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of Collapse.
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end tome persistently
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L5 haardnally asked Mr.
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BY oVAIRWORK.
of himeelf President
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th had and brain in
,st eri` tfereeta over whim"
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1 attends conference*
enntry to the other.
Iarget as' that of le
hie influence is felt
the (organization. In
veracious reader,
ted on all quesbions of
ibt that the tremend-
his vantorious struggle
retocs •latib winter to
• :his constitution,
eying the penalty of
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LA 'LEADER..
born in Braidwoods
4th,. .1869. In hi
k in the mine* st
e followed the same
ler $tates. When the'
re of America was
among the charter
etuOsessively as dale-
ieD, 00/1Ventions, and
ocai union, to Whicie
nention in 1898 Mr.
natieneal nice-pren-
ear he became actinic
istiot of M. D. Rateh-
convention in. Pitts-
ected to the previ-
a that position by
sin0e.
orm Powders wine
hildren healthy.
Store, Seaforth.
Mte and Mrs. W.R.
itchell.is to be shown
-hihition, to be held
Walker, who are
Granton, were
with two hand.
, cteughter of Mr.
are ngereaent, of
d recently, to Mr.
• Mr. Curry. The
- and the bride Vial
resents. ,
,whe has epent the
Mihnitobre, has re-
litehell. The leder
faters Mrs.Straube,
• illepend some time
Lineetey, manager of
orneeerce, ao
Me. 0, S. Rurnsey,
Tried Oil 'Saturday,
Colter, of Cayuga-
peonde, men, women
d i Stratford, one
theftrain front Tor -
ii late at night, int
Y. have but lately
andenot as ordinary
th*ir passage, and
ere unable to ob-
they came on to
els having secured
pie the ayinpatht
eclat the sight of
huddled in frost of
in ..the rain, while
e if they could not
far the night
hand and pro
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JULY 3, 1903.
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SHAKY NERVES;
- -1 -Sufferers from Nervous Trouble
Are in a State of Contiruions
'Tortu,re—Suggestions How the
TroUble Can be Overcome.
When your nerves are shaky your self-
eontrol is shattered—your will power is
broken. Sudden sounds startle you; your
temper is irritable ; your hands tremble,
there la weakness in your knees; your skin
is pale and parched; you are restless at
mght, and tired when you awake. It all
comes from nervous exhauetion, perhaps due
te 'overwork and worry, late hours, hob
days, and want of blood. Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills is the only cure. They make
new, rich, red blood. They brace up jangled
nerves and strengthen tired backs. They
give health and energy to dull, weary, dee-
pondent men and women. Strong proof is
.offered in the came of M53. Wm. Westoott,
of Seafortin Oat, who says :—" For a long
time my health was in a bad etate. I was
subject to headaches, dizzineee and nervoue
exhaustion. My appetite was poor, and I
was so badly run down I could nob stand
the leaat exertion. I tried several medi-
cines and consulted different dootors, but
they did not help me any. One of my
neighbore strongly urged me to try Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills, and before the second
box was finished the turning point for the
;bstter had been reaohed, and by the time I
had used half a dozen boxes, to the surprise
ei my friends and neighbors, I- was again
enjoying good health, and have eince been
strong and well. I do not know anything to
•equal Dr. Williams' Pink Pills when the
,system is run down."
What the pills have done for others they
evill do for you,.if you. will give them a fair
trial. Sold by all medicine dealers or sent
eaost paid at 50 cents a box or six boxes for
42.50, by addressing The Dr. Williams'
Medicine Co., Brookville, Ont.
The Curing of Hay.
(writtea for leis EXVOSITOR.)
Since the hay erop is likely to be light
"this year, it is doubly important that it be
handled to the beat possible advantage and
out and cared in such a way as to secure
• the largestamount of nutrients in the most)
digesbible and palatable form. i
To this end t is well, at this season, to
bear the following faces in mind ; Early out
,hay is relatively rioher in fiesh-forming
elements; it is more palatable and digest-
ible; it has a sweeter aroma, but it has the
disadvantage of being much more ditfioult
to cure. Graeae as it approaches maturity,
gains considerably in weighe ; pare of this
incrasen consists of starch and sugar, which
is valuable to the feeder, and part consists
*f crude fibre which decreases digestibility
and modem the bay less palatable. Early
out hay is more valuable per ton than late
cut, but a larger number of digestible nutri-
ents per acre is obtained by later cutting.
Late cut hay has also the advantage of being
more easily and rapidly cured, thus dimin-
ishing not only the labor but also the risk of
loss in harvesting.
Early cut hay is especially valuable for
sheep, calves, colts and dairy cattle, while
for fettening cattle late cut hay will give as
good results. In experiments conducted by
Prof. Sanborn, of New Hampshire, and
*Professor Henry, of Wisconsin, to deter-
mine the relative value of early and late out
hay for fattening steers, the advantage
was a little in favor of the late out hay.
Whether hay should be out early or late
will depend, therefore, on the following
conditions: (1) The stook to be kept; at
- lease enough hay should be cut early to
supply the dairy cows and young stock.
(2) The season ; if the weather be "catchy"
it is generally wiser to defer the outtin
until somewhat later. (3) The acreage to)
be handled ; if the crop be large, it ‘will be
'necessary to begin matting earlier.
By earlier cutting is meant outtheg at or
before the time of full blcom. By late cut-
ting is meant cutting between the time of
fall bloom and ripening. In any case, how-
ever, hay ahould be cut before it is ripe
' enough ter the seed to shell readily. A
crop of mixed clover and timothy hay is at
ite beet, if both quality and quantity are to
be considered, when from me third to one
half of the glover blossome have turned
brown.
Hay should be cured and stored as repid-
ly &8 possible after cutting. With this in
view it is better to defer cutting in the
morning until most of the dew is off. If 30
tons or more of hay is to be handled in a
season, a tedder will be found a good in-
strament Care must be exercieed to
avoid storing hay while at all damp from
rale, dew or absorption from the ground.
Moisture of this kind will poil hay much
quicker than the water contained in its own
sap.
Last yean attention was called, to the
method of curing clover hay practiced suo-
easefully by Mr. Henry Glendenning, and a
number of other prominent and reliable
farmers. Mr. Glendenning thus ontlines his
Com
method : Cut when in full o, or wheel_
the blossorne contain most army. Out in
the morning after the dew as dried off.
That cut in the morning maY)be cocked up
in the afternoon. The =fler ahould not be
run later than 4 p. m., artil- all out that day
ehould be put in cook before the dew fella.
This hay should be pub into the barn nexb
day and well tramped into the mown He
especially emphasizes the following con-
ditions :
(1) Do not out in the morning until the
• grass is dry. .
(2) Do not allow fresh cut hay to lie on
the ground over night, exposed to dew or
rain.
• (3) It any bay should get wet with rain,
let it stand in the cocks until thoroughly
dry before taking to the barn. '
Mr. Glendenning stetes that his hay came
out as -green as when it was pub in, with
the bloseoms a beautiful pink color, which
would indioete that it had not heated so
much as one would naturally expect.
The advantages of this method are : (1)
The saving of time between cutting and
storing, kssening the riek of damage from
rain - (2) All leaves and blossoms, the most
valuable parts of the plant, are saved; (3)
The hay is cleaner and brighter than that
cured in the old way.
Of course hay cannot be oured by rule ;
eonditions vary. it good method of curing
ea a gravelly upland farm would be quite
ationivited to the flatter clay and humus
• The length of time for which hay should
be expoeed in the swath Will be determined
by ite ripeness, by the humidity of the
atmosphere, the temperature and moistness
of the soil, the presence or ebeence of wind,
,to. So that every man must be, in large
immure, a law unto himself, and his prac-
tice must be governed by personal experi-
ellen
k appears to be a fact, however, that
when the conditions are favorable, and the
necessary skill and judgment exercieed,
Clover may be stored much greener then
was formerly thought possible, and that the
very best quality of hay may be secured in;
this way.
F. W. HODSON,
Live Stook Commissioner.
• Miller's Compound Iron Pills, only 25
cents for 50 doses.
At I. V. Fear's Drug Store, Seaforth.
-
—In a leading artiole the Stratford
Beacon quotes General Superintendent Mc-
relliean, of the G. T. R, as saying that " no
place in Canada will be -benefitted more
through the construction ot the Grand
Trunk Peedfic than will Stratford. The
eztornpany purposes spending a lot of money
there, probably a million and. a half dol-
lars." .A good part of this expenditure will
go to enlarge the shops, which are to be
made one of the ohief repair and construc-
tion °entree of the system. This will mean
an increase in the staff of employees to al-
most double what it is now. The greater
number of the new engines will be con-
structed in the Stratford shops. This in-
formation, if it proves authentio and the
Beaeon has reasone for believing it, will
prove very gratifying to Stratforditee.
—The printed copies of the evidence,
-
Argument of eounsel, and report of the
commingle/term in the Gatney investigation,
which were placed in the hands of the ,mem-
hers of the Legislature last week, consists of
1,098 pages of sirall, closely packed type,
and was printed and bound by Metiers.
Warwick Brothera & Rutter, within aix
days. The type -written manusorip con-
sisted of upwarde of 3,845 pages, mreraging
300 words to the page.
—The Publio Works Department has
advertised for tenders for the construction
of 33 miles of colonization road in the Tem-
iscanting district, from a point a few miles
west of Tomstown to the foot of navigation
on Long Lake. This would complete a road
to Long Lake, which is 40 miles long and -
navigable, and the road will alto open up
six new townships. It is intended to build
from 50 to 60 miles of road in that district
during the summer.
—The marriage their place last Thursday
at Toronto, of Mies Adele Baldwin Falcon -
bridge, fourbh daughter of Chief Justice and
Mrs. Falconbridge, to Mr. Cavviihra Mulook,
son of Sir William and Lady Mulock, in the
sacristy of Our Lady of Lourdes, at 2.30
o'clock, Rev. Father Cruise performing the
ceremony. Only the immediate relatives
were present. This is the third daughter
of the chief justice that has been married
• within the past few weeks.
—After 52 days during which Naw York,
New England, Pennsylvania and New
Jersey were parched by unaeasonable heat,
receiving lees than one-third of an inch of.
rain, while the weat was literally drowned,
more weather records are being broken in
and areund New York. Since the breaking
of the drought, there have been 17 days on
rain, with a precipitation greater than the
average for the entire month of June during
the last 33 years. In point of duration
there has been nothing like the rain fall for
the present June since 1892. anetight
That stomach trouble will cease if you will
take Miller's Compound Iron Pills. One
after each meal.
At I. V. Fear's Drug Store, Seaforth.
—Miss C. Gills, of Orillia, the tallest girl
of her age in Canada, was engaged to ace
company the Walter L. Main circus, and
left town with the show on Saturday night.
For some years Mimi Gin has been a. con-
spicuous figure on the streets of Orillia.
She refused an enticing offer to go with
Lemon's circus some years ago. Her salary
is to be $25 a week, a eubatantial one, for
figuring as an attraction in the side show.
—Mr. and Mrs. Genie, • of Mariposa
township, an aged couple, had a narrow
escape from death on Sunday night juat
north of Oshawa. Across what is known as
Conklin's Creek is a bridge 20 feet • high,
and leading from it is an incline with deep
embankments. Mr. and Mra. Grille were
driving, and their horse ran down the
hill ancl threw them out at the stream.
The old lady was thrown over the bridge.
but managed to seize it with one band, and
de -spite the fact that rhe held a child in her
other arm, held on until rescued by EOrtle
other travellers on the toed, who heard her
cries. She sustained a fractured leg.
•
•
JUST ONE MORE.
.;emarkable Cure of Dropsy in
Montreal—Dodd's Kidney Pills
Again.
Monnanan, June 29th.—(Special)-0ae
more remarkable cure of Dropsy by Dodd's
Kidney P"'s has been given to the publio.
George Rouertson, 392 James St., this city,
is the man cured, and his ease was a bad
one—so bad that he had to be tapped.
Speaking of his case, Mr. Robertson safe :
,
"1 was a total wreck before I started to
use Docld's Kidney Pills. When 1 got out
othed in the morning I could hardly put r4
feet to the floor, they were swollen so much
from Dropsy. My arms used to swell at
times so that Inould not put my coat on.
Before I had taken two boxes of Dodd's
Kidney Pilla I felt greatly relieved. Seven
boxes cured me completely. I don't know
what it is to be eick sinoe.'
1
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—Mre:—(Dr.) Coon, of Philadelphia, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Babb, in Mitchell.
—Mrs. W. Machete of Mitchell, has gone
to epend - the summer with her son in Da-
kota.
—Mrs. J. ErDavis, of Mitchell, has gone
to Tcronto to have a cancerous tumor re-
moved from her face.
—Major N. Q. Moscrip, of Stratford, has
been gazetted as Lieutenant Colonel of the
28th regimenb.
—Mr. Alex. Cavan, collector of Inland
Revenue of Stratford, has applied for three
months leave of absence, owing to ill health.
—Mrs. J. T. Kerrin, of Jamestown. New
York, and late of Mitohell, has, with her
daughter, gone to England for the summer.
—Mr. and, Mrs. Robert Thompson, of
Chicago, are visiting relatives in Avontoo.
Mr. Thompson is one of Avonton's " 0:d
boys."
•
ChestFelt Raw.
caught a severe cold which made my chest feel
raw and tight. I used Dr. Wood's Norway Pine
Syrup, which loosened the phlegm, healed the lungs
and made me perfectly well."
Ripley, Out:
• as.
Dr. Low's Pleasant Worm Syrup is sure death to
the worms every blme, but hatmless to the most
delicate ehild. It contains its own cathartic, so
there is no need of giving castor oil or other purga-
tive afterwards. Price 25e.
•
Painful Periods.
Women who suffer tcrrible pain every month can
find ready relief by usieg Milburn's Sterling Head- •
ache Powders. They contain no morphine or opium,
and leave no after effects. Mee 10c and 25c. Don't
accept common headache powders, they'll surely dis-
appoint you.
el--
Bioyelists and athletes generally will find Hag"
yard's Yellow Oil the most effective remedy for limb'
ering up stiff joints and sore muscles. The best
thing for cuts and wounds of any kind. Price 25e.
• Work 'While You Sleep.
• If you take a Latca-Liver Pill to-aight before retir-
ing, it will work vAdle ou sleep, without a gripe or
pain, curing biliousness, constipation, Dyspepsia and
Sick Headache, and make you feel bItter in the
morning. •
'01• • 04.
If there is amity in !your aching tooth, plug it
with a piece of Dr. Low's Toothache Gum. it will
stop the ache promptly, and act as a temporary fill-
ing. Price 10c.
—Discontent exists among the convicts at
the'Kingaton penitentiary over the char-
acter of the foo a served. They aver that it
is gredually getting worse and worse. All
little extras have been cut off. One day
laet week, after the convicts had taken
the ", grub " to their cells, they set up a
cheer. The guards were instructed to dis-
cover the offenders, but this was found im-
possible. The guards oleo complain that
they are not receiving the proper food.
—Early Friday morning M. MoCuteheon,
of -Erin township, Waterloo county, was
called by some carpenters working on his
barn and informed that dogs were worrying
his sheep. He was surprised to see in the
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THE HURON EXPOSITOR.
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flock two full grown wolves tearing one of
the ewes. Mr. McCutcheon fired a gun and
the wolves made off bo the awaaip. A party
followed them some distance, but without;
effect. For some time pleb the flocks in
the neighborboodhave been attacked and
a number of sheep destroyed. It is the first
titee in many years wolves have been seen in
that section.
•
Miller's Grip Powders Cure.
At L V. Fear'a Drug Store, Seaforth.
• News Notes.
—According to a report issued by the
inspector of the Atlas Loan Company, of Sb.
Thomae, the depositors are likely to be paid
about 50 per cent, of their claims. The
aeoertained assets of the company amount
to $415,864 and the liabilities to $837,252.
The deposits amount to $174,747. This is a
somewhat) better showing than was ex-
Pe—eedr.
M. Grisdale, agriculturalist at the
Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, ap-
peared before the agriculture committee a
few days ago and gave the results of the
beef fattening experiments last year. He
said that owing to uneonteollable- circum-
stances, the meths were not as favorable as
in previous years, the inereased oost of
cattle plus the cost of feeding not giving e.
fair retern when the beef reached the
market.
—The Donaldscn Line steamer Marina,
which arrived last week at Montreal from
Glasgow, brought a number of prize cattle
and pigs. A fine lot of 16 Clydesdale fillies
and a consignment of six stallions and seven
fillies were inoluded in the let. The horses
are all intended for Western •Canada, and
have been specially brought over for breed-
ing purposes.
—By the merest accident the Govern.
ment steamer Minto has escaped being
blown to atoms along with her crew and
passengers. While plying between -Pictou
and Charlottetown one of her firemen
noticed a foreign substance in the shovelful
of coal be was about to throw into the fur-
nace. He threw it aside, and a later ex-
amination revealed it to be a stiok of dyna-
mite. How ie got into the steamer'a bunker
is a myatery.
•
AN UNQUIET SPIRIT.
The Mysterious Light That For Years
Haunted Cape Noir.
For many years on Cape Noir, the
western point of Maria, a strange
light was seen, dancing and moving
about in the most unaccountable man-
ner. At one moment it would rise like
a column of fire into the air, and at an-
other tine it would fall like a meteor.
Then it would seem , to leap over the
point and drop into the sea, afterward
• appearing again in the same spot on
the hilleide. The habitants tell this
story about it:
In the time of the war for the pos-
session of Canada a French vessel,
pursued by an English warship,
steered its course into the bay at this
point for refuge. A. boat was lowered
from the side of the richly laden mer-
chantman, and 111- this thirteen men
swiftly rowed to the shore. Their ob-
ject was to secrete a, chest of gold
.which they had brought with them. On
reaching the point they dresv lots oto
see which of the men should remain
to guard the treasure. • The one to
whom the lot fell was forced to sweet*
a' solenan oath, het land and sea, by
night and day, by the ruler of the
nether world, that he would be faithful
tolthe trust through life, unless ro-
ll ed by his returning comrades, and
even after death would haunt the spot
should no one come to take his place,
says a writer in the Era. ,
To secure the fulfillment of this vow
his wicked associates then and there
put him to death and buried him with
the treasure. The ghostly light was
supposed to be the spirit of the mur-
dered man, and many persons who,
tempted by the hope of recovering the
treasure, ventured. into the haunted
spot fled in terror and told blood
curdling stories of the horrible phan-
toms and frightful sights which they
had witnessed. The light is seen no
longer. Perhaps some adventurer
bolder than the rest succeeded in dis-
covering the gold, carried it oft ,and
thus gave rest to the unquiet spirit.
TO CURE CORNS.
A Few Remedies, Cheap and Simple,
and Involving No Danger.
When the feet are pressed into tight
fitting shoes—high heels make the
pressure greater—by adding friction
we have a needlelike point formed in
the skin, and the greater the pressure
the deeper the point will grow. The
best !preventive remedytknown is real-
ly to go barefooted, but since this le
not gonsidered ethical in civilized life
willrgive a few simple remedies which
may be of some value for the afflicted:
First.—Place on the corn a piece of
cold, moist' linen folded several times,
wrap it up in dry linen, then go to bed.
With this treatment the hard epider-
mis swells up, and after six or .eight
hours the outer covering of the corn
can be removed with a dull knife.
When this treatment has been followed
for three or four days, a small needle-
like growth (the corn) can be extracted
without pain or bleeding. By washing
the feet often in cold water the tender
place will heal rapidly. After getting
rid of this corn it is well to wear shoes
which are neither too large nor too
small eo as to avoid excessive pressure
or friction.
Second.—In place of the linen a crust
of bread soaked in vinegar may be ap-
plied.
Third.—The best application is to
soak a whole onion twenty-four hours
in vinegar, then apply one of the layers
of the onion to the corn and keep it in
place by a bandage through the night
After repeating this procedure a few
times the corn can be removed without
any trouble. By either of these simple
applications this troublesome agent
can be removed without any danger of
blood poison and "free of charge."
In His Dreams.
neWitt—Wheu I was on the boat the
other night, 1 bad a lower berth, but 1
dreamed I was sleeping in the upper
berth.
Jewett—Sort of overslept yourself,
eh?
;Good manners is the art of making
those people easy with whom we con -
Verse. Whoever makes the fewest per-
sons. uueasy Is the best bred in the
-company.
His Own Exclusive Privilege.
A man calls himself a fool a hundred
fillies a day, but it isn't safe for SOMA
OW' else to do it lust once.—Ban Fran-
cisco Bulletin.
;MASTERS' OF
ITHE GREAT COMPOSERS AND THEIR
PECULIAR METHODS OF WORK
Eccentric Habits, as a •Rule, Are
, Linked With This Phase of Genius.
Haydn's Dress Snit and Sapphire
Ring and Beethoven's Wild Walks.
All the great musical composers had
their own peculiar ideas and manner
of working. They had their pecullar
traits, their moods, their eccentric hab-
its, such as are generally said to mark
the genius. In "Musical Education" hf,
Lavignac tells of their peculiarities.
"Haydn was a very early riser," he
writes,' "and yet he never worked ex-
cept in full dress, in which he was
like Buffon. He began by shaving
himseLt carefully, powdered himself
and put on his linger a certain ring, a
sapphire, I believe, surrounded with
brilliants, which had been given him
by the great Frederick, unless it was
Prince Esterhazy. That done, he shut
himself up in a quiet room and wrote
for several consecutive hours, -Eve OZ
six, without stopping. .
"Mozart, the gentle and pious Mo-
zart, was semetimes less particular
and composed a' little everywhere and
under all conditions. Happily the,
ideas came often enough and pursued
him even into the restaurants of Vien-
na, Prague and Munich, where he was
very fond of playing billiards and
smoking a pipe and composing In his
head.
"Rossini composed almost constantly;
and in all ways, rarely at the piano,
most often in the evening or at night,
and, like Mozart, often found inspira-
tion in a carriage or post chaise. In
the irregular joltings of these vehicles
he perceived rhythm, and of these
rhythms melodies were born. There is
no doubt that he would have found
them in the trepidation ofthe railroad
LI he had dared to try, but he had such
a dread of this mode of locomotion that
no one was ever able to induce him to
set foot in a car.
"Gluck composed violently gesticu-
lating, walking up' and down and act-
ing all his characters, often in the open
•air, on the lawn, in a garden.
"Beethoven also undoubtedly found
a powerful auxiliary to inspiration in
motion and walking. Whatever the
season, every day after dinner, which
was at 1 o'clock, according to the Vien-
nese custom, he set out for a walk,
and with big strides twice made the
circuit of the city of Vienna: Neither
cold nor heat nor rain nor hail was able
to stop him. Then it was that his heat
of fancy attained its full ardor. • He
would enter a restaurant, sit clown for
an instant and ask the stupefied waiter
for the bill, without having ordered
anything. His clumsiness was pro-
digious. He usually broke everything
he touched. Nota single piece of fur-
niture in his house, and. any article of
value less than anything else, was safe
from his attacks, and many times his
Ink pot fell into the piano by which he
I was working, which, religiously pre -
Served in the museum at Bonn, still
1 retains its indelible traces. Although
he had always lived in the midst of the
high Viennese aristocracy, in which
drawing room dances were held in
high honor, he never succeeded in danc-
ing in time.
"Herold' composed while eventing,
humming or singing, often in the
Champs Elysees, and often passed his
best friends by without recognizing
them.
I "Gounod composed especially at the
table, or at least in his head. When he
wrote, everything was absolutely clear
In his brain. His manuscripts prove
. this.
1 "Wagner liked to write standing up
before a large table desk like the cash
desks in the shops. His scores were
written. without erasures, in a superb
calligraphic hand, admihable for its
clearness and firmness and worthy of
a professional copyist.
"Berlioz, who played no instruments
but the guitar, flute and flageolet, nec-
essarily worked at the table.
"Franck, who was the bead of a
school, scarcely conaposed at all till
after 9 o'clock in the evening.
, "Meyerbeer wrote in a regular man-
ner in the evening, and his servant had
orders to drag him away from the'
piano at the stroke of midnight Schu-
mann would not admit that any onei
could write otherwise than at e tables
Mendelssohn made Much use of the
piano and preferred to work in the
morning. Auber generally worked at
night and very late, till 2 or 3 o'clock
In the morning, la order to avoid out-
side noises.
"Halevy had a table piano that had
been made for him by Pleyel. From-
Itime to time he would draw out his key-
board, strike a few chords on it, and
, then push it back like a. simple drawer
;did continue to write.
I"Boieldieu also wrote at the piano.
Felicien David, not being much of a
pianist, sometimes sought the aid of
his violin. Adolphe Adam almost al-
ways worked at his grand piano, the
right hand side of whose keyboard
was stained with innumerable splashes
of ink. He played eight, ten or twelve
bars, and then wrote them clown. Bizet
worked especially in the 'evening and
still more at night; he often made use
- of a piano bureau by Pleyel, like Gou-
nod and Halevy."
His Guess.
"Where were they married?"
. "I ain't jest sure," answered the
small boy, "'cause they left me home,
but I guess it was in the steeple."
"In the steeple?"
"Well, I heard 'em say it was a high
church wedding."
Titere are two kinds of unhappy peo-
ple In the world—those who are sad
becanee they are not known and those
who are miserable because they are
known too welL
They Can't Laugh.
An Indianapolis doctor is authority
for a story of a family named Tinsley,
whose members as well as their an-
cestors have never been able to laugh
since a clergyman cursed a Tinsley for
ill timed merriment at the hanging of
a thief in Oliver Cromwell's day..
seessreseett. • - essessesomm
KITCHEN SUPERSTITIONS.
Why Most Cooks Always Stir Their
Batter One Way Only.
"Take a good lump of fresh butter
and roll it in flour, place it in a lined
saucepan with a. half pint of good, rich
, cream, stir it gently over a low fire, al -
.:ways the same way, till it begins to
simmer."
This recipe for the making of melted
butter is quoted from an old fashioned
cookery book of a century ago, but the
direction to stir "always the seine
way" is observed as religiously today
as it was then, and probably will be for
a thousand years to come.
All cooks of all nations stir not only
the same way, but also from east to
west, a sure indication that the prac-
tice originated with sun`worshipers.
Speaking of stirring brings to mind
that in most English households—coun-
try ones at least—the practice of the
whole family joining to stir the _Christ-
mas plum pudding is still in vogue.
There are many peculiar, old fash-
ioned superstitions connected with
cooking.
For instance, in Scotland, when oat-
cakes are being baked, it is still eus-
tornary to break off a little piece and
throw it into the fire. -
At one time, Whenever a baking was
made—which was perhaps once II
month only—a cake was made with
nine knobs 011 it. Each of the company
broke one off, and, throwing it behind
him, said, "This I give to thee; preserve
thou my sheep," mentioning the name
of a noxious animal—fox, wolf or eagle.
A roast pheasant is usually sent up
with the tail feathers. This practice is
a memorial of the days when a pea-
cock was skinned before roasting and
when cooked was sewed into its plum-
age again, its beak gilded and so served.
Tossing the pancake is another inter-
esting food superstition. Formerly the
master of the house was always called
upon to toss the Shrove. Tuesday pan-
cake. Usually he did it so clumsily
that the contents of the pan found their
way to the floor, when a fine was de-
manded by the ecook.. The custom is
still kept up at Westminster school,
where a pancake is tossed. over the bar
and scrambled for. The one who se-
cures it is rewarded with a guinea.
The origin of the cross on hot cross
buns is a matter of dispute. There is
little doubt that cakes partly` divided
into four quarters were made long be-
fore the Christian era. At one time it
was believed that bread baked on Good
Friday would never grow moldy, and
a piece of it grated was kept in every
house, being supposed to be a sover-
eign remedy for almost any kind of
ailment to which man is subject.
In many parts of England it is con-
sidered unlucky to offer a mince pie to
a guest. It must be asked for.
Ancient Bede.
In ancient times the beds we read
about were simply rugs, skins or thin
mattressesewhich could be rolled up
and carried away in the morning. At
night they were spread on the floor,
which in the better class of houses
was of tile or plaster, and as shoes
were not worn in the ehouse and the
feet were washed befiere entering a
room the floors were cleaner than
ours. After a time a Sart of bench,
three feet wide, was built around two
or three sides of the room about a
foot above the floor and, covered with
a soft cushion, was used during the
day to sit or lounge on and as a sleep-
ing place at night. The bench was
sometimes made like a settee, movable
and of carved wood or ivory.—London
Standard.
No Sense of Proportion.
The young man who bad spent his
efforts for several years without re-
sult in studying art was talking witli
his practical uncle, who had patiently
paid the bills.
"Of course," said the young artist,
"I know I haven't made much of a go
ofit, but I don't think you ought to ad-
vise me to try something else. You
know it's best to put an your eggs in
one basket and watch that basket."
"Um! That may be, Charlie; but did
you ever think how foolish it is to put
so Many baskets around one bantam
egg?"—Youth's Companion.
• The Great Porcelain Tower.
In 1480 A. D., after nineteen years of
ceaseless labor and an expenditure of
about 1800,000, the Chinese govern-
ment finished the wonderful porcelain
tower at Nankin, which stood for near-
ly four and a quarter centuries, until
1856, the most marvelous building ever
erected by human hands. It was of
octagonal form, 260 feet in height, with
nine stories, each having a cornice and
a gallery without.
Cholly's Repartee.
"Qholly is se elevah at wepartee!"
exclaimed Clarence.
"Isn't he?" said Reginald. "What's
his latest?"
"A gweat, howwid bwute said to
him, 'You are the biggest fool in this
state.' And Cholly ansevered wight off,
'I don't ag-wee with you!' "-
Two Effects.
"I never send out a story for publica-
Egli," said Dullpath, the realist, "with-
out first having slept over it."
"I don't befieve I've ever read one of
them either without doing the same
thing," returned Hawley.
Sweet Content.
Blobbs—Sillicus is very proud of his
lineage, isn't he?
Slobbs—Yes; he would rather have
ancestry than mako. -name for him-
self.
People would be more willing to take
neer whipping if the fact eOuld be
concea led that they were getting one.e-
Ateilison Globe.
Gold and Silver •Alloy.
One -twelfth of alloy gives the great-
est haainess to gold and silver.
The First English Judge's Salary.
The first record of a judge's salary
gives 1134 13s. 4d. as the stipend of
Thomas Littleton, judge of the king's
bench. 1466.
• A PINClei OF SALT.
As -Necessary In our Daily Life tte
In Oar Daily• Pood.
How could we get on withput salt
In our daily food, as in ourAlly life, a
little of it is necessary, and the absence
of it takes away from the flavor of ev-
erything we eat. The 'salt of life"
which we hear about • -signifies the
health, vigor andwitwhich we find in
life.- There was a time in countries far
from the sea when primitive nian nev-
er used salt in his. food, and it was
miry when nations advanced in civili-
zation that salt became an absolute ne-
cessity.
But it was not alone as food that salt
was valued. Among the ancients a salt
spring was regarded as a gift of the
gods, and it was be:ieved that any salt
found in the soil lent it a peculiar sanc-
tity and made it a place where -prayers
were most readily. heard. Every meal
that included salt had a certain sacred
character, creating U. bond of piety and
friendship between host and guest:
hence the expression. "There is salt_
between Us," meaning friendship, and
to be "untrue to salt" means to he dis-
loyal or ungrateful:
In the. middle ages, when all classes
and degrees sat at the same board,
they were placed accenting to rank,
above or below the great .saltnellar,
which always stood in the middle and
marked the dividing social line. "Ahade
the salt" meant "of high degree." Be-
low the salt were the yeomaney, serfs
and vassals of the feudal days. A good,
description of this custom may be
found in "Ivanhoe" where Cedric, the
Saxon, entertains his vassals and
friends.
A pinch of salt is always considered
lucky in cooking. To take anything .
'with a pinch of salt" means to excuse
or make allowances for it A "salt"
a sailor. • To salt one's conversation
means t� make it sparkle. Salt is al-
ways employed in- a sense of benefit or
strength.
The Bible has many references- to
salt, among them being "Ye are the
salt of the earth," Matthew v, 13, and
St. Paul says, "Let your speech be al-
ways with grace -seasoned with salt"
Salt is used by Catholics in baptism.
- They consider it a symbol of wisdom
and put a few grains in the mouth of
the person baptized.
DON'T GET ANGRY.
Fire in the heart sends smoke in the
head.—German Proverb.
•. An envious man waxes lean at the
fa trIesw of his neighbor.—Socrates.
0.^..ie of the very best of all earthly
possessions is self possession.—G. D.
Prentice.
The fire you kindle for your enemy
often burns yourself more than him.—
Chinese Proverb.
The envious man pines in plenty, like
Tantalus up to the chin in water and
yet thirsty.—T. Adams.
• An irritable man lie5.1Ike a hedgehog
rolled up_ the wrong way, tormenting
himself with his own prickles.—E. P.
Hood.
Lamentation is the ouly
that always, like a screech owl, alights
and sits cm the roof of an angry man.
—Plutarch.
A man can easily be intoxicated with
anger as with wine; both produce a
temporary insanity, and daring the
paroxysm he !Should be avoided as a
madman.—J. Bartlett.
• Night Air.
One of the bugbears Of old time peo-
ple is night air, and there is 4ttle ex-
aggeration in saying that the supersti-
tion against night air has killed more
people than the free circulation of it
has ever injured. There is abundance
of proof that night air is injurious to
no one. On the contrary, people who
sleep outdoors under the mere protec-
tion of a tent are the healthiest of all
'people, and the practice has largely
gained in popfularity of late years un-
der wider knowledge of hygiene for
people in delicate health to go in
camping parties and breathe the ?W-
allin of the night air. The vigor gained
from a few weeks of such an outing Is
a marked proof that the old prejudice
against night air is as foolish as most
other old wives' whims.—Exchange.
Talent and Vocation.
Each man has his own vocation. The
talent is the call. There is one direc-
tion in which all space is open to him.
He has faculties silently inviting him
thither to endless exertion. He is like
a ship in a river. He runs against ob-
structions on every side but one. On
that side all obstruction is taken away,
and he sweeps serenely over God's
depths into an infinite sea. Thia tal-
ent and this call depend on •his organ-
ization or the mode in which tlie gen-
eral soul incarnates itself in him.—Em-
erson.
• Young Men and Maidens.
Life would become intolerable if girls
could not be on frank and tmeoquettish
terms withmen of their own age or
some years their seniors. The idea that
• because two young people may have a
great deal in common they must also be
in love is happily dying out. No one is
hurt, no one is compromised, when a
friendship does not lead to marriage.—
John Oliver Hobbes in Pall Mall Mag-
azine.
A Sorry Finish.
Kadleigh—Your wife is always out-
spoken, Isn't she? '
Henpeck—Yes, big I try to be that
way, too, sometimes. •
Kadleigh—Really?
Henpeck—Yes, but whenever 1ven-
ture to be outspoken It ends in my be-
ing outtalked.
Music beckons the human race on
and is followed by the twolgreat col-
umns. the jofolus, light hearted and
happy and the sorrowful, wretched and
despairing.
3leda1s For Soldiers.
The first issue of medals to British
troops was in 1643 bv Charles L
Women and Music.
Few women have attained any dis-
tinction as composers, and yet in music
halls or at -the opera the women exceed
the men in numbers and apparent ET-
,
predation of the music,
BRIDAL PHOTOGRAPHS.
Not Near,i7 so ninny Taken Nowa-.
clays as There 'Coed to Be.
Brides are probably just as beautiful
now as ever they were, but they are
not nearly so anxious to record their
postnuptial loveliness by means of pho-
tographs. Most photographers say they,
are glad of it.
never did enjoy taking the pictures
of brides," said a photographer. "Like
all the rest of the world, 1 love the dear
creatures, but when it c.'omes down to,
$4 a dozen commercialiw they do not
Satisfy my artistic instinets.. Few brides
take a good picture. nannehow their
togs are not becoming. A bride is sup-
posed to look snperlatively lovely on
her wedding day, but if anybody dere('
to tell the truth on the subject that su-
perstition soon would be exploded and
the sweet things would realize that, in-
stead of looking their best on that oc-
casion, most of them are apt to look
their worst. It is the same way when
they come to be photographed in their
wedding finery. They are either too
pale or too red, and they have a nerv-
ous, anxious expression that robs the
face of all good lines for photographic
purposes.
"The time was when no bride consid-
ered herself eCaliy married until she
had arrayed herself in spotless white -
and had her picture taken. Generally
'he' caxne with her, and 'he' looked just
about as foolish as she did. Goodness,
the trouble I have had posing brides
and bridegrooms before the cameral.
Instead of telling them to look pleas-
ant I always felt like Baying, 'Don't
look idiotic if you can possibly help it,'
and then I would have to think up -
some device to keep her from wronging
down too dose Against his shoulder and
to keep him froxn responding with au:
equally inappropriate •embrace. But
with all my precautions I never fully
imceeeded in preventing their acting
like lunatics. The other day when look-
ing over a lot of old negatives I came
across several hundred of those senti-
mental combinations, and I thanked
My lucky stars that nowadays few
newly mated couples have the caraera
craze.",
POULTRY POINTERS.
Stale bread soaked. in milk and
squeezed dry is a good feed for young
ducks.
Only medium sized -eggs should bd
set. Extra large or small ones are apt
to produce deformed chicks.
Turkeys are not so sure to come
home as other fowls; hence it Is a good
plan to mark them in some way.
Feed the young chicks often if You
would have them growing rapidly, but
do not feed maw at a time than they,
will eat up Clean in a few minutes.
Destroy the old nests as isoorf as the
hens come off with the ehleks. The
safest and_ best plan is to burn all of
the old material.
Healthy fowls pick up ibeir food
• quickly and relish it. When -they go -at
it lazily, pick up a grain or two and
then stop something is wrong,
Never shut the fowls up in suth close
quarters that they cannot take enough
exercise to promote digestion. Hens
treated in this way will soon become
too fat to lay.
The Stems of the Prickly Pear.
In most plants, to put it simply, the
leaves are the mouthe andfitoreachs of
the organism; their thin and flattened
blades are spread out horizontally la -
a wide expanse, covered with tiny
throats and lips which suck in carbonic
acid from the surrounding air and dis-
integrate it in their own cells under
the influence of sunlight. In the prick-
ly pears, on the contrary, it is the flat-
tened stem and branches which under-
take this essential operation in the life
of the plant—the sucking in of carbon
and giving out of oxygen, 'which are to
the vegetable exactly what the -eating
and digesting of food are to the animal
organism. In their old lige, however,
the stems of the prickly pear display,
their true character by becoming
woody in texture and losing their ar-
ticulated, leaflike appearance.
The Green Fiend.
While a number of workmen were
sitting in a wine shop in tbe Rue de
Charenton in Palle one day one of
them, a man of forty, named Negocier,
made a wager that he would drink a
dozen glasses of absinth While 1.1
o'clock was striking. The wager was
taken and the twelve glasses placed
on the talale. On the first stroke Nego-
cier swallowed his first glass, and the
clock had just finished striking whea
he drank the -twelfth and last While
hLs companions were applauding the
feat Negocier staggered and fell heavi-
ly to the floor. He was picked up dead.
What lie Lost.
Shakespeare was reading the latest
news.
"Here's a fellow getting $1. a word!"
he exclaimed.
"Too bath" returned Johnson. "Just
think of what. I'd have got at that
rate."
Determined to have the last . word
any way, he turned to hie dletionarys
In the &MI.,- Night.
"What is it?" the druggist sleepily in-
quired from his bedroom window.
"This ish drug store. ain't it?" finked
the man who had rung the night bell,.
"Yes. What de you want?"
"Want to look in your city directorv
minute an' shee where I live."
He Knew How.
Mr. Kidder—People say that it is im-
possible to find a needle in a haystack,
but they're wrong.
Mrs. Kidder—How would you go
about It? •
Mr. Kidder—Walk across the stack in
my stocking feet.
Armentati Maidens.
A strange _pnish ment is endured by
Armenian maidens when they ba-ve at-
tained their seven teenth year and are
not engaged to be married. They are
forced to fast th ree days; then for
twenty-four hours- their food in telt
fish and they are not pertalted to
quench their thirs t-
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