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VOL. 39. YORKVILLE, S. C? WEDNESDAY, MAY 34, 1893. ISTO. 21.
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COMPLETE IN* THIS NT'MPER.
Mr UHLDCKY ASTRALIZ1TI0N.
By J. tt CONNELLY.
[Copyright, 1892, by American Press Association.]
CHAPTER L
I discovered that it lacked but three !
minutes to four o'clock.
It will hardly admit of question that !
persons addicted to roaming about in 1
their astral forms are apt to develop an i
indifference to their material bodies '
which is, to say the least, indiscreet so j
long as a definite purpose of final abandonment
is not entertained. Our forefathers,
who with rare exceptions were ;
ignorant of how to get out of their ,
bodies and return to them at will, I
thought a great deal too much of their
flesh, bat that is no reason why we
should think too little.
The material body certainly has its j
uses and deserves sufficient consideration
to insure its safety, if no more. ,
Yet thousands of happy-go-lucky folk, j
when about to astralize themselves for j
an evening's amusement, drop their i
bodies anywhere, with hardly more care
for their comfort and security than
would be bestowed upon a discarded
coat, and go off feeling quite confident |
of finding them all right and fit to put j
on again when required. But there is :
really a good deal of risk in doing so, j
as I have had very vividly impressed j
upon me by a recent distinctly disagree- !
able experience. Astralization is so easy j
that one is readily beguiled into thinking I
it safe; but in point of fact, if you are not j
very careful, it is a mere question of
luck whether, if you once leave your
body, you will ever get into it again.
You may lose it forever in the little
time you take to slip out and flit around
the block without it.
One especially abominable evening in
December last I boarded at Pittsburg,
on the Pennsylvania railroad, the "fast
line, number four," train from the west
leaving there eastwardly at ten minutes
after eight, intending to reach Baltimore
by it the next morning, spend the day
in that city and the next night return to
my home in New York. To my disgust
I found every berth in the Baltimore
sleeper engaged, but argument, backed
by financial influence,- obtained forme a
"doable lower" in tbe sleeping car next
to it, which had come from Chicago and
was going on to New York. I would ;
have to turn out at Harrisburg at three
a. m. to transfer myself to the Baltimore
bound section of the train, which
divided there, but even that arrangement
would give me about five hours of
rest, which was certainly better than
sitting up all the night. The porter
pledged himself?for a consideration?
to call me in good time to dress. Pardon
my going into all these details.
. You will see they had a rather important
bearing on subsequent events.
The atmosphere in that car was almost
pestilential. It had been crowded all '
day; its stove worked perfectly and its 1
ventilating apparatus not at all; bleak
wind and fierce driving rain had prohibited
the opening of windows; so the
air was thick with hot humidity and the
animal smells of humanity. While the
porter wjis making up my bed, I found j
the dense smoke in the smoking com- j
partment a temporary relief. But when ;
I crawled into my "double lower," the '
situation became unbearable. With the
curtains dropped before me, I felt as if l ,
in my coffin and seemed to be inhaling i ;
the combined odors of a stable, a hos- j
pital and a charnel house. And even
above the roaring rumble of the train I
could hear from the section opposite me i
a snore, simulating a stentorian death ;
rattle, which was simply maddening, j
Sleep under such conditions was mani- |
festly impossible.
Realizing that, I said to myself, "Why |
not astralize? It is my body only which j
requires rest. Very well, let it rest. !
When I am out it will not be conscious j
of either the snore or the smells, and I
shall bo free to seek purer air and pleas- j
anter surroundings, somewhere else on j
the train. Even the roof of the car will ;
be an improvement, since the weather
can have no effect upon mv astral |
form." J
That I never had astralized on a rail- |
road train seemed rather an incitement :
to try than an argument against it.
Scarcely had the*notion flashed into my j
mind when I straightened myself out
on my right side, changed my rate of
breathing and fixed my mind, all in the
ordinary way. My last thought in the
body as I composed myself was, "I shall
have to get back before we reach Harrisburg."
The next minute I stood in
the aisle, free, conscious still of my unpleasant
environment, but indifferent to
it in the superb exhilaration always felt
by the astral man as his first sensation ,
of liberty and power upon escaping
from the body.
A natural curiosity as to the producer
of that awful snore impelled me to peep
behind the curtains it caused to tremble
and wave. To my amazement the
offender proved to be a pretty young
girl. She lay upon the tlat of her little
back with her mouth wide open, and
from that portal of coral and pearl
puffed, gurgled and snorted with the
unholy vigor of a hired man. 1 felt#
that it was not good for a bachelor to
know such a capability existent in worn- !
an and fled in haste.
Few persons were still awake other
than the train hands in either of the j
cars, but in the smoking compartment I
found two who interested me. They
were stout, well dressed, prosperous
looking men, one with indecision and
mental struggle manifest in his face, !
the other wearing a look of determined
and confident insistence. As I, invisible.
took a seat before them, the former
was saying:
"I don't mind admitting to you, just j
between ourselves, I would like to; but
I don't know how I can, seeing the flatfooted
way I have already committed
myselr against that bill. Why, I not
only opposed it on the floor, but fought
it before the committee; and now to go !
for it would give me dead away. Everybody
would know I had 'got a bone'
and it would ruin my chances for reelection
among the farmers."
"My dear sir," replied his companion,
"I don't ask you to vote for it. Simply
cease your opposition, and when it comes
up for action have an attack of la
grippe and remain in your room at the )
hotel until the next day. That is simple
enough, and you know when I promise
I make good every time."
"Yes," assented the first speaker dubiously;
"but suppose there should ever
be an investigation. If they got me '
under oath my conscience would not let I
me deny the consideration, nor could j
you?without perjurv."
"Oh, dear, yes. The easiest thing it
the world. See, here is an odd bean; at
African bean. I am tired of carrying i
in. my pocket I shall abandon it 01
this seat when I go away. Of course .
will not know what becomes of it. Ye
there are curiosity seekers who woulc
give a good deal to get hold of that par
ticular sort of bean for their cabinets,
wouldn't at all wonder if some om
would give two thousand dollars fo:
that beau in Albany tomorrow night."
The man with prudential scruple:
looked puzzled for a moment. Then ?
light of comprehension dawned upoi
his face and deepened gradually to i
shrewd grin. "I feel certain I shall hav<
an attack of the grip," he said.
Tho two smiled together and wen
away to their respective berths, tho mai
with the bean carelessly throwing it 01
the seat as he passed out. In a few sec
onds one returned for a glass of wate:
at the cooler before retiring, and casu
ally clutched and pocketed the bean
then the other also returned for a drink
looked at the seat from which the beai
was gone and grinned complacently.
I continued my ramble through tin
train, but found nothing more to inter
ncf mn orwl tlin il icpnrn fnrf <5 nf fliA pvrpn
tionally unpleasant trip were even accen
tuated to my consciousness through theii
presentation my mind as knowledge
and not as mere deductions from pos
sibly illusory sensory impressions, a dis
tinction my readers familiar with tin
phenomena of astralization will per
fectly comprehend.
"But," I said to myself, "why shouli
I loiter about these crawling cars, when
every one who can do so is trying to for
get his wretchedness in sleep, when
might, with the swiftness of thought
transport myself anywhere else I chose
Why not go 011 to New York and sei
Marian?"
For the first time the idea occurred t<
me that there might be some specia
danger in astralization on a movinj
train?something might happen to nr
body while I was away. I flitted bacl
and looked at it. Of course it was jus
as I had left it. Dubitation about i
weakened the self confidence which, a
everybody knows, is so essential to an;
one moving safely, as a visitor, upoi
the astral plane, and I was not at al
surprised to see about me instantly ;
number of malicious sprites, and even ;
few malignant "elementals," eager t?
take advantage of my deterioratei
strength. But the sight of tliem nerv?<
my resolution?or at least I so fanciei
at the time, thotigli now I know the ef
feet was simply a stimulation of my an
tagonism, not a rehabilitation of nr
moral force. Hesitating no longer,
transferred myself to New York, to Ma
rian's parlor, where I did not doub
finding her, as the hour was not ye
late. I may incidentally remark tha
an engagement of marriage existed be
tween Marian and myself, a fact whicl
did not prepare me to anticipate tin
scene which presented itself to mv as
tonislied gaze.
It would have seemed quite natural t<
me to have found her contemplating m;
portrait, perhaps reading my last lette
and wishing for my safe and speedy re
turn to her side. But that was not a
all what I saw. She sat by the piano
as if she had just been playing. Instea<
of my counterfeit presentment claiminj
her attention, it was absorbed by a gen
tleman, a stranger to me, who bent ove
her, murmuring affectionate phrases ii
her ear. Soon he took his leave, and ii
doing so actually had the audacity t<
kiss her. And she, saying "Good night,'
returned the salutft.
In all my astral experiences I hav<
never so much missed my good, solid
material right leg and foot as when
saw that fellow going leisurely dowi
her stoop to the pavement. Of course .
did not haunt about Marian any more
I was done with her. Disgusted am
"mad all the way through," I wen
around to my club, forgetting for th<
moment that I could not take a soothing
glass of wine; but that fact was sooi
enough borne in upon me. I could d<
nothing but look at the other fellows
and listen to them, and it is just plan
truth and not slang when I say thei
made me tired. Nothing diverted inj
painful reflections, for I had been ven
fond of Marian, and that discovery limine
more than I can adequately tell.
It is strange that a man suffering
from a grief caused by one womai
should almost always seek consolation ii
the presence of some other woman, bu
such is the fact. Having been so deeply
wounded by the girl I loved, I instinctive
ly sought one whose tender love and per
feet faith while life lasted I could neve:
question, the one whose dear face wai
the first my infancy knew. How tin
placid charm of the familiar seem
touched my heart as I moved slowb
down through the orchard to the ole
homestead!
Mother slept, but as I stood by hei
bedside a kindly smile suffused her age<
countenance, as if her spirit was awar<
of my presence and gave me kindl;
greeting. How long I remained gazinj
upon the wrinkles I am glad to thin!
were furrowed more by smiles thai
tears, and the baud of silvery hai
framing them at the frilled edge of he
snowy nightcap, I cannot say, but lonj
enough for the influence of calm am
peace and purity pervading there t<
sink into and strengthen my soul. Sud
denly I happened to wonder what tiin
it was.
It is really one of the most annoyinj
things in these astral experiences?as,
am sure, will be generally admittedthat
we have in this form no innate feel
ing Of the lapse of time or limitations o
space. We lack standards of coinpari
son. I don't clearly see how this can b
remedied, but it ought to be somehow
Moving to great distances by a mere ef
fort of volition miles are absolute!
meaningless to our astral consciences
and .as for time, every one knows tha
if we could not catch sight of a dial o
draw deductions from things ou the inn
terial plane we would not know any dii
ference between the lapse of ten minute
and a week. Clearly the most neede
invention of the age is some good, relit'
ble sort of astral watch. When the ide
of time occurred tome I had to goilow
into the sitting room for a look at tli
face of the old tall clock that has'tieke
generations of my family into and on
of life.
To my horror I discovered that i
lacked but three minutes to four o'clocl
And that train was divided at Harrif
burg nearly an hour before. For on
moment a vague sense of alarm seeme
to paralyze me. Then I darted to Ha:
risburg.
Yes; the mischief had been doni
The train had come, split and gone awa
again, two-thirds of it toward Philade
pliia, one-third toward Baltimore. Wliie
had carried off my body?
If the car porter had as much sense i
a hen, I reasoned, his line of duty wottl
be plain to him. My purchase of
ticket obligated the company repn
sented by him to transport my boil
from Pittsburg to Baltimore. It was 11
concern of his that I had chosen to nl
sent myself during the carrying out i
that contract. His business simply wi
to slide my unconscious corporealit
aboard the I**timore train, and in go.j
confidence of his having done so I lm
ried in pursuit of it. But to my scrim
displeasure I' found the fellow had n<
done what I counted upon. I searche
all the cars through and through, ii
speeding carefully all the bodies tin
contained, and mine was not anion
them.
Of course I felt annoyed; still thei
was some satisfaction in knowing thei
was but one other alternative action tl
fellow could have taken. Finding
impossible to wake my body up, he lui
just let it lie, trusting I would have 111
sleep out by the time the train reach*.
Philadelphia, or perhaps New Yorl
Somewhere between Conewago an
Mount Joy I overtook the main trai
and ransacked it in vain. Th 3 "doub
lower"' I had occupied was empty. T1
i ! snoring girl still thrilled the echc
i the familiar smells were all there
t j and the porter, who had sworn to ti
i 1 care of me, sat asleep in the smok
I i compartment with his head thrown bi
t I and his mouth open, looking like a g:
1 : in a black watermelon. But what 1
. , he done with mv body? How I lonj
I j to kick him awake and demand that
3 i him! But for all practical purpos<
r ' was of no more good without my m
! ing corporeality than a thought wh
s i has not yet occurred to anybody. 1
i hideous fact forced itself squarely uj
- ! mv areentance?I had lost my body.
I j CHAPTER II.
: %>N
1 y"iv \ <
iVy ,/irst glance at the sheet caught
paragraph which had caused her grit
3 The predicament was distressing
- i itself, and rendered actually exaspei
: ing by the unsympathetic conduct
I those who, discovering my plig
s ; ^warmed about and jeered me. Fr
the malicious "elementals" I could 1
I of course expect anything better, bi
, ; was pained by seeing among them ?
? | emulating their lieartlessness so
a ; astralized visitors from the matei
plane whose unbecoming glee was :
3 j restrained by the consideration ti
1 ; their own bodies might also have b<
r lost to them at that very moment
y t aught they knew to the contrary. I hi
i ! not deemed it necessary in the courst
t 1 this narration to make any particu
t | mention of the dwellers on the ast
s : plane, or of the temporarily astrali;
j j persons like myself whom I encounte:
i I there, as my experiences were sim]
1 j those every one has, with the except:
x of this incident and one other to wh
x | I shall have occasion to revert fartl
i on. But I cannot let pass without r
1 rehension the behavior of the a . ali;
1 | persons who clustered around me
1 1 the train that morning and declai
. | they found my unhappy situat;
. i "funny."
y | With a vague idea that I might f
I my body among the unclaimed baggi
i or in the waiting room at the Harrisbi
t I depot, I eluded my tormentors a
t flitted back there?only to suffer anotl
t | disappointment. It was nowhere to
- ; seen. The last passenger train for 1
x j night had gone by, the depot was d?
0 j and the only person on the platform v
1 a watchman. I hoped some one woi
1 come and open a conversation with hi
0 ! in the course of which I might casua
y i find a clue to what had been done w
r : my body, for of course he would be v<
- i likely to know. But the only pers<
t i who came were brakemeti on the top
i, | moving freight trains, who sim]
1 shouted "Hey! Jim!" or playfully sh
r ' chunks of coal at liiin, social advan
- j to which he responded by such ejacu
r i tions, profane or otherwise, as the oc
i I sions seemed specifically to demand.
i j An inexplicable fascination temp
3 j mo to follow and haunt the car in wh
* j I had last seen my body, which I souj
I to excuse to myself by a hope the por
3 I might when he waked say something
, > my presence about it. So ho did.
I the Jersey City depot, while the pass
i | gers were leaving the train and he v
I ' gathering up the soiled linen, he si
. | denly stopped, threw open a wind
1 j and beckoned to him a dingy platfo
t ; sweeper.
3 ! 44'Lijah," ho exclaimed hurried
j j with an air of suppressed excitein
l : and mystery, 4,Go 'n play the death g
5 Play it for all you's wuf."
3 "Man or woman?"
i "Man. Died on the train dismawni
r ; 44 'M'm."
' That was all. They resumed tl:
' j duties. My supposed demise was
t them simply an inspiration for a4 'poli
play. I don't know when any Hi
' thing ever depressed me more. S(
1 was deemed dead. Strange that so
1 one had not sense enough to disco
t I the fact of my having simply strol
' i away in my astral form! I would h
imagined that so common and natun
* I thing could not have failed to be at U
r j suspected by almost anybody.
3 I Pondering upon the unpleasant c
3 sequences to me which might ensu
3 there were not a timely correction
that misunderstanding, I strolled
* j sentmindedly with the passeny
j through the depot and aboard the fei
!" boat. Moving in this way I sometii
* I temporarily forget that I am not in
3 body until some incident recalls m<
P j recognition of the fact. It is peril
=? hardly worth speaking of, being sue
1 common experience in oiir astral in
1 ludes, but I always find it vexatious i
r irritating to have persons walk throi
4 me. Ana ii Happens sw uneu. ui cui
? it is easy enough to dodge those ;
meet, and if you sail along over tl
D heads you have no trouble, but mov
* ! in a crowd on its level you are alir
0 certain to find some one mistaking ;
for empty space come plunging throi
? you from behind or lurching into ;
sidewise in your unguarded moment:
Both those things occurred to me t
unlucky morning. A fat German w<
^ an, with a huge market basket on
L" arm, almost wrecked me, and 1 1
e scarcely got my disarranged parts
; lected and in place again when, in go
off the boat, a pretty, delicate look
y young girl was jammed right into
>> space I occupied. Hersensitive nerv
* organization evidently felt my presei
r though she was unaware of the cans:
her sensation, for she shivered and w
" pered to a companion:
8 '"Oh, Jennie, I've got goosefiesh
^ over me! I believe I'm catching colc
l" That incident, I think, hurt me w<
il than the other. It is distinctly unpli
n ing to be shivered at by a pretty
e and spoken of as giving her gooseth
I was sure I would not have affected
l* so if I had had my body on at the t
?a reflection which would have b
lt consoling but for the doubt it awake
if I would ever again possess that a
iously desired materiality.
10 The day thus badly begun was <
| tined to like continuance. I was in
r" ! proper mental condition for the as
| plane. My perturbed thoughts, fill
concern about lav loss, unfitted mo
y the calm self control I should have
and made me subject to all mannei
vicious illusions and )iainful imx>
sions, artfully produced by the 11;
ls cious sprites constantly besetting nit
^ Late in the afternoon, weary of ;i
il less wandering about the town, I
lated a resolution I had firmly fori
y the night before, which was thn
10 would never look upon Marian's )
again. It seems as if there were a
of fatality against a man's keeping
18 resolutions he makes concerning w
y en. Doubtless if I had gone slowl;
'd her house, as mv body would have
r" to, memory and reflection would 1:
ls braced up resolution and turned
steps aside, even from her door, to
I(1 club; but having only to think of
!1" place in order to be there, if I wis
'y it, I was actually in her parlor befo
? had time to remember I had abji
( her.
rt> She was lying upon a sofa with
ro face in its cushions, crying bitterly,
'e an evening newspaper, dropped f
her hand, lay upon the floor. My
l(' glanco at the sheet caught the p
l-i' graph which had no doubt caused
grief. It was tliis:
j llAiotisiicuo. Dec.S.'.- In a sleeping vurl
on the Chicago train arriving here at t
ill a. in. a passenger was found dead. 1'apei
p. j his jiockels enabled his identitieutiou as ,
' lieiitley, of New York. lie was apparc
K!S [ wc" wlicu lit, boarded the train at Pittsburg. i
! Death is ascribed to heart failure. His body is :
^ ; held to await claim by friends.
) *e 1 "May the blessing of the unlucky '
inF ; light on the writer of that item," I said '
*c. j to myself. "Why could not the wretch 1
"f ,l have said where my body is held to await
*a 1 the claim of its best friend?" 1 won- j
?'ecJ , dered if it was being held "on ice," hav- j
4 ?T I ing slowly frozen out the little spark of :
:3 ) life I had left in it? If some sapient
!83" country doctor, to make an imposing
If | spectacle of himself before a coroner's
ie jury, would not want to cut it open and
,on take a look at the heart, to be sure it
had failed? Either was quite possible.
Plonrlv T lmrl nn timfi to lose if 1 was
i ever to get that body back in reasonably
serviceable condition. But to find where
: it was "held" was the first thing. Perhaps
some other evening paper had fuller
: particulars.
I-was really sorry to have to leave
Marian in such bad spirits, notwithstanding
her blamablo behavior the j
night before, but could not do the slight- |
est good by staying. Momentarily for- \
1 getting I was practically a mere ghost, |
' I did try to tell her my views differed ;
in some important particulars from i
: those presented in the newspaper, but I
had no more voice than a mummy,
i As I have learned by bitter experience, ;
an astrulized persbn suffers under onor- 1
: mous disadvantages in trying to read ]
| the news. Having no material hands j
with which to open and turn the papers !
V1 j he has to depend upon those who have, ;
I peering over their shoulders, crouching j
down before them to get sight at the j
:llt? | under side, and in all sorts of undigni- ;
on? i tied attitudes and inconvenient ways !
n?t adapting himself to their perverse methr
ods of handling the sheets. It is simply :
maddening to wait while a fellow wades
V1? i slowly through a long, labored editorial
on the tariff or increases the addling of
ao* j his brain by perusal of the baseball col:
umn, and then, just at the moment
;.en when you think he is about to turn to
for
the next page, see him fold the paper
iV? and put it in his pocket. Eventually I I
5. gave up in despair that way of finding
al; out what had become of my body.
i Then a happy thought occurred to me.
se*j j "My friend X.," I reflected, "is one who ;
r<T can be depended upon, if he has seen j
P y that item, to take prompt and energetic j
!?" : measures. Most probably he is already
ICU preparing to set out and hunt up my re- !
ier mains. If so, all I shall have to do will :
be to go along until I hear him told |
5e j where they are, then skip ahead, retake j
red Possession and be ready to welcome him
when he arrives."
I found liim in his room, dressing and I
. , thinking aloud, a bad practice to which |
1 he is much addicted when seriously
l^e troubled. The paragraph I had already
ir? read lay on a stand beside him, clipped
tier fr?m the paper.
^ i "I'm awfully sorry for the poor fel;he
l?w," I beard him mutter; "of course I
^ j ^m. But bis dying just at this particu,ag
lar timo is all sorts of a nuisance. I
can't go corpse hunting tonight?even
for him. Alicia would never forgive me
' T 1*on fA fUia Annvn mil v
7 1. j IX X U1U UUL lauc 1IC1 lU LUIO
; time it's to be given in the season. And
- a day more or less won't matter to him
jng now. They no doubt have him nicely
: of , iced somewhere. Seems to me I've
0j 1 heard they give unclaimed bodies to the
je(j ! medical colleges. But they would hardceg
; ly do that right away. Even if they did
ja_ | I could get him back and have him fixed
ca_ j up most likely. Decidedly tomorrow
; will be time enough. I shall see the
?CC^ ; item in some morning paper, wire over
icli ' ra^roa<l authorities, who of course
i have all the facts reported to them, find
'ter j out where he is, go on and get him. To.
jn j night belongs to Alicia. I have heard
jn ! nothing about John." And lie delibj
erately put the clipping in the fire and
V..IS | went on getting himself into full dress
I was, to put it mildly, disappointed.
ow Still I could not blame him, and he had
nn given mo a good idea?animal that I had
been not to have thought of it for mylj,.
! self long ago! Of course there would
I be, somewhere in the company's offices
'itr ' over *n Jersey <^ity, an official report of
' I the incident, and I might have the luck
to find it. Anyway, I could go and try I
n | a good deal quicker than X. could telegraph,
even if he had been willing to do j
so that night. So I did, and for onco j
l0.,r ; fortune favored me. The conductor of
? "fast line, number four," had duly re- j
CA ported the finding of a dead man on his ;
_ I j train, and the division superintendent, j
)* probably with an eye to having the data i
,me handy for reference in case of inquin j
j ef~ by friends of the deceased, had hung the :
e_( statement, open, upon a hook beside his I
a.v? desk, where I found it. From it I learned
1 a that my body had been "taken.inchargo
!as by Undertaker J. B. Jablet, of HarrisI
burg."
0I?I | What more did I want? Nothing.
e _ Haunier. I believe, than I ever was be
" fore, I darted at once to Harrisburg.
n '* It was easy enough to find and enter !
;e ? j Mr. Jablet's establishment, which was j
r^* quito conspicuous, and there, sure ,
ne? i enough, I found my body. It had been
unclothed and stretched out on a board I
50 in a sort of cold storage room, like a
big refrigerator, but happily not in con- '
,1<l | tact with ice. Life, though weak, was
ter" still in it. j
l"( But I had not arrived a moment too
1 soon. Another astralized man, who
Irse confessed lie had lost his own body
^?.u j years before, was already there, seeking t
!eiy j to appropriate mine. He was just about
trying it on when I came and stopped
j him. I saw at a glance it would not fit
1 him, as he, too, could have seen, if he
1 had not been so madly desirous of ob- i
011 taining a material shell that he was
quito desperate. Indeed he would alIa
most have rattled around in it, and could !
"?m" j not have controlled it at all, for he was
,,e!; j but a little wliiifet of a fellow, while I j
mj am of the goodly size a man should be.
. So I "bounced him," morally speaking, j
'.sympathetically but firmly, and was just
about taking up my old quarters when I
ie was interrupted.
The door opened suddenly and the un- j
1C(>' dertaker came in, accompanied by his
?. i son. I waited to see what they were j
s" after. Mr. Jablet's look did not please i
' me. lie was a muscular fellow, short !
. ? ' but strong, with a broad, square lower !
jaw and a sloping forehead which spread j
)r&0 I away gradually in a wide bald area of
eas" I skull fringed at the back with short red |
j hair. Altogether he seemed an ugly
V . ! person to argue with, and I judged he
. I had been drinking.
imo j "Xhey don't get this stiff away from
co'1 me," he was saying to his son as they I
n< 1 entered, "until they put up handsome, i
nx" Business is bad and he comes along as a
, windfall. He has, judging from what i
" ! was found on him, friends who are well
.1M? j fixed and I mean to work them."
. I felt that Jablet, if he thought me re- j
' , vtving, might be quite capable of knock- i
for i , i,,, ;
. , j lllg UIV Uli UAU IIVUM IW ?w??v ,
: i counted upon as a fat job slipping ;
? througli bis fingers.
i "Ob, there ain't much in it," replied
* the son indifferently; "not more than
i forty or fifty dollars, and do the best
L1,.n" you can with it."
%1?" 1 "Ain't, eh? You're not smart, Dan'l. I
"Cl: , You don't know the business yet. I'm
, going to give you a pointer you'll find of
'ac? i use some dav; maybe I'm a-going to em- [
^rt balm him."
ie i "Dad, you're a daisy. I didn't think
0,.n- | of that."
i i i "Course you didn't. But you ain't me. j
hail | ]oaj j,j,a Up with eight shillings' j
iavo j worth of fluid and get seventy-five dol- ;
"D lars and the thanks of his friends for ,
*'10 the job. Go and get the fluid jug and
a,D' we'll do him up now. His friends may j
"ieij come for him in the morning."
ro ~ The son went out and the old fellow, '
110 standing by my body, slapped it on the
leg with insolent familiarity, chucklier
ling: "Yes, sir; we'll fix you up. Fix
and you up to the queen's taste. Nothing |
rom like stylo for a corpse?when there's ;
first ] money to pay for it." I fairly boiled ;
ara" i with rage, but what could 1 do? Were
'"? i ' ' i t a. T 1.1
1 j i to enter my uuuy at uiii'u i wuum um i
i precipitate my fate, for in tlie numb ami
'crth stiff condition my muscles were certain- |
ly in I could not hope to whip thoso I
lobn two sturdy rascals. Judge of my in- I
intly ' finite relief if you can when I heard the '
son call out from another room at a little
distance, "Dad, the jug's empty."
"Is that so?" responded the old man
regretfully. "Well, then, we will let it
go tonight; but you must get up early
in the morning, start the fire and make
some more fluid. He will have to he
fixed before the morning train gets in."
Father and son went out together,
closing the door behind them. Presently
I heard them lock the front door and
go away. Then I immediately resumed
my body. Words can convey no idea of
how horribly cold it was. In my astral
form I of course had no sensations of
temperature, and the body, being without
consciousness whilo I was away,
had not suffered, but when it and I were
joined our common suffering was intense.
I seemed to have arctic winters
In my veins, and was really afraid my
fingers and toes would snap off like
icicles when I attempted to use them.
"Yen, xir; we'll fix you up."
Nevertheless I persisted in moving,
crawled into the next room, where thero
was a red hot stove, and when pretty
well thawed out made a systematic
search for my clothes. Luckily I found
them all, even to the overcoat, in a
closet, and soon dressed myself. The
pockets were empty, but I did not mind
that, for in the waistband of my trousers
I had sewed a fifty dollar note, a
precaution against "going broke" which
I have not in years ullowed myself to
travel without. With this money I
made my way back to New York on
that night's "fast line, number four"
?having broken out of Mr. Jablet's shop
?and before ten o'clock the next day
was walking up Broadway.
So ended the lesson of my unlucky
nstralization, and my story is done, except
that I deem it due to Marian to declare
explicitly she had not been guilty
of any such impropriety ns I seemed to
witness. In fact, she not only had no
visitor that evening, but was not even
at home, having gone to spend tho night
at her sister's. The scene which appeared
so shockingly real to me was
simply an artful illusion, got up by a
couple of waggish "elemcntals," who
impersonated her and the total stranger
with such skill as to completely deceive
me. Their trick could not have beesuccessful
but for the perturbation of
mind I was in at the time, but I am 110+
now sorry it was played, for it will enhance
my caution in accepting as re; I
even the most plausible appearances on
the astral plane.
What au Astral Hody Is.
The structure of the inner astral man
is definite aud coherent. Just as the
outer body has a spine, which is the
column whereon the being sustains
itself with tho brain at the top, so the
astral body has its spine and brain. 11
is material, for it is mado of matter,
however finely divided, and is not of tho
nature of tho spirit.
After the maturity of tho child before
birth this form is fixed, coherent and
lasting, undergoing but small alteration
from that day until death. And so also
as to its brain?that remains unchanged
until the body is given up, and does not,'
like tho outer brain, give up cells to bo
replaced by others from hour to hour.
These inner parts are thus more permanent
than tho outer correspondents to
them.
Our material organs, bones and tissues
are undergoing change each instant.
This is not the case with the inner
form. It alters only from life to
life, being constructed at tho time of
reincarnation to last for a whole period
of existence. For it is tho model fixed
by the present evolutionary proportions
for the outer body. It is the collector,
as it were, of tho visible atoms which
make us as we outwardly appear.
So at birth it is potentially of a certain
size, and when that limit is reached
it stops the further extension of the
body. At the same time the outer body
is kept in shape by the inner one until
the period of decay. And this decay,
follotved by death, is not due to bodily
disintegration per se, but to the fact
that tho term of the astral body is
reached when it is no longer able to
hold the outer frame intact. Its power
to resist the impact and war of the material
molecules being exhausted, the
sleep of death supervenes.
Now, sis in our physical form the brain
and spine are tho centers for nerves, so
in the other there are the nerves which
ramify from the inner brain and spine
all over the structure. All of these are
related to every organ in the outer visible
body. They {ire more in the nature
of currents than nerves, as we understand
tho word, and may be called astronerves.?A
Theosophist in Lucifer.
One Way of Murlclng Clothes.
A young woman who has a weakness
for novelties has indented a new way of
marking her belongings. Indelible ink
she scorned as belonging to the distant
past, and embroidored monograms and
initials she voted commonplace. Even
tho pretty device of embroidering her
possessions with her favorite flower finally
lost its charm, and her latest fancy is
to have her own faco produced.
Sho had some tiny and not unflattering
photographs taken, and they are now
being transferred to the corners of her
handkerchiefs, tho bands of her skirts,
the capes of her collars and all the other
places where the sign of possession is
usually fixed.?Buffalo News.
A Hint For Typewriters.
Typewriters ought to write the names
of the persons to whom they write letters
in capitals. To use ordinary letters
shows lack of consideration and good
tasto. No printer of any standing would
issue a letter printed in that way. His
training in his art lias distinctly taught
him not to do it. Manufacturers of type
writers claim that their machines arc
educators?that the operators must necessarily
become proficient in spelling,
punctuation and the proper use of capitals
But somehow this little matter of
propriety and good tasto in address and
signature has thus far been greatly overlooked.?Cor.
Boston Transcript.
A Fine Sight.
What finer sight can be imagined than
two powerful athletes, with no ill feeling
toward each other, twisting, wriggling
and squirming to get out of certain
positions, when a spectator thinks a
fall inevitable? How eagerly the throng
watch them in their almost superhuman
efforts as they apply holds and then
break them, seize each other with irresistible
force, then spring quickly upon
their feet, till as a desperate resort one
of the contestants will turn a complete
somersault, lighting nimbly on his feet
in a frantic endeavor to gain the supremacy.?Lippincott's.
True Heroism.
It should be an important part of the
education of every child to form within
him a true and worthy conception of
heroism und to enable him to recognize
it wherover it exists. Too often his only
idea of It is found in the sensational roiuanco
or in the examples around him
of men who for praise or glory or gain
will do daring deeds and manifest a phys
ical bravery, often at a fearful cost to
their fellow men. Let us give them a
truer ideal and afford them a higher example.?Philadelphia
Ledger.
ihe World's |aiv. |i
i
FETE DAYS AT THE FAIR.
I
Dates Set Apart For the Observances ol :
States and Organizations.
Besides the special fete days arranged
by the committee on ceremonies innumer1
able societies and organizations will meet I
, in Chicago during the World's fair. The ;
! names of some of these organizations do \
j not nppear in the following official list of
fete days:
; Washington May 17 i
j Wisconsin May 23 .
j Maine May 24 j
Denmark ......Juno 5 j
I Commercial travelers June 10 j
Germany Juno 15 |
| Nebraska June 15 i
j Massachusetts June 17 j
; New Hampshire Tune 21 i \
France July 14 1 i
Utah July 24 | 1
Liberia July 28 ( ]
Foresters Aug. 12 j i
Haytl Aug. 10 i f
I Colored people Aug. 25
I AniT. 18 ! 1
Austria Aug. 18
| The Netherlands Aug. 31 j ?
j Nicaragua Sept. 1 (
Catholic education Sept. 2
j New York Sept. 4
Brazil Sept. 7 '
i California Sept. 9 !
Maryland Sept. 12 I .
Michigan Sept. 13 and 14 . '
Kansas Sept. 15 j 1
1 Colorado Sept. 19 | <
[ Montana Sept. 20 i
' Patriotic OrderSonsof America Sept. 20 j j
Iowa Sept. 21 '
j Rhode Island Oct. 5
; Spain . Oct. 12 !
Italian societies Oct. 12 <
Minnesota Oct. 13 j
STATE BUILDINGS.
flow Exhibits of Great Commonwealth*
"Will lie Housed at tiio Fair.
New York anil Pennsylvania as the
j greatest states of the Union were given
I the front center of the tract reserved for
i state buildings at the Columbian cxposi!
tion, and their structures face the great
Art building on the south, New York
[ having the eastern end of the plot and
j Pennsylvania the western. The latter's
i building, designed by Thomas P. Lon$- j ^
I B I
PENNSYLVANIA BUILDING,
dale, of Philadelphia, is a combination
of various styles, the square and massive
predominating. All the materials aro of
Pennsylvania production, and the cost is
$G0,000.
The New Jersey building is, like most
of the state structures, designed chiefly j
! for social purposes and a place of writ- |
j ing and registration, and is made so far
; as possible representative of the state. It
| is modeled on tho old houso at Morristown.
N. J.. which was Washington's
NEW JERSEY BU1LDINQ.
headquarters, but there are additions
for convenience sake. Thero are large
and inviting piazzas front and rear, and
i the main entrance leads into a largo hall
I two stories high, with a circular balcony
j around tho second story. i
Tho Texas building is meant to be em- i
I blematic of tho state so far as possible.
; It is therefore large, massive and plain
j in the main portion, but topped with
considerable ornament, and in its mate'
rials the visitor will find an epitome of (
TEXAS BUILDINO.
! the state. With some slight exceptions
j every particlo of wood, stone and other
! material in it will be of Texas produc- j
i tion. The cost is to be $100,000, and the '
location is a fortunate one to show tho j
structure with the finest effect.
Tho Minnesota stato building will bo ;
in the Renaissance style of architecture.
, The framework of wood will bo coated
! with stuff to give the effect of stone coni
struction. The main entrance will be in
plain 6tyle, but the opposite side will
MINNESOTA BUILDINO.
! more faithfully represent the state. The
entrance thero is through a portico having
rusticated dome columns, and on tho
entablature over tho center the name
i "Minnesota" will appear in a raised panel.
Nebraska was fortunate in securing
1 about tho best site on the exposition
grounds for her stato building, as it '
fronts south on Fifty-seventh street, j
' while a magnificent boulevard borders it
on tho east and a largo lake on the west.
It is CO by 100 feet and two stories high, j
' covers 0*000 square feet and has 12,000
NEBRASKA BUILDING,
feet of floor space. The cast aiul west :
fronts have wide porticoes, on each side 1
of which are wido steps covering one- j
i third of the length of the building. Over j
each portico is a largo gable on a line
with tlio main cornice, and in each gable,
in bas-relief, is the Nebraska state
seal, five feet in diameter.
| Vermont is to have a building which j
will indeed represent tho state, as its
walls are to be of blue, white and varie- ;
gated marble from her various quarries, ;
j chiefly from those of West Rutland. Tho |
1 i structure will have but one story, and
be in tho familiar Queen Anne style, j
^ ^ I
VERMONT BUILDING.
I j Tho cornices facing tlio windows and
. tho heavy oak doors will he polished and
elaborately carved. The plan was drawn
by Architect Jarvis Hunt, of Weathers- ;
i field, and tho expense will bo borne by i
100 prominent citizens. It will contain
somo groat curiosities.
Arkansas has won a certain sort of '
fame by being tho only state to liavo a j
! building at tho Columbian exposition
I designed by a woman. Tho lady was I
Miss Jean Loughborough when her plan
was adopted by the Arkansas committee,
bnt soon after she was married, at
:he capital of that state, to Mr. Frank
M. Douglass, and she is now a resident
)f Chicago. She learned architecture in
ARKANSAS BUILDING.
;hat city, and her design fpr the Arkansas
suilding was selected almost at the first
aew, over those of many competitors, for
.lb rare uuiiiuiiittijuu ui uvauij ,
md convenience. The Arkansas buildng
looks ju3t what it was meant to be
?a homelike clubhouse, where Arkansas
visitors may rest and enjoy themselves
socially.
Swrflluli World's Fair Iluilding.
Among the minor structu/es of the
Columbian exposition of 1893 the Swedish
building, though small, will be conspicu
jus. As the plot granted for the purpose
was triangular and contains but
17,300 square feet, the building will also
SWEDISH BUlLDINa^
be of that shape and cover but 12,000
squaro feet. Tho style will bo that of
the old Swe'dish cathedral, and the building
will consist of a main floor and gallery
having a south front of 104 feet,
while above tho center will rise a tower
200 feet *in height. It will be of wood
md shipped in parts from Sweden.
Germany's Iluilding tit Chicago.
Germany's building at the Columbian
exposition will be a curiosity indeed, as
it will combine nearly all the styles of
architecture, and its interior decoratious
will represent all tho schools of German
art and nearly all tho eras. The main
e+TTir.tnro Tv-ill he 133 hv 106 feet, but
GERMAN BUILDING,
from the center and rear an extension
will put out HO feet, making the central
Bection 183 feet long. This extension is
known as the chapel, and will contain
objects of an ecclesiastical nature, such
as altars and painted windows. Above
it will rise a bell tower 100 feet in height.
The plans were drawn by an official
architect in Germany
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES.
Imposing Array of Convention* Arranged
by the World's Fair Auxiliary.
A series of more than 100 international
congresses, as planned by the \\ orld's Cougress
auxiliary, will be held during the
months of the exposition in the permanent
Memorial Art palace erected on the lake
front at the foot of Adams street, through
the co-operation of the Art institute of this
city, the World's fair directory and the city
of Chicago, at a cost of more than $500,000.
In this Memorial Art palace there will
be two large audience rooms arranged to
seat about 3,000 persons each, and more
than 20 smaller rooms, which will accommodate
from 300 to 700 persons each. Meetings
of such a character as to draw a large
popular audience will be held in the
main audience rooms, while meetings of
chapters and of sections of different conTRF.
ART PALACE.
gresses for the discussion of subjects of a
more limited interest will be held in the
smaller rooms. It will thus be possible to
have two general congresses and 20 special
congresses or conferences in session at the
same time and to have three times as many
meetings within a single day by arranging
different programmes for morning, afternoon
and evening sessions, but it is not anticipated
that so many daily meetings will
bo required in any department of the
world's congress work.
The world's congresses will be of twofold
order. There will be a series of general congresses
for the presentation in appropriate
popular discourses suitable fora worldwide
publication of the progress made in all the
various departments of civilized life. The
object of this presentation will be to promote
the intelligence, culture and elevation
of the people of all count ries.
But a different class of congresses is also
required. In addition to such general congresses
there will also be special congresses
for the consideration of scientific,
technical or special subjects not suitable
for such popular presentation. Such special
congresses will be more directly in the
charge of the organizations interested and
represented by their respective committees
of co-operation, which, acting in harmony
with the auxiliary committees of arrangements,
will arrange the programmes and
conduct the proceedings. The special congresses
of the religious denominations and
the strictly scientific associations will be of
peculiar interest.
Both the general congresses, planned for
the people, and the special congresses,
planned for the advancement of great special
interests, may thus be made highly
successful. As the material exposition at
Jackson park is designed chiefly for the
pleasure and benefit of the people of all
countries and subordinately for the entertainment
and advantage of the specialists
in the different departments, so also is the
intellectual and moral exposition to be
made in the world's congresses primarily
intended for the benefit of the people who
will hear or read the proceedings.
The general assignment to the months of
the exposition season of the world's congresses
as arranged up to the present time
is here given:
May?Woman's Progress, The Public Press,
Medicine and Surgery.
June?Temperance, Moral and Social Reform,
Commerce anil Finance.
July?Music, Literature, Kducation.
August?Engineering, Art, Architecture, etc.;
Government, Law Reform, Political Science,
etc.: General Department, Science and Philosophy
September?Labor, Religious, Missions and
Church Societies, Sunday Rest.
October?Public Health, Agriculture.
An Enterprising California Woman.
Mrs. Harriot W. R. Strong, of Wliittier,
Los Angeles county, Cal., is a woman of
great enterprise. At the World's fair
she will have two important exhibitions.
One will be a, "palace" twenty feet
square, mad., entirely of pampas plumes.
The other exhibit will consist of a working
plant for a new system of irrigation,
in which one dam is placed above the
other. This will irrigate all of tho
orange and fruit orchards of the California
stato exhibit.
1 JttiscfUaurous ^catling. [
MANIFESTATIONS OK FEAIt.
It is said that Emperor Charles the {
i Fifth, reading an epitaph : '-Here lies i
one wlfb never knew fear," remarked, j
j "Then he never snuffed a candle with |
( his fingers." It is certainly a some- :
what absurd, though a favorite claim j
i for a popular hero, that he "never knew |
! fear." Xo one possessing human ;
nerves and brains could say this with i
j truth. That a brave man never yields ?
to the emotion may be true enough ; j
I but to say that at no period of his j
life he experienced fear is simply im- |
j possible. As Lord Lytton express- j
' es it:
"It shames man not to feel man's mortal j
fear.
It shames man only if that fear subdue." j
There is a story of a young recruit
in the "Thirty Years' War" going into
action for the first time in his life in
the highest spirit: "Look at Johann,"
remarked one of his comrades as the i
! troops were drawn up ready to charge, j
I "he is full of jokes; how brave he is." j
"Not at all," replied the veteran addressed
; "he knows nothing of what |
: is coming. You and I, old comrades, ;
I are far braver; we sit still on our I
' horses, though we are terribly afraid."
Fear is certainly one of the most !
irrational of the passions. It is notal- j
! ways excited by the presence of danI
ger. Men who can be cool and colj
lected in cases of real peril will trem- :
, ble at some fanciful alarm. The Duke j
: of Schomber could face an enemy with [
I ready courage, but lied from a room if
| he saw a cat in it. A very brave |
French oflicer fainted at the sight of a
j mouse. The author of the "Turkish
j Spy" states that he would rather encounter
a lion in a desert than be alone j
j in a room with a spider. Many peo- j
! pie have similar fanciful antipathies,
1 which excite their feurs in a manner
| real danger would be powerless to do.
| Fear of infection is a dread that emi
bitters the lives of many sensible peoj
pie. There is a legend of an Eastern
1 dervish, who, knowing that a plague
j was about to visit a certain city, barI
gained with the disease that only a
! specified number of victims should
I fall. When twice the number perish;
ed, the plague explained its apparent
I breach of contract by asserting "Fear
! killed the rest." In all times of epidemics
doctors can tell similar tales.
; During the Great Plague of 1865-G, an
unfortunate man died purely from
i fright; a practical joker who met him
: in the street pretended to discover the
j fatal "spots" upon him and the poor
' man went home and died, not of the
j disease, but of sheer terror. A long
I obituary list might be compiled of the
j victims of fear; from the criminal in
the Middle Ages, who, reprieved after
i he had laid his head on the block, was
; found to have died ere the axe could
touch him; down to the poor nun
mentioned by Horace Walpole. whose
disreputable abbess literally "frightened
her to death" by visiting her at
nirrtif nil/) tollinrr lioi- tVinf clin U'rtS flv
: "I'U IV...v. "."v -j
I ing.?London Daily News.
?
DUN T GO TO LAW.
The lawyers say there is much less
litigation now than formerly. They
attribute it partly to the more general
education of the masses. They are
learning that it don't pay to go to law.
It has been found that most differences
can be arbitrated and settled
much more satisfactorily every way.
It should always be remembered
that when a matter is taken into the
courts, the decision has to be left to
men after all, and their judgraeut is
no better than that of disinterested
men selected to effect a compromise.
The arbitrators can be known to be
men of intelligence, and with a high
sense of justice; while a judge, or
some of the jurymen before whom the
case would go into court, may care
nothing about justice.
The best feature about arbitration
I is the absence of the professional law]
yer, whose principal mission seems to
be to stir up bad blood and delay the
case, not in the interest of justice, but
to increase his fees. The ordinary
professional lawyer takes the keenest
delight in besmirching the reputation
of his client's opponent. By the time
this is indulged in on both sides,
enough bad feeling has been engendered
to make lifetime enemies of the
litigants.
Nor is this all; when the "law's deJ
lays" are ended?when the lawyers
allow the farce to end, it will be found
I that the parties to the suit are worse
I enemies than ever, and both, as a rule
i ?counting time and fees?are in worse
| financial condition than when the suit
I began. By the time "justice is satisI
fied," the surplus ducats have been
j transferred to the lawyers' pockets, and
thr?v himrh in their sleeves at the 1*011V
' of those by whose patronage their pro!
fession is sustained.
Wise men will stay out of the courts,
: and, ius'ead, will settle their differences,
if they have any, by submitting the
cnse to a committee of good, intelligent
peacemakers, in their own community.
This is the best and cheapest plan, and
leaves the contending parties better
friends than ever.?Journal of Agriculture.
Causks of Sudden Death.?Very
i few of the sudden deaths which are
said to arise from the "disease of the
the heart" do really arise from that
cause. To ascertain the real origin of
sudden deaths, experiments have been
tried in Europe and reported to a scientific
congress held in Strasburg. Sixtysix
cases of sudden deaths were made
the subject of a thorough post mortem
examination ; in these only two were
found who had died from disease of
the heart. Nine of the sixty-six had
died from apoplexy, while there were
forty-six cases of congestion of the
lung?that is, the lung was so filled
with blood they could not work, there
not being room enough for a sufficient
quantity of air to enter to support life,
j The causes that produce congestion of
the lungs are cold feet, tight clothing,
costive bowels, sitting still chilled after
being warmed with labor, or a rapid
walk, going too suddenly from a close,
heated room into the cold air, especially
after speaking, and sudden depressing
news operating on the blood.
The causes of sudden death being
known, an avoidance of them may
serve to lengthen many valuable lives,
which would otherwise be lost under
verdict of "heart complaint." The
disease is supposed to be inevitable
and incurable; hence many may not
I take the pains they would to avoid
death if they knew it lay in their
power.
Tin: Lion's Pet.?'The late Henry
Moorhouse was fond of relating an incident
that beautifully illustrates a
precious truth. When he was a boy
there came to his native city a circus
with its attending menagerie. In the
motelv crowd which gathers about
i such exhibitions, there was a '1111111
whose little dog had just been beaten
in a fight with another clog. The man,
| in a lit of senseless rage, seized the
bleeding and suffering brute, and hurrying
into the circus tent, roughly
thrust him through the bars of the
lion's cage, expecting of course to see
him devoured in a moment. The (log
! also seemed to know his danger, and
I crouched upon the floor in manifest
terror. The lion fixed his gaze upon
him, but did not stir; and at last the
dog. gathering hope, crawled slowly
toward the monarch of the forest, and
looked up into his face as if with mute
supplication for mercy. To the suri
prise of the spectators, the king of
beasts, who could have crushed mm
with single stroke, gently drew the
helpless creature to his side, and then
raised his lordly neck above him like
a wall of protection. Meanwhile the
owner of the dog had recovered from
his silly anger, and demanded his
property.
"You put him in ; go to the cage and ?
get him," was the quiet reply of the
keeper. The man drew near and
called the dog, but there was no response,
for the once obedient servant
acted as if he had found a better master,
and was satisfied with the change.
The old master called again and again,
and whistled and coaxed in vain, and
at length began to scold and threaten ;
but the ominous growl of the lion, and
the flash of his flaming eyes, sent back
the human brute in fright and haste,
amid the laughter of all who witnessed
his discomfiture; and the two friends
were left in peace and mutual love.
The Whole Truth.?A minister
who was a witness in a case before a
court had administered to him the
usual oath, "You do solemnly swear
that, in the case now pending, you
will tell the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth. So help
vnn finil."
He happened to know some things
about the case which neither side of
the case wanted told in court. The
witness, however, intended to tell all
he knew. The lawyers began to ob-^
ject to his making certain statements,
saying they did not wish to hear anything
except what they asked him
about. He appealed to the judge, and
the judge said lie should not tell anything
to which the lawyers objected.
Your honor, didn't you make me
swear I'd tell the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth, so help me God ?
You made me swear it, and I'll
tell it."
"And with that he jumped to his
feet, and turning to the jury, commenced
to rattle it off to them, and
j despite all the efforts of two lawyers '
to stop him, he told it all; and then
turning to the judge, he said: "Now
your honor, I've told it. Now put me
in jail if you like.. But hereafter, if
you don't want me to tell the whole
truth, don't you make me swear that
I will."
Judges and lawyers were a good
t deal amazed; but the honest man
| wasn't sent to jail. And tlie judge,
; after the court adjourned, said to a
friend : "That man taught me a lesson
I to-day that I had not learned in all
i my forty years' experience on the
j bench ; and now I very seriously question
if it is right to swear men that
they will tell the whole truth, and
then allow lawyers to prevent them
J from telling it."
Who that has sat in a court room
i and watched the lawyers in their at!
tempts to prevent witnesses telling
! the simple truth, and endeavoring to
! confuse and break down honest men,
! and too often succeeding, has not felt
that there ought to be some way of
, protecting witnesses, and giving them
! a chance to tell exactly what they
I know, and the whole of it.
Photographing thk baby.-By the
time the start for the gallery is made
I the baby is thoroughly exhausted and
I out of patience. The whole party go
; along, of course.
When the gallery is reached, coaxing
and tickling and baby talk all fail
| to put the subject in a good humor,
i One says she doesn't see what makes
: him so cross. Another wonders what
j makes him act so. Still another declares
that he must be sick. The photographer
comes to the rescue. He
has had experience in many just such
j cases and knows what to do. He can
not do anything but what is a novelty
j to the baby, and he generally succeeds
in quieting the child and successfully
j produciug his likeness. He docs it in
| the midst of difficulties, though. He
i has all the elderly attendants of the
| baby to combat with at first. They
, finally realize the fact that the artist
| can do better without their efforts, and
j as they go homeward one says:
"How quickly he got the baby still.
It's perfectly wonderful. Some men
do take to children that way and can
I do anything they want with them. I t
j don't wonder they take all their ba
bies to him to have their pictures
j taken."
! Anglo-Saxon Numerals.?Our
I Saxon forefathers formed words for
i the numerals up to nine, but there
! their power of invention seems to have
J abandoned them, for ten is not an
; original word. It comes from the SaxI
on word tynam, to close, to shut in or
! up, expressive of the simple fact that,
! when the calculation had gone on to
| the extent of ten fingers, one after
I another having been turned in, both
j hands were found "closed" or "shut
! in." Eleven is simply the an lif, "one
left," of our Saxon fathers, as was the
i case after both hands were closed, and
; twelve is the contracted form of two
| lif, "two left." After twelve the numerals
are simply compounds of ten
and the lower numbers, until we arrive
at twenty, which consists of dual
twain, and the word, tig, meaning ten.
Iron Purifies Water.?The filthy
water of the Itiver Nethe is purified
<"<->?. Men in Vntii'pm hv hpinfr nassed
j through revolving cylinders which con,
tain small pieces of iron. It has been
! ascertained that fifteen pounds of mct!
alic iron will purify 1.000,000 gallons
of water. The water thus treated is
! said to be completely freed from germs,
bacteria and other objectionable matters.
English and French chemists
j find that the contact with iron reduces
the organic matter by from 45 to 85
j per cent, and albuminoid ammonia by
from 50 to 00 per cent, and all free
ammonia is removed. The process has
| been applied with success to the water
of the Delaware river in Pennsylvania.
! It is simple and cheap. A fair inferj
cnce from these facts is that it doesn't
hurt drinking water to pass it through
j iron pipes.
A Tempting "Ad."?A Southern
? ? t it.- zr.ii
paper puonsnes uie iunu?iug iiuuitisement:
"Wanted?By n young lady,
aged nineteen, of pleasing countenance,
good figure, agreeable manners,
general information and varied aecomI
plishments and who has studied everything
from the creation to crochet, a
situation in a family of a gentleman.
She will take the head of his table,
manage his household, scold his scr|
vants, amuse his babies, check his
tradesmen's bills, accompany him to
the theatre, cut the leaves of his new
I book, sew on his buttons, warm his
; slippers and generally make his life
happy. Apply in the iirst place to
Miss , Hickory Grove, Ga., and
afterward to papa, 011 the premises."
BfeiT Father (to son who has failed in
his examination three times)?I made
a mistake in sending you to college. I
ought to have apprenticed you to a
locksmith or some other trade. "My
dear father, I have often thought the
same, especially when 1 have been out
1 1 i- i.,??i.
in nigni mm iiiivc lurgmivu m > i.nvukoy."
8??" In some parts of Russia the snow
actually is preserved in great sand
and manure-covered heaps, as a means
of irrigating tlie land during the sumj
mcr heat.
"Well, Johnnie, are you able to
keep your place in your class?"'
Johnnie?Yes, sir; I began at the foot
I and there's not a single boy been able
I to take it from me.