GAPE MAY HERALD.

Pwblisned Every Saturday Mwnlng at 506 Waahinston Street, Cape May. N. J.

i. L SCtllL, - ml fnrlUtt. SUBSCRIPTION! One Dollar Par Year In AdVanee.

Eatered at the poet office at Cape Hay, K. 3., aa second-olaae matter, March 11th, 1901.

The perpetual lamp Invented by a " Chjcaxo man will perhaps enable variable pbople always to see things in the same light

When the Anglo-Boer war began South Africa was sending gold in large quantities to England. Ever since England has been sending large quantities of gold to South Africa. The 10 principal items in the agricultural export trade of the United States ara: Breadatuffs, cotton, meat products, live animals, tobacco, oil cake and oil rake meal, vegetable oils, fruits and nuts, dairy products and seeds.

The reindeer problem is to again be taken up by the government. Twelve thousand of the animals are to be shipped from Siberia to Alaska. Climatic conditions are so similar that It does seem that success ought to at-

tend the effort.

The old tradition that the Eskimos are a people of small stature is without foundation. On the contrary, In Labrador. Baffin's Land.and all aroomT Hudson Bay. the height of the men is probably above, rather than below the average of the human race, but.

it Aunt Kosalle? I tall you ther," 1 suddenly announced, m the hearth with flashes

cbeelu and a forehead ornamented with -streaks of soot—“I tell you what 1 * m ‘ l

.mean to stand any Impertinent from Mr. Carewel I shall just

t in the carriage < Bother. "The t room !

handing a letter. Oh, Olgai Olgal" At this Juncture the errand boy fron the shop knocked at onr door with the not*. 1 brought it to mother. It was from Aunt Kosalle, and simply contained

thee* words:

“Gray Ashtead, Wednesday.

“Get into the carriage and come her* at once. Bring Olga with you. Brtaj night-clothes. I may not .aay more; bul be tore Olga comes. Come as quickly as you can, and excuse the ineehersncy oi this. In a tremendous hurry, your* a* ''5T*e^_ s KOBE."

Mothdr grew white

s a rule, the women, although vfcry topry turged up in my t strong, sre considerably shorter thatr ^was^rrightened.

- Bps.. I snatched', the letter from her hands and

lead tt.

4 • whispered.

excited desh

throat. I knew

that mod with

“Olga, lie is dying,” she I felt,ft mast be so. An

A strike Instituted by the boy caddies in a Chicago golf club recently was promptly settled by the employment of a lot ot/glrls. who are said to be ghingVood satisfaction. The striking boys would have promptly boycotjgt^ or fought other boys had ■ the/Tjeen appointed to fill the viaug * Hes created by the abandonment oi' their bags; but as the girls are unassailable the strike has proved a miserable failure.

There are cities which give themselves more aesthetic airs than Chicago, ^though none has dealt as effectively as the windy city with that chromatic indecency, the' billboard. An anti-billboard ordinance of the city named ha* been sustained in a report made by a master in chancery to the superior court. This ordinance provides that “no billboard shall be more than 10 feet high or 100 square feet in area, and that none shall be placed within five feet of anc$ber similar board nor within 25 feet of the lot Une.”

The physicians and the surgeons have thrown floods of light upon many things in the causes and the treatment of the maladies which attack mankind, and have cleared up many a mystery. Their •elf-sacrifice and zeal for the benefit of the race-^re worthy of the heartiest praise. And in what age were there so many heroic nten and women who were willing and even eager to brave death in submitting to experiments with the virus of yellow fever and other diseases? What higher and nobler types of courage and devotion can be thought of than those whose lives have been cut short in the coarse of the infection tests in Cuba? No forlorn hopes were ever made np of braver souls, observe* the New York

Tribuna

Perhaps the most curious result of a popular health fad Is the sharp conflict of opinion which ft has excited among the physicians. Some members of the profession, adopting the popular theory, maintain that the barefoot habit not only is healthful, but Insures the proper development and consequent beauty of the exposed member; while others hold that It Is a dangerous and needlesaly risky experiment, which. In any event, must produce large, galnly. splay feet. In support of their theory they argue that the feet of saragp races are generally of vast and unsightly proportions. This is a question for the anthropologists; but any one with eyes in bis head may be convinced that Biere are plenty of well formed feet among the shoeless urchins of the dtles. The point Is not at all likely that the world In general Win desert the shoemakers; but It may be asserted very confidently that It U better to wear no shoe at all than ons that U too tight or too narrow.

I had anticipated many tears and tight from mother, bnt the result outran my autlripatlona. When I mentioned whom I had met, her agitation waa aland when I de- • of the me*tin her aorrow was beyond description. Mor log brought i.o comfort. Mr*. Burnt' had not replied to motber'i letter, grim feeling of diaappointment stole o me aa I saw the poatman pass onr A

without itoppli Mother wa* i

melancholy and _ cheerful poaltion. At lunch hour motbe* could eat nothing, and shivered with cold. A sound of wheels stopping at the door drew her to the window. “Good gracious, Olga! Here is the

iteed carriage!"

Gray Aaht

"Oh, it

what, mot) rising from

'and

none. 1

“Oh. Olga, yon

Implore yon. my own darling.'

"Of course we must both go, mother dear. Don't be onxioiit. I dare say hi it not so ill at we fancy. Bit here and I

will bring yon yonr thins*.''

A minute later we were seated in my grandfather's carriage, and hound for Gray Ashtead. It was a very long driv* bnt I did not feel it so. I did not notice bow the time passed, so absorbed was I in picturing to myself whst our reception would be. Mother sank back in the carriage and began to abed tear* copiously as the lodgekeeper’s wife opened the gate, and we passed np a trimly-kept drive,

by fine trees. The house wa* lodern, but built In the Norman of good gray atone. Almost a* the footman touched the bell th<

was opened and we walked in. 1 turned to the solemn butler, who war

^ The quite modern, but built in the Nt fashion of good gray atone. Alnx

soon a door i turner!

preceding ns down the tesselsted ball, and asked, abruptly: "la Hr. Carewe fery ill?” man seemed confused, and an- , evasively, that Ml it Carewr should be instantly Informed ot onr ar rival, upon which a cold fear shot through my heart. My grandfather must b*

dead.

We were ushered into a long drawing room, with four French windows openin* on a garden. A minute ticked by, thee X heard e fresh baritone voice coming from somewhere out in the garden. Involuntarily I shrank back a little aa the

m in >

up to the window and ttepp^ In There was a tableau—be gaalng fixedly os me. and I trying to realise that this must

be r - - - jfjb

e my

At this moment Aunt Kosalle suddenly burst into the room with hands outstretched in welcome; end 1 could no) look Into her face, so filled with emotion, without knowing somehow that aothei and I were come to Gray Aahtead nevei to leave It again. As I so stood, I board the door open once more and beheld my grandfather, hale and sound, with a- mix tore of aatiafaction and malic* in hi*

keen eyes as be gaxed on me.

“Oh, father, father!" sobbed mother disengaging herself from Aunt Rosall* and stretching out her arms to him. Hs

took both her hands and aald:

“How do you do, my dear?” with a quiet, sober manner, as If he had seen her last week and all had been right between them. “So Miss Olga has, aftei all, condsec-ended to honor my humbk roof with her presence. I wonld hav* laid ten pound* to a sixpence that you wouldn’t have come first time of sending

tar."

My heart tweUsd with Indignation; I frit trapped. thought yoa ware m, or dying, oi something,” I answered, too angry to b* dvll. “I understood yon to say yester

_ bed at the time,” hi answered, totally unperturbed, end soJoying my confusion; “but it turns out to be only a matter of e ftw bruise* and * twinge or two of rheudedsm to remind me that I can't stood a ducking aa 1 could twenty years •go." lid yon bring ns here? Tc u*r I burst out choked

Then suddenly I r. I went, np to my

r, who stood chuckling, with

hi# hands in his pockets. “Oh, sir,” I said, humbly, and try all I would I could not keep my voice from breaking, “think of mother—only to what you are subjecting her. I know I have been horribly uncivil and wanting in respect to yon, but it U hard to maks her suffer-for It. If thl* summons is meant aa a trick, to give

' aaolenc* a setting-down, I can take meant; only please don’t punish her ’t look on my bed manners as th* t of her teaching—but keep her here

bet* end

Mor*

—it my self-poaMsrion gavs way,

a few days to be with Aunt Bosalie, .Ast m* n back aloo* to BhlpleyMor* * might have added, but at that point

grandfather', selfand hi caught me

“Go back alone to Shipley I Not door* hare locluJupon them sad I

ito bold you, my beauty. Whst! Dost iyoa understand It yet, little ■ ' *

PV* think you can pet up far

I It yet, little I

years wiOt the nafiTiy #f e cmpricteus old scoundrel, who has never bad any one to thwart him for his good, but who does know honesty and spirit when be see* them? No. no, my darling! Heaven forgive me that I didn't send for yon years ago, and do my dnty by yon. I have robbed myself of eighteen years of pnrost happiness. Bat 1 have you at last, and will keep you, my child. And IT! back yon against gny on# for the greatest beanty and the finest spirit in the whole country. 1 say again, bto«« you, my. dearest child.”

CHAPTEE IX.

I was plunged into a new world. Tbs Olga Damien who woks np next morning In her little room in the High street of 8hip!ey-le-Mar*b was a different being from the Olga Damian who went to rest tinder pale-blue damask curtains in th* luxnrions apartment at Gray Aahtead. Aa I passed down the ball my grandfather called to me from Us library. I entered a littlf timidly. He was sitting at his tobl* In th* great formal room,

writing busily.

“Here, Olga,” aald bs, “here is a check for yonr first quarter's allowance, in cast you should want tn set aay things in

BMplsy. The SSHTlsTo Be'Tnyl order it, and IT! pay for it when it come* home. But, aa a piece of advice, I suggest that yon don’t buy much to-day-wait. and do yonr shopping in London next week." “In London T* I repeated, almost stupe-

fied.

“Yea, a fortn _ . _ _ In November, sod I always spend a week In London >n the way.” The day waa perfect: th* weather had turned warm and mellow, as it sometimes doe* in the latter days of October. Tbs warm, soft breese brought a pink tone Into darling mother's cheeks aa w« drove ont In the landan that How happy and bow looked, leaning back riage in a nest of wraps. What a drive it waal Ray and I were quite friends already, and both of ns exploding with nonsensd/ We kept mother and Annt Rosalie laughing all the way to BUpley: sod were qnite surprised when the carriage stopped at th* littk stationer's in the High street. Marianne threw open the privets door tbs minute we appeared. ; Annt Bosalie and mother prepared for a morning of sorting old relics and weeping over old letter*. Ray and I found ;this dull, so we amssed ourselves by going round the town and bringing in

jand I bad met three days before; over : which remembrance we laughed heartily. :Tben w# all packed ourselves Into th* 'carriage once more, amid quite a little concourse of spectators, bidding ns fare-

wyou.”

Jot see me. euntie? What do yon mean?” 1 asked. “He is blind.” ah* answered, simply. (To be eonrinned.l THE DEFENSE OF THE SPARROW.

CHAPTER X.

We were rather silent driving home. Rayvenham and I had spent all onr spirits for the time being, and leaned back, aide by side, dreamily watching the hedge* and the long reach of white road behind ns. We returned by a different road from that by which we went, through wilder and more beautiful i down in that valley, Olga,” said Ray, pointing to onr left, where thick grove* of pine* teemed to

immeasurable depth, lowest point, the stream

There used to be an old monastery down there, and the monks made a fins thing by baring a toll for

every one using the valley ford.” “How interestlngP 1 said, peer down. In the evening Ugh I

-a glimpse of the river through . | trees. “Why, there is a house down

' there!”

Rosalie!" cried Rayvenham, breaking off I and winter. So few kne

descend to an !“Aad, Just at the I -is fordable. Tb«

. trying to

_ jht, to cshch

e river through the thick

ysars—where, no o

turned suddenly, a wldowi

of a twelvemonth old

rs. He re-

.. with a little

boy of a twelvemonth old He lived tbs life, of a recluse In that dreary valley, with his son Paul, to whom, however,

b* gars an excellent education.”

“An awfully nice fellow is Paul," ob-

served Rayvenham. "YouTl see him,

‘ ' i we go to London.”

hen Pan!

rot to see

I; end while there he been

aan—a re she

bs

ittle of * MU*

nply

Olga, when

“Well, » went on tl

the world; and while then gaged to a moot beautiful Madalona Carieton. I believe

rather elder than be, bnt he wi Infatuated about her, and, on t

to England, she cams to stay at Valleyford. Now comes th# most extrsoidtaasr part of the story. Everyone thought K

a most peculiar thing that Mil

should be permitted stay, quits onchapei her fiance and his

toolshment reached suddenly returned abroad, leaving his Udy-lov* still at Vnlleyford. What followed is wrapped in mystery. It was thought by some that Lord Bgsrtos fall In love with hts son's future wife. We never, any of ns, saw her; bjjL L h*?* heard her deerribed aa absolutely be-witching-beautiful as morning, and an Intense coquette. One morning the whole dUtrlct rang with the newa of an awful tragedy at Vallsyford. The gamekeeper, walking through the valley In th* early morning, fonnd the body of>Lord Egsrton floating In th* river. He was in full evening dress th* features rigid and composed—no mark of violence could at first be detected, but under his cloths* was fonnd a small, a very small wound, apparently inflicted with a long, narrow weapon of extraordinary sharpness.” “What an awful story! It Is like a novel." I aald, horrified; "U it really all

trne. Aunt Rosalie 7'

“My dear, yes; It only happened seven years ago. But that is not all. The gamekeeper, having dragged the body ef the unfortunate baron on shore, ran up to alarm the bouse. The butler, descending to know what was the matter, struck bis foot against something in the halt H* stooped—it was a man's body. Hs rushed to unbar the front door and 1st in th* light of day. The door, which he had barred securely before going to bed, was on the latch; outside stood the terrified gamekeeper, whit* and gasping. On the marble pavement, livid and ghastly U the weird red light of *—

Tael Egerton, apparently

reird red light of morning, lay

jetton, apparently lifeless. Hi* bead and face were bqrriblr disfigured and mutilated; svldenOy he had bees beaten violently with some blunt weapon. But he was not dead, though for wssk* his life was despaired of. At the Inquest

held over the body of th* dead bar wonderfully little transpired. Paul's e ienced showed that he had been to Cah

on business, and returned

see bis father murdi then attacked him;

Calais

Just in tim* to

inrdered. Tbs murderer

or be was either

determined not to

unable to aay more tell what b* rnsw-

“But Mis# Carieton," I gasped. “Gone, my dear. Not a trace of her waa to be found. She has never been neard of since. Paul hashed np th* whole matter ss soon ss b* possibly coaid. The verdict was willful murder against some person unknown. Bnt yon will hardly wonder that th# present Lord Egerton chooses not to reside on his

property."

“Poor Paul!” said Rayvenhsm; “be has been trying to let Valley ford now for seven year*, and only Jnst succeeded. Are yon not frightened no' tnrnlng his big eyes tc _ . which now was gathering faat around

us.

“I very seldom am frightened at i I retorted. “It U only mysteries wl .frighten me. I like things to be plained. And shall w* really see

poor Paul 7*

“Yea, we will have him to dinner wheu we get to the Lang ham." said Aunt

m." aald Aunt kjn, Olga; hut

My experience with the aparrow, baa proved to me, says a writer, that he is the farmer's best friend. He la the first little follow In the spring to nee on and destroy all the eater-

crops, and be keeps

poui

pillars and insects that are dee tractive to the farmer's crops, and he keeps pegging away' at these vermin until the grain is ripe. Then the crops are so far advanced that they are safe. All be asks In return for the benefit be baa' been to the farmer Is a little

Tee, I know.. That'* Why, Annt grain to carry him through the fall sailer’ cried Rayvenham, breaking off j and winter. So few know the reason

i Introduction of the English

suddenly, “I do beHeve that Valley ford is J for the 1 taken! There 1* smoke coming from the I - Dttrro » . chimney. Asquith." he' went on. torn- ! „ ■ing up his face to the “** ■ 1 wl * n 10

. to this part of the world that ’ni 1 wl * h 10 R lT ® ll - Many years ago the fp i streets of New York were lined with

ham, I believe it U. - beautiful trees. In the apring, as soon sir.” answered Asquith. Cousins, the j as they began to put on their tnmmer gamekeeper, met Mr. Egerton'# bailiff foliage, they were attacked by au ugly-

1ooHM wara^l U,. inrt,

irm caueo tne men

for a year, to a foreign lady, or an Eng- 1 1 wur “' , ‘“ B ~! -^Id^d^r nU U 1 ® Uah lady, I believe ahh i*. sir.' who has le *™' leavin^the tree perfectly bare, lived moat of her time in Italy.** i and then hang from the trees in mll“Dear me. I wonder If she knows,” said ! Ilona by a silken thread. They be-

’ ively. “W

of hi

e, I * Ray, reflect!'

Asquith 7’

What is her name, j came such an Intolerable nuisance that

a great many people had the trees down to get rid of them. After the

to me. 1 scanned th* fast-receding tor- j bravely and well. This certainly la a rets of Valltyford, and asked, “What Is proof of the benefit he is to the farmthe matter with the place? It look* er. You can depend on It that he dee-

was. let mvsee. Just seven years ago.” “Oh. do ten about It," cried Bay. Annt Bosalie, leaning bad. surveyed us both with a smile. Evidently she waa fully aware of her own abiUtls* in th* .... -- without waiting for

story-telling line. \ further presitag she “Well, nearly all

“Well, nearly , bare owned that property lot centuries, have met with violenr deaths. About thirty ysars ago it aeemed as though th* luck was turqsd, however, for Gaston Egerton, th* young heir, was on* of the

s fal

miner, to th* 1

cumulated to very day of bis coming of

died when he waa a a* of th# property ac-

' (cm; and the

Here is. the latest Patti anecdote, aay* an exchange: Lart winter she was staying for a few days In an Isolated Engllah village at the extreme end of Yorkshire. To kill the monotony of the place the prlma donna went one night to a concert given In aid of a certain village institution. Not half of the performets turned out Appreciating the difficulty. Mme. Patti (Incognito, of course) offered to oblige the audience with a song or two. Then ■he sang in her own glorious way. three of her sweetest ballads. At th# close the chairman approached, and in •olemn tones, thanked her. “Well,

_ , -r- ttl*.” h* *»!<!. “you've done uncom-

UO * W * U; Md - ••though 'Arty -Oek.

0,uw "'

‘ - to try and shake off

gier, wno uunss u •ot poker* and

a-awalloria'

tarn up. yet you've

FACTS ON NOAH’S AKK.

THE CHALDEAN RECORD OF ITS DIMENSIONS AND CONTENTS.

up foi last i

’ the ar of. Hauj

A Troth Wllae** to tha Tradition of tha Paluga — FrofaMOr Maupt Raa Tabllihad tba rragmaau ol Iba Waadarfal Story l-raaerrad In tba MritUh Mu la ara. Many readers would. I believe, be Interested in a fresh witness to the Chaldean tradition of the deluge, writes a correspondent of the Ixmdon Tlmea. The beat known account of •his tradition is contained in the late George Smith's Chaldean Genesis." There was given the first connected account of the Assyrian version of the, old Babylonian myths concerning the flood. This version has been drawn for the library of Ashurbanlpa). Uje

King of Assyria, and has

been brought by Sir Henry Layard from the ruins of Nineveh. A more complete edition, consisting of all the fragments of the story, preserved in the British Museum, has been pub-

lished by Prof. Haupt.

Unfortunately, the lines whlclwcjnce recorded the dimensions of are defective, and though Prof,

considers it probable that the length was 100 cubits, while the breadth and height were both 120 cubits, we hsv^' no certainty about the length. By usumlng that the measure named In the text really denotes a half cubit, as was once held by Prof. Op pert, the conjectured length would agree with the S00 cubits of the Biblical narrative.

Now one of the tablets, probably

also once In King Ashurbanlpml’s library at Nineveh, appears to give a different estimate of the dimensions of Noah's ark. It is catalogued as “a list of animals and certain measurements" Ac. and was recently copied by me for my •Assyrian Deeds and Documents." where the cuneiform text will appear as No. 777. A closer-ex-amination of the contents has made me think they deserve to be more

widely known.

There is no distinct statement on the tablet that the measurements refer to the ark. but 1 fail to see with what else the figures given could be concerned. The first three lines read simply, "390 cubits long, ’50 cubits broad. 660 cubits high.” The whole tablet la written In the ideographic style, and some of the Ideograms used are not to be found in published “lists of signs and ideograms." But these lines only employ such signs as are well known from their use In the historical Inscriptions, and I assign to them the meanings which they always have in such texts as concern the di-

mensions of buildings. But this would be

leed. The great Temple of

a very large

e great Temple of

t Babylon, by many Identl-

pose a boat 788

all i

hips, c

box-sbaped bouse 660 cubits long. 390

building Inde

Merodacb at Babylon, fled with the Tower of Babel, was only 180 cubits high. If we consider these dimensions as those of a tower It must have been nearly 1000 feet high. Sucha height could only be that of * mountain Then It would bo difficult to account for the presence of the animals recorded below. There were no animals kept In the Tower of Babei, so far as we are told. The animals whose names can be recognised are not such as we have any reason to suppose were kept by the kings of Nineveh in a menagerie or zoological

gardens.

The mythical character of the building seems evident The next two lines give other dimensions in precisely similar terms to those used la describing the terraces or palaces. In-

way

lys done in such cases, the substructure of this strange building was 410 cubits across and 788 cubits along its side. There is no sugges-

tion of height.

Now. the Nlnevlte version of the Chaldean tradition, above relerred to contemplates tbe ark as a “house” on a “boat" or raft It msy be queetioned whether In these texts “height” necessarily means “vertical height''

If not we may

cubits In length c bits In breadth amli box-sbaped house 6G

cubits broad and 150 cubits high above the deck. It is possible that the roof sloped from a central ridge. Also the dimensions given may be those of a rectangular raft. In either case there wonld be a free space ten cupRa wide along the sides and 64 cubits wide at the ends, to serve as a “deck promenade." If we prefer to take 660 cubits as the height part of this may have been submerged; but. tn any case, we should have a curious shape for an ark. though one qnite admissible for an imaginary temple tower. The animals named, so far as I am abIe-ia,£pcogni» their ideographic d««OTptlooi, a- — •-

homes, mules,

male of each spades, forming one group; then oxen and cows of various eorts, sheep, goats, antelopes or ga-

.ne* I

»d of . - _

group. The *rst group seems to be tbe animals, man's helpers and servant*; the second group is possibly those clean animals used tor food. It may be noted that tbe antelope or gazelle is frequently depicted as associated with Ishtar, or Venus, who plays such a prominent part in the tradition of the flood. No numbers are given, In marked contrast to the Biblical narrative, but there wars evidently

pairs In tbe firat group, not be difficult to make

the bovine rid# and sheap. In the many herd lists of Nineveh Kings the numbers of each sort ara, ot course, always given. Hence wa can scarcely

think of the a

k farmyard.

Then follows a list sf birds most Then follows a list of birds, most of which are “ot yet to be Identified with any certainty, though nearly all tbs

ir alao tn tba lists of

offerings made to tbe gods. Such birds were in all probability used for food. Tbe list ends with “the dove, tbe swallow, the raven." Now in tbo Nlnevlte version of the story. Noah sent forth, when (he water# began (o abate, first the dove then tbe swallow. then the raven. The order U the same. Tbe raven wonld hardly be kept In any domestic establishment: f*w of tbe other creatures, except perhaps, antelopes. would be kept In a menagerie. The extraordinary dimensions of tbe building, the singular selection of animals, as remarkable for its omissions as for its contents, seem suited to no other explanation than that w* have here a summary estimate of the sire and contenta of Noah's ark. I may add that the shape of the tablet Is unusual, one aids being flat, the other convex. The contour is a long oval, like that of a pressed fig. The writing reads the rome way on both sides, contrary to tbe usual custom of the scribes who "turned over" from top to bottom, not from left to right, as we do*and as in tbe case of this tablet. The text Is a sort of palimpsest, in that several ones are written upon partly erased character. The ideographic style seems to indicate that this was an extract or abstract from a larger and probably older work. HOW TO TREAT CATS. Should Bows Ksw Meat to Eat. bat bet Too Mneh of II—Sara* mot*. Cats are by nature dainty—even in their cruelties. There is all manner of feline grace In the way the play with mice. Cats suffer much less from con-

quite get over their murderous instincts. A cat of fancy breed, aa Maltese. Angora, Coon-cat or Manx, is a possession more fashionable than precious. Each and several they are no end decorative, but in affection. Intelligence and playfulness they rank below their black, gray, tiger marked and tortoiseshell brethren. White cats are in general more savage and less Intelligent than gray or tortoiseshell Many of them have blue eye#, and all such are said to be stone deaf; hence they are less desirable in the house. Unlike dogs, cats require to have their meat raw, but they must not have too much of it Milk should constitute at least a third of their food. Crumble stale bread in the milk and now and again beat up a raw egg in It A bit of raw liver as big as two fingers, or a fish head, is meat enough for a day's radon. Supplement it with milk and bread or milk and mashed potatoes, a cracker or two. or a bit of hard bread, lightly buttered, and a few small bones, as from chicken, game or

shops.

Cats as well as dogs suffer a plague of fleas. Oddly enough cat fleas are

illke dog,fleas, and if two ■

unlike dog i talectB-mfet

in victory for the cat fleas, which are extending over many acres of ground.

id more voracious than the dog. If left to rav-

age unchecked they soon reduce a sleek, healthy cat to a miserable skeleton. suffering all over from eczema. To get rid of the fleas, wash with sulphur soap—any good brand which the nearest shop affords—comb out the fleas with a fine tooth comb while the hair ia still wet, then rinse the cat well in milk warm water, dry It with soft towels, and give It after a bath a saucer of warm milk with a teaspoonful of brandy or whiskey in it. A kitten should have only a few drops of spirits and be kept sung in a clean basket for an hour after the bath. When the hair Is very dry, blow In all along the backbone some sort of good fine Insect powder—either larkspur or pyre thrum. Rub behind the ears with the sulphur ointment directed fordogs. Next day brash but all the powder with a fine, close braah. comb the coat lightly. then part It along the backbone and rub witu the sulphur ointment For manga rub all over with the aulphur ointment. Keep the cat confined so it cannot lie in the dirt and after 24 hours wash it well In hot soapsuds—Just comfortably hot rinse dry. and leave alone. In three days If tae, mange persists, repeat the ointment, and after the treatment give the cat plenty of catnip, either green or dry.

week. Burn Infected bedding and fumigate sleeping baskets, or else wash them well in bichloride of mercury. Let them stand six hours after washing. then scald plentifully with boiling water and dry well before letting the cat sleep In them again.

Bho Kmow Amo* Kaatar. She was a very talkative old aunty and her memory was remarkable. Her nephew from the city soon realised the strength of both of these charactertistlca. “Say, aunty."rhe put in when he found an opening in the old lady's continuous chain ot reminiscences, "did you ever know the Skeeter family that used to live around here somewhere? "Knew ’em all," cried the old lady without a moment's hesitation. “Yes. indeed." “Did you know Amo*?'' continued tbe Joker. "Amo# Keetert" cried the old lady again. “Well, I ''should aay I did. Many’s the party he's taken me to. Amoa Kaeter? Dear, dear, how his name does call np the good old times” And then the wicked nephew had to go out behind the woodshed to laugla -Cleveland Plain Dealer.

T%a value of the cotton manufacture* sold by us In the Chinese Empire last ywr was one-third of onr total exports of such commodities.