After All.
"This world isOod's world, sftor ll."
Hrr. riknrlf nmo'lf!/.
Oh , this wesry world, with its rosllctw toiling.
And its fltfhl fever of uncessing otre!
Oh, this sottish world, our kindest actions
soiling,
8o that oar stained souls can scarcely riso in
prayer!
"Peace!" I hear Iho preacher-poet call,
' This world is (tod's world, after all
After all."
Oh, this wssping world, full of iiain and sorrow
Full of breaking hearts that once wore strong
and bravo.
Full of dark despair that hopes for no to-morrow.
And of love whose memory is but a gravel
"Peace!" I hear tho preacher-poet call,
"This world is God's world, alter all
After all."
This is God's world; s tho birds are singing.
So the happy lields are glad with golden
wheat,
go the sun is shining, so tho flowers are
springing.
Ho the heavy heart again with Joy may boat.
Only listen how the strong words fall,
"This world is God's world, after all
After all."
If 'tis God's world, why should we wor
weeping ?
Why should we go heavily liy night or day
"He giveth His beloved while they are
sleeping,"
He loves the cheerful toiler, wliaran say.
" 1 fear no grief, no wrong ihat can befall;
This world is (toil's world, alter all
After all!" j
A RAILWAY INCIDENT.
''Little fire grows gnat with little wind."
.V/HIJL.SJH ore. j
The steam (gurgled and whistled, and
arose in great hot, white jots through ,
the wintry morning air. The bright
bras.s bell of the locomotive swayed to
and fro, ringing sonorously as the early
express jarred and rumbled out of the
station.
Every seat of the car I bad just en
tered was occupied; and feeling most
uncomfortably conspicuous, I awkwardly
stood beside the door that had just
slammed unceremoniously behind me.
"Poor thing! Doesn't she look in
teresting in that silver gray traveling
dress ! How slim anil tall she is ; and
how pretty and pale!" remarked souie
one half-way down the coach
"l think she looks decidedly,
ghostly and commonplace," dissented
some other. " I never admired that
particular tint of blonde hair. It is
certainly neither yellow nor golden.
Her gray eyes are rather handsome—or
wonld be if they were not quite so
owlishly big and alert; and her skin is
really too fair. Much very fair com- '
plexions do not wear well; they wrinkle
quickly and redden too easily. And
most blushes aie so affected sr country
fled. lint, positively, I believe her
headgear is an affectation also. Is not
her bonnet quite a caricature?—huge,
immensely flaring, silver-gray plush— ;
and smoke-gray, most enormous pinnies.
Will no one ever give her a seat ? It
really makes me nervous to see her
posing there in that sj>ectral,
iahly, unadorned gray she eternally
affects."
" I always thought Lulcen Aymes
quite ingenuous," observed the other
interlocutor; "and I am sure most
people think her very graceful and
lovely, and elegant and amiable. How
ever, yon do not seem to appreciate her
excellencies, very much, Cara."
" I cannot appreciate what I cannot
iiscern," asserted Clara, with a half sneer
that did not dignify her small, dark
pret'.iness.
Her companion smiled a jioliiely leni
ent disapproval, ami in more suppressed
tones, returned: "Yon have always dis
liked Lnleen. And I have often almost
believed that some significant s]>cech of
yours was tho cause of her sudden
oitrangement from latrrv Murray. Is it
possible you said anything silly or med
dlesome?"
"Oh, I dare say there are people
sufficiently proper and stupid to con
aider me a very silly intcrmeddlcr in
deed," Cara lightly responded. " How
ever, I only kindly informed the gentle-;
man of a few simple truths; anil he was
good enough to thank me."
" I fancy your way of speaking of a
simple truth would not always encour
age one to descend to tho liottom of a
well to find it," commented the elder
lady, still shaking with the look and
voice of courteous dixapproliation.
" Poor, dear, pretty Luleen 1" she pro
ceeded. " Have yon observed how very
white she is? liow very disturbed she
seems? Hlio must have been s pas
senger in that wrecked coach, and was
sadly frightened no doubt. lam sure
it must le quite dreadful for a lady trav
eling unattended to happen in an acci
dent, but to be all alone in snrli peril,
and deal and dumb too, is really some
thing appalling."
I knew lwth the speakers who had
been discussing my person and my
reputation, my faults and my raisfor
ttnee. But they little guessed that I
tad heard their incautious, and no,
mrticnlarly delicate and sympathetic,
ommen's an l ajecnlations. They little
gU*<wuvl thst I was no longer deaf and
dumb— no longer tongue' est in a sound- (
lean world. They littlo guessed tliat
the casualty they had mentioned in
their flippant clutter had been ordained
to restore mo divers lost blessings.
But for a moment I forgot my amiable
commentators. I forgot even my
unpleasant posture a somewhat
shaky perpendicular. And 1 certainly
did not remember the sorry solace of
seeing quite a little company in the mis
ery of seatlossness and endangered
equilibrium, for with unseeing eyes I was
ga/.ing through the couch window upon
the kaleidoscopic fragment of world
through which the train was darting
like a great, tierce, licet serpent with its
hissing of steam, and ratt'le and glitter
of iron and steel, while I was thinking
very intently of many things.
I thought of the accident thnt' had
happened scarcely two hours before. I
had been half dozing in my seat when a
thick, turbulent cloud of black and
blinding smoke darkened the air; when
! I was conscious of a strange jolting sue
, coedcd by a dreadful crash In that
I hour of fright I regained my voice and
j hearing. I cried aloud, and heard the
| shrieks of those around me. I heard
i the stentorian announcement that rang
cheerfully through the wrecked coach:
| "Xobodv is hurt and my lips as well
|as my heart responded "Ood is good."
I thought, too, of the tlrst time I
, met Ijarry Murray. The day of that
meeting was very beautiful and happy.
A garden party hail gathered on a line
old lawn, where the trees were tall and
ancient and full of tuneful birds—where
delicate, reused shadows moved in
sunlight and moonlight over the velvety,
odorous grass—where one could see de
lightful fountains and great plots of
brilliant flowers, anil fur away i\ glimpse
of the turquoise blue of a pretty little
valley lake. There were dancing and
an orchestra in a gilded Moorish pavil
ion, amid a picturesque tangle of exotic
palms, and a wild waltz wa-. ending
when some one brought him to me.
Love, that mysterious and puissant
sentiment, must have mutually in
veigled us in that tirst moment. His
dark eyes, pleased and wondering,
turned toward nie a lingering, question
ing gaze, before which I trcmbbsl and
blushed without comprehending why.
We danced and dined, and sang anil
supped together, and in a week were
betrothed. Our betrothal, however,
was not unwisely hasty. His parents
anil mine had been friends, and society
recognized him as a gentleman of
wealth and worth and much professional
distinction. And that our affection was
renl and leal, we both knew. Never
theless that glad, sweet summer ended
in grief and anger. Suddenly Larry
seemed oddly changed. He was still
devoted—too punctiliously so, I fan
cied—but the dear, spontaneous tender
ness hal gone from his manner, and at
times he would watch me with a gloom
inquisitorial gaze that would haunt me
for days with an agony of disquieting
s]>cculation.
And sometimes lie would sjieak
vaguely, in a cynical sort of way, as if
he doubted the unselfishness of all hu
manity, and my own fealty to him most
of all. I was proud and I was loyal,
and his ambiguous denunciations pained
and angered me, and Anally became no
longer endurable. And so, one day,
when one of his inexplicably churlish
moods had lteoome insufferable, I ended
our pleasant dream by a Vpiiet little
homily of resentment that I tried to
make as dignifhsl as |tossiblc.
" Larry," I began, with commendable
calmness, though my wild tears were
rioting nnseen, " latterly I have fancied
that you regard our engagement as a
misfortune to yourself. I cannot con
jecture why. I have fancied, too, that
you suspect iiir guilty of some grievous
fault or wrong, and that I am not quite
worthy of your love, that I am sure
despite this melancholy mystery,is mine.
You are not brave enough," I went on,
hotly, "to tell me what yon suspect.
You are not manly enough to explain the
strange and cruel hints with which
you have outraged my pride and grieved
my affection for weeks. And so, Larry,
although I love and honor you as I never
loved arul honored any other, I believe
lam acting rightly in making yon free.
1 shall Is* gratified if yon will consider
yourself no longer 1 sit roth od to me."
With the concluding sentence I left
him alone, conscious that his dark eyes
were regarding mo with as much anguish
as astonishment. I did not see him
again. The next morning he left the
place, and then came my terrible illness,
when for weeks I lay delirious at the
doors of death, to le thrust lwck at last,
deaf and dumb, into a life that must lie
lonely and loveless evermore. And yet,
even on this day of Catastrophe, heaven
had Wn kind to me. I was no longer
innte. 1 could once more hear the sweet
sound of voices and all the noises of
the busy, perplexing world, of which in
my youth aud health 1 honld not be
quite weary.
I was still stating—with stupid resig
nation it must have seemed to observers,
no doubt—through the coach window,
when the train stopped, aud after a
happy exit of superfluous occupants
some one offered me a seat.
I was more amused thsn annoyed
when I observed that this seat wss
directly behind that of my chatty
acquaintance", who greeted me a* sur
prised ly as if they lnul "UppoKnd rue a
permanent inhabitant of the Atiti|>o<lc*
until that particular moment, and I
favored them witli u smile much more
brilliant than it would have been, I
imagine, had I not heard their intcrcst
ing and momentous dialogue.
My seat mi not entirely vacant.
Indeed, I found "mall room to plueo my
slim form and Quakerish skirts quite
comfortably and neatly in the little
apace lieside the aisle, that was no moro
fastidiously clean than one usually finds
that of an ordinary coach to le.
A gentleman occupied the place by
the open window a gentleman of gomlly
weight and proportions, evidently, who
from his aristocratically small ears to
his shapely, polished boots,was wrapped
in a great rich brown ulster, and whose
visage was completely concealed by the
big block Kubens hat he wore jauntily
upon a haughtily-poised head.
I had installed myself in my limited
Heat as unostentatiously and cosily as I
could possibly do, when the shielding
Kubens hat was pushed aside, and tin
dark, handsome face of Larry Murray
was turned toward mo, anil for an in
stant 1 could feel the dei dly pallor thu
was making mv own faee irily eold.
He smiled upon me with an expression
I thought of pity, and that half mad
dened me. Then from somewhere in Ins
great ulster he took a note-book and
l>encil.
"I am pleased to seo yon again," lie
wrote, thinking me still a deaf mute.
" Von are looking remarkably well, and
lovely, too, I must odd, Luleen, al
though you have always seemed to mo
most lovely."
I *<at still and motionless as a statue,
and seemingly as quite unheeding. Hut
large tears were slowly falling over my
cheeks that were becoming hot and
crimson, and all my pulses were throb
bing feverishly and fast.
I was tempted to act for . little while
the role of a dumb and deaf victim of
fate; but I have neither the pnsliloo
tion nor the ability for the part of serio
comic.
Ho I gasped and stammered, and L
came awkwardly euilmrnuMcd, quite
naturally.
"I am entirely comfortable," I an
swered with distinct tones, and smiled
with an exultation that is pardonable,
I trust, wle-n I observed that Miss ('ara
and her companion flushed guiltily on
hearing my voice. " And I am very
well, indeed. Larry, f have something i
to tell you, and I have sufficient reason
to consider this the seasonable time ami I
place. Miss Cars told you part of n
truth, and I desire to tell you all."
My voice faltered, for I was saying ;
something that seemed to me very l>old '
and ungraceful.
"Longago, when I was only a child
of fifteen, my dying fatherlietrothed me
to a maufwhom he scarcely knew, but j
to whom he owed debts of honor. The
circumstances were such that J should
very likely have lieoorne the wife of that
person had lie not in less than a year
after tho burial of my jx>or parent Ix-en
killed in one of his orgies. Is my ex
planation, humiliating ns it is to me.
sufficient, Jo ry? If it is not, ask Mis*
Cara if anything remains to be explained.
Hhe evidently for ot that
" ' A lie that is half the truth
Is the very worst lie of all.'
when she told yon that hit of my his
tory. In telling yon this, Larry, here,
and at anrh a time, I am not hoping to
regain your old regard. Delieve me, I
only desire not to lw misunderstood
and misjudged."
I was sobbing foolishly then, like the '
child I always was and always shall be,
I think; and even the smoke-gray plume
that swept over my |>e*rl-graj Linnet
was all dabbled and discolored by my
profnse tears as I lnin. il my head low
in my shaking hands.
I*resently some one l>ent over me, and
with a caressing movement turned my
wet face toward him.
"Ilmth misunderstood and misjudged
yon, Luleen," confessed my lorry; "but
I think my darling is wise enough to
comprehend how just such sorrowful
mistakes are only too often made. I,ong
ago I was so sorely ashamed for having
doubted yon, that I promised our dear
(toil that 1 would trust yon blindly and
always if He would but give mc l>ack
my love—my wife to l>e— is she not?"
My answer was satisfactory, although
we were loth rather confusedly con
scions that stranger and curious eyes
were mirthfully regarding us.
Miss Cara and her conqtanion hod
diplomatically disappeared, hut neither
they nor wo—my husband 1 ,arry and I
—will ever forget that little episode of
a railway journey.
To say that Jones* nose in a ronser
would bo stating it mildly. It stands out
on his profile like a good deed in a
naughty world or a lighthouse on a
beach. And Jones is sensitive ahont
that nose. Seeing a strange young
man gazing at him the other day, Jones
liecame uneasy, until be finally broke
out with, " Well, what are yon staring
at ? Do yon see anything remarkable
ahont me 7" " Nose, sir," was the ra
ther equivocal reply of the young man
as he dodged wound tho corner.—notion
| TYnnttcripi.
THE FAMILY IMMTOK.
For ammonia taken raw by accident,
give new milk, olive oil, ice in bits ;
bind ice on the throat.
Poultices are better for the addition
of a little sweet or castor oil and a few
drops of laudanum.
Bathing tho face in lemon juice mixed
with glycerine wili remove tan and
freckles in a few days, if the individual
he not exposed to the sun.
The eyes of a child under a year old
should not be allowed to meet the blaze
! of an unshaded light.
Water standing for a night in a close
or crowded room absorbs the impure air,
and becomes very unwholesome and
(Misitively injurious to heulth. Bo care
. fill not to use water which has stood in
a lead pipe.
Bagged wounds, in the hand or foot
especially, should be freely and fre
quently bathed in hot lye, and dressed
either with lye poultice or thickened
j milk poultice, with a little oil, to keep
1 it from getting hurd, jiotired over it, or
i with a mush and fat poultice.
A writer in the London Latuet re
, marks: At the Middlesex hospital fe
-1 male patients who have suffered many
years from sick headache, evidently of
an hereditary character, have been
greatly benefited, if not cured, by the
administration of ten minim doses of
tincture of Indian hemp three times
daily L-twcen the attacks. This is
well worthy of trial in those coses of
! ever-living, never-dying martyrdom
like suffering.
When one f-els the approach of a
severe cold, lie may often find relief by
using composition tea. The following
is the rccijK! for the powder: Take
ono-half ounce of red pepjs-r, one-half
ounce of cloves, one-half ounce of cin
namon, one-half pound of bay-ltcrrv
bark, and one-half pound of ginger.
The ingredients should all be ground
and thoroughly mixed. Put in wide
mouthed bottles and cork tight. When
needed, put a tcaspoonful of the jmwder
in a bowl and fill it with boiling water.
Milk and sugar make it very palatable.
How many time* 1 have heard this
s.iid: " I could get along nicely with mv
work if my feet did not feel *o uncom
fortable and even painful." Without
any doubt tho woman who make* this
remark goes about the house in thin,
loose slipper*. I used to do it lny-e]f.
I thought I Lid to L-cansc others did,
but a few experiments convinced me
that the only way to do work comfort,
ably is to wear thick-soled shoes. One
very soon Ixvomcs accustomed to them,
and will find great relief. There i* al
ways more or less running outdoors to
lie done, and there is great danger of
taking culd if the fee* are not well pro
tasiai*—K. W. 11. , 111 Xr-r 1 <rl I'imt.
A Hide on a Wild Bull.
Recently there v a " rodeo" out on
river, I<akc county, Oregon.
Kanehmen hail gatln red for a circuit ol
seventy-five miles to claim and brand
th' ir young cattle, and when a cordon
of men hail surrounded a large Itand,
among which Was a Spanish bull, a dis
pute arose alx.iit a " mallet head," or
calf thot had escaped the spring brand
ing. 'Die discussion grew warm, none
of the stockholders Lung able to set
a valid claim or establish an undoubted
title. At last in a spirit of bravado, a
ram-her projKMs-d that whoever would
ride the bull without saddle or halter
should lie ilei-lareil owner of tho calf.
There was a yell of approval but not a
general stampede of volunteers, for
taunts was in ill-humor, ami his foam
ing mouth and bloodshot eyes gave
token that whoever i"*xlo him would
have a ride as wild as Ma. pps's. and
one tlutt might not end so well. At
lost a " vaquero" named Frick accepted
the challenge and the wild bull was im
mediately lassoed and held lit a lariat
round horn and foot. Dismounting
from his horse the vaquero fastened his
long-rowelcd spurs securely, tied a
handkerchief mnnd his head, ap
proached the infuriated animal, ami
grasping the tail in his hands sprang
lightly on it, setting the spurs deeply
in its flanks as he settled securely in
his scat. The lariats were slackened;!
the hull gave a roar of rage and terror
and finng his head to tho ground; lint
the rider hail his hack to the horns and
a firm grip on the tail, and kept his
seat. Another roar that shook the
gronnd, a wild plnnge, and the now
maddened hull shot out across the sage
plain with lightning *]>ccd, his plucky
rider twisting the tail that to him was
a sheet-anchor until the liellowings
were lost in the wind. For over a mile
ami a half the race continued, amid the
excited cheers of the vaqtiero's com
rades. Occasionally the hull gave a
desperate plunge through a heavy
clump of sage in the vain attempt to
rid himself of his tormentor, hut the
long rowels only clung more firmly to
his Hanks. Sometimes the animal and
rider were hidden by undulations in the
ground, and bets were even made that
Frick would lie thrown and gored; bnt
at last the hull, exhausted from sheer
fright, fell, and the plneky vaquero,
stepping lightly off, returned to claim
his prise, which was unanimously
awarded.
TOPICS OP THE DAT.
I h wheat deficit in Bussin is officially
estimated at bO,ooo,(MN) bushels. There
is great agricultural distress in the
southern provinces in consequence of
locusts ami defective planting.
In the L T n<W>d Htates fish culture
dates back liarcjy n quarter of a century
j while in Europe the industry has been
. systematic for more than six hundred
years, and in Asia for thousands of
years ; and yet the United State*, at the
international fish exhibition at Berlin,
excelled all other countries in their ex
hibit of appliances and method* jK-rtain
ing to fish culture.
The director of the bureau of statis
i ties at Vienna has made some interest
; ing researches concerning the compara
tive longevity of women and men in
KuYojie. He finds that out of 102,H.'H
individuals who have passed the age of
ninety years, are women, and
42,f2H arc men. In Italy 211 alleged
centenarian women are found for ltl
men of that ago.
It appear* that the emigration from
Germany during this vi-ar promise* to
exceed any former experience. A cor
res|iondent of the London Tim-*, writ
ing from Berlin, says that whole village s
are to be depopulated by this movement
toward America. The American emi
gration agents, however, hardly dare set
forth the advantages of the vurious
Htates which they represent, as thev
are warned by the American legation
that it would be unable to help them if
they should get into trouble with the
authorities. The German government
is doing all it can to discourage emigra
tion.
The Kansas temperance executive
committee have issued an address con
gratulating the jx-oplc of the Htate ujx.n
the progress of the temperance cause.
They say: " By the votes of her citizen",
by the decision of her supreme court,
and by the act ion of her legislature,
Kansas lias dcclort d herself forever free
from all partnership in the traffic of in
toxicating liquors, and now leads the
world in the effort to suppress by con
stitutional Lw the great ourge of the
nations. Only by a prompt and vigor
ous enforcement of the laws can we
have a right to hold the po i of honor
in the great warfare with intcni|ierance.
The passage of the amendment lias been
followed by tlie enactment of a law that
i* stringent in it* provisions. It i*
noteworthy that this law passi-d the
legislature by a large majority. The
vote in the senate was thirty-two to
seven, and in the house liK> to twenty
three, thus giving u majority in both
house* of more than four to one.'*
In those days of " specialists " a new
department is opened up to tho care of
the fingers and nails. A New York es
tablishment devotes itself to this |ie
oialty, and iacrswded by patrons. The
entire " course " of care taking and ma
nipulation is twelve dollars, rather cx
jiensive, but many go three or four
times at a dollar and a half a lesson, to
get their finger ends in order , so that
they ran thenceforth take proper care
of them. The acolyte first sits with
finger tijis in a bowl of warm water to
soften the flesh. They are finally dried
and the soft flesh pushed far back, the
nails then cut and clipped in a pointed
shape. This is rather a paintul opera
tion. 'Die fresh edges are filed, and
the patient turned over to a polisher,
who |owders, polishes, then ruls with
a towel, and repeats this process. The
object is to show the white half-moon
at the root of the nail, where the ldood
settles. This can be carried to an execs*,
when the flesh lies in little lumps be- j
hind the nail. Bnt the nnhjeet is m 1
laudable one, very few people taking j
sufficient care of their finger-tips.
Tho farmers who suffer from the com
petition, and the unsuspecting con
sumer who eats oleomargarine and lard
Litter, flunking it the genuine article,
are not, it appears, the only sufferers
from the manufacture of these products.
One of tho produce princes of Chicago
was suddenly declared a Link nipt the
other day, and when inquiry was insti
tuted as to the reason of his failure he
laid the cause of his disaster at the door
of oleomargarine. His trade was in the
Liverpool and liondon markets, where
he hail acquired a high reputation for
pure products of tho dairy, and his
brand commanded fancy prices for his
good*. Of late, his heavy shipments
failed to find buyers; his atoek accumu
lated abroad and at home, and an in
vestigation revealed the article under
the brand of " golden tint butter" to
be nothing but oleomorgoriae and a
mixtnre of bud, oleo and cream. His
reputation was among the things of the
past. He is now explaining to hi* un
fortunate creditor* that hi* stock was
purchased for pure butter,and declaring
tho trick was played upon bint hv soma
of the dairymen of the Northwest, who
are thorn selves extensively engaged in
making tliia new process butter.
A New Tork paper say* that if Houth
era planters and farmer* w.sh to be
come more prosperous they should at
once abandon the pernicious credit eys
tern. In the cotton Htatc*, particu
'arl.r > >t in a weighty drawback. As the
iijatcin is practiced, the planter or £
gives the rnerehant a lien on bin
crojm to !>e grown, and the merchant,
being fully secured, furnishes the nec
essary supplies and Axe* bin own price*.
The planter or fanner ia thua wholly at
the mercy of the merchant, and baa no V
redress againat exorbitant ratea. A
deciaion baa juat been rendered by the
aupreme court of Miasi*ai],pi which
will afford the fannera of that Htate 4.
aoine relief. A merchant who held a
mortgage on the cropa of a fanner'*
forecloaed it. The lower court allowal
J hia bill againat the farmer, although it
wan ah own that the pricea charged were
at leant double the cah rate. 'J'he au
preme court, on ap|K*al, reversed the
I deciaion and affirmed that the pur
cliaaer was not in a joaition to decline
the purchase on account of the pricea
charged, and that he oc>|uieHccd in the
pricea from an overruling necessity.
Hia extorted aaaent to the pricea llxed
waa without conaidi ration, and was ,
therefore void.
An enterprising re porter recently vis
ited the only hand organ manufactory
in America. He (Uncovered some inter
esting facta. The efficacy of each in
atrnment OH a means of inflicting torture
is ahown by the fact that th'-rr- are only
one hundred and fifty in regular ser
vice in Sow York alone. Moat of these
are ground by Italians, a few by Ger
mans, and one itinerant is a crippled
soldier who receives a monthly ]M<naion
of seventy dollars, and grinds only oc
casionally to relieve the monotony of
hia existence. Every spring the organ
ist* conn* to this establishment and ptir
chase a cyUnderof new tunes, or a' least *
one or two new tunes, at four dollant
each. To a grinder in the Western
States "Sweet By-and-IJye" is indisjM-ns
ttlde, ami in New York city "fit.
rick's l>ay in the Mornjpg" coniman<ls
, th largest audience. Among other or
gans at the manufactory is one which
represents Najxib on dying. At the foot
of his I**l stands Mashal Hoult, holding
' out a platter for pennies, which when
obtained he flings into a box. French
officers in gorgeous costume move their
heads and arms in admirable time. Tho
melodies accompanying this lugubrious
scene are the opening chorus from "I'in
aforc" and " (irannigan's Hand."
A Walking Itaromcter.
After the discussion of human
electrical batteries, it may le well to
add that there is in this city a young
man, a resident of the Ninth ward, who
is known as the "Walking Barometer."
He predicts storms and changes of
atmosphere during the warm months
with wonderful accuracy. He will fore
tell a steady rain sometimes three days
Is*fore it comes and will predict a
thunder-storm the, same day of its
occurrence, although there IK* not a
cloud in the sky at the time. He
attributes his power to foretell these
storms to calomel in his system. He
says that several years ago, while suffer
ing from a bilious attack, his physicians
gave him a dose of calomel. At the
same time he was using one of Kidder's
galvanic machines, which contained a
Hmee's battery for a nervous complaint;
the solution of this battery contained
several ounces of quicksilver with
which to keep the zinc plates of the
battery coated. His physicians told
him to give up his battery until after
the effect of the calomel had jsisscd off,
as there was a possibility that the
electric quicksilver solution might,
through the electric current, form a
sympathy with the calomel he had
taken, return it to its natural state of
mercury and set it jonnanently in his _
system.
After some-ten days the young man
commenced to use his lattery again,
immediately, he says, he de
tected a dull pain along the Imncs of his
legs from the ankles to the knees, and
this |>ain came whenever he used the
galvanic battery, and could not IK* re
moved. After giving up the use of tho
battery he noticed that the |*ains seem
ed to come at regular intervals, and
finally ho noticed there would be a
storm, but as soon as rain fell or there was
an explosion of electricity in the shape
of thunder, these pains instantly ceased.
In cold weather he loses his faculty of
telling when there is going to be a storm,
as the mercury in his shinlmnes is in a
painful state of activity all tho whilst.
It <loea not seem to bother him. howev
er, and few people, as they see his form
moving with swift and sure step along
the streets, know the pain he is in. He *
says that if quicksilver would only give ™
him rest once in a while during cold
weather, be could beat Vennor all to
pieces on predicting storms. His storm
predictions during the spring, summer
and early fall months are rarely known a
to fail.— (If. V.) Rrmma*.
A conscience-stricken man confessed
to a Syracuse lawyer the other day that
he voted for President when he waa but s
nineteen year* old, As he is an influen
tial citizen and of good family, he will
not be prosecuted. The vote was cast
in 1004 for Thomas Jefferson.