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 w m mwm bonbs. CHAPTER VII.â€" (CoNTiNCED.) " If he did nothing worse than that I should think no worse of him than you do. Miss Christie. But I think that you will allow that a ccan who has lived within half a mile of another man for rearly three year? must know more of his character than a young incocent girl who has seen him at his best only for a month." "But you cannot judge a man fairly until yen have seen him continually in his own heme. I have teen ilr. Rayner among his family I have played for him, walked with him, tad long walks with him ind I m^Et s-urely know him better than yon, who have only an ordinary outside acquaintance with him." Mr. Readc crew timfelf up very stiffly, and tke color rushed to his foiehei;d. He WES setting real'y angry. "Xo doubt, M;sa Christie, joa know hini a great deal better ihan I do. I have never played for hinn, and I have not foucd either talks or walks with him particularly de- lightful. Birt then I dare say he did r.ot try EO hard to he arrcea' Ic to nie as he did to you." He said thia ia a sneering tcne, v iiiuh brought the hot blcotl to my !ace. I tried to answtr, but my voice wouid not ccy\c. I turned away sharply, and left liim, with au agony cf anger and pain at njy fieart v/hich would have made him remorseful indeed if he could have guessed what bis viords had inflicted. As it was, he followed me a few steps down the drive, with apologies to which I was too argry and too niuch hurt to iatcH. "Don't speak to me nov.-," I said â€" "i can't bear it " and, rning off rapi ily into a side-path. I left him, and fled away through the alleys into the house. Luckily I managed to keep back tears, so that I could return to the drawing room with the flowers I had gathered before they began to wonder why 1 had been so long. Mrs. Rayner told me that the note from iirs. Manners which Mr. Reade had brought was to aak that the articles which we were preparing for the "cale" â€" a sort of bazaar en a small scale which was one of the attractions of the annual school-treat â€" should be sent in to her within a week, as they had to te ticketed and arranged be- fore the sale-day arrived, and whether Miss Christie would ba so kind as to give her ser- vices at the stall and, if so, whether she would call on !Mrs. Manners during the cczt few days to settle what should be her share cf the work. I was delighted at the thought of this little excitement, and, al- though Mr. Rayner warned methat Ishcnld have nothing niser to do than to see the pretty trifles I had worked fingered by dirty old women who wculct not buy them, and to have hot tea poured over me by clumsy children ic I helped at the feast, 1 would not be frie,ht€ned by she prospect. That evening I debited with mys3lf whether it was not too c'lainp and swampy still for mc to go and peep at my nest and â- ite if liie water hT;d t,ui,3idcd and left the top of the brick3 dry. I chcbS afterwards ti think that it was some supernatural in- stinct which led me to decide that I would put on my goloshes at d go. When I got there, 1 found on the bough which formed my seat a basket of Gloire de [)!Jon roses, and the stalk of the uppermost one was stuck through a little note. I never doubted those rosea were for me I caly wondered who had put them there. I Icoked searchirgly aronnd ms in all direc- tions before I took np the rose which, cD.r- ried the note and carefully slipped it ofT. It contained these words. "For Miss Christie, with the siocere apologies cf one who would i.ot iirivy ctl"nd- id her for the whole world." I did not know the writing, but I knew v.-hom it was from. i think, li: i had been quite sure that no one could have seen ms, 1 should have raised the note to my lips, I was S.0 happy. But, though I could see no ose, t :e fact of the basket arriving ro 'sur ly At my secret haunt Eeoincd to ar:;ue the ex- iatencB of a supernatural agency in dealing witii which one could not bfi too discreet oo I only put the note into my pocket iind reti.rueii to the house vyita my Cowers. The fcupernaturil age-icy could not .;.o!]i"?v-' me there, eo 1 slept tnat iii;^ht •.-. :ih tho )v.)!c my pi'losv. CHAITKR Yill. V- "u arc getting pale a^am, ijiy Ui'-,r ciiihl," said Mr. Rijuer to n.-e the next morniog^he niet me, at the tjot ot t'ne litairs, viresssd for my walk v.-ith lliidoe. " V.e must fi;id some means of bring those mo.=it btcjminij roses back to your cheeks again. You work too hard at those self-im- posed evenicg tasks, I am afraid." " Uh, no, indeed I dou't, Mr. Rayner I sm getting very lazy I haven't d..'uc a:;y- thingfor two or three nights." The fact was that I had felt to languid even to sit down and write, and I had wasted the last two evenings listlessly turn- ing ever the pages of a book I did not read. "Ah, thenycu v.int change of air Now how to give it you without letting you go away â€" 'or we can't spare you even for a week You will think me a magician if I procure you change of air without leaving this house, won't you. Miss Christie? Yet I think I can manage it. Y'ou must give ino a few Cays to look about for my wand, arid then, hey, presto, the thing will be done I ' I laughed at these promises, looking upon them as the lightest of jests but the very next day I met a workman upon the stair- and ilr. Rayner asked me mysteriously at dinner whether I had seen his familiar spirit aboBt, adding that the egirit wore a paper cap and a dirty artisan's suit, and smelt of beer. That spirit pervaded the house for two days. I met him in the garden holding very unspiritaal converse with Jane I met him ia my room taking the measure of my bedstead I met him in the passage carry- ing what looked like thin sheets of tin and rolls of wall-pap 3r, and I heard sounds of kaavy boots in the tnrret above my room. Then I saw no more of him but still thera were nnaccustomed Bounds over my head, soacda of footsteps and knocking, and I met Bometimea Jane and sometimea Sarah eoming out of a door which I had never known unlocked before, but which I now di3covered led to a narrow staircase that I guessed was the way to the torret. On the fourth day, when I went to my room to dress for tea, I found it all dis* mantled, the bed and mmt of the famitnre gone, and little Jane polling down my books from their shelf and enjoying my dis- comfiture with delisted fluglea, not at all disconcerted at being can^t taking an un- heard of liberty, .j; "What does this mean, Jans? I can't sleep on the floor and what are yon doing with my books?" 1 cried in one breath. "I don't know nothing abont it, miss it's Mr. Rayner'a crdera," said she, with another irrepressible snigger at my bew.ld- ered face. I was turning to the door to wander forth, I did not know exactly whither, to try to tind an explanation of this most extraordin- ary state of thnigs, when Sarah came in, her dark frowning face offering a strong con- trast to that of the laoghing Jane. "Safah, can you tell me what this means?" said I. " Mr. Rayner has ordered the rocm in the turret to be prepared for you," said she shortly. "Perhfcps you will be kind enough to manage down here till after tea, as it's his orders that you shouldn't be shown up till the room is quite read} ' I answered that I could mamage very well, and they left the room. I said nothing at tea about my a'U-enturc, rejecting ttat perhaps some surprise forme was intciided, which would be sprung upon me at a fitting time. And so it proved. While I was fjuietly w.-iring in the schoolroom, after tea, :Mr. ar:;u -Mia. Kajiier aud Haiuee, who had not 2 f:t go!ie to I):d, came in and conducted me in a formal procession up-stairs, up the narrow winding forrent-staircase that I had EC often wsnttd to explore, and, opening the door of the one rooi;i the turret contained, Mr. Rayner, in a short but elaborate speech, begged Vo instal me without further cere- mony as the "imprisoned princess cf the en- chanted lower." I gave a cry of delight. It was an octa- ganal room, the four sides which overlooked the marsh containing each a window, while in one of the other sides was a small fire- place with a bright fire burning. The car- pet was new, the wall-paper was new there were two easy- chairs, one on each side cf the fire, a writing-table and a Japanese screen, besides the furniture of my old room. It locked so bright and so pretty that my eyes danced with pleasure at the sight, and I could not speak while Mr. Rayner explained that now I should be high and dry out of the damp, and iio expected me to become red-faced and healthy-loooking immediate- ly â€" that he had h.ad tinfoil put behind the paper in one of the cupboards which was considered damp, that the picturetciue ivy bad been torn dov â€" all but a little bit to hide the unsightlj eiiimney â€" and that I was to have a fire -Hkcnever I liked now, and one tvc-ry (iay when it began to grow colder, "Ivlou't know v/hat to say. I dr.n't know how to tkank you," said I, almost patnsd ijy the extent of tl:-. Lindners showered up- on me. !rs. Rj^yueT in ;r:y I tritel to include thanks bat .she hung back almost ungra- e'.oualj' .IDU she .s,-3iji:ju to have beca drawn ir.to thu demonst-.aticu against her will. She was the last ot ir.y three visitors to leave the room, cuJ ia the moment that ive v.ere alcn; together, before shefoUoweel her husband Dnd child down stairs, she said, seemin? to be moved out of tier reserve by the unaccustomed little excitement, and casting upon me a k;cn look from her great eyes â€" "Are you not afraid of sleeping so far fiom every cue Or do you prefer it?" 1 am not at all nervous but I was enough {mpreased by her almost eager rr.anaer to answer rather shyly â€" "Xo, I don't prefer il;. Bat there is no- thing to be afrsid of, is there " She glanced toward tho door, and, say- ing hurriedly, "Oh, no, cf course not I h'lpe you will becouitertable. Miss Christie," .she left tha room. Afraid I No, ri course I was not afraid I never hael mirided sleeping away from everybody eise aud, if burglars were to break into the Al-iers, they certairly would ii.ot cxptci fo tind anythinEr worth stealing iv. the turret. i vtished Mrs. Raj'ncr had no; put the ided into my head, though. I Vi'u'H not so strcng-triiaded as to be proof ogaiusi ff.^'T even at sccond-hanc-, and ever Birico the sensation ciuaed by that Jewel- Tobbciy in Derbyshire I had been very cire- fid to hide away my watch, loy one bracelet, CL.d r:iy two broohes under my pillow at n:j:;ht. But I was too happy iu rny new abode to troubl.s myself long with idle f;-'ar3. 1 found that, by opening out my 'screen in a particular position, I could completely hide tha v-aah-riand stand, and make myetif a sitting-roora then I sat down by the fire in one et the arm chairs and gave myself up to the enjoyment of this new piece of good for- tune and I was still gazing into the fire, with my feet cosily warming â€" the nights were already cold enough for that to be a Ifiury â€" on a hassock close to the fender, when i heard Sarah coming up the stairs. I knew her footstep, and 1 would rather not have heard what I considered her ill-omen- ed tread on this first ev'ening in my new room. For I knew that Sarah disliked me, and even the fact that she had brought mo np some coals to replenish my fire, which was getting low, did not rejoncile me to her presence I coald not help thinking of the grudging manner in which hofore tea she had announced to me my change of resi- dence. I tried to bs friendly, however, and, when I had thanked her for her trouble, I said â€" "I wonder this nice room ha? been neg'ected so long. Has no cni; ever used it, Sarah " " Mr. Riyncr used to use it for a study," she said shortly. "I elon't know why he gave it up I suppose it was too high up. That was six months ago, before you carte." "It is a long way from anybody else's room, Sarah, isn't it " " Mine is the nearest, and I have ears like needles so jou needn't be frightened," said she, in a tone which really sounded more mecasing than consoling. "It will be rather lonely oa a stormy night the wind will howl to up here," I said, my spirits beainning to sink un jer her ahirp speeches. " Oh, yon won't want for company, I dare say I" she srud, with a harsh gratinj; laugh. "Why all the company I am likely to get here is burglars," I answered lagubrioasly, with my chin between my hands. The start she gave startlsd me in my tnrn. "Barglars! What burglars? What are yon talking aboot ' I looked np amaeed at the effect ot m; words on Sarah, whom, of all people in the world, I should have considered strong- mindcMd. It was promotion for me to be soothing Sarah. " Why, I have more courage than yoa 1" I said, laughing lightly. "I'm not afraid ot them, n they came, they would soon go down again when they found there was no- thing to take. Would you be afraid to sleep up here alone, Sarah ' But she hardly took the trouble to an- swer me except by a nod her black eyes were fixed upon me as I spoke, as il she would, and almost as if she could, penetrate to my inmost soul. Then, as if satisQed with the result of her ecrutiny, she relapsed into her usual hard, cold manner, axd, answericg my good night shortly, left u;e alone. Then I made up my mind definitely on a point that had otten occupied me vaguely, and decided that Mrs. Rijncr and Sirah were, in diffsrent ways, without exception, the two mc»t unpleaaant and diiagreeable women I had ever met. And after that I went to bed and dreamt, not of a bnrglar, but of quite a different person. The next day was Sujday, aaJ there were two strangers in church who attracted tue attention of all the congregation. They were two fair-complexioned, light-haireel girls who sal in the Reades' pew, and who had evidently spared no expense on rather tasteless and unbecoming toilettes. 1 caught myself feeling not sorry that they were ill- dressed, and glad that ens was plain and that the one who was pretty was dreadfully freckled and I wondered how it was that I had grown so ill-natured. Mr. Laurence Reade sat between them, and he shared his hymn-bcok with the pretty one and I did 80 wish it had been with the plain one And when we came out of the church, and he and his two sisters and the two girls troop- ed cut together, tho breaking up of the group left him to pair off a£;ain with the pretty one. I remember noticing, as Haidee and I walked home together, that the midcres toased me more than they had ever done that summer, that the sun was more scorch- ing, and that it was just as dusty as if we had not had ary rain at all. It was a horrid day. Mr. Rayner asked us, at dinner, if we had noticed the two girls with the pretty hair in Mr. Reade's pew, and said that he had heard that the one with the blue eyes was the future Mrs. Laurence Reade, and that it would be au t xcellent match for both of them. " 1 no; iced th it he paid her a great deal of attention in churc'.i, and afterwards they paired off together quite naturally," said he. And that aftcrDOon the heat and the midges and the dust were worse than e-er. Mr. Rayner complained on the day after this that I was looking paler than before, and threatened to have me sent back to my old room if I did not look brighter in two days from that date. Luckily for me, my spirits improved a little. The next day Haidee and I passed by Geldham i'aik ia cur v.'alk, and saw over tue fence Mr. Readc, his aiatera, and the two strangers piaying lawn-tennis. None of them noticed U3 that time but, as we were returning, I observed that ilr. Keade jumped up from the grass where he was lounging in the midtit of the adoring girls, as 1 thought contemptuously, and shook out of his hat the leaves and grasses with which his companions had filled it as for them, they were too much occu- pied with him to ';ee anything outside thj park. Haidee aud I had to go the vllbge shop with a list of articles which I felt sure we should cot get there. But it was one of Mr. Rayner's prineiples to encourage local trade, so we haa to go once a week and tease the crusty and ungrateful old man who was the sole repreaentative of it by demands for such outlandish things as wax candles, bloater- paste, s.ad floseUe. I had been tap- ping vainly for some minutes en the Jittlo counter, on which lay four tallow "dips," a i)cx 01 i ustycrochct-hooks, and a most un- inviting piece of bacon, when Mr. Reade dashed into the shop and greeted me with much stirprise. When h«i had asked after Mr. and Mrs. Rayner, and heard that they were quite well, there was a pause, and he seemed to look to me to continue the con- vers 'tica but I could think of nothing to say. '^o he roamed about, digging his cane into the cheese and knocking down a jar of srruff, which he carefully scraped together with his foot and shovelled back, dust and al' into the jar, while I still tapped and still nobody came. "He must be at dinner," said T resigned- ly. "In that case we shall have to wait." lor I knew Mr. Bowles. So Mr. Reade seated himself on the counter and har- pooned the bacon with one of the rusty orochet-hooks. " Convenient places these village-shops," eaid he, not thinking of what he was saying, I was sure. " Y'es, if you don't care what you get, how stale it lb," said I sharply. He laughed but I did not intend to be funny at all. ' ' I came in only for some" â€" herehe looked round the shop, and his eyes rested on a pile of dusty toys â€" "for some marbles. I thought they would do for the school-treat, you know." 1 thought it was a pity he did not re- turn to his lawn tennis and his/£a7icee if that was the errand he came on, and I was de- termined not to be drawn into another tete-a-tete with him, so I turned to leave the shop. But he stopped me. " Old Bowles can't bs much longer over his bacon, I'm sure," said he, rather plead- ingly. ' 'I â€" I wanted to ask you if you were any better. I thought last Sunday you were looking awfully ill." "List Sunday!" â€" and I thought of these girls. "I was never better in my life, thank yon. And I am quite well. Mr. and Mrs. Rayner have put me into the tnrret to keep me out of the damp. It was very, very kind of him to think about it. It is the best room in all the rouse." " Best room in the house Then Mr. Rayner doesn't sleep in tho house at all," said he, in a low voice, but with sud- den decision. I got up from the one chair and turned to my pupil, who was deep in an old story- book sue had found. "Come, Haidee I" "No, no that is revengeâ€" it La unworthy of you," said he, in a lower voice still. nor "Don't let ns quarrel again. Mr. Rayner is an angal. No, no, not that " â€" for I was turning away again. "He has his faults but he is as near perfection r.s a man can be. Then you are very happy at the Alders now " "Yes, thank you." ' And you have no great troubles " " Y'es. I haveâ€" Sarah. " "Sarah? That is cna of the servants, ian't it? A gaunt, ehrewd looking person I've often met her oa tho road to aud frcm Bea^onsburgh " " Yes. She gOf;8 out when she likes, I think. Sne ia a very important persori iu the houscucld, niach mere bo than Mrs, Ray- ner." "Oil And nhe ia a trouble to you " "Y(i; I'm afraid of her. She doesn't like me. Aud whenever I used to give her letters to post I never got any ausMers to thear.' "Does Mr. Rvyner like her?" " L^ke her ' I dcn't think any one could like Sirah, except, of course, her 'young man.' That doesn't count. Bat I*Ir. Riy- ner thinks a great deal of her." "So the young man's liking doesn't count ' " Of course Tom Parks is prejadictd in her fivor," said I, prefeiring that the talk should remiu personal. "Surely it is a complimen' to a woman that a young man should be prejudiced in her favor?" said he, preferring ttiat the talk should become abstract. " He mmst have finished by this time " I cried and a vigorous thump on the counter did at last bring in Mr. Bowles, who de- clared it was the first sound he had heard. I was sorry to find that he had several of the things I wanted, as everything he sold was of the worst possible quality and, while he wa? doing them up, Mr. iisade found an opportunity to whisper â€" "You got my flowers " " ^cs, thank you it was very kind of you to send them." " I'.ring them," corrected he, "What did you do with them " I remembered the fair-haired girl and my resolve to be discreet. "I put them in water, and when they were dead I threw them away." "Threw them away?" "Yes, of course; one doesn't keep dead flowers," saia I calmly but it hurt me to say so, for the words seemed to hurt him. It is very hard to be discreet. He said no more, but took his parcel and left the shop, saluting me very coldly. I had taken up my parcel, and was going out too, when Haidee's soft voice broke in. " Y'cu've got Mr. Reade's marbles, and he has srone otf with mamma's wool and curtain-hooks, Miss Christie. ' I had not noticed this. " How stupid cf him 1" I exclaimed. He had marched off so fast that I had to run down the lane after ' 'ii before he heard me call '-Mr. Reade " d laughed a little at the embarrassment he w(.uld have felt if he had produced a ball cf wool and curtain hooks as the result of the morning's shop- ping, and I if 1 had gravely presented Mrs. Riyncr with a bag of marbles. Aud then, remorseful and blushing, I said hurriedly â€" "I did keep one c ' the rcses, Mr. Reade â€" the one with the note on it " and then I ran back to Haidee, without looking up. Whether he was engaged cv not, I could not be ungracious about those lovely flow- ers. Then Haidee and I went homo to dinner. I had met Mr. Reade quite by accident, and I had done nothing v.rong, nothing but what civility demanded, in exchanging a few words with him but I was glad Haidee was not one of those fooiisli prattling little girls who insist upon chattci'ing at meal- times abont all the small events of the morning walk. (TO Ei-: (ontim:i;d.) WASTING AWAY. The Living Slicleton Kcady to Yield His Body to the Cause of Science. Isaac S. Spracjue, the living skeletou, who is 40 years old, and haa been ledncsd by atrophy to forty pounds v.eight,s:.idto acor- respoudeac, ia regard to u rumour that he; had given his body, iu the iaterestf of sci- ence, to the Harvard Medical College '•Yes, the story is true, and all the arrange- ments have just been completed. 1 have agreed that when I dia they shall have my body they Avill first cut it open and make a post mortem examination to find out, if pos- sible, why I am so tliiii then they will put the body ia alcohol and place it in the mu- seum ot the college, whore it will remain, but I'm goiog to need it myeelf for the pres- ent they can't have it till I get through with it. My body will be preserved in the museum there as that of Calviu Kdson is in the Albany museum. Edson died at tha age of forty-five, weighing only forty- five pounds. The doctors, when they cut him open, found that his thinness was caused by narrowing cf the thoracic duct, a trouble with which other members of his family were affected. His face and neck were emaciated like the rest of his body, but mine are net, so my thinness is probably due to something ebe. The phy- sicians pronounce it to be an extreme case of progressive muscular atrophy. It has been going on for thirty years, while the longest other case on record is that of a man who died after having the complaint for ten years." â€" Albany Argus. â€" ^w**-* tm t \^m iM» The Freak of a Birmingham Cliimney Sweep. Recently a strange scene in one of the principal Birmingham thoroughfares was the subject of magisterial proceedings. A sweep named Cheshire ran up a ladder on to the roof of a gentleman's house, and, tor the edification of a large crowd, stood upon his head on the top of a chimney pot, at tho same timo performing with his legs a variety of fantastical movements. The chimney collapsed and fell into the street, doing damage to the extent of a sovereign, and causing several persons to have narrow escapad from in j ury, while the adventurous performer of the freak rolled into the water- spout, and had a narrow escape from what must have been instant death. Ultimately he was rescued through a skylight in the roof. The prisoner said he supposed he had been playing the fool. Tae Clerkâ€" And you will have to pay for it. Cheshire was fined 53., and 203. damages.â€" /vTTwton Telegraph, Philosophy of Eating. Were mjn to exercise the same judgment in reference to their own food that thf y do in feeding domestic animals, there would be less illness on account of diet. For a mu- ter of such universal importarcij it has been the subject of many absurd theories. The world seems to be divided between those who "eat to live" and those who "live to eat," The proper lies m^iy be drawn somewhere between these extremes. There is little to choos.; betvvecn .t glutton and one who eat?! lew little ')-:in f^ytj. mental notion that it is -n'tiJi' ii f â- ' !»!.] that the lets on can ei*. .•.'.,â- ! siiid rn-iKiyrn toIive,the more: k liLitd and yfirit i I .-,1. !.,. comes. If a n;aa lias no cuutrwl ovei i, » ,ij,. pel-' ' auii no judgiii'-T t a' tv the quii.'-y of iOv(i iie requirt'.a, ic -Heuild have t.j'cL' Ijetler Lad hn utlong/ii tn i !ov. .^r er.kr o' anim lis, f ul j-.o*: to i);.: eo- tr'd f'f a h:;;!ier inteii/'gence. Ner.l.C' (;i- lef.ioa! re- ji'i-'tike of sulii;;i\.nt fou'l lo sust.^iiu tlie uvmv i.i !•„, full vigor ti'uovt'.d l).-: regirae-d is ei l-ieacc ct dieep.s2, reqairirg tie iitrc'v.tioii (;t o cow- pet ctit phy!*ici:i7i. ?\ itaro wiu ijot pai.i^L-tiy tuLmit to be abuse-d o;- cheated. The quautlty 'i:d the quality .f food rf- e^uired lu each, individual 'a c depends en tao size aud heelth oi the y.:;r,-io:\ and on h!s oecupatiou. A persoii ft --^Klrn.tiiry liabitj should regula'.e the diet ttj the reqaircment of the system, rememb'-DEg tb.it it :â- :, g.-jjtr to err on the .side of eating hardly eu'ivigh than too much. Over-eatiag prndcco, ac- cumulations cf fat, which is a d'Seate (i ii. self, and increases tlip quantity o* bloofi, rendering one liable to heart disease anil apoplexy and paradoxical as it may seem, insuffisiect food tends to produce tho Ba^nt disease. Either condition causes derai^n/.. ments iu the circulation that niay ir.i.la c the same troubles. If we follow the indications of in v 't w, are safe as to foods. U'hat the apj-'ite craves is usually bes.t for us the stcuiacii notifies us when we require food and when we have catea enough. It is often the last mouthful that nivitea an at^.lk of dyspepsia. " Variety is the spice of life." In uoiiiicf; is this more applicable than is to foods. Se- lect a list of foods that experience has laugbt us are most acceptable, and then frotp. th.' list pet a variety for each day cf tlie week. Salt meat should be used sparingly, bociaEt they are more indigestible than fresh. 'ith and rich puddings try tie digestive orgact severely, and cannot be safely in Juiced ia by adults, except they have vigorou- ' '.t. door exercise. The quantity and e]u-j.lity d food should depend upon M-hat is rer|U"red of tho individual just as the a.i-utit c: fuel requisite depends oa the work a L-'.t.-i'i. engine nas to ietorm. A wise regulation of the fi.:;ra •!; /.vi.t be made to supersede ihs u=.-.- of :. :i,. ;.â- ;.. -it- to a very gooel exten t. The remote cause of a ni'jjricy cf Ci: ordinary ailments ia taking '.-ola tr.c :.a';a,- al functions of the bfr.ly arc ret •riUc-, a"l waste material is retailed m r; '•â- it te long enough to do nnschic" Tl u^r.i remedy is to tak'3 a oathartu; i..' a hx-.tive in order to remove it. Bat a rriore f (.'L^vcni- ent and a more .more natural plar;, ia riJi- ary cases, ia to cut cli' tlio food surriv icr twenty- four hours, aad to trust to Eilureto do the rest. Instead of food, r. JVw i'.-.- spoonsful of hot water drink durio,:; th day will hastea tha desii'ed reijlt Wheuever the bowels become constipirc, there ia an uucomforta'ile fedin.' ii; ti;e system, often accoinpanieu by reaifaliiiss and anxiety of mind. The a'jovA su;:ge:- ticjne, if followed strictly, will brir:!: i-.is- more promptly than nisdiciu' auil v itir^u; its inconveniences. Oa the ct'aer hand, ti^erc i^ a large '...b cf persons who are borne dowu hy co'is:,'.p: fear of eating too nrich, a" 1- 'vho aro eve- anxious le.tst ^â- l hat tl.c/ arc (•om-v;]!.'-i; tj eat iu order to sustain l.t'a miy do rnisch'ef. 't vould no: be inajijiropriate to ;;n.,..-.h i.i Euch people as "el.etcrtc crarLks." Ta-^y a/e pro'uably the m isc iinr3ason-i":r- r.T I Jir.g p troublesome pavicut-j zhj prac: ciaa has to deal â- Â« ith. I: he r ivor.s iri.".r theories, there csn bi uo improvement, an.' if he opposes them he loses their coafiu :aoe aud their patroaage. There is as niu"h ill health cau^fd by i-,nderfcedit!g a^ Ijy â-  c.-- feediag, Ti.-- aiiu who has lived too Ircciy may generally moderate his course and re- gaiu his health but throug'r. a 'i!:j c uri:' of aeiui-starvation the digestive orgau^ 1 ;- came ueakoned, aud tue sto nacu ccr- tracts so that it canuot properly paiiotr. its work the body canno" ba ;-uili "/.?ai.^ nourished. These abnormal cotiditioi:: genaral'y result froui iriisniaDager.ieat '.i'.r- ing childhood. Tht; cliild who is â- â€¢ostr."ieJ to three meals a elay comes to the t.i":--! vitb a ravenous appetite, and with th-i c.-Tra. nty that a long fast av/aits him afwr he hi-- finisi:ed his repast. These t\c- i::..'j!.. • naturally lead to gluttony. Tne child who is permitted to eit win" ever it wishes, at all tiinsa, licco.n-js ti.i. victim of disease, because au unnrttural ap- petite is formed, and it craves tho3.; tLin!::s that derange the digestive oraaus, bat c:b- tain but little nourishment. No child was over in j ared by plain and wholesome food, uo matter how freely or how often it may have been partaken of. When a child is a year old it should be allowed a pretty wide discretion as to foods of this sort. Three meals a day are not suffijient for chddren. All the operations of the system aro more active than with the adult, and the food supply requires more freqaant replenishing. Allow children to eat of plaiu, wh'.Iescme food, as often as they desire to, if you .viib to escape responsibiliy for impaired uciltb. which is certain to follow a strict aiierci::* tat3surd rules respecting diet. â-  »«m t I â-  I 11 â- !! The Hog Crop. Acoordin T to the Cincinnatti '.i:c Cur- rent, the nnmhiT of hogs pac':ic:i !â- ;• "• summer season, ending November 1, w: W 770.000, against 3 210,000 int yc.r. o a: increase ot about seventeen aa I a liil: 'f' cent. Biaides this there has li^cu a h' increase in the average Wcdj^lit; o' 'â- 'â-  " marketed, the exact returns o. \v'i â- .- 1 " not yet available, but a ch-iae approxiaivtiou makes the average increase about cig'atcei! and a half pounds per hog. Oa thia h'.-;i"i the hogs packed in the West sinae M i.-:^a h have aggregated 905,000 000 pouadagJ^s, compared with 710,872,000 pounds lasty^iT' or an increase of over twenty-seven pe- cent. The average weight of hog^i recsived ia Chicago daring October was 250 pouadf. against 235 pounds for the correipoalia)! month last year, and 242 pjuodsiii O^t^'^-"' 1831. .â- -I.^s,.4r :•â- :-.: i iiiriiiMiMMMiii §M. ^-JfejMifefe-^--'-;