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fFfe d ?-IZZZ.T t>- a A NC . fiv f?2rs- Sliza (ISABELLA * *T /?anvvi^!iti 181)3 mi 1893, Is] ./ CHAPTER XX. PLAYING WITH FIRE. When Mary Hamilton and Dolores next met, there was on the face of the latter a reflation tof "that light that never was on sea or land," and she ha<3 quite forgotten, for the moment, their conversation of the night before and the cause of it. When Clarence Stanley called, later in the day, he, too, observed that light, and quite misunderstood it. It was like a halo about her head and face, and when her eyes met his and seemed to bathe him in their shining loveliness, he did not suspect that she had looked through him without so much as seeing him; and as his heart bounded to meet that look, he thought: "The girl loves die! I have seen that look before in women's eyes; nothing but love ever calls it there! but let me beware, as old Van says; it is better she should do all the loving, JS; since I can master her better that way. V? Confound Mary Hamilton! If she would only leave us alone for half an hour together! Let me once throw Dolores into the mesmeric trance now, * >- - - - r ? SDK sue IS 1X11UO tuioiou And Dolores, all unconscious of his presence, smiled at her own thoughts and passed on. The triumph which Stanley now felt in his power over Yan Tassel, increased by what he mistook for open encouragement on the part of Dolores, made him comparatively indifferent to the effect of the tunlucky contretemps between himself and Mrs. Helmholtz and the now evident jealousy of Mary Hamilton. He felt his position strong in every respect. Ja-t "old Hamilton," as he now thought of him, suspect what he pleased; let Polly be jealous either of Celestine or Dolores or both. There was but one person living who could disprove his present identity, and poor old Yan was as harmless now as a toothless dog whose bark was silenced aluo. Had it not been that he had no other chance of seeing Dolores, he would not any longer go thrnnch tha form of keening up his, | intimacy with the Hamiltons. But nntil he had quite won Dolores it \rould be necessary to continue his visits to Polly; and, in order to be ready for any contingency, it would be safer to remain on good terms with her parents. But nothing could exceed his self-confidence and placid indifference, and this mauner of his, which was so genuine it did not seem to be assumed, was powerful in its effect on Mr. Hamilton and his wife. It was, indeed, rather too powerful in its effect on Jlrs. Hamilton. . "We have done wrong to show the . least doubt of Clarence," said the anxious mother. "I fear it has offended him, and it may be the means of estranging him from Polly; and now that you have convinced yourself that there can be no doubt of his succeeding to the title, what will become of us if anything should part him from Polly? She has grown to almost woruhip him, and a separation between them, from anv cause, would kill the dear child." "What should separate them?" exclaimed Mr. Hamilton. "Nonsense! Hasn't a father a right to be particular? My mistake was in not looking . into hiB affairs sooner; and it still bothers mo that I can -meet no one who ever knew him in England. But, of course, that is all right. He is Clarence Stanley, and like enough to be Earl of Windermere by what I hear; but don't say anything to him on that subject. If he were fifty earls rolled into one, he would not be , too good for my daughter, and I wish you and Polly would remember that. : vfilie lets him see how fond she is of , him far too much. You women ought, to know enough to keep that _ t m.n r?_ii I more w> yourselves, ami x'ouy eu. It woxild do the fellow good if she held him off a bit. And, bye thebye, since we are talking business, the Windermere estates are heavjly mortgaged, and Clarence hasn't money enough to clear them. He knows that Polly's bank account will be seven figures on her wedding day, and he is by no means indifferent to that circumstance." The result of this confidence becween husband aud wife was a halfplayfui, half-confidential conversation between mother and daughter, within the next twenty-four hours. "Aud don't be so ready to throw yourself into his arms, Polly, dear," Haid Mrs. Hamilton in conclusion; "for, really, men are so queer, and the best of them prefer the love that is the hardest to win." "Ob, mamma," exclaimed Polly, between laughing and crying, "don't ever try to shine as a worldly-wise, maneuvering mother, for indeed the ton-in-law that would be deceived by your artful wiles would not be worth the having!" "Ami that's not Clarence,'' regponrted Mrs. Hamilton, "for he's worth the having. But remember what I say, Polly, dear, ali the same." "I will try to, mamma, dear; but I am afraid it is rather late in the day," sighed Polly. And that is how it chanced, when on the next day that Stanley called and asked for Miss Hamilton, he was told to wait in the drawing-room, if he was able to spare time, because Miss Polly was very much engaged. "Poor Polly Hamilton!,' If she had tried for a month to think of the one thing above all others that would at that moment nave pleased Stanley the most, she could not have been more successful than she was now in sending bjm that cool and careless message; for, as he entered the drawing-room, Stanley was aware that Dolores was seized at the farther end of it, half buried in an arm-chair and sorting a pile of yellow roses that lay on her lap. Never had she looked so beautiful. She did not attempt to leave the room; indeed, Stanley's presence had t sh (regsflre. )VEL beil| G? ?infer.; CASTELAR.) il r Rob*et Bonnks's S?nb.) " 1 become a matter of indiiierence to Dolores. Another atmosphere now wrapt her completely from his influence that she had forgotten even her former dislike aud fear of him; and ? i v j _:*v. i,?? ttiat leeung wmcn, cumumeu wjlu u? love and anxiety for Polly Hamilton, had so troubled her that she could not tell if she was repelled or attracted, was now so entirely in abeyance that for the present she was no longer conscious of it. She looked up as he approached her and said, with a careless nod: ' "Polly will be here presently. Sit down." "The longer she stays away the better I shall be pleased," said Clarence, drawing forward a chair so that he sat directly opposite Dolores. She looked up in mute questioning I of his words, but she made no other answer. "Because her absence gives me the pleasure of a little talk with you, fairest cousin, and I have too little t)f that." Dolores had put two beaufiful amber-colored roses together, and laid them against the front of her corsage :* Tii-no on/] ftho wnr? a 'It WUD XXV/ VT U UMVj IIMV* < aloose gown of cool, white India Bilk, withont color or any ornament, for she was (.till in mourning. But the golden hue of the flowers, like prisoned sunshine against he dress, had a perfectly dazzling * effect, together with the gleaming light of her eyes, through her long lashes and the sheen of her bronze-brown hair. "You are very beautiful!" said Stanley. How often he had said those words ! to other women?how often he had laughed in his heart at the other women to whom he had said them. But now they really seemed to have a meaning, and his breath came quick and his pulses 'throbbed while he watched this woman to wfcom they seemed to have no meaning. "Do you think so?" asked Dolores, with supreme indifference. "What do you know of beauty?" "Not much, indeed, cousin, till I met you,"'aaid Stanley, with a humble sincerity he had never practiced till that moment. Yes, it was true, he said to himself?all he had told Van Tassel, and more, too. He loved, adored, worshiped this girl. She might, if she $ared, make of him what she would? something even good enough to be loved byf herself?or good or~ bad, what mattered it? He oould give up the whole world and all that it contained, oontent only to sit at her feet and worship there, if Bhe would but let him. "You must not call me 'cousin,'" laughed Dolores, mockingly. "I don't believd" we are even cousins." "Then something nearfer, dearer, Dolores. I love you! I love you!" He bent toward and would have taken her hand, but she snatched it from his touch and pushed back her chair with a movement of violent, nanoinn??>.A fpar and lnafchincr r*-??- -? o* "Don't dare to touch me!" she cried. "You love me? Oh, you are mad!" "I am?mad, or anything you cboosa to make me;but listen,Dolores ?you shall listen! I love you!-,1 have never before loved any woman. I did not know I could love. I am bad; I am evil; I know it; 1 acknowledge it. But to love you would redeem any man. I feel myself exalted, pun- , fied when I am near you. You can make me an angel like yourself. Without you, I shall be, as I have ever been, a devil! Think, girl, that you oan save a soul from Satan. Does that mean nothing to an angel sgch bb you are? It is your mission to save me. I belong to you. Is it my fault that I have borne a heritage of evil handed down to me for hundreds of years, while you have inherited only goodness and purity? It is your duty to redeem me?the debt my Indian ancestor owes to me. Dolores! Dolores! We are the last of our race. To us belongs the countless treasure of the Mendozas. It is ours to enjoy, ours to possess it forever, to lift the curse of the Indian woman from the race of the Mendozas. You said but now that I was not your cousin. Behold! Is 'not this the birthmark of the Mendozas?" With a sweeping gesture he pushed back the golden hair from his temple, and there Dolores beheld the wellknown birthmark inherited from Pedro Mendoza. "The black heart!" she cried. "Oh, come not near me! Murderer, doubly, trebly accursed! Yes, you do indeed bear the mark of the Mendozas; but only those of the black heart are cursed past redemption. Maruja! Mavuja! Even your love cannot save him!" ; She wrung her hands passionately together, While a low moan of the deepest distress burst from heElips; her face became set and white, her eyes rolled wildly, then clcsed as if suddenly glued together; and, ns she sank helpless into her chair, her head fell back, and Stanley saw that she had become uncouscious. It was so sudden, so unexpected, that he could hardly comprehend what had happened; but in the next moment his heart gave an exultant bound, "At last, at last!" he muttered. "I I would hare loved her; I would have knelt at her feet as a slave; but she j would not have it so; now she is at my I mercy, and she shall be the slave, not I I!" He would have taken the step toward her, but liia feet seemed glued to the floor; he raised his bands, but when he would have waved them before her face they seemed suddenly i like lead, while a cold breeze seemed 1 to strike a <-hill to his very heart, j "What is this?" he thought. "Am 1 I then powerless over her?" He seemed to hear the hollow oclio ; of a mocking laugh, and every evil iui stiuct of his nature rose to light for I him. Let come what might, he would compel her to see the treasure au<l de scribe its hiding-place. Gold, gold1 That was the passion of his soul, and now he returned to it with feverish gladness, all the more its devoted slave because of his brief infidelity, his fleeting fancy for a woman's love. "Can you see the hiding-place oi the Mendoza treasure in the Santiagc Canyon?" he asked imperiously. I "I am there," said the voice of Dolores; yet not her voice, as it seemed to Stanley, though speaking through her lips. "Describe the place." "Near a sycamore tree., far up the M 1 XL - canyon, wnere ine wnu pauaieo, me poppies and the blue forget-me-nots star the ground." "Can you see beneath {he earth?" "Yes, where gold lies in veins through the earth and a thousand rich and rare jewels lie buried." "How can I reach it?" "That I shall not tell you?" "You shall; I command you!" "I will not obey." Stanley bent forward and, with all the force of his strong and evil will, fixed his gleaming eyes on the still white face before him, and with set teeth and hands clenched, he hissed in low, vibrant tones: "I command you, by the strength of my will and by all the depths of evil in my soul, that evil which you fear and tremble at, to answer and obey me!" "I refuse and I defy you!" Choking with rage, blind with fury, he would havd rushed on the Blight and quivering form in the effort ^o wrench by physical force the obedience he coulcl not command; out wnen ne would have seized the insensible form of Dolores, his arme once more fell, powerless, to his sides and a shock as if from an electric battery thrilled through him from head to foot. Again a cold breeze, chill, benumbing, horrible, smote on his face, and a pale silvery mist, shot through with glittering dust of fire, seemed to rise between him and Dolores. It grew denser and the air grew colder; and n shadowy face, dark, menacing, terrh ble," looked at him, while two great, glowing eyes glared on him so fiercely they seemed tcr bum into his brain. With a smothered imprecation of fear and impotent rage, Stanley fell back before the look of those eyes; and whAn had faded awav and all the air was clear again, be rubbed hie own eyes as one awaking from sleep and darted forward tofvard Dolores. The chair in which she had been seated was empty; the door close beside it was open, and she had evidently left the room. "What is the meaning of all this?" exclaimed Clarence. "Is it magic? Witchcraft? Or have I been asleep, drugged, hypnotized?" He turned and strode across the room toward the other door, and as he parted the curtains he found himself confronted by a face, so drawn, contorted, livid with suffering that bo looked long upon the once familiar features before he recognized them. Then he said: "Polly! Oh, Polly! Is it you?" "Yes, Clarence?it is I!" CHAPTER XXI. SOME OF THE RESULTS. Her voice was changed as greatly as her face; and pushing aside the curtain, she entered the room, sinking heavily into the nearest chair. "How long have you been here?" he said at last. "T 3 HI T 1 T+ JL UUIi t AilUU , ? tUU t tCi*. JLW OWVUn; a long while." "How mnch have you heard?" "Everything, I suppose; bat I understand nothing?nothing, except that you love Dolores?only Dolores. You have never loved me?never loved any one but Dolores, only Dolores? always and always Dolores! Oh, my Rita, my Rita, whom I loved! Oh, my Clarence, my Clarence, who never loved me!" "Polly, Polly, won't you listen? ,Can you forgive?" "Please, don't?oh, please, don't speak to me! Only go away now andleave me! Please, only go away just now and let me be alone!" Stanley turned from her quickly. He was, indeed, stifling, choking, and he gladly rushed into the hall and out into the street. The situation was become too much even for his iron nerves, and although the cool air seemed to brighten his mind and bring back his scattered wits, he walked as in a nightmare. xo BE CON'TINTED. An Ainoslnc Election Episode. In the last Senatorial campaign in Kentucky the opposing candidates in one of the Southern districts, Dr. Harrel and Mr. Clark, who were conducting a joint debate, had au amusing experience. When they weut to Keysburg to fill their appoiutmeut to speak they found nobody at all to hear them. Everybody had gone to Red River to fish. The candidates followed the way the people bad gone, and when they came to the river found quite an assemblage on the opposite j bank. Harrel mounted a stump and j Vionrftii tr> afldrnaq thftm at lont? rancp i but soon founil that his voice would not hold up at that distance, so he requested tliem to wade out into the river and draw nearer. Instead of doing this, they sent a skiff and ferried the candidates over, and then sat patiently down and listened to the speeches. When the speaking was over the candidates were informed that they had been speaking in Tennessee. Cost of War Mew* From Manila. Few persons realize the cost of the war news sent from Manila each day. The regular rate of the Eastern Telegraph Company from Manila to New York is $-.35 a word, and a dispatch filling one column of the upual length would cost^bput SiOOO simply for cable tolls. When a large number of newspapers.use the same dispatch, as in the case of matter distributed by press assooiatiens, the cost of it to each paper is, of conrse, much reduced, although the annual expense of collecting news has been increased for all American newspapers oy the country's oriental expansion It is no more than fair for the reader to credit an expansion paper with unselfish mo tires. . ttJj-v-? ? . ' The dogs in Barnwell; Coupty, S. C.t . arc returned at a valuation of S12.S30, ' while the assessed value of the entire property of the county iu sheep and coats is $201. [SIBERIA'S A What Russia is I Her Vast Asiat CHARACTERISTIC SCENES R emarkable as the | *M": 'lit otifi'mani mflVI fleem'e7er s*noe day when the first 'fflfe jfiK?r flection of the Siberjatt railway was &G&2Szn*SSrkjtz dpined, from Cheliabinsk to Kurgan, immigration has been flowing into the country in a [ constantly increasing stream. Now that the great rivers and steppes are crossed by through trains all the way from Mosoow to Irkutsk, the movement is even more rapid, and already tho vast areas of Siberia are less lone A SIBERIAN FARMER'S some than they were a few years ago, writes Trumbull White, in ,the Chioago Record. The Russian peasant is displaying the same sort of restlessness that induced the settlement of our Own "Western States and Territories from the more thickly populat?a?{awi? a Poof Tnrloor] fha CU IC^IUUO VI IIUO JJOOVi AUUUVW} VMV Russian peasant always has shown a willingness to support the "expansion"* policy of His Government by moving on into the newly annexed lands and subduing them to his# own oivilization and manner of development, crude though th^t might be. It is time to dismiss the idea that the Russian peasant is altogether a clod. He has shared too well the labors of the Russian advance across Asia. An observant English traveler writing recently bf his journey in these lands has complimented the Siberian and the American in the same breath at the same time that he has phrased an important observation. "If we exclude the more recent peasant immigrants," he says, "the original Russian population of Siberia maybe B&id to comprise the following three alasses: The Cossacks, who first con E0U3B WHEBE HOT "WATER IS FURNISHED TRAVELERS ON SIBERIAN RAILWAY. quered the country; exiles, political and criminal; dissenters from the Greek church, who were either banished to Siberia or went there oi their own accord. That is to say, the original Russian population of Siberia consists of men and women who were in some way intellectually or physically more active or more earnest than their fellow country men and women who remained in European Russia. The result is that to-day the average Siberian is a more vigorous and intelligent man than the average Bussian. He picks up a thing more quickly; u:- -v. ? ? ; AllD I HO la liuuuij The Siberian born citizens of the country do not fail torealize the3e differences. Already^ have learned that they want to be called Siberians rather than Russians, and to them the latter name seems no more correct than to call the descendants of English colonists in the United States Englishmen instead of Americans. Already evidences have appeared that "Siberia for the Siberians" iB not an unknown sentiment. Provision for the sustenance of the immigrants on their railway journey through Siberia [is simple but ade quate. Most of the peasants* bring with them as much food as possible of the sort they relish, in order to avoid the necessity of buying on the way. Ponderous loaves of black bread, slabt of died fish and a supply -r i-- nl.;.ar aaeAllt.ialfl in t.hifi OI ica art? tuc _ ~~ , commissary depaxtmeui. Each family carries a teapot in addition.to onps and simple dishes, and the individual traveler must do hkewisbif h? wishes ' . A business street in omsk, siberia. , , depart; . ' . ?r _ t ^ ^o'be sure.of comfort, as a^ery one knows, tea stBple*aYticl'e among"' the Russians find is consumed in crest Quantities. The Government 4 A Doing to Develop || :ic Possession. |p m IN TOWN AND COUNTRY. S provides for the necessity in excellent fashion. At every Btation of the first class,which means about every seventy-five or eighty miles, there is erected at one end of the platform a little house of logs, wnicn is arrangeu solely for the convenience of the people who want water. A big tank, holding two or three barrels of water, is arranged with a charcoal furnace to keep its contents at the boiling point. In another corner of the house is a tank of cold water. Eaoh of these is fitted with several faucets so that the passengers may serve themselves J FAMILY AND HOME. rapidly when thoy come. Near this ho nee is an open shed facing the track, which shelters a rongh counter and some shelves. This is at the servioe of the peasant women of the village, who bring all sorts of eatables to this primitive buffet at train time. When the train awives there is a hasty exodus from the otte. One rep Tentative of eaon lamuy or traveling party harries to the hotise! where the hot water is waiting and draws from the tank into his teapot as much as he likes of the essential liquid. Others rusn to the buffet shed, to find bread, s y/fiW1HORSES TRAMPING OUT THE < fish, meat, cakes, hot soup, berries, kvass and kumyss, all of which are sold at astonishinc law prices. Then they return to the train to prepare their meals and at their leisure eat and drink. ^ j Emigrants from provinces nottribu- : tary to the Volga River are carried on special trains or in emigrant cars at- ! tached to the slower regular trains, at : rates, but little higher than thope of 1 the steamers and very much less tban : the regular third-class rftte^-^jfor 1000 versts, for instance, I class fare is eight, rubles .^nalSm ; kopecks, or approximately $4.8B^xor> 665 miles. The emigrant'Tftte for "the j timely better than the h^ people ha ve had. ;^r;* The oars themselves in which,the emigrants travel to the land, ofe|J?eir hopes are the ordinar^' iourtfHjla8B oars of thesori one Boee all over Bus {waam'ViflJ offny i-ntrai?fol-i1o D*f?| MtBVtAVWU W?w* .? fashion, "for eight horses -Or forty men/' They are what iro eWl box care in the United States, paiot'ed'tlie familiar red, with sliding doors Opening in either side. . . : ^ SHOWING THE TOWER OP THE PIKE J KENT. The.most characteristic feature of Siberian farm life is that the farmers live not scattered r.ll c?ver the country, r remote from neighbors,but in villages \ r - as near as possihle to the land they are cultivating. Each village, then, is a cluster of houses, in which live not villagers in the usual sense, as townspeople in a small settlement, MOSQUE OF THE TARTAB8 AT OMSK, SI BEBIA. but the farmers of the region round about. Life in these villages of Siberia is rude einough, with none of the qualities we consider neoeesary to comfort. 'The lands are fertile, yielding ample crops of grain even with the crude methocls'of cultivation in offeot. The plowing is shallow becaute the .plows are poor. There is little cultivation after plantix^? The grain is harvested with hand sickles and scythes. It is thrashed by horses fin the open field, me gftttn WBnpiea out 01 trie straw by threVor four Siberian ponies trot* in a stiall circle. It is winiowed by' hand and ground in T7indmj|l?l With a 1 the crudity of the pr^wiji?B,:the yield of wheat, for instqjHB|4 ifroni twonty to thirty fold, and twenty.five and even proprietors have begnfi modern methods of nniotilttifpeasants are slow to adopi^tham. : The grapes are robbed' Ofjuice8;ig the simplest of preEses, ah'dTfw^iri?ijtjetiil carted and stored in bglfocfcalrafo. 4 wine cellar is'a strang&;*MHBjth its iQfvt. of distorted ttlwith the' The barbaric *^WUmcliitectnre such as the fond of it. frequently Mgfci# tlUfflUrger Siberian towns. Omsif?B mflf .mosques oi this kind. Qti^pf ^tijycoorapanyiDg large picture* DUCOI One man a Germac called Mallec^9H^BI beyond the Guards' camp 04'Jwfcj'iray to Jacobsda!. He wassa^rttf-TMefal person, because he snppBfed oi each morning with miljc aj^egg8,^d>V<> should have been very nofirjt to' i. a is only one among &/2&' ffl From VfokV ifagazia , e get this picture of the' travelers' tree, an oddooking growth indigenous in Madagascar. BotamcaUjr^it i8 known as ;he Ravenala Madagarcarenis, bat its popular name has been given it from [he belief that water from rain and dew collects in its leaf stems in sufficient juautity to quench a traveler's thirst, rhe water does collect as stated, but is the plant grows beside watei courses it can hardly be of special [ aenetit to the traveler, who coulo ; slack his thirst much easier at tht i *<1 iftoorif affoo m tujavcuv As tlie Shcrlfl Would Kan It. "Next week we will begin runninp his paper as Captain Kidd wonlc* jave run'it. Delinquent subscriber: nay expect a call from us witb theii iccounts stuck in the muzzle of a sixibooter. Othenvisethis paper will bt unning as the Sheriff would run it.' -Bowersville Clarion. Ilritirbiickfi of Refinement. Between dyspepsia and table man- J iers, there is no fun iu eating any acre.?Detroit Journal. ... ^ ; 1 . i . , ; - ;* mL.'.1 PORTABLE SCHOOL HOUSE. How the Educational Demand* Are Met* In 8t. Louis. St. Louis is congratulating itself just now upon having successfully, solved a difficult problem, and upon the carrying out of a unique and interesting idea. In fact, she has wrought out a new version of the old story of Mahomet and the mountain and anew*: application. Like the mountain, it has lreen found necessary that when, scholars will not come to the school, the school must, of a necessity, go to the scholars. This, on the face of it, might seem a matter of extreme difficulty. Ab it is, however, the problem has been solved. St. Louisjhas found mnch difficulty ( in providing room for all its school \ children. Rented rooms were experimented with in many parts of the city with more or less success, but the general result would hardly be called x a satisfactory one. In districts where the population was scattered the plan j seemed scarcely applicable. After, much consideration and many experi^ meats, it was suggested that a school-; ') house or schoolhousesof such a nature( . that they could be readily moved from place to place, set up wherever re-j quired, and when no longer needed,! taken down and removed to some' other field of action, would fill the' . bill. Therefore, a consultation of | local carpenters was called and ak 1 school building, such as desired, waw*" > 1 the result. : ^ a These buildings have been con*! % struoted in such a manner that wheaj ' ; ^ POBTABLE SCHOOLHOUSE, ST. LOUIS, MO.i so longer reqnired at one site they! can quickly be taken apart and, ifi ieed be, moved to another. They are! tytfnty-four by thirty-six feet, inside; ( ' mAieurement. The floors are con-! strftcted in eight sections, the sides in i sii sections, the ends in four sections j . and tiie roof in sixteen sections. Each.-, section is strongly pot together onj frames, and these are bolttfoin such at manner a? to make a perfectly tight j and secure xoom. The joints between j the sections ami covfered both inside! and oat by mftvable pieces, which arej held in plaoa by eorews. The heatingi and ventilating are fumished by an indirect fornace. with doable casing. The fresh air ia taken directly from, the outside, and the supply cannot, in any manneic, be cut off or reduced beyond a.proper limit. j* ,, , I jj Healthful Sleep. V Et/ecry one knows that it is bad to sleep on your back, but it is even worse if the bed is such that your , stomach is as high as your head and your feet are lower tban both, as must t be the case on too heavily wadded ' mattresses. On the other hand, if \ the spring is too yielding you will find1 n liaarrrr nf I.Ha liA/lr ma Ita! I VU0V VUV u WW ? J f/Hi IU W* vuv wvm^ ?H ?w, ? I you lie in e, kind of hollow whether; you 6leep on your back or on yourj dtfe. It is most uuhealthful to have;. H? the feet so high as they are in thisj kind of bed, when yogi sleep on your i back, and if you try to sleep on your; ?i aide the spjne is curved most uncomfortably arid unhealthful. What then is to be done about it?| The spring of the bed must either be1 IWRo?t Po^jfort , 1 | * Runt Pc>il;OM II-w^-^ I ,T U ' J3 DIAGRAM SHOWING RIGHT AND WRONG POSITIONS. made in several pieces, or be made np -ii of spiral springs, so that all parts are independent of one another, and the 2 springs at the center are stronger than those at the head and foot, because. , they have more weight to support. In' this way it becomes possible for the tired man or woman to obtain the 'greatest possible amount of benefit from the hours devoted to sleep. If they will use a moderately bard mat tress, of cotton or nair, never oi teatners, and not too high a pillow, seeiug that when they are in bed the body is riot aM curled up in a knot by the poor springe and lhat the feet and back are in almost a straight line, the repose gained while lying either on the right ar left side will prove refreshing and aealthfol. Vinegar Drinker* in Kantian. It is reported in one of the smaller jiiiea not far from Kansas City that a good many of the people there are becoming vinegar fiends. They began oy taking the vinegar as a preventive }t? smallpox, drinking it three times a lay. The'syjstem soon seemed to denand it,and the doses were increased,' mtil the-victims imagined they required the viiiegar. (me woman who ias become addictedffb the habit irinks a pint of vinegara day.?Kanjas City Journal. a / Buy Ifon-PhMil the Coi\Jarer. | At^a country fair a conjurer wqk performing the old trick of producing agge/from a hat, when he remarked to i little boy: "Your mother can't get eggs without hens, can she?" "Of course she can!" replied the lad. "Why, how is thai?" asked the conjaier. 'tfche keeps ducks," replied th-i boy, amid roars of laughter.?Tit-: Bits. Value of the Victoria Cros?. The Victoria Cross, the intrinsic nine of which is one penny and one farthing, or two and a half ceuts, canr'ot be accepted as a pledge by a pawnbroker anywhere in Great Britain iiaiioUit /.' r. Iinnm TH. ? i?UUCl I'UUUl IJ KJL tl JJClfcVjr U LLC. J. Lie t;ros3 is made from cauuou captured Irom the enemy, and weighs justi three aud a half grains less thau one', ounce. -! * A