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OR, WAIT1NO THROUGH WEARY
YEARS.
CHAPTER, III.
Marie Serafinne lived near the
amali Hamlet of Pine Cliffs, on the
Shenandoah River.
Though :her father and her mo-
ther had long passed to the spirit
world, she could not he called an
orphan, for she was tenderly cared.
for by iter aged grandmother.
They were very- poor and lived in
a hut of one room with a loft above
it, a shed behind it, and a rude
fence enclosing a little bit of a gala
den around it;—just so rnueh land
as lay in the hollow under the lofty
shelving cliff that overhung the riv-
er at that point, seeming ready to
topple down and crush the little hut
,lice an eggshell.
But as the shelving cliff had over-
)iung the river for thousands of
years without falling, its great pro-
tecting roof was trusted as a safe
shelter rather than feared as a pos-
sible danger.
Here Marie and her granny lived.
Here they cultivated their small
garden, kept a cow, and raised
roujtry.
From these resources, garden,
mow and poultry -yard, they gut
fresh vegetables and fruit, .milk,
"What a another she Will make,
some day!" said bet poor neigh-
bors:'
"What, an excellent • nurse she
would be; what a treasure en a
household of children:1" said her
rich neighbors,
But Marie's chance of being hap-
py in the position of either mother
or nurse seemed very remote.
It is true that many of the young
farmers of the neighborhood were
struck by her rare beauty, but part-
lybecause she was always so busily
at work cultivating her garden,
feeding her poultry, milking her
cow•, or carrying fruit and wege- She threw off her bat to co:,l her
t•ables, milk, butter, and eggs to head, and as she did .;so she saw
the village, that she had no time for the first three, a young man
to listen to them; partly because, seated on a rock near by, with a
when she did play, she played with, portfolio on his knees and a pencil
children only, so that she seemed ; in his hand.
to be still but a child herself ; and At the same moment that she per
partly, also, because she was so ex- cel -ed him, he also looked up.
tremely shy, none of her young dis- And efah stran 6 gel , blended emo-
tanb admirers ever a
pproached her fleas of delight and dread, she re-
with words of love. cognized the dark handsome stran-
But, air ! there came a time when ger ehe had seen at the hotel:
the child woman lowed "with a lore She quietly put on her hat, took
that was her doom." up her heavy basket and arose to
One bright summer morning she go.
went, as usual, to the village ho "Pray do not leave. If I disturb
tel with a basket of fruit to offer von I will myself move off," said
butter and eggs enough for their . for sale to the visitors there, the young man rising.
own consumption, besides having 1It was a simple. country place, "Oh, no, no, yeti do not disturb
a large surplus for sale, which 1 and ladies and gentlemen, nurses nee. but I was afraid—I was
Marie took in every day to the vel- and children, were gathered upon afraid--" she stopped and blushed.
I
lege and sold to the hotel during the front porch enjoying the morn- "Afraid i" echoed the young mai
the whole of the summer season,•ang air and the magnificent moun- with an interest he could not con -
when the village was full of tour- I tain scenery before them. meal.
fats, Marie, who went in and out the "Afraid 1 might be intruding on
With the price of this produce /.house like any pet kitten, stepped yon. I mean to say," added Marie
Marie bought tea and sugar, flour' on the porch. as usual, and passed looking damn.
.among the ladies, offerrngher fruit. "If there be an intruder, it is
While doing so, she overheard a certainly myself. I am a trespasser
voice murmur : here on your native soil, and if you
"What a beautiful face! Juet leave on nay account I shall take
my idea of the Virgin before tae it as a rebuke," said the stranger,
,annunciation, while she was stttl gravely.
,an unconscious child in Judea: Ub The simple girl did not more than
serve that pure, white forehead, half understand him, but she gath-
with its aureole of golden curls like ered .enough of his meaning to en- ter his receding form, until he sud-
a halo 'around it; those clean, able her to answer: 1 denly turned and looked back,
).right -blue eyes, full of soft splen- "You have as hutch right here as 1 when meeting his eyes,. she started
dor; that perfect mouth." I have, for I have no more than the ` with some confusion and hurried
Marie had no suspicion that the birds. The Lord lets us all come." into the hut.
speaker was talking of her; but "Will you sit down then and rest First she threw off her hat and
she involuntarily turned around, as you meant to col If you don't," went into the back shed and put the
;and as she did so, she met the gaga I will go away," said the stranger, soiled linen in soak. to be washed
of a pair of large, dark eyes fixer: gathering up his portfolio and pen-, the next day, and then she went
in adoration upon her face. c+els. 1 into the one room of the hut, where
Marie blushed deeply, and avert- For all reply, Marie put down: her granny was nodding over hot
ed her head. And soon she took her her basket and resumed her seat, 1 knitting.. She sat down beside her
basket and moved from the spot. and sat there blushing and tremb- and told her all about the artist
But she carried with her a vision, f ling—half and a l fright- she had met on the road, and about
ng f ha f fi ght I
a fine dark face, shaded with silk- owed. his wanting to paint the eottage,
en black curls and moustache, an,l And the artist resumed his seat, I and especially about iris kindness in
bringing home her heavy basket,
even tothe cottage gate.
"That's all well enough fur a nig
man to gin a lift fur a little gal. But
the hotel, and to geb the tunnel' to't . 1212 help, Her 'confidence was ,en -1
come and take •away the body of tirely won, •
poor I1i:oolay.
He walked by her side, oeuvres-
Anatshe u s rc ce
edlo<1 in bath tuts- ing pleasantly an Bitch topics 82
stens, came by the way,
After this Maz'ie worked harder "I am toid that there is a vozy
than ever, for she found washing picturesque scone along this road,
and ironing more aleanevus than that has never yet been sketched,
milking and butter making, while it It is a rock shelving far over tire
WAS not gtute so profitable, river, and having at rits base and'
Yet Marie evould not, for this under the shadow of its shelf a
cause, let her pear old granny suf sma11 cottage with a garden, Do
ler for the want of any of her ao-. you know e4berm it ,iso" 1112 enquir-
eastuinedl comforts, She bought ed as they 'walked on.
milk end butter enough for their Yes, sir; it 18 0111' rook and our
simple meals from a ncigh'he boring T tta ge and
gru'd den
tha t you ean.
n.
a mer:
And now her' busy life for 121 few its shape, which ea just like that of
clays kept lt.er thatrghts from dwel- f blacksmiths anvil, rowelling far
ling ,tn the Clark, lrandsomo fareforward and leaving a stat top, 11 e
that had made suoh.an impression live uixdor it, answered Marie,
en her imagination; eepecia4y as "Ali 1 indeed I Then we are en
she had not seen that face since it our way there now.
first glowed upon her, `Wo are very near it, sir,"
But one day; about a week after ,,How near '1" enquired the'young
that • accidental .id, loan anxiously, as if he were not at
t first cel li,rE rl meeting, she
Tishorten the distance o desirous ent to the villree to carry. a 'bas- all des ? tr t ,
ket of clean clothes, and she was but quite the reverse.
returning withAbout a quarter of a mile, sir."
r i g w tl a basket. heavily „
laden with soiled linen, whoa, feel- Ah 1"he said, and slackened his
ing great fatigue, she laid down her steps, walking very slowly.
burden for a moment, and sat down During that walk, the artist man-
to rest in the wood aged to become possessed nob only
of theirl's full confidence but al-
so of her whole history, even down
to the calamity of the cow's d'cath,
death.
When they tame in sight of the
hut under the cliff, the artist. broke
out into enthusiastic praise of the
beauty of the scene. "I must cer-
tainly sketch this, Marie," he said
'Will you permit me to come stere
every day and sit upon. that bank
there and work until I finish the
picturel" he softly enquired.
Oh, yes, sir; n-eriaiu]y. That
is, I mean, I have got no right to
stop ,you. The place is free to you
as 11 is to. all, sir."
The artist was not quits satisfied
with this reply, so he enquired far-
ther.
"But, shall I be in any .way dis-
turbing you, Martel"
"Oh, no, sir.; no indeed," she an.
swered earnestly.
They had now reached the gate
of the cottage and Marie lrospitab-
13 invited her companion to come
1n and see her granny.
But the artist ,thanked her and
declined the invitation.
He set down the basket, lifter'
his bat and bowed to her es if the
had been a princess, and turned
and left the spot.
Marie stood.tranrfixed, geeing af-
and salt, and also other simple nec-
essaries such as they could not raise
en their own little place.
The summer was their busy and
,profitable season. But it needed
strict economy to enable them to
lay up a little each summer for the
coming winter, For in the winter
their only source of revenue was
from the woolen socks and mittens
which they knit and sold to the
villagers.
Marie Serafinne was a favorite in
tine village and, indeed, in the
whole neighborhood --"welcome in
hall and hut."
All levecl the gentle girl. But
most especially ehildren loved her,
far she loved children.
Often when in summer she would
return home from the village and
bring empty buckets and a half fill-
ed purse, her granny, countingthe
money with the avarice of age,
would say to her :
"Why, Marie, 3'0n took out tea
quarts of milk at ten cents a quart,
and her you have brought me emp-
ty pails and only ninety cents."
"Well, but granny, I met Emma
and Willy, and they asked me for
milk and I gave them each a
drink,"
And then Granny Thompson
would groan and declare it. was the
French blood of her father, and it
was a pity her own only "darter"
had "Married of a Frenchman."
One time, returning with empty
baskets, Marie would be arraignee
with:
"Dear, dear me! Didn't I send
you out with fifteen quarts of rasp-
berries at five eents a quart, and aware. Indeed, she might have
passed the little gate, and gone on
unconsciously, had she nob heard
cries of distress which immediately
,arrested her steps,
`.Chinking only of her granny then,
,she turned hastily into the garden,
and followed the sound of the cries.
It led her through the lite into
the back shed, where she found the
ped woman uttering loud lamenta-
tions.
Marie had scarcely time to ask
What the matter was when the old
woman exclaimed :
"Oh, Marie! Mooley is dead!
,Mooley is dead! And now we too
+;hall die!—shall starve to death!
"How did 11 happen?" faltered
the girl in well-founded fear, for
indeed the cow 'was half their liv-
ing.
"Oh, she, fell over the cliff I She.
fell over the cliff ! She missed her
Sooting, and fell over the e]iff and
broke her neck, and died at once!
Come, look al her:. cried the old
woman, sobbing and wringing her
hands.
And she led Marie through the.
hack door of the shed, and along the
base of the cliff, until they came to
the spotrwhere the body of the ewe
lay,
Marie knelt down and tenderly
stroked the face of her poor climb
,friend, and saw that she was dead
indeed,
"Don't cry, dear granny! I'm
,sorry for pear Moaloy; but don't
you be afraid;, we shall net •starve."
I know they want another laun-
dress at the hotel, and I can take
in washing e enigh to make up for
the loss of the milk and knitter,"
she said oheereelly, as she helped
the dance bale to the hitt,'
And that same afternoon Marie
went back to the village on a double
errand -eta engage washing • from
lighted by a pair of large, soft, re -opened his portfolio, and recom-
cieeply shaded black eyes, eneuced his work.
And without suspicion of wrong He worked on in silence for a few
or danger, she thought of that fine Minutes and then looked around at
dark face with innocent delight. his quiet companion, and met her j if he wants to draw off a pioter of
As she walked home with her emp- eyes fixed in childlike wonder and our house, he's got to pay for it.
ty basket, she wondered who the -admiration upon himself. ( Poor folks like us, as has lost our
owner was, whether he was a visi- She colored deeply and turned I cow too, can't afford to give away
tor at the hotel, and how long he away her_head in confusion.
was going t0 stay, and if she should The artiist smiled, not without
ever see him again. And then, with satisfaction.
a slight feeling of pain for which "You are wondering what I am
she could not account, she tried to
guess which of those ri.h, happy,
handsomely dressed lady visitors it
was whom he thought to be as beau-
tiful as the blessed Virgin 1
So deep was her reverie, that she
reached home before she was
here you bane brought me only six-
ty-five cents. Where's the other
ten 1"
"Granny, I met Susy and Nelly
and Fanny, and I gave each of 'em
a handful of berries. I couldn't
help it, granny!"
Another time:
"How is this, Marie 1 I sent you
out with a peck of sugar pears, and
here you have brought back only
the price of three-quarters of a
peck!"
"0, Granny! there was Jenny and
Ally and Minnie and Ida saw the
gears, and I gave them some! It
10 so natural for. children to love
fruit, granny 1 And if you had only
seen.them a -putting their fear libtle
teeth into the pears, you'd a felt
as, if yeti was paid!"
",No, I wouldn''t, neither! I don't
see it at all] And no Inorewould
yen, only for your fattier'? French.
blood! Pity your mother ever mar-
ried of a Lafayette French soldt-
ae t Mind, now, it's geing to be the
j'nin, on you 1 You can't say no to
nobody! .And you'd give away your
very feet, if anybody wanted them,
and go' on' crutches all your life
This was strongly put, but 11 was
nearly' true of Mamie iSerafznne
Love of self had no place in her
soul., It was filled with the love of
others, To see others happy was,
with' her, to be very happy; to see
others miserable was, with her, to
are very miserable: And she knew
no other happinoss, no other nes-
But in the innocent joy and glad -
nest of eighteen. she became. ecsta-
tic, and in their.eorro'w or suffering
elle suffered intensely until she
could relieve 'nem,
it wag Cram this trait of cheese -
Ler that Maria was barb known and
Lapels,
everyth`ng, even to the every pm -
ter of our house," grumbled the
dame.
"Ob 1 granny! You would never
doing 1" he said quietly, to reassure want to take the gentleman's mon
her. Hell, little daughter of Eve, ey for that 1,said Marie, feeling
I well satisfy your curiosity. I am deeply ashamed.
sketching from nature. I am mak- "I would then! And I will too,
ing a picture. I will show it to you before he geta a chance to steal the
and you shall tell nee what yell think pieter otfen it for nothing ! Let
of it, for I know you will be a come Trim up with it indeed!" growled:
potent and honest critic." the old woman,
And he arose and took, the sketch Marie made no further answer
from his portfolio, and came and but meekly went about her little
put 'i in into her hands, household duties, hanging the tea -
She looked at him in a sweet sur- kettle over the fire and setting the
prise, then fixed her eyes upon the
sketch, and then raised them to the
scene from which it was taken.
"How do you like it i:" he enquir-
ed, taking the seat by her side.
"It is beautiful !" she murmured.
"It is magical. I wish I could 40
it."
Then she stopped and flushed,
and taking up her .basket, site ad-
ded:
"I must go now."
"\\'het, do I drive you away after
al.t"
"011 no ; but I musto now,
please. I must carry this basket of
clothes bowie."
. "What! this heavy basket? you..
will faint by the way 1 Let enc carry
it for you," he said, lifting 11 upon
his arm_
"Oh, no, no, please! Indeed, in-
deed I would rather you wouldn't !
she pleaded trembling.
"Child, I have a little sister at
home just about your age. And 1
carry all her burdens, it would
give me painto see her carrying
anything heavy, And it gives me
rain note to hear you speak of car
tying this. You would not wish I
give any one, 01011 tree, pain, would
you 1"
"012, no!"
"Then let Inc carry this for you.
And see how strong I am in come
parieon to you.",
Anti so staying lie carried the bas
loot to the rack 11.11er'o he had left
his drawing materials, and set et
down there while ha strapped itis`
portfolio to his elimilder2 Then mother e,
he leek up her basket and rejoined Too many measure their moral
her. sc dnees hy the amount of sound
thee She made uv further resistance,ti,ay maks,
table for stepper.
(To be continued,)
SENTENCE SERMONS,
Malice always miseentrties.
Long prayers often lido wrong
practice.
Formation is always better than
reformation.
No man can save men without
suffering with !nen.
It is hard work growing saints
in the soil of the pit.
You eau measure .any man's as-
piration by his perspiration.
No man has a large mission whe
neglects the little ministries.
Religions forms easily become cas-
kets in which faith is buried.
This is a godlers world whenever
the divine is all in the past tense
When a roan is ethically wabbly
1-12 is usually theologically rigid.
Ileal prayers and real mountains
always put a pick in your hand.
You will not help the man who
is looking to you by looking at
you rself.
Greatness of character rises -in
willingnese to make small begin -
wings.
There's nothing a lazy. ;man ee-
joys better than designing "Buse"
signs.
The worst fools are these ,vii.s
worship a Gud in the hope of, feel
ing lam
Some men use the beam in' ]:heir
eye to pick ottt the mote fn their
4.04— .. releo
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WINTER, CARE 014 P0UI1T1O
Keeping fowls over, winter costs
iuoney. Nothing should be kept
thatdoes not pay its debts with
interest. At the fail roundup make
a thorough sorting, Every fowl
should stand squarely upon strong,
yell -developed legs, whose "scales
are clear and distant, overlapping
each ether neatly. Neat in im-
portance is the head, which should
be Tether email with a compact
comb of Blear, healthy reser color,
e firm beak and bright eyes. .
Though mach more rare, there
aro defects in the body to be looked
after, each as crooked barks, clog-
ged oil -glands, etc. The too nurn-
eroits males, and the late pullets
that will eat all winter and then
help flood the markets with nine -
cent eggs in the spring, should be
sorted out. If there is a swelled
head or a consumptive have it
killed immediately. It is the more
merciful way.
With a fioek cf sturdy, healthy
fowls, not too ,numerous for their,
quarters, poultry keeping is usual-
ly successful; but to bring best re-
sults loving care is needed. Loving
is used advisedly.
Be careful of the roosting places.
A cold draught all night is as dan-
gerous as roosting in the open air;
corn fodder set up around the wind-
iest sort of a hen house will make
it habitable.
As for the reef, if no water drips
directly on the roosts, and boles
are not large enough fol• the hens'
to fly through, it will do.
Most important of all—feed and
water, water and feed continually.
Feed with a liberal but judicious
hand as great 22 variety as possible,
but regularly.
A good ration is to feed whole
erbea1 one morning and on thenext
a warm mash of table scraps, meat,
cooked vegetables or anything ob-
tainable mixed up with hot water
and -meal into a thick mash, wlo
should be carefully seasoned with
pepper and salt. This is a handy
way to feed a few red peppers oc-
casionally or poultry food, for a
tonic.
Every, night, half an hour before.
sunset, give a'good ration of corn
heated until some of the kernels
are brown.
The fowls should have fresh wa-
ter or milk slightly warmed twice a
day and plenty of cracked ane
ground earth and bone, beside hav-
ing water -slacked lime by them all
the time.
If some snowy morning, the
zephyrs are rather rough as you go
fords broom in hand to sweep chick•
en paths, it may be some comfort
to remember that business is busi
nese, and that profit and pains tak-
ing ge hand in hand.
On the Farm
TELLING AGE OF CATTLE.
At twelve months, an animal
should have its milk (calf) incisors
in place.
Fifteen months. At this age the
central pair of incisors (milk tee,
may be replaced by a pair of per-
manent incisors (pincers), these be-
ing through the gums, but not in
wear.
]lighteen months. The raiddlr
pair of -central incisors at this age
should be fully up, and in wear,
but the next pair (first intermed-
iary) nob yet through the gums.
Twenty-four months. The mouth
at this age will show two 011th,
(permanent broad) incisors, fully
up and in wear.
Thirty months generally shows
six broad permanent incisors, the
middle and first intermediary fully
up and in wear. The next pair
(second intermediary) well up but
not in use,
Thirty-six months shows three
pairs of broad teeth, which should
be fully up and in wear, and the
corner milk teeth may beshedcliog
with elle corner permanents just
appearing through the gum.
Thirty-nine menthe. Three pairs
of broad teeth will be fully up and
in wear; the corner teeth (incisors)
through the gums are nob in wear,
FARM NOTES.
Keep the churning -room as near
60 degrees as possible. Never 1111
the churn more than half full of
cream, Churn at m•ediurn speed,
Always use a thermometer, and in
summerr churn at 00 degrees,
01 the absolute necessity of pot-
ash forplant food there can be no
doubt: It is essential to the life of
plants, and there seems tobe no
end to its combinations with other
00011)onentparts of the soil, which
are thus dissolved and made assi-
milable.
It would be folly for ,any femme
to attempt to manufacture acid
phosphate or dissolve bone fertiliz-
er at hone, '.Che making of high-
grade commercial fertilizer 15 a
business requiring technical train-
ing, told for one who knows .troth.
ing shout it, failure will almost "Thai's a sign up there, daddy,
-certainly result, Before the bouos, what says: 'Don't; blow 0111 1116
aro treated, they should be ground gas.' "
"Well, who blowed ib out? I
jest hit it a lick with my britches
an' I hain't seen othire' er it
sense,"
on the farm as in the city, but e'
Meal are able eo save more of them,
and at the end of the month or
year, the farm hand often has more
money utast had he been worktug
ia1 the oily. probably a 1 eaeon why
there is sneh un apparent snips-
thy to working on t..e farm is the
Wee opinion men entertain• that
farm labor is degredizlg, At te.
present day; when Earn work is
performed by u1ach]nory 181'5121,3',
and business' methods obtain to a
great often, there is no ground
for snoh a thought. A more logi-
eel reason is perhaps the usually
long hours for labor on the farm.
PLANT I 'i'LLLIG!ENCE.
Defensive ]Beans Employed Against
Insects.
Writing of the Italian eatehfiy in
his may, "Tire Intelligence of the
]:lowers," 'Maurice Maeterlinck,
the Belgian poet and philosopher,
shows Trow this simple little white
flower goes we'th seemingly intelli-
gent thought about the business,of
its own preservation, Apparrently
Very timorous, very susceptible, to
avoid the visits of importunato and
indelicate insects the Silent Italica
furnisl.lcs with glandular
hairs, wheshenits erestaoozes a viscid flued
in which the parasites are caught
with such success that the'peasants
of. the south pnt as a fly
eatelier in thuseeir hotheuses.la
Certain kinds of catchflies, more-
over, have ingeniously simplified
the system. Dreading the ants M
particular, they discovered that it
wets enough, in order to prevent
them from passing, to plaee a wide
viscid ring under the node of each
stalk, This is exactly what our
jars.gardeners do when they..<iraw a Cir-
cle• of tar 4r other sticky substanee
round the trunks of the apple -trees
to stop the ascent of the caterpil.
In a popular work, "Les Plantes
Originates," Mons. Henri Coupin
examines some of the defensive
means employed by plants. Some
of these
startling. weapons are quaint and
Monsieur Lothelier, a student at
the Sorbonne, has made a number
of interesting experiments with
thorns, resulting in the conclusion
that shade and damp tend to sup-
press the prickly parts of the
plants.
On the other' hand, whenever the
place' in which it grows is dry and
burned by the sun, the plant brist-
les, and multiplies its spikes, as if
it felt that, being almost the sole
survivor among the rocks or in the
hot sand, it is called upon to snake
a mighty effort to redouble its de-
fenses against an enemy that no
longer. has a choice of victims to.
prey upon. Itis a remarkable fact,
moreover, that, when cultivated by
man, most of the thorny plants
gradually lay aside their weapons,
leaving the care of their safety to
the supernatural protector who has
adopted them in his fenced
grounds.
Among the plats that have ceased
to defend themselves. the most
striking case is that of the lettuce.
"In its wild state," says Mon
sheer Coupon,' "if eve break a stalk
or 'a leaf, we see a white juice .ex-
ude from it, the latex, a substance
formed of different matters which
viperously defend the plant against
the assaults of the slugs. On the
other hand, in the cultivated spec -
es derived from the former, the la-'
Lex is almost missing, for which
reasonthe plant; to the despair of
the gardeners, is no longer able to
resist,'. and allows the slugs to eat
it." •
It is nevertheless right, comments
Maeterlinck, to add that latex is
rarely lacking except in the young'
plants, whereas it becomes quite
abundant when the lettuce begins
to "cabbage," and when it runs
to seed. Now it 11 especially at the
commencement of its life, at the
budding of its first tender ]eaves,
that theplan'b needs to defend et -
self. One is inclined to think that
the cultivated lettuce'- loses its
head alittle, so to speak, and that
it no longer knows exactly where
it stands.
Ceitain plants, among others the
Boragin.a.coae, supply the place of
thorns with very hard bristles.
Others, such as the nettle, add poi-
son. Oothers, the geranium, the
mint, the rue, steep themselves in
powerful odors to keep off the ani-
mals,
But the strangest aro those which
defend themselves. mechanically.
Monsieur Maeterlinck mentions
only the horsetail, which surrounds
itself with a vortiable armour of
microscopic silica°. Moreover, al-
most all the Gramineae, in order
to dis000rage the gathering of slugs
and snails, add lime to .then' tis-
sues.
DIFFERENT,
"Mrs. Jones is different from
most women."
"How do yeti make that but?"
"I was invited up there to din-
ner the other .night, and she didn't
once apologize for the meal she
was serving,"
A NEW W]1.INItLE.
very fine, and the finer the grind-
ing the more perfect will the amid
amt,
The wages may not he so high
FUN AT THE TABLE.
It is astonishing to ono who has
not studied the subject thoughtful•
ly to leant how completely under
the control of the nervous System,
0z rwet'h12r ear the einetions, the en-
tire digestive appartus is, ,
It is a matter of crvery-day ex-
perience that the appetite is 2111»
der the subjection of the feelings,
although,not of the will, The im-
pulse to "eelobrate" any good nous
by a dinner is founded upon the
filet that one i.and
elated, hungerwhen is excitesd. Iripleased early
times this 'hunger wee gratified on
the moment—just as the amore
panying thirsttoo often is 'nosy;
but the modem man usually defers
his e'at'ing to a suitable oceaszon,
The loss of appetite eaused by
bad news or misfortune of any kind
is too well known to need more;
than mention, Worry or physical
fatigue will often act in the same-
way, Thesame causes .that de-
stroy the appetite willarrest or
greatly retard the process of di-
gestion, Ib a natter of common
experience that any disagi'eeab']e
occuri•0nce during er just iafter a
meal will stole digestion,. and may
bring on a bilious attack with head-
ache, nausea, and a coated tongue.
Concentration of the mind or anxi-
ety will act in the same way.
On the 'other hand, as the appe-
tite is stimulated by good news and
mental elation. 20 digestion is fav-
ored by whatever promotes gaiety
and high spts:
"Laugh and grow fait" like so
many popular sayings, is an 2X -
pression which contains much
truth. -Dyspepsia is a malady that
will seldom be found in the fam-
ily where the dinner gives occasion
for cheerful talk and mirth,, and'
where all worry and "disgruntle-
ment," and especially quarreling,
aye under a ban.
Every member of the family •
should make it an absolute rule to
put worry and all .thoughts of busi-
ness or study aside for the moment
and to came to the table preparetd
to be light-hearted and gay. This
1s not only as a moral ,duty, but
rests upon the very physical rea-
son that his appetite will be bet-
ter, and his food will taste better,
and will be better digested.
In this connection it goes with-
out saying that bilis and disagree-
able letters should never be the.
accompaniment of the maiming
meal, because a day started with
-chagrin is a very hard day to
straighten out.—Youth's Compan-
son.
STERN MEASURES FOIL INDIA.
Seditfonists There Not Popular,
Says Under Secretary.
The strong hand with which the
,Government of Great Britain it
going to put down sedition-neon-
gerino, in India was the main fea-
ture of an address of the Master
of Elibank when introducing the
Indian Budget the other day en the
.English House of Commons.
The main points' of the Under
Secretary's speech were as follows
The financial year closed with.a
deficit of 3% millions. .
A serious falling off in the gross
,receipts from the Indian railways,
owing to restricted trade.
Lord Kitchener's great work in
remodelling the Indian Army.
The ruined harvests "of a year or
two ago have resulted in the lots
of 7,000,000 tons of food grain,
valued se 528,000,000.;
The authorities have been able
to close the relief works since, and
there is no general distress now.
The Under-Secretary gracefully
expressed. the sympathy of the
House with Lady Wyllie, and its
indebtedness to the Italian gentle-
man who gave his life at the Im- •
aerial Institute in the attempt to
,save Sir Curzon. "The erime was
.a0 isolated act and not connected
with any general wide -spread eon-
,piracy against British pewee," he
said,
"A 'committee," he went on, "has
been set up under Lord Ampthill
to entroda'ce friendliness young In-
dian students in this country to
families with whom they may live
and see real British life -a bolter
typo than can be seen in Blooms-
bury boarding houses.
"There are in India," said the
1itaseer of Elibank, "a few stela
Monists, and they are held in con-
tempt by the mass of the people o!
Iatclia..
"This country will maintain or.
der, and the stirrers -up of sedition
;will be removed from the sphere
of a mischevioua activity. There
will he no supineness of raoilla-
tion in dealing with anarchia] out-
rage and sedition." '
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• When comes to settling tip the
more there is nothing more expen-
sive than the wedding p1•esenes you
received,
IBlobbs---"Why don't yeti eensuit
a doctor about ,your insomnia. 1"
,Slobbs—"What1 Aud run up more
bills? Why, it's because of 11118(2
ewe hint now that I cats t sleep,"
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