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"People situated as I am can't
expect to aecape tittle-tattle in some
form or other," she continued loft-
ily. "I rxat :•w perfectly well how
every w01110n who hunts is condemn-
ed beforehand. She is dubbed mas-
culine and unfeminine, while nearly
every man she comes across congra-
tulates himself in his heart of hearts
that his wife, his sister, his woman-
ly
omanly belongings do not join in the
pursuit, but aro content tosit at
home stitching their eyes out over
a piece of trumpery fancy needle-
work, tinkling the last new waltz
upon the piano, or enfeebling their
mental faculties by the perusal of
worthless and highly sensational
novels. Do not the vast majority of
men and women fail to see because a
girl is high-spirited and independent,
she need not necessarily be lacking
all feminine attributes, and because
she can put a horse fairly well at a
fence, is fond of sport, and all hon-
est, healthy, outdoor pastimes, it
does not by any means follow that
she has unsexed herself and laid all
womanhood aside. If I speak warm-
ly it is because I feel warmly on
this subject. Now, according to my
notions, the pursuit of the fox calls
forth, firstly, courage; secondly,
cool judgment; thirdly, presence of
mind, and that sort of independence
which teaches a person to rely upon
him or herself alone. Will any one
deny the excellence of such qualities?
A woman who hunts, and who hunts
well, is not likely to scream and
faint away like a log directly any
accident occurs—will not talk, but
act—not hinder, but help—not lose
her head at trifles, but in every
emergency has all her wits about
her, and, if necessary, is calculated
to steer her own course with toler-
able coolness and dexterity through
the varied shoals of life."
. "Moral. No man, therefore, ought
to marry unless the lady of his
choice be qualified to scamper over
fences at the risk of life and limb.
According to your theory, Kate, I'm
afraid my chances of matrimony are
well-nigh nil. A fireside and a cat
comprise my future prospects."
"Don't forget the man," interrupt-
ed Kate playfully. "You are one of
those sweet, yielding individuals who
could never encounter the world
without masculine assistance and
support. But to return to the sub-
ject under discussion. If we really
go to Sport Lodge, I'll tell you
what I'll do. I'll stick a large pla-
card on my back, and print on it
in enormous letters, 'Beware. I'm
a most improper young person; I
hunt.' That ought to satisfy every-
one's scruples."
"Kate, Kate, you are incor-
rigible!" laughed Mary Whitbread.
"Argument becomes impossible when
opposed to such levity. But serious-
ly, don't you think you are going
ahead just a little bit too fast? You
seem to have decided straight away
that Sport Lodge is to be our future
destination. Under these circum-
' stances it is useless my entering any
further protest. Nevertheless, I fear
you may be disappointed."
"Well," said Kate, "it's a funny
thing, but somehow or other I have
a curious presentiment, too strong
to be accounted for, that Sport
Lodge will see us this winter. You
know, Mary, what a fancy I've al-
ways had for going to that part of
the world and seeing first-rate hunt-
ing. An overwhelming desire pos-
sesses me to behold a bona fide
Huntingshire oxer and a genuine
blackthorn bullfinch. You don't
hunt or care for the sport, and
wonder often at what you term my
enthusiasm; but I tell you, you miss
one of the greatest, if not the great-
est, pleasures in life by not doing so.
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It is a simply glorious sensation,
mounted on the back of a thorough
good horse, to go bounding over
each intervening obstacle. At every
fence left behind, every easy sweep-
ing stride, the spirit rises. The
blood warms in the veins, a delicious
glow of pleasurable excitement, in-
tensified by the element of danger,
pervades the whole frame, you set
your teeth, cram your hat on your
head, forget every care in the world,
and, intoxicated with the brief trans-
port of present joy, ride like," paus-
ing breathless in search of a suitable
metaphor, "like old Harry. There
is nothing in the world to compare
with it."
"It strikes mo your hobby -horse
runs away with its mistress alto-
gether," observed Mary Whitbread
with a species of semi -indulgent sar-
casm.
"Alt( you should hear Captain
Fitzgerald on the subject of hunt-
ing," continued Kate, now thorough-
ly roused. "You know he has hunt-
ed everywhere -Cheshire, Gloucester-
shire, Ireland, the Vale, Bicest•er,
etc.. etc.—and he says that for a
real good all-round sporting coun-
try, with wild, straight -running fox-
es; for the finest grass and fairest
flying fences in England; for a steady
workmanlike pack of hounds, who
can both hunt their fox in the good
old style. sticking to him with pa-
tience and perseverance, and yet go
the pace when required, whose noses,
speed, dash, and stoutness are un-
deniable; and for a huntsman who
never turns his head from mortal
thing, who has the eye of a hawk.
the seat of a centaur, and the heart
of a lion—give him the Critchley("
And Kate. as she finished speaking,
looked up with the light of a thor-
ough enthusiast shining in her great
grey eyes, and her whole face spark-
ling with that animation and joyous
belief in the good things of the fu-
ture which is one of the most preci-
ous attributes of ,youth and, it must
be added, inexperience. She could
depict to herself the delights of safe-
ly negotiating the most formidable
obstacles, but the reverse side of
the picture—the tumbles, the vexa-
tions. the accidents, and the broken
bones—never found even the smallest
dwelling -place in her imagination.
CHAPTER II,
"Ohl So that is Captain Fitzger-
ald's experience, is it?" returned
Mary. "Poor little man! I am not
particularly fond of him, but doubt-
less he took his dismissal to heart,
and retired quite as much discom-
fited as the majority of Miss Brew-
ser's admirers."
At this speech of Mary's Miss
Browser reddened perceptibly. She
had indeed. a short time ago, refus-
ed the gallant Captain, but was not
aware that her friend bad discovered
the fact. Now, however, it appeared
useless to attempt denial.
"Miss Brewser's admirers have a
bad time of it," she observed de-
murely.
"That state of things may not en-
dure for ever," said Mary.
"Yes it will. The fact is, I don't
seem to care about men. They bore!
me, after a certain point is
reached. They are all very
well to talk to and sharpen
one's wits upon, but my predilections
end there. There are exceptions, of
course, to every rule, but the ma-
jority of the young men I come
across are a weak, selfish, and lux-
urious lot, living only to gratify
their tastes and their own inclina-
tions. Pleasure, not duty or honest
wholesome work, is the goal of their
aspirations, the aim and object of
lives which are frivolous and com-
monplace. When they contemplate•
matrimony they do not consider or
seek the welfare of the girl, but
their own. 'How much money has
she? How much can she contribute
to our ease, how little detract from
our requirements?' These appear to
me the principal ideas permeating
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as I am, and therefore require great
inducements to offect any ehango in
txty position. Seriously, ((Wary, it
seems to me there is little or none
of the old heroin sphit left .row -a-
days. Tho spirit that breathed in
such men as Raleigh, Sir RIchard
Grenfell, Cook, i eluuxbus; the intre-
pidity, the restless craving for dis-
tinction which in those times impel-
led men to action; the chivalry, the
stern sense of honor, accompanied
by that bulldog pluck and capacity
for righting which' made England's
name what it was --seem slowly .fad-
ing away, absorbed by the luxury
and effeminacy of an ever-increasing
civilization. The free nomadic spirit
that taught us to be self-reliant and
self -dependent is dying out, giving
place to a fatal ease and slothful-
ness. Instead of being able to shift
for themselves, ladies and gentlemen
in these days require constant wait-
ing upon and attendance. They can-
not do withopt their valets and
Choir ladies' maids. ,Mentally and
physically they are little better than
big, grown-up babies."
"True wisdom, to my mind, con-
sists in. making the best of things as
they are," remarked Mary, to whom
Kate's strivings after an ideal per-
fection appeared highly chimerical.
"You and I can't alter the world by
grumbling at it, and I dare say peo-
ple are not more degenerate now -a -
days than formerly. As for Captain
Fitzgerald, he is no worse than his
neighbors, and I znust say you are
altogether too hard on his sex,"
"Am I? I think nat. I fail to see
why Captain Fitzgerald should . be
considered an object worthy my pity.
He is far too fond of number one
ever to care for anybody else as
much as he does for that all-import-
ant personage, and, according to
my old-fashioned, or perhaps roman-
tic, notions, when a man marries,
his wife ought to occupy the fore-.
most place in his thoughts. Now,
Captain Fitzgerald simply looked
upon me as a harmless, inoffensive
sort of girl, who, as she possessed
a satisfactory number of thousands a
year, justified him in disposing of
his dapper, divinely tailored person,
soft. dropping moustachel curly eye-
lashes, and killing blue eyes in the
matrimonial market, thinking by so
doing to gain some material ad-
vantage. No doubt, had I been a
properly minded young person I
should have perceived and been duly
grateful for the vast honor thus con-
ferred. As it was, my perverse dis-
position made me look upon the
whole affair in the light of an ordin-
ary bargain, into which neither af-
fection, mutual respect, or esteem
were allowed to enter, being regard-
ed as entirely superfluous. Well, the
bargain, did not suit pie, and no-
thing more remained to be said. No
doubt my taste was lamentably bad.
Nevertheless, the fact remained. Had
I been a Hottentot Venus, with a
sufficient number of money -bags
hanging round my waist, Captain
Fitzgerald would have proposed just
the same. I, as an individual, had
nothing to do with the offer; lucre
lone being the attraction. You may
say I ought not to think such things,
but how can I help doing so when
they are so self.evident? I can't
go through the world with my eyes
shut, and in keeping them open they
are apt to see too clearly. And, in
my opinion, a man who seeks a wo-
man for the sake of her fortune, and
strives to shelter himself at her ex-
pease, is lucky if he escape without
incurring her deep contempt."
And Kate, recalling the discomfited
guardsman's amazement and incredu-
lity, and the utter bewilderment with
which he had received his conge,
laughed a bitter little laugh that
sounded strangely from the fresh
young lips.
"Now, Kate, it is my turn to be
angry," said Mary Whitbread, who
had listened to this oration with
symptoms of marked disapproval,
rendered still more conspicuous when
the lords of creation were under
sweeping condemnation. "After all,
there is good in everybody, and often
we only are to blame for not dis-
covering the merits of others, T
am quite sure if we were as keen to
do so as we are to pick holes, the
world would be a much pleasanter
place than it is. Now you, individu-
ally, have worked yourself up into
the absurd belief that, because you
!happen to be an heiress possessed of
a handsome fortune and good yearly
income, nobody will ever care for
your own self, just as if you were
some horrid old frump, instead of. a
well,never mind what; it won't do to
make you too conceited. Anyhow,
such a notion is preposterous, and
if you go on encouraging these fool-
ish ideas, your money, instead of
proving a blessing, will end by be-
ing nothing but a curse. Your be-
lief in human nature will grow weak-
er and weaker, disinterested affection
appear an impossibility, until final-
ly the crown will bo set on this hap-
py state of things by your driving
from your side some straightforward
and honest fellow who loves you
dearly, and which sentiment in your
heart of hearts you reciprocate. Oh,
Kate! take warning in time."
Mary Whitbread spoke with such
unusual earnestness that, in spite of
herself, Kate felt moved.
"When that extraordinary occur-
rence comes about," she answered,
with a half -incredulous sigh, "either
somebody falling genuinely in love
with me, or me falling genuinely in
love with somebody, I'Il give you
due notice of the fact, Mar.
y In
the meantime, all ]t can say is such
a contingency appears highly remote
and I am perfectly content to re-
main in my present state of spin-
sterhood.
pin-
ster oo 1. Ask
h c you note I like e m
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own - way, and, what's morn am
used to having it; and I often think
it would require an immense amount
of devotion to render me amenable
to the dictates of a husband. No,
no; depend upon it I am better as I
am. Bat, Mary, since you plead so
speciously in favor of matrimony,
and ; give such sage advice, I ani
more than half inclined to believe
you yourself are earboring seine
lelestri breast of it, confess on the
aper,'"
"1 have nothing to confess," said
Mary, with evident truth, though the
tell-tale blood rushed to her fair
cheeks; for Kate's remark recalled
the one solitary romance of her pure
but uneventful, life, when, in olden
days, a certain long-legged, lank -
haired, narrow -shouldered, telescope -
reeked curate had lain himself—not
;his fortune, for he had none, but
just himself—at her feet, and sworn
.undying, unalterable affection. Tho
t episcopalian demonstration had been
nipped in the bud, nipped before the
poor fragile blossom had had tuna
'to expand in the sunlight of ansteer•-
ting love. Mary's father, since dead,
was a practical man, who promptly
;dismissed the idea of bliss in a cot-
; tago on twopence a year as a lunar -
tic hallucination bordering on down -
fight madness. The unfortunate
wooer, though ardent in the face op
opposition, became timorous and
blighted, and after a melancholy in-
torview, during which tears were
freely shod on either side, took a
long and last farewell of his ina-
morata. But the gentle Mary, hav-
ing once tasted the sweetness and
known the importance of being con-
sidered a. Dulcinea in a pair of mas-
culine eyes, continued to cherish sen-
timental recollections of the past,
( which, united to a species of vague
(indulgence towards the opposite sex,
!rendered her consciously, though
modestly, hopeful of a future time
when some other candidate might
step forward and ask her to become
the sharer of his joys and partner of
his life.
"Why, Mary, you are blushing!
positively blushing!" exclaimed Kate
in mischevious glee. "You dread-
(ful little hypocrite. I am more con-
firmed than ever in my opinion that
!you have a sneaking sort of hanker-
ing after a dual existence. Fie, for
shame! What sentimental follies aro
;you cherishing in that foolish head?"
'tender mood, put her arm round
So saying, Rate, in an unusually
Mary Whitbread's nock, and kissed
.the sweet pale face held up to her
own.
The conversation somehow seemed
to have affected them both,' for there
was a tear glistening in Mary's eye
as she said-
"Oh, Kate! how can I ever thank
you for all your kindness?"
"By not making the smallest al-
lusion to it. But now, instead of
talking any more nonsense, lot us re-
turn to the subject of Sport Lodge
from which we have indeed wandered
far. If you will consent to waive
your objection to its unfortunate
name, I had bettor sit down at
once and write to Messrs. Brown,
Fulton, and Son."
"I do not think my objection—as
you call it—was really formidable,
Kate. It was made more in fun than
in earnest."
"Bravo. You funny little person!
You quite took mo in by the gravity
with which you protested. However,
all's well that ends well. You have
bad your say and I mine; therefore
Ave both feel considerably relieved.
Some of my ideas are rather crude,
!no doubt, and it is a good thing for
me, your putting an occasional
Icheck upon them. As it is, we argue
and wrangle until between us we
manage to strike upon a vein of tol-
erably good common-sense. So now
for the ferreous letter."
Whereupon Kate Browser sat down
to write to Messrs. Brown, Fulton,
and Son at Foxington, aftor the
fashion of her sex, demanding every
possible and impossible particular
concerning Sport Lodge, and speci-
fying a certain day, in the event of
a favorable reply, on which it would
please her majesty to run down
and personally inspect the premises
before taking the residence on lease,
for on that point her mind was
quite made up. She intended to dq-
vote the forthcoming winter to the
pursuit of the fox, and for carrying
out such an intention, what place
could possibly be more convenient,
handy, and suitable than the famous
Foxington, celebrated from time im-
memorial in all annals of the chase?
(To be continued.)
BIRD LIVES ON WARN DIET.
Papabote That Eats Spanish Fly
Is a Table Delicacy.
Ono would scarcely suppose that a
bird that fattened itself on an insect
which will blister your flesh almost
as quickly as the burning head of a
parlor match would be much of a
table luxury, but there is such a bird.
It is called the papabote, and it
belongs to the plover family. It is
about the size of the woodcock,
with a sober gray plumage and a
short, hard bill. The coming of the
Spanish fly upon the foliage in the
localities it frequents is sudden and
mysterious. No one knows whence it
comes or whither it goes. It disap-
pears as mysteriously as it comes. It
is a most destructive insect, coming
in countless myriads, and eats rav-
enously of growing things. But the
papabote comes with it, stays until
the fly disappears, and consumes mil-
lions of the pest. The birds grow so
fat on this corrosive insect that
they become literally balls covered
with feathers. When they fall before
the gun of the hunter they burst
open like over -ripe fruit.
Theapabote is the shyest of
i� n Y
birds, and can be a nI.>roached within
gunshot • in only one way, for, un-
like all known game birds, it will
not crouch to the clog. It is heavy
of wing, keen of sight and hearing
and rises Ion before the hunter is
g
resembling i this
m range,osemb ng n respect
your common meadow lark. It can
be shot in no really sportsmanlike
way, and only by using a horse and
wagon. The bird will permit a horse
to walk quite close to it, and the
hunters take advantage of this and
in open buggies and spring wagons
ride about among the feeding grounds
and, drop the birds as they rise on
avers"' aide iu eaaatt i•antta.
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COLD AND ATIL' K,
Dairymen at the present time un-
derstand that milk is sure to con-
tain beet/aria, in greater or less num-
bers, and that these bacteria are the
cause of the various changes charac-
terizing the spoiling of milk. It is
the typo of bacteria known as lacti
bacteria that is responsible for . the
souring of milk, and all of the other
changes which aro liable to prove
troublesome to the dairyman, slimy
milk, bitter milk, etc., etc,, aro to-
day well known to be duo also to
bacteria in the milk. It is not sim-
ply the presence of bacteria in the
milk that produces these changes,
but rather their growth and multi-
plication. If they did not multiply
at all, the milk would not sate•; the
more rapidly they multiply, the
quicker the changes of the milk take
place; the longer the growth may bo
delayed and the slower it is, the
longer tho milk may be retained in
its fresh condition, 'these facts aro
fundamental phenomena associated
with the keeping of milk, and every
milk man should therefore understand
as a foundation of dairy practice,
that the keeping of milk is depend-
ent upon preventing or checking the
multiplication of bacteria, rather
than upon simply preventing their
presence in milk.
A second fact which is not so thor-
oughly appreciated, but . is equally
true, is that the rapidity of growth
of all species of bacteria is depend-
ent upon temperature. Within cer-
tain limits, the rate of multiplica-
tion rises with the increase and falls
with the decrease in temperature, At
a temperature of freezing, bacteria
do not grow at all, and milk, there-
fore, if frozen, may be kept indefin-
itely without • any changes taking
place therein.
If the milk is kept at a few de-
grees above freezing, the growth of
bacteria begins, but at low tempera-
tures this growth is extremely slow.
As the temperature rises, the rapid-
ity of bacterial growth increases.
When the temperature reaches 70
degrees, bacteria grows very rapidly;
at a temperature of 80 degrees to
90 degrees they grow more rapidly
still; and at a temperature of about
100 degrees the growth of some spec-
ies of bacteria is most rapid of all.
All this is generally understood,
but it is not generally recognized
that if the temperature is raised
somewhere above these higher limits,
the bacteria do not grow so rapidly.
If the temperature is raised to 120
degrees, most of these organisms find
conditions unfavorable to their life,
and grow very slowly; indeed many
of them cease to grow at all. At
temperatures above this the ordin-
ary milk bacteria entirely fail to
develop. From these facts it will
be seen that in general the growth
of the kinds of bacteria that produce
trouble in milk, will be found be-
tween temperatures of freezing and
a little above 100 P., and that the
greater the temperature within these
limits, the more rapid is the develop-.
ment of the bacteria, and hence the
more rapid the spoiling of the milk.
From these facts of course it fol-
lows that the keeping of milk will be
very closely dependent upon tem-
perature. At high temperatures (90
deg.) milk will sour very rapidly. At
somewhat lower temperatures (70 de-
grees), the souring is not quite so.
rapid, but, still it takes place in a
comparatively few hours. At lower
temperatures still, in the vicinity of
freezing, the souring and all other
changes may he delayed for a long
time; and if milk can be frozen, it
may be retainocl indefinitely without
any appreciable change taking place
in it.
MOULD ON BUTTER.
Following is a copy of some sug-
gestions made by the Montreal Pro-
duce Merchants' Associations as to
points to be covered in a circular to
be issued by Prof. J. W. Robertson,
the dairy commissioner, to butter -
markers and patrons with a view as
to the prevention of mould on but-
ter.
Factories should be thoroughly
cleaned by liberal whitewashing with
lime and the use of any other ger-
micide that experience can suggest.
As daenpwood is a hotbed for
breeding and disseminating spores of
various kinds, care should be taken
to have the work of factoriesal-
ways sound and dry, carefully re-
moving all clamp and decaying piec-
es, particularly from the floors and
gutters. Drainage should be carried
away from the factory beyond smell-
ing distance by water -tight vented
and trapped drains.
Factory refrigerators should be
kept as dry as possible and nothing
but sound wood allowed to remain
in their structures.
Particular care should bs taken
that butter boxes are made only of
thoroughly seasoned wood carefully
and properly paralleled.
Only the best and purest parch-
ment paper should be used for lin-
ing the bookes. This paper while
awaiting use should be kept in a
thoroughly dry, clean place; before
usedh n
o the butter it slroulcte care-
fully
are -
fully soaked in a solution of brine
and formalin. It ' should never be
applied lir a dry state; and parti-
cularly it should never be used after
beingw pure water.
wet with
Great care should bo takenin con-
veying
ke co -
veying better from the factory to
the railway station, It should be
exposed as little as possible and for
as short time as possible,
TILE WAY TO HANDLE MILK,
Extras and fancy grades of butter
cannot be made from milk full of
gerirls• The 'Ve3'> ee# bairy„iVet's
rules showing how to start right
en the' road to choice buttermstking.
The milker must be clean, and his
clothes .likewise, Beluga the udder
just before milking and wipe with a
Olean cloth or sponge. Milk quietly,
quickly and thoroughly. Throw
away into the gutter the few first
streams from each teat. Thismilk
is very watery, of very little value,
and is quite apt to injure. the remain-
der of the milk. Remove the milk
promptly from the stable to a clean,
dry room where the air is pure and
sweet.
Drain tho milk through a clean
flannel cloth, or through two or
three thicknesses of cheesecloth
Aerate and cool the milk as 80011 as
it is strained. The cooler it is, the
more souring is retarded, 1f cov-
ers are left off the cans, cover with
cloths or mosquito netting. Never
mix fresh milk with that which had
been cooled, • nor allow it to freeze.
Under no circumstances should any-
thing bo added to milk to prevent it
souring. Such doings violate the
laws of both God and man. Tho
chemicals which are used for this
purpose aro slow poisons. Cleanli-
ness and cold are the only preserva-
tives needed. In hot weather, jacket
the cans with a clean, wet blanket or
canvas when moved in a wagon.
Musty, sour food, dusty litter or
fodder should be out of the way at
milk -time,
RAISING- DAIRY CALVES.
The Pennsylvania experiment sta-
tion finds little difitculty, in raising
prime dairy calves without milk, af-
ter they are two weeks old. Tho cost
of raising calves ona milk substitute
up to the time they can be put on a
hay and grain ration, or when three
or four months old, need not exceed
X10, exclusive of caro. Calves from
high class, well-bred dairy stock
when raised in this way are worth
much more than they cost and are the
only means by which a milk dairy-
man can raise his herd to a high
standard.
FETICH DOCTORS.
Nen. Who Have Stirred Up a Re-
volt in the Free State.
A despatch from London says that
fetich doctors in the Loinaini district
of the Congo State, about 900 miles
from the .Atlantic have stirred up
many natives to revolt, fortifying
their courage to this point by incan-
tations which will render them in-
vulnerable to the bullets of the
whites.
Fetichism is recogeieed as an im-
pediment to progress on. the Congo.
Just as the Congo State has made
the cremes of slave raiding, canni-
balism and human sacrifices punish-
able with death, so it has placed the
artsof the fetich doctor on the list
of misdemeanors, and punishes these
men when they are caught plying
their trade.
These fe'laws live by their wits.
They keep alive faith in the efficacy
of charms, belief in witchcraft and
many other harmf.1 superstitions.
Any one is likely to be accused of
being a witch if be happens to have
property that is coveted by the
chief or the fetich doctor or has in-
curred the hatred of some one whom
the fetich man desires to please. The
natives believe that the person thus
accused is a wizard, and when he
takes the poison test, and staggers
and falls under the influence of the
drug, his guilt is considered as es-
tablished, and the bystanders rush
at him and beat him to death.
Dr. Bentley Gf the Baptist mis-
sioes wrote a while ago that many
hundreds of terrible stoties of this
kind with iutuch variety of detail
aright eafily bo collected. He told
of a case on the lower Congo where
eighteen men were compelled to suf-
fer death because a fetich doctor ac-
cused them of causing the death of
Mx men who had been drowned by
the upsetting of their canoe.
As fast as -tee influence of the Con-
go State is extended over its vast
domain the authorities are making
much trouble for the fetich doctor by
diminishing his prestige and punish-
ing Pim for practising his art. So
he regards white Hien as his special
enemies and, if possible, stirs up the
natives against them.
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MAN HAS PIG'S SKIN.
225 Inches of Porker's Cuticle
.Grafted on Patient.
Dr. Hamilton Browning, teacher of
clinical surgery in the University of
Virginia hospital, has succeeded in
grafting the skin of a 2 months old
pig upon a large surface of one of
the patients under his charge.
As a general rule, grafting is made
by taking the skin from the body of
the person upon whom the graft is
to be made, or from the bodies of
the generous persons • who are not
afraid of a little pain, Dr. Brown-
ing, however, could use neither of
these methods, as the surface to bo
grafted covered 225 square yards of
area on the thigh of the young man
patient, who had been injured in a
railway accident.
Two weeks elapsed before the
wound was ready for the operation.,
The treatment to which the pig was
subjected was thorough, if no more.
First the animal was shaved and
washed with warm water and green
soap. , Then it was rewashed in the
same way and a thick coat of the
green soap e was allowed t t o
remain
n
upon it' for hours, Next it
was
iv -
en
another thorough scrubbing with
green soap and alcohol. After this
its body was inclosed with a strong
bichlorideofmercuryn , i
poultice, which
h
was left on. for n a ten hours.
s
On the day
tb. o began the
pig was chloroformed and thin shav-
ings of skin were taken from it and
gently pressed upon the patient's
Wound by a nurse, The whole op-
eration required several days, but
the result was perfecta Within a few
months the 'young. znatt had a tyhofo
skin, had passed .a rigid examination
for , Iife insurance; . and kad resumed
tlaiw Watt-..
FARB ON BBTT S11 BI[IFS
.,.poor,
W.HAII.VES DESERTED AND
VESSELS ROTTING.
Foreign Craft Should Be Re-
stricted From Inter -Empire
Business,
'A great cry is going up frojb, all
over England and Scotland of the
tremendous decline of the shipping
Menem. No doubt it is, a fact
that this year is the worst experi-
lonced in more than a genoration,
perhaps In half a centuay in the
shipping business. The neon in the
trade in this city declare that Lon-
don has been hit worse than in a
hunched years.
The same reports come from Liv-
erpool, Glasgow, and other ports
that were once thriving flourish
ing seaport towns. Sthampton
teems to be the only city that has not
lost prestige, because extensive ship-
ping is only a modern development
there.
Shipping organizations are hard at
work concocting plans for a remedy-
ing of this trouble, and there are as
many plans as there are associations.
Tho London. and LiXerpool bodies
seem to have agreed on ono thing
that the laws affecting shipping and
commerce of Great Britain must be
reconstructed and made more ad-
vantageous to English ship owners.
Ono of the chief points is that a law
be passed like the United States
Coast Shipping Act. This Would
keep out all foreign vessels in •inter-
cmpire trade, and would give Eng-
lish shipping
TRE BIGGEST BOOST
it ever had. It is doubtful if such
a drastic law can be passed, but
there may be one of modified form,
such as prohibiting foreign trading
with ports in British Isles.
In London there is a dearth of car-
goes, although the freight rate never
was lower. Years ago nearly all the
tea for consumption in America. eras
sent from Japan and China by ray
of London. Now it is taken by
steamer either to San Francisco or
to New York, and products f, om
India, Ceylon, South Africa, Austra-
lia, and South America aro now cent
direct to their various destination.
Merchants in Bombay, for exam-
ple, who wish to ship goods to Ham-
burg, send round to the various offi-
ces, lump all their freight together,
and then charter a steamer to tale
it dix eat, instead of each mereetant'
sending his lot of 100 or 200 Fans
in a steamer to London.
Then, again, foreign steamsltil lines
have been established which traekt to
all parts of the world, and ,-G'these
were not in existence twenty y us
ago, when London was
A FLOURISHING PORT.
The load line in British ships•ck les
not want altering. It has saved the
lives of thousands of sailors since , ,-•
Plimsoll carried it in 1876. -Soiree
of the fum,s which achieved notoriety
for sending "coffin ships" to sea,
heavily insured, aro still flourishing
in the north of England, and would
do the same thing again if the woad
Line Act were repealed.
Ono of the leading shipping mot ed
London says the real remedy is inlet
"Stop foreign ships from entering
our ports and cutting down the
freight rates, which they are enabled
to do owing to subsidies, ovetload
ing, and cheap manning; or Ore make
them submit to our regulations are
pay the same dues and adopt the re-
cognized load line."
Tbe London, West India, South
West India, and East India docks
at Loudon are practically empty, seed
grass is growing on the quips, which
twenty years ago were pie wi.jh
merchandise waiting to be sent to
all parts of the world.
The sailing ship has almost '; e -
come extinct, and the few now in
port are lying idle for want of
freight. Property iu the neighb'ea
hood of the docks has decreased iu
value nearly 50 per ,cont.
The Blackwall Railway from I ea -
church street station, which traverses
the line of docks, runs only three
trains an hour during the day, aw.hg
to the
FALLING OFF IN TRAFFIC.,
Years ago the South West Irn'.ia
docks used to be so full of shipping
that vessels had to lay out unlil
there was a vacant berth.
The removal of the P. and O. fleet
from the Albert docks to Tilbury has
made a great difference to Cantil,
Town and North Woolwich, and'. the
Albert bids fair to share the fate of
the other docks farther up the river.
The spacious Victotia docks at'o
occupied by a few old cable -laying
steamers, waiting for a charter. Oc-
casionally an Allen liner comesin
to pick up cargo for Canada, but
that ends with the. closing of the .`t.
Lawrence River in the wir:ter. Tee
East India docks at Blackwall have
a few of the Castle Line steamers,
and one or twe sailing ships. Gen-
erally speaking, the scare throughout
the miles of London docks is ono of
utter s.
Fenchdeurclrolationstreet station is throng-
ed daily with Thames pilots waiting
to take vessels up or down the riv-
er, and the waterrnon's trade in
boat -plying and banging ' small res-
sols up to London has practically
vanished.
A RUNNING ACCOUNT:
Briefer, the soli.itor, 'was' angry.
It was easy to see that from the
viciousit
wayhe wasfillip 'n bill
r a 1
g
of
costs. s
Snip,
the tailor, had at
-
tt 1ly bed the impertinence to send
his bill in twice, and now his little
son bad come to demand the money.
"I am too busy to attend' to such
a small matter now,"tcs n
1
e
d.
r rr
relt0
1 your $Orn
arbor I' n
I'm not
going
run away."
Away, went. the' yo..t Leith • the
message, hut very soon he ibturned.
"rather says he must have teal
f
mn1tocenco.oney, picase,ad lie lisped in childish
'eeut, tut 1 Didn't toil tell hire X
was not going to rue away ?
• "Yes, lir. (lease, sir, 1 told hinx
that all eight; but to tel.! rue tat
tell you, sir, that he wears elf