FROM DOUBT TO FAITH. ShUd I Mien knool with hro nnrt nils My roli-p with thi-lrn, who knmv of olil Tho rrnturv' sml lininno wlilrh Iny Our rultU nml Rtrlkes our jrearnliiK cold; I, who hnvp listened whllp onrs flllb nnliHIrvor ti ji rlni Htl out HI li'Klona of tin Ti 1 1 li I til lioiilil. Ami found no otlu-r gnl lint Tarro; And tnuchod tho C'lirlsllnn tnle to Honrn, Tin- io like Vli tlin vliKln lioi n, I'lio iitoitlng pnln, tlin inyntlo crons, Tho Hiu-roU miultury Ions? W'lint euro 1? flod there In T know. Who iiiIi k the worlds nnd limit' tin hfif But oluill He euro for llilnns lielow And hIiow Ills hidden fiu-o to uie? Fnr, fur nwny he m-enm to ptnnri, Too I-iIkIiI, If iiri-oent, for our need, Nor else than tliroiiirli the I'alth His hand lias Klven us, know wo lllm Indeed. No other cave He. The RtroiiK hours Have wreiiked la vain tlu lt iiKi'lmuc powers, 1'indiaUKed lis from Ills lips It eniue, To-ilay It lives nnd ruled the sumo. EnoiiL'h for me. nnd for my need, KniiiiKh for dear lives dead nnd gone; Is'o ollic-r faith Is outs, nor oreed, To Hpei-d the lahoilng axes on. Then slnep Tie Is, nnd since no mora Without Him ean I live ami move. I join the ranks of faith nnd love, Ami life unit enter nnd mlorel Lewis Morrli. THE CAUSE OF A SQUIRREL Tom Belton hud hurt nn easy morn ing of it. llo h:ul walked sol'lly Into the old forest of chestnuts nnd hick ories, rllle on shoulder, fnt down on n gig 1"K. laid his rllle on hU knee and waited. The "hunting" had been proceeded as follows: A chatter, n hark a little way In tho woods. Tom would draw hack tho hammer of his rltlo and lean forward, a streak of gray would flash down a tree trunk, then all would he still. Next minute the stre.ik of gvay nnd the noisy chatter would he In a tree overhead, pcrhnna Tom's rllle would come up, Tom's head would lift, there would be n sharp crack and n little bundle of gray would come whirling down heels over head, a long bushy tall flying out like the tall of a comet, aud Tom would get up, walk over a few steps, pick tip the little bundle of fur nnd drop the sijulrrel Into his game bag. This was the rather tame way tho hunting had gone, nnd Tom had a good bng long before noon. Nevertheless Tom was soon to have an adventure. lie had concluded to go home nnd had walked down towards tho creek and was coming out of the edge of the woods when he heard n loud bark. A big buttonwood tree hung over tho rreek, and on one of its branches, more than half way up, he saw a squir rel larger than any ho remembered having seen for n long time. It was lying along the limb, Its body flattened close to the bark, and only Its sharp nose and bended eyes show ing. He would never have noticed It if it had not barked when he came, out of the woods. Tom quickly brought his rifle to his shoulder. The Utile black knob on the sight of the barrel showed against the rusty gray of the squirrel's fur. A sharp crack. The squirrel held on with the claws of Its fore feet, then its hold gave way and it dropped. But twenty feet lower down its body fell across the fork of a small branch, aud, after a minute's swaying, remain ed still, tho 1ie.nl and fore part of its body balancing the weight of the hind quarters on the opposite side of the branch. It was too big a one to lose, even though he had several already. It was not hard climbing, nnd he bad soon reached the main branches. Just there the tree split off, going up la two shafts. At tho Juncture of these the wood had rotted away in the centre and left a dark cavity. Immediately nbove the cavity and about ten feet over Tom's head wns the squirrel caught In the limp. Catch ing hold of a small limb he drew hlui Vself up so thnt his hand Just reached , the limb on which was suspended the object of his climb. Suddenly the wood cracked, the limb broke nnd he felt his feet slip. He grasped at the trunk, but there was nothing to hold. He knew he was falling into the opening below. Another Instant and ho was In dark ness and ho sank into some soft, spongy substance, which broke his de scent. He enmo to a stop standing up right. A strong, pungent, woody odor filled his nostrils. A cloud of stifling pow der almost choken hlni. Ho tried to bring his hands down to feel about. But there was not suffi cient room more than Just to crook his elbows. lie couldn't get his hands bulow the level of his ears. , lie knew ho had fallen Into the hol low trunk of the buttonwood. Tho soft stuil' under his feet must be the rotten pith nnd punk of the walls which had fallen down to the bottom. Looking up ho could see an Irregular circular patch of sky partly blotted out by a mass of twigs and leaves on the upper branches. The opening, as near as ho could tell, was six or eight feet nbove his head. It was not a great distance; but, with his hands above him nnd nothing to catch a hold upon, it might as well have lHen a hundred. He felt all around the Inside surface of the hollow with his fingers; but ho only sank his nails Into soft punk which broke off when he put any strain upon it. . He began to be somewhat frightened. It really was a bad business. He could not stand in his present cramped posi tion long aud obtain the use of his muscles. Already ho felt a numbness in his fingers, as the blood left thf-m. He couldn't climb up without some thing to grasp; he couldu't get out be low. The sides of his prison? They were too thick to dig through with his nails, for outside of the lining of rotten wood he knew there was a heavy rind of live, tough fibre and bark, how thick ho could only imagine. The thought of cutting suggsted to him that he bad a knife with him; but where was it? At last he recalled that It w8 in the upper breast pocket of his flannel shirt; he had on no coat. But it wouldn't do him any good. Th blade would be broken or dulled long before he could cut an opening through the walls. lie began to grow desperate, when fiii-re came a sudden idea to him, which made him rack his mind for some plan to get at bis knife. The upper pocket of his shirt was considerably below hi shoulders. Tho furthest down ho could get his hands was to the level of his face. Nevertheless ho tried repeatedly to (wist, his arms so as to rench bis pock et. forcing himself Into all kinds of positions and getting more desperate every minute. But nil his Attempt were in vain. llis head began to swim with tho ex ertion and tho close, foul air, nnd his htnly sank a little an his knees bent uuiler him. As his shoulders dropped he felt his shirt begin to rise about his neck; the collar touched his ear. Instantly he was filled with n fresh hope. Ills shirt evidently must have caught on some roughness of the wood ngainst which his back was resting, and, ns his body sank, had been held fast. lie doubled himself up more and jammed himself further down Into the cavity. Ills shirt held fast to tho rough walls of the hollow nnd rose about his ears. He sank more nnd more. When at last he could squeeze him self down no further, ho bent his el bow, and after some wonderful con tortions got hU lingers Into tho pocket and pulled out the knife. In a short time the knife was cutting the solid wood of the trunk. He kept on until he had made quite a little cavil y. Changing the knife to tho other hand he did the same on tho opposite wall. It was hard and tedious work nnd his hands and nrms ached and he had to stop several times and rest, but ho kept at it. When ho thought ho had tho holes deep enough he contrived, after some. dilliculty, to grasp tho knife between his teeth. Then, reaching up. ho caught the fingers of each hand In tho cavities on the opposite sides, ami. exerting nil his strength, drew himself up a foot or more. By using all his muscle ho managed to hold himself tin-re while he kicked into the soft punk below with his toes. Ju a minute he had n couple of rest ing places fot his feet. Again ho attacked the wood above him with the knife, holding on with one hand nnd bracing his back ngainst the wall of the hollow. Ho hail to change hands often and once he near ly slipped down; but finally ho had an other pair of holes for his lingers, and could repeat his first performance. At last he drew himself up so thnt he could clasp his fingers over tho edge of the cavity, and in another minute he had pulled himself entirely out of the hollow nnd was seated on the big horizontal limb. Hanging a couple of feet altove him from tho broken branch was tho dead squirrel. He breathed a sigh of thanksgiving aud swnrmed down the tree trunk. He was so weak he could not walk, and ho sat down on a log for a while. By and by he felt stronger, nHd then ho put tho strap of his game bag over his head, threw his rifle over his shoul der, picked up tho big squirrel which he had dropped to tho ground from the buttonwood and turned towards nonie. Francis Churchill Williams. Outpost Duty In the UiihhIhii Army. In the German army every soldier is taught to act intelligently on outpost service and in scouting operations, and tills is not too much to require in n country where every soldier reads and writes and can readily understand a map ond compass. In ltussla, how ever, where nine-tenths of tho people cannot read or write and have lost the faculty of thinking consecutively, the army cannot tench the soldiers much more than to move as with a machine. In order to have a force of good men for picket work and advance skir mishing they have adopted this plan: Each company sends four of its most Intelligent men to a select body called the scouting corps, and ns the Russian regiment has four battalions, with four companies each, that gives a regl meutsl scout a force of sixty-four. This service Is very popular, for it is full of variety; nnd though the hardship is great tho food Is good, for hunting aud fishing are in the programme. The men are. expected to develop as much ingenuity and self-reliance ns an In dian scout In our service. They must sail, row, swim, climb, find their way by map and compass, slip through tho enemy's lines, and proeuse every va riety of information at all hazards. A FH-miuui nn Ignorance. Because a juror looked at a cable train as It sped past him, Judge Henry granted a new trial of tho $5,000 dam age suit of Frank Jackson against tho Kansas City Cable Hallway, in which Jackson wns recently a warded $l,4iK) damages. Mr. Ashley, for young Jack son, contended that if a new trial were to bo granted in suits against cable companies every time a juror hap peniHl to glance nt a cable car, no ver dict for tho plaintiff could ever stand. He also said that if a man were so deaf, blind and stupid ns not to notice passing events such as the approach of a cable train ho had' no right to a place on the jury. Judge Henry held, however, that the Inspection of Juror Hickman was sulllcleut to warrant the granting of a new trial. Trial by jury, lie said, would be a farce If Jurors were permitted to get Information out of court. Kansas City Star. I're.l.nllceil August Liuly-Fliiger. "There is one prejudice," says an English woman, now residing in this country, "that I havo had to overcome since coining to America, which was my antipathy to spongecake and lady fingers, us so often served over here with Ice-cream. My associations with them are of the gloomiest sort. "Lady-fingers nre served in all parts of England, with light refreshments, at funeiils, and usually go by the name of 'funeral biscuits.' "In the Yorkshire dale if you are asked to a funeral and are unable to attend they usually send you, with a memorial card, a piece of spongecake and several lady-fingers folded in a sheet of black-bordered paper and fas tened with big black seals. "So American hostesses, when they know this, must not think it bad taste on the part of their English guests if they decline these cakes." Chicago Times. One Creditor Who Out Left, "Hard luck Jones is in." "How?" "Took a railroad ticket for a debt, couldn't sell it, nnd had to ride fifty miles before it expired, and then wore out a pair of new sfeos walking back." Atlanta OftpHHtnnon. TASTEFUL COUNTRY HOUSES. '"!ey Slity l lli-nntlfnl nnd Atlvnrtlve nt Nmull Cost. An 111 plitnm-d and ungainly country house Is more conspicuous I linn n simi lar house In the city, because it comes in Immeilir.te contrast with ihit sur roundings: of nature. The country house niny bo mnde graceful by sur- A Country House. rounding It with trees nnd shrubs, or It may he built so ns to beautify nnd liarnionb.e with the landscape. The attractive and beautiful country residence of which we give n perspec tive view nnd floor plans from tho Architectural Urn, was designed for A. B. Blgelow, of Cranford, Conn., by M. N. Culler, architect, of No. 203 Brondwny, New York. It Is n good modern adaptation of the Dutch colo nial farmhouse, nnd represents nn ar chitectural stylo thnt Is superior to nny other for a farmhouse. The very ns pt ct of the house speaks of homo com forts and seclusion, and of the rocks nnd hills of nnturo. Half hidden ntuong trees, such a house would sc.-lil as much n part of a country landscape as are wood nnd Held nnd hillside. 'I'll" Interior of the house affords libuntlaiice of room both for domestic purposes nnd hospitality. The country homo should represent the highest development of social life. The founders of tho republic were t Cunt ry House Interior, country gentlemen, nnd tho American colonial period nfl'ords one of the most striking instances in history of the de velopment of taste, Intellect nnd polltl twi power In rural eonmiimtli-s. It should be the pride of the American farmer to preserve this traditional im portance of tho country homo in the progress of our national life. Overfeed Iiir; Stock. Overfeeding an animal Is worse in Its effects than a spare diet. A grent many more young animals nro checked In their growth, mid otherwise Injured, by overfeeding than by a deficiency of food. In Illustration of this statement, a correspondent tells tho following story of ills own experience: A rather opinionated and wilful hired man, who requires the closest watch ing in feeding the stock, In defiance of strict orders, gave some Berkshire pigs some cotton-seed meal In their feed, in the expectation that It would help them to grow. Their feed had been skimmed milk, with n quart of wheat middlings to the pailful. Considerable more cotton-seed meal was added to the feed during my absence from homo for a day aud night, and on my return the next day two of the young pigs were taken with convulsions und se vere spasms. They died the next day, when two more were taken, and soon after two more. The whole six died in the same way. First they slowly turned around nnd around, theu stood with the head in a corner and pressed against the wall or yard fence; the Jaws were chopped together, and they foamed at the mouth. After a few hours they lay upon their sides and struggled violently with tho legs until they died. A dose of lard oil allayed the symptoms for a time, nnd had it been given at first would probnbly havo saved them. On opening them the lungs were found congested aud very ml in patches, nnd tho brain, also, was much congested, the blood vessels being dark blue. The stomach and intestines were filled with cotton-seed meal, the milk having been digested. Ho short a case of indigestion, or stom ach staggers, as t is popularly called, Is rare; but the pigs were but two months old, nnd had probnbly been ruisfed previously. liiHi-eoiil for Hog. We have but little doubt that char coal is one of the best known remedies for tho disordered state into which hogs drill, usually having disordered bowels, nil the time giving off the worst kind of evacuations, rrobably the bi-st form in which charcoal can be given Is in the form of burnt corn perhnps, because when given in other forms the hogs do not get enough. A distillery was burned in Illinois, about which a large number of hogs wore kept. Cholera prevailed among these hogs somewhat extensively. In the burning of buildings a large amount of corn was consumed. To this burned and partially burned corn the hogs had access at will, nnd the sick commenced recovering nt once nnd a large portion of them got well. Many farmers have practiced feeding scorched corn, put ting it into the stove or building a tiro upon the ground, placing the ears of corn upon it, leaving them till pretty well charred. Hogs fed on still slops are liable to bo attacked by irritation of the stomach aud bowels, coming from too free generation of ncld, from fermentation of food after eaten. Char coal, whether it be produced by burn lug corn or wood, will neutralize the acid, in this way removing tho Irritat ing cause. Tho charcoal will bo relish ed to tho extent of getting rid of tho acid, aud beyond that it may not be. Hence it is well to let the wants of the hog be settled by the hog himself. STOCK NOTES. A blocky, beefy, square-built cow Is a good one to sell, nnd so is her steer calf. Natlonnl Stockman. Watering conveniences which do not require long distance trips of the stock on cold days, contribute much to tho score of economy. Oraugo Judd Far mer. To dry horses' legs after washing there is nothing better than sawdust well dried aud well rubbed in. It is both clean to handle and pleasant for the animal. Indiana Farmer. I m Weak may be inherited ; not Consumption. Thin, narrow chested children arc the ones to look out for. Everybody with a tendency toward Weak Lungs should take Scott's Emulsion of Cod-liver Oil, with hypophosphitcs of lime and soda. It builds up the system. Cures Coughs, Colds and Wasting Diseases. Physicians, the world over, endorse it. Hereditary Weakness and all Blood Diseases aro cured by SCOTT'S EMUL SION. It is a food rich In nourishment. Prepared by Scott & Bowne, N. Y, Drucgist toll It ONLY if TI?M riJV'IV M-viption to '-Til H COLUMBIAN"' together with ten cents extra, we will send free a copy cIJTiik Woiu.n Aiman.-.c, for i S94. Single copies may be ordered at "Till! COLUMBIAN" offl-c for 25 rents. f AND ENCYCLOPAEDIA FOR 1894. WW sill lifif i rap ffHHP. have mllili !?8'ns new tcrtiTZr on cood ? lirmnfiftn frVtan nn Knrtlr rC a Mmllin 1 . T t. If J WVWJl VI St DliilJilA 11UIU1 t U UilDltl. Li X I 13 P R I C E . r postpaid bymail, lddrcsa TUB WOULD, Jfetv lork City. 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