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ABrideforanHoiir. i A Mil Story of tie Joinston Disaster. BY DAVID LOY/RY. CnAl'TIiK XIV. TTIK rrp OP JOY. "All about the flood!" "All about "Hhe Conemnugh flood!" A score of newsboys were crying their wares at one time. "Oh! let me see a paper," said Mrs. Tern. The newsboy held out a paper, and his hand was still extended when Rose Somers suddenly bethought herself. "Wo have no money, child?we are just from Johnstown. This lady is looking for nows." "That's all riglit. Hope she'll find good news. No, I don't want 110 money from you folks?.I'd rather lot you have some. Hore?here's a quarter?honest now." Hose conld scarcely restrain her tears at thiB evidence of sympathy. They both hastened into a corner where they conld scan the payer. "There! There! See that. They've found a baby?and it laughed. In a cradle, too." Mrs. Vern was aglow with excitement as she pointed out the paragraph to Rose Somers. Rose read it with increasing interest. "Who knows? It may be yours, Mrs. Vcrn. There is a.chauce." "If-there is only one in ten thousand I'll thank Goil. Where is the plac?. I must go there at once?nowI" "Where is Verona?" Rose inquired of a man near her. "Six or seven miles up the Allegheny Valley road." "When is there a train going?" asked Mrs. Vcrn. "We must go at once." The trainman looked at tbem. His face softened. He spoke with deference' eeing he addressed two women in meu's ftttiro. It was not a new thing to him. Dozens of w omen had come from the Conemaugh in men's attire?they could not find any women's raiment up there. "I'll put /on aboard a train in a few minutes. You don't need any fare. We are carrying you people free." Presently he returned and led them to a car. Five minutes later they were on their way to Verona. On the way Mrs. Vera was alternately pmiling and crying. Smiling with the hope that sprang up suddenly in her heart?crying when she thought of the thousand chances against her. When they reached Verona she was in Buch a condition that she was afraid to go further. She wished liose Somcrs would make inquiry if the babe found in cae craaie was mere; aaa, 11 bo, 11 migm be her own. Rose Somer3 soon learned all that was lo be discovered. Then Mrs. Vern became more nervous. She clung to her companion despairingly. Rose encouraged her. It would soon be ettled one way or the other. They were approaching Jack Alward's housc'now. Jack was at home. lie was chuckiug a baby up in the air. while his wife lcokcd on. Some of their neighbors, who were never satisfied looking at the "baby that came dor.n in the tfooil," were alho there. Mrs. Vern got one glimpse at the babe as it was tossed into the air. With a cry that was like a scream she rushed from Mrs. Somers' side, darted around the corner and into the house, and ere Jack Alward had time to speak or act, the child was snatched out of his arms and strained passionately to Mrs. Yern's breast. v Then the women cried, and Jack's eyes gT6w moist. 'Jhere was no need for 1 words. The scene explained itself. This woman, wearing a farmer's "wamus," was the babe's mother. The , other woman, dressed in man's garb, was . a friend?both from the regions devastated by the flood. As the news spread through the town, half the people ran to see the visitors, 1 especially the mother of the child Jack Alwnrrl fnnnrl in thfi river. And half the ' town expressed genuine regret thai they were to lose "Moses No. 2." 1 Meanwhile tho women were eager in kind offices to Mrs. Vera and Bo>e..Half a dozen had good dresses that they were sure would fit them nicely. In less ' than ten minutes Jack Alward declared there was enough to fill a dry-goods store ? piled into his house. At the end of cn hour the newcomers were dressed becomingly and sitting at Jack Alward's table, where thore was always an abundance. Mrs. Yarn and her companion were fitted in gloves, shoes and bonnets. It was a merry-making time altogether. The touch of nature that makes the world akin brought tears to the eyes of half the men, as well as tho women, when the mother and ihilawere leaving. Pirst, Mrs. Vera telegraphed to Johnstown that Bhe was well and had her baby with her. She was going straight to a friend who lived at Blaiisville. ' Two hours afier they entered Veronn they were standing at the slation waiting for a train. There was a l:srpe crowd troond them, attracted by curiosity. They were waiting for the westward train, purposing to return to the city, and once there Mrs. Vera would take another train and go to Blairsville. Mrs. Somers would r^mnin in While they were looking out of a win- , dow, a train bound eastward stopped at the station. Several persons leaped to the ground. One young man with unshaven face and a piece of plaster over his temple, looked eagerly around him a? he stood firmly or. the g oimd. He glanced i t the crowd in nnd around the --- station. Then his eyes chanced upon a Tace at one of the windows. Tho young man uttered an exclamation and rushed into the part of the station set aside for women. Mr. Vern guve a little shriek at the same moment. Her companion had sunk quietly down in the seat beside her in a dead faint. When she regained consciousness everyone knew a nnsoana ana wite sepur* ated by the great flood were happily reunited. CHAPTER XV. MR. PETERS' SPECIAL PRESENT. Mrs. Somers first thought was of their ICliUO All UV/iiUOlVHUi "Send them word at once, Algernon. It will relieve them of such terrible sus pense. I would have done it tie first thing, but I had no money." "Nor have I, for that matter," laughing. "What is money? I am traveling by the courtesy of the railway company. But-it is impossible, for lovo or money, to gef a private message through now. Hundreds are trying to and fail. There is very great confusion--chaos--up in the country we tame from." "Then," said his wife, resolutely, "we will go there ourselves. If we have to walk part of the way, I will go." "And I am ready to go to the end of the world with jou." Thus it happened that the strangelj nnited couple get out immediately foj Johnstown again. "All I want ie a pair of stout shoes,' Mis. Somers said. A 8 they were returning, a gentleman J Bitting in the car near them was explain. ing to another the cause of the calamity and the nature of the country. "The accounts are misleading. Here, ?? will say, ia the South Pork Dam. -4 eight, not eighteen, milcB from Jonnfltown. Tho distanco ucrosB the country from the South Fork Dam station on th? railroad to the dam is one and one-fourtb mile9. Down here nearly a mile below the dam the r. ilway people made a deep cut. Here is tho viaduct. The creek sweeps around here like a horse-shoe? the railway cuts oS & rood deal. Mineral Point lies further uown me creeK. There are seven houses standing there, I learn, It was a good-sized village. Here is another cut made by the railroad just below Mineral Point. This is known as bridge number six.. Below this is East Concinaugh?say nine hundred and fifty people litre. Below East Conemaugli we have'Woodvillo. at least twenty-nve hundred people. Yoti see, we get thicket as we near Johnstown below the point. Here is Stony Creek running past Johnstown, harmless as any stream. All along opposite Johnstown proper the Talley is thickly settled?this is Kernville. Below the junction of the creeks here is the pow. erful railway bridge. MVnn? fKon Tlio ontirfl vftllow ia tint1. row, like a V. And bear in mind that the grade is at least 6ixty foot to the milesome places a great deal more. Say the lake is five hundred feel higher than Johnstown. The valley is partly covered with verdure ? treeB, mountain undergrowth, and large rocks. The vast bodj of water gathered in South Fork dam is nJWanlv oreatlv ausmented by unprecedented rains in one mgnt. xnis vasi body of water is suddenly freed. It rushes I down the valley. It bears along with it every tree, every stick and stone, every blade of grass; it lifts the viaducl here, picks up bridge number six there, and tosses them up like corks. All the villages are swept as bare as your hand in one minute?less time. The oulj houses standine are those built on the Bides of the Y-shaped valley. "It leaps straight through the cut at the viaduct. Three friends are walking hero. The water reaches them?thej 'strive to cave e:ich other?one is swepl away. The survivors say the water that swept him away was not as high as the people saw overwhelming them below. Why? Because tlie first wave represented all the water that leaped through the railtrnv /mf SJrvrtio woe Tf. Tnc'hAil around the bend, and when the waters were united again, they seemed mountaiij high to the people who saw it coming. This happened twice?at the viaduct and below bridge number six. "The water worked its revenge uponthe railway people, then resumed its old channel, and rioted there until it wore away all tho old landmarks. "Say Johnstown lies between th{ thumb of my left hand and forefinger. The railway bridge is below there, neai the wrist, if the bridge had not checked the water ttiat leaped down from the dam, with a front almost thirty feet high?8 wall of water?it would "have rushed straight down, nnd Johnstown would have been little the worse. At least the people carried away would have been uorno upon tho surface?hundreds could and would have been saved. "But the bridge checked it, and the va^t wall suddenly swirled around here lioftiV'fin mv fnrAMiiorpr imtl thnmh. until water ran up Stony Creek at the rate o 1 forty miles au hour. The contents oi the lake were thus heaped upon Johnstown, and as they spread, they took in Cambria City, everything above and around and below Johnstown. "I saw the water suck in eighteen people in one spot. I beheld childien torn limb from limb. The water picked up locomothes and bridges and tossed them over like corks. The debris hurled down the valley, consisting of beams, fragments of Louses and bridges, great logs aud trees were projected with a force exceeding thousands of tons. "The world never heaid of such awful battering rams as those that crashed fVurrmrrli u-IiaIa h1nol*c in .Tnlmcfnu'ii " "Algernon," siiid Mrs. Somers, "will you go back and ask that gontleman if his name is Rutledge? I think, I am almost sure I kuow hie voice. He is from Johnstown." Algernon waited back, and soon returned. A minnte later the gentleman saluted Mrs. Somers. Mr. Somers b?w disappointment in his wife's eyes. "Excuse me, sir, I thought " "Pardon me, you thought I wns my brother. I am Alexander Rutledge's brother. I am going up to learn whetDer be is dead or not. I have known so many instances where people made mistakes that 1 will not be satisfied until I 5oe for myself." "I trust you discover an error has been made," said Somers. "But all his friends were positive, Mr. JcpBon and Mr. Jerrold especially." "And Mr. liroadhurst?" "He, too, is now positive." "Well?I will very 6co? know. lie may be living; liviug in some out of the svay place." "I'll never give up again as long as here is life," said Mr*. Somers, who then related her own and Mrs. Vern'a jxpcriences. Mr. Rutledgc thought the survival ol I :he babe that wis carried seventy miles j ->n the breast of tho river was the most remarkable iuci.lent.of the flood. ills own adventures were extraordinary. He was visiting Johnstown to see his brother. He had arrived in the city; had been there but live or teu minutes wheD [he waters swept him half way aoross the sity, then back. He never could con:eive how ho was carried down the river, jut he remembered he was grasping a log when he recovered consciousness. He floated about twentj miles before he was rescued by a brave ferryman. who risked his life in the attempt. Mr. Eutledge manifested a li'ely interest in the couple. He seemed *o bo in possession of knowledge about Johnstown people that surprised Mrs. Somers, until ehe reflected it wa? possible the brothers corresponded frequently. "Was Mr. Peters at the wedding?" "Mr. Peters, I learned just at the last moment?it was the last thing said to me?was ill. Something very Berious, Mrs. Proniihurst intimated." u.^h, Mr. Peters ill?seriously! If anything should happen him he would be missed very much." "Very much," said Mrs. Somers. "Ho is Kiich a food. noble mnn. I hone ho wili be (spared many vear-'." Mr. llutleilge looked at Lor 6earch m-ly. ".Did Mr. Peters give you a handsome wedding piosenty" "Ha gave me two?a very handsome present on ruy wedding day?or ho 6ent it?and a present a week before the wed ding." j *0m?ah! Anything extraordinary? that is ? pardon me?worthy special note?" "He gave me what he said was the most appropriate tbiag be could think of?it was a great, big, strong leather trunk." "Mr. Peters must have had it made to order," said Somers, smiling. MI never saw anything like it. When I looked at it, the first thing I told my wife was that it was not only porter-proof?it was air-tight and water-proof." "Hum!" said Mr. liutledge,again. Then he changed the conversation, and presently returned to his traveling com t) anicr "Don't you TliInK Mr. Uutledge'6 manner was very odd when I told him what Mr. Peters gave me, Algernon?" , "It struck me as very odd that he should r.hk the questions he put. But don't let us talk .about our presents?they are halt way to the Gulf now?the present is good enough for me." "Still, I am curious. What does Mr. Rutledge mean?" 6aid MrB. Somers to herself. CHAPTER XVI. A MESSAGE FROM THE OKAVE. Giles Brockle urged his workmen on. Be Bet them the example at times by Ssaivias down into their midst and seizing~a piece of tiiiiDc-r and pulling it out by main force. At another time he would wield an ax nnd hew the great beams and limbs of trees that formed a network in his path. He made great headway. As evening came on apace he grew restive. The door was barely in view. He must have it uncovered. He resolved to enter that night. It was impossible to cffect an entrance through the floor above the safe. It was I a mass of debris and earth. Otherwise ho would have got at the safe by cutting I a bole over it in the floor. nrfvnilfld nnon a number of the workingmen to assist him after supper, hv uroirii6iuG extraordinary wacee. fie was not interfered witn Dv Squire Jepson or Enoch Broadhurst. " Neithei Approached him. Jerrold also avoided him. He had it all his own way now. The absence of these men emboldened him. He obtained a quantity of brandy, and imbibed freely. He was in a mooc to fight one or a hundred when the workmen resumed their labor late in the evening. Giles experienced considerable difficulty in providing light. At last this obstacle was surmounted, and he sat ovei his workmen in the sickly glare of the light, superintending their movements. The workmen suddenly encountered aq unexpected obstacle. It was a mass oi hen, sssmiseij. that was lying right op? posite tne door He resolved to enter mat nU-.ht. "Dig round itl Pick it up. Don't stand in each other's road there like fools!" Giles Brockle exclaimed, angrily. The workmen explained that it was iml possible to lift it. "What is it? A benm of an iron bridge: Yon are a pack of numb-skulls. It might be a rail. Uncover it. Let us sec what it looks like." At that instant some one touched Giles' shoulder. Ho turned around angrily. "What do you want, Horkess?" It was Si, who stood hat in hand, was his wont when addressing his periors. "1'se brought yo' a message, Mars B rookie." "Who from? Not from Jepson. Jcpson can go to the devil." " "No,'taint from'Squire Jepson," said Si Harkess, strnightening himself suddenly, and looking at Giles angrily. "It's from Broadhnr6t, then. He can go to the devil too?tney can Dotn go; you tell them I Eaid so, Si." "I nebber carried bad answers in my life?mos' too late to learn now, Mars Brockle. You can spress yo'self fo' dem two yo' sent to de debbil." ""VVho the devil sent you here then, you stupid?" "Mars Rutledge." "Rutledge!" Giles ^rockle's face turned deathly white. He stared at the oegro vacantly, then put a hand to his tnroat. He was choJSing. He could not speak. He f-hook his head furiously, Bprang out of the hole in the debris he was sitting in, and confronted Si Harkess. When he was able to sneak his eyes flamed. "It's a trick, a shallow trick! Yon lie! Who toM you to come here with that message?" "Doan call me liar! Si Harkess ain't no liar. Mars Brockle, an' I won't 'low you to talk dat way nohow." "Who sent you to me?" "I done tole you Mara Rutledge?Mars James Rutledge, he say?dat's his name. .tie uruuaer xo ae man uai s uonu; "Pooh!" Giles recovered himself in an inBtant. "Why didn't you say so at first?" " 'CtiBe you didn't givq mo time. Yo' flew up an' call me liar." "What (loos ho want? I'm busy now, yon see. Why didn't he come to see hiuise!frv "Ain't dat what I gwine to tole yo'. Dat's what he sav. 'Yo' please find >Ir. Brockie, Mr. Barkens,'?ho said, Mr. Harkess?'an' tell him I want to speak to him 'bout specially important business, 'n ef Mr. Brocklc can't come to me?to de Alma Hall'?dat's wbar he is now?'why, den I'll go an' see Mr. Brockie.' Dat'a de message. Doan soe what yo' goin' flyin' up dat way at man for. I'se no mo' to say?goin'." And Si strode off in high dud geon. "Wbnitbe devil does Jame^ Rutledge want with mo? Anyway, he'll come to seo me. I'm goiDg to 6tay right here until I get into that safe of Tom Peters'. Why don't you get that thing out of your way, men?" "It's not easy. Seems to be a big piece of iron or steel." "It's as like to be a stone." "You can jump in here and feel it. Put your band iu between these timbers and you'll not say it's a stone," said a workman, testily. Giles jumped into the opening in the debris. lie thrust his hand down and withdrew it with an oath. "It is iron. Curse it all. Here, dig around it. I'll double your pay. I must goi in mere lo-mjjui. n uu uuuuu, uueu. Pitch in livoly now." And once more Giles 6et tbem the example. Tto be continued. 1 A TVnruinj* to Fat Men. Chorus of Indians?"Waugh! Wow Arrow no kill pale face! Ureat-SpiritNever-Die. Iujin better skip!" The Living Skeleton?"I'll bet the fat man wouldn't hev got of! so easy if he had missed his train and had to foot it across the prairie."?Lift. The Austrian war office has decided upon filling the mattresses and pillow? of the soldiers in barracks with wood shavings. Experiments with this mateI _:~I l ?lKn/jn imrtfi in snnifi mili rim imvL* uncnvij .m.?v ? tary distrieta.^_^^^^_ _ Street Commissioner Wolyerton, of Adrian, Mich., hal a calf which had the habit of sticking his head oat of the barn door. A bolt of lightning* killed it. The queer part of the story is that the born entirely escaped. The submarine telegraph system o! the -world consists of 120,070 nautical mflas ol oable. ] PRACTICAL HINTS N CASKS OP ACCIDENT AND SUDDEN ILLNESS. What to Do While Waiting for the Doctor?Advice That Wlli Save the Lives if Heeded. The free lectures under the auspices i of the Board of Education are being delivered every Monday and Thursday at several of the public schools. Dr. T.%?-?w?c 7? Vnu-oAmh it r?no #if lnp. / illUV? X J? iiuii'.'/ui"; ?> vuv v% hirers. and his subject is very interesting ami instructive. It is entitled, "JEvery-Day Accidcuts, and How to Treat Them.,: Hints are given as to what to do till the doctor comes, and are illustrated. Dr. Ncvcomb says, among other practical things: A BROKEN* LIMP. BANDAGED. "What we have to deal with is the. human body, made up of 200 bones. These give shnpe and support to the body. They arc held to the body by ligaments, just as the frame timbers of a house tire held together by clamps. This is cottred by muscle, which we call Ik-si?the same as we eat in other anirn.Os and call meat. All is covered by skiii and fat, controled by the nei-ves aud nourished by the blood. The vital machinery is composed of the brain, heart, lungs, digestive and excretory organs. Accidents to the framework will occur. "We will first take up broken bones. The symptoms and signs of broken bones are deformities of the part, motion at the point where there ought to be none, great pain generally, and great tenderness over the point of the break. If the two ends of the broken bone arc firmly grasped and rubbed together, a peculiar grating sensation is felt by the persoji grasping. If no doctor can be found, the first thing is to restore the proper shape to the limb. This can generally be done by grasping the fractured limli fin of tJlft hlYVllc nnfl gently, but firmly, pulling1 in opposite directions until the proper shape i.9 restored to the limb. This is is what is known as setting the bone. If we can keep the broken parts in their proper position nature will do the rest?that is the bone will knit. We help nature by putting on a splint or splints, which keep the bones in place like brace5. i TrcnvTQT'lTT. ' Children's bones contain so much auimal mattci that they knit quickly. The bones of older people contain more earthy matter, and hence are more brittle. They knit more slowly. "A wrench called a sprain, which is a twisting of the ligaments which hold the bones together, shows itself by a great swelling and pain. The way to treat it is to bind the parts in cloths wrung out in hot water as hot as can be borne, or, as in a foot, put it into hot water. Then bind with a baudage to make the -joint immovable. Wounds consist of cuts, bruises, punctured wounds or poisoned ones. In case ol a cut wound, wash it clean; bring the parts together, and fasten a clean bandage over them. "Iu bruises the parts arc usually lacerated under the skin, and the blood which escapes under the skin undergoes changes which make the skin look dark-colored All to do for those is to cover them with a cloth wrung out in cold water. The same holds true in punctured wounds, of which a stab is an instance. The cardinal idea is first to remove all dirt by allowing clean cold water to trickle over it, and then to cover with a clean piece of cloth to keep dirt out. "Burns vary in depth, from a blister on the surface to au actual destruction of a part of a limb. In addition to pain, the burned person is iu danger from an impression made ou tlie ucrrous system AHTiFiciAf. itEsrrR.vrwx. # known as shock. This often has to be f rented, as well a? the shock itself. If tlu: clothes arc on fire, throw the victim I, down and wrap a blanket a.'onnd. Theu add water and cut the clothing away, not disturbing any parts that stick. Cover the burn with a layer of sweet oil, lard or linseed oil, vaseline?any fat not rancid. Theu wrap in cloths to keep the air out. For the shock, give a teaspoonful of brandy every ten minutes. 'In hemorrhage or loss of biood from the lungs have the person lie down, with the luDgs above the rest of the body;tcll the person not to fear, as death tram such very seldom occurs. Give ice to swallow. Blood here is bright red, while from the I stomach it is dark eolored or clotted,and ! perhaps mixed with food. Give ice and a teaspoonful of vinegar mixed with water. "In drowning, when the person is " - ? x -i ,1 ~e taKcn irom me water auu suuws aiguaui life, always begin at once, unless the ' weather is very cold. Take off the upper clothing and rub dry; wipe out the 1 mou'h, then turn, with the face down, ' arm over the head and a roll of clothing under the chest. When any water has run out lay the body on its back and , endeavor to make artificial respiration. ! This is easiest done by seizing both arms by the elbows and swinging them around unil they meet over the head, when a i I good strong puu must oe made upon them and kept up for a few seconds. This cffccts &q inspiration, fills the lungs with air and enlarges the cavity of the chest by drawing the rib3 up. The second thing to do is to return the arms to the side and press the lower part of the ribs with them. A little whisky may be given. ' ror strangulation?nanglng, ior lni stance?when the obstruction is got out of the way use the same efforts to restore breathing as in drowning case3. In the event of discovering a person suffering from the effects of inhaling gas, get the person to the fresh air as quickly as possible and use the same means described before to induce breathing. "In case of a persoa choking from SDinething sticking in the throat or windpipe, try and dislodge it with the fingers, or a blunt-pointed scissors may be used. A hairpin with a loop on its end is also useful. Holding the person ntifli fUn Knnlo i r* iVtA n l r n nrl Hllil LiiV^ 111,1*10 1U 111^ UI1 UUU Yl^UlVUQ thumping on the back is also of frequent service. When children swallow marbles or coins it is a mistake to giro a purgative. The strange matter will fiud an escapement without effort. ' When small bodies get in the eye, like cinders, dust or chips of stone, a horsehair loop will frequently do what pulling one eyelid over the other fails to accomplish. Pure gum arabic, in weak solution, may be poured into the eye, which requires a cold bandage afterwards. In case of lime, use lemon juice and water at once. "Convulsions in children should be treated with cold bandages to the head and heat to the body. A tub of warm water and mustard is good. "Dislocations can usually be put in place by pulling. Dislocation of the jaw is treated by seizing the lower jaw with both hands, the thumbs on the teeth, ami pushing iirst down aud tlien backward. "When a blood vessel is severed or cut in the armor le;r a tourniquet should be made of a handkerchief with a knot in it, tightly twisted, so that the knot covers the artery or main blood vessel. When the blood stops flowing the pressure should cease. 'Injured persons should be removed on a strctcher or shutter, if possible, with the head above the rest of the body. Broken limbs should be laid on a pillow, with bandages to keep them from slipping. "In the case of poisons, vomiting should be the first thing looked out for and encouraged. Don't look for clean water?the more repulsive the water the better the result. Mustard and soau and water are both good. Milk is one of the best of antidotes and coffee is the next best."?_Y<ru> York World. The Kola Nut. A well known medical journal is recommending the kola nut as a substitute for tea and coffee. The nut, it is said, contains little tannin and not much more caffeine. It is claimed that it will soon tako the place of tea and coffee entirely. Mr. C. G. Lloyd, the botanist, has made a special study of this nut, and upon this point said to a reporter: "The kola uut is a uative of the coasts of Africa, i ML KOLA NUT. but has been introduced into and thrives well in the West Indies aui Brazil. It grows upon a tree forty feet high, which produces pale yellow flowers spotted with purple. The leaves of the trees arc six or eight inches long, and arc pointed at both ends. The fruit consists of five iong, slender pods, radiating from a common centre. One of these when broken , open is fouud to contain several nuts, somewhat similar to hazlenuts and of about the same size. . The nuts arc solid, being slightly softer towavi the centre than on the outside. 'The natives of the countries where | the nuts grow use them for various pur , I poses. Thcv pass lor money m --vuica. They are also used as symbols of friendship and hato, the light-colorcd ones signifying the former and the dark, the latter. "They are supposed to aid digestion,1' added the botanist, "uud it is the practice to chew a small bit before eating a meal. They allay thirst, and if a piece be chewed and held in the mouth while drinking' the most bitter and stagnant water cau be taken, and will taste sivect and agreeable. I doubt if this quality of rendering stagnant water pure is possessed by the nuts. I rather think that the astringent taste of the nut paralyzes the gustatory nerves momentarily, and for that reason the water is not tasted/' Mr. Lloyd said that they arc also supposed to allay hunger, but they do more : I than paralyze the nerves. They have a stimulating effect, and when going on i long marches the natives chew bits of nuts continually and with about the same effect as if intoxicating liquor had been used, though without the sauie bad re?uH? Powdered kola nut is sprinkled iii cuts and wounds and has a healing effect. A chemical analysis of the nuts shows them to contaiu twenty parts of caffeine and but a fraction of a part of tannin. The Rose Bath. The bath of roses, so often mentioned by writers on the luxurious age of Raman life, is a comparativelychcap luxury to-day. The warm water, in quantity amounting to the usual requirement of the bath, is first softened by stirring into the tub finely sifted oatmeal, to which also is added half a pint of glycerine; lastly put iuto it two drops of attar of rose?. If the massage treatmeut be available, use it by all meaus; if not, let a coarse towel and hard rubbing serve the ^ rxf mnccm/i CVCtr?m TVll.Q UUI jlWSC ui tww UiUJ^v W , bath is simply fine, as it softens the skin and blends perfume into each line of the body.?New York Telegram. The Danish Government pays a bounty .'or the destruction of seals. I HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. AMMONIA FOR CLEANING WINDOWS. Ammonia and water is about the best thing to use for cleaning windows. "When they are very dirty or when it is not safo ( to use water a paste made of one tablespoonful of olive oil, one tablespoonful of sal ammonia, two tablespoonfuls of lime and one tablespoonful of water cleans them very nicely. Rub the paste on the window and when it is dry remove it with a soft cloth.?New Tori World. UTILIZING RANCID BUTTER. An English writer in the Dairy tells of her method of cleansing rancid butter, which renders it better and more economical to use in making pastry than lard. She melts it and then boils sliced raw potatoes in it. When the potatoes are brown she knows the butter is cleansed and that they have absorbed the butyric xt?A J_ At... iJ uciu uiul cuiuuy muuu tuc uuticr rttuuiu. She skims off what matter rises upon the surface and pours the pure oil in jars to store it till time of use. * SCALDING BATH TUBS. The porcelain-lined bath tubs are the best, for there are no cracks or rough places for the lodgment of micro-organisms. Every tub, however, should be scalded out every time it is used. Heat is the best disinfectant in the world, and the frequent use of hot water for rinsing out tubs is an absolute preventive for all possible contaminations. This is the great objection to public bath houses. Not enongh care is taken of the tubs, and persons with skin diseases bathe in any tub, indiscriminately.?New TorTc Journal. COVERS AND QUrLTS. xor Deurooms, covers anu qums, etc., arc sometimes made to correspond. 3ay_ the material chosen is pale blue linen. The bedspread, small tablecover, toilet and washstand slips, mats and splasher, are all of the same, and the dccoration consists of pale yellow marguerites shaded with darker tints, but all soft and subdued. The edges may be finished off in this manner: Set five or seven rows of silk along the edge at regular intervals, like the printed lines of a sheet of music. This is done by taking a long stitch in front of the material, catching up two threads, then another long stitch. The stitch may measure about a quarter of an inch, and always the same two threads are to be taken up in every row. When this is all done, make a buttonhole stitch over the whole of the five or seven rows just where the two threads arc taken up. Now you have the rows of gold thread buttonholed over with blue thread at regular distances.?New York Observer. THE CARE OF LAMPS. All parts of the lamp burner should be thoroughly clean. A little kerosene or alcohol on a cloth is as good for this purpose as anything else to clcan the burner,, providing it is polished clean and dry afterward. Every pait of the outside of a lamp should be rubbed dry and free from oil when it is filled daily. Do not cut the wick of a lamp after it is first put in and has been evenly trimmed oncc, but each day brush off the charred portion. The wick will last longer and the light be ^vener and clearer if this last rule i3 strictly adhered to. Always avoid filling a lamp to the brim or burning it when the oil is nearly exhausted. There is no special economy, says the New York Tribune, which gives the foregoing advice, in turning down a lamp; nearly the same amount of oil is consumed, what is not burned in the blaze passing, off in a gas, which is often strongly noticeable on go;ng into a room where the lamp has burned low for some hours. In case only a little light is desired, a night lamn. adnnted to a smill wick, should I r, ??? -- , always be used. HABBIT8. The value of rabbits as an article of food is not understood by most housekeepers, declares Mrs. E. R. Parker in the Courier-Journal. Being very cheap and plentiful, many economical and appetizing dishes may be prepared from them. It is, however, necessary that the rabbits, to be acceptable, should bp in good condition when brought to the cook; they should be free from any unpleasant odor, and the flesh reddish in appearance. If young, the paws and ears will be soft to the touch. The following recipes will furnish every houskeeper with a variety in serving this game: Broiled Rabbit?Skin a tender young rabbit, remove the entrails, wipo well in- ? side and out with a wet towel, then dry. Cut iuto halves, lay on a hot gridiron, turn over the coals until brown. Serve on a hot dish; dredge with pepper and salt, and pour over melted butter. Panned Rabbit?Clean, cut open, wipe with damp cloth and dry. Place in a baking pan, spread with butter, dust with pepper and salt, set in the oven, baste every ten minutes, and bake one hour. Wheu done take up on a heated dish, make brown gravy in the r?on v>nur over the rnbbit and serve. , Fricassee of Rabbit?Prepare as for panning, cut up, put in a stew pan, cover with boiling water, set over a moderate fire, and let cook tender. Take up the rabbit, which should be cooked very low. Put a table spoonful of butter in a fryiug pan, let melt, add two table spoonfuls of flour and mix well, pour in a pint of sweet milk, stir aud pour in the same pan with the rabbit gravy, and let boil. Season with salt and pepper, take from the fire, add the beaten yelks of two eggs, pour over the rabbit, sprinkle with chopped parsley, and serve. Fried Rabbit?Cut up, dip in beaten egg and then in flour; season with pepper and salt. Fry in hot larl. Take up and thicken the gravy with an ounce of butter and a tablo spoonful of flour, pour iu a dish and lay the rabbit on top. Itoast Stuffed Rabbit?Make a stuffing of bread crumbs, a little parsley, thyme, nutmeg, salt and pepper, mix with a miartfir of a Dound of butter, a little cream and two beaten eggs, put in the body of the rabbit, sew up, dredge with flour and baste with lard while roasting. Serve with parsley and butter sauce. Stewed Rabbit?Cut in pieces, soak in salt water, put in u iiiuvvpu mm culm of salt pork, let cook tender, strain off the water and pour over the rabbit a teacup of milk with chopped onion, a little salt and pepper, add two ounces of butter, thicken with flour, let boil. and serve hot. Larded Rabbit?Take the backs of two fat, well-grown rabbits from the^skbulder to the thighs, divide the solid flesh into pieces. Lard, with very_?hin narrow strips of fat pork, and" braise one hour, arrange on a hot dish in a circle and pour over brown sauce. TEMPERANCE. THE GBOGGERY CASH BELL. From the earliest glimmer o* day v 'i'o the ?2tting of every sun. . There's a chiming of belis that merrfiy fells' Of shame and of crime begun. Ching! Fve cents for a glass of bi* ; Ching! Ten cents for a whisky straight. And the devil stands near With a horrible ieer Like the wraith ot a hideous fate. And all through the wearisome night In noisome and smoke-tainted air. Men arc mixing their brains with horrible pains * Anl branding their souls with despair. Vj Ching! >;5 Ten <rants a glass for rye; L'hiug! ' . Fifteen for Bourbon sour, "While iittle babes cry because hunger is I nigh ,.< $ And tortures them hour aft.u- hour. __ Oh, vain for the church bolls to sound Ihe beautiful praises of Christ. By a merrier chime ringing all of the time Are the souls of our brothers enticed. Ching! * Ten c. nts for a glass of wine: Ching! Fifteen for a bumper of rum. "While the desolate pine with a patience divine. And the mourners with sorrow are dumb. Then what though hard times be abroad, And the gaunt form of Famine appear? There is gold and to spare to buy whisky andcare, And enough to buy sorrow and beer. Ching! Ten cents for insanity's spell* Ching! ' ?-?a.? 4- i -* jl'itc ecu lb iui a uumuer oi woe? 'Tie a musical knell ringing souls down tohelj, And to frenzy and shame ere they go? ?George Horton, in Chicago Herald. A DRUNKARD'S TV ILL. The following is a will left by a drunkaEfir^ of Oswego, New York State: "I leave to> society a ruined character and a wretched ?25 example. I leave to my parents as much sorrow as they can in their feeble state bear. I leave to my brothers and sisters as much, shame and mortification as I could bring on - b them. I leave to my wife a broken heart? a life of shame. I leave to each of my cliildren poverty, ignorance, a low charac ter- A and the remembrance that their father filled'a drunkard's grave.?Christian Inquihr. * HE LET LIQUOR ALOTO. ' , . . California's oldest inhabitant, ths Indian "Old Gabriel,1' who died last March, aged r.1' 151 years, was "a light eater," eschewed al- '$ cohol aDd tobacco, also abstained from use ot ? tea and coffee; bread pudding,'fruit and sweets were his princinal food, and hot water. - ^ with a touch of sugar and milk, his drink* He went to bed early, roso early, and slept well. Moreover, he scraped his body with n ? dull case-knife; wore clothes under protest, . "because compelled by the law of the invaders," and, withal, was "fond of sunshine.*' * THE W. C. T. r. IN PHILADELPHIA. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union, of Philadelphia has during the last year held 160 gospel temperance meetings; made weekly visits to the Moyamensing prison, holding gospel meetings and distributing literature to the prisoners; conducted 130 gospel meet- ~ ings in the Philadelphia Hospital ami Alms-, house; visited each woman convict in the eastern penitentiary; made twenty-six visits to police stations, providing clothing and comfort for tho women and children detained there, and distributed 248,297 pages of literature bearing upori our various lines of work,' besides 131 Bibles and testaments, 4858 books and 213 magazines. A number of addresses the subject of health and social purity work have been given, with special talks on these subjects to the inmates of the Midnight Mission, Magdalen and Rosine homes. THE "TEA-fU-TCM-' CAFE. The leading temperance advocates in London have been inspecting the new "Tea-to- - ^ Turn" Cafe, which was recently started in the east end of London by Mr. Buchanan, wealthy tea merchant, and have come to the conclusion that one of the best possible methods of removing the fatal attractiveness of the public house would be the' provision of goou and cheap eating-houses in every quar- . ter of the large towns in Great Britain. The "Tea-to-tum" cafes as they arecalled, are in*' ^ tended to combine the advantages of a cafe and a club, and they are intended for the uses of the working classes On the ground y floor is a restaurant, and above is a room for bagatelle and billiards. Newspapers, chess and draughts are provided, and the rooms are well and tastefully fitted up. Better than all, the food is not only cheap but excellent. A satisfactory meal may be obtained at the cafe for eight cents. Mr. Buchanan's aim i3 not profit so much as tho provision of places where working men and women can have a good meal and spend a qwet evening, but the venture has begun to paV its way so that the temperauce advocates will have little difficulty in obtaining funds to open similar cafes elsewhere. FASHIONABLE WOMEN'S STIMULANTS. As for the drinking With the fashionable wo:nan in England, the result of the appalling and psrpetual strain and the continued late hours cause her to waken uurefreshed in the morning, and as sue has no desire for l breakfast, hock and seltzer ta'ce the placeof tea, and a glass of port is frequently taken about eleven to strengthen her for her ride. There is more wine at lunch, and at the fashionable teas, rich cakes and sweets and heirty sandwiches, with frequently a glass of winewjne again at dinner, and again at the late supper, and par haps a glass of whisky to go to sleep on. So you sea she consumes -quite enough of wine without any secret stores of it in her apartments. Eau-de-Cologne and sal volatile are consumed in their peculiar way far too much, because the tired woman f??olc o/Nncfonflw in -J -J* -i.-' 1 x- t. ?-? 111 nee.! ui suuiuiams. it has been said that English women are not nervous women, but the doctor accuses them of being whimsical and fanciful to the verge of insanity, and having what our grandmothers called "vapors,1' but what we call < "nerves." Coca-wins is a fashionable remedy among English women, and probably cor- ' %. respond with the differentsedataves employed here; but the use of opium and morphine is not, it would seem, so prevalent as among American women, who do not, as a rule, drink so much wine or ale. Smoking is not confined to the lawlessness of Bohemia, but exists in all rank?, and especially among genuine society women.?Argonaut. TEMPERA N'CE NEWS AND NOTES. A Toronto paper figures out that the drunkards of that city lost *191,8^*2 in Mages last year. Five hundred children unuer ten years of ago were taken into custody last year 111 London as drunk and incapable. The people of northern Europe cousumn more alcohol, per capita, than their neigh bors in the south, for the reason that, relatively, they are not so well fed. In ancient Greece a law o? Pittacus enacted that "he who commits a crime when drunk shall receive a double punishment"?, one for the crime itself and the other for the inebriety which prompted him to commit it. Rev. P. Evans, a missionary of the Baptist Church in India, thinks there is no doubt that the example of the English has done much to foster drinking habits among the people of that country, and is of the opinion that none but total abstainers should b? sent as missionaries to that country. A prisoner in the penitentiary at Columbus. Ohio, who was pardoned in 1883 on con dition that he abstain from the use of intoxicating liquors, has just been returned to too establishment, having taken to drinking. He will now have to serve out the remainder of his term?about fifteen months. Tn an opening lecture before the medical in T .nndnM nnt.ll'in Tli? A Wlfttf. fnnV the ground that "alcohol is never directly a I stimulant; that it does not aid digestion; j that it is not nourishing, and that It does not I arrest waste. A stimulant increases strength; J alcohol increases action, and this is mistaken m for strength.'' The 'Noon Rest'; is the title ot an institution devised for the benefit of the business women and girl& of Indianapolis by the Young Women's Christian Temperance Union. It is a sort of woman's club, the rooms of which are open every day from 10 a. m. to o v. m.. where all young women who , work in stores and shops are invited to spend their noon hour?. Tables are pro vided for lunches, and milk, tea, coffee and chocolate are served for three cents per ' up. ;