~ DISTRUCTIVE STORMS,
RAIN, HAIL, BLIZZARDS AND TORNA-~
DOES.
PERSONS INJURED AND SEVE-
RAL KILLED,
ASHLAND, Wis, Feb, 26 ~The worst
snow and wind storm of the season 1s
prevailing here. It has been snowing
and blowing ever since Saturday night,
OspkosH, Wis, Feb 26,—Yester-
day afternoon a blizzard of great vio-
lence swept down upon this elty, and
in less than half an hour three inches
of snow had fallen, and it was with the
greatest difficulty that the street cars
operated. The storm is by far the
worst of the year. The effect will be
keenly felt in the lumber camps, where
the snow is almost so deep that logging
operations were carried on with diffi-
culty.
WaTerTOWN, Wis,, Feb, 26,—The
most sicious snow storm in two years
raged here yesterday and last night
The snow is accompanied with a fierce
wind from the north and the mercury
is lowering rapidly. The roads are
algo drifted very badly. The rallroads
are blocked to some extent,
Mason City, Ia,, Feb. 26,—A bliz-
zard set in yesterday, covering the
entire northern portion of the State,
The thermometer marks zero, and all
trains are delayed,
Cauprinek City, Ind,, Feb, 26 —
A cloud burst Monday night caused
Martindale creek, near this place, to
rise so quickly that a woman and three
children of the Hall family were
drowned. They belonged to a party of
gypsies encamped near the stream, The
bodies have not yet been recovered,
CARBONDALE, 11l,, Feb., 26.—Mon-
day night this place was visited by the
heaviest rainfall that has occurred for
the last 15 years. It rained incessantly
until noon yesterday. The lowlands
are inundated, and this will Interfere
with railroad travel. A tornado at
Bainbridge, 15 miles east, completely
demolished the residence of J. Snider.
There was several Inmates io the dwell-
ing and all were injured, but none
fatally.
ANNA, 111. Feb, 26,—A severe rain
storio, accompanied by thunder and
lightning, began Monday evening and
jasted until noon yesterday. The
streams are swollen aud the lowlands
flooded.
MANY
CorumByus, Ohi, Feb, 26,—The
water in the Scilota river did not reach
the point of damage until 20’clock this
morning, when the river broke into
the canal below the city, and the water
covered a vast expanse of lowlands,
The principal damage will be to the
banks of the Columbus feeder of the
Ohio Canal,
Mumps, Tenn., Feb, 20,—A wind
storm of cyclonic proportions, accom-
panied by hail and rain, swept over
this section of the country yesterday,
doing ap immense amount of damage
to property, and causing the loss of at
least one life.
The storm in Memphis was severe,
but no material damage was done.
Brownsville, Tenn., 56 miles north-
east of this city, was the worst sufferer
so far reported. The storm struck the
town while its inhabitants slept, and
had done its terrible work before the
real situation was realized, IL came
from a southwesterly direction, and
was preceded by a rumbling noise,
which lasted a few seconds, and then
burst upon the town in appalling fury.
Residences rocked like cradles and
heavy brick buildings trembled like
leaves as the storm swept by in its im-
petuous career, leaving wreck and de-
struction every whers,
While the storm raged and the rain
fell in torrents, vivid ligtning flashed
wross the skies and heavy thunder
added to the fear and confusion of the
horror-siricken people, Daylight re-
vealed the frightful work of the cy-
clone. Almost every buliding on the
public square was unronfed, causing
great damage by water Lo immense
stocks of geods, while scores of resi-
lences were dismautied and are In
ruins
The oniy life reported lost 18 that of
Mrs, James Cooper, the wife of an en-
gineer. A tree fell across the house,
xrusbing it in, killing her and badly In-
juring two of her children.
At Marianna, Ark., the new Chiis-
tian church was completely demolished;
Lesser's cotton shed was blown away,
and the roofs of several other buildings
were lifled off, About three miles out
of town a negro schoo | house, with 65
children in it, was blown from its foun-
jation, but no one was hurt,
The White river, at Batesville, Ark.,
rose eight feet in a few hours, washing
away culverts, and delaying trains
badly.
Three houses were blown down near
Riverside, and several buildings flat-
#ned out in the southeastern portion
of the county.
The Hot Springs old observatory,
which has stood for several years
sn the summit of Hot Springs Moun-
tain, and from whose top thousands of
visitors have viewed the surrounding
country, was leveled to the ground
by the gale,
The storm played havoc with the en-
tire country between Hot Springs and
the Wichita river, Many farm houses
were torn to atoms, and the path of
the storm is ope mass of wrecked tim-
ber. Large trees were uprooted, and
in many places the roads are com-
pletely blockaded by fallen timber, It ls
not yet known whether any lives were
lost, but that there were is more than
probable, owing to the destruction of
#0 many farm houses,
Considerable damage was done to
buildings and fences at Little Rock,
and at Alexander, near that place, a
school house was blown down and
nive children injured.
Meuprnis, Tenn., Feb. 28.—Browns-
ville, Tenn,, six miles northeast of
Memphis, on the Louwsville and Nash
ville Railroad, was struck by a cyclone
at four o'clock yesterday morning,
Half of the business houses of the town
were unroofed and many materially
damaged, while several bulldiugs are
in 6 total state of destruculon. The
£4
cotton compress was unroofed, the
Northern Methodist Cliurch was de-
molished. A brick mill was unroofed, It
next struck the handsome bullding of
the Brownsville Savings Bank. The roof
was picked off and fell to the street
with a tremendous crash, Three
squares of buildings across the street
just north of the bank were unroofed,
with the exception of the house of J.
B. Phillips & Co, Only one residence
is reported as having been damaged,
that of Mrs, S. A. Baynson, Washicg-
ton street. Just following the eycioae
came a great flood of rain, that come
pletely drenched the goods in the vari-
ous unroofed houses, causing almost
com plete destruction in most cases,
CINCINNATI, Feb. 27 -—-The morn-
ing dawned with a fine drizzle, which
gradually increasing, became a steady
rain, which continued during the en.
tire day, but to-night it stopped rain-
ing. The Baltimore and ©Oalo South-
ern (formerly the Cincinnati, Washing-
ton and Baltimore) and the Di: line
have thelr tracks covered with water
to the depth of three or four feet near
the stock yards, Reports from various
points give the weather as cloudy and
warm at Oil Oity, Pa., Pittsburg,
Wheeling, W. Va., and Terra Haute,
Ind., while at Indianapolis the ralu
is pouring down, and at Louisville it is
raining. A number of approaches to
the Central Depot have been blocked
by water, but theroads affected by this
have erected temporary depols where
the water cannot reach and business
will not be interrupted.
The storm reported central about
Nashville, Tenn., at this writing, 11
o'clock, 18 causing grave apprehension
here among men who bave river inter-
ests and among men who bave prop-
erty and busiress Interests ln the low-
lands of the city, If the precipitation
in the next 24 bours sheuld be as great
in the Ohio Valley as it has been at
Memphis and Nashville from the
storin &prroaching here from that di-
rection it will doubtless cause a third
great flood, In that the niver
would be at its maximum about Tues-
day or Wednesday next week. The
situation at this writing has a danger-
ous look.
LoursviLLe, Ky., Feb. 27.—The
Ohio river has reached a flooded stage.
One of the elevated road stations on
the city front has been cut off. A
scare was started to-night, and a num-
ber of families in districts submerged
in 1883 moved out, but there 1s little
fear such a deluge as then. The
river is still rising about an inch an
hour. The Olio and Mississippi Rail-
road between here and Cincinnatl
closed,
DAVENPORT, lowa, Feb, 27.—A
heavy snow storm has been raging here
all day to-day and and street car traffic
has been impeded on account of the
snow. Between 8 and 10 inches of
snow 130on the ground and the storm
continues, It is the first genuine snow
storm that has occurred in this section
for two years,
KaAxsas City, Feb. 27.—~D=spatches
from Missouri and Kansas state that
a blizzard from the nerth west prevalled
throughout these States to-day. The
blizzard was preceded late last night
by a snow storm, during which spow
fell to the depth of two or three inches,
covering the winter wheat and sbelter-
ing 1t from the severe coid, About 10
o'clock this morning the blizzard set
in. The wind blew at a high rate of
velocity and the thermometer fell to
zero, The fall of snow during the day
was light and occasioned no serious
delay to railway trafic. Snow ceased
falling about 4 o'clock this afternoon,
but the wind is still high and the ther-
mometer is low,
BAN Fraxcisco, Feb. 27.—Heavy
rains continue to prevail in Arizona
Last night the cots washed out a
large portion of thé Prescoti-Arizona
Rallway. Telegraph communication
has also been cut off from Prescott, so
that the exact nature of Lhe damage is
not known.
cuss
of
is
sn —-— w—
The Men Who Succeed,
The men who succeed in business in
this day are not ordinary men. In fact,
no ordinary man can succeed; the time
has gone by for this. General knowl-
edge is more comprehensive and uni-
versaltian at any period of human
history; the masses of men are better
educated, and if not educated, they are
better informed by reading and observa-
tion. Bo it is that business men know
more, have a broader knowledge and
intelligence, and are, consequently,
shrewder and more enterprising. Com-
pared with the business men of any
former period, the merchants of to-day
are far from ordinary men in their
field of effort in life. And each day is
making the field wider and increasing
the number of the necessary qualifica-
tions for success in it. Why, the sales-
man of the present day, no matter in
what line or where you find him, is a
man of bright, quick understanding,
such as éntitles him to rank with the
energetic and successful men of any
class. Then when you come to the man
who has large capital invested, and who
must foresee, plan and direct in regard
to the interests of a great house from
season to season, yon behold an indi-
vidual, who, in this day, mnst be brave,
calm and far-sighted to succeed at all.
A business man in the present vortex
of trade is not a mere secker for a liv-
ing or a fortune, but he 1s necessarily a
man of intelligence, self-reliance and
experience, which elevate him to the
rank of those whosucceed by both mind
and SRorgY.
On, look not at thy pain or sorrow,
how great soever; but look from them,
look off them, look beyond them, to
the Deliverer! whose power is over
them, and whose loving, wise, and ten-
der spirit 1s able to do thee good by
them. The Lord lead thee, day by
day, in the r ght way, and keep thy
mind stayed upon Him, in whatever be-
falls thee; that the belief of His love
and hope in His mercy, when thou art
at the lowest ebb, may keep up thy
head above the billows,
If nine men fail at poultry fanning,
and the tenth one succeeds, does it not
took as if the tenth fellow knew his
business ¥
Nraueor no opportunity of doing
good, nor check the desire of doing
it by a vain fear of what may happen.
.
DAMAGE BY STORES
A DOZEN HOUSES IN KENTUCKY
BLOWN DOWN.
A NUMBER OF BUILDINGS IN GAINES
VILLE WRECKED,
HorkinsviLLe, Feb, 25.—One of
the most violent and destructive storms
ever known in Southern Kentucky
passed over this section yesterday
morning, destroying several houses
and doing great injury to property, In
the vicinity of Bellview, a little village
south of this city, six tobacco barns,
with all their contente, were destroyed
and a dozen houses were unroofed and
blown down, The loss Is estimated at
$20,000, The rain fell in torrents und
the wind blew a perfect cyclone over
this city. doing great damage. The
river at this place is almost out of its
banks, being higher than known before
in years. Five thousand pounds of
tobacco have been destroyed,
CLEVELAND, O., Feb, 25. —Des-
patches to this city from Mt, Vernon,
Lima, Findlay, Springfield and other
points in Oblo report great damage by
high water, und the 1504 constantly in-
greasing. The railroads about Spring-
fleld are badly embarrassed by washouts
the New York, Pennsylvama and Ohlo
and the Oho, Indiana and Western
suffering the most, At Admore, a
small station on the Cincinnati and
Dayton Railroad, there are several
washouls, The Clacinnati express
was saved from running Into a
washout by the vigilance of a
farmer, who discovered that the
bridge had been carried away,
At Findlay cellars of prominent manu
facturing establishments are flooded
and the contents ruined, Damage has
been dope to the natural gas supply of
both Findlay and Fostoria by the car-
rylng away of pipes. All plkes and
highiroads in the location named are In
an opassible condition, owing to the
carrying away of culverts and bridges.
At Jalest reports the waler was still
rising, with prospects of greatly in-
creased losses
CAnrsoN, Xev., Feb, 25. —There was
a terrible storm at Lake Tahoe yester-
day. Small crafts were smashed to
pieces, the wharves severely shaken
and are almost unsafe, The force of
wind was such thal trees, houses
and wood plles were blown to pleces,
The snow is drifting along the road
here, covering the station houses and
burying logging camps,
pDexisox, Texas, Feb, 25 -This
section was visited yeslerday afternoon
by & terrific ralo and bail storm. The
wind blew almost a tornado. Thou-
sands of window panes were broken,
and spring gardens were wipad out 0}
existence, Cellars were overflowed
and great damage was done,
the
51st CONGRESS,.~~First Session,
SENATE,
In the U. 8. Senate, on the 26Lh
Mr. Chandler presented a petition from
Union county, Arkansas, alleging a
reign of terror there at the State elec-
tion in 1888, After a tilt between Mr,
Chandler and Messrs, Harris and
Berry, the Arkansas Senators, ihe
resolution was referred, Mr. Evarts
called up the resolution declaring the
compstency of the Senate to elect a
President pro tempore, who shall hola
office until another is chosen, After some
debate it went over. The credentials
of Benator-elect Wilson, of Maryland,
were presented and filed. The Blair
Educational bill was discussed, After
an executive session the Senate ad-
journed.
In the U, 8, Senate, on the 27th, a bill
was passed for the erection, at the West.
ern entrance of the Capitol at Wash-
ington, of a bronze statue of Chnisto-
pher Columbus, and the removal of the
Naval Monument toa new site, The
bill appropriates $75,000, A bill was
also passed making the salary of the
Surgeon General of the Marine Hos-
pital Service $6000 per annum. The
Anti-Trust bill was discussed, Mr,
Sherman saying be had been instructed
by the Committee on Finance to move
to strike out the third section, which
imposes penalties for ithe offense of en-
tering into trusts or combioations, Af.
ter an executive session the Senate ad-
journed,
HOUSE,
In the House, on the 26th, the entire
session was occupied with debate on
the contested case of Atkinson ws,
Pendleton, from the First District of
West Virginia. Pending discussion,
the House adjourned.
In the House on the 27th, the
contested election case of Atkinson vs,
Pendleton, from West Virginia, was
considered, and the minority report
declaring Pendleton elected was re-
jected —yeas, 142; nays, 1560-—-by a strict
party vote, The question recurred on
the majority report, seating Atkinson,
and the Democrats refrained from vol-
ing. The vote resulted—162 yeas to 0
pays, and the Speaker counted a
quorum, Mr, O'Ferrall raised the
point of no quorum, but the Speaker
ignored him, and Atkinson was sworn
in. Tbe Democrats refrained from
voting in order that the question of the
right of the Speaker to count a quorum
may be taken before the courts, Pend.
ing consideration of the Urgent De-
ficiency bill the House adjourned,
- Robert Pope, a white man of bad
reputation, and his 1l-year-old son,
were shot dead while riding home in
Hampton county, South Carolina, on
the evening of the 24th.
There was nochange in thestrike at
Nashoa, New Hampshire, on the 24th,
and the indications sre that the mil;
will be closed. The stitchers in
Brown’s shoe factory, at Natick, Mas-
sachusetts, after being on strike for a
Week; resumed cho on the 24th on
assurance their ievance
would be settled, o"
«A train on the Evansville and
Terre Maule Railroad went through a
bridge at Kelso creek, near Vincennes,
Indiana, on the morning of the 25th,
Engineer A. Lyons and Fireman Louis
Bowden are missing, and are supposed
to be under the engine, which was to-
tally w Several passengers
injured, but not fatally. ;
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
~— An attempt was made on Lhe even-
ing of the 24th, to wreck the limited
express on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne
and Chicago Raliroad, near Massillon,
Obio. A heavy iron bar was placed
across the track, Fortunately it was
discovered by the engineer of u freight
train, which was a short distance ahead
of the limited express, Two men are
now in the penitentiary for attempting
to wreck the limited express at Lhe
same place not long ago,
—Two masked men entered the gen-
eral store of W, C. Henderson, al
Berwyn, Indian Territory, on the even-
ing of the 24th, One of them covered
the clerks with revolvers, while the
other dumped into sacks a large
amount of jewelry and money, They
then mounted their horses and escaped
with the booty.
~Thomas Jandra, on the evening of
the 24h, in a it of jealously, shot and
kilied Christina Washaby, aged
years, pear Montgomery,
He also wounded John
escort, but not fatally.
Mucek,
lets into his own
side the dead girl,
-—A party of grave
surprised in a cemetery in Loulsville,
Kentucky, on the evening of the 24t1,
Louis
J ackburn,
The party consisted of three
vill physicians, Dr, J. T.
Dr. W. E, Grant, another
pawme is unknown,
ants,
ants who was killed,
and
Face to Face.
i my faecs could only promise that its color
would remain,
If my heart were only certain it would hide the
moment's vain,
I would meet you and wonld greet you in the
old famifiar tone,
And naught should sver show you the wrong
that you have done.
If my trembling hand were steady, if my smiles
had not all fled,
If my eyes spoke not so plainly of the tears they
often shed,
I would meet vou and would greet you at the
old sweel trysting place
And perchance you'd deem we happy i you met
me face to face
if the melody of spring tide awoke no wild re
friain
If the autumn's golden burden awoke no living
pA mn,
I would meet thee
yours ve Inet
Before our arts were shi
ocean of regret,
and would
pwrecked, on
remembering the
, In the old
1. when tears have pass
«1 declare T never saw anyt
her
Dearb
ret
afresh on
of Mr,
funeral
week
the
10
City, Missourl, on
24th, wtile trying
for creating a disturbance,
- Barbara Jordan, aged 20
domestic in the family of O. I.
ryman, in Baltimore, was found dead
in bed on the moruing of
asphyxiated by gas, »>he had
wr
mri
hea OX®
LLB SOL,
been iu
WwW Dodson
Crossing
Railroad
CVE
dead
Charles Hanley and liam
were asphyxiated in
watch box of the Vandalia
in Terre Haute, Indiana, on the
ning of the 234. Hanley was
when found, snd Dodson is thought to
be beyond recovery. They entered the
watch box during a heavy rain. Der-
pard O'Drien, aged
known resident of
# Slreek
fittston, Pa.
He leaves a wile
—The Coroner's jury in the Sawtelle
case in Great Falls, New Hampshire,
has found that Hiram was kilied by his
brother Isanc. There was no evidence
before the jury to show lhe participa-
tion of an accomplice in the crime,
~ Martin Starrow Jamimed a bar into
a hoje containing a dynamite cartridge
at the Lackawanna Iron Company's
of the 20h,
into the air and
despatch from
that the death list
known that
the morning
blown high
tated, A
Arizona, says
grown until now it Is
disaster. Wickenburg
the dam was
the awful assault, Seymour, 12 miles
further on, was also wrecked. An en-
gine ran into the rear of an empty coal
train at a crossing in Plainfeld,
Jersey, on the 26th, and
and six cars were wrecked,
off.
cut by
The engineer's
pieces of
jumping
was badly
glass,
-— Assasins killed one man and at.
tempted to kill two others in Spring.
24th, J. C. White, Deputy Sheriff, was
killed: Harmon Kinchen dangerously
wounded, and Willian White shot at
ness of his horse, When fired
had started home about midnight from
the town.
named Hale have
charged with the crime.
ville, Florida, on the 26th, He ale one
and threw the peel on the floor.
be refused, and the former called
the negro removed the peel. Upon
reaching the street the negro shot and
killed the policeman and escaped.
— An attempt was made on the even-
express on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, near Independence, Ohio.
The ties were found wedged into a cat-
tie guard and removed a few minutes
before the arrival of the train,
«Charles Sattell, a Swiss, has been
arrested in Guaymas, Mexico, on a
charge of counterfeiting American
money.
—Mrs, Margaret Iiienenstein had a
bottle of carbonic acid broken over
her head by her brutal husband, on the
27th, at thelr home in New York,
The husband was insanely jealous on
account of his wife's good looks, The
woman was horribly disfigured.
Advices from Pikeville, Kentucky,
tell of anether murder among the
McCoy-Hattleld adberents. The vie
tim was Uncle Joe Johnson, who on
the evening of the 234 was called to his
door snd shot by & man on horseback.
Johnson had incurred the enmity of
the Hatfields by disclosing & plan of
escape by Mounts and another of their
set, and his life has been threatened,
The dead body of Robert A, Smith, a
merchant in New Market, Ontario, was
found in the cellar of his house oa he
27th, He had been murdered and the
house had been ransacked.
~=A land-slide occurred near Quin.
nemwont, West Virginia, on the Chesa~
peake and Ohlo Raliroad, on the morn-
ing of the 27th, covering the track for
200 yards, A frelghttrain of 18 loaded
cars ran into the slide a few minutes
later and wrecked nearly all the oars,
Nobody was hurt. The east-bouud
vestibule traln had just passed when
the slide The Chicago Lime
ited Express dashed into the rear of a
Lehigh Valley train in Newark, New
Jersey, on the evening of the 27th.
The y were badly shaken up,
but no one was hurt. 0. 0h
wl
s is certainly
of ar-
|
f the stoco
rivate |
as
ich a precedent.”
I'he Evening Post carried an answer
that small missive, which read as
lows
“Miss Donorny Deannors
We find your fruits
iid ware,
2
all
and enclose check
received. Kin
dozen of
ples
each variety «
and file our order for a gross
kind as soon as you can supply
our
will add some
furnish own
f bin
prefer, which
your pre fits.”
“A letter for you Auntie,”
clare, it seems too good to
“Why I de
Here were we one month ago,
and
we are an established firm with a pay-
Dow
“ Yours you mean dear!”
** No, Aunt, Dottie,
fairly. Who
sttended to
washed
all
be sure
prepared
the weights,
the
ready for
Lo,
deal
INOASTITOS, jars,
and heated them use,
thing is arranged to hand; though l
that, to a turn. ‘The erystalizing point
is the rock upon which most preserve-
makers split; and they make a mistake
in not heating the block sugar for their
jellies, and in boiling the liguid too
long! A few minutes is sufficient to
thoroughly incorporate the compound,
and it should be dipped, boiling hot
then set to harden in the sun!
which process it becomes your pleasing
duty to dust the powdered sugar on the
surface, and close the covers for stor-
ing. Bo you see Aunty, itis science
and labor in league in this business,
and it would surprise me much if we
did not make a sterling success of our
work.”
« Some of these days, you will be get-
ting married, I suppose,” remarked
Miss Dorothy, reflectively.
Quick as thought the girlish head
went down “von the fruit-stained
hands, and the old maid was mute;
there was trouble in the camp after
all, she thought, and that must have
been why her father sent her to Oak.
dale farm to recover her bloom!
“Iam airaid this last kettle of red
cherries is just a little scorched Aunt,”
said the girl with a pitiful guaver in
ber young voice, as she lifted it from
the fire.
“ Well upon my word!”
Miss Dorothy's exclamation caused
Carry to turn quickly, just in time to
| be gathered into the out-stretohed arms
of Austin Ellerslec,
“Sg 1 find you st last my darling,
hidden away in the Maryland hills!’
You have been a good little girl, and
| given me up, as they told you was the
| proper course. And I, well the loss of
| my little sweetheart for whom 1 had
{ ransacked the four corners of the eoun-
| try, sobered me; and when the governor
| bought an interest in the large grocery
| house of Blerling & Co. I settled down
| to work
into my
know the rest, 1
“The fates threw vour letter
hands for reply,
Yon
’
i turn to town.’
“But wv father's refusal 7”
“The old gentleman failed lask week,
for a large amount and will be only too
| glad to make his home with Miss Dear-
| born.” he answered promptly.
| “Well that is settling
{4
i high hand,”
matters with »
exclaimed Miss Dorothy
| excitedly to Mr. Ellerslee
i ‘But I shall be glad to have yout
| father child, it will be like old times,
and if 1t will you a
have your } lgome
iy happier to
young sweetheart
I'm
hiro
for a life partner, why not sorry 1
made the deal which to-
gether, though 1
soiled ont
ight you
must confess I sm
compris telly
“But I will cor
back Anntie, an
CROTY ES after the
Yi
Vou KILO
A ————————
THE POWER OF MUSIC.
wi and Grisl,
ir, And It was
With
noe 3 her power
ivior Brat
ward to begin
at (irisi she saw
gnant gage
By the greatest exer-
wowever, she managed
painful silence
-a silence that
She caught
{ Grisi's
wm of
ROC,
Despite the clearness of her senses
she quickly realized that failure meant
ry, dissap pointe ih pe, the Ae-
struction of happiness, grief and mor-
n to ber family and her friends.
ly a soft voice that seemed to
ost gid
m
in
tifieatic
some from heaven whispered to her:
“Sing one of your old songs in your na-
She caught st the
thought like sn inspiration. The ac-
companist was striking his final chords,
She stepped up to him, asked him to
rise, and took the vacant seat. boftly
her white fingers wandered over the
keys in a loving prelude, then she sang.
It was a little prayer which she had
loved as a child; it belonged to her
childhood’s repertoire, She hadn't
sung it for years. As she sang she was
no longer in the presences of royalty,
but singing to loving friends in her
| fatherland.
No one present understood a word
of the “prayer.” Softly at first the
plaintive notes floated on the air,
swelling louder and richer every mo
ment. The singer seemed to throw
her whole soul into that weird, thrilling,
plaintive “prayer.” Gradually the
song died away and ended in a soft sob,
Again there was silence—the silence
| of admiring wonder. The audience sat
spellbound. Jennie Lind lifted at last
her sweet blue eyes to look into the
scornful face that had so disconcerted
her at first. There was no flerce ex-
| pression now; insted a teardrop glist-
sned on the Jong black lashes. After
a monent, with the impulsiveness of a
child of the tropics, Gris to
Jennie Lind’s side, plased her arm
about her and kissed her warmly, ut-
terly regardiess of the adminng sudi-
ence.
language.”
A Sure Cure for Corn
Ebon T. Marshall of Rincon, Osl, is
a farmer and has large landed interests,
sud for years he has had corns upon
the little toes of his feel, and at tim
has suffered so severely with Hh
to abandon his work on his
winter be has suffered more
Corn salves and other remed
permanent effect. Last we
resolved to have both lus littl
off in order to escape sufferi
corns, and so he had the ope:
formed. He will not e able
shoes for several weeks, bat
is glad that his corns Lave