University of South Carolina Libraries
THE TERRORS OF CIVILIZATION. The Injuns never teched him, Nor the b ars: An' the rattlers never bit him, An' the train robbers couldn't git him On the carp. 'Twa3 n frigid duy an' drizzly When tho Kooky Mountain grizzly Brer crep' within a rod" of Jim, the Scout; An' tho catamount an' bison Nevor teched him more than pizen, Which they alius more prefer to do without. But he moved into tho city Just for fun, An' be gold his big six-shooter, As he tliought it would not do :er Keep his gen. Bat a muscular gai4bter. Who was not a legal voter. Bobbed him of his watch and wallet Uke a child, Thi n a gas-pipe overloaded Bust, and Jim he got exploded, In' came down considerable permi-'CUOUE and riled. An' tho bunko st?erer9 fleeced him Left and righ! ; An' tho gamins nstor boot him, An' a slugger tried to shoot him T'other uight. An' a hoodlum tried to skin him, An' an injinn run agin him, la' a herdic, an' a boss cur, an' a dray; An' agin, u lit tlo later, In a rotten olevator He fell down tbirteou stories in one day. An' his honso. it cangh*. afire T'other night, An'his ??as meter oxrtlodcd (Jim didn't know tliat it was loaded Awful siyht! An' his house was widely scattered, O er tlio conn try it. was spattered, Id a Bhowor of chunks iuid cindors. so they said j Jim was bo completely shivered, He ain't novorbuea diakivered. But the coroner cobcladed he was dead. ?Yaiikct iSUule. Lost Lina; -OR,THE BITTER AND THE SWEET. I A Tale of Two Continents. BY MRS. NINA LAWSOH. ttTAPTER VI?rCONTIXUED.1 As tlie train stopped, Lina somewhat | roused up and gazed dreamily around j h?r. The first object her weary eyes | rested upon was the coarse, ugly face ' f Mrs. King. Lina pressed her soft, dimpled white , hand to her hot, beating temples, as if j to drive away the pain and assist her to think. "Where?where am I? and what does this mean ? This is a car we are in, isn't it, and how did I get here?" "You are all right, miss; don't worry, and don't make any noise. "You are now in Chicago, and we will soon be at Mr. Noll's house. You j will have a verv nrettv home there and have everything vex*}* nice. "Now, don't worry, for you are not j feeling very well; you Lave slept all ! night." I "Oil, oh. yes; now I remember all, ! only too well. "Why did you luring j me here, and what are you going to do i with me ?" "I am going to do nothing with you, miss, but take good care of you." "Yes, but I don't thank you for such . care. I would rather die than leave j this car." "Hush, there comes your kind friend ! now, and we must leave the car. It j won't do you any good to scream or ; to get away; it will, only make i matters worse, and then he would call you his crazy wife. See? Now, you had best keep still." "Oh, heavens, spare me a little pain, i j J 1 >? k~A I miiKi bin lit? nit; ucuu uu?. iud , little prisoner, pale and trembling, | rose from the seat and put on her wraps to leave the car. Mrs. King gave Noll the wink that all was well, and he left the car and 1 walked slowly out of the station. His paid tool followed him closely, holding tight to the arm of the little prisoner. "Now for home, quick, Jake," and Noll sprang into the carriage, slam- j xning the door behind him. On they went, rattling and bumping over the rough stone pavement, the j little, pale, trembling prisoner silently I praying for freedom or death. The carriage finally stopped in front of a beautiful, picturesque cottage,with broad lawn and tall, shadv tre^s. It was known as the Noll Cottage, ; and was on the southern bor-isr of j Lincoln Park, and but a few minutes' ' walk from the bank of the deep, blua i ** Michigan. Aja"~ -^uld not have been more j The place . j;jna ^ | beautiful and inviting; i was but a miserable prison, anu _ 1 would have preferred a bed at the bot- j torn of the lake than in this lovely \ \ home. And no wonder. Could she ; then have but raised the veil and looked into the future, her sad, aching ! l li ava nno pc/l f minr Utttlt MUUiU aftio tcaocu , j but the wise Ruler of the world spared I i>er that pain, find gave her strength to ! hear her burdens. ~ i As the carriage stopped, Noll looked | at his fair captive, and said: 'Miss Lenora, this is your home, and vondor is the beautiful Lincoln Park, j where I hope to enjoy many happy hours under your sweet, sunny smile.'' j Lina cast a glance of utter disgust ! upon her captor, but said nothing. "Mrs. King, you may take Miss i Lenora now to her room and dress her; I ?ee that nothing is wanting; the dresses you know are in the wardrobe." "I shall attend to my lady's wants. I Has Miss Gertana Girindani been told i of our arrival ?" "Miss Girindani is now here; I saw | her at her room window as we got out of the carriage. I shall inform her of her duties." Yes, Gertana Girindani was standing at the window of her room as the party alighted from the carriage and entered the house. She was endeavoring to he*-' emotions of her sad heart and was minutely reviewing I the many itrange events of her past life. This beautiful Italian woman was thinking of the wrong that had been done her, and of the beautiful sunny home of her childhood in Naples, Italy. She had left that beautiful happy home in fair Italy against her fond, loving parents' wishes ana came wnn Noll, who had stolen her young, passionate love, and, what is more, her woman's honor. She had left that brilliant home an I U her father's wealth, to become the wlla of the "handsome Frenchman." He bad promised her eternal love and protection, and to wed her. His lino words and grand promises, with his pleasing manner, had stolen her heart, and she promised to go even to the endg of the earth with him. Faithful to her promise and to hei one love, she came with him to America, where she lived in hopes, from day \o dav ami Tear to vear. that he would ulfill and his promise make her Jjii mce. But nol Beautiful Gertana had! found him wanting, and as the years [ rolled by, her love for him grew less. j This passionate woman's love would I ebb and flow. At times she would have ' given her life for Noll's perfect love, and then at the ebbing of love'6 tide she would have sold her soul for revenge. It is no wonder that her cheeks were scarlet, and her large, blaok eyes sparkled with hatred when she saw the loving glances Noll cast at Lina as he helped her from the carriage. That was an ewful moment for Gertana. "Ah! There is something wrong i there, or that pale, beautiful girl would not have shrunk from liis glance and touch as she did. "I shall watch and find out about this strange new-comer, x'erliaps now is the time for my revenge. "He loves her, but I do not think ; she returns his love, and I know he loves me no more. Ah! my poor, poor soul! What have I not suffered, and nil in vain!"' She sank down upon a rich sofa that had been drawn up by the window, and for some time was lost in deep thought. While Gertana thus sat, thinking and planning for revenge. Lenora was in her room plauning also. The little prisoner was not planning for revenge, but for escape. For a long while she sat there, when finally the white, heavy lids drooped over the : beautifr.1 sad eyes, and she was soon lost in aweet sleep. Mrs. King scarcely took her eyes off tf her little charge, and could not venture to leave the room, for fear Lenora might possibly escape. lint sleep would not come to the bright burning eyes of Gertana. How pretty she looked, as she sat there on her rich crimson and gold plush sofa, while the soft, gentle spring breeze played about her lovely figure, I vaaw 4V?rnnrrli flio j JU11U HI 1 iXJKJIAAy UUUUj^U V"V open window, the sweet perfume of the flowers and trees of the lawn in the broad, spreading park. Her perfect flgure was draped in a pale pink, soft, loose-flowing wrapper, trimmed with white lace, while a dark, relvetv rose was carelessly placed in the heavy coils of her jet-black hair. Bhe slowly arose from the sofa and paced the floor of her room. "No. I would be foolish to still be blind to the awful truth. "Sylvester loves me no move,andnow [ plainly see my life's bright hope van'shing from before me like a myth. "O, how foolish I have been! How wrong I have acted. I have broken my poor, loving parents' hearts, and no tloubt sent them in sorrow to theix graves. "Can I ever be forgiven? Can I ever Lope for pcace ? 0, God of heaven and of earth, my cup is empty, and my life Is liko wormwood. Is there no reflemption for me ? No, I fear I am lost; and what may be the fate of that pale, beautiful, dark-eyed crirl that Sylvester bas just brought ? "For some reason, I am strangely interested in her, for she so much reminds me of a picture, 'Pity,' that I once saw. "Her fad little fa-. e and those great, lovely eyes speak to my soitl. "Sylvester is now in the library; 1 j will go down and see him. "Perhaps?ah, dare I hope it, but? | perhaps there is yet a little hope for j me; I do not think she is yet his wife." A gentle tap at the door, and a voice within said, "Come!'' The door gently opened, Gertana and Sylvester stood face to face. She was calm and beautiful, bnt despite her efforts the smile on her face was troubled with sadness. Sylvester saw it, and at the 6iglit of the beautiful, injured woman before him his face paled and Ids hands trembled. He had read reproach in that sad smile. "Good-morning, Sylvester. I am not intruding, am I ?" "Why, good-morning, Gertana; indeed, you are not intruding, and j'on are looking very beautiful this morning. Hope you are feeling well?" "Thanks. The morning air is very delightful, and why should I feel otherwise ? "I see you have brought a very beautiful vounc ladv with vou." "Yes, Gertana; she is very beautiful. I have brought her as a companion for you, or rather I would like i you to bo a companion for her. She is ! very young, frail, and is my wi v But the sentence was not finished, for Gertana had fallen to the floor, pale and death-like, with the word "lost" on her ashen, trembling lips. CHAPTER yn. When the injured Italian beauty be? "onsfious she was lying on tue bXta her oT" bail been drawa, and : ; appearance of a sick chain*. ^r* ' 1 maid, Nisson, that she had brou?<it j from her home in Naples, was by her , side. Nisson had proven a good, faith- ! ful servant, and knew much of what her j mistress had to bear. Gertana's rooms wore very beauti- j ail una very richly furnished. There | were two front windows that overlooked j the pretty, bright park and two that i fronted the side lawn of the cottage. ! Lenora's room was built in the same manner, only it was much more daint- ily and beautifully furnished. Everything in the room, except Mrs. King, seemed in harmony with the poor, j beautiful little prisoner. It was growing late in the afternoon, yet Lenora still slept. A sweet, calm j expression had stolen over her face, and j she now looked like a beautiful, happy j angel. Across the broad hall from the sleep- i ing Lenora lay the restless, weary Gertana. "Nisson, what time is it now?" "Half past three, madam; would you like your tea now?" "No, I am not hungry. Have you seen the lady that came tLis morning?" "I have not left your side, my dear lady, since you were taken ill." "I am not sick. Nisson. I only felt | a little dizzy, or perhaps distracted, and j suppose I fainted. Do you know wheth- | er thero is to be any company here to dinner?" "No, madam; none but the new lady." "Very well; you have relieved me very much, and now let me rest until time to dress for dinner." Sweet sleep soon visited her weary eyes, and both beauties were, for a while, lost to their troubles. Lenora was awake in time to be dressed for dinner. The many tears she had shed beforo lost in sleep had only brightened and made her" eyes more beautiful. "Ah, my lady] I hope you are feeling much better now. Your kind husband ?that is to be, I mean?said that I 6hould dress you now, and he would bIiow you this pretty home, that you are to be mistress of." "Madam, you may tell Mr. Noll that I never intend to be mistress of this 3r any other house that belongs to him." "I am. very sorry not to.be able An v.w ; , - your ladyship wishes, but I must first obey my master." For some time Lenora sat in deep thought, and then said: "Very well, Mrs. King; you may dress me. and I will go down and see the rooms." "That is right, my lady, for I know Mr. Noll loves you and will be very kind to you." "That will do now, Mrv. King. I do not care anything for Mr. Noll; it makes no difference what he may think of me. "It is impossible for me to find words to express my contempt for such a man as he." "Ah, my lady; you should not feel so. He thinks you very beautiful and good; I am sure he is not mistaken, for you certainly would suit any man's fancy. "If you don't believe me?there, now, look in the glass for yourself." Lenora did not or seemed not to i hear Mrs. King's shallow remarks, for she did not obey them. She had sat for some time, thinking and planning; suddenly she looked up at her maid, with a somewhat sad but pleading look in her eyes. "Mrs. King, if you will allow me to ?-caue from here to-nicht, I will give you this ring;-1 will be your iife-long slave, and do anything for you. Oh, please be kind, be merciful, and let me go!" The temptation was great, for she bad been handsomely paid for what she had done, and now that beautiful ring was just what she wanted. She studied for some time, but linally shook her head in the negative. "I can't do it, my lady, for he would kill me if I did." "Oh, why did you, Mrs. King, yield to temptation, and help him to bring me here ? "Why did you not leave me in the thicket, a prey to the snakes. I would ten thousaud times rather have been bit by fifty snakes than to be here tonight. You do not kno\^ you cannot imagine, how I feel. "This place is but a gloomy prison for me. Why were you so cruel as to tear me from my lovely, quiet home, from my birds and flowers, and my dear old uncle and aunt ? Pity me, Father; I am so miserable and sad." Her tones were low and pathetic, while tier eyes were filled with tears, yet Mrs. King was unmoved. "You are very foolish, my lady, to think and talk so; for here you can liovo ovorv fln'nrr mr.nov mti Vniv And do just as you please. You can also have your birds and flowers." "Say no more, please; I see you do not understand. Let us go down now; if I must go, I must, and the quicker it is over with the better." "Yes, it is high time for you to go down. But, my, you do look lovely. You outshine the most beautiful queen that ever graced a throne." A sad little aigh escaped Lcnora's beautiful lips as she said: "I so wish that I was at my dear old, quiet, lovely home." They descended the velvet-carpeted stairway into a brilliantly lighted hall. To the left were the double parlors, and I back of them the drawiDg-room. On ] the right was the library and Noll's pri- ( "U *-ooms. The two parlors were fr,r- < Dished nearly alike, ancl very richly m- 1 deed; the drawing-room was very fine, i also. In the front parlor, on an easel i in one corner, stood a picture of a fair i young girl, with dark, beautiful eyes, , and long golden curls. She wore a , short, pink dress, while on the baok of , her head rested a jaunty little straw j hat, with a wreath of field daisies round , the crown. On her white, plump arm j hung a basket of w ild flowers. Before , this picture Noll was standing, while j his hungry eyes seemed to be feasting on the lovely, innocent maiden in the painting. As he stood there the door opened, and the original, Lenora Churchill, entered the parlor. He looked up while ( a bright smile flitted across his hand- 1 some face; a soft sigh of admiration f escaped his lips as the gaslight shone 1 full upon the beautiful girl before him. s Mrs. King was right when she said that i Lenora was more beautiful than any queen; her beauty was unearthly as she < stood there alone upon the velvet car- 1 pets, with her close-fitting, pale-blue t satin dress. The snow-white throat j and soft dimpled baby-like arms were \ bare. The dress was trimmed and ] looped with pearls and lace, while round her throat was cksped a cluster of j priceless jewels. A part of the long . golden curis -were loopea up ana iw?tened with sweet violets. Tto be continued.] A Brave "Kangaroo. A very pathetic story comes from Australia, describing a kangaroo's daring for the sake of her young. The owner of a country station was sitting one cV?ning on the balcony outside his house, when be was surprised to notice a kangaroo lingering about, alternately approachiug and retiring from the house, as though half in doubt and fear what to do. At length she approached the waier pails, and, taking a young one from her pouch, held it to the water (d drink. While her baby was satisfying its thirst, the mother was quivcriug all over with excitement, i for she was only a few feet from the balcony on which one of her great foes was sitting watching her. The little one having finished driuking, it was replaced in the pouch, and the old kangaroo started off at a rapid pace. When the natural timidity of the kangaroo is taken into account, it will be recognizcd what 1 astonishing bravery this affectionate 1 mother betrayed. It is a pleasing ending 1 to the story to be able to state that the 1 eye witness was so affected by the scene 1 that from that time forward he could never shoot at a kangaroo. Government Whitewash. The whitewash used for outside of buildings such as lighthouses, signal stations, etc., as ordered by the Board of the Treasury Department of the United States, is as follows: '-Slake one-half bushel of fresh stone lime in boiling water; keep it covered in the process; strain it and add one-half pound of salt dissolved in warm water, three pounds of ground rice put in boiling water aud boiled to a thin paste, one-balf-pound of powered Spanish whiting, one pound of clear glue dissolved in warm water; mix all together and let it 6tand for several days; keep in a kettle and put it on as hot as convenient with painters'or whitewash brushes. Two citizens of Cliarlestown, Mass., propose to start for Russia, shortly, to publish a newspaper in behalf of Siberian exiles. J r ' . os.-... - - ;-cr:v * ^ Sft? "THE WND'S WORK. EXTRAORDINARY EFFECTS OF CYCLONES AND TORNADOES. Storm Incidents Illustrated?"Winds That Pick I'p All Movable Things and Drop Tliein Miles Away. People who have never seen a tornado or a cyclone have very little idea of what the wind can do. It is hard to conceive the amount of force that is expanded and the manner in which it acts is little understood. There are two varieties of powerful wind storms, the cyclone and the tornado. The former is a revolving storm, traveling about a centre of low barometer, where there is absolute calm, the greatest force of the wind being found at the edge of this circlc of quiet. #Tho area of influence may be from one hundred to seven hundred miles in diameter, and as a rule the smaller the diameter the greater the wind's velocity. / I4\ \ TAKD WITH SAIL KURLKD. The tornado is a local disturbance, often accompanying in the interior the progress of a cyclone. Sometimes the track of the tornado is limited to a few hundred feet, and it rarely has a width of half a mile. The cyclone carries with a velocity of as much as 100 to 140 miles an hour. It sends a certain amount of warning ahead of its track, and the acceleration of the 1 wind's speed at any given point is ' gradual. The tornado falls almost without no- ' tice, or rather the indications are often 1 so similar to those of an ordinary thun- 1 derstorm that only a skilled and careful uuai'i v u can ucil'li tiiu uiutiuun;. The phenomena and effects of cyclones 1 in the West Indies have long been sub- ! jects of study and observation. As the 1 centre approaches a ship she is assaulted 1 by wind of a terrible force and a sea that ' is almost indescribable. The water no ] longer runs in waves of regular onward 1 motion, but leaps up in pyramids and 1 peaks. The wind swirls and strikes ( until wherever there is a chance for i vibration or flutter, even in tightly 1 furled sails, the fabric soon gives way. 1 I once saw a brig go drifting past us in a ! West Indies cyclone with evervthing j / 7l\ A I P\ YAUD STRIPPED BY TIIF. WIND. furled and closely lashed with sea gaskets. We were in company nearly at the height of the storm, when the centre was Dnly a few miles away. There was a spot in the bunt of the foretopsail where the sail was not tightly 6towed, and for several hours it had doubtless been fluttering under tremendous pressure. As I watched her a little white pufi went out if the bunt of the topsail and then the lestruction of the sail was rapid. Long ribbons of canvas went slithering off as f a huge file had rasped the yard arm, ind in a short time there was nothing eft on the yard except the bolt ropes ind the reef tackles. We could do nothng to help the crew, for it was doubtful i ivhether we could keep off the reefs our- < ielres, and the brig passed out of sight 1 :o her certain doom. In St. Thomas one of the residents < jailed my attention to a brick wall ruuamg from the front of his house back ' i ilong the lower side of the terrace. It 1 ,vas solidly built, with a stone cap. It i ceraed about a foot thick and four to < ive feet high. 1 "Do you think the wind is ever strong < ;nough to blow that down?" he asked. 1 knew something about cyclones, but he wall showed no sign of a break remired, and I thought I was safe to draw he line of credulity at brick walls. He ( cd mc back to the end ot Jus property, i There he showed me a short stretch of i ;!ic wall that had formerly stood at l ight c ingles to the main part, forming an L. j AN "L" OF I3UICK WALT. BLOWS DOWN. "The last hurricane," he said, "when lit its height blew parallel to the main wall. The L part received the full force nt the wind and was broken off as you now see it." It was not only broken off at its own base, but was also broken away from its juncture with the main wall. j One of the most remarkable effects of ( i cyclone was recorded at Matanzas, ? Cuba, where the centre passed directly ( over the city. As the vortex arrived the : air pressure outside was so suddenly 3iminished that the air inside the houses , forced the window panes out, and then ' as soon us the calm centre had passed the violent wind, having an inflating and lifting effect through the open apertures, lifted many of the roofs off. The local tornado that so frequently plays havoc with property and life in the West, is like the cyclouc, a revolving ( force, but it carries with it a variety of 1 phenomena wholly distinct from those < V at accompany the larger storm. Many ' of the effects of one tornado are wholly nbsent in others, and the indications ' flint in nr>n noo n lll-.'f hr>f>n f fll I <"> Wf'fl 1)V I terrible disaster are not infrequently : found at other times to presage merely a i heavy thunder shower. The freaks of a tornado are wholly un- 1 accountable. In some cases not an object in its trace will fail to fr*1 its power for long distances; in other instances it j will seem to act like a cannon ball that plows up the earth on striking, then ( rises and strikes again, leaving the space , between untouched. Sometimes it will , go through a forest leveling the trees as 1 "V ' , -- >:. ' .iv. v?*' .. though a gang of axemen had plied their tools on lines laid out by surveyors, nothing outside the track being touched; but again in similar windfalls there will be found occasional pockets scored in the forest growth jutting off the right line, like small lagoons opening into a flowing stream. These seem to have been caused by a sort of attendant whirlwind?a baby offspring from the main monster, which, having sprung away from the chief disturbance, scoops a hole in the woods aud then expires or rejoins the original movement. I have seen one of the most violent and, so to speak,compressed of these storms,cut a road through thick woods so that at a distance the edges stood out as clear and sharp against the sky as would those of a railway cutting through earth. Trees standing at the edge of the track had their branches clean swept on one side while on the other theiy was no perceptible disturbance of the foliage. N? * . TREE PIERCED BY A FENCE RAIL. Sometimes the tornado acts like an 3normous scoop, catching up every movable thing and sweeping it miles away; ind again it bccomes a depositor, as if, tired of carrying so much dead weight, it dumped it upon the earth preparatory to grabbing up a new car<*o. These effects are particularly noticeable in the tornado that goes by jumps. When it strikes and absorbs a mass of debris it seems to spring up again like a projectile that grazes the surface. For a 9pace Lherc will be very high wind and some [lamage, but no such disaster as the tornado has previously wrought. Out of the clouds will come occasional heavy missiles and deluges of water. Then tlown goes the tornado again crashing ind scattering by its own force and adding to its destructive power by a battery af timbers and other objects brought xlong from its previous impact. Relieved jf these masses it again gathers up miscellaneous movables and repeats its previous operation. PATH OF A TORN'ADO THROUGH A FOREST. The force with which these objects strike is best seen when they fall outside of the tornado's path, since the work clone by the missile is not then disturbed by the general destructive force of the storm. Thus, near Racine, "Wis., [ have known an ordinary fenca rail, slightly sharpened on one end, to be driven against a young tree like a spear find pierce it several feet. The velocity of the rail must have been something enormous, or otherwise the rail would have glanced from such a round and elastic object. Many of the settlers in the tornado districts of Southern Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska excavate a deep :ellar beneath their houses and cover it vith heavy timbers as a place of refuge ror their families -when a tornadc threatins to strike them. While these dugouts ire usually effective they are not always o. There have been instances where amilies having only time to descend and I lot time enough to close the trap door lave beeu exposed to the storm's full COW LODGED IX BKAXCUES OK A TREE, "rcnzy by the tornado getting into the opening and lifting off the whole roof ifter having first swept away the house ibove. Another pathetic case resulted n the death of a whole family by an jxtraordiuary freak of the tornado. The itorm first struck a large pond and swept jp all the water iu it. Its next plunge Seposited this water oa one of these dugjuts, tho house above which had been lestroyed. The family were drowned [ike chipmunks in a hole. Some of the Western tornadoes arc accompanied by electrical manifestations to in extent that has originated a belief in i;lectricity as their cause. These disturbances are very marked in some cases, while in others they have not been noticed. In one tornado in Central Illinois electricity played very peculiar antics not only in the tornado's track, but also at some distance from it. In the ruined houses nil the iron work was found to have been strongly magnetized so that pokers, flatirons and other metal objects were found adhering to each other, lust off the tornado's track the same effects were noticed, and several persons sxperienced sharp electric shocks during the passage of the storm. Afterward it was found that the magnetic influence tvasso strong that clocks and watches ivere stopped and rendered wholly useless, * " - -X ..-.v , -i; The scooping action of the tornado sometimes makes considerable changes in the topography of the country, as when it gathers up the water of a large pond or j water course and makes a new pond or j opens a new channel. At Wallingford the water in a pond of very large size was taken bodily from its bed, carried up a hill and dropped nearly in one mass, so that gullies and ravines were cut in every direction. In another case a farmer who followed the tornado's track in search of missing cattle was astonished to, discover one of his cows standing about twenty feet above [ the ground in the branches of a half felled maple. "Iallers knew that was an actyve heifer," he remarked, as he came in sight of her, standing erect on the slanting trunk, "but I never allowed she could climb a tree."?New York herald. Wonders of Hypnotism. The London Lancet describes an "absolutely painless" surgical operation on a patient rendered sub-conscious by hypnotism. Another patient went into the . hypnotic state at the command of Dr. Bramwell, after hearing read the following letter from a man who was not present: "Go to sleep by order of Dr. Bramwell. Obey Dr. Turner's commands." Another patient passed into the hypnotic state at command of Dr. Brarawell, given in a note sent by the hand of his daughter. In a third case, the command was given by telegraph and obeyed.?New York Sun. "Going to the Dogs." ?Scr toner's Magazine. Elephants at Wurk. Mr. Wood is a great lover of animals, and in his book I found more about elephants than I have seen anywhere else. [ mean a greater variety of things, for he tells us how tkey are hunted and caught, and how they hunt for other elephants, ind how they build stone walls for man, uid take care of his babies, and save his life when danger threatens; how they, in fact, do everything that is almost too extraordinary to be believed. The famous elephant Jumbo once saved his keeper's ELEPHANT ROLLING A LOG. life, and on another occasion when a stampede of elephants took place he caught the man in his trunk and held him between his fore-feet until the danger was over. And I do not believe that many people know that when the sacred elephant is a baby he sometimes has twenty-four ladies to nurse him, and they ali think it a great honor. Eut to have an elephant build a stone wall and another elephant trained as overseer 1 In Ceylon they pile the timber. And one actually made a dam. She carried the logs from the forest and put them in position. "The most extraordinary part of her performance," says Mr. "Wood, "was the arranging of two immense logs of red keenar (one of the heaviest woods). Thev were about eighteen feet long and two feet iu diameter, and were intended ELEPHANT CARRYING A LOG. to lie on either bank of the stream, parallel to the brook and close to the edge. These she placed -with the greatest caro in their exact positions unassisted by any one. She rolled them gently over with her head, then with one foot, and keeping her trunk on the opposite side of the log she checked its way whenever its own j momentum would have carried it into I the stream. 'Although I,' says an eye- I witness, 'thought the work admirably done she was not satisfied, and she presently got into the stream and gave one end of the log an extra push with hei head, which completed her task, the two trees lying exactly parallel to each othei close to the edge of either bank.'1'? Chicago Times. A Glass Diamond. T?lou<rher?"This stone in my breast- | pin was a present from a friend in the Kimberly diamond fields, South Africa. SnarloigU?"I didn't know there were any glass works out there." The policc rules of London forbid nn officer to arrest a drunken person unless he is trying to do some one an injury, and it is not an uncommon thing for an officer to have six or eight "drunks'' asleep at intervals along his beat. Tliej may all sing, whistle or shout, but he cannot arrest them. Feminine Sarcasm. Miss Crabtrce?"See what nice shoes I purchased for $5." Miss Giltman?"Why, these I'm wearing cost $10." Miss C.?"Well,I suppose they charge according to size." .. .V-.- :jL M SABBATH~SCHOOL | international lessov fob I may 4. . I Lesson Test: "The Ruler's Daughter,^ 1 Luke viii., 41, 42, 40-50? t B Golden Text: Luke viii.. vfl SO?Commentary. B After the parables spoken by the seashore- S and the further parables spoken in the house, I He entered into a boat with His disciples to 1 cross the sea, and as they sailed He fell I asleep. But a great, storm arising, they 9 awoke Him; He arose and rebuked the wind 1 and the sea, and there was a great calm, so I that the disciples marveled, saying: "What I manner of man is this?" Having crossed the I sea, He healed the man of Gadara, who was I possessed with a legion of evil spirits, and sent him home to his friends a well man to " I tell tne great things the Lord had done for 'I him. Jesus then returned to His own city, I Capernaum (Matt, ix., 1), and the people I gladly received Him, for they were all wait- ? - ing for Him. " I 41. "And, behold, there came a man named -fl .Tairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue." 1 Matthew says that Jesus was sitting at meat 1 in the house, in the midst of His disciples and fl many publicans and sinners, and to rue fanit " I finding Pharisees He said that He came to fl call sinners and not righteous ones such as fl they considered themselves to be. The dis- fl ciples of John also come with a question con- ' fl cerning fasting, and Jesus in reply speaks of I Jtnmseir as the .Bridegroom, arid of" the im- I possibility of combining the old and the new. I Then cometh Jairus, who, though a ruler of I the synagogue and supposed to be interested I in all these things, has now no heart for any I of them, but only a great desire for Jesus Himself. This grand welcome by Capernaum I (mentioned only by Luke) and the omission by Luke of the opposition of the Pharisees, I with the eagerness of Jairus, makes us think M with some Bible students that possibly this I gospel points to the time when the whole na-' H tion shall say: "Blessed be He that cometh in the Name of the Lord." "And he fell down at Jesus's feet, and besought Him that He would come into house." He cares not what any one may think or say: one great need fills his soul, and ^ here is one who can satisfy it; so he stops not to think of his dignity as a ruler, nor of the criticisms that may be passed upon 1 im, but only of this Great Physician whom hi seeks. 42. "For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying.'*' Here is the cause of his eagerness, anxiety and self forgetfulness; another fills his heart, and she is very dear to him, for she is his daughter, his only daughter, and she is sick, very sick, dying, perhaps dead by this time. "But as He went the people thronged Him." Jesus rose and followed Jairus, and so did His disciples, and so did much people (Matt, ix., 19; Mark v., 24). Jairus must have been somewhat relieved as he saw Jesus rise to go with him, but this crowd hindering I must have tested his patience and tried him sorely. >; a* 49. "While He yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the synagogue's house." On tfce way not only do the crowd press and throng Him, but there mingles with them another whole hearted seeker; only a poor woman, a sufferer for twelve years, who has spent all her living upon physicians but without avail. Quite a contrast in social position to the ruler, but they are both alike in this, that each is a whole hearted seeker because of a keenly realized need and sense of utter helplessness, and each has faith in Him. She Eresses through the crowd, she touches the em of His garment and in a moment she is whole. He saw her coming. He pitied her, He honored her faith, but He will not let her go without doing for her exceeding abundantly above all she had hoped for. He calls her forth, He strengthens her to confess Him before all the people, and before all the people He honors her with a word which we never hear Him use to anyone else, "Daughter!" He also adds: "Be of good comfort thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.1' It is while He speaks these words to trie poor * woman that one comes saying: J ^ "Thy daughter is dead; trouble not tbe^fl| Master." The thronging people, so selfish; the poor woman, who might have waited another day; the little dying girl who v? couldn't wait and whom death was ruthless- I In- Hrncrtrinor nwflv from mnthnr anrl father. I l5ld not Jesus know it all and couldn't He have hurried, or could He not have just said the word, as He did to the nobleman of Cana? (John iv., 50.) Yes, these questions will come, and He did know it all, and it seems as if He might have done otherwise. But I have been there, too, dear reader, and I have with all my might kept saying: ,lGod . is love," and I have heard Him say: "Be still and know that I am God;"' and I have teen still and am willing to wait till we shall know even as we are known. Do thou likewise. vj 50. ''Fear not; believe only, and she shall be made whole." Mark says that Jesus said this word just as soon as the messenger from the ruler's house had spoken; as if to quiet the ruler's mind and keep him in peace, for it is Jesus's way to speak peace to His people and keep the mind stayed on Him in perfect Ssace. Here is a word for every child of od which will carry them in triumph through every trial. 51. "He suffered no man to go iu, save Peter, and Jnmes, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden." All Is now quiet, the thronging crowd shut out. no more hindrances can delay; the father and mother bave Jesus all to themselves, only the favored three of the disciples bsing allowed to enter. 52. "He said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.'' This is as He sees it, and He L'nftwc fnv Ha sppk all thincrs in their true light. The little tired bocy sleeps, the spirit I has fled, but He knows how to awake it. I 53. "And they laughed Him to scoru, I knowing that she was dead." What theii* B eyes saw you couldn't make them disbelieve; I and like many to-day, what their eyes couldn't see or their blinded reasons under- M stand you couldn't make them believe. D 54. "He took her by the haud, and called, I saying, Maid, arise." Mark gives the tw'o flj words which He actually uttered. "Talitlki cumi." Only two words, but the power thg&^^H created the world is in them. Where word of a king is there is power jEccl. viij., jJW I), and here is a word from the King of Kings B in the power of the Omnipotent Spirit of - God. "Young man. arise;'' "Maid, arise;"' I "Lazarus, come forth.'' Let auy ordinary I mortal stand by these dead people and shout B such words till he falls down from exhaustion I and there will be no response; but here isoue in the form of a man. a real man, but more H than man, quietly He utters the word, but mark the result. I 55. "And her spirit came again, and she B arose straightway." Instantly, from the jfl n/mOri mmM back the one just set free, I tie little tabernacle is axain tenanted, the heart and lungs resume their functions, the I eyes open and look around, she arises to her fl feet, and quicker far than I have told it she- V is iu her mother's arms alive and well. Not weak and sickly looking as one arising from a sick bed, but perfectly whole as one in good I health; and with an appetite for food, for He commanded to give her something to eat. At I the same word shall all who are in their I graves come forth, either among the Blessed aud Holy who ta'^e part in the First Resur- I rection. or among tne rest of the dead who H live not again till the thousand years are finished (Rev. xx., 5, 0). I 56. "And her parents were astonished, but I He charged them that they should tell no I man what was done.-1 Yet Matthew says SB that "the fame thereof went abroad into all H that land." His command now is to all who believe in I Him, that in the power of the Holy Spirit * - 1 ?1 fA flrarv I they should preach tuegum umugj ^ j _ creature, that whosoever will may be saved and become part of His elect church. Di?- M obedience is guilt. Are you obedient??Lcs si>,i Ilciper. I hie question o! tbe wholesale ?le- I struction of swallows by electricity has at last been taken up in France, and a I report on the subject was presented at 8 a recent meeting of the Zoological >Scciety. In the south of France lor.g-^H wires are systematically erect ed: along the sea-shore, and when the ti? ed swallows alight on them they are- H stunned or killed by an electric shock. The birds are then sent to Paris, where- I they are used for decorative purposes _i^L*