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The Brussels Post, 1914-6-18, Page 71� LTL,..r9P•rrr,rTtrmrrn„':'t�1?'114.idl+ri!,aTu T.fir.TLfi+t�r= ICFe r Rev n ge 4IC "Yes; I've heated three • talo be- fore, Mise Bucknall,,” repeated the landlady saroastioailly. "Our ar- rangement was that you should pay every Sate clay. I know you've been ill; but 1 must have .my mo- ney, Your brother Philip, Neho's- abroacl--ean'st he help you'!" "Ilo's as pour as I aim," Edith Bucknall bluoled. It was a hard struggle to make bath ends meet, living alone ou her wages from the milliner's shop. She hated borrowing from her new friends, for they were in similar circumstances. And she had no re- lation•s in London. When the landlady had gone she crossed to the cupboard. "There's nothing I oan sell!" Turning over her belongings me- chanically, she came upon a man's photograph. "Gilbert! I'd forgotten I'd kept that. I ought to have thrown it away long ago, when I burnt all his letters." Siting with the portrait on her lap, she fell into a reverie. Once her lips began to quiver, Lett she pressed them together determined- ly, and brushed a Land across her eyes. Presently an interruption came. At the knoek she roused herself, half indignant that the landlady should disturb her again. But her protest died away at sight' of the telegram. She took the envelope and open- ed it in some surprise. "Wonderful newel Gold found on 'nay land; large quantities. Sell- ing out soon, and coming to Eng- land. We are rich now. Letter follows,—Phil." At first Edith Bucknall could only stare in astonishment; then gra- dually she realized the signilicanoe of the message. This meant that she was saved. Laughing half hysterically, she put the telegram into the landlady's hand. "Well, well! Stay on, of course, miss. Of course ! As long as I know you'll pay when it's convenient." Her sudden effusive cordiality made the girl anove aside with a curl of the lip. Left alone again, she saw that the photograph had slipped to the -floor. Ab, if this had only happened. eighteen months ago 1" She stared clown at Gilbert Staveley'a face. "He'd have married me then, I suppose." Abruptly she stooped, tore the portrait across, and dropped the pieces into the fire. A shabbily -dressed girl was wait- ing at the terminus for the- boat - train. When the passengers at length descended, she first pressed closer, then hesitated nervously, r'Edat,1" She swung round at her. brother's greeting, and next moment they had met, after two years. Philip Bucknall Ives deeply .bronzed in contrast to her pallor. He swag- gered a little in his walk. "Just fancy, Edith l" he exclaim- ed, holding her at arm's length, "this big piece of luck at lest!" Site nodded exoitely. "Yes; I could 'hardly believe it when year telegram came." "I always thought I might do well abroad. Now I"gip„, rich! There won't, be any more anxiety- foe you, Edith. You mist have lied a rough time. I'm sorry. I've °ken thought of you." ' `It was pretty bad," the •girl ad- mitted in a low voice, withdrawing a pace. "But you've had Gilbert to look after you. You haven't been quite alone. Why, what's wrong]" "1 never told you;" returned his sister, jerkily. Her shoulders drooped, and she avoided his gaze. I—I couldm t bear to, somehow, when fireb it happened. After that —well, I just went en letting you 'think I was still engaged to him!" "Do you mean to say that you gave. Stavely up 1" "Noe exactly I" She forded a laugh . "He he jilted me—eigh- teen months ago 1" Her blether caught her arm 'a1- most roughly. "Is thee true1" "1 had no money, you neo and there was os girl he knew—a, Miss Melrose -with fifty paulyds of her own, . It—it sounds rather pitiful, doesn't it?" • " "The ead 1" ejaculated her bro- ther, . "Anti- you eould;clo nothing I But, now I'm well-off, you can give up your week. We'll find - him, Eolith; Yoe know where he lives 1 'He married this other girll" She nodded, "He, reeved awGMT' I don't know where." "I'll track him down, if ib bakes me a year! I•Ie',ll be precious sorry he ever •treateal-you so badly ','--Yes, yes!" ' The girl was sud- denly angry. "I'd almost forgotten it all, Phil; but now—now I want to pay him out 1 Ile made me stif- fer!" "Let"hiinm *Rifler, tool 'Aare muse be some a aty,,,I'd cake to mein him!" Her brothesr's`heecl was bent. IIs !tatted his -brows as he repealed that they would certainly have their revenges. Weeks peeled, Edith liui:keall eel her question. left the shabby lodgings, and lived with her brother in comfortable hotel, until they could buy and fur- nish a suitable house, She was free to thigh of one fret only --that Gilbert .Stavely had scorned and humiliated her eigh- teen months before. She brooded over this now. Looking bank, she told herself that she had quietly srtbmi:tte.d only because she had been helpless and poor•. "He chose eller other girl, because she had fifty pounds. Fifty pounds! Why, it sounds a ridiculous eum to me now. 1 wonder,"'she thought bitterly—"I wonder whether he'll be sorry when he hears that Phil's a wealthy man 1" Her brother spoke of little else. All his energies were devoted te the task of finding Gilbert Stavely. Both waited- eagerly for news, "I expect he's forgotten you en- tirely, Edith. He little thinks we're searching for him now. An unplea- sant surprise for him, one of these days! Why, if we met in the street, I'd have hard work to ke•ep my hands off him!" "Phil, you'd never--" "Oh, no; trust me to control my- self, It's rather late in ithe day to give hina a thrashing, Besides, thee wouldn't half settle our little debt!" One afternoon he returned in great excitement. "I believe there's a clue. Tlie private detective has founda man who used to work with Staveley. They were olorks in the same firm," "Strangeways & Smith 1" "That's the place." "I often used to wait at the cor- ner." The girl's voice was low, "If Gilbert was kept extra late at busi- ness, and didn't meet me as I walk- ed along home in the evening--" She broke off, catching her breath. "How it all comes back to, me 1 We'd stroll about, in the park mostly, and talk of—of the little home we'd furnish one day. His salary wasn't vary big, you know— not big enough to marry on; and we—he said he hoped—longed for promotion, sc that he could ask me—" "Asad at the last moment he threw you over for the sake of a girl' with a little money ! Melrose was the name, you said. My man's trying to trace her relations." Messrs, SStrangeways & Smith did not know what had become of Gil- bert Stavely after he had left their employment; but at last a report arrived from the deteotive, describ- ing en old couple, Mr. and Mrs. Melrose, who ewers evidently the parents of Staveley's wife. Tho elderly pair could give no Precise information, however, as to her whereabouts, except as regards the district in which she lived. This narrowed the search; and, in due course, Philip Bucknall. sought his sister hurriedly. "I've been speaking on the 'phone. I do believe we've run him to earth at last 1 Twenty-nine, Ma- pleside Road, is tine -address. 'Let's go down there. at.once, Edith, and have a look at the house. We might be able to pick up some infor- mation. r want to 'know how he'e getting on in the world, and where he's worldng now." - An hour later they entered Maple - side Road. No. 29 was rather diffi- uul,t too locate,: but et Last they turn- ed ,up a squalid courtyard, and stopped at a narrow doorway. • f .Chis can't be the:: place," said ,EdithB.ueknall dubiously.:"Thore'h • been as. mistake. Somebody else lives here, I supposee-someone of the name name. As she spoke, an elderly woman came out' -frowsy and unkempt, with ragged clothing. "Mrs, Stavely] Yee; she's in- side, poor dear." She stared at the. visitors curious- ly. "I've been satin' with 'er for a bit. Feelin' poorly, see is. Feettiu over things, Come down . in the world, y'lcnow, If you're friends of 'ere she'll' be glad to aee you. I do my best for 'er whenever I cam. xt costs me a bit o' money—" Philip Bucknall put a coin in her hand, waving her aside. Ib seems as if Stavoley's not ex- aGtly prospering 1" he commented, with e short laugh. His sister was knocking. When a reply cams she etepped rn, and he followed. The girl leaning forward over the table raised her head, "I --•I thought it was Mrs• Jones back again 1" • Bucknall quickly, down," said Edith , quickly, as-ehe started,'up, Your husbend'e naiad le Stavely—Gilbert Staveley, who used to be at 'Sbrangeways & Smith's?" "Yes; he was in their office. That's right!" • "He loft, though, iiia t hel I hope he's toned other work 1" Mee Stavely stared for a mo- tneest, then, with a gesture,, point- ing to her dress, she covered her fete with her hands. 1 „ EdithYou re wearing blade 1 Bucknall spoke jerkily. "He died — died three months ago 1„ • Iiidith Bitclon•al1 turned to her Ijrotltcr,. who -met her gaze -awk- warily, shrugging chis;sliou1de,rs. "Too late! he lfnbtered. "01, well, if thait's the case—" Mee. Stavely addressed him as he moved away i but his sister answer• - v. ,errors=^ ^-e, 50)5,,w5W Automatic Gas and 'Whistling Buoy Used in the St. Lawrence Gulf. "ares; we used to know him— onee !" "Ah, he had hard leek, Gilbert had. After Mr, Strangew.ays gave him notice, he couldn't find another place in an omoe no matter how hard he tried. Soon all our money was gope. So he started all sorts of odd jobs—took laborer's work anything. He had yery hard luck. Things got worse and worse. Then he was taken ill—pneumonia from a cold he caught!" Edith • Bucknall hesitated. Her brother touched her arm. • "We'd better clear out, hadn't we?" She did not seem to hear. Mrs. Staveley raised her head. "My father incl mother—I quar- relled with, then, about Gilbert.. They never liked him, somehow, you see. Told me haver to go back home after I was married. So, even when I was left alone;. I —S didn't care to worry them." All at once a baby cried. She hurried acie•ss to a wooden box—a makeshift cradle, . "This is our little son—six months old." "He's very like his father," "I think so, too." The mother smiled proudly. "It cause be rather difficult for you to- look after him, tlhough," said "'Edith Buokn•all slowly. ")•Wouldn't you like hiss to have a comfortable home and every lux- ury --a good education 1" "I don't understand," returned Mrs. Staveley. "I'd adopt lifm, if you'd let me.' I'd take hien away and bring him up—treat,hisn just as if he were my own." The mother's oyes flashed. "How dare you s1tggest such a thing! As if I'd give him to •you, or to anybody! He's mine -she's all I have got. I may be poor, but 1'11 work my fingers to the bone for him! Oh; if. that's why you came, you can go en soon as you like!" Edith Bucknall reddened, but she nodded without resentment. "You're quite right. I apologize. I admire you for •speaking like that, I never really thought you'd agree." She held out her hand.' Mrs. Staveley took it. Philip Bucknall was leaving. Hie eater caught him up in the street. "Wall l" he ejaculated. • "I can't make women 'out. There'. -s' uo ae- counbing for what they'll do next. You go thereto get revenge on the man, and, you finish by offering— thee 1" Mrs. Staveley guessed who sant the presents next day, and the mo- ney which arrived each following week. But she never had the least idea of her visitor's jam:paty. "I've ,had my revenge—in a way,,, Edith Bucknell told herself content- edly. "Gilberts --he'd admit that!" London Answers: d• ALL ABOUT CONCRETE. It Was Invented by the Romans and Adopted by Us. Concrete was used by the Ro- mans, who also invented the'cele- brated Roman nose, which is still used with such great success. Con- crete is composed of cement and broken stone, which ars mixed with water by a tired man in overalls and a red flannel shirt and convert- ed into a sort of geological Irish stew. The mess is then stuffed into• a wooden mould, and when it dries it is• so hard that when time at- tempts to nibble it with its ju•stle famous tooth .it has to go ito the dentisee with a low shriek of agony. The Romans wasted their con- crete building bridges, coliseums and roads. Had they built their 'emperors of this material- they would have been more durable and the empire would have lasted longer. A reinforoed. concrete em- peror would have been less fatal eo the populace, while the sight of a Praetorian guard pecking away at the impenetrable crushed stone thorax of his ruler with a valuable sword in an effort to create a ve- cenoy on the throne would have been highly diverting. Nowadays concrete is used with great success in building houses, skyscrapers, br'ilges, baseball parks, pavements, sidewalks, worsen less tombs, boats, artificial logs, telegraph poles, water 'betas, ai'bi- ficial pipes, false teeth, cathedrals, smokestacks and eating -house sand- wiches. Concrete has, in fact, be- .eomo themost useful thing in the world, and many a mountain which .has only been an obstruction' to traffic will be ground up in the next few years and sold in •sacks to men who have cities bo build. Thomas Edison has recently in- vented a method by which con- erete hotusescaa be ,poured to order by- two strong' men while `the family is unpacking the fun—Altura This will be a great boom, and before long we may expect to buy our houses at the store by the gallon mid to draw a cute little Queen Anne garage out of a faucet and take it home in a pail. Concrete, reinforced with steel, is the strongest material yet invent- ed, but science blies far is only building bridges and skyscrapers with it, and Inc not yet`used it an providing practical backbones ,for public men. When this has been accomplished the grade of states- men available will be vastly im- proved and the old style office- holder with the igutta peroha spinal echumn' will wobble into oblivion along with the wooden hostel., ' NTAINs Ito ALL° REAL THE LABEL OR THE PROTECTION OF THE CON- SUMER THE INGREDIENTS ARE PLAINLY PRINTED ON THE LABEL, 11' IS 'THE ONLY WELL-KNOWN MEDIUM- PRICE() BAKING POWDER MADE 1(y CANADA THAT DOES NOT CONTAIN ALUM AND 'WHICH HAS ALL THE INGREDIENTS PLAINLY STATED ON THE LABEL. MAGIC BAKING POWDER CONTAINS NO ALUM ALUM IS SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS SUL- PHATE OF ALUMINAOR SODIC ALUMINIG' SULPHATE. THE PUBLIC SHOULD NOT BE MISLED SY THESE TECHNICAL NAMES, E. W. GiLLETT COMPANY LIMITED WINNIPEG TORONTO, ONT. MONTREAL C DUCK HEIR INI SCOTLAND TERRIFIC SLAL'GHPER. ISY IVIR. ALEC FINLAYSON. 1ian From Creamily Firth Tells of Ilnvoo His Big Gun Made. The birds that feed on the mud flats beside the Cromarty Firth will miss, but not, sorrow, at the depar- ture of one Alec Finlayson from that part of the east coast of Scot- land, if all that man says is true, Scot - ' it is likely to be, for, like the canny Scot he is, Finlayson carries the "writings" with him to prove that the tales he tells anent his prowess as .a duck hunter are facts, not the creation of an imaginative mind. Finlayson was born with the in- stincts of a huntsman. He has made his living duck shooting, fish- ing, trapping and hunting since 'his early boyhood, He is now, seeking fresh fields of conquest in Canada- "1 have caught, shot or booked most everything that flies, rune or swims about Crom.'trty Firth," he says, "and aau looking for as good sport in Canada." Aaubition of Every Ilaesiait. Nine ° hundred and ghsby,-four ,dr B y„-, thousand, • ole' hundredei'afertwenty' pdo,ple were least year caught bcavel ling on the Russian state railroads with forged tickets or with no tick- ets at all.. How many travelled in, this way without being caught no man knows,- =Probably several mil- lions. Al any rate, the legend is the tone out of every five Russians travels without a ticket, Ib is so easy, to do this successfully end elusively 'thee ticketless travellers are known as halves. 'Layteu is the word, To travel as a hare is the ambition of every Russian, and it's a faro Russian who does not sues coed at least once, It's an easy matter to acquire a flow of iangu:ago, Alonzo. All yoti have to de is step on a tack • with your bare feet. ROSY AND PLUMP Good health from Right Food* "It's not a new food to me," re- naurked a man, in speaking of Grape Nobs; , " . lib::. o = . . About' twelve moelt I9,g _ . m.V wife was in very bad healibh, ceitld not keep anything ori, her stomach, The Doctor recommended milk, helf waster, but it was not sufficiently nourishing. "A friend of mine told, ee one day to try Grape -Nuts and preami. The result, was i'seally marvelous, My wife soon regained her usual strength and today is as rosy and plump as when a girl of .sixteen. Zlhese are plasm facts••amd bobb- ing I could say in, praise of Grave - Nets would exaggerate insee least the .value of this great feed." N•sane ,given by. Gamadiun Postuin see Wnsdeoi , Grit Read ''The Road to Wel.lville, in p]cgs. "There's a Reason; aver same tee apoeu lotttr? a nets one eneeeic from tibia to time, Thoy Ore genuine, One, SisO :nit of human IneereYk FOOD VALUE OF SUNSHINE. Experiments in France Show Iiow- it Saves Provender. The nutritive value of sunshine— this is not, of course, the scientific way of describing the matter,but the most comprehensible to the lay. mind—has formed the subject of some very interesting experiments by M. Mira -mond de Laroquette, ,an. army surgeon at Algiers, which were told of at the French Academy of Science. These experiments were made with the invaluable gui- nea pig, a number of whose tribe were confined in cages on the roof of.a. house in Algiers. A certain amount of oats was given them each day, of which they were allowed to eat as much as they liked -in mo- deration. As a result of carefully compiledstatistics M. de Laro- gnette has found that in winter, when the temperature wa-s about 15 degrees Centigrade, the guinea pigs ate each day four grammes of oats for every 100 grammes of their weight; in spring and autumn, when the thermometer was in the region of 32 degrees, the little ani - male were satisfied with only three grammes, and when summer sun- shine raised the temperature to 30 degrees the guinea pigs were con- tent with two grammes of suste- uance. Other observations in the sante direction proved that the hotter the climato the less food is required. Natives in Soubh Algeria require food of only half the caloric power of that eequired by the European— proving that sunshine to a certain degree acts as nourishment. M. Laveran, of the Pasteur Insti- tute, in commenting on the experi- ments, remarks that they show that "like vegetable, though in a less degree, animals and even man him- self undergo, according to ,season and latitude, experiences which ap- parently correspond more or less to the variation in the .absorption of solar energy ; the augmentation of sunshine compensate for a reduc- tion of aliment. These experiments confirm the principle of nutrition by beat, of direct utilization by the tis- sues of radiant energy. What it all comes to is that while a men requires a beefsteak for nourishment in winter, e hard-boil- ed egg and a sauce of sunshine will suffice him in summer. Use Big Guns. The duck hunters of Cromarty Firth use way large gums to get such bags as Finlayson can boast of. The destructive weapon is set in too prow of the slate grey punt used by the fowler, and its charge consists of about one pound of shot, totalling et least a, thousand poi - lets. English sportsmen visit that pant of Scotland, end, under the guidance of such men as Finlayson, obtain such "bags” as ac ound their • stay-at-home friends:- Their riends:-Their part in the performance is usually restricted to a pull on the lanyard which frees the charge at an opportune time, The stalking of the game is to guide's business. The "c;_urtsman" must keep - quiet till such time as the professional hunter cries "Pull," e, cry w'hieh serves ithe double purpose of in- forming the visiting sportsman that the time to fire has arrived, and art the same time startles the duck, so that they rise frosm, their -feeding, to fall shot riddled. Souse Bags. "My beat beg 'in mist," says Finlayson, "was.made up of ninety- three duck. Im one week..1?' allot four hundred deck, one hundred plover and sixteen curlew. In one season (Octob•er to February) I have bagged one thousand seven hundred and twenty-five chuck, 3,983 plover, 25 Brent geese, besides a large utenber of curlews, a few black back galla and other birds. Records of Slitugliter. "I believe I hold :the record for a single shat. On the 12th Decem- ber, 1912, I brought seventy wigeon down at one discharge. They came head on. I got Whet is called the 'run of the birds,' and the tally of dead and wounded totalled seventy. "I once got on,e hundred and fif- teen plover at e single shot, gold aced . green, and a few redshianks they were, and another time I got eighty-three wild pigeon at a shot. "Another 'time I was after a flock of duck and a rather remark- able tieing happened.. I fired and dropped fifteen of them out of a large frock. 'Those that escaped the fire setbled right back ,again among: their dead said wounded ccmredes, and I got a second chance at therm; a most nnatsual thing, as any wild fowler knows,-- and' at the second try I brought down thirty-four of the bi•1'ds. 'Not Permitted, Heft: - , e ., .. Wholesale slaughter• by' the use of such e, weapon as this Scot des- cribes is not permitted in Canada, where the, game laws also restrict the bag to nauoh steelier propor- tions. 3+ — '1Vtere are many rungs of faller in the laddar of success.,, SLEEP ES DEATH'S E MY BETWEEN SUNRISE AND Selel•s, SET TIME FQ11• REST. An Eminent German Surgeon! Dwells' on tine Necessity . for Sleep, That slee.pis the . "key tothe timepieeo of life," the greates"e enemy of death," the most vital factor for Iong .life, and that the sending of children to school at so - yen and eight o'clock in the morn- ing, es is dune in Germany, is "bee- barou.c."• and a "massacre of life" are some of the s•tatesaa nts made by Prof, Carl. Ludwig Sohleieh in cis article on "How to Prolong Our Life," Prof, Seh eicb is one of the most eminent surgeons and medical au- thorities in Germany, and is also widely known in other countries. The .local anaesthetic which he dis- covered is used by surgeons and physicians for operations in every civilized' land. Dwelling upon the necessity and relation of optimism- to longevity Prof. Schleich quickly passes overt the necessity of hygiene, modem tion and temperance, and deelarea that the secret of long life lies in two ithingn-elasticity of the "veins and arteries and sleep. The Greatest i hysieian. Six Ounces of Mud. Gardeners and other botanical experts may like !to know of the two following experiments' which illus- trate very graphically the lavish way that Nature goes about her work. One year, in the month of 1?ebruary, • Darwin removed from three different parts of c. small pond three tablespoonfuls of mud, weighing in all 8% carnes. This he placed in a breakfast sup and kept ib, covered up in his study, for six niontihs. By the end of that time he had removed in all five hundred and thirty-seven plants. Another inter - seting experimentcarried was d outt by a. Scotch gentleman a. few years ago, In a patch of soil, taken from a hedge -root, of about twentveight inches long by eleven inches wide and twenty-eight deep. he plamsbed a dozen acorns, and took note of the number of pla,nfs which grew from seed naturally contained in the soil, At the end of a year he had taken Cut, as they came up, one Hundred and fifty-five plants! The following yeas fifty-six more plants were re- moved, and in the two succeeding years two hundred and eleven I food is the direct and inevitable result of irregular or constipated bowels and. clogged -up kidneys and skin. The undigested food and other waste mat- ter which is allowed to accumulate poisons the blood and the whole system. Dr, Morse's Indian Root Pills act directly on the bowels, regulating then -••on thekidneys, giving them ease and strength to properly filter the blood --and en the skin, opening up the pores. For pure blood and good health take Dr. Horse's SB Median Root Pills THIS INVESTMENT HAS PAID 7% PER ANNUM half yearly sines the Seeurlties of this Cernoratlen vera )erased an the market 10 years ago. Business established 28 years. Investment may_ be withelroAvn it tea or whole any trine attar ono Voir. Sate as a : Mortgage. P, un ears , -molars one booklet gladly rurnished 00 request, 'NATIONAL SECURITIES CORPORATION, LIMITED, CONI71MMATIOii± X.Z'1I BUSiiDrata - tbni5VVO, . .. rte,,..... sari "What can we do," he asks, "to protect our elastic, rubberlike cell tube system and prevent the loss of energy through what is known as ',calcification?' "I know nothing more important than gymnastics of the blood ves- sels of the skin—systematic .'turn exercises' of the millions of little ringlet -like muscles of the blood vessels in the skin—and second, the art to sleep, developed to a tyran- nical point. "Everybody feels instinctively, that sleep is the greatest physician for the suffering of the day.. Sleep is not only the 'beautiful brother of death,' a•s the enci•rnt Greeks char- aeterized it. butis in fact the enemy of death. "Sleep quietly one half of your life away! You still have twice' as much of the other half! ` This is e maxim thea ought to become a part of our flesh and blood. The oft re- peated `eight hours for work, eight hours for pleasure and eight hours for sleep,' is unquestionably false.. The civilized man or woman of to., day must learn to sleep at the very least ten hours of the twenty-four- if wenty-fourif -he or she expects to check the increased wear amcl irritability of his or her modern neurasthenic life and temperament, The extra two hours I believe should be taken from week time rather than from the hours for pleasure and recrea- tion. The professor says that there ate many who cannot even sleep eight hours, not to mention ten, These, he says, must by "iron force" Learn' the Art of Sleeping. Go to bed at 9. If Inc a time you lie' awake four hours you will soon find that you drop asleep in three, and before long within half an ;hour after retiring: "Sunset and sunrise arenature's time for sleeping and awakening, declares Prof. Schleich'. "Those who]?o stpone or shift this time and enreavor to find in the sham sun of electricity tho allurementsof daylight will :sooner or later fatigue their hearts and blood ;vessels. Be- cause sleep is that pause during which the throbbing blood tubes, which pulsate like the heart, drive et half power. Sleep is the pre- server of the spiral electricity of the blood vassals -rt is the key that winds up the timepiece ::of life. "1 declare that it is schoolmas- ter barbarity and a deliberate ma's - store of of life when I see children, pale sleepy and bloodless, drag- ' to sohool et eight' ging themselves o'clock in the morning. This an - natural, g antihy ienic and brainiest violence upon the sleep of our little ones should be stopped. Here in- deed is the principal cause for the checking of the stream of life and the principal reason of degenera- tion and childlessness. Why in the world could not the schools begin at two o'clock 2" Mistake Menzel, the German artist, vas a regular patron of a certain Berlin wine shop. One day, says Der Be- 'kord, a man and wife came in and sat down at his table; and preeent-, l kennel noticed that she tyromas y was makingfun; of him, Calmly he drew out his stretching book, gazed at the woa Iv -omen while, :as if to study her face .:for a portrait, and then cocnanetced to draw. Her linable:al imanediately took notice , I forbid you to draw a picture of my wife. Stop it!" be 'exelaimed,, :angrily. Menzel t�inde •a few finishing touehelt and then, passing the sketch •.haul; over to fire man, he inquired with laugh, "Is thirst' your wife?" bad drawn a oose. q.-- 11enssttt•ina . Man in Swim•n ing—Arc you quite sure there are. no erocodalee about - here 1 bouthere] Negro on the '"bbortu�- Yee, e sh; cola sharks clone, scare 'cin all . away, " sob.