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she says with an air of prosaic uslon- ginrillov°tit;ic"fogr(rikilitibill,; (11.111de
"And to thInk that is ant), April I"
snubs an officious little Italian boy who
Jell:neat. "feast April tve had four inches brings Amelia a ,5111011 handful of fl
snow-
ed ake 011 1110 front drive, it was ('35 pllickea out or tho emerald grass.
when Cecilia hurl tho mumps."
Amelia does not share her lover's un -
"When Cecilia had the mumps?" re. (witness, as Indeed why should sho?
peals Burgoyne In a rather Linea voice Sho puts the expected tip into the young
volon. "1 did not know hind Cecilia ant Tuscan
ever had the mumps." 's dirty brown hand, and leans
her head enjoying!), on the back. of the
This is the form Into which are frozen stone seat,
the love -words that the nightingale and "1 tante 1 like to -tome to these sort of
the perfume of the 'rumen flowers and places with you even better then to pic•
tho Ave Marfa had so nenriy brought to Lure galleries," she says with an Intone -
his tongue. Ifad Amelia known what an tion f „t„,sme =tent.
unwonted burst of tenderness her un-
lucky reminiscence had choked, she "Do you, dear?" replies ho absently,
would have regretted it probably with with his uneasy oyes still searching the
good deal deeper bitterness than would spot at which Cecilia and her escort had
ninny a W01111111 with a happier gill of disappeared. 'V course you are quite
utterance. si.lut she Is blessedly Ignorant right : 'God made the country, and man
of what Ceolittes mumps have robbed made the—' Ah I"
her, and presently again strikes athwart The sub.stileition of this ejaculation for
the nightingale's song with the placid the noun which usually concludes the
remark: proverb is due to the feet of the couple
"I like your friend very much; I think he is interested in, having come back
that she is a very nice woman." into sight, retracing their steps, and
This time Burgoyne hes no difficulty again approaching. It Is clam as they
in responding Immediately. Miss WII- come near that Um desire to explore the
son's first, epeech had so effectually villa grounds has given way, In this
chased Ills dreams that he can now re- case, to the el/sorption of co.nversatIon.
ply with commonplace kindliness With a long pang of dread, Jim's shar-
"She has just been button -holing me pend faculties realize, before they are
to make the sumo confidence about you." within earshot, that they have ex -
"And sire is so fond of you," continues changed the Ugh( and banal civilities
Amelia. • which had at nest employed thorn for
He laughs. talk of a much more intimate and inter -
"She has just confided to me that so esting character. Cecilia is generally
aro you;" then, with a hurried change of but an indifferent listener, greatly pre -
lone, in dread lest the last speech shall !erring to take the (bon's sham in any
call out some expression of tho mule dialogue; but now she is all silent Re-
pent passion always lurking in her tennon, only putting in, now and again,
patient eyes, ho adds lightly, "1 seem to a short eager question, while her com-
bo very generally beloved I" penion is obviously narrating -narrating
What effect the flat fatuity, as it seems gravely, and yet with a marked, relish.
to Jim himself, of this last observation Narrating what? Jim tells himself
has upon Amelia, does not appear, slime angrily that there are more stories than
she receives it in silence; and again the one In the world; that there Is no ran -
Aye Maria and the bird divide between son why, because Cecilia's clerical
them the province of sound. friend is relating to her something, it
As the great sun droops, the honey. must necessarily he that particular
suckle above thee' heads seems to give something which ho dreads so inex-
out more generously ils strong clean pressibly; but he strains hIs ears as they
sweetness. The rest of the party have pass to catch a sentence winch may re -
drifted away out, of sight and hearing; lieve or confirm his apprehensions. He
but by -and -bye their voices aro again has not to strain them long: It .is
heard and their returning forms seen. Cecilia who is speaking, and in her
As they draw near, 1 appears that their eagerness she has raised her voice.
original number of three has been aug- "you may depend upon ,no; 1 assure
monied by the addition of two men; you 1 am as safe as a church; if 1 had
end a still 11011/00 approach reveals who chosen I might have made a great deal
the two men ere. ells. Byng leads the of mischief In my day, but I never did.
*way, talking animatedly to Mr. Green- 1 always said that she had a history. I
ock, who is evidently an old acquain- de not pretend to be � physiognomist,
lance, Byng trails after them by hlm• but I said so the first tame I saw her. I
self, and tho rear Is brought up by knew that they came front Devonshire.
Cecilia and a portly clerically -dressed I assure you I am as sale as a church 1"
ilmire, whom 1101 111 01300 recognizes ss It is clear that the clergyman's bate -
the Devonshire clergyman, his failure in lion, already perhaps more coy than
obtaining information about, whom hes real, is unable to withstand the earnest -
embittered and lldgeted his whole day. nese of Cecilia's asseverations of her
Hero then is the opportunity be hes own trustworthiness. Flo has already
sought, brought, to his very hend. And opened his mouth to respond when an
yet his first feeling, as he sees 1110 corn- unexpected interruption arrests the
placeni priestly face, and the deliberate strewn of ids eloquence. Jim has sprung
block legs pacing beside Cecilia, is 0310 from his bench, anct thrust himself un -
elf dismay. There is nothing unlikely In ceremoniously between the two interlo-
the supposition tha1 he may have been cubs'.
presented to her at, the garden -party at "Come and see the wistaria," he says,
the Ballosguerdo villa, and yet he now brusquely addressing the girl; "you
realizes with a shock of surprise that were not More with 11,0 when WO were
they are acquainted, and, if acquainted, Iookbng at 11, were, you? You were
lima at liberty to converse upon whale molar/Ming the other day that wistaria
ever subject may best recommend itself has no scent ; come and smell 11 1"
le them. He is absolutely powerless to 11 is in vain that Cecilia protests that
put any check upon their talk, and yet she has already seen quite as much of
at this very moment he may be narrate the wistaria as she wishee; that she had
ing to her that story which his own never dented the pelmet, of its perfume;
loyalty had forbidden h1n1 to overhear. lila her legs nre giving away beneath
The first couple has passed, so absorbed her from fatigue. Jim marches her re-
in cape question and answer that they lentlessly away, nor does ho again quit
do not even see Burgoyne and his be- her side until he sees her safely seated
trailed. Mrs. Byng left London only 111 the flacre which is to carry her home.
three days ego, end. J11. Greenock It Is Indeed his portion to have a tele•a.
might, velum thither at any moment that tete drive back to Florence with her,
be chooses, and yet they QM talking of Byng having absently stepped (1110 the
it with a wistful fondness that might, vehicle which beam tho other ladies, Ho
have beseerned Dante questioning some draws a long breath as tlrey jog slowly
chance wayfarer to leateenna 118 IO 1110 wily from the villa, leaving the clergy.
prosperity of his Florence. The second man taking oft his Lail hat, with a
pairs voices are lower pitched, and their balled and offended air of farewell. lie
totem therefore less easy to ascertain, is conscious that Cecilia is swelling be -
yet by Cecilia's gratified and even hope- side him with feelings no less wounded,
(et ate they aro evidently agreeable ones. even for some moments before she
But though agreeable, there Is no evi- peaks.
delve ot their being, by meth electing "You rather cut your own throat," she
ser and eye, of tbe nature he decade. sive, in an affronted voice, "eaten you
They also are so absorbed in each other interrupted me and Mn Burton so 18(10.
es to have no attention to spare for the ly; as was an the point of telling me
quiet silent persons sitting on the stone something very interesting about your
bench. dear friends 1110 Le Marehants; he knows
Amelia looks after them with a bens- all about them; he has known Elizabeth
11)1"4 amlle• Her sense of mentor is over since she was a child."
neither keen nor quick, 1)111 hero is a Even across Jim's Warm and anxiety
touch of very mild sarcasm In her volce, there 000105 a flash of Indignation and
as she says, watching her sisters re- distaste at the familia' employment of
healing figure: the name null, even to himself he only
"Cecilia has found a now friend, a pronounces on his heart's knees.
clergyman again; do you know what his "Who is Elizabeth? Do you mean
rime is?" Miss Le Merchant?"
I believe it is Burton or Breton, er "Me Burton talked of hee as 'Eliza -
smelting of the sort," replies re- belbe" replies Cecilia, with a still more
leotanily, feeling as If even In admitting offended accent, 0( 1130 rebuke III
knowledge of the stranger's surname 3m (do words; "one naturally would of a
erns letting eta a dangerous secret. "I person whom one had known 111 short
should have thought tart she had had 'frocks."
enough of the Church," he adds with a "And he -he tad you Something very
very much more pronounced bunt of interesting ahoul, het'?"
Salim than Miss Wileen's. "She has not "No, ho did nol," returns Cecilia snap-
teken my advice Of sticking to the 'laity. p1,s1113', "he had not the chance; ho was
Shall eye -shall 1,1,0 10110W 1110111 7" just beginning when you rushed bit liko
This last stiggestlen is the result of a a bull 111 0 0111na MIN),
and now" -`111
vaffliC, Uneasy feeling that, by keeping key of excessive \'00301100- '1 shall pro-
wililIn elirsbele 3m MeY etececise 001110 trebly never have another chance of
cheek upon the conversation,
"Why shottld we?" reptiles Amelia rhoc'eavtil"ng' 08 110 ImV" ri'"enee
for one in her nth running confer to Jim's heart gives 11 honied. "Levo
a proposition 01 1)00 lover's, and turning Etheeece to -m00000', does he?" he re-
bel' moot/ eyes affectionately upon hi101 ,peats eagerly,
'300 010 0° well here, are net, we? affil" "1, do not know why you should eeeM
-latighlrig-PWG 8110113d spoil WA" ace delighted to heer le" rejoins Cedilla, t
/es J'en can allege no odectuato reaSen looking at him from under her smart
ter pursuing coma and her latest, spoil, het, with a mixture of 5101)0100 and re- d
110 turtvillIngly in Itequieece, and to sonlment. "1 do not see anything pan, •
Content himself with following 1110111 tkiularly oxlilleratheg In losing an agrece
With Ma 03300, 10 gale what reeSsintance ebb acquaintance atinost as soon as 01)0he eat front the expreseion of their has Made 111' .
theks. But the. peaceful if melancholy. eperhape-perIMPS Wes a 111(00
efelitilltees that Ind Marked the bet, atom," aye JIM, set, to 00M0 extent, o
pet of his abode en the stone seat is on his guard, by her evident astonish. (1
morn nt the keenness of his Interest I
I he sit hi eel ; "Perim pen •- beginning to
laugh -"lie only said 11 lo frighten you;
why do you think that ho is leaviug
Mosinee to -morrow le
"Beeintee he told me so," amewere she
Impatiently; "he Is at lho (blind Bre•
logos, and he web 00-01pInInIng of not,
being eninfortable there, and 1 wee ad-
vising hint to tuove to another hotel,
and he sale, 'Oh, no, IL tuns not wurth
while, as he wire leavIng eeesince to
morrow.'".
Jim drnws a long breath, and 10110S
book in iris corner of the nacre, lin hes
gained the Mewl:nation Iro eought. 111,03
come to kb hand at the very lime he
was (hitting moat at his inability to go
In cittr>st 01 M.
"go your interruption was the more
peovulcing," continues Cecilia, her tudig•
nation puffing oul, and Palling its fett•
them at the reeullection of her wrongs,
"as I1 was our last chance of ineellnet ;
however, you cut your own Latent, as he
evidently knew something very Interest.
ing about your dear friends, something
which he does not generally tett peoele,
and which ho would not have told me
only that he saw at 01100 1 was no blab."
Jim shivers. [fe had only just been In
time then -only Just In time to slop lho
inouth of this blatant backbiter in
priest's raiment. His companion looks
at him curiously.
"Are you cold," she asks, "or did a
goose walk over your grave? Why did
you shiver?"
Ile pulls himself together. "I was
shivering," he says, compelling hitnself
to assume the rallying tone in which he
Is apt to address the girl beside him,
"at the thought of the pelt I had saved
you from. My poor Cts, have not you
and I suffered enough already at the
hands 01 1110 Church?"
She reddens. 'Though I do not pre-
tend to ani great sensitiveness on the
subject, 1 think you have worn that old
joke nearly off Its legs."
But during the rest of the drive she
utters no further /anent over her lost
clergyman.
(To be continued).
DEATH FOLLOWS MARRIAGE.
Seventeen.yenr Courtship Ended by the
Iland of Death.
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n oNAA.Amovvrk~"Aue,,,,kpAen ions of the rnmt COnservallcr are net, IM
iri all rases, a sale guide. The only lie MERRY OLD
ON THE Ftql.NI. S1001 Is by the sluw grindiug uf individu-
r sally determinate method by which the
41.11010 111111 IS attainable perteining to
this elfin/portant feature of thebni
el experience.
A singularly sad story was that, un-
folded by the inquest held by Dr. E. C.
Hart on the body of Mrs. William
Junes, who died at Victoria, 13. C., alter
a few hours' Illness.
13!i'3. Jones was formerly Mess Flor-
ence Stringer of Staffordshire, England,
and 17 years ago Kr. Jones end she
were companions as boy and girl. Some
years ago Mr. Jones went te Victoria
and entered into business as an auc-
tioneer, and during the past four years
had corresponded faithfully with his old-
time sweetheart with a view to matri-
mony. Al last Miss Stringer arrived,
end Rey. Mr. Ard made her the wife
of her childhood companion. Twenty-
five hours later she was dead, having
sucettmbed to a sudden hemorrhage of
the braln.
These are but. a few incidents In this
lead enang romance, which seems to
hove been replete with mlsfortunes al-
most from Miss the time Stringer left
England. in crossing the continent she
lost her purse containing her ticket,
baggage, checks, money, and other be-
longings, and for a week was placed in
the Home of the Friendless In St. Paul.
1; was while In the waiting -room of the
big railway depot in that city that the
bag disappeared. She had to watt there
three home to connect with the Great
Northern train going west, and an hour
ea this time had elapsed when the loss
eves discovered. Miss Stringer then fell
Into the hands of the matron, by whom
she was removed to the Institution. In
the meanwhile a telegram bad been sent
en to Mr. Jones, but the latter leaving
gone to Seattle to meet Ills fiancee, was
eller* patiently awaiting her coming
while the telegram was lying uncalled
for in VIctoria. Mr. Jones remained In
Seattle flee days, and then returning
to Victor•la, found the message with its
d istracting note. Then the wires were
again put in motion, and it was not,
for two days that his bride-to-be could be
located. She had telegraphed to her
brothers in Philadelphia, whom she had
visitor] before undertaking the overland
journey, but by the same singular mis-
fortune which pursued her during the
trip they could not en reached.
All these troubles weighed heavily, en
the young woman, who was totally' ig-
norant, of the conditions of travel on
this onnlinent, and it is believed great-
ly affected her health. 'fa add to her
mteeries on arrival her baggage had
*riot arrived, and so far has not beentraced,
traced, although the Great Northern
Railway Company Is clang all In Rs
power to locate this, as also the hand-
bag stolen at the station in SL Paul.
CLAIMS TO CURE FEVER.
Se•iss Professor Says Me Mos Discovered
a Remedy.
Prof. Koller, . of Berne Universitet, in
collaboration with Prof. Wasserman, of
Berlin, has cifecovered, a serum cure for
cerehecespinal meningitis (spotted fever),
even in acute stages. Prof, Koller com-
municated his discovery recently to a
meeting of the Medical Society of Berne,
He gave exareptes of complete cures.
After injection of the serum, ho stated,
the patient's fever ceased almost instant,-
ly, and recovery followed within a fort-
night.
Epidemie eereero-spinal meningitis,
OT "spotted feller," which has quite TO-
oently ravaged pates o/ Germeny, has
for lIs Chief symptoms convelefons, con,
stent vomiting and severe etendache,
followed frequeraly, if the patient r0.
covers, by paralysis. 11 is said that
strong men are 001)00101133 tusceptible 1,0
lt, and that the Most amnion ago of
contraction is between 20 ancl 211.
Death frequently takes place only feW
hours after the attack. , •
Mabel-"Illanche, aro you going to ac-
cept Mr. Oldboy?" Blanoh0-"Yes; 1
Innit so." Mabel -"But hes three times
as old 00 you are," Blanche -"But he
oes harmonize so bettutiftelly with my
antique ftumiture."
"1 Eke dear little bales before they
1000 learhect to talk -darn you, Mr,
mythe?" "Indeed I do. Before they
rave learned te tette there is no danger
UMW pattentS tellteg you the r0mar11-
1)10 things they Itave said.
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THE POULTRY YARD.
No animals on the farm are more alert
in the murteng end mere anitems to
rise early than the poultry, webs a
ccrreepondent, When kepi In dirty rind
evil -smelling !mem it may be their In-
stinet for self-preservatinn makes them
anxious to get Into the open air, but
they havo also a keen interest [lug the
early minis OM other ellebits of wadi
they are mold fond are not uvailahl
long after slurried The. desire for II;
open-ar and the natured foods of the
elegy morning Indere, tha dealra 111
early rising snottier and wInier. Those •
who keep their fowls shut up 1111 long
after tire sun is up, or probably seven
or eight o'clock, deny them much that
is 01 the highest benefit to therm Irt
the summer season It is a good plan
to allow an weld to remain open all
night that tho fowls can have liberty et
daylight, unless vermin prohibits this,
but in winter, conditions aro altogether
different, and must he met accordingly.
The early mornings, as a rule, are mug-
fei and chilly. To let tho fowls oulfruni
a warm night -house into such an atinoe-
pimp° is very trying for them. There
are few grubs to induce activity, and
they only mope about longing for their
warm brealdast, and if not kept In Ull
the temperature rises and their comfort -
Ing and sustaining breakfast supplied
at once they will be in a very unsatis-
factory state and not, lay to pay their
way and leave profit.
To add to their comfort the Interior
of their home ehould be invariably
clean and sweet,. In such nn atmos-
phere they will never experience any
setbacks If detained in it until the open
alt has lost its early morning rawness,
Probably this may be at 8 a.m. or a little
later, according to tho weather. Some
may ask on considering the drift of my
contentions, 11 11 would not be best to
feed them In the holm and let them
havo !bele breakfast early or at daylight.
In rough weather this would he a de-
cided advantage, and they would enjoy
and pront by it; but do not throw the
food down on the dirty floor. This
would be a great waste. ft should be
put In dishes or shallow and narrow
troughs. But I would only adopt this
plan in rough weather, as they relish
their food more keenly in the open If
circumstances are in favor of this. These
remarks apply more particularly to lay-
ing hens and all capable of laying, and
others being fattened too, as comfort.
adds much to the quickness and efficacy
of accomplishtng this. Ducks and geese
ere more hardy, particularly the latter.
Turkeys are great. lands for the open
air. They do not appreciate indoor feed.
Ing, and while shelter in the 'morning
is beneficial to them too, feeding need
hardly ever be attempted till they are
liberated..
CREAM SEPARATORS.
The efficiency of a cream separator
depends upon. the manner of its opera-
tion, and (1 ihts work Is to be uniform
it must be uniformly worked. In other
words, the directions accompanyieg the
machine when bought must, be faithful-
ly followed if good results aro obtain-
ed at all times.
A recent bulletin from the United
States Department of Agriculture en-
titled "Butter Making on the Farm," de-
votes a good deal of space to the oper-
ation of cream separators, and from it
is submitted the following summary
points to be observed in running one:
"Fest. The speed of the seperator
must be uniform and up to the stand-
ard required by the makers of that par-
ticular machine.
"Second. The temperature of the male
should he such as will make it flow
Deathly; the warmer 11 15 tho more per -
led 'ill bo the separation.
"Third. The amount of milk that Is
run through the machine should remain
constant, and should not be increased
cohvien,
rethat which is intended for the mu -
"Fourth. The machine should be set
on a solid base or foundation, so that
there will bo no jar or slinking about
as it. Is turned, such as would tend to
interfere with 1110 even now of the milk
through the bowl and ants destroy Its
efficiency in skimming,
"Fifth. The separator must be kept
thoroughly and scrupulously clean, par-
ticular care being taken that none 01 1110
tubes through which the milk flows be-
come obstructed he any wny.
"Sixth. The test of the cream can 1 a
readily changed by changing either the
cretun outlet or the Skim Intik outlet,
"In the mechanical operanon of a
machine none hut Lhe hest of all should
re used, and this should 1301 1)0 allowed -
to gum or become dirty on the hearinge.
It Is good practice to flush the bear-
ings with kerosene occasionally by mak-
frig a run with kerosene 111 the oil cups.
This will serve tb cut out any gum it
dust that has acctimulated in the bear.
Ings, and will melee the machine run
much trent. and 00,8IPIN 111110 greatly in-
creasing the length 0( 1(11)0 that it will
Iasi, and do perfect Worth"
CHOICE VARIETIES OF APPLES.
Whatever variety gives greatest as.
suranco of Success in the business is
the variety to plant and grow, writhe
Mr. 3, W. Kerr, Fruit growers have
long been aocustomed to, end bear with
good natured coMposure, the frequent
dinning into their ears the Injunction
to endeavor to educate the publio Ingle
to a preference for fruits only of the
higher quality. It must not leo over-
looked . that teaehing the pUblie and
growing apples aro two separate and
very distinet oecupations,
Corn= sense businese principles
imperatively decree that he shall grow
such Vaelefiee as yield the largest cash
returns on his investment If Ben
Davis hest Mode such cesentials, the
grower Mulct lack husinese Wisdom 11
he did not grow it. While personally
1 Weald not like to he found In polite
dOelety With a Ben Davis apple 10 111y
[reelect, there aro nUmbarlese, Inmdreds
)l ante peemle whoeie estimate of this
1)111011 Wised apple differs Widely from
mine• The question d( varletleS Is one
overflowing with deception, The opia.
A LABRADOR MAtkcAnwEn,
Mute of One Hundred Mlles for Ten
Dollars oTrip.
The inall-earrier of the Labrador coast
le a me of endurance who does not
fear bit woret of weenier. There is no
rind nt all. There are no bridges and
no (mese in some parts of the country
the bums; ere as mutt as twenty nines
111,011, 'nevi are mountains to climb
and riveter to cross, bogs to piles, i81•
penetrable barren uplands and large
lakes. In "Off the Rocks" Deetor (then -
Me [elle of ono mail -carrier whose route
about one hundred miles long, and
who revolves as compensation ten dol-
lars a II.117.
We were pitying ourselves one night
as we turned into our reinforlable
sleeping -hags on the floor of on,' hoet's
but -pitying ourselves became tt had
been a heavy day on our dogs, and it
11115 nearly ten o'clock before we reached
'Metier. When I awoke in the morning,
air the gray dawn was stealing in
Through the little window, I thought 1
heard a movement by the stove. There
seemed something almost uncanny
Wenn it until 1 made out what it was,
owl could distinguish a any, erect
figure sitting bolt upright where none
had been avernight.
It proved to he Peter Wright. He
had arrived about two in the morning,
noiselessly stationed himself by the
Stove, and gone straight off to eleep,
sitting on the settle, without a, word to
any one, as satisfied as if he were 10
a feather bed.
Nov this place was where three car-
riers meet. The cat from the westward
was inte, end Pele did not, get his mails
handed over until Mlle in the evening.
He lied thirty miles to his next station,
001(1 the temperature was twenty 1)13.
1w zero. At ten Ile roso to go.
"What, Pete, never going to leave
at this time of night, are you?"
"Why sure,' he replied. "With a
moon like this 'Hs better in the woods
than whea skeeters are about. So long,
doctor!" and with that he went out ab-
etelutely alone.
Pete is always ready to oblige, and
!never happier than when the space ,.n
his back, ordinarily monopolized by his
bundle, permits him to carry a ten -
pound tub of butterine or a couple fit
jars of molasses, just to oblige. It
Isn't for the money alone that Pete
"rItizis'
slecicy he does not have to pay
hotel bills as he journeys from place
I,: place. There would be little left t
the salary beyond enough for "skin
boots" if Ito were charged for meals.
But there are no hotel bills on the coast,
and we are incapable of an idea sa ori-
ginal as to ask Pete to pay for anything.
ORIENTAL cmusn.
Indian Lawyer's Defense of a Woman
Cie
The "baboo IlingliishnL
"of India is usual-
ly commercial; but recently a baboo
lawyer offered a delicious example in
his defense of a women client.
She was amused ot an essault, but he
endeavored to show that she herself had
been assaulted, and had suffered damage
of the most conspicuous feature of her
countenance.
"My learned friend with mere wind
from a teapot tanks to browheat• Inc
from my legs," he assailed; he had pro-
bably a "tempest in a teapot," in mind.
"I only seek,' he continued. earnestly,
"lo place my bone of contention clearly
in your honor's eye.
"3-fy learned friend vainly rune amuck
upon the sheet -anchors of my case. My
poor clienthas been deprived of some of
her valuable leather (skin), the leather of
her nose. Unlit the witness explains
what bemire of my client's nose -leather
Ile comet he believed; Ile cannot be al-
lowed to raise a castle in the air by
beating upo11 a hush,"
We are riot told whether its plea evon
the lady her case. But another rising
Oriental of a liberal prothssion.--that of
journalism -must, have attained the de-
sired end, and raised the &relation of
his paper, which he publishes and ad-
vertises in Siam.
"The netvs of English we tell the
latest," lie announced. "Writ in per-
fectly style and most earliest. leo a
murder gib commit wo hear of and tell
11. Do a mighty chief die, WO 1/111111811 it
and in borders of Sembre, Sian has
each ono been to college and wrae like
the Nippling or the Dickene, We circle
every town and extortionate not for ad-
vertisements. Buy 111 Buy 111 Tell
each of you its greatness for good."
Nearly thirty per cent of all flowers
OM \vitae.
ENGLAND
NEWS RY MAR. ABOUT JOI1N DULL
AND (08 P001041.
4.1•••••••
Occurrences In Die Land 'Flint Wiens
Supreme In the Commercial
World.
The Olympia games of 1008 are I 0
lake place in London.
The Lord Mayor of London's recent
visit to Parts cost that, city 41,/1,10.
The export of British bulldogs to
America is exceedingly brisk jUst now.
For food the Untted Kingdom pays
the United Stales over 4e4,000,000
yeerly•
The lace trade In Nottingham is ex-
hibiting remarkable activity at present.
The value of the trade of the United
Kingdom was last year 972 millions
sterling.
Since the Birmlngliam Crematorium
WAS opened in October, 1903, there have
been GO cremetions there.
England has three times as manY
murder trials annually as Ireland, and
(Mend about twice es many as Scot-
land.
Damage estimated at 420,000 was
caused by fire recently at the woolen
mill of 3. Brown & Co., of Yeadon, neer
Bradford,
Outside the Guards there is not a
single Infantry battalion In the British
army with such an average bight es
the London Scottish.
In East Lancashire a ,colton mill,
which was offered a few years ago for
47,000, but failed to and a purchaser,
has just been sold for £17,000.
During the ten months of last year
the revenue of the Manchester Ship
Canal has shown an increase al the
rate of £1,000 per week over the cor-
responding period of last year.
The searchlights of the new battle-
ship Dreadnought are of an entirely new
type, and are double•ended, so that the
beans of llght can be sent in two di-
rections at the same time.
The broad-minded Archdeacon of
Birmingham says: -"I confess 1 am In
favor of danoes-even under the pat-
ronage of the clergy. They may lead
ctotaterevh11.;gobinugt.,5,0 may anything -even
"Seeing that you and I were once
neighbors, you might let me oft this
time," said a woman at Leeds, when
asked by a magistrate whether she had
anything to say regarding a chargo of
being drunk.
The Prince of Wales, president a
King Edward's Hospital Fund for Lon-
don, has received trom Mr. and Mrs.
Bishoffshelm a donation of £10,000 to
the fund in commemoration of their
golden wedding.
Owing to tee influence of athletics 00
1110 911330113110 of girls, the desks In
use ten .years ago at the, Tunbridge
Wells High school have had to be
raised several inches to accommodate
present -clay scholars.
Much to the regret of the Countess of
Essex, who was Miss Adele Grant, the
Earl has decided to sell his country
seat, Cassiobury Park, HerethrdshIre,
one of the most hostorth and magnifi-
cent estates in England.
The Nobel Prize for Physics, for the
past year, has been awarded to Mr.
Joseph John Thomson, the Cambridge
Professor of Experimental Physics, a
chair he has held since 1884. It is un-
derstood that the value of the prize
amounts to something like £8,000.
Neither James Bryce nor John Burns,
the two members 01 (133) British Cabinet
who have most to do with the questien
of the unemployed, favors unproductive
of unnecessary labor schemes cm the
part of the Government. Mr. Bryce has
declared, In reference to the Irish prob-
lem, that he will have no public works
simply for the purpose of affording
relief.
ROUGH ON THE KIRK RATS,
ft was a young Seas fired sermon ',I-
le- he method his license, end unfortu-
nately he beeame very nervous, lost
=trot of his voice, and spoke very
loudly indeed.
Nearly all his friends went to hear
him peonoh; but one who was unable
to attend inquired at Lhe first opportun-
ity as to how he got on.
"ffil tell ye one thing," was the candid
eeply, "it's many a day since the rats
irt Boullon Kirk got such a fright!"
•
A. lady with a discontented face en -
tend a doctor's consulting roma, and
wearily sank into a chair, "011, doc-
tor, I feel so weak," she began. "What
is your advice?" "Rest, madam," re-
plied the physician, after a slight ex.
amtnalion. "But haven't you any medi-
eine you can give me? Just look at my
tongue." "Yes," said the doctor, "that
needs a rest, too."
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together.
The girl who takes Scoef,s Ernal-
aion has plenty of rich, red blood; she is
plump, active and energetic.
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The reason is that at a period whena
digestion is weak Scoit'a Ennzaston
provides her with powerful t ourishment in
easily digested form.
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It is a food that builds and keeps up a
girl's strength.
ALL billiCIOISTS 300o Ake.
40/44101044/1040048446.000444$
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111
I HEALTH
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COUNTRY HYGIENE.
In comparing the health of country
people and city dwellers, one is Often
Impressed by the very slight difference
between the two,
One would naturally suppose that the
inhabitants of large cities, subject to
overcrowding, dirt and dust and smoke,
and tire severity of the struggle for ex-
istenee insmarable from life in such
communities, would fall ready victims
to disease; and that their countrybre-
thren, enjoying the Isolation, the pure
air and bright sun, and the 111000 simple
life, would escape the gum -diseases at
Mast, or would be better able to resist
them if attaelced,
Ceastiffilelloni esPeclally, to which pure
alt is such a the, ought to 1/0 0 disease
of the city only -as purely a town dis-
ease as yellow fever is a disease of the
hoptos, The farmer spends much of hls
time in the open air and Ms house
stands by itself, exposed to the ath on
01 sldi-1, and usually bathed in .stinlighe
the greater part of the day; yet lubercu-.
Iasis prevails alarmingly in many rural
districts, and scourges the family of the
farmer as relentlessly as it does the
dwellers in olty tenements.
The evident reason for this is that
there is many a farmhouse winch, al-
though it has pure air all about it, is a
sealed box. The men of the family are
outdoors In summer from sunrise to
sunset, but from sunset to sunrise
many families sleep In a house from
which air is excluded as carefully es
11 11 were polson-as, Indeed, the night
air is believed by many to he.
The women are housed most of the
time, and many of them being "good
old-fashioned housekeepers," they are at
pains to keep the windows closed to
exclude dust, and the shades drawn 10
keep out the sunlight, which fades their
carpets.
Many a farmhouse is indeed a germs'
paradise. Once a case of consumption
starts, it is a miracle if any member
,capee.
Things are improving in the country,
for modern farmers are good readers,
and are learning of the wonderful pro-
perties of tresh atr; but, there is still
need of hygienic missionaries to preach
open windows day and night.
The water -supply is another source
of disease too olten ignored In the coun-
try. Typhoid fever Is as much a dis-
ease at the country, M its Inception, ea
consumption is a disease of the city. If
proper care were exercised by country
dwellers to secure a pure water-supplye
and to prevent the I:Mutton of soil and
streams, the mortality statistics of the
einem would show .a remarkable im-
provement, as city people must get
water from rivers and streams fed by
the drainings of rural communities. -
Youth's Companion.
THE ABUSE OF THE INDOORS.
Houses were made for shelter, not for
confinement; for freedom, not restmict.
They were intended to enlarge our
sphere of activities, not to diminish
them. After food they are the first te-
quisite-the nest trace of himself which
man imposes upon the newel world,
and the most prlmitive and lasting evi-
dence of the handiwork which grows
into all the arts of all the centuries,
They foster the family and make 1)10.
gross posende, but we should not abuse
their protection. We have crawled
away into their still and comfortable
recesses, slept in their dry, clean cham-
bers, toasted ourselves over their shel-
tered fires, read by their unilickering
lights and eaten from their bountiful
boards so long that we are grown Pale,
timid, peevish and thankless withal.
We have kept ourselves away from
the wind and the sun and the lashing
ran, from the feel of the earth under
foot and the sense of the leaves and
stars overhead unlit we no longer know
the keen and simple joys of being alive.
We have set up barriere against the in-
clemency of nature and cowered before
her eevere austerity until 11031 we have
forgotten how indispensable is all her
kindly nurture; 13030 10010 her rugged
ways, how full of solace her assuaging
calm. Houses were may made to Ilvo
in when it is too cold or too hot or too
wet, to live out of doors. Any other
time out of doors is best. Ta sleep out
((3 (100138 for a month is better than a
trip to Europe.
FOOTBATH FOR INVALID.
A football is often a source of great
relief and comfort to a sick person. To
glee 11, cover the lower halt of the bed
with a largo piece of oilcloth, then'
place a football wah 0 small remount
of water or a medium temperature en
it on the bed, Let the 90(1011( 110 on his
back, and bending the knees, place his
feet In the tub. The knees can be sup-
ported if necessary by an attendant;
cover the tub and knees with an old
blanket, having plated a board over the
tub to keep the blanket out of the water.
The patient can now 116 there and
thoroughly enjoy his bath.. The wider
can be heated from time to time by.
adding none hot water. Al the close
of the bath cool the water to •one bun.
deed degrees, lift the feet out into tow.
els, and dry them quickly.
DIFFERENT 1111011 •MOST.
"Str," said the angry customer to the
furniture mover0
, "those mon you sent
with the van to (eke nry goods to irlY
new house were most ponder, are you
ewe they're all quite sane?" '
"Are they?" replied the other. "Why
am surprised to hear such an accuse.
tioiony 04%1111110sta. no'k,?y,liat makes you think
"Because they soled so oddly. limy
didn't eVen break a tritreor or 0 slain.
cite, they did not scratch lho pinna,
and they 11l1e11,0 failed to pack the lace
cuertaine with the kitchen tgenalls,"
"Felwara," said Li busy mother', "juet
sq. nee towel at Ike nro,,, net. $0060.
yeaorold son held the towel In front al
ilre for 801116 (Imo, "Mother, /3
done when 11s brownt" lie at length ltt.
qUiredo.w1111 ali ilia issosorkes 'of youth,
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