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OR, A MIDNIGHT CALL
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CHAPTER XLVI.—(Continued,)
"Are you not going to kiss me,
dear?" she asked,. sweetly.
Frank Littimer needed no further
invitation. It was quiet and secluded
there, and nobody could possibly see
them. With a little sigh Chris felt
her lover's arms about her and bis
kisses warm on her lips. The clever,
.brilliant girl had disappeared; a
Pretty, timid creature stood in her
place for the time. For the moment
Frank Littimer could do no more
than gaze into her eyes with rapture
and amazement. There was plenty of
time for explanations.
"Let us go into the arbor," Frank
suggested. "No, I am not going to
release your hand for a moment, If
I do you will fly away again. Chris,
dear Chris, why did you serve me
so?"
"It was absolutely necessary,"
Cliris replied. ''It was necessary to
deceive Reginald. Henson. Silt it was
bard •work the other night."
"You mean when I carne here
• . and--"
"Tried to steal the Rembrandt.
Oh, you needn't explain. I know
that you had, to come. And we have
Henson in our power at last."
"I am afraid that is too good to
be trlto. But toll nee everythiug from
the beginning. I am as dazed and
confusedas a tired man rousted out
of a sound sleep."
Chris proceeded to explain from the
beginning of all things. It was an
exceedingly interesting and exciting
narrative to Frank Littimer, and he
followed it carefully. Ile would have
remained there all day listening to
the music of Chris's voice and look-
ing into her eyes. He had come
there miserable and downcast to ask
a question, and behold he had sud-
denly found all the joy and sweetness
of existence.
"And so you have accomplished all
this?" he said, at length. "What a
glorious adventure it must have been,
and how clever you are! So is Mr.
David Steel. Many a time I have
tried to break through the shackles,
time Miss Lee for the present,"fromshe
said. "My task is a long way
being finished yet, Lord Littimer,
you are not going to send ]!'rank
away?"
Littinter looked undecided.
"I don't know," he said. "Frank,
I have heard a great deal to -day to
cause me to think that I might have
clone you a grave injustice. And yet
ain not sure. ]n any case, it would
be bad policy for you to remain
here. If the news came to the ears
of Reginald Reason it might upset
Miss Machiae,elli's plans."
"That had not occulted to me for
the momont," Chris exclaimed. "On
the whole, Frank had better not
stay. But I should dearly like to
see you two shake hands."
Frank Littimer made an involun-
tary gesture, and then he drow back.
"I'd I'd rather not," he said. "At
least, not until my character has
been fully vindicated. Heaven knows
I have suffered enough for a boyish
indiscretion."
"And you have youth on your
side," Llttimer said, gravely,
"Whereas I—"
"I know, I know. It has been ter-
rible all round, I took those letters
of poor Claire's away because they
were sacred property, and for no eye
but mine—"
"No eye hut yours saw them. I
was going to send them back again.
I wish I had."
"Aye, so do I. I took them and
destroyed them. But I take Heaven
to witness that I touched nothing
else besides. If it was tho last word
I over uttered—what is that fellow
doing here in that garb? It Is one
of Henson's most disreputable
tools."
Merritt was coming across the ter-
race. He paused suspiciously as he
caught sight of Frank, but Chris,
with a friendly wave of her hand,
encouraged him to come on.
"It is all part of the game," she
said. "I sent for our friend Merritt,
but when I did so I had no idea
that Frank would be present. Since
.but Reginald has always been too you are here you aright just as well
strong for me." stay and hear a little more of the
"Well, he's shot Ms bolt, now," strange doings of Reginald Henson.
Chris -smiled. "I have just been The time has come to let Merritt
oPening your father's eyes."
Frank laughed as he had notlaugh-
ed for a long time.
"DO you mean to say he doesn't
know who you are?" he asiced.
"My dear boy, he hasn't the faint-
est idea. Neither had you the faint-
est idea when I made you a prison-
er the other night. But he will know
soon."frank
"God grant that he may,"
said, fervently.
He bent over and pressed his lips
passionately to those of Chris. When
ho looked up again Lord Littimer
was standing before the arbor, wear-
ing his most cynical expression.
He does know," be said. "My
clear young lady, you need not
move. The expression of sweet con-
fusion on your face is infinitely
pleasing. I did not imagine that
one so perfectly self-possessed could
look like that. I't gives me quite a
nice sense of superiority. And you,
sir?"
The last words were uttered a lit-
tle sternly. Frank had risen. His
fare was pale, his manner resolute
and respectful.
I came here to ask Miss Lee a
question, sir, not knowing, of course,
who she was."
"And she betrayed herself, eft?"
"I am sorry if I have 'lone so,"
Chris said, "but I should not leave
done so unless I had been taken by
surprise, It was so hot that I had
taken off. my glasses and put my
hair up. Then Frank came up and
surprised me."
Yoe have grown an exceedingly
pretty girl, Chris," Littimer said,
critically. "Of course, I recognise
you now, You are nicer -looking than
Miss Lee,"
Chris put her glasses on and rolled
her hair down resolutely.
"You will be good enough to un-
derstand that I am going to con -
Just for the moment, the impulse to
shuffle was upon hire -
"If I say nothing, then I can't do
any harm," be remarked, sapiently.
"Best, on the whole, for no to keep
my tongue between my teeth,"
"Mr, Henson is a dangerous man
to cross," Chris suggested.
'elle la that,'' Merritt agreed,
"You don't know him as 1 do."
Chris conceded the point, though
she had per own views on that mat.
ter. Lord Littimer had seated him-
self on the broad stone bench along
the terrace, whence bo was watching
the scene with the greatest zest and
interest,
"You imagine Mr. Henson to be a
friend of yours?" Chris asked.
Merritt nodded and grinned. So
long as ho was useful to Henson he
was fairly safe.
"Mr. Merritt," Chris asked, sud-
denly, "have you ever heard of Reu-
ben Taylor?"
Tho effect of the question was elec-
trical. Merritt's square jaw dropped
with a click, there was fear in the
furtive eyes that ho cast around
hint,
"I road all about Reuben Taylor
In one of our very smart papers late-
ly," Chris went cm. "It appears
that Mr. Taylor is a person who no-
body seems to have seen, tut who
from time to time does a vast ser-
vice. to the community at large. He
is not exactly: a philanthropist, for
he is well rewarded fur his labors
both by the police and his clients.
Suppose Mr. Merritt here had clone
some wrong."
"A great effort of imagination,,"
Littimer nturmurecl, gently.
"Heed done something wrong and
an enemy or quondam friend wants
to 'put him away.' T believe that is
the correct expression. In that case
he does not go to the police himself,
because he is usually of a modest
and retiring disposition. No, he us-
ually puts down a few particulars in
the way of a letter and sends it to
Reuben Taylor under cover at a cer-
tain address. Is not that quite cor-
rect, Mr. Merritt'
"Right,'" Merritt said, hoarsely.
"Sonne day we shall, find out who
Taylor is, ancl—"
"Never mind that. Do you know
that the night before your friend Mr.
Henson left the Castle he placed in
the post -bag a letter addressed to
Mr. Reuben Taylor? In view of what
I read recently in the paper alluded
to the name struck me as strange.
Now, Mr. Merritt, is it possible that
letter had anything to do with
you?"
Merritt did not appear to hear the
question. His eyes were fixed oet
space; there was a sanguine clenching.
of his fists as if they had been
about the throats of a foe.
"If I had hint here," he murmured.
"If I only had him here! He's given
me away, After all that 1' have done
for hips he's given nee away."
His listeners said nothing; they
fully appreciated the situation. Mer-
ritt's presence at the Castle was both
dangerous and hazardous for Hen-
son.
"If you went away to -day you
might be safe?" Cliris suggested.
"Aye, I might," Merritt said, wieh
a cunning grin in his eyes. "If I had
a hundred pounds."
Chris glanced significantly at Litti-
mer, who noddele and took up the
parable.
"You shall have the money'," he
said. "And you. shall go as soon
as you have answered Miss Lee's
questions."
Merritt proclaimed himself eager to
say anything, But Merritt's informa-
tion proved to be a great deal less
than she had anticipated.
"I stole that picture," Merritt con-
fessed.
onfessed. "I was brought clown here
on plumose. Henson sent to London
and said he had a job for me. It
was to get a picture from Dr. Bell.
1 didn't rile any questions, but set
to work at once."
"Did you know what the Picture
was?" Chris asked,
"Blees you, yes; ie was a Rem-
brandt engraving. Why, it was I
who in the first place stole the first
Rembrandt from his lordship yonder,
in Amsterdam. I got into his lord-
ship's sitting-r'uom by climbing down
a spout, and I took the picture."
"But the other belonged to ` Van
Sneck," said 011113
"It did; and Van Sneak bad to
leave Amsterdam hurriedly, being
wanted by the police. Henson told
me that Van Sneak had a second
copy of `Tho Crimson Blind,' and I
had to burgle that as well; and I had
to get into Dr. Bell's room and put
the second copy in his portmanteau,
Why? Ask somebody wiser than me.
It was all some deep game of Hera
son's, only you may be pretty sure
he didn't tell me what the game was.
I got my money and ret'ai'ned. to
Landon and till pretty roam
I saw
no more of Henson."
"But you, carpe info the game
again," said Littimer.
"Quite lately, your lordship. I
went down to Brighton. 1 was told
as hell had got hold of the second
Rembrandt owing to Henson's care-
lessness and that he was pretty care
fain to bring it hero. aTe diel bring
it here, and I tried to stop him on
thinzwzseessta
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known that I am not the clever lady
burglar he takes me for."
Merritt came up doggedly. Evi-
dently the presence of Frank Litti-
mer disturbed him. Chris motioned
him to a seat, quite gaily.
"You are very punctual," she said.
"I told you I wanted you to give
Lord Littimer and myself a little
advice and assistance. In the first
place wo want to know where that
gun-metal diamond -mounted cigar -
case, at present for sale in Rutter's
window, came from. We want to
know how it gat there and who sold
it to Rutter's people. Also we want
to know why Van Sneck purchased a
siu'iltu• cigar -case from Walen's of
Brighton,"
Merritt's heavy jaw dropped, his
face turned a dull ,yellow. He look-
ed round helplessly for some means
of escape, and then relinquished the
idea with a sigh,
"Done," he said. "Clear done. And
by a woman, tool A smart woman,
I admit, but a woman all the same.
And yet why didn't you—"
Merritt paused, lost in the contem-
plation of a problem beyond his in-
tellectual strength.
"You have nothing to fear," Chris
said, with a smile. 'Tell us .all you
know and conceal nothing, and you
will be free when we have done with
you."
Merritt wiped his dry lips with the
back of his hand,
"I come peaceable," he said hoarse-
ly-, "And I'm going to tell y0it all
about it."
CHAPTEI, XLVII.
There was an uneasy grin 011 Mer-
ritt's face, a suggestion that he did
not altogether trust those around
bio. Hard experience in the ways of
tho wicked had taught him the folly
of putting his confidence in aurone,
rders of the Liver
Biliousnmss, Stomach Troubles, Bowel Derangements pls.
appear When the Liver is Regulated by
DR. 01-IASE'S KIIDNEY-LIVER PILLS
Pale, muddy complexion is an in-
dication of liver troubles.
When the liver gets torpidand
sluggish the "bile poison" is left in
dm blood and poisons the whole
system,
The tongue is coated.
You have attacks of headaelfn.
Appetite le fickle and digestion im-
paired,
There are feelings of oppression
shoat the stomach and pains under
the left, slioulder blade.
Constipation and looseness of bow -
eh; alternate.
The spirits, are depressed and the
tomiter is bad.
The most satisfactory regulator of
the liver is Dr, Chase's Kidney -Liver
Pills.
This well-knew)inodteine has a
direct and specific action it the
liver, enlivening it in its wont of
filtering the blood and restorlug 'rte
],raltlt 00(1 vigor•.
Ta a Wooden -telly 'sliest time Dr,
1'l,avc's ICidnoy-Liver Pills set the
liver right and overcome all the
1y111n1;ono Of liver complaint, inrit
get :Hon, b'11r'ousness nerd constipa-
tion.
1 e1 idler merely, het lasting henc-
e
ficial results are obtained by using
Dr. Chanes Kidney -Liver fills, Tho
liver, kidneys and 001V013 ere cleans-
ed and invigorated and the whole
machinery of digestion set in per-
fect working order.
Mr. R. R. Dixon, efeClillivray, 11.
C. writes:—"I, have. found .Dr,
Chase's IClclney-Liver fills to he ex-
actly what I needed. Since 1897 1
have been on the eanstruetfon of
the Crow's Nest Pass branch of the
C. P. R., employed h1 all capacities
and exposed to alt kinds of weather.
I contracted a severe cold, then pain
across the back, and owing to the
hard fare wo sometimes had to liVe
on, the liver got sluggish and out
of wonting order. De, Chase's NCid-
ney-Liver Pills seemed to lee the vary
treaam 1111 1' needed, atrcl they have
made 1110 114011 again, I also used
Dr, Chase's Ointment for onzemn last
slimmer, It cost only slaty cents a
box, int was worth 8(l0, The caro
was complete."
Dr, Chase's ICirinry-Liver Pills, 25
cents a boa, et nil dealers, on ird-
11111nsrnl, rinks & Co:, 'l'orente.'The
portrait and signature of ih', A. W.
C!haso, the famous vrcelpt hook au -
SKIM MILIC FOR PIGS.
Each winter there is purchased for
use 111 the winter dairy 0011rse at
Donnell university a considerable
quantity of mills. From this thorn
results a largo amount of skim milk,
which is utilized in the feeding of
pigs. Last winter parLiculaar atone
tion was given to determining the
money value of skim milk in pork
production. This is an especially
timely, topic, inasmuch as large
amounts of skim, milk ore now used
in many dairy districts in the manu-
facture of casein and other products
of a similar nature. When skim milk
is used for such purposes, the net
return to the producer seldom rises
above 10 cents per 100 pounds and,
as a value considerably above this is
assigned to skim milk for feeding
purposes, it seemed worth while to
make an actual trial to determine its
value for feeding.
One reason frequently advanced by
farmers for not using skim milk for
feeding purposes is, that in order
to be most economically utilized, a
considerable amount of high-priced
food must be purchased to he fed in
donnection with the milk. Our es
perltnents were planned with the
idea of using the largest amount of
milk with the smallest amount of
expensive concentrated foods. The
pigs, 15 in number, were farrowed in
August and September, and ran with
111e1r dams until about December 1.
They were the weaned and separated
into six lots of from seven to 1.2
pigs each, according to the size of
the pens which were available. There
was no setectiolt practiced and the 5i$
pigs included every pigproduced from
nine brood sows. They were high
grade Cheshires with a slight dash
of Chester White. The pens were on-
ly comfortable and the temperature
went below the freezing point nearly,
every night during the coarse of L.,e
experhmont. The pigs were crowded
into
RATHER CLOSE QUARTERS.
Isn't it To Please You When
Quite Likely Of Others.nrlulons
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Once Tasted Always Used.
Black, Mixed or Green. Highest Awardi St. Louis 1904.
Sold only In lead Packets. By all Grocers.
less variation in the gain of indivi-
dual pigs. However the greatest aver-
age gain was with skim milk and
corn meal alone, from which it is
clear that corn meal Is a perfectly
satisfactory single grain to be fed
in connedtion with skim milk. The
experiments also showed that the
proportion of skim milk can be in-
creased economically above the ratio
of three pounds milk to one pound
grain, as is usually recommended,
thus lessening the amount of grain
food that must be pureltasorl; that
weanling pigs, in close quarters dur-
ing cold weather, dao be made to
gale a pound of live weight per 'clay
for three months; and that slim milk
was worth about 1.5 cents per hun-
dred to feed to pigs up to a weight
of 125 pounds,
GROWING EARLY POTATOES.
each pig having at the beginning as
nearly as possible 14 square feet of
floor space.
The feeding was begun December 5
and extended over 98 days. Two
lots were fed skim milk and corn
ureal only; two lots skim milk, corn
Meal, and gluten feed, mixed half
and half, by weight; and the other
two lots skim milk, corn uncal and
wheat middlings, mixed hall and half
by weight. They were fed twice a
day, morning and evening. The
gralu was put dry into the feed
troughs and the milk poured uponi
-it. - in pen No. 1. the pigs consumed
3.4mantels milk 1o1' each pound corn
meal and ramie an average gain per
pig per day of 1,01 pounds; in pert
No. 3, where the sante kinds 01 feed
were used, but in the proportion of
8.6 pounds milk to one pound corn
meal, the average gain per pig per
day, was only 0.96 pounds. In pen
No. 2, where the grain was corn
heal and gluten, feel in the propor-
tion of 3.7 pounds mills • to each
pound grab), the gala was 0,89
pounds; while in pen No. 5, where
the same feeds were used, but in the
proportion of 408 pounds milk to
one Pound grain, the gain was 0,97
pounds. In Pen No. 4 corn meal
and wheat middlings wore used in
the proportion of 4.8 pounds nitik
to ono pound grain with a gain of
0.89 pounds, while in pen six, with
the sante feed, easing 5 pounds of
milk to one of grain, the gain' was
1.02 pounds.
It will be seen that the character
of the grain ration had compartivo-
ly little influence on the gain in live
weight and that there was more or
the Way and he half killed me,"
"']'hose half measures are so unset-
isbactory," i.ittfiner smiled..
Merritt grinned. He fully appre-
ciated the humor of the remark.
"That attache and the way it Was
brought about were suggested by
ITenson," he wept on. "11 it fabled,
I was to come up to the Castle Here
without delay and tell Henson so. I
came and he covered my movements
whilst T piecing' the picture. I had.
been told that the thing was fasten-
ed to the wail, lett a. pair of steel
pliers made no odds 10 that. 1 took
the picture home anti two (rave later
it vanished, And that's all I know
about it,"
"Lame and impatent conclusion!"
said Littllner,
"Wait a moment," Chris cried,
"You levied the Biemond star which
you pawned••---"
for t0 say as you"ve forgotten that."
"I hove forgotten nothing," Chris
said, with a smile. "1 want to knave
about the cigar -Case."
Merritt looked blankly at the.
speaker. llvidentdy this Was strange
ground to hitt
11 'don't knew anything about
that," he said. :"What sort of it
Haste, are On overt' 1,0x, eigar•case?''.
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"Gun-metal set with diamonds,
The same case or a similar one to
that purchased by Van Sneck from
'Walen's in Brighton. Come, rack
year brains a bit. Did you ever see
anything of Van Snack about the
tram of his accident? You know
where he is?"
(To be Continued,)
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ed potatoes should not be kept
00 low a temperature nor allow -
o make long sprouts before plant -
writes Mr, L. Henesworth. Bush -
crates, or boxes made of slats,
about right to keep them in,
should he stored in such a way
t0 permit a free circulation of air
about them. Ours are kept in a the Conference from the Rev, the
e, dug 6 or 7 feet in the earth Earl of Chichester, Vicar of Great
lineal with puuclteons and cover Yarmouth'., who wrote that "emelt-
ends
weekends have much to do with the
evil," and that "the extra work im-
posed upon servants en Sunday is
terrible,"
"Our Stmdays," added Lord Chi-
chester, "are now 'much worse than
the Continental Sunday, because our
people do not get up for early sor-
vire."
"No language," Mfr. G. F, Cham-
bers told the Conference, "can be
too strong to denounce the dukes and
duchesses, earls and countesses, who,
having nothing to do all the week
Will insist on spending Sunday in
pleasuring and malting their. servants
work," •
BRITONS DO NOT MARRY).
Heaviest Slump in Matrimony in
Twenty Years.
The figures of the decline in Great
Britain's birth' rate, 'which aroused
soot).sorious misgivings, now have
been supplemented by some statistics,
deelwhicinhn. would seem to point to the
popularity of marriage being oa the
The year 1904 was marked by a
heavy slump in matrimony. Not
only was there a decrease in the
number of Marriages as compared
with the previous year, a phenom-
enon which has manifested itself con-
tinuously since 1899, but rho tato of
pular importance that she. should
have plenty of pure air, It may
well be remembered that pure air is
not necessarily cold air.
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GODLESS
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GODLESS SUNDAY.
Tho Church of England to Conduct
a Campaign,
Stirred apparently by the revival
movement, the ecclesiastical heads
of the Church of England are about
to enter upon a erased!) against the
"Godless" Sunday. Tho Chancellor
of the Diocese of Durham and Man-
chester, Dr. Y. V. Smith •mads an
announcement to this effect recently
at a conference at Eastbourne, at
eybicb various speakers uttered vehe-
ment protests against the present
"awful desecration of Sunday."
The crusade, which lir, Smith said
will be a national movement, will
be led by the Archbishops of Canter-
bury and York, and nearly all the
bishops supported by many of the
clergy, who have promised to co-
operate in a "groat endeavor to
awaken the conscience of England on
the subject." A. letter was read at
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with earth. It is well drained
ventilated.. It is kept a few
reel above the freezing point in
ter and is nice and cool in sum-
'•,
bout the first Or second week in
rch we Lake our extra early van-
es to a warm room in the dwell -
and place them on the stem end,
deep on crates. Plenty of light
sunshine is ahioWed to enter the
m and the windows are ,opened. on
rm hays. By the time the ground
really warm anti dry enough to
nt, which with eiMis near the mid -
of April, the potatoes are well
erred and hardened, They have
de thick,' ' •sttt}ihy sprouts, with
nodes well' formed,' tiny roots
sting from thole base and ready
got right .down t0 'business.
henevot possible we plane on clo-
t
sod well, nlanured in the
owing 10 done just before planting,
land harrowed, disked, harrowed
nd dragged. Prom 600 to 800
ands special fertilizer• per. acre is
Lied 10 with grain drill, alter
Mb. the disk and. spike -tooth aro
d again, which pretty thoroughly
xe5 th0 fcrlilieer and manure. with
soil. Deep trenches aro opened
going twice with a large single
eve} plow. The seed is cut and
opped by hand ani} covered lightly,
Tho soil is gradually worked into
e trenches during cultivation, which
be as soon as the :first plants marriages based on the marriageable
be to appear• Iu this way we proportion of the community was
ver fail to have nice, new potatoes
the lowest for more than twenty
m two to four weeks earlier than years.
✓ neighborw, who plant in the old Ona of the most striking points
y. We haVe ue11010 toncircuravort it neetea.
about the return is the evidence It
ry to spray, seems to give that the famous ad-
o bugs, and. have never yet failed ',ice of Air, Weller, Sr., to "beware
raise nicer and larger crops with of virlders" has taken dim root in
r home-grown seed than the ' aro Great Britain.
Lib
Persons have been known
to gain 1 pound a day by
taking an ounce of Scott's
Emulsion. It is strange, but
it often happens.
Somehow the ounce pro-
duces the pound; it seems to
start the digestive machinery
g
going properly, so that the
g g
able digest and
patient is to
food,
absorb his ordinary fo ,
do be-
fore,
he could not
fore and that is the way the
gain is made.
A certain atnount of flesh
is necessaryfor health; if
you have not got it you can
get it by taking Scott's
Emulsion.
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HEALTH
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iIEALTII NOTES.
Corns and Bunions are entirely due
to pressure of the boot. Obviate this
by wearing footgear sufficiently
roomy.
Cold in the head is often relieved
by twenty drops of spirit of camphor
taken on a lump of sugar; also by a
snuff prepared from menthol and bis-
muth.
Accidents usually invchro consIdor-
able pain. While medical aid is be -
Mg sought, lot the° injured person
lie in whatever position is most com-
fortable,avoiding all unnecessary,
movement.
Coughing is symptomatic of many
conditions requiring skiilod attention.
For the simple 000511, so 00mm011 at
this season, a teaspoonful of cora-
Pound tincture of camphor, in a
wineglassful of water, may be taken
by an adult every four hours.
Pleurodynia is an acute pain about
the (Mest. It frequently, gives rise to
fear as to the condition of the lungs
or heart. It is only rheumatism of
the muscles between the ribs, and
may be relieved by, remedies for mus-
cular rheumatism.
Jaundice is a condition in which
the bile is going the wrong way. In-
stead of passing into the intestine,
and acting as an aperient, it gets
into the blood,, and acts as a poison.
Its presence there is indicated by yel-
lowness of the eyesand the skin.
Dropsy is often spoken of as
though it were a disease. It is only
a symptom of some abnormal con-
dition of an organ, frequently far
removed from the swollen part. It
may be local or general. Heart: and
kidney diseases are the most com-
mon causes.
Convulsions are apt to occur in in-
fancy on the slightest provocation,
in consequence of the undeveloped
condition of inhibitory centres. The
most common provocation is connect-
ed with digestion. A hot bath, fol-
lowed by a grey powder, is usually a
sufficient remedy.
Degeneration is a qualitative
change In the tissues or the organs
of the body. It consists of the for-
mation and acrlumulation in the tis-
sue of elements of a lower physiolo-
gical rank than the original. It al-
ways impairs the functions. Fatty,
degeneration is the common example,
Measles is a contagious febrile 'dis-
order, rarely affecting adults. It be-
gins with symptoms of a cold, a
rash appearing on the fourth day.
Bronchitis is the usual accompani-
ment, and this requires treatment,
or broncho -pneumonia may follow,
and prove fatal in a few days.
Light in the sick -room should be
abundant, except in the case of ey
or brain affections, when it ncede t
bo moderated, The sun's rays
highly beneficial, since they- es
great oxidising power upon Sega
matters, Artificial lights show
be so placed that the patient's sigh
does not suffer.
Asthma is a condition depending
upon contraction of the circular mus-
cular fibres surrounding the bron-
chial tubes. It is characterised by
oppressed, noisy, breathing, and
collies on in paroxtrelns. A wheezing
may bo hard both on inspiration
and expiration, Avoid whatever sets
up an attack, such as a fog, or in-
digestible food. Whiffs of tobacco or
stramonium afford relief. Various
powders.ancl papers for burning are
sold, the sufferer inhaling the fumes
during an Dated:.
CAUSES OF INDIGESTION.
to producewith northern grown , she number of remarriages among
ock.
Ls
widows has been declining
FEEDING A2If C]:i. COUPS
Dairymen have a common L
ivai.nhaiuing the quantity of
wring the into winter mouths
due to two general cause
f retest], palatable tined and
pro -
weather. The lead lacks else
itch is vary' limper Lant ill ' 1
the animals upon a full diol,
one hits a supply of roots c
11 of the feeds are dry.
It is not impossible to keep
the flow of milk on .dry toed, b
will cost more than when
ntuuhh.ot the Catton ie shag
s usually best to lignite on reeding
aridly of foods for two season
is that if the variety is mope
can o fn
t ' at i
i t. cove dict
sed the
and she eau bo induced to eat
When we take into consid
that we should get a vont o
ow eats shrove what 15 access
maintain leer, the should HCC that
oral freding will reps$• A
eason for a variety of feeds
y the cotnbivation we secure
ashy digoHible rations than
my one is fell.
When a change i�f feed is rn
hotltd 'b0 gra4nal and no
abruptly. A dairy cony can,
Lar-
amie than any other anima
into the habit or having her
given rcgulariy, snaking this
portant paint to obset•vo. This
true regarding milking as feed
winter comes on, the amount,
cin h, the ration should be g
y increased, This. can be 110
coding more clover or alfalfa
by adding some oil Meal 0r a
quantity of Yeah to the i•aLiol
we can get good old -process o
that is not adulterated with
it is usually best atbh
seeds,
to give the Cow a Potted Or a
and a half daily. As a rule it
to give above two Pon
day, At the present price
meal, this pr0coiutlon is hardly
saey,
i3y adding a little protein
ration, the skin of the cow i
to remelt batter oonciition and
n every way mote healthy.
caw that is fed, on a well -beamed
'anon should always 11010 a
slick neat, wir!tTr is tl good
tion Of health and vigor. Next
good ration 19 ln•Ot.ec(ior from
Cold, kp0pin1ftlte"Cow. intti'w
Mated stalslu, the alma]
of the dairy cow and it
elinin steadily
for nearly thirty years, and In 1904
only 65,8 every 1,000 widows were
rouble called upon to take vows for the
in milk emend. or third. time, as against 98
d , This in 1879-1880.
is s—lack One paper in commenting on this
o cold fact suggests that this is strong' ori
w, succulence, sllmptivo evidepce for the firm 1
w cooping which "Pickwick" has taken on the
tt Unlaie public mind.
silage,.
a BAD HABITS.
11p
t but it Mrs. Jennings looked through her
1 101101n glasses at her sister, Miss Sprawle,
a e, It with considerable severity
a "'Phis neighborhood has got into
' ,s, Ons si,range ways rho last fore years, or
rly sol .oleo I noti:cc it nose as I
gob fltrthel'
O crease( along," alie said;• end lest I should
I want 'ou
n'ioro, get into the saran way 1 y
cabionn to re l ndou nfiud0tmo0(1 hen,i Mary.
e
ccry to that hateful, stingy Annabel Powder
tat lib- or Lucy White, who had better look
e nether to her own saucy, bad-mannered girl,
t• is that ru'd her boy, that's the poorest schol-
b more • at in the school; or if you catch
e when ma growing close-fisted like the min -
only Ester's wife, who has never returned
ode it the pound of granulated sugar she
s t (nada that t' the delegates
irerhaps rarer or long-winded like Jane L
t 1, get
i leech
an Me.
Is is as.
feeding. As
1 of pro-
f gradual.,
1 clone by
f hey, or
good
,. When
it meal,
t vveod
to time
pound
is not
bestnos per
of 011
necos-
to the
H kept
she is
i y. The
r0rn00111
1111110a-
xtto0,
--. severe
well vela,
the life
f parte.
The most important step in the
process ' of digontfon is mastication,
says Dr. D. H. Kress, or the chewing
of the food, because it is the only
part of the digestive process over
which man exercises entire control,
tlio only part over which con.teol is
necdea. It this part is well 'done,
and the food properly prepared for
the organs wife!, receive it from the
mouth, they will not experience any
dilllculty in carrying the digestive
process farther or in doing their part
of the work. Digestive disturbances
in the stomach or intestines are
nearly always duo to improper pre-
paration of food in the mouth.
Tho starch in rood is digested by
the saliva. Ohewing stimulates the
flow of saliva. A.11 the same time
Lho food is thoroughly divided by
mastication, it is maturated with
this fluid, but the quantity mingled
with it depends upon thorough mas-
Lication,
The dbgestion of lin starch started
i. the mouth cootinucs for thirty
or forty minutes niter it reaches the
stomach, As the starch surrounding
the gluten or vegetable albumen is
digested the way is prepared for the
gastric juice to digest or dissolve the
albumen.. Troller, a well-recognized
authority on digestion, Called atten-
tion to the fact that 1.10 more act of
chewing also stimulates the secretion
borrowed
a 1111,a to of the gastric 111110,
'lc ar- Ho discovered that es soon as the
pro-
tein, who interrupted mo in the very food entered the mouth and the
midst of my telling her ltbher foss or chewing began, the stomach
-Sally's twins, and 'vent on about her tnado preparation for its reception Icy
stupid grandson for fifteen minutes pouring out its ford. 'l'in'e is a
without stopping, 110(1111 yeti, to tall 411101 tolographia comnuuticaldOn'li0-
n10 i',•anitdy, direct the mouth and the communication
that's not all," said Mrs, so cho more tha 1151111' ehe food is
will
Jcntings, as miss
Sprawle openccl mastluale(I, tl,e lnoro abuirclant
her
getting
in 10 speak. 11 you flan 1115 be the flow of the stomach fluids.
getting iaskeltivo 11k0 i:helen Lane, ',ni(iloulty in the. digestion, of 111hurnct1
who
httl asked too
t.hrdc. times. when 1s not. a1Wn.y's cine to. 1hah1111y Of the
my birthday comes 8111 what year L stomach to digest, but may be duo
was born, alLcf my having to go to to holtin,p01ostont0(11 Olidon , 1el5111111go
the town cec0rds to !incl out her from l'por s11a3ttr.atland bo
ago, I Want you to mention it freely, the starch eurrotuldi)g elle albumen
and 1011011 do the sable be, you. not beh'g 'dissolvedmainto install -
Laid
lolled don't help each other,cietcy 0f saliva•
What's the' good of being set is It is well known that the saliva
families? You've got a• 1!tt10 habit acts as a gastrin stbntulan't, Corse-
of interrupting, Missy ,tlhet'At
o (lo wird tiro fooc1l the 1110111 0101)111011
what I can .to help 7/031 break it lludd will be. Hoct'et0d 1111( rho 3.010
npysrthorough will be the digestion of
the albumen, Tho. quantity of the
saliva mingled led with'the food, how-
ever, depetids upon how thoroughly
rho toad has 11eon or, 'rheic -
foto, too mu011 stress CannotLicatetlho 1,.3,111
upon the neoessit , of thorough teas-
n tion stile bo'in H1(11013, tenth alhu-
01 11 'shell aro se greatly fnlhle1 -
min d'gfo Bt y
Pel by IL, •
I'rofnssOr-"Tl a person hi good
health, hilt who ineaginod himself
iii, should send for you, what would
Men do?" Medical. Student -"Clive
hint eeenet lino to mean him 111, and
theft a'dminlstee an anl,klote. i'r0»
flr,r;or'-w"Hort"'t waste any more time
here; put tin vnut' brass 0alne'yilate,r
i