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My Little Neighbor.
You came to live near us
One bonnie spriug clay;
The noit sunahiny morning?
A morning in May?
I heard you a-gardening
Over the way.
But between, liko Fate's battlement,
Grim rose the wall,
Anil you were so little,
And I was not tailShould
I shout? Would yon answer ?
What name could I call ?
?
I hato the man
Who had bnilt the wall there.
I c!itubed with the aid
Of a venerahlo chair?
A diminutive Romeo
Scaling your stair.
The ledge I laid over?
Ah, such a wee thing 1
Like a restless white butterfly
Light on the wing;
Hair gold as the primrose
Tluit blossomed in spring.
Your rake dropped, your sun-hat slipped
Off yotir bright head.
" Are you the boy next door ?"
You solemnly said.
I no hied, slid over the wall,
Kadiant aud red.
Oh, my wife, in Life's garden
Welingor to-day;
Many snows, manv May-blooms
Have kissed gold to gray,
Since I wooed my woo neighbor
Over tho way.
?K. Temple More, in Our Continent.
HE STOOD THE TEST.
"Who ever heard of such a beastly
provision?" Valentino Thompson was
saying, tavagely ."I tell yon, Stephen,
I won't marry the girl if i never inherit
a shilling of Uncle Ilarvey's money. I
don't propose to be victimized merely
for tbo gratification of an old man's
whim, and it's nothing bnt a whim yon
know very well?some cranky notion
he's pot out of his everlasting novels.'
" Steady, my boy," his Cousin 8tephen
observed, with a quiet twinkle in his
eye. " Perhaps you wouldn't consider
yourself'victimized if you were to see
Miss Lulu. By Jove, Yal, a fellow
might bo proud of such a wife."
"Not if he had been coerced into
marrying her," was Val's hot-headed rejoinder.
" That is one thing in which
I will not brook interference. I shall
marry whom I choose. I may as well
say so first as last."
Stephen whistled softly to himself for
1 n .'3 .
a few moments, ana toea emu ."You
absolutely refuse complianceis
tbut what I am to understand ?
Katber than marry Uncle Harvey's
protepre, yon will forfeit your prospective
inheritance, eh ?"
' Exactly," replied Val, with scornfnl
indifference. "When yon go back to
town yon can tell himso."
"Dm't be too hasty, my boy," Stef.
phen remarked. "Hadn't yon better
see Miss Loin before you make np your
mind ?"
"No," Val answered, without hesitation.
" The conditions attending 6nch
a marriage would make it disagreeable
under any circumstances. But I say,
Stephen, jou seem to have been quite
struck with Miss Welwyn; why don't
you marry her yourself ?''
Stephen's face flushed slightly, and
Le moved uneasily in his chair.
"Ob, I'm a confirmed bachelor, Val,"
lie said, willi an awkward laugh.You
know I am not a marrying man."
" Tbat is no reason wby you shouldn't
become one,",Val said, stoutly, quite
carried -*way bv this new 'idea. " Ton
could bear her off in triumph, and I've
no doubt Uncle Harvey would be all
the better satisfied if you were to be
her husband. I'm a kind of a scamp,
you know; but you, my dear Stephen,
are a man of responsibility."
"Thanks ; no, Yal I' Stephen said, in
his dry, humorous way. "You know I
never did get alom? with the women,
and I'd sooner be shot than court one 1"
" NonsenseP Yal answered, enthusiastically.
"I'll help you. Nothing
easier, stennen."
Stephen shook his head.
"That's one of the things in which
there can be no co-operation, my dear
boy," he observed.
"That's what inexperience says,"
Val rejoined. " 1*11 prove the contrary.
u. Jnst let me see Miss Lnln. I'll make
yon the burden of my praises. I'll paint
you rs a little god on wheels. I'll
extol .von to the 6kies, till you present
yourself to her mind as a hero of
romance. Yonng girls are very susceptible
to tbat sort of thiDg, Stephen.
ff^^Just say the word, and I'll open the
- campaign at once."
i&i "Sho won't have me, Val," Stephen
bnt he was obvionsly wavering,
^ff^and his cousin came down with several
other reassuring arguments which won
him over.
"If I really thought she wonld marry
!*? me," he said at last, "I might ask her.
Bnt I swear, Val, I'd sooner walk up to
a cannon's mouth than have a woman
/ say 'No' to me."
** Follow my advice," Val answered,
. confidently "I'm an old 6tager,
Stephen. For tho present, just you go
V# back to towD, and tell Uncle Harvey
that you have concluded to take the
rtftntroot nfT toy hards. TW Jove ! You're
a brick, Stephen. You'ii save me from
penary, icy dear fellow, for I swear I
wouldn't mairy Miss Welwyn under any
consideration, though I hare no doubt
she is an angel."
"You will po down to Redner right
T away tben?" Stephen inquired, when
fk" they were parting.
"To-morrow," Val replied, and he
kept his woi<1.
. The rest dey at neon he found himpelf
in the little library at Welwyn
"Woods, chatting with his hostess and
one of ibe prettiest girls he had ever
seen. Val was u connoisseur in beauty,
; too.
"Your uncle toid us," Mrs. "Welwyn
observed, cordially, "that your Cousin
Stephen mi^ht be down with you. I
: am 6orry he conldn't come.'
" He Lopes to get away after awhile,"
Val replied. "At p-asent he is so entangled
in engagements that he hasn't a
moment's leisure. I never saw such
vitality as his. He is perfectly indefatigable,
though I know there isn't another
man in town po much sought
after."
'* TA '' Hfwa \AJr?lvmrn
" It BCCIiitS ouauj^c, iuao* iiciit;u iv
marked, "thut be should never have
married."
" Ho is not easily charmed," Val said,
with a laugh and a suggestive look at
Miss Lulu. " The woman who wins hitu
will have a great triumph."
j Theeo were the entering wedges, Val
said to him-elf, and he deliberately laid
in ambash for occasions to drive them
deeper in.
It was not a disagreeable task, he
found, for Mi?s Lulu was a charming
listener; and there was something sc
novel in it that it was more diverting
even than flirtation. He did a greal
many things on Stephen's account which
he wouldn't have dared to do on hit
own.
It was quite delightful, indeed, to
ramble through Welwyn Woods with
such a companion, for he felt so much at
ease in her society, having already set
her apart in his mind as Stephen's wife.
And thero was a peculiar charm in the
k long afternoons on the lake, when he
looked sc persistently at the fair face
under a broad Leghorn, and reflected
that this was to be his cousin.
So the uavrf wentgliding by, and Miss
Lulu was courted, as Val said, ''bv
proxy." Ho had kept bis promise to
Stephen, pouring into her earsthemost
glowing accounts of his merits, the
most piquant recital of his doings, the
most winning reviews of his wit.
Mies Lulu listened apparently in
wide eyed wonder, and Val wrot<* at last
for Stephen to come down to Redner.
Of rnnrsfl it was understood that
after that ho wa9 to leave his cousin in
full possession of the field, but somehow
ho was nc.t at all pleased when Stephen
made the very reasonable suggestion
that he should go away from
Welwyn Woods altogether. In short,
he went back to town in a veryunamiable
mood.
Everything was exceedingly dull jusl
then, uiifl Val was hke a fish out oJ
water. There was nothing to do but
"sic around," as he said, and whenover
he undertook to do that he fell to
thinkin of things that made him unaccountably
savage. He began to wish
he never had gone down to Redner, for
it was evidently there that he had absorbed
the germ of this unrest It was
some time before be knew what was the
mat?r with him, and when he did he
continued to oppose the conviction.
It wad too- too too mnch like retributioii
).? hould have fallen in love
4^I
petulant, oursing everything and everybody,
but I'ate and himself most of all.
It had rather a startling effeot upon
him when Stephen burst into his room
one day in a very rnffled state,
"Confound you, Val!" ho exclaimed.
" I knew you'd get me into difficulty I"
"What's the matter?"
"Why, I followed your advice to
the letter, and what was the consequence?"
"You're engaged to Miss Lulu, I
suppose ?"
"Engaged? The deuce! She refused
me on the Hpot. And?and some
confounded meddlesome old busybody
has gone and told her about Uncle
Harvey. I haven't the ghost of a
chance I"
" Thank God 1"
This fervent exclamation rather staggered
Stephen, you may suppose. He
1 L ^ AAVnoof ^OAQ QQ
biurieu uii y ai d nunc caiuvou ?uw) m%>
though it had been a phantom.
"Well," he said, slowlyi " I?mustsay?
you're a fine fellow 1"
Val had jumped up hat tily. He went
toward his cousin, and laid one hand
heavily on his shoulder.
" I say, old fellow,'' ho said in a
husky voice, " you're not hard hit?are
yon ? Because I am, you see. I
wouldn't for the world go back on you,
Stephen You know that. If it makes
much difference to you, I won't think
of it, but?I love Lulu Welwyn with
all my heart 1"
Stephen stared hard at his cousin,
but not unkindly.
"If I didn't know you bo well, Val."
ho said, presently, "I'd knock you
down."
"I know," Val replied, "it makes
me look like a scoundrel; but, before
God, Stephen, I didn't mean it."
Stephen took several hasty turns up
aud down the room, and then grasped
his hand.
"It's all right, Val," he said cordially,
"She wouldn't have me, anyhow.
It don't makfl 60 much difference
to a man of my age. God bless
yon, boy! Go and w.'n her."
Val needed no second bidding. He
was back at Welwyn Woods in two days'
time. But he was bent upon u new
purpose. He would win Lulu for himself?yes!
But only on condition that
he could not win her for Stephen.
She met him in the library, but not
with her old cordiality.
" I have a singular errand, Miss
Welwyn," he said, hurriedly, striving
to conceal his emotion. "My cousin
tells me you have refused his offer of
marriage."
Lulu flushed slightly, but gave a dignified
assent.
J " May I ask," he went on earnestly,
"whether you Lave fully considered
your decision ? My cousin is a man
that any woman might be proud to win
for a husband. He is a noblo fellow,
j He wiil be rich some of these days, and
| he certainly is tine looking enough to
suit the most fastidious taste. You cannot
have fathomed the depth of his nature,
3Iiss Welwyn, or you must have
esteemed him more highly."
"I'm afraid, Mr. Thorne," she replied,
coldly, "that I do not appreciate
your perfect men. I never did."
" Stephen does not profess to be anything
of the hind." he said, hastily
" You know yourself that he is the sou.
of modesty. I am speaking of him as 1
know he is, from long acquaintance
with bis character. From my heart I
honor him, Miss "WelwjD, and, as your
best friend, might urge you to regard
his suit with favor."
" Your consin hes an ardent champion,
Mr. Thorne," she said, with the
same frigid calmness; " but it is quite
impossible for me to marry him. In the
first place I do not love him; and, in
the second, I would not marry any man
who sought me as his wife only as a ,
means to securing a fortune to his
friend. Your cousin's conduct is most
magnanimous so far as yon are concerned,
Mr. Thorne; but I muet decline
the honor he would confer on me."
" Upon lay soul. Miss Welwyn," Val
said, eagerly, "Stephen would not
have lent himself to such a scheme if
he had not cared foryou. Nothing; could
have induced him."
Then, seeing the scornful smile that
played about her lips, his own love
leaped beyond all barriers of restraint,
and he cried:
"You would not make that tell
j against me, too ? I love you 1 Hear
me I I refused to aoceae to my uncie h
proposition, though he threatened to
disinherit me if I would not marry you.
I refused; but Stephen had seen you.
He knew you as I did not, and he
offered to take my place. Then I came
here, and without intending it, I
learned to love?to worship you. For
Heaven's sake, believe me! What do
I care for the money ? It is von I want!
If you will not marry Stephen, will you
marry me? My happiness depeuds
upon it, for I love you with my whole
eonl."
She trembled from head to foot, but
she evaded his touch, and said, with
studied indifference:
"I am sorry, Mr. Thorne, but I cannot
acoept all you say on faith. Confess
yourself; it does seem as though the
money were behind the persistent pursuit
of my hand. Luckily, some of my
friends Lad heard of your uncle's singular
exaoiions. I appreciate the
j honor his preference does me ; but I
must decline it. There is no necessity,
however, of your suffering in consequence.
You have done your part,
and your uncle must know that you
caD't marry me against my will."
Val stood before her with a pale, impassioned
face.
" You do me a great wrong," he said,
hoarsely. " I lovo you as truly as ever
a man loved in the whole wide world.
I Bwear it! You must believe me, lor
this is God's troth. Tell me?is there
any way??there must be a way in
which I can prove it to you."
She paused a moment. There was
something in his voice and mannei
whioh thrust conviction upon her, and
her whole attitude changed. She
turned toward him with sudden impetuosity.
" Yep," she cried, " I will believe
you, Mr. Thome, if?if you are willing
to renounce your uncle's fortune for my
sake."
" I will do it gladly," he answered,
seizing her hand and covering it with
kisses. "My darling, my sweet little
darling 1"
| " But are you willing, Mr. Thorne,"
she asked, in a voice that trembled in
spite of her efforts to control it, "are
| you willing to formally make over to
your cousin your share of your uncle's
money? There is pen and paper. I
! will marry you only upon condition that
you sign such a contract "
Val had seized the pen while she
, spoke. In a few moments be had written
[ and signed this :
L " I, Valentino Thome, do hereby
formally renounce all claim upon the
( estate, real or personal, of my uncle,
, Harry Thorne, and do make over, un'
conditionally, to my cousin, Stephen R.
, Thorne, any bequest or inheritance lhat
; may accrne to me upon the death of the
| aforesaid uncle. This act to go in force
( upon the day of my marriago with Mise
Lulu Welwyn.
" (Signed) Valentine Thorne."
1 He put this into her hands, saving:
1 " This will leave me nothing but my
1 love to give you."
1 " It is quite enough," she said, softly.
" Go and procure a witness,'' lie said;
" I want it perfectly legal."
She turned and went toward the
1 door, but she paused on the threshold.
The next instant, before he know it,
j she had torn the paper in pieces and
' thrown it at her feet.
"I belitve you, Val," she cried,
' holding out her arms toward him, " I
' believe youl"
1 He drew her to his heart with a faoe
1 that shone.
" I will give up anything for you, my
Jove," he said, in a low tone. " There
' is nothing in this world half so dear to
me as yourself, my own little treasure 1"
1 Bnt he gave up nothing, in fact, for
old Mr. Thorne, whom they agreed not
to inform any better, supposed his dutiful
nephew'was merely acting in obe
diprmn to his exoressed wish, and a
11 handsome bundio of 6tock and bonds
i was forthcoming on Val's weddiog day.
"I shall do my courting by mj6elf
next time," was Stephen's observation;
| and he carried it out with the best oi
results. Twelve months later he married
1 a charming girl whom, as he said, Provi'
dence had been keeping for him all the
' time.
Men's minds are as variant as their
' faces. "Where the motives of their
actk>E8 are pure, the operation of the
i former is no more to be imputed to them
? as a crime than tho appearance of the
Ltter; for both being the work of nature
are ilike imwoidable.
i Lake Worth, in Florida, is only 200
javd* distant from the Atlantic, a ad
i extend# parallel with it for a distance of
FOR THE LADIES.
t Nervg and Notes for Women.
Drake university, of Des Moines, la.,
has a woman professorship in the medical
department.
The bride at a reoent wedding at Lancaster,
S. 0., MissUato, w*s but eleven
years of age. The groom had just attained
his majority.
The central committee of the suffrage
party of the State of New York have
issued a tract offering fifty reasons why
women should vote.
An Arkansas bridegroom caught the
bride in his arms at the conclusion of
the ceremony, and dislocated two of her
ribstwith a violent hug.
Granny Summerall, of Hillsboro
county, Fla., is 111 years old. Her oldest
son, aged ninety-two, and youngest
son, sged seventy-two, ate living.
Some of the English ladies use an extract
cf cncumber for beautifying the
skin. Some American ladies rub the
nnder part of the rind on the skin to
improve it.
Rev. Mary Thomas Clark, of Richmond,
Ind., has been for several years
a regularly ordained minister in the
Universalis church recognized in fall
fellowship as far as the duties of the
church are concerned.
Parsons college, located at Fairfield,
Iowe, has had a donation of $6,000
toward establishing a new chair of
natnral sciences to be called the "Sally
Ringland Professorship." Mrs. Ringland,
the donor, was a woman of wealth
recently deceased.
The eecretary of the Harvard "Annex''
learns that at least two persons now
preparing their wills have included in
them generous bequests to help the
cause of the education of women at
Cambridge, and that offers of money
for immediate use have also been made.
Pennsylvania is now tbo only State
which has persistently refused women
admittance to the bar. A lady in that
State has been trying tor seven or eight
years to gain admittance, but the court
refnses to allow her to enter under the
existing statutes, and the legislature
refuses to pass a new law.?Hartford
Timet.
A meeting of Indian widows was
lately held in a temple at Madras, to
discuss the unhappy fate of widows in
that country, where they are condemned
to either follow their husbands on the
funera[ pyre or lead a solitary existence
fcr the remainder of their lives. It was
remarked that at the present day very
few widows, especially among the
young, oonsent to be buried alive after
their husband's death. It was resolved
to send a petition to the queen of England
to secure them the privilege of
marrying again.
Mrs. Mary Todd Lincoln, afterward
the wife of Abraham Lincoln, wrote,
when a young girl, a letter in which she
expressed a determination to become
the wife of a President. The story is
confirmed by the production of the document,
now in possession of General
Preston, of Lexington, Ky. It was addressed
to a daughter of Governor
Wickliffe, and contained a playful description
of young Lincoln, to whom
she was betrothed. She ewd: " But I
mean to make him President of the
United States aH the same. You will
see that, as I always told you, I will
yet be the President's wife."
Fashion Note*.
Indian sleeves are most graceful for
mantles.
Hungarian biaid patterns trim many
fall jackets.
Watered and shaded ribbons will
again be worn.
Marlborough is b new and delicate
shade of copper red.
White lace ruffles are still worn at the
throat and in the sleeves.
Colored handkerchiefs are studies of
color in combinations and designs.
The favorite point of tho corsage
bow is tho top of the left shoulder.
Three flounces of equal width cover
new velvet skirts from top to bottom.
Laces of all kinds are in fashion.
Even the old black Chantilly is revived.
A jacket of prone velvet is elegantly
decorated with gold gimp and buttons.
Velvet bodices are worn with brocaded
grenadine skirts the sams oolor of the
velvet.
An enameled gold bow is the newest
ornament with which to fasten bonnetstrings.
Tan-colored slippers are seen with
tan-colored gloves and light evening
dresses.
Tho most becoming plastrons are
pointed at fhe lower edge and made of
horizontal puffs.
White blouse waists are worn under
long loose jackets for seaside and
moantain costumes.
NeckJ scarfs of white crinkled silk
crape are considered more stylish than
are the Spanish lace scarfs.
White, pale blue and shell pink are
favorite colors for evening dresses at
watering-places this summer.
India red, a bright soarlet shade, is
the most effective color for combining
with the genuine India pongee.
Velvet collars, enffs, gashes and many
bows of velvet ribbons trim the cotton
satiue dresses worn in the country.
Short skirts of ball toilets are made
short enough to clcar the floor all
around and show the tips of the slippeie.
Soutache (or braid) embroidery is
the fashionable trimming of the cl-ith
traveling di esses that are made by English
tailor?.
Rod and bine velvet parasols, trimmed
with flowers, lace and embroidery,
are carried in open carriages at the seasido
resort a
Tailor-made jackets of cloth are
much worn over white pique waistcoats,
with collars rolling over the
jacket collar.
Evening dresees are made with very
close elbow sleeves, so that long gloves
may be drawn up over them without
inconvenienoo. *
A new fabric for ball dresses is net
of various colors, sparkling with flakes
of steel and otherwise ornamented with
loose lozenges of metal hanging am* ng
the threads.
The new pink shade called crevette, or
shrimp, is something between tea rose
and salmon color. It is fashionably
worn of satin or moiro, draped with
tnlle, for evening toilets at Saratoga
and Newport.
A now transparent lawn called sylphide
is made in the looms in which the
celebrated Glasgow ginghams are
woven, and is one of the most servne,
able thin goods for snmmer dresses.
Tartun plaids, checks, blocks and bars
are the designs of this soft undressed
lawn.
; Brandebourgs, or frogs, have become
I too common to be used on nice travel,
ing dresses. In lieu of these braid is
, arranged in large round Bpots that
measure three or four inches across the
middle, and are made by circular rows
one after the other. These are put in
rows of three on the dress skirt and on
the apper skirt, with one row on the
collar and sleeves. Dark brown circles
of braid are stylish on tan or drab wool
dresses.
About Spectacles.
Those who are compelled to wear
spectacles are often tiie victims of a
good deal of pereonal ridicule nowadays
; but time was when it was considered
fashionable to wear them, even
by people who were not in the least
nearsighted. In Spain they formed
part of the costnme of every well-bred
person. This absurd mo of glares
i was meant to increase the gravity of the
i appearance, and consequently the
veneration with which the wearer of
them was regarded. A young monk
, having, through the assistance of h^
family, caused his convent to succeed in
an important law suit, thought himself
, liberally rewarded when the prior,
i having embraced him, eaid, to testify
his gratitude: " Brother, put on
1 speotacles I' The glasses of spectacles
were proportioned in size to the rank of
the wearer; those worn by the Spanish
nobles were nearly three inches in
diameter. The Marquis*of Aatoriga,
i viceroy of .Naples, after Having Ms oust
sculptured in marble, particularly enjoined
the artist not to forget his beautiful
spectacles.
A policeman was ahot while on duty
at Fargo, Dakota. Before dying, he
Baid that the bnllet came from tbo residence
of Jack Knudson, a bad charac
ter. A mob hunted Knudson all night,
and would have hanged an innocent
man if they had found him, bnt in the
morning a woman explained that it wa?
she who fired on the officcr, mistaking
him for a burglar.
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.
Cork treeB are being successfully
grown in Georgia. Of some specimens
planted many are now thick enough for
use.
Mr. H. P. Arnersby asserts that a
largo amount of humus in a soil implies
an abundant previous amount of vegetation,
and this in its tnrn implies a soil
of at least moderate original fertility.
^ " -- - * **1 Tl.la.
UI all toe men-oi-war m rjarup? xiai*
has the most heavily iron-plated and
possessed with the most formidable
guns. The Dailio and tho Dandolo
bavo armor twenty-two inches thick,
and they each carry lfO-ton gnns.
In the rivers rolling to sea, says the
American Contract Journal, are millions
of horse-power daily running to waste.
We do not appreciate tho brook and
river because they are so near and have
been there so long. Had they commenced
flowing but to-day we would
have hastened to harness them.
Nothing new under the sun?as Napoleon
i. used, in 1815, the first "sleeping,
dining-room an^l parlor car" that
ever was built. This car. or chariot,
was taken to Waterloo and was presented
to the prioce regent of England
by whom it was afterward sold to Mr.
Bullock for- 812,500. It eventually
found its way to Madame Tussaud'*
wax-work exhibition, London, where it
may still be seen.
One of tho objections urged against
the proposed tunnel across the Euc:liah
channel is that it woulcUopen a highway
for the invasion of Great Britain in
case of a war with continental powers.
Dr. Siemens suggests a novel plan of
defense from such invasion should tho
tunnel bo constructed. Ho would ar
range chambers of chalk, in communication
with the shore ends of the tunnel,
in such a manner that the chalk
might ba readily flooded with diluted
muriatic acid. The result of turning
on the acid would be the rapid filling
of half a mile or more of the tunnel with
carbonic acid gas, through which no
human beings could pass alivo.
Through tho Suez Canal.
After coaling at Malta we steamed
down the Mediterranean, over the
smoothest sea and beneath the bluest
sky it ever was my happy portion to
see. It was about 5 o'clock one morning
when we first saw the lighthouse at
Port Said, and about 8 we entered between
the two piers which guard the
| entrance to the canal and stretch f;ir
I nnt itn+r> +lio TVfAdif.ftrrn.ri pari. Passinc a
Turkish frigate and a French ram wo
slowly steamed close to the left hand
shore and made fast to a buoy. No
sooner were we fast than the Arabs
swarmed on board, and soon coal whs
coming over the side and into the
bunkers at a rapid rate from barges
alongside. On the left hand for a loDg
distance stretched coal-sheds, for this
is tho great coaling port of steamers
bonnd eastward, there being quite a
difference in the price here and at the
other end of the canal. On tho right
was the town of Port Said, while in
front, lost far in the desert, appeared
the canal, the grandest engineering feat
of the age. Just fancy tho amount
of labor, when it was necessary to
carry the sand a mile off into the
desert, and at the same time prevent
the surrounding sand from drifting and
rolling into its placa Just take a
handful of sand out from a pile and
see how quickly the hollow is filled up
and you can then form some idea of tho
undertaking. I was told out there that
the English abandoned the work
through inability to obtaiu laborers at
any prico, and that tho French only
succeeded by convict labor; that the
soldiers stood guard and a refusal to
work was instantly followed by a shot,
and that every foot of the canal is a
monutnent to some poor devil, sent in
short order to the Arabian paradise.
However this was, tho cn,pal was finished
and is to-day iho only route for
steamers to the East. About 1 o'clock
the pilot came on beard and in a few
minutes we left our moorings und
steamed into the canal. Tho channel
has about twenty -sir feet of water in
it and which iB only kept at that depth
by constant work at the dredges and by
strengthening tho 6ides '>y sinking rook
and walling up the sides where they are
the most threatening. On both sides
the embankments rise up to a height of
ten or fifteen feet and are composed of
the dull brown sands which stretch
away on both sides as far as the eye can
see, the horizon Bhrouded in the blinding
glare of the heated air rising from
the burning sands till the eyes
ache and the heart sickens at the
dismal Bcene. With what relief we turn
to *he canal stretching like a blue
sparkling ribbon and feast our eyes at
the sight of a station looming up a half
mile ahead with its little cottage, its
shrubbery and trees planted right in the
midst of a desert and drawing life from
a soil which has been brought a hundred
miles to make life endurable to the
station master, banished away out here,
hundreds of miles from his own fair
France, for who else but a Frenchman
would ever think of bringing his carden
with him, with its flowers and trees,
out here in this wilderness of sands?
We tied up for a fow seconds to let one
of the large P. and 0. steamers pass us;
for every vessel must givo way to the
" Eoyal Mail," except men-of-war, which
have tho right of way everywhere. The
" canal" is not wide enough for vessels
to pass each other, so every quarter of
a mile or so there is a wider placo fur
tying up, and tho vessel reaching there
first makes fast to the bank and allows
the other one to pass, except in the case
of a vessel carrying the mail or a man
of-war, botli of which go right on
through without stopping, except
during the night.
On ihe right-hand side runs a track,
and I was startled by the familiar sound
of the engine whistle, and the next
minute a train swept on by at the rate
of forty miles an hour, while overhead,
"Like Btrings of ghosts
The telegraph posts
Came quickly trooping by."
I noticed on the other bank a veritable
caravan, such as one rends about
and sees 60 much in pictures of the
great desert?horses and camels and
the old man all wrapped up in his
white clothes, with the same long rifle,
with its crooked stock, which I have
seen duplicated on canvas till I felt an
inclination to extend in hand and say:
"How are you, old boyVv for old
acquaintance sake. And then I thought
what a difference between the two
banks. Here the railroad, the telegraph?and
there the old Arab traveling
as his father and his grandfather
and his great-grandfather did a hundred
years ago ; a century separated by
this narrow stream.
At dusk we tied up, having made
about thirty miles, as we were only
nllnteo/1 t-n rrn "olnro" fhrnnrrli tlio^nnnl
for fear of injuring the banks. The
next morning found us on our way, and
soon we wero threading the crooked
channel through the lake with the town
of Ismailia broad off tho port beam.
After two hour^ Hteaming at full Bpeed
we again slowed down and entered the
other part of the Cii'jiil and again
passed through bet ween tho same brown
banks with disgust aud ouly enlivened
by tho stations, with their few feet of
surrounding verdure, and occasional
steamers bound to the westward, too
few and far between, which we passed
or which passed us, until we finally
steamed into the Gulf of Suez about 5
in tho afternoon.
Off on our left gleamed the houses of
Suez, and here we left our French pilot
and took up a native Red Sea pilot,
black as coal, and mute as one of the
Sphynxes which adorn his native deserts.?? '?.
Louis Republican.
How a Hill Traveled.
Just below Saverton, Rail county,
Missouri, is a very high, steep hill. Between
the foot of this hill and the Mississippi
river is a very narrow* space?
only a few feet. Alone this space runs i
the Long Line railroad track. One day
recently bome tremendous power tore
the hill loose from the balance of the
rango, and the whole hill, comprising j
several acies of ground, began to move I
slowly into tho river, pushing seventyfive
yards of railroad ahead of it. This
tore* the track up foi several hundred
yards on each side. The whole earth
seemed to tremble, and strange noises
wore heard in the bowels of the earth.
Tho spectacle is said to havo been a
grand one, and hundreds of persons
I flocked io see it. The hill moved at tho
| rate of ten feet every twenty-four hours.
Occasionally r small piece would nreaK
off and float down the river with largo
trf-es ftanding eicct on it, presenting
the strange fepectaole of a miui-iture
floating iPland poing down tho river.
Nantucket has a girl pilot only seventeen
yearn old. Knows all the buove
ra the Bound, you can bet.
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SUNDAY BEADING.
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A Oaptlat General Conference.
The leading arrangements for a gen*
eral Baptist conference or congress, to
discnss social and moral topics in con*
nection with chnrch work, have been
completed, and the gathering will be
held in Brooklyn, on November 14, 15
and 16. This will be the first gathering
of the kind by that denomination in
this conntry. It will follow the plan of
the congresses held by the Protestant
Episcopal chnrch. It will bring together
the most eminent divines in the
Baptist chnrch. Similar congresses
have been hold by the Baptists in England
for a number of years in eaoh autumn,
and have been especially devoted
to the numerous religious topics which
lie outBide of the purely denominational
themes which are usually discussed at
the annual meetings of Baptist associations.
The inauguration of something
similar heie has been under consideration
for some months in various parts
of the country, till at a recent assemblage
of representative ministers of the
denomination from the leading cities, it
was decided to hold the first meeting in
Brooklyn, that being a central situation
with man} strong and influential
Baptist churches. It is expected that
this will be the largest and most representative
gathering of the Baptists in
the United States over held. The place
ol' meeting will be the First Baptist
nt niinfnn and Pierrennnt streets.
of which Rev. Dr. J. B. Thomas is
pastor. This churoh has one of tbp
finest and largest auditoriums in the
city, where the greatest possible number
can hear and see in the best manner.
Among the topics already determined
upon are the following : "Race and
Religion on the American Continent
" The Economies of Missionary Effort;'"
" The Church and the Children
" Skeptical Drifts m Modern Thought
" Diversity of Opinions within the
Limits of Denominational Unity
"Taxation of Church Property;"
"Modern Evangelism." Under the
general title of Christianity and the
poor "there aro two divisions," one the
"Labor Question," the other, "Oharities."
The consideration of so wide a
range of topics bearing almost exclusively
upon the problems of daiiy life
cannot fail to nronse a wide interest,
and add largely to tbe snm of religious
knowledge in general.
KcIIeIoiih Intelligence.
Harri-ion, the "boy preacher," is
nearly thirty years old.
The Methodist Episcopal church is
gaining ground in Switzerland
It is estimated that 41,000,000 of the
present population of India are Mohammedans.
A conference of the Protestant mi
p.ionar; societies in India will be held
at Calcutta during Christmas week.
Walter C. Jones, a munificent
Englishman, has recently given $360,000
for missions in China and Japan.
" I swear it upon my honor and conscience,"
is the form of tbe legal oath
in France, now that the name of God
has been stricken from it by a vote 'of
338 to 108 in the chambers.
In answer to a call for pieces of silver
and gOlCl, 01 WDICU IU luu&u a liuui- |
mauion service for the Church of the |
Holy Communion in St. Louis, twelve
and a half pounds of silver and an
ounce of gold were given, from which a
paten, flagon, two chalices and large
alms basin wero made.
In one immense tenement house in
Berlin resides 1,258 persons, and a
religions census of the house shows
that 1,073 of the tenants belong to the
Evangelic Lutheran church, 132 to
the Roman Catholic church and
twenty-six to the Jewish, while twentyaeven
are dissenters of various shades.
The revision of Luther's Bible, begun
in 1863, has just been finished. Of the
thirty original members of the revision
committoo but fourteen live to see the
revision completed. The work is now
to be printed and submitted to the
university faculties, for criticism. It
will probably bo ready for the publio
in about two years.
Seals.
The f?eal, ns aflixed to letters, has a
claim for consideration in the fact of
its historic interest. The seals of Sennaoherib
and Cheops are yet eitant,
together with a mnmuiao 01 ancientsignets,
both of the east and west, and
our letter seals aro probably their
lineal descendants, and relatives of the
official, legal and royal seals still affixed
to documents. As hymbols of power
they were, no (lonbt, affixed upon a
missive to forbid its opening by an unauthorized
person, and their significance
would be Generally regarded.
Tho early Christians ueed the tacred
devices of tho dove, the fish, the
anchor and the lyre; and the monks
of Durham, becoming possessed of a
seal on which was figured tho head of
Jupiter Tonans, had engraven beneath
it the name of good King Oswald, thus
sanctifying it to the uses of the chnrch.
Jn England, before watches were worn,
the seal was attached to the wrist,
forming, in fact, a pendant to a bracelet.
Shttkf-pearo's eignet has his initials,
"W. S." and a true lover's knot?a device
which hn.s led to tho supposition
that it waR given to him by Anno Hathaway.
Mary, Queen of Scots, had a
seal with tho arms of the three kingdoms
upon it, and the use of this formed
a count of the indictment against her.
Another ring of interest which may
possibly have been used as a signot was
a cameo riug still in existence, which
is said to bo tho identical one given by
Queen Elizabeth to the Earl of Essex.
This is only ono of a thousand signets
of historic interest that are still pre
served. Tho "biggest thing" among
theso belongs, a3 a matter of course, to
America, and was presented to President
Pierco by some citizen of San |
Francisco. Upon this was represented
a kind of summary of Californian history,
and a number of devices, such as
a grizzly bear and an enraged boa.
Without it was engraved the president's
namo, and in its interior parts were
small cases containing specimens of
various native ores. Tbo weight of the
piecious Rift wan something like a
pound ! The materials impressed havo
been nearly as varied as the shapes of
the signets impressing them. Gold,
silver and other motals wore anciently
in use, and oven prepared earths or
days. Common wax was, of course,
most prevalent before the introduction
of sealing wax?a compound of lao and
other materials invented in the sixteenth
centnrv. White wax was nsed
by Otho I., of Germany, and by many
of our monarchs. Kufus, however,
very appropriately adopted red, Blue is
the rarest of tints; green was favored
by the emperors and patriarchs of the
East. At present vermilion wax is
iiioft common, but should tho method
of scaling letters be revived we may
expect, with the resources of modern
chemistry and the diversity of modern
tastes, a pt'l)chromatic range of hues
unknown to former ages.?London j
Globe.
(iAtnblin? at Jhoii? Branch.
Gambling is the groat Long Branch j
diversion this year, says Clara .Belle, in 1
one of her letters, and women are '
tukintr a hand in. They don't go to J
the club house*, of course, but they !
play poker in their o? n rooa's. This i
is too bad. No woman cau lose six
cents in one pot without losing her
temper, and some day, when u pretty
one drops a whole dollar on a single
haud thero'll bo fiightful bloodshed.
Betting has become common among j
the better sen. It is positively shameful
to see two gentle creatures got to
arguing as to whether'the lace on "that
lady's dress over thero" is thread or
imitation, and then bot the ice-cream i
on it. I was stakeholder yesterday, for I
example, in an affair of two dollars in
amount. Tho question at issue was
whether Miss H. could milk a cow.
She said it was easy enough, und her 1
opponent said it wasn't. We rode a !
mile back into tho country and coaxed :
a farmer into letting the experiment be [
tried on a mild-eyed cud-chewer of his i
stock. Miss H. wore a bright blue
diess of satino, cut in the Watteau ;
stvle. and all ovei terrific Japanese !
figures. Perhaps lhat dazod the cow, ;
and was the reason why sho wouldn't |
" h'ist," nor M stan' still, dnru ye," j
nor "give down," nor do any of the
other proper things that she was com- j
manded by her owner to do. Miss H.
couldn't make it work at all for awhilo, :
and tho first spurt of milk, coming j
quite unexpectedly while the aim was !
averted, took her right in the eyes, j
lint finally, after much torture for the j
beast and amusement for tho spectators, ;
tho stipulated quart cup was filled.
Millions of people are putting hapiness
away off in the futnro, when they
: might enjoy it to-day just as well.
' Besolve to bo happy now.
w 'V*'f'''y -*' ' ' ' T
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle State*.
At the Massachusettfl Greenback State conTention
32f> delegates, representing seventynine
towns, were present, and a full ticket
heade-1 by General Benjamin F. Butler for
governor was nominated. A platform was
adopted, in which the many concessions
made to the principles of the Greenbackers
are referred to with satisfaction. A check
upon the power of wealth and its unjust accumulation
is demanded. The payment
of the national debt as rapidly
as the revenues will allow, and
the abolition of the National bankB as banks
of issue, are demanded. The resolutions affirm
that eight hours should constitute a legal
day's work. A board of arbitration, to bo
composed of an equal number of workingmen
and employers, for the settlement of
labor troubles, is demanded. The system of
contract convict labor is opposed. The arbitrary
imprisonment of American citizens in
British baatiles, and the misrepresentation at
the court of St. James by a minister who
sanctions the illegal conduct of the British
government are deplored.
The Maine Independent Republicans have
nominated Warren F. Vinton for governor.
Bt a collision between two trains near
Washington, N. J., a conductor and a boy
were killed and two men were seriously injured.
At the Delaware Democratic State convention
in Dover Charles C. Stockley was nominated
for governor and Charles B. Lore for
Congress.
A MY8TEB10U8 malady which affected several
herds of cattle in Cayuga county, N. T.,
was discovered after examination by surgeons
to be the Texan fever, and a rigid
quarantine was at once established against
the plague.
A fire at Syracuse, N. Y., destroyed the
main mill of the Syracuse iron worL'i, causing
a loss of $200,000. At Keeseville, W. Y.(
the flames burned two hotels, Association
Hall and other property, entailing a total
estimated loss of $100,000
A swimming contest for $1,000 and the
championship of the world, between the
English champion, Captain Matthew Webb,
and Thomas Riley, the champion short distance
swimmer of America, took place at
Hall, Mass., and was won by the former.
Captain Webb made the distance (two
miles) in one hour, four minutes and fifty
seconds, and Riley in one hour, five minutes
and ten seconds.
A fatal accident occurred on board the
United States Bteamer Tallapoosa just after
she left New York harbor for Newport. The
men were at exercise, lowering the life-boat,
when three of them were thrown overboard.
Henry Kratz, acting quartermaster, was probably
stunned, and did not rise to the surface;
August Ohlmsen, boatswain's mate, was rescued
with one arm disabled, and Oscar Westerholm,
seaman, with broken ribs. Julian
G. Baker, gunner's mate, who saved the life
of Ohlmsen, was thanked on the quarterdeck,
and substantially rewarded by Secretary
Ch&ndler.-who was on board the Tallapoosa.
Caors in various parts of New England
have been seriously injured by the protracted
drought.
At Cohoes, N. Y., the protracted struggle
of the Harmony Mills operatives, which began
on April 24, is virtually ended, most of
the strikers having resumed work.
Hznbv J. Hall, paying teller of the Rhode
Inland Hospital Trust company at Providence,
confessed to being a defaulter in the
sum of $21,000. The stealing was begun in
1875 and the money was ."pent in extravagant
living.
An explosion in the Erie railroad elevator
at Buffalo blew off the roof of that structure.
The building at once took fire and
burned to the ground. The engineer and
three other men were killed. The damage
done is about $250,000.
South and West
These men were killed and about thirty
injured in a railroad collision near Cairo, HI.
Two young men and two young ladies,
while returning home in a buggy from a
danc$ near Anoke, Minn., were struck by a
passing train and instantly killed.
Senatob Hill's funeral at Atlanta was numerously
attended, the United States Senate
and House of Representatives being well
represented and 20,000 people assembling on
the streets to view the procession.
The Otah congressional commissioners arrived
at Salt Lake City. The Mormon church
has engaged four law firms to defend the
county officials who are about to loso their
positions under the j>rovisions of tl.e Ed.
munds bill.
A teleobam from Governor Roberts, of
Texas, was received at tho treasury department
stating the suffering condition of those
sick with yellow fever, and of 2,000 persons
i 1 Brownsville, Tox., out of employment on
account of the quarantine, and requiring aid.
Acting Secretary French replied that the department
would take charge of hospitals and
quarantine at suitable stations if the governor
desired it, but that the State of Texas
most support all persons not in hospital.
Tins boiler of A. B. Perkins <fc Company's
saw mill at Sullivan, Ind., exploded. George
Inglewright, Irwin Bailey and George Morris
were probably fatally injured.
Special correspondents in the West report
that an enormous wheat crop is being
threshed in Kansas and Nebraska and the
growing corn is favored by good weather.
At West Las Animas, Col., a man named
Rjmer, charged with murder, was taken from
yj.il and hanged by a crowd. At Rock Creek,
Wyoming, a hunter named Gibson shot and
killed Robort Aikens, a clerk. The murder
occurred after 5 o'clock p. m., and between 9
and 10 o'clock citizens took Gibson out and
hanged him to box car.
The National Prohibition convention has
been in session ut Chicago, 341 delegates
representing all parts of the Union, being in
attendance.
Two bales of new cotton, the first of the
season, were received at Wilmington, N. C.,
from South Carolina, and were sold for ship,
ment to New York at sixteen cents per pound.
Ben Habbis, a colored man living near
Visalia, Cal., recently shot and mortally
wounded his wife, killed his step-daughter,
aged fourteen, and severely wounded another
step-daughter, aged ten years,with an ax, and
then escaped.
Dispatches from the Indian Territory say
that the election of Overton for governor is
n great triumph for the Stalwart Indian element
as against outaide influences and the
violation of treaties. He has been governor
for four years and the nation made giant
strides during that period. Overton opposes
the railroads.
At Lunenburg Court House, Va., the trial
of R. B. Garland for killing Addison in a
duel resulted in a verdict of not guilty by the
jury.
At the Kansas Greenback Stnto convention
in Topeka ex-Governor Charles Robinson.
the first governor of Kansas, was nominated
for governor, together with a full ticket.
The Michigan Democratic State convention
in Jackson adopted a resolution for
fusion with the Greenbackers. By this proposition
the Greenbackers get the governor,
commissioner of the land office, superintendent
of public instruction and a member of
the board of education. The Democrats have
the lieutenant-governor, secretary of state,
state treasurer and auditor-general. This
proposition was accepted by the Greenback
convention in session at Grand Rapids, and
that body nominated the Hon. J. W. Begole,
ex-member of Congress, for governor. Both
conventions nominated the rest of the ticket
in accordance with the agreement.
From Washington
Warrants for the payment of IIO.OOO.OO.1
on account of pensions were issued the othor
day from the treasury department.
A committee that has been investigating
the management of the storekeepers' department
of the treasury building has discovered
that there has been a regular and systematic
shortage in the amount of ice delivered to
the treasury department, extending over two
years. The amount of the shortage is estimated
at 10,000 pounds of ice per month.
Foreign Newk
Both houses of the British parliament
have adjourned until October 24.
A man named Joyce and his entire family
were murdered in their own house, near
Congin, county Galway, Ireland. The family
consisted of Joyce, his wife, mother and
daughter. They were fired at and killed by
a party of men. Two boys also were
wounded. It is believed in the locality that
the Joyces gave information relative to the
murder of the bailiffs of Lord Ardiloun,
whoso bodies wore found bound together
in Lake Cong.
A labobeii while working on board a
steamship at Liverpool that had arrived from
New York found five Colorado beetles. The
privy council ordered that they be killed and
sent to London.
The village of Lindeburden, Weat Prussia,
has been burned, and 200 persons have been
rendered homeless.
Ik a fight with the Apaches in the Sahuahapa
district, Mexico, the Mexicans, lost
forty-five men and the Indiana left thirtyeight
dead on tho field. Eighteen women
and twelve children were killed on the roa^
between Sahuahnpa and tho Trinidad mine.
The steamer Hope, commanded by Sir
Allen Yonng, 0. B., which loft England in
Jane last in search of tho crew of the Arctic
exploring steamer Eira, commanded by
Leigh Smith, has arrived at Peterhead with
the entire crew of that vessel. The Hope
picked them up in Mntotshkin straits, Nova
Zembla, on August:{, they having lost their
ship off Franz Josef Land, and journeyed in
boata to the straits through the ice.
Nihilists ara alleged to have killed the
white horses that were to be used during the
czar's coronation.
Ten p.isoners were identified by witnesses
mnsano.rA nf tlifl Jovce familv in Con?.
Ireland, as having taken part in the murders.
Advices from Central America state
that at the Isthmus of Panama fever continues
its ravages and old and well acclimated
citizens are now falling victims.
Fishery Inspector Kiel, of Canada, has
stopped Ame rican fishing in Canadian waters.
Steps are being taken in London to place
a bust of the poet Longfellow in Westminster
Abbey.
Mb. G. 0. Trevelyan, chief secretary for
Ireland, at a reception given him by the citizens
of Belfast, said that the government
would wage unrelenting war on crime.
Lieutenant R. M. Beery,who commanded
theJeannette search steamer Rodgers, and
Engineer Melville, of the Jeannette, have
had an audience with the czar of Russia, by
whom they were cordially received.
A telegram from Vienna says that over
one hundred women are on trial at Gross
Becskerek, Hungary, charged with poisoning
their husbands. The guilt of thirty-five of
the women has been proved.
The corporation of Limerick, Ireland, has
unanimously voted the freedom of that city to
E. Dwyer Gray, the Dublin publisher recently
sentenced to imprisonment and to pay a
heavy fine for printing a letter denouncing
the jury in a trial under the coercion act.
England's War with Egypt.
The Suez canal was occupied by the British
troops. A dispatch from Port Said, the entrance
to the canal, says: "Sailors landed
and have disarmed the natives, who offered
no resistance. Several transports and men
of war are anchored hero, and a fleet numbering
seven is coming in. The gunboats
Dee and Don have entered the canal."
Rear Admiral Hoskins, commanding at
Port Said, reports as follows: " We made all
our arrangements yesterday for the advance,
| Commarder Edwards, with the boats of the i
I squadron, during the night occupied
the canal, taking possession of the
dredges, bargee, etc., und also occupied
Kantara Before daylight Captain Fairfax
occupied Port Said, and Captain Fitzroy,
of the Invincible, held Ismailia. All went
well and there was no difficulty. Captain
Fitzroy shelled the enemy out of Nefich.
Commander Kane was slightly wounded.
Telegraphic communication with Kantara
and Jsmailia has been restored. Three hundred
and forty marines are on board the
gunboat Dee, ready to be sent to reinforce
Captain Fitzroy: One ship is ashore in the
canal, but other vessels can pass. The ships
with Admiral Seymour and General Sir Garnet
Wolselcy on board are in sight."
A later telegram from Port Said says that
the troopship Serapis and some of the gunboats
entered the canal with croopa. The
occupying force numbers COO. Two hundred
and fifty-two Egyptian ooldiere were
disarmed without resistance. The government
of the khedive has been reinstated.
The commanders of the Egyptian troops are
prisoners in the offices of the canal company,
and tho telegraph office is occupied by
the British.
The khedive has issued another decree to
the authorities to implicitly obey General
Wolseley, who he saj-s, is authorized to restore
order in Egypt.
General Sir Garnet Wnlseley visited M. de
Lesseps and explained the action of the British
in regard to t he Suez canal. He said
everything would be over in a few days, but
that the English must use the canal for the
present. M. de Lessens expressed himself aa
fully satisfied with General Wolseley's explanation,
and said he regretted that there
had been any misunderstanding on the subject
The Seventy-second Regiment engaged the
enemy at Sorapeum and repulsed them. Two
of the British troops were killed and five
wounded. The enemy lost 100 men and four
I guns.
As the Austrian gunboat Nautilus, bouna
from Port.Said to Alexandria, passed Aboukir,
the commander, seeing the white flag
flying on the forts, supposed that they were
in possession of the British, and sent a boat
ashore with an officer and twelve men, who
were made prisoners by the Egyptians.
A dispatch from Port Said says: "The
British have captured Ruchdi Pasha, formerly
the kliedive's minister of finance, and
Zulfikar Pasha, of the khedive's household,
who had espoused the cause of Arabi Pasha."
The military police have arrested nineteen
Greeks who were pillaging in the Arab quarters
in Ismailia. Ten of the prisoners were
shot.
A dispatch from Kantara reports that the
British forces now hold the Suez canal
throughout its entire length, and that they
have an abundance of good water.
That Nervous Headache.
Where does it come from, friend, that
nervous headache, whose sharp twinges
of pain are wearing out your strength
and sapping your energy? You have
tried tonics and cordials and pills for
it, but it refuses to be exorcised. It
clings to you until you are almost in despair.
It drives you to frantic exclamations
of trouble by day, and it will not
let you sleep at night.
To find out precisely whence it came,
we might have to go a long way baok
into the past. It is very possible that
your daughter, just eet free from school
by the summer commencement is repeating
in her person the follies which
in yours are responsible for the aching
brain and tortured nerves. She has
been studying incessantly, resting Herself
from books of rhetoric and mathematics
by an exciting novel, going now
and then to a party, and eating too little
solid food and' too many daintios.
Your doing and not doing the right
things twenty years ago are among the
causes for your suffering now.
To l9t the past alone, however, you
need not look further than your workbasket
for some of your distress. The
needle is a potent cause of a great many
people's neuralgia. The beautiful, elaborate
and stylish clothing, which you
think you must make?economy forbid
ding you to employ muoh help in the
making?this is wearing out your
strength. Fewer dresses for yourself
and children, and plainer attire, wonld
afford you breathing space and time imperatively
needed for sitting sometimes
with folded hands. Less worry about
the house and the household, less
anxiety about the way things are going
to turn out, less carofnl thought of the
morrow (which you havo God's word
that He will care for) and that headache
might cease to be an attendant
hpantom.
Very possibly, however, it is neither
worry, nor the needle, which is at the
bottom of your particular trouble. You
were bronght up to regard an abundant
table and a great variety of dainty eatables
as a sine qua non in housekeeping.
Your grandmother and your mother
were famous for their cakes and confections,
their pastry and preserves, and
the family reputation has net suffered
in your hands. It is not that you personally
eat so much of the delicate
viands whioh provo your culinary skill.
T-i?-? J ---I- Vao r\*r:? frViz* fnalin c?
I ill very guou CUUJi. liuo nuur,u unv
of triumph in her own productions,
mingled with an entire lack of appetite.
Either way, if yon are in the habit of
spending your physical resources on
j the preparation of rich super-elegant
food, or in the other habit of living on
food which it taxes the digettive powers
to properly assimilate, you may thus
account for your headache.
The home table may be spread with j
a varied and nutritious bill of fare,
without great la: or to the housewife, :
and with common sense as regards j
health. Cereals may be prep ared for i
the daily breakfast, and whether rice, j
oatmeal, wheaten grits, crashed corn ,
or farina aro preferred none of them are !
unwholesome and all are easily cooked. ,
The mistake made by most cooks is in j
hurrying over their making of porridges. |
Porridges require slow coaxing, sim- j
mering, steaming and brooding over )
gentle fires to bring out their best qualities.
One may read, sew or dream, j
practice her scales or write her letter,
while her oatmeal, in its leisurely swell- I
ing, is yielded up its inner sweetness
Fruits uncooked or stewed, soupB j
- * 4 * * i i ?1.1A
and broths, which are noi mo iruuum i
the uninitiated imagine, and juicy j
meats, boiled, broiled or baked, furnish 1
forth the family table well and sensi- '
bly. And no lurking headache hides j
in such diet as they supply, unless peo- j
pie over-eat, or eat at irroftular times, :
or eat when overwearied or exhausted, i
The truth of the matter is that many
| bodily ailments are very much within1
our own power of control or banish- i
ment, and that the last thing in most j
cases to be done is tu fly to stimulants, J
narcotics or other drugs for a tempor- j
ary relief which leaves the main trouble j
nnhelped and unchecked.? [Christian j
Intelligencer.
The London Telegraph had an editorial
article on " The extraordinary
spectacle presented in the United States
of a meeting in Indiana of 5,000 drunkards."
The thousands were Dunkards, I
not drunkards, and the cable had added I
' ?u r. '
WISE WORDS.
Suspicions among thoughts are like
bats among birds; they ever fly by twilight.
Seeing much, and suffering much and
studying much, are the three pillars o
learning.
Little do we care for the speech of ,
people if conscience will not -whisper
approval.
Make friends with your creditors if
you can, but never make a creditor of
your friend.
One who is never busy can never enjoy
rest, for rest implies relief from
previous labor.
He who labors with the mind governs
others; he who labors with the
body is governed by others.
Every day a little helpfulness. We
live for the good of others, if our living
be in any sense true living.
The world we live in is the best
world possible to those who use it, and
the worst world possible to those who
abuse it.
Do we not feel that we are apt to
think of ourselves as others think of us ?
and that not by a rational act of judgment,
but by a mere passive yielding to
an impression from without ?
When we have practiced good actions
awhile they become easy, and when
ttiav Vior>nmu Pnsv TOfl to take
"*"V ? J --o
a pleasure in them, and when the;
please us we do them frequently.
Form, then, the habit of doing good.
HEALTH HINTS.
Accustom ohildren to eat regularly
and slowly.
Impure air kills as surely as pure air
keeps alive.
Meat should be eaten very sparingly
during the warm months.
The mightiest curative force in the
universe lies in the person.
Let the liver rest by giving up tea,
coffee, sugar, salt and butter.
What is called a mixed diet is bad
food for adults in hot weather, and very
bad for ohildren.
According to Dr. Footed Health
Monthly, a g<ass of water, taken when
retiring and on rising, will often relieve
costiveness.
Of all the means whioh can be used
to give strength, tone and intrinsic
power to the physical organization,
working the soil is the beat.
There is eminent medical authority
for the statement that unripe op'very
old potatoes contain a certain quantity
of solanino. This may produce serious
r< salts if the potatoes are boiled with
their skins on, and if they are eaten in
large quantities.
A Fearfpl Position.
A Geneva (Switzerland) correspondent
writes: " A few days since two sohoolmasters
from Morzine, a Savoyard village
near the Swiss frontier, made an
excursion to the Ool de Goux, not far
from Champery, in theValais. As they
were descending the mountain, late in
the afternoon, they thought they heard
cries of distress. After a long searoh
they perceived a man holding on to a
bush, or small tree, which had struck
its roots into tho face of the precipice.
As the precipice was nearly perpendicular,
and the man was some 1,200 feet
below them, and the foot of the precipice
quite as far below him, they found it
impossible to give the poor fellow any
help. All they could do was to tell him
to stay where he was?if he could?until
they came back, and hurry off to
Morzine for help. Though it was night
when they arrived thither, a dozen bold
mountaineers, equipped with ropes,
Btart-id forthwith for the rescue. After
a walk of I twelve miles they reached the
Col de ta Golese, but it being impossible
to scale the rocks in the dark, they
remained there until the sun rose. As
soon as there was sufficient light they
climbed by a roundabout path to the
top of the precipice. Tho man was still
holding on to the bush. Three of the
rescue party, fastened together with
/>/i*j3a wow) fhon lnwprflil tn n lfldcfi
about 600 feet below. From this
coign of vantage two of the three
lowered the third to the bush. He
found the man, who had been seated
astride his precarious perch a day
and a night between life and death. It
was a wonder how he had been able to
hold on so long, for beside suffering
from hunger and cold, he had been
hurt in the fall from the height above.
He was a reserve man belonging to
Samcons on his way thither from Lausanne,
where he was working, to be
present at a mnster. Losing his way
on the mountains between Thonon and
Sameons, he had missed his footing and
rolled over the precipice. He had the
presence of mind to cling to the bush,
which broke his fall, but if the two
schoolmasters had not heard his cries
he mnat have perished miserably.
Hoisting him to the top of. the precipice
was a difficult and perilous undertaking,
but it was safely accomplished.
None of the man's hurts were dangerous,
and after a long rest and a hearty
meal or tv/o, he was pronounced fit to
continue his journey and report bimsel*
at the muster."
Ad rice to Consumptives,
On the appearance of the first symptoms?
as general debility, loss of appetite, pallor,
chilly eenuationu, followed by night sweats and
oough, prompt measures 01 rouei buuuiu l?o
takon. Consumption ia scrofulous disease of
the lungs; thereforo use the great anti-scrofulous
or blood-pntifior and strength-restorer,
Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery." Superior
to cod liver oil as a nutritive, and unsurpassed
as a pectoraL For weak lunge, spitting
of blood and kindred affections it has no
quaL Sold by druggists. For Dr. Pierce's
treatise on consumption ecnd two stamps.
World's Dmpe^ary Medical Association,
Buffalo, fry.
From statistics gathered in India it appears
that cholera is far more deadly in the open than
n the wooded districts. This is another inucement
to preserve forests.
Young and middie-aged men, suffering from
nervous debility and kindred affections, as loss
of memory and hyDOchondria, should incloee
threo stamps for Part VII. of World's Dispensary
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Mr. Courtney Graham, of Colorado City,
Texas, suggests that some enterprising tanner
undertake the preparation of prairie dog skins
for glove leather.
The Weaker Hex
| are immensely strengthened by the use of
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fg- flesh, and that with yellow
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As these cuts indicate, the Oil la used successfully
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Itenh. Shake well before using.
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jm One of the principal reaaona of
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m - - cai-c witn WO many,
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cU5?iv7 properties by using IWwUffOMg
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Scratches or Grease, Foundered Few,
Chapped Hands, ^apv?n?^Cuib.
External Potuocs, 8ore Nipples. CWjn,n M
Sand Cracks, Poll Evil, ?r^ke?r?e.miBtdr^'
Galls of all kinds. KplzooiPUss
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Ringbone, Fonl Ulcers, 8p?ringj8weeney,
Garget in Cows, Farcy, Corns, whitlows.
Cracked Teats.
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