WHITHER THOU GOEST.
i p——
O Love, I criad, Thou saidst thy path was
strown
With roses, and behold my naked fast
Have tracked in crimson a'l thy stiny straat,
And faintness cometh swift upon ma. Swoon
shall I fall prost ate in thy crael way,
ith eyes that :ock not betwixt night and
d y-
Nor aay joy of all thou tlds, is won.
“Wo ldst thon turn back ? said Love,
Nay, nay, I cried, lead on!
0 Love, 1 cried,
fillad
With unimagined melo iy; the lays
That poets whisper in their hearts; che praise
Tum tuous, of the happy bicds that budld,
I hear a burden of all grief and pain —
Harsh discords of reproach the broksn strain
Of one that by a ruinsd nest makes moan.
“* Wouldst thou turn back ? ' said Love.
Thou saidst thine air was
Nay, nay, [ cried, Load on!
QO Love, I cried.
spring,
These be thy flowers that
Glorious with crims on 8'ain beneath my feet;
And mine heart makes melody more
gwent,
own
For msmoried sorrows, than thy glad birds
wing,
Fain woul I tarry
But thou «4
Toward
sun.
in this happy place,
h :idest thins unloitering pace
dak vale
the bayond the setting
“Woulldst thon tara back?" said Love
Nay, nay, I eriad
—{Nol
Lead on!
in Scribner,
fi TROUBLESOME TOOTH.
mon Solis-Cohen
BY JAMES BUCKHAM
“1 declare, Josi',
on gettin’ much bigger
wear a peck measure "stead of a hat!”
you'll hevw
whera she was peeling potatoes, aad
sat near the Kitchen stove, holding his
head sidewise to the heat, with a most
dolorous expression on his swollen face.
“Why don’t ¥' zo and hev it hauled?”
continued Mrs. Tottenham, as Josiah sat
groaning and swaying in the old calico
cushioned rocking chair.
‘fl wasa man [ wouldn't set and suffer
Sakes alive! how
Hev it out, I say.
curridge?”
Josiah Tottenham looked up piteously,
twisting his long, lank body in
rocking-chair until his stiff and swollen
face squarely fronted his wife.
daresn’t!” he groaned. ‘‘Lord! it jumps
wus'n a grasshopper ev'ry time I think
on’t.
scrunched into them tender gums,
Lord! Ob,Lord! Ugh-h-h-h!"”
With a long, sighing groaa Josiah
Tottenham drooped over the stove and
tared blankly at the teakettle before
him. Mrs. Tottenham stood in perplexed
thought for a moment. Then a definite
you be a squirmia’!
Hain't ¥'
Oh,
to her, and she broke out, with apparent
irrelevancy
*‘Josi’, do you remember the time you
cut the Durham bull's tail?”
Josiah groaned affirmatively.
“How he started off sn the jump
snaked v' all round the barnyard, 'n’
slewed y’' int’ the fence 'n’ dragged y' on
yer back, but y' never let go— just hung
ou like a plarster-—'n’ finally got yer
knife to the right spot 'n’ sliced the crit
ter's tail jest where y' wanted to?”
For a moment Josiah forgot his trouble-
some tooth under the spell of his wife's
vivid narration of a well-remembered
triumph. He even attempted to smile,
but the twinge of pain that shot through
his nerves brought him back to the
doleful present and he groaned aloud.
“‘] sez to myself that day,” continued
mighty few men c¢'n compare with Josi'
Tottenham for pure grit.” She turned to
for a minute, then resumed
“Member the time y' kotched a tramp
asleep in the lower bern last spring 'n’
hauled him out by the coat an’ ducked
him in the trough”
Josish nodded
entertained with reminiscences of
personal prowess, even though the pleas
ure were punctuated with twinges of
toothache. **Y’ know I sez to you then,”
continued Mrs. Tottenham, ‘‘that |
some outdoor employment requirin’ brav.
ery?’
Mr. Tottenham grunted complacently
“Bat the best of all,”
wife, with triumphant climacteric fervor,
druv {'r yer own doctor without sayin’ a
word to nobody
hee-roism, now |”
Josiah's eyes glowed. He began to
realize that he really was a man of un-
common fortitude, and he innocently
and unsuspectingly rejoiced in the
thought. Being neither logician nor
diplomat, he did not see the point at
which the wife was driving: and when
she finally turned upon him, exclaiming,
“Josi', ef | wuz such a man as you be
1'd feel ashamed to knuckle down to a
feetle snub of a tooth!” he was too as:
tonished and bewildered to reply. The
situation did seem ridiculous; he was
obliged to admit that. But, oh! those
fiendish, cold, cruel, crunching *‘pinch-
ers!” Suddenly a compromise occurred
to him. ‘*Why coulda’t you pull it,
Marthy?" he asked. “I seen you pull
one of Eben’s teeth, onct, with a string.”
“P'raps I could!” eried Mrs. Totten-
am, whirling with readiness that made
Tosinsh start. ‘Lemme hev a lovk in
r mouth, Josi'."” ‘
The oddly assorted couple went to the
window-~Josiah six feet four in his
stock and Martha four feet six in
hers, rtha Tottenham was the small
est woman in Willowtown and Josiah
Tottenham was the largest man. Josiah
sat n in a chair facing the window
and his mouth as widely a1 he
could under the circumstances. His wite
looked into Tie dare cavis with he
com ps and frowning brow o
one whose attention is torod 0 the ut.
most. “There's two or three angry
lookin’ ones, Josi’,” she said. “Which
_ 0’ "em do you #'pose "tis?"
““The for'ard one o’ the lot, I cal'late,”
replied Josiah. “The pain seems to
kinder creep that way.”
“Wal, now you jest set right where
you be till I get a string,” said Mrs.
Tottenham, moving away briskly to-
ward the pantry.
ARTISTS OF THE ROUND-UP,
01d. Time Texas Cowboys Different
Krom Those of To-Day.
The old-time cowboy is no more, says
Heo passed
were bloodless with the intensity of his
grasp,
in from the barn and stood stupidly star-
ing at his father.
an awestruck tone. His father nodded
convulsively, looking straight out of the
window up into the sky, his head tilted
back and his mouth open 1n anticipatory
agony. Mrs. Tottenham came out of the
pantry with a piece of fine braided silk
fishline in her hand.
sxceedingly strong
stood over
noose’’ at the end of the string with the
and elastic.
needlewoman. As she twirled the knot
into shape Josiah winced.
“Open your mouth wider, Josi’,” said
his wife, firmly, Josiah made a painful
attempt to comply. The muscles of his
lips twitched and hus eyes bulged out as
if he were being choked. A horrible fasci-
nation drew Eben oloser to the chair of
torture. The boy was suffering almost
as keenly as his father. yet he could not
g0 away. Mrs. Tottenham
dropped the silk loop around Josiah's
“for'ard” tooth and drew it tight. Jo
unnerve the deter
mined little woman at his side. Bracing
herself with ope foot cn round of
the chair, she gave a sudden, swift and
steady pull. For a moment Josiah's big
frame seemed about to rise and float
away through the open window. Then
the tooth came flying out; Mrs. Totten
the
raged nerves.
like that of a
With a frightened cry,
bird released from the
been watching the operation fled from
the room.
A few minutes later Mrs. Tottenham
came out into the barn with the tooth in
“‘I want you to get rid of it,
Eben, she said, with some agitation;
“anyhow so's | shar’t know what you
[ don't want yer father
ever see it. It's a perfectly sound
tooth —the only sound tooth he had in
his head, I reckon! But don't you ever
sav a word about that-—miond, sow.”
It was a wonderful relief to the little
woman that eveuninz to see her husband's
face gradually shrinking to its normal
proprotions and to hear his grateful ac-
a dentist,
“*Is the pain entirely gone, Josi'!" she
“Every speck!” Tot
tenham, gleefully
“Goodness me!”
responded Mr
mused the little
smilingly, as she crawled under
the blankets. ‘I've heern tell a good
‘eal 'bout the power of the imagination,
but I never s'posed it could straighten
out the kind o’ mistake [ made to-day!”
“What you laughing’ 'bout, Marthy 1"
demanded Josiah, sleepily
“Oh, nothin’,” replied his wife. *I
was jest wonderin’ what makes tooth
ache, anyway." —[Onoe a Week.
wo.
Who can resist a baby? Perhaps some
old bachelor will reply that he can not
only resist one, bat that he would like-
wise consider it a good plan to drown
them all as soon as they were born, io
fashion. Well, the mao of this
type is left out of the category alto-
gether, and in asking who can resist one
of these dear little helpless bits of hu
manity we mean who, with a heart, can
turn away from the dimpled, clinging
hands, or not be won over by the inno-
cent baby smile. No matter where the
baby appears its influence is felt, says
the Home Magazine.
Let a mocher and child enter a car,
and five out of every six people will do
nothing for the rest of the way but watch
the baby, and the old gentleman with
glasses, who has been absorbed in the re
ports of the stock market, will look
pleased and smile down on the little mite
far as to beam upon the mother and to
little creature should smile up into bis
or evince acy desire to be more
friendly, the austerity that (rightens his
the tiny morsel of humanity at his elbow
had made him a trifle superior to those
other of his fellow beings who had not
babies. ‘The maternal instinct is
character, and from the time
are gladdened by the advent of a little
stranger, they adore the winsome, help-
less human beings that are dependent
upon them for love and support.
The thought of a curly head, a rosy
mouth, or a little lispiog voice joyously
calling “papa” or ‘mamma,’ has kept
many a man and woman from despair
and the many dangers of life that are
worse than death,
A Story on Senator Stewart.
They are telling a good story in Wash-
ington on Mr. Stewart as a revenge for
his interminable speeches. Before the
night session began the Senate had ad-
journed and several of them were getting
their hats in the cloak room, Mr, Stewart
among them, when one of his fellow
Senators said:
“Stewart, you remind me of a clergy
man,”
Mr. Stewart naturally stared, and then
laughed and asked, ‘How, pray?”
“Yes; you are like a certain minister
who was telling a friend that he bad
preached two hours and a hall, ‘Were
you not rary tired?" said the friend,
sympathetioally. “Na, na, I was as fresh
as a rose; but you should have seen the
congregation.’ [Buffalo Commercial.
The asseasad valuation of the Usited States
is $65,000,000,000.
The big pasture has introduced a new
order of cowboys, who sleep in a houso
The old
und shared his pleasures and his hard-
ships. * No manager in his big headquar-
the modern ranch accessories mar the
common dangers, the pleasures und the
freedom and equality of the whilom cow-
boy and cowman. But the ranch in
the olden time was a antton-wood log
house to cook in, and for roof and pro-
tection from the weather the slicker was
used, and Mother Earth supplied their
The broad range and overhanging
answered for house and home,
A round-up in 1867-1880 was not
galloped out of camp after breakfast,
made a wide sweep and all then drove
toward a common centre, and lo! direct-
ly at that point was gathered a herd of
stock cattle of all brands, ready for the
cut to begin.
The high-toned man was tabooed. 1
remember sucn a man appeared at the
ranch of J, T.. in Shackleford County,
in 186). He was a city fellow, and
would say *‘thank you” and such
like. His intense politeness and high-
toned nonsense aggravated the boys
mightily, Jim B. in particular (poor
fellow) was especially fretted by his non.
sense, as he called it, and tried to ridicule
it out of him, but in vain. At last his
resentment ripened into genuine hatred,
and it was hard to keep the peace be-
between them, for the city fellow had
grit, too. Weil, one morning in 1849, at
Mouotain Pass, in ‘Taylor County, long
before any one lived in that section, Jim
got awfully mad and gave the city feller
+ cussing, whereupon a row resulted
and bloodshed was barely prevented
thers and then, We got the city fellow
to ride off and it looked like peace had
returned. but one hour later Jim B. and
his amiable enemy met off at one side of
the round up. 1 happened to be near.
In a flash the city chap ran before Jim,
dismounted, leveled his gun on him and
demanded an apology or death. Jim
jerked out two six-shooters, but said
nothing, and instantly the city fellow
fired. Poor Jim rolled off his horse a
dead man. I got to them just as Jim
fell. He died instantly, shot through
the heart. His slayer mounted his horse
and “lit out.” We buried Jim and went
on with our heed, t men but
with no discordant element among us,
Such was the old way, The boys ware
3 13 and Kind, they
and brave, industrious and honest,
they would pot stand any high-toned
A new era has set in, Which
we cannot but one
w.th all his faults, and
many, cowboy
was 4 man to be trusted in nesce or war
and was the very soul of honor,
wo anore,
courteo were generous
nonsense
is the
thing is sure,
were
better aay,
the old-time
Fate of the Old Navy
historical and romantic memory,
number of changes affecting them are to
be made in the near {uture. The train
ing ship Richmond at Newport is to be
sent to Philadelphia to take the placeof
condition that she will probably be
broken up and sold for the material in
her. The Lancaster, now in
the United
Baltimore re
sail for
cruiser
under orders to
States when the
linves her, and her activeservice as a
war vessel will end oa her arrival at
Newport to take the place of the Rich
mond,
The Lancaster will return from China
not exproted home until March next.
In the interim the old Constellation,
now on special service, will remain at
Newport in place of the Richmond. The
Lancaster will be fitted out as ua gunnery-
instruction ship. New gun-carrisges
and guns will be mounted on her and
tested at sea in order to sliow officers
and men to become familiar with their
workings.
The Essex, the saccessor to the ship
which made so gallant resistance to two
British vessels, the Phaobe and the
Cherub, in Valparaiso harbor in 1814,
while commanded by Capt. David Por-
ter, has been thoroughis repaired at the
Norfolk navy yard and is now attached
to the Naval Academy as part of the in-
struction flest, and ashe is also used for
seamanship and gunnery practice by the
The Swatara and the Pensacola
Island navy yard, and it has been prac-
fitted, and sale and destruction will fol-
low ultimately.
How O14 Is the Human Race?
The fullest answer that science can yet
give to the three most interesting ques-
tions perhaps ever asked in the world
are explained by Dr. Daniel G. Brinton,
the ethnologist, These questions are:
“When did the first man appear!” “By
what process did heappear!” and * Where
did he appear?” Summing up all that
geologists and anthropologists know, he
appeared certainly 50,000 years ago, and
it may be as many as 200,000 years ago.
The evidences of his existence which
date back 50,000 years are unmistakable.
By what process he came into being
science has no definite answer. If it re-
fuse to accept the doctrine of specific
creation it must refuse also, for lack of
complete evidence, to accept the doctrine
of gradual evolution-—the old Darwinian
doctrine. Dr. Brinton thinks the theory
of “evolution by a leap” is as good as
any other theory. According to this,
man sprang from some high order of
mammal, the great tree ape, perhaps, by
a ffoak, jan as men of genius are freaks,
and as all the v and animal kiog-
dom show f As to where man
first ap
bis earl
rope, or Asia, or North Africa. No
earlier traces of him have been found
than those found in the area that is now
Eogland, France, and Spain, —{ Forum.
Socrates was triad a nd put to death for
baliat ta she national rs.igion. ”-
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS
EVERYDAY LIVE,
oF
Queer Facts and Thrilling
tures which Show That
Stranger Than Fiction,
Larvtesant Boyne T.
of the English Navy, recently returned
from the Hebrides Islands, tells the fol
lowing interesting tale regarding the
work of a professional native rainmalker:
Advens
Truth
yam planting, there came an unusual
period of drought, so that an inland
its rainmaker and demanded his imme-
diate attention thereto.
branches and leaves of a tree famed for
its rain-producing qualities, which, being
finished, was placed, with proper inecan
tations, at the bottom of what should
have been a water-hole in the now
parched bed of the mountain torrent.
stones.
cease for forty-eight hours, by
time it had become too much of
thing. Soon the rain-producing
was quite ten feet under water
seething torrent, and the people, much
to their dismay, saw that their yams and
the surrounding earth were beginning to
wash away down the hillsides. The
lieutenant continues: *‘‘Now mark what
comes of fooling with the elements! No
rann of the hill country was able to dive
to the bottom of the water-hole to pull
up the hurdle with its weight of stones,
8G the merciless rain still held on.
last the shore natives, accustomed to
swimming and diving, heard what the
matter was, and some of them coming
to the assistance, the compeller of the
elements was recovered from its watery
bed andthe rain stopped.” It is such
a coincidence as this, happening per-
people, now thoroughly Christianized,
to refuse to give up their rain doctors,
although all other outward forms of rank
superstition appear to be freely aban-
Tugne lately called upon Prof, Cesar
Lombroso, of the University of Turin, a
her
long
Previous medical treat.
the aid of the great
By appointment
and engagingly
woman, was brought to
Irmbroso's office the next day But
while consultation was in progress be
tween the distressed husband and the
Dootor they detected the fair patient ap
ings of others
graph framed in brilliants; sad finally,
in the act of bidding the Doctor good
able soarfl pin. In an aside the dis
tressed husband said “You see for
yourself how possessed she is with the
thieving instinct. [I will bring
hour you may appoint, whea you will
kindly give me your opinion of the case
The failure
of the heartbroken man to appear witl
are also patiently waiting to advise him
to treat his afflicted wife, who
“horrowed” valuables of them also, leads
Dr. Lombroso to the conviction that this
was rather the most unique case of klep-
Lanonzns were excavating in the cellar
, when they came
A work-
man removed some debris with his piek,
and saw before him a cat with its tail in
Brooklyn, N. Y
arched. He said ‘‘Shew, there!” But
the cat remained motionless, The laborers
ran up to see the cat. They found that
it had tarned to stone. It looked as
patural as life. The head and legs, the
arched spine and the tail were perfect. It
was a petrified cat. How it came there
and bow it got petrified is a mystery. In.
quiry was made. It was learned that
Wiiliam Godfrey, who was the armorer
cat, In the year 1883 the cat disap
peared. The armorer thought so much of
the eat that he offered a reward for its
return. No trace of the lost cat was
found. It is supposed that the cat ran
under the cellar floor of the armory in
pursuit of a rat. In its eagerness it
it found retreat impossible, and perished
inside. There were small springs in the
ground aod the earth was impregnated
with lime, As the cat withered away,
particle by particle, the lime in solution
was deposited in place of the tissue, and
in a few years the cat was stone, The
armory.
F. C. Gusxixa, an eaginser who has
just come back from Mexico, says that
the front in that country. He says
vidual, who, when he comes into contact
with the abstemious, industrious,
frugal Chinaman, is simply lost. The
of business in a year. I've seen it done
a hundred times. But what is setting
the Mexican to thinking isthe fact that
the Chinaman is marrying Jue 1 of
the Mexican girls. Truth! I a talk
with a beautiful girl, whose husband
was a big laundryman at Guaymas. She
t the thing in a nutshell when I asked
er how she came to marry a celestial,
“If I had married a Mexican of my own
clase’, said she, ‘I would have had to work
every other day. Now I have my car
and horses, am made a very
jucen in my houschold, am forbidden to
work. My husband is most considerate
and really worships me. There are a
number of girls here who are married to
Chinamen and we have a delightful little
society of our own. Was 1 not right,
signor? ™
use of shirt cuffs for jotting dewn memeo-
randa is more common than is, perhaps,
commonly supposed. He #elated how,
{ ove day, a young fellow drove up inacab
| and rushed into the office ir great excite.
| ment, asking whether some shirts de
posited in the name of IL. had been
| washed. We found they had not, and
| as the owner turned them over in fever-
i ish haste, be fairly yelled with joy,
pointing to a little column of
| the left cuff of one, which he explained
{ were the numbers of eight £10 bank
{ notes, which had been lost or stolen, and
| had the shirts been washed, all hopes of
ever getting them back must have been
{ abandoned ; they were, however, success.
later. The cuffs of Stock
characters—— presumably indications of
the stock market, and the ‘‘tips” found
| actually taken advantage of by the iron-
{ girls on one or two occasions with suf
CRs, t is is not vet recorded, however,
| that the mannish young woman
{taken to ‘‘cuff jotting,’
cuff and shirt wearing
has
Ix a Philadelphia shop window a
unique old relic of a piano is displayed,
brsring the following inscription: ‘John
Jucob Astor sold this pi sum Lo one of
fivsd families of New York more than
a century ago. Mr. Aster is believed to
have been the first piamo dealer in the
| United States Then fellows a copy
an pdvertisement in a New York pap
dated January 10, 1789, It reads: “J.
Jegob Astor, at No, 81 Queen street,
net door but one the Friends
Mating House, has { an assort
nest of
the
of
sr
“0
er sale
pisnofortes
Loadon, which he will sell on reasonable
tersns, He gt for all kinds
furs, and has for sale a 'quantity
Canadian beaver and Canada coatings,
raccoon skins, muskrat skins, ete.”
of
'
of
Ves cash
Prren Neany, of Newark, N. J., had
a billy goat and a ten-dollar greenback
| Bily and the bill had a meeting, and,
t follywing tho fashion of the
effasted a consolidation ; that is to say,
sote, This arrangement was made with.
“ '
our Mr. Nearv's consent, and moved
inggantly for a dissolution of partnership
by ailling the goat and regoveriag the
fragments of bill These were sent
to the Treasury, and it seems that there
was vnough left to identify the note, and
few days ago Mr. Neary received a
brand new #10 note in return, and is only
out ba the of & goat,
he
the
50 a
a,
extent
Jiuns Fannex, an 84 year-old hunter
of Jac unty, Wash., came back
froma a trip in wins a few days
ays bearing a gool-sized
y
besanatis
fang
{
Keon ¢
the mount
cougar skin.
80
whose hide measures
ven {eet in length, appeared in his
He hadn't much ammunition, and
waned it all for the bears, whose track
sas foll snatched up a
sof rock and huriad it at the cougar
the animal eon the head, s
and before it could recover
imped upon i€ and slit its throat
Knife
was for bhenr SAV8
hae
in the MILA
he wing, so he
nie
It styuck
ning it,
Fariea |
with his
Tag Sudese as
of Aflzican women whe arrive at Bombay
as gilors yn steamshins
I'hes perform the duties of these posi
tione admirably enough, and they vield
impli it obedience juecen, whose
name is Sophia. When there is a fight
ahe cacides which side ber subjects shal
take in the riots she took the
part ¥ a loval subject of Eagland, and
bade ber underlings battle for the Gov.
| ernment Lord Harris, in his report,
honoss her especially
11
i
are interesting HOAY
and stokers
to thelr
recent
Esmvanss Evizaner ri .
cently was out riding 1 a pile
of placed across the track over
which the Buda Pesth express was to
pass in a foaw minutes Springing from
her hose, she ordered dhe groom attend
ing hes to remove the obstraction
hersel{ assisting him The work was
hardly completed when the train, crow 3.
ed with passengers, passe i aver the spot,
and notice
stouas
she
A ni deer happened casually upon the
town o' Nehalem, Ore., last week, trotted
the length of the main business street,
meandesed into the back yard of a citi-
zon's hoase, ambled through the house
and ont of the front door, and then trot
ted out of the city limits. The incident
excited 20 particular interest.
A pguwrisr at Birmingham, Eog., has
of a narried woman,
him to extract oae tooth.
| a crust or pick a bone with anyone.
A lLoxvox merchant is utilizing the
| phonograph in his business. While he
tis driviog to his place of business in his
one of the machines, and when he ar-
[tives ho gives it to his head clerk, who
| makes 7 repeat them,
Mucis surprise was caused at Lincoln,
-
His latest wife is 55 years old.
Ix 1848 a lime tree in Berwickshire four
feet dingseter, six feet from the ground,
was blown clean down and raised and re.
placed again, It to-day shows no trace
of injury
Tur oase of Samuel Merry of Provi-
jw rather odd. His neck was
nicely on beefstew and expects to got
out soon,
The Emperor and the Pirate,
Ale camder the Great was about to pass
senterou of death on a noted pirate, bat
previgusly asked him, “Why dost thou
troub o the seas?”
“Why,” rejoined the rover boldly,
“dost thou trouble the whole world?! 1
with one ship go in quest of solitary ad-
venture and am therefore called pirate:
thou wita a great nrmy warrest against
natioas, and therefore art called Emper-
or, Sir, thers is no difference hetwixt
us but in the names snd means of doing
salwehiied.”
{_sxander, so far from being displeased
wi. the freedom of the Sulpeit, was so
impressed with the fores of hia peat
that he dismissed him unpusished. =
{Salas Jouroal i
HOUSEHOLD ACCIDENTS,
A slight cut or abrasion on the hand,
or a slight burn, may become a serious
matter if it is totally neglected, Where
the skin is torn or cut it is desirable in
the first place that the wound should
bleed freely, Cases of lockjaw are of
rare occurrence where this is the case,
foot has been kvown to produce this
dangerous malady where bleeding did not
follow,
One of the greatest dangers lies in a
wound of a kitchen knife, which may
have held impure matter, and even from
tho scratch of a pin, and fatal cases of,
blood poisoning have frequently resulted
from so simple a cause. Absolute clean
liness, therefore, is necessary in the
treatment of such a wound. After the
wound has bled a little it should be
washed with perfectly clean water.
is best for
the purpose, and there is no harm in us-
ing a little carbolic acid in the propor
tion of a drop or two to a quart of
water
| Do not attempt to stanch bleeding by
the use of cobwebs, which are naturally
dirty and full of impure germs, but use
{a little lint and a clean cotton or linen
cloth. These should be always kept in
the houses for use in cuse of such accl
dents. A trustworthy druggist will
always supply some preparation of car-
bolic acid, properly weakened, for house.
hold use. Ewen household ammonia,
| though it is painful at first, is recom
mended as a mild way of santerizing a
simple wound. A thick paste of equal
parts of common baking soda and flour
| wet to a paste with cold water, is the
best remedy for a burn
It is better than lime water, because
lime water is liable to become inerusted,
while the paste of soda and flour 1s cool
ing to the surface and can easily be re
moved. The object of treating a burn
| is to cover the extremities of the nerves
which have been injured and give them
opportunity to heai. While sucha puste
is being prepared cover the wound for
the moment with common flour and wrap
it up in clean cotton
A simple healing plaster, which may
be prepared in the household, calls for
half a pound of rosin, an ounce esch of
mutton tallow, camphor gum and bees-
wax, half an ounce each of British oil,
cedar oil, gum myrrh and lioseed oil
Melt the rosin, mutton tallow, campbor
gum, beeswax and gum myrrh together
and add the oils. This plaster should
be spread on cotton when needed and ap
plied to the wound —{New York Tri
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“One Obstinate Juryman
The most remarkable case of a jury
*‘standing out” against what seemed to
be irrefutable testimony, and sll through
of one man, occurred be
fore Chief Justice Dyer. He presided at
a murder trial in which everything went
against the prisoner, who on
could only say that on his going to work
in the morning he had found the mur.
jered man dying, and tried to help him,
whereby he had become covered with
blood : but when the man presently died,
he had come away and said nothing about
it, because he was known to have had a
juarrel with the deceased, and feared he
might isto trouble. The hayforg
with which the man had been murderea
had the prisoner's name on it. la other
respects his guilt appeared to be estab
lished, and the Chief was ©con-
vinced of it, but returned a
verdiot of “not guilty
This was Chief Justice Dyer's case,
and he put some very searching questions
to the High Sheriff. The cause of the
acquittal, said the oficial,
the resolution
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| edly the foreman, a farmer of excellent
character, esteemed by all his neighbors
and very unlikely to be obstinate or vex
atious. “Then.” said the Judge I
must see this foreman, foran explanation
of the matter I will have.” The fore.
man came, and alter extracting from his
lordship a promise of secrecy. proved at
once that the prisoner had been right.
fully acquitted, “for,” said he, *'it was |
myself who Killed the man.”
It had been no marder, for the other
had attacked him with the hay fork, and
as he showed) severely injured him, but
{ in the struggle to get possession of the
weapon he had the misfortune to give
the man a fatal wound. He had no fears
as to his being found guilty, but, the
| assizes being just over, his farm and
affairs would have been ruined by a con.
fession, through lying in jail so long, so
he suffered matters to take their course.
He was horrified to find one of hisown
servants accused of the murder; he sup-
ported his wife and children while in
| jail; managed™o be placed on the jury,
| and elected foreman, He added that if
{ he had failed in this he would certainly
| have confessed to his own share in the
| business, and the Judges believed him.
Every year for fifteen years his lordship
| made inquiries as to the foreman’s exist
| ence, and at last, happesing to survive
{ him, he considered himself free to teil
the story. —{ London News.
Ivy Within Doors.
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The Germans cultivate ivy in their
houses with great success. Placing a
root in a large pot by one side of the
window, they will train it as it grows
until it forms a pretty frame for the en-
tire window. The English ivy growing
over the walls of a building, instead of
romoting dampness, as most persoos
a ep said to be a remedy
for it, and it is mentioned as a {act that
in a room where dampusts had prevailed
for a length of time the affected parts in-
side had become dry when ivy had grown
up to cover the opposite exterior side.
close, overhanging pendant leaves
prevent the rain or moisture from pene-
trating the wall. In order to tiain ivy
over a door buy a couple of brackets,
such as lamps for the burning of kero.
scene are mes | and scrow
them to the sides of the door. Pus
in each a plant of Eaglish ivy, the
longer the better, then train the plants
over the top against the sides—any way
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pots w ¢ \ *
Ee Placig in each two or three A ely of
Coli ivy. Is a month's time no
vestige of the pot itself can be discerned
Surwugh their thick screens, <[New