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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1908-8-6, Page 7i414tes .4 • A 1110•0000.0010000 • 41:0'n(44A+A.M+Xl+gE 43:f tWA+Xl +)$f k4"):E÷g4M+A+V 3:( 0000000.0.010.400000 • - . 0-441 "I auppotte eo. The whole plea° is like a furniture Show-rount—thia Iyle eemPlete, thirty-five guineas and so on. Yeti know the mold a thing I mean." Ho smiled in amusement at my worde, "Your friends all admire the place," he remarked. "What friends "Sir Charles Stimmel, Mr, Lar - writhe, Lady Fraser, and people of that class." "I never heard of them in all my life. Who are they?" I inquired, interceded. "Friends of yours. They visit here often enoutca. You surely ought to know them. Lady Fraser of good fortune. His discovery is your wife's dearest friend." means fabulous wealth for you as "Fraaer ?" I said reflectively, holder of the concession," "The only Fraser I know is a bale- er in Clare Market, who supplies my old servant, Mrs. Parker, with bread," Then, after a pause, I added, "And you say that these people are friends of mine 3 Have I many friends?" "Lots. A rich man has always plenty of good-humored aoquaint- anises," "They like to come down here for e breath of country air, I imp - Pose, eh?" I laughed. "That's about it," he answered. 'A good many of them are not very sincere in their friendship, I fear. The man who has money, lives well, keeps a good table, and has choice wines in his cellar need never bo al a loss for gonial oompaioions," "You seem to be a bit of a philo- sopher, my friend," I remarked. He smiled knowingly. "I haven't' acted as your secre- tary without learning a few of the crooked ways of the world." "What?" I exclaimed. "Don't I always act honestly, then?" This was something entirely new, "Nobody can be honest in fi- nance." "Well," I said, resenting his imputation, "I wasn't aware that I had ever swindled a person of sixpence in my life." "Sixpences• in such sums as they deal in at Winchester House don't count. It's the thousands." We passed a couple of gaping maid -servants in long -stringed caps, who stood aside, looking at me in wonder. No doubt the news that a demented man was in the house had reached the servants' hall. I was, in fact, .on show to the domestics. "Then you mean to implythat these financial dealings of mine — of which, by the way, I have no knowledge whatsoever—are not al- ways quite straight?" I said, as we walked together clown ee long carpeted corridor. He looked at me in hesitation. "It's, of course, buainess," he answered—"sharp business. I don't mean to imply that the deal- ings at Wincheeter House are any more unfair than those of any other financier in the City ; but sothetimes you know, there's just a flavor of smartness about them that might be misconstrued by a clever counsel in a Criminal court." "What?" I cried, halting and glaring at him. "Now, be frank with me, Gedge. Tell me plainly, have I ever swindled anybody?" "Certainly not," he said, laugh- ing, "Why, it's this very smart- ness that has made you what you are to -day — a millionaire. If you bad not boon very wide awake and shrewd you'd have been ruined long ago," "Then, I suppose, I'm well known in the city, eh?" "Your name's as well known as Bennett's clock, and your credit stands as high as any one's be- tween Ludgate Hill and Feuohurch Street." "Extraordinary!" I said. "What you toll me sounds like some re- markable fairy tale." "The balance at your banker's is sufficient proof that what I say is truth," he remarked. "There may be a good many fairy tales in cer- tain prospectuses, but there cer. tainly is none in your financial soundness," (To be Continued. GETS THE DOCTOR IIABIT. Woman Who Likes to Pour Out A House. of Mystcry OR, THE GIRL IN BLUE CHAPTER XX, "Now," I said, turning to Gedge, 'perhaps you will show me over this naw do"My clear sir," I said, "for main of mine. They seem to mercy's sake don't bother me be pretty comfortable quarters, at any rate." about this fellow and his eonfound- ed pans. Reply just as you like. He looked at me strangely. You sem to know all about it. 1 "You surely don't mean, sir, that don't—nor I don't want to know." you wish me to show you over your "But in a ease like this I do not own house r he said with ineredu- care to act on my own discretion lity. alone," he protested, "They are "Of course I do," I answered. evidently awaiting a reply in Daw- "I've never been over it yet, and 1 son City." think I may as well embrace the op- "Let them wait," I said. "1 portunity now." .don't want to bother my head over "But haen't you better go to your matstabtieli: in which I can have no concern, This alleged room and rest? It will surely do you good. I'll ring for Rayner, the va- matrimonial alliance of mine is of far more importance to xne than let." He spolce as though solicitous all the gold in the Klondyke," of my welfare. "Well, the lady is your wife, so "I want no valets, neither do I re- why worry further about it?" he quire rest," I answered impati- said. ently. "And how do you know, pray?" "I mean to fathom this mystery." "Because I was present at the "But pardon me," he said defer- ceremony." •entially, 'there is no mystery, as fax I looked at him for a moment, as I can see. You accidentally unable to utter further words. struck your bead against the statue "1 suppose you'll tell raq next while passing through the drawing- that you were my secretary in my room, and were rendered unconsci- bachelor days?" I said at last. ,ous. The blow has, according to the "Certainly I was." -doctor, impaired your mental cape- "And you say that you were ac- eity a little. In a few days you'll be tually present; at the church, and all right again. Poor MrseHeaton 1 saw me married?" 1 cried, abso- -she'a awfully upset." lutely incredulous. "I will not have her called Mrs. "I was, You were married at Heaton 1" I oried in indignation. St. Andrew's, Wells Street. It "Understand that I I have no wife was a smart wedding, too, for Mrs. —and a hag like that I certainly Fordyce was very well known in would never marry." eociety, and had a large circle of Hes raised his 'eyebrows with, a frismsis." gesture of regret, sighed, but haz- "Fordyce?" I echoed, puzzled. .arded no remark. "Yes that was Mrs. Heaton' "Come," I said, "show Inc over name 'before her marriage with the place, It will be a most inter- you." csting visit, I'm sure." And I "Then she was a widow?" I laughed, reflecting upon my extra- gasped. 'ordinary position, one absolutely He nodded in the affirmative. I groaned. The affair grew more unparalleled in' man's history. "But before doing so will yon Puzzling now that he declared him - not sign ono or two cheques ?" he self an mitred witness of my matri- ne•ged, glancing at his watch, "The menial misfortune, postman will call for the letters in But how could such a thing have half an hour, and they must bo de- taken place without my know- spatched to -day." ledge? It was impossible, The "What cheques?" mystery, like the strangeineiclents "There are six," ho answered, which had preceded this remark - taking out a large cheque-book able situation in which I found my - .and opening it. "I've already self, gl'ew more and more Mexpli- made them out if you will kindly cable each hour. -sign them." We went forth together, passing I glanced at them. All six were from room to room through the for large amounts, each consider- great country mansion. The place ably over a thousand pounds. vas handsome, of rather modern "They relate to business transac- team, furnished glaringly in the tions, all of which are exceeding. manner which bespoke the al'. ly good bargains," he explained. v.enu. It possessed no mel ow, "Well," I said, laughing again, time -worn appearance, as did the 'levet never before signed cheques dear old Manor House beside the for such big amounts as these. But Severn. The furniture and hang - here goes, if you wish. Whether ings were too apparently of the they'll be honored is quite another Tottenham Court Road type, and -thing." the art displayed Ives that of the And I took up a pen and append- art -furnisher given carte blanche eel my signature to each, while he to furnish with the newest and -placed one by one in envelopes most fashionable fancies in the ready directed to receive them, matter of wall -papers, dados, ear - "Now," he said at last, "If you nices, and art -pottery. There really wish me to take you round were art -carpets and art -curtains, I'll do so, but the whole thing are -cupboards and art -chairs, art - seems so droll and absurd that 1 chino, and art -chintzes. Art was hope, sir, you'll excuse my doubts everywhere in painful enamel and as to your insanity." • • imposisble greens. There were pia - "Well, why do you think I'm Me tures, too, but different, indeed, to SI1110 1" I asked, looking straight the long row of noble faces with at, him. "Do I look like a mad- their ruffles and 'doublets and their man ?" arms painted on shields in the oor- "Not at all. With your head ners that looked down so solemnly swathed in those bandages, you in the groat hall at Heaton. The look like a man who's received a pictures in that modern mansion serious injury." were of the quoue-de-sicle French "Of course, that confounded old school, daubs by the miscalled im- charlatan Britten put forward the pressionists, and some rather too suggestion that I'm not in my chic to be decent. right mind 1" I said. "But I tell That a large amount of money you quite calmly, and without fear had been expended upon the place of contradiction—indeed, I could I could not doubt, but the effect swear upon oath—that never in my was that of dazzling the gaze by life have I entered this place or color, and nowhere teemed there a, set eyes upon you or upon that good, comfortable, old-fashioned raintod old girl before to -day, sitting -room. All the apartments Now, if you were in my place, sure- were arranged to please the eye, ly you world resent being called and not for personal comfort. The husband by a woman -whom you house was just the kind that a man don't know from Adam; you suddenly successful in the city wouldn't relish being condemned might sot itw in the vain endeavor as a lunatic by an idiotic old mull, to develop into a country gentles try quack, and being imposed upon man; fax to become such is the ell round by persons in whom you,ideal of every silk -hatted business have not the slightest interest, man, whether ho trades in stooks His face relaxed into a smile, or stockings, "If 1 may be permitted to ad- "That I should be compelled to site you," he said, "I think it host show you over your own house its, not to discuss the matter further In say the least, very amusing, ' at present. A solution must pro- said Gedge, as we were passing up sone its0 elf befare lone Meanwhile the grand staircase. If people • your intellect will be rendered, the were told of this they wouldn't bos deem by response." lieve it possible." "I'vo already told you that I "I myself don't believe what you don't intend. to vest until I've ex- tell the is poasible," I remerked, tricated myself from this, absurdly "But who gave orders for this fur - lids° poaition " I said determined- eiture 1" ly, "1 feel abaolutoly certain that "Yon did." I've been Mistaken far' some one of "A.ncl who chose it --approved of the same name." the designs, and alt that sort of He shrugged hie shoulders. He tiling?" ti as evidently a shrewd fellow, this "You certainly did," he answer - man who said ho was my secretary ed "Some of the ideas were, of and was appal:on* a very confl- mums, Mrs. Heaton's,e dentiel servant. "1 thought 80 1 don't believe "I'd like to know what to .reply myself eapable of such barbaric eo lereeranee eaele)w he said, taste 58 diose iwinl hia03 and "You really oueld to take some i Sens in bbs liitic sitting -room" eotice of suoh istrairvellotie stroke "The motning-room, you mean," Story of Aches and Pains. One of the tendencies of ill -health is to make one morbid. People who are constantly thinking about thir ailments, worrying about their trou- bles, suffering pain, often develop a morbid passion for syinpativ. They want to tell everybody of their aches and pains, to describe their symptoms, says a writer. Have you over known a woman who has tic- quirod the doctor habit, a woman who loves nothing in the world quite so well as an opportunity to tell the doctor of her ailments? She has poured them out to unwelcome ears, to forced listeners, till she longs for some one who can really appreciate it all, who empathizes with her in her troubles; so she sends for the doctor or goes to eee him, This be- comes almost; a mania with some wornen, who have a few outside ac- tivities to diveet therm Their minds naturally revert to themselves, and they think of their upfoetunate con- dition until they become saturated with the poisoned thought, And the charitable man never has to wait long for e chalice to gee besy. Some one asks why babecry. Per- haps a lo because Choy (Ilona anovi how to sweet, PiteatedoeeteWeabAetlettoWwWW! ing thia, avoid its uso ; but, even considered as a food, it abounds in THE FARR tettyl etsr riser eied% etnoptepeaereysertetevofrearbnliye nweityh body-building elm -ciente and hone and feather -forming materiels, and, sastetetetteteteasWA Good, sound, broad litae has, how- JIever, a petit feeding value, FFE'OT OF RUSTY OANS ON MILK. awed fromvery the Actual food it con- tains for what may be called its mechanical action, Besides giving necessary bulk, it divides the finer and more expensive meals, and so expose them more fully to the digestive process. A mash composed of one part (by weight) of bran to four parts ground oats or barley -meal is more thor- oughly digested, and in every way mora economioa,l, than one of all meal. The best way to make 1180 of bran is to soak or soald a sufficient quantity some hours before, and to dry it off with meal when required. By this method the bran is softened, and to some extent, predigested. If not sufficiently soaked, the rough- nessisapt touritate the bovvels and Cause scouring, SIZE OIP BABYLON. Much Wild Oonjeeture Swept Away by Recent Explorations. A. late bulletin of the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station, gives some valuable information aS to rusty cans, and their effect; upon milk for cheese making. The bullet- in points out that cbeeso makers are not able in all 04$08 to control the coagulation of the milk with rennet. This difficulty is traceable to three sources: viz., the strength of the rennet extract used, the quality of the milk obtained from different cows, and the condition and kind of utensils used, The last is of most concern just now, Previous work at the Wisconsin station has shown that the use of copper, nickel and iron vessels ha' a deleterious effect on rennet aotion. In bulletin 185 the effect of iron and rusty pails, cans or vats is considered. In the experiments conducted the milk was placed in iron dishes and rusty tin pans and was allowed to stand for definite periods, The re- quired time fax the coagulation of The report of the German Orien- 50ations carried out on the ruins of with a standard solution of one cub - cubic centimeters of such milk, ltd Society on the extensive captor - ancient Babylon, which bas just mercial rennet, at a temperature ie centimeter of a one per cent. com- been issued under the editorship o ranging from 87 to 80 degrees Fehr.,f Dr. Friedrich Delitzsch, is a do- wascement of more than usual inter - Milk in gin" est, says the London Chronicle. then observed. beakers ware run as controls under similar conditions, The time was Perhaps one of the most as - noted at the moment the milk just tonishing discoveries in the field of thickened. topographical research has been tha tracing of the walls of the city e The results allowed that it requir- and the ascertainment of the true ed from onto sixteen minutes long - size of the great city. 'Wonderful de- er for the seine milk kept in the soriptions of the size of Babylon have rusty pan to coagulate than in casebeen given, based chiefly on the of the milk kept in the glass beak- hearsay evidence of Herodotus, ie er. The acidity of the controlrmilk ancient times, and the theories of was always higher than that kept in the late Dr. Oppert. These writ - the rusty pan, This difference, how- ers made the city a vast parallelo- ever, was not great enough to e,c- gram, surrounded by a wall fifty count for the differences in retarda- miles long and a hundred feet high, ratiOenni wEaliserreypteiaalte0dt,htahte tmlWisikexinpetrhi; ed by the Euphrates. According with one hundred gates, and bisect - rusty pans gave evidence of a re- to them the area was about as large teaetricleinngeerninpfleureendoewitoini thattheirnentnheet as London and Paris together, or some forty square miles. All this glMasislkbeabkheart. had been allowed to away, -wild conjecture has been swept stand in iron dishes for several The exploration of the walls hours had a peculiar bluish grey commenced at the Babil fort, and color, indicating the presence of here was found a wall twenty-five iron in solution. The maximum feet thick, with buttresses every quantities of iron disoalved in the sixty feet. The line of the wall milk ranged from one to one and a was traced to the southeast angle, half pounds for every thousand until it bends to the west and joins pounds of milk. The lower acidity the great quay on the banks of the of the milk kept in contact with iron river. This portion was pierced by supports the view that the acid of only one gate, the gate of Isar, the milk acts upon the iron,. and flanked by tall towers decorated finally causes ib to pass into solu- with friezes of lions and dragons tion. The iron lactates thus formed in encaustic tile work. On the will increase the solids of the milk, earth it was traced to the river bank. The whole enclosure cover - and the retarding influence on ren - ed an area, of a little over 0110 net action may at least be partly due to this cause. square mile, or roughly that of our Milk comes in contact with iron City of London. p in the form of rusty cans or poorly In the Rear or "alace" mound were found the remains of two groat tinned ntensils in practically all creameries and cheese factories. palaces, one built by Natupalassar, the other by Nebuchadnezzar. Both Tho quality of the milk will, to a w large extent, depend upon the t. were most complex in plan, con- ditiont of utensils into which theaining hundreds of rooms for the accommodation of retainers, offis milk is peered, kept, and finally cials in the royal family. The two hauled to the factory. The degree of influence of iron on milk will de- Vexes are separated by a street. he later' or new edifice is on the pend largely upon the temperature eastern aide and consists of sev- of the milk, the .length of time kept oral groups of chambers arranged in the cans, and the amount of ex- around quadrangles separated by posed surface. strong walls and gateways. The , FASTS FOR FOWLS. largest of these is a royal quad- rangle, entered by a double gate- way. On tho south side of this square is the northern facade of the royal audience chamber or Selamlik. This facade was forty feet wide and had been richly decorated with flor- al designs in enamelled brick in yellow, white, blue and black. The audience hall measures 60 by 170 feet and on the south side is a deep alcove with a dims in front, where the royal throne was placed. What a historic chamber this is! Here Nebuchadnezzar had sat and received homage on his conquest of jorusalem, Perhaps in this very chamber Belehazzar's feast was held and the plaster covered walls had received the terrible message. Hero Cyrus the Conqueror was en- throned in Juno 888 B. 0., and per- haps in this very chamber Alexan- der of Macedon held the fatal rev- els after his overthrow of the Em- pire of the East. Nebuehadnezzar speaks of richly, decorated palaces and temples, but the one prevailing feature of all the buildings was the dull, monotonous 'brickwork,void Of decoratioe. 1.1 gold and silver and precious stones, cedar and cypress wood, had boon used, all disappeared long ago. Whilst an occasional starve is pro- bably an excellent thing for both humans and poultry, there are throe times in the life of a fowl when a 24 hours' fact is to be specially rec- ommended. These occasions aro fin- vious to fattening. The reason fax and on confinement in a coop pre - mediately after birth, before death, the first of these is that Nature bas provided the new-born chick with sufficient nutriment for about thirty- six hours, and any food taken dur- ing the fleet twelve boars or so is probably distinctly detrimental to its well-being. Fasting before death ensures that the crop and in- tesinea shall be emptied of food, and thus pre,ents decomposition taking place. Another good reason is that the flesh of fowls bhus fasted eats better, being less liable to the hardness often found in birds killed shortly after a meal. Thirdly, a fasted bird is much more easily drawn, and the intestines being dry and compact, come away cleanly. A day's starve, immediately after cooping s bird to be fattened will en• euro a good appetite at the start. Many birds, especially somewhat wild ones'will reject a meal if offer- ed soon after confinement, and will finish up by refusing food of any sort, be it ever so tempting. So much is being continually written about feeding fowls that this short article on starving, may perhaps oorne, (like the occasional fast to man or bird) as a refreshing novelty, and to such should prove useful, This has the advantage of banes advice easy to follow, fax whatever exeuses may he offered for neglect'. Mg to food ocientillcally, the laziest can hardly find any ttouble 10 Aare - lug tt, fowl, THE FEEDING VALVE Or BRAN, Properly uaed, bhp feeding Value of bran 1$ a very diffierent thing to the value of bran as food, As poultry food, by analysie, bran liar a place very near the bottom of the liet, and many poultry -keepers, not- , END OF FAMOUS AUTHORS FATE OF •S011/11 LITERARY GENIUSES IN THE PAST, Pitiful Endings to -Exceptionally Tho how before sopor 'was call' Brilliant But Unfortunate rd the story time by the little Simp- son children, and it was such a hap - That "Oujda" should have .died ley time, for they were tired then as she did in poverty and bonelineese, °P Play, and it was delightful to so exile, though a voluntary one, yes and hear the Fitories read or get cloee to mother or Aunt Fran - from the lend of her birth, was 0,11 told: ...., ...14 reacl tiao undoubtedly pitiful ending to an e stories of their books, and the chil- xceptionally brillient career. EV- dren took turns in selecting those for some ally sad has been the fate reeerved they wanted read. But Aunt literary geniuees in the past. Frances always told them stories Richard Savage, the gifted poet, that sho knew or made up, or died in a debtors' prison at Brio - about something that had happen- ttoentl, i..asterrvateinenduireinrg yteheerte.panegethnott ed during the day. One day she said it would be nice ti form a little story club,and all terton, driven desperate through take turns telling the stories, So hunger, poisoned himself rst the ae the c.hilalren were always on the of eighteen. Swift died mad; as he bad all along predicted ho would, -watch for a little story to tell at the club. Mother said It would be Dr. Dodd, whose "Beauties of nice to write down seme of the • Shakespeare" is well keown, was stories, and then she would read hanged for forgery, George Gis- sing, after suffering hardships that there. The children thought it would be great fun to hear one ot embittered hitt whole existence, their own stories, just like a real ,died just as fame was beginning to story from is book. be assured to him. Edgar Allan Poe, -whose "Raven" The first one that was written has been adjudged the finest piece down was told by Bessie. She went in town one afternoon with Aunt a fugitive poetry in the Ewglisla language, and to whom also be- Frances, to visit her Aunt Serah; : longs the credit of having invented and after dinner Aunt Sarah said "Bessie, don't you want to take the detective story, drank himself"Bessie, to death in the Bobs out for a run? The poor dog Robert Tannehill, the S primo of his life.cotoli wea- does not get any exercise, now that ver poet, author of that world- John is away." famous lyric, "Jessie,the Flower "Bobs" was a little white woolly o' Dunblane," vas driven by want dog, and Bessie elways liked to take to him out. So she put on 'her hat TAE HIS OWN LIFE. and got Bobs' ohain, and they Everyone almost is familiar with started off up the avenue. All of the story of Otway having been a sudden Bobs pulled on his chain, choked with a piece of breed which and would not go any farther, Pobs was such a funny little dog! he devoured in the rage of hunger. There is reason to doubt the literal Be would trot along as fast as accuracy of this, but there can be ever, and then, without warning, no question about his having died he would stop and pull on his chain miserably poor and destitute. and you would simply have to piok Stow, the famous antiquarian, hon up and take him along for a author of the "Survey of London Rat ,e when he would run all right became in his old age a license" d again. This time Bobs had refused to beggar, askieg alms from door to budge, as usual; and Bessie al- Wycherleyfrom being the spoilt door "through tlairty-six counties." ways said that if it had not been idol of society,fell to the lowest for his stubbornness there would , depths of estitution, and was not have been any story to tell. She d had stooped down to pick Bobs up, eventually consigned to the Fleet when she saw a five -cent piece ly- sevenPrison for debt, where he remained lug on the sidewalk, arid she said years. Cotton also spent aloud, "Why, there's five cents 1"• many e -ears in a debtors' prison, and eventually died there by his and pinking it up, she looked all own hand. round, and was just going to take • Robert Burns, writing only four- another step, when she saw a ten - teen days before his death, inviter- cent piece. She could not help ed his friend Cunningham to use shouting, "Ten cents 1" arid she picked that up. And then what do Ids influence with the Commission- ers of Eithise in order to get his you suppose she saw lying all salary raised from 205 a year to about? Pennies, nickels and 1150, "otherwise, if I die not of dis- dimes 1 When she saw all the money she thought she must be 011S8,. the imaney, for it did not belong dreaming. She could not pick up to her, nor did the five -cent piece or the ten -cent piece that were in her pocket, and she did so wish • some one would come along and tell her what to do. Just then she heard somebody running up the street, and looldtig up, saw two men, all out of breath, talking and making their hands go at a great rate. They rushed up to the spot where she was stand- ing, and did not seem to see her in their eagerness to pick up the money, Then Bessie saw how It all had happened, fox during din- ner she had heard a street piaao playing oubside, and these were the men who had been playing it. When people gave them money they put it in a little tin box, and it must have dropped off. That was what Annt Frances thotght. The men did not stop to tell Bessie about ie—perhaps because they did not speak English. But when she took out the five -cent piece and ten - cent piece, and gave them to the men, they both took off their hats and bowed and bowed, and said, "T' anks 1 T'anks 1" Bessie ran breathlessly into the house, aed told her aunts, anel they said it was quite an adventure. 'Won't it be a good story for the club 1" said Bessie. "I think it will," 'said Aunt Frances. And when mother wrote it doweh she called it "The Dream Story, by Bessie Simpson.—Youth's Coin- panion. aWerSeeteniateasTealteeteCeteatil VOUNI3 FOLKS nereetteesceeseseesocereoproseere THE "DREA.M STORY," Careers., J. MUST PERISH WITH HUN- GER." Llorente, the learned and talent- ed historiographer of the Inquisi- tion, was glad, during the close of hie brilliant but uefortunate career to hire himself out for a few sous a night to keep watch over the dead bodies at the Paris Morgue, and died eventually of starvation. Ca - moons begged his bread from door to door, until compelled to take re- fuge in an almshouse, where he did. It is told of Ben Johnson that when, in his last illness, King Charles sent him. a small sum of money, he returned it. "He sends inc so miserable a donation," cried the dyingpoet, "because I am poor i and live n an alley. Go back and tell him his soul livea in an alley." Very sad Was the fate of Ulrich eon Hutton, one of the greatest writers Germany has ever produm ed. Unable to earn a living, be was reduced to tramping through the country, begging food and shel- ter from the peasants. One bitter winter's night ho 'was refused both and next morning was found FROZEN STIFF AND COLD, in the drifting snow outside the vil- lage. "The only thing he died pos- sessed of besides the rags ho wore," says his biographer, Zuinglins, "was a pew" St. Simon, the celebrated French author, who wrote "The Reorgan- ization of European Society," was twice driven by want to attempt his own and, although he died a natural death in the 'end, it was amongst the most lamentable sur- TITTLE TATTLE. le:endings. "For fifteen clays," he Small mistalces may have big con - said, writing to a friend just before the end same, "I have lived \mon sequences - Some men eonld only save money broad and water, without a fere; I have even eold my clothes," — in Prison. London Generally speaking, a woman is generally speaking. Deserve the good opinions of those who think well of you. It is not a:efficient merely to alai straight—you nnist hit. Conceit in a woman is bad enough*, bet in a man it, is awful. Enthusiasm can't do Much with- out a certain amount of "beetle." Wo can excuse meaneess.in our - solvers, but how we despise it , °tll°01118.1 Ymay lead an ass to knowl- edge, but ,you cannot make hitt thineke; Learning to he content with what we have is hard work for Most of 115. Experience shelve that, if eve went a thing cheaply must pay pretty, dearly for it. "Laugh, and the world laughs with yon"—so long a,a you are net laughing at the world, • Start the Day, Righit by !Eating SHREDDED WHEAT for breakfast with milk or cream and a little fruit. ' It is a muscie-building food, easily digested by the most delicate etemach. 'Pets Vim and Vtgor Into tired nerves end weary brains SW) sir Atx, moderns 1063