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"Because yau have not eaten or
'cads* one mouthful yet."
"Buit. lan lookio" at you, .and ain't
that better / Illowsover„ if ye won't
go on not keep you baelc," and
with that Willie set to work, and
being oncommonly..stungry, did what
be styled hterrible execution among
the wittles."
✓ For some titre the nuree• and pa-
te tient ate in comparative silence, but
kV by .degress they began to talk, and
ass they became more confidential
their talk became more pereontri.
"D'yoli like bein" a fairy ?" said
Willie, atter a lull in the converea-
tion.
"No, I don't." replied West. •
'Wity not ?'"
• • "Ilevatiseedbeeausa—I don't • liao
the kiad of things we bave to do.
andagantS—in :short, 1 don't- like it at
adl, alai I often pray God to deliver
me from IL"
"That's strange, now," said
lie, ".I would have thoughtit grea,
foe to bee fairy. I'd rather be a
little elown or "a he -fairy myself-,
now, than anything else I know of,
exceesti fixernan."
"A. Amapa, Willie 3"
"Yoe a fireman. ary brother,
Blaz—e—Frank, 1 mean, is one, and
he saved the lives of some people
not long since."
Of course Willie here diverged into
a graphic account of the fire in
lievatly Square, and, seeing that
7.1za likened with iuteuse earnest -
need, he dilated upon every point„
and went With special minutenese
into the doings of Frank.
. When be concluded, Ziza heaveda
very 'deep sigh and closect her eyes.
"I've tired trou„ exctidened
jumping up with a look of
anxiety, end emceeing the tea-
borad and. jacket, cis he childslip-
ped down under 'the clothes, He
ariked if she wanted to go to sleep.
"Yes, foe I'm very tired," see
sighed languidly; then added, "but
please read to me a little firet.."
"What book am 1 to read you?"
said Willie, looking around the room
where no book of any kind was to
be seen.
"Here, it's under the pillaw."
Millie put his heed under the pil-
low and palled out a small po.c.ket-
Bible.
"Read the third chapter of St.
John's Goopel," said the child, clos-
ing her eyes.
Willie read in tbe monotonous
tones of a schoolboy's voice until
he came to• the sixteenth verse :
"Fur God so loved the world, that
aie gave Has only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in laitu
effeteuld not perish, but ba.ve ever-
lasting life!'
"Stop at that verse," whispered
Ziza. "I'll go to sleep now."
Hee deep breathing soon proclaim-
ed that • she was in he lan'd of
dreams, so Willie lemoved the can-
dle a little tether away from her,
wed then resting his elbows on the
table, his head in his hands began to
read the Bible. He tinged over a,
few pages without /leech intention of
finding any particular place, for he
was beginning to feel sleepy."
'The first words his eyes fell upon
nere, "Bleseed are they that co/raid-
er the poor."
He rotieed up a little at this, and
read the verse again, for he con-
nected it with the fact that the
fairy was pour. Then he pondered
it for scene time, and, failing aeleep
eiropt his head on the Bible with
such force that he woke up for a
little and tried to read again, he
gale up the attempt, amid', laying
his forehead down upon it, quickly
fell sound asleep.
ln his state the couple were dis-
covered., an hour or two later, by
Messes. Cattley senior and rumor on
their return from the theatre.
"angsrutable mysteries ! say, what
is this exclaimed the elder clown,
advancing into the room on tiptoe.
sapoetrophizieg his eye mei one
Betty Martin, the younger cdown
saki that it was a "rare go and no
'Meta -ice.' Whereupon his father laid
his land on Mille's- shoulder and
gently shook hind
"Eh ! another cup, Zitet ?" ex-
claimed the seld-aectised uurse, es he
put out his hand to solve tho tea-
pot. ! I thought it was
the fairy," he added. looking up
with a sleepy smith: "I do believe
I've gone and fell asleep."
"Why, lad, where got ye all those
things ?" irquired the senior Catt-
ley, laying wade his cloak and cap,
end saealting in a low tone, for Ziza
was still sleeplog souniday.
"Well, I got 'em,". replied Willie
in a meditative tone, "from a friend
of mine—ct very particular frieml of
inints—ais declines to let 100 mention
his name, so you'll have to be sat-
isfied with the wattles and without
the name of the wirtuaus giver
-reaps it was a 'clook, or a esquire,
or a archbidhop as did it. !Anyway
Hs name warntt Walker. See now,
you've bin an' woke eas the fairy."
The .siek °bald moved as he spoke.
hut it was only a turn, without
awaking, on her side.
"Well, lad," said the clown sitt-
ing down and looking wistfully in
the face of his daughter, "you've
got your own reasons for not tellin'
me—ena.yhav I've a pretty good
guess—anyhow 1 say God bless hire,
for 1 do believe leas saved the
child's life.' I've not seen her sleep
like that for weeks. Look at bo',
Jim: ain't she like her old sell ?"
"Yes, father, he *don" need no
paint and flour to make a fairy an
her jest now. She's just like what
she was the last thee 1 seed har go
tep in a gatiee cloud to heaven, With
rod anti blue fire blazin' all round
her.''.
"Ill bid ye good -night now," said
Willie, bettering up his jacket to
the chin, and pulling has. cap down
on his brows with -the ale of a man
who has a long walk before him..
"'You're off, are yort—eh ?" !said
the easier clown, risieg and taking
Willie by the hand, "well, you're a
goad lade Thank'ee for Wroth' here
an' talcan' care of Ziza.. Iltdy subter-
ranean grotto ain't much to hotel
of, but such as it is you're welcome
to it at all times. Genet /eight."
"Caoodavight," said 'Willie; "good-
night, .1 i nit" '
Jim readied good -night heartily,
and then Willie stopped into the
earl< peerage. Tre glanced betels at
the fairy before shutting tee door,
but /ter °yea Were eloscat So he Said
CHAPTER XVI.
Left alone with the fairy, Mule
Wiliders began his duties as sick -
nurse,. a spbere of tuition into whieh
be had never thought of being in-
troduced, even in his wildest dreams.
lo began by asking the fairy U
Ohe was all right and camfortable„
to whieb. silo replied that alto was
ite't; Upon which he explained that
„he meant was sdie as right and com-
fortable as could be exeeeted in the
eitenumetances; could be do anything
for her, in Met, or get her anything
-that would Make her more emnfoet-
ahle than the was„—but the fairy
shook her poor head and Raid,
rINTO..r
"Come, now, won't you have
sonietbin' to eat? What had you
for dinner?" said :Willie, in a cheery
voice, lookang round the room, but
not discovering any semptesus of
fond 'beyond a. few empty plates and
naps (the la.titer without
and a teapot, with half a spout.
"I had a little bread and butter,"
said the fairy.
"No tipple?" inquired the nurse.
"No; except water."
'Ain't there none in the liouee
N 0.• k
"D'ye git nothin' better at otter
times ?" inquired 'Mine in surprise.
"Not often. Fathee is very poor.
'He was iII for a long tame. too, and
if it hadn't been for your kaad mas-
ter I think we saould all have steer-
ed. He's better now, but he needis
taretty good living to keep him up I
- to his work—for there's a deal of
training to be done, and it wears
him out if he don't get meat. But
the palace/names began and we. were
getting on better, when tbe tire
came and burnt everything we had
almost, so we can't afford Dumb
meat or beet-, and I don't like beer,
so Fee got them per•suaded to let
nee live on bread and butter wed
water. I would like tea betted., be-
cause it's hot. but we can't afford
that."
Etre was a revelation. ! The fairy
lived upon bleed end butter and
water ! 'Willie "thought teat but,
for the interpolation of the butters
It would base borne marvelous re-
semblance to prison fare.
"When had you dinner r! inquired
suddenly.
"I think about four o'clock.' -
An' carat't you eat anthill' now?"
Again the fairy ahaok her head.
"Nor . drank ?"
e'Look if there's anything lrt the
'teapot," said the fairy.
'Willie lathed, shook his head and
saict—I"Not a drop."
"Any leaves a"
"Wary, y -yes," he brought the pot
nearer to the candle; "there ace a
few ured-up ones."
"Oh, do pour some hot water in-
to it: but I fear tee weeer is cold,
and the fire's too low to boil it,
and I know the coals are done; but
father gets paid his salary toduor-
row, and hell give me some tea
then. Re's very kind to me, father
is, and so is Jim."
.She :sighed asehe evoke, and shaft
eer eyes. .
"Ziza," said Willie in a careless
tone, "you won't object to my
leavin' you for a few minutes; only
a few; I want to get a little fresh
esir, an' see what sort of a night it
is; I won't be long gone."
Ziza, so far from obletting, said
that she was used to being left alone
for long long hours at a time, and
wanadn't mind it. So 'Statile put the
candle nearer to her bedside, placed
a tea -cup of water within reach,
W01# out, shut t.110 door softly be-
hind bi•ra, groped his way through
the passage and up the stair, and
got into the street.
That day his eccentric esmployer
had paid him his first month's wage,
a aossereign, with many complimen-
tary remarks as to his usefulness.
Tate golden coin lay in his pocket.
It. was the first he had ever earned.
Ho had intended to go straipht
home and lay the shining piece in
.his mother's lap, for Willie was a
pettuliar boy, and had acme shellac
notions in regard to the destination
of "fitsfiefruite." :Where he had got
them nobody could tell. Perhaps las
tie
mother knew, but nobody ever quee-.
tioned her upon the point, •
trobw ais gold •piece from ais
packed he ran into the neareet re-
spectable street, and selected there
the moet respectable grocerea alone
into which he- entered, and doiu4aod-
ed a. pound of the .elentmatt's •best•
tea, a pound of his beet eager, a
pound ofbbs beet better, a ea of'
his best bacon, and one of his best
watt .candlos. Willie anew nothing
about •relative proportion in reg•ard
to such things; he only knew that
they were usually bought and cone
Waned together. •
The shoproan looked at the little
puathaeer in surprise, but as Willie
emphatically repeated his demands
.he gave him the required articled'
On receiving the sovereigu he looked
twice at Willie, rung the pieCla of
money three times on the counter.
wad _then returned the thaenge,
Gathering the packages in his
MOS, and putting the candle be-
tween his vest and bosom, he went
into a baker's sbop, purchased a
loaf, and returned to the "sehter-
raimous grotto" laden like the bee.
To say that the fairy was Our -
wised when be displayed these
things, wauki be a feeble me of lan-
guage. She opened her large eyes
until Willie begged her in alason not
to open thein wider for fear thoy
should come out, at which sally he
laughed, and then, being weak, she
cried.
After that she fell in with her
nteree's humor, and the two pro-
ceeded to "have a night of it." Vara,
said sled be a real fake' and tell
him what to do, and Willie said he'd
be a gnome or a be -fairy and do it.
At the outset Willie diecovered
teat he hat forgotten coals, but
this was rectified by another five
minutes' airing, and a. rousing fire
was qudc.kly roaring- in the chimney,
waile tate kettle sang and spluttered
on it lite a setrimathetic thing, as
no doubt it wad Willie cleared tire
small table that steed at the inva-
lid's bed-sid-e, and arranged upon it
the loaf, the teapot, two cracked
tea -cups the butter and :sugar, and
the wa.x-candle—witich latter was
stuck into a genet bottle in default
of a bettereteandlestiek.
adiew ain't that jolly ?" said the
natree, sitting down and rubbing his
hands.
"Very !" replied the patient, her
eyes sparkling with delight.
"It's so like a seem in a play,"
continued Willie,
"Only meth more reed," suggested
the fairy.
"New, then, Ziza, bage a clap o'
tea, harsh from the market o" .Chiny
as your Dad would ewe-, if he was
rallin" it by adction. He's a
knowin' codger your dad • is, Ziza.
Tee: e. 1 knowed 1 -forgot tiornet.bin"
el e—the cream
"I don't mind it, indeed I don't,"
said Zize. eel -Aster.
Willie 1 ad alerted lip to run out
• and rectif' this omitsion, but on be- •
ipg assured that tl:e fairy liked tea
almost as well without as with
cream, aud that there was no cream
to he got near at hoed, he sat -down:
again nod continued to do lee bond
ors of the talle. First he inade
the fairy sit up in ted, and come
melded sadly on tter poste thin neck
as she did it, observing that she
was nothing better than a skeleton
. in a skin. Then he took aff his
own jacketand put it on her should-
ers, tyirg tl:e arms round her neck.
Next he placed a lege of board . in I
front of ter, saying thet it was a
eagital tray, and 011 this he arrang-
ed the viands neatly.
"Now, then, go at it, Ziza," he
said, ,when all was wronged.
Ziza, who received his attentions
with looks that were wondeefully
gleeful for ore in her Weak state of
health, went at it with such vigor
that the bread was eaten and the
tea drunk in a few mitettes, and the
supply had to be renewed. When
she was in the middle of ter second
round of buttered toaet (for Italie
had toasted the bread), ahe stopped
stiettlenly.
"Why don't you go on?" a.saeil
ilionness Fro
A Common and Distressing Ailment Which is
Promptly Cured by
OR. CHASE'S KIDNEY -LIVER PILLS,
"Biliousness" is the one word used '
by most people to describe their
trouble when the liver gets out of
order, leaves bile, and brings on sick
headache and irritable temper, stom-
ach troubles, and irregularities of
. the bowels.
People who stiffer much from bil-
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complexion, irritable, and morose in
disposition, and are liable to find
;themselves •among the chronic grum-
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right,
The trouble begins with the liver
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because of. their direct action on tho
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the symptoms became of their com-
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• Mrs, Faulkner, 8 Gildersleeve
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Kidney -Liver rills are certainly the
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After all, it pays to stand by the
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of running after every new-fangled
treatment that is brought out. Dr.
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went 1401119.
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. 01Val1di1aR
•"al.`y dear Midi Tippet, I shall
never, no never, get over it."
So said and so undOubtedly
thought a thin little old lady with
remarkably bright eyes, reul a sweet
old face, as ehe eat eipping tea at
Miss 'lappet's elbow„ • .
It was in the drawing-rooen ef
Mies Deoneas that sae sat, and the
laagle sat opposite to her,
"It was very dreadful," responded
Mae Tippet with a eigalgo.'very.".
"St was awful. leknow I shall
newer get over i1,—neer," repeated
the • little old •ludys fluitating . her
tea, and aeldrg for aeether ettp 111
the calmest peedeible voice, with the
sweetest -poesible nilI
"Oh yes, you will, law. Demean,"
said 'Miss Dramas tetavpishaa
. "No, indeed, 1 won't," repeated
Mies. Dearnan; "how can -I ? Just
thiak of the situation. Sitting in
my chair in deshabille, warm a man
—a 'man,- Miss Deeueas—"
"Well, I anon, wbat a mem is,"
.said the Eagle.bitterly; "why don't
you go on ?"
".Burst himself througa my bed-
room' door," continued Mrs. Den -
mare, "with lane and elerecoal wad
blickatieet and water it reaming
down his face,—f—fu—olded nie in
hie arms, bore me out into the
atreeta-the atreet ! Oa 1 stun
never get over it; and 2•40 little, so
very little clothing on
"Ham much had you on 9" asked keep a. strict aceMint of the ttme
Mass Deentus in a dean voice, the he spends on each branch of work.
calinness of which contraeted forci- This will enable you to estimate the
b ly with Airs. D en mara s excited
taalateettasikaalae*ditiesitateetKeeitae*aa
i; FOR FARMERS
•
‘
,64asottable and Profitable)1c
Hints for the lattsy Tillers
of the Soil.
FARM TOPICS.
Every farmer should keep an aa -
count of his farming operettioes, Toooften little busbaess details are left
to •ea.eraory, which.in these days of
hurry and thistle Is not to be relied
upon.
Money can always be made on the
firm by buying for cash only, - To
run an accountfor groceries, etee is
to open a little _leak that may get
•away with quite a little pile before
the end of the Year.. Buy for cash
where possible. You. getthe best
price ,and better value for your mon-
ey and are not so apt to buy things
you • don't want.
' One often hears mucb talk about
the necessity of keepieg all utensils
about the dairy sweet, and nothing
about pure air. Then again one will
hear much about the necessity of
Pure air in the dairy, and nothing
about sweet, pure utensils. Either
is essential, and both are necessary
in the well regulated dairy, if a fine
product is to be turned out.
To make the most' of the hired
mtue plan his week -carefully, and
valise of his work and to so arrange
tones.
"Really, Miss D0010210, 1 see am or le
it that you shall get the most out
necessity .for going into iiarticulaes. The money -making farmer
it is staincient to know that I was does so largely because he looks at -
carried by a man tato the sftreet in ter the little leaks on the farmIt
. •
• is surprising how quickly time and
the face of some thousa.nds of
ople, ' for I heard them theering leeting the little things on the farMoney can be frittered away by neg-
pethough / saw . them not. I know 1 m.
shall never get over it—another cep, By not keeping the. machinery in or -
nay love; not quite so much eugars-a dor, by not keeping the fences in re -
no, not if I leer° to live to the age •Pair and a hundred other ways.
"I d 't wonder. II "d, I .'• '. Pigs should bacon pig of 108
d be well but not °vele
A goo
of Methuseledt." .
neueenured the sympathetic Miss .pounds ought to he produced in sev-
. ,
are a little too head on Mrs. Den- not be .crammed„ neither should it
en months front its birth. It should
Tiered "I think, Julia 'dear, you
man. Hog would you like to have be ha -starte , but Lcdstcadhly an
been carried out of a burning house regularly' Pigs fed steadily and
doh, nty dear," interposed gem. factory results to the feeder when
penman,
.
1
. ,
"I did not say he was • weighed in the factories. A hog
rough. Big be certainly was, •
and which has been half-starved at any
stromg, but I must do him the
tice to say that the man la—lift—ings"h period of his life, even though well
fed afterwards, will not do so. Feed
me 1 lifted me up very tenderly, and three titues a day at fixed hours;
carried inc as though I had been an never leetve food in the troughs W-
infield: and he my mother, through ter the pigs have finished.
esmoke ated. fore and water, into the
street, before the eges of thee-gtehole
—oh, it's too awful to think of I"
"Stuff !" ejaculated Mies Deemas,, one. Rheumatism., paralysis, blind
necking a piece of cake out of herstaggers thumps, scours, etc., I treat
,
fingers as she would, metaphoricailY I all alike, though in varying propor-
of* (=rev, have pecked the CV'S out
of the bead of Franor Frank Wiliders. tions. My cure-all is nothing more
: than fresh new milk and turpentine.
any o.ther man. ""Didn't e-ott sag:Fes a young pig say, six weeks old,
he put, a blanket round you ?"
"Of course, Miss beeves; I stmeld I administer a teaspoonful of turpen-
tine in, say, a half pint of m
diilk. Un -
have ed otherwise of pure &m
tae. !
"No, you wouldn't," retorted the less the pig is very sick it will read-
ily drink this. If too far gone to
'
• drink it must be administered with
a spoon. An older' pig, however, will
'seldom refuse new milk, even when a
!tablespoonful is given in a quart or
more. Grade the dose from a tea -
1
. spoonful at six weeks old to a table -
'spoonful or more for a mature hog.
. e, regularly will give the most satis-
Dig oug
A writer to an English exchange
says: "I have only one remedy for
a sick pig, and it is a. very simple
Eagle. "You would probably have
been half suffocated and a good deal
dirtied, and you might have been
singed, but you wouldn't have died;
and waat need you care now, for
the people sew nothing but a bun-
dle. You might lade been a bun-
dle of old clothes for all they anew,
or coxed. All they wanted to sea was the bravery, as they call it, oft COOKING FOOD For, PIGS.
the ream; as if thore were not hung"
"Weld for pigs, some even • going so
Many - farmers believe in cooking
ifar as to cook all their food. The
results of numerous experiments show
that, as a rule, steaming or cooking
• food, especially coarse food for cat-
tle, adds nothing to its value. -ro-
"Lathes,. however, cannot be fed to
'swine in any quantity without cook-
ing, and often grains which are dam-
aged in some way should first he
deeds upon aundreds of women who'
would do the same thing if their
muscles were strong enough, end oc-
casion served."
"Bat it was a brave act, pea
know," raid aairs Tippet timidly.
"I don't know that," reorted MISS
Deemate, lelping herself to more
cake with as mach decision of Man-
ner as if tfhe had been carrying it
MI by force of arms from before,
the very arugzles of. a nasicenne baled cooked before feeding. Warm feed
tery. "I don't know that. 'Nernst not be confused with cooking
had to escape, you know,' for He ;it. An occasional feed of cooked
own life, and he might as well beteg; food will be relished by way of eae
a bundle along with him as not," riety. Warmieg or soaking the food
! may make it more easily digestible. In
;this way warming the -feed may be
I agreeable to the palate, and perhaps,
may make it more domfortable or
advantageous, for increased comfort
will aid in economizing the food, or
'increasing the gains.
"Yes; but then;" said Mies 'Pipe
pet, "te first went up the—the thin-
gurny you. -know."
"No, lie didn't," retorted Miss
Deemses smartly; "he was in the
house at the time, and only - came
down tho ethinguinyr as you eall
itt"
it was a pectfliarity of Miss Dee-
mas's clutracter, that the claimed- WEEDS,
the right to be as ruao as the those •
ere are two ways of copletely
u
1.0 people in her own hose, and mOne is to let
rather prided herself on this eviddestroying weeds.
ence
them have an opportunity to grow
of independence.
(To be Continued.)
HIS WIFE'S FA.ULT.
They were speaking of the pessi-
mistic member.
"Ho never looks on tho bright
side," said one.
"No," added another. "Moreover,
if there's any way for him to shift
the blame for his misfortunes on
others, rest assured he'll do it."
"Quite so," concluded a third.
"Why, the other day they told me of
his wife's devoted nursing of him
during his recent attack of rheuma-
tism. In spite of his fault-finding,
his spouse did everything she could,
to alleviate his pain. Otten his suf-
ferings would cause the poor thing to
burst into tears as she sat by his
bedside. Well, one day a friend drop-
ped in to see how the invalid was
getting on.
" 'Badly, badly,' wailed the pessi-
mistic one. 'And, do you know, it's
all my wile's fault."
• " 'Impossible!' gasped the friend in
surprise. .
" 'Quito true, 1 assure you,' mur-
mured tho sick man. 'It is this way.
Damp places are bad for me; yet
there that woman sits and cries just
to make the air moist.'"
ER. A. W. CHASE'S N„
CATARRH CORE ... lUtio
ts sent direct to tho diseased
parts by tho Improved Blower.
Reale the gore oleos the Mt
passages, stops droppings/3i the
throat and permanently eats
Cotorrh and itay POW. Illower
kee. All dealers, or Dee. W, Choso
liteelietne Coe Toronto end Beale,
and, by frequent. cultivating, turn
them under as fast as they make
their appearance; the other being to
crowd them out by growing some
crop that will not give the weeds a
chance to grow. No system of culti-
vation will kill all the weeds if a
crop is. desired—such as corn—for the
grass and weeds will only be kept
down so long as cultivation lasts,
especially as corn is usually "laid
by" a time when the weeds are pro-
ducing seeds, thus establishing them-
selves for the succeeding year. As
a test of what supposed clean cul-
ture of corn may be, simply cut
clown a row of stalks and a vow of
weeds will remain. As a single weed
produces thousands of seeds the lb -
or tef destroying the weeds must' be
repeated next season.
THE COST AND Pita/VIT.
Prat depends upon circumstances.
The hen that lays the largest nutn-
bee of eggs does net always give the
greatest profit. (Inc dozen eggs in
winter, at thirty cents a dozen, per-
mits of a greater profit than two
dozen when eggs are fifteen cents a
dozen. The sum derived is the same
but it costs less to produce one doz-
en eggs than it does to produce tut°
dozen, and although the same
amount of money is received in both
eases, yet the profit is not what it
derived in the gross Man, but that
which is produced above the cost;
hence, a hon is profitable according
to the season during which she lays
the greatest number, and the Maces
:obtained therefor, In summer, how-
ever, the eggs ntay coet nothiug if
the hens are ou 0 ranges
entAYmra FRUIT TREES.
litany people thing it mineeessars,
to spray young fruit trees before
they begin to bear, This is a mis-
take, end waen spraying is being
done the young trees should be
sprayed at the same time and with
the same mixture as the older bear-
ing trees.
The fungus scab affects tho leaf as
well as the fruit, and the object
should be to prevent it ,frorn over
getting a foothold, and if young
trees are kept free from it there will
be little, or, at least, much less dif-
ficulty in dealing with it when the
trews- come into bearing. Tho foli-
age will be kept. healthy, and that
is of the most vital importance to
the health, vigor and usefulness of
the tree.
STORIES OX' LAWYERS.
Anecdotes of Celebrated English
Barristers. .
"Apropos of witnesses and coun-
sel" says the writer of a most in-
teresting article on "Lawyers," in
the London "Blackwood's Magitne,"
'I think the most scathing retort
that -I ever read was the following,
which I saw in some country news-
paper report of an assize case: A
counsel had been cross-examining a
witness for some time with very lit-
tle effect, and had sorely taxed the
patience of • the judge, thitt jury, and
every one in court.
judge intervened with an imperative
hint to the learned gentleman to
conclude his cross-examination. The
counsel, ..who received this judicial
intimatiou with a very bad grace,
before telling the witness to stand
clown accosted him with the parting
sarcasm: 'Ah, you're a clover fellow,
a very clever fellow!, We can all see
that!' The witness, bending over
from the 'Box, quietly retorted, 'I
would return the compliment—if I
were not on oath!' .
Another story is told in the same
article of Edwin James. a famous
barristei who was disbarred for
unprofessional conduct just as Ile
was about to be made Solicitor -Gen-
eral. Edwin Jetties was noted for
his consummate impudoneesa At one
time be lived in some West End
chambers, for which the unfortunate
landlord could never succeed in ob-
taining any rent. At last he had
recourse to an expedient which he
hoped might arouse his tenant to a
sense of his Obligations. ide asked
him if he would be kind enough to
advise him 021 • a little legal matter
in which he was concerned, and, on
James acquiescing, drew up it state -
;meet specifying his own grievance
!against the learned counsel and ask-
ing him to state what he considered
;the best course for a landlord to
i take tinder such conditions. The pa -
!per was returned to hini the next
i meriting with the following sentence
;subjoined: .
I'In my opinion, this is a case which
admits of only one remedy: Patience.
i —Edwin James.'
I The single defect of that genius
• among judges, the late Lord Bowen,
,I was perhaps an undue proclivity for
!irony, . which on one occasion he in-
dulged in from the bench, with dis-
astrous effect on the jury. Shortly
inner his appointment as a puisne
'judge he was trying a burglar in
some country town, and by way of
mitigating the tedium of the pro-
ceedings summed up something in the
'You will have
!following fashion:
observed, gentlemen, that the prose-
cuting counsel laid great stress on
-the enormity of the offence with
which the prisoner is charged, but
I think it is only due to the prison-
er to point out that in proceeding
about his enterprise he at all events
'displayed remarkable consideration
for the inmates of the 'house. For
instance, rather than disturb the
, owner,
iitvafld lady, as yon will
have remarked, with commendable
solicitude he removed his boots and
went about in his stockings, not-
withstonding the inclemency of the
weather. Further, instead of rush-
thg with heedless rapacity into the
pantry he carefully removed the coal
scuttle and any othee obstacles which
had he thoughtlessly collided with
them, would have created et noise,
that must •have aroused the jaded
servagts , from their well-earned re-
pose.' •
After proceeding in this strain for
some little time he dismissed the
jury to consider their verdict, and
was horror stuck when, on their re-
turn into court, they pronounced
the acquittal of the prisoner!"
DEDUCTION WENT WRONG.
"Yee," said the reader of hats,
can tell the moment 1 look at a
bat what kind of man the Wearer is,
how old, whether tall or short, and
other characteristics. Oh, it's no
trick. I don't know how I came by
the''lfta(nadetlY.”
etbe .a gift," suggested
one of the company.
"Lite second sight • or mind-read-
ing," observed enother.
"-Bring on your hat," said a third;
"I'm .anxious to see how it workd"
A large number of hats were pro-
duced hem one source or another,
large hats, soft hats, and stiff hate,
and their ownetship was eueceseatilly
concealed.
The hat -reader took a rather
broad-brinonea, , soft , shabby hat
from the dot, and began to inspect
it. .•
"This," • be said "is the hat of a
1:.11`t;n111Po'vt", de you know •?''
hlty• Unmistakable siges. "The.britn.
is turned up at the back; that mimes
from often sleeping in hayernows or
ender trees, It le pulled down in
front to shade the face from too
close inspeetiond"
"Wonderful. Go on..."
"It's owner was often hengry, He
this gnawed the brim. tee was died
honeert, for he Idd things/ in the
crown. The Shape of the crown
sltowq th at he bad tlo poin fed Skull
of an idiot. Am I right ?"
• "T geese eo, old boy," raid the
tost of the oectesion, ''I'iit's inv
bat, end When r Woe en my. Welting
toln this el:tamer 1 oid really all
yoU meeker, Try 'another.,"
DANCER °URN NOT FOUND
••••11....
TOO normqn, BEPOBTS VCADE
OF X -BA T TBEATIVIBNT,
The Xnvestigators Believe They,
Axe on the Bight Trails
However,
Bublis'hed statainertts with regard
to medical diesooverie.s, chiefly an
connection -with the X-rays and ret-
diurn, succeed mut another with alma
rapidity that it is diifflicult to fol-
low them with psecision. The deep-
est interest, 'naturally, is centred ore
the achievements of those who are
trying to woisk their way to the die-
eovery of a retro for carecer, a-thich
as- a cause of 'death in (Ireet Bri-
tain.' ranks second only to plithisis.
The results of a series of experi-
ments in Grreat Britain and on the
Continent are such as to arouse the
hopes of expert investigators, Who
are now 'devoting theimselves entire-
ly :to this great problem, that ther.
are at least on the right traela
It would be rash and unjustifiable
at present to say more, yet Fkate-
mutts ere conetantly appearing in
the daily press raising false balms
of sufferers that a wee has beea
foun.d at last.
One such was Made tho • other day
by eminent bacteriologists, who
have been engaged entirely in the
last six months in research wort( at
the laboratory of the Royal College
of Surgeons, Imond.oe, under the
weapaces of the cancer rose:oath fund,
Drs. Murray and Bastifead, who were
among those appointed ireateetigators
refuse to give conflemedion to the
story. • Eathing, they de,claxe, is
being neglected by tdie cormitnattee,
and consequently mach reseatich .has
taken place with respect to incipient
CANCER IN LOWIlart ANMALS,
yet the causes of cancer in these
animals aro often of an entdoely dif-
ferent neutuee from those in man.
The parasitic conditions are different
while the treatment which would be
adopted and proves succesatul in the
cases of animals, could never be
applied to human beings.
The cancer cure, said one of the
Physicians, will never be dlecovered
by one man. When it is found it
will be by the continu.ous efforts of
every one engaged. One little clue
leads to another and nobody hides
anything or tries to hide anything
from his oollea.gu•ost It must be
noted, too, that there is not the
slightest intimation in the report
presented recently to the first an-
nual meeting of the Cancer Research
Fund Committee that any definite
results from the experiments are
immanent.
Prof. Duguet, an eminent Paris
physician and professor in the
French Academy of Medietne, de-
clares that the experiments hitherto
made have revealed nothing on
which .to base scientific treatment.
He says : "We are Still groping iti
the dara with regard to the revolt-
ed cures by the X-rays. My long
exporlence in. the largest hospitals in
Paris has made me most, sceptical.
Believe me, these 'cures' are not de-
finite."
The Middlesex Hospital in London.
is the pioneer in cancer research in
Great 13ritain. at receives eugges-
tione of cores from all parts of the
woo Id weekly. Many are fairly
tried, but aitherto with•out success.
The Middlesex Hospital doctors
authorize the positiVC statement
that, while they do not signet 111 at
they have effected anything like a
cure by means of the X-rays arid
Fagan light treatments, yet the
PAW IllA,S laattald ABOLTSIIIED.
Edison's experience of ill effects
frorn prolonged escroeure to the X-
rays is no new thing in the London
hospitals, where it has long been
faunl that the demonstrators who
are daily in the presen.ce of the rays
are liable to epithelioma, a Malig-
nant growth on tae skin which is
nearly allied to cancer. The work -
els in the radiograph department of
the London aospiteds are new on
an enforced Negation, with their
bands injuired, but this is not a
common eseperienre. Otte precaution.
taken in scone .of tee. Centenrenfal
hospitals is 'that of employing
leaden reireen when tatting radio-
graphs, so that only the necessary
surface than he exposed to 11 e Myst
This plan, it is thought by the Eng-
lish playsidane, is not necessary,
and the euggesilion that the opera-
tors wear leaden mittens is thought
to be impossible, as they. .woulcl
probably *destroy the medical pro-
perties of tbe rays.
Various newly disrovered ra,ys of
111.aecveentl3yeen es:
sculnlerdisinig tPbiOnnNe-rrtai.eyss
cowered by IS. They have
been found capable of raising the
lamthiosity of a glowing ROlift or
gas without reliving the temperature
thereof. Marc light without more
heat may be regarded as something
of a paradox. An article in the
Electrician, commenting on this,
says there seeme to be, tinder the
infieenee of the.N-rays, some modifi-
cation e of the akcerie vibrations
which,while leaving ••their energy
-
unaltered, inereases.their frequency.'
To any case, the fact itself is of
great importance and interest, Amy -
thing tending to itiereaee the lum-
inosity of a body at the (emerge of
ite temperature briegs its nena•or to
o solution of • the great problem of
the economical groduction of. light.
HE SAW PETER THE GREAT,
Leading Russian journals are draw-
ing attention to the fact that there
has been for some time in the hospi-
tal at Tomsk a man Who has lived
for more than 200 years. Knowing
that the public would be loth to be-
lieve such a story unless ample evi-
dence of its truth were forthcoming,
they further point out that they
have carefully examined his birth
and marriage certificates and can tes-
tify that his married life lasted rola: -111Hf'
ty-seven years and that Ile heel been •
a widower 125 years, This wonder-
ftil old man has been bedridden for
801130 Wile, but hie brain is ae clear
as ever, aed aothing pleases him
Moro than to tell visitors heee he
code had the good forttsae to See Pc
ter the Great aod Queues Cathode°,