;HE RIDDLE OF T Wo . inn wo lioro iio man re?da ?I.,- idle of t 1 * that aro, Frc . nv fon io valley's lion rt 'j . , >i?l?t <. largest star, Xot . ? '. ?<>W tl- > io prnssuro ol Lifo Ia ... , ads 1 U"to ut Sleep. If .$WZ?r4X?%& fi -iCRUMPLI .'ORV Ol? J\ BB LOUDNESS skies ami lialiuy breezes combined to maka tho tiny nu ideal one. Tbo AV ell? known bay ul Al fri or M was most delightfully still. Tho Bun glint e?l ilown on I tic white sails of :i yacht lying a mile or t wo out, making tho brnsswork glitter ami tho pretty little breakfast table, set under the awning, look most inviting. Jt \v:is most charmingly nrrnugctl a deux, and pvorything, from tho delicate eggshell china t.> the little rat-tailed simons, .was of thc daintiest description. Everything around looked .so calm nut! quiet; it seemed almost as though r. sju'll lay over it al!, and Hie ship .were about to sail into an enchanted city--the brilliant blue of the Mediter ranean, and the cloudless Southern sky, v\ith the white roofs and orange groves of Algiers in tho distance, making upa picture worthy o? n fairy .story! At least, ??o thought the mar nhd woman who were leaning ?gains the rail watching a tiny boat whiel was ?lowly making its way out t them. Tho woman held a big scarh Biiushatlo over her, ti? shelter her fa curly head and sweet mobile la? from the sun. "Fancy, Harry,"' she was laughir "just a month lo-day since we w? married! What, a charming remi braucc! and what a lovely idea yours to have all thofto lovely How brought over lo dec?rate tho shin v for to night!" Tho sun beat dowi, 01. tho little white hands holding tho ptur asol, and made tho brilliant rinks upon them glitter again. "We'll l(e gin at once, as soon as he. comes, went ou. "3 think a festoon yellow Howers would look . over the saloon door." ^ "Oh, no," answered her 1 -I laughing; "wo w.r 1 bcirin i have br . don't' us to di ant to lei. lld sit in m." ling!" s' > w nd tho ?j .nore wi *r. ?. ne r 1 i . i t i Cl "he' she; side that 1 ti ol be. pat arti? ions flow? Mea unan? 1 ? :, and wt . ?d direc tzy oh' . evy Viaj i T. SSV la heart; what's (ho mutier? no had nows, I hopo?" he said quickly. **OJu? Ito," she returned. "This is a r from Olga, and ?ho always ru e up tho wrong way, somehow. Sh >"s: Vt presume you aro having a sot time; now tell mo what is tl .impled rosolcaf in all this hnp )> ;?-for there must he one!' And I ight for a moment, if ever one s d come, if it could go on like i >.\ always without changing. It seems i toogood to ho true," .she added in a lo vj lone; "hut Hiern is absolutely not a crumpled rosolcaf so far." yo, dear," ho said quietly, bond duwn and kissing her hands; re is no serpent, in our Eden!" was only afterwards he romcm d Ibo bitter irony of Fate that opted those words, and they were j i absorbed again in their letters . themselves. The men woro down stairs in tho cabin, and no one noticed t/ho tiny black adder which had crept from the basket of Howers, and now 1 sunning himself on tho tieck just .iud Molly's chair. The warmth .he sun made him quite lively, and bogati creeping about, and grad dy disappeared under the chair. :/? Suddenly she sat up with a sharp . y: "Oh! Harry, something has hurt y foot," she' said; and, looking down, ero lay across her instep tho little ? niko, its head firmly lixed into tho ilk stocking. With a mu tiled excla tntion of horror Harry tore it off, and lung it into tho sea; the pretty white oot lay liare, and seen through the rent in tho steel;''v; wore three tiny red punctures. *st!ey rushed down tho cabin r.d hurry: "Williams, Williams,' L "von must go on shore at once, a. do your hear? Mrs. Astley has .?>? stung by a snake, go and bring a doc tar as quickly ns ever you can." Con ing back he took up the hugo bas! ol Howers, and pitched them o- ? board; then, taking poor Molly ir arms, ho carried her to her ..whore her maid bathed her por lr foot. It was swelling airca- y, at there was no pain. "I'll sit on tho deck until . (loc tor c.A>,3, Uaivy," sin .. ghed. "Plea- T^lon't worry, I dm ' .ievc was a? ?fe ->g IM:? - *j tddoi.'J ! ?iii ? ' t '-m che doc*1 ??'" ' ? li - be ! -oked verv VI cannot say anything for some time yet;" he said, after examining tho sting. "I don't Uko tho entire absence of pain. Can you not de scribe to me what the snake or adder looked like?" Hut poor Marry had flung it away without looking, and was in "itch a stale that he could absolutely remem ber mitbin;;. Gradually pom- Molly gol w irse, the swelling increased, and a terrible numbness, which crept :?!?). ly right over the body, set in. Tho doctor stayed on, but more for Ibo sake of Mr. Astley, who was he side iiim-vlf with grief, than for Molly, wli'i lay quite still and quiet in ukind om which nothing could ? \ >.m' six in tho evening she awotvc, and . Hy asked for her husband. "Dear love," sh -'1, j utting her arms around his nee. y not to take it too hardly if I- ' . Hurry left her and rushed on deck. .'Hood Clod, "Wilson," i dod, to tho doctor, "can't you do ,IN 'ling"'-*. Let's have someone c!si>, lo -" ?tia eye fell on the native wli ) had brought over the Howers in tho morn ing, standing talking to Williams, and in Iiis frenzy, ho turned on him. "You scoundrel," he said, going up ! to him, "do you know your careless noss has killed my wife? If .she dies, j I'll have you thrown into the sea!" "Master Harry," said tho staid Williams, who had been his master siuco ho wail a boy, "don't hurt the man; he's a native, and these natives aro sometimes very clever with medi cines, perhaps ho can do something for my mistress!" "(iod bless you for thinking of it, Williams," he said in a broken voice; "you tell him, you can understand his jargon," and ho wont down again lo Molly. William?, explained as well as ho oould what had happened, and tho man Avith a glimmer of understanding, thought ho could see what kind of a snake it was from tho wound it had itillictcd. Ho was accordingly shown into Mrs. Astley' s cabin, and after looking afc thc punctures, at once hur ried away, sayiug he would bring some thing, but he was afraid, he conlided to Williams, that iL war, too late. Most of us can call to memory somo lime in our lives, somo special hour when every moment seems a year J and though a suppressed excitement) lilis UH, yet wo seoni unnaturally quiet, waiting-wailing-wo know . not whether for lifo or death, fAi- happi ncaa r,r misery to fall to our lot. If ry Astley had been nskod whic s tho supreme hour of his life 1 mid without hesitation have said - ono-when ho sat beside hil wife' . ul iu dumb agony awaiting tho n of tho man, wondering if ho w bo in time, for poor Mo' seen: ;o bo losing strength every breath, and wondering, too, if ho could do any good whon ho did como! At Inst, after what seemed to tho worn-out man a perfect eternity ot' waiting, tho native relumed. His method scorned to Harry alarmingly uimplo for such an extreme ease, as it merely consisted in putting ti few drops of a particular juico into thu throe punctures tho adder had made, hut lo his delighted astonishment, as well as the doctor's, in half au hour Molly was sleeping quietly, ?nd tho swelling was already great ly decreas ed, while Mahomed Nani, the Afri can medicine-man left tho yacht con siderably richer than when ho carno on to it j it was a very pale little Molly who i wai? fitting n woe!; lalor at lim rnr.io breakfast table, opening a little i>nok ago her husband had just given her. It was a bracelet- ill the form ot a tiny" gold adder, with gleaming eyes of em eralds: and on its quivering longue ay a crumpled loaoleaf of rosy en amel. "Hov- beautiful! Hurry," she said. "Thank yuu aili -.maand times, ami ave they net nally elev;'.- enough to make nindi a thing ill thal bazaar in Algiers V' .'These Kastern people aro consum mate masters in* the art of jewelryj dearest," ho answered; ".uni now, when my little wife wears this, may it always beith o nilly crumpled rose]oaf in her happiness -tho solitary sor ?J oho in our Eden!"-MeC's Monthly. Common M ?ni:?!? Tt ia n mistake to won: iviion yon aro not in :?, lit eon lil ion tu tl?) so, ; > taku ? . IV heavy underclothing lieeansu you have become over-heated; io think that thu more a person eats tho healthier and stronger lie will be come; to believe that children erin do as much work as grown people, rad that thu more they ?tildy tho more they learn; to go to bed into r.' night and risc at daybreak and imagine thal every hour taken from sleep is an hour gained; tu imagino thai if a Wi ths work or exorcisa ir; good, violent or prolonged exorcise is hotter; lo conclude that the smallest room in Ibu house is largo enough lo Klee]) in; to slue]) exposed to a direct draught at any season; to imagine that wb-d r remedy nail . one i > fee' '.?.?.." ly belier- 'oh'd '. ( example . : ystem, wit hon .tn . . efieets; to eat, :. ; bc.d only omi minute tl) lin! . .nerd, or lo eat wiluou! an "**>eci or con', i nue niter ii has been lied, lo gratify* tko tas c; ;?> give . necessary timo t.> a certain es.a'o ? ? cd routine of housekeeping wh MI could bo much more prolitahly pout iii rcs! or recreation. Wo trust that these little mistakes, which arc so apt to bo made, will in futuro bc avoid .d. - London Family Doctor. . >??. . V* ri ; . . v.^"' - ... '?. ; iMii.ii in tu'o ...s....... . ..i.w. ?... usual sight," said Walter Wade, "hut that is just what ? saw in a Tennessee wcod a fe w weeks ago. The female engineer's name is Annie Fables, and she toiil mo she had been doing a 'full hand's' work at thc mill for six years. Five years ago shu decided shu could run tlic eugine, and tho null boss told mo she had bon one. of tho mos!, cave fu!, as well as ore of thu most com petent, he had ever seen. Mrs. Fables lost her husband six years and a half ag >, and a few" months afterward she asked for a pl ace in the mill where her !ie'.',o lord lia-, been employed. She began working as an 'ott-bearer,' and in a year and a half wan put in charge of thu monster piece of machinery which furnished motive power fur the largo circular end straight saws, Shu has all along earned a luau's wages and has been allie to support and give her seven fatherless lil t?o ones a good common school education. She i.; fond of tho hard labor, and has lost hut live days during her conned ion with the mill, and then she was min istering S;> a sick child."-Louisville ??oat. . ??. . Hin I.o:; Wa* Uro levi). lu i..- . \ A, when children jual beginning .?? p simple words parniyzo their >? ^n that a popular lecturer on d' advised women to wear '' i. gown - tl e,0olor ol their hair, .0 gowns . . color .of I heir eyes, cuing toilet e tint o? lucir com. plexiouB,"-iL .-ewi?e? sd THE FIGHTING GUHKIIAS. Sq-nothinsr About tim Men Who Win Eu? l?ml> f?atlIo? lu llliliil. Tbo.Gurkhas, to whoso valor wo owo much on tho Iiulittu frontier, uro inj)t afraid of doa iii in tiny shape or fin", have tho instinct of instant and (questioning ohodienoo to orders un superiors, and take an actual and lysioal delight in lighting. It is a pk m lar error lo supposa that thoy aro wThout easle. Thee?) aro about til ir tenn dill'crenl castes among them, and : savernl sub-division in eichenste. But : whin serving in British rogitnoutsand ; while on a campaign, Gurkhas do not! nlJow their caste system lo interfere ' Vtth their comforts, and will cat and , oiink freely with Europe-ana nod aiilOUg themsnl ves. They have, no ob jeVtion to taking tl pull at a Brttifch . soldier's Husk, and will share a "ehn j)!,ti" yvill: tho most montai camp-fol-| lotver. They will gladly take a cigar or)tobacco from n European, hut on no acconut must a man of one caste smoko in tho company ol' another. All Gurkhas trace their descent front . th i Rajput:', of Centra! India, t ho . Tluippas and Curlings especially claim- j in.'j to have the bluest Hindu blood in ; India running in thoir v.??u?. They have,.however, intermarried for gen orations w ?tu Mongolian women, j ,. Gurkhas have ono physical peculiar? 'it+. Their stature is below the aver-! ago and a:; they du not weal beards,1 and their mustaches, in spite of much | care, never attain a luxuriant growl!], ? and to rf. casual observera Gurkha reg? hu 'iii, appears to consist ol' boys, not men. lt is on record thal when Cord : Itoheris was marching through thu Kurrali], tho Pathau women and chil dren came out to jeer at the striplings whom ho was leading, as it. seemed, to their ivrtaiu death, and they only, changed their opinion, when, largely ? owing ti? 1 Iii> heroism of these samo I (?u."lilias, the Afghan army aro driven ! headlong from tho I'oiwar Jvotal. The colonel of a distinguished rogi- i ment used to tell a story of a Pathau , who had traveled a long distance lo gut a glimpse of the terrible soldiers! tba. had defeated his countrymen, j When ho .saw tho littlo boyish-looking j < . has standing guard af. tho Pala: ., be Committed ?mh.jiln "for vi-vv ! ? : " at least- id t**' p. the ?t?iTiM : I '.j. : !r. vhen asked to explain tito I pre co of t!io dead body.- Loudon News. _ _._ i j i rilirro-OrgnnismK. j < The investigations'of Nunki havel 1 l-l iii:., to conclude that tho timo will ! 1 jaine wrion-it will be possible to ru- ! tiiovo all micro-organisms ?"rom footl. j 4 As regards the question whether their ; * action is necessary for tho normal pro- ! ( ?es'8 of digest ion, he presents reason:; ? for believing that it is not, this eon-: ' duniori beiher based on the following * ?rounds: Tho acid of tho stomach 1 1 ?>?.**?- 11 " rajority oi the miern-'v ! 1 -\: Slim" _ . . : A A < . ^ '* ' .--'. '??t>d ; J " \ ' u" *i;u**- In Xh.o small ! ^ " 1 '" " action is couti ned to ? ttu'lHlecomposition of the carbohy- ' Jia^RjuuLthe formation of lactic and ? ' sucoiuiO-ncid!-, alcohol, etc. It is only j ' in.the"""large intestine that, the deconi- i 1 position of albumen s and the formation ! ' jf aromatic bod icy, anti of the different ; ' ic i dactyl der their influence:, lake place. ! * J*ttW?SSit Tribun--. I1 Te seen. v 1 A Few I*:il ml routes. } palindroniistjenda us the fol- f ,o list of wor^i, clipped fruin * mino tv?} 'v, wrd'oh.*u^ be spelled ; forward baekwatff; ; "Anna, bab, 1 . Ilib, bob, O?V?C^dad, deed, dei iied, did, c?wT eve*J^!?3we,. eye, gog, ?ig, gag, ^$*;-$adara, noon, itto, pap, peep, ' 'T^p, P"P. redder, refer, repaper, rt rotator, sees, j j nexos, shahs, lat, ^^toot." This leads us to ask: ""W^^?tthc matter with HannahV" I!^JHR? I;1 paliudromi .al. . Dr. -MOp.i's family name is equally capunf} of being ?polled backward.- But cinT' ' wo add tu the above, list?Aibj(v.-. ^d-?eH mark to IO ve, 'Tratte, htm," nul yaool^o?i'AfSB?aL ' {'i I saw 131 ba," should Wfmm :, . /.nt of ago. "-Boston Journa! V.; ;;; ;.. ; v - A Whole Meal In tl. It is not exactly th- -'."' ike tho coffee, but Ibo way ,c er ! it is mao >. it i.t a v?j y\ . d . to learn, for it gives a: ...'' lyhich can 1m taken in i *' . '* iimo withowP injury to Drgaus, ami it, answers 41 . . ?;' ' , ioup .'munt, co Tee and .' .?".'. JUC. This is lite way to. < 1 ? ' .oraes hist in the prepar. M < I dr'lnmps of sugar in a ,;! ji'-.N *fij>; break into this two 1 i-'A . .wn-thirds full with hot i vtfff^t* tdd the CQ?e? and th.ere ye . _ .' ? . voubl bo * in valuable ' '"-V^v ' .001ns, the only mi -u ho ingredients . ^ui. to bo m^^-^??kymJi room pat FOREIGNERS ASTONISHED ENORP/JOUS PRODUCTIVE POWER OF THE UNITED STATES. All Kiiropp <: 10 . 1er cent, in . 30 per sent in IS ?2 90. Win . '>nv in nind tho tree trade poll "eal lirilnlu, and the similarity tn :. '?> md ra.ee of the two countries, i .line of trade is phenomenal, Kt .ag j hat it is coeval with an increase of bailings with Germany. All tho South American Republics have opened ip so many new channels of tra do | vithin the last ten yearn between ntherii portions of ?1. jio? ".i-ufFT? their deal ings with, tho Uuited States, while the irado between Great Ordain and South America has risen only 20 per ?ent. in tho same time. Ten years igo British irado exceeded that of tho United States in South America by lt) ier cent.-, at present the thc excess is inly 21 per cent., which shows thai iel'..re long the bulk of South Ameri !an trade will tm carriel on with the United States." Attention is called to tho equally I surprising allowing for tho internal rade of the United Stales, ft \* nine 1 inivis as groa? as tho amount nf inter .bango v, ii!, iorcign countrii;s. tt. .ose )'. rty-iiiiie p. :- cent, in the inier :.l of fourteen years- fr.nn I ?ISO lo i.-i!1!, the increase of population hav ng been thirty-si?: per cent. Thc dc relopmciit ol national resource.! is : dill more striking. "If we conn! tho : vorkiug years." s;.yt Mr. .Mulhall, 'as three hundred ihiy.i tho internal i\sdo will bo found lo average forty light million dollars daily, while ex ernal commerce, i- little ( v-u- five ? uillioiis. Moreover, internal trade | irogresjs.es much faster, having risen orly-nino per cent. since 1880, vheivai foreign trade is hardly len ; ?er cent, higher." lt interests Sheffield to know that ; mr exports of iron aud stool mau ti nctures have more than doubled in ?abie since 1800, in apile of the dc ri-ise in the it ii il of value. The same 1 s true ol' our exports ?>!' b ether goods, .inch in the year . mdi ig June 30, K?I7, reached a* value o? ?20,000,000. L'hi: value ol' bieysdi s jumped from U,Sf.8,Oi2 in KS'.ti; to $7,0t)?,-l23 in 897. All this must be extremely interrst iig,"ii not altogether gratifying, to tim ;rent iron and steel and machinery in fresis of Sheffield, and the fact'that uformationof this character is eagerly ought and conspicuously displayed y the l?ritish newspapers shows with ?"bat keen watchfulness the unparul ?led industrial and trade develop-' lents in tho United States arc being otcil abroad. AU Europe is vitally con ern ed '.. the giant strides making in Ile Uuited Stales toward seizing upon bo lion's share of trade in tho world's larkcls. The interest and nstonish lent will bc still greater when a show ng is made of yet heavier increases loth in foreign and iiiterntil trade in he more prosperous fiscal year clui ng with Juno 30, 1898. Truly S ant-..in ,. Th I'.-i ii a shoehi : ; . I,...- ? ;' j?ui' tac Dingi.-y I uv. We . .: ... omo squirming stitt ?ctica i-i lim .onial journals. Wo icier o ihuao ii policy is to return to Ihc co'on -tem, au I become in co me ?rec 'sh Hi:l>ic< ls. Tho revenue has Tlini ..>'. thc mouth at a WHAT THE PEOPLE L. riint Congre?*? Will I'rt, rel Aim-vl. . ?lustry titi t' o Ocean. Anning tin* measures th? people iiavo a right lo ?xpcet of thia session Cougrcss is un it/d lo promote tho ?(hipping tuturi nts Ihn country, and lo give lo American industry on the [menu thc same protect M>:I that i "'vu ou land. There is app:i;-< ?itiy !i<> ... eel ililli .-ulty in Um way of providing tho -V Bired legislation. Til? Ucpub? a'i nal ly is not divided on i'i ii i ino ?1 1 il ts mi Hie money .|uesl?c>u. A m ijori'r, in Mic Konnte favors i! v. - v:e!l : :?. . .:i. itv in the ' louse, ll i'. evi :. , . .. several I >emo< :als from ,: .. roost State" would sui)[?or| i;. y pros j sect < !' i !:?. i! in'.?:-. : i ;' favorable for li: enactment ::. com prehensivo ineiiHure uf Un ! ' . !, and I hero will boa widespread ? ?pub r dis ii]>poiutnient if 1i? . ... Ksion c!os ? ? wil fl uni one. lu thu Aggregate tim ?imoun of tri? bute |):i?.! by iii Hailed Wides to foreign countries for ocean .-'.ii i; ii. ; is cuorirtous. \< ording to the estimates nf expert M on tl.' subject wi ar? ut present pitying ?:' Hie rate of ?;:?f.??l, ?MIO.OIK) ?; year for r; ich iran.' portal ion. As our exports hiccaKO thc freight will increase, and :i large proportion of Ibo profits ( !' our expanding industries v. ill tims I..- curried lo oin :;.:<. lands despite I he 1 rt?; 'dh :i rn t-> them by HM ' 'i'ltf * ' . i. ? boards nf Irade: nn.i . ii throughout Hie country sin,.ti.: Petitions ? ii mid bo .?oui lo Congress urging ibo enactment ur. : ueb lc ? .'.1 lion at thia session. American S!?S;K?, manned by Am rican sailors ?uni living tic. American Hag, sboab! nirry Amer ican goods to (ho natioi.sof t!i >, v.i :?!d? lt is folly to pay td forei; nersnu ennr D'.miii tribute when by developing ??ir shipping industry as we have developed oilier indus! vies wo can save the money ?ur the enrichment of u ir own poo| le and ibo iiicrcapo ol tho rommercbil prestige of our nation.-Hun Francisco Call. " Her? ri ml T)i;*rc. ?jj, "tr^-:.;r:- . ; . '?: tyfifl \ty. ""H*. ~"%r...-r:.: ;--.-t-jiV :?-->"I i'}-', f \~>~viVir~"I -;..-?r. > vf, '... i '\ \ >i ' i !?. ic???* M(ti>-1 A v:. .:.. ': ..i :.J n~? 1:? :.: > i>?. "Wba? c.- . . inidi dion ii Ai n 1 i?*an rails are sold in India?" "!>.> wo need 11 tari il' when .vc can c.povi ti'i plate and trolley outfits?" (ira itiug Huit sueb toll; ba.- 11 plausible mmml, ic is danger ins an i t!i - big. Certain article:! can bc nui c hove belier and cheaper t lian they can !...; produced abroad. !"..? di y .wi" will .? ??? .1 longer li 1 of sueb :: nun '.> . . . d produc?s. The . ::' 1 ; rise of . er pennie, Hie i- i y ?.i ius iry. liu? it is no! :!;.- 1 . .:-;-* i'1" l?epubl?can par ly to ileseri thc wool grower, the rice planier, the iron miner, the coal pru lu v ev thc lt;in bcrmtin. Kvcn if Ibo fnelories of tho sea-const outgrow Cue need of protec tion, there ure va -, aror.s in which tho unreslricled 'r .? enn peon or tho Wost Indian e ? '.ie, would !).. severely f. ?. ".Protection to A. . .1.iiuiivdi'ics ts a promise tba! must 1 ay 1 1:0 hundred cents 0:1 ','?< . dollar. ls does not mean Unit Ihotnrirt' is io l?.> thrown nverlioard as .? -?>:i ns e. fev. 1 of Ibo Carnegie type have nenio their .'.>?? tunes. !t does md motu Hui pe?,pie of lb? :: i 'lit"..:.' a:i ! mining c;?mmuiiiti . - aro u- !>.? y, b . :.l w ith ii few word--, a'i'i ' ' t'or-m ' illili t?ti v ca i '>??.?? .. i,;' 1 !:.? proie"! I0.1 v .^i -li helped lo .vin o>r I.e.wt? and Pills burg. Thc co Hy ??.ieuce Clrenl l?rii.nn in s?criiieing her n rmUuval inter, ds : iionld not bo