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Ho for tho bending sheaves,
Qo tor the crimson leaves
Flaming In splendor!
Season of ripened gold,
Plenty In orlb and fold.
Skies and depth untold,
Liquid and tender,
at.. v
Far, like the smile of God,
See how the goldenrod
Hippies and tosses!
Yonder, a crimson vino
Trails from a bearded pine,
Thin as a throad of wina
Staining tho mosses.
A Wedding Reception
By HELEN FORRISST GRAVES.
UST wliafc I ex
- pected!” said
%. "• Mis.s Delavigue,
She was sitting
• •=•=;,j.. 7 ES out on tho bal-
— fla r±OT cony, where the
m~'~' niignonnete and
t _ ~i K asters were all a
m~Jp blaze of vivid
color, to enjoy
the sunset; but she didn’t enjoy it
auy more, after Muriade Yail had
told her the news. There was n band
playing in the little park, whose green
grass and sparkling fountain formed
such a pretty picture, but she did not
hear its music any longer-.
“Married!” said Miss Delavigue,
lifting her hands and drawing a sepul
chral sigh—“married! Does the
whole world think, aud dream, and
trouble itself about nothing else?”
“I’m very sorry, aunt,” said Muri
ade, “but—”
“No, you are not,” interrupted Miss
Delavigue. “Don’t begin, at this late
day, to tell me falsehoods.”
“I don’t mean that I’m sorry be
cause I’ve promised to marry Tom,”
said Muriade, with a bright spot on
each cheek, “because that would be a
falsehood. No, indeed, I’m not sorry;
but I mean I’m vexed to disappoint
you, aunt.”
Muriade was a dark, Spanish-eyed
girl, with brows like two perfect
arches; a red, cherry-cleft mouth, and
the most roguish of dints, scarcely
large enough to be dignified with the
name of dimple, that came and went
in a capricious fashion in her chin.
She stood, with folded hands and
head slightly drooped, before the
prim, elderly lady, whose black silk
dress resolved itself into such perfect
folds, and whoso iron-gray curls hung
> so precisely on either side of her face.
“Didn’t I take you when you were
seven years old, and bring you up as
a young lady should be brought up?”
sadly demanded Miss Delavigue.
“Yes, aunt.”
“And haven't I had you educated
at Mademoiselle Melisse’s, with extra
piano lessons, aud your voice culti
vated at two dollars a lesson?” went
on the old lady.
“Yes, aunt,” confessed Muriade.
“And,” severely went on the cate
chist, “just as you were getting to be
a real companion for me in my advanc
ing years, you forget all this, and run
oft'with —Tom Whitworth.”
“I haven’t run off with him, aunt!”
flashed out Muriade, scarcely knowing
whether to laugh or cry.
“But you would if you couldn’t
wring a consent from me. You know
you would,” said Miss Delavigue.
“You’d scramble down a ladder, or
climb out of a fourth-story window.”
“I love him, aunt,” said Muriade,
earnestly; “and he loves me.”
“Rubbish!” said Aunt Delavigue,
with an energy which nearly tipped
her eye-glasses from her Roman nose.
“You mean that he loves your expecta
tions. He loves the idea of inheriting
my money andtliis brown-stone bouse,
and all the shares in the Mexican sil
ver mines. That’s the beginning and
the end of it!”
“Never, aunt!” cried poor Muriade.
“That’s well,” grimly pronounced
Miss Delavigue; “because I’ve my
own ideas on the subject. I don’t
know that I’m at all too old to marry
myself.”
“Aunt!” exclaimed Muriade, in sur
prise.
“Why not?” said Miss Delavigue.
“I suppose there can be old fools as
well as young ones. ”
“But,” pleaded Muriade, “are you
iu earnest?”
“Why shouldn’t I bein earnest?”
“Aunt,” burst out Muriade, “is it
Major Larkington? Is it? Oh, I
know it is! And oh, aunt, dear, I do
so hope you will be happy! And Ma
jor Larkington is perfectly splendid,
siuce he got his false teeth, only, annt,
those tedious stories of his about the
war in Florida —won’t you get tired of
them, if you’re obliged to hear them
every day?”
Miss Delavigue looked in some per
plexity at her niece. w, e h a( j sup
posed that this hint would x-. ve filled
Muriade with dismay and disap,,; nt ,
,neut.: hut on the contrary that you..,
to accept the idea as the
the world. And
entirely by
Jd^Sude’s
A SONG or AUTUMN.
Bright 'nnath the morning blue
Sparkles the frosted dew,
Gera-like and starry.
Hark how the partridge ooek
Pipes to his soattered flock,
Mindful liow swift the hawk
Darts on his quarryl
v "yT
Autumn Is here again—
Banners on hill and plain
Blazing and flying.
Hall to the amber morn,
Hall to tho heapt-np corn,
Hall to tho hunter’s horn,
Swelling nnd dylngl
-Tames Buoklinm, In "Tho nenrt of Life.”
money is hers, and we don’t grudge it
to her. And we’re ready to work for
our own, aren’t wo, Muriade? I’m
not rich, but my office brings me a
thousand dollars a year, and we’re
both going to economize like every
thing—aren’t we, Muriade? And Ma
jor Larldngton’s a brick, and we hope
you’ll be happy, exactly as we’re going
to be.”
And Tom Whitworth squeezed Miss
Delavigue’s hand until the old lady
cried out for mercy.
“And now, aunt,” said Muriade,
radiantly, “when is the wedding to
be? And why haven’t you said any
thing about it before?”
Miss Delavigue hesitated a little.
She blushed. Apparently she did not
know what to say on the spur of the
moment.
“Well,” she faltered, “Major Lar
kington did say something about the
twentieth of December.”
“Christmas-time!” exclaimed Mu
riade. “Oh, Tom, how perfectly de
lightful! Couldn’t we manage to have
our wedding at the same time?”
“No,” said Tom, stoutly. “We
must be married on the first of De
cember. You said wo should, Mu
riade, and you mustn’t go back of
your word.”
“But, Tom, it would only be three
weeks.”
“Three weeks or three days,”
stoudly maintained Tom Whitworth,
“you promised me, and I can’t let you
off.”
“Well, ther, you obstinate fellow,”
said Muriade, “we can be back from
our trip just n time to danco at Aunt
Delavigue’s wedding.”
“Agreed!’ said Tom, looking very
happy, indeed.
Apparently the young couple were
in no wise discomfited at the idea of
going to housekeeping on a capital of
love, and love alone.
Tom Whitworth began to look dili
gently around among dim old auction
rooms and musty second-hand stores,
to find something astoundingly cheap
and delightfully comfortable, where
with to garnish tho small cottage
which he Lad derided to take a little
out of town, so as to economize in
rent.
And Muriade joined a cooking class,
made herself a bib-apron, and began
to come down into Miss Delavigue’s
kitchen to experiment in pies and
puddings, dainty little tea-biscuit, and
salad which might have tempted an
anchorite to break his vows.
And she studied up the question of
polishing brasses, cleaning plate
glass, mending china, and darning
table linen with notable earnestness.
And she was more affectionate than
ever with her aunt.
“Because,*’ she told Tom, “there
is something so pathetic about Aunt
Delavigue’s happiness, coming so
strangely in the autumn of her life.
And I’m afraid, Tom—now don’t tell
anybody—that Major Larkington is
only going to marry her for her money.
For he is certainly ten years younger
than she is, and he has only come from
Philadelphia once to see her since the
engagement.”
“Love is like the measles,” said
Tom, philosophically. “Every one
has it a different way'. ”
While Miss Delavigue, who had
been judge and jury all by herself, at
least rendered the verdict to a public
consisting of herself, alone.
“They love each other, after all.
My money had nothing to do with it.
Tom loves Muriade, aud Muriade has
not ceased to love her old aunt, now
that she no longer believes herself to
be an heiress. There is such a thing
as honor, and truth, and real affection
in the world, after all.”
The first of December came, and
Miss Delavigue gave Muriade t.he
prettiest of weddings, under a mar
riage bell of white rose-buds and smi
lax, with an artistio little dejeuner,and
the bride went away in a dove-colored
silk dress, with daisies in her hat.
“But, aunt,” she said, “it’s so
strange that Major Larkington isn’t
here?”
“Ho couldn't come,” said Miss
Delavigue. “He’ll be on hand on the
twentieth. Mind you and Tom get
back in time!”
jyj“Oh, we’ll be sure to do that!” said
‘;de. “And be sure, aunt, that
pearl lockJ h ® “ a / or for . the ?, ear little
The twente* he t s ° nt me ;
so did Mr. and\ of £ eCen fc ca “ e;
, „ t - ~ . Tom Whitworth,
e icy e> 2Va y 0 f Niagara
u o s parlor b were once
hot
'
accepting my hospitality on this occa
sion.”
“Delighted. I am sure!” stam
mered Tom, staring with all hia eyes.
“Many congratulations!” faltered
Muriade, scarcely less amazed.
And then they took advantage of u
stream of newcomers, who monopolized
the bridal pair and taxed Miss Defn
vigue with her duplicity.
“Sold,” said Tom, succinctly, “com
pletely!”
“Aunt, how could yott deceive us
so?” said Muriade.
“I didn’t deceive you,” said Miss
Delavigue, luughing. “I said there
could be old fools as well as young
ones, and I say so still. And you
yourself mentioned Major Larkington!
I didn’t feel myself called upon to go
into any disclaimers, although 1 knew
then that he was engaged to Helena
Dove; and the only point I gained was
the certainty that my dear nieoa and
nephew were not heartless fortune
seekers, but loved me just as well as
if they believed themselves my heirs,
as well as the oonviction that Tom
Whitworth loved Muriade just because
she was Muriade, and not tho rich old
woman’s only relation.”
Miss Delavigue made her will the
next day, and she left all her money
to Muriade and Tom, because she was
easy in her mind at last.
“It was a regular conspiracy,” she
said; “but it revealed to me exactly
what I wanted to know.”—Saturday
Night.
American Tools Abroad.
American tools are sold all over
the world. The New York represen
tative of an American tool manufac
turing establishment, when asked
where American tools were sent, ran
over the export orders received that
day. They included orders from
Hungary, Austria, Germany, Prance,
England, South Africa and South
America. There were altogether
about twenty orders, and from some
of the countries named there wore two
or three orders. The export orders of
the previous day included orders from
Russia, Australia and New Zealand;
and these wero not unusual orders,
but such as are constantly received.
In the shipping room at that moment
stood cases marked for Java, for
Ecuador, and for Australia.
Many of these orders are small. In
some cases there were orders for a
single tool, or for two or three; for
some, orders of half a dozen, or two or
three dozen, to supply orders or to
keep lines filled. These small orders
are mostly from European countries,
with which communication is nowa
days quick and convenient. European
merchants order these things just
about as merchants in other cities in
this country would. It costs no more
to send to London than it does to
Chicago, aud it is as easy to send to
Berlin as it is to Paterson.
The characteristics that commend
these American tools to their foreign
purchasers are the same that mark
American machines and implements
generally; lightness, fine finish, and
perfect adaptability to their several
uses. The exports of American tools
to all parts of the world are steadily
increasing.—New York Sun.
Children of Deaf Mutes.
Some English statistics show that
one-tenth of the children born of par
ents of whom one was a deaf-mute are
afflicted in the same manner, and that
one-third of the children are deaf
mutes when both parents are the sub
jects of that condition. Thus, the pro
portion of deaf children when both
parents are so affected is more than
three times greater than when only
one parent is, which leads to the con
clusion that congenital deaf-mutism is
the result of hereditary influences,
which are intensified when coming
from both parents. There are often
several deaf children in a family. It
has been found that about forty per
cent, of congenital deaf-mutes had
deaf and dumb brothers. Consan
guineous marriages are believed to
l>lay a part in favoring congenital deaf
ness. Tuberculosis and drunkenness
also appear as causes.—Now York Tri
bune.
Food and Poison Combined.
One of the most deadly poisons and
a common article of food are combined
in a single plant. This is tapioca, a
South American shrub that grows to a
height of six or eight feet. The root,
as well as the wood, of the plant se
cretes an acrid milky juice so toxic
that it kills in a very few minutes.
This quality is eliminated by heat, and
that which in a raw state is so deadly
is thereby oonverted into a nourishing
aud agreeable aliment. The root is
grated into pulp and subjected to
great pressure, which extracts all the
poisonous juice. It is then heated on
metal plates, which transforms it into
the tapioca of commerce. It is to be
hoped that this information may not
disturb the equanimity of consumers
of tapioca. The process employed in
its conversion from a poisonous plant
into a substance entirely innocuous is
absolutely infallible.
Woes of a Court Physician.
Being physician to an Asiatic ruler
carries a good salary with it, but it
has its disadvantages. News comes
from Persia of the death of Sir Joseph
Tholozon, physician to the Shah. For
thirty years Sir Joseph was the physi
cian and trusted confident of the Shah
Nasr-ed-Din. When that ruler died
and his son, the present Shah, ascend
ed the throne, Sir Joseph wrote to a
friend in Paris saying that he was go
ing to resign his post, as he was afraid
of his life.
It would appear that his fears were
only too well founded. Sir Joseph
was acquainted with many of the
secrets of the court, and his death was
on that account by the new
His predecessor at the Persian
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Irrigation.
It is sometimes said that tho farmer
who depends wholly on irrigation is
really better oft than those who farm
where rainfall is usually sufficient.
The man who irrigates has the con
trol of moisture supply in his own
hands. But this does not wholly ap
ply to fruit growing. In arid climates
air, as well as noil, must be kept moist
to develop the best fruit. For many
ye’arH California fruit was dry and
poor in quality, though fine looking.
Now California air in the dry season
is less arid than it used to be, and its
fruit is better.
Straw for Feed.
Choice timothy hay is fed to many
idle horses on farms that liavo surplus
straw. Tho hay would bring in far
more cash than all the straw. If the
farmer is unwilling to cut the straw
and feed with chop, it is practicable
to feed it long with good results. If
the mangers are cleaned out before
each feed, the refuse being passed
through the stables, horses will take
out half the total weight of the feed
with fair relish, and with a nitrogen
ous grain ration will thrive upon it.
While I prefer corn fodder and clover
hay, I would always use surplus straw
for wintering stock in place of timothy.
If there is sufficient stock to consume
all the eoarso feed, that may be so
much the better; but if any is sold off
the farm, let it be the hay, which is
usually in demand at paying prices.—
Farm anil Fireside.
How to Milk Properly,
A man of my acquaintance who gen
erally did his own milking, employed
a boy. The milk shrank one-third in
two weeks. The farmer resumed
milking, aud in two weeks got the
same amount as before. Afterwards
he set the hired man to milking and
the milk shrank ten per cent, in two
weeks, and in two weeks more, the
farmer milking again, was back at the
standard. This man milks quickly
and very clean. He closes the fore
finger aud thumb around the teat high
up and makes a downward motion,
tightening the grip and forcing out the
milk. He then lets go liis hold,
keeping the finger and thumb in cir
cle, carries up tho hand and presses it
smartly agaimi the udder, closes and
pulls down as before. The idea is to
give as near as may be the same mo
tion the calf does in suckling.—J. L.
Hersey, in Americau Agriculturist.
A rotato-Gathering Fork,
The cut shows a home-made fork
that will do good work in picking up
and sortiug potatoes that have been
HOME-MADE POTATO FORK.
dug out upon the ground. The wood
en teeth, or tines, are the teeth from
a cast-off drag rake. The sides keep
the tubers from rolling off, while the
head piece is stout enough to hold the
handle, its sides and the tines firmly.
The tines can be placed near enough
together to lift all the potatoes, or
only those above a certain size, thus
sortiug them.
Ground Bone-Hmv tlio Same Amount of
Plant Food Can Be Obtained Cheaper.
Estimating the value of whole bones
at $lO per ton aud cost of grinding
them at $lO more, will make the cost
of one ton of ground hones S2O.
Suppose an average ton of bones to
contain sixty pounds of organic nitro
gen and 400 .pounds of phosphoric
arid; 375 pounds of nitrate of soda
will furnish sixty pounds of nitrogen
and 135 pounds of soda.
Thirteen hundred and fifty pounds
of powdered phosphate of lime, thirty
per cent., will furnish 405 pounds of
phosphoric arid. This mixture will
cost, with nitrate of soda at two and a
half cents a pound aud powdered
phosphate of lime at three-quarter
cents a pound, $1.7.25 for only 1725
pounds, equal in nitrogen and phos
phoric acid to oue ton ground bones.
The nitrogen in nitrate of soda is in
its most available form. There is also
135 pounds of soda which is not to be
had in using bones alone.
The phosphoric acid in the pow
dered phosphates of lime is more avail
able than the phosphorio acid in
ground bones, because the powdered
phosphate of lime is in a much finer
state of division than ground bones
and fineness of division is the measure
of its availability. The 135 pounds of
soda are equivalent in alkaline action
to 202 pounds of potash.
Professor Wagner says in regard to
the effect of soda: “There is a direct
effect of it, aud. this direct effect has
proved during my investigation of
such importance that further re
searches are of great moment.” Iu
liis opinion “the decided preference
expressed by Schultz-Luptiz for a
kainit as a potash (kali) salt is, like
the better yield produced by the use
of nitrate of soda as against sulphate
of ammonia, attributable to the effect
of the soda which kainit, as well as
nitrate of soda, contains, and which
heretofore has not been properly
valued.”— Andrew H. Wabd.
Crates and Stands.
s ]!. A.
the ends one-ineh lumber, ten inohes
wide, ripped into 4-inch stuff, will
cost about sl(s per thousand. The end
pieces are 91x10 inches square, so that
a board 1(5 feet long will make 40 end
pieoes, with a very little waste, which
will make them cost about 1 cent per
crate. So that tho whole cost for a
orate is not far from 2 cents; and as I
caunot estimate my time ns being worth
muoli, I do not figure it in.
Some may think I am a little par
ticular when I say that I smooth each
strip of lath with a jack plane, but I
am better satisfied with tho looks of
DERRY CRATE. TICKER'S STAND.
the crates, as it gives them a cleaner
appearance, which is everything in
selling fruit, ns “cleanliness is profita
bleness” in this business.” I have
each crate stamped with my name and
address, and when I sell my berries
the understanding is, the crates are to
be returned; of course, were I to ship
I would do differently; but, so far, I
hnvo liad “home consumption” enough
to use all I produce.
My picking stands are as light and
strong as possible. I make a frame
inches square of -gxll inch strips,
with 4 strips of laths for the bottom;
for handles I procure bales from old
pails, or else make them of No. 9 wire;
these I fasten rigidly to opposite sides
of stands. These will hold 4 boxeß
or quarts, and are fts handy and light
as auy I have eve> seen. So far I have
purchased the material for my boxes
and manufactured them myself, using
a magnetic tack hammer to handle and
drive the tacks. These boxes are not
as strong as those made by a stapling
machine, but are the “next thing
best. ” As soon as my business war
rants it I shall purchase one of these
machines for my own use.
About the Farm.
Whether your method be by cold,
deep setting of milk, or extraction by
the hand separator, keep the whole
process, including the butter making,
entirely away from the kitchen.
Tho main principle to be observed
in feeding the milch cow is to feed
moderately, and to avoid all sudden
changes in the rations. Let the quan
tity be ample, but never excessive.
The owner has the opportunity from
the day the calf is dropped until it is
a full-fledged cow to make it gentle.
Kindness is an important item of the
stock in trade on the dairy farm, as it
is everywhere else.
Turnips are a valuable winter feed
for sheep and cattle, particularly the
former. When fed to milk cows give
just after milking, otherwise the milk
‘ may be given au unpleasant odor, aud
the butter an undesirable taint.
Ample space should be allowed
fowls, but unlimited space is not only
injurious. The only advantage an un
limited range can possibly give fowls
will be on the supply of animal food in
the way of insects, and that can be
supplied as profitably as the other
food we supply them with, and should
be given once a week in the shape of
refuse meats from the butchers, boiled
and chopped up fine.
There is no poorer economy than
in buying a poor harness because it is
cheap. Well tanned leather with duo
care will resist dampness, and will
keep sound a long time. Harness
should never be kept in the stable.
There is too much ammonia in sta
bles, which will quickly cause harness
to rot. When used in warm weather
the harness should be cleaned often,
and kept soft and flexible with oil.
The roof wears out, unless kept
painted, faster than will any other
part of a wooden building. It pays
better to keep the roof painted than it
does the sides, and it will also need
to be painted oftener. When shingles
are used from clear, straight grained
wood and kept always painted, they
will last a very long time. One of the
advantages of painting roofs is to keep
water from the nails, whose rusting
soon rots the wood where they are
driven.
It is not generally considered a
good time to set posts in the fall. No
matter how well the soil is compacted
around them, rains will sink down iu
the soil that has lately been disturbed.
The winter frosts will also penetrate
more deeply, aud in a winter when
there is much freezing and thawing
will gradually lift the post up. If
posts are set in fall for a fence the
boards must be nailed on so as to keep
the posts from being twisted, so that
they must be reset before a fence can
be made.
Little pigs give returns for the ex
tra attention necessary in preparing
their food. See that each little fellow
gets one teat, that he may have liis
share of the mother’s milk. A little
warm milk made into a mash with
middlings will help the sow to make
more and better milk and the little
pigs to grow. Have plenty of fresh
water on hand where the sow and the
pigs can get it at all times. A little
charcoal will prevent sour stomach.
Health and thrift in breeding animals
means money iu the farmer’s pocket.
—E. T. Biddick.
In hungry hens, that is, hens that
kept hungry, there is no
well-fed hen
frCKINO CRANBERRIES.
Roil Sen.. In Harvest Tima Among ths
Cape Cod Bogs.
One hundred barrels to an aero is •
good yield, though, like all others,
the cranberry crop is very uncertain,
and while many fall below this figure,
bogs have been known to produce
j one barrel to a rod, or 160 to an acre.
One bog of thirty aores produced, in
1896, 3700 barrels.
The harvest begins about the Ist of
September, and is tho most busy time
of all the year to the people living in
i the vicinity of the bogs. To live out
of doors at this beautiful season is
very pleasant, and when it means
health, pleasure and profit, it calls all
ages and conditions, from the baby in
arms to the octogenarian with cane
and spectacles; rich and poor, black
and white, all are there; even the be
lated summer visitor is not left be
| hind. At an early hour in tho morn
ing the pickers are astir; everybody is
in a hurry; and although preparations
were begun days before, there are
many last things to be done before the
start is made. The bogs have been
“lined off” in rows, and are all ready
when the pickers arrive, so the work
begins at once. The berries are
gathered in four and six quart meas
ures, for each of which the picker re
ceives a ticket when it is filled; or
some of the larger bogs employ a
tally-keeper. Who will get the first
ticket? Each picker keeps one eye on
his neighbor aud picks with all his
might. It is an exciting race, with
something in it for every one. Tho
overseer (for this important person
age is found on every bog) keeps a
sharp watch that no berries are left
in tho hurry and that the measures are
filled. He tells them when to begin
and when to leave oft', and is authority
on all subjects connected with the
work. No order is obeyed more
promptly than “Leave off for din
ner.”
There are groves adjoining nearly
all the bogs, and here in the shade of
the trees the dinner is eaten; aud how
good it tastes! Tho hour seems a short
one when the call to work is heard,
but the tickets have beeu counted,
and it is an honor to be “high,” which
all covet, so they are soon at work
again. It is a jolly company. They
talk, they laugh, they sing, they en
tertain visitors, but they pick all the
time. But tho day is drawing to its
end, the sun sinks behind the trees,
the dew begins to fall, and “homeward
they plod their iveary way,” and the
village, which during the day has
seemed almost deserted, is again all
life and bustle.
After the berries are picked they
are screened and the dirt and imper
fect fruit removed. The small grow
ers do this all by hand, but on the
large bogs blowers and separators are
used, which greatly facilitates the
work. They are then packed in boxes
and barrels, stamped, and shipped to
market.—Harper’s Weekly.
Climate and Crime.
The public press has lately given
much attention to the subject of the
relation between weather and crime,
says the Monthly Weather Roview.
This seems to have started with a pri
vate communication from some
Weather Bureau observer and has
greatly interested every one. A pre
liminary collection of statistics seems
to indicate that crime is more prevalent
in hot weather.
The Chief of the Weather Bureau
has expressed his opinion that it is
utterly wild to contemplate at present
the possibility of issuing predictions
of prevalence of crime, and he has no
intention of attempting it. In faot,
there is no official investigation of tho
subject being made or contemplated
in the Weather Bureau and no legal
authority for so doing, even if it wera
considered desirable, which it is not.
The statistics of diseases have gen
erally shown a very broad connection
between climate and disease and the
investigation of that subject is ordered
by Congress, but that has no official
connection with crime. The discus
sion of such difficult subjeots is a
matter for the careful study of statis
tics by physicians, and any conclu
sions that may at first seem to be
justified need to be checked by later
investigations before they can be prac
tically applied to the public welfare.
Meat-Eating and Temper.
Mrs. Ernest Hart, who accompanied
her husband in his recent trip around
the world, appears to come to the con
clusion that meat-eating is bad for the
temper. In the Hospital she says that
in no oountry is home rendered so un
happy and life made so miserable by
the ill-temper of those who are obliged
to live together as in England. If we
compare domestic life and manners in
England with those of other countries
where meat does not form such an in
tegral article of diet, a notable im
provement will be remarked. In less
meat-eating France urbanity is the
rule of the home; in fish and rice eat
ing Japan harsh words are unknown,
and an exquisite politeness to one an
other prevails even among the children
who play together in the streets. In
Japan I never heard rude, angry words
spoken by any hut Englishmen. I am
strongly of opinion that the ill-temper
of the English is caused in a great
measure by a too abundant meat
dietary, combined with a sedentary
life. The half-oxidized products of
albumen circulating in the blood pro
duce both mental or moral distur
bances. The healthful thing to do is
to lead an active and unselfish life, on
a moderate diet, sufficient to maintain
strength and not increase weight.
To Kaise the Elbe.
It is said that the North German
Lloyd Steamship Company contem
plates raising the Elbe, which was
sunk off Lowestoft, England, two years
ago, with a loss of 350 lives. It is
known that the Elbe carried a valua
ble freight of gold and silver, much of
it in bullion, while she also had on
board 2000 registered letters. The
American Wrecking and Salvage Com
riany will make the attempt to raise
though she lies in
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1 WORDS O p WISDOM.
If yon want to live long, don’t tty
to live more than one day at a time. l $
The man who loves money and hate#
work is going to swindle somebody. -^
The heathen is a person whe doesn’t
allow himself to quarrel over religiom
When a woman makes up her min®
to marry a man there is no escape lot
him.
Not one woman in a hnndred knows
how to dress, and what is more no otfjti
can tell her. j j
No matter how poor a man’s
memory is, he never forgets when you
owe him money.
If your schooling does not help you
to better the world, your time and
money are both lost.
Apparently the heads of some peo
ple were given them merely as conven
ient bumps upon which to do up their
hair.
The young ladies do not loaf around
the church doors and make remarks as
to how pretty the young men look aa
they pass out.
There is no good in arguing with
tho inevitable. The only argument
available with an east wind is to put
, on your overcoat.
i It very often happens that the mor®
' learnedly a graduate talks on com
mencement day the harder ho has to
| "hustle” for a job.
A girl always worries more about s
speck of lint on ho best fellov 'a ioa
before she marries him than she dye v
i after the knot is tied.
Aman wl) knows'aays it's harder 101 l
ll bachelor to pack his trunk than a
married man. A married man gets his
wife to pack it for him.—The North-
West.
A Royal Lovo Story.
The marriage of the Prince of Wales
and Princess Alexandra of Denmark
is generally believed to have been a
love match, and this is tho way it is
said to have begun:
The Prince was travelling in Ger
many with his tutor, and went, among
other places, to the old cathedral city
of Worms—a city which every good
Wagnerian makes a point of visiting
for the sake of its cathedral, for was
not the space in front of the building
known as the scene of the quarrel be
tween Brunnhilde and Chriemhilde re
corded in the “Niebelungen Lied?"
As the Prince and his tutor walked up
the aisle of the cathedral they heard
sounds of steps behind them. Turn
ing, tho Prince saw a young girl enter,
beautiful as the princess of any fairy
tale, with a delicate rosepink com
plexion, ijnd brown hair tinted with
gold. When she spoke the voice wa,s
hushed and gentle. "Alexandra,
Princess of Denmark!” murmured th®
tutor. This was, indeed, the first
meeting of the Prince and Prinoess of
Wales. And it is told that the im
pression made upon the Prince was an
immediate one, and that the Princess*
on her side, came to associate th®
English stranger with tho Lohengrin
of her girlish dreams.
A Magnetic Island.
The stories of magnetio mountain#
that exert an attraction that cannot be
withstood on all vessels that come into
their vicinity have some foundation ili
reality, and that, too, in the neighbor
hood of Germany. The well known
island of Bornholm, situated in the
Baltic, and belonging to Denmark,
may be regarded as a huge magnet.
Although the power of this magnet ij
not so great that it can draw the nails
out of ships, as was told of the island
in the “Arabian Nights,” the magnet
ism of the rocks on the island of Born
holm can cause a good deal of trouble
to ships in quite another way. It ex
erts such an influence on the magnetie
needle that it can cause a vessel to
turn perceptibly aside from her course!
This is quite possible, as the effeot of
this magnetic island is perceptible at
a distance of nine and a half miles.-
Glasgow Herald.
The Military Autocar.
The military autocar of Mr. E. J.
Pennington, the English inventor, is
mounted on wheels -with four-inch
solid rubber tires, is driven by a six
teen-horse-power engine, and carries
two rapid firing guns, with suitabla
shields for the two operators. A speed
of forty-five miles an hour is said to
be possible, the guns, each provided
with 500 rounds of ammunition, being
capable of firing at the variable ratp
of fifty to 700 rounds a minute, with
the car in motion or at rest. If de
sired, the guns oan be rotated auto
matically during firing, and, in case
of the operators being shot after firing
is commenced, they will continue in
operation until the ammunition is ex
hausted.—Trenton (N. J.) American.
What “Ocean Springs” Is.
Ocean Springs, the scene of the fever
epidemic, is the oldest Frenoh settle
ment on the Gulf Coast, In 1682 La
Salle and Tonty, after having explored
the Northwestern country, paddled
down the Mississippi River to its
mouth and claimed all the sonrround
ing country in the name of the French
King. Beveral years later France sent
out colonists who settled at Ocean
Springs, which, however, they called
Fort Biloxi, the name having been
changed in recent years. The plague
whioh visited these early colonists
from time to time was probably noth
ing more nor less than yellow fever.—
Milwaukee Sentinel.
A Lucky Aeronaut.
If there was ever a man who was
born under a lucky star, an aeronaut
named Lee Stevens is that one. He
was making a balloon ascension at
Niagara Falls and when about 5000
feet up in the air his balloon exploded.
Stevens was hanging by his toes from
a trapeze when the explosion occurred.
He quickly drew himself up, and while
the collapsed bag was rushing down
ward at a terrific rate managed to de
tach his parachute and get clear from
the balloon. The parachute soon
slowed up, and Stevens lauded with
out a scratch. *-•
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