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THE TRUTH.
Speak thou the truth, let others fence
And trim their work for play (
In pleasant sunshine of pretense
Let others bask their day.
Show thou the light I If consoienoe gleam,
Hot not thy bushel down ; 1
The smallest spark may send a beam
O'er hamlut, tower and town.
Woe unto him on safety bent,
Who creeps from ace to youth,
Falling to grasp his life's intent
Because lie fears the truth.
Be true to every inmost thought,
And as thy thought thy speech.
What thou liBve not by striving bought
Presume not thou to teso'i.
Then each wild gust the mist shall clear
We now see darkly through,
' And justiflod fit last appear
Tbe truth in oil things true.
Hun Francisco Truth.
TOW CLARA WAS SAVED.
A FEMALE ENGINEERS ADVENTURE
"Do3.s a locomotive engineer see
Miany adventures? lie doe3. Does
ho pass through many hardships?
Emphatically yes. If you eare to have
a rambling chat with me about the
boys of the throttle, and hear of some
queer and interesting adventures, drop
around to my room at the Grand Pacific
und I'll tell you a few over a good
cigar. Here wo are, right side up
with care. A way of landing that al
ways pleases me, though I ve done a
little of the other style, too. Now, vou
needn't ask any questions, but I'll just
tell my stories right along as I think of
them. First, let me tell you a little
Bometlung about engineers. They are
obliged to be capable, but are not ex
auiined and given any documents to
show that they are engineers. They
riseuptrom "horsemen to "stokers,
then to firemen out on the road, and
then become engineers. It is custom'
ary also for most of them to work in
" engine-shops as apprentices for a while.
Theeo engines are variously repaired,
frequently by being made over again
as good as new. They work on lathes,
forges, machines of all sorts, and the
work on the engine itself teaches
buem uu wieru is to huuw nuuut wiu
parts of one of these locomotives. Then
they learn about firing when stoking
about the round-house, nnd learn to
keep one as clean as a " wiper." They
get to bo " hostler, winch means
taking charge of the engine when
brought in oil the road. They turn
them on the turn-tables and put them
away in their stalls in the roundhouse
after V drawing " their llres over the
smoking ash pit. Then they get out
for short trips on the road as firemen,
and finally push along, if smart and
capable, to be engineers generally
extras at first, but they soon get a
regular engine. ' They frequently run
on the road as a fireman for only a
year or so before getting an engine, but
generally it is from three to five years,
and I , have known men to go from
eight to fifteen years and then
. not get any engine. Why ? Well,
sometimes because they can't become
proficient, from lack of scientific or
mechanical education, and frequently
because they are too excellent firemen
to lose, and they are therefore paid as
much as they would get as engineers
and retained as firemen. Thus you see
it takes time to learn the business."
Some," continued the engineer,
" are on regular ' runs.' Others go out
on freights in regular turn, or when
needed, and are therefoie 'called' by
some boy employed by the company for
that purpose, lie is given a little book
with ' calls' in and goes about night
and day at all hours to different parts
of the city, of course generally in the
immediate vicinity of the roundhouse
and shop, and he calls the men up. I
have run steadily, seated in the hot
cab, sharply watc hing the track ahead,
for fifty-seven hours straight. There
are even instances that beat that.
Where they have a light, easy ' run,'
whether night or day, they can make
arrangements to fit the time. When
his engine is in the shop for repairs
the engineer generally gets to 'loaf
about for a brief time. All sorts of
people become engineers. I haveseen
the son of a Russian count, with greasy
clothes and leattiern trousers, sitting
above the drivers as cheerily handling
levers as though he was holding a
golden knife snd fork in the Winter
palace at .St. Petersburg. Then I have
seen a minister who became a fireman
to saye his life, lie was told by his
physician that he would have tc do
manual, outdoor labor of some sort or
die. You bet 'hos dropped to the
med,' and decided upon ' life on the
rail.' He says he won't go back to
the pulpit again, and he is well and
hearty as a roebuck. Then there are
ofttn finely educated men who adopt
the cab from choicu or necessity. A
three days' stare at grim old poverty
eenerallv sets them hustling. Then I
know of a case on the Panhandle,
Logansport division, where a woman
successfully ran an engine for nearly
two years before being found out. I'll
tell Vou how it was. Let me see.
' That was five years ago," said the
engineer, wanning up, "an' I was
handling 70, an old residenter that
used! to whistle so much like a buzz-
saw
when setting down to a pine-log
nee that the other boys got to
mat
ealli
g her "Old Sa-h-Poor-an -Blind-
Factory." She would wake up the
lloosiers for ten miles each side of the
track when running at night. I re
member a funny thinfl connected with
Old Pestilence as I called him. I had
a rollicking fireman named Jack
Flaherty, now on the Burlington, I be
lieve, and he used tobe up to all sort of
deviltry. He managed to rig up a
sort of a sliding-plug for the whistle
valve and he could play Yankee
Doodle, Home, Sweet Home and lots
of other tunes by working the flue up
and down. You've heard these steam
calliopes? Well, it was on the same
principle. We went into a town called
(ioodland one night, and Jack opened
her wide, trying to let off a little sur
plus steam anyway, and he gave 'em
Yankee Doodle in the most paralyzing
way you ever heard. Every one
rushed out of their homes, and still we
lay on the side track, me making up
steam and Jack working the plug and
rattling out the national tune in Theo
dore Thomas style. But slack up here.
Throw her over in the corner and let
her pound along. If I ain't clean for
getting what I was trying to tell you
about this woman that came on the
road as an engineer. I was handling
Old Pestilence, and was just stepping
up into the cab at the roundhouse in
Logansport, ready to hook on to an
extra bound west. I had knocked the
cut plug out of my pipe for
I never smoke on the engine
--when a young and very hand
some fellow came up to me and says:
' Well, old Roxie, how is the Panhandle.
I want to catch on right away.' " En
gineer?" Well, I should murmur. I
just came off the " Punkin' Vine." '
That was the way the boys had labeled
the old Logansport, Crawfordsvillo &
Southwestern road in them days. You
see, they used to fall behind on sched
ule time, and keep losing, so the en
gineers got suspended. It was hardly
their fault, though. The track was
fearful. But when the engineer found
out how late lie was he used to open
the throttle wide an' skip across the
cornfields when a big curve occurred,
an' there were many of them, too.
Thus they used to gain time for a mo
ment. Then when time was made they
would push ahead. That's the way it
came to be styled the Punkin' Vine."
"But I'm slipping away from my
story of the young feller again. When
ho told me he wanted a 'run,' I hap
pened to think I had heard Master Me
chanic Clark speak of needing more
engineers next week, an I told the
youth so. Well, he caught on, and got
a regular stock run for awhile.
" My, I can remember yet how he
look ed as he came down the first day
to take out No. 32, another old-timer.
He had on a fine suit of broadcloth,
but carried a Russia leather valise,
with trim new overalls and jacket to
put on over his clothes. His smooth
face, black eyes, full red coral lips and
short clipped hair attracted great at
tention, lie went at his work of making
ready to take out his engine very de
liberately and calmly. He was the
nine days' wonder of the road for a
while. This was partly from his al
most feminine beauty and from the
skill with which he handled the engine
given him. Matters went along in this
shape for several weeks. Bill Schaeffer,
as the new-comer styled himself, was
out one beautiful J une day at the other
end of the line, bringing in a huge
extra, which had a short handed crew
aboard. A strange engineer had drifted
into the roundhouse that morning
while Bill was out, and had asked, on
the strength of good references, for
some work. Mr. Clark at once sent
him out on a passenger run, as he
claimed to know the road from having
run there two years before. The regu
lar man on the passenger run was sick.
Well, the passenger met Bill's extra at
L , half way over, and it was nearly
li o'clock. There was a regular
freight in one end of the side
track, and Bill's train was trying to
push its nose in on a lot of
box-cars on the track that seemed
loose. The intention was to clear for
the passenger. Bill, wanting exercise,
I suppose from being cooped up all
day in the hot little cab, had gone
ahead on the loose cars and was riding
on top of the furthest one. He wai
apparently not noticing anything, or
attempting to set a brake on the car.
The passenger engine with the new
man was on the main track waiting to
clear. The side track had a bad down
grade, sloping heavily toward the
switch of the main track. Beyond
this the latter had a terrible heavy
grade west. Anything cut loose and
started down this incline would be
going at a little the liveliest speed yet
teen before many yards had been
passed. The grade extended for three
miles straight away, when a curve was
reached and a trestle-work bridge
broke the monotony of the track.
" Well, every one was looking back
toward the east end of the switch to
see if everything cleared. The engine
of the regular freight stood in on the
west end of the second side-track and
parallel with the passenger engine, on
which stood the strange engine si nt
out that day. All at once there was a
wild scream, and every one turned to
see the box-car going at a lively rate
of speed over the switch and out on
the main track. The other cars had
had brakes set by a brakeinan, but the
car with Bill on had been uncoupled
and was going straight on. Schaeffe
had not apparently noticed this until
he saw the car go across "jihe switch.
when he sprang to the brake, only to
find it useless, there being a broken
chain. At the same instant that he
looked up very much scared, he saw
the strange man in the cab of the pas
senger engine. He screamed out,
" Save me, Charlie, save me," and then
sank down on the top of the car.
There was an exclamation, and the
strange man had jumped clear off his
engine and ran across to the regular
freieht ensrine oa the other track. It
was only the work of a second to pull
the pin of its tender from the car, then
he sprang into the cab, where only the
fireman stood. Throwing open the
throttle, he started ''down the side
track, headed toward the fleeting car,
some distance already away. A brake
man, wlu had immediately grasped
the situation, ran and threw open
the switch, allowing the engine
to speed on to the main track. The
steam was put on and the fireman or
dered to open her wide and coal up.
Like a meteor she flew after the runa
way car. On they swept, gaining rap
idly; they were within twenty feet of
the car when the engineer ordered the
fireman to open her a little wider and
then to hold her steady at that point.
Carefully the strange man, who had
been recognized by Bill as Charlie,
crept forward along the footboard of
the boiler until the cowcatcher was
reached, when he lifted the long pin
which always rests in the center of
the pilot, and catching a firm hold on
the standard he leaned out, waiting
until the bar slipped into the bumper
of the car, when he dextrously dropped
the pin, that stood partly upright in
the hole of the bumper, and then the
car was fast to the locomotive. Both,
however, were thundering along down
the terrible grade, and fast approach
ing the curve and the bridge. He then
crawled back to the cab. 1 n the mean
time, with great nerve and sense, the
fireman had commenced shutting off
the steam, and giving the track fand.
When the strange engineer clambered
back the brake on the tender was
tightly set. Then the lever
was reversed and thrown over.
This put the engine in a
back action, and gradually the speed
slackened until a final stop was nade.
The engineer then sprang out of his
cab and hastily climbed on top of the
box car. .There safely lying on the
walk which runs along the tops of all
freight cars, one hand tightly clenching
the brake-rod, which kept him from
falling off, was Bill. He was in a dead
faint. Then, pardner, occurred a
queer scene. The strange engineer
commenced tearing open Bill's clothin'
and trying to bring him too, right
there on the car. lie worked away
desperately, and just as he saw signs
of life, he called out passionately,
" Clara, my darling wife, speak to me 1
My God, she's dead !" and the fireman
saw that Bill Schaeffer was a woman.
It was all explained then. She was
brave enough to run an engine, and
had been taught by her husband;
but she could not faco sudden
danger, and, woman-like, had
fainted. Charlie explained to
the crowd who had followed the
strange race down the track on another
engine about the wonderful affair. It
seems he had dearly loved bis wife and
had taken her along for three years on
the engine with him as a fireman until
she became as skilled as any. She al
ways wore men's clothing when on the
road and passed for his brother. But
at one time he had become crazy jeal
ous of her causelessly, and had deserted
her in Chicago, without any explana
tion. That was two years before the
strange meeting, and he had drifted
and wandered about since trying to
find her and make his atonement. She
had also gone to work as an engineer,
with a view of finding her husband.
The boys gave the united couple a won
derful reception when Logansport was
reached, but the affair was kept out of
the papers. It is now made publio
through the Herald for the first time
you can say that. Well, I'll come and
tell you some more stories some day.
Good-bye." Vhimyo Herald.
Curious Superstition.
Captain Andrew J. He3s died recently
in San Francisco. Mr. Hess, while
a deputy sheriff, ha 1 been assigned
to the duty of "death watcher" of
Sing Lum, a Chinaman condemned to
death and who committed suicide in
prison. Just before hanging himself
Sing Lum wrote a letter in Chinese tfl
one of the Chinese priests, in which hr
said that he had been treated so kindlj
by Captain Hess, his watcher, that h
intended to report him favorably t
"Poo Sot," the Great Savior, wno, he
believed, would send to earth for Cap
tain Hess also. The fact that Captaii
Hess died suddenly of heart diseast
soon after the suicide of Sing Lum
caused quite a sensation in San Fran
cisco, and the followers of Contuciui
there fully believe that Sing Lum kepi
his word, and that, as a result of hit
intercession, the Great Savior actually
pent the Angel of Death to call Sing
hum's Airerican friend from thi
world.
" Here, my friend," said the cashier,
handing the customer a pile of silver
dollars, " is your money -$'i0. Count
it, to be sure it is all right." The cus
tomer begins to count one, two, three,
and so on up to seventeen; then he
puts the pile in his pocket, with the
remark: " Oh, it's correct as far as l'v
vrone the rest must be right also !"
I'uriH Wit tii-Urn
WISE WORDS.
He is richly endowed who is cheaply
diverted.
A contented spirit is the sweetness
of existence.
The most dangerous flattery is the
inferiority of thoie who surround us.
A great noise is often made by a
small stone; loudest talk is not always
the deepest.
Slumber not in the tent in your col
umns. The world is advancing, ad
vance with it.
If we had no faults ourselves, we
should not take pleasure in observing
those of others.
Ignorance i3 one of those infirmities
that are insensible; and though it be
ever so desperately sick, feels no pain
or want of health.
It is against human nature to believe
any people will persist in wrong and
cruelty if they are permitted to enjoy
their natural rights.
We ought not to look back, unless it
is to derive useful lessons from past
errors find for the purpose of profiting
by dear-bought experience.
Would you punish the spiteful
show him you are above his malice.
The dart he throws at you will re
bound and pierce his own heart.
Let the young girl seek to adorn her
beauty, if she be taught also to adorn
ner mind and heart, that she may have
wisdom to direct her love of ornament
in due moderation.
The pleasures of this world are de
ceitful; they promise more than they
give. They trouble us in seeking
them, they do not satisfy us when pos
sessing them, and they make ua despair
In losing them.
A good conscience is better than
two witnesses. It will consume your
grief as the sun dissolves ice. It is a
spring, when you are thirsty; a staff,
when you are weary; a screen, when
the sun burns you, and a pillow in
death.
So certain is the crime of listening
to carry its own punishment that
there is no pointed prohibition against
it; we are commanded not to commit
other sins but this one draws down
its own correction, and woe be to him
who infringes it '
HEALTH HINTS.
A little powdered resin sprinkled on
t ) a .cut will prevent inflammation;
put a soft cloth around the finger and
wet it with water lrequently.
Dr. Foote's Health Monthly advises
people not to "act upon the sup
position that exhausting physical ex
ercise is strengthening; it is debili
tating."
In case of accidental wounds, if
an artery is cut, compress above the
wound; if a vein is cut, compress
b?low; for a burn, instantly apply a
solution ot'the bicarbonate of soda and
th'.'re will be no after soreness.
The council of public health, Paris,
alter studying into the question ol di
gestive powers of children, report that
col liver oil and other such tatty
preparations are of disadvantage to
young children; that they impair the
digestive functions and, being of no
use, are in the way.
One of the English country towns
which appears to have a death-rate
that is rather high is consoled by the
medical ollicer, who asserts that it
would be still higher were it not for the
3mokiness of the town. The evils of
a bad system of drainage, he thinks,
are offset largely by the smoke from
the factories, which acts as a deodor
izer. How Children row.
A table prepared by a French savant
gives the following data on the growth
of children: During the first year
after birth the growth in stature ia
about seven and a half inches; from
two to three it is four to five; from
three to four an inch and a half; from
four to six, two and a quarter inches
annually; from seven to eight, two
and a half; from eight to twelve, two
inches; from twelve to thirteen, one
and eight-tenths; from thirteen to
fourteen, two and a quarter; fifteen to
sixteen, two; sixteen to seventeen,
nearly two. After this, though growth
continues until twenty-one, and some
times for years after, its rate dimin
ishes. Increase in strides shows weak
ness of constitution or imperfect
uralth.
Bad Medicine.
A young physician who had long
worshiped at a distance was one day
suddenly called to attend her. He
found her suffering from no particu.
larly dangerous malady, but sho want
ed him to prescribe for her neverthe
less; so he took her hand and said, im
press! ve"y;
" Well, I should prescribe I should
prescribe that you get married."
"Oh, goodness 1" said the interest
ing invalid, " who would marry me, I
wonder?"
" I would," snapped the doctor, with
all the voracity of a six-foot piukercl.
" You 1" exclaimed the maiden.
" Yes."
" Wcl', doctor, if that is the fearful
alternative, you can go away and let
me die in pe ice "
FASHION .NOTES.
The new linen lawns are printed in
the sateen designs of the seavm.
The bustle or crinolet is not adopted
by the masses of English women.
Yellow corsage bows give th ) re
quisite dash of warm color to a sob r
suit.
The chamois underskirt remains the
favorite of English women for full
dress.
Orange, flame, daffodil, wallflower
and all yellow shades are in hig'.i
favor.
The shapes of new bonnets are n it
.materially different from those of last
season.
Gloves of silk and Lisle threadco.no
in all lengths and colors to mat h the
new goods.
The new bla-l: grenadine. show
Spanish lace elVv in the designs on
guipure grounds. j
New raglans are given a bouffant !
polonaise effect in the back by the loop
ing ol the drapery.
The costliest embroidered veiling
robe3 are marvels of open nerdlework.
They cost ?50 a pattern.
Among the designs in the new sa'
eens are red and green pepper (capsi
cum) pods, with foliage and stems.
Embroidered costumes of black
cashmere will be still more dressy vrith
trimming of the new souta?he lac ;s.
Silk skim that cling like Jersey
webbing will replace the chamois
skirt of the a3sthetic woman as spring
advances.
Large pal.:-leaf patterns appear in
inrolved designs, covering the entire
surface of new cashmere broches of
the finest quality.
Corn flower and royal French blue,
orange, flama and gold yellow, ox
blood and cardinal red crop out in
most of the new fabrics.
The pepper-pod designs on the new
sateens come in all stages of coloring
assumed by the fruit of this plant,
from the green pepper to the full red.
New parasols of black satin, having
one or two black Spanish lace flounces,
are varied with single or double fringes
of gold bullion between the lace fails.
The new silks and satins that come
in broche patterns show a prevalence
of oriental harmonies of color, bright
ened with flame, orange and mandarin
yellow, in vanishing effects.
Silver braiding and chinchilla f ui are
the trimmings for electric blue cloth
suits. Silver buckles clasp the drapery
of the polonaise; there is a neck-band
and a half girdle of silver, and there
are silver clasps for fastening the
front.
Plastrons or vests laid in folds or
gathered in puffs, or made plain, are
on most winter dresses. They are
narrow at the top, widen out on the
bust, and taper to a point below the
waist, where they are trimmed with a
large flat bunch of loops and ends of
ribbon.
Young ladies with low, well-shaped
foreheads turn the hair back all around
in loose waves, with here and there a
curl; they may also wear side parting.
If the hair grows prettily on the nape
of the neck it is carried up high and
wound around in Psyche form and fast
ened by a small ornamental comb of
Rhine stones or of shell.
An Affection for Statues. .
The statue of Roger Williams,' in
statuary hall of the capitol at Wash
ington, writes a national capital cor
respondent, has lost the finger of its
right hand. It has be;jn recently broken
off. Very few persons have noticed
the fracture. Supervising Architect
Clark is aware of the fact, bit he pre
serves a discreet silence. A sculptor
in town ha.i a standing agreement to
mend everything that happens to the
statues, lie makes a good thing when
ever accidents occur. He was inspect
ingthe counterfeit presentment of Wil
liams, recently, an 1 made a mental
note of the missing finger. Shortly af
terward a curious story was afloat. It
related to the affectionate regard which
an elderly lady, of odd habits, who
keeps a curiosity stand in the corridor,
has for the marble fingers of prominent
men. It is said that she goes into
statuary hall alter Congress adjourns
for the night, and bows and scrapes to
them like a pagan to his idols. Abra
ham Lincoln has a trong attraction
fur her. Sho gts a stepladder, and
kisses his marble face with all the
ardor of a Juliet. As a result of this
osculation, "Old Abe's" marble nose
and lips have grown black, and require
a dose of soda and sandpaper t re
store them to their natural purity of
expression. Of late sho has displayed
an exalted affection for linger Wil
liams. Sho has dusted him in arid out
of season. In one of her dusting
moods she struck the little linger re
ferred to with the handle of the duster,
and knocked it off. This is said to be
the true explanation of the fact that
Williams now has only four fingers on
his right hand.
During the past year GOO vessels and
5,7t( men have been employed in
dredging for coral, from February to
September, off the coasts of Sardinia,
Corsica and Sicily, (he mainland of
Southern Italy and the coast of Bar
bary. The Naples harvest Ims'yielded
l,'JriO,(MHt pounds, worth f UKMWJO,
UNDER HER .CHIN.
Tying her bonnet under her chin
Bhe tied her raven ringlets in,
Bat not alone in the silken snare
Did she catch her lovely floating bair,
For tying her bonnet under her chin
Bhe tied o young man's heart within.
Sora Firry.
And many a time that little chin
He's heard from since, yon bet and win !
And bonnets she's had for her raven hair.
And many a time lie's been called a bear ;
And now she is throwing her ringlets back.
And says she shall have a sealskin sack I
Courier-Journal.
Buttoning the sealskin up to her ohin,
She KlideIho.it and she glideth in,
And the eyes of woman with envy are green;
Bat the erst yonng fellow is seldom seen,
For in a dark office he works like sin.
For the fuiry who tied and roped him in.
Chicago World.
Tying her bonnet under her chin
Is not where the harm to that youth comes in
Nor an office dark ; but a big airy hall,
With green-covered table and cue and ball
Some friends, a supper, and a little gin
There's where the harm to that youth comes
in.
If a nv:n cm enjoy the good things of life
Why should he growl at the wants of his wife
And fume and scold, and tear and roar.
And lay all the ills of the world at her door
And why should the fairy have roped him in?
By tying tier bonnet under her chin ? .
One of the if irk.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
"Yes," said the landlord, pointing
to his block of new houses, " they're
all full, 'cept the one at the end; that's
last, but not leased." Boston Tran
script. The demand for napkin rings made
of wood grown at Walter Scott's
home. Abbotsford, is proving a great
drain on the forests of Maine. Boston
Post.
San Francisco newspapers make
mention of a rat recently captured in
that citvin whose stomach a diamond
was found. That rat had evidently
caught the rage for "decorated in
teriors." A remarkable parrot,.' owned by a
lady in Quebec, used to give this con
undrum and answer; " Why does a
donkey eat thistles? Give it up? Give
it up? Because "'he's an ass ! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-a-a."
The second hund of a clock must
always feel cheap ; not because it is
not quite as good as the others, but
simply because it is second hand, and
must take an auction-room rank in the
world. Pitaytme.
Some observant genius has calculated
that in the United States there is one
cow to every four people. It is be
lieved that the same ratio exists in
fashionable society, there being a call
to every four young men. Free Frets.
" Who are those two men ?" asked
Deacon Gilpin of 'Squire McGill, the
other evening. "Oh, those are the
men who come to work in Joralum's
place. He has moved to Bingham
ton." "To work in Joralum's place?
Why, he was the laziest man in Mara
thon!" "I know it, and that's the
reason there's two of them. It takes
both of them to be as lazy as he was."
-Marathon Independent.
VKABNING8.
. My friend, when I look in your eyes
1 rend there an unutterea gnoi;
j Life's gaerdon, a bitter surprise
I ' Love's largess, a shattered belief!
j Deep, fathomless, durk depths of pain;
j Unquenchable, hidden soul-fires,
j Consuming alike heart and brain
j Here below, whom genins inspires.
j Each heart-throb a yearning, a siph!
j My friend, is notthis what you feel?
I pause, I await your reply
"Ned, 1 yearn lor a good square meal.
When to Fat Meat.
It is well known that the digestion
of different kinds of meat is the more
easily effected the longer the time that
transpires after the death of the ani
mal. The explanation given is, that
by keeping, the muscular fibers become
gradually dissociated; they soften, be
come les compact and consequently
are more soluble in the gastric juice.
According to physiologies, however, it
is not considered advisable to wait un
til decomposition sets inr because, in
addition to its losing a great part of
its nutritive qualities, the meat becomes
bo nauseous that no amount of cooking
or the addition of condiments will
much improve it. MM. Pasteur and
Lemaire, in an interesting paper sub
mitted by them to the French Academy
of Sciences, stated that meat too far
advanced, or what is termed " fnisan
dee," is most unwholesome, and it is a
mistake committed daily by sportsmen
to wait until the game gets into tliis
condition, for It is then simply unlit to
be eaten. The above-named biologists
have shown that tainted meat contains
animalcules, which do the work c f
transformation and destruction; and
as it is difficult to ascertain exactly the
extent of putrefaction that tho meat
has undergone, one is liable to consume
it just at the moment when it should
be rejected. M. Pasteur and other
micrographers are of the opinion that
these animalcules, of which there are
no less than thirty species, are of the
same nature as those that are found in
living animals suffering from virulent
maladie., such a charhon, etc. I. my
tt.