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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1907-8-22, Page 24.14-o-f-o4-o-41o.+04-04-04-es+-0+.04-cief o+-ce+-ce+o4-o4-04-e4-0- DARE OR, A SAD LIFE STORY 1 16-o4so-+-04 -404-oe+- .".0+0-9.0+-77-404370+04-0-0-o4-0-4-04-0+-04-04-0-+ • CHAPTE11 XNXVIII,-(Continued). The porter, having drawn the natural Internee that as soon as We travelles hue refreshed his body he will Wish to retire to rest, has pa out Ws lights In the smoking-rOom tho stile a manget is therefore the only room in the hotel where lamps still burn, mid Its it the Ina 0100 spend We dreary remaining lteurs of the night, 13yng walking up and down like a eaptIve beast, frequently going M the door, opening 11, putting his head out Inte the darkness, and listening sus- piciously if, perchance, he may hear the footfall of Elizabeth [teeing away from him even through the hurricane. As the time goes on, his restlessness inereaees rather than diminishes. Jim has vainly triedto distract his thoughts by putting , questions to lam as to his pursuits and companions since their last parting -by inquiries as to .the extent and direction of his travels. Did he get as far as Palestine? How leng is it three he left Cairo? etc. I3ut to ell his interrogations Byng gives brief and unsatisfactory answers, put- ting a final stop to them by breaking out excitedly : "Why do you go on questioning me as to where 1 have been, and what' 1 have done? I tell you 1 have been no- where, and done nothing; I believe that my body has been here and there, but my soul has been nowhere; it hae been lying dead I Would you expect' a man who has been lying six months in his coffin to give you a catalogue of his ad- ventures? My soul has been dead, I ten yell -dead' and putreeeent. What is the use of putting me through a catechism about its doings?" Before the long -delaying dawn shows 1.14 pale profile upon the deep obscurity, it seems to Jim as if six midwinter nigliee must have pieced themselves end 1e. ;mei. 1.3u1 it comes at last; and at Iasi also, by dint of strenuous represen- tations to his companion as to how un- fit he is, in his present travel -stained and disordered condition, to offer him- self to Elizabeth eyes, he induces him to let himself be led to the bedroom pre- pared over right for him, and to refresh himself with a bath and a change of clethes. Even thie concession he ob- tains only in exchange Mr an exacted premise to seek out Elizabeth at the 'earliest possible hour at which she may be presuined accessible, and urgently ti entreat of her an instant interview with his friend. lim feels that he is keeping ffis word handsomely when, not a minute later than nine o'clock he finds himself knocking at the ckior of the Le Mar - chant's apartment -that door with which of late his knuckles have grown so pleasantly and friendly familiar. It is Opened to him by Elizabeth herself, and he follows her silently Unough the ante- room into the little &aloe. Arrived there, he looks mournfully mond with a sort of feeling as of taking farewell of me familiar objects. itis impossible that Elizabeth can have sp.ent the just poet stormy night in gathering flowers, and yet the flowers have a freshened air. She must have been carefully re -arranging them .The, bits of brocade, too, the Turkish em- brolderies, the haiks, and the praying carpets, wem a move Metal appearance than usual: The Mlle roni leeks 'decked 0 for a gala. His jealous fancy can- not but admit that Elizabeth hereelf is dressed in her ordinary morning gown, but even over it some holiday transmu- ' 'lotion has passed. lin cannol trust him- self lo verify whether that holiday look is on her Mee too . "Ile has come; you know that, I sup- pose?" eyes.. What a enteh in her breath! He must steal a glence at her. She will think it . unnatural if he does not; end perhaps his eye may not be offended by so much radiance as he feared. In her VOiCe Were was something not very relent from a soh. Th•e result of his glance shows itself in what sounds like a re- proach, °I do not believe that you went to bed al nil," "Yes, I did! yes. I did fi hurrying away eagerly from Me subject of her- self, as from something kelevant and iniporlunatem "and -he -how is he? flow does he look? Had not lie a dread- ful (Tossing? Does he went to see me? to Nee me seen? to-dey?" There is such a breathless paeslon in her tone, coupled willi something so esielogelM for pulling her questions to him, that ffis heart Mitherlo 11011 touched, half angered by the pathos of her little preparations, melts wholly to- wards her, "Of course he wants lo See you -wants. 11 verys very much," replies. lie; nod, to his credit replies without any harsh- ness marring We cerdiel kinelnees of his tone. "As nmen es" -with a miller mel- ancholy smile -"yon went to see hint No, do not be finery. \\My should not yon wish to gee 01011 other'?" "OM there Is every reason 1" cries she 8111110 0088071 111111,•111e00 111'llys WRS, rising agile - tion -"where is it to be 7 11o' 80011 ' le hen does he wish Or is waiting outside now." Sim steels peinfully. "Now 1 011, poor fellow! We Must not keep . him welting; end yet"--- etrelehing out her hana f detention - "tell me beffi00 he conks we, is lie elianged 7 Is he? Is Ise the same as 10) NV8S 1" Titit 10781181CA, end the painful perplex - 1137 written 011 111.9 brOW 15 missend by bee. "You ere vexed with me Inc leasing ems-. with ea inimy tiresome queetions, 01). forgive me 1 1 ought. net to take Ads "eluting() of yorie kinditess; hut wo have grown to depend 'open you so ; end I eeni peoreise not 10 welpey you with any other, 0 you will answe0 ine this one. ls he chenged-muell Changed?" "I am afraid," replies Jan, with the slowness of ono wlio is trying to _convey unpleasant tidings In the least ,unplea- emit terms, "WM you must bo prepared Le find Min a good sleal altered." "Altered I 1 low ?" "I 'do not 01010 knOW 110W 10 describe 111-uneesily-"but you inuel. not be shocked if you find him a good •detil changed in lodes; and he is -he seems, in a very excited stale." She makes a clutch at Ins hand. "Do you meurr-her yoke has sunk to O boreor-stsuck whisper -"thin he is -- mad?" "Mad 1 011, of course not," with 11 strained laugh.; "you must not jump to such conclusions. 131111 do riot (hit* he Is quite himself, that Is ell. Ile looks as if he had riot eaten or slept, foe a fort- night; and if you play such tvicks us that with yourself, you must expect to get a'llttle off your balance." She is still tevrffiedly Mulching his hand, though no consciousness of doing so, nor 11101 1110 lingers so tightly pipped by her are noe made of dry slick, "You must not look so frightened," he says, soothingly. "I would not 'have said anything to you, only that I thought i1 better you %should be prepared -that it should not Lake you nuito by surprise; and also be- enuse I wanted to give you a hint, that you might be a little careful what you say to him, or, at MI events, how you say it." Still she does not speak' and there i8. scarcely any diminution ofthe horror of her look, "II you do not mind, 1111)011 it would be as well to have someone within call, If he-he-beeeme-unreasonable." "Do you think," she asks, with a sort M scorn, "that I am afraid of him 7 - afraid for myself ?" "No, that I am sure you are not ; but I cannot shake off the idea that -poor fellow 1 -he may be on the verge of some grime illness; and in thaS sort of eaSe ono never knows what, may hap- pen. So, if you do not mind -- "As you please," she answers, dociM even now. "Do as you Wink best; and wt.] you tell him that I am ready to see him 7" The misgivings with which Tim com- plies with this requesl are not much al- layed by the manner and yoke of him who receives it, and who has been rag- ing up ancl down the narrow torriclor. "She will 1101 see me, I suppose?" "On We contrary, she svill• see you now. But stay I" catching him by the arm as he springs past him, "One mo- ment 1 For God's sake control yourself Behave like a gentleman. Do not make her a scene; she is not up 10 11." Byng's answer., is to fling resentfully away lhesdateining hand of his manor, while he saYa, with a furious look an - Mg into his bloodshot eyes: "What- do you mean by' keeping me here, preaching to me, while she is waiting for mer The rudeness of both weeds arid fre (ions is so unlike the real Byng, that 0 Is with an even more sinking spielt than liefore that, Jim follows him with his eyes Ifs heepasees out of sight into tlie salon. As soon as the door is'eltul behind him, ho himselNakes up the position he had suggested In'othe fade -room: CISAPTEII XXXLX. There ore Sew thIngsMore trying to an activeeniroled person than to sit occu- patMnle.es, vaguely waiting. AL first, it is true, the keenness of Jim's alarm pre- vents his feeling the ennui which would 113 the natural result of his situation. Poignantly 4111:K1011S questions succeed each other in his mind. Has he had filly right to permit the interview at all? How far is Byng accountable for his actions? What chance is there that his already rocking reason will stand the shock of a meeting wffich, even 101 his stalest moments, would have so wildly excited 1111» ? And 0 not, what may be the consequenoes? Giesly headings of -newspaper paragraphs write themselves in the air before hitn-"Homicidal Men in," "Murder and Suicide." The details of a. bogie story which, illustrated by sensational woodcuts, he lied idly reed a day or Iwo ago in a venerable Police News, left lying on the smoking -room 'Able, recur to his mem- ory. It wean tale of a gloom who, in an excess of jealous madness, had shot a scullion sweethenet themigl . the heed, and then blown his own brains out. The tale had Made but little Impression on him at Me time -unhappily, it is scarcely possible to hike up a journal without the eye alighting upon some such-bui it comes back to him 1100' with terrifying vividness. What sectwily is them WM such tragedies may be confined lo grooms end kitchen -maids? How does he kriv Byng has not a revolver Wake in Ms breast -pocket.? How 681/ 110 lel] that he is not rie illis very =- MOM 11 out? 110 (Iim) ought, to have made sure, before exposing her to such a peril, that the danger was mini- mized by 13yng's being weaponless. Is 11 too late lo make sure of Wat even now? Ho lakes One step toward the selon- door, than haetily retraces it. Pooh 1 he is growing se mild 08 nyng, They will 00010 out end find him eavesdropping. Ilo rotreate to the teble, which is at the genteel, disk -moo allowed by the poem's narrow. enceinte from the,seene of the drama whose eleminnent ho Le expecting, end, silting down, 181(05( 1)1 11110k. It hoppe.ns to be Elizabeth's Italian exereise-hook, end the eight of it 04,11Plres up before his memory het for- lorn figure Stooping disconsolately over the page, Wrapped in her brown furs, 1111 lio had 80011 It on Wet rainy night that seems nose so distant, 1,1e had pilled, her for being lonely then, Well, whatever else she may be, she is not lonely 110W. Ile ettleties Ns breath. 14 Is guile a quavter of fin hour sere he began his watch. How quiet, they are I There is 71 111110111ln 01 101808, bid Were is nothing MO 10 tho Tenet 11101(1(0e5 violeire. Be- fore his eyes them noshes In orotesque viteollection the hideous; Mauve in the Police News Allah Illustrates illa high words with MIMI) ibe ealastrephe of the groom and kitchen -maid had been her- alded. Ile hes Ikea Melting 11 nmentalts out of 'a mole -hill; has hem exageforat- Me his frionft's emotional tempeeneind, naturally further imighlerted teem). leesnees and went of food, into ineffilent hietinIty. 11110 were 11(110, 01' at all tend- ing 41181 would he he talking in the lOvi 001101181 key wlilels tie obviously must be? Itis evident that her pve.sencte, hoe eye, ner-yes, what more ?- her touch, have soothed anti 0011111100 away what of excessive or perilous there was in his emotion. They have been together hall an hour now. All danger is certainly over. Why should he any longer continue his officious and needle.ss watch ?-sliper- fluously spying upon them? Relieved as to what he had thought his worst fear, and yet with an uncom- mon bitterness about his heart, he turns 111 withdraW, and Ids hand is already on the lock of the door which leads Into the corridor, when suddenly, without any warning; there reaches his ear the noise of 11 loud, crashing fall, followed -- accompanied, rather -by a Melting 80100111, In Infinitely less then n second he finds himself on his Icnees beside the pros' tat EC body of 13yng, who. wilh Wood Pouring from les forehead, 15 stretched upon the floor of the salon. Even at this second there flashes upon 111111, lielierous and drend.ful, the memory of We Police News. This scene hes a gro- tesque likeness to the final one of the groom and kitchen -maid series, only that in. We present case the hevoine, in- stead of staggering backward with the tor of her heed flying up lo the ceiling, is honing unharmed over her fallen lover. "Aro you hurt?" cries Sim in frantic anxiety, looking at her across the pros- trate figure, and unable to eradicate from his mind the revolver Wear "Did lie hit you? did not hear a shot." "Oh, no, no 1 but he," fetching her breath hi terrible gasps, ond hanging over the bleeding man with that, utter abandonment of all disguise, in which a great naked grief sweeps away our sophistications-"he Is dead !" "Oh, no, he is not," answers Jim has- tily, Waring open 13yng's waislgoat and layng his hand upon his heart.. "He has only fainted. Get some water I Have you got any salts? No; do 1101 1111 his hear -seeing that she is agonizedly trying to rMse nis prone head and rose i1 upon her knees -"he had better be as fiat as he can. Quick, some water 1" She does not need lo be twice told. In en instant she bas sprung lo the table, and brought thenco 1110 china jug out ef which she is wont to water her flo,v- ers, and also the big cut -glass bottle of smelliug-salts with which 21111 has often seen poor Mrs. Le Merchant solacing herself \\then racked with that neuralgic headache which means worry. He splashes water ou1 of the ono upon Byrig's ashy fate, and holds the other to hie pale nostrils; while -Elizabeth, once more flinging herself upon her knees, wipes the 'blood from his temples ,vith her little useless gossamer inch of hand- kenehiet. "elow did. it happen?" asks Tim, ra- pidly. "What, did be do to himself ?" The heads of the two ministrants are very close to eacill other 'as they bend So- gether over the swooned youth. Jim ellle'See a little smear of 13yng's blood upon erre- of -her white cheeks. The 'sight gives him a shudder. 133105 seems le have made her more his own by that goiybaptIstri than.by all his frenzied vows and tears. "Oh, Ie do nail know,",ishe answers, still Mtchhig both breath_ and woks with difficulty. 'Ile was standing up, and he seemed quite right; and then, all of a sudden, in a minute, ho went down like a log, and hit his forehead against Ile sharp .corner of Me table"-wgh a. eon- vulsive Shiver al the recollection.' "I ought to have saved him 1 I ought ; but I was no1 quick enough. I good stock- still, and .1100' he is dead 1 You say that he is not; but. I am sure lie is dead I" "Oli no, 11011150118e 1 he is not," replies Jim, brusquely, thinking a certain harsh- ness of manner the best recipe for her. "Ile isealive sure enough; and as for the cut on hs forehead, now that 37011 11111'0 wiped his blood away, you can see for yourself that, it is not at all a deep one. It is merely a big scratch. 7 have often had a 110050 Oa 110111155 from a bramble, in jumping through a hedge. Oh, Mns. Le marehant, here you are! Thin is all right. We Iowa had an fleet - dent, you see. fie 1138 fallen down In a feint and given himself a bit or a knock. That is, all; do not be frightened. 11 looks wovse than it M. Cipriani, vous voila 1 Envoyez e110001101' un meek - eta tout de suite 1 Ily a en NI, Gimlet)," catching in his destitution al the thought eg even oybilltes objectionable friend, But hereupon helf a deem voices -for hy this time even more than that num- ber of inmates of the 110101 have thronged into the little Poem -raise themselves to pronoteme another name -.--the manie of 0116 W110 1)0111 • 510111.18 11101Ce 111 111001001 fame and Is more quicely peocurtible. In seerch of 1111)1 'Lamella the porter, is instantly de- spatched, end meanwhite about the in- animate body sympathizers stand three deep, 011111 reluctantly dispersed by a hint of a nature so broad 415 bot 10 be mistinderStood teem 101, to the Wed, that Ihe patient Wotild have 0 bettor chance of coming to himself if he were ellowed to have a breath of air. By ilie time the doctor a1'rh'os-tlloro 15 somo srenll delay before lie appears -all are go', rid of, and, Mrs. L6 Merchant hey- ing goer to give directions for having nm's roo(11 arranged for the sick man, both hocauee it is on the ground -floor cald else of 01 better size than that al- lotted to him, the end Elizabeth are 0050 agniti. left lete-iffiele, (To be conlineed), A man isn't necessnrily,a vocalist 110. 00000 110 sings his 00'I1 praises; Many a svennen wouldn't do a Ming bat send in a burry cell for 1110 &Mar if her inishanci waS to speak a kind Word to her. AN ANNUAL REMINDER 5401118 SOVEHEIGNS WHO OWC RIO Counlits 'not Yearly Present Ae- 'stunts for Sums • Pest 1)u. Every yea!' We Sovereign of Great Ilrilein veeeives from en Hunan firm of blinkers named Alleozzl a bill for the peyment 01 a debt of several MillionS. The bill is handed lc, the Chancellor Of the Exchequer, who, wills much for- adolowletiges its receipt, but adds WM the .elatm "does not appear to be in order," and nothing more is heard of the matey for 0110(1101 yew', oays Pearsen's Weekly, TM) flint of bankers in question claim to be the lineal descendants of an Italian i-iieyleiittr 11111110d -Ir IITzzW11010' erninodtte:'EdwardI.1Z1111 50.11e hundreds of ..'thousand.s of pounds; shortly after this transaction the moneylender 1855 driven eut of Italy, and was never again heara of. In the early part of tho reign f George AV., an Italian fine of bankeis nnincel Alfruzzi wrote to the Sovereign of Wiz country, claiming to be entitled to receive payment of the debt in goes- Uell, together witie interest on the amoun1 lent. bringing 1110 claim up to several millions. The Maim is, of eouvse, a purely formal elle, hut it Ls, neveietteless, made regularly every year. When the Peninsular war NVIIS bl'OUght to a conclusion 71. settlement woe made allotting the beaten of Ihe bilge debt incurred by the prolonged Wel' ill dif- ferent 'amounts 10 enn European na- tion. We, of couvse, bore the chief weight of the debl, and duly Inc) our liabilities, hut Spain became fr VERY HEAVY DEFAULTEM 11 was arranged that Spain should PaY $100.000,000 to AmstrM in annual histalments of $25,000,000. Alas! but one instalment 18/15 ever paid, and this the Spanish Government borrowed from 71 Greek fleancier, who, in Ins turn,' Sold the debt to his own Government, Every year- the Spanish Sovereiggn gets a re- minder from the Greek Government of this debt, but the reminder has long since come to be regarded as a purely formal ono by the recipients of it, and it Is never even acknowledged. We isenct out two claims ourselves every year of a like character. One is despatched to We Turkish Govern - kir nt, claiming, $10,000,000, and mother to the Prince of Montemgro for about half that- amount. The former claim is a tittle balance we have against TIL17- :key since the Crimean war, but it was erranged long since that the claim should never be enforced. The debt due by the Prince of Montenegro is, however, a more sertous Mahe lt con. stela of a sum of money lent by Great 'Britain to ihe Prince at a Hine when hIs insolvency was on the verge of tak- ing place. For reasons of State, we have never enforced the repayment of the loan, hut we may do so in the future. The aged King of Denmark is trou- bled two or three limes in We year with dunning letters for very '' LARGE SUMS -15la MONEY. One of theree letters comes *regularly twice a year from a. Berlin firm of linkers, who same years ago negoli- eled a loan for the 'Danish Government. The loan was duly repaid, but the fivra negotiating 'the loan subsequently eleimed $250,000 as Weir commission on the transacellon. Their 001111111.551011 WaS, 88 a mailer of feet, covered by the emount repaid 1 y the Danish Government, but in spite of this fact, tne claire .foe 0e50,000 is sent twice a Year to the Danish Sovereign, who, of course, lakes no notice of it, Another bill received every year by the same monarch comes feom the French Government. 'Ibis is, however, only for the ingnifleanl sn't of 81,250. 'Some years ago a Danish Government steamer named the Humid ran into and badly damaged a French vessel off the West Coast of Africa. A claim WEIS at once put in by the French Government for damages, 0/11 1011 10000 duly paid by the Denten Ceovernment, 10110, however, struck off 0 sum of $1,250 from the claim in connection with legal expellees. Every year since the Danish Sover- eign receives a reminder that tilts sum is still due, but this reminder Is not eepected to receive serious attention. QUEER IIINDOO CEIIMIONY, How an Aged' Woman Climbed. to Im- mortality. A picturesque ceremony marked the advent of the filth generalion of Shia - matt Malcolm], a' Hindu lady at noble Melba 51 Amritsar, writes an Mellen correepondent of the Civil and 'Military Gazette.. According to Hindu scriptures, -We old lady by the birth 01 .0. son to her great- grandson attained salvation, rindon death will go to the region of the gods and dwell among them, The event, was celeiketed by a cere- mony callocl Svargn. Sopanorchanam, which mons rising to Itenven. Ily means of a ladder. After a bath in the Ganges the old lady Mole her scat on a platform arranged by the femily p11051, wlelle 5. tbrinksgiving service Was held. Then a hum of rice, on Nettie]) VMS placed a small ladder of gold, was iaid before 1100, and es the new-born child Was placed in her lap, she 1)111 )181' right foot on the 11111 rUng of the Wider. The assembled party theecupon cheered Iter encl shesvered 1110nal flow- ers about her, while brass inetruments W01'0 played and 'hymns were seng. 13101111 '''rliet ig connected With some of the meet important families in town," Flank : "Why, she doesn't leek lbka 1111 arislocirei." Blank ; "She isn't.. ShMs 0. telephone girl." "The Smiths ere gating to Move etd, 01 this neighborhood eller being here nearly a year," "That's Menge, BOA 1117 people ore getting to know them.", "That's the reileon they're going I" 1 FORTUNES IN POULTICES LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABUT LON- DON'S HOSPITALS. Immense Sams are Required Every )(eat, to Keep Thein Going. FONV People have' any idea of the cost of "running" a modern first-class hos- pital, Al Londen, in Wffitechapel, far In- stance, there was expended In 1003 for dressing and lineages alone no haSs a 511111 than $182255; while the bill for drugs, chemicals, and disinfectants came lei a WW1 of $20,025. During the same peviod $107,795 worth of peovislons were consumed in this Institutlon, the meat hill alone 1013111115 up to $27,04.0. and that fon milk to the lavge sum of $20,925. 'rho year's washing bill was 010,275, and this, although 1110 hospl- Vo Possesses its- OWn sPlarldialY41 1110) - peel priviite laundry, With ft 081/71011.5 45,000 pieces a week, 111 oreer to heat and light the miles of were -sees, weeds, and other raents, a. sum of 530,805 bad to be clLs- bussed. For 01001115 scrubbing lho floors, stales, and so on, over $4,000 hes Le be found every twelve months; and this is exclusive of the annual "Spring clean- ing," which costs about $5,000 addi- tkinal; The hospltal authorities have even to pay for Ihe air their patients breathe - 0 the lune of $1,000 octet per all 111110, 10 other word.s the atmosphere of East London, being none of We best. has to be purified ere being admitted to the wards, and this es the cost-ef running tlie necessary apperatus and the VENTILATING FANS. Salaries and wages run away with 81 10,000. Out of this no fewer lhan 533 trained resIdeal nurses have So be paid. Altogether the upkeep of the whole bilge eetablishment cost In 1003 Slightly over 0500,000, and this quite independ- ently of $495,000 odd which was ex- pended In Improving and extending the hospital,' -under the provisions of the King's Hospital. Fund. in other words the ordinary expense- Of _carrying on II e London averages about $10,000 a week, For this large sum, however, there were relieved .in 1903 no fewer than_ 0'6,025 sufferers, 13,120 of whom had So be admitted to the .ward.s as "In -pati- ents." The number of -children under twelve years of age treated was 8,537, C0 1,000 In excess of the total al, the 'largest of the chlldren's hospitals in Lendon. ' As 11 is with tho London, so is it with ail other hospitals. Notwithstanding the most rigid economy expenses will indent up. It is truo that eminent medical speci- alists, whose fees to . wealthy .patients run inte hundreds of pounds, give their well-nigh invalua-ble services to tee poor sufferers who flock lo these in- stitlitions in their sTtNS OF THOUSANDS. But advice, and the skilful use of the knife on occasion, is not all that is necessary. There ore drugs' that roust be kept in stock in every wellmegulated luspital that cost actually so much as 81250 and $300' ale ounce. 'The outcast Mom the streets, when it cornes-to the question of life or death, 18 pampered -like a prtnce. Champagne of the best brands, port wino such as the average householder cannot pur- chase even if he ,vould, brandy of the flnest-all these are his (or hers), and muc)1 else besides: - This "case" is "treated" with com- pressed oxygen gas, worth more than its weight In gold. That, where death .fvosp weakness brought on by s•terva- lion is feared, is coaxed back from the borderland with concentrated soups, and later with game that, perhaps, our :Ken; himself has shot. Ordinary drugs and other remedies have to be laid in by the hundredweiglia and their total cost is enormous. Last, year, for instance, one single Metropoli- tan hospital, and that not of the first rank, used up TEN TONS OF LINSEED MEAL fcr making poultices, 1110 payment 011 that account, Mono being $625. Some hospitals, too, aro spending limp sums in bacteriological research. Thus, in the Middlesex. Ilespital and in. We Brompton Cancer llospital re- spectively thousands of pounds are expencled seeking to solve the mye- tery of cancer, the least unciciarsgiteesd end most deadly of all modern om Of accidents alone there are tvented yearly in We Lonaon hospitals, includ- Mg the suburb= ones. over 400,000, 1110 bancinges used, if fastened togethes end to end, would suffiee to go round We earth at the °guiltier; and every 1000111 more then ten tons of limber aro split up into splints, To grow suMeient linseed for poul- tices a farm of 1.00 acres would heve le he kept constantly under cultivation; and at least 2,800 acres of pasture lend would be required to feed 1110 annual supply of °elite and sheer) for the Pati- ents' meels. Filially, the quantity of liquid disin. rodent of various kinds used yearly would suffice to 111 all 1110 eoservoies of all 'London water compenies: or, if if. were run into one big lake, baling not too 08i0t1SIV0 4111 area, a modern 1)11 111051111) could floet 111010111 conifer. tably end safely.--Pearson's Weekly. In 1,000,000 Trish Americans 01,830 nre Menne end 2,204 blind, We like best to call SCOTT'S EMULSION a food becatee it stands so em- phatically for perfect nutrition. And yet irl the matter of restor- ing appetite, of giving neve strength to the tissues, especially to the nerves, its attion is that Of a mediCine. $ Send 101' fl•ed s1m010, SCOTT 81 BOWN1L, Chemists, Toronlo, °Marla, pc, ..01,,e."; all dregests. ON THE F.Allit )1\01ANVNAAA.4ANANWAAM A FIBST-CLASS )IAN AND 11AIINIE11, A )vlse 85 Well 118 101113' 0112 11.1.5111711111 0(105 "Ile'5s100ust10°11°11g1tPLI11 of a famer:- a Mecla:s 4111111 81:71 11011e0, 10,1111,he'S11111:11‘11erY:11 1)111 111111, , 115 110011 and 0801'01111g amens lite neiglibes is first eluss; lik live stork is first clues. It he sells you a bit of Outtev or a lend of 10ee11 it's wire to lie up to We mark. Ille farm- ing; Le Men class tied se) lie goee, ill the nest Mess ell mound. Teeth he's worn) a (Omen af common men for the example he sets," We have Wought of thet "nest, class roan and a fernier" and Ilie fleet cluss 1aibu1e. the kindly old Ivishmen peel Iiiir many times .shice. This me11 eccupies a large place in the eiteein of the com- munity Inwinch he lived. Ile 0111110 1:00 111 1010101111‘111v05 5 1111inabo 1a?kn , cl 0k,811‘1,11,1achyocronilig 1 Mined the mixtins of Benjamin lin, in his Poor 01101000r5 Almmme. These inexime full of splendid advice to do everything in a thmough business way, made El strong impression on his mind. Ile was a hired 111811 for ten years; Uteri he commenced farming for himself. Every env he laid aside a snail eurn 01 1111)1(3/, $25, Inc geed books and natters. Ile saw the velue of such feeding of We mind and what, effect 11 had on other flest-class men. These things gave him constantly, es he 0000 Stnd to us, "0 high standerd to work ts;" there was the secret. Ile would not turn off a poor animal, or poor butter, or anyliOng that was not Met oiess. lie was ViglItuit all the Ume In everything Ise did to secure high qua- lity. What effect did Me policy 'have on his financial condition? When he died at the ago of seventy-six his es - late 'WM veluefl at $100,000, and yet he had been a generous mon to the poor and to the community ell his life, As en old Irishmen said, the centuple he set was worth 11101 of a amen 111111. VVo need lots more of these "first class men and reenters" who set up a high stabalard of quality in all the things they do. Farming has been ru)1 ton tong on She low grade. There is a -willies profit or reputelion 111 it. Too pinny 711011 have lived and died without pro- fit or reputation. What a blesstnis it wes to that first class 11150 that he fell la with the good boots 10 early life. Lel US remember these things. POINTS IN DAIRY MANAGEa-1ONT. There 010 seasons of the year when the management •of the deiry 3110I 's reduced le a minimum. lispecially is th0. true in lune, when the COWS aVe .turned„ out lo pastille 51'1111 plenty et sweet, Mitre toes, grass, EL running etveam of pure motes in the Reid. They are bathed in sunshine, have plenty of fresh end OD opportunity of pawing the soil over Weir backs whieh rids them of vermin, Then, too, the whole body is washed 06015[0111111y with warm 311010 0110 of ram that clean the old heir all and leave the shin healthy, Under thee° oendlliens there is Very Mlle 10 - leer required. 13111 such favorable eon - (talons 510 rett lest long-almet one imonth. or sieoweeies i11 the year is all Mal we 11000. Tile first difficulty which presents %le eelf is how W deal wilh the flies which are such a nuisance. NN'e Mee found spray of crude petroleum the best be- cause it, Is the cheapest. IL is implied as a spray with spraymolor oil pump. One man works the handle and the other 1110 liose. The treatment te found to 110 verS effective. The next difficulty is the shortege of the pastures. This should be met by lowing some soiling crop neer the stables that can be cut and fed. Lu- cerne clover, mixed eras and peas that teem been sown at (Efferent dates make good soiling crops, but perhaps the cheapest and ntost conlenterd of all is cams silage grown the previous year, with the addition of a couple of pounds 1)1 I 111)rtn11118, autumn, when the weather be- comes cold, the cows shoulcl le kept 101 the stable OVell 1115111, The winter etre of 1110 COWS requires the greatest 610111 to get the best results from the 8111801 from the amount of food con- sumed, June being the Ideal 1110/1111 nI the year for the production of milk, We should get es near those conditions es possible, n'arin, comfortable, well- vcntliated stables with plenty of 115111 and a constant simply of pure water, with a daily application of curry combs and brush are .neeessary to keep Mc animals in the best of health. Tire tai,' should be Mipped Morn the lail, hips, uddee and along the abdomen. This 11'11' prevent straw end Other refuse from sticking to Me body artil will make It easy. for 1110 milker to clean off before milking. The stable for 1110 winter should be IVO ('111 end comfortable, \Veil 1111111,0d, bha 1111010 18111011 W111 add Very 11111011 1.0 file light and sanitary eencIttion, • KEEPING C13112C11 a'S'ITHOUT !CIS. "For two years," seys a preencel 018 try111511 ill an exchange, "1 have kept ihr cream from ten cows bl class condition 'without tee, in the 00P - 1113',h01150 cellar, 110111' 1115 4100111 01,1111 I 1111111 11 11151 1(11111 about three feet high end three feel, some), I Milled 10 tee sides burlap seeks .so es In hang to Use ground - On the platform 1 Idneed a half barrel wit11 boll) bends in, in the top head I bored a hole to Lake in a hose 111110, which 1 0811 10 ft 18111 111 the 611111 11.11000 WO 110.11111) water nom We well, mid 1111 the belf btirrol with eviller. -I played the moan) 00111 Under the platfenni, end by severel Immo gim- let holes let the Water onto 1110 top f the cans, This forms a eeld-sterage cliamber and I think LI is equal. lo the lank of \valor with ice in it to.keep the cream. The crenm-gatherers say Illy 01511111 lias been in as good order as the 13051," --0.....-- Pnlerfamillas treadling from news paper): "1 001 111111 coal is going up,' 11811-0'',"'Yes. pa just niter yob 71m5111 11,0 Ion Ith114 111Is morning it went 04, yo, e 11111 out. Mester Smelly?" Ilavvy "I,' went down Into the cellar," V HEALTH • 40.1414+.400.44.0.04$44.00 13130)S0BES, A bed -sore is an ulcer t?.rit 100108 en We skin of a patient who, by reason al contiiiiied illness, has to keep the Soave posnion in bed for long seesons. IL is generally the direct vesult of rAnlinued pressure in one 01101. Tho parts of the body 171684 111(015 to he affected 010 those where the bane Le near We SUN/lee, SUCI1 es the hip 00 1110 spinal column. and Sometimes even the elbow. The Illnesses which confirm the ones in whin bed -sores are 100)01 1Wely patient to 1110 bed' for long unbroken weeks -such Les typhoid fever, are the to develop, although 11) limey cases' of paralysis and some diseases of tho spine) cord they may C01110 spontaneous- ly, aud seem to he 11101511110 legs to pree- sure than to some dieeased condition of the "teophie" nerves, that is to say, the nerves 1110 faction of whieh is to Of course where they ,(1080101) son - govern the 11111011011 of the skin. taneously no one is M blame; indee(1, 11) some cusps of severe Injury to 1110 central' nervous 23e115111 thee 111115 de- velop almost immediately, and \vith no reference to the position of the patient 80 lo pressure 011 any ono rave But, in the CASO of the ordinery bed -sore occur. Ing in the ease 01, a long illness IL may be Mid tis en axiom that 11 10 a repro,aele to a nurse. The large hospitals hold themselves rigidly to this theory. The reason for this strielnros is that a bed-soio is a thing for prevention rather than cure, and its prevention is from - nest to last a matter of strict and scru- pulous cleanliness and cave. 'They oc- cur so often in patients 1111050 senslhfli- 110.11 oreablunted thal unless tile lilten- (1)11118 08017015a the most,watchful care they ano present without a word of warning; but, when a 71 114S6 once knows what causes them, and in what Illneses they are likely lo appear, a sharp look- out will naturally be Rept. The pressure on one part can be re- lieved in several ways, Perhaps. the best is Ilia round air -cushion with a hole llio centre. tie the threatened part can then he placed iimetdiately over We hole. If is cushicei of this leind Cannot be procured, a wed of cotton am be arvanged to- perform the same service. Cleanliness is absolutely essential. Tho sheet musl not be wrinkled, and there must be no crumbs In the bed. The mateess should be springy, but level ond ram. The affected parts of the body should be kept perfectly Some chemical should be used occeslonelly to 'harden We skim Alcohol is perhaps.. the best, and may be combined with some as- tringent, such as Mimic acid. This serves to give tone to the parts and ren- der them more resistant.--Yootles NATURE CL113ES. Turnips are good tor nervous dis- orders, Yet it would not be Wise for nervous dyspeptics to add a huge quan- tity of ('4101' 01' even cooked to their oielMary meals, as digestive die- Itivbenees would nriRe 10111011 W011171 more Wan offset any inedieenel effect of Pie turnips. So with tiny Mlles food, recommended for cerloin disorders. 11 11-c food is such thnt the system can as- similate it without. dlslu vbance, sufferers will mei the renewing list useful : Parrots for sufferers with asIlima. ' Spinach is useful to those -suffering witt,ttlguleloweisi valuante to those suffering from insomnia. Blackberries as a tonic. Useful in all forms of diem -boom Honey is svholesome, strengthening, eternising, healing and nouvishing. Bananas, especielly it coolod, are 'use- ful as a food for those suffering from chronic dierrlmen. Lemons for feverish 11111e1 10,7 biliOUSTASS, 1ONV 100e08, elle111118116111, colds, coughs, nnd liveii cone -MOM,. Celery Is invalueble as a food to those &Offering TAM, any form of rheumatism; for the diseasee of .the nerves and ner- VVFlitSgS(1).55171,0ePsietlivrient and wholesome. They are veluable "as a Mod for those suffering Dom cancer; they are used eNternerly as well as internally. Fresh ripe fruits are excellent, for purifying the blood and toning up the system. As specifle remedies, oranges 11012 uperlent. Sow' orenges nve highly reconunended for rheumatism. ••26. • A. THE 110e113 Dom'on. To cool a stele room, cover the top of wesh bowl with a piece 0, .1111111101 drown tight, making a sort of drum- head. Piece upon IllIs a bit of ice 1111) 5100 of n quart bowl. The ice will last a long thee, Eating fruit and vegelebles, and cs- peeielly apples, will melee the eyes brighter. Ligh1 blue eyes will lode like delft, and the faded goy tyce \yin scem like a cleats blue, Diet hos a groat deal lo do with 1110 color or Mc 6s0S. 11(01 ilancis.-Tilere MD a variety of recipes for 11115 trouble, but Illis ono 111 the 11e2t 1 lelnee ebout tt lefispoonful 00 atom in the wilier 3011 ille hands in. Afterward sprinkle with viee pow, - der, which you cen proems: of tiny druggist. Sore • Throals.-Infents end young children with °sore throats" should be given oceaskmal sirs of a mixture of a 101(81100(1 1)1) or borax. WineginsFthil 00 513'80l*1116. The gtverrine MN -jetties the Iheent, rincl borax ie first-class imlieeptie km all throtil conditions. Aleobol fealties. -- 'rake offiequerler pint of alcohol (We recipe enn be doubted or tripled if desired), ona (1111100 pitch of spirits of camphor and (1116' (11011)5, Iwo' end one-half OtIneCS at sea salt and one pint, of boiling water 13118 thoroughly end alwayS shake before using. Apply the Mote to Ihe face, Minde end arnis, 0110 It will iliagientlY rehowe all of WM "tired" feeling. . . PUSHED 11'014 MONEY, ' Professnr 1 "A geed dent slepends on 1110 ferniafinti ef 111 '15 110we11 a -1 know 71, V011011 1 VAS linbY :MY 11101110r paid 11 WOnifIll In 11111 &old, 11110 I have been .11118115.4 ler money eVer sinco." A h.