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epigrammatic gems.
A FOP.
A fop is one who takes great jvaius
About everything except his brains.
A CAPITAL INVESTMENT.
If I had a fortune of gold to invest.
It would cause little worry or troubliu':
To Ireland I'd send it, that ''Isle of the
Blest,"
Where the Capital always in Dublin.
THE SWEET BVY-AND-BY.
"By aud by is easily said.''?Hamlet.
As Jones and his wife so buxom and sweet
Parsed a milliner's shop on their way down
the street.
Where a "duck of a bonnet" she chanced to
espy,
Aud with words most seductive she coaxed
him to buy.
"It's only twelve dollars; come, dear, let's go
buy it."
'All right," replied .Tones, and |?ssscd on :
"let's go by it!"
SYMBOLIC LOVE.
My love for U will ne'er D K,
Nor evor grow 0 less :
1 0 U both night and daj.
<X lOVe u ~ A. s.
poetry vs. prose.
Success is the poetry of life as it goes.
For we find, to our cost, its re-verses are
prose.
a 'ard 'it.
Of the letter h throughout their land,
The English seem to have a dread :
They've seldom got it in their 'and,
And never in their 'ead.
AS ENIGMA.
From majesty take head and tail.
Be sure and leave the rest:
Then, if you do, you cannot fail
To see it's but a jest.
- Cincinnati Enquirer.
THE LOST 1. O.U.
Some men seem to take naturally to
whatever promises to be unfortunate to
them, and it must have been iu a bliud
obedience to this law that Charles Day
insisted on regarding Jonas Terry as his
friend. There was nothing in common
between the men but a love for Josie
Merritt, and such a circumstance is not
usually conducive to friendly feeling.
Charles had-wavy brown hair, a pleasant
face, nnd a tine tenor voice. Jonas
kept his hair cut after some penitentiary
fashion, his features were thick and
commonplace, and he had a short, stumpy
figure. Their mental differences were
quite as great: Charles was rapid and <
bright, Jonas slow and secretive; Charles {
also was affectionate and prodigal, Jonas j
saving and prudent, and inclined to
make a merit of always looking out for
himself. Both were young men of some
fortune and position, but Jonas alone
was in-business. Charles lived upon the
rents of his property, and devoted his
time to the ladies in general, and to
Josie Merritt in particular.
One evening in June they sat together
in the library of Charles' fine nouse.
They had been discussing some summer
plans, and Charles said,
" Leave off griuding at that money
mill of yours, Jonas, and come with me;
we shall have a pleasant month's cruise."
"I cannot possibly do it. To tell the
truth, I am in a very tight place, and it
is a bad time for raising money."
"How much do you want?'1
"About twelve thousand."
"Will ten thousand do?"
"Yes; ten would put me out of straits.
In fact, ten thousand now might be
worth fifty thousand tome."
Charles walked to his secretary, and
unlocking it, counted out the amount in
bills, ana handed them to his frfend,
saving:
"Just give me your I. O. I*., Jonas,
for two months after date. Will that be
long enough?"
"You don't mean this, Charles?"
"Why, yes, I do, old fellow. It is
not much of a kindness, after all. You
sec, Merritt paid me my quarter's rents
to-day, and I shall be sure to spend all
before the quarter is over if I keep the
money where I can get at it. In two
months I shall be out of fund3, and in
the height of the seasou. It is a plan
of mine to secure ten thousand for a I
nlMnnrv im in fijinfamW
O 1 UVJ/VV/IUWV4.
"Thank you, Charles. I will acceot
the loan with pleasure, and if you should
need it before, why, just drop me aline.
I shall be out of trouble long before September."
The young man then drew a pen and
some paper toward him, wrote out the L
O. U., and handed it to Irs friend, observing,
as he did so, "Allow me to say,
Charles, that it is foolish to keep 60
much money here. Put it with your
banker."
"Certainly. Merritt paid me
this afternoon. It was so hot
when he left I thought I would not
go dowa-town until the morning. There
is no danger. Nobcdy but you and
Merritt and myself knows anything
about it.'j
Then he lifted the I. O. L\, glanced
at it, and rose to put it in his secretary;
but as he was crossing the room Jonas
said, "I heard to-day that Josie Merritt
is to marry Lieutenant Price."
In an instant the young man's thoughts
were diverted from his money affairs.
k. ? He was much excited at the information,
refused to believe it, and went over
and over, with a passionate earnestness,
his reasons for being certain that such a
thing could not be.
"Why," he kept repeating," "I have
known her ever since she was a little bit
of a girl. I earned her books to school;
1 went with her to the dancing class;
her father has been my lawyer and my
adviser; I have been as much
at home in Merritt's house as in my own.
Pooh! the thing is impossible. Josie
never would treat mc UKe tnat. i won t
[ believe it."
r "Go and ask her a straightforward
If question."
"I can't. It is too late to-night, and
I leave by the noon train to morrow. I
intended to have that matter fully understood
this summer, but I was in no ;
hurry. A love affair is all spoiled when j
papa and mamma and the lawyer and |
the world comf* into it. I have told 1
, Josie that, and .-he and I understand j
one another. Will you be calling there !
| aoon, Jonas:"
"I will try, if you wish it."
4'They leave town in a few days, but
call before, if you can, and send me word
if you see anything of the lieutenant."'
"I will. Lock up your secretary,
' Charles; I see it is still open. I am very
much obliged?very much."
"All right. You are very welcome. I [
am just putting ten thousand safely
away for when I need it."
Charles was much annoyed at what he 1
Ep' had heard, but he did not forget his sec- ;
" retarv. It had a secret drawer, and was !
capablc of being fastened by three m^
? tricate locks. He catefully secured all
three, and then sat down to smoke and
^ think over again the absurdity of Josie
- caring for any one but himse[f. In half |
an hour he was satisfied that the thing j
was impossible, and he rose rather wea- |
rily,determined to sleep upon his faith in I
her love. j
As he passed the table he saw a piece j
Ioi paper tnatauractcu mm; u was Jonas
I. O. U. He had forgotten to put it
away, and it was too much trouble to
unlock the secretary again. He hesitated
a moment where to secure it. but almost
instantly selected a place he considered
* singularly safe, deposited it there, and j
then went to bed and to sleep.
The next day he went to Newport,nnd j
there waited impatiently the advent of
the Mirritts. .Before he got any letter
from Jona9. Josie herself had satisfied
him. They had a charming stroll together,
in which everything was talked
over, and left Charles in what he consid- |
cred a very happy and enviable position.
Nothing marred the heaven of their
next two months. At the end of that
time the reckless lover began to be in
want of funds, and a* he had he^gd
nothing from Jonas, he determined to go j
to New York and collect his I. O. U. lie i
had not a care on his heart about it until j
ho had searched his secretary again and 1
? failed to find the paper. He lit a cigar, j
and sat down to think. Then he sud- ;
uenly remembered that he had found the i
^ paper after he had locked his secretary,
and that he had hid it. He even remembered
the little laugh of delight
with which he bad put it "in such, a capi- J
tal place. But what placed lie could !
not remember that.
The room, as said before, was the li- j
brary, and the walls were covered to a I
f considerable height with books, the top I
of the shelves being ornameuted with I
busts, Indian boxes, and Chinese cabi- j
nets nnd jars. He looked behind all the
books, opened those within easy reach, !
rifled the boxes and cabinets, nnd peeped
into all the vases. The search was con?
tinued half through the night, but the
Hk paoer was not found.
H He tried to think that it was ot no
L consequence, but somehow his heart '
failed him. Early next day htf went to
the office of Jonas Terry, and found him
there. Jonas was busy writing, but he
lifted hie head with a smile, and rose
heartily to greet his friend.
"Jonas," said Charles, with a puzzled,
eager look, "that I. O. U.?I have lost
it. .Searrhed everywhere all night for it,
and can't lav mv hands on it."
"What I. 0. i'.r
"The one you gav? me for the ten
thousand dollars I lent you in June.
After you went I sat down to think
about Josie Merritt, and when I was getting
6lecj>y I found it on the table. I
was too lazy to unlock my secretary
again, and I hid it somewhere; or eUe I
thought 1 hid it, and left it about, and
the servants have swept it away. However
I will cive you an acknowledgement
that will cover all possible claim if
ever it I should turn up. That will do,
you know.''
"You must be dreaming, Charles. 1
know nothing about an I. O. I'., and I
don't at all see what you are drifting
at."
"Jonas! You could not be such a
scoundrel! You are joking, of coursc."
"Mr. Day, 1 request you to leave my
oflice at ouce, sir. I am not to be bullied
or black-mailed in this way, I as-urc
you."
Then Charles struck the scouudrel,and
there was such an uproar of words and
blows that the police were called in, and
the affair bccrune sufficiently public, and
* ' 1 * * 1 - *-1 . -i~ A C /tAllfOA
inacea wenr 11110 mc uuuus. v/i >,vu.?,
Charles got the worst of it every way.
He had no particle of evidence to show'
for his claim; he was fast, fashionable,
and extravagant, while Jonas was universally
spoken of a9 "estimable and reliable.''
Society turned the cold
shoulder toward him, and mothers forbade
their daughters to ride in his company
or accept him for a partner in the
dance. ''But then,'' as Mrs. Merritt
shrewdly said, "his engagement to our
Josie has just become knowD."
It was remarkable that after this quarrel
Jonas Terry's business grew with au
amazing rapidity. Perhaps the saviug
of that ten thousand had been the turning-point
of his fortune. We all know
how the want of a fivedollar-bill can
sometimes lose us an amount amaziugly
disproportionate. Socially, too his success
was very great. He married a beautiful,
stylish woman, who fully shared
his antipathy to the Days, and who
never lost an opportunity of mortifying
them; and Sucial slights are bitter
enough to those whose whole life turns
upon social success. In fact Mr. and
Mrs. Jonas Terry, with their grand house
and exclusive entertainments and nne
turn-out, were the Mordecai sitting in
the gate of all Charles' and Josic's happiness.
Many a time the two had gone together
over everything in the room, taken every
book from the shelves, and examined
every crevice in the cases, but all in
vain. The I. (). lT. was evidently lost,
and Charles said, after every Ircsn searcn
and disappointment, "No use, Josie; I
tell you everything goes against honor
and virtue. If you want to be pointed
out as a pattern of all excellencies, you
must be in secret a natural and practical
villain."
So the years went by?fifteen of them.
Tbe I. O. U. was not forgotten. They
lived in a society where people have little
else to do but remember the antecedents
of its members, nnd Charles Day
and his wife very often felt the influence
of Jonas' accusation. The two men
never spoke. If they passed each other
on the drive Jonas cracked his whip offensively,or
Mrs. Terry looked scornfully
at the- shrinking couple, but thoy had
long ago said all to each other that it
was possible to say.
In the fifteenth summer after the loan
Charles went yachting, and on one
memorable night was shipwrecked. Almost
by a miracle, and after he had sunk
thrice, he was rescued. The first words
he uttered to his wife were: ''Josie. I
have found the I. O. U. Write down
just what I say: "Shakespeare, Knight's
Edition, vol. iv., page 210. fourth compartment,
lourth shelf, fourth book."
Josie wrote it down; but he was so
restless lest anything should now happen
to the library that he returned to New
York as soon as there was the least .
safety iu doing so. When he arrived at
home he went straight to the library,and
putting his haud on a certain volume,
opened it at the page he had indicated,
and there was the lost I. O. I".
"When I was drowning, Josie,the last
time I sunk, even-thing I ever did became
in a moment's flash clear as day to
me, and I saw myself putting the note
in the place I found it. It is wonderful.
But it is true, and, Josie dear, thank God!
my name will be cleared at last."
The clearing of his name was Charles'
first thought, but after it camc the very
satisfactory one of making Jonas pay
the principal and interest due him. "And
after this is done, Josie, I shall sue him
for defamation of character, and make
him pay for every insolence."
This was no idle threat. The next
morning Charles' lawyer confronted the
false-hearted scoundrel with his I. O. U.
and entered proceeding at once to recover.
Jonas at first tried to compromise,
but this offer Charles indignantly
rejected. "I want the world to see," he
said, "that though punishment for a
cowardly wicked deea be long delayed,
it is sure to come."
And perhaps the social and commercial
world in which these two men
moved never had a more vivid illustration
of this truth. The business that
had been built upon a fraud and a
wrong crumbled away as if touchcd by
some withering blight. The court
awarded Charles Day principal and full
interest, and a subsequent action for defamatiorr
gave him, in reparation for his
fifteen years' slandered name, fifty thousand
dollars.
But by that time the firm of Jonas
Terry was unable to meet such a claim.
He shut his doors in dishonor, and fled
in the darkness of night from the thousands
whom he had robbed.
"It is a <?reat uunishment." said Josie.
sorrowfully: "and he has four little
boys."
"It was a great crimc Josie; aud the
wrong to my purse was the least part of
the wrong."
But Mrs. Terry, sitting in her wrecked
home, took a different view of the case.
"Charles Day is entirely to blame," she
said. "His weakness and his laziness
threw the tempation into Jonas's way.
It is the weak men that make the
wicked ones.?ILirper's Weekly.
?The
South American Pampas.
The peculiar characteristics of these
vast level plains which descend from the
Andes to the great river basin in unbroken
monotony are the absence of
rivers or water storage, and the periodical
occurrence of droughts, or "siccos,"
in the summer months. These conditions
determine the singular character both of j
its tlora and fauna. The soil is naturally
fertile and favorable for the growths of
trees, and they grow luxuriantly wherever
they are protected. The Eucalyptus
is covering large tracts wherever it is inclosed,
and willows, poplars and the fig
surround every estancia when fenced in. j
The open plains are covered with droves j
of horses and cattle, and overrun by
numberless wild rodents, the original
tenants of the pampas. During the loug
periods of drought which are so great
a scourge to the country, these
animals are starved by thousands,
destroying in their efforts i
tj live every vestige of vegetation. In j
one of these siccos, at the time of my |
visit, no less than fifty thousand head of j
nvpn onrl qIippi-i nnrl lmrsnq npnchpfl from i
I starvation and thirst, after tearing*dcep
out of the soil every trace of vegetation,
including the wiry root of the pampas
grass. Under such circumstances the existence
of an unprotected tree is impossible.
The only plants that hold tneir
own. in addition to the indestructible
thistles, grasses and clover, are a little
herbaceous oxalis producing viviparous
buds of extraordinary vitality, a few
poisonous species, such as the hemlock,
and a few tough, thorny, dwarf acacias,
and wiry rushes, which even a starving
rat refuses. Although the cattle arc a
modern introduction, the numberless indigenous
rodents must always have effectually
prevented the introduction of
any other species of plants, large tracts
are still honey-combed by the ubiquitous
biscacho, a gigantic rabbit; and numerous
other rodents still exist, including
rats and mice, pampas hares, and the
great nutria and carpincho on the river
banks. That the dearth of plants is not
due to the unsuitability of the sub-tropical
species of the neighboring zones can
not hold good with respect to the fertile <
valleys of the Andes beyond Mendoza, }
where a magnificent hardy flora is found.
Moreover, the extensive introduction of '
European plauis which has taken place j
throughout the country has added nothing
to the botany of the pampas beyond
a few snecies unassailable by cattle, such
as the two species of thistle which arc
invading large districts in spite of their
constant destruction by the tires which
always accompany the siccos.?London
Nature.
INDIAN FUNERAL CUSTOMS.
BBS UIH WHO FOLLOW TOT WATS
07 THSIS AJTCTSTOM.
Singular liable* of the Aboriginal
Rewldenta of America?An Indian
Baby's Burial Case.
When the Indians were great nations
instead of broken, wandering tribes
their customs were more elaborate,
Lawson, who wrote a history of the Carolinas
in the first years of the last
century, was struck with the care the
Indians showed in keeping the corpse
from contact with the soil. Their feeling
was just the opposite of
that expressed by "earth to earth." Old
travelers give quaint wood cuts of the
ipiigozogon or mausoleum, in which |
dead people of note were laid. It was
lined aswell as floored with mats,and had
its sides secured from fulling
in by well-spliced poles, which
supported an arched roof. If all this
seems too much trouble for "savages'' to
take, we must remember that they were
not savages-had made arts which they
have lost through contact with the
whites, and from the unsparing way in
which nowadays they give their best to
their dear friends, we may argue that I)c {
Bry and Latita, and other explorers,
simply depicted what they saw, and that
the houses of the dead were, among
some tribes, really far more sumptuous
than those of the living. Here is au instance
of this present-day unsparingness
iu a poor DroKcn inuu m v iuuuium.
These Californians burn their dead, as
do many Indians of the far West, and
the scene at the chief's burning reminds
one of the burials of the old Greek
heroes. ''In his mouth were placed two
gold twenties, and smaller coins on his
breast and in his hands and ears. All
his finery?feather mantles, plumes,
clothes, shelf-money, bows, arrows?was
heaped upon him; and as soon as the
dirge and funeral dance were set going
the Indian spectators began to lose their
heads. One stripped ofT a bran-new
broadcloth coat and flung it on the pyre,
howling pitiously. Another was just
throwing on a pile of blankets, when a
white man offered him $10 for them
jingling the bright coins before his eyes."
The redman hurled him aside, and
threw his offering with the rest,
Women kept throwing on all they had
in the world?their gayest dresses,
their shell nccklaces. Indeed, so
furious got the excitement that some of
them would themselves have leaped in
had they not been prevented. The idea
was that the souls of the things thus
burned went off charioted in the smoke
wreaths along with the soul of the dead
men. At this funeral the white men
who were looking on calculated that at
least $500 worth of goods were destroyed,
and what surprised them most was that
the Indians, at other timess such close
1 ; _U_ll? ?. ?D,,01
UHIXU1IJLT3, tWIUliJ IV/igUfc vuviA uoum
greed. "Why, lie'd have cleared $8 if
he'd sold me his blankets/' said the man
who had made the offer. "I only did it
to try him, and precious glad I was when
I saw he was too wild to snap at such a
fancy price."
Where they do not burn they are
equally lavish. Dr. Sternberg of the
United States army found in Kansas,
among the Cheycnnes, a burial case raised
some eight feet from the ground on four
notchcd uprights. Seeing that it was
carefully constructed, his "civilized" instinct
prompted him at once to send it
to the army medical museum at Washington,
where it was found to consist of
a box six feet long, three feet high and
three feet deep, of white willow
branches, neatly united, with a floor of
buffalo thongs, and straps fastened it to
four twelve-foot ironwood poles, which
had rested in the notched uprights.
Outside were two buffalo robes of the
largest size, and inside five more, each
bound round with a bright sash,
were successively removed. Then
came five blankets?two red. two blue,
one white; and next a white and gray
striped sack, and inside that a United
States infantry overcoat, like all the
other wrappings, neatly new. Then, on
a pillow of ra^s was the ''medicine-bag''
of the dead baby?of course it was a
baby; all thoie wrappiugsleft only room
for a vear-old child. The bag contained
a parcel of red paint, some bits 01 deerskin,
along with straps, buckles unci
other odds and ends. The inner wrappings
were three splendcd robes, cach
about four feet long, of buffalo calfskin,
elaborately decorated with beadwork
stripes?blue and white in the first,green
and yelloiv in the next, blue and red in
the innermost. The hoods, too were
richly ornamented with beadwork, and
all round the robes little spherical brass
bells were hung with strings of beads.
Next was a gray vjpolen shawl, then fiyc
yards of blue cashmere, followed by six
of red, and then again by six of brown
calico, and in that last wrapping was the
babe, with a beaver fur cap and long
wampum necklaces and strings of rare
shells, among them that JIaliotis from
the California gulf, so valued by the
tribes living east of the liocky Mountains.
The dress was a red tunic, with
beadwork frock, leggins, red and black
stockings, deerskin moccasins with beadwork,
and over all a red flannel cloak.
All the little creature's toys?a china
doll, a vase, a pair of mittens, etc.?
were placed in the cloak. Think of the
amount of self-denial in giving up all
those blankets and all that mass of head
and wampum work! The New Yorko.'S
are only acting like those who held
the land l)pfor? them, when thev snend
such fabulous suras as the newspapers
tell us they do on coffin decorations.
Other tribes, instead of plaited willow
boxes, use regular wooden chests, wonderfully
carved, usually with a lid like a
gabled roof and always with an opening
in the side through which food may be
passed in, so that the soul may cat the
souls of the good things provided by its
friends. Old travelers wondered at these
coffins ret up above ground; and the
Spaniards found in some of them a deal
of wealth. The burial-boxes of a tribe
on the Taloineco river, Oregon, arc said
to have furnished handfuls of pearls to
a party of soldiers that were exploring
the coast.
The Chinese, we must remember, also
keep their coffins above ground; and,
ages ago, they used to be as reckless as
the red men in their offerings to the dead.
The Scythians?probably also belonging
to the yellow race?seem to us to have
been the most lavish because of the quantity
of gold found in their tombs. But
gold was common in the Ural; and to
a scytman King even tue treasures lounu
in such a tomb as Koul-Oba, near Kcrtch,
were not more valuable than all that
calico and buffalo robes and blankets
were to the poor Cheyenne.?All the Year
Itounif.
Some Funny Fancies or Aristotle.
Amonc other curious zoological statements
of Aristotle's which seem to receive
his support, and which may be set
down as current folk-lore of his time, are j
the following: "If any one make a
noise as grasshoppers llv along, they emit i
a kind of moisture, as agriculturists say. i
They feed on dew, and if a person ad- j
vances to them bending his linger and |
then straighteuing it, they will remain
more quiet than if the linger is put out
straight at once, and will climb up the !
finder, for from bad sight they ascend it !
as if it were a moving leaf." "Persons j
who have parasites in the head are less |
subject to headache. Moths are produced i
in the greatest abundauee if a spider is |
shut up with them in the wool, for this I
creature being thirsty dries up any mois- '
ture which may be present. Small birds J
during the day llv round the owl?which j
is called admiring it?and ns they fly
round it they pluck out its feathers."
"The anthus" (some bright colored bird)
"is an enemy to the horse, for it drives I
iue norsu iroin us pasture aim cms me ,
grass; it imitates the voice of the horse '
and frightens it by flying at it, but when !
the horse catches it he kills it." "If any i
one takes hold of a she-goat by the long
hairs of the b^ard, all the others standi
still ns if bewildered and gaze at her."
' The hawk, though carnivorous, does I
not eat the hearts of the birds it has j
killed." "The jay has many varieties of j
voice; it utters a different, tone, so to
speak, every day." "The goat-sucker
flics against the she-goats and sucks them,
whence its name. They sny that, after
the udder has been sucked, it becomes
dry and goes blind." "Marcs become
less ardent and more gentle if their manes
are cut. At certain times they never run
to the east or west, always north or
so;:th." "The sow gives the lirst teat to
the first little pig that is born." "When j
a serpent has taken its food, it draws !
itself up till it stands erect upon its tail."
?Popular Science Monthly.
Human Beings Cooked in a Pie.
The British authorities at Capo Coast !
Castle, Africa, have executed the ten j
men convicted of the murders and riots j
at Winnebah. The riots arose out of
leligious disputes, and when they were
ijuelled it was found that three natives
had been killed and cut to pieces, their
remains beiui; prepared for cooking in a
gigantic pie. The ten culprits were
banged inside the prison here.?London
Standard.
The Books of the Bible.
Some versifier has been describing the
content9of the various books in the Bible
through the medium of rhyme, as follows
:
In Genesis the world was made by God's creative
hand:
In Exodus the Hebrews marched to gain the
promised land;
taviticus contains the law, holy an*l jnst and
good.
Nunil>ers records the trills eurollod?all 6on9
of Abraham's blood.
Moses in Deuteronomy records God's mighty
deeds,
Brave Joshua into Canaan's land, the host of
Israel leads.
In Judges their rebellion oft provokes the
I>ord to smite,
But Ruth records the foith of one well pleasing
in His sight.
In First and Second Samuel of Jesse's son we
read.
Ton tribes in First and Second Kings revolted
from his seed.
The First ami Second Chroniclo.1 sec Judah
captive made;
But Ezra leads n remnant back by princely
Cyrus' aid.
The city walls of Zion Xehemiah builds
again,
While Esther saves her i?ople from the plots
of wicked men.
In Job we rend how faith will live beneath
auction's rod.
And David's I'salms are precious songs to
every child of God.
r? !... in.,. A nf r*lw\{fwicf
mo i nivcrus lmu a gwuij auiug v/i vuviw.>v
j>earls appear,
Ecclesiastes touches man how vain nil things
are here.
Tho mystic Song of Solomon exalts swoot
Sharon's rose;
Whilst Christ?the Saviour and tho King?
the "rapt Isaiah'' shows.
Tho warning Jeremiah apostate Israel scores:
His plaintive Lamentations then their awful
downfall mourns.
Ezekiel tells in wondrous words of dazzling
mysteries;
While kings and empires yet to come Daniel
in vision w>i*s.
Of judgment and of mercy Hosea loves to
toll:
Joel describes the blessed days when God with
man shall dwell1
Among Tekoa's herdsmen Amos received his
call,
While Obediah prophesies of Edom's final
' fall.
Jonah enshrines a wondrous type of Christ,
our risen Lord;
Micah pronounces Judah lost?lost, but again
restored.
Nahum declares on Nineveh just judgment
shall be poured.
A view of Chaldea's coming doom Habbakuk's
visions give;
Next Zephaninh warns the Jews to turn,
repent and live.
Haggai wrote to those who saw the Temple
built again,
Aud Zachariah prophesied of Christ's triumphant
reign.
Malachi was the lost who touched the high,
prophetic cord;
Its final notes sublimely show the coming of
the Lord.
Mathew, and Mark and Luko and John the
Holy Ghost wrote.
Describing how the Savior died?his lifo, and
an no uiuguv.
Acts provo how God tho Apostles owned
with signs in every place.
St. Paul in Romans teaches us how man is
saved by grace.
Tho Apostle, in Corinthians, instructs, exhorts,
reproves.
Galatians show that faith in Christ alone the
Father loves.
Ephesians and Philippians tell what Christians
ought to be;
Collossians bid? us live to God and for Eternity.
In Thossalonians we aro taught the Lord will
come from Heaven.
In Timothy and Titus a bishop's rule is given.
Philemon marks a Christian's love, which
only Christians know.
Hebrews reveals tho Gospel prefigured by the
law.
Jatnos teaches without holiness, faith is but
vain and dead;
St. Poter points the narrow way in which tho
saints are led.
John, in his three epistles on love, delights to
dwell.
St. Jude gives awful warning of judgment,
wrath and hell.
The Revelation prophesies of that tremend
ous day
When Christ?and Christ alone?shall be the
trembling sinner's stay.
The Oriental Bath.
A correspondent who has been taking
a bath in Damascus describes the operation
as follows: Push aside this gay
curtain on the street, and you descend
to a room whose ceiling in pa:t is a
dome aud beneath it the omniprcseut
waters of the Abaua, flowing into a marble
basin. The floor is of marble. The
dome is encircled by demidomes, under
which are corresponding niches with divans
on floors elevated two feet above
the main marble floor. Tluse divans
are luxuriously cushioned and pillowed.
The draperies are oriental in color and
fabric, and the ever-present stripes of
blue, yellow and red, of which Moslems
are so fond, girdle the wall?. The slippered
attendants move monotonously
about in silken robes and rich turbans,
delicate, patriarchial faces which look ns
if all forms of dirt refused to stick to
them. One immerses himself, -so to
speak, in these soft divans, and the patriarch
fetches him a pipe, the nargileh
aud deposits on tho Persian tobacco a
coal. This is the luxury of living, and
who wonders that recumbent in such a
place, the Oriental is ready to let the
world wag on without himself interfering?
This luxurious placc into which wc
arc introduced is a Damascus bath, and
is the best production now possible of
that age when the bath was the bourse,
the social exchange, the loitering placc
of the leisurely classes, as was the case
in ancientgRorae and Athens. Here the
I)amasceng for a song gossips and smokes
and bathe .
You do not undress yourself, but the
patriarch in silk disrobes you, girds a
towel around your loins as in the days of
Paul, gets you into those ridiculous
wood clogs which lift you four inches
above the damp floor. You are now in
the hands of the turbaned priest of the
place, who ushers you over marble floors
into an interior apartment whose light i9
sifted down through a dome punctured
with bullseyes of divers-colored glass.
The place is full of the genii of the
streams, who are dashing water on the
bathers, which they dip from the dripping
fountains, whose overflow runs down the
floor and out through conduits.
The sensation of being ducked repeatedly
with buckets of almost scalding
water is, first that you are being persecuted
for being a Christian even in a
mild way; and the patriarch 6eems to enjoy
your dilemmi; for there is a sort of
Koordish malice in his semi-barbarous
eyes. The room is steamy and very hot,
but in the ubscncc even of fig leaves, the
heat is paradiaucial. Then comes scrubbing
with hair mittens and barbarous
Arab outcry; then lathering; then another
dousing with buckets of water,
and finally, not as a lamb to the slaughter,
but like a pig to his cauldron, one is
submerged in a tank of water hot enough
to blister. This is oriental luxury, and
T oiinnAcft I a r\ rw liLro r?nftlnrr
? j Ul/|;v/rju bUblb to uwiwin^ maiw,
usea to it, and really the last half-hour
is luxury, when toweled and covered
with c'.othes you are left on one of the
divans of the cafe, with coflce, a pipe
and a quiet of heaven about the place.
"When one is cooled he is assisted into
his clothing, by the curious Arab, to
whom trousers and coat arc a never-ending
source of curiosity.
Queer Habits of Ants.
Most of the members of each community
of honey ants are active and roving
in their dispositions, and show no tendency
to undue distension of the nether
extremities. They go out at night and
collect nectar or honey dew from the
gall insects on oak trees. This nectar
they canv home and give it to the rotunds
or honey bearers, who swallow it
and store it ia their round abdomen until
they can hold no more. They pasB
iheir time chielly sleeping and clinging
upside down to the roof of their residence.
When the workers require a
meal they go up to the nearest honey
bearer and stroke her gently with their
antenna-. The honey bearer thereupon
throws up her head and gives out a large
droji of the amber liquid. The workers
lecu upon tne drop tuns cxuuc i, two or
three at once often standing around
the living honey jar and lapping nectar
together from the lips of their devoted
comrade.
The big red ant of Southern Europe
makes regular slave raid upon the nests
of the small brown ants and carries otl
the young in their pupa condition. Uy
and by the brown ants hatch out in their
strange nest, and, never having known
any other life except that of slavery, accommodate
themselves to it readily
enough. The red ant, however, is still
only an occasional slave owner; if necessary,
he can get along by himself without
the aid of his little brown servnnts.
Indeed, there arc free states and slave
states of red ants side by side with one
another, ;is of old in Maryland aud Pennsylvania:
in the first the red ants do
their work themselves like mere vulgar
Ohio farmers; in the second they get
their work done for them by their industrious
little brown servants, like the aristocratic
first families of Virginia before
the earthquake of emancipation.?(lornhill
Magazine..
Oil of wintcrgreen mixed with an
equal quantity of olivo oil, when applied
externally to inflamed joints affected by
acute rheumatism, is maintained to be,
on high therapeutic authority, a meanR
ofinstant relief from pain. At any rate
its introduction to the sick chamber is
unobjectionable, if only for the agreeable
odor it imparts to the atmosphorc.
THE WILD HOG OF TEXAS.
A STOBT 07 TXX PSOCABY'S ZVSOXZTABLX
GOUBAGZ.
A Drove Tackles a Railroad Train
and Die* on the Track?Hunting'
the Peccary.
"I'll never forget tlie first time I ran
into a drove of peccaries," said an Erie
locomotive engineer, recalling some of
his experiences.
"A drove of peccarics!" said the reporter,
and his tone must have grated
on the engineer, for he replied, testily:
"Yes, a drove of peccarics. You'll
admit, I s'pose, that there are peccaries?
Didn't you ever hear that they ran in
droves?"
"Oh, certainly !*' said the reporter.
"But they're down in South America,
Mcxico, or Central America, somewhere,"
"Arc they? Thank you!" said the
engineer. "Did you s'nose I thought
they were rooting'rouncf in this railroad
yard? Had you an Idea they were chasing
the beechnut and the acorn up along the
Erie line? I know where peccaries arc,
and I think 1 ought to. And it wasn't
in South America, Mcxico, nor Ceutral
America that I met 'em, neither. It
was in Texas, and, as I naid before, I'll
never forget the first time I ran into a
drove of 'em.
itT L-J 'Iawm 4olr/> ft inh nil A
"1 L1UU JJUI1C uunii >?.??/ ..
Toxas railroad, like a good many other
san-headed railroaders from the North.
I aidn't kuow any more about Texas
than?well, than you do, but 1 went
down there to run a train, and I thought
I could do it. I got a passenger train,
and had a fireman who was from the
North. I had got the hang of the road
fairly, and was biling along one day
through a piecc of woods when all of a
sudden my fireman hollers:
"'Jewbillikins! yonder's a drove of
hogs on the track!'
"Sure enough, about three train
lengths ahead was a big drove of the
ugliest-looking hogs I ever saw. They
were taking their time in walking across
the track. At first I thought I'd sock on
the brakes and try to stop, but on second
thought I made up my mind that it
would bs safer to cut through the drove
with full head on. I pulled ner wide
open and let the whistle sing. Of course,
I thought the sound of the whistle would
scare the hogs and likely cause 'em to
scatter and make an opening for me.
But the minute they heard the sound
they all stopped dead, and the ones that
had got ofl the track came crowding
back to get on again. Every hog bristled
up and showed fight, and when I
struck 'em they were standing there like
a wall to receivc me. Of course the engine
knocked 'em right and left, and
cut a swath through the drovelike
a red-hot iron through a piecc of
batter, but the ones that were left flew
fiercely at the wheels of the cars as they
passed, and were crushed to death by
the dozen. When we got through them
I looked back, and there stood the remnant
of the drove, aB defiant as
ever.
" 'Well,' says I to iny lireman, -is mat
grit?'
" 'Is it?' says he. 'Is No. 4 sandpaper
grit?'
"'Funny looking hogs, ain't they?'
says I.
41 'No Berkshire in 'em, you bet," says
he.
"So when we got to the next station I
says to the agent:
4,,I rau into a drove 'o somebodys
hogs back yonder, and killed a couple
dozen 'o them. I s'pose we'll find out
whose they arc when the suit for damages
comes in to the company.' says I,
as I pulled out. The agent just laid down
and howled, and I wondered what ailed
him. When we got to the end of the
run I was telling a native railroader
about the drove of ugly hogs, and he
says:
"'Oh that's nmvthin.' Them's pec'ries.
J-ucky you didn't stawp ycr
train.'
" 'Why r' says I.
"'Why!" says he. 'Waul, ef ye had
a stawped them pec'rics 'd a bounced
inter ycr cab quicker'n a t'rantuly kin
kill i; mouse, 'an thud a chawed ye up
tbrum yer cow-lick down to yer last
bunion. Then thud a s'roundcd
them there cars, an' the
fust ealoot that would 'a opened a
door thud a chawed him up. Arter a
day or so the comp'ny 'd a missed the
train an' 'd a sent another ingine out to
look it up, an' when the ingineer found
it an' stawped his ingine to hook on to
it, them pee'ries \1 a bounced on his
ingine an' chawed him up, an' so it'd a
gone on, an' the business o' the road'd a
Buffered.'
"'According to that,' says I, 'the
peccary must be a pusher.'
"'Got more vim in him.' says the
native, 'than any other citizeu o' Texas
'cept the ccntipcdc. He'll make yc laugh.
The pee'rv's got a mem'ry lqnger'n thrum
h'ycr to New Orleans, too, an' tho
chances is that you'll meet them fellers
agin that ye see to-day. Mind ye, now!
Don't Btawp yer injine.'
"Sure as guns, when we went back
next day, there in the very same spot
was the remnant of that drove of peccaries.
44 ' Waitin* for us, by gravy." said my
fireman.
" So they were. As we tore down on
'em they braced up and met ua face to
face. They sprang at the wheels, grabbed
at the side rods, and fought every truck
in the train as the cars passed them. A
_ .?,! V.'lla/I
aozen or more 01 iucm ncic iwh^u. mv
peccaries didn't follow us, but when wc
went back on the next trip, there, at the
same spot, was posted all that was left
of the drove, evidently waiting to revenge
the death of their companions.
The drove was reduced to
twelve. The twelve planted themselves
square on the track, facing us,
and never moved an inch as wc dashed
upon 'em and scattered 'em right and
left along the rails. Looking back after
the train had passed the spot, we saw
one solitary peccary left alive oilt of the
drove. I told the native at the end of
the run, about the persistent pluck of
the peccaries and about killing them all
but one.
" 'I don't s'pose we'll seo him again,'
said I.
" 'Oh, he'll be tharI' said the native.
Ye kin bet a bucket o' liquor he'll be
thar! Pec'ries don't know sctch a thing
aa backiu' out of a tight. He'll be
thar.'
"And he was there. We could sec
him for a mile ahead of us, when wc
went back next day, standing plump in
the middle of the track, or, rather,squatting
on his haunches, waiting for us. It
seemed a pity to run turn aown. tie rose
to his feet as wc drew near liim and
rushed forward to meet us. The engine
struck him and hurled him fifty feet out
into the woods. We had finished the
drove.
"I found out a good many things
about the peccary before I left Texas.
There was a time when nothing would
kill a peccary but the poisoned arrows
of the Central American Indians but
that was before the days of Winchester
rifles. A bullet from a Winchester is
just searching enough to find a peccarv's
vitals, but the range don't want to be
too long. When a man goes out hunting
peccaries he doesn't trip lightly
through the forest, and, stealing upon
the unsuspecting game, bring it down
with his unerring rifle. No, not when
lie hunts peccaries. If he did, nineteen
seconds after he fired his first shot
he would be proportioned out among the
drove in two-ounce lots, buttons, boots,
and baggagf counted in. The daring
peccary hunter shins up a tall tree, near
where the charming creature will more
than likely Boon come to feed on acorns
or mast. The peccary has but one virtue?he
can't climb a tree. Perched
safelv on a iiinb, the brave huntsman
wnits for the peccary's coming, and
when the drove coine9 trotting and
grunting along beneath him, he sends a
bullet through a peccary's heart. The
wounded peccary lies down at once, lie
knows just what's the matter. He turns
his glittering bead of an eye up to the
hunter, and dies without uttering a
sound. One peccary killed out of a
drove, the hunter must have ammunition
enough to kill all the rest, or provisions
enough to last him a year, for the survivors
at once take positions around ffic
foot of the tree, and there they sit on
their haunches, now and then gnawing
furiously at the trunk of tho tree, waiting
for the hunter to come down. If hate
in tho fullest sense of the word, can b
expressed by looks and actions, then the
peccary can look and act it toward human
beings. The hunter shoots one
after another of the waiting drove, and
each one as it is wounded, lies down
without a murmur and dies, never removing
its eyes from its slayer. The
living pay no attention to the dead or
dying, but sit there on their haunches
hoping for revenge until the last one
dies.?NeiD York Sun.
Spinal diseases, superiuduced by
bicycle riding, are becoming alarmingly
numerous, according to a Philadelphia
physician.
*
HOW EASILY THINGS GO WRONO
"Alas! how easily things go wrong
A sigh too much or a tear too long,
And a father's patience is quite worn out;
There's a hurried 6tep and a wrathful shout.
And the dream of n youthful pair Is o'er.
A youth escapes through the open door,
With terror imprinted upon his face,
And goes down the street at a flying pace
With hat in hand and a dog in chase.
The dog to tho flying youth draws nigh ;
There's a savage growl and a piercing cr/,
"Alns ! how easily things go wrong
Why did the lover stay so long I
A panting youth at his mother's door
Is vowing he'll go out to court no more;
A dog is returning with visage grim,
Dragging an ulster's tails with him.
"Alas ! bow easily things go wrong,"
When a lover foolishly tarries too long :
' And yet how easily things go right"
Whon he loaves at a docent timo of night.
He's wise who this in his memory logs :
Fathers are fathers, and dogs are dogs.
?Boston Courier.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Made of awl work?A pair of shoes.
Ail expedition to the pole?Looking
for a barber-shop.
A fop is ono who takes great pain;
About everything except his brains.
? ?vhim nn,I ThnL
Hot cakcs are more powerful at putting
down oleomargarine than the board of
health. ?PitUburg Chronicle.
There's no trouble about twisting the
tail of a sleeping bulldog. The disagreeable
part conies when you let go.?
Chicago dun. I
It is said that there is a soft side to ,
every man. That's the reason a dude is
afraid to stand on his head.?New
York Journal.
A caustic wit, in speaking of an irapccunious
friend, said: "lie settles liis
debts just like clock work?tick, tick,
tick."?Nathville Budget.
People who live in a malarial section
may not believe in the tenets of those
sccts, but they ultimately becomo quakers
and shakers.?Sifting*.
"Suppose," says an exchange, "all the
world went to bed at sunset." Oh, well,
the world's gas bill would be just as big
at the end of the quarter."?Norristown
Herald.
A mischievous boy yelled "rata!" in a
rink in this city and nearly created a
panic. It is almost impossible for a girl
to stand up in a chair with roller skates
on.?Newark Call.
"What One Girl Did," is the title of a
story in an exchange. We haven't read
it, but presume she told her mother that
her beau never Btayed later than 10
o'clock.?Brooklyn Timet.
Bright boy?Father, I know why
George Washington always kept his littlo
hatohet bright. Dull parent?Well,
my son, why did he? Bright boy?Be
cause he had no ax to grind.?Boston
Budget.
A Western paper speaks of girls at the
rink as "Angels on Casters. We have
observed that when one of the angclic
creatures gets upon rollers for the first
time they "are very apt to casther.?Somercille
Journal.
"I'd like to strike you for fifty dollars
to-day," said Iiardup to Young Hysou
Saturdav afternoon." "By Jove," said
Young Hyson, who was a little short
himself, "you may do it for if20. Give
me the money and say where you want
to strike me." Iiardup struck out.?
Brooklyn Engle.
"Oh never borrow trouble,
My friend, wher'er you go,
For life i3 but a bubblo
And it ain't worth while, you know."
"Ah, well, I'll let to-morrow
Take care of itself, I vow.
And the only thing I'll borrov
Is a dollar from you, now."
?Boston Uml'jcl.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Dynamite has about thirteen times the
forcc of gunpowder.
Certain astronomers now claim that the
apparenl diameter of the sun varies
periodically.
Blasting paper is an Austrian invention.
It is merely a kind of blotting
paper, coated with au explosive mixture,
cut into strips, rolled into cartridge
form and fired like gunpowder.
Evidence of the sanitary value of sunlight
is afforded by the recent experiments
in France of Mons. E. Duclaux,
who finds that the light of the sun, in
its action on germs, is fifty times us destructive
as its heat.
Large quantities of small electric lamps
are now used. The first small lamp
coon in thia rnnntru rnmn from England
"VV" "* %"**W ?..J o
two years ago, but now they arc turned
out by the hundred and sold at retail for
$1.30. The smallest are half a candle
Eower, about the size of a pea, and used
v surgeons, or as toy scarf pins, ctc.
A Paris company is making white
bricks of a very handsome appearance
from the pure silica, used in the manufacture
of plate glass. They are lighter
i in weight than clay bricks, but aro not
porous, being subjected to hydraulic
pressure before the final baking process
to which they arc subjected. Chauges
of climate have no effect upon them.
A French scientist has been studying
the effect of altitude upon vegetation,
and concludes that for each augmentation
of about 100 yards there will be, as
a general average, a retardation of four
days; that is, other circumstanccs being
equal, a crop planted at the sea level
will appear abovo ground four days before
a similar crop planted 300 feet
above it.
By means of a simple and conveniently
worked device of coiled spring, an English
inventor has succeeded in dispensing
with the need of driving sewing machines
by hand or foot. A few turns of
a handle winds up sufficient power to
keep a machine going at full speed over
an hour. It is completely under control
ns to the rate of stitching and stopping,
and enn be applied to any existing machine
at moderate cost.
It has been found by Dr. Lawson Tuit
that, ns a rule, the ear in woman enn
perceive higher notes, that is, sounds
with a greater number of vibrations per
second, than the car in man. Tfle niftiest
limit of and ability for the human
ear is somewhere between 41,000 and
42,000 vibrations. The ears of most
persons seem to be unequally sensitive to
acute sounds, the right car usually hearing
a higher note than the left. To
show the ear's range, it may be added
that very low notes of about fifteen
vibrations per sccond may be perceived,
but when tne vibrations become a little
slower they cease to produce the effect
of a continuous sound, and each gives a
separate impression upon the ear.
A Big Heart.
I have had the opportunity of assisting
at the disscction of a whale's heart,
and, though the specimen from which it
was taken was by no means a large one,
the task of dissecting seemed almost too
much for us. A slice about an itch in
width was cut from the aorta, or principal
artery, and carcfully dried. It really
looks very much like a child's hoop, as
any one may see who visits the anatomical
museum at Oxford. It is calculated
that with an ordinary sized whale, say
one of only forty or fifty feet in length,
at least fifteen gallons of blood are propelled
in each heart beat. AVith animals
of larger dimensions the amount must be
proportionately increased, as is shown by
an anecdote related by the late Frank
I fo montinns that in 18:>0 a
lJUtlUUllU. AIV
cachalot measuring scvcnty-fivo feet in
length was washed ashore at Whiistable.
While the dissector was engaged in getting
out the heart his foot slipped and
he fell into one of the "ventricle"?i. e.,
the lower cavities of the heart. Thence
he was sliding into the aorta, and, if lie
had not been pulled out, would assuredly
have been suffocated. After his rescue,
he cut some rings from the aorta,
such as I have already mentioned, nnd
found that he could easily slip them over
his shoulders. The story really reads
like an extract from "Gulliver's Travels,"
but has the advantage of being a true
one. ?Ijuiiffinan't Magazine.
A writer in Uenlth and Home says tha
catarrh can be cured by electricity.
Agreeable to Everybody.
Col. llobcrt 0. King, for ten years
Deputy Collector Internal Revenue, Baltimore,
Maryland, writes: I endorse the
lied Star Cough Cure. I have used it
in my family for a violent cough and
found it excellent. Its use was entirely
free from the depressing effects of other
cough remedies. It can readily be taken
nnd agrees with and benefits everybody
suffering from throat and lung troubles.
The relief is permanent, and there is no
reaction.
There are very nearly 1,500,000 acres
of unimproved land in Massachusetts, acording
to Professor Maynard.
March A
Are the month* to purify the blood, m the body Is
now moct susceptible to benefit from medicine. Impurities
which hire accumulated during the cold
weather, when 70u have been too much within
doon, muit be eipellod or serlons result* may follow
The testimony of thousands, aa to tho great
benefit derived from Hood's Sarsaparilla, should
convince everybody that it is the verv boat blood
purifier and spring medicine. Take it now.
Charles O. Roberts, East Wilson, K Y; had 13
crofulons sores on his face and neck. Nothing
helped him until he took Hood's Sarsaparilla, which
effected a complete cure. His druggist says It Is
"A Great Victory" for Hood's SarsaparillaPurify
the Blood
' I have been troubled with scrofulous humor and
sores breaking out all over my body for the last fifteen
yoare. I have taken four bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla
and It has entirely cured me. I recommend
it very highly to any one troubled ulth scrofula,
or any blood disease."?Hkmkt Bioob, 1819
Campbell Street, Kansas City, Mo.
"Hood's Sarsaparilla has cured me of blood
poison."?W. H. B*nR, Stcubsuville, Ohio,
"1 was troubled with salt rheum three years. I
took Hood's Sarsaparilla and am entirely cured, and
my weight has increased from 108 pounds to 130."Mas.
Alice Smith, Stamford, Conn.
Hood's S;
Bod bf all drugciila. Ct;slxfor$S. Made only by
I 0. 1. HOOD AGO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Uui.
1OO Poses One Dollar
An Awkward Situation.
Probably one of the best minister# we
ever had abroad, says a Washington correspondent,
was Washburne, at Paris,
He made more of a mark for himself in
modern times than any other minister we
have sent to Europe. Yet Washburne
was the hero of an incident of social misfortune
that would have driven many
delicate creatures who seek a foreign
, place to commit suicide if they had been
similarly unfortunate. Washburne was
one evening at a court dinner given by
Napoleon III. It was the custom at
these dinners, when the empress arose to
retire with the ladios, for the gentlemen
to rise from their seats and step back
from the table, so that she could pass
down the line between them. By thii
all could avoid turning their backs
upon the empress. Washburne had very
ttnder feet. During the dinner his feet
gave him a good deal of annoyance. To
ease himself ho had quietly slipped of!
his patent-leather pumps under the table.
He was absorbed in conversation toward
the close of the dinner, and was caughl
unawares when the empress made the
signal for departure. He was suddenly
obliged to step back without having
time to put on nis pumps. He stood it
his stocking feet, grave, dignified and
self-possessed. In tne row of grinnins
diplomats who stood at his right ano
left be betrayed none of the em barrass'
ment he must have felt, and was nevei
heard to allude to the incident by any
ono.
Killing Sick Captives In Indlt.
On another occasion one of the writer's
people describes a raid into Cachar.
On the return march a young woman
sank exhausted and unable to proceed:
The chief balled, and after a short
consultation, he safd to me: "Go, Ramoni,
and spear her. I will stand bj
and see that you do it properly." I felt
much afraid, for I had never killed o
human creature, and I was only seventeen
yean old. When the girl saw m?
approaching her with the spear in raj
hand she leu a-weeping. ana caugni ai
my feet and garments, entreating me.
Then my heart beat and my head became
giddy, so that I said to the chief:
"I cannot do it."
But the chief reproached and the
young men mocked him.
Then I shut my eyes and rushed at hei
with my spear, but "the blow was ill directed;
and Button Pola snatched the
weapon from my hands and killed the
girl with one blow. "Here," said he,
giving me back my spear with the biood
on it, "lick this to strengthen youi
heart." The blood of Bengalis is vcrj
Bait, added Bamoni; but since then J
have not been afraid to spear any one.?
Traveh in India.
Especially to Women.
"Sweet is revenge, especially to women,"
said the gifted, but naughty, Lord Byron.
Surely ho was in bad humor when he wrote
such words. But there are complaints that
only women suiter, that are carrying numbers
of them down to early graves. There la
hope for those who suffer, no matter how
sorely, or severely, in Dr. R. V. Pierce's
"Favorite Prescription." Save in itmction
it is a blessing, especially to women and to
mon, too, for when women suffer, the household
is askew.
The thousands of finger-rings worn in this
country are estimated to be worth $58,000,000.
An OffennlTe Breath
is most distressing, not only to the person afflicted
if he hare any pride, but to those with
whom he comes in contact It is a delicate
matter to speak of, but it has parted not
only friends but lovers. Bad breath and catarrh
are inseparable. Dr. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy cures the worst cases, as thousands
can testify.
Three lepers were recently captured within
one week by the coroner of San Francisco.
? * Organic weakness or loss oi
jpower in either sex, however induced, speed'
fly and permantly cured. Enclose three letter
stamps lor book of particulars. World'g
Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo,
Montana paid out $12,000 in bounties foi
tho destruction of wild animals last year.
Bki.t Diseases.?1"Beeson's Aromatic
Alum Sulphur Soap," cures Tetter, Salt
Rheum, Ringworm, Sores, Pimples, all itching
Skin Eruptions. 25 cents by Druggists, or
by mail. Wm. Dreydoppel, Philadelphia) Pa,
"Bnik Concha."
Ask for " Rough on Coughs," for Coughs
Colds, Sore Throat, Hoarseness. Troches, 15o
Liquid, 23c. .
With Ely's Cream Balsam a child can b<
treated without pain or dread, and with perfect
safety. Try the remedy. It cures Catarrh,
Hay Fever and Colds in the Head. It
is easily applied with finger, and gives relief
f " ? ,??41 T>?1,^7 *JU At
rrom toe um s^iiuaiiuu. *. ^ wv? >.
druggists. 60c. by mail. Ely Bro?. Owego.N.Y
Ely s Cream Balm has entirely cured ma of
a long standing cue of catarrh. I hare never
ret seen its equal as a cure for colds in the
head and headache resulting from such colds.
It is a remedy of sterling merit,?Ed. L.
Crosly, Nashville, Tenn.
I have been a severe sufferer from Catarrh
for the past fifteen years, with distressing
pain over my eyes. Gradually the disease
worked down upon my lungs. About a year
and a half ago commenced using Ely's Cream
Balm, with gratifying results, and am to-day
apparently cured. ?Z. C."Warren, Rutland, Vt.
"Roach on Pain."
Cures colic, cramps, diarrhoea; externally
for aches, pains, sprains, headache, neuralgia,
rheumatism. For man or beast. 'Sj and 50c.
Nature is the great?j6t teacher She clothes
the fowls and animals with warmer clothing
I for winter; helps them to cast it off in sum!
met; makes the best hair oil, Carboline,which
Is petroleum perfumed and sold at $1 a bottle.
Thin People.
"Wells' Health Renewer"restores health and
vigor, cures, dyspepsia, sexual debility. 81.
Foa dyspepsia, indio wnox, depression of spirits
and general debility in their various forms,
also as a preventive against fever and ague and
other intermittent fevers, the "Ferro-Phosphorated
Elixir of Calisaya," made by Caswell,
Hazard A Co., Now York, and sold by all Druggists,
is the best tonic; and for patients recovering
from feveror other sickness it has no oquaL
Mothers.
If you ore failing; broken, worn out and nervous,
use "Wells' Health Renewer." 81. Drgts.
Wolves are killing stock in Dakota.
Important.
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tagrs and uleratad railroad t> all dapjts. KinuliM
i;in livii bettor for iujs monnr ?v mi uwu uu>*?
Hotel th&u at an; other llrat-claw liolol in thu city.
An orchid in London sold for {Goo.
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A (that. Qalnir, Pain* In Chrtt, "I
flViloin of ih? Throat ?nd Lanf*Plica
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1 134 LEONARD
r r-';" " ' ' -\.
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kpril May
Tonr blood may be laden with imrmritie#, but
Hood's Sarsaparilla will thoroughly cleanse, enrich
and vitalize it. The most severe cases of scrofula,
salt rheum, bolls, pimples?In fact all affections
arising from Impure blood, yield to Hood's Harnaparilla,
the great blood purifier. It also cures dyspepsia,
biliousness, sick headache, kidney and liver
complaints, sharpens the appetite, and builds up
the whole system.
"Hood's Sarsaparilla has been used with perfect
success in our family for canker in the stomach and
Impure blood. My little one is entirely cured, and
we shall continue its use m a family medicine."?
Mrs. F. ?. Bubtox, Somerville, Mass.
Sharpen the Appetite
"I had no appetite, and felt tired all the time.
When I had taken half a bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla
my appetite waS rrstored, and my stomach felt
better. I have now taken nearly three bottles and X
never was so well in my life."?Mrs. Jessie F.
dolbeahe, pamoate, r-1.
"I have used Hood's Harsaparilla for biliousness;
think it a great remedy for that complaint."?J- W.
ABBorr, Manchester, N. H"My
son suffered from spring debility and loss o
appetite, but was restored to health as soon as he
bef>an to take Hood's .Sarsaparilla."?Mm. Thalia
Smith, Sciploville, N. Y.
arsaparilla
i Sold by all druggist*. (1; six for $5. Made only by
0- U HOOD * CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Has*.
100 Poses One Pollar
n n n sadway's
n n nREADY
11.11.II.RFI IFF
CURES AND PRETEXTS
Col &?, Cong ha, Soto Throat, Tnflammatl obi,
*heumatiam( Heuralgla, Headaohe,
Toothache, iittna, Difficult
Breathing.
1 CURES THE WORST PAINS Id from m U
twenty mmntos. Not one hour after reading this adT*rtte*a*nt
BNd any one SUFFER WITH PAIN.
RADWAY'S
READY RELIEF
l la a Care for Every Pain, Spralaa? Brnhea,
PalB-i la the Back* Cheat or Llvba.
It was the First and la the Only
? PAIN REMEDY
That instantly (top* the mort excruciating pain, allays
inflammation, and euro* Congestions, whether of to*
Lungs, Stomach or Bowels, or other (lands or organ*
by on* application. II selred with threatened
t PNEUMOlSri^,
) Or any inflammation of the Internal organs or macna
msmbranef, after ezpoeare to cold, wet, etc., lose ne
' time, bntapply Radwiy's Relief orer the part affected
r with congestion or Inflammation and core the patient.
> A teaspoonfal In half a tumbler of water will in a few
I minute* care Cramps, Spasms, Sour Stomach, HeartI
born, Nervousness, Sleeplessness, Sick Headache,
' Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Oollo, Flatulency, and all inter.
r aal pains.
! MALARIA
P CURED IN ITS WORST FORMS.
There I* not a remedial agent in the world thjt will
core Ferer and Ague and all otber Malatl me, Bilious
Md other fevera, aided bv RAUWA Y'H P1J J?S??o
quick u RAI>WA Y'M ltliAIIY RELIEF.
Fifty cent* per bottle. 8 Jld by Druggists.
3r. Raiway's Sarapaiiaii ResoM
THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER,
For the Care of All Cbronle DlieiMt
Ohronlo F.heumatiem, Scrofula, Syphilitic Complaints,
sto. (?ee our book on Venereal. pries
twentj-iire oasts), Glandular Swellinr, Hacklof Dry
Cough, Oanaerous Affection;. Bleeding of the Lungm,
, Dyspepsia, Water Braah, white Swellings, Tamom,
Pimpled, Blotobes, Eruptions of the Face, UJoers, Hip
Disease*, Goat, Dropsy. Rickets. Salt Rheum, B.oachitis,
Consumption, Diabetes, Kidney, bladder, Liret
Complaints, etc.
SCROFULA,
Whether transmitted by psrents or acquired, is within
the curative fangs of the HARSAPARLLLl AN
KEMOI.TKNT.
Curea bare been mads where persons have bsen afflicted
with Scrotal a from their youth an to 30, Mi and
40 reani of age, by UK. RADWAY'H SAKSA.
PARILIJAN REsOLVKNTj a remedy composed
of ingredients of extraordinary medical properties,
saenntial to pnrUy, heal, repair and invigorate the
broken down and wasted body. Quick, pleasant, aate
and permanent in its treatment ana ours. Sold by all
drtggisti. One dollar a bottle.
Dr. Railway's Regulating Pis
For the cure of all disordsrs of tbs Stomaoh, Liver.
Bowela, Kidneyi, Bladder, Nervous Diseases; Lots ol
Appetite, Headache, Constipation, Oostlvenos, Indigestion,
D7ipcpsia, Biliouaneaa, Fever, IntUmmallm
of the Bowels, Piles and all derangements of the Internal
Viscera. Purely vegetable, containing no mercury,
minerals, or deletsrooa drugs.
Price, Kd rents per box. Sold by sll drurrints.
pr~Send a letter stamp to RAUWA Y iV CO., No,
32 Warren St., New York, for "False and True."
. TO THE PUUfilC'.?Be lure uiiaik for Radway's,
and ass that the name "Radway" Is on what yon buy.
Suffering Womanhood.
Too much effort cannot be made to bring
o the attention of suffering womanhood the
great value of Lydia E. Pinkliam's Vegetable
Compound as a remedy for tho diseases of
women, and perhaps nothing id more effectual
than the testimony of those who have
been cured by it. Such an one is tho wife 0[
General Barringer, of Winston, N. C., and
we quote from tbe general's letter as follows:
"Dear Mrs. Pinkham: Please allow ine to add
1 my testimony to the most excellent medicinal
qualities of your Vegetable Compound. Mrs.
Barringer was treated for several years for
what the phy<icians called Leucorrhea and
Prolapsus Uteri combined. I sent her to
Richmond, Va., where she remained for six
months under the treatment of an eminent
physician without any permanent benefit
; She was induced to try your medicine and
, after a reasonable time commenced to improve
and is now able to attend to her basi|
ness and considers herself fully reliececL"
[General Barringer is the proprietor of the
American Hotel, "Winston, N. C., and is
widely knowa]
, t~sb? . thij rusTia
3 SHBH 7 Acta dlrectljrupon the nuk
m ff cIm Mil tba ntrre* of tb?
M HHJ H tick, tb? Mat of all pals.
f" 31 ? Lnnc TronbUa, whether
'(UBW l?c*J or deeply ?eated tfcu
.t.v A platter will be found to
mDL1 * \ five Initant relief bjr ap y,
A ? t \ pijln* between the abuu>
wmttt la AJBf V|U der blade*.
i SHARP
1M. I A 4V For Kidney Tronble,
' 1 Jtrj Sb?naatUm. Neuralgia.
' Mi- I " Palo in lb* Slda and Back
*re * c*ruia
Sold by for S
^Beauti. or live for !.
%*CI( Mailed en receipt of
fputsnnT says
FRAZER
AXLE GREASE.
UMC IB IOC ? unu. wuuruuir uj iuc naKi wuvuvai
lor Co. at Chicago, N.Y.& StXouif. Sold everywhere,
1 mo Introduce and sell the trade the well-known and
JL celebrated Ci*ars of the NEW YORK Jt HAVANA
uTOAR COMPANY. Liberal arrangements. Salary
or Commission paid to tho rmht man. For farther
particulars and terras address, at once,
Tbe New York dt Havana C'lfar Co.,
| o7 Broadway, New YorU.
i CONSUMPTION,.
I bar*apooltlTa remedy fortb?aboredlieait; by Its
quo thoQiaode of cmos of tba woret kind and of loaf
taodlnx haTO boon cured. Indeed, ?ostrong l?rcyfaith
In Iti efQcacr. that I wl.l i"n?lTWO B0TTLK9 FRBK^
toretber erltn a VAM'ABT.KTRKATISK on tb!i dlioaM
to any fafferer. GiToexpre?s*nd P. O. ?ddr? *.
DR. T. A. S LOCI"21,111 TearlS:., New York.
A HANDSOME LADY
i or homely lady ran mako m"ii?-y selling 'Treasury of
I Thought ' (.Mother, Hume, H-iaTen). The beet home
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so!d. (iooil pay lo enrufKt worli?r?. Address quickly,
j BRYAN. TAYLOR A CO.. 8!i? Broadway, N. Y.
sjjOtK R- U. AWARE
| Hi Lorillard's Climax Plug
I %7v|jy bearing n red {in tuy; that Lorillard's
! it?so I.enfnnrcut; that Lorlllard'a
Navy ('lipping*, nnd that l^orillnrd's Snuffs, are
the best and cheapest, 'juallt.v considered t
DDiiWe i imp r
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Cliantf* (any iiMir to its natural color. KocomunndoJ
f bjr leading pli>s:cians ntid clieinisU. Send lor circular
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KASHA* tntEll. ADVICE I'UKL".
. Dr. J. C. HOFFMAN, Jefferson, Wis.
all imperfections
yf-?S?!5a of tlif Face. Hand* A Keet. SuixtAiioih
/R Cff HnJr. Mole*. WarW, Ktvckle*. Moth. Red
i JffiTi 9 Nose, Acne. lll'k lloailn, Scorn, Pitting
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: N. I'enrl St.. Albany, N. V
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' /"VUR Propliylnctlc Appliance cure* Nervons
t v / Dobilitv, Premature Decay, I .out Manhood, etc.,
by preventing the cause. Sealed treatise tree. Address
Prophylactic Appmasi-k Co.. Biugjianiton. N. Y.
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GRAVEL, DIABETES,
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LIVING TESTIMONY.
Blacksmith.
"Having bad occasion to nae a remedy for kidney
troubles I purchased a bottle of Hukt'i [Kidney
and Liver] Rkxbdt, and it completely coiwt
me? have no indigestion, and am hearty and
healthy for one of my years (85).J. P. Woodbury,
Blacksmith, Manchester, N. IL
"Small beginnings lead to large ending*."
Carpenter.
"I was troubled with a weakness of the Kidneys.
I had to pas* my water as many as fifteen times
during the night. After baring nsed the aoeoad
bottle of Hunt's [Kidney and Liver] Kxxkst I
found that all my trouble was gone.''?Joseph 0.
Milter, Carpenter, Xenia, Ohio.
"Be a friend to yourself, And otherj wUL"
Fireman.
"I bare been a severe sufferer with A weakness
of the kidney*, and I took a severe cold nhUa on
doty with the Ore department. I had terrible pains
in my back, and mr water troubled me. Htmr'a
(Kidney and Liver] Remedt completely coredme."
?H. A. Glass, Columbss, Ohio.
"To the good, night is not dark.A
Mailer.
Captain John KlmbaJI, Sailor, New LohVocl,
Conn., writes"I was taken with severe, Mine itt
the small of my btek In the re* on of the kldaeya; **
I had the best medical attendance without experiencing
any relief. I bought and used a bottle of
Hunt's [Kidney and Liver] Hemedt. Foot Dot- t
ties entirely enred me." ?
Price |1.3u. Send for Pamphlet of Testimonials.
HUNTS REMEDY CO., Providence. B. I.
C. N.CRITTEN TON, General Agent, N?w York.
NY NQ-13
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week back or eidae, sharp peine, sore abas* Mil
looel peine ere eared and tbepertaweadsiftdl/B
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A Conntrr Doctor.
II<nvn9 an excellent speciincn of the
country ttoctor, self-reliant, self-sacrificing,
working agreat deal harder for his
living tlianjnost of those who call themselves
the laboring classes?as if none but
those whose hands were hardened by the
use of farmiug or mechanical implements
had any work to do. lie had that sagaC^ "
ity without which learning is a mere
encumbrance, and he had also a fair
share of that learning -without which
sagacity is like a traveler with a good
horse, but who cannot read the directions
on the guide-boards. He was not a man
to be taken in by names. He well knew
that oftentimes very innocent sounding
words mean very grave disorders; that
all degrees of disease and disorder are
frequently confounded under the
same term; that "run down" may
stand for a fatigue of mind or body
from which a week or a month of rest
will completely restore the overworked
patient, or an advanced stage of a mortal
illness: that "seedy" may signify the
morning's state of feeling, after an
evening's over-indulgence, which calls
I for a glass of soda water and a cup of
j coffee, or a dangerous malady which will
; pack off the subject of it, at the short;
est notice, to the south of France. He
knew too well that what is spoken lightly
of as a "nervous disturbance'' may
imply that the whole machiucry is in a
I deranged condition, and that every individual
organ would groan aloud if it had
any other languago thnn the terrible inarticulate
one of pain by which to communicate
with the consciousness.?OUcer
Wendell Holme*, in the Atlantic.
Plnnls ({rowing: in Money.
A number of persons have tried to
lind money in plants, and failed. On
the other hand a Hungarian scientist
tried to find plants in money and succeeded.
The money was in the form of
bank notes, even those which had been
in circulation but a short time. To be
sure, the plants arc so very small that a
powerful microscope is required to sec
them. Nevertheless, they arc as much
plants as is a pumpkin vine, or nn oak
tree. What is lacking in the size of the
plants, is made up in that of their names.
One of them is Saccharomyces cerevisa*,
another l'leurococcus motietarum, and
so on. These little plants with such'
hard names, can grow and multiply in
the substance of a bank bill, and the
matters thit adhere to it, without its
owner being any the wiser for it. ?
Amerirun A;/i'ic>tlt 11ri.1t.
Sleeplessness caused by too much
bloo l in tin: head may b'j overcome by
applyiug a cloth wet willi cold water to
the back of the ncck.