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pr '* Over and Over Again < ?ver ami over a train, No matter which way I turn, I always find in the Book of Lifo Some lesson I have to learn. I must take my turn at the mill, I must grind out the golden gram, I must work a! my task with a resolute will. Over ami over again. We c uinot measure the need Of even the tiniest ikftver, Nor check the (low of the golden sands Tha? run* through a single hour ; f But the morning dews must fall, The sun and the summer rain Mr.r?t do their part, and perform it all ()ver and over again. Ovfr.* and over again The It rook through the meadow flows. And over and over again < >r.cc doir.fr will not suffice, Though doing it l?e not in vain : And a Messing failing us once or twice May come if we try again. The path that has once been trod Is never so rough to the feet ; And the lesson we on?e have learned Is never so hard to repent. Thong'i sorrowful tears may fall. And the heart to its depths be driven Ity tht: storm and tempest, we need them all To render us meet for heaven. THE EMPEROR'S KISS. 15V BEimiOLD'AUERBACII. ' To-morrow the Emperor will pass tnrough our village," said Isaac, the warden of the Jewish congregation, to the rabbi, one evening after the service. The rabbi passed his hand over his snow-white beard, which reached down to his chest, and answered, "May he be blessed.'" " Amen," responded Isaac. "But we ought to do something to greet him. Every one, however high in position, is pleased when he sees how beloved he is: and precisely because we have officially received no notice, the Emperor would see that we acted spontaneously. The priest and the chief of the village, men. women and child ren, "will go out to meet lum ; ami they have erected a triumphal arch at the'boundary of the village. I dare not make the proposal to be present for two reasons; for in the first place, I-know beforehand, we should be refused." " Then you may keep for yourself the second reason," said Tobias, the beadle. There was a half smile, but nobody ventured in the presence of the venerable and rigid rabbi, whose visible muscles had never been seen in motion, to indulge in a hearty laugh. The warden, however, did smile, and then said: "And even if they were to consent, who would like to be present where nothing but gibes and sneers would be heard? What are we to do?" ^ The rabbi firmly grasped a tuft of his ^ beard with his fist. This was a signal that he wanted to speak, and every one was hushed into silence. "lie then began: " Let the community meet to morrow morning, and attend the synagogue in their holiday clothes, and then we shall see!'1 The rabbi opened a large book and put his right hand on it. This was a eiigna! for the people to leave him; for ho now wished to continue his vocalion, which consisted in alternately praying and-studying. On the morrow no one went with his box to the country, for it was a festive day. On the eastern side of the synagogue Tobias was busy wrapping the scrolls of the Law in silk and velvet mantles. The large parchments are rolled on a pair of staves, for it is an ancient proscription that the Law of Moses must not be read at synagogue from a printed book, but from parchment scrolls; and these scrolls never come into the open air except <>n the day on which they, amidst hymns and prayers, are carried to the synagogue, being presented by some family. .Several Psalms having been sung, all the scrolls were borne into the street; there the bearers ranged themselves, the rabbi in their inidst; his scroll was adorned with glistening silver crowns on the upper onds of the staves. The whole congregation then ranged itself in the midst of the village, just as the bells began to ring,as a signal that the imperial carriage bad reached the boundary of the village.' On the staircase of the house of Isaac, the warden, opposite the synagogue, the Jewish women and girls were assembled; each sought to hide herself behind the other, in order not to be seen, ami again eacn piesscu nunuiu, in order to have a good view. Cheers, in the midst of which the voices of the children rang loudest, were now heard, and then a carriage came, with two men in brilliant uniforms; it rattled past before one had even lime to open his mouth. A murmur of recret arose that the emperor should have passed .so proudly and angrily, without taking any notice of them,* and they were still disputing whether the one at the right or the one at the left was the emperor when another carriage drew nigh, but quite at a :-low pace. Now this really held the emperor, and the rabbi raised aloft the scroll of the law and said in a loud voice, the whole congregation repeating after him, "Blessed art Thou, Eternal our God, King of the universe, who has imparted somewhat of Thy majesty to a human being of flesh and blood." The emperor stopped the carriage, */-v n ft?nnc1otiAn nf illiu U^XVUU IU UU>C (VUUilOKHlUli v/i biivuv words, which were uttered in Hebrew arid form a benediction prescribed to be said .it the sight of a prince. lie seemed'pleased and said : "I must tell you that I am not partial lo demonstrations of this kind. I traverse my country in order to see you at work, and not to hold out inducements to idleness. It is true that you Jews, as yet, apply to few profit attic trades, aunoumi j. uonoi iluiik so lightlv of petty trading as others do; it enlivens intercourse. But you should try to engage in steady occupations, and to he less dependent upon cunning and inducements to covetousness. My laws will protect you. That every one may be saved according to his fashion ?on this point, I cannot make an}* arrangements; but I wish that every neo should enjoy happiness according to his ability Of this I will take care to the best of n.y means, and in this I have also thought of you. You have borne disgrace and misery for centuries; this shall now have an end?at least in my dominions!" The Emperor had then the nature of the scrolls of the Law explained to him, and repeated again that he would not tolerate any civil distinctions on account of dift'erences in religious opinions. " Is it true," he then asked the rabbi, ' that you consider yourselves as the chosen people, slighting all others because iney are not of your fiA:*t?'<' " Your -Majesty!" replied the rabbi, " Our Law is only binding upon him who is born a Jew/ We never seek to convert others, and would it not be unreasonable and blasphemous if we were to slight those who live in accordance with their law, and do not'.want ours, which does not want them either?" The Emperor nodded, as though phased, and said: 1 love tidelity; it is the highest virtue. I have preserved i it amid numerous trials!" lie was just oil the point of giving the signal for departure when he noticed the women assembled on the staircase, and turning toward them, he said: " And have you no word, no token of homage for me ?" It may easily be imagined what a thronging there was on the staircase at these words. Many crowded into the house and fell upon each other. Others fell prostrate on the ground and hid themselves: and again, others covered their faces with their aprOns. Only one young woman remained in her place*; but her swelling lips quivered, and out of her black eyes spoke a rare inward emotion. Presently the maiden opened her mouth, and said: "The burliest veneration has no words!" . 44 You know how to Hatter!" replied the Emperor, smilingly. " One does not flatter the sun when thanking him in silence fordilfusing his light over all creatures!" What is your name?" Dinah!" 4; And your father's?" 4 1 am hei father, your Majesty," said Isaac, the warden. I have to express a wish to you, * Dinal%" said the Emperor. " As a tok? n that I esteem and love your people. slighted and ill-used for centuries, and as a token to myself, let me give you a kiss! Will you?" I* * I will!" said the maiden, and her 'whole face shone like her eyes. And I lie Emperor stooped down and kissed her on the lips. 4 Vou appeur to me very crude and ?:oy," said the Emperor. " How i? it ?>y. . - that you have so easily compliod with mv wish?" " Because I did not kiss the man, but the clemency of the Emperor!" " I thank" you," said the emperor, merrily. "No doubt you are already betrothed." " Yes, your majesty." i All those present looked around asj tonished; but lYoin the crowd of men j there now stepped forth a tall, slender youth, with curly black hair and fine Features. "Where is your betrothed?" asked j the emperor. "Yonder," said the maiden, point! in? with her outstretched hand toj ward the young man, who wanted to I come forward, but stood still, as j though rooted in the ground. " When will you marry ?" asked the I emperor. " When your imperial majesty gives permission." I kC T ! Whv T ?" " Because they refuse us the right of settlement. According to an ancient law, the number ot Jewish families must not be increased; it must remain the same, and my betrothed has a married brother." u Madame, you remind me of a law which makes us doubt whether such law could have been given by men. However, tell me, is your betrothed a huckster ? IIow can you give your hand to a mau engaged in haggling, and who, forgetful" of his honor, allows, himself anywhere to be jeered at, if he can only do a profitable' business? " " My betrothed," replied the maiden, " is a tanner. He was obliged to learn his trade abroad, because no master would receive him here ; and now the guild refuses to admit him and forbids him to cany on his trade! " "And I hereby give him permission," said the Emperor; and then continued: "I will protect you in all honest dealings, and you shall bear in mind that my name?Joseph?is borrowed from your Old Testament. Herewith I salute your scrolls of the Law," at the same moment baring his head. "I take oft" my hat before every sanctuary Jo in truth nnrl T lipnr >> 1 1 IV. 11 lo lvtvivu ^ nobody malice because he differs in worship. Iteligious hatred shall in future be known in my dominions by the contempt in which I hold it. Keep to your Law, and fit yourselves more and more to participate in those things which I offer to my people without distinction." The Emperor then entered his carriage, and tne people were near being run over by the other carriages, so great was the confusion as the assembly dispersed in all directions. Only "linali remained sitting on the step, cryI ...t'. She had shown a brave heart m the presence of the Emperor, and now she was again a weak girl. The general astonishment vented itself in all kinds of exclamations, and this much could be learned from the din?that DiDah was not engaged, and that she had surprised and "caught her father and betrothed by this sudden turn, for the father was hot willing to marry her to a man who had not the means to support her. But now all opposition was overcome, and when the matter had been sufficiently discussed, all recurred again to the kiss given her by the Emperor. The communal wag, Tobias, let loose all kinds of witticism. The excitement caused by this occurrence continued for some time, and even the Christian townspeople came to Isaac, and listened astonished to the account of the incident. The young man, so suddenly betrothed, walked about as in a dream, not knowing what to make of all this. Now he was quizzed because the Emneror had kissed his betrothed before lie had done so; then he was congratulated because, after all, he was fortunate enough to be engaged to the beautiful and brave daughter of the rich Isaac. And these twittings and congratulations alternated, like his own feelings; sometimes he felt happy at the sudden favorable turn of his ror| tune; at other times he was sad and cross because ne tnougnc mat a maiueu kissed by the Emperor must look down upon him with contempt. Every one wanted to' see Diuah. Hut she all at once disappeared, and shut herself up in her bedroom, and would not see either her parents or betrothed. In the evening, however, she came down, and, according to an ancient custom, tln-ee candles were lighted, a blessing was written with chalk on the floor, and on it,as was the practice of old, a cup was broken, and every one present received a fragment of it. This was the ceremony of the actual betrothal, and through its celebration great trouble was brought on. When, a few weeks after, tlie authorities were applied to for a license for the marriage, the magistrate declared that, in the first place, there existed no authentic document testifying to the Emperor's permiesion, and that the evideuce of the Jews present could not be received further than that it proved that Dinah had told a story to the Emperor, and that he must report thi? to 'n\ ^eriors. The i^v was now turned into sorrow, and Dinah had to appear before th? magistrate, w o Y\ or* '' A V A t'nil WJL1U iiiu^xvxu^i j aoavu ^*.4 v/ j ?*? the Jewess whom the Emperor kissed?" Dinah had now to submit to a painful cross-examination. Every word was written down. IIow ashamed she was! At last she had to confess that she had deceived the Emporor, as she was not engaged at the time. In conclusion, the deposition was laid before her, and she was asked to sign it. "With trembling hand she took the pen and wrote her name. Suddenly lier face became Hushed. Pretending to throw sand on the signature to dry it, she took the ink-stand and threw the contents over the deposition. She smiled secretly at the scolding of the official, who was vexed at the trouble she gave him. She was directed to appear on the morrow, in order to sign another copy of the deposition. Like a conqueror who has achieved some great deed she returned to her father and betrothed, who wailed for her outside. Quickly she told them what she had done. In the night, while every one in the village was buried in sleep, she, her father and betrothed, secretly entered a cart which waited for them on the highway, and away through the night rolled its wheels toward the capital, to the Em peror. Arrived at" Vienna, Dinah could not be persuaded to meet the Emperor in audience herself. And i when the two men told this to the Emperor, he smiled and praised Dinah, and immediately ordered two documents to be prepared; in the one he confirmed his promise, and in the other the chief of the village was severely reproved. There was jubilation when Dinah and her companions came back to the village, the father holding up in his hand the imperial document with the great seal aflixed to it, and announcing to all his good fortune. Never before had a wedding been celebrated in the village with greater rejoicing than that of the master tanner with Dinah, and cheers were inven, over and over again, for the Emperor. And when tlie glee was at its highest, the horn of the mail coach driver was suddenly sounded. Every one ran to the window. An imperial lacquey dismounted. With flnttpnnor uniirs he entered the wedding room, and, with a few strange sounding words, presented to the bride the portrait of the Emperor in a beautiful frame, and askeu again, in the name of his master, for thanks from the red lips. Already had the bridegroom opened his mouth in order t<? put in his veto, when there arose general cry, Tobias, Tobias! Tiie portrait was the first ornament in the house of the young couple, and Dinah took a bunch of flowers from the wedding table and bound it round the picture. One morning, about a year afterward, the emperor smilingly held out a letter to an iiulic counselor who presented him some" papers and said: "Now you see that he whom they called a heretic is god-father to a Jewish boy." lie then related to the counselor the incident with Dinah and concluded:* " The young couple have named their first-born son in honor of i me,'Joseph.' Write to them that I | shall ever be graciously mindful of them and my little cod-child, and send the woman this ring." The ring has remained; but the little Joseph soon died, and the whole congregation mourned at this. Then Tobias observed: " The proverb is true. The 1 child is dead, the god-fathership is at an end." "When, some years afterward, the re mains of the Emperor Joseph were car ried to the ancestral sepulcner (it hap , pened to be on Sabbath), the sectiot read in the synagogue was Exodus i. and when the eighth verse was read all wept, and in the women's gallerj i many looked toward Dinah, who sat . there pale like a corpse, but did not shed a* tear. 1J Even after Dinah had become a i ] grandmother she still deeply bluehed when sho was reminded that she had been once kissed by an Emperor. Rosalind's Littlo Game. " Pass the cake." These words, spoken in imperious tones by Ilosalind McGuire, iloated diagonally across the parlor to where Pansy Perkins w;is seated on a fauteuil conversing with George AV. Simpson. Pansy was looking even lovelier than usual, the gas-light softened and made less garish by the tinted shades through which it came, bringing out in all its beauty the peachy complexion for which the Perkinses, of Perkinsville, had long been noted. "Wereyou ever in Marietta, Ohio?" she asked, bending her face as she spoke so close to that of (Jeorge that a little vagrant tress of her sunny hair swept across his forehead, making him feel as if had suddenly taken hold of the handles of an electrical machine. " No," he replied, " I never was in -Marietta, out i nave an aunt who useu to live in Cleveland." " How strange !" said Pansy. "My father once knew a man who had been in Cleveland." And so they chatted on, unmindful of the fact that just across the room there sat a woman, beautiful, but with cold feet, whose eyes were never taken from them, and in whose heart the fires of jealousy were raging in all their lurid fierceness. Rosalind McGuire loved George "N'. Simpson with all the passionate fervor of a high-born woman, whose heart, attacked in vain by countless suitors, suddenly pours out unbidden all the hidden treasures of its love. Such a love is terrible in its intensity, and only those who have seen a three-base hit made in the ninth inning can realize the agony to which a woman, loving thus, is subjected when she sees the object of her passion bending tenderly over another and whispering words that can never be recalled. The sight of George W. Simpson making love to a girl who didn't have an invisible net to her name, was more than Rosalind could bear, and she went into the supperroom. " Put some oysters near that hole in the wall," she said to a waiter, pointing with her jeweled hand to the portiere through which she had just passed. The man did as lie was told. In a moment George and Pansy enf 1m rnnni irti VU bllV/ i vv/iiit "Would you like some oysters?" he said. "Oh,yes," saicl Pansy. "I think they r?re just lovely." George placed before her a platter of ' Sevres ware on which the inollusks were heaped, and, as the first one disappeared with a dull thud, Rosalind smiled a cold, Boston smile, and felt that her hour of triumph was at hand. "When the oysters were gone Pansy looked up with a glad smile. " You are very kind, Mr. .Simpson," she said. " and I shall not soon forget this night." But the happy look had faded from the man's face, and his riant mouth was quivering with pain. "My heart was broken," he said softly to himself, as he reached for a biscuit, " but it is better so than after I had told my love. If she eats that way at a party, what kind of a record would she get at home?" Ah! what, indeed.?Chicago Tribune, Fable of the Wounded Ox. An Ox who was one day passing olnn rr Hio ln'irhwav foil hrftlvft lllSl "'v"6 ",v ""D"" %v leg. In a short time along came the Horse, who halted and called out: " Mercy on me! but what has happened ?" " I have broken my leg." " Too bad?too bail! I assure you that you have my heartfelt sympathies." When the Horse had disappeared along came the Mule and inquired: " llow now, my old friend?what's the trouble?" " Broken my leg." " Dear me! but that's unfortunate ! You were always an honest, hard-working Ox, and I am deeply grieved that this accident has come upon you." The Mule pursued his way, and the next animal to stop was the Hog. " Ilello! What does this mean ?" he grunted as he checked his pace. " Broken my leg." " Is that possible! It isn't six months ago that you had a lame shoulder, and to have this misfortune come upon you is enough to discourage the best Ox in the World. If you don't recover from it always remember that you had my warmest sympathies." After the Hog came the Goat, who halted at a safe distance and called out: ? IV i. : fjtt "ivnyuiing euiuagiuus." No; I have broken my leg." "Oil, that's it? Sure it's broken?" " Yes." ' And you'll probably be laid up for months even if the Master doesn't knock you on the head and make beef of your " Yes." " Well, I'm sorry for you, and if you happen to get well I shall be highly delighted." The (Joat had passed out of sight when along came the lthinosceros on his way to the pool. "Hello! What's up now?" he asked as he looked over the bank. " Broken my leg." " Is that so." Well, I never had an introduction to you nor heard your name spoken, but here goes to help you. I'll get you up, help you home .mil .JC f-.ir !IS r / fin Tt rtiiu. rtcc y Mil uuuu^n ?i?4 - v?... is sufficient for me that you are in distress ancl need help. Have you no friends?" " Oh, yes. They have all extended their heart-felt sympathies, but left me lying in the ditch." MORAL. " Sympathy, my friend," said the Rhinosceros as lie aided the Ox to stand up, " sympathy sticks in tin; ear and lets the stomach starve. Depend upon your friends no longer than they can depend upon you. Come, now?here we go."?Detroit Free Press. A Backward Death Shot. The Cincinnati Gazette thus clearly describes the shot made by Frank Frayne, the actor, in that city, which by the breaking of a spring holding the breech (if the gun caused the death of Miss Yon Behren : The marksman stood with the butt of his rilli; firmly pressed against an upright wall, forming with it an exact right angle, so that under ordinary circumstances the bullet could not be deflected up or down, ll WOU1U Jieut'ssiuuy vv <i nut: shot, susceptible of change only to the riglit or left. The mirror was upon a small iron upright, fastened to the stock of the gun. Now, looking at this, the shooter only saw the reflected image of his gun barrel, which was thereby doubled, shortening the distance to the object by just double its natural length. One other peculiarity of this reflection is that the apple seems drawn toward the gun and appears as though about touching its muzzle. Strange as the statement may sound, it is about the truest shot that can be made ; but that a gun is always dangerous, and that no hand'ing of one, even upon such geometrical theories jus the one given, is without the most appalling dangers, is also proved. Sugar and Salt Beef. Sugar is very sensibly recommended for children, not in the form of "sweeties," but in their food. The . universal craving ol' little boys and girls for "lollipops" is too often treat~-1 ?? orwl i*nr\r<icuOil ? fU as IIUIUIUA urjuaut; <mvi accordingly, it is an instinct answering to a physiological requirement, and many a half-nourished child is kept , from illness by th?? occasional penny, worth it is enabled to procure. Hut, given in food, sugar is much more useful. We are glad to see a strong protest, on the other hand, against salt beef. It is one of those survivals, so hard to get rid of, since days when a family killed a cow fi>r their winter consumption, and were obliged to corn 1 a great part of the meat as the only ! way of preserving it for use. Now that fresh meat is to l>e had in even the poorest village, it is a pity to see it robbed of its nutrition and made in, digestible from a mistaken Idea of 1 wonomy.?Saturday litvizw. mmmmm lummmmmmm The Promise of May. "The tovm lay still in the low sunlight, The hen clnct late by the white farm gate, The maid to her dairy came in from the cow, The stock dove coo'd at the foil of night, The blossom had opened on every bough. O joy for the Promise of May, of May! 0 joy for the Promise of May. "But a red fire woke in tho heart of the town, And a fox from the glen ran away with the hen, And a cat to the cream, and a rat to tho cheese, And the stock dove coo'd till a kite dropped down, Anu n snu wmu uuriu mo diusmjuuu*; hud?, i 0 grief for the Piomise of May, of May! 0 grief for the Promise of May." ?Alfred Tennyson. HUMOR OF THE DAY. "With all thy faults 1 love thee still," said the man who was mated to a garrulous woman. . 44 Do you buy your music by the roll ?" inquired a young lady of a deacon's daughter. " Oh, no," she replied; " I always wait until Sunday, and then I get it by the choir." It is a never to be forgotten fact that whatever losses we may incur as a nation, and whatever calamities may befall us, the small boy still remains, lie can't be unloaded. " Is this seat engaged, Miss ?" asked a young swell of a bright-looking maiden on the train the other day. " Xo, sir, but I am," was the tart reply. The masher caved. "I give you my word that 1 am speaking the truth," said a man to his wife. "Of course you give me your word," she retorted, bitterly, "because no one else will take it."?New York News. 44 In choosing a wife," says an exchange, 44 be governed by her chin." The worst of it is that after choosing a wife one is apt to keep on being governed in the same way.?Boston Gazette. 44IIe cometh not," she said, and she was quite right; he didn't arrive. His intentions were all right, but they failed to successfully combat the bulldog that was screened in the moonkissed shrubbery.?Puck 44 If," says the Phrenological Jour nal, " wmsuing win drive away mi; bines, why shouldn't women whistle?" Let her whistle if she wants to ; but she would drive away the men as well ;us the blues.?Norrhtoiru Herald. Of nil the frauds that meu abhor And oft in vain tho fact deplore, Besides attempt to hide ease, There's nothing that they hate much more And wish them on the other shore Than pillowshams and tidies. These relics of a bygone age Do often cause a reckless rage And terror most majestic; As whited sepulchers they seem, Or like the horror of a dream? These shams of bliss domestic. ?New York Commercial. SELECT SIFTINGS. There are in Greece no less than 700 kinds of grjipes. The people of India talk to each /-ifImf ir? 1QO lonnriinrroc A rich and eccentric Californian has paid seventeen different John Smiths in the State $300 each to change their names. The butter tree was discovered in the central part of Africa ; from its kernel is produced a nice butter which will keep a year. At a stenographic exhibition in Paris twenty-four different systems of shorthand were on view. Among other curiosities there was a post card containing 44,000 words. The twin daughters of Bislrop Andrews were wedded to Dr. Lovett and Judge Merrriweather, of Xewton, Ga.t but both brides soon died. The widowers then married two more of the bishop's daughters. For the second time they were bereaved, and they have for the third time married sisters. During the British campaign in Egypt a ray of sunshine was reflected, [ as a signal, from the top of one of the pyramids near Cairo to Alexandria, about 120 miles away. The signals had the appearance of small luminous [ points and were, it is said, perfectly readable as a message from the comI mander of the forces. The use of cork for making jackets, as an aid to swimming, is very old. We are informed that the Roman whom I Camillus sent to the capitol when besieged by the Gauls, put on a light i dress and took cork with him under it, [ because, to avoid being taken by the enemy, it wiui iu*uess<uy iui nuu tu swim across the Tiber. During a recent discussion at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences it v/as doubted that the odors of insects are emitted ;is a protection from Uie attacks of enemies as is generally belioved. At least some of the odors are very agreeable to man, and it is by no means certain that scents repulsive to us are not delightful to the most common enemies of the insects emitting them. Dr. Joseph Leidy spoke of some ants having the fragrance of a Eucalyptus tree growing near their nest instead of the usual peculiar odor of formic acid. HEALTH HINTS. People should not gorge themselves with animal food. Vegetable and fiirinaceous preparations are better for bulk. When the bones are weak, as is often the case in young .children, twisted positions induce curvature of the spine. Says Dr. Footers Health Monthly : Try breathing the fumes of turpentine or carbolic acid to relieve whoopingcough. Every man who would have his girls grow up to be strong, high-minded, healthy and refined women, should break away from custom, etiquette, fashion and folly and turn to nature. It may not be generally known, but it is a fact worth remembering, that a small quantity of the unbleached sulphate of quinine mixed with any ordinary tooth powder forms an excellent quinine dentrifice, which not only preserves the teetli sound and the gums healthy, but is found to be wonderfully ellieacious in preventing toothache and neuralgia. Feeding Through the Nostrils. Dr. Eernet's interesting statement on this subject, before the Paris Therapeutical society, has attracted considerable attention. The. fact that infants have advantageously been fed in this way induced M. Eernet to resort to it, and, ;is appears, successfully. The patient being laid on his back, with his chest and head slightly raised by pillows, the liquid is poured slowly into the btft-k part of the nares by means of a very pointed spoon or other agent, and when it reaches the nharnyx it induces a movement of de glutition. Adroitly performed, food may be given this way as well as by the mouth. He has often used the method in apoplectic coma, and in the coma of infants suffering from tubercular meningitis. Medicines may be given in the same manner whenever the mouth cannot be employed for this purpose. .Similar means have been found effectual in the case of a maniacal patient, who could not be induced to take food into his mouth under any circumstances. Curious I-acts About Precious Stones. Professor Thomas Egleston, in a lecture on precious stones in New York, said that in Paris there was a diamond so hard thajt the usual process for cutting and jwlishing made no impression upon it. The black diamond of Russia, a rs?re and beautiful gem, when broken into Hakes and polished, was worn as court mourning. The historic diamonds have no more luster than a piece of glass. The sham diamond was more beautiful than the genuine stone, but it has a tendency to decomposition and does not retain 1..,.*, ? U? l.o.l uw.nn l?,f uiv iumbn. iir hum niwi mikv oia i?* "?tiw jewelers call the true pigeon blood-colored ruby in this city, and they were five times more valuable tlmn the diamond. The first eye-glasses were make in England of emeralds, NEWS OF THE WEEK Eastern and Middle State#. Pabks Leukine and his two sinters, Flora and Alice, were returning home from prayer meeting, near Altoona, Pa., nnd while walking on the railroad track a passing train struck them and killed all three. Two of the men arrested in Philadelphia for robbing Lebanon cemetery of bodies pleaded guilty and two others were convicted by the jury. Dr. William S. Forbes, demonstrator of anatomy in Jefferson Medical college, and his assistants, Drs. Lehman and Bonham, were indicted for conspiring to desecrate graves in the cemetery, and obliged to givo bail to answer. A sensational arrest in New York the other day was that of George J. Itice, ex-president of the Utica. Ithaca aud Elinira and of tho Cazenovia, Canastota and Do Ruytor Railroad companies, on a charge made by Henry S. King, of London, England, to the effect that Mr. Rice, while presidont of the first-mentioned company, was concerned in the signing of papers purporting to be certificates for 10,000 shares of tho capital stock of the company, of tho face value of $1,000,000, the signing and issuing of which were not authorized, and that the prisoner pledged those papers with the Third National bank of New York, with intent to defraud that bank. Mr. Rice is an Englishman by birth, and was sent to this country in 187S to take tho position of presidont by the English stockholders of tho two roads, who own a large majority of tho stock. Previously he was a clerk in tho employ of Henry S. King & Co., London, at a yearly salary of about $l,fi00. The stockholders became dissatisfied with his management, and removed him from his position as prosidont of tho two companies. Ho is said to have been living near Elmira, N. Y., in extravagant style. Two shocks of earthquake lasting ten seconds were felt at Dover, N. H., and other towns in tho vicinity. A heavy shook was qIbo experienced at Contoocook, N. H. Thomas Dotle and Katie A. Morgan?giving the names, respectively, of William Latis and Katie A. Latis?who had been boarding at a house in Rochester, N. Y., were suffocated by tho escape of illuminating gas in their room. They were a runaway couple. A fibe in Boston gutted the five-story brick building occupied by John P. Lovell & Sons, dealers in firearms, powder nnd sporting goods. For ten minutes after the fire started there was a perfect hail of bullets through the streets, caused by exploding cartridges, and the firemen were in great danger. The loss is about $125,000. Hebr Most, the German socialist, who recently ended a term of imprisonment for views expressed while editor of a socialist paper in London, England, arrived in New York, and was there temlored a public reception by his friends. He now proposes to make a tour of the United States for the purpose of effecting a thorough organization of all the socialists. A fibe in Philadelphia destroyed a sixstory brick business building, causing losses aggregating $!!00,000. Much excitement followed the announcement that through an appropriation of about $850,000 of the funds of the City bank of Rochester, N. Y., by its president, C. E. Upton, to carry on oil speculations, the bank had closed its doors. The amount of deposits was stated at $500,000, and the amount of paper held by the bank at $800,000. Upton was treasurer of the Western New York Episcopal diocese, and had its funds in the rm * 1 v.o/1 DanK. ine Bnyragn uuukb ui large sums on deposit in the bank. Ihe city had no funds in the bank, but the county is badly involved. Tho William C. Moore banking house at Victor, N. Y., suspended payment in consequence of the failure of the City bank. South and W eat* Thb steamboat Kate Kinney caught fire at Shreveport, La., and was totally consumed, together with several buildings. Her cargo consisted of 2,000 bales of cotton, oil cake and other freight, and the total loss is $150,000. Michigan's vote for governor, officially declared, is: Begole, Democrat and Greenback candidate, 15-1,2(58; Jerome, Republican, 149,CD7; Sagetidorph, Prohibition, 5,854. Tho vote for the remainder of the State officers stands: Republicans, 157,000; Fusionists, 149,000. A loss of $G50,000 was incurred 6y the burning of the Hall block, the finest business block in Toledo, Ohio. Jonx Redd, a negro, was hanged at Seale, Ala., for the murder of Lucy Lee, a young colored woman; Peter Thomas, also colored, suffered a similar punishment at Mansneiu, i>n., xor muruenng anoiner colored man named Bright, and at Deadwood, Dakota, on the same day, James L. Gilmore, twenty-two years old, was hanged for the murder of a Mexican. A riuz at Newport, Ark., destroyed sixty buildings, including eight brick stores; estimated loss, $2.73,000. Judge Clinton Biuogs, a loading lawyer of Nebraska, was found dead on the railroad track near Afton, Iowa. He had fallen from a train. Two boilers in the agricultural implement works of 1'arlin <fc Orendorff, at Canton, 111., exploded, killing the engineer, fireman aud six other men. Congressman Godloye S. Ortii, of Iudiana, died late the other night at Lafayette, agod sixty-five years. He was United States minister to Austria in 1875 aud served in J Congress several terms. Two of the boilers of Globe mill No. 1, in Cincinnati, exploded and killed two men and wounded nine others. A collision between two trains near Fos- j ter's Crossing, Ohio, resulted in the behead f n?/l /lontK of o nn?^nl I lDg Ui im CUglliCVl ciuvt ueuui v* . clerk. Tin illicit distilleries and 14,000 gallons of beer, low wines and whisky were seized and destroyed in the Atlanta (Ga.) district, and six illicit distillers wero arrested, during last week. The case of Mrs. Scoville, who was recently adjudged insane and then granted a new trial, lias been stricken from tho dockcl at Chicago by agreement. It is reported that tho unhappy couple are reunited. Flames at Corsicana, Texas, destroyed eeven brick business houses and l.L'OO bales of cotton, causing an estimated loss of 000. Grand Forks, Dakota, has also had a 2' t which burned down about a dozen businew places and resulted in a loss of over $100.(V'(' James II. Wilson, county treasurer of De Witt county, Illinois, committed suicldo by lumping himself in his barn. Di.'juno a sfivero hailstorm near Hunterville, Texas, Dean's milling house was blown down, instantly killing Albort Driden and four colored women who had sought shelter in the building. Two young ladies?Bettio I.in loll and Fredorica Peterson?attempted to cross the river on the ice from Lake City to Stockholm, Wis., with a young mun named Andrew Johnson. All were drowned. Tiiiike children of John Cb.rk, a farmer in Linn comity, Kansas, were burned to death in their father's house. Through the defalcations of J. J. Fuller, cashier, and H. L. St. John, assistant cashier of the Second National bank at Jefferson, Ohio, that institution was forced to suspend. Fuller, who had been using from $"<0,000 to $75,000 of the bank's funds, lied, and St. John, 011 learning that the defalcation was discovered, had a stroke of paralysis. From Washington ire constitutionality or xnc law miuer jrhich General Newton M. Curtis was conricted and fined heavily in New York for making political assessments lias boon affirmed by the United States supremo court. DuitiKa the eleven months ending November :$0,1882, the value of the exports of domestic breadstuff's from the United States was $lfv50(>,494, and tho vnlue during the same period in 1881 was $18,025,880. IIenby H. Jessot, of Now York, \vanominated by the President to be chnrgr d'affaires and consul-general of the United SUites at Teheran, Persia. A bill introduced in tho House provides that when an officer of the government detects frauds upon the customs ho shall receive one-fourth of the fine. The House committee 011 war claims has agreed to report a bill granting a pension of eigl:t iionars per munui 10 ouirurs mm enlisted men who served in the Mexican and Indian wars and the widows of those dead, excepting only Jefferson Davis. Tue number of United States pensioners on the roll December 1,1882, is estimated at 201,650, with an annual valuo of $00,013,000. oiiatton McMichael has been confirmed by the Senate ns United States marshal in the District of Columbia. The Hunu il report of the public printer bIiows that during the past fiscal year the total expense of the office was $2,035,159.08, which includes the expense of binding, $580,. 510.3.5; of paper, $492,527.80; of lithogr^pHl ing and engraving, $274,154.99, and of the Congressional liccord, $150,902.19. The aggregate amount expended is $419,210,81 larger than the expense of soy previous year* XToreiffn New*. Foub employee perished in the destruction by fire of a -watch factory at Belfast, Ireland. Five hundred prisoners, charged with incendiarism and massacre at Alexandria, Egypt, have been released owing to insufficient evidence. Patbiok Jotce, Myles Joyce and Patriot Casey, tho three men convicted of participating in the murder of tho Joyce family at Maamtrasna on tho night of August 1? last, wore hanged in the jail at Dublin. The prison inside and outside was strongly guarded. A special cable dispatch says that the sultan of Turkey is surrounded by sedition and in a continual state of apprehension lest he be assassinated. Tho army is full of dissensions and disaffection, the popular discontent is loudly expressed, and affairs at Constantinople present the aspect which usually indicates the approach of a violent transition. Tho most extraordinary precautions against assassination are taken at Yildiz Kiosk. No one is admitted to tho palace, and tho sultan goes out only on Fridays, when ho is conducted to tho mosque in his French bomb-proof carriage. Ha makes every one nervous by oar rying two revolvers, with which he ie quite unfit to be trusted. The story is told that one day recently one of the sultan's chief servants approached his royal master to present a petition for a week's absence; and as he put his hand in his bosom to draw forth tho document tho sultan,being instantly seized with the suspicion that the man was about to draw a weapon and assassinate him, pulled out his revolver and shot tho man dead on tho spot. The British bark Langrigg Hall, from Liverpool, struck oil a rock off the coast of Wexford, Ireland. Only two persons of the twenty-six on board were saved. And about the same time the British ship Glad Tidings, from Calcutta for Falmouth, England, went ashore at Prawle Point, caught lire afterward and was totally destroyed. Two of tho crew were drowned. At a fire in Le Puy, Franco, nine persons were burned to death. Bt an explosion in a cartridge factory at Mount Valerien, France, thirty women were seriously injured. There has been a great fire in Canton,China. Eight hundred houses wero destroyed and many lives wero lost, including firemen who wore burned to death. Tho viceroy visited the scene with a body of soldiers to provent robberies, and fierce fights occurred between the thieves and citizens. There wero also two fires at Foo Chow on succeeding days. They consumed each about 2G0 houses, and five lives wero lost. Thbee vessels were wrecked and the crews drowned in a storm off the coast of Scotland. The greatest storm in fifty years has been experienced off the coast of Newfoundland. Twenty-two vessels of differeEt sizes wero totally wrecked in Green Bay. Ovebdank, the uouib manufacturer, was executed at Trieste, Austria.-Alateh cable dispatch says that fifteen of the women injured by the explosion 'in the cartridge factory at Mont Valerien, France, have died. Michael Fly.vn, the last of tho three men arraigned in Dublin for tho mnrder of the two Huddys at Lough Mask, was convicted and sentenced to be hanged on January 17. A band of forty brigands made a sudden attack npon the town of Ahuacatlan, Mexico, overawed the inhabitants, who fled terror-stricken, and seized the mayor, the justice and the aldermen and carried them off captives, intending to hold them for a large ransom. THE WORK OF CONGRESS. Senate. The consideration of the French spoliation bill was resnmed, and it was finally passed with two amendments which provide that nothing in the act shall be construed as committing the United States to the payment of the claims, and that the report of the conrt of claims shall be merely advisory as to the law and the facts, and shall not be conclusive.... The Pendleton civil service bill was discussed further by Mo3srs. Miller, George and others. The memorial of the National Educational associatfbn was presented, favoring a liberal appropriation from the national treasury for the support of schools in tho States on the basis of illiteracy A resolution was adopted calling for copies of the orders under which naval officers have inspected and reported upon the revenue marine service, the life saving service and the marine hospital service, and a statement of the authority of law under which the inspection and reports were made; also whether the treasury department consented to the inspection of the service under its control.. Tho Pendleton civil service reform bill was further debated by Messrs. Voorhees and Plumb. Mr. Pugh offered an amendment to the civil service bill, providing that perrons now in the service shall bo subject to the provision for competitive, examinations like other citizens; also that tho offices be proportioned among the States and Territories and the District of Columbia in proportion to the population. Ordered printed....The Indian a?i>ronrintion bill was taken up. Mr. Dawes said, the Senate committee hnd added il;>4,200 to the bill as it came from the House, making the total appropriation $/;,3(12,200... .Mr. Brown rose to a personal explanation. lie had the clerk read a newspaper article stating that the committee who attended the funeral of Senator Hill had traveled in a special car, had been extravagant generally, and had incurred bills amounting to $3,800. Mr. Brown said the committee had not traveled in a special car, and had not been extravagant, the whole expenses being only ?1,025. The Indian appropriation bill was passed wilh amendments ns follows: An amendment requiring the secretary of the interior to have the approval of the President in setting aside bids detrimental to the interests "of the government; an amendment providing that the appropriation for the education of Indians at Carlisle shall cover also the cost of their transportation; an amendment appropriating $i>,U00 to enable the secretary of the interior to complete negotiations with the Sioux; an amendment directing the re moval of tho Crow agoncy to some point east of the Big Horn river in the vicinity of Fort Custer: an amendment providing that the Seminoles still remaining in Florida shall receive their share of the money appropriated to pay the interest due that tribe under treaty stipulations; and an amendment providing that any disbursing officer or other person who shall present any voucher, account or claim to a United States officer for approval or payment containing any material misrepresentation of fact shall not receive payment or credit for any part of such claims. Tho consular and diplomatic appropriation bill was considered and passed. ..Th? Pendleton civil service bill was discussed by Messrs, Vest, Allison, Barrow and Call. _ IIOU HO# Mr. Reed presented the memorial of James McLean, claiming to have boon elected from the second Missouri district, to fill the term of tho late Thomas Allen. The secretary of the State of Missouri had refused to give him a certificate on the ground that the second Missouri district had been legislated out of existence. By a vote of 144 to 15 Mr. McLean was admitted Mr. Dingley, from tho joint shipping committee, reported tho bill ogreed upon by tho majority of the committee and Mr. Cox (N. Y.) reported the views of the minority, both of which were referred to tho committee on commerce.... The Indian appropriation bill, with appropriations aggregating $5,3GG,lflG, waa re[ ported. The postoffice bill was taken.up, and the amendment making an appropriation for special mail facilities was defeated.. .A bill I wits reported from tho committee on invalid j pensions granting a pension to the widow of Major General G. K. Warren A bill was reported t<nd passed extending until May14, Mir <ime for claimants to file all claims i ?* *?- *~ i\ r?-> mic^innnri! r>f A In. nuiuro LIIH UlUlb Wl WWUJuuosivmv.U v ?? bama claims. The death of Mr. Orth, of Indiana, was referred to in a few touching words by the chaplaiu of the House, and the desk of the lute representative was appropriately draped in black A resolution by Mr. llobeson fining every member absent without leave from December 22 to January 3 $50 for each day's absence, was adopted by a voto of 111 yeas to 102 nays. Soverul members applied for a leave of absence for various reasons, which, after Bomo objection and debate, wero granted. In reply to a question by Mr. Robeson, of Now Jersey, the speaker stated that thero wore fifteen additional requests for leave, and thereupon Mr. Kobeson ottered a resolution for a recess from the 22d of Dcceuiber, 1882, until tho 2d of January, 1883. A point of order that tho resolution was not a privileged matter was overruled by the speaker, and the resolution was adopted by a vote of 197 1H1 Tin fa Thn TToiiga Hum r? Rcimled its action of the previous day The army appropriation bill was reported. Tho total amount of tho estimates for 1884 is ^2^0-14,14^.44. Tho total amount of appropriations for 1883 (exclusive of $592, 85.90 for signal service and $249,8GO for general service men in tho war department, making $842,54.1.1)0), $LH>,415,454.10. Amount recommended in this bill for 1884, ?24,081,700. Decrease under 1883, $1,733,754.10; decrease under estimates, $3,902,4-13.44. In committee of the whole on the postofliec appropriation bill an amendment was adopted directing the post master-general to make a thorough investigation into the railway mail service of tho United States and to report to the next session of Congress what is the reasonable value of the transportation of the mails and what difference there is between the cost of transportation of freight for private parties and the cost of the transportation of tho mails. Tho com mittee then ro=e, reported tho bill to the House and it was then passed?yeas, 163; nays, 21. It is far bettor to give a child a good constitution, strong arms, deep chest, a clear eye, perfcct teeth, a pure skin, dexterity with the hand, a love for truth, a desire for purity, courage, hope, trust, love, and the ability to take care of hiniselt than, without these things, to leave him all the wealth of a Cra'sus. Pretension i* nothing; power Is everything. . THE WIDOW'S COW. Dow the Canadian Cabinet Wm Entertained by an Irnte Membor of Farlla inent. W. A. Croffut tells the following good story in ;i letter to the Detroit Post: "While in Montreal I heard a good story of Sir Peter Mitchell, member of parliament for New Brunswick. He was an opposition member during the lamentable government of Sir John Mackenzie, in the last decade, and was a most constant and uncomfortable thorn in the side of that unhappy premier. Sir John was conspicuous as a railroad magnate, and, just before Che opening of parliament one winter, Sir Peter called on him to induce him to pay $40 for "a widow's cow that had been run over by the cars. "I don't believe there is any tmng in it!" exclaimed tne premier, peremptorily; "it's probably a trumpedup case, but I'll inquire, and you can call to-morrow." The gentleman from New Brunswick was not used to being treated so cavalierly, but he pocketed it, and called in the morning. " There's no justice in it; we won't pay for the cow," broke in Sir John. "You won't, won't you?" rejoined Sir Peter, with a manner quite as bouncing as that of the leader of the government. "Have you been there or sent there and investigated it V" "No, I haven't, but I won't pay for the cow. It's a mere trifle, and she fought to have kept it off the track." "Don't the law say you shall have a fence?" " I won't pay for the cow, now, and that's all the answer you'll get." "You won't pay for the widow's cow, won't you? Sir John Mackenzie, I'll make you pay for it!" exclaimed Sir Peter, now thoroughly aroused. "You will! you will! IIow will you ?" growled the premier. " I'll take it out of you during the session, as sure as you're a living man ! The widow's $40 isn't anything, isn't it! I'll take it out of you." It was an Irishman against a Scotchman, and both were angry. The sequel proved that Sir Peter "took it out of him," very thoroughly. He i3 a roundheaded man, a hard worker, a pugnacious and redoubtable foe, an unforgiving enemy, bold and eloquent in debate, no dilettant, but a hard hitter, and some of his onslaughts were furious. If he had not great tact lie has great force, and he never forgot the cow. In the speeches he made every day against the measures and methods of "the government, then under serious suspicion, he told the story of the cow, and trotted her out with a frequency that must have seemed like a cruelty tc animals. T7>I4-Ka Irtof /lotf tlin cocolnn jl" manj Lite a.aou uc*j vi tuv nvouiuu dawned, and the consideration of Mackenzie's expense budget was resumed. It provided the appropriations for the coming year. Sir Peter Mitchell took the floor and launched into a eulogy of the deceased cow and the propriety of making an appropriation for the widow. He was greeted with laughter and mock applause, and then his auditors waited uneasily for him to finish. He did not finish. " He told the story over again, with embellishments and elaborations. He contrasted the stinginess of the wealthy ruler with the quiet endurance of the penniless widow. He began to read from the Bible the commands to mercy, justice and charity, when the honorable members straggled out one by one to dinner. Sir Peter bit a biscuit, drank a swallow of water and continued, impressing upon the empty chairs about him the tender duties and graces ot numaniiy. jviemoers struggled in again. He quoted the Song of the Shirt. They appealed to him to draw his remarks to a close. He retold the story of the cow. Meantime Sir John Mackenzie was perspiring with wrath and anxiety in the premier's apartment hard by. All his hopes were bound up in the appropriation budget. What if it should not come to a vote ? The honorable member from Xew Brunswick could not be stopped, for this was the one bill in a Canadian parliament on which a member could speak as long as he wished. There was no way of cutting short the debate No motion was in order while he was speaking except the motion to adjourn ?and that would be adjournment sine die. The government members were in consternation as the orator delivered a speech on the blessings of vaccination, gave statistics on the cost of fences in the United States, passed an elaborate encomium on the superiority, for draft purposes, of Devon cattle, to which class the deceased domestic menu 01 me uereuvt'u wiuuw ueiuugeu, and then began to desgribe the religious, ceremonies in which the sacred cow of Burmah takes part, when the bell rang for vespers. A short time more-and the session would expire by law, and the government had passed no appropriation bill! At this critical juncture one of the government members returned excitedly from the premier's room, rushed to the orator's desk, and exclaimed: "In t he name of God, what ails you, Mitchell? What do you want?" "?and still," said Sir Peter, finishing the sentence he had on his lips, "not a cent has ever been paid for the widow's cow !" The member uttered a vehement exclamation about that animal, and added: "Sir John Mackzenzie authorizes me to say that he will pay for the cow if you'll let the bill come to a vote." Sir Peter sat down rather tired, and the widow got her pay. The government organs declared that the widow's cow had cost $40,000. Her champion is still known in uanaua as uismarcK Mitchell, on account of his boldness anil shrewdness in outwitting a cabinet and making himself long the adviser-in-chief of a vacillating governor. The Conclusion. " Protopolasm," remarked the professor, " is composed of carbonic acid, water and amonia, in which compound the water largely predominates. To what conclusion does this lead?" The pupil was a boy, and not easily staggered. lie answered: "It leads to the conclusion that dad never takes any protopolasm in his'n." ?Brooklyn Engle. THE CHARLES A. VOGELER CO., Tlio New Partnership In the House ot A. VojjHer Jc Cm. [Baltimore Herald, October 14.1 A moat important change in one of the largest enterprises of the city took place yesterday and inquiry was busy in gathering the facts. Immediately following tho death of Mr. Charles A. Vogeler, tho surviving partners of the house, of which he had been !?/ * oi.ifif iconof! n mr<*nlnr tho 1 radu aud press, which appeared in the columns of this paper. It made public an arrangement which in the exigencies of the moment was deemed necessary, and announced that it was the desiro of all concerned to continue its affairs as they had been previously conducted. Ic was learned, late last evening, that certain changes affecting tho permanent establishment of tho business had been resolved upon, and a reporter of the Herald was dispatched to the office of Col. Charles Marshall, attorney for the estate of the late Charles A. Vogeler, whore it was ascertained that negotiations had been concluded, as follows: That tho interests of the surviving partners had been purchased by Mr. Christian Devries, a member of tho old and substantial house of William Devries & Co., - 1 - 1?1 iL? miu presiueiii 01 inu niiiiuiiat lJiuia ui Baltimore, and that a new firm was about to bo formod under the firm name of Tho Charles A. Vogeler Co., this naino being in honor and perpetuation of tho memory of the late Charles A. Vogeler. It was further ascertained that the new firm will be composed of the widow of the late Mr. Vogeler (she retaining her late husband's full interest), Mr. Christian Devries, as executive partner and financial head, and Mr. 11. I). Unibstaetter, who, from the first step in the initial venturo of the house of A. Vogeler & Co., was the manager of the advertising department and confidential adviser of Mr. Charles A. Vogeler. By this arrangement it has been fully determined that all tho plans and business purposes of the lato Charles A. Vogeler, tho founder and executive manager of tho late firm, shall bo developed to their full fruition, and that the popular preparations of the house, prominent among which are St. Jacobs Oil and Dr. August Ivoenig's Hamburg Family Medicines, shall hold their high rank under new auspices and the new management. There is one feature of this commercial opisodo which appeals strongly to tho kindliest feeling and points a touching moral. Mrs. Vo-zeler holds her rolation in tho firm with a wifely courage. Her whole future is centered in tho resolve that the fruits of so valualilon life as that of her husband's, which was freely sacrificed in his zeal for the welfare of his native city, aud that tho aims and projects he pursued shall not bo permitted to languish, but shall be revived and strengthened to its credit and to his honor and fame, and that she will strive to build for him an enduring monument in tho enterprise ot hi* own founding. _ ?? . * r We are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleeps, and the slumber of the body seems to be but the waking of the soul. It is the litigation of sense, but the liberty of reason ; and our waking conception do not match the fancies of our sleeps. Though you may sleep all day, the sun still shines. Though to you the mountain may be draped in mists, it has not unloosened its granite roofs. Though you may be caught amid the swirling snows, the spring is hastening on. 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"* * A 4t- m?A ImryuvHet* rieasant to mo hum*?, oiuoiuuub > In its effect. It lea great help In pregnancy, And relieves pali! daring labor and at regular periods. PHY8ICU5S USB IT a.td PUESCHIBE IT FUTXLT, tyFoa AIXWUX5ZSSX8 of the generative organs of either sex, It Is second 'o no remedy that has ever been before the public; and for all diseases of tb? Earns It Is tbe Greatest Remedy in the World. J3TKIDNEY COMPLAINTS of Either 8?* Find Great Belief In Iu Use. LYDIA E. PDTKHA1T8 BtOOD PCTiOTEB will eradicate every Tcsuge .of Humors from th? Blood, at the same time wmgire tono and rtresgth to thesystem. As marreUons in results as the Compound. QTBoth the Compound and Blood Purifier -m pr? pared at 233 and 233 Western Avenue, Lynn, Has*. Price of either, fl. Bix bottles for$S. The Compound Is sent by mail In the form of pills, or of loccnges, on receipt of price, $1 per bos for either. Mrs. F Inlrhnm freely answers all letters of Inquiry. Enclose 3 con* stamp. Send for pamphlet. 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