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FARM STOCK SALES pecuu nouca, wnnout. cnnrge. In um Scientic Jlmcrican. n 1._....:..........1.. nI...o..omI -mIy'Ia turnout nlu E. DONNELL5 r`!rnnAc- 11 v\I\I1-av:-\pu.- _--__ uI5lJ -`L` IOWC and Bulbs. 6 cts. GO. TO THE NEW -oF-V_ --AND- ,' promouy III-Cull . XKC as no Pepita,f said I, do tell me a story." Senora Maria Madalena, would you like to hear about Seraphita? She was born in Granada. That was "100 years" ago. She was born in a high p1aee., Her mother was of a great family,eand her father was great, too, but he was very wild, and Seraphita was thelpret. tiest thing that ever was born in Gran- ada. Everybody said so, and her moth- er used ta think that the sun rose `on the east side of her little bed and set out the west. . T tux. Iv \.u._u.- The days ran merrily till Seraphita was [4 months _old. Then she died. Her mother hadso much heart grief that she lost her wits. For one Whole day she-sat, cold and still. without :51 tear, and then she cried aloud and be- gan to tear out handfuls of her smooth black hair, and it was a great pity, for her hair was black and long and `glis- tened like satin. She was called the sum haired. But she forgot how beautiful she was, and `she would not eat anything or even sleep. ,- ..:....1.L.. ..-lJ..\.. Ci.-...n-.I.lJ.n 3!`; ._'A \.u.\- u .a ..---.-a V- .. . _._ Two nights after Seraphita died and angel. with wax candles at "her head and feet and with a white ower in her hand, her mother went quietly into the `room and sent the old nurse who was watching over Seraphita away. Then sheclosed the door and threw herself on her knees and prayed so hard that her prayers could not get up to heaven, I "was lying as white and beautiful as an I I .1 I for they were more like curses than prayers, and, Senora Maria Madalena, 4 it is not good to pray like that. One must not send up prayers that are not t to go to heaven. for then St. Peter ; shuts the gates of heaven. and the = prayers go wandering up and down in 1 the great spaces of air, where there is I" no one to answer them. . ' _ 5 -v It-av nu wsnnnuvv \._..u..... The devil, who'is everywhere but in heaven, came ..to her and asked, With a very sweet voice, for_1_1e can use any voice he likes. `What is it that Seraphle ta s mother is praying for? u n ___-__L _-_, -141.-u I___'l_ 7 ___...;4. 1-..}. ISTSP ~-- .. ..-.auu.uu.n nu rung qua gun - V `1 want my child back. I warit her in my arms that are so empty and my heart that aches so. V ` .. . can v 3. _.... yuan) vuvn And then the"devil`told her. I do not know exactly how he told her, but he made her know that he could give Seraphita back to her just as she had been, with her rosy cheeks and her black eyes "and her pretty black hair, which was going to be like her moth- er's. He could do this, only he could notgive her sou back. She must be always without a soul. ' HA_J n 1 1 __, ._II_-J ALL And Ser:iphita s mother talked with the devil, for her Wits were gone. and she did not know right from Wrong, and she promised anything if he would ' only give her baby back to her again. evenwithout any soul. And the devil Very Dolitely saidhe did not want any- thing to be given tbhim. He was glad to give the child back so long as she did not ask for the soul. T .. "1 ,I:_J_L - - - ~ vb ugn LUL Lut: BU|.|Jo V ` And then while the mother looked at 3 Seraphita the pink came into the ba- ` by s cheeks, and she smiled, and then, 1 because her joy was so great, the moth- t er cried ou_t loud, and her voice could be heard way down in the street. '.L`hen- V91`ybody came running in to see what` was the matter, and the father was so happy he carried Seraphita again to the church, and they had another ceremo- ny. and this time he paid even more gold. and there was a great testa in Granada. ' ' any ' ' _ - _ . .- v.. '- ---uuun You see, hobody but the mother knew that only Seraphita s bodywas there. that she hadn't any soul and nev- er could have one; only the mother" knew. and she could not be happy; QBA ......._ ____._ ;u,;__ -__.1 L ... ........-J-ls ---vv uuu nut: cuuxu uul. uc uqpygu V She grew very thin, and her smooth satin hair turned white on top just` where the devil had laid his hand. so she wore a veil, even in the house, and . Ihe hid her eyes as it she was afraid. and she prayed` day and night. Nobody . knew what she prayed, because she did - not dare to tell even her husband, . I3: __:I I . _n,._|: -;.A z-.. null: LU run even uer HUN- ' ` and By and by she grew 9 mid lad because Seraphita somehow aids: seem to her any more like her 03`. child. She was like a beauw whe doll. but she was not Wax andbctdi looked just like herself? to every med - else, only to her mother she 86: the strange, and -she could 110* 89 A e-n warm love back into her heart 9&2. Ehough she pressed Seraphita to` A I osom night and day. s A . - The little baby grew `in P`_~ w'- andshe grew prettier and prettier -t. the time. Everyb0_dy'1Vd her her mother, and that was.l1u5t."`? -`* devil wanted. l _`-`The day VSerz'1phltt";1l.olA9`{%`5"*': `- * her mother could no_t;=ll>` 49-i`-"fl M -2891`. and she lwent- ifllnteased to 1` if L nu. acaalibp and sov!"7 uiid` "8iov.`:j,L`~A`:>:`;';i .']";,A` with every man in this lilo bglo__w,' w . _' ` I mg the things oi this world no 1. menu; sag, The postchaiae Time that all must t[k._ I - 1: old with clay and dust; Two horses strain its rusty bnkg ' Named Pleasure and Disgust. cu, luggage totters on its too! ' of Vanity and Core, ` . _ M M ope, the postboy, spun each Izod _ _ L 0,. heavy eyed Despair. A ' - he now {comrade with In ridq, _ Love, haply, or Remorse, . 5` _;nd that dim traveler besides, Gaunt Memory on 8. horse. 1 And be we king or be we kemi who ride the roads 0! Sin, No matter how the roads may turn They lead us to that inn, Unto that inn within that land of silence and of gloom, whose ghastly landlord taken our hand And leads us to our room. ' It : Gallop and so!" and Slow. now. B1ow!,A,V mm. .mm- men in this life below. It ! "Gallup uuu 5; u` """"o uvw 9 "MW! ' With every man bemw I But the things of this world ' V -Madiaon Cawein in Saturdtire ` eet! Show -.___LEVemn8 Post. - ring. and ublic 11% 1?-as SIGN or-' 1'i-is ` 361.! 18, 1 HR`. BLCI I-CJIICLJ In She grew up so beautiful that stran- gers would stop in the- street and look at her_ as she passed, but of course ev- : erybody soon found _out all about her, and then they would not look at her-at least they would not look her in the eye -unless they had a charm on. . Linn`: Inn Inn:-'I -I-Inn `awn u-Ix- _--.. .......- . v_.v-g I-wvll IIIU If. kept her se`crf`t`solqnz' it had Just.burh- ed her heart mt. ` ' II A `L--- AL V- -`g- -y_`-- `W `(After t_,' _no `one_j.`k,new how. it hsp`- pened. but pretty_:_soon `everybody began 1 -.to '_whisper_` and` look queerly -at Serae ` phita when the nurse partied her into i the `street, and her father seemed trou- bled. and he talked with the priest and i wanted to pay some more money to the 3 church, but they _w_ouldn :t have any ? more ceremonies for Seraphita, and the [ priests tried to make the people stop [ talking. What they said was `non- i sense. "But it was not nonsense, and so they went on talking among them- selves, and they would take their own children out of the way when Seraphita was old enough to play about. ' ll hn tlunuuv --- - -`~- ' vu. yuuugu I.U y1u,y_u.UUuC. ago she grew up all alone except for her father and her nurse and the priest who went to live in the house, which showed that the church thought there was `something in it, else why should 9. * priest go and live in .the house? ntl :In- .-I..- NAr- ` ..-.....u. av wuu uvc u.|.u1I$ LIULIBEI . One day when Seraphita e was out walking she came across some little 1 boys who were stoning a black kitten 7 to kill It, for everybody knows that black cats belong to the devil. And Seraphita ran right in among the ying stones, and not one of them hit her, for the devil held his hand between her , and the stones, and she caught up the devil's kitten and hugged it tight, while 3 the stones fell at her feet, and the boys ; cried out: `Devil's brat! Devil's cat! u1).....u... n .._1.1 -r 44-. t the Oh, no, Senora Maria Mada1ena.!- You see, black cats belong to the devil; and if she had had any 'soul she couldn't have taken one in her arms. uh- , ---- up uuu-n V Ill Llul. Ell-Lllu She carried it home, and she used to feed it, and she had to hide it away, be- cause, of _course, nobody wanted to have a devil's cat around, and the cat would run and Jump into Seraphita s arms whenever she came near, but it would y like mad and its hair would all stand on end when any one else. came around, which shows, does it not, that something was wrong? And an- other thing showed that all was not right with Seraphita; the priest began to teach, and she learned faster than any -child should. There was an evil pirit that whispered the words into her ear, so that she did not have to study. llCII._ L-) .._-:-.. -_-.. 1.----- A.-- .....I V- V... V . ourvval nu uu.a.va Llcvu D can `-`Pepi.t;., sald_I, she seemed to me to have been a very nice. softehearted little girl. urn. _- n___,- q.-, . .. ; . ._. ...._,. She had power over horses, too, and 5 it she just put her lips to a horse's ear I he would turn and rub his nose on her ` face. `You see, horses have no soul, and 3 they knew that Seraphita hadn't any. n A ...u 1_--a,:|..... 4.1.-` .1... ..'|....-..... II...-Qlynil LLICJ lll.l\3 IV Iallilvla nliabclctlnanvuv anulmpnn u Vanna - And, besides that, she always oked . very old and grave when anybod was near, but when she` was alone in the fields or in the woods he would laugh out loud, and they could hear her talk with the birds, for she knew bird lan- guage, and she would lean over the wa- ter and talk to herself or `to the shes. Oh, it was true, she had no soul! 41117.11 _1..; L............ -0 `I-.n..9!! `I nalrn vu, Ila Wan u. uc, DIJG uuuv uv Well, what became of her:?: ui'asked as Pepita. paused to emphasize her statement. ' - __ __ , L ____.LS.B__I .L1_nL 1-nluunndn , .CJc a Oh; yes! Why. she could make any one have bad luck just by looking at them, and she could make owers grow and blossom and be more colors than any other owers. She knew she had the `evil eye, `for she never went any- where or visited the sick or the poor, though she had plenty of money. She used to send the priest with food or clothes. You see, she knew. ' ' I, _: I.---...- A` -`Ans: `dd-`-`A nil`. -uuu:L3a LLIUJ uuu u \.uua.u... v_u. Do you mean that she had the fevll eye? " V % ``(\h' was? `X71117 E110 0011]!` make nv upuuux -Why, you see. when she was about 20 years old she was very ill again, and she lay in a trance for three days. The doctors wouldn't go near her, and her ----A I._.I .18.-.11 nn I-11:11! UUULUIVU VVULIIVILI lg EV Lawson any-., us..- -.-.. own old nurse had died, and they couldn't get any one to take care of her till nally the priest sent to the convent for one of the sisters. She was a very good woman, and she went to the house, and, creeping on her hands and knees so that the devil could not get hold of her, she went right into the room and prayed all night. Her pray- ers. went straight up to heaven, and she , prayed that Seraphita might die and 5 that before she died her soul should be` i given back to her. _ u 1...: nnnum Marin M'nr'lnlnnn.. `lust grist boat U1ULuU- lull SUV; But; any win And what became_ of poor little Sen- aphita? .u1'rrI... -5- `mm nyhnn aha man 91101112 glven uaun I.u ucx. And, Senora Maria Madalena, just as the sky began to grow pink in the east and the white mist blew across the vega and the birds began to call what do you think happened? u A I.......4-NI! cn'I\N-n (`Int-in HA1]? infn fh. What UU JUU LLIILIA uuyyugavu u A beautiful white dove ew into the.` window and alighted on. Seraphita s breast. and, laying its bill close to her mouth, it breathed 9. soul into her, and then the dove just vanished, and Sera- % phita was dead; mm.-- 1-.........n* am! `had hpnn good to pnltu was ucau. '.l`hen, because God had been good to him and had given Seraphita.` a soul again, her father built an orphan asy- lum and called it after her. `The Se- raphltaf and you can see it. over there, with the sun shining on it. Itloqks like . x V , 801d." - . >- The Nlghtingalel. The father of Florence Nightingale was William Shore, who assumed by . letters patent the surname of Nightin- gale in 1815. The name, together with the family property, came from old Pe- a ter `Nightingale, against whom _Ark- 1 wright, inventor of the spinning jenny`, i brought" in 1776 one.o1' his actions for ` infringement or patent. rights: -Lea `Hurst.-the home of the Nightingales in Derbyshire, is only t.W9 miles fromg Oromtord, wheregrkwright set up his f _'m_ill, q;_nd th;a_djaen,t:: !Ii;I_;Iio1-M-house_ ;_ot gone." . _ "It is a. pretty story, Pepita, but do you believe she had no soul? The senora knows I am` English on my .father s side, but my `mother was Spanish. . V So you are half Spanish and halt be- lieve it. Is that so, P_epita?" Yes. senor." _ ` W '59 (lied. because` she hear nah!-of an'l...... n. I...` L, . nus cnavspc `Jill was \.l J phale, he began aloud. The very same` tapestry. bedecked spindle in pompadour style. There could not be two of them. `His little nger raised .with the air of a. French marquis taking a pinch of snuff. hismuscular-neck covered with ribbons and women's gewgaws; draped in a gorge-de-pigeon petticoat with ' huge panniers.' Fancy that! Of course it is the same. And `omphale, halt covered with the Nemean lion's skin; her slender hand resting on her lover s knotty club;.her true Andalusian feet, that would be lost in Cinderella's slip- f pers, shod with antique sandals of a T delicate lilac sprinkled with pearls; her` head thrown backwith a mock swag- `_ ger; the delicious pout of her dimpled : mouth; the beauty spot (assassin, Gau- tier calls it) cunningly placed upon her cheek. and the-Cupids, the indispensa- ble Cupids. Well, well, it is certainly extraordinary. ` 1-v_A__.__I`I_ _..__ ..._..L!A!...-J.2..'_ .....I .-....n i Hercules spinning` at the feet of Om- ' `Hercules holding a- the"gard,e. uh J, I And on thmhilh the goldehrod |' nglel. - Int `Ihtumnrwhlspenrin each red retreat, _ Thy dream. thy dream? '. . The gold 0! all my graciour realm for thee- Sunn Jon` thy `morning, star: with midnight bum-- V But where is now, in all life : mystery. Thy thy dream? I inner Sat, but windering alone Wham lIFf`|- `I saith: an uuhm 901... - ' Ilglillllg ' Iver that question, like; lost Iou1 I moon-- Thy dream, thy dream? ' A A -11`:-ank L. Stanton in Athntn Constitution. My uncle, the celebrated English alienlst, Dr. Griiths, was sitting quiet-T ly in my study reading from a volume of Gautier s short stories, when he sud- denly jumped trom his chair and began pacing the room. ` IlTI`T--.l-_.l--I _..-_J-_.1__I I! 1.- `__._L ..._ `---up--. `many - vv--u Wonderful, wonderful, he kept re- peating to himself. "There 1 no case. like it on record. Then he would re- fer to the boo again and repeat: Wonderful, w derful, that I should stumble upon th explanation here- It is the same, exactly the same, hallu- cination. And the suggestion that I had given up hope or nding is here too. Extraordinary!" --v- ._`-----..v-`----_v Unconscious of my presence, my uncle went on in thi strai_n- for perhaps ve minutes, and then, noticing that I was staring at him in bewilderment, he smiled with that air of satisfaction that is seldom seen, except upon the face of the student or investigator who has finally solved some scientic riddle. 4111---`. _._. I_._)) I... ....a.: an 1.....- up.--mg` -av-uwvu uuvn-3- -..v-'._--._- _-.--.._- Hugh, m boy, he said, I have A stumbled upon a complete explanation of the most mystifying case of hallu- cination that has ever come under my notice. Explanations often come to us too late, but rarely in such a strange way. " r1_..._I-L-I._. _._...L.lA...l `I L-p.l- Ling. I-u-sly VVIDJI A Completely mystied, I took the book from my uncle's hands and discovered that he had been reading Omphale," Gautier s weird story of a young man who becameenamored of a gure in a piece of tapestry that hung on the wall of an old chateau owned by the" Chev- alier de D. in the dismal Rue de Tournelles. I had not had time to re- fresh` my - memory of the tale when my uncle almost snatched the book from my hands and began reading again to reassure himself of the cor- rectness of the conclusion he had ap- parently formed. . ' nrv___-__I-_ .._.I_...l..... `A: $1.... 1...` AC I1-as wcnycuvnuocuu-n`, - Naturally my mystication and won- derment grew as my uncle delivered, as from a catalogue, the features of this wonderful tapestry. tortured att- er thefashion of Vanloo. the drift of his speech being so strange as to cause the liveliest curiosity. It is plain as day, my uncle nally explained. 'nru._.1._ _. n. -r ....:.: _.u.1.. ........`... hmx, 1.565.]. I-IJJ uuuau anus`, ya. ..... .- Pardon me, I said, with some lrri- tation, but it is not at all plain to me. The story always struck me as being a particularly "A wild flight of an unruly imagination) . ' lf\ ----....- -8 -A.-.-nan", mass 3101:5115 Inn- IILIIISIIJID Iaavnnu Of course. of course," my uncle re- plied. You must think me in-need of my own medicine . I will tell you about . it. The tale is preposterous. I was not thinking of that when I said `it was plain. I was thinking of the case of a young man who was placed in my charge last summer. Poor chap! He is dead now. I could do nothing for. him, and his people took him abroag, where he dled-`-in Italy. I thlnk-dur- ing the winter. a urnn- _.-_ `T7115..- uuon- Iiuln van!-v|1\,_. nu` was-r vvonnsvn The man--Wi1tse was his name--.- was suffering from a. most, peculiar hallucination, the nature of which was discovered by histamily when they in- stituted a close watch upon him to'dis- cover, if posible, the cause of his strange behavior, and demeanor. To be brief. he had fallen in love with that piece of tapestry identical with that described in this tale of Gautier s. And not only this, but. be imagined that his adoration was reciprocated to some ex- tent by the woven figure, with whom he would tenderly `converse when he did not knowhehwas being` watched. .,_.-,_--.1 _.- 4|...` L . I...-..'I UIU HUI. ILLIUVV UV VVILD I-Iiull-la vv um.-.-~-~ vMr. Wilte informed me that he had ` `purchased the tapestry several years before. having been attracted by the absurd treatment the - subject had re- ceived at the hands of` the artist in- : 'spired_ or Vanloo. The piece seemed grotesque to our vision, but it was not without merit and, gazing steadily at it for any length of time.` had a strange effect even upon so prosaic a person as myself. , _ I have fancied more than once that I saw an undulating movement in the lines of 0mpha1e s beautiful. neck ;and that the delicate glow of hercheek changed fto _a_ deeper or paler shade. You may laugh at me its you like, but _. -__ I_-IoInm ad-' lvhn 1-nnnah-11 nnnlr 10 may Iuugu cl-I. Luv u. Juu 51:39, wu- no _one_looklng at the tapestry coul shake oi! the Impression that the gure of woolen `and silken shreds was unl- ' Her glgnzmshing zlance `followed A aoNa"oI= A~ba'EAM. 5 ,A vmc L.? wvvu-u The youth of Gautier s story was ., deprived` of his Omphale by an unfeel ing guardian who had discovered the i boy's infatuation. Years" afterward the 3 man found the tapestry representation ? of his goddess in an oddity shop and, 3 trembling with joy. hurried away to f get the 500 francs demanded for it by 3 the shopkeeper. Before he returned an , Englishman (why not Wiltse, Sr. ?) had offered 600 francs for the tapestry, the dealer had accepted. and the tapestry had been carried away. 9 j But," I broke in :.-:-ziin, you are still supposing that Ga1::ier s tapestry and youth actually exist ml. 3 Not `at all. Whether or not_ Gautier , described an actually existing tapestry I do not know. I am inclined to think, however, that `the novelist had seen this very tapestry. And -when young Wiltse found it in his father's house either after or before he read the story, - ' for I am confident that he had read it, Omphalefs spell grasped him, and he . was never able to throw it off. He he- " came the successor to Gautier s youth, but probably Omphale did not warmly respond a. second time to a merely hu- , man lover's advances, and hence his ` despair. u11--_.A-II__-_ n.....1.: 1' 'u'l\......... I-....... , one about the` 1-ootni. ~gro\\f1i1g`Intense no one gazed at her eyes. ` ` I`\V-J.-____II_ I A_.I-J AL; -_..-..!_.A_.A. `Q A w-v 5-`--r- usIvc_`` `,`Naturally I triefthl-g xgieilncjnt-:ot7 sepa1'ati:ig _' my patient" mm : the` inu- ence` of the tapes'_try.llutpthis.A as I fear- ed, only had the; eff_ec_t of changing his habitual melancholy into a :.v.iolentvpas- slon that was much more dilcult-` to deal with than melancholla. . We "then tried hanging the tapestry in a much`; used -room, where some member otthe . family was likely to-`be at all times. There young Wlltse wouldslt before it in silence,- with an imploring expres- sion on his face. ` Finally he became so. callous in regard to his strange infat- uation that he. took small pains` to con- 'ceal it. Uncomplimentaxy remarks about Omphale would send him into uncontrollable ts of passion that bare- ly stopped short of violence to the per- son who had made the aspersion. No one ever heard him address his enchan- tress by name, but he would call her `Marchioness, and that, too, is explain- ed, though at the time we were in the_ dark as to his reason for conferring- this particular rank upon Omphale. l(1 \__.I_____. -_ . . _ . .._.L-J 1.1.. 3......_.;;- w--.- r-. --;-u---- -.---.. -rv- -j`..--_v- Perhaps I exaggerated the impres- sion the tapestry made upon whoever looked at it for any length of time. I, you must understand, was .to some ex- tent under the inuence I was studying" and trying to counteract in my patient- Suggestion in such cases goes far and follows strange paths. Every one in the family came more or less under 0mphale s inuence. ' T I._3 j-II-___._J .___. __- 4`_ .. ...L-_.; LL--an `pa-hp-. up up -.-..-.... I had followed my uncle s story thus far with intense interest, but here I objected that if he attributed the pecul- iar inuence or the tapestry upon 1_1i:m- self largely orpartly to its known in- uence upon young Wilte it made it more diicult to understand how the patient had in the first instance come under 0mphale s spell, since he did not have any outside suggestion. llrI'1I__L 1.. h..____ H ...:.a ..._' .-.....I.. ..7...A `I I anus v u up \lI-vi-rn\n\v ~-ca`:--w-v- i That is true, said my uncle, and I can only suppose that young Wiltse had some time or other read this story of Gautier s and come to imagine him- self a second lover of the beautiful Marchioness de 1`., posed, `to please her husband, in the -romantic scene with Hercules. ` u u . , ___;_A_;__ wifex a.a.vn. uunwwu > my very, strong projudicesagainst be- lief in all things supernatural, spirit- > lsm and the other isms" of the same sort. Do you mean to say, I ex- claimed, "`that you believe Gautier s preposterous yarn about the amours. of the young student and that woolen My unc1e s whole story ran counter to l 1.61.8 0 Not so fast; not so fast, he replied. I have not said that I looked upon the tale as a. recital of fact. You miss the point. I will refresh your memory of L the story and then you will "under- |._A__._.I uuuyunn u Poor fellow, said I. "Do you know?- And then I hesitated, ashamed to dis- close to my uncle the intense inter- est he had-excited in me. Where is \ that tapestry now? I nally demand- 1 ed; - pi n c 1 1 _,,j _-_J wily uncle rst looked. amused ad then serious. ` 1 G1,, __I, _,_ LII uuuu Elba avuw , You shalf never see it. Hugh, until 1 you are too old to be foolish-until you ` are as old as I am.-St. Louis Repub- lic. ' Fh-utborn Children strongest. It would seem that rstborn children excel later born children in height and weight. This may be due to. the great- er vigor of the mother at the birth of the rst-child. A _, II :1, -1 _,,,,,,__4I_ 51.114 1.1; no uuaau - In England it was found that growth degenerates as we go lower in the so- cial scale, there being a difference of even five inches in height betweenthe best and worst fed classes in the com- ` munity. A _ n.._-..J..l.._L.l...; -1 -nnnnn ..1..u.a...... 8.. .........,,. An investigation of 10,000 children in Switzerland showed that children born in summer are taller for their age than those born in winter. As a majority of children in the public schools are poor, in winter their parents are forced to economize more on account of expense of heating. Their rooms are also liable to be small and poorly ventilated, while in summer they are out in the fresh air. Food` is also cheaper and more varied. The influence of unhealthypconditions % on a very young child would be much greater than when it is older and better able to resist them.-Everybody s'Mag-_ azine. Shut Your Mouth. George Catlin wrote a. pamphlet enti- tled Shut .Your, Month to show the had eects or breathing through the open mouth. He did not tell us how to keep the mouth shut during sleep. 1' ;.-|-- - -1--- __|..n.- ....|-an ah-Ina `IR . nccp Luv u.Iuuu.: uuul. uunnua -.u\.\.... ' _ I take a clean white cotton string 15 or 20 inches long. put the middle part of "it in my mouth and _tie it loosely on my neck just behind my month. "My lips and tongue seize it` and hold it as long as it- is in tunyymonth. This process is not patented fund costs. nothing.-.,-. 1~-___._.-I"_n.-fry.--|;|.- . ~ P01; npvv `uuuwy-an yum. --- ;ournal or Health. BARRIE STEAM LAUNDRY. cement, ulvert Pipe, Field Tile, Has purchased the premises `occupied bv Chas. Mc- Guire, jun out or _the .Vlct Hotel, and has 0 ned_ up _buuness xn all kinds of Black. smithing. Grseshoem . etc. All work will be done | promvtlv at the lowest gure. Remember the place. 1. --__g..___ Make no mistake! This is the GREAT Scott in theabove lines. Near Market Square. Vvrn. lV|cLarty, [THE ADvANcE."l ffice-91 Dunlap Street, Barrie