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The Brussels Post, 1903-2-19, Page 7+r*'r'1:o4'•$•.7tb:se"ik".'$''.M.e<Q E:�4'�S�'4F�'.1�.tr4��'r:'V�'r�'�'�. R,,4 NS�d'., (1 PN'*�4"','TE'Ee" hCO3 r;`'p U? II v,, A Tale 'ff t t� w e I 1P t � and I 1,11. 14,,V B w , 6 d� ww li of the m v 1 asck AFrOW u i' 119 r 1 oliinfY Wave b W4 � - 111 ee 6H CJ fAPTLat 111. He shoved me into a small room On leaving' lilt, Nathan's orrice in on the ground floor, and went to litarp Alley, I went straight bade to take my earl to the baronet. While the more palatial domicile of tine he was gone I tried to come to re Flower Line, in Leadenhall street, conclusion as to what 1 should do, and had a brief but satisfactory in- and I decided to bo guided by cir- terview with the General Manager, auntstances, If Sir Simon was Instructions had been given by the friendly, I would broach the subject Board that 1 was to bo liberally of my love for Aline ; if the revel'se, treated in the matter of references, I would wait and consult with Aline and when I left I wilts in possession Mired( before taking a course which of a letter which voutlhed for my would compromise her and cause uit- competency in such glowing terms pleasantness between her and her that I put away all further doubt guardian. &bout getting the berth. 1 WW1 as The butler bad not closed the door, good as captain of the Queen of and from where I stood I could see ' Night. part of the hall and, the foot of the Passing out into the street grand staircase. In about two min - through the great stving-Doors I felt:, utes I heard people coming down in homely phrase, as though I trod the stairs, and (loon the butler came on air ; but as 1 was looking into view, apparently escorting some around for a smart hansom to take provinus caller whom he was about me to westward, a trivial Incident— to shote to the front door et the ut least I thought It trivial then— conclusion of a visit, I was so served to bring The down to earth, placed that I could only see passers - Two well-dressed men were standing by as they traversed the last two on the curb some few paces away, steps of the stairs, and the butler and one of them—the shorter—turn- was out of my vision in a second, ed and looked at Inc, 1. instantly Without feeling any special interest experienced the same kind of sense- in the visitor—except that I sup - tion that 1 had felt in Nathan's pose, in a vague sort of way, a office, and, strangely enough, 1 saw lover's jealousy made me curious that the non's eyes were the exact about all visitors to that house—1 counterpart of those which I had waited for bun to go by. There seen, or thought I had seen, gazing must have been an interval of Half at rue from the slit in the ,warp, a dozen steps between the two, for Their owner looked away again im- the second descender of the stairs nlecliately, and, hooking his ruin in cane with the shambling gait of ago, that of his tall companion, walked 01111 when he did appear was longer away towards C'ornhil 1. .In another minute I was bowling along in a hansom in tho same di- rection, and soon passed the pair strolling leisurely owl engaged in earnest conversation. 31 there had been any budding idea in my mind of a real connection between the in- cident at Nathan's and the incident in the street, it was quickly dis- missed by the men's demeanor. They evinced 00 interest in surroundings, and on looking back after the' cab had passed, 1 saw that even if the eyes had been identical, their owners tho act of putting on a regular. were not sufficiently interested in rue throe -decker of a top-hat—a piece of to tollnty, The two gee omen wet continuing their walk, and, es I to my sight than the maul -servant. hence there was no shadow of doubt this t.tme as to tho reality of the coincidence that startled me. Sir Situon's visitor was none other than Nathan, the Jew owner of the Queen of Night, my new em- ployer. I hurried to the ronin -door and looked aftor the retreating figure as it passed out of tho house, 1To had Ills back to oto now, but what I saw amply confirmed my recognition of the leering, wizened face. he was in o headgear which, from the peculiarity of its construction, had specially 0C erected niy attention in the city. There was no time for conjecture or surmise as to the nature of his business with SIr Simon. The but- ler approached me with o. request to follow him to his master's presence, and leading rue up the broad stair- case he ushered me into a snug apartment, half smoking -room, half library. Sir Sinton was sitting at an escritoire, occupied in blotting a couutcrfoil in a cheque-book, which upon my entrance, he folded up and thrust into a drawer, He next mo- ment be had risen, and was greeting me, to my surprise, as warmly as was possible to ono of his aristo- cratic temperament. "Quito a pleasure, I ant sure, Air. Forrest—or Forrester, was it," he said, shaking ono by the hand, and showing his false teethin one of his made to order smiles, "Sit clown, and take ono of these cigars. Have you been fishing any more young ladies out of tho sea lately ?" responded as well as I could to his intended civility, and then asked after Aline's health without tolling him that I knew of her absence from town. As there waS 210 that= of my seeing her then, he might as well take my visit as meant for himself, I thought. "Aly poor ward is very far from well, 1 regret to say," was the dis- looked, turned into a well-known bank. "I ant a bit jumpy to -day," 1 said to myself. "If I didn't know to the contrary, I should think 1 had taken tho proverbial drop too much last night. The interview with those Board -room bogies and the process of getting the sack must have up- set,'mt) more than I thought." fulling myself together, 1 once more disluissed the incident of the eyes as too ridiculous for serious consideration. As the cab sped along the Embankment 1 gave my- self up to pleasant anticipations of the canting meeting, and by the time it drew tip in Grosvenor Square 1 had forgotten everything but Aline— Aline, the sweetheart whom I had wrested from the sea. 'taut when :C had paid my fcu'e and stood before the house, my spirits received some- thing of a damper, and I realized for the first time that even unpre- judiced persons might sec presump- tion, or what was worse, self-inter- est in my courtship. That stately mansion, with Its lordly frottage and imposing air of wealth, was heardly the sort of abode in which merchant -captains worn wont to woo their brides. however, "faint heart neer won fair lady," and I wasn't going to turn tail and run away from brown stucco and grand brass door -fittings. 1 mounted the steps and rang the bell, hardly decided d ti 11 the doorr was opened, and iu pompous butler stood before me, whether to ask for Aline or her guardian. Then S went full steam ahead, and inquired plump and straight whether Miss Challoner was at home, alio reply was a disappointment. "Miss Ohallenor is at Brighton, sir, 011(1 does not return till early next week. After that, 1 believe, alto goes abroad for some time." "Ts Sir Simon in ?" I asked. "Yes, sir ; 10111 you please to step this way ?" ,i is To prone to 804 that Be. Cltose's Olab eat is acicrtela 011,1 11001 n cu ut ra it Qtf nam and every forts 0 ltatilta. bhao'alr mdanse t .boot s 1?te1RAeufnet,e,bnlylu gnnrelttgttyik ice Lao- feloon iia in tho drily eines and alk year It sa t rater x Birt)' Mail 1 t. ).on ewe veeit aart iittit seer weave eek If not Trued, 4100 n aux, at i i dealers it a'otl,1 gEON,211A is 0 W„ T0roni e, quieting reply that set my heart beating, "She had never really got over tlto shock of her sudden im- mersion. I have sent her down to Brighton in the hope that idle change aright benefit her, but it has readf *.&gig and S waii A kles gidncy Disease Developed Into Dropsy — After Fifteen Years of Suffering Cure P"Jo.s Effected by DR. CHASE'S WHEY -LIVER PILLS. Dropsy is a natural result of neg- A•eted kidney disease. When tho kid - leas boom() deranged uric acid is left in the blood, and the blood be- comes watery and vitiated. Flesh rued weight gradunl.l,y decrease and strength is slowly exhausted, Swol- len ankles and legs aro among tiro flees; indications of dropsy, and this syrup tom arises feel/litho fact that the r;ystena is Oiled uvitlt water that l,hnot° pass oft by way of the kid- IteyS, 'there is probably no ailment which lentis to suets (lroadfully painful anti fatal diseases as cicralgolneu't of tie kidneys, and consequently the good Which ])r, Cbasele Isidney-Liver Pills fro i0 checking kidney disordet:e and ()revolting dropsy, ];right's theorise, diabetes, eta, can never be estimat- ed, lIlrr. Arthur Walden, Forryville, Cerlcte11 Ca„ N,13., twritas a—"My wife was a great sufferer from kid- ney diseoso for several years, She was troubled with pains in tiro small of the back aHd in the side, was gradually losing flesh and growing weaker, She got into a very bad state, suffered dreadful pains anal her ankles would well up so that n•o Were afraid of dropsy, Wo had a book of Dr. Chase's in the house, and reading about Dr, Chase's ltici- ne -Livor Pills, ls, docidetl to try thorn. Relief 0000 canto with this treat- ment. My wife has been entirely cured and says eine would not be Without Dr, Chase's I%iclney-Liver Pills for ten tunes the price," "I arts using Dr, Cltaso's Nerve 1,'ood myself, and it is building MC up wonderfully," 1h', M1ha.so's I1'idney-Liver Pills, one pill a dose, 25 cents a b031. ( all dealers, or Pdm(0l100n, Matas s Ca( Toronten had the contrary elleet. My sister, Mee: Beauchamp, who is with her, reports that she is in a very 1 state indeed," This was grievous sows, and I w at a loss to undelsland it. Thou Aline had lost cousolousness 10 1 water, she was to all apil'_4rl,t1c Perfectly well the next Clay, n daring lig thn remainder of her st on the Dahlia site itad continned Picture of radiant health, I e pressed my deep concern, and ask for her (Brighton address, so Clef) might run dawn and pay my rcrspee in persotl. The request was no moiler 11111 than I perceived the real reason the baronet's affability in hls 11110 ledge that Aline was inaccessible me. Ile promptly refused to gi the address, and there was an ing sneer in his tone as he did se. "That, I fear, is quite out of t question --seeing that you aro t very last person she ought to see Ile said, "Wily, the sight of y would recall the occurrence whi is tho cause of her• nervous pec trntion, and which It is desiree that she should forget." ":1411,, won't do that," I answer sharply, for his latest detnoano nettled me. "And, look here, le Simon," I added, stung' to a pre ture declaration by the evil anti with which ho received ray anew,: '"I can give you a very good teas why i1]iss Challenor will not be forgetful. You may as well know it first as bast 1 she has promised to lie my wife," 1 believe, and always ((hall believ that this was the first intimation 1 had had that there was alytllin between Aline and myself, thoug others think that .he had suspects: it and had adopted the moasur (Incl as ((000 as possible tonic my leave the one great hope in my owl heart being that Sir 41n,on would not rib/cover my appointment i0 the ns Queen of Night bcfo•o i,ho steutitu glee sailed I did not Juiuw whether in he was to u,ccompany his ward, but Nil that mattered little, if the ship ncl could only got away without his ay, knowing who the captain was, Aline iho cold 1 would have at any rato six x-1 clone days together before' any 0110 KC00111111nn11 at (1iln'altat—the first I port of call. From. what Nathan ts' had let (irep I gathered that the a\v11ers wore not anxious to advcrfise on the change, of captains among the of clients, so I thought their., was OV. w- cry change of gaining my object. to The testimonial of the Flower Line vo, proved satisfactory to Nathau, and 1y' now here 1 was, on the day after the eve11ts recorded in the previous rhap- he ler, taking my first view of tho ho ' "floating palace," as the advertise - menta called it, that had been com- ou milted to my charge, I had hurried ch down to the Macke the moment the tee letter had been approved and the le appointment ratified, The little Jew lead given 1110 a note of introduction etl to the surgeon of the ship—Dr. ur Zovorial--whom he said I should it find living on board, and bo further ma admonished me to get on as well as le I could with the doctor, as the medi- c',' co of a vessel, frequented largely by on invalids in quest of health, was so necessarily an important personage, (To 130 Continued,) v" Peet. a;J p 'a,,/T Coln exclusively or, In tacit, wheat ;ydj`�F,klvS or millet, is too 110(10)' and too ricin. r7 Something to make hulk must be added, un lid. ii'a know nothing t o t1In� , t r , of better HU - then I'A REGARDING- TIII-',-', 'fT r rd CTS R GA.RDI G ! c tlhaWheat br n unto 'hoc 1, � balance a �s 1 IlON1C PLAGUE, ' IY A `B� heavy rich feed, Bran makes hulk, end it clears thl passage's and keeps Intereeting Article on the First !aletcy`5 i' ,erf vt 9�,egeeenAl the digestive organs In condition. Cause of This Dis- trf tai" o o4p9�pY eea' li1'an mono would be too light. for ease, un reclusive teed besides It ]�! FEEDING ti0(S FOR. MARXISTnothe, in line „aft.natult to f'et•d In the opinion of a writer of itis Of tiro metals blends of hogs test- nothing else the, claw ie a grind, article in that London Quarterly He- etf by Ilse w1•itel•, 1'olaudeC.'hina and lug Mill and the must peep IL at view the veiamous and filthy rat, is Uuroc-Jerseys have Proved the most work, the chief cause of this loatJhsome• stlti:•fuclury, because tile)' ,11(110, The lflu int Rains nou13 not leo SAY EATS AEE THE CAUu �1 e, _ le Amusing Reasons for Parting Dian and Wife. 11 cl Mee. Welch, of Baltimore, has just es been granted a divorce from her hus- CAUSES 10R DIVORCIe. presently to bo disclosed because that suspicion, Ile started Comae flushing deeply ; then sank back i his chair, laughing outright, "My dear Mr," he sniggered length, 'it is a pity you are not i the royal navy instead of in th nleecha.nt service. You would b just 1. he 1n0n to lead forlorn hope and cutting out expeditions, Do yo know that ray weed is an heires entitled to something like a quarte of a million on attaining her m jority." I confess 1 was staggered, but replied boldly : "I did not know it If I had been aware of Miss Clal leno•'s great fortune I should neve lave' courted her. As it is, tit knowledge c0n1es too late to mak any difference, for we have plighte our t.roth," "And you are willing to take th quarter of a million thrown in—jus t trifling extra detail," ho sneered implying that I knew of Aline' wealth all along. "Cone, Dfr, For rester, you must see that I canno give my consent to such an engage want, I should fail in my duties a Miss Challenor's guardian if I listen ed for one moment to your proposal 1--" "Wait a minute," I interrupted "I have had promotion since w mot on the Dahlia, I am now cap tato, and. —" ".it makes no difference • pray spare nie the interesting particulars' he interposed in turn. No promo tion in your rather obscure branch of a precarious profession would en- title you to aspire to my ward's hand. When clo you go to sea again 3" Wondering at the abrupt question, I named the loth of the month, which was the day Nathan had men- tioned as the probable date of sail- ing. The 15th," he repeated. "Well, then, there'll be no harm in my tell- ing you Miss Challenor's future movements 1 it may sa.vo you a lot of trouble .in hanging about ]fere. Sho remains at Brighton till the 3.4th, and on the following any—the date of your sailing, remember—she leaves England for six weeks. There can thus be no chance of your meeting, although you may perhaps see her through a telescope as you go down Channel. On tho 15th my ward starts nil a pleasure cruise, for the benefit of her health, in the ocean yacht Queen Of Night, of hand on the ground that the lather d, kept beetles, centipedes, slid taran- n tulas alive in their bedroom. Those she declared, used to get loose at at' night and she was compelled to n catch therm. o' Although excessive indulgence in o cigarette smoking is deserving of re- s probation it assuredly does not a merit the drastic penalty meted out s,; to a husband by Judge Burnell, of ✓ the Third Circuit Court of Wis- e! consin, who, at the instance of a 1 complaining \vile, granted her a de - e ecce of divorce on the ground that the respondent, through the above _ habit, had become depraved in mind ✓ and body. e! An Army Reserve ofncer named O Duval asked for a divorce on the d' grounds that (1) his wife was an ad- vocate of woman's rights and had t O attempted to persuade other ladi t not to submit to their husband's or - dors, and (2) that she was in the e' habit of ridiculing the French army and calling him a. coward. Although t on the first plea he failed, on the _ second the French courts granted s him the desired relief. 1_ A divorce suit was, a short while , since, instituted by a Mrs. Sat•ah Palmer, of Paterson, N,J., against her husband on the ground of e cruelty. The gentleman had, it _ seems, a penchant for paregoric which useful medicine ho imbibed in 1 such quantities ns to render him, in his partner's eyes, an inhuman monster. It is, however, question - CHAPTER IV. As I stood in the Victoria Docks, looking for the first time at the noble vessel I was to conunancl, I Will dare wager that there was not a happier Hurn or it prouder man than the Queen of Night's now cap - lain within a thousand miles—no, not even among those homeward - bound passengers debouching from the great "liner" in the next berth, Her hull was painted a pile yel- low, or cream -colo', her two funnels the sante, and hor brass -work glit- tered like burnished gold, She was bigger than any Otho' steamerin the clock, and from her yacht -like smartness would have been taken rather for a navy ship than for a line', were it not that the bright flowers and tropical plant's displayed on her docics suggested war as little as commerce, I repent that I Ives a proud and ]nappy loan that morning. The ship was the cause of my pride, and reed 1 say that 111y happiness sprang from iho knowledge that she Was to 110 Anne's ]torte es well as mine for the next six weeks. Sit' Simon Ceawshay's announcement—made in all ignorance of my appointment to the Queen of Night—that my clear gh•1 was to he one of ler passengers on the coining trip had seemed al- most too good to bo true. 13n1 that it teas true I gathered frnln his suc- ceeding sentences, and 1 said 310 - thing to distut'b hie ignorance, Not knowing what was the real --the e terribly real—moaning of this plea- sure -cruise, I could have shouted with laughter, and had hard work to Oam9050 my facto as the baronet Went o11 to discuss tho merits 'of the Vessti1 1 was to 00&&05(1. All that my silly nautical brain could grasp was, firstly, that I was besting Sir Sinton, and, secondly, that Nathan's visit to Grosvenor Square was ex- plained by business connected With a the trip. I conceelerl ran y trill a53 best 1. .0 C0111(1 under an air of bitter chagrin, y quicker growth and can 0e placed different disease, from which it is said the a perfect feed alone ; grass, insects people of India are dying at the rate upon the market, at an early age, and dozens of thing's we hardly, 01 01 el 100,000 a m011Ul, ban In particular, a hunch of .Uuroc-Jet- think of go toward completing the ]'lailrlsco 15 now afflicted with this Y were fad mainly upon alta. Iuwls on icer range 71(11-1 1'! t 000ked 00rn gave the most satlsfue_ usually find these extra niclnulcks, l hr, titan cause of this loathsome ri11 tory results, writes d, 1', Dorman. but pemled up fu\vis, nr fowls in disease is the ve effective and filthy A large putt .o1' box was used for winter must have their equivalent 111 rat and the only eifuctice rculedy is ern/king the corn, and the furnace some form or they cannot do the to destroy tU0 rat." filled with coal, at morning and at very best. Cut clover or alfalfa In supliurt of titin it says that noon, would cools enough earn to ]nay, cut vegetables and green cut ague, which used to be regarded as fend 40 pigs each day, The huge bone help to stake summer out of a soil disease, ]tan ttuned out'to Ue were confined. on the banks of a run- winter as near as It would he pos conveyed by iter, 13s which, have tient sing stream, and had, at all Limas, Bible. All those things are within habitat in water, So this plague is a access to water. Tho sheds were out reach and the time required to soil disease only In so far as it af- built on high ground, 50 as to lbt•n1 P1'ocllre them would return a nice feats certain animals living in the both rt shelter and windbreak, Sheds Prost, soft. may ba built Of lumber, or mode 0(1 HOW THE PLAGUE SPREADS.. poles and ,•ails, covered with wheat,n oats or flax straw. The hogs int If pullets cannot be hatched early is so general as to be evidently not question were fed in troughs and it will ho an advantage to retain accidental. It is found on examinee they seemed to enjoy the coo110(1 COM, the liens, as they will perform sat tion that the disease they die of is most. They oto some artichokes, I isfactory service until four• years actually plague, and that their Uod but it appeared that these were old. While the les are swarming with plague bacilli. eaten more us a relish than as al pullets may surpass Tiley have been Sound dead in wane food proper. I believe the anti-' the ]tet at times, yet much will de- houses, especially granaries, in the chokes helped to keep then- in vigor-; reason pend on te merle se feeding. One rooms of houses where people hay1 Das and healthy conattlot, why hens seem to tall iole ts died of plague, and in the holds of These pigs had been allowed to; sooner titan pullets is that the bens ships among cargoes of various are mature, and .hence fatten more binds, rim on n good closer pasture, ]tar-' readily5 the pullets being in a There is no doubt that human be- ing access to a field of artichokes, I growing condition, and as it is de- ings may acquire plague from rats. and also to a small field 01 rape„ trimental to laying liens to have Men have caught it from handling until they were four months old. them too fat, overfeeding may be at dead rats, from going to live in They were kept on full feed for three, the foundation of the difficulty. houses where rats have died, as in months and, at the enol of that time' Mere is also nn expense incurred in certain Indian villages; and mica- averaged 211 pounds, A smoother raising the pullets that supersedes sional]y, it is thought, through the bunch of porkers are seldom scion. the hens, and this cost must be con- intermediate link Of cats. This n• ea in tllo fall of 1900, and the sideretl, It is less expensive, tltett:- ley fleas the plague may pass to profit realized was fore, to keep a hen for two or three men. 'These pests abound on the ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY, years, or 00011 longer, than to raise bodies of rats, which, as is the cus- Last winter, 00 account of the a lot of pullets from chickenhood tom of parasites, desert after death high price of corn, and feed goner- 00017 season, of their loafs. It has been shown ally, another system was tried. by Dr, Sitnon11 that fleas carry the Wheat and corn were fed in equal FARM IMPLE- MENTS, infection from rat to rat. The in - quantities, and an increased ration Neglect to take care of the imply infects of man by this means is of artichokes eves given, and turnip's mounts and consequent buying of now therefore clearly possible, and has were also fed. This ration was sat- ones is responsible for keeping many been tdetfmclea traced. There is n- isfactoy, but in keeping over the farmers poor, and have sent others be evidence that rats carry the in- to bankruptcy. Buying new tools and machines when with reasonable care the old machine would have done the work is one of the most common and greatest wastes on many farms. A good rule is to buy the best the market affords and then take cafe. of them when in many In January, 1901, a grain boat, lines one machine will outlast three fifteen days out from Smyrna, ar- with the average care. Painting rived in the central harbor of Bris=' helps to preserve machines ; oil pre- tel, within a stone's throw of the vents them from wearing out; pro- Public health offices, with a history tection from rain saves them from of no illness on the voyage, and therefore not "infected" under the regulations, and not legally liable to any detention or supervision. But, as infected rats had been car- ried to the port of hamburg in the previous week, a careful watch was The majority of kept. Thirteen rats were found dead J Y persons in the in the forehold, and Prof. Klein con - cause zona delights in winter be -firmed the death of certain of these cause of its sports and amusements. iron plague. But as no plague re - 1.t brings with it, however, great salted, the measures of precaution hazards to health and a train other and disinfection may bo taken to discomforts, some patty and have been in this instance success- , gum The writer says: nes that naturalwants. 1131145 AND PULLETS, The connection of rats with plague brood sows, and pige that were too young and small to fatten, the cost exceeded the income from the hogs that were fattened. The plan of soaking the corn and wheat was tried, while the weather was warm, but though it was mucic more satis- factory than when fed dry, it was not so good as i1 it had been cooked. A mash made of ship stun and cooked corn is entirely satisfactory, and if the corn is ground and then cooked, if the mixture is cooked, it \vould perhaps improve the fattening quality, but if it is to be fed ground and uncooked, the result would not be equal to the whole grain well cooked. Tho hogs seem to assimilate the cooked whole grain quite as com- pletely as any food that could be given them. When cooking, the corn can bo salted enough to keep the cogs healthy, and the result will be all that can be desired. This ration can be changed by putting one-half as much wheat as OOrn in the cook- er, and the result will still be satis- factory, but a hog tvi11 not fatten so rapidly ell an exclusive wheat diet. Most. cattle feeders put hogs 111 the feed pens to follow the cattle. Where whole corn is fed the hogs do well on the waste, but if ground feed is given the cattle, the proportion of legs that will do well Must be reduced nearly ;one-half. The cost Of feeding the cattle, however, is re- duced in about the same proportion. This indicates that the very best re, - tion for the hog is ground grain in a proportion of one bushel of wheat to two of corn, and the product cooked and fed as a warm mash, This, with a liberal addition of artichokes, will bring the best re- sult attainable on the farm, In this way almost every particle of the food simi is assimilated. toted. Tho best rule in fattening hags is to put them on the market at tho earliest stage practicable. ---- able whether even American law will regard the matter in the same light. About the same date Charles Kraus, of Cincinnati, took unto him- self for wife one whom he judged to be a "complete" woman. But, alas! after marriage he found that de- ception had been practised upon hire, and that the lady Of his choice was tho unfortunate possessor of an , artificial eye and log. Forthwith he sued for a divorce o1 the ground that he had been cajoled into matri- mony under false pretences. Judge Davis, however, decided in .favor of - the wife, remarking that, as sho had never been asked before marriage whether she had any physical de- fects, there could be no question of deceit. "It is not unlawful," he con- ' tinned, "for women to attract men with devices and attachments used ' to improve the wo•]c of Nature. Otherwise, why 510u1d not false hair and other deceptions peculiar to fe- males bo made a ground of divorce?" GENERALS WHO NEVER Low. Tho Duke of Alva, one of the most eminent soldiers of they sixteenth Century, never throughout his long and eventful career lost a battle, The Archbishop of Cologne was struck by. his eflo't to avoid a con- flict, having on ono occasion urged hien to engaged the Dutch, "The object of a general," replied Alva, "is not to fight, but to con- quer ; he fights enough who obtains the victory." Oliver Cromwell throughout his military career never lost a battle, though he very nearly sustained a reverse at Dunbar. The Duke or Marlborough fought several battles against the most ex- perienced 'generals in Europe, and was never once defeated, The Duke of Wellington, through- out his brilliant campaigns, both in India end in the Peninsula, preserv- ed to Minigolf a remarkable record of uninterrupted successes fromthe battle in which he was vested with supremo command throughout the Penlnsu.la' War, in which ito de, rented the ablest of Napoleon's inar- sieals, Until the eventful day of Waterloo, SHE WAS IN A ITURII:Y, "If 1 piolc out scone wall paper fm- neediat.ely, can yosend a num to mMame y hse to ]tang it this after- noon?" elle neked in a paper• -Hang is ttreo or four clays ago. „year&." "'Very woll; yon may show mo some sat11,p10a." She sat in a chair bolero the sam- ple rack until ono o'clock, end then t'ont to dinner. She 00101 back at two, mid remained until almost five, A • she finally heaved a 101tg sigh and. sail to the patient osslstantl "Dear me, but it is such a task nd so late in the season, that 1 hi1lk I won't got any at all. Much bilged, end I'll probably bey of otL next spring, ROOTS FOR ANIMALS, The feeding of roots to farm ani mals is not as general as it should he. Especially is this true of the cow. It has been successfully do- nnonstrateci that root feeding exer- cises a beneficial effect upon the di- gestive organs, and as a natural consequence the health is improved. As the appetite is increased by their use the flow of milk 15 increased cor- respondingly, Dy actual experiment, carrots have been found to be 3110r0 valuable than turnips, The cost of raising carrots is vety little more than that of turnips. Most dairy folks know that is tho carrot is found a natural coloring agent, the carrot, especially the yellow va- riety, producing an increased flow of mills with -fel yellow cream, As a fattening agent the carrot is excel- lent, used in connection with 1410111, hay, etc. For the purpose of fatten- ing, the white carrot can be used also. Potatoes niag bo fed in. small quantities in rations for cows, but their use should be only Occasional as they tend to soften the butter product. Horses aro very fond of carrots. FEE'IDING' 7011 WIN'Lrlt EGGS On nest farms there is plenty at feed that would go toward making a Perfect balanced ration, if WO took advantage of it. The secret in mala ing hens lay is simply providing them with suitable feed. Corn, wheat, oats, barley and millet seed aro good poultry feeds. Some do not believe in corn, but the experinout stations tell us that corn is ono of the very best feeds for, poultry, but they tlo not tell us to feed it exclusively, The natural snake of a lien's feed is a variety --a little of this and that and constant oxerciee in proeueutg it. Some tell us to 11101(0 them scratch 10r their fend, '.l'hey would rather do 11 than not., beaides.. it cloys atony with garbing aid encburagiltg a lazy disc.ems on,. faction from one part to another of the same town, CARRIED PLAGUE TO BRISTOL. All ships contain rats, which have many opportunities of passing from ship to land in harbdrs and docks, just as they pass from land to ship. rusting and rotting out. HAZARDS TO T3t'ALTH, Exposure to Winter Weather Dan- gerous to Life. serious, but none of which is gen- erally recognized as affecting the health ; yet their alleviation and cure are often difficult, It would raise the average of ]Health significantly if the vast im- portance of precautiotery measures could be impressed upon the public and attention drawn to the fact. that these so-called petty discom- forts are a menace to health. There is a misunderstanding as to the benefits which cold weather con- fers. If in autumn and spring per- sons took Ole same amount of exer- cise and breathed as deeply as cold compels them to in order to main tain the normal heat of the body, they would find these seasons e011- g'enial to health, Most people ]snow that freezing is as inimical to life es burning. But they seen to think that any degree of cold short of freezing is beneficial, and one hears pernicious talk about its stimulating effect, pernicious because it induces many persons to do foolhardy things. ful, NOT I-IUMAN DISEASES. There is therefore abundant evi- dence that rats suffer from a disease identical with 1(1111011 plague; that their epidemics for the most part immediately precede human epidem- ics; that they can transmit the dis- ease to mankind; and that tate plague is primarily a disease of rats, and only secondarily a human dis- ease. This striking hypothesis was pub- licly stated by Dr. Koch at the re- cent Congress on Tuberculosis, but had been previously enunciated by Dr. Manson and probably by others. Wo have similar instances in the dis- eases anthrax, glanders and rabies, belonging to cattle, horses and dogs, respectively, which affect man only as derived b3 infection from these e animals; and in some other so-called "epizootics" which, though occa- sionally affecting man, are not prim- arily human diseases. BRITAIN'S FIRST EPIDEMIC. Cold is beneficial only when, In the autumn of last year there• through the demand of oxygen to occurred in Glasgow the first epi - feed internal fires, the lungs are demic of plague that has taken stimulated to their full duty. Tho place in 130itain for upwards of two circulation of the blood should be centuries; and this was a very small correspondingly accelerated, and it ono. 1t broke out in a family not is 00 long as the body is kept warn, immediately connected with the But the moment the hands, feet, port, and was spread by' personal nose or ears becomes stingingly communication. Energetic measures cold, harsh is done, and if, through taken by the Glasgow sanitary au- insll,tliciett clothing, this chill in- thorities limited the outbreak, which wolves the limbs and extends to the affected only about thirteen persons, shoulders or other parts of the body oe, whom eight died. There was 110 the danger is proportionately in- traceable affection of rats, '.Lie creased and may bo the incipient speedy extinction of the epidemic cause of pneumonia, fevers or other 0001101115 the opinion of those who have held that plague in a clean city ought to be an easy disease to deal with. But ltad the infection gone underground and attracted the rats in all the sewers of Glasgow,, it might have been notch more difficult to stamp it out. In treatment and protective men - sures the writer recommends the de- struction, as far as possible, of rats, and, in some eirCriutstaices, mice, within the infected arra, We have seen that rats often bring the infect hot and start the i)pidehnic of plague. ilhthe010 plague always commies with the inrrnusl of rats, and it dies with the death of the rate .fron the dis- ease, but leaves in its wake, as in India at Present, upwards of ohne hundred thousand per month of hu- man beings in the grave, 10 appears certain that the re- Saurers of 1110 Government would bo insufficient to provide esl.ablishmeits for the neva Overtly infeeled iu Di - din, even if the whole army, civil even if the whole ern)', chit, Medical and police ealabliehlnents, were employed solely on plague du ties, disease, A chill disturbs the capillary cir- culation, and 111 women this is so sensitive that its slightest disturb- ance may cause cutaneous disorders. Frequently the seeds of a winter's discomforts aro sown during frosty evenings of autumn, Arany talo ]coon delight 111 tho sharp tingle of tho air, but the benefit of its stimu- lating ozone is lost unless the body is protected from chill. Often the lianas or feet become stingingly cold, turd 'within twenty-four hours a burning irritation is felt in some port of the limbs. Because the hands aro more commonly exposed than the feet the irritation Is usually felt fleet in the upper arms, extend- ing to tho wrists, or involving the thighs and ankles in exact measure to the exposure, "Don't on't you 111111 you could be happy with 0 111011 like 11111?" said Willie Washington, oa1'nestly, "OI1, yes," answered Miss Cayenne, after a pause. "I think so, if Ito wasn't too rn11111 like you," "nornsfile! " salrl tate professor's wife, "I. don't believe ,you've heard a word I've said, and here I've been talking for ball an hourl" said the no/uterine; professor, Owl/0 could believe it? You seem just its fresh lis 0011011 you started," Harold -- "how do you 1010w you really love ate, Henrietta?" Ilene rialto — "011, 1lar0ld, 51.11c0 I have known you 1 ltavo quite+ eono to cede mire Cars. that stand out;"•