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THE TOILER'S RECOMPENSE. . I. An boar ago the world was cold And heaven seemed far away, And ali the gloom that my heart oouH . hold Appeared to be ?entered there, Ana I wondered if ever another day With a cheerful sky and fair, "Would dawn for me, or would bring for rn? Such Joys as the joys that had fled If the way beyond had a thing for me Worth theoost of toiling ahead. 'II. An honrr ago the world was cold, And heaven seemed far away, Exit the clouds that were leaden are tinged with gold, And ruy heart is light again ; . For ono with a helpful word to say Stepped out from the ranks of men, With a hand for me and a smile for me. And praise for tho worI; I've done, And ?ut there many a mile for me Is * goal that shall be won. -S. E. Kiser in Cleveland Leader. ?o?o?o?o?o?o?oeo$o?o?o?o? I THE imERIOiiS GOGXSWM i 9 9 . o'. ^; . _ . o ?o?o?o*o?o?o?oao?o?o??o?o? i .The big. battleship was rolling, ina . ?estically to and fro; several miles ofl the coast when the fiery snn appeared above tba horizon and bathed in golden ines the stunted palms and deserted j -shorer of Cuba. The 'bluejackets had j been turaed to earlier than nsnal, and the wori: of the morning watch was already completed. On the forecastle the idlers and marines were performing, their morning ablutions, while the jackies who had been washing down ?fecks and deaning ship.were gathered in picturesque groups forward of the big turrets, excitedly discussing the news.which badmen brought forward . by some of the wardroom boys. '/The first luff has. been ordered to x get out ? steam launch and a cutter and send; some \ one into. the harbor's mouth to cut a ca HR. It will be a dan gerous job,/for the, bo?is'will' h?ve to grapple for the cable right in range of the Spanish, batteries.'' y Here, at last, was an end to the mo notony of blockading service and a " chance to do something. For weeks the big ship had been steaming idly back and forth without' once firing a shot or even chasing a blockade runner. It was : not strange that the news the ward room boya were telling created a furore of 'excitement among the jackies on-the forecastle,, and the early appearance of ?he young^officer8 on the deck showed | th?tT"^effirage'' had alsq been informed of th e an tended expedition, i Among others who heard the story . on the^irecastle-was Cockswain Welch, who, w?tlb his trousers rolled up to his knees and tis mnscuki arms bared to th?^sboulder, had just come in from the third cutter, his especial pet and pride, where, with bucket and swab, he had ^been removing some of) the traces of anders; and soot deposited by the big funnels overhead. Welch was not a popular man among his mates. He bad but.recently joined the ship, and, i(y the disgust of many art OldJ shellback, he had hardly been billeted to the af ter guard when he was / -rated' a cockswain-vice Murphy, dis rated for drunkenness-and now had. charg? of the best cutter on board. ?any strange stories were^ being whis pered about among Welch's mates eon . cerning the new. cockswain. He was too young to have been an apprentice/ and there were some'who said he was now ser vim; his. first enlistment and had obtained his rating because of a ?> ;puli with some of the youngsters in the steerage. Others averred that Welch, was not the cockswain's real name and that.he had a story to tell which would make a fine sensation ^for any of the .newspaper correspondents hovering about the squadron on the swift little towboats could any one guess what it was. But Welch, by his quiet atten tion to duty, bis reticence and gentle manly manners, had hitherto remained a mystery, which bothered the carious ones ' among the jackies not a little. Withal, he seemed to be a good seaman and to have the confidence of his supe l Tiors, who, if they knew his secret, had kept it well to themselves. "Pass ikhe word for Welch, the cock swain of the third cutter 1" piped the boatswain's mate ' "Lay after to the. quarter deck I" The message was taken up and re peated by the boatswain's mates in the .different parts of the ship, and the cockswain, rolling down his duck trou sers and aetting his watch cap squarely on the top of his head, hurried off in response to the call. Reaching the quarter deck, Welch stood at attention, forward of the steer age hatch, until his soldierly figure caught the eye of the first lieutenant, .who was pacing nervously up and down the weather side. .'Welch !" the executive officer spoke sharply and stopped suddenly in his hurried walk. The cockswain sprang forward, and, bringing' his bare heels together in the correct posture of "attention, " saluted his superior. "We're going to try and cut that cable today and shall send in the third cutter, with the launch, to do the work. It will require a cool head to handle the cutter under fire, and there are many chances that she may not come back unscathed. This work must be done, and everything will depend on the way the boats are handled. Lieu tenant de Koven will have charge of the expedition, and Mr. Karl will go in the cutter. Only volunteers will be taken, and I have sent for you to give vou a chance to go. ' ' "Thank you, sir," said Welch, with a tone of self possession, though his cheeks flushed. "You may go forward and quietly pick out eight men for your boat. Take only volunteers and good, cool headed men. When you have selected your crew, report to Mr. Karl. That will. do." Welch saluted and hurried forward as fast as his legs would carry him. This was a chance he had been waiting, longing, praying for. The dangers of the expedition did noe occur to him, and if they had he would have worried little jiboat them. He now had an opportuni ty to distinguish himself and perhaps show some people that-well, he wonld not think of this jnst now, but Cock swain Welch did think of these things just the same, and the more he thought of them the more anxious he was to starf; oa the perilous expedition. J Eight men for the cutter were quick ly selected. He might have had twenty tim ?is as many had he been ordered, to. tase them, but the chosen ones wen strong, able men, who could be re on to do their duty under the most ing circumstances. Getting his clothes bag from the 1 room", as the other men were do: Welch dressed in a clean working s with his big black kerchief corre? knotted about his throat, and hun down to report to Mr. Karl. In the steerage the naval cadets junior' officers were just finishing early breakfast, and the Japanese si ants were hurrying back and fe with tempting dishes and steam pots of coffee. The cockswain's kn at the door brought the steer steward, and to him Welch repea his message. His words were heard the youngsters at the table, and on< them sang ont in clear, boyish tones "Come in, Welch." The cockswain, hat in hand, ente the room and found himself fae NavaJ Cadet Earl, who was mak short work of a regulation navy bre fast of bacon and eggs. "I was ordered to report to you, si: said Welch. i "All right, cockswain ; come in he I want to see you a minute," and Ki jumping up from the table, pushed o] the door of his stateroom and motioi to Welch to enter the little room wh the tumbled bunks and general unti appearance showed that Karl's Japan boy had not yet put this apartment condition for inspection. Such an unusual proceeding on 1 part of their messmate as tc invit sailor into his stateroom made the e: of the other young gentlemen at 1 table protrude from their soctkets. "Karl always was a genius in ecc< tricity, but this move beats me," : marked one of the cadets. There was but one chair in the sta room, and in this Karl seated the s< man as - soon, as the heavy drapery the door had. fallen behind them. "See here, Andrew"-Karl was vi bly excited,.and his voice trembled little as he spoke-"you're going wi me today into a veritable hell trap, a: before we go I want to tell you son: ? thing. Until after, you had told t commandant of cadets at the acaden that you were guilty cf 'gouging' that 'skinny' exam. I never, knew th you cared' anything fer my sister, acted like a coward about that affai and I am willing to acknowledge it. .permitted you to take the whole blai because I was. too cowardly to let < that I was the guilty person. I aski you to help me at that exaniinatio and you did it. When old Crook sa on the floor tbair piece of paper wi: the skinny problem on it, which y< had tried to pass to me, I should hw owned up at once that the problem w; intended for me and not for you. Wei I didn't own np to it, as I should ha^ .done." Karl's face was now flushe< and he was raising bis voice a li ttl "You were dismissed and never lisp? ? word to anybody in the^acadeno about my treachery. "You took my punishment. You wei disgraced and your life was ruin?e You could have ruined me bad yo been less of a man. Np, no"-Welc had now jumped to his feet and wi trying to say something-"I say yo could have ruined me, but you-took m disgrace and for my sake became homeless wanderen After you were dit missed from the academy I learne that Nellie loved you. Yes; she wrol me that she loved you, and, see, here i the letter; " Karl drew from a pigeonhole in h: desk a dainty envelope and passed it t Welch, who sat with bis hand eh ad in -his eyes, as if dazed. '-Then I began, to see how selfishly had behaved," Karl went o?*. "Whe you came on board this ship, an enlisl ed man, I knew you at once in spite c your mustache and your changed at pe?rance, but Bill and the other fellow didn't recognize you. i have done wha I could for you here, but it hasn't bee: much that I conld do. I knew yoi would want to go on this cable cuttinj trip, and Tasked the first luff to sen i you with mevin the, cutter. "I have kept my secret, but in thi Tetter, which I have just written, '. have told the fellows all about you an< how yon took my punishment like t hero-yes, that's the word, a hero, foi you are a hero, Andrew, and I'm a con founded rascal. If I don't get bael from this trip we are going, on today the boys will find . this letter in m3 desk. I have written home, too," anc Karl's face became pale again, and h< nervously shuffled the papers in hit desk. "Nellie will know about it too. I have told her all in this letter. " The naval cadet and the seamer faced each other in silence a moment, then they separated, each to prepare for the hazardous venture in which they were to participate. When Welch walked out through the steerage country to the forecastle, tightly clasping in his hand the dainty envelope Karl had given him, his face was paler than usual. At ll o'clock the battleship and the rest of the squadron moved in toward the harbor and opened fire on the Span ish batteries, several miles distant. While the big guns roared and the shells were flying toward the beach, sending the Spanish gunners scurrying like frightened rats into their holes, the steam launch with the cutter in tow shoved off from the battleship. The location of the cable was known, and when the cutter was a mile from shore the grappling irons were thrown overboard, and the work was begun ir earnest. The cutter, cast adrift from the launch, worked in toward the shore, while the launch moved out into the harbor and was out of raDge when tht Spaniards opened fire. Soon the water about the cutter fair ly sizzled with the rain cf rapid firt projectiles, hut the Yankee tars, with their faces hard set and their eyes fixec on the two men handling the grappling lines, pulled doggedly away at the oars. Karl and Cockswain Welch kept th( boat moving steadily in toward thc beach, nearer and nearer the batteries. The poor marksmanship of the Span iards caused the cutter's crew to smile grimly, and one irrepressible Irishman in the bow muttered something undei his breath that caused a laugh among the oarsmen. "Silence in the boat!" command?e Karl. "Cockswain We" Crash, crash! and a shriek of pain from the stroke oarsman. The flying splinters wounded three or four of tht men, and the boat officer was down with a scarlet stream staining his white service blouse just below the heart. A well directed shot from a rapid fire gun un me oeacn nan smasnea u uuic through the gunwale, and at the same time a ball from a Mauser rifle had brought down Karl. The naval cadet was moaning with pain and bleeding terribly from his wound. One of the men pulling at stroke was dead, and his thwart mate badly wounded. Fortunately the boat .was not severely damaged. After a mo ment of confusion the calm voice of Cockswain Welch brought the cutter back on its course, and the grappling j for the cable went on. On the battleship the accident to the cutter was witnessed and the firing was ! redoubled, but the rain of lead and steel from the shore continued, and the cutter's crew no longer laughed as they tugged at their oars. The men at the grappling lines were leaning over the side of the boat*, and, encouraged by the coolness of the cockswain, whose face betrayed not the slightest anxiety 01 fear, their work-went steadily on. "We've got it!" shouted both the seamen in almost one voice as the iron books dragging along the bottom caught the big cable. Welch waved the wigwag flag for the launch, which quickly headed toward the cutter and came gallantly down to them at full speed, amid a veritable hell of shot and shell. All hands on the grappling line, and the big cable was hauled np over the side of the boat, and just as Lieutenant De Koven came alongside with the launch, Welch brought the ax down upon the slimy cable and, after two or three strokes, severed it, the two ends sinking to the bottom, one of them moored by a water breaker attached to the grappling line By this time several other men were down in the bottom of the cutter, while the sides and floor gratings were splash ed with .blood. Quickly taking the cut ter in tow, the launch headed out to ward tho fleet and out of range. Cockswain Welch and the cutter's crew were the heroes of the hour. Down in the sick bay several badly wounded sailors and Cadet Karl were being ten derly cared for by the medical men of the ship, while two dead bodies were prepared for the sacred service of the morrow. When Karl was invalided home on the dispatch boat, Cockswain Welch took him out to her on the third cutter. As the boat was speeding along Welch bent over the young officer and said : "Here is the letter you left tobe read by the officers in the steerage. I got it from your desk, and you see the seal hasn't been broken. And, if you will, sir," continued Welch, as he drew from his blouse another envelope, addressed in a characteristic hand, "I wish you would give this letter to your sister for me." " "God bless you, Welch," murmured Karl, "you are a hero if ever there was one. Your letter shall be delivered if I reach home alive. " The officers on the dispatch" boat marveled much as they helped Karl over the side to see him stop at tho gangway and warmly shake the tall cockswain's hand, while the tears rolled down the cadet's pale cheeks. A few weeks later Cockswain Welch received an official document contain ing his discharge from the navy and inclosed in another envelope, addressed to "B. D. Welch, U. S. S. M.," was a commission of acting ensign, United States navy, signed by Secretary Long, and addressed to Mr. Andrew S. Car ter. But a letter in a lady's handwrit ing received by B. D. Welch was far more interesting to its recipient than j either of those.-H. M. Biglow in Short i Stories. ? ? The Ideal Father. Writing of the ideal father and ideal home training in The Ladies' Home ? Journal, Frances Evans refers to the home life of a well known writer "who considers no affair of greater impor tance than the direction of his four boys' minds. His boys run in age from 10 to .17, but even the little lad of 10 is ad : mitted to the family talks, which are teaching these boys to think for them ! selves. Instead of telling the children to 'keep quiet' at the dining table, both parents, with wise kindness, promote ! and direct the natural talkativeness of youth into fruitful channels. ? "The father brings home the news of the day, and .each boy is encouraged to express himself on these current topics when they dine at night, provided he is willing to think about what he is say ing, not deliver some careless, ignorant opinion, then obstinately stick to it. Argument is encouraged, and frequent I ly started by the father. Each boy may give free rein to his opinion as long as he keeps his temper and argues his best. No slovenly habits Of thought or ex pression are permitted, in this family. The topic in hand may te anything from football to the latest scientific dis covery." j The Trials ot Handshakers. I One might suppose from the calm ? and placid exterior of most great per sons that public life is a private snap. But it isn't. Take, for instance, offi cials who are called upon to hold public receptions. It looks easy, of course, to pump handle a few thousand persons at the rate of 12 a minute, but just try ! it once. When you have, you will feel inclined to wood sawing as a light di version and as a relaxation take to car rying coal from the cellar up. Reduced to its simplest expression, handshaking is the hardest manual la bor on record. The wife of a prominent American was speaking of this feature of public life a short timo ago and in illustration held out her hands. j "You see my left hand, " said sho. "Well, it is no different from any other j hand. It is not too large, nor too broad, and, if I may say it myself, not ill formed. Now look at my right hand. You notice tho diff?rence. Du you st-e how much larger it is-how it is broad and pudgy? Well, all that carno from handshaking. Nowadays I have tu have my gloves made to order, tho right hand two sizes larger than the left." The same woman said, too, that.her right arm frequently became numb and powerless after receptions where she was called to sh:\ke hands with a thou sand or more persons.-Washington Letter: I - Oh, doctor, I have sent for you, certainly ; still, I must confess I have j not thc slightest faith in modern med i ical science. Doctor -Oh! that doesn't j matter in the least. You see a mule j has DO faith in the veterinary surgeon; j and yet he cures him all the same. i TWILIGHT'S LENGTH HOW IT VARIES AT DIFFERENT TIMES AND PLACES. When It Is nt Its Shortest All Over the Globe, It Lnrats For Thirty Min utes nt Honolulu and For Eighteen Dnys at the Poles. The belief that there is little or no twilight within the great tropical belt encircling cor planet is a very wide spread one. History, however, warns ns that beliefs need not necessarily ac cord with facts. It might indeed almost be said that they usually do not. The toiling and moiling millions, the humble units that, taken in the bulk, constitute what is called a "great pow er," have neither the time nor the in clination to overhaul their opinions. They are not assailed by doubts as to whether the intellectual coffee which they have at odd moments imbibed may not have been mostly chicory. Such a state of mind unquestionably makes more happiness, and although such happiness may bear rather too much resemblance to that of, say, the cow it is none the less real for all that. Twilight is at its shortest at the equator and increases with the latitude -at the equinoxes-at about the same rate as thai; at which the meridians de crease their distance from one another. The increase is, therefore, very slow in low latitudes and very rapid near the poles. Practical or civil twilight is the time which elapses between the moment of the sun's setting and the moment when he is seven degrees of a great circle be low the horizon. At the equator this time cannot, of course, be less than 28 minutes. At the edges of the tropic zone it is about 31 minutes. A person with good eyesight will, should be care to make the experiment, find that when at sea and on or near the equator he is able to read average type on deck for at least 28 minutes after the sun has set without the aid of artificial 3ight and when there is no moonlight. This is the common sense experiment of which the duration is considerably longer than the practical, and even at the equator something like 70 minutes will elapse before night holds undis puted sway. This is the length of the true, the astronomical twilight. It is at or near the equinoxes that the phenomenon under consideration is at , its shortest all over the globe. At those periods it lasts at Honolulu 30 minutes; at San. Francisco, 35; at London, 45; at St. Petersburg, 57 ; at the Arctic and Antarctic circles, 72, and at the poles, 18 days. When, then, we say that the poles have six months' light and eix months' darkness, it is little mere than a fa?on do parler. The north pole has no less than 222 days of practical daylight each year, the south po?e 215 days, and the equator 197 days. Nansen, when in high north ern latitudes, was able to read The Verdensgang many clays before the longed for sunrise following the long winter night. The great length of the twilight in polar regions is a boon in deed to explorers. The popular imagina tion usually attaches itself to the great cold they have to endure, but the real enemy is the long darkness, which is trying to the enthusiasm of even a Nansen, Peary or a Jackson. There ia practically no difference in the length of the twilight at the equa tor at tho equinoxes and solstices. Even at Honolulu it will not vary by more than a couple of minutes. But in the higher latitudes the varying duration is very marked. In latitude 59% de grees, fox instance, it lasts 56 minutes at the equinoxes, but in the summer solstice ic lasts from sunset till sunrise that is to say, from 9:10 o'clock till 2:50, or five boura and 40 minutes. North or south of 83 degrees practical twilight las.ts all "night" at the eqni noxe. The sun is, it is true, -only 12' hours above the horizon, bufc as-he can not go more than 7 degrees below it there is continual daylight for the 24 hours. }fn such cities as Stockholm, and, St. Petersburg there are close on to 14' hours of daylight at those seasons when day and night are said to be equal, and at the equator itself the day all the year round is made of 13 hours' daylight and ll hours' darkness. It must not be forgotten that in those latitudes where the sun remains for months below the horizon there is during that period a good deal of daylight, so that along the eightieth parallel north (a little north of which the Jackson-Harmsworth ex pedition spent three consecutive years in the Franz Josef islands), although the sun does not rise between Oct: 19 and Feb. 22, there is a period of three weeks following the final sunset and another of the same length preceding the first sunrise of the year, on each day of which good type can be read for a few minutes up to some hours with out artificial light.-San Francisco Call. Some Curions Clubs. New York has a new feature in clubs. It is the "Dyspeptic club," and the test of eligibility for membership is a doctor's certificate that the applicant is suffering from a weak stomach. The object of the club is to promote "cheerfulness" among dyspeptics-a much needed quality-and, further, to furnish to the members the latest re sults of science in treating indigestion. In Vienna there is a "Red Haired club" and to prevent fraudulent admis sions every candidate is obliged to sonse his head thoroughly in hot water and soda before the committee. In the same city there is a "Lazy club, " no mem ber of which does anything fora living. Tho Parisian head cooks of eminence ! in their profession have formed an as sociation known ns the "Culinary acad emy. " Tho members of this institution number 30 and meet once a month, when they discuss at length various matters concerning their art, compare notes, invent new dishes and touch up old ones. - The State of Texas is about 75, 000 square miles larger than thc area of Spain. For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of ? MAD CZAR'S FACE THE STORY OF THE ARTIST WHO PAINTED OUT THE GASHES. A Deathbed Concession That Recall" ed a Brutal Tragedy of Rnsalon Conrt Intrigrne-The Assassination of the Emperor Pani I. At Zverevo, a little town in the "gov ernment" or province of Voronej, in the Don country, Russia, there died not so very long ago Osen Ivanovitch Schtchctka, a gray haired teacher, who, when he felt death approaching, called for a priest, though he had previously never professed religion. His father, he said, had been a citizen of St. Pe tersburg up to the end of March, 1801. He died in Zverevo in 1860, making a deathbed confession to his son. This was Ivan Shtchotka's deathbed confession, according to his son. Osen Ivanovitch : "In 1801 I was one of the most prom ising pnpils of the St Petersburg Acad emy of Sciences, a government institu tion which was under strict military rule. I "was not particularly noted for my work with the brush, but, despite my youth, had already gained some reputation as a portrait painter. "During the night of March 22 or the morning of March 23 I was awakened by Cossacks, who ordered me to dress, take my brush and palette and follow them. After a rapid drive of a few miles we halted before a palatial build ing, into the cellar of which I was hustled through an opening. We passed through a labyrinth of recesses and up several flights of back stairs. At last the handkerchief bandage was removed from my eyes, and I found myself in a stately room half filled by solemn look ing men in rich dress. The floor was covered with rags that see;.ied to have been thrown down without regard to decorative effect. "A tall man, in whom I recognized Plato Zuboff, approached me and said, pointing to a divan covered with a black cloth, over what seemed to be a giant figure in an attitude of repose: " 'Are you skillful enough to restore the face of a dead man who suffered vio lence, cuts and strangulation, so as to regain its natural appearance ? Your art must last three days, for the body is to be exhibited in the cathedral. You must not spare the red; it will be given out that the person died of apoplexy. ' "Remembering the threat of the Cos sacks, I did not hesitate to answer in the affirmative. 'Very well, ' said Zu boff; 'you will go to work at once.' And, in a low voice, he added: "That your conscience may not priclcyou un derstand that the late czar was not a Romanoff. He was only the natural son of Catherine II and Soltikof.' "With that he removed the black cloth, and I saw the body of the Em peror Paul I, dressed in full general's panoply. He was gloved and spurred. His neck was swollen and his face a mass of bruises. "I can well realize the report after vizard spread;-viz, that he sold his life clearly. The emperor had been sleeping in the antechamber of his wife's bed room on a hard lounge, as was his wont to do, when the conspirators came upon him. The guards in and around the palace, and particularly in the corridor leading to the czar's private apart ments, were all in the conspirators' pay, with the exception of a hussar whom Zuboff cut down with his saber before he entered Paul's chamber. The emperor, I was told, offered at first no resistance. On his bended knees he begged and implored that his life be spared, promising 1 to sign any instru ment of abdication they might choose to submit. More, he would himself pro claim his son (afterward Alexander I) czar. "But the murderers advanced fierce ly,, and Paul attempted to escape by way cf the window. Prevented and bleeding, from a cut hand, he defended himself with'a'chair, killing one of the assassins. But now the rest assailed him' with their sabers. A heavy blow in the temple floored him, and again he supplicated' for his life-with- outstretch ed' hands. "Then Zuboff tore- off his sash, wound! it twice around1 the* emperor's neck, and, taking hold by one hand, commanded another officer to help him strangle the unhappy monarch. "In the struggle preceding, the final act Paul's face had been> hacked and cut, and'it required four hours' work on- my part to get it into presentable shape. When I declared my work fin ished, a handsome young man was ushered in with great ceremony-the new emperor, Alexander. I heard him 6ay in French : " 'It is well. ' The widowed empress, too, passed through the room, but could evidently not bring herself to look upon' ber husband's face. Poor woman, she' had tried to come to Paul's assistance, but had been prevented by a threat of instant death. "After that two soldiers took me, and between them I was marched out into the corridor and down the stairs. When we reached the cellar, I was ordered to wait, and a person whose features I could not make out approached me. " 'Would you like to become an im perial drawing master, with a salary of 2,000 rubles per year for life?' he asked. I was so astonished that I hard ly knew what to say in reply. " 'Decide quickly I' spoke the stran ger again. I assured him that I was at his orders. "On March 23, at 7 a. m., I was speeding toward the Don country," concluded the deathbed confession. "I have kept faith with the government and thc government has kept faith with me. "-Chicago Inter Ocean. Reckless Expenditure. Dilver-When I took this place, it wasn't fit for a dog to live in. I have spent nearly $1,000 on it. Sanson-Don't you think it would have been cheaper bad you killed the dog ?-Boston Transcript. - Thc farm on which Abraham Lincoln was born, near Hodgenvillc, Ky., lias been sold to David Grear, of ? New York, and may be converted into a park. 1 have been a sufferer from chronic ? diarrhoea over since the war and have ' used all kinds of medicines for it. At last I found one remedy that has been a success as a cure, and that is Cham berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoa Remedy. -1* E. GRISUAM, Gaars Mills, La. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. TOO MUCH EXERCISE. Thc Effect It May Have on the Heart and Health. .If we accept the broad fact that ex ercise is good and that its effect is to increase muscular strength and bodily development, we have to ask, "Why does still further exercise cease to be good, and what do we mean by overex ercise?" First, we must draw a broad distinction between the effect of con stantly maintained exertion which is required in certain trades and the al ternating contraction and relaxation of all tho muscles of the body, which is the characteristic of games and athletics of all kinds. That constantly maintained effort or monotonous repetition of the same movement tends to exhaustion rather than nutrition goes without say ing. But, taking ordinary so called healthy exercise,.by what-is its limit set? The limit appears tobe set by three factors: (1) The capacity of the di1T ive organs to keep up the quality ot <,_? blood; (2) the capacity of the excretory organs to get rid of the waste products which result from muscular action, and (3) the power of the heart to drive a constant stream of blood through every corner of the organism. Interference with digestion is a by no means uncommon effect of excessive ex ercise, and so far as training is con cerned it is one of the most destructive. The blood cannot flow in full stream to every part at once. As Dr. Lauder Brunton says, "Every one knows that while moderate exercise tends to produce appetite, a long and exhausting exer tion tends to destroy the appetite and even to produce actual sickness, as one finds in mountain climbing." People differ greatly in this respect, but in some-great, ponderous men as they may neem-the digestion is so easily upset by muscular exercise that,, although they may be giants for a mo mentary exertion, anything like sus tained effort disturbs digestion and cuts at the very root of their nutrition. In many cases, however, the limit to exer cise lies in diminished excretion. Un less the excretory organs are thoroughly efficient the tissues become crowded with products which cannot be got rid of, the senses become dimmed, and ef fort becomes a mere automatism, in consequence of a self poisoning by the products of muscular waste. So far we have dealt with what may be fitly termed the automatic checks to overexercise. Interference with diges tion so lowers nutrition, while accumu lation of waste products so poisons the system, that in either case further exer tion becomes impossible-the very will to make it passes away. But it is differ ent in regard to the heart. The heart, although strained, may yet be driven on to its own destruction. Every mus cular effort not only demands from the heart an increased flow of blood, but also drives an increased quantity to ward it. So long as the. heart can pass this forward all is well, but when it fails not merely is the circulation of the blood rendered imperfect, but serious damage is done to the heart itself. If, when the heart was overdriven, it mere ly struck, the enfeebled circulation would soon put a stop to further effort The willing "heart, however, taking at each beat a wider sweep and driving into the vessels a larger quantity of blood, so meets the call that the athlete can struggle on, perhaps to win his race. But the strained heart suffers, the stretched muscle does not quite come back, the dilated cavity does not quite close at each contraction, and permanent mischief is set up. 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