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Exeter Times, 1907-04-04, Page 6ICt+f 4f tilt# •D+Xt+ +0+04-c�+r+o+ 0'►o+o�°ro CHRONIC CATARRH Her voice ceased. She had net cried with Dorothy, but now all her heart NOSE AND THROAT secured to break within herr. A Loveless Marriagc; 1 t A !'LATTER OF EXCHANGE. +0+0+040+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+ 0 + 0t♦*+0+0.4'O +Q+ 010340+0 c:ti. I CElt XVi. The dance were growing luCv down en the cards; for the punt hour a good many of than had been got Through on the upper steps of the most unfre- quented staircases, and in secluded cos - tiers where the prying light was dire, trod there was noel only for two. Dorothy, in spite of a gown that un- deniably had seen its best day, many a dance ago, was looking as sweet as uncut flowers, whilst the Hon. Mrs. Ve- reker, who was clad like a snowdrop, k.uke+l like one, although her eyes were brilliant and a fleck of lovely rel had crept into her cheeks. She had been dancing a good deal with St. John. There could be no doubt that, much as he sought to conceal the fact, for her sake, the host was more devoted to her itran to any other woman Li the room. Mrs. Mackenzie seized upon St. John after a while, but was too wily to make her attack direct. It goes well, your dance," sho said graciously. "Lady Bcssy is Indeed n host In herself. 1 was going to say host end hostess, as one has seen little of you. Ah' ahl Young men will love darkness rather than light when a pretty girl -or -let us say -woman Is in the way." "Apropos?" said he. "Why nothing! A general observa- tion. All young men are alike." "I thought you might be suggesting ihnt my ways were evil." He cast a _lather curious glance at her from under Eris half-closed lids. it was a look, a trick, he had when angry. "Tut! Not worse than most, no doubt. And as for ore, 1 am not difil- cult, I know my world too well for that. Fee! There goes your cousin Dorothy. It is surely one of the amazing things e•f life, how one girl can look well in a dowdy gown, and another can't." "Your honey has its sting -as isnot," snid he. "I um a roan, you will there- fore pardon my ignorance. My pretty cousin, is her gown dowdy?" "It WAS that so long ago that really I have forgotten to remark on it," sajd this terrible okl lady, with a yawn, St. John looked at Dorothy, and his heart :mote him. "She must be the prettiest creature cf my acquaintance," he said, "for, will you believe me? 1 fancied her looking singularly charming lo -night. Fine feathers, as we all know, make fine birds, but Dorothy seems to be strong enough in Nature's labials to do with- out them." "Ah! You haven't had eyes for her, er indeed for anyone," with u would-be pinyful laugh, "save for Mrs. Vereker - you seem very attentive there," digging at hire lightly with her fan, and look- ing odiously nt hien through her blear- ed old eyes. "Going to run away with her?" "You are an old friend, Mrs. Mac- kenzie," said he, in a disgusted tone, "tut permit nie to say, that—" "Tuuf! my good toy! Why give your- self those virtuous sirs?" interrupted she. unmoved. "They don't suit your age. And why he shocked or offended? 1 really think n debt of gratitude would be due to the man who would lake her sway from that deplorable person, Iter husband. You have heard Black Sandy is out again? One vvould know 1t by V. rekcr's face, if nothing else. Hatred. and fear of him, are the only emotions that miserable creature's features can betray. I guessed his enemy was let k.nse again -upon the pheasants, -or on Vereker, as the case may be -the mo- n.ent 1 saw the latter's brow to -night. Did you notice the frown thereon:?" "No." shortly. "Ile! hal just carries out what 1 first said, Brat you had no eyes for anything but---- No, no. Ocoee now, 1 haven't said n word, have I? But seriously, you should see to Vereker, rather than to his wife. Tut! whet n spitfire it isI Anil inattack an old woman tool Bad enough to attack a young one. But. sue you, 1 give you a hint; \'ereker's lace is on lire. so is his temper. Believe me, There Is mischief brewing for some one. Lel us hope not for your poor lit- Iis 14'ci1." "she Is your friend ton, is she not?" said St. John, in a tone that would Wive teen furious i1 he had let himself go. But she was eo very old. so very near the Crave. thus erne{ obi woman! "Quite so. Our friend I should, of course, have said. Really he looks as ferocious as an tinted tiger. 1 wonder how long society round hero is going to endure hint and his-er-little weak- ness'.'„ "You, as one the leaders of the so- ciety, should know," said St. John, coldly. "Oh! A poor old woman like me! IIow should 1 dare interfere? It Ls in her interest alone 1 speak. Surely," with another odious old leer, "you should be grateful to me. Such charm, such grace, such die -away beauty should attract anyone. 'A dainty dish to set before a icing' I say, not a satyr like Vereker. What! Going! Well, au revoir." SI. John, his color somewhat gone, his eyes alight, went on his way. In one of the halls he met the object of the late discussion, and with a cruel rain at his heart stayed to say a word to her en passant. Good Heavens! what a childish creature she seemed, clad all in her pure white, and with a soul as white as her garments shining through her scurry eyes. Neither he nor she saw Vereker, who had conte out from the supper -room, and, leaning against the portal of the door, stared al them steadily. Instantly, the happy light died from her face. 1t grew al- most livid. She seemed on the point of fainting. Dorothy Aylmer, passing at the mo- ment, went, quickly up to Mrs. Vereker. "What is 11, Cecil? The heat, the-" "Yes -yes -the heat." She roused her- self tsuniciently to say this, and she caught Dorothy's nrm as though it were an anchor, and clung nervously to her. "Ililary, go and get her an ice. Iced water. Champagne, anything," said Dorothy, softly, but quickly; she had dismissed Farquhar, who was fortu- nately her partner. with a glance. As St. John went for Iho fee, she drew Mrs. Vereker into a tiny ante -room on her left hand. "\\'#int has happened?" she said. "Francis, of course. But what new thing,'?" , "I don't know," said Cecil, whose teeth were annexing as if with intense cold. "But all day he has been in a terrible temper; and just now, when 1 was talk- ing to Mr. St. John, 1 caught his eye, and there was something in his expres- sion that -that—" She shuddered and was silent. "Is that really all?" asked Dorothy. "My dear girl, it isn't so very much. Ile -he -is not quite himself, 1 daresay. It Is pretty late now, and—" "No. There is more in it than that. 1 dont Iliink tie is—" , "What did he take at dinner?" asked Miss Aylmer. "Nothing. Only half n tumbler of champagne. f assure you, Dorothy, he has been most careful n11 dny. That Is what unnerves me. Ile looked just now as -as if—" "Yes, dear, f knew. iktn't go into It. Let us change the subject. Who were you with, through, when he saw you?" "Your cousin, Mr. St. John." ":\hl•' said Dcis thy. it was the mild_ chronic catarrh nose end throat "At the Advke of Friends 1 Tried Pe- ru-na and the Results Ilave (teen Highly Satisfactory." -So Writes Mr. Piton. est ejaculation, and conveyed nothing to her listener, hut to herself it meant n great deal She drew Mrs. Vereker away from her nervous dreads, which, indeed, were doily increasing, end pre- sently restored her to a more healthy (mine of mind. "Neu have a good tunny friends. You should not be so fenrful. You have inc noel Lady Bessy. and—" "Net Lady Bossy, 1 Think. She is kind nlvnys. but—" "Well, never mind her. She le only a bird of pa -sage. You have Hilary, certainly." "A bird of passage, loo." She stilled a sigh as she said this. "Perhaps not. By -the -bye, what do you think of hit!?" "1 haven't thought of him. why should I think of him?" She seemed to freeze even towards this, her own real friend whom she might confide in, when It conic to 11ie greet touch of all. 11 ores just snleli n little equivocation, a word so small es to 1•e written :n infinitesimal characters, like the gent's speech In Mr. Lewis Carroll's wonder- ful book. , "Olt. Cecil!" said Dorothy, thy, wdto was nodi nngzry with her. testing ns it under got up ns if eager to reach the ending blessed influence of the night. and to- gether Ihey dtsnppenred into the con- cervntery on their left that led by Weans of steps to Rio lamp -lit gardens be - nen th. "Ani 1 to ask no questions?" asked Sir John, abruptly. stopping short ns v cure Io n more deserted cdiner II vast shrubberies. . \\ hit question would you ask?" said she tremulously. ''1 know something tins trembled you," said he. "You remember our compact the other day, that yon were In cone to Inc when in distress of nny kind? \Weil, 1 will not enforce that now. Von hnce minded in Dorothy -I think -end that should su(ilet, me. She is very gore!. very True." There was. nevertheless, a note of re- prencl In his voice. "DTerothy is the older friend," snid she. uncertninly. "But you are a friend, ton." she snid nt last. "It -it wnsn't very much," she said. "I think Dorothy thought Inc foolish, but." she crumpled up the remain' of the leaf and held 11 spasmodically in her small palm. "It wee Francis. he -he vas angry with me i think --I am sure. Iheugh 1 only sew hie face. and yet --what hod I done?' she turned to titin with a miserable ex- elbement. "You have been with me all the evening. you Mhnuld know." she cried with sudden abandonment, "what tad 1 done!" It is cruel, cruel," site sobbed with all the vehemence of a child who had been brought up without contradiction, and had only waked from childhood:, happy dream to find !,erself a slave. "Why don't you speak?" with pussual- n'e petulance. "You heard me. Whet Lave 1 done?" "Nothing, my dear, nothing," said he, sooltingly: "Ohl 1 never saw anything like his flee when he looked at rue,' said she. "Ile looked just as 11-----' She paused ns though in search of a smile that should express all her hor- ror. "But when was this? You see 1 know nothing;" he ssas indeed rather lewd - den d. "when poi Ft, o 1 and seek.' to me in the hall just now, just as Ik rnbhy carie up to us, you remember?" "Yes. But why should he show an- ger then? Perhaps—" he paused, it was very hard to go on. "No. it wns not that," said she, pat- ine. "It was something ►Wore. But what 1 rennet tell. 1 shall knew, how- ever, before morning. Oh!" she paused, "`ometimee." she went on in a ino. ex- hausted voice, "1 feel as if 1 couldn't go en any longer." _ "Cecil!' exclaimed he, with n pnsslnn- i -' n'e forgetfulness of all things. Ile was shocked when he had said it, fearing her instant anger. "You call me That," she slid. "Then 1 may call you pilary, may 1? 1 nm niways," with n faint smile, "thinking of you ns --as thnl. and nnw that you don't mind, it will he such a comfort to me!' she sighed. "but 1. wish, don't yell," slid she, "that the world was all different?" "i wish th's!" snid he in a hurried tome, "that you and 1 had met before - 1 Aire this." "Ah!" saki she, "you must not speak to me like that" she said sadly. "Never, never at all. 1t is tno inlet" With what fad prophetic truth the words fell upon the air. "Don't believe it." he said in stilled tent,. "Great Heaven! to one young as von are. 'too )n!e' can have no meaning. lime --hope always; one never knows when help any come." "Ilelp. From where?" asked she. "Froin Heaven? 1 am tired of waiting for Heaven." She ceased speaking abruptly, and then, as if a little fright - e eed, drew closer to hien. "Oh! no, I an sorry 1 said that. What have I to trust to but help from ileaven, and yet sometimes I feel as if that -as if all things had forsaken me, as if every- thing was slipping away. All that the holxless circumstances she would ;makes life worth having. Love, friend - have said the sante Thing herself. And ship, ail." "Am 1 nothing? Is my friendship no- thing?" asked he. n touch of despair in his tone. Friendship, what a mockery that word now seemed. "You do not speak," he said unstead- ily. "Am i nothing to you? If lo dny down my life could help you 1 would dc it, and yet you stand there. cold. inipresstve, you give me no word— Cecil---" She started. and slowly, as if fright- ened yet fascinated. drew her hand from his clasp. There wee a dull red rtnrk upon the pallor of it. St. John sew ir. "Did 1 do that?' said he, shocked. "Did I hurt you?" "i nm tired." said she. very faintly. own. sow Ihreltg*h her. .'l w:11 return to the house, alone. Alone "1 shouldn't have asked you," 5110 ri.!.l "11 be hitter--" simply. and took the others cold little "('h, don't soy that. 'lave f winded M R. RAOUL PIi.ON, 116 Rue Notre writes: -"1 write you a few words to ex- press to you my satisfact •,+t at Letng cured. 1 was afflicted with catarrh of the Throat and nose ani suffered much. 1 was greatly discouraged. 1 had a bad breath and bad taste in my !mouth in the morning. "I took treatrnent for snore time with- out obtaining relief. At the advice cf friends I tried Peruna and the results, have been highly satisfactory. Al the end of tour months 1 was completely cured." Neglected catarrh becomes chronic. !laving developed into the chronic stage, u linger and more 1ersistent treatment will be required to cure it than if the disease were tented at the onset. However, Peruna will bring relief, whether ?ito catarrh it acute or chronic. If you are wise you will keep Peruna on hand and take a few doses at the first appearance of a cold ►kr cough, and thus save yourself both laldfering and eNpense. Patients have the privilege of writing le Dr. Hartman for free advice. A book en "Chronic Catarrh" will be sent upon request. Dente, Lachine, P. Q., Cnn., then: "Surely you must have thought of hill, and he such a friend?" "Well. 1 haven't;' said Mrs. Vereker. Then suddenly. all nt once, as it were, she lifted her head and grew defiant. "Is he That sort of person?" she asked coldly . "Is one supposed to Think of him? 1 confess he has not shirk• mo in that light. ile did not suggest him- self to me es one of the fatiguing order. However, you should know. Whet has he done, then, or said, or written, or left undone, that he should be unfortu- nate enough to bring down on hint the eyes or ell his fellow -creatures?" She was almost flippant now. but Dorothy who had n great heart of her hand and fondled it genlly, Invinply. Mrs. Vereker resisted her for mo- ment silently. Then she abruptly drew her stand nwny from the kindly .mei thnt held it, but only to threw it round you? 1 Inke bock everything 1 said. Ile rclensed her hand. "This 0111y 1 re- pent, if ever you should want ne-want' n fiend -!remember—" '1 wont one now.,, said she. with n Dorothy's evil, and to picas her face faint smile. "i think 1 hardly know my against her bosom v:ay back to the house." She did not cry: she only ley there (Co be Continued. quite silently. with Dorothy's nuns round her! CHAPTi:R XVII. A footstep drawing rapidly near, loused both. Dorothy gently raised her friend, and put her a little back from her. "It is Hilary." site said softly. St. John came in with seine iced d' - -HUNTING A PANTHER. First Experience With One of These Brutes. Hunting big game in 111d;n should be preceded by some training of the eye to Bi c Ihingts where they are. The author of "Thiele Years of Shikar" tells how he champagne, looking rather anxious. received this training rather late in his Dorothy induced her to lake sortie '.1 course. Shikar isl the Ensl-ilndinn word Inc champagne, whilst Si. Jelin wino, for sport, and sport, in Hint pert of the runn'tkc, was feeling s:nnewhat awls- world begins with panthers and ends ward, pretended to he struggling with with tigers. • a thoroughly obedient. link in his cuff. When I reached the ground the pan - "It is our dance," he said presently Ther wns still there, and a keen -eyed to Mrs. Vereker. "Ilut if you are too native pointed it out to one. lined -ho "Irilhcrwvarl is 11. heed," said the man. "Oh yes, she is quite too tired," snid "Ihilherverd its tail. Doesn't the Sri 11ib Dorothy. "1 think -the night is very see it? There. there! and he pointed to mild --if she were to go into the garden n spot lased three yards off. for a 1i111e hit. Just to give her some 11411 1 didn't see the penther--either Its air. Not- not to be !Ong. Hilary" -this head or tail or 0nylhing that was its. 1 rather sternly -"she is tired you must sow' 001y a MOSS of light 4111d . m& remember." under n dense overgrowth of greenery, "I'll remember," said St. John. dead leaves and grass, that were yellow- ish Dorothy hod her doubts of ib. Ile ish where the pencils of light broke in throw [ shawl' mun•l Mrs. Vereker, who u1!on the gloom, rind, otherwise. they were mysterious shadow That told no- thing to my unecceste• -ci eye. All that I looked upon in that green- wood tangle was coitally panther. 1 could pick out nn pi,rWiller patch as being any more panlhcrish than the reel. Of heed or tail 1 tnade out nothing where all was equally one or the other -- end still that native of keenest vision be- sought me to see the panther's tread rind faii t.nd right forefoot, and many other details of its anatomy. - 'I'h.'n ihere came n roar out of the tri eke!. and n rush which Wes like the volcanic upheaval of the ground at my feet. and, aS' 11 seetnecl, several tons of upheaved matter hit the on the chest, and 1 Wins bowled over en to the hrond of my back a yard or hvo frust where 1 hail sliest. 'Clint upheaval was the pnnlher. The brute line net had the g,nitence to Wait until I Few hien, or the modesty to take himself off peaeenhly in some other direction. ile had resented my staring his way, even though I sow !tint not, and so had emerged from his lair like an nnimnl rocket. and had knocked me dcvvn In his flight. AS he failed to clow rile 1 crime off scatheless : but not se my nitendant, Who foolishly cnl.raced the pnnlher with a view to arresting his flight. Ile got hitnself rather badly mauled, and did not come out of the hospilal for some weeks. That WAS my disastrous comneecc- meat with panthers. I tV 69:eS The Happy edium _. "Cheap" paint is the kind you DON'T want. "IIigh price" paints cost more than they are worth, because you can buy better for less. Ratmeay'e Paints are the happy medium. All 'the goodness of the most expensive kiuds-with none of the faults of the "cheap." • They are mixed just right -always the same -and hold their surface and their color through zero snows and torrid suns. i Writs itis for Post Card Series "C," showing how sous houses are painted. A. RAMSAY B SMV CO.. hist Makers sloe 1144. ■AY1ltIZAL P40'Ii'+"14441444r IF I' The 1 arm eibile-.4444444+14444 FANNING MiLLS ON THE FARM. The natural thought would be that every farmer would look upon a fanning mill as an indispensable adjunct to his farming. Nevertheless, the fact re- mains, that on the majority of the grain - growing farms of the Northwest there arc, 110 fanning stills, says Prof. Thomas Shaw. To h farmer living east it seems In- comprehensible that tiny farmer should think of growing crops without a fan- ning mill. The explaulalion is found in the methods of farming that have been followed. The average northwestern fernier settled on virgin lands, where foul seeds had never grown. The lands were so rich that he was able to grow crops in succession for many years with- out thinking much about weeds. For the time being he found it cheaper to send his grain from the threshing ma- chine to the elevator than to build granaries in which to store it and to buy a fanning mill and clean the grain be- fore selling it. It also telt on his hands a large amount of screenings; which ho had no stock to feed to, and which would have been a drug on the market. Seed wheat was bought in many instances under the idea That a change was good. The limes have changed. The system must change. It has been discovered that homegrown seed is more valuable than what. has been purchased, and that seed carefully cleaned and graded is much more valuable than seed brought in from abroad. 'Co have such seed it is indispensable that every farmer shall have a fanning mill, and he ought to have the best that can be got. 'thus eeuipped the character oI his seed should improve every year, and this should lean a corresponding increase in his crops. The lime has also corno when It is imperative to sow clean seed. The only way to insure this is for every fernier to clean his own seed. which means that he must have fanning mill. The inners now are growing grain of various kinds and it is equally important that the seed of these 51)1111 be well cleaned, as that the seed of wheat shall be so prepared. Live stock is also being introduced more or less on many farms. This means that the screenings token brat the wheal or other grains sold can be Nursing baby? It's a heavy strain on mother: Her system is called upon to supplj nourishment for two. Some form of nourishment that will be easily taken up by mother's system is needed. Scott's Emulsion contains the' greatest possible amount of nourish.. went in easily digested form. Mother and baby are wonderfully helped by its use. AIL OlttlfLCifTh Vb. AND OM as some people think. 1he hoed most lo hen. placed 6 cal points are to have a set n wild hen. After tuning selected the hen, then comes the nest box. A very good method is to use n stnall store box about the right size and phtcc about one inch of eaelh in Ilse bottoms, then put in the tine straw. This makes a good nest. My reason for using earth is that i! holds- the moisture and helps keep lice away, writes Mr. 1. Kslgler. After having the nest ready place 13 eggs in it'if the hen is medium size and 15 if large. Fusten the hen on so other hens will not disturb her. Let her off every morning on the ground if pos- sible. if This can't be done, by all means give her some dust to scratch in. For feed, give her corn and plenty of grit. About the 21st dny you will find a nest full of lively chicks if the eggs were fer- tile and proper care Ims been given the hen. When the chicks are dry. place hen and chicks in a dry coop and feed tlteni often. SAYS TIIE ENGLISH " FEED " Views of a Frenchman Who for 30 Years Has Been Educating Them to Eat. "Feeding and enting are two different things. The English only feed," says A. Itoucaud, who is n Frenchman, a cook by profession. and the manager of n restaurant in I'iccjrdilly. Houcaud has lived thirty years in London. Ile has devoted his life to the education of the British Write. Ile has made, ire says, great progress. As for himself, he is prosperous and in his sphere famous; but the bad taste of his patrons worries him. "The soul of the a►'l of cookery," he says, "is in the sauce -the good sauce that permeates the -meat and gratifies the palate oI the epicure. But the people here don't want sauce. "They won't have it. Inured by here- dity and use to roast !tent and boiled vegetables -that horrible thing. the joint, feundatie6 stone of the British meal - they become positively angry when you offer then) anything else. "\\'e Frenchmen have decla•ei war upon the joint. and, for my part, 1 will never rest until the tasteless, barbarous ct:stom of beeping together un one plate pctalocs, spinach, or cabbage without butter and leg of mutton without salt has been banished from the civilized world." After this derinratinn of war M. Rote cnud went on with a fine ironic smile : "There is nothing funnier than an Englishman when you Try to break hien into the use of sauces. The first lune you offer it to t.im he pushes it sway abruptly and orders you in an angry tone of voice to lake that sluff may. turned to excellent account In feeding "But toil can't help catching n whiff of one or the other of the various kinds of live stock kept. The screenings sent to 11te elevators are given [way. The far- mer is docked so 11111e11 for screenings end nothing is allowed him fur the (lockage. \\'hen the inmostnnce of the fanning mill is considered to the Northwest far- mer, it would seem that it is not put - ling it ton strongly to say that the man who sells fanning trills is engnged in a beneficent work, even though when Thus engaged lie has no other thought than That of corning a commiS- LIFE IN NEW IiE6ftilk4b.. BEATRICE Gitl\Isi:.ASA" S DESCRIP- TION OF THE P1:U1'I.E. Strange \listure of Races Their Pecu- liar Customs, lilies and Languages. In Sou'west hay alone 1 have seen,. writes licutrice Grinrshuw in the Wind - see Magazine, describing the people of the New Hebrides, distinctly Jewish types 01 (ice, types suggesting the West - African negro, types like an extremely. depraved monkey, and types like no- thing elro on earth but themselves. There are in tho bay three distinct lan- guages, no one of vs hi.ti can be under- stood by the speaker.. of another; and in the rest of the island there aro a6 least seven or eight other languages. The houses are of a very low and de- graded type, being merely roofs set on ++ bamboo stockade n couple of feet high, but the hermits, or sa.'r•ed houses, of which each village owns one. aro high, pointed, gabled buildings, with tiers of windows in the gable and lofty, narrow doors, apparently meant for the admis- sion of very high plowed canoes, which the New Hebrideans do not possess. There are certain Jewish rites in use among them ; they have caste regula- tions suggestive of India, and they make mummies not very inferior to those of Egypt. Also, they are cannibals, and they sing Gregorian chant or its first cousin IN TIIE1R DEVIL. DANCES. They worship the man-of-war hawk,. which holds an extraordinarily high place In their religious beliefs; they set an almost sacred value on pigs, and the teal object of their idols or image, which are hideous, no loan knows. The existence of mummies has, i be- lieve, been questioned. This Is small wonder, since they are always kept in the hatreds or temples of the heathen cannibal villages, and strangers are not - encouraged to meddle. I had much diffi- culty in seeing one myself, as the tem- ples are most strictly barred to women. A native woman would be instantly killed if she so mush as put her head in- side, and i do not thirk it probable thet- a white woman would escape either if she were caught doing 11. I was, how- ever, lucky enough in another part of \lalehula to find a temple unguarded save by a few old waren squatting out- side, and seizing the opportunity 1 entered. it was. not n very good specimen, be- illg little better than a shed, and it was. very dark inside; further, I thought it well not to stay very long. However, I ( sow a number of mummies, mounted on. carved. stretchers and painted red and blue, hanging up around the supporting parts of the roof ; also a good ninny .skulls placed on rough • shelves, their; faces covered by a mask of fibrous sluff. painted red, and some curiously curved, spears. adzes, and killing mallets hungs around the walls. 1 got away again. without being seen, and left that after- noon by the monthly steamer. it being the last day of my stay in Malelwla. I heard afterward, however, that ill feel - Ing had been caused among the uatived by my violation of TIIEIR BLUEBEARD CHAMBER. its delicious aroma in its nostrils and it ninkes 11111) urn•nsy. 'I'lie second er nucy- Ire the third time you put it before hire he waits until you turn nwny. 'Then, with a sheepish look on his fucc. he takes a tiny little drop of the sauce and puts it on the edge of tris plate. Ho dips n morel of meat in it cautiously and eamplcs it as if he thought it was poison. 'Then you have h{h1, nine limes out of ten. He will Try n larger dose next, end when you serve 11 again 110 will help himself freely, as it he lied Leen eating siun on his Sat.'s- The (""sl is so small it all his life. Very likely he will go that a fanning 111111 is within the reach of through the same performance with the next condiment that you bring to his notice. "The sad pnrt of it is Ihnl we seem to b beginning the celucntional process over ngnin every season. Each new Hoek of young gentlemen that the universities turn out come to us fel on blood rare Leel p tillie_s and pudding. and we have t•: wean them. Then there are the clubs -what harm they do 1 They know glint the mnjorily of men still feed in every fanner. SCOURS 1N CALVES. This trouble is something mishit]. lit nal, that is, it is the outcome of in- heritance thnt is weak. At other limes it is Induced liy feeding quantities of milk loo large and too ricin for the diges- tion of the calf. Agnin, it is caused by irregular feeding and by feeding milk That is not in good condition. Although this trouble may arise from n great var- ic ty of cnnses it is possible in very tnany instances to avoid i1. One cause; how- ever, tans not been mentioned. 1t is sometimes caused through infection. Of course. in Such instances it rnny not be mach influenced by the character of the feeding. Ordinarily, however, scours in calves may be prevented by careful end regular feeding. if the necessary care is exer- cised in starting calves when quite wing, the hnzard of injury from scours not very great. The value of careful. regular, temperate and judicious feeding ;s lint npprceialed as 11 0110t to be. When the first indication of scours ap- pears, tine milk fed should be at onco reduced. There is no use in putting such food into n calf's stomach under the con- ditions named. 11 becomes a hucden to the sternach and does harm rather than good. Where the action taken is prompt the calves will usually recover without any medicines. Blood meal it Ls thought tends to prevent scours, especially in calves fed on skim milk. in severe cases it may be necossery to use medicines, but the importance of care in ihs feed- ing cannot bo overestimated. 4.• Mlina THE SITTING HEV AND BROOD. Managing sitting hens 1s tot so bilid On another occnsion 1 succeeded the seeing a place into which no while per- son had ever ventured before -a forest% cannibal fortress, six nines up in the un - travelled interior. My host told rue that 11 i went with him quite unarmed and. with only a couple of goys to guide est and carry our dinners our insignrticimeet would probably bring us through elle right. Within Ito bamboo stockade that surrounded the houses dancing had bey gun. 1 have not space to relate the tale of that strange sight -of the wild, weird! donee. perforated by a hand of linw•ling,( "lack deutons, currying cocked end loads ed rifles. around a group of skull, faced: drum idols m the centre of the square o! the deafening boom made by the I1o14 14'w idols themselves as they were lordly beaten by the musicians; of the strong,' solo dance perforated by a famous :111-. nil,al chief, wherein he enncled, with leo pleasant realism. a hawk pouncing dcn\nl on its prey; of the still stranger dnnc'l performed by a110111er, who ca11(1'' lightly about with n large, squealing live pig• on his shoulder ; of the extra- ordinary character of the dancing chant. as like Gregorian , pointing and all, tie a small pea is like a big one. - s POCKET W IRELFSS. Interesting Future for Recent English Invention. An English electrical engineer. Erne..t. Oldenbourg. tins recently invented 0 new trlegraphic receiver, which it is de- clared, is sensitive enough to detect LIN~' most delicate impulses which even a pocket gallery could send out. Tills Irish untenl, which is al present Iho old. wicked. English way, and known ns the cnpilhform receiver. is naturally they caber to the taste, the bad 1 "morn sensitive than the brain; it is taste of the majority. snid to transcend all prevk.tus imen- lions in delicacy. It depends .•n the feet Item mercury in vertical cap 11.'iy 110.0 --like that of a ther•nomeler-rims and falls when an electric current is passed through it. This tech bins long toren knos%11. Mr. Oldenbourg's invention consists in meg. tidying it and in utilizing it 111 a 8Iing.0 which enables it to be used pm -Wady ns the receiving instrument of n tefegra- f.liic installation. Its peculiar value is, i1 is claimed. that it will respond to far smaller currents than (hose nt present 115e11: a mere fraction of a volt is Futt- cienl 10 work it. Mr. Oldenbourg ncserle, says the ton. ton Transcript, thnt it will be quite pos• stele with the old of his new instrument Li make a telegraphic' nppnratus by which any one walking nbnut the floor milk' send intelligible messages for in- stance to cenfederate on the platform, where a mi:vd reading act is being per- formed, without any one else knowing about them. "\\'e nre pr•ngresing, however. 1 nm encouraged when 1 think of what con• ditions were twenty years ngn. Bat (here are still French disties, a number of them. which even my carefully trained patrons do not enjoy. There is braised beef for example, that excellent, fruity Gallic dainty. "Think of the delicious, tender. savory slices and !het (thick gravy mode with reel wino and carrots and little onions and sot delicately perfumed with bay leaves. A-a-a-nh! But, would you believe it? They won't have it in any terns. "But patience! the last word Ls not said yet. At four shillings for lunch and len shillings for dinner, wine not in- cluded, I hope to make hosLs of converts yet." —4- The # The greatest cold ever recorded in the world waa at Yakutsk In the winter of 1149. Thera ware 73 degrees of frost. An olive -tree In full bearing yields 1 bushels of berries which, when crushed, give $ pllons of o11. The Babylonians were the Ant to d1 - vide the day as we do, Into hours, min- tltiaa and seconds. Mngistrrt!• : "\\'holo 410 you mean to say your leishand struck you. and he Chet physical wreck ?" Mrs. \lak.ncy i "Yes, yer honor; but he's (.sly been t physical wreck since he f.iuck Ica."