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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1908-11-26, Page 2Pee ceozoszezeseeetMeeol/00emoteoeeeeseesteesOtezeofeer, eatlezallaTZ Mile Heals Most Wounds A Tale of Love and Disappointment I tell you seriously that T shall b unable to give my consent " "Ethel will never ]Harry me with - cut it. She is too proud," Hare - castle said, and he was surpried, to see that his father welcomed the statement. "I em not a bey, father. You must give me some reason for this olipoeition,'' "1 can give you none," the. Tar] replied firmly, He was rapit.ly as - seining control over himself. "But ]t is absurd, Harecastle 0 d7S®r$t£ cbieWeet✓CaDi w"alel5ntace0 i 000.�$st:i ittecetee CSt , CHAPTER IY. Mr. Aakroyd was busy consider- ing his position. The evening of the day that he had obtained the cipher letters, he fought a great temptation, but his heart was not in the struggle, and he went to bed with the firm intention of tieing the papers to his own pecuniary ad- vantage. In other words, he meant to blackmail the Earl, But to him- self he did not use so odious a word. He was merely going to ob- tain a quid pro quo. He held pa- pers which were of value to Lord Wolverholme. and he would hand them over in exchange for a sum of money. The amount that he should ask was the question that was troubling him.: It must necessarily be large, the he was not t e mano risk his t skin for a mere song. But how large? Just so much as the Earl's purse would stand. The following morning he rose early and proceeded to make dis- crest enquiries. He had many sources of gleaming information, and he tapped the most likely ones, He ascertained that the Earl epeeu- lated, and that he had met with both successes and reverses. He had always settled, and sometimes the sums were great. He learnt, too, of his friendship with Joel, but this did not give him unalloyed pleasure; for he had met that gen- tleman upon one oe asion and had not emerged with too much credit ftom the encounter. This accomplished, he decided to go to Wolverholme by the ono o'clock train. It was a ran of an hour, and he calculated to be at the Castle by aboat three o'clock. .A stiff whisky and soda with a sub- stantial stantial lunch preceded ded his drive to the station. Nothing but a first-class ticket would satisfy him, and he felt as if he was already spending the small fortune that he was about to put into his pocket. There was none of the villain in Ackroyd's appear- ance. His clean-shaven face was refined, and his eyes met one frank- ly one of the greatest assets of an adventurer. He found that he had ten min- utes to spare, so he went to the re- freshment rooms, bought half a doz- en shilling cigars, and partook of another whisky and soda. Alcohol is a wonderful aid to the perpetra- tion of crime. Next he visited the bookstall, and laid in a liberal sup- ply of current literature. He was cne who must always be doing. It was beyond him to sit quietly with his thoughts, probably because they were generally unpleasant. For the greater part of his life -tune he had not been able to say to himself, "I have no immediately pressing worry." He walked along the train, but all the first-class smoking carriages were empty. He did not care for solitude, but finally made himself comfortable in the corner of one nearest the end. Just as the train was about to start, a porter opened the door and flung a kitbag and dressing case on to the seat. The luggage was quick- ly followed by its owner, who took a seat in the opposite corner to Ackroyd. The tresn moved from the station and the newcomer produced a book from his bag and began to read. Ackroyd snipped off the end ct a cigar, which he lighted, His newspapers were piled up an the seat beside him, and the jolting of the train suddenly sent them on to the floor. Ile leant to pick them up, and as he did so his eyes met those of the stranger. Askroyd smiled ingratiatingly, and made a banal remark about tho weather. Lord Hareeastle, for it was he, replied politely but coldly, and gave no encouragement for the opening of a conversation, but Ackroyd was not easily discouraged and be longed for company to dis- tract his thoughts from the coming interview. He had made up his. mind as to how he should proceed, and he did not want to dwell his decision. "It is pleasant to get out of town," he remarked with friendli- Hess. "Yes, it is," was the curt reply, Again there was silence for a few minutes, but Ackroyd was not bea- ten. "That is a remarkably interesting book that you are reading. There is a review in to -day's Times if you would like to see it." "Thanks, you are very kind," Hareeastle replied, hut he still con- tinued to read his book. Soon he laid it clown, and open- ing his dressing bag took out a cigar case. Upon opening 11, he gave an exclamation of disappoint- ment, for the ease was empty. "May 1; offer you one?" Aekroyd leant across the Barri Ago and Hareeastle had no alter- native but to accept the proffered unless wished to cigar, t o s to w sh bedown- right o -wn- right rude -and this was quite con- trary to his disposition, "Thanks, very much, he said. srA smokeless railway pourney is continued warmly. "You tell me, not pleasant --my man evidently. first of .all, that you want me to forgot to refill the case." ntarry, and when I propose a mar - One cannot very well deliberate- riage that is eminently suitable, 1 ly snub a man after receiving a meet with your opposition. What favor at his hands, so Harecastle's am I to think'?" manner thawed, and they were soon "You must trust me. As soon enesagedin conversing upon the cur- as I can, I will explain everything rent topics of the day. Ackroyd but for the present you must not could be a charming companion ask me." when it suited Ms purpose, and it "What am I to say to Ethel? I was now his wish to please. He bad cannot accept this position. I must no idea that the stranger was Lord hold to my engagement." Hareeastle, and the son of a. man "I repeat that this marriage will whom be was about to blackmail. not Luke place with my consent. I Not that the knowledge would have shall oppose it by every means in made any difference, save that tie my power." might have made even greater ef- 'You cannot realize that I love forts to please. Something seemed Ethel. My honor it bound. She to tell him that his good-looking knows that i am here to tell you of stranger was to come in contact cur engagement, and she will na- with him. aurally expect a letter from one in morning, It is out of re- nd the to ane ionly Theshort journey came o 1 y speer for you. that the engagement was not made public ere this." The Earl thought of Joel's cheque which lay in the desk near by, and be suppressed his het'er feelings. "This interview is telling on rne, Cyril. Won't you trust me?" I "I am sorry to worry you, father, I but you do not seem to appreciate what this means to mo. My whole future. is at stake." "I am truly sorry. I wish you had consulted me before taking this step." "That was impossible. I had no real reason for knowing that Ethel loved me, until her lips told me. and as soon as the train came to a stand -still, at the station for Wol- verholme Castle, a footman in liv- ery ran to the door of their carri- age, and after a salute, quietly be- gan to gather together Lord Hare - castle's belongings. A high dog- cart was waiting outside, and he mounted the driver's seat and took the reins into his hands. "Who is that gentleman?" Ack- royd asked a porter. "That is Lord Hareeastle, the son of the Earl of Wolverholme," was the reply, and Ackroyd cursed himself for a fool in not having grasped this during the journey. Ile inquired how far it was to the Cas- This is not one o: those women e hu tle, and when he found that it was wear their hearts on their sleeves, about five miles distant, he decided. su that cel the world can judge the that walking would enable him to reach there about the time he wish- ed. Harecastle commenced his drive in the best of spirits. He was filled with the joie de vivre, for he was which w that state of exaltation in comes to a man when he knows that his love for a woman is recip- rocated. He felt, too, that his fa- ther would join with him in his hap- piness. Ethel Fetherston was in every way. -it fit wife for the future Earl of Wolverholme. Well-born and of ample means, her reserve and pride had alone saved her from the honor of the publication of her portrait in the various Society weeklies. For fame of that kind she had no desire. Until the day of her engagement she had given him very little en- couragement, and until she had ac- tually accepted him, he was in doubt if she loved him. This un- certainty and suspense accentuated his present happiness, and it was with a light heart that he entered the Oastle for the purpose of an- nouncing his engagement to his fa- ther. He ascertained that the Earl was in the library, and after a hasty wash he at once went to that room. He found his father in cheerful spirits, and met with a warm wel- come. "So you are here at last, Cyril, and I am very glad to see you." "You look better, father. I hope you have no return of those at- tacks, Harecastle said with soli- citude. "No, I am feeling very fit. Of course you are going to make a long stay. There is a lot that T want to talk over with you. I am rapidly becoming an old man, and i think that it is time that you re- lieve me of some of my duties." "I will do anything that I can." "There is one thing that lies very close to my heart, Cyril," the Earl said gravely. "What is that?" "You are an only son, and I should dearly love to see you with an heir to carry on the name. You are nearly thirty, you know, and it is time you settled down." "Strangely enough, father, it is about my marriage that I have come to see you." The Earl started violently, and looked anxiously at his son. "I should have spoken to you when you were in town yesterday, but I was so upset at what you told me about the state of your health. I am engaged, father." "To whom?" the Earl asked hoarsely, And Hareeastle noticed with surprise the strangeness of his father's voice. "Ethel Fetherston. You know her, I think." The Earl rose from his seat and paced to and fro. His face was ex- pressive of extreme agitation, and for a moment he was unable to speak. "Quite impossible, Cyril. I shall never give my consent to this en- gagement." Hareaastles face was drawn and white. He faced his father and his vcieo was stern. "I do not think you can under- stand, father, This lady is in every way suitable to be my wife. I re- peat that I have asked her to mare. ry mol and that she has consented, he seed in a tone of finality, "It. is quite impossible that you state of their affections. I really cannot accept this decisi,,n," he re- pented, The Earl again rose from his seat, and moved to the door as if to end the interview, hut Heee- round. tend his firm! s castle g Y „reason." T await your Father and son. stood facing one another. Cyril looked appealingly at the Earl. Tho latter's eyes fell, and he fidgetted nervously. A knock at the door, and es footman enter- ed. "A Mr. Ackroyd desires to see your lordship," he announced to the Earl, "Tell him that I am engaged," the Earl said irritably; and as the door closed, he was sorry for his decision, for it would have put an end to an interview that was em- barrassing in the extreme. "I am utterly bewildered at your conduct," Hareeastle continued. "You make me imagine all kinds of things." "In due time I will explain my actions," the Earl said with a pith fel attempt at dignity. "I repeat again and again that I am not act- ing without very weighty reasons, which at present -I am rnable to explain. Run up to town at once, and put an end to the engagement. I give you permission to give my opposition as a reason. That will satisfy her, if she has pride." "It is of myself that T am think- ing. As your eon, I owe you my duty, but there is a limit to my obedience, and I fear you have reached that limit, father." The Earl passed his hand wearily over his forehead, and again the footman entered. "The gentleman says that his bu- siness is of the utmost importance, my lord, and that he has come from London for the express pur- pose of seeing you. "Ask him in here," the Earl said hurriedly. (To be flontinued.) IN GRANDFATHER'S TIME MANY OF 01311 NECESSITIES ARE NOT SO VERY OLD. Important Inventions Whieh Wo Enjoy of Comparatively Recent Origin. One thing which very few of us realize is how very many of those artieles which we call necessities our grandfathers had to do with- out, says Pearson's Weekly. Matehot, for instance. So Iong ago as 1677 Krafft, a famous Ger- man chemist made a kind of phos- phorus match, yet right up to 1820 no other way of producing fire was in use, except the old-fesbioned flint and steel and tinder, The modern match, the lucifer, did hot come until 1834, when the so-called Congreve snatch was put on the market, So the match as such, has only passed a man's life- time of three score and ten by four years. The oil lamp is a little older, yet still a eontparativoly modern in- vention; while it was the Swiss A i geld, who .discovered the princi- ple of the glass lamp chimney; yet "After taking three bottles of your wonderful medicine, our baby was entirely well and needed no more medicine. At six- teen ixteen months of age she weighed thirty pounds. She hal cried eight months, night and day, and nothing did her good until we tried Scott's Emulsion. "—MRS. E. C. SMITH, Villa Rica, Ga. Sctt's e 151 probably saved this child's life. Four doctors had been tried. Scorn's EMULSION seemed to be just the thing needed, and it is just the thing needed by thousands of other children. It's so easily digested, so pure and harmless, yet most powerful in building up the most deli- cate child or adult. But be sure to get Sco rw's Estuls'oN, there are so many worthless and harnfulimitations. JILL naueorSra A full *oar of 50,8. Smith's letter and man; others 01 a similar nature, together with some of our valuable literature re- garding children, rill be sour voou re- ,oip' o1 your uddreaa, montaentes tbte paper. scoria & nOwnE 126 Wellinston SI., W. Toroste eel uniClt more rapidly than that of the air for the balloon is actually ol 'or them the steamer, Montgol- fer's first balinon ascended on June 5th, 1783, Biscuits form one of the common- est foods of today. It is hard to imagine that, prier to 1841, there Wile 110 biscuit known, except the hard tack served out to sailers, Barely sixty-seven years ago the fret sweet biscuit was made at 'Read- ing, and one •eesult has been to raise that place from a mere vil- lage to a great manufacteiing town of over 70,000 people, EARTH WILL BE A DESERT WATER WILL T..iI N BE AS DEAR AS GOLD. A Boston Scientist Draws Conch: - stens from Conditions in Mars. "I1 is the doom of the earth," said Professor Percival Lowell in show some facts which might not his lecture before the College Club, Boston, "to be covered With dos- be so apparent otherwise. erts like Mars, and the Limo will The beginner is advised to watch close- e'er detail of the business, cora when iter in this world of every 0 W ours will bo Inc more precious than gold." With the aid of stereoptiean views, many of them photographic transparencies, Mr. Lowell sketch- ed the fresh evidence which has been obtained at the Lowell obser- vatory in Arizona of the existence of intelligent beings on the planet Mars. "Schiaparelli," he said, "saw these lines in 1877, and his map of, tire. But it has been domonstrat- them promptly met with universal ea, over and over again, that a condemnation. But the world made stra'n of any breed may be dovel- c O\ THE Rhe r+^ 4 atto NeY~AMa DO YOUR, HENS PAY 1 It is always a satisfaction to know whether or not your poultry is on a paying basis. Many people find poultry -raising a profitable and pleasurable occupation, Keep a record, an exact recordf o your re - HEALTH '00.9446 r $Eholette +4SOl1 MILK -f IOENESS. This is a diseano affecting both dairy (Attie and man. It formerly prevailed f cwhatdwq wastthen called the in some Wast, - 4hio, Indiana and Illinois,—but more particularly in the northern ceipts and expenditures ennneeted part of Ohio—the Western Reserve. with your poultry, and find out de- The disease disappeared with the finitely whether they pay; not at growth of the country, and in later- (Arkin atercertr.in times of the year, when it years doubt arose whether there would be hard work to make poul- ever was such a malady. Recently, try unprofitable, but all the year however, an affection, presorting round, Keep continuous records. the very symptoms described by the Charge up every cent of outlay on elder medical writers as those of the fowls, and credit them with milk -sickness, has appeared in New stock and eggs sold at the actual Mexico. price received. In cattle the disease ie called the And if it should he found, at any «lows" or the "trembles," the time that, taken for the year,, the latter name being given because of a proposition is a losing one, tit is • oculfar muscular tremor which time for a thorough consideration is pa conspicuous symptom. The of all the causes which contributed animal appears listless and refuses to that end. tc graze but drinks eagerly if Tho records, if easefully kept, will water is offered, and keeps by it- ly, It may be that the females are not from good egg -laying strains and, therefore, the•deeired success may be impossible with them, It may be that the feed is too costly and not of the right kind to ensure either the proper development of the,. growing birds, or the greatest possible output of eggs. "The breed that lays is the breed that pays" is a well-worn axiom in poultry eul- a rash step in denying his observa- tion of the canals, for time was per- fectly sure to prove their existence. In 1877 only ono man. saw them, but we have now a dozen men who oped in the egg -laying habit to such an extent that were it alone of its breed- considered, that breed might he well termed "The breed that lays." o Ihave not ot�ly seen there, but have But in the creating of an egg - were two Frenchmen, Carcel and seen them very notch better than laying strain, feeding has a great C'arre I he did. We have much better in- deal to do with the number of eggs The common, so-called paraffin struments, we have accumulated produced. For instance, supposing oil. which we burn in our lamps is the knowledge of what to look for you have purchased birds from a strain noted for its egg laying qua- lity; if you were to starve your them solei birds, or to feed y on get agood youwould nutegg corn, yield, no matter whether their an- cestors for twenty generations be- fore them had laid 200 eggs per hen per year. So we see that feeding has a vital influence in the produc- tion of eggs. • If your fowl do not "pay," your records will be of great assistance to you in locating the cause, and then it is "up to you" to remedy it.—F. 0. E., in Canadian Dairy- man. a far more recent invention than and our observers are better t rain! the lampitself. Petroleum oiled. We have pushed Shiaparelli s springs were known of centuries researches verymuch farther, and ago,but until petroleum was found I � now the curious thing is the coin - 111 America in 1819, it was never:plate disappearance of the men who used in lamps. Before that date ten years ago denied the very ex- istence of the canals." POLAR CAPS SNOW. Having shown, against objec- we burnt expensive vegetable oils costing as much as half a crown a gallon. Cheap lamp oil does not celebrate its jubilee until next year. -It seems curious that coal gas is sc much older a form of light than tions, that the polar caps of Mars coal oil. Sc long ago as 1798 Mr. are snow, and not solidified car - Murdoch used gas for artificial boomoctal, and that the tempera - lighting. No less an authority than ture of the planet is such as to en- able it to support life. Professor Lowell went on to say. "The Knetic theory of matter reminds us that a small body will lose its gases rapidly as compared with a larger one, and that is why the moon has already lost its air. For like reasons the seas pass away, and though Mars once had seas, there are none on the planet now, and no accumulations of water Sir Humphrey Davy was bitterly opposed to coal gas. He sarcasticai- 1.y inquired whether it was intend- ed "to take the dome of St. Paul's for a gasometer." PLUCKY JONAS HANWAY. The great trouble with early gas illumination was that the modern gasometerhad no Sen iuveno' not 'been invented. LIVE STOCK NOTES. A well -shaped horse's foot is large, rather than small. The wall should be very smooth, even shiny, and fashioned so that the fibres of which it is made can be seen. In 1882 gas was actually kept in If farm stock could hibernate huge, waterproofed, canvas bags; more than twenty miles across. through tho winter, so that we regular balloons. Some awful ac- The only water left in Mars is that should be at no expense for winter- cidents resulted, and a Bill was which is gathered semi-annually at ing them, we could afford to have passed to prevent any gas -holder its polar caps. Mars thus lacks 'them poor in the spring, but so being constructed of more than 6,- long as food must be given to re - 000 feet cubic capacity. Modern gasometees hold half a million feet, and some much more. Two household necessities, which are both considerably older than is usually supposed, are wallpa- per and the piano. Wall -paper was made in France as long ago as 1555, Before that date walls, if they were covered at all, were hung with tap- estry. As for the piano, it celebrates its 200th anniversary in the year 1916. In 1716 there was shown to the Academy of Sciences, in Paris, a clavecin, whose strings were vibrat- ed by hammers. The first pianos made in England were the work of a German named Zumpe. This was in the year 1760. Still another common article, which is of not nearly so recent ori- gin as generally imagined,, is the umbrella. Ask a school child who invented the umbrella, the answer ie Jonas Hanway, the Quaker, who died in 1786. This is not the fact. Hanay was merely the first man to carry an umbrella in the streets of London. The article it- self dates back to the very begin- ning of the eighteenth century. In these days of motors we hear a good deal of the dust and defects of THE MACADAMIZED ROAD. water supply, and leaving out the question of canals, we are led to recognize from the general condi- tions of the planet that it supports some form of arganic hie—a form which is peculiarly and manifestly beholden to the polar caps. "The light areas cf Mars, of a rose -ochre color, exactly resemb- ling in hue the deserts,of Arizona, are the deserts of the planet; the dark areas are unquestionably are- ae of vegetation. DARE REGIONS OF WATER. "Then there are the canals, which show a surprising network of lines connecting with one another and with the polar caps. At the Flag- staff observatory these canals have been greatly multiplied as well as greatly reduced in size. The bet- ter the lines are seen the more ab- solutely straight and geometrical they become and the narrower they turn out to be. The canals are in the dark as well as in the light re- gions, showing that the dark re- gions cannot be water. The lines are about ten miles in width and not more than fifteen, They always appear in the same places. "There are many markings on the planet like dots and the canals run into the dots, tometimee four- teen lines centring in one of them. None of the dots is isolated, and there is no canal which is not con- noeted with its neighbor and even- tually with one of its polar caps. "In one season the canals are meso gossamer lines, only to be seen with great difficulty, But six weeks or a month later, after the melting of the polar snows, the lines conn out with insistence, and their increasing visibility makes a regular progression clown the disc rf the planet, We are apt to forget that our roads —as such—are not yob a century old. It was not until the year 1819 that Mr. John Macadam came from Scotland and introduced his method of, breaking. stone to pieces weigh- ing about six ounces, and the use of clean flints and granite chip- pings. Next year will see the seventeen- th birthday of the penny postage stamp. Before 1830 our grandfa- thers paid Is. II/ed. to send a let- ter from London to Edinburgh, and all sorts of devices were em- ployed by the public to get the bet- ter of the Post Office. , The steamer is exactly 120 years olci this year. The first steamboat was a pleasure one, which steamed on the lake at Dalswinton in the summer of 1788. The engine was can matey her," the Earl : said the ninclern lamp, with its wick and made by William Symington, and nervous! y "torr know, Cyril) that e ':'t "` 1 device for , raising and the little vessel travelled at more y 111' wick. wet: only atent- six ]Hiles an hero'. I would do nothing, willingly, t . t� f P than would cause you tinhals/41A eo, bet ed in Vie, year '1800; Its patentees Aquatic navigation bas Iirogross- fr WAVE IN SUCCESSION. "There is evidently a wave which able coal supply of 1,200,000.000 starts from the polar cap and tons of which more than 200,001 - sweeps over the disk of Mars, and 000 tons have been touched. is succeeded six months later by a contrary wave from the opposite polo. The lines show bluish -green about one-eighth of the canals, said as the water brings otit the vegeta- , he, are •seen to be double at tete Mon; they turn gold -brown toward proper season, and they, neem.' only autumn,' in the equatorial, never in the polar Professor Lowell else speaks of region. Ono of these doubles is the mysterious doubling of the lines 100 ]Hiles from side to side; incl an- concerning the cause of which no- other fe connected in a curious way thing is yet definitely known. Only with the polar cap, pair the waste of the system, the only way to profit is to add enough food to enable them to do their bestIt. is not the nature of young stock to be overfat, and when they are found in this condition it is a sure sign of overfeeding or injudi- cious feeding. The food they eat at this stage of their life should be cf such a nature as to develop bone and muscle rapidly, and this is the end which all breeders ought to work for. No other article will so enhance the profit of the .poultry yards as kerosene diligently and intelligently used. For painting the inside of nest boxes for setting hens, there is nothing equal to it, as it surely ]rills all vermin with which it comes in contact, and prevents otherever- min from entering the nest until it is entirely evaporated, which, if the crude oil is used, will give the hen ample time to hatch her brood. A. few drops in the drinking water occasionally, has a good effect upon the general health of the flock and for golds or roup there is nothing better if carefully applied. MORE SUITABLE. Bobbie, aged 5, saw a cow graz- ing in his mother's flower garden, and shouted: "Scat! Scat i'' The cow didn't neem to be much intimidated, and calmly ate on. Three-year-old Mary, dancing with excitement, exclaimed : tell "Tell him to 'scow,' Wobble, hint to snow 1" One of the worst things about be- ing single is that you are always in danger of being married. New Zealand contains an avail - self away from the rest of the herd. Soon the trembling comes on, the animal is uo longer able to stand, a d n n tin becomes s slower nt5 breathing g slower, its eyes are dull and glazed, its legs cold, and death follows in two or three days. Constipation is usually marked throughout tho en - tiro course of the disease. The malady prevails especially 1n marshy districts and along the bor- ders of rivers with low banks. Post- mortem examination of animals dead of the "trembles" shows a condition cf the liver, kidneys, heart and muscles similar to that caused by certain poisons, namely, fatty degeneration and peculiar cel- lular changes. It is believed to bo clue to the action of a apecinl bacil- lus, that is, to bo a specific infec- tious disease. In man the affection is believed to arise from drinking the milk or eating area insufficiently cooked flesh ct diseased animals. The symptoms in the human being are loss of ap- petite, nausea and vomiting, intol- erable thirst, extreme muscular weakness, ress, and sometimes tremb- ling, obstinate copati ation, a pe- culiar sweetish odor of the breath, and dull pain in the abdomen. Thera is little or no fever, and of- ten the temperature is below nor- mal, the body, and especially the extremities, feeling cold to the touch. The disease is more fatal in cat- tle than in man, yet in man it is. very serious, and death is not un- ccmmon. Tho cause of the trou- ble in cattle is unknown, although as before mentioned, it is believed) to be an infectious disease, some- what similar to tentanus. There is no special treatment, and cases have to be managed by meting the symptoms as they arise,. and trying to maintain the strength of the patient and to increase the natural powers of resistance. — Youth's Companion. HEALTH HINTS. A splinter can be extracted with- out any pain in this manner; Near- ly fill a wide-mouthed bottle with hot water ; place the injured part over the mouth, and press tightly. The suction will draw the flesh clown, and in a minute or two the splinter will come out. Corn Salve. --Take about a tea- spoonful of common yellow soap. Put the soap on a strip of cloth about two inches wide and two inches from the end. The strip should go around the foot twice, but do not tie it, just put the stock- ing on with the soap a little in front of the toes, because when the shoo is put on it will push it back. Cough Syrup.—Put a large le- mon in the oven and allow it to re- main until thoroughly baked. When dune it will be soft all the way through. Add enough honey to the pulp to make a thick syrup. Keep the syrup warm and take a tea- spoonful every half hour. It will relieve hoarseness in a short while and is useful where there are small children. For the Convalescent. --When re- covering from sickness and about ready to sit up practice sitting straight up in bed if only for a mo- ment at a time and then lean back on the pillows; Do this every fif- teen minutes if • possible and you will find when able to get out of bed that the giddiness or uncom- fortable feeling hithe head has en- tirely disappeared. Toys for Oonvelosceets. — Mo- there are often at a loss for play- things for children convalescent from a contagious disease, as they trust bo burned later on. Cheap play materials, such as wooden heads to be strung on shoestring, colored pegs to be fitted in peg boards, paper chains, etc:, may be obtained at the kindergarten sup- ply houses. 'Within twelve miles of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, there were 891 railway-stations A doctor praotisos on !lin ovula patients, but an amateur musician praetis4s on the patience of others. ' at han11 you don't, You'll corer c ch on y try ; and after catellillg on, don't Lo ofeaid to lot go ti necessary. r t