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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Times, 1903-9-3, Page 6ecen egtedinnli 4,4011cf,a414 gotameittoliti entinfalen0 OB, THE WATERMAN'S SONS. riorney kissed his wife and. the baby, and went oh to the statien to Obtain leave of absence for a couple ef hours. CHAPTER XVIIL Wending his Way through the eS crowded streets, Joe soon. reached W the eloor of the house in Russell 19Square Which belonged to Airs. / Denman. The good lady lied made use of a ey cab after quitting Miss Demos, so lr% that she was at home and seated in a luxuriously easy chair in. her splen- didly furnished drawing -room when the iirenlan applied the knocker. "Does Mrs. Denman stop here, My dear?" said Joe to the smart ser - vont who opened the door. replied the girl, "and she told me to • show you up to the drawing -room whenever you came. Step this way." Joe pulled oir his cap and followed the mead, who Ushered him into the presence of the little old lady. "Pray • take,a, chair," said Mrs. Dennian, pointing to one which had evidently been placed close to hers on. purpose. "You are o fireman, I understand?" "Yes, ma'am," replied Joe, "I've bin mare nor tin years at the busi- ness now." "You must find it a very warm business, I should imagine," said Mrs. Denman, with a smile. "True for ye, ma'am. My body's bin annost burnt oh my sow l over and over again; but it's. cowld enough too sometimes, especially when you've got to watch the preme ises after the fire's bin put out of a cowld winter night, as 1 bad to do at your house, ma'am." Mrs. Deane= started and turned pale. "What! d' you mean to say that you were at the fire in—in Holborn that night?" "Indeed I do, Ma'am, Och! but yo must be ill, zua'ane, for Yer faeo is as white as a ghost. Shure but it's red note! Let me shout for some wather for ye, ma'am." "No, no, my good man," said Mrs. Denman, recovering herself a little. "I—I—the fact is, it did not occur • to me that you had been at that fire, else I would never—but no matter. You didn't see—see—any one saved, did you?" "See any ono saved, is it? Shure I did, an' yerself among the lot. Ochbut it's Frank Winders as knows how to do a thing nately. He brought ye out o' the windy, ma'am, on his showlder as handy as if ye'd bin a carpet -bag or a porkmanty. ina'am—" "Hush, man!" exclaimed poor Mrs. Denman, blushing scarlet, for she was a very sensitive •old lady; "I cannot, bear to think of it. But how could you know It was me? It —it—might have been anything—a. bundle, you know." "Not by no means," replied the candid Joe. "We see'd your shape quite plain, ma'am, for the blankit was tight round ye." Mrs. Denman covered her face with her hand at this point, and. resting her elbow on the arm of her chair, reflected that the thing was beyond remedy, and that. as the man had come and was now looking at her, matters could not be worse; so she resolved to carry out her original intention, and question him as to the best course of action in the event of fire. "My good man," she said, "I have taken the liberty of asking you to come here to tell me what I should do to guard against fire in future." Joe rubbed his nose and looked at the ground; then he stroked his chin and looked at the old lady; then a look of intelligence lighted up his ex- ressive countenance as he said brupt13,-- "Is yer house an' furniture insured, a'am?" Leu g4ceraseanaiiangergeCeteeleanneeQeSi<nle*Qe<inekeleSeineenafilie<endeiKalal CHAPTER XVII. eon.. "In. my opinloo," said Aire. Den - Mau "las being la the h•taniug house at- all Of his °tea accord, WaS of it, - Self evideuce of courage'. . I think the anima is a prove young Man." Time much Mrs. Denman said with aloitity to Miss Memos. -The remain - dee of her speech she addressed to Miss Tippet: - "But my.. dear, I feel that. an - though 1 awe this young man a -debt oi gratitude which el ean never repay, I 'shall never be able to look ray Preserver in the face, I know that -his nand . will always renert when he sees me, to the a—fig—the figura that he lifted out of that easy - chair, :But there is one thing I have resolved on," centime -0d the little old lady in more cheerful tones, as she asked for another cup of tea, "and that is, to get a fireman to instruct Me as to the best method of saving nny own life :Should lire again break out in my dwelling." " The Eagle gave a hysterical chuck- le at this. "I have already written to one who has been recemmentled to me as a shrewd man, and he is coming to call on me this very evening at .seven Mrs. Denman started, as if her oven leinark had recalled something, and pulled out her watch. "Why, it is almost half -past six!" she exclaimed,. ringing hastily. "Ex- cuse a 'alerted departure, Miss Dee - mus. Your society and sympathy" (she looked pointedly at Miss Tip- pet here) "hove been so agreeable that I did not observe how time was Good-bye, Miss Deemas. Goothovening, dear Miss Tippet." Miss Doemas bowed. "Good-bye, nay love," said Miss Tippet, bustling round her friend. "I'm so glad. to have met you, and I hope you'll come and see rae soon; O Poorthing Lane, remember. Come whenever you please, dear Mrs. Den- man. Yee, yes, time does indeed. five as you say; or as me- friend. Sir Ar- s chibald • What's-bie-natne used to re- I mark, •Tempit fugne something re- 6 wile t ee-isname. ' ood-bye, dear Mee. a Denman. Willie theladies were thus engage'el, one whom the Eagle would have tossed her beak at with supreme con- tempt. eras enjoying himself hi the bosom of his family. This was none as other than Joe Conley himself, who, having received a stop Inc a distant t fire, had looked in on his wife to tell her cif the note ho had received from. b Mrs. •Denman do believe, alr she hadn't . tutubled right over into the bucket, an'• all but drownded bereelf. But, you know, the station's net Inc Mr, if the: house dal git alight. i1iuro ye might run the, hose from the login 1. beim' her property—an' wan in Rus- sell Square. They say she's rich enough to lino her coffin with gold ut inch thick. Spakine 0' that, Molly my dear, a guar° thing hap minedto me the other night. It' what ye tall a coinsidence." "What's that, Joe!" "Well, 't ain't easy to explain, bu it means two things • happen& to gather in a most oolikely way—d'y see?" "No, 1 don't, Joe," replied Mrs Conley, helping herself to anothe slice of toast. "Well, it don't matter much," re- sumed Joe, "but. -this is what it was Mr. Dale an' me was sittin', a.bou two in the morninn at tho station y fire smokion our pipes (for it was m turn on duty) an' chattin' away about one thing an' another, when omehow we got upon tellin' our ex mriences, an' Dale he tons me a tory o' how he was once called to fire in a cemetery, an' had to go own among the coflins—for they wa, fire—an' what a fright some o' his men got, when, just as he had finish ed, an' all my flesh WAS creepin' at vot led heard, there conies a ring t the bell an' a call to a fire in ortland Street. runs an' gets out he Mein, an' Frank (he was my mate that. nigat) he rings up the oys, an' away we wint in tin miti- ttes. It Nvasn't far, an' when we ot there in we wint into. the house, hich was full o' smoke, but no fire o be seen. We wint coughin' and neezin' an' rubbin' our eyes down nto a cellar, Where the lads of an- ther ingine was at work before us i' the hand -pumps, an', would ye elaive it? but the walls o' that ced- ar was lined wi' 'coffins! True for e, there tloy was, all sizes, as hick as they could stand. I thought was dramina but it WaS no drame, or it was an undertaker's shop; an' hen 1 wipe, upstairs, after WC dis- ivered the lire an' put it out, I ees two coffins on tressels lyin' eady for use. Wan was black -paint - d wood, no doubt for a poor man, an' nothm' inside o' it. The other alongside was covered wid superfine black cloth an' silver -mounted hand- m les an' name -plate, an' it was all padded inside an' lined wid white satin!" "White satin, Joe? You're jokina" "As sure as your name's Molly, it was White satin," repeated Joe; "I wouldn't. have belaived it av I hadn't seen it; but that's the way the qual- ity goes to their graves. looks at the two coffins. as T. was comin' away, an' thinks I to myself, I won- der whether the poor or the rich man'll be most comfortable •when they're ltd there? "Now, Molly, I'll bid ye good -night to here without so much as drawl her Out o' the shed.—Now, then, Jo tay's ready, so fall to," Joe did fall to with the appetite of a man who knows what it is to toil hard, late, and early. Joe junior laid aside the helmet and poker, and did his duty at the viands like the true son of a fireman—not to say an Irishmana-and for five minutes or so the family enjoyed themselves In sil- ence. After that Joe senior heaved a sigh, and said that it would be about time for him to go and eee the old lady, "What can it be she wants?" aske Mrs. Corney."Don't know," replied her husbanc "All I know is that she's the ol Indy as was bundled neck and crop out et' the first -floor windy o' the house iu Hollecirn by Frank Winders. She's a quare meld woman that She's got two houses no lees; wa, over the coachmaker's shop—the silo a • The family bosom resided in a g smell portion of a small house in the small steeet where the fire -engine I dwelt. Joe had laid hie helmet on the table, and, having flung himself into a their, seized his efoungest child, a w little girl, in .his arms, raised her .b high above. his head and laughed in 1 Ler ince; at which the child chuckled Y and crowed to the best el its ability. t Meanwhile his eldeet son, Joe jun- I ler, immediately donaed the hehoet., f sand the poker, thrust the head of w it into it bucket of water, aud, point- k Ing the other end at a supposed fire, 's began to work an humaginary hand- r pump .with all his might. "It's goin' out, daddy," cried the urchin. "Sure he's .a true chip o' the owld block," observed his mother, who was preparing the evening meal of the family; "he's unconamon fond o' fire an' wather." 'Molly, my dear," said the fireman, "I'd have ye kape a sharp eye on that same chip, else his fondness for fire. may lead to more wather than yo'd wish for." bin thinkin' that same meself„ honey," replied Mrs. Conley, placing a pile of buttered toast on the table. "Shure didn't 1 kitch him puttin' a match to the straw bed the other day! Me only consolation is that every wan Itt the house knows how a to use the hand -pump. Ah, then, ye l‘f won't believe it, Joe; but 1 catched fl the baby at it this mornina no lat.- Ill er, an' she'd nave got it to work, I n bit off to see this owld lady, this rs. Denman. Look afther that boy, ow, an' kapo the matches out of s way, whativer ye do." With this very needful warning, Joe Last ri2 n g oFlt A Chronic Case of Unusual Severity Standing Cured by E' OINTME Piles, or hemorrhoids, are small tumors, which form in and about the orifice of the rectum. They are causer" by an enlaxgeel and inflamed oondition of the veins, which are very numerous in this portion of the body. Piles frequently attack we - men daring the expectant perio'd or after childbirth. Any form of piles causes dreadful suffering on account of tbe itching mid burping which accompany them. One can scarcely walk at times, mid ifuring the night, when the body gets warm, suffering is intense, Mr. Alex. McLaughlin for 1310 years it resident of Bo...Aimee:wine, Ont.„ writer!: "For twenty long years I suffered from !tolling piles, and only per- sons who nave been troubled with thatennoying disease ean imagine Whiat ereinured attiring that time. About 7 years ago I asked a druggist if he liOd atrYthing to cure me. Ile add tnaftle. Obeee's Ointment was Meat teetorerabler f/enskeh df, and sal and Long his recommendation I took a. box. “After three applications I felt bet- ter, and by the time I had used one box I was on a fair way to recov- ery. I continued the treatment un- til thoroughly cured, and / have not suffered any sin.ce. I am firmly con- vinced that the ointro.ent roade it se perfect sure. "I consider Dr, Oliase's Ointment an invaluable treatment for piles. ln my case I think the cure was re- markable eiithen you consider tbat I am getting up in years, an'el had been so long a Sufferer from this disease." Dr. Chane's Ointment is the only absolute and guaranteed cure for every form, of alias. It has a record of euree unparallolid in the hietory of mecliefue. 60 cents it box at all dealers or Intreanson, Bates & CO., Termite. To protect you apemen.. itnitations, the portrait and signet-, ture of Din A. W. Chase, the laanotte receipt book anther, aro on every "No, it is not," replied Mrs. Den- man. • "I have never insured in my life, because although I hear of fires every day in London, it has never oc- curred to me until lately that there was any probability of in house be- ing burned. I know it was very foolish of me, but I shall see to hav- ing it done directly." "That's right, ma'am " said Joe, with an approving nod. "If you see'd the heaps an' heaps o' splendid furnitur, an' goods an' buildin's as is burnt every day a'most in London, an' lost to the owners 'cause they grudged the few shillin's of insur- ance, or 'cause thzer was careless an' didn't b'lleve a fire would ever come to them, no matter how many might come to other folk, you'd insure yer house an' furnitur' first thing i' the monitor, ma'am." "I have no doubt you say what is quite correct, Mr. Corney, and I will certainly attend to this matter in future; but I am more particularly anxious to know how I should act if the house in which I live were to take Bre." "Get out of it as fast as possible," said Joe, prornptly, "an' screech out fire! till yer sides is sore." "But suppose," said Mrs. Den- man, with a faint smile'"that the fire is burning in the stair, and the house full of smoke„ what am I to do?" • "Och! I see yer drift now, ma'am," said Joe with a knowing look. "Ay it's that what ye wants to know, I'll just, with your lave, ma'am, give ye a small discourse on the subjic." Joe cleared his throat, and began ith the air of a man who knows what he is talking about. "It's as well, ma'am, to begin by tryin' to prevent yer house ketchloe fire—prevention bent' better nor cure. If ye'd kitpe clear o' that, there's two or throe small Mattere to re- el:denizen Pleat of all take oncome Mon good care 0' your matches, an' don't let the childer git at 'ern, if you've any in the house. Would you believe it, inseam, there was above fifty fires in London holt year that was known to ha' bin sot alight by childers playini wid Matches, or by careless servants lettin"em drop an' treadin' on 'em?" "Hoyt many?" aeked ldrs.. Penman in surprise, `Fifty, ma'am." "Dear Mel you amaze Me, I had Supposed there were not so Many fires is Louden in a year." "A Year 1" exclaimed Joe, "Why, there's nearly three fires, on, the av- erage, every twintyefour hours in London, an' that's about a thous- and fires- in the year, Ma'am." "Are you sure of wbat you say, lineman?" "Quite sure, Ma'am; ye can ax Mr. 137,14151sw. oposdomilloy,e dsouni'itinb" lateNsTtatlee''Of blank ainazernent, said that she did not doubt him, ancidnule him go an. "Well, then," resumed Joe, •"look 'ell meter yer xnatehes, an' niver read in bed; that's the way hundreds o' bouses get alight. When yoti light a candle with a bit o' paper, ma'am, don't throw it on the floor an' tramp on it an' think it's out, for many a time there's a small spark left, an' the wind as always blows along the floor sets it up, an' it ketones somethina and there you are—blazes an' holierine an' ingins vine full swing in no time. Then, ma'am, never go for to blow out yer gas, an' if there's an escape don't rest till ye get a gasfitter and find it out, But more particularly don't try to find it yerself with a candle. Och! if yen' only seen the blows -up as I've seen from gas, ye'd look better eater it. Not more nor two weeks gone by, ma'am, we was ealled to attend a fire which was caused by an escape o' gas. Wen we got there the fire was out, but sitch a mess you niver did see. It was a house, ma'am, in the West End, with the most illigant painted walls and cornices and gimcrack% idged all with goold. The family had just got into it—noo done up for 'em, only, by good luck, there wasn't much o' the furnitur' in. They had smelled a horrid smell o' gas for a goad while, but couldn't find it. At last the missis, she goes with a, workman an' a candle to look for it, an' sure enough they found it in a bath -room. It bad been escapill' a small closet at the ind o' the bath, and not bein' able to git out, for the door was a tight fit, it had gone away an' filled all the space be- tween the ceilin's an' floors, an' be- tween the lath, and plaster, and the walls. The moment the door in the bath -room was opened all this gas took light an' blowed up like gun- powder: The whole inner skin o' the beautiful drawing -room, ma'am, was blowed into the middle of the room. The cook, who was in the drawbe- rooni passage, she was blow'd down stairs; the workman as opened the little door, he was blow'd flat on his back; an' the missis as was standin' with her back to a door, she was lifted off her legs and blow -d right rtohorom, the doorway into a bed - (To be continued.) 4— CAUCASUS 'TRAGEDY. In the village of Bayandour, itt the Caucasus, lie -es a man named Ivan Aslamenoff, who a few weeks ago startled the community by cutting the throat of his 7 -months -old son on the threshold of the church. He was at once arrested and taken be- fore a judge, whereupon lie gave an extraordinary explanation of his conduct. A few years ago, he said, he was very sick, and one night St. John appeared to him in a dream and took him into a valley, where he saw God seated on a, throne of gold. Tlie Almiglity, he continued, then said to him : "Ivan, I will re- store your good health to you, but in time you will nave a. son, and as soon as he is 7 months old you must offer him up as a sacrifice." Asla,ma- zoff said that many times since then he had prayed God to spare his son, but that, as the Almighty nut'de no response, he considered it his duty to sacrifice him. Hie story made a 'deep impression on. the people, and the general opinion was that lie had acted like a saint and that tbe auth- orities hall no right to arrest him. Horne. e. aloneGA" aSnOar.etitae°13se.rver who In all things it is better to hope than despair.—G oethe. Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.—Sterne. Iellenoss travels very slowly, and poverty soon overtakes here—Hunter. Adversity borroiss its sharpest sting from our impatience.—Bishop can observe minutely without being observed.—Lae-ater. If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken, we monerns are building liouses for them.—A. B. Alcolet. Money 'dishonestly acquired is nev- er worth its cost, while a good con- b science never costs as much as,it is worth.—J. P. Senn. The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always 'doing =Ian- i mate small ones.—F. W. Robertson. eu To he humble to superiors is 'duty; t to equals, is courtesy; to inferiors, Is nobleness; and to all, safety; it ,being a virtue that, for all its low- liness, comniandeth those it stoops to.—Sir T. Moore, 4,0ieWhelearniatt eanaaallinlknenlannE4Olsn R FAR A ' $eiaeOnethia and PrOfiteitolo , Mate for the Betsy 'Miens .; I of the Soil. ECONOMIC FEEDING-. . 'The economic feediug of live stook does not mean the putting of ant - mals upon a starvation ration in order to save feed, or to make a eer staomedt inosuPPieuloo.rfeed reach over a p Economy in feed means the saving of feed from loss or extravagant use. The turning of stock into meadows and where they have access to hay stadia is a waste of feed, and therefore a violation of system and economical methods in handling live Stock. The shoveling of cora out into muddy yards for the hogs to gather up is not an observ- ance of economy, it is a waste or feed and a damage to the health of the swine. All grains and feed products of all kinds that are produced on the farm or brought onto the farm as com- mercial feeds have in feed value and should be turned to seine nccount ia maintaining the farm. stock, The economy of feed an.d feed produets on the farm is the great source of pro- fit in. farming. It inatters not how much is produced on the faam, irib is not harvested ancl properly taken care of to save it from loss and dam- age the farm industry will suffer and farming will be pronounced A FAILURE ON SUCH FARMS. The economical.- management of what is produced on the farm has as great a bearing , on profit as the growing of the crop. The study of live stock requirements is a neces- sity. Every farmer and handler of live stock should know, as nearly as can 'be, what the requirements are of the various kinds of feeds. This can only be had by instruotion and practical work among the farm. ani- mals. • During the grazing season it is an easy.matter to handle stock, give them the run of a pasture where they can get plenty of good pure water and a fill of grass and they will do well. But when winter comes and the pasture is gone, then a different programme is on. The pasture must be replaced by a substitute of pre- pared feed of some kind; hay, fodder, straw and other forage crops will serve to take the place of the pas- ture, if given in liberal quantities. Here 'is where a knowledge of feeds ie required in order to keep the flesh that the animals laid on during the summer from being wasted away during the feeding season. It matters not what plan is adopt- ed or permitted to go into use in the wintering of animals, that re- sults in the starving off of flesh, it is poor economy from A FEED STANDPOINT. ' It has been ascertained that the greatest profit in live stock growing is in the rapid development of the. animal; the more rapidly the young , thing is pushed forward into a fully I matured beast the greater profit. It would be folly to attempt to dis- prove this statement, so well ground- ed has been the evidence in its sup- port. The starving process that is now going on all over the stock rais- ing districts is the means of destroy- ing millions of dollars in live stock value, if the theory of constant growl h and development is to be accepted. It is economic feeding to give all animals liberally of such feeds as are available during (told and stormy weather. It will be economy to sell such stock as cannot be fully sup- plied with winter feed. 'The econom- ic feeding of stock can never be trac- ed to starvation methods, not in a single instance has this been attend- ed with other than loss and financi- al ruin. Economic feeding means lib- eral feeding without waste or loss. HOG NOTES. An overfat hog rarely proves a good breeder. A sow with a weak constitution will produce pigs with like defects. The sow, to give the vest return, should be in a good condition when bred. In a majority of cases it is easier to breed a scrub hog than to get rid of him. The highest breed with poor care will soon degenerate into the mean- est scrubs. The sleeping place of the hog hould be dry in summer if the est health is maintained. Usually the hog is a hard animal to cure when sick, but an easy one to keep well with proper care. The principal object in pig breed - ng is to obtain a large quantity of eat of good quality in. as short a ime as possible. While an aged sow, if properly cared for, will bring two good lit- ters •a year, to secure these she must be well fed all of. the time. Have a clean floor upon which to end hogs. It not only improves ealth but secures a much better uality of meat and at less cost. -To a very considerable extent, honever a pig is fed much beyond ight months, we are needlessly Mowing away profit. A pig that comes to his feed with rush Will nearly always give bet- tor returns for the food eaten than one that is so full that he must be stirred out, Generally young animals give a better return for food consumed than those which are matured, and this is espeeially the case with .pigs, Better ,bring in one or two 'Young sows at a time rather than to dis- card all of the old ones at one tiraBy°. having all ages and sizes to- gether in one feeding place the pro- fit from the hogs may be largely ro- dtTieohdo.. sow •-er boor that has nothirtg to recommend it but a good pedigree should be fatted. •and marketed as soon as POselbree CORRECTING A MIS APPRIEHiEhre SION. Yes, Johnnie, what is it 9" "Ma, isn't pa half bright ?" "Wily, what makee you ask such a c quesnion 1" "'Catesci I head Mr. Highball •Say that if pa were half blight he would a ne-t•er have married you." "Mr. Higaball is a bad men, Jobtinie. Your papa is one of the brightest men t is country ever produced." • Of the 16,000 islands scattered be- tWeen Madagascar and India, only about 000 are at present inlie.bitated. 11 pe PfPN'alte r`Ti risme ta mete sb.00 t and ease site cure ter ease and every term of itching, la ogling end pro treeing piles, The zesinufacterers flame ttaraf.oc.d it, 400 to tilT10)110.151 in the daily erees an fah rem Anglo eine, west Ibex, tetlek ern. Vial Can era it wed pastier meeeyfarback if net De ober, ell dealers or leeersotalienens Se we...reran* e Ora Chase'sitintro) tat. :IBLA,STS FROI RANT ROB] The, brood sow is nearly all o the time either sieelcing a litter 0 pigs or grannies' a litter, mo tbot ite food requires to be of muscle an bone growing nature. 4.Vt. P OULTRY NOTES. Do not feed stimulating foods. Hens must have grit and .clea quarters, Coudition powders aro nearly al Ways stimulating. Poultry cannat be kept healthy on wet grounds or in a damp quar- ters Hens having it free range are able to gather a variety of food. ,An overiett hen is in danger on apoplexy. Tho food should be sufficiently varied ' to keep tho fowls with a good appetite. Let the breeding fowls br as large active, and stylish as: poseible, .anc select hone that lay the largest eggs Exercise is a cheap medicine and cleanliness is a good dieinfectant. Fowls aro subject to Many disease geso,ale,tiopresc.ially when confined in close White few's, when dressed m ressed for ar kw et, do not show pin feather rnarks as do the black breeds. Intware of overfeeding. It is a variety of feed and. shell producing articles that bring the best results. The young fowls not intended far laying or breeding should be fatten- ed and marketed as soon as they can be got into n good condition. It is an aid maxim that if any defects are la the bird they will ap- pear when the now feathers come out after moultiog, PURE WATER. Wells should be Cemented Twelve Feet From the Top. Pune eaie wsali-elb'btaolitaale7gilni nursi theeIoiali- is not Mei equently polluted by mere neglect or ignorance. Well water is used by suca it laege numbtr of reoplo throughout the couartey that the careof the well sleauld be clearly underet ood. If. may easily become polluted and in many cases its pmeto is iather a matter or accident than design, For example, while deep wells are geom.- ally regal -tied as nuniehieg purer water iilian shallow wells, ti 0 ranee on is not always ploin why excep- tions enmelimes occur. If the ten) of it well be open so as to allow dirt to eater, or if the upper part of its walls beloosely built so that water from or near the sureace may enter it, it well, no nmater how deep becomes fouled by the entrance of 'decomposable. matorial. Henee a well is safe only when built of firm- ly cemented brick or stone for it WPC -aline of twelve feet or more from the top, aged it:should be Covered 90 as to prevent the entrance of 'dirt and. Surface water. Such a well Makes it certain that the Watm en it must be Mimed through at lariat tweve feet of soil. .atronted wider is that which •falls as loin and percolates through the soil until it reaalles it level at vildeb the earth is fully saturated. Nore its farther downward course is staved y impervioes strata, such as cloy or other natural impediments. A hollow in the earth which -is blow ground-watia. level becomes ilin ad. by the grael•ual oozing of water into it from the saturated non. This Is fine whether the depression be natural, as a spring, pond or lake, or Whetlicx it be of artificial con- stiruntion, as a well. The oroured-water lee -el VaT a -c- ementite to the a.motent of rainfall at any particular time, according to its comparative elevation with the immene nt ely surrounding t errito ry and the poroeity cif tite- soil itself, 'ose facts Amy that wells may be t•henSt mat ed at aney pouil, bu t that their 'depth May men to vary in order that their simply may be, unfailing. If water is fOlUld fa a shalliew eicipth it is all the mane important that censenvols and other poesible soirees of contamineetioo should be viewed at it elistanee remoned front the well. Organic materials tit harmful me- nu:re Mier but' slowly through soil, anal be- the exemine of simple pre- cautions, well water call he made the most omeatiantly pure source of 'drinking water •supply.—Youth's ' AN AWFUL CIMPASTROPHE. A young wife came to her mother- in-law with it heart -broken expres- sion recently and threw herself on the floor in the abandonment of grief. "Why, what is the matter, Mary ?" the elderly lady exclaimed. "Has anything happened to Will ?" "Oh, mother 1 He's takea staying out at nights 1" wailed the unhappy woman. “Row long has this been going on, my clear ? It doesn't seem pos- sible 1 I used to know all about my boy's babits, and he never went anywhere he shouldn't. How late does lie slay away ?" "You know he usually leaves the office at five o'clock, mother. On the night before last lie never got aorne until six, and last night the di'cin't set, foot in the house until twenty 'minutes past six. Oli, moth- er, mother, what shall I do ?" NOT A COIVIPLAVOSTe "1400k here," lie eaed to the groom "are you the Mita wbo gut the Peal- dke on Miss Jounio's horse ?" , ,"Yes, slr. Anything wnong, sir?" was loose—very loose. She had ria sooner inteuriteI 'than ;the saieepacl, mad if I Imtleft canght her she wcaircl liane been thecewn to the ground" "I'm very sorry, sir," StBkit I did catch hen," Went on the yelling man, ineiclitettivaly. "I Naught nor in my arms, and—Here's fifty cente for you, Jblin, nen suppose you could leiove the grata. loose When we go riding again tO- mentegew n't NANX TRUTHS IN 4VIGUAN- IVT.A.TIO PORN. Double Barrelled Sermona ne Line or Two ---The Ways of Nan, sOweapeides.olutifiadnout eicssearipttiaLtontsaufck eetsh.e :Sisritca jetrroytyl.s more than a moncli High spirituality chew not go with low morality, 1\fon do not erelaupdeertsbeie deserts by c Ile who runs may read so that he who reads may run. There is no reproath in the re- proach of a reprobate. Wo have no right to test another's habits by our personal taste• Philosopby can never take the place of philanthropy. A11" men aro generous with Mbar man's money. It is no use blowing up loner un- less you build up wisdom. Heavenly visions do not melee vise ionaxy mon. Flattery is it force well understood by Itt fiLillzies-ecer. worth wbile arguing about the religion You haven't got. A man does not stumble over the moral law until lie tries to cross it, Some men shout their convictions so as to silence their consciences, You cannot sing it long -meter pro- fession to it short -meter paactiice. It looks queer when the deacon looks up to heaven and drops an opera 'ticket into the °freeing. Blessed are they who bave God at the wheel before the hurricane of temptation reaches them. Christ shows His regard. for His body, the church, by His choregard for His body on the cross, The people who can speak in meet- ing are not always the ones who have most weight on the Street. It is not much use dragging a man fvom the devil he the saloon .if you are going to drop him at the door, Some ChriSi ions make a point of showing God's power to save the s sioleviolrby their power to save their The sugar -t o -the -saints and sue - phew -to -the -sinners' sermon has never saved any souls yet. The mon who serve the world are never worried as to \dialler you are we:telling their sraoke, Men would have more faith in God if theer saw more works in men. Same men eeek a clear track by- deetroying the signals of conscience. It will not do to promise God the faded flower when ITo asks for the belliad seats in glcay. Gravestones do not represent re- sA natn has no more religion in him than COMeS Old: of him. Salvation is not by culture but culture comes by salvation. The hungry heart is the only pay- ntrnt will take for the bead The grtunbling Christian is more greedy of God's goods than of His grace. The more we axe burdened with substance the greater shadow we 11 is easier to be forgotten than to Church morabersbip is not an ele- vator into heaven, The prayer without the heart can. never reach heaven. We are only good when we aro good for something. It is always easier to draw money out of a lean purse than out of a fat one. The most striking sertmon is usu- ally the one that hits the man who is not there. There is more forge in an lc eg than in a firecracker. Duty is the name we give tb what God calls opportunity. God will preerve the way of sethe church that observes. His will. Culture has never been much of it success as a means or consecration. Trial plus toil equals triumph. Bribers can always be bought. Life does not move by spuatts. To be without fear is to be with- out courage. It is always easier to feel that you love your neighbor across the ocean than to show that you love the one across the street. God sends our triumphs in 'Vie guise of trials, Big deeds are often bnt glees, while tbe little ones 'are diamonds. The tribute we receive is the sec- ret of the toleration We give to -evil.. The best flower of grace is the ono that scatters its seeds fartheot. The experience of sorrow gives the key of sympathy into other souls. It is always an easy matter to re- form the city?—if you live in the country. Heaven is deaf When the heart is dur. Thera are no necessary evils in a righteous world: A life -line is better than a "Speak- ing trurn.pat any 'day. 'You cannot • give men your love until you take off your glove.- The fruits of tbe saloon go back 't� its roots he the citizen. Often they who try' to uproot ristia,nity only shake down its hoit. Ch Subitaisaion is the secret of spiri- tual strength. Cheist is the first man wile dared face the future. The religion that is laid on Hie shelf soon gets mouldy. Spiritual visions are not given to slothful dreamers. Complaisance with sin is riot come panalon for the sinner. Better the water without the well than the well without the water. The indolent know nothing of rest. Innocence is negaaj ve; perfection P:osiitrlisevese,m . Iles ark the eteps of meten Old sedde 17111.&A brOlcal 1)C'd0r0 bieW life can begin, The slander we came) is lie Only, kind that clings to les. There IS no opportunity to ettatle the proofs of lira The 'devil's crown always Alpe dowel around „oar, nedee, earroen the Iianenii nr-