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OR, A SAD LIFE STORY
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CIiAPTEfl XXIX,-(c:ontinued).
In the course of the post week each
member of the family bus --confided to
him separately how far more she or ho
misses Amelia than cabs be possible to
elitism' of the others, Upon this head
Sgbiila's lumenlatiun are the loudest
orad most frequent. She had at first re-
fused to admit, that there was anything
RI, all the mailer w1Ut her sister, but has
now fallen into Lhe no less trying oppo-
site extreme of refusing to allow that
there Ls any possibility_ of her recovery,
talking of her as if she were almost be -
;tend the reach of human aid. Sybilin's
grief for her sister is perfectly genuine;
none the less so That it is complicated by
irritation al her own deposition from her
post as first invalid, at having been coin-
pelled to confess the existonoe In Ilk
bosons of her own family of a traitor,
with an indisputably higber temperature
and mare wavering pulse than she.
"1L Is ridiculous 10 suppose that a per-
son in such rude health as Cecilia can
miss her as I do," she says querulously;
"I was always her first object, she al-
ways knew by instinct when I was more
suffering than usual ; who caves now"—
breaking into a deluge of self-compas-
sionaling tears—"whelber I am suffering
OP not?"
Then when next he happens to bo
alone with Cecilia, it is her turn to as-
sert her right to a superiority of woe;
tt superiority claimed with still more
emphasis the next half hour by the
father. With a patience which would
have surprised those persons who bad
seen him only in his former relations
with the family of his betrothed he tries
to soothe the sorrow of each—even that
of Sybilla—in turn ; but io his own heart
he says that not, one of their griefs is
worthy to be weighed in the balance
tripe his. In the apse of none of theirs is
the woof crossed by the hideous warp of
sell -reproach that is woven lneet:1,0 buy
into his. They have worked her to death,
they have tarn her to pieces by their
conflicting claims; their love bus been
exacting, selfish, inconsiderate; but at
least it Ilas been love; they have prized
her almost her full worth while they
had her.
In the intervals neither long nor
many ---between his ministrations al the
Anglo-Amertcain, Burgoyne hurries back
to the Minerva to see that Byng has not
blown pis brains out. In the present
state of mind of that young gentleman
this catastrophe does not appear to be
among the least likely ones. lie has re-
fused to leave Florence, always answer-
ing the suggestion with the same ques-
tion, "Where else should I go?" and .if
pressed, adding invariably in the same
words as Otos( employed by him on the
first day of his loss, when his friend had
urged the advisability of his removing
his countenance from the beaded stool—
"Where shall I find such recent and au-
thentic traces of her as here?"
. He passes his time either on the Lung
Arno, staring at the water, or stretched
face downwards upon his bed; Ile walks
about the town most of the night, and
Jim suspects hine of beginning to take
chloral. Occasionally ire rouses up into
a quick and almost pasionate sympathy
with his friend's trouble, asking for no-
thing better than to be sent on any
errand, however trivial, or however tire-
some, in Amelia's behalf. But no sooner
have the immediate effects of the appeal
to his kind-heartedness died away than
he sinks back Into his lethargy, and Jbm
is at once loo much occupied and too
miserable to use any very strenuous en-
deavors to shake ]tin out of 11. But yet
the consciousness of the tacit engage-
ment, under which lie lies to the young
man's mother to look after him, coupled
with the absolute impossibility, under
his present circumstances, of fulfilling
that engagement, and his :uneasiness as
to what new form the insanity of Byng's
grief may take on, from day to day, mid
very perceptibly to the weight of his own
already suMelently ponderous burden.
It is the ninth day since Amelia fell
sick, that ninth day which, in maladies
such as hers, is, or is at least reckoned
to be, the crisis and turning -point of the
disease. Jim bus beem1 up all night, and
has just rushed bank to the Jfiner'va for
the double purpose of laking a bath, and
of casting an uneasy eye upon his
charge. He finds the latter not in this
room, but leaning over the little spiky
balcony, out of his window, hanging
aver it so far, and so absorbedly, that he
(toes not Hear his friend's approach, and.
starts violently when Jim lays a hand on
his shoulder.
"What are you looking at?"
"1? oh—nothing particular 1 What
should I be looking at? What is there
to look to ? 1 was only—only—wonder
ing, as a mere matter of curiosity, how
many feet it is from here to the pave-
ment? Sixteen? eighteen? Liven ty?"
Jim's only answer is Kr look at him
sadly and sternly; then he says coldly
"I do not recommend it; 11 would be
a clumsy way 'of doing it,"
"What matter how clumsy the way so
that one attains the end 7" asks Byng
extravagantly. throwing off even the
thin pretence he had at flrst assumed ;
"who cares how bad the road is, so that.
IL leads hire to the goal 7"
Jin shudders. Dealit has been so near
to bilin for the lc last rein
0 (lays, 1 s
that t {lie
terrific realism of Constanee's apostropihe
00001s to be almost, more than be aan
bear.
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lion to die, when dealih is Our physiclanl"
Continues Byng loudly and wildly, clasp-
Mg his minds above Ills head, and appal-
eiel,y perfectly indifferent es to whether
the other inmates of the hotel, or
passers-by Ori tete pima, overhear him.
"If you stay hob's n s% longer you will
spore yourself the trouble of putting en
end 10 your exiilelbce," replies Jim,
glancing al the Oakes head, exposed
hatless to lhn stench of the Tureen. sem,
"f4 you will rcrluinly get a sunstroke,"
n saving, he paces hire quietly, yet
deside•dly, try the arra, and leads hint
within the room. 1111bmer his matter-of-
fer:i• rammer, ar the sight of his tae(,
upon which, well -seasoned es it is, vigil
end sorrow have begun to write (heir
unavoidable marks, brings the young
mod/nail back 10 001110 measure of sense
and self-control,
"I had iso fixed 'Mennen," ho says,
apologetically, still looking white and
wild ; "'you must not thinfc 1 meant any.
thing, but, even if I hod—do you know--
have
now—bravo you ever happened to read any-
thing about the statistics of suicide? Do
you know what an increasing number
ol people every year Lind life Intoler-
able 7"
"I know That you are fust making my
life intolerable," answers Jim, fixing pies
tired, sleepless eyes with melancholy
severity upon his companion, "Amelia
is—you are as well aware of it as 1 im—
probably dying, and yet even now,
thanks to you, into my thoughts of her
is continually pushing the fear that I
may have to tell your mother that you
have had the colossal selfishness to rush
out of the world, bemuse, for the first
time in your pampered life, the toy you
cried for has not boon put ince your
hand."
Burgoyne's hopes have not been high,
as to any salutary result of his own
philippic while uttering it. But our
words, sometimes, to our surprise, turn
from wooden swords to steel daggers in
our hands. For a moment Byng stents
as if stunned ; then he breaks up into a
Tornado of sobs and tears, such tears as
have often before angered his friend, but
which now he welcomes the sight of, as
perhaps precursors of a saner mood.
"Oh, my dear old chapel" he cries,
catching at Jim's unresponsive hand, and
wringing it hard, "sbe is not dying
really? You do not moan it? You etre
only saying it to frighten me? Oh I
dear, kind Amelia. Not dying? not dy-
ing'!"
p do not, know, to -day is the turning
point, they. say; even now it may have
coma."
"And why are not you with bar? Why
do not you go back to her?" cries Byng,
in a broken. voice of passionate excite-
ment, the tears still racing down his
face.
"And leave you to go lonifooling out
there again," asks Jim. with a nod of his
head towards the balcony, seen from
where they stand, grilling in the mid-
day Blaze.
The verb employed, if closely looked
into, bears a ludicrous proportion to the
intended action indicated, but neither of
Ibe men see anything ridiculous in R.
"I will not 1" cries Byng, in eager
asseveration, "I give you my word of
honor 1 will not; if you do not believe
nee, lake me with you 1 Keep me with
you all day I Do you thunk that I, too,
do not want to know how Amelia is?
Do you think that 1 am indifferent as to
whether she lives or dies? Poor, good
Amelia t When I think of that drive to
Vallombrosa, only ten days -ago 1 They
two sitting side by side, so happy, laugh-
ing and making friends with each
other 1"
Ile covers his face with his hands, and
through them the scalding drops trickle;
but. only for a moment. 1n the next, he
has dashed them away, and is moving
restlessly about the room, looking for ]lbs
hat.
"Let us go this instant," he says
urgently; "my poor old man, do you
think I would willingly add a feather-
weight to your burden? I should never
forgive myself if I kept you a second
longer from her at such a time; let us
go at once."
Burgoyne complies ; but. under pretext
if malting some change in his dress, es-
capes from his friend for just the few
minutes necessary to write and despatch
a telegram to the young. man's another.
It runs thus
'No cause for alarm, but come at once.
He is perfectly well, but needs you,"
if, as it is hoped, Mrs. Byng is still In
London, reaping the succession to the
old relative, whose death -bed she had
quitted Florence to attend, his message
will bring her hither within forty-eight
hours, and the burden of responsibility,
now grown so insupportable, will be
shifted from his shoulders. Until those
forty-eight hours have elapsed, he must
not again let Byng out of his sight.
The day rolls by, the critical (ninth day
rolls by on its torrid wheels to eventide,
and when that eventide cones it finds
Cecilia Wilson running down from
Amelia's room, to give the last news of
her to the three men and one women
waiting below.
I think he seems quite satisfied," she
says, in answer to the silent hungry
looks of question addressed to her, and
alluding to the doctor, who is still with
the, patient; "the strength is maintained;
the temperature lower." What a dread-
ful parrot -sound the two phrases, so
familiar to us all in the newspaper bul-
letins of distinguished men on their
death -beds, have, during the last week,
assumed in But'goyne's cors ; "you can
speck to him yourself when he comes
down; of course, Jim; but 1 am sure lie.
Is satisfied,"
"Silo is 1 -she is saved ? eti
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Byng, rushing forward afid snatching
both Cecilia's hands -"do you say that
she is really saved?"
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hew very kind of you 1" replies as Ceoilia
,
a Ingo of color rushing over her mealy
face -that face, ten days ago, olothed in
so many roses—"well, I am afraid he
does not go quite se far ars that, but he
says it is as much as we aan expeot and
overt I can see that she is not nearly iso
restless."
"'Thank God 1—thank God 1"
10 the ardor of his thanksgiving lie
pressen her hands closer,, instead of deope
Ping there, u lad of which he is entirely
un+aware, but so is not she, and who
knuw:s, even at that Sei'lous rnanic+nl,
whet tiny gernal hope may slide into her
plump heart,
Again this night Ilurfluynr dues not go
to bed, horn a super:.illimrs fear Hutt if
he does, if he seems to take for grunted
an improvement, that very taking for
intuited may annel it - may bring 'on a
relapse.. But when the next() aimer:ng
finds no sten backslidlrmga 10 bare Won
Wee, when emelt hour through the
cheerfully bm'mdening day lacings falling
Icver and steadying pulse, then indeed
be cautiously opens the duce' of his heart
10 lel u tiny ruse -pinioned hope creep ill
then al last, on the tient night, he
stretches britt tired limbs in deep slumber
upon his bed.
AiWAAAAWAAVNANYVYWI
OtUHEFARMa
• KEEPING FIELD ACCOUNTS,
Many pages of agricultural Wends
have been wisely devoted to urging 1
mems 10 kelp account of the differ
antmber: uhf their dairies, to the end 11
the cows that do not show a leapt art
he disposal of, and those that .:how
prmgw' belittle( be used to advantage
building up a morn pi -slimier, leer
Milos 11r. L. 11, Mrr.lrehoul. In
probability, farmers who hrrru follow
ifh has receivers a brief telegram font Nils :weir+ carefully and consistently
Mrs. Tiyng to announce Icer arrival as a few yean:l have found the pluctb
Inst as boat and 1ruht win hying her; much to their advantage. In no oth
reiirpse. ilut whoa the next rnom'rring way there bye ciereful 'cental! can
-ho having sent his despatch to her on farmer tell which of his mews is kept at
Lee previous Wednesday -finds him pats loss and which, by their superior prod(
Ing the platform of the railway station, tiveness, are hearing the burden of a 1
awaiting the incoming of the morning o1 worihl+ss animals in order to show
express from 'Turin. Ile is pacing 11 little profit for the entire dairy,
alone, for he has thought It best not to But there is another way in which l
reveal to tier son the Ind of her ex practice of keeping such an accountrn
peeled return, not being at all sure in well result in great profit. Our farm
wbol spirit be will receive it, nor whe- divided into fields of different sizes 1
Ther indeed the news of it might 'not the convenience of diversified agries
even drive him, in his present unsound lure, Different portions of the farm m
state of mind, to fly from the piece al thus be pastured or devoted to grain
her approach. grass growing, It is doubtful if man
farmers know, except in a general wa of their fields aro most productiv
OP iho extent to which they are so, an
which fields barely pay the cost of tax
and cultivation.
Not a great way from the barn 1h
ordinary farmer may bare a field whie
will, in ordinary seasons, give from tw
to three tons of cured hay to the ac
Half a ml]e from the bawl may be
considerable area that will not avers
over half a ton. But every acre on iii
farm pays en equal amount of taxes, an
it takes just as much time and labor t
plow an acre of the poor land as it do
of the rllare fertile, and the reason fo
this condition of fertility or lack of 1e
linty comes from Lhe fact that the fel
closer to the farm buildings have
times past received more than their fat
share of fertilizers and have been de
voted to crops that would pay belle
than the more remote fields.
At this time of the year, th
farmer, if he is thoughtful and falces car
h' plan out 1115 work carefully for th
future, should consider this subject care
fully and ]seep en account this year o
just what each field costs in the way o
labor, seed and fertilizer and at hams
time just what such a field produces i
the way of crops.
I dare say that on many farms 'fh
farmer, if he pursues this idea careful]
and continuously, will find a large po
lion of his farm is actually not payln
expenses of cultivating. Generally speak
Mg, the fact that one choice acre of th
farm will produce two and a hall o
three tons of cured ]lav per acre an
another acre more remote from the ba
will produce only hall a ton, ought t
convince a thoughtful farmer that h
for ane 1" himself is responsible for the deficiency
13y this time she is safely landed at his Otter things being equal, the remote
side, which is possibly the reason why acre should produce as much in tete way
be at ono( lets fall her hand. of crops as any other acre. Itis certain -
"1 em not aware that there is any ly a slipshod way of carrying on the
'horrid woman' in the case." farm, that the barnyard manure should
"011, what does it matter what I sail be dumped around in the fields near the
her?" cries the mother, fast becoming farm buildings because too much labor
frantic at the delay in answering her is required to draw it to the more dis-
pas.sionaie questions. "1 will call her tanteparts of the farm. These being, in
what you please; you know perfectly all probability, actually hungry for the
whom 1 mean ; she has got hold of him, manure, would respond more freely to
T suppose. I always knew she would I generous use of manure and more Altos -
Did not I tell you so? but Is it loo late? ough cultivation.
is there no way of getting him off ?" The fernier himself, when this is called
Now that Burgoyne has a nearer view to his attention, may have a general idea
of Mrs. Byng, he sees that she has a of the different results from the different
more fagged and travel -worn air that parts of the farm, but the systematic and
he had at first supposed, and her dusty careful method of ]seeping account with
eyes are fastened upon him with such a the different fields of the farm will be the
hunger of interrogation, that, angered best way to bring,' this directly hone le
end jarred as he is by her tone, he has the farmer himself and result more
not the heart any longer to keep her in quickly in a change of treatment.
suspense.
' if you are alluding to Miss Le Mar- GROWING YOUNG CHICKS.
chant, I may as well tell you at once
that she has left l'torence." The first feed for young chicks should
"Left Florence 1 Do you mean 'to say be bread soaked in sweet milk, squeezed
that she has run away with some one dry in the hand end crumbled. After
else?" the first few feeds give some good pre -
She puts the question in all good faith, pared chick feed. Keep water before
her lively imagination staving easily them from the very first in a drinking
made the not very wide jump from the fountain. Give them a small grass run
fact already established in her own mind as soon as possible, and enlarge IL as
of Elizabeth being en adventuress, to the the chicks learn the way back to the
nal much more difficult one to swallow, brooder. One can give free range very
of her having devoured another Ills de early, and the chicks will run home to
famine, as well as Mrs. Byng's own. the .brooder whenever they get cold.
For a moment, Burgoyne turns away, Keep good' beef sorap, grit and pure wa-
volee and countenance alike beyond his tee where they can get it always. Give
control. He has by no means perfectly plenty of grass run exercise and shade,
recovered either, when he answers— On hot summer days shade is absolutely
"Yes, with some one else -she has necessary, trees and bushes making the
reached the pith of turpitude of leaving best.
Florence with her mother." As the chickens grow larger, wheat
"She is gone?" cries airs. Byng, with cracked. corn and good wheat or pea
an accent of the highest relief add joy ; screenings can be mixed with the chick
"gone away altogether, do you •mean 7— feed, and finally the chick feed stopped
our, shank God 1"—then, with a sudden entirely, other grains taking its place.
lapse into affright, she adds rapidly— Be sure always to give a variety of feed
"and be is gone after her 7—he is not if possible. When the chicks no longer
hero?" need the warmth of the brooder, remove
"No, he is here." and place in light, Clean and airy houses.
"Then why has not he come to meet. They grow so fast that they soon out-
me?"—suspiciously, grow their houses unless these are largo.
"He did not know you were expected. Keep the coops sWeet, clean and free
"You did not tell him ?" from lice, to prevent all kinds of ail -
No." + • menis. Birds cannot pick bugs and
"Why did not you tell.bim 7'' worms enough to supply all animal mat -
"I did not know how he would take it. ter they require. Whet if your neighbor
"Do you mean to say"—falling from does raise 25 or 50 on corn and neglect
her former rapidity of utterance to a tics and laugh at beef scraps, wheat, eta.?
rayed incredulous ;slowness -"that he Where such flocks oan get enough bugs
will not be glad to see me ?—that Willy and worms to supply needed animal
will net be glad to see me?" food, 100 would be half starved. Under-
I mean to say that I am afraid you sized fowls would bo the result. Always
will not bind him very much in sympa- supply with green feed, such as cabbage,
thy with you ; I do not think he will lettuce etc. Milk is very good for young
tinct it easy to hear you speak of Mies Le as well as old stock, but should never
Muncbant in the loan, and make the take the place of water.
implication about her that you did just
now," replies Jim, avenging by this sen -
knee the wrongs done to Elizabeth and CONTRASTS.
doingit so well, that a
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"Got hold of him?" repeals Jim, lits he mere intro b ever to be engaged a long
aroused again no sooner than allayed by [line without ever being married."
this mode of expression ; "you certainly— —`
have the most extraordinary way of mitt. NOT A FREAK,
conceiving the situation 1 Got hold of Little Ethel ; "There was a strange
him ? when she had to heave Florence at man here"10 see you to -day, papa."
a moments notice to escape his boor- Papa; Did he have a: bi117
LunlUbis lh' Little Ethel : "No, papa, just a plain
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The morning air, in els early clear
coolness, blows sweet here, under the
station -roof, unconquered even by engine
smoke, and ort Jim's face as he walks up
and down—careworn as it still is—there
comes, now and :gain, a half -born smite.
Ho is never one to hope very easily, but
surely tow—now that yet another night
hag been prosperously tided over, there
can, even to him, seem no reasonable
ground for doubt that Amelia has turned
the corner, Amelia, with the corner
turned--Byng, in five mhutes wholly off
his hands.' The only wonder is, that the
small smile never comes quite to the
birth.
The brain is punctual, and almost at its
due moment draws up in dully length at
the platform. Its :pasengers are com-
paratively few; for al this lalening sea-
son most of the English are winging
home to their rooky woods , and lie has
aro difficulty In al once discovering
among them the tall smart figure --smart
even alter forty-elght lows of the =-
luxurious luxury of a Wagon-Lit—of the
lady he is awaiting. As he gives her ]tis
hand to help her down. the high stop,
the admiring thought crosses his mind of
what a large quantity of fatigue, dust,
and uneasiness of mind a radically good-
looking Englishwoman, In radically
good clones, can undergo without seem-
ing much the worse for nem. Before her
neat narrow foot has touched the pave-
ment, a brace of eager questions shoots
out of her mouth.
"Ann 1 in time? Am I boo ]ate?"
"In time for what? Too Mtefor what?"
"1Ias he -has he done anything—any-
thing irrevocable? Is he—is ho? I sup-
pose that horrid woman has got hold of
him? I suppose that is why you sent
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Stories of Escape From the French
Penal Settlement of New
Caledonia.
In the mind of every convict the idea
of freedom stands first. This was proved
a little while ago at Dartmoor, when a
man named Searle, who had served the
greater part of his sentence and would
in the ordinary course of things have re-
gained his liberty in a comparatively
short time, made a sudden dash through
the mist of a rainy evening. He spent
many hours of cold and hunger in the
soaking downpour, though he must have
known his chances of getting clear away
were not one in ten thousand, and
Brough he was well aware that when
recaptured he would suffer severely and
lose the ordinary remission of sentence.
In May last the German steamer Wil-
lehad brought back to Sydney a story
which well illustrates the desperate risks
that man will run for the sake of free-
dom. The Willehad had just returned
from the Bismarck islands, and there
she discovered, in a remote part of New
Britain, six French convicts in a deplor-
able stale of starvation and want. These
were the survivors of eleven men who,
nearly twelve months before, had es-
caped from the French penal settlement
of New Caledonia on two hafts, chiefly
composed of
TIIE STAVES OF BEER BARRELS.
On one of these craft rigged with Haat
sails these six desperate ,adventurers
had succeeded in crossing nearly two
thousand miles of stormy sea, only to
find themselves cast away on a savage
island. New Britain is a very large
island lying just north of New Guinea,
and for sixteen long weeks those
wretched men tramped along the coast
until at last they were picked up and de-
livered back into bondage.
Theta are many true stories of escape
from the sea-girt prison of New Cale-
donia. There is an Arab there now who,
fourteen years ego, stole a little sixteen -
foot boat, and with a branch of a tree
for a mast, and an old shirt for a sail,
succeeded In reaching Australia, more
than a thousand nines away. He walked
1,500 miles to Sydney, shipped as a
sailor, reached the Levant, and for Wino
years was at liberty, working as a sere
man. Then a French moucbard (spy)
wormed his secret out of him, and for
Lhe sake of the reward
• GAVE HIM UP TO JUSTICE.
The Dutch Government recently trans-
ported about 200 convicts from the big
penal settlement in Sumatra to Merouke,
the new pearl fishing village In Dutch
New Guinea. The men were kept in a
stockade, and every one ol them knew
that to remain there was their only
chance of safely. The surrounding
country was infested with head-hunting
savages. One night at large number of
the prisoners cut the wire and made a
dash for freedom, running straight In-
land. Every one of them fell into the
hands of the savage Tugoris, and all
that was ever seen of there again by the
expedition sent in search was thirteen
decapitated beads stuck on pales, mute
but grimly eloquent recorders of the hor-
rors Iluey had gone through.
The horrors of Russian revolutionary
gaols have driven men to take strange
risks. On a bitter day in February, 1905,
a Swedish flshbtg vessel sighted a small
boat tossing on the grey waves off Her
nosand. ht the bottom was a man, hat-
less .and coaliess, and nearly dead from
hunger and exposure. When he recov-
ered he told his rescuers that far six
days he had been rowing or drifting
through
SNOWSTORMS AND GALES,
He had been, arrested at Vasa, in Fin-
land, brought to St. Petersburg, and
thence had made his escape. Death lie
had expected, but that, he added, was
preferable to Siberia.
A couple of years ago eight convicts
made an extraordinary escape from the
United Slates ship Grant, while sire lay
in Manila Harbor. Breaking the chains
of their handcuffs, they climbed an air
shaft and slid down the anchor chains
into the water.
The peril from sharks was well known
to them all, and they were all weighted
wi1.1h leg irons, yet they attempted to
swim ashore. One was pulled down, but
the others, alter hours in the water, suc-
ceeded In finding a boat and pulled off
along the shore.
FORGETFULNESS.
"John," said iris wile, "now, you
needn't tell me you mailed the letter I
gave you this morning."
"Of course, I did. What makes you
think I didn't?"
"I didn't fibro you any."
USE FOR THE CHILDREN.
Your wile used to sing and play a
great deal. I have not heard her lately."
"Since we '.ave had children she has
had no time."
"Ah, children aro such a blessing 1"
"What's the matter across the way?"
asked the tailor of a bystander, as the
ambulance backed up to the door of his
ripal. "A Customer fell in a fit, and
they are tatting hint to the hospital,"
was the reply. "That's slra.nge,' said
iho tailor; "I never knew a customer to
get a fit in that establishment before!"
Among the Italian Crown jewels is
an emerald 0 inches long and 3 incites
thick. Upon it is engraved a pichire of
"'Phe Last Supper."
•• ••• fn444E 4'er•5k. it` ....4400
•
co tx' .a Emulsion '
e,� ZtX d6a ' t
ra a rola 'thEaa
s enfeebled
nursingmothers byincrease
I1 their flesh and
nerve . force
1'V
It provides baby with the necessary fat
and mineral food for healthy growth.
ALL, DR000IST8; 500. AND si.00,
HEALTHl
TUBERCULOSIS IN INFANTS.
In a 111051 interesting lecture our tot
berculosls In infants recently deliveke
ed by e Boston physician, 110 Called ht'
3enlfon t4 the great mortality from t1+
lxmculosts . durfllg infancy and earlyi
childhood.- Cil course, this applies gnaw.
Ocularly to eanditioams as met in ih ¢
city erlvh'ohmenls, but Itis also true t i
rum, large un extent among form m'bmut.•
wren, particularly wirer( they have 11uen
closely ronflned la the House wailed
plenty of fresh air. In speaking of ma -
closely
etas and whooping cough, the Hooton
sold:
"Measles, and whooping cough should
pc avoided and, if contracted, the chit.'
area should be protected even moray'
carefully than is usual against conla,l
gran, not only during the illness, bull
also during the convalescence. turf
school there should he inspection a
teachers as well as of children."
Discussing the danger of Infection
he culled attention to the great dangos
from the sputum, either moist or dry
It is more dangerous indoors than out
or doors, where the bacilli soon die,
Tubercle bacilli are most numerous in
the dust of the dwellings of the tuber'
culocls end especially in the dust of
the floors. Older Infants and children'
may get the dust and dirt on their hands'
and put theirhandsIn their mouths obi
or, their food. Preisleh and Schist$
bound tubercula bacilli In the dirt un- t
der the nails in 14 per cent. of the 00
children, between six months and two'
years. Tubercle bacilli .may also be ears. ,
vied in the One liquid particles project
ed during cough, loud talking and sneeze:
ing. The droplets may be thrown as
far as a yard.
"It is comparatively easy to guard the.
child against contagion .when there is 1
no eokrsumption in the family. The .
child must take only pure or pasteur
feed milk. It must not be taken to vis.j
it consumptives or have them visit 1tr1
it must not be kissed. It must not he
allowed to play where people are el.:
lowed to spit; better than turfs, all ex.
pectorabion in public places should be
prohibited,"
PASTEURIZING MILK.
Milk is one of the most easily an
rapidly spoiled of food substances, ye'
it is within comparatively few years'
that any attempt has been made to get
it and keep it pure.. Even to -day much'
of the milk sold in the larger cites eons
tains a greater number of bacteria in 0
given amount than the sewage of the
same cities.
The bacteria are different in kind, yo
that their presence is not betrayed In
the same evident way, but they are.
there, and some of them may be of the
kind to cause disease—tuberculosis, ty-
phoid fever, scarlet fever and infantile
diarrhoea.
The addition of antiseptics to the milk
is not allowable, for the antiseptic is
in itself a poison; and although 1t is
not in sufficient quantity to harm at
first, its continued use is bad, and may,
give rise to chronic disease of the di-
gestive organs or kidneys.
Boiling milk for ten minutes will kill
all the contained bacteria, but the hemi
alters its chemical eonstitution and d1
minishes its nutritive value, so that
bcbies fed on it are apt to suffer from
rickets or scurry. It has been found,
however, that it is not necessary to
bring the milk to the boiling tempera.
tore, but that mast of the bacteria will
b; destroyed if the milk is heated to
cue hundred and sixty degrees and kept
there for about twenty minutes. Mille
se treated has a slightly different taste
w-lyen waren, but after it has cooled it
is impossible to distinguish it from
"raw" milk, and its nutritive qualities
are moreover not materially affected.
The heating may be done by bringing
water in a tin boiler to the boiling -point!
then removing it from the fine and letting
It cool for a moment until the thermo-
meter indicates about one hundred and
eighty degrees. The milk, in bottles
plugged with cotton which has been
baked for ten minutes in ,an oven, is
then set in the hot water, and the ves-
sel is covered with a double blanlcat
and allowed to remain for twenty min-
utes, At the end of this time the bot-
tles should stand in a pail of cold water
for a while, and than be placed in the
ice -chest.
if this is carefully done and the hot.
Iles are kept slopped with the cotton
end on the ice, the milk will keep per.
Iectly sweet for several days, even In
summer.—Youth's Companion.
TO RAISE THE GREAT DAM.
Another Step Taken in Egypt's Com./
medal Progress.
The Council of Ministry et Cairo
Egypt, has decided that the height cf,
the Assuan' Darn should be increased. in
order to raise the level of the water
stored in the reservoir by seven metretl
above the present maximum.
The quantity of water stored by the
new dam will be two and a quarter
tunes greater than that stored by, the
existing dam. The new supply of wafer
will be sufficient to irrigate about one
million Acres. The increase In the cot-
ton crop which this irrigation work wilt
bring about Ls estimated at betweeui
and 4 million pounds annealby,
Unfert1mntely, this scheme imposes on
Iht Government the regrettable necessity
of further snbmorglng the Phtnlae Tan -
ria and other Nu i
an
monuments. Every
or
v
possible means will
be taken
o rn]n1-
mize the injury thus caused. The esti-
mated cost of increasing the height o0
the dam is $7,500,600, this sunt including
T
eom onsatinu to the inhabitants labllArits OI
p \•
e u
bin whoso lands will be submerged.
The time required to complete the
work is aux years, so that not until 1017;
will Egypt 'rep the full benefit of this
large !neve:Ise in the water supply of
the country.
'rho reem'd'wreck, 50 fer es Jogs oil
lift is concerned, was that of H, M. S.
Victory on October 01.h, 1794. Eleven
hundred lives were tfrst