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y " " ~ APPLES OF GOLD. "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold set in pictures of silver."?Prov. 25:11. There was a singer who was mute, Because all ears seemed deaf to him; The throbbing measures of the lute, Or c'nantings in cathedrals dim Waked in his heart no living strain Until some one came with a smile That seemed as sunshine after rain, To speak a gentle word the while; And th en his heart with music stirred, And made a song the whole world heard, r" There was a painter?yet his brush All careless o'er the canvas crept, And inspiration in the hush Of nignt no more to being swept, TT 1-1 v S r ' unui some one come on a day? A day that had been gloom and cloud? And stopped but long enough to say A word with hopetulness endowed; And then the painter's eyes grew wet, But his grand work is treasured yet. There was a soldier; and a word Sent him to battle armed anew. There was a king. One thing he heard Into a greater kingdom grew. a There was a slave. One came to teach, And flowers blossomed in the road, V And the fair balm of gentle speech Took all the stingings from the goad And eased his feet where paths were rough, One kindly word was word enough. To-dav the toilers in the heat, And they who work with cunning hands, Beioice .to hear some one repeat The word the sore heart understands. And this is true of each kind thing. Breathed in an impulse generous; It will not die; but it snail bring A golden echo back to us. It is as silver pictures old Where apples glow in ruddy gold. ?Chicago Tribune. ' ' - SUZANNE'S i UNDOING By Perry*Worthin^ton. / &J?l ^ ^ust twenty*five minutes ^ xa past 5, Suzanne went up7Y stairs to dress. Dinner was XjL at lialf-past 6, and there 1!^ ^ would probably be an interval of about fifteen minutes between the finishing of dinner and the coming of Jack. This happened to be Jack's last night s;- v in town before his departure for a distaut city, and if he didn't say it tonight?well, if he didn't! But he would. Suzanne was sure of that. She moved leisurely about the room, pursuing the mysteries of a somewhat elaborate toilet, and finally came to the most important rite of all, the doing of her hair. Alas! that the doing of Suzanne's hair should prove to be the undoing of Suzanne! Clv-\ wn V. r* t.. +1. f\ j kjuc xinu. lauiri picu^ nail, ul tuc V;.. . sort that makes other girls wish that theirs wasn't quite so straight. WIicd a lot of them were on a windy drive, or a boating party, or anything of that sort, and Suzanne joined in the general wail of "My hair!" she was always ', exasperated at the unanimous chorus of "Oh, yours is curly!" She thought it looked just as badly blowing all about as that of the others; but as a matter of fact, it didn't. t Just now she stood in front of the ' . mirror and regarded herself with -big. serious eyes, and wondered what she . should do with .it on this momentous occasion. What way did Jack like it the best? At length she piled it in a . " beautiful, crown-like mass on the top of her shapely head, picked up a hand!>. glass, and surveyed it critically from all points of view. On any ordinary day it would have satisfied her; but to-night Suzanm paused, pulled out a hairpin, pushed it in again, hesitated, and was lbst. It must come down. Accordingly, down it came. Then she coiled it in a soft. Grecian knot at the back of her neck. -A- - - The effect was splendid, but when she < got her gown ou, she couldn't turn her head; she realized with a sudden blush that to-night of all nights that might be rather inconvenient; so off came the gown and down came the hair. She was beginning to be a little out of temper. With a feeling akin to despair, she started a "figure eight" at the back of her head. She was not at all surprised to discover, on completing it, that it ' . was crooked: not covly and daintily j- ? - ' . _ askew, but hopelessly, heavily, helplessly crooked. Just then her small sister called up from below: t j "Father wants to know why you don't come to dinner." K'~ ^ Suzanne began to pull the pins out ;v. of her hair. "Tell him I don't want any dinner," . she announced. And she began. She coiled her hair. She twisted it. She fastened it at the top with an elastic; she parted it into mysterious "front" and "side" locks. She brushed tt back smoothly; she parted it demurely. She pulled it into a pompadour that made her look like a French actress; she dragged it into a "vaudeville dip," and became almost hysterical when sB# saw the effect it gave her usually sweet and refined features. She brushed it until every tangle was out: she ran her fingers through it until it became even as the quills upon the fretful porcupine. In fact, there was nothing she did not do to it. short of cutting it off?and once almost started to go into her mother's room for the scissors. Her small sister finished her dinner, came into Suzanne's room, sat on the foot of the bed, criticised, suggested, advised. All in vain. Suzanne's hair simpiy would not be done. Then did Suzanne become weary, and cast herself upon the bed, and wept | bitterly. The small sister racked her brains. .Mother?" she suggested, doubtfully. "Mother!" She quailed before the look of scorn in one hush of Suzanne's -V * . , . only visible eye. It was true; mother : certainly could not do Suzanne's hair? j j not* anybody's. j j "I'll j;o and tret Nannie Dodd," she ! j said, with an inspiration. 1 | "She's out of town." moaned Su- !l i zanne. . j ( "Could I " hesitatingly. "No. you couldn't." sobbed Suzanne. j j "Nobody couid! I don't care now?I j j won't dress at all?I won't go down?I j won't see him?I'll?I'll?I'll be an old j r.-.1 1,111I Her small sister winked solemnly in i the glass. "Oh. no. you won't 1" she said. "He'll } 1 write, or stay over another day, or 1 ( something." j t "He won't," said Suzanne. "He'll | o think I don't want to see him. and he'll j I go away and " i The door bell interrupted hey. a The small sister slid oft* the bed. "I'll go." she said, thoughtfully. t "Good evening. .Tack," she said a i c minute later. "Sister isn't very well. | s She has a bad headache and thinks j v she is unable to see any one this even- 1 I ing: but I think if you should insist, ; d she would see you a moment, just to? | t to say good-by. you know." i i "Most certainly I would like to see j c your sister." said the young man. ? slightly perplexed, "but, of course, if ! J she is not feeling well enough to see s me. I " " | t But the small sister had vanished, j a She reached Suzanne's room somewhat a out of breath. r "Go down!" she commanded. "He's t waiting, and says he must see you t and " x I "Like this?" said the horrified Su- t. ; zanne. e iir ;i_ . ,1 it tt j ?i l f i^iKe xuai: xiurrj. uiui l iu>e aii.\ ? time!" She flung herself on Suzanne I Q and fairly forced her from the room. ! ^ And so if chanced that Jack, waiting j b in the dimly lighted hall below, saw j c coming toward him, Suzanne, in a most j b fetching and dainty negligee arrange- j f ment. all snowy lace and coquettish j P ruffles?Suzanne, with her pretty hair j ? all loose and waving softly down to her j waist?Suzanne, with her brown eyes b wet with tears, and her sweet little f mouth a-trembling?a Suzanne to steal : o one's very heart away! I P Then Jack lost his head?just for a j moment. b "Why, my darling," he said, "my own dear little girl, what is the mat- n ter?" o And Suzanne, seeing the light in his v eyes and his hands held out to her, very properly flung herself into his P arms and sobbed on his shoulder. h After Jack left, the small sister came b into Suzanne's room. k "Why did you say I had a head- e ache?" n.sked Suzanne. d "Because I knew you'd say you had." ii her small sister answered. "Wasn't it j ti all right?" J n "Yes." said Suzanne, reflectively, "it ^ was all right."?The American Queen a | 8] A Xeir Radioactive Element. | I' Once again the discovery of a new j P radioactive element is recorded, this c time in the residue of thorianite. after tl having been chemically treated to elim- ? inate other substances. Dr. Halm, who i 0 has made this discovery, was able to { Si obtain ten milligrams of a crystalline j A precipitate/ which exhibited marked ti radioactive powers, and which after ! & two months showed no diminution, e: This substance not only glows feebly in the dark, but causes screens of pia- b tino-cyanide and zinc sulphide to fluor- e esce^ brightly. Luminosity is also pro- a duced if a current of air is blown e through a solution of this substance c and then directed on a screen coated j o with zinc sulphide, though this phen- u omenon is different from that appear- is ing with emanium under similar coudi- j n tions. The new emanation while in ! is all respects equal to that of thorium is | remarkable for the fact that thorium j li itself was not present. Inasmuch as I n inactive thorium has been found, and i E tha't the thorium emanation "without l d ithorium has also been found at Baden- j e Baden, Dr. Hahn is led to the belief tbat the new element is the active constituent of thorium, and that its presence may explain many of the I phenomena of radioactivity.?Harper's j \\ eeuiy. I f As to Conscience. i 0 The public conscience consists mostI> i 0 of trances. j ^ When once aroused the public con- j n science eiglis and sobs and sheds blood i ^ with great fervor. j ^ It then closes its eyes and gently j ^ slumbers once more. j ^ Most men prefer the public con- i ^ science asleep. I n With it in that condition it is much j easier to stay out after the ringing of g the curfew. ^ It is also easier to stay the market ^ and strike the public for another cent g on the gallon. The man who stirs up the public ! e conscience sometimes gets stirred j a under himself. g It is the prerogative of the public v conscience to send evil-doers to prison, ^ whence the private conscience of the ? average governor pardons them out a ? few at a time. The public conscience differs froni j, the private conscience only in quan- j a tity, not in quality.?Chicago News. | g 1 L A German Woman's Fleet. i jj On many of our maps there is an j f island oir tue coast or .\ew uumea : p bearing tad name "Xew Britain." j Such maps are not up to date, for the p place now belongs to Germany and v has been rechristened "New Pomer- j B ania." One of the Senators of the ! Commonwealth recently paid it a visit, 1 i and judging from this description, its i most important personage is a German j q lady named Mrs. Kolbc. She has a j 2 thousand men in her employ, has a I f plantation of 3<XK> acres, possesses a j p little fleet of trading vessels and owns ; <3 a number of wholesale and retail ; a stores.?Pall Mall Gazette. ( O 0 [_ Home HealJh! J I" Cisy ft i By 2avidH.Keodor.PJi.D.,-IO.! H i - I I I 6 MALARIA?AGUE. In a series of articles previously niWished, I jrave full directions and lescription for the successful home Lnntinaiii- /if .-ill 1-iinT? rtf ff?VOT* ill I \J A. (tit iv.iivi.j V liuling malarial fever, but tboro lias )oai a great demand this summer for r.ore upon the subject of malaria or igue as it is popularly called. If I were to go into a detailed or eclinical description of the sickness ailed ague, I would use' up all of the pace that is allotted to me. and you voukl receive no practical information. think you are able to recognize the lisease. Formerly it was supposed hat ague was caused solely by damp uarshy lands and damp cellars, beatise of its being more prevalent in itch places, but it has during recent ears been quite conclusively demontrated that the cause originates in be bite of certain kinds of mosquitoes, nd that one may with perfect safety nd freedom from malaria sleep for Qontiis in the open air of the worst ;inds of swampy places if fully proected from the bite of mosquitoes, tecent research also demonstrated hat this knowledge was common proprty over two thousand years ago, and hat several hundreds kinds of mosiiiitoes were known and classified, row while I am convinced that the ite of the poisonous insect is the T fin n/->f llftl i m-Q th.lt fl TietSOn il UOCt JL UV liUL ?V VMMW % r a perfect health would suffer, aud in act experience proves that many peole are immune, although exposed to he same cause. Our lesson is, therefore, keep the lood pure and the alimentary canal ree from impurities. The right kind f food in the right Quantities and roperly eaten, with sanitary suroundings is the safeguard which must e used for prevention. First, good wholesome food that is ot difficult to digest; second, not to vereat; third, to masticate all food ery thoroughly; fourth, no liquids rhile eating; fifth, an abundance of ure water between meals and on aris]g in the morning; sixth, a good warm ath with plenty of soap and water at jast twice a week; seventh, a perfect l mptying of the colon at least one aily. This is a very important point 1 the prevention or successful home reatment of ague. The disease is mch more likely to be fastened to one rfcosc colon is filled with stagnant nd impacted fecal matter, which bould have been promptly eliminated, f there is the slightest sign of constiation the colon should be thoroughly Ieansed by the use of from two to iree quarts of warm water in which as been dissolved one tablespoonful f salt to the quart of water. This hould be injected by means of a long, exible soft rubber tube called a colon K? ?? is <r? Vincn" to 1 c in MlCil UO lO UOCU lu ?** dministering- what is called a "high nema." About the only medicine that will e needed for keeping the system in xcellent fighting condition in case the bove suggestions are followed is eithr the good old-fashioned herb remedy, ompouna gentian syrup (not tincture) r about one grain of capsicum or comion red pepper, taken just at%the finsli of breakfasv. and another at diner. The best way to take capsicum ; in soluable capsules. When the disease has become estabslied, the Home Club method of treatlent as given ip Vol. 2 of the Club looks should be rigidly followed in adition to the observance of the diettic and hygienic rules above given. CLUB NOTES. Sleeplessness. One of our exchanges gives the foliwing cure for insomnia: "I suppose all of us are suffering i rorn the invasion of electricity. My Id friend Bounce, who was a victim f irisomnia for forty years, thinks e sleeps now better than any other jan on earth. He lost liis way in the idirondacks and stayed over night in lie cabin of a forester. His sleep was he deep sleep of a just man made porect. and in the morning he found that e had not moved haif an inch all ight." " 'It's the insulation.' the forester inisted. 'You city folks are killing ourselves with contact. If you'll reak the contact you'll be able to Iepe and get your uerves back.' " This matter of "contact" was finally xplained to mean that our bedposts re in contact with the floors, the oors with the walls and the walls rith mother earth, so that whatever ersoiial magnetism a man has in him 03s away in the night time, leaving ,im like a log 0:1 his mattress. The orester had obtained four glass insu \tors from telegraph poles somewhere nd screwed them on the posts of his bed, so that the electricity could ot run away. Bounce, the very day e got home insulated his bed, and rom that moment to the present his usomnia has been banished. I havn frequently recommended the asulation of the bed for insomnia as veil as for others forms of nervousiess. Try it. Sumner. )r. David H. Reeder, Laporte, Ind.: Dear Sir?I am an old Home Health Hub member. My record number is 104. Have loaned my Club ftooks to riends in California. Would like sofne ^formation regarding my present con.ition. I am seventy-sis years old, ud physicians say I have a bad case t anemia, also itching piles. I have great faith in you and in the Home Heaith Club and will greatly appreciate any suggestions you may have to offer. If either of the conditions mentioned are discussed in any of the Club Books which I do not have, let me know and I will procure it. Truly yours. Iv. R. How to enrich the blood and cure anemia by a simple home method is fully described in the cloth bound book of Home Health Club lectures, the price of which is only $2 per copy. It .-.nn f .-i ino nhrmf 10fk rif tllrt limcf Villtl | able lectures. In addition to the instructions which I have sent you in a private letter regarding the treatment for itch in.sr piles, you will also find exj cedent instructions in the hook above referred to. on constipation and piles : of all kinds. Cambridge. ' Dr. David II. Deader. Laporte, Ind.: ' Dear Sir?I would be greatly pleased j and I think benefited as well to learn your opinion of the enema as a means of treating diseases and as a remedy for ordinary constipation. Shall we J use it or not? Our home doctors differ, j I would also like to ask about the different forms and causes, especially the causes of urticaria. We hear a good deal of it during this hot weather. Assuring you that your opinion will be highly appreciated, and hoping to have it soon. I remain, D. S. In some cases the enema is quite necessary and does a vast amount of good. As a general cure-all I cannot recommend it so highly as some do. In some cases it is positively harmful. Each case must be studied separately and treatment given according to the specific needs. The enema properly taken is better in the majority of cases than severe physic, but under proper living neither is required. Urticaria, hives or nettle rash is caused by stomach disorders and frequently follows very quickly after eat' AT* on!/l mg suuwurriu*s unu suuic uuici av.m fruits, sliell fish, etc., especially lobsters and crabs. Any one who is subject to attacks should use great care in the diet and should never eat late at night nor overload the stomach. Masticate all food quite thoroughly and see that constipation does not at any time exist. Slater. Dr. David H. Reeder, Laporte, Ind.: Dear Sir?Seeing your name ip out paper, I wish to inquire about fleas. We have them all over our house and barn. Can you suggest a remedy? Respectfully, JAMES J. I must confess that the destruction of fleas is not in my line. I do not remember ever having been bitten by a flen?.nnd for that reason, perhaps, have held no particular enmity toward the active little p?sts.. Perhaps some of our readers who live where the fleas are plentiful can give the desired information. It will be thankfully received by many. Kankakee. Dr. David H. Reeder, Laporte, Ind.: , Dear Doctor?I would like to know the cause of taking cold as often as two and three times a week. Will get up in the morning and have a bad cold in the head and nose will run for three or four hours and then it gradually leaves me again. Am also troubled with headache and sick stomach. Sometimes vomiting nothing but bitter gall and it makes me very sick and weak. It generally last only one day at a time. Will be very thankful for finr information vou mav give. Yours truly, MRS. L. Y. The condition which you call a cold which you take two or three times per week is an acute catarrhal difficulty, or what some would call hay fever.It can be cured in nearly all cases by the use of the tissue elements advocated by Dr. Schucssler, of which ^ have so often spoken of in Club Notes: The tissue elements will also relieve the headaches and sick spells. GALL STONES I have a request for a lecture upon the subject of Gall Stones. It is an interesting subject and I will comply with the request giving a full description of a safe and practical method of home treatment in the near future. All readers of this publication are at liberty to write for any information pertaining to the subject of health. Address all communications to the Home Health Club, or to Dr. David H. Reedcr, Laporte, Ind.. with name and address in full and with at least four cents in postage. Bluestockings Beware. Woman after woman lined up at the glove counter and'got waited on, but the call of the woman with the book 1 under licr arm was still unheeded. "Why is it," she wailed to a passing acquaintance, 'that I can't get anybody to sell me a pair of gloves?" "It is that book that does an me mischief," said the acquaintance. "You will never get waited on properly so long as you go shopping with a book tucked under your arm. It gives you a studious look, and shop girls abhor a bluestocking of any description. They claim a women with literary tendencies buys in small quantities, at low prices; therefore it doesn't pay to give their time to her until all the smart customers have been waited on."? New York Press. A HmnoTooi Hint. Truth notes a specimen of American humor, received the other day by a London firm. It ran: "Our cashier fell unconscious at his desk this morning. Up to this time. 4 p? m., we have been unable to get a wool out of him, except your names. "May we say to him, with a view to his immediate recovery, that we have your check, as we think that is what is on his mind?"?New York Press. i THE "SNOW BABY" I I I MARIE AHXIGHITO PEARY, DAU( ER, COM MAN] | THE PRIMITIVE OBSERVATORY OF icvnooe MiruHbi Jeypore is the pleasant, healthy capital of one of the most prosperous independent States of Itajputana, India, and is a very bus;* and important | commercial town, with large banks i and other trading establishments. It. j is a centre of native manufactures, esi pecially those of many kinds of jewelry and of colored printed cloths and muslins. The enameled work done here is the best in India, and the cuti ting and setting of garnets and other stones found in the State is a large branch of industry. The crowded j streets and bazars are most lively and I picturesque. It is laid out in rectan; gular blocks, and is divided by cross i streets into six equal portions. The j main streets are 111 feet wide and are j paved, and the city is lighted by gas. i The Maharaja's palace occupies the I eentrd of the city, which has a popul lation of about 143,000. i In Jeypore is the famous Jautra or ; Observatory, the largest of the five ; built by the celebrated royal astrono| mer, Jey Sing," the founder of Jeyi pore, who succeeded the Rajas of Ami ber in 1693. Chosen by Muhammad I Shah to reform the calendar, his as! tronomical observations were formui lated in tables which corrected those i of De la Hire. He built five observaI tories?at Delhi, Benares, Muttra, j Ujjain and Jeypore. The observatory ; at Jeypore is the largest of the five. 11 THE OBSERVATORY AT JEYPC ABOUT ! It is not under cover, but is an open courtyard full of curious and fantastic instruments invented and designed by him. They have been allowed to go out of repair, and many of them are now quite useless, it being impossible even to guess what purpose they served in the wonderfully accurate calculations and observations of their inventor, but the dial, gnomons, quadrants, etc., still remain of great interest to astronomers, and the Observa- ' tory at Jeypore is one of the places which is always visited by tourists.? j Scientific American. An Epidemic of l>nel*. There would appear to have been an epidemic of duelling in the State of Mississippi on a recent Thursday. There were six duels and four of the combatants were killed outright or fata'ly wounded.?London Chronicle. Cure For s?eM?ickne?i, A home-coming passenger on one of i the big steamships of the Atlantic ferry | says: "The second day out I saw scores of people wearing a bandage : over one eye as they walked up and i down the deck. It struck me a9 being j worthy of investigation, so I appealed I fiia cnr<rp^n. Hp informed me that I j LW , t?e fleet physician had learned that { seasickness is a nervous malady produced by seeing the motion of objects cm board ship. The remedy is to bandage one eye, which has the effect of N HER ARCTIC DRESS > ;hter of the polar explob- '||| DER PEAKY. A FQLDIHS HORN. A megaphone to be effective at any - riJj distance has to be made of such lar&e ;|||||| proportions that it is about as incon venient to carry as a bass viol, and this l folding megaphone. inconvenience of transportation lias done much to prevent the more general^ use of the instrument. Even in the* smaller sizes a megaphone is a partioularly clumsy and conspicuous object* so that the idea of a Cleveland inventor )RE, INDIA, BUILT BY JEY SING |M?>< 1693. - * of furnishing such devices in cellapsi- ' ; bio form has many meritorious fea tures. He proposes manufacturing tie V ; / trumpets from a blank of any flexible > material having parallel side edges and ' J an outwardly curved edge at the opposite end of such shape and curvature ' ';' that when folded upon itself a cone "mm of usual shape is produced. When not * desired for use as a megaphone the sheet of flexible material may be rolled" up into a small cylinder, resembling a music roll, that can readily be carried in the hand without attracting attention, or that can be stowed away in a . ? suit casd or grip. Of course there are eyelets and buttons or clasps at proper points to hold tie trumpet in shape when in use as such. The so-called briar pipe is not made of briar at all, but from the root of a y particular kind of heather. ) $3 altering the focus. slxty^flyiTper'ce^L of fifty cases treated were relieved in " J from six to twenty-four hours." V " Romance of Immigration. The pleasantest Ellis Island report of - Cvthe year is that of the 223 marriages which took place at the station in the - . '> six mounths ending June 30. This is a gain of twenty-three over the corre- r sponding period of last year. The brides were girls whose lovers had come across first to prepare the way m-t for them.?New York World. -*- .