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By James Barnes.
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CorTKiunr, HOI, nr J amm Hxxssa.
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T was Paris. My room was on
the top door of the Hotel Dlnda.
I could look out across the little
courtyard at an uninteresting
row of yellow chimney pots ris
ing against a dim yellow evening
and below three rows of lighted win
dows and still below an Iridescent glare
from the glass kiosk that extended
from the cafe.
It was very still, but now and then a
laugh or n few words blew in at the
window. 1 had Just finished dressing,
and before I left the room I stepped
across and stood there for a minute
gazing down at the courtyard. A fig
ure sitting at a little metal table in
the corner caught my eye—a young
man with a silk hat pushed back from
his bead. His legs were crossed, ami
he was moving his foot nervously back
and forth. A cigarette was In his tin
gers.
There was something so familiar In
the pose that I looked closer, and as I
watched him without apparent effort
the cigarette left bls hand and de
scribed a fiery arch across the court
yard.
There was only one man that 1 knew
who could catapult a cigarette or a
cigar In that remarkable fashion—my
old chum Charlie Cummings. 1 lean
ed over a sill and. making a trumpet
of my hands, called, as I bad often call
ed up at bls windows iu the old col
lege days:
"Hel-l-l-l-o, Charlie Cummings!” iu
a distinct whisper. Mind you. It was
ten years since I had done this aud
surely seven since 1 had last seen him.
The effect was electrical. The nerv
oils motion of the foot
extended his hand before him, the nius
des rigid with a gesture of silence and
^^attention.
"Hello, there!” be answered without
lifting his head and without any sur
prise being manifested In his voice.
It was very amusing, and I went on
trumpeting a whisper down to him:
"I’ve come to see you. Don't you re
member tue. yon villain?”
Now It was my turn to be astonished.
I saw Charlie's hand reach for the tall
glass on the table. He paused with it
at his lips and then drained it to the
bottom. Tile light In the courtyard
was Just sufficient for me to catch a
gleam of the color. Again he spoke:
"Leave me alone,” lie said distinctly.
"Absinth!” thought 1 to tnyself.
“That’s what's the matter with Char
lie’s sense of humor.”
Hurrying dowu the stairs, I stepped
out on tlie marble flagging. There lie
sat with his back toward me in the
Baine attitude. I would have known
him In a minute. As 1 approached he
hurriedly struck a match on the bot
tom of the table and lit the fresh ciga
rette between Ills lips.
"Hello, old boy!" 1 said. "Well met,
by Jove!”
He started quickly.
The lighted
match fell blazing on the table, and he
whirled in his seat without rising.
"Hood God!” he said hoarsely.
“Where did you come from? Did you
speak to me Just now? I say. did you
call me by name?”
He caught me by the coat, and 1 no
ticed •.ii.it Ills band was trembling ex
citedly.
"Yes.” said I. “I called to you from
the window. You still have your old
tricks witli you. Charlie.”
He laughed.
“I have learned several new ones,
too,” he said—“beautiful tricks. Oil,
I'm a great success. Eli won't you sit
I
sliuffiett up inhy is It that wheu a Pari
sian »'alter pisses 4o years of ag>* lie
».hittiles'■ i I naked for n glass of light
wine. and. as I expected. Charlie re
liewr<l hfs t r ier for the Insidious green
liquid.
"Charlie." I said us he dripped the
water iiinsi'-.illy hito the glass, "that's
Botneth'itx you had better stop, old
man.”
"It makes one forget things." he re
turned.
“That's Just ft.” said I. "It has made
you forget my name, for Instance.”
He looked at me with something ap
proaching amusement.
"You're right, ohl chap. I couldn't
tell your name from Adam.”
sky
"Try." said I. "You remember where
you've seen me."
"Oh. yes," he said. "You see, I am
not trying to put all that away, but
that 1 have forgotten your name gives
me hope.”
"Hope for what?" I Interposed.
"Oh. that I can forget other things."
He had said this in a cynically calm
way without a touch of feeling. There
was no trace even of bitterness In his
tone. I saw that It would be foolish to
be offended.
"Wliat do they say about me over
there?" he asked suddenly, gulping
down the absinth, the pungent medic
inal smell of which rose strongly In my
nostrils.
"They say you are spending your
money as fast as you can. That's all 1
have heard cutting a swath, playing
the very devil, ami so forth.”
"Yes, and 1 have had some help at
It,” Charlie went on. “There are chaps
over here who follow that for a profes
sion. I’v. .' me a land office business
with them." lie continued, half laugh
ing. "Did you ever hear of the little
Duke de Marslgnl?”
“Can't remember,” said I.
"He ran even with me for three
weeks or so. Then they put him where
he couldn’t get away. He will stay
there, too," he added, with a chuckle.
“But somehow I can't make it out.
Poor little Maurice! He thinks he is
the caliph of Bagdad. Odd to remark,
that is Just what he’s cut out to be.
Now, there's happiness.”
it was apparent to me now that this
was the strangest case that had ever
been brought under my observation—a
num perfectly sane, or at most only a
third wasted, wishing to sink, If pos
sible. tlie rest of him in the oblivion of
dementia, au Impending position gen
erally so frightful to the threatened
that it causes them either to hasten
their own defeat by melancholy or to
tight it bravely and undiscovered to the
end.
1 remembered a strange thing about
Cummings in college and what had
been said about him during ids first
years after graduation—he had never
been drunk that any one could remem
ber. 1 myself had seen him wax mel
low, Jovial, enthusiastic, and had seen
ids wit grow clearer and quicker, as if
alcohol were a fuel only to his mental
machinery. When the others had reach
ed the period at which they wished to
sing, fight or go to sleep, according to
their natures, then Charlie would arise
and saunter over to Ills room to read
Schopenhauer or Browning, as tlie ease
“When are you coming back?" I
asked, more to listeu to the tones of
bis voice than for the sake of securing
Information.
"Never,” said Charlie laconically,
"never”—then he looked across his
shoulder at me again, and for an Instant
only his glance met mine—"If I can
help It,” be added.
“Pardon me.” he said suddenly,
arousing himself. "A longer residence
here should entitle me to the position
of host. What will you have?"
Not once bail be addressed me by
name. I had noticed this, but now had
ceased to wonder at It. As the waiter
(TO be continued .)
A Domestic Blend.
A resourceful young matron had a
small dinner party. Covers were laid
for six. and the dinner was charming.
The red wine was not too cold, the
white wine not too warm and the black
coffee a masterpiece. At the begin
nlng of the end of the dinner a cordial
was served. It happened to be Creme
Yvette, and when the husband tasted
it he put down his glass with a look
of anguish and was about to speak.
Ills wife's eye silenced him. Nobody
took more than the first sip of the liq
ueur. After the last guest had depart
ed the husband braved his wife’s eye
and spoke.
“My dear,” said he, “what in the
name of all unspeakable things was
the matter with that liqueur?”
His young wife smiled triumphantly.
“Why,” said she, “when I came to
look at the bottle, Just before dinner. I
found then* wasn't enough left to go
round. It was too late to get any
more, so 1 just added to it a bottle of
violet toilet water. It was the same
color, and it had the same smell, and
I knew nobody would notice the dif
ference, Wasn't it good?”—Washing
ton I’ost.
The Jewish Tornh.
dowu?”
I beckoned to a waiter, and be
brought me one of the spider leggod
iron chairs.
“What have you been doing with
yourself. Charlie, since 1 saw you
lust?” I asked cheerfully.
It was a stereotyped phrase, and his
reply was noncommittal.
"Nothing.” be said tersely.
Years ago be and I had been as thick
as thieves, but now somehow there
was a strained feeling, and his nerv
ousness was pitiful. He had been one
of the most enthusiastic of men, espe
cially in his greetings, but the man
ner in which iu* had received me made
it almost awkward.
"Where have you lieeu, old chap?” 1
Inquired, trying to make things easier.
’•Knocking about. I haven't been to
America for four years, you know.” lie
muttered.
• But that doesn’t answer my ques
tion. What have you been doing?"
Charlie turned and looked at me
without replying, and then I perceiv
ed how great had been the change that
had come over him. He had been well
knit and straight wheu at college, with
a wiry strength and a determination
In his movements that had won for
him a position in athletic circles. He
was the fiercest tackler I ever saw.
Now his hand had the transparency of
an old woman's, his wrist was atten
uated, and beneath the flesh of his
face the bones showed plainly. The
pointed Parisian beard could not cover
the hollows in liis cheeks. But Ills eyes
were bright In a way that was almost
frightening. I have seen such bright
ness in the eyes of fever patients In the
hospitals. I am a physician. In fact.
It bad been my purpose in making this
trip to Europe to attend the lectures
of the great Professor Charcot. Alas.
I had but been in time to walk In his
funeral!
Insensibly I began to diagnose the
case across the table, and In making
such diagnosis a physician Is apt to for
get everything In the abstract Interest
of determining disease.
terne and drummed with bls Unger» .
the table.
“Well, well, well!” he said. "It must
have beeu a devil of a mystery."
1 paid no attention to bls digress.<-.>
and tried to recall bls thoughts to wlnr
he had been saying. There was no re
spouse, and Charlie hurriedly arose.
"t ome, old chap, let's go and cba ■■*
some fisid." he said in bls old maimer.
1 followed him out Into the courtyard
and down the street to a little restuu
rant that I knew well. The tables had
marble tops, leather cushloued seats
ran along the walls, and mirrors
stretched from the low wainscoting up
to tlie ceiling. Queer people came in
I.ere. Strange, haggard looking women
111 brilliant colors and uncanny, ragged
headed men, students and writers and
poets, sad devils and gay. bickered or
lauvlied. with their reflections doubling
and trebling about them in the angles
of the mirrors.
There was only one person In the cafe
when we entered. The dining room
was farther back. I recognized the
high, bulging forehead, the death head
face, the inothy. straggling beard of
l’atd Verlaine, murderer of Instincts,
recorder of the beautiful! 1 had never
met him. altliougli once he bad been
pointed out to me in a place where
mere curiosity leads no one twice. To
admire ami detest a character is a com
plex feeling. I had never wished to
place utys* if In a position to be subject
o the insults which this man seemed at
liberty to throw at those who spoke to
him.
But. wonderful to relate, the poet,
looking up. caught Charlie's eye and
smiled smiled eagerly.
"Ah, men and!” he exclaimed in a
tone of thorough welcome, rising from
Ills corner.
Charlie stepped forward. It they hail
been two confreres who had exchanged
thoughts along some of the flower la
den banks and meadows of Verlaine's
imagination, the welcome could not
have been more true or heartfelt. They
grasped each other's hand across the
table. Charlie presented me. Verlaine
horn re i ise wim a snarl and u grunt.
I sat *.«*.* i .-:t C ■ table,
tìe started <,
«. a the lighted match
tell blazing on the table.
might be. or sometimes to swing hie
imagination to the verge of poetic In
spiration.
Even now 1 saw traces of this in the
effect of the absinth upon ills nerves.
His mind grew steadier, and lie hail
stopped the nervous movement of Ills
foot.
I recollected an occurrence tlie facts
of which were not generally known,
btit which in m.v mind had accounted
for some of Charlie’s later actions, lie
had been tremendously fond of an
elder brother, from whom, by tlie way.
he had inherited most of the money
that enabled lilm to pursue his fancies.
The elder Cummings had Intended to
do something with his life and had
taken up the profession of surgery. In
pursuance of his studies he had gone to
Vienna and there one day had been
found dead In a fiacre with a curious
stab wound In his heart. 1 well re
member now bow his brother’s death
affected Charlie. He was In New York
at the time and bad been studying law
In a desultory sort of way. but at once
he had given It up, sought new pas
tures ami cut his old acquaintances
right and left. Then he had gone away
to the country, no one knew where, for
a short time. He returned to New York
and In three days had hastened to Eu
rope. All this I went over in my mind,
but my thoughts were Interrupted.
"Where do you dine, old man?" Char
lie usked suddenly, breaking the long
pause.
"Nowhere,” I replied—“that la. I have
not decided."
"Come and dine with me."
“Why, thanks, I will.”
Cummings was smiling. I remember
ed that smile very well. It generally
anticipated some little humorous anec
dote or recollection, something tliat had
appealed to Ills artistic side, and Char
lie could talk Ids thoughts out loud bet
ter than any man 1 ever knew.
“I say, Denny (I noticed that my
name had returned to him), will you
ever forget”— And here Charlie detail
ed one of the adventures of the care
less undergraduate days. It was most
enjoyable. 1 could hardly Imagine he
was the same man. All at once, howev
er. he stoppl'd in the middle of a sen-
Of the objects used In the Jewish
synagogue one of the most Interesting
Is the Torah scroll. The Delineator de
scribes this as parchment scroll In
Hebrew, mounted on wooden rollers,
wrappeil in a cloth of green Velvet, em
broidered In silk, which is held by a
silver worked belt and covered with a
mantle of black velvet embroidered In
gold. The upper handles of the rollers
are of carved wood and the lower of
Ivory, with silver bells on the rollers.
The Jewish Torah, or the law. Is con
sidered by the people of this race the
most important ami sacred portion of
the Scriptures. In order that it may
he kept alive In the minds of the peo
ple it is divided Into as many “perl
copes'* as there are Sabbaths In the
year, so that within a twelvemonth
the entire hook will have been read
through. A manuscript copy is used,
having been prepared by a professional
scribe on parchment made of the skin
of a clean animal that Is, one the flesh
of which may be eaten.
Aonrlshmmt by Ilnthl.ig.
“It is well known that the skin 1 b a
great absorbent, and nutrition even
can be conveyed through Its agency,”
said a trained nurse. "A physician once
ordered a beef tea bath for a child that
I was nursing who was apparently dy
ing of some exhaustive bowel trouble
and with admirable effect. And I my
self have found that rubbing delicate
persons with warm olive oil is an ex- (
cellent tonic. If I had the charge of a
puny, sickly baby, I should feel inclin
ed to give it oil baths instead of water
hatha and try the effect. The oil Is
quite us cleansing, and it stands to rea
son that such tiny beings, particularly
if they are badly nourished, should not
have the natural oil of the body con
tinually washed away.”
FEE!» BABY SLOWLY.
ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FAC
TORS IN CHILD REARING
Rea ■ O11« W li y F ood should Not !<«•
'l'u in bird Knpldl) Into the Idttlr
Stomach—Advice Which Ip pile» to
Grown Folks u> Well
llnliri«.
CURIOSITIES OF MICA
Ila
l|»|»earaaec Urfur,*
luto shreis.
It
la
Split
1 be m!ea aa II «onus from the miues
is in blocks which are theoretically
short rhombic I'1 'ins. but practically
ir<- scarcely recognizable as such, bar
ing a very rough and uneven contour,
they have a very perfect cleavage
parallel to the base and lua; be split
Into lumime thinucr than the thinnest
tissue paper, ami these lamina.* form
the familiar transparent stove panes
rnd lamp chimneys. The exterior por
tion« of these blocks are opaque, brittle
and worthless, presumably from the
penetration of water, for mica soon
<ieeompos<*K when ex|»>s«*«l to any con
siilerable weathering. A thick layer
of plates has therefore to be removed
from either face of the blocks before
l.ny mien of commercial size or value
Is reached, and the sheets split from
the remainder are surrounded by a
wide margin of worthless material.
But the difficulties ami losses of
mica mining are fur from being all
enumeratrsl. Even when occurring In
blocks of commercial size it Is ren
dered valueless, or comparatively so,
by one or more of a series of defects,
which may be classed as color, specks,
ruling, ribbing and wedge formation.
Il sometimes occurs literally pit'll witli
black dots, consisting in general of
black oxide of iron or garnet, and
when even a few of these tire present
its commercial value is destroyed, lx-
cause such mica » lien used as an insu
lator Is peculiarly Hable to puncture,
the specks forming practically short
circuits for the electric current. The
same Is true of streaks, which are
sometimes turned to red rust.
Some otherwise excellent mica Is
found to be ruled or cut, as it were,
with a series of perfectly straight
lines, parallel to one side of the crys
tai, so that on being split the mica
falls immediately into strips; or. again.
Instead of being striped or ruled, tile
mica is often deeply ribbed or corru
gated parallel to the adjacent edges of
tlie crystal, so as to give tlie appear
ance of the letter A, or. rather. V,
whence it Is termed “A mica.” As the
ribbed portion has to la* cut away in
the sheet, ijuch mica is unprofitable
unless the blocks be large. Wedge
mica is that in which the block is
thicker at one end than tlie other, the
lamina* partaking in the unevenness.
Such blocks are wholly worthless ex
cept ns scrap. Engineering Magazine.
In the proper bringing up of a child
there is nothing absolutely more im
portant than this one thing—to teach
It to eat slowly.
Every groom knows and observes the
rule in the cure of a horse that rapid
eating is fatal to digestion. There are
all sorts of patent mangers to prevent
the horse swallowing his oats too
quickly. The man who has no patent
manger knows enough, wheu neces
sary, to put a stoue in the manger,
scattering the oats arouml it, so that
the horse may be compelled to eat
slowly. If the horse's inclination is
to gulp down water too fast, the care
ful man will put a big sponge in the
water, compelling slow drinking.
A child's appetite, when be is al
lowed to eat rapidly, is always in ex
cess of his actual needs unless the
child is in bad health. The reason for
tliis is extremely simple. The child
craves food because bis body requires
to manufacture new tissue. He is
growing, ami he must not only replace
the used up tissues that Ills daily life
destroys, but lie must make new flesh,
new muscles, new bone and new blood
every day, nddlng weight and size.
The sensation of hunger is not the
craving of an empty stomach, satisfied
ns soon as the stomach is filled; it is a
craving that is felt by the nerves all
over the body. This craving cannot
possibly be satisfied until the stomach
has begun the work of transforming
the food Into blood, flesh, muscles, etc.;
consequently the sensation which we
call hunger persists long after the
child or grown person has rapidly ab
sorbed as much food as It really needs.
A million foolish parents urge their
children to ent a great deal and always
let them eat ns much as they want to.
Yet all of these know that a famished
man taken off a wreck will eat himself
to death If allowed to do so. The very
hungry child goes to the same excess,
only in a lesser degree. The great
safeguard against that excess in eat
ing, which kills 90 per cent of men be
fore their time and which accounts for
99 per cent of children's diseases, is
slow eating.
OLD FASHIONED.
Nearly all children eat too rapidly.
They do so by nature. Slow eating is
Wliat has become of the old fashion
a matter of education. But too often
the mother or the nurse teaches the ed woman who said, “Oil, now you
hush?”
child the habit of eating fast. When
Wliat has become of the old fashion
the baby is little, it is fed one spoonful
at a time. Before it has time to half ed man who laid his picture taken in
chew or even gulp dowu the first tea lodge regalia?
Wliat lias become of Hie old fashion
spoonful of food another is held to its
lips. Of course it swallows what it ed woman who wore a long gold chain
has in its mouth and seizes upon the around her neck?
What has become of tlie old fashion
next mouthful. The habit thus incul
cated by foolish adults often ruins the ed woman who did things In three
shakes of a lamb's tail?
child permanently.
What has become of the old fashion
Four factors count in the healthy as
similation of food, factors which par ed woman who referred to tlie best
ents and nurses should remember. As room in her bouse us “the room?"
What has become of tlie old fashion
suming the food to be properly prepar
ed. thoroughly cooked and wisely se ed home where tlie children sat with
lected, there comes, first, the work of their noses nt the window every night
tlie teeth, which prepare tlie food for watching for their father?
What lias become of the old fashion
easy digestion; second, the action of
the saliva, with which the food must ed girl wlio. as soon us she became en
be thoroughly mixed in order to mini gaged. got out her crochet needle ami
mize tlie necessary work of the gastric began to make her own trimmings?—
Juices in the stomach; third, the work Atchison Globe.
of tlie stomach itself; fourth, and most
Took the flint.
Important, a proper supply of blood
A story is told of a certain English
and of heat.
Force your child to chew slowly and bishop well known for his verbosity
thoroughly every mouthful. If noth who rose to address the house of lords
ing else will do, compel him at fre on a very important occasion. “I will
quent intervals to lay down his knife divide my speech under twelve heads,”
and fork that the importance of pro he said, to tlie discomfort of his audi
longed chewing may be Impressed upon ence.
Tlie Marquis of Salisbury begged to
him. Don't allow your child to gulp
be allowed to interpose witli a little
down water or any other liquid with
anecdote. "A friend of mine was re
his solid food. If you allow him to
turning home late one night.” he said,
drink while he eats, the salivary
“when opposite St. Paul’s he saw an
glands will not act. They will not
intoxicated man trying to ascertain the
need to act, for he will be able to swal
time on the big dock there. Just then
low his food easily when it is made
it began to strike ami slowly tolled out
moist by water.
12. The man listened, looked hard at
You can’t do anything to help along
the clock and said: ‘Confound you. why
the unconscious process which goes
couldn't you have said that all at
on in the stomach, but you can do ev
once ?’"
erything to help that process by at
The bishop heartily joined in tin'
tending to tlie fourth necessity, which laughter which followed ami took the
demands blood and the heat of the
hint contained in the story.
blood in the stomach Allow no child
after eating to take violent exercise,
Two Good Whlut Honda.
to study or even to read an exciting
Once upon a time two young men
book. The brain has first call upon and two young women were playing
the service of the heart, and as soon
whist, and quite frequently one of the
as the brain is excited the blood leaves
young men and one of tlie young worn
the stomach and goes to the head. The
on found that tlieir fingers were in
muscles also when too violently ex
l wined under tlie table, out of sight
erted draw the blood away from the
This finger contact did not in the
stomach.
It is absolutely impossible for a child least disconcert them—in fact, they ap
or a grown person to digest properly I »eared to enjoy the piny much more
than did the other young woman and
or to get strength and vitality from
wliat he eats unless for at least a half young man.
Moral.—The enjoyment of the game
hour after eating the stomach be al
lowed to monopolize the blood supply. depends on tlie hands that are held.
Children should be kept quiet in New York Herald.
some way. especially very young chil
dren, after they have eaten. In the
case of very young babies nature at
tends to this mercifully by making
them go to sleep as soon as they have
absorbed their milk. Older children
Sorry He Spoke.
ought not to go to sleep directly after
He was in the parlor of a St. Louis eating for physiological reasons which
residence while bls fiancee was playing may be explained at some other time;
a Chopin sonata on the piano. Her but they ought to be quiet and calm.
mother was seated almost opposite her Tens of thousands of children in homes
future son-in-law, and when the prop where this newspaper is read are ruin
er opportunity presented itself she ed in health by studying right after
said:
meals. The public school system
"Don’t you think Edna has a great which gives children too short a rest
ear for music?”
ing period in the middle of the day is
"I certainly do,” replied the young responsible partly for this, and the
man. “If you’d stretch a few strings home studies at night are also respon
across, It would make a lovely gui- sible.
Every word that Is said here applies
tar”—
But he never finished his sentence.— to grownup people, of whom not one
New York Herald.
in a hundred lias ever been taught to
apply to himself such common sense
St. Louis hffs a peculiar sect in the care as is bestowed on a second class
shape of a community of sand eaters, horse.—New York Journal.
composed of seventy-five men and wo
What He Did.
men. The sand eaters take every day
Cassidy—O1 hear Flanagan cnlled ye
a spoonful of sand. They believe that
grit is necessary in every animal and i lolnr.
Casey—He did so.
that many stomach troubles are due
Cassidy An’ pliwat did ye do?
to the absence of grit in the stomach.
Casey- I did Flanagan.—Philadelphia
Since its doors were thrown open on 1 Cress.
Oct. 1, 1807, there has been a dally av
WronK Was HI k I i !.
erage of 2,200 visitors to the t'ongres
Biggs—You say Brown is enjoying
sional library, making an aggregate very poor health. Don't you know that
(with the omission of Sundays and sec Is Incorrect?
ular holidays) of 070,000 persons from
Boggs- Not In this case. Brown is
all parts of 'the country whose feet never happy unless he lius something
bate trod Its tessellated corridors.
to pompluin about.
DISTILLED WATER.
I* P* ihr Furr»t. Befit and Only Ab
solutely ^ti(r Water.
Boll a gallon of water uutil there is
but u quart left, and the quart will
coutaln all the Impurities of tlie gal
lou amt la* nearly four times us Im
pure as before. Continue tlie boiling
uud all the impurities animal, vege
table and mineral, except the gases
thrown off will lx* reduct'd to one sol
Id mass. The water which Is evapo
rated and passe«! off ax steam is very
nearly pure. But. you will say, it kills
the dangerous germs. We will sup
pose It does, but their remains furnish
material for bacterial life to feed up
on. Do you relish the idea of eating
In food **r drinking their dead and de
composing Itodies. w liieh poison the
water by their decomposition? The
fai t is scientific investigation has prov
id that boiling only kills the feeblest,
the least Injurious, germs.
Try n simple experiment. Put un
boiled city water in one bottle and tin*
same that has been boiled for half an
hour or more in another, cork tightly
and keep in tlie sun or in a warm place
for a week or longer ami note the dif
fcrence. The unboiled water will show
a marked depreciation in looks, taste
and smell, but that which lias been
boiled will be so much worse in these
respects that no one would think of
using it. In comparison with these
you can submit a properly sealed hot
th- of pun* distilled water to the same
conditions, and at the end of a year it
will be found to lie as pure, sweet and
perfect ax when first bottled.
The purest and best and the only ab
solutely safe water to use for drink
ing and the preparation of all foods
and artificial drinks is that produced
by distillation, but the most Imperfect
one produces n water far superior in
purity ami liealthfulness to tlie very
I m st spring waters under their most
favorable conditions. Tlie nearest ap
proach to it in purity is rainwater,
which lx distilled water of nature's
own production, when collected on
clean surface., in uninhabited sections,
where the air Is pure and uncontaml-
nated by smoke, dust, city and factory
gases, etc.—Sanitarian.
SOME WRITERS.
Locke is said to have spent over six
years In tlie preparation of bis essay,
“On the Human Understanding.”
Lamartine, tin* great French poet,
was happily married and received
great aid from his wife in all his un
dert likings.
The great Dante was married to n
notorious scold, and when he was In
exile lie had no desire to sei- her, al
though she wax the mother of his six
children.
Wolfe is said to have written "The
Burial of Sir John Moore" in one even
Ing directly after news had been
brought of the defeat nt Coruna ami
the death of the gallant British officer.
A friend of tlie late Walter Itexnnt
relates that th«* novelist always kept
ou his desk before him a list of tin*
characters of the novel In* liuppened to
be at work on. their relationship ami
appearance.
Huns Christian Andersen formed Ills
style by narrating his stories to vari
ous groups of children before he w rote
them down. Ills one thought was to
become famous, mid lie was very cure
ful not to make any enemies.
Dickens says in the Introduction to
"David Copperfield" that he spent two
years in the composition of that novel.
He did not usually require so long a
time, many of his novels being finish
ed in less than a year nud most of bls
shorter stories In a few «lays.
Anlmnl» an<l Salt.
Among certain people there is a
strong idea that nothing Is worse for
dogs than salt, but ns n matter of fact,
when administered in small quantities,
it materially assists tlie process of di
gestion. There is no doubt, however,
that to give dogs or any other animals
broth or pot liquor in which salt pork
or bacon lias been boiled would be al
most equivalent to giving them n small
dose of poison. Tlie use of salt among
horses, cattle and sheep is advocated
by the highest veterinary authorities.
I’igs. on the contrary, are extremely
siisci'ptlble to th«* poisonous Influence
of th«* agent, mid experiments lime
been made which had, nfter small
doses regularly administered, fatal re
subs Habitually, ns a matter of course,
all animals consume a certain portion
of salt, as it exists in certain proper
lions in most artich's of food.—London
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BRIGHT’S DISEASE
The largest sum ever paid for a pre
scription, changed hands in San Fran
cisco, Aug. 30, 1901. Tin* transfer in
volve«! in coin and stock $112,500.00 ami
win paid by a lxirty of business men for
a xpeciti or Bright’s Disease and Dia
betes, h.lherto incurable diseases.
They commenced tin* serious investi
gation of tlie specific Nov. 15, 1900.
They interviewed scores of the cured
and'tried it out <>n its merits by putting
overtlm-e dozen cases oil the treatment
ami watching them. They al'ogot phy
sicians to name chronic, incurable cases,
and administered it with tin* physicians
forjudges, Ip t<> Aug. 25, eighty-seven
percent of th«* test cases were eitli«»
well or progressing favorably.
There being Imt thirteen per cent o!
failures, the parties were satisfied and
closed tlie transaction. The proceedings
of the investigating committee and tlie
clinical reports of tlie test cas *s were
published ami »ill be mailed free on
application. Address Jons J. Ft i . ton
(’ omi ’ asv , 420 .Montgomery St. San Fran
cisco, Cal.
Bright’s
Disease
Is Positively Gurablc.
Interview with the pioneer manufacturer, N.
W. Spaulding, president uf the Spaulding Saw
Company, Sun Francisco.
Q.~We are told u member of your family was
cured of a case that the doctors pronounced
Bright’H Disease, although It is believed to be
Ineuruble ?
A. —That Is co rect.
Q.—Don’t you thiuk the fuels ought to be
known *
A.—Yes. If it will help anyone else you may
Bay that a cure was effected.
Q—You say pli.vsiHans hud diagnosed the
case as Bright s DiseuNe Y
A. Several had. They told us the condition
was critical, when my' brother, who had been
hel|»< tl by the Fulton Compouud, told us of it,
und 1 sent for it.
Q —as It long before u change was noted •
A —In a few weeks the improvement wax
marked. The sleep was better, and t ere win
a grudual return to heulth, although it was a
year bef re we considered the cure full a d per
manent.
Q — Know of any other cases Y
A Numbers of them. I’m sure I.told scores
a I tout it.
Q.—Were there any failures Y
A.— I know of none where it was taken In
season.
Q —Can you recall any individual cures Y
A —Several 1 told an Engl sh ac<|uaintance
about it. He begun to mend and ultimately re
covered, and took a supply of the Compound
with him on his return to England I consider
it a cure for Bright's Disease when taken iu
time It ought not to be permitted to die with
its aged discoverer, und I am glad to see busi
ness men arc going to perpetual* it
Medical works agree that Bright’s Disease
and Diabetes are incurable, but «7 per cent, are
positively recovering uud* i th« Fulton torn
pounds. (Common forms <>f kidney complaint
and rheumatism orr-i hut li. rt resistance
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At om* of the early «log shows Sam
uel J Tilden bought an Immense Great
Dane dog “What's his mime?” naked
a visitor.
“Ask him.” «aid Mr. Tilden.
"What gooil would that do?”
"It's his mime,” was the reply
So it was—"Askim."
Th«* dog knew a number of tricks,
Chllflrrn’N Piny In Gcrmnny.
but would only perform when fed.
It is a common belief In south Ger “He'd make a good politician.” said
many that If children play soldiers Ills owner ax be gave him a bone.
very often in the street there Is a war Now York World.
coming, and if they play "funeral" an
epidemic will come over the land, and
At the PartlnK of the Way«.
many deaths will result. Tlie relator
"Do you take this man to be your
of this tells Hint, when a I toy, he with wedded husband?" asked the justice
others played “funeral'' in front of of the peace.
tlie house of an old miser In his native
"1 don't know whether to do It or
town in Germany. The miser became not, «quire." said the young woman,
much excited and exclaimed. "I will wiping her eyes. "He's got the money
not die yet!" and made complaint to from me to pay for the license. I don't
the mayor that tin* boys should be ar like to marry a man of that kind, and
rested and punished.
yet 1 hate to see $2 wasted.”—Chicago
Trllmm*
f*l*ronouticed caf-tay—accent on last|syllalile
r:«innl.
Some years ago at u Mardi Gras ball
D or ’ r Teeth.
at the Hopkins Institute of Art a man
De Style—He pull«*d fifteen teeth
masked, approached u woman, masked from me.
and asked her for n dance, ax Is con
Gnnlmsta lie's no dentist.
xidered right and proper at Mardi
De Style 1 know It. but lie pried
Gras
open the dog's mouth and yankeil him
“But I don't know you. sir.” said the off New York Telegram.
lady In her most Icy lone
“Well. I'm taking ax big a risk ns
Hungary hopes to be able to raise
you are." retorted the man.
cotton, although the warm season is
only five months long and th«* plant
requires seven months to ripen. The
An Inierlonrr*» r'.vnlsnntlon.
“Now. then,” cried the deep voiced difficulty is to I h * overeoun* by sp«*«*ial
woman, "wliat has made female suf preparation of the s«*«*d and bv adding
pertain ingredients to tin* soil.
frage possible?"
"Male sufferance.” replied the rude
California leads the country in tin
man who hud no business to be there
development of electrical power from
at all.—Philadelphia Press.
water. She Ims th«* three largest |x>w
er transmission llm-s In the world
Wealth does not make n home. It The first «uccesxfiil experiment in that
takes thought fill, sympathetic corn line In this ..mntry wax made in Po
radex to make u home.
mona in 1S91
Innpprpt’litflve,
A certain politician, eminent but not
refined, made Samuel J. Tilden a busl
ness call at ills Gramercy Park man
sion. Wishing to be particularly nice
to him. tin* old gentleman got out n
liottle of Johannlsberger Schloss, the
rarest of Rhine wines, and began to
decant tlie contents into a minute
glass, sniffing the savor of the Juice
and taking great pains to Indicate that
n treat wax coming. A tray with some
large glasses wax at hand. The poli
tician reached f«>r one and, grasping
the precious bottle by the neck, durnp-
e«l half the contents Into it and drank
It all at one gulp. Mr. Tilden eye«l him
malevolently and did not try to pro
long the visit. When the door closed
behind the guest, he said with a snap:
"Blast lum! The next time be cotnet
I'll give him beer."—New York World.