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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1888-9-7, Page 3A.Uq, 81, 1888, THE BRUSSELS POST N° answer. He seldom spoke during fortunes befell us, which deprived us of our Animal heat le gcaerated within the body ohmic vfetto, but wandered about the room, inoomo, and reduced tie to great poverty. l.y wonderful chemical processes, from the turning nem. our loops and papers, looking 1 In foot we were strangors, and the knowing raw ,n ateriai furnished by ood. Nature t at and htandling everything. Nay, I hove :neo took 08 in ; and for ninny years we et it us and nature %ith oven known hon to take the lid If from Ply%tAingtlWi?YAJJSitN�Aa1n01'SL'ra9Ai9C:�W7C1f1`Tt?r15.N4T.tnIW.tNJa'"M�l2fanR'.YlN4FJ::i�a. 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"1 with he would make haste, then, as I want a number of things you have borrowed of me, and which I cannot longer do with- out." She gave me a knowing look, and carried off my spool in triumph. I happened to mention the manner in which 1 was couatently annoyed by than people, to a worthy English farmer who re. aided near us ; and he fell a•laughing, and told me that I did not know the Canadian Yankee%au well as he did, or I should not be troubled with them long. "The best way," says he, " to gee rid of them, in to ask them sharply what they want ; and if they give you no satisfactory answer, order them to leave the house ; but I believe I can put you in a better way still. Buy some small petiole of them, and pay thorn a trifle over the price, and tell them to bring the ohmage. 1 will lay my life upon fb that i6 will be long before they trouble you again," I was impatient to test the elfioacy of hie scheme. That very afternoon Miss Satan brought mea plate of butter for sale, The price was three and nine -pence ; twice the num, by, tbc.by, that io was worth, "I have no change," giving her a dollar ; "but you can bring ib me tomorrow" Oh, b'essed experiment 1 for the value of one quarter dollar I got rid of this dishonest girl for ever ; rather than pay me, she never entered the house again. About a month after this, I wee busy making an apple-pie in bho kitchen. A oad- averouelooking woman, very long -faced and witoh•like, popped her ill -looking vis- age into the door, and drawled through her nose, on shores--•fhet 14, L;ivo you nae, and k %,, one for ;nye: if." I had plenty of al, leu, awl I gladly opted her offer, n»1 Mre, Betty Fee parted, elated wi h the Eucuoea of her peditian. T found to my cost, that, Duca admitt into the houee, there was no keeping h away, She borrowed everything the can think of, without once dro mint' of recti tion. I tried ell ware of affronting her, b without :emcees. Winter camr, ami wee still at her old }weeks, Whenever saw her owning down the lane, I used 1 voluntarily to exclaim, "Betty Fee 1 B ty ley° 1 rye upon Betty Fyn 1 The Lo deliver me from Betty .Myo I" The la time I was honoured with a visit from th worthy, she meant to favour me With a v largo order upon my goods and chattels, "Well, Mrs. Fyo, what do you want day f„ "S,fogey things 011at I thane kn whore to begin. An, whet a thing 'tie be poor 1 First, I want you to land trio to peund0 of flour to make some Johne cakes," " I thought they were made of India meal ?' "Yoe, yes, when you've gat the meal I'm out of 11, and thio is e, new fixing of m own invention. Lend me the flour, woman and I'll bring you one of the eakee to testa. This was said very coaxingly. "Oh, pray don't trouble yourself, WW1. next P' 1 wanted to see how far her impu donee would go, and determined to ;Often her if poasible, "I want you to lend mo a gown, and pair of stockings. f have to go to •awog to nee my husaaod's sister, and I'd like t look decent," " Mrs. Fye, I never lend my alothee any one, If I lent them to you, I shout never wear them again," "So much the better for me," (with knowing grin), "I guess if you won't len me the gown, you will lot me have Rome black elect; to quilt a stuff petticoat, 0 guar ter of a pound of tea and some sugar ; ten I will bring them book as moon as 1 owe." " I wonder when that will bo. You ow me so many things that it will wet you more than you imagine to repay mo," " Sure you're not going to mention what' past, I can't owe you much. But 1 will le you off tho tea and tho sugar, if you wil lend mea five•clollar hill" This was too much for my patience longer to endure, and I answered sharply, " Mrs. leyo, ft surprises me that euoh proud people as you Americans should con- descend to the meanness of borrowing from those whom you affect to despite. Besides, as you never repay us for what you pretend to borrow, I look upon le as a system of robbery. If strangers unfortunately settle among you, their good nature is taxed to supply your domest a wants, at a ruin iue ex. pence, besides the mortilication of finding that they have been deceived ;tad tricked out of their property, if you would come honestly to me and say, ' I want these things, I am too poor to bay them myself, and would be obliged to you to give thein to me,' I would then acknowledge you 0e a common beggar, and treat you accordingly ; give or,not ,give, as it indeed my convenience. But in the way in which you obtain theme articles from me yon are spared even a debt of gratitude ; for you well know that the many things which you have borrowed from me will be a debt owing to the day of judge - merit," " S pose they are," quoth Betty, not in the least abashed at my lecture on honesty, " you know what the Scripture Faith, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive."' "Ay, there is an answer to that in the same book which doubtless you may have heard," said I, disgusted with her hypocrisy, "' The wicked borroweth, awl payeth not again.' „ Never shell I forget the furious passion into which this too apt quotation threw my unprincipled applicant. She lifted up her voice and cursed me, using some of the big oaths temporarily dieoarcled for conscience Bake. And so the left me, and I never looked upon her face again. When I removed to our own house, the history of which, and its former owner, I will give bye•and•bye, we had a bony, red- headed, ruffianly American squatter, who had " left for his country's good," for an opposite neighbor, I had ecnroely time to put my house in order before his family commenced borrowing, or stealing from me. Itis even worm than stealing, the things proeurod from you being obtained on false pretences—adding Eying to theft. Not having either an oven or a cooking stove, which at that period were not ao oheeh. or 0o common as they are now, 1 had provided myself with a large bako•kettle as a substi- tute, In this kettle we always °poked bat cakes for breakfast, preferring that to the trouble of thawing the frozen bread. This man's wife was in the habit of sending over for my kettle whenever she wanted to bake, whioh, ns ahe had a large family, happened nearly every day, and I found her import tunity a great nuisance. I told the impudent lad go, who was generally sane for it ; and est ed him what they clid to bake their bread before I came. " I guise we had to oat mikes in the pan ; but now we can borrow this kettle of your'n, mother can fix bread." I told him that he could have the kettle this time ; but I must decline letting his mother have ie in future, for I wanted ie for the some purpose. The next any passed over. The night wan iuteneely acad. and 1 did not rise so early a0 usual in the morning. My servant was away at a quilting bee and we were still in bed, when I heard the latah' of the kftohen•door lifted tip, and a atop crossed the floor, I jumped. out of bed, and began to dress as feet as I could, when Philander welled out, in his well-known nasal twang. Miscue 1 I'm come for the kettle," "Do you want to buy a rooster f" Now, the oloking pigs with which we had been regal, el every day for three weeks at the tavern, were called roasters; and not understanding the familiar phrases of the country, I thought she had a sucking•pig to to eell. " Is it a good one?" I gueoe "What do you ask for it?" " Two Yorkers." "That is very cheap, if it is any weight, I don't like them under ten or twelve pounds." " Ten or twelve pounds i Why, woman, what do you mean? Would you expeot a rooster to be bigger nor a turkey ?" We stared at oaoh other. There was evid- ently Emma misconception on my part. "Bring the roaster up; and if I like it, I will buy it, though I muet confess that I am not very fond of roast pig," " Do you call thin a pig ?" eaid my she - merchant drawing a fine gamecock from under her cloak. I laughed heartily at my mistake, as I paid her down the money for the bonny bird. This little matter settled, 'I thought ehe would take her departure; but that rooster proved the dearest fowl to me that ever was bought. "Do you keep barky and snuff here?" says she, sidling cloth up to mo. " We make no use of those articles." "howl Nob use beaky and snufl? That's oncommon," She paused, then added in a mysterious, confidential tone : "I want to ask you how your tea-caddy stands 1" It stands in the cupb,ard," acid I, won• deriog what all this might mean. "I know that; but have you any tea to spare 2" I now began to auepect what sort of a customer the stranger was, "Oh, you want to borrow some. I have none to spare." " You don't say Eo. Well, now, that's stingy. I never asked anything of you be. fore. I am poor, and you are rioh ; besides, I'm troubled eo with the headache, and no thing does me any good but a cup of strong tea," " The money I have just given you will boy a quarter of a pound of the beet." "1 guees that ion t mine, Tho fowl be. longed to my neighbour. She's sick ; and I promised to sell it for her to buy some phyeio. Money 1" she added, in a ooaxiog tone, " Where should I get money ? Lord bless you; people in Gale oounbry have no money; and those who mono out with piles - of it soon loco it. But Emily 5— told me that you aro tarnetion rich, and draw your money from the old country. So I guess you Dan well afford to lend a neighbour a spoonful of tea." "Neighbour 1 Where do you live, and what is your name ?" "My narne is Betty lye—old Betty Fyo; I live in the log shanty over the creek, at the back of your'n. The farm bolonge to my aldose son. I'm a widow with twelve BOW ; and 'tie— hard to scratch along." "Do,you swear?" "Swear 1 What harm? It oases one's mind when one's vexed. Everybody swears in this country. My boys all, swear lilte Sam .Full; and I used to swear mighty big oaths till about a month ago, when the Methocly parson told me that if I did not leave it off 1 should go to a tarnation bad place 1, so I dropped mine of the worst of them. "You would do wisely to drop the rest ; woman never swear in my country." " Well, you don't may 1 I always hcer'd they were very ignorant. Will you lond mo the tea?" The woman WAS much an original that T gave her what she wanted. As ahe was go- ing oft', oho took up ono of the apples I wee peeling, "1 gguess you have a fine orchard?" "They say the best in the district." "Wo have no orchard to hum, anal gueoe you'll want 810400," "Sarco 1 What is same?" "Not know what throe lei You aro clever? Bathe is applee out up and dried, to make into pies in the winter. Now do you comprehend f" I nodded. " Well, T wee going to say that I have no apples, and that you have a tarnatiOn big few of them ; and if you'll glen me twenty buohele of your boot apples, and find me W1�th half a pound of coarse thread to tering thein upon I will make you a barrel of same 8 HEALTH., ��••�•�,Sr �,yy *rrlyt7l'timiitlpiK'.Cle. Fdl r#-11.4 Jaaa+?R'tiggr;E417a tlaraukYpaso-YtFx,otti'Y 1 i . u o the a00000ted with Kori e l whiEh waulti leave out uu work bo• On Exeroite, "Plato," says i eI •h Bunt "h d h a high opinion of Oxerelee that he said it WAS a cure even for a wounded eoneuien:: " Be teat as it may the %•hla my youngest mission in the body la to serve the :Mud. made, pi nerdy andin care, both by night and day, 1'o attend to the bee oatato of the rime to lift burdens, to him properly, a candle burning during the hew down trees, trundle barrows, or to do y, 'rhe ant caudle ryas e,ny physmal labor as on end in recall, burnt nut; I had no money to thyanother, T! things is and no fat from whleh Icould make one. I thousand times better purpme by harnean hated b ,' sing the giant forces of nature, Our senses, cake, I overcame my scruples, tend succeed- our hands and feet, our entire physical Odin procuringacs dl '_g, a su servo the mind, And the bar, but with atria n'body • ease to plug for her last} that I moat return it if I did t summon genii to do the to ui d night, wox,dswork. quite gratefulwithmy lexeroiae, then, in ire Mat estate is play -- prize. It was n clear moonlight night—the thebody When pay s oar boy waa better, so I told old Jenny, my overdone and becomes workit losses its power emirs as becomes, rather, a drainupon it. At the °Wrest, then, we must agree thee Exercise for its°wn sake is not the right sort, All excrete that object physical training tend the making of muscle is exercise for its own sok. For instance a man who spends a day every day developing his biome is oommittin as outrage upon his intellectual De me. ni Lona : What matters it s e hundred pound,, all elite, and never dreaming that Tom when at; a finger's touch thorn ere o arms of steel that will lift too thou - P pot on the fire to examine its uontents. broken stouter hearts than ours, ha,i not ' Y k a qac gather batten buns f. -n s merely generate eo , I repented my r+ (neat+ our trust hash placed in the Aliniglity, who heat ; where rt,urfeh, r mnia, twee, ao Philander 1 "wall, 1 guess i e1ton't hurt among all our troublaq never whale de. I Now an anttg toed alp tete ern,. and re. de, i the young 'um You can areae her," sorted Aa, Y Wald wall jeute, amending tee ,, d. The Green. I ; " But oat with you hero," Notify that 4 e •r o le u 00,:t terga cups f r tnndur utaves barn, pr. •luvtng fat, out fond ex- y While my husband was absent on the a weary ln4n' 1 take it that ilio h4 t eq. Into which fat largely , wets to it ,tvitOd to ! Philander; "Wiry not? 19e. never da tontine during thq raballtmn summer. Sugar, alae, is mainly n Leatpro. ed Anything that we are ashamed of." y fall very Mirk, qnd ru;uired zny utmost Murclos were not in rl i ] duper; Nur,fore cakes "end eauvue, riot: in or I ; "So it 0°01140, But l: want to sweep sugar and ' •4 Id the room—you h g d Fat, aro mter.nevous in tee hot yo ed better get out of the tn. I dust," eight was m r resat 1 dl months. The o$etern, already weekened by the heat utt I took the bream from the corner, and ease mgs ho mind eau accomplish to a without, is further nested by the heat els.- he began to sweep; still my visitor did nob borsted within, and is still further weaken - 1 stir. The dust rat) in clouds; he rubbed ortowmg but for the dear child a t} ed and rendered susceptible to dieegee by n- hie oyes end lowed a little nearer to the its inability to aeslmllete whet may hove et. door, Another sweep, and to osoepe its in, n a from n good neigh tam must subserve been dice+rod, Tbia t�owe exhausting rd libations, he mounted the threshold. I had t i lanuthono (for it was mind cava to the b d Please work oz, the ellminating'Sirgane, se him now at; a fair advantage, and fairly z no mo and I will Here again we a, o the harmony of nature is swept him out and shut the door in hie q re it acne the nt lib within and without, In summer the normal ry face, 1 went barna r t taste is for the fresh vegetahlea, in whioh Philander (looking through the reindou•): dear g o y amuatng than zed 1 I nature is then so lavish, blest of these to• i "Wed, 1 guess you did me then ; but 'tie vegeteblea have little heating property. deuced hard to outwit a Yankee," toreoroefe the d, and Moreover, they abound in water, which °ko time had elapsed for I P the system then demands. PP ea' candle 1t h Again, cold is a tenth, and long -continued to our employ, tollatt g ' e a P y, Y g t has for 1A f to fn b k heat a depressant. In winter digestion is more vigorous, and this makes the appetite Da returned d fth I1 w, amok° dread g p my friend Emilie b had large better. In aummer, therefore, our food t p an lin from his arm T°mot h 1 h' b ' p e five haute must be leas in quantity. Indeed, quantity g g then tells more unfavorably on health than ea were a epemmen of the It d T had does quality, The getting rid of waste keeps the elimination organs at a high and that this man leets four hundred pound dangerous tension, and that, too, when l lite lawless depredations. T had forgotten ,and that man on h d d weakened by climatic conditions. Yet 1 teeny would appropriate such light food I loft th many persons eat the same in etimnler as in • er �� oat wiuter, and spur their feeble appetites with t Yee," boy week a grin. The under thewindow, 1 various stimulanta. It is not wondetful that, when the laws of health are thus dis- c an gently h d h h' regarded, the season is preeminently the fixed enough h sickly one, although so much life in the w e and that, for d Y tido g t lifter and open air should make it a healthy one, o g o might steal my k Food includes water, and water consti- tO I is ended y d ahnl,a with Bettq Fye. I p g p h , last m temp to l 1 P y an, hntoot tutee the larger part of the body, 1 t is also d g e borrower in sea him dare through eke broken window, " the solvent both of food and wast°. By its evaporation on the surface, the bodily 1 person, and remarkably over the field, b t II tem- perature is kept at Ito proper paint, Hence a you t look k 41 should be drank freely in summer—but noticed. Irish servant, to go bo bed, as I woula lie When a aufiioient tidown in my clothes bythe child and if he the drying of my twenty bushels of apples, were worse would get up sad light the I sent a Garnish lad I happened that a pane of lass leo'e. to enquire if they wore ready, and was broken out icoe the by thrice i a and when I should send the cart for them. I had snppl'ed its place by Qtting d a large Dan e urns w a yellow, 1'% '--- a s ar a s ringg of pieces d .t , who, when Is mistreat: was a . Thinkingthet then sent, often paid me a predatory or borrow. whole, I enquired when we were to spud the nig vis ; au oxo a a practice of push. barrel for the rest. I• ng AR this wooden pane, fu order to pursue " Lord, ma'am, this is all there be." " Impossible 1 All out of twenty bushels ofApples 7 said the " oldwitch told mo that this was Ill that was left of your oh are ; that when theywore one she put then under her bad for safety, and the mine and the children had eaten them all up but this string." m e hadanother incorrigible Betty B --, This Betty was unlike the rest of my Yankee borrowers ; she was handsome in her erste oivil, and she asked for the loan of every- thing in such afrank, pleasant manner, that for some time I hardly know how to referee her, 41tor I had been a loser to a coneid00. able extent, and declined lending her any more, she refrained from coming to the house herself, but sant in her name the most beau- tiful boy in the world : a perfect cherub with regular features,blue smiling rosy cheeks and lovely curling auburn hair, , in a softest tones imaginable, that mammy had Bent him, with her cam *inmate, to bho English lady to ask the loan of a little auger or tea. I could easily have refuaed the mother, but I could not find it in my heart to nay nay to her sweet boy. ing•ohair, just as I was going to dress Any baby.hilander, I want to attend to the ohild ; I cannot do it with you hero. Will you oblige me by going into the kitchen 2" Thera was eomethiag original about Betty B—, and 1 must give a alight sketch of her. She lived in a lone shanty in the woods, which had been oreoted by lumbcrero some year: before, and which was destitute of a single aore of clearing; yet Betty had plenty of potatoes without the trouble of planting, or the expense of buying; she never kept a Dow, yet she sold butter and milk ; bub the bad a fashion, and it proved a convenient one to her, of making petal of the cattle of her neighbours. If our co we strayed from their pastures, they were always found near Betty': shanty, for ahe regularly sup• plied them with salt, which formed a sort of bond of union between them; and in return for there little attentions, they suffered themoelvee to be milked before they return- ed to their respective owners. Hermode of obtaining eggs and fowls was on the same eoonomioal plan, and we all looked upon Betty as a sort•of freebooter, living upon the property of others. She had three husbands, and he with whom oho now lived wen not caudle lying in the middle of thetable, Be.ween sleeping end waking I heerd the pane ,n y pubo in, The though instant- ly etru°k nee that it e'Tom, lack of something better, h mi t precious candle• sprang u from the ed ' i dragging the long white candle after hien. I flew to the door, and pursued him half but a to no purpose. I can sce him now as I flaw him then, scamp- ering away for deur life, with hie prize trailing behind him, gleaming like a :fiver tail in the bright light of the moon sand pounds? I would attend, as a mere physical being, before such a piece of mechanism as humbly with a ton up - borne arm my right hand as with a pound, ,t t uo mn nificen i worker is one of the mind'e genii. To this muster mind the h steal m on the development opmenb of biceps, says: I will not servo you. What are you to mot I am gaining a more desirable power than u can offer. us ab these mus. clew 1 So the world of mind advances, summoning its genii, and the physic 1 man cultivates the hunch on his puny arm and is content. We must take another stop teen, and Ah 1 never did I fool more truth of the proverb, "Those that go ether. rowing go a•sorrowing," than I did that night. Al poor boy awoke ' and I had no light to nester him, or even to look into his sweet facet h farI dared hope that the light of day would find him better, • Come to Canada I e toutely the 1 say that exercise is of value only when Itis stated that Sir Henry Tyler is about to resign the e•h.lirmenehip of the Grand Trunk railway, having been offered the pie- s Y p ell and fat ertsh eideney ;,f the Great Eastern of ,England. If eyes, h' [ 1 1 the report 1 p proves d be true the steps 1 e to o ha % holders a h and bondholders o a 1 w std dere aha% th ld t f t eke ate a I P 1. To place at the head of their railway some one more thoroughly acquainted with the details of the works and their manage- ment than itis possible far anyone not rest. dent in Ctnade, co become, Mr. Hiokeon, no doubt, would be the proper parson to place in the position ; no other one man could ao acceptably fill the hill, because no other hes het the oppor tunitieefor master- ing the bueinesa of the Grand Truuk system in all its ramifications and details. 2. The headquarters of the company should be transferred to Canada. It is abeolntely impassible for those financially interested in the road to receive all the benefits of the beet management as long as this dualsyetem is kept up, The Executive bead should be in a position to deal promptly with all the various questions which arise from day to day and call for immediate action. While the English board may have the utmost confidence in Mr. Hiokoon'a ability and management, the reference to England of important queetione, calling for much ex. planation and correspondence, and at the bast meceeeitatiog considerable delay, must more or lees hamper the action of the beat of managers. As long as thie reference be- fore final notion is required, the manage- ment of the Grand Trunk must be at a disadvantage in dealing with rival roads, and even in negotiations and arraugentent0 it is subordinated to the hi hest welfare of the mind, The phyotoal power and facility which come from exercise are nothing n t lemon vee, The true sort of exeratee It foundin tbo absolute obedi eu°e of the physical nun to the dictates tf hie intellectual being, Plato's view of exercise ail the onto for a wounded conseienceintroduces a further re Election on the moral character of exercise, Nothing wounds the conscience of the aver age man more sharply nor rankles longer than neglect of duty. Exercise for its own sake simply is a cin—unless ib bo that soma times neve:vary overdoing of the physical powers, lifting burdens, trundling barrows and thelike, which be a iniefortune—a mister tune, however, which the world ie rapidly outgrowing. Exercise is the phyoical man giving the intellectual man a ride upon hie ehouldera. (TQ Ba CONTIN17011,) Where Fish -Hooks and Lines Oome From. Almost all the hooks used in thio country come from England, although a factory at New Haven, Conn„ is turning out a big amount of books. But they eau not tempera with the Eoglioh hook. That the English fish-hook ie the beat is due to the finely - tempered steel iron from which it is made. Tele English hook won't snap off like the American book, There is no steel equal to ie made in this country and it costs too much to import the Englioh steel and make the hooks here for the American market, All the Eogliah hooks are made in Reddith, a dirty -looking little town fo Worcestershire, just over the county border from Birming- ham. There ie no hotel in the town, whioh is almost hidden in day by the smoke from the seven fish hook factoiiee of the place, Over 000 people of little Reddith are kept busy making fishhooks and needles. The finely -tempered steel is run out into long wire, Different maohioery outs and turn the wire into fish-hooks of all sizes, and a bhousand hooks are turned out every working hour. Limerick hooka used to be popular with fishermen, but tho old town on Ireland's west coast is now making but few fish -hooka for the world. The price of some fish-hooks her hust,snd, although the father of the be 14116 twentyflve °ants a thousand, while eplendid child whose beauty so won upon 525 has been paid for a tboueand superb my woman's heart. Her first husband Was Eagliah hooka. still living (u eking by no moans uncommon . , The manufacture of fishing liner: is noamall among peteon0 of ber class in Canada), and' Industry in the States. The best line is though they had quarrelled and parted years ago, he wera0tonally visited hie wife to see her eldest daughter, Betty the young. er, who was hie ohild, She was now a fine girl of sixteen, as beautiful as her little brother. Betty's second husband had been killed in one of our fields, by a tree falling upon hint while ploughing under it. He was buried upon the spot, part of the black- ened stump forming his monument. In truth, Betty's oharaoter was none of the best, and many of the respectable farmers' wives regarded her with a jealous eye, " 1 am so jealous of that nasty .Betty 5--," said the wife of an Irish captain in the army, and our near neighbour, to me, one day as we were sitting at work together, She was a West Indian, and a negro by the mother's side, but an uncommonly fine• looking mulatto, very passionate, and very, watchful over the °endure of her husband. "Are you not afraid of letting Captain Moodie go near her shanty 2" "No indeed ; and if I were so foolish tee to be jealous, it would not be of old Betty, but of the beautiful young Batty, her dough ter." Perhaps this was rather mischievous on my pert for the poor dark lady went off in a frantio fit of jealousy, but this time it wee not of old Betty, Another American squatter was always sending over to borrow a sinall•tooth oomb, which she celled a verntfa destroyer; and once the same person asked the loan t£ a towel, as a friend had Dome from the States to visit her, and the only one she had had been made into a best "piney" for the ;Mild ; eho likewise begged a sight in the looking - glass, as she wanted to try on a now Dap, to see if it ware fixed to her mind. The wo- man moat have been a mirror of neatness when compared with her dirty neighbors. One night I was roused from my bed for the loan of a pair of "steelyards." For tvhat purpose, think you gentle reader 1 To weigh a new•boru infant. The process was performed by tying the poor agnalliog m g up in a small shawl, and euepeuding it ole of the hooka, The child was a flue boy, and weighed tan pounds, greatly to the delight of the Yankee father. One of the drollest Instanoes of borrowing I have ever hoard of was told me by a friend, A maid•sorvant asked her mita trees to go out en n particular afternoon, as the was going to have a party of her friends, and wanted the loan of the drawing room, t would be ondleeo to enumerate our ea fn One way ; but, fortunately for ne, arrival of an English family in our 0n - into vicinity drew off the attention of I (through the partition.) " You can't th have it bhie morning. Wo ()menet get our .bo c breakfast without it," Philander : "Nor more inn the old woman bo hum," and, enatohing up the kettle, which had beim loft to warm on bho hearth, he rushed out of the house, singing at the top of his voice, "Durrell ter the Yankee Boys le When dames Dame home for his breakfast I sent him woos to demand the kettle, and I the dance very coolly told him that when she logs was done with It x ,night have it, but oho the defied him to take it out of hoe house with hood ler brood in it, One word more about this lad, Philander, before we part with him, Without the least intimation that hie company would he 1 agreeable, or oven tolerated, he favoured 08 eon with it at all hours of the day, opening the vad and walking in and out whenever he give felt MolinaI had given him many broad Sent hints that Itis pretence was bot required, but all t he paid not tho slightest attention to what I teas said. One morning he marched in with his gent hat on, and threw himself down in the rook. .t1 our neighbours 10 that direction, and leftiestime to recover a little from their per080u. Mona made of silk; oiled and wrapped linen lines Dome next, and there are a hundred different grades of both the silk and linen lines. Many of the reels are wetly, but a reel pan be bought for any price between twenteefive Dents and 550. All the silkworm gut used in making leather is imported from Swedes and the cork Saab are sent here from England. The wooden floats are mado in this country and cost about half AS much ea cork floats. The United 5 tatea manufaotures all its own fish ing flies, which are made from feathere, silk and wool, and aro shaped and hued to rep- resent all kinds of flying innate, and there are a dozen other things used by anglers that keep many hands busy making. More fishing tackle is aold in the United States than in any other country. Water in Cooking, ""Water i0 nue of the secrets of 000kfag," sententiously said a well.known ehefup•town to a New York Mail reporter. "I suppcoe yon mean that all food in its raw state should be washed 2" "Nothing of the kind," replied the artist, " A few nooks understand the many effects produced by hard and of water in cooking vegetables and meat, If peas and benne, for instance, aro cooked in hard water, contain. beg lime and gypsum, they will not boil ton - der, beoaueo those substances have a tenden oy to harden vegebable casoioe. Now, many vegetables, as onions, boil nearly tasteless in soft water, because all the flavour he boiled out, The addition of salt often check:: this, and in the ease of onions, causing the voge• tables to retain their pareiaular flavouring Treatment of Soarlet Fever, The "London Lancet" surveys the meth- ods more commonly in practice for the treat- ment of thisalorming malady, and comments as follows : It would be interesting if a census were to be taken with a view to ascertain what treatment of scarlet fever was moat in vogue among practitioners today. We auapeot that not an inooneiderable portion of this vote wnuld fall to the lot of expeotanoy by which must bo understood the absence of any attempt to arrest the comae of the ma. lady, combined with ureatwatohlulness of the symptoms and the treatment of the moat clan genus of these morbid phenomena. The pre. sent epiden11 for the moat part of a mild nature, but considerable attention has to be given to the throat, which seems to suffer in a marked degree, the glandular swelling being correspondingly marked. Hence it will be found that gargles of all kinds, and eopooially those of an entiseptio nature, are wed ed together with compresses of various degrees of heat and moisture applied to the neck. Most practitioners, even those of the most expectant schools, em• ploy topical applicetiom: to the throat and none, Many articles are :wed to relieve the thirst and sensation of dryness, but nothing is more effective than ice and a little rasp. berry vinegar. It is important to keep the noabrils and nab penance sweet and clean. For cerebral aymptome, nothing is better than the application of oold, either in the mild form of lint soaked in ice water and applied to the she ven head, or in the more effective eapilline tubes, with irrigation, Compression of the carotid arteries and bleeding are eeldom practiced nowadays, either in scarlet or any other fever Aconite in minute doses, frequently repeat ed, is still the favorite drug of many prao titionero, but its employment needs rho ex. eroleo of clinical discretion, oopeoially in children. Actual bathing in cool or tepid water is practiced by a few physicians, and the number of practitioners who recommend the use of cold or tepid sponging, the pa. tient lying in bed on a mackintosh, appears to be largely cm the increase. Most of the alleged epecifio and curative agents have long since lapsed into discredit,. Belladonna Qudeebut few adherents, and carbonate of ammonia almost none. Con• aiderable difference of opinion oxista on the merits of inunobion with fat, cold cream, and the litre, two of the moat recent authors on the diseases of children taking opposite views, Dr. Goodhart advocating and Dr, Angel Money opposing the universal inunc, tion, though tho latter sees no objection principles, besides ouch nutritious matter as to relieving the tension of the palms end might bo lose 114 the soft water, Soma of soles by the application of geoline or vaso the fiueo6 diehoe in the world are ruined by Line scented with eucalyptol, the use of hard water when ooft is required. From the above the logio inference ie Ib is a eoi.enoo that can best be learned by to co drawn that hygiene is of more bra aotnal experience as aasiatant ch f It re. Pottaaoo than the exhibition of p1110 and gniras a long apprentioeahip and a natural pobiona in controlling the activity of thio aptitude tobecome agroat nook and tounder- zymotio disorder. An intelligent nurse etand water. Now, to extract the juice of moat to make a broth or soup, soft water, unsalted and cold first, is the best, for it much more readily penetrates the tioeue ; but for boiling, where the juicee should be re. Mined, hard water, or soft water salted, is preferable, awl the meat should be put in with taodlities for antieepois or the neu- tralizing of the poisonous gonna developed in the system of the patient, and thrown out with excretions, cooling applications' and well selected food and drink, may be relied upon to aid nature in the effort to oonquer the enemy, The inorens° of phyei while the water is boiling, so as to clone up oians who approve cold or tepid sponging the pores at 0nee, I have two assistants, is an eneouragmg eign that is welcome to sanitarians, —^— and once a week I lecture them on the pro- per use of hard and soft water, in wetting curtain dishes. In answer to your inactions que0tion above, I will state that not only raw food should be alean, but the water goes a long Way in keeping a firet•olass cuisine in a healthy and sanitary oondttion, his system of borrowing is not wholly Prince Blucher, a descendant of " Marshal fined to the poor and ignorant ; it per. Varwarto," rooently brought suit for d00 ovary olaoo of eooiety. If a party ie 5400 damagoo, whieh he said ho euobained In in any of the small villages, a boy is, by tho o000110n of stands for epeotatore in round from house to house to collect' front of his hoose en the 000asi00 of Reis. heplates and dishes, knives and forko, ! ter Wtllmim'a funeral, The Mande blooltod poono anti oandleetieks, that are pre -1 tho view from memo windows wihfeh the able, for the use of the company, Prince intended to rent toopeetatoro, The iter removing to the buaki, many Io ig. salt was dootdod ag4in86 11 11n. Summer Food. In our climate the temperature may range during a Single year through one hundred and thirty degrees in the shade, though n range of more than ono hundred and ton de - gimes 10 unusual. Our food requirements in rammer differ from tlioao in winter. Ono of rho obiof u0es of food la to produce heat within our bodies, for heat to ns mtioh an essential part of us as is nutscle, nerve, or hone. A variation of a few degree% of auimal haat either way is Wel. The temperature of the human body in a state of health is the MOM the world over --in Greenland and at the equator. ,dal with friendly stiles um0ng the great lines of rho continent, Our United States neigh- bors have brought railroading to great per - Motion. and one secret; of their success is to bo found in the fact that the oompaniee employ men of the highest ability and give them their fullest oonfldeace and almost absolute authority. The Canadian Pacfflo ie managed on the same principles, while the Grand Trunk has been in a measure handioapped by the necessity of a refer- ence to London for the final word. The Grand Trunk ie too huge an insti- tution, its relations both with the trade and the railway system of North Amerioa are too intricate and too intimate, to per- mit•of its being much longer n anaged from England. As a matter of fact, the London management must always have been a drag upon the road, and the incubus may be expected to prove more injurious as the Grand Trunk grows in mileage and traffic and in its connections with other roads. The Canadian people, especially, would be glad to hear that Mr. Hickson replaces Sir Henry Tyler and that the headquarters of the company had been transferred to Toronto, our outer city having become, as it were, the terminus, rather then the centre of the Grand Truck system. There is another company, and a purely trading oompany, whose heed quarters should be brought without delay to Canada. The business of the Hudson's Bay Company— save the management of the vales, for which an agen0y in London or dem here in Europe would suffice— ie done in Canada. Their posts, their wo5king staff, the raw material of their trade, ere all in Canada. A special cable announces that the company will not remove their headquarters to the Dominion. This is much to be regretted. The old policy of managing the company's business from London is—to use an expreo• sive vulgarism—"played out," Not only the Hudson's Bay Company, but others with head shoes in England, while all the ability and the active work of theoompanies are required in Canada, will yet see the neoeaeity of gutting as near the seat of their oporatione as possible. Time, economy, commercial success, all considerations favor the transference of the governing bodies to Caoadn, and theao will ultimately com- pel a change. A Too Jealous Husband, Mrs, Gotham(to Prone]) maid)—" Why, this is indeed sudden, Babette. Why ate you going to leave me 0" Babette (shrugging her shoulders)— " Veer° mari—your husband, vows corn. pt'enez—Elea too jealoose—diepooitioa." " What do you mean, Babette?" "Il m'a defender -'e will not permit roe to promenade myself avec P40800no•-•-with any one but him." Babette is allowed to go without any fur, bho words, ,A Oouoummation Devoutly to be Wished. "Now, George," said his rich uncle, "you know that you are my heir, and if you will only behave yourself atoollo o, do wlsai, is right, stud bard and graduate honor, I feel that 1 obeli die hop' py," w `k " Doter Uncle," responded Geo emotion, " words 'motet b George, with tido to you nor the earnoatziceoo with Whieb I shall go to work,"