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THE CAPE ?F STORMS. .o r pur boats by. tho compass, r'' Volliav tho northern star; n chart on shipboard o'er tho seas afar, iv -tur or hy compass lc i ur bouts on our way. j)0 of Storms is beforu us, :; ..... it ahead some day. ... may point is no matter, . |v .: tho'cargo may bo, :. tho northern oeeau "a th? southorn nea. what ia the pilot, . meo our courso conforms . o'er tho nea of lifo .a-J tho Capoibf Storms. enn first Bight tho headland . ill! horizon's brin.. ; np rous waters r vessels ,aut 0!ui tr:-n> . i.-ape in its grimness i its suddenly riso, . " '.,'. the elouds tlutt Lavo hid it o? the I li? "UM lu uur cyca 1] ! .? caught in tho waters ; J 'gainst the Storm Cape'? . o.l joys, our hopes and fears, ' (r pt the maddening race; . d( -ires, our penitent griefs, ; ." ii.-.- und passionate pain - ' i, . I to pray on the stormy caps ;'v ;,;ic in our faco Uko rain. td ways hope for tho sailor. a passage through. . iK.wn at tho Capo nf Storms . and tho heart he true. .,'. ,'. ? iii? f oul is steadfast, :i t iind und in will, . , i; !.. to tho other side, -.'' an of life is still. , :. . a in Philadelphia Ledger. \ [?(1ST DATED PAPEE - The word stared ino in the ;.! my ears. Ruin, utter ".jj pirie. The prospects with ?.] ch wy hopes had boon buoyed h . last tlirco years faded "v:lV ii] .< -i ]iliantom of tho night, .,. ?j, two days tho ouco prosiierous srj?iof ,T( Im Farmer fr Co., of which E,s il? . KOIO partner, would bo . ;. i up us unable to meet its en BiWiuont Borrow ! Bah ! Who would lend ? jj] :!, WS travels fast, ana the mar feet knew 1 had been badly hit for a firm of my pretensions. Xo; there was nothing for it but [o face the matter out quietly. For myself, it would not mean much, biii for her--ah ! We had been engaged for 18 months, and with business looking KI"oprosperous we had decided that he timi' was propitious to consum nato our happiness, but this rash peculation-what has it not done? -dashed all my hopes to tho ground md blighted all prospects of our ?ai?jiy future. Anti of this she knows nothing. With a heart of lead and cold Iropsof agony on my brow, I roso ?h-oui my office chair? Tho evening Rv.s cold, and as I passed out in Bptho street a neighboring clock Bhiiiictl 7 For tm hour or moro I Brandered iiimlessly about thc Ktreets, until at last, feeling sick Bsd ill, I entorod a little hostelry Rn the Strand and called fora glass I At first 1 was under the impres sion that I was tho only occupant of ?be room, but an indescribable feel Beg that somo ono was staring at mo Bnndo mo look up. I Seated in the farthest corner I ?scried au object with two piercing ve? that seemed to burn into my rain. I could not call him a man. Ie looked to me to be about 4 feet ligh, with a faco as pale as death, hs head was bald save for a s: gie ock that stood up straight as an ar otvin a line with his nose. His south was thin and delicate, with i long, black mustache drooping lown on either side. As I looked at lim he left his seat and came to ward me. "Pardon me," he said, "but, you ippear to be in trouble. ' * "Who is there that is not in trou )lo at some time of his life?" I an gered, with a laugh. "What is it?" he aBkedf "Lovei" j I shook my head. ["Then it must he money," he rawhided. "Why?" I asked. ^"Theonlv things that trouble a ?an in this world are love and ?foley. Am I not right ? ' ' I "Tho value of your axiom I am Bot inclined to dispute, ' ' I answered ; ?hut, since you seem to take an in ?ffest in me, I don't mind saying V>at, as regards myself, the trouble I "Ahl I thought so-money Money-nothing but money. Mar Bet's up-money made; market's ?own-money lost Rich today ?morrow ruin!" ? "?ou speak truly," I answered. ? "If we only could tell." j "Tell whati" I asked. ?^What the morrow will bring l^'o would be millionaires," he I "Multimillionaires, " I assented. ? * ? ? were to tell you that at this ?po&ent I have in my pocket a copy Bf tomorrow evening's Moon, you Bffouia not believe me. " ? "j would not," I answered. B"I thought not," continued my ?Jago companion. "The world is B5^ of skeptics. " ? "Do you ask me to believe that Bp are in possession of informa wBt* concerning events which have ?J yet taken place!" I asked. BP* ask you to believe nothing-I ?pj'y 8to-te facts." ? And what doea your supernatu ?g Paper contain." I asked-"tho Br]J,of tho markets?" MK ?he exact state of the marketa W^ey will bo at closing timo to BLrr?'v and tho actual results of Barrow's racing." ? .?ou must be a wonderful wiz ?r- And what is the price of thfo Boated naner?" j "wnai woum ii no worm to I you?" he asked. "If I had any faith in what you j tell mo, I would give you pounds j for it, but as I believe it would provo to bo nothing more than a swindle I don't mind satisfying my curiosity to tho extent of a couplo of shillings." "Many people would give a fiver for tho racing results alone. Moko it half a sovereign and it's yours." "Not 1," I answered. * "I never bet on races. " "That's no reason why you ehouldn't. Why, a few pounds in i vested on a horse tomorrow will bring you in thousands." "Bah!" I answered. "All talk." "Wi ll," said the stranger, with a I sigh, "I would like you to have it. ? It would do you a lot of good, espe- ? cially as you are in money troubles. Say G shillings?" "Well, if 5 shillings will bo of ? any service to you, hero they aro," j I said, producing two half crowns, j "You will never regret it. I thank I you." And, placing a neatly folded paper upon che table, my mysterious : friend disappeared. .'-"colling at myself for being so easily duped, and yet with a strong feeling of curiosity, I opened the sheet. On looking at tito date I found to my astonishment that my friend hail spoken truly. Today was tin? 12th, and the paper I held in my hands was dated the lUth. Mechanically I turned to the cot- ? ton market, and found that my par ticular holding wtts two points up, and although I only had tho word of this mysterious stranger io vouch for the accuracy of tito report, a stronge glow of hope toole posses sion of nie. For was I not morally certain in my own mind that tho market would rise during the coming week ? Oh, if I could only hold on-but Bottling day was at hand, and tho market could not possibly recover itself sufficiently to balance my losses in so short a timo-what could Idol Turning to other items of tho pa per I found many paragraphs of stale news, a number of new tele grams relating to xoisign affairs and then my eyes fell upon "To day's Racing:" WINNER OF THE Jtil?J?NATIONAL HTAKE8. Blntrkfrir.r. 1 Songbird.'2 Tho Poppy-.S Butting-83 to 1 Blackfriar; 2 to 1 Songbird: 100 to S Tho Puppy. Won by a nock. "Thirty-three to one," I reflected. "A rank outsider; ?100 on Black friar would bring in over ?3,000 more than sufficient to meet settling day.. Oh, if I could only trust it1." Tho moro I thought about it, tho moro fascinated I became. Thirty three to one. Coul l I risk it ? Thc paper was no doubt a fraud, but had chance thrown it in my way for a purpose? But I was ignorant of betting affairs; even should I decide to risk half of my ?200, how was I to set about it? My further thoughts were rudely interrupted by a'resounding slap on tho shoulder, and on turning round I beheld in tho intruder an old col lege chum, Dick Hampton. "Jack Farmer, by all that's lucky ! Why, who would have thought of running up against you like this?" "Why, when did you come down, Dick?" "Only arrived tonight, my boy. I've just loft the north to see the International run tomorrow." "The International," I murmured, as I crumpled the paper into my pocket. "Yes. Why, what's the matter with you ? You are loc.Mng awfully down. Come along with m?> to thc races in the morning. It will liven you up." "No," I answered. "I cannot leave business. ' ' "Business-always business. I suppose you are on the road to be come a millionaire-eh?" "Npt quite. But what is going to win tomorrow?" "Songbird, my boy, without o doubt. You take my advice and have a couple of ponies on it." "What chance has Blackfriar?" "Not the slightest ghost of one it is as rank an outsider as ever car ried a jockey. Songbird will romp home and make hacks of the field." "What price is Blackfriar?" ] asked. "Anything you like." "And Songbird?" "Oh,. Songbird is quoted at 3 tc 1 tonight." "Supposing I wished to put ?100 on Blackfriar-how could I do it?" "Pshaw, my dear boy, you could get ?1,000 on as easily as wink, ii you wished to lose it." "But," I persisted, "say I had ?100 to throw away on an oft chance, would you undertake to in vest it for me on Blackfriar?" "There, I knew you were a mil lionaire. Of course, if you have a fancy for the animal, back it, bu as sure as ducks can swim thc money might just os well bo thro wt into the gutter." "Well, anyway I will give yoi my check for ?100 to be put oi Blackfriar for the International." **S. P. f" inquired Hampton. "What is that?" I asked. "I say, Jack, old man, but yoi ?ie green-S. P. means starting price. If yon back it S. P., you ge your money back if it doesn't run but if yon take a stated price abou it, and it gets scratched, yon lo? your money without having th? satisf aol ion of a run for -it. " "Then B. P. by.all means," I an towered. "And now let ns go am have lipme supper. " After supper we spent a vcr; ttfeaaant hour together, and I tva enlightened upon many mysterious racing technicalities, and finally wended my way homo in a far bet ter fra m o of mind than that with which I had started the evening. But in tho early hours of the morning the old horror of my posi tion dawned upon mu in all its real tty. Tho falso beacon ci hope which J had buoyed up my spirits at thc close of tho previous evening now presented itself to mo in thu form ! of an imbecile bet. 1 had for a short j period imagined that my fortunen could be rebuilt by tho caprice of ti ? raco horse whoso existence I had not dreamed of 12 hours before, and I quickly realized that instead ol ' improving my position I had mere ly placet a further ?100 in jeopardy. Yet it Bcemed strange that 1 should thus meet the rogue who sohl me tho paper which lured mu to my folly. However, I reflected that, being so deeply in tho mire, anothex inch or two as represented by thc ?100 would not make so much differ- , euee. But tho game is not lost until it i? won, and 1 determined to face mat ters boldly, and when my broker called at my of?co to sound mo ns to my position 1 assured him, with all the self assurance I could mus ter, that the aspect of affairs caused me no uneasiness. But tho weariness of the day-tilt feverish excitement that took pos session of me as the hours rolled on ! With my eyes fastened on thc clock 1 wrtehed tho hands slowly creep to tho hour fixed for the race. And when tho gong sounded thc first stroke of ii I started in my chair as if I had heard a thunder clap. Kow they aro off and my fortunes hang upon a horse and jockey. lu my imagination I could hear tho thud of many hoofs as they spurned tho ground in that wild scramble toward tho winning post. Then half an hour later I heard the newsboys racing dewn the street shouting with their brazen lungs: "Special ! Winner of tho In ternational !" And a nauseating sick ness crept over me-my head spun round and round as I staggered out and purchased a paper. With trembling hands I laid it on my desk, and for some minutes 1 sat there not daring to open it. Then,composing myself with a great effort, I opened tho sheet and let my eyes rest upon tho fatal column. Great heavens! Could I believe my senses ? There staring mo in thc face was: Blackfriar. . 1 Oliphant. - Songbird. i Tho paper dropped from my nerveless hands and I fell back iu my chair with a gasp. My position was saved as if by a miracle. At 8 o'clock I went to tho Norfolk hotel to meet Dick Hampton, and found him wTith a face as long a'i tho proverbial fiddle. "Jack, you lucky dog-but j c's always the way-a man spend? the best x)art of his day3 studying horses, and thinks he's found a good thing, when up comes a greenhorn that can't tell a horse from a hayseed, spots an outsider and wins a for tune." "Well, look here, Dick, you needn't grudge it to me. H Black friar had lost, I would have beena bankrupt tomorrow. When can 1 get the money?" "Good heavens, man, you don't mean to say that all your luck was on that horse? Well, some people ride a forlorn hope and get home, while others get thrown over the rails. As to the money, I can give you my check tonight and settle with the bookmaker tomorrow." And as soon as the bank opened in the morning I paid ?3,400 into my account, and forwarded a check to my broker to cover my week's losses. From that day the market ross steadily, and a fortnight later I cleared out with a snug little ?20, 000. Some six months after I was leav ing my office to go home to my lit tle house at Richmond, where my dear wife was awaiting me. The evening was raw and chill with a driving rain. Passing beneath the light of a street lamp, n man ac costed me and begged for alms. It was the man who had sold me the post dated paper. Full of curiosity, I took him into a public house near at hand, and, having ordered some refreshment, I turned to him. "Do you remember," I asked, "selling me, six months ago, a post dated paper giving the winner of tho International?" "Perhaps I did," he answered. "I've sold lots of them." "Explain." "Well, yon see, sir, it is this way : There area lot of foole inthis world -and there is no fool like a sport ing fool. A man can be persuaded to back anything in a race. I had a friend who had a printing pres? and I hit upon the idea of printing a paper to resemble The Evening Moon, dating it a day in advance and filling in the sporting columr with a few outside horses at long prices. Then I haunted the botch and drinking bars until I spottec my man, got into conversation witl him, put on a mysterious air- ant generally finished np with dispos lng of a copy for half a sovereign.' "But how did you come to plac< Blackfriar as the winner of tho In tarnational?" "Pure luck, sir, pure luck, knew no more about the horse thai a babe unborn." Giving tho mun a sovereign I de parted, reflecting upon thc strange : fortunes that befall a niau in this f lifo and blessing tho lucky chance that led nie to purchase a '"nost ! dated paper."-Loudon Tit-Bits. Mathew'* Ifouae. { I Some years ?go a San Francisca ] hanker maintained ;i country house j j; upon what wore supposed to bo en- i tirely original lino-, lt was, how- < ever, a poor imitation ol* tho estab- I ^ lishment of Mr. Mat lie wot* Thomas- ! t ton, Ireland, who lived in tho ear- I [ lier years of tho last century. Mr. 1 Mathew inherited an annual income i 1 of ubout $125,000. For many years j ho lived abroad in a very frugal ? i manner in order to accumulate au amount that would enable him to , ; indulge in a form ol' hospitality ir \ his own country in harmony with the plan he had devised. His house > < in Ireland might be compared in 1 sizo with a modern hotel. Each of j ? thoso ho wanted to visit him had a ! i suit of apartments and ordered his , meals at tho hour that best suited ' him. Ho could eat alono or lie I could invite others to join him. All the visitors hunted, shot, Ashed, played billiards or cards at will, and all brought their own horses. There was a regular liar where drinks were served without stint. Mr. Mathew as host completely effaced himself. Ho mingled with his visitors as ono whose stay warf as definitely fixed as theirs, lu fact, ho conducted his house as if it were a hotel, with the exception that all was without charge. No servant j was allowed to accept a ti]). Viola- | tion of this rule was followed by ' lhe instant dismissal of tho offend- ; er. This establishment, unlike other , country houses of Ireland of tho I period, was conducted with perfect [ order and method and without waste. His hospitality was lavish [ and attracted to Mr. Mathew all of the more famous men of the time. Tho great sum that ho had put aside during his residence abroad enabled him to indulge his hospitable in stincts until ho died.-New York Sun. _ An Irish Schoolhouse. Nearly every day I saw tho chil dren going to school in tho morning j and mot them returning in the | evening. Their aspect had the ! same untamed wildness then that it ' had tts I saw them running about j the bogs and crags that surrounded the home village, is the comment of a writer in The Outlook. The school house was four miles distant along a dcsolato road winding through the dun marshes. The children j went barefoot and bareheaded, ex- : copt for a few of tho older boys, | who woro caps. They each carried a pieco of dry bread for their noon lunch, and that was all tho food they had till they returned homo ; lato in the afternoon. But, with all j their hardships, they looked sturdy i and healthy. Probably weaklings do not survive long. Onco I noticed ; that a boy in a group of children j returning from school carried a j book, and I asked to seo it. It was ! a most forlorn little third reader, ! a wreck of a book-covers broken, j marked and greasy within, and many pages gone or torn. Tho schoolhouse was a bare mod ern building, with gray plaster walls, lt stood in the center of a rough, rocky yard that was sur rounded by a high stono wall. Out side the inclosure all was bog. The Old Order Changea. The old Scots parliament decreed that "golf and football shall be ut terly cryit dune," and today the Scots parliament does, not exist, while football und golf havo inher ited the earth.-Edinburgh Dis patch. ?ffectlvo Prayer. A pretty anecdote is related of a child who was groatly perturbed by the discovery that her brothers had set traps to catch birds. Questioned as to what she had done in the mat ter, she replied, "I prayed that the traps might not'catch tho birds." "Anythingelse?" "Yes," she said. "I then prayed that God would pre vent the birds getting into the traps." And, as if to illustrate the doctrine of faith and works, sho went and kicked the traps all to pieces --Philadelphia Ledger. . A Reproof. Wife (wearily)-Ah, me, the days of chivalry aro past I Husband-What's the matter now? Wife-Sir Walter Haleigh laid his cloak on thc ground for Queen Elizabeth to walk over, but you got angry simply because poor, dear mothor sat down on your hat. London Fun. Herve's Musical Career. Herve, the French composer, be gan his musical career as an organ ist. When a boy, he strolled into a church one day and persuaded the blower to let him try the organ after tho service. . He then improvised something wonderfully sweet and strange. The priest happened to hear it, strolled in and was amazed. "Where did you learn to play tho organ, my boy?" he asked. "This is the first time I have ever played it, father," he replied. "Well, you had better apply i'or the post of organist here, " said the priest. "There is a vacancy next week." The boy applied and was accepted. - The Pope does his private writ writing with a gold pen, but thc pon tificial signature is always written with a pon made from the feather of a whito dove. OLD TIME TROTTERS. P L G rent Race That Was l?nti In l*re?ldcut u Jackkun'8 Tien-. Tho sports pf tho turf wore grow ng in popularity in tho United j< >tatcs. Tho contest lay principally ? j )Otwceu tho Messenger? and tho . t ?ashaws, though for a timo tho n Stars iii their courses had provaile 1 , JJ tgainst both. Probably al! were of r >rigiual Arabian stock. Tito Stars ?vero slight ot' le.nl) and had a :endcucy to contraction of tho feet. b flio stronger Messengers were moro 1 :o ho depended upon forl?n*; dis- 1 aneo t rotting. Tito Bashaws cann? t [rom Barbary, anti were of neat and i unquestionable Arabian origin. ] Oho of tin? most famous races in ] ill tho history of the turi wnsatthb j tim?? fresh in the publie lui'.: '. . Hunting Park course, in L'hiladel phia, was tho scene, Uie?inie I-SU. * The actors were sue;, notable diet s ns Topgallant, NV h dehone, Dread, 3 Chancellor, Collet tor, Lady .lack ' son, Moonshine and Columbus. Thc ' course was a three milo trae lr, ami there were four heats. Tho horses were generally docked, and iii?' riders woro gorgeous ; nits of silk. "Eight such horses,'' says Wood, ruff, "and such riders bad noyer met before, and it is doubt ful wheth er they will again." Topgallant, a Messenger, wa J nearly '24 years old, and was spav ined at thar. Whalebone bad no pedigree, and was minus ono eye. Columbus was known as t ! ?. ? > first horse that ever trotted t!.<> three milo course in less titan eight min utes. Ho had a record of r:r?s. Col lector won the first heat, Topgallant tho second and Dread thc third and fourth. The victor was a golding. Up to tliis limo all famous malo trotters were doomed to bo the last of their line. Thoora of trotting stallions was dawning. The rising hope of. tho Bashaws was a famous pacer, who was destined to make a record of two miles in 5:18 at tho Center- ; ville (X. V.)raco in ls^?. His name was shared with tho great Dcm?, eratic president, and reporters for tho papers divided their space equi tably between tho two. Even a ref erence to Andrew Jackson tho Ba shaw was not sufficiently specific in those days, for tho Barbary title was OJIO by which moro than one lady of the cabinet circle bad desig nated the executive himself. Tho Barbary borne was really the Arabian horse, that had roi no ved with his master from the desert peninsula to northern Africa. The Ara os ?. laini that tho horse was first tamed by Ishmael, tho son of Abra ham-or, as they style him, Ismail, ibu Ibrahim-and that their famous? coursers of tho present day are thc descendants of tho steeds of tho pa- ] triarch's family. Indeed tho orien tal horse trader will not blush tc present to you a written pedigree, if you require it, giving all the names of tho sires in ascending line to thc days of King .Solomon. Thc less-tho traveler in Arabia is ac quainted with tho Arab character tho moro ho will bo impressed with these "claims of long descent." Your true Arabian steed stands l-l j to 15 hands high, with largo head and deep jowl, largo and gentle , eyes, light neck, high with? r, mus- ; cular forearm, short back, i'ound i "barrel," narrow hind quarter and '. high set tail. Ho is not always gray i in color, as is popularly tsupposed. j He is a constant galloper, a bold jumper, a docile, courageous and j lovable creature. Ho has inproved ; in size hy his removal to Barbary, ! and as a consequence the Barbary j type corresponds moro to the Amori- j can ideal.-Hubert M. Skinner iu Arena. Not Equal to tho Tost. Thero is a business man in this town who if? a terror to stenogra phers. His amanuensis, who han been with him a longtime, was re cently taken sick. -Tho employer mailed a letter to a local business college to send him a stenographer and typewriter. Tho business mau is very particular about his vocabu lary and wants everything written just as he diotates it. Therefore, in order to test the newcomer's accu racy, he, instead of dictating an or dinary business letter, gave forth the following at a rate of speed that would do justice to a stump speaker: "In promulgating your esoteric cogitation or articulating your su perficial sentimentalities and amica ble philosophical or psychological observations beware of platitudi nous ponderosity. Let" But he got no further, for the poor amanuensis bioko his pencil in tho effort, niter which ho got up, wiped tho perspiration from his forehead and quickly loft tho office. -Philadelphia Record. Wood Stone. From a mixture of magnesia and eawdust subjected to a high tem perature and great pressure Dr. Otto Lohnig bas produced a sub stance which he calls "xylolith," or .'wood stone." lt can be out with tools, but, it is said, does not burn and does not absorb moisture. The inventor thinks it should prove use ful as a building material. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the /iff " Signaturo of - Leisure is a very ideasant gar ment, but it is a bad one for constant ?oar. LAYED ON HIS WEAKNESS. | g :<>w n Refractory Chtm-tanzee Waa ? ItruuRlit lulu SiibtiiiHiilou. Tho serio* of "historical mon- il cys" kept at tho zoo hogan with ? bo, a chimpanzee, which tito ero.1 I Lon of thc now monkey houso cu bled to bo kept alive lin-sonic limo. I . i 'rank Buckland H description of his ! nnnageiuent hy Mr. bartlett given i a insight into Iiis read i ne? j and re- ! | o n co in dealing wii h different ani- \ v nals. The big apo needed exercise. ! \ 'his ho obtained by being allowed 1 ho run ?d'thc largo monkey liou.se, j j ?stead of remaining in a side room, j i ?cf oro tho visitors came. As be mew he woe.hi bc caught and put ?ack into his own room at this hour, ? he apo used to climb up lo t ho top >f th?1 other monkeys' cages and re fuse to como down. As ho could tot 1H< tempted hy food, Mr. Bart lett appealed to his mind by work ing on what he had laded to bo bis J i weak ju?iiit^, curiosity and coward- ' iee. Tins is Frank ??uckland's ac- 1 I eount of tho daily proceedings at M this h.?ar: "Jh', Uart let I went to : Ute keeper, and, touching him gen- i ' '.ly on tho, shoulder, directed his nt- : 1 teilt iou in ;t my--teri?nts mann.>r to th?? dark passage underneath tho gas ])i|KV\vhiidi travers? ?tho house, : protending to point out to Sutton \ some horrible unknown creature, ! using an energot ie u milner, 1 ut say ing nothing except word sj \>* this eil t i : 'Look out ! There he i : 'i'h? iv ho isf At tim Hann.' time the two men would peer into the dark place, under th" gas pipe. Thc monkey used presently t>? como down lo seo what the subject ol'fear and interest was, when Mr. Bartlett and Sutton used t<> shout: "He's coming out! lie'-; coming out !" and rushed away in tho din e, lion of doc's cage. Tho monkey would rush for the same placo ol' safety, which happened to bo tho j door of his own house, and some times enter it before them. Buck land notes it. as curious that tho monkey never learned tho decep tion, but would bo taken in by it whenever tho time came to liiiish his morning's airing. These "indirect methods" of ani mal management, sometimes akin to tho "wonderful way" some peo ple havu with little children, never { failed Mr. Bartlett. To the last ho j would walk around and seo all tin) j creatures as lo whoso health or tem per tho keepers had any misgivings, j and his suggestions or directions . were scarcely over tit fault. Take, j for example, tho difficult ase of a j rhinoceros with a bad "place'' on ? his ftice. Tho question was, Doe? | tho abscess como from tx bad tooth, or does it only need lancing? You cannot ask it rhinoceros if ho has tho toothache, and though this one was in considerable pain Un? causa cannans was not obvious. All Mr. Bartlett said was. "Give him n now birch broom." Tho broom was ](re sented, with tho bands at tho top cut, and tho rhinoceros at onco ate it, grinding up tho bits with great gusto. "Ah, you seo his teeth arc all right," said Mr. Bartlett, and next day ho "lanced" tho abscess with a well sharpened billhook. Tho diagnosis was ingenious timi worthy of tho head of thu profes sion, which Mr. Bartlett undoubted ly was.-Loudon Spectator. Anatomy of a Violin. Taken to pieces a violin would bo found to consist of tho following parts: Back, 2pieces; bolly, 2; coins and blocks, G ; sides, 5 ; side linings, 12; bar, 1; purfiings, 24; neck, 1; finger board, 1; nut, 1; bridge, 1; tailboard, 1; button for tailboard, 1; string for tailboard, 1; guard for string, 1; sound post, 1; strings, 4; pegs, 4; total, C?. Threo kinds of wood aro used-maple, pine and ebony. Maple is used for the back, the neck, the sido pieces and the bridge. Pine is used for tho belly, the bar, tho coins and blocks, tho side linings and tho sounding post. Ebony is used for the fiugor board, the tailboard, tho nut, the guard for string of tailboard, tho pegs and the button.-Philadelphia Times. Fainting Fit?. Fainting proceeds from different causes, tho commonest being a dis turbance in tho circulation of the blood in tho brain. For au ordinary fainting tit lay tho patient fiat. Groat harm has often resulted from tho treatment of ignorant pooplo in trying to make the patient sit up o? propping up tho hoad with pillows. To send the blood back from the heart to the brain tho Hat posture is absolutely necessary. Let tho pa tient lio so that tho feet aro higher than tho head, throw tho clothes about tho ehest and throat opon, eponge tho face with cold water and give some cold water to drink. -Now York Ledger. She Got a New One. "I've stopped asking people if my bonnet is on straight." The Husband-Why, my dears The Wife-I love you too much, John, to disgrace you by calling a body's attention to an old bonnet like this.-London Tit-Bits. - Death it* but a kind and welcome servant, who unlocks his noiseless hand life's flower encircled door to show us those we love. - A canal connecting the Mediter ranean with tho Ked sea, existed as early as OOO years before the Christian era. Ita ieugth was Uli miles. - An Irishman complained of his wife as a thankless jade. "Whin I married her," ho said, "she hadn't a rag to her back, and now she's covered with 'em!" livery expectant ! not hoi" ha? trying ordeal to fuco. If ?ho does not l\itT L_?M| K? "...?'ly '??<? ?. v ll N " ' , thorn is no lel?iig I \ ,- what may happen. Lj Child birth is full of uncertainties it' Maturo is not given proper assistance. Mother's Friesid s tho bo-st h lp you can ase at this limo, [t isa liniment, and when regularly ap? lilied several moulin before baby ?'ornes, . makes tho advent easy and nearly pain It roHevi ; and prevent:* " nioruing siekness,' relaxes iii-" ovena rained mus , les,-.vii.-ve ; ibo di (e.nd?d fol ling, .-hort ?un lube:*, ihaki s ree? ivory ra nid and eor lain without any dang? r??uH afler-elToeta. 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