny Jim." Tho Rcadp-to•Serve Cereal Uo.e I sten 'Tree Caeoe. "I was attacked last May by appendi- citis. eel showed eau of recovery dootor and I began to out around for a suitable diet and as a result we fell upon 'levee,' which has been a wonderful boon to me. I .have eaten almost three eases. 11. H. etir.18n." SUN NOVEL �^ DRUNKARDS QUEER ML'''TIIQDS Q]$' GETTING INTOXICATED.. ...... re 4 Nan Became:Hopeless a op Wreck From Allowing Water to Drip. Into His ear. Some people adopt curious ways of becoming intoxicated. We are told that the cup that cheers also inebriates; for excessive imbibing of strongly -brewed ton produces all the Symptoms of drunkennesse—not so much outwardly, perhaps, as that the mind experiences the mild de- lirium of the drunkard—the victim not betraying himself at the same time, which is an additional advant- age to the secret imbiber. One lady was a total wreck through indulging in exceedingly strong tea, using a deal of the green leaf in the brewing.. She had a sort of delirium tremens, Which the dop- tor•declared was entirely duo to tea - drinking. Recovering;- she became an abstainer for a little while; but, old habits proving too strong, she once more fell a victim to the bitter draught, and suffered agonies at fre- quent intervals, eventually poisoning herself through the So-called harm- less beverage. • A coffee drunkard was admitted to' an infirmary some time ago sufferings from an injury caused while in a state of stupefaction—the result of heavy coffee -imbibing. His sufferings were excessive, for llis clamoring for the beverage eves granted only in an ordinary degree, and then in nothing like the strength to which ho had accustomed himself. He confessed that of late he had drunk decoctions of tho fragrant berry EVERY FEW MINUTES of the day, and the result of such indulgence was a sensation of ex- quisite pleasure and most excruci- ating torture intermittently, as in the case of rho opium -smoker. But perhaps one of the strangest Ine- thods of becoming intoxicated was that adopted by a man who, strange to say, had a peculiar loathing for beer or alcoholic drinks of any kind, Ile would rest his head under a cold water tap, which ho would allow to drip gently into his ear, the water producing a sort of boiling sensation in the first instance, fol- lowed by a lulling and numbing of the senses, a er which benign in- fluence he would fall asleep: When aroused from his slumber ho experienced" a sense of dulness—a stupor similar to that of an habitu- al drunkard. This unique habit so entirely mastered him that he would spend hours reclining in a position which brought his car in contact with the drip of water, eventually becoming unable to go without such unusual stimulation, for that ho felt better after indulging he was assured, though prostration followed in its wake. This individual be- ---escame a hopeless wreck, and his life was despaired of. It would bo in- teresting to learn the sequel of this curious instance. A lady, at- one time known to the writer, used to produce a species of intoxication by dosing herself with chlorodyne.• She professed to be- lieve herself inclined to be consump- tive, and adopted this medicine to relieve her sufferings, dosing herself so frequently that her family became alarmed, and begged of her to try some other specific. She would con- sult no doctor, but avowed great faith its the REMEDY OF HER CHOICE. It was soon apparent, however,' that she had cultivated a passion for the medicine, and she scared a kitchen-" maid out of her senses on one o casion by throwing a bottle at lar because she had disturbed her during one of her spells of intoxication. A band of gipsies, camping ono summer on a strip of land by a farm- house, hadan old crone who did lit- tle else but crouch'by the fire chew- ing dried pieces of bark and stalks of plants, which :she procured from the woods and hedgerows, these bo- ing prepared by drying on a stone near the fire, after which they were separated into handy pieces for the old lady's delectation. The gipsies gave them a curious name; but they were believed to be the product of a species of nightshade, which poison- ous and distasteful plant produces sickness and stupor, followed by prostration, and even death in some instances. The old crone had ac- quired a ,iking for the deadly herb, and having outgrown its poisonous tendencies she chewed it incessantly, and was inariably in a semi-intoxi- eated condition. SCIENCE AN4D INDUSTRY. The conznnon house :vector is linrm- le ss and renders positive service to mankind by killing flies and other insects. The missing link from Fasbeo:da to Ujiji in the telegraph lime from Cape Town to Cairo will be .auillzlieed by Moment wireless ire tru0iients. The atom of hydrogen is the mealiest of the "ultimate atoms" of the chheinis'tts, but it is '1,870 tunes as large a§ the corpuscles which stat o recently been c!ozu.onertrnted as the elements of the atones. In the case of the Freneih whip Which went ae9horo on the Gtovd- Wiens, evtdpnce given in the •Ad'nrir- airy court showed that by means of ane Short wireless znesoage pt opei-ty In the a urotu,n!t 'of $272,040 40 was stay- ed. .ain official report oil the Simplon railway tunnel, whidh is beliig piorccd t,iho:u,gh tbct Ai+jis at , their base, shows that the exteronnely .rapid incroase of the nock temper- ature in May a.loarinod the annals of the un!dertakian.g, 129 degrees Fahrenheit being reached at ono time. An important inotoorological fac- tq,r, affecting the ,public health foe. good or ill, is the amount of''` shine. Fresh air met frun, tiin.c de nature's most patent disdnfeet-ors and d'isca,re germ killers. Especial- ly are the direct rays of the sea deadly to the atie•.z•oseervoic forme of esigC#able life. ,41 Ase