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*4 My hcuee hail berm gutted by the Ifrenolt.
ttnd harried by the English, end m feet
3urve been burned by tltebrigaxids, eweer and that au the etrly earning lie shot,ld 1 th i
by the Virgin tha4 I have 'wither money others 'l'hs Abbot, Elgin tour twos mill of end of the bed and laughed silently m
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etepidity end terror, New, ou the cone
trary, oeeryfeature beepokr brutality and.
ferocity, Novo here T Peen a MOrO
dreadful•Iootting�Yiliain, In hie haled he
held u long, dull -coloured knife. The
ecoid net have weighed it ell with more Abbot, on the alio ehoanod, Wee ea( ftaAiie�la
judgment. At lust we agreed,. rho. Bart. and as digu Gad . 13 41 P
sad I, the ono of us Should indeed go with gown had linen thrown °Petr, however)„end
Elft uteri under preteuoe of baiugdeaurtgce, 1 new beneath it a blaok•froggod coal., - ooh
Y ae I have )leen amoug the kinglielholfteere.
in commend of the ate and admit the Aa ear *Yee met re leaue °yet a want en
e t til it
or food in my Inn, andi;ood rather Abbot. opinion, that it tvee�dangeroua�to divide our ore+You Will) I am ante, exon my r»drth,
'who ie etarving upon my dooretep will be foree, but l iding that we were both of the my dear Colonel Gerard,” said he. n, I the
surae , n , foot a that the oGererd," upon your .ane
" wo man ,,11 q only g his hill° funny, • have no doubt that Yea are
excellent French, what this tial eek, aatd he, If you lay Rends upon phis an excellent soldier, bat I hardly' think
Gaye ie Very true, He to one .Of the many' .marshal Miltefteura--tilts dog of a brigand that von are tit bo measure wits with the
victims to theee cruel ware, although his —what will you do, with him :' klarsi al ivI lie y
venues)) to it,,, ni d he shrugged his shoulders end
- • f.
" Indeed,air," said the Capuchin, in gave in. 1 when you Bras ed the situation was just a
, "'ter is o l y one thin teat I woad d"
""Han him " 1 unawsred t l fleurs as our fellows Ova
loos le but a feaGher•wed ht tom ared to g been good anon h to call me, Yea appear
g P "" It is too eat a death ' cried the g g
mine, Let him go," he added, in English, Capuchin, with a vludiellve flaw iu his to have given mo credit.foraingularty Mlle
to the trooper, troo " he ie too weak to fly, even dark eyes. " Had I my way with ]rim— i°trlligenee, which argues, if I may be
P „h h E allowed eo say ac, a wadi 014.0010008a ?Pen
if he desired to,
In the light of the lantern' saw,that tills bands to hie forehead like one who ie halt exaeppGioit ofmy ,
mon was a ma n' , the 13ritish'1ra+oc;l, I have never met any
g k and tis 'roe , one who was less (impotent to (Jerry ant
how I
t he carried fi ret, li which Y.
been throughmueh suffering, het the honour of entering the Abbey i Y oondesceudiu imtuner whdoh had ainrdGhia
himeelf liken king, and we could' form some faith, it was asking a greet deal of Etienne rascal ale an,
1 Could nay nothing,
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opinion of hie'leurniug when we cosh heard Gerard that he should give place to any but they meat have react my threat in my
him talk our own language ae fluently as if.
be were born to it.
" You have nothing to fear," said I, to
the trembling innkeeper. " Ae to you,
father, you are, if I am not mistaken, the
veryman who can give tie the information
which we require."
"All that I have is at your service, my
eon. But," he added, with a wan smile,
"my Lenten fare is always eomewhat
meagre, and this year it has been suoh that
.1 must ask you for a crust of bread if I am
to have the strength to answer your quea•
Vona."
We bore two day!? -rations in our haver•
seeks,.eo that he - soon had the little he
asked for, It was dreadful to seethe wolfish
way in which he seized the piece of dried
goat's flesh which I was able to offer him.
"Time presses, and we must come to the
point," said I. "We want your advice as
to the weak pointe of yonder Abbey, and
concerning the habits of the rascals who
but, oh, what )hang is are these or a eei-
vane of God to harbour 1" He clapped his Your ower, part. Indeed, with the ehigte
t'hick•houded oompatrtnt
k decent mon dark and demented by1 t blee and readied out 6
bearded, with the eyes of a haw , ao of the room. ane who Wtut le
tall that his cowl came up to Rabaplan's There was an important point which we a ou can imagine how I felt and
d d that was whether
ears, He worn the look of one who had
ha still to settle, and leeied,ae I Melamed to this insolentliaraneee
tial tenni or the English party should have was all delivered iu that {lower and
infest it."
He cried out something which I took to
clasped and his
with be Latin,wt his hoods a
"
eyes' upturned. The prayer of the just
availeth much," said he, "and yet I had
not dared to hope that mine would have
been so speedily answered. In me you see
the unfortunate Abbot of Almeixal, who has
been met out by this rabble of three armies
with their heretical leader. Oh ! to think
of what I have lost 1" hie voice broke, and
the tears hung upon his lashes.
"Cheer up, err," said the Bart. "I'11 lay
nine to four that we have you beck again by
to -morrow night," i
" le not of, my own welfare that I
think," said he"nor even that of my
poor, scattered' flock. But it ie of the
holy relics which are left in thesaariligious
hands of these robbers."
"It's even betting whether they would
ever bother their heads about them," said
the Bart."But showus the way inside
the gates, and we'll soon Olean the place
out for you,"
In a few short words the good Abbot
gave ue the very points that we wished to
know. But all that he said only made our
teak more formidable. The walls of the
Abbey were forty feat high. The lower
windowsware barricaded, and the whole
building loopholed for musketry fire. The
gang preserved military discipline, and
their sentries were too numerous for us to
hope to take them by surprise. It was
more than evident that a battalion of
grenadiers and a couple of breaching pieces
were what was needed. I raised my eye.
brows, and the Bart. began to whistle.
" We must have a shot at it, come what
may." said he.
The men had already dismounted, and,
having watered their horses, were eating
their -suppers. For my own part I went
Into the .sitting -room of the inn with the
Abbot and the Bart., that we might talk
about our plans.
I had a little cogna0 in my eauvevie,and
1 divided it amongst ue—just enough to
wet our moustaches.
"It is unlikely," said I, "that those ras-
cals know anything about our coming. I
have semi no signs of scouts along the road.
My own plan is that we should conceal
ourselves in some neighbouring wood, and
then, when they open their gates, charge
;down upon them and take them by sur-
prise."
The Bart. was of opinion that this was
the beat thee we could do, but, when we
came to talk it over, the Abbot 'nada us
see that there were diflioulties in the way.
"Save on the side of the town there is
no place within a mile of the .Abbey where
you could shelter man or horse," said he.
Auto the townsfolk, they are not to be
trusted. I fear, my eon, that your excel-
lent plan would have little chance of suo-
ceee in the face of the vigilant guard which
these men keep,"
" 1 sea;no other way," answered I.
"Hussars of Confirms are not so plentiful
that I can afford to run half a squadron of
them against a forty foot well with five
hundred infantry behind
"I am a manof peace," said the Abbot,
" and yet I may, perhaps, give a word of
council. I know there villains and their
ways. Who ahould do so better, seeing
that I have stayed for a month in this
lonely spot, looking down in weariness of
heart at the Abbey which was my own? I
will tell you now what I should myself do
if I were in your place."
"Pray tell us, father," we cried, both
together.
You must know that bodies of deserters,
both French and English, are continually
coming in to them, carrying their weapons
with them. Now, what is there to prevent
you and your men from pretending to be
suoh a body;,and so making your way into
the Abbey ?
PRACTICAL FARMING
The best Food kplr "ipg,
"" While the Pig end ebeep are the beet
eoavaugere end gleaners ee our farm's, we
do net get lite' befit resulte when we beep
them wholly employed es scavengers,"
says Mr, Bonham. " They can make a
living whore the .bargee and cattle would
starve, Tho pig can utilize the waete of
the kitchen, the dairy, the" garden, the
orchard, the barnyard, the feed lot, the
grain field, the grove or fermate and will
not oewfiue hie feeding to what is above
ground, His taste and smell and vision
ate so conte that he can utilize everything
he oan eat, even to brickbats' and waste
coal. From tide foot we learn the pig's
tastes and needs.. He tN omnivorous, and
mast have a great variety offood if he 10
to bo. kept In parfeet health and higheeb
thrift. The nearer we come to mowing
for him the relished variety, the better
Ile wilt grow and the less will be WO ode')
per pound of pork, end the more whole-
some..
i' The fact that the pig has bound a plane
on every farm and around every dairy and
moa at such a limo !But the poor liars.
eyes, for the fellow who had played' `the mill where - there are wastes to be utilized,
plodded aa hard, urging the few poor pare of the idnkeoper whispered eotnothiug, along with tiketae) that lio has shown
skirmishes which he had seen against my t hi
four•and-soventy engagemeute, that, at last o "
I aoneented that he oeould go. We had No, no, ore dear bl a aliver, he will be
just clasped hands over tho matter when infiaityly more valuable alive," said he.
there broke out such a shouting and nursing " B oy n are ass and sleelar, afar my uat ee well
and yelling from the front of the fun, that, li0reywlno,is a little rough in his ways,
out we rushed with our drawn sabres in our would certainly have out your throat it
hands, convinced than the brigands were you had raised an alarm. I' should
upon 08. recommend you to keep in hie good graces,
You may imagine our feelings when, by for Sergeant clhenier, late of the 7th
Gaslight of the lantern which hung from the lmperlal,Light infantry, le a much more
porch, we saw a score of our hussars and dangerous parson than Captain Alexis
dragoons all mixed in one wild heap, red Morgan, of His Majesty's foot -guards."
coats and blue helmets and busbies, poem'. Ohenier'rinned and snook his knife at
ing each other to their hearts' content• me, while 1 tried to look the loathing
We flung onreelvee upon them, imploring, which I felt at the thought that a soldier
threatening, bugging ata lace collar, or au l of the Emperor could fall ib lots.
a spurredheel, until, at last, we had " It inay amuse you to know," said the.
dragged thom all apart. 'There they stood, Marshal, in that soft, suave voice of hie,
flushed and bleeding, glaring at each otheri ".that both your expeditions were watched
and all panting together like a line on from the time that you left your respective
troop horses atter a ten -utile chase. It! camps. I think that you will allow that
was only with ocr drawn swords that we Monier and. I played our parte with soma
could keepthem from each others throats•4 subtlety. We had made every arrange.
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The poor Capuchin stood in the torah in ment for your reception at the Abbey,.
his long brown habit, wringing his bands' though we had hoped to receive the whole
and calling upon all the eaiute for moray. squadron instead of - half. When the
He was indeed, ae I found upon inquiry, gates ate secured behi\rdthem, our visitors
the innocent cause of all tate turmoil, for, find themselves in a very charming little
s look upon howsoloist possible
understanding no o 'b
not undereP with
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some remark t
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sue thinebyfnusketr
h things,exit; commanded
the English sergeant that it was a pity hundred windows. They may choose
that his squadron was not as good as the . to be shot down; or they may choose
French. The words were not out of his to surrender. Between ourselves, I have
mouth before a dragoor, knocked down the
I was amazed at the simplicity of the
thing, and 1 embraced the good Abbot.
The Bart. however, had some objections to
offer.
"That is all very well," amid he, "but if
these fellows are as sharp as you say, it is
.not very likely that they are going to let a
hundred armed strangers into their crib.,
From all I have heard of Mr. Morgan, or
Marshal Mil1efleur•a, or whatever the moa:
cal's name is, 1 give him eredit ler more
mime than that."
"Well, then," 1 Dried, "let us send ,fifty
in, mid let there at daybreak throw open
the gates to the other fifty, who will be
waiting outside."
Wo disouseed the question at great length
with meek foresight and discretion. If it
had been Mamma) and Wellington instead
of two. young officers of light cavalry, we
nearest hussar, and then in a moment,
they all flew at each other like tigers.
We would trust them no more after that,
but the Bart. moved his men to the front
of the inn, and I mine to the back, the
Eaglieh all scowling and silent, and our
fellows shaking their fiats and chattering,
oaoh after the faehiou of their own peo-
ple.
Well, as our plans were made, we
thought it best to carry them out at once,
not the slightest doubt that they
have been wise enough to do the latter.
Ilut since you are naturally interested in
the matter, we thought that you would
care to come with us and to see for youraelf.
1 think I can promise you that you will
find your titled friend waiting for you at
the Abbey with a face ae long as your
own."
The two villains began whispering to-
gether, debating, as far as I could hear,
which was the best way of avoiding my
lest some fresh cause of quarrel should vedettes.
break out between our followere. Tha ae will make sure that it is all clear upon
Bart. and his Hien rode off, therefore, he the other side of the barn," said the Marshal
having first torn the lane from his sleeves, at lava "Yon will stay here, my good
and the gorget and sash from his uniform, Ohanier, and if the prisoner gives any
so that he might pass as a aimple trooper. trouble you will know what do."
Ido explained to his men what it uvea that So we were left together, this murderous
wan expected of them, and though they
did not raise a cry or wave their weapons
as mine might have done, there was an
expreaeion upon their stolid and clean.
shaven faces which -filled me with confi-
dence. Their tunics were left unbuttoned,
their scabbards and helmets stained -with
dirt, and their harness badly faetened, se
that they might look the part of deserters,
without order or discipline. At 6 o'clock
next morning they were to gain command
of the main gate of the Abbey, while at
renegade and 1—he sitting at the end o
the hod, sharpening his knife upon his boot
in the light of the single smoky little oil -
lamp. As to me I only wonder now as I
look beck upon it, that I did not mad with
vexation and self-reproach as 1 lay helpless-
ly upon the couch, unable to utter a word
or move a finger, with the knowledge that
my fifty gallant lads were so close to me,
and yet with no means of letting them
know the straits to which I was -reduced;
that same hour myinstate were to alio It was no new thing for me to beaprisoner.
g but to be taken by these renegades, and to
up to it front outside. The Bart. abd I be led into their Abbey in the midst of
pledged our hopes to rt before he trotted their jeers, befontodand outwitted by their
off with his detachment. My ear. insolent leaders—that was indeed more
geant, Papilette, with two troopers,follow- than I could endure. The knife of the
ed the English at a distance, and returned butcher beside me would out lees deeply
in half an hour to say that, after some than tha,.
parley, and the flashing of lanterns upon
them from the grille, they had been admit.
ted into the Abbey.
So far, then, allied gene well. It was a
cloudy night with a sprinkling of rain,
which was in our favour, as there was the
1 twitched softly at my wrists, and then
at my ankles, but whichever of the two
had secured me was no bungler atiiia work.
I could not move either of them an inoh,
Then I tried to work the handkerchief
down over my mouth, but the rttt&an beside
less chance of our preaence being discovered. me raised his knife with such a threatening
My vedettes I placed two hundred yards in snarl that I had to desiet. I was lying
every direction, to guard against a surprise, still looking at his bull neck,and wondering
and also to prevent any pennant who might whether it would ever be my good fortune
stumble upon us from carrying the news to to fit it far a cravat, when I heard return.
the Abbey. Oudiu and Papilette were to ing steps coming down the inn passage and
take turns of duty, while the others with up the stair. What word would the
their horses had snug quarters in a great villain bring hack 1 11 he found it
wooden granary. Having walked round and impossible 00 kidnap me, he would
seen that all was as it should be, I flung probably murder inn where I lay. For
myself upon the bad which the innkeeper my own part I was indifferent which
had set apart for me, and fell into a dream- it might be, and I looked at the doorway
less sleep. with the contempt and defiance which I
No doubt you have heard my name longed to put Otto words. But you can
mentioned ae being the beau -ideal of a imagine my feelinge,my dear frienda,when,
soldier, and that not only by friends and instead of the tall figure and dark,sneering
admirers like our fellow -townsfolk, but face of the Capuchin, my eyes fell t pon the
by old officers of tee great wars who have grey pelisse andhuge mouataohes of my
shared the fortunes of those famous Cam-
paigns with me. Truth and modesty compel
me to say, however, that this is not so.
There are some gifte which I lack—very
few, no doubt—but, atilt, amid the vast
armies of the Emperor there may have
been some wbo were free from those
blemishes which stood between me and
perfection. Of bravery I say nothing.
Those who have seen me in the field are
best fitted to speak about that I
have often heard the soldiers discussing'
round the camp -fires as to who was the
bravest man in the Grand Army. Some
said Murat, and some said Lasalle, and some
Ney • but for my own part, when they
asked me, I merely shrugged my shoulders
and mad. It would have seemed mere
conceit if I had answered that there was no
man braver than Brigadier Gerard. At
the same time, facts are facts, and a man
knows beet what his own feelings are. But
there are other gifts besides bravery which
are neoes0ary for moldier ,and one of them
is that he should be a light sleeper. Now,
from my boyhood onwards, I have been
hard to wake, and itwas tbie which brought
mo to ruin upon that night.
It may have been about two o'clock in
the morning that I was suddenly aonsoious
of a feeling of euffooation. I tried to call
out, but there was something which pre-
vented mo from uttering a sound. I
straggled to rise, but I could only flounder
like a hamstrung horse. I was strapped
at the ankles, strapped at the knees, and.
strapped again at the wrtets. Only my ayes
were free to move, and there at the foot of
my pouch, by the light of a Portuguese
lampp., whom should 1000 but the Abbot and
the innkeeper 1
Tho labter's heavy, white face had rip.
peered to me when I looked upon it the
evening, before to oxproos nothing but
good little suboffiner, Papilette 1
(TO BS °ON n-roa . )
JUDGE FIELD'S OPINION.
wonderfal power to adjust himself to hie
environments, has led to cuoli neglect as
to impair' his health and to abnormal
development. He has oven been confined
iu a narrow poo, to feed and sleep io hie
own filth, and limited to Oorn middlings,
end yet has paid for the food consumed.
Even a hog will die if fed only on sugar or
fat, but our pig has lived on a fateformer
and made muscle and bona and paid for
keep, Because he can and has so long
endured semi -starvation in -a bed of ease
with a trough full of food, hie rations have
been narrowed and his health and value:
unpaired. It mune hardly necessary to
say that middlings ' is a good food for pigs
and for their milk -giving deans, but it re
not enough. There aro ,only two complete
foods, and they are milk and grass, as
nature made them.
"'And there is no best food for pigs,
where neither of these are part of the pig's
daily allowance. I may go further ; there
is no cheapest food for growing pigaor
shoats without grace. Grass and olover
are the foundation of healthy and profit-
able swine husbandry, and without them 1
doubt if pig raising and feeding can long
b8conducted successfully. lY. Coufining.Pigs
ens , and to corn
to fill uncomfortable
h.P
Y,
', ien� daft slo s
or brill food and hitt or y p
must, from the wide demands of the nature
of the animal and the narrowness of the
ration, 800000 or later produce disease and
lose. On the other hand, where these
articles of food are supplemented by free
reogein the grove, clover field and grass.
lot, and such other variety as the orchard,
garden and farm oan cheaply supply, to
fairly meet the demands of an omnivorous
animal, we then have the best pig food,
and the healthiest pigs and savory, whole.
some pork.
Until there is a radical reform in the
method of raioiug pigs In filthy pane and
barnyards, and limiting them to the
narrowest possible ration, without exercise
and pure water, fresh air and sunshine,
we cannot hope to sucoessully meet the
objections at home and abroad against the
American corn fed pork. We can and
have raised the beat pork in the world,
and every farmer should Bee 00 it that his
herd has the beat food to produce the best
pork and best pay.
"Middling and Dorn are valuable, and
so eseentiat that on our farms wo cannot
profitably grow pork without them; yet
neither; nor bath, oan be oonaidered a safe
ration. If our pigs cam ran on a good
grass lot or clover field with shade and
pure water, we can feed all the corn or
middlings the pigs can assimilate with
profit.
"The essentials of profitable pig growing
are grass and clover. After twenty-five
years rn. tee business, I would not try to
raise pigs without both, and of the two,
blue glass is my preferonoe because it is
available .ao many months in the year.
With all the grass or clover a pig will
graze, be is always ready to assimilate all.
the Dorn, oats and middlings he will eat.
Grass it not only a complete ration, but it
s a great corrective and distender of the,
stomach, enabling the pig to better digest
the richer food. For the young things we
save the milk, which like grass, isnot only
evaluable alone, but enables the pig to
digest a larger per Dent. of his grain
rations. The hest pig feed, then, is all the
milk, grass and grain he can eat."
eeleotiug seed, A moderate eirgd potato 1
of the right shape,' a longish oval, will
generally ?rodeo() p0tat000 that will Pell
IMP. Moot of the long potatooe begin' to.
run out by growing pointed ends. `this
tondonoy to deterioration Pan be awaked
by rejecting ouch volume when eyed 10
being Selected,
OVERRUN BY RATS,
An :Army et' 1'ermir►'Faltee 1'osseiniie t or
uric
relaiad ()X 'I,'rut,i0,
The island of Tropic, twenty mflessantit
of the Flordia coast has boon invaded by
an army of savage rata, and the inhabitant's
have been forged to ;fee for their livoe.
Tropics three miles long and two mile
wide and the Boil to voi % fertile. A dozen
familios have 'fettled ou the Wend and en.
gaged in growing vogetablso for market,
George Butter, ono of the settlers, tells a
thrilling story of the invasion and subjug•
ation of Tropic by the rata. Up to a month
ago, umordiug to Mr. Sutler, there were
no rata cn the island. At that time the
advanood guard of the rodents arrlved,and is
were quickly followed by others, until in
two weeks there were fully 10,000 on the
ulnad,
The rate Dame from the mainland, which
was only two miles away, and Mr. Butler
aflirme that they swam across, He says ho
hue neon them coming out of thel water by
hundreds. At .first the rata contented
themselves with attaokfng the vegetables,
whish were soon destroyed. Then they
invaded the homes of settlers. The latter
made war on the rats, killing hundreds, of
them: Mr. Butler says he has killed art
many aa 100 at ono shot, but athero would
rush forward and attack him, biting him
vtoieusly on the legs.
In epite of the slaughter the rats got into
the houses and attacked the woinett and
children. Several of the latter were badly
torn by the sharp fangs of the rodents.
One baby was so severely bitten about the
face that its life is despaired of.
For three nights, Mr. Butler says, not a
soul on the island slept, au that would have
meant death. At last the people, in terror
and worn out, fled in their boats to the
mainland, where they are now camped in
a destitute condition. Mr. Butler eaye the
rate pursued' them to the water's edge, and
the women and children were repeatedly
bitten before the boats could be pushed off.
Every vestige of vegetation had been
destroyed: The rate are described as gray
in color and monstrous in size being larger
than squirrels.
Selecting Seed Potatoes.
Moat potato growers delay the selection
of seed potatoes for next year's planting
anger than they should,, says the American
Cultivator. It is not enough, as some say'
to select the hills in the field as they are
dug. The oareful farmer will go through
the field while the potatoes are still in the
most vigorous growth and choose the hills
that have the most thrifty appearance.
These should be marked by eating a Btako
yawn() Day Canada W111 be an Enormously
wealthy Country.
Judge Stephen J. Field, of the Supreme
Court of the 'United States passed through
Montreal recently on his way book from a
trip to the Pacific. coast, He is acoompani
ed by Mrs. Field. Judge Field, who
is one of the ablest and oldest judges of
the Supreme Court, leaving been appointed
by President Lincoln, in the course of an
interview said :—"We are on a pleasure
trip, end have come up from California,
traversing Canada by way of the Canadian
Pacific railway. This isnot my first visit.
to Canada. I was hero six years ago, but
I must say that the country seems to be
going ahead by leaps and bounds. The
harvest In the North-West is simply mar.
venous. I cannot say how much I have
been impressed by what.' have ween. There
iaa great future behave you,and some day
Canada will bo an enormously wealthy
country ; mark my words. No, )hero will
never be annexation with the Utii ted States.
Canada does not want it, and the.. United
States people, who are sensible,understand
that it will nouer be an accomplished faot.
Why, the Canadian Paciflo railway itself ie
enough to make a gtoat future for any
country. The scenery ie exquisite, and
upequalled by anything I have seen 'any
where, and I have travelled quite a little
in my time,'
The eggs of a orocodile aro scarcely ‘la
than those of the gooao.,
COFFEE AND THE DIGESTION.
Experiment.. 6nentN
Indication That Two Favor-
ite are L+1 r
iso ., Injurious.
N.
To inveterate tea and coffee drinkers,
soya the London Graphic, we would corn..
mondthestudy of some interesting experi-
ments made reuantly by an eminent German
scientist, Prof. Schutzsenetein, who has
been investigating the effect on processes
of digestion produoed by these beveragee.
Por this purpose the Professor prepared an
artifice.' gastric juice and mixed it with
coagulated egg albumen, with and without
additions of tea and cotes infusions. The
results obtained are extremely tustructfve,
for while the gastrin juice by itself was
able to digoet 04 per oent. of the egg alba.
men in the apnea of eight hours, when tea
was added the proportion digested was
reduced to 66 per oena, while, when a de.
coetion of coffee was mixed with the albu•
men, the gastric fluid was only able to
digest 61 per cent., or lees than two thirds
of the albumen. ,The digestive power of
the gastrio juice appears to vary with the
strength of the infusion, the disturbing
effect being less when the solution of tea
and coffee were weakened. The professor
ie of the opinion that the deleterious effect
produced is due to the tannin, which is
extracted during the process of making,and
not to the presence of thein and caffein,
sad he mentions that tea, which has not
been allowed to stand more than two or
three minutes in less injurious, because a
smaller quantity of this undesirable in-
gredient,tannin, has been produced than
when it ie boiled up or left in contact with
the leaves fora considerable length of time.
Bat it should be remembered that the
weaker infusions, besides containing less
tannin, also contain less of all the poison-
ous properties contained in the tea leaf and
coffee berry, and that it is not only the
obnoxious tannin which is thus kept in
subjection.
beside each of the most thrifty hills and
digging these firer. As potatoes are never
dug until the tops have died down, it is
impossible then to know by the vines which
held their thrift longest.
Of course, not all of the hill thus first
chosen will be left et the .finish. The hill
that is most thrifty one day may be at-
tacked with blight, and its seed will be
worth nothing for planting. But by bo•
ginning early and weeding out the hills
that fall behind, those that remain will
produce weed that has this greatest vitality
and will grow the strongest shoots th
following season. This cannot be done if
the 'ideation is left until the potatoes are
ripe, By that time all of the tope will
heve died and comparative vigorof each
cannot be determined. If the boat hills
and -the boob teed out of each hill were
emoted for a series of years, the vigor and
prolificacy of the potato Drop would bo
greatly increased.
Besides mare in choosing potatoes of
vigorous stook, it le important that some
regard ahould be hod to the potato itself,
its ehapo, size and position of its eyes,
Variety hrae moll to do with this, but.
there are individual peouliaritiea,independ•
ant of variety,whion affect the shape and.
character of the potato. It ispoosible to
change rho shape df a variety to a very.
ooesiderable extent by careful selection of
seed. hath eye of the tuber perpetuated
in its growth the characteristics of the
parent from which ib sprung, modified, it
is tree, by the eiruumstanee0 under which
the crop is grown. The large, rough',
shaped and pronged tubers are generally
produoed by fertilizing with an exceed of
nitrogen. These shouldbe avoided in
HER NECK WAS SPLINTERED.
YOUNO Ud `!I O "' 9 S+.
14e4ping Win*.
"Spool dug of jumping," said tori old
seaman who .had been witching eomo boys
playing leapfrog on the fiends, "' lot me
tell you of the greatest jump ever seen. Ie
was many yore age, whom 1 wee it little
more than o lad, but I was bow oarsman
on a whale boat belonging to the ship
Henry Staples, We had bad look for
several weeks, when one day wo sighted' it
big whale, and two boats set off in a race
to see who would gat thorn first. It was
fairly smooth, what the sailors oall a•
wbite•oap breozo, and our boats fairly Haw
0000 the water, Finally the whale rose,
not opo hundred yards away, heading'
direotly for us. The harpooner stood with,
his iron already to throw, while we veep -
ed our oars nervously properod to jump at
the word stern all,' that nearly always
came when a whale was harpooned. Not,
a word was epokon, and .suddenly it
mountain of black appeared ; it seemed to,
Shut off the entire horizon, Up it went,
until I distinctly saw a eevonty•foot whale
ever twenty feet in the air hovering over
118,regain hie
The mate was the first to reg
senses, and gave the command 'stern all.'
Just ea we were ready to spring overboard
the boat shot back several feet, and the
next second the gigantio animal dived into.
the ocean, just grazing us, having nom•
pletely passed over the boat in the biggest
leap I ever hoard of."
Such gigantio jumps are rare. A similar
one woe recorded by Dr. Hall, who at rho
time was a midshipman on the ship Leander.
Tlrey, were lying in the harbor of Bermuda,.
when all hands were attracted by the
appearance of a very large whale that
suddenly appeared in the harbor and seem-
ed' very much alarmed by the shallow
water, floundering aboab violently. ' The
young -midshipman joineda boat's drew-
that
rewthat started in pursuit, and just as they
were "about to strike the whale disappeared,
sinking out of eight, leaving a deep whirl-
pool, around whioh the boat shot.' Before
it stopped up mane the whale, having in all
probability struck the bottom, and went
into the air like a rocket, "So complete
was this enormous leap," eaya Dr. Hall,
"that for an instant we eaw him fairly up
in the air, in a horizontal position, at
u distanoo of at least twenty perpendi•
oular feet over our heads. While in hje
progress g
reeeupwards
there was in his s
PriII
g
dot a
some tough of
the vivacity with which
trout or salmon shoats. out of the water,
but he fell back again In these& like a huge
log thrown on its broadside, and with suoh
a thundering araeh as mado'ttll hands stare
with astonishment, and the boldest held
his breath fora time. Had the Nebel&
taken his leap one minute sooner he would
hove fallen plump on the boat;"
Comparatively few people have seen a
large whale, but we can imagine what an
object an animal seventy feet lone and
weighing as many tons would make flying
through the air.
Within a week of the writing of the
present article I was drifting along the
shores of Santa Catalina Island, California,
when a. sixty -foot whale almost cleared the
water about a thousand yar+is .from the
boat. I was about to ask the boatman what
rook it was,when the great head depended
rind the tail rose into the air as the monster
dived.
Mr. Seorsby,tho famous whaler,cironioles
a number of inoidonts of jumping among
whales, some leaving the water completely
and rising twenty or more feat into the
air.
But tire. Surgeons Performed all Operation
and She Will Iteeever.
That a broken neck can be treated with
comparative certainty and dispatch has
been illustrated by the surgical staff of a
New York hospital.
Mies McOully is the seventeen -year-old
daughter of John V. McCully, a piano
manufacturer. She lives with her aunt,
Many inhabitants of the sea are good
jumpers, and some* have become famous.
Among them should be mentioned the
tarpnou, or silver king, a huge fish with
scalae that gleam like silver, which coned -
tutu the famous game fish of Florida. Tho.
leaps of this beautiful creature are often
astonishing. Several years ago a steamer
was rushing down the St. John's River.
Tho Captain was sitting on the fore deck
leaning against the pilot house, when Cud•
denly there rose in the air a beautiful
shining firm four feet in length. It came
like an arrow and landed in the lap of the
Captain as neatly as though it had been
planed there.
In Pacific waters the tuna, an ally of the
horse mackerel, is noted for its leaps..
Sometimes a school sweeps up the coast,
and the powerfulfish, often weighing 600
pounds, are seen in the air in every direc-
tion. They aro like au arrow, turn grace-
fully five or'six feet in the lir, and come
down, keeping the waters for acres in a
foam, and, if not the greatest jumper0,they
are certainly the moat graceful of the
loapere of the sea.
Mrs. Anna Smith. Three weeks ago she
paid a visit to another aunt, Mrs. Harris,
of Jersey City Heights, where, a few days
later, with the two children of Mrs. Barrie
the visitor woo ewiuging in the veranda
hammock, when it was overturned, and ire
three 000upante were thrown heavily to the
floor. It was a fall of only two feet, but
the unfortunate girl struck with crushing
force on the back of her head add lay un•
couecioua. Examination showed that the
nook was broken and splintered at the fifth
vertebra, and to all appearances tho girl
had but a fsw'hours to live.
Within an hour of her arrival at the
hospital' she wee on the operating table.
The vertebra, whinh pre0eed against the
spinal cord, was carefully removed, bit by
bit. Her neck was securely bandaged in
position before the elects (Atha anreathetio
passed away, and with returning conscious.
nem came the power' of motion and sense of
feeling in the paralyzed limbs,
The operation was a omen).
Mies McCully ie improvingrapidly, and.
will probably be able to leave the hospital
in a month.
Walnut lee Cream.
An Object Lesson.
The German Emperor has original idea
on many things, He thinks that those
of his people who live far away from ,the
coastare at adisadvantage, inasmuch as
whatever knowledge they may have of
'unitary progress, they onnnot but have
vague ideas on what is being done in
modern naval war tactics. He has had an
ingenious model oonatruoted, measuring
13 feet by 2g feet, the upper part of which
represents the deck of groat mob -of -war,
Konig Wilhelm. Everything is complete
—the rigging, a siren, a search light, a
number of revolving guns, orioh capable' of
firing twenty-six shots in sueeeeeian, flag.
signalapparatus, lifeboats, etc. All these
are operated by electricity. When a but-
ton is proceed the signal lanterns begin to
blaze, rockets are sent up, the beans of
the search light flashes around and the
guns go off. Oedore have been given for
the construction of sixteen similar battle-
ships for the purpose of giving the inland
population .some practical ideas of the
doings of the navy.
The doe dream freezer is a peemanou
fixture in ao many homes that moat house
wives will be glad 40 know of ohofae deser
thatts mode from frozen cream and walnuts.
Creek and pick over enough note to make
to pint of the meat, then pound them' into
a paste, and mix with a quart of sweet
cream, adding a little at a time. Make a
boiled custard from a pint of milk and four
eggs, add a cup of sugar when it thickens;
then add the cream and walnuts, and
freeze. It is a great convenience if a bag
of stout burlap or sacking is kept in the
house in which to crush toe,
Littleness Often Rules.
Mrs. Minks -Isn't ie queer that such a
little bit of a country ae England oan' rule
auolt a vast amount of territory?
Mr. Minks—Well, I don't know. You're
not very big yourself, my dear.
A Morning Scare.
Mrs. Blues (shaking her sleeping hue-
band)—Wake up; quick 1 .Somothing it
wrong 1 I'm afraul Otte bons° to un fire 1
Mr. Binge—El) What?
Mrs. Binge—Something is wrong,
only six o'clock,and the girl is up and
down Bayles, •
"Ever have . any trouble; with your
wheel 1" " Not yet," said the Sweet
Thing, " So fat' whenever I have run over
anyone I have been able to get away before
he got up."