i r 18 THE EITTSBTJRG- DISPATCH. SUNDAY. JANUAX 11. . 1S9L us imagine that SO of the rich men or San Francisco, who have their thousand millions all in money, should get angry with the other 50 rich" men -who have their thousand millions mostly in city property. 2Jow, let us suppose that the CO rich men with the ready money should pool iu and buy up a lot of laud at some favorable point nearby and there set to wort to htiild a better city. "What would follow? Why, the very first thing would be the emptying out of the old city to set men to build the new. And the ten-story tenement that to-day is worth $100,000 would to-morrow not be worth 100 cents. So you see these great cities and centers can easily and Tery profitably be torn to pieces by the very men, or tho very order of men, who reared them, withoutapy reference to the people. For what can hap pen to new and small cities like San Fran cisco can easily happen to Paris, Berlin, London and New York." I remember being a hit startled by the possibilities at the root of this last allusiou; and I must have -said something about its being strange speech and thought for a priest, for he hastened to remark that the proposition was hardly his own, but rather something ot the general thought as ex pressed by the men and women who had time to look at the drift of things trom their higher point of view in this new city of the desert. "As for being a priest," he added in a Tery serious tone, "I am a priest; and yet I am not now a priest. It did not seem good to me that the people shonld be ignorant and dependent to the end of time. If the world is to lay aside the sword and turn to the ploughshare it most be don: intelli gently, ir done permanently. Love must be in"tne hearts of the people, not on the lips of the priests. Hehgion must be a fact; not a form. The people are good; the world is beautilui, and God is love. Let the child that comes laughing down out of heaven to us, clapping Us tiny hands with delight all day in the ouen fields, not be told that it is sinful and that the world is wicked and that God is angry with this beautiful world which He has made for man. No, nol God has made each child happy, and it should be Jorbidden that man, priest or layman should make it unhappy." From this time lorward I found myself being irresistibly drawn toward this thoughtful man. I asked him to tell me if he would, how it was that he came to walk out and down from his high place and take up his home in the desert. Tery deliberately he began, after some reflection, and spoke as nearly as I can re call, to this effect: "There is a sort of Freemasonry, as it were, among men in the world of thought; a sort of common ground, common sense, in upper world of thought. Tne eminent theologian is not necessarily a more re ligious man than the eminent mathema tician. The eminent mathematician is not of a necessity a wiser man than the eminent theologian. But in this age of advancement all thinkers of all creeds or callings have a comity ot thought on the common ground of common sense. And looking out and down from thi, oftentimes with their gray heads laid close together, they have had their hearts torn continually at the contem plation of the misery ot men. The eminent and thoughtful iheologians,niost especially, have deplored and continue to deplore tnis misery, so inseparably interwoven in the present order of tilings with deceit and falsehood, practiced iu the name of Jesus Christ. .Now, of these eminent men of the church there is, and long has been, two distinct kinds; one the kind that pities the misery ana deplores the ignorance, and deceit, but at the fame time sees no way out of it all, and believes that the misery and the ignorance and the sham are in separable, and that the best thing to do is to leaie thirgsas they are and go right along with all the falsehoods and all the forms and all the big fees. The other kind of men an.ong the eminent theologians is one who desire:, like Christ and His disciples, to de spise forms and falsehoods and ceremonies and shams, and to walk in the footprints of the meek and lowly Mazarine, without pay or price. Of course, there is a third class, or kind of theologians, so called. And this is by far the most numerous. But remember, I have been speaking ot eminent men, of thinkers, not of men wbo enter the church as they enter the army, merely for the money, and to escape that one first command of God when man was driven out of Eden, which says iu the sweat of thy lace shalt thou eat bread. "But as this large class weighs nothing in the world of thought, I need not speak of it ngain. The second kind referred to, how ever, is more numerous than one would at first believe. And I am ot that class. So, nheu I secretly learned that an attempt was to be made somewhere in the deserts of America to fonnd a community, as an ex ample to the world, on the plain, brief pre cepts, principles, examples and sermons of --Jesus Christ, I turned my back on forms and begged to be o" it "' chapxi: VII. On the fifth day, by rail and by sea and by horse, I saw what seemed to be a beauti ful mirage ot the desert flashing streams of water, cool woods, waving cornfields and far away in the midst of it all a gleaming city of indescribable glory. "It is not tLe mirage," said Father Blank, as he rode at mv side down the grassy slope toward a little village or rather railway sta tion in a grove of banana trees. "But I surely have been here he"ore. Youderon the brow ot that ridge far away against the sun is a lone cactus there that I surely remember well, and then this pecu liarly intoxicating atmosphere; ah, too, there is indeed the mirage as I saw it of old; the same, surely the same." And I lilted my eyes. '"You are right. That is indeed the mirjge. But like the real and the ideal the city of the earth and the city of heaven so nearly blend together here that it is not always that even one who lives here can dis tinguish the tuo Let us say that the one is what e call life and the other what we call death the one melting into the other." By this time we had passed in under the grateiul broad leaves of the banana trees; and, dismounting, we left onr ponies with their noses buried in the great glass water troughs. How different Irom the place where I bad pitched camp and spent the thirsty nislit more than 30 jears before with the Mexican horse traders! A train was waiting, and such a tiainl A train of glass, ecu car an airy, fiery castle, gliding owav, a city and a sea of glass. There were no tickets, no conductor, uotning! "We glided forward; by gravitation pos sibly. "We did not roll I kuow. "We swept on and on noiselessly as a bird, swift and straight as an arrow, guided by the feathers of an eagle. Fields of corn, cane, cotton, a lane of banana trees that shut out the tun from onr gliding palace of glass. And all this had been only an arid sea of gleaming sand and baked mud a quarter cf a centnry before. 'Tne Pinces," began the priest, "found rain hard to produce wheu she first came; but she had been prudent enough to bring with her something better than rain, in telligence, and a colony of" scientific men pd women. "We now have rain wnenever it is needed." I think the priest said something about the use of explosives, and the concussion from a salt petre mine on a mountain to the windward of the new city to make'rain; hnt I do not remember distinctly. The fact is, I was confused by the bewildering beauty of the car. "Yes," said the priest, "we make glass houses, railway ties, railway tracks and even railway cars, as you see here." "And they don't break?" "Glass is not only elastic, as all know, but glass, by our sciolists' discovery, is mads as malleable as goK or copper, and so uow I hardly know what more the priest said or may have said as we glided down the grooves of glass under the great banana trees. For just then I caught a glimpse through the car of glass of a party gathering bananas. They were girls, all girls; up in the tries .among tue birds, buried in the broad leaves, an arm thrusting up after the yellow fruit there, a brown limb .thrusting out below, drawn back, bound around and twined around a bush to hold fasti Ah, I forgot that the priest was with me. Many stations, many short stops, then on j&nd on' through ihe. continuous and seeming ly endless lane of laden trees. But there was no getting in and getting out apparent ly of strange people. Perhaps every Jamily or group of friends had its own little gliding car from which the world could be contem plated in quiet. At one of these little leafy stations the priest put forth his hand and received from a pretty Indian girl two yellow bananas. They were like yellow ears of corn, so large were they. And such flavor I The world, the outside commercial world, has never yet tasted a banana, I think. Those wild things, gathered green by savages of the Cannibal Islands, and thrown into the holds of sailing vessels to rot and ripen', and ripen and rot, are not bananas. They are disease. They are death, death for little children. And now we glided over a glass bridge that spanned a bent lagoon, where my thirsty horses had drank, and over and through which I had driven them in the des ert years and yers before. The central railway station, where we now stopped, and from which all tracks, trains, pneumatic tubes, airship lines and even streets and highways ran, was simply a pal ace, a glorious palace of glass; blue above as the sky is blue, and under foot the solid earth, snow white sand, with fountains bursting up through, trees, birds in every tree. She came forward to meet me with the same dear old sincerity; the eloquence of si lence on her pale and, holy lips as we stepped from the car. But how pale and wan she was nowl The terrible trials of her youth were telling on her at last; even in this Paradise. Her great, earnest eyes looked at me as if looking out from another world. Beautiful she was still, it is true. The priest went his way without words. There are times, and they art very fre quent, when words are an impertinence. There were no servants, indeed no noist of any sort anywhere. It seemed as though I had at last found a land on earth that had some sense ' of rest. Here it seemed as if it were one eternal Sunday. And right and left, up and down the long wooded and wat ered streets people were coming and people were going; pausing now to speak to one another in a soft and restful fashion, linger ing to listen, turning about to catch a last look or word, but that was all. The chat tering was leit to the birds. Passing on and up and around through lanes of perfumed woods, by sparkling fountains and pleasant trout pools, we came to the summit, or rather the center, where the great fountain, of which I spoke, that bubbled and boiled up through the massive blocks and broken ruins, still watered the thirsty world below. She paused here to rest a moment and turned to look below. She put out her hand. I comprehended her thought. She had indeed built a city; her city in the desert. This where we stood was the hub of a wheel; in every direction ran the spokes. At the tip of the spokes and tar out and around at the foot of the mountains ran a track of glass around which cars of glass kept gliding, as spiders glide, along, around and over their own little world of curious and intricate web in silence and harmonious perfection. "But the title deeds of it all ? The world will come this way some day and then what?" "Ah, that I have provided for. You are a poet. I am a builder merely. You are of heaven, but I am only of earth,. And so after I escaped " "Escaped?" "You did not know I was for two years iu prison?" "And I waited but one." "Ah, well I know. You waited long, for a man. But as I was going on to say, I sent to London after I searched Mexico City through and found that the owner of this desert lived there; and I bought the whole great 50 leagues of desert lor a small sum. And so you see I have in this, at least, lived up to the Lord's prayer, 'lead us nol into temptation,' for no man will be tempted to try to take this land from us. Then I came here with quite a number of colonists, and the first thing 1 did was to deed to everv In dian, man, woman or child, an alternate section. They, in .turn, after giving me a fair trial, have surrendered all to the com munity and became part owners in every thing, I, in turn, have given all by irrevo cable will to our community. There is not a human being here, from the priest who brought you here down to the babe born within this hour who is not a full partner in all this vast garden and city of the desert." She arose and we passed on. "And they are all so happy and prosper ous," I exclaimed, my miud "turning back to the brown girls I had seen gathering fruit among the broad leaves as we glided down from the mountains an hour belore. "So happy, so healthy and so beautiful," she exclaimed, as we entered her retreat where she threw herself on a lion's skin that covered a broad silken couch. I sank at her side. It seemed to me that this lion's skin meant much. I, in my vanity and ego tism, said to myself, 'she has had this made ready for my coming. She has tor given my kisses at Cairo. Ah blessed Cairo; and thrice blessed forgiveness!' " I put out my hand to touch, and take hers to my heart. She did not repel me. She did not take her. hand away. She did not disdain my touch. But somehow her soul seemed far, far away; above me, so far above me. So much larger she seemed as I sat there In my narrow vanity and selfishness, that I felt like sliding from the lion skin to the floor and crouching there in the dust at hr feet. How tranquilly grand she was in all her silent splendor. Time had only made her more glorious, glorious in body as in soul it seemed to me now as she sat there all aglow and flushed with the excitement of our meeting. But it was only momentary, this flush and glow -and glory of form and face. Beauty there was, and glow and color, fervor and fire even; but it was the fading fire and glow of the dying sun. CHAPTER IX. The sun had gone down. The stars were out. And yet it was not night, or at least it was not dark. Light, light everywhere! Not jets of light like lamp or electric lights, but huge sheets of light, solt and lunjinods as the face of the moon. But more of this hereafter. . "You will dine with us now?" I wanted to say that I should like to sit still and look at her and hear her, and her only, forever and forever. For tha had been the truth. I could not have dared to lie even in compliment in her holy presence. But I only assented in silence as she lead on through the luminous woods and walls of glass and Dually entered what seemed to be u grove with a great table reaching far down and out of sight under the broad sweeping leaves. ., I sat at her right hand to my great joy. Grave and learned men, beautiful and silent women, brown and black and pearly white were here and there between-the men, like fruit among the foliage overhead. I could see the stars and the moon in the blue sky through the leaves overhead. "What will you doif.it rains?" I whis pered. With a finger partly raised to her.lips, for the music and dancing were about to begin, she said kindly, as she leaned her face so close to mine that I breathed the perfume of her womanhood: "The sky which you see is a skyof glass." The musicians, some distance back and up in the boughs, like singing birds, were not of the old and tired type, bold and exhausted -from bad air, bad lights and care and anxiety. They were ruddy and merry, and full of the mus'ic of their own high spirits. Girls here, boys there, middle aged men, too, and middle aged women; yet all young, young with the youth of love and content and kindliness. A note! A bar! A breath of warm wind in the trees. Zephyrs? birds? iEollan harps? A far-off call ot cooling waters? What was it and what did it all mean? Can you conceive of silent music? Well, 'this was silent mnsic. At least it was music without noise. 1 cannot say more now. I might be misunderstood to say less. It was musio without the noise that so insolently attends ordinary music. "Nay, I say it was noiseless melody. No, it was not the musio of the civilized city. It was the new music of the new order that is to come. The wild, free, far off and effortless melody of the desert and of the silent- children of the desert, of love, peace, pleasure, rest. .Suddenly on a glass itsge to the right and among the, great big banana leaves and lofty ferns with frounded palms that pushed against the sky of glass in heaven, the dancers glided. And they, too, were noiseless, and they' elided as if in the air. The glass was so perfect that, like the artificial sky overhead, it was utterly invisib'e. To and fro, forward, back, bowed or erect, in couples or singly they sang and sang in the movement of their most perfect bodies, like birds among the leaves. These leaves and ferns were very abundant and very broad, but, so far as I could see, these danc ing girls were entirely natural and un adorned. Then slowly all sound, all move ment of all things ceased. Slowly and un obtrusively a white-haired man, far down among tho trees, rose up and solemnly bowed his head. Then all heads were bowed with his; rsch one preseent repeated the Lord's rr-tyer, and that was all. As he took his seat, a beautiful woman arose and slowly proceeded to read the Sermon on the Mount. Meantime the dinner went on, as if no stranger was present. In tact, T afterward learned that it is not permitted to pay any especial honor to anyone. Indeed, the world is so tired of tiresome toasts. And such a dinner! Such wines! Such grapes! Such fruitl Such oils! Surely I had come at last upon the land of milk and honey. The Lord had surely led me to the green pastures by the still waters. And what a continual melody of melodies, even after the girls had melted away one by one from behind the ferns and banana leaves, and the musicians, too, had gone a sort of melodious silence. No rattling of knives on rattling plates in the coming and handling and mutilation of meats. No coming and going. No rattling and rasp ing of feet on marble floors. "We sat with our feet on the soft white sandsof the desert But this one dining hall or temple to mel ody was only an example of an indefinitely and constantly increasing number of a simi lar and yet very dissimilar character, .For example", I found the dining hall, which was devoted to serious themes and preferred by venerable mcu and women of earnest thought, was a smaller and less pretentious place. Yet even here peace, repose, the per lect good murmurs of a low voice and equi nimity of soul and serenity of all things kept harmonious concert with lisping leaves overhead and soft, warm sounds underfoot. The hall where the men and women who were devoted entirely to science loved to meet and dine was also peculiar to itself; as was that of poetry; painting as well. But each and all had this dominating preference for nature's harmony of color, harmony of sound, harmony of sense.harmony of soul. The theater, for instance, or rather one of the theaters, was a vast semi-circle with tiers of tables in the distance, where the lovers of the actor's art dined and arrived at will as the play went on; the guests facing the stage only," the pit, or orchestra, being reserved for those who dined elsewhere and dropped in at a later hour. "While dining here with a once famous divine ot the Established Church I could not help remarking upon the lavish ex penditure of gold and Silver, both in the plate and the appointments of the stage. "Ah," answered he, "the world has yet to learn that the despised deserts and moun tains of America are the treasures of the earth. The sands, junde? our feet are turned into glass. As for gold and silver, weare surrounded by mountains of it. But besides that our men of science.can grow that asyou grow potatoes. "Impossible!" "True. True as gospel. It has long been believed that gold and silver grows in cer tain rocks under certain conditions; but it remained for our scientists to find the phil osopher's stone by discovering the secret of fostering the growth of metals."" And now let me mention one thing here betore it be quite forgotten in this hurried and compact sketch which, I regret to say, must be confined within a certain limit of pages. I had been here many days, had sat at many dinners, had feasted like Cyclops, as it seemed to me. Yet one day wheu pass ing with the good priest through a herd of "fat cattle I suddenly remembered that I hid not lasted roast beet since coming -to the place. And I spoke of this fact to my com panion. "You have not tasted roast beef or any other kind of meat. Olive oil, butter, eggs, cream and so on have been the extent of your dissipation in that direction," smiled the good man. " "And you do not eat animal food?" "We do not want animal food and we do not need animal food, and so, of course, we do not eat our sleek and mild-eyed com panions." "Aud of what use then are your herds?" "Milk, butter, cheese; besides that, when these cattle grow so old that they are miserable, they are driven to a remote place and relieved of pain by a painless death, and then we permit ourselves to use their hides." "Yes, you must have shoes." "Not at all necessary, not at all, sir. Did ever man see such pretty feet as Indian women have? 'There has never beeu seen such small, plump and pretty feet on earth as the American Indian women have always bad. And vet they, even in the North, are, and have always been, so far as possible, a barefooted people. And here it is not only possible for our women as well as men to go barefooted, but it is even desirable for com fort. No, we do not really need much leather here," added the priest. "Now, when I work in the field" X must have jerked up my head with sur prise at the idea of a priest working in the fields, for he looked at me for a second to see what was the matter, and then continued: "As I was going on to say, when I work in the fields I always go barefooted, I like the touch of the soft soil and the warm sand. It makes my blood run like wine, and I live in my feet as well as in my head at such a time. My wife, however, still wears shoes when'she'does her weaving1 or spinning, or such work as falls to her lot or she de sires to do." "Your wife? Pardon me, Father; you are jesting?" "Nay, my son, you shall see her at her weaving some day soon, now, for she will be back to me by next month to take her place in the rank's. I had forbore to tell you, there being so man? other things for you to hear, that God had kissed her and claimed her lor, a time as bis companion in creation; but the baby is a year old soon, now, and she will then be with us." I was utterly duinfounded. But one thing more in connection with this grand and good man and I pass on to other mat ters. It was only a day or two after this conver sation, that I was passing along alone down by the way my horses bad come one time a quarter ot a century before when they had run away from me to find water, when I found my priest, hoe in f hand and bare looted, as he had said. He was hard at work, hoeing away iu a very skillful fashion at the corn. And I know whereof I speak, i for many and many a day a barefooted boy, toiling lor hire, have I spent in the corn fields, hoe in hand. And this priest did his work well, I repeat, and with great spirit and concern for the young, corn. He showed a sincere-good will to work, and that is what is wanted. He had a man at his side, whom he at once introduced as th: Eev. Dr. "Ward, pastor of the First Meth odist Episcopal Church. Dr. Ward was not barefooted, as was his serene and loving brother at his side, he had a san dal on his left foot and a moccasin on his right. But, as a faithful chronicler of facts and things, as'I found them, I am bound to say that, like the good priest, he did his work well. And what is truly to the pur pose, he did It cheerfully, pleasantly, and without the ghost of a groan at this divinely ordered world or any of its congregation. On conversing with him, I found that he did not think the world either wicked or cruel or unkind. He seemed to be quite willing to try and make his little portion of it even more beautiful, and to earn his bread in the sweat of his face, without beg ging it in the name of Christ from a cush ioned pulpit I asked permission to help and to show my skill in handling the hoe; but as no one is permitted to work In the fields longer than two hours each day, and as their time was about exhausted, we sauntered back to gether, the Methodist saying a line or two about the "lilies of the field," as tee went To 6 Continued Next Sunday,' Copyright, IS91. - - INCIDENT Tfiat Brought Senator Ingalla His Chance to Win His Place in National Politics. SUBSIDY POMEROY'S DOWNFALL. Eobert T. Lincoln as a Presidontal Possi bility, on a Platform With the Pores Bill as a Plank. 0I,D ABE'S DUEL WITH BROADSWORDS. Hew Stories of Eli CosrtsUp ud Unpublished IaoUeats if Els Ion Miiirg. rconnEsroNDEKCi or the dispatch.! Washington, Jan. 10. Senator Ingalls has had his headquarters at Topeka for the last three weeks, and the Senatorial election, which will take, place there at the last of this month, promises to be as interesting as any ever known in the history of Kansas. Kansas is a State of surprises, and it is not an impossibility that the "Socklcss Simp son" may take the place of the "Iridescent Ingalls." It will be no greater surprise than was Iogalls' first election, just 18 years ago. No one then thought he had the ghost of a chance, and jou will not find his name mentioned as a candidate in the newspapers prior to the day of the election. He was at this time a young lawyer of Atchison. He had come to Kansas withlittle more than the clothes on his back from Lynn, Mass.j and had hung out his shingle in Atchison. He had made some reputation as a poli tician, had served two terms in the Senate, and his brilliant phrases and eloquent speeches had given him a State reputation. Elevated by a Trick. The chief candidate was S.CPomerov, who had served two terms as Senator from Kansas; and wbo had, it was supposed, a majority of the legislator'. Kansas elections were at this time not noted for their purity, and the air was full of rumors to the effect that Pom eroy was buying voters right and left His opponents saw that thev could only defeat him by a trick, and through one of the State Senators they brought about that famous in terview which resulted in Pomeroy's polit ical death warrant and which elevated John J. Ingalls to the United States Senate and to fame. The whole plot was kept a secret until the Legislature met in joint conven tion to elect the Senator. The Pomeioy men were confident of their success and as they took their seats their faces shone with the smile of confidence and the Senator at his hotel laughed and joked as he chatted of the prospects. As the Speaker's gavel fell there were enough members in the hall ready to cast their ballots for Pomeroy to elect him. Nevertheless, when the vote was taken 20 minutes later, Pomeroy did not receive one vote and John J. Ingalls became the United States Senator by an overwhelming majority. Two Bandies of Greenbacks. The act that accomplished this miracle has become famous. The actor was a State Senator named York, who, at the falling of the gavel, rose and walked down through the hall with two bundles of greenbacks in his hand. He stopped in front of. the Speaker and handed the money to him and asked him to count it, saying that when he was through he had a speech to make which would materially influence the election. There was a dead hush as the Speaker counted the parcels and announced tbattbey contained several thousand dollars in green bacBs. Then York toid bW Pomeroy'had given him this money to vote" for him. He said he had had three interviews with Pom eroy and that Pomeroy had talked of money at the first one and that he had offered him $5,000 for his vote. York told him that he must have 8,000, and at the third inter view, which took place three days belore the election, Pomeroy gave him $2,000 in cash and said that he would give him $5,000 the next da' and $1,000 after the election. He bad carried out his promise as to the $5,000, and the $7,000, which be handed to the Speaker was the corruption money with which York said Pomeroy had tried to Buy Him. Body and Soul. He asked that this money be used to de fray the expenses of prosecuting Senator S. C. Pomeroy for bribery, and he evidently thought be" was taking the place of one of the Lord's avenging angels when he de nounced" Pomeroy and told him how he ha'd entrapped him into his scheme. As he went on with his speech the convention became wild and when the ballot was taken at its close there was not a man who dared to vote lor Pomeroy. Ingalli had been decided upon as the opposition candidate and he was almost unanimously elected. Papers for the arrest.of Pomeroy were got ten out, but though he denied the alleged bribery, he was too sick to appear at trial, and shortly alter this he left Topeka. An investigation of the election was held Here in Washington and Pomeroy was white washed by it, but he was, I am told, again arrested lor bribery, and a suit was brought against him in the Kansas courts; and the result of this trial was that there was not sufficient evidence to convict "Whether he was free from stain or not I do not know, but he is always spoken of as "Subsidy Pome roy" by Kansas people, and the story oi his career has ' Been Embalmed in Fiction. Mark Twain, in the "Gilded Age," evi dently refers to him as his Senator Dil worthy, and he here tells the story of his downfall as it occurred. Since this election ex-Senator Pomeroy has spent the most of his time in Washington. He is connected here with various religious organizations aud charitable affairs, and, if he has been bad iu the past, he is certainly good now. York came to Washington, too. He thought he was a hero wheu he delivered that speech, and he expected the Government to reward his heroism by an effice. He was disappointed. Sober second thought made every one despise him for bis trickery. He left Washington a disappointed man, and to-day he is almost forgotten in Kansas. Our Minister to England, Robert Lincoln, has been in Washington during the past week. He looks-remarkably; well, and has no idea of resigningTrisjiosiiion at the Court of St. James. "lle is not snobbish, and has littie to say about England or English mat ters. He "is now 48 years old, and is just about the age at which the youngest of our Presideutal candidates were chosen. It the force bill should be passed and the next Presidentai campaign be fought on the basis of the Bights of the Colored Man, he will stand a very fair chance of being a Presidentai candidate, and he has some el ements of strength which are possessed by no other man in the country. He has shown himself capable of managing a great Gov ernment department He has good business abilities, and he is possessed of the genius of common sense and level-hcadedness, which goes a great ways toward making an efficientTresident He looks more like his mother than his father, bnt he has many of the traits of old Abe. Speaking of Abraham Lincoln, it is won derful how many new stories are told of him from day to day. The supply seems inexhaustible, and I heard several new ones last night from Judge Solomon, an Iowa lawyer, who was brought in close associa tion with the Lincoln family through his wife, who was brought up with Mary Todd, the wile of Abraham Lincoln. Judge Solo mon's stones are either personal experiences er they come from the traditions of the Lincoln and Todd families. His story oi Abe Lincoln's duel Is different from any that have ever been published, and as his authority isColonel John J. Hardin; who -was one of the seconds, it is perhaps the A TRAGIC most authentic account of the affair. Said Judge Solomon: Lincoln's Famous Duel. "The duel was between General James Shields, a prominent Illinois poli tician, and "Abe Lincoln. A num ber of articles bad appeared in the newspapers, signed 'Kebecca,' whwh had been written at Shields, and made him the laughing stock of the town. Shields had suspected that these letters had been written by Lincoln, but he had no proof of the fact. At last, one night he was at a dance, and in waltzing with one of the sweet girls of the town, he squeezed her hand, she thought, a little too ardently, and she rewarded him by sticking a pin into him.and leaving him on the floor. Others of the parly saw the act, and Shields became the laughing stock of the assemblage. "The next issue of the paper contained a very laughable" poem describing this inci dent and ridiculing Shields. Shields was sure that the writer of the poem was Lin coln and be swore to be revenged. He called upon Lincoln, at his office the next morning with the paper in his hand and asked in a domineering tone as he pointed to the'lines, 'Did you write that?' Lincoln was a very brave man, and he looked Shields in the eye with a smile and finally said: 'I shan't'tell you whether I wrote it or not' ., Broadswords the Weapons. "Thereupon Shields angrily left, saying: 'You shall hear from me'; and thatafternoon a man appeared a Shields' second, bearing a challenge Irom Shields to Lincoln. Lin coln accepted the challenge and chose broadswords as weapons, a point near Alton as the place and Thursday evening at 5 o'clock as the time. On the day set for the duel, Abraham Lincoln started out alone for tho field, but called on the way at the house of John J. Hardin, and asked if the Colonel was in. He was told he was not; whereupon he said: 'Well, tell him I am going over here to fight a duel .with Shields and that I want him to come along and be my'Second." "A few minutes later Colonel Hardin arrived and his wife told him what Lincoln had said. He took a fast horse and lollowed at the top of his speed, but did not arrive at the field until afterall the parties were there. He was described to his friends how he found Lincoln at this time. He was sitting on a log at one end of the field with his shoe off and with his big broadsword Iving on the ground before him. He had his stocking pulled down over his ankle and was evi dently searching for something. As Colonel Hardin came up he said to him. " 'What are you doing, Lincoln?' Tackled a Flea First "Old Abe replied: 'lam going to kill this flea in the first place and in the second place I am going to fight- this duel with Shields.' , " 'What do you want to fight a duel with Snieldsfor?' said he. " 'Well, the fact is, he has acted so mean about this letter that I can't help it.' " 'But did you write the letter?' " 'No. " 'Do you know who did write It?' "'No,' " 'Well, as I am your second, I suppose I have the right to arrange the preliminaries of the duel?' "Teswas Lincoln's reply, 'but I want you to understand that I am here to fight and that I do not care to make any kind of an apology.' "Upon this Colonel- Hardin went over and talked to Shields' party" and in a short time showed them the silliness of fighting with a man who had done them no ininrv. I The result was that the duel was patched up ' find rif oil n.-tin. mJ. 1...I. !... ... .t. ..uW ...un ... fiulUUC UAMtL JJVUJC lUCHlCr. Lincoln with his long arms would have had the advantage of Shields in this fight," con tinued Judge Solomon, "but according to Colonel Hardin, it was Shields' intention to have made a quick thrust at Lincoln's heart the moment the Signal was given and while Lincoln's eye was still" on the signal. In this way he would probably have killed him before Lincoln would hare had time to have raised his sword, Lincoln and His Love. v "It has been claimed by some that this .duel.aroseont of a rivalry existing between 'James Shields 'and,AbrabanvXiincon as to Mary Todd's hand," Judge Solomon went on. "I think this is very doubtful. Mary Todd had a nuniDer of lovers, Dut I do not think General Shields was among them. I have beard a number of good stories of Lincoln's courtship. In fact, some Have questioned whether be ever wanted to marry Mary Todd. He was in love with her cousin, but she married someone else, and at the last Lincoln hesitated as to the match, and at one of his wedding engage gagements he failed to come to time and the wedding had to be postponed from the absence of the groom. The night he was to be 'married he blackened his shoes at his own office, and while making these prepara tions for the event, a boy came in and said: " 'Why, Mr. Lincoln where are you go ing?' "Lincoln looked up and replied: 'To the devil a3 fast as the Lord will let me,' and then went on blacking his shoes. It is a question as to whether the match was a happy one. He certainly treated Mary Todd very well and if he did not love her he allowed no one to witness his trouble. The Story of a Song. "Speaking of the fnnny'incidents of their courtship," Judge Solomon continued, "I heard of one which illustrates the humor ous element of Lincoln's character. It hap pened at Mrs. Clay's house iu Jacksonville. Mary Todd was sitting at the piano playing an old tune- very popular iu those days. Lincoln was standing behind her and ac companying her in the song, which ran something like this: 'I will think of thee nightly till life's sun is set' Lincoln sang, I will think of thee nightly if I don't for get' Whereupon, Mary Todd, hearing the last part' of the verse, turned around quickly and said: " 'What's that, Mr. Lincoln?' "Lincoln repeated the verse, and this time rightly. It is a small thing, bnt it il lustrates the humor that -afterward formed such a part of his Presidentai a.dministra . tion." "Was Abraham Lincoln a good lawyer?" I asked. "There is no doubt he was," re plied the Judge. "He had a good practice as soon as he was admitted to the bar, and though he was an ungainly fellow, he knew how to "manage a jury." Fka'nk G. Cabpzittek. ECONOMY Iff A CAHE. A New Yorker Finds It Fays to Carry One by a Saving In Umbrellas. "Some men may carry a cne because they think it is the-proper thing," says a young student of Blackstone in the New. York Herald, "but I am influenced in the practice purely by motives of economy. I graduated trom "college five years ago, and I haven't carried n stick since my Freshman year. Still, as 1 am not such a fool as not to know enough to get out of the rain, I nave always carried an umbrella in bad weather. "As a matter of fact, I found I was losing about 12 umbrellas a year simply because, not carrying a cane, I never thought of my umbrella unless -it was actually raining when I got outside quick enough to return in time to get my umbrella before some one else grabbed it Ooe day I lost my own umbrella and my wife's as well. They cost $15 between them. Since then I have carried a cane on pleasant days and I never lose an umbrella. It's a great economy." IT COMES WITHOUT PBICE, The Benevolent SIda of Dr. Koch's Core for Consumption. Sew York Herald.2 It will be to the undying honor of Germany that at this hour money is laughed to scorn, and while fortunes are offered for a few drops ot the lymph it is given away for the mere cost of making it, and in some cases even that trifle is refused. The attitude of Dr. Koch and of the Government is senti mental and noble beyond the power of words to express. If, as Dr. Virchow says, the scientiqc side of the discovery will be one of the most glorious pages-in the history of medicine, the benevolent side of it will be one of the brightest pages in the history of philanthropy. . - - - NAMED AFTER A LORD' Origin of the Sandwich, None So Popular With All Classes. A YAEIETY 0P1ECIPES FOE THEM. EHlce Serena's Directions for Making Ap petizing Dishes. THE STJBSTAKTIALS AND DELICACIES nmiTTBTf JOB UK DISPATCH.1 The term "sandwich," now so familiar, especially to the traveling public, is of singular but well authenticated origin. It takes the name from a Lord Sandwioh, a member of the English" peerage, now dead. This noble lord, as it is reported, was ad dicted to gambling; and the gamingtable had such a lascination for him that on many occasions he did not leave it for nis meals, but had his servants bring tu him, to satisfy bis hunger, pieces of meat and fowl placed between slices of buttered bread, which he devoured in the intervals of the game. He was also a famous rider after the hounds, passionately fond of the race course and an all-round sportsman generally. Having acquired a decided liking for the meats and bread prepared in the convenient form indicated, a liberal supply was constantly a part of his .lunch eon," necessary and incident to bis avoca tions. For like purposes it speedily became popular with that set; and thence, presuma bly by the operation of the principle of evo lution, as also the principle of natural se lection, it has developed into the innumera ble species and the corresponding magnitude in which we find it at this day. In Everybody's Mouth. And thus most literally the name of this "worthy peer" is at one time or another in almost everybody's mouth. Like Welling ton boots and Brongham carriages, the name of the man is known better than the man himself. The sandwich family is a very extensive one any meat, fruit or vegetable which may be eaten between buttered bread may be classed with the connection. The bread used for this purpose shonld be a day or two old, light and sweet, with the cells close from thorough kneading. In no case should it be stale. It must be buttered lightly be fore it is cut from the loat, and the slices are to be very thin, with the crust removed. The meat should be finely minced, and may be seasoned variously. In addition. to salt and pepper, mustard is frequently used, and with many cayenne and ancnovy paste are in high favor. ' Can Use Warm Meat. They may be cut in a variety of shapes; into rounds, squares, diamonds or fingers. The sizes and shapes, however, should be uniform. When the sandwiches are made and pressed together gently they should be arranged neatly on a laige platter, gar nished with crisp lettuce leaves, celery tops or parsley sprigs. When properly made and daintily served they are tempting mor sels to those an hungered. Sand wiches may, of course, be made of warm meat as well as with cold meat Some think that a juicy, tender broiled beefsteak, just off the gridiron, well seasoned withsalt and pepper, and laid between rather thick slices of buttered bread, tastes better in" this way than any other. In like manner broiled bacon and broiled sausage may be enjoyed by those who like stronger food. "Sandwiches, however, such as theso are not classed with those which common usage associates with the term. By those unaccus tomed to making anything, but the ordinary ham or tongue sandwich, the following rec ipes, we trust, will be considered worthy of trial: ZOO SANDWICHES. Boll a half dozen fresh eggs for ten minutes and throw Into cold water. When cola remove the shells, cut in neat slices and form into sandwiches. Add to the seasoning a dash of cayenne. This sandwich may be varied by mincing the eggs, mixing with grated cheese and a little melted Dutter. SARDINE SAKTJWICHE3. Drain the oil from a dozen sardines, scrape off the skin and skin and take out the bone". Add the yelKS oi four bard boiled egg and re duce to a paste. Season to taste and spread on bnttered bread. IiEKTEN SANDWICHES. Cut thin slices of bnttered graham bread, and spread with minced watercressand grated Parmesan cheese. OYSTKR SANDWICHES. Fnt a quart of raw oysters into a colander, dash witb cold water and drain on a napkin. Mince, season, add a half capful each of melted bntter and cream, two beaten eggs and a half dozen crackers, rolled to a powder. When thoroughly mixed put in a stew pan, set in a pot of boiling water and stir to a smooth pasie. Set to cool, and when ready to make the sandwiches cut in thin slices. BREAD AND BUTTEB SANDWICHES. Cut into small squares and press together thin slices of buttered white and brown bread. Serve with ran oysters or salads. CHOCOLATE SANDWICHES. Spread on thin slices of buttered bread sweet chocolate that has been grated, and softened by keeping in a warm place. CUCUMBEK SANDWICHES. Take fresh, tender encumbers, pare them and let He in cold salted water fur half an hour. Slice very thin, season with salt and pepper and arrange on thin slices of buttered bread, with a little grated onion. ONION SANDWICHES. Mince a Spanish onion with three hard boiled eggs, season, and spread on crustless bread, buttered. BISCUIT SANDWICHES. The biscuit for sandwiches should be about three-quarters of an inch thick light and Split them, spread lightly with butter, and place between them minced meat of any kind, seasoned to taste, with a little mustard or anchovy sauce added. MUSHROOM SANDWICHES. Mince fine, cold-boiled tongue, cold.bolled beef and boiled mushrooms, season, add a little French mustard and spread between bnttered bread. The general recipes following have been well tested: DOTIOHNUTS. Toaqnart of boiling milk add a half pound of bntter. , Beat three eggs with two pounds of sugar and pour over them the boiling milk, stirring all the time. . , When nearly cold stir in a teacnp of yeast, a spoonful of salt and flour enough to make a stiff batter. When this Is quite light knead in floor to make a soft dongn, add two grated nutmegs and a little powdered mace. When very light roll out thin, fry In boiling lard and dust with cinnamon and powdered sngar. ' CHEEKY PUDDINQ. For this excellent pudding take one qnart of flour, three heaping teaspoonfuls ot baking powder, a half teaspoonful of salt and a tea spoonful of sugar. Sift these iogtedients together and pour in a pint of sweet milt and three well beaten eggs. Stir rapidly for a few minutes and add a quart ot ripe, seeded cherries. .four into a mold and steam for two hours. Serve with cream and sugar, or pudding sauce. . APPLE CUSTAED. Make a rich paste, line the tins, glaze with egg and fill with thinly sliced apples. Cover with a custard made as follows, and bake with or without an upper crust. To one cupful of sngar add one egg, the juice of a lemon and a lump of butter large as a walnut. Beat well and ponr this quantity over each pie. LEMON BUTTER, Cream together a cupful of white sugar and a piece of butter the size of a walnut, add three well beaten eggs and the juice and rind of a large lemon. Put into a double boiler and stir until thick. TAPIOCA CREAM. Wash quickIrJ;hrough several witters three tablespoonfuls of pearl tapioca, and put to soak for an hour. Turn into a farina kettle covered with a quart of milk. When it has cooked perfectly clear stir In the beaten yelks of three eggs and a half cup ful of sugar. Remove from the fire, add a tablespoonful ot huttar and lemon to taste. - Four Into a baking diah, ana when alaottj cold spread with ft meringue, made from the whites sweetened and flavored. Set In the oven (open) for a few minutes. CALF'S HEAD FRITTERS. To a pint of milkaddUwp ieaten eggs, flour enough to make a thick bisWatone teaspoon fnl (heaping) of baking I" J W sifted into the dry flour, a little salt- andifiro'cnpfuls of the meat cut in very small pieces." APPLE SA&O PUDDING. One cud of sago swelled in Six enps of water. Stew ten small apples, and mix with the sago. Bake three-qaariers of an hour. Serve with cream and sngar, cold or hot , STEAMED CUSTABDS. One quart of milk, five egg, two-thirds of a cup of sngar: season to taste; Oil cups and grate over them a little nutmeg. Steam until the custard is settled. SPONGE CREAM. Take three tablespoonfuls of gelatine, cover with cold water and let soak for one hour. Dissolve witb a pint of boiling milk. Stir in three tablespoonlnls of sugar and the beaten yelks of three eggs. Add a pinch of salt and the frothed whites. Flavor with lemon, torn Into wet tumblers or a mold and set aside to-stiffen. APPLE TLOAT. Cover three tablespoonfuls of gelatine with cold water. Soalr for an hour and add just enough boiling water to dissolve the gelatine. Beat to a stiff froth a cupful of cream and the same quantity of powdered sugar. Add live well beaten egg, the juice of one lemon, a little of the grated rind, and four large, tart apples grated. Stir in the gelatine, pour Into a mold and Serve when cold. BICEVATPLES. Stir together, over the fire, one teacupfnl and a half of boiling rice and a pint of milk. Bcmove and add a pint of cold milk, lour beaten eggs, one teaspoonful of salt, and flour ernogh to njakn a thin batter. Save the waffle-irons well beated and bake at once. - Ellice Sebena. CHARACTER AUD POKES. A Good Way to learn a Man's Disposition Is to Kisk a Few Chips With Him. Newlork Herald. 1 . . . It is an easy matter to read a nun's char acter by the way he plays an ordinary game of poker. A man without any nerve, or, to speak' plainly, a coward, is the most easy of all to detect . Herwill play a mean, con temptible game and will prefer to win a dollar or two on a fall hand to taking the least risk in raising his opponents. He will never, bet more than the blind, nnles he has a sure thing, and even'if he has four of a kind his manner will be undecided, because he is feartul that some one else might hold a straight flush. Next comes the man who plays to win, or who, in a story book, would be referred to as an avaricious miser. This gentleman will show his true colors by the niggardly way he has of putting up bis money and by the longing looks with which, he regards his neighbor's pile of chips. He is not cowardly,-vet he won't bet unless he is sure to win. It is easy to distinguish this gentle man from the coward by the way he will bet on a good hand when he has it No subter fuge is too mean for him, and he will resort to all kinds of tricks to throw his opponents off their guard. If he holds two pairs he is sure to make tome remark about trving to fill a straight If he has three of a kind he wilf make an offhand statement that he has a small pair and is going to bet on them, just for fun. When he wins a few dollars he will make some excuse and get out of the game. Watch, the next time you play, and see if what I say is not true. An ordinary man will come down squarelv with his money... He may bluff, but he will .play his hand for what it is worth and quit when he thinks he has gone far enough, x. An aggressive fellow shows fight iu every movement If he has been loosing it won't affect his play in the least He will bluff and bet away until he loses all his money or turns the tide of his luck and comes out wiuner. Some men, however, can't stand this, and as there is an exception to every rule, there must be one to this. Continued bad luck will make a coward of a good man, and he will plav warily. So don't confound him with the man who is a coward by nature. HAIES I0VE THE LIGHT. Why a Mustache Grows Faster on One SIda , Than on the Other. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. " ' A St. Louis man has for several years been anuoyed by a curious circumstance; one side of his mustache grows about twice as fast as the other, and if it is neglected for a few weeks he will suddenly notice that it is from half an inch to an inch longer on the left than on the right. He is obliged to keep cutting it off from time to time to make things even. He had not the faintest idea what caused the grearer luxuriance on the left until some, days ago he asked a barber about it, and the man asked him how his desk stood in relation to the light He replied that for years he had occupied a desk with a window on his left, which at once explained, the difficulty. Hair, like Vegetables, grows best in the light, and ascertaining the fact my friend at once had his desk changed to the other side of the window in order to give the right side of his mustache a chance to develop. He is await ing the result with some interest, and if the change in growth shifts with the light, he ii going to face the window. A HOUSE OH A WD2E. He Does the TIght-Bope let In Spite ofFrc tests of Sparrows. Baltimore American.! An amusing incident was witnessed yes terday morning on St Paul, Payette and Charles streets, in which a small mouse figured as a high-wire performer, attracting theatiention of a large number of spectators of both sexes. When the mouse was first seen he was on a telephone pole at St Paul street and Bank lane, and is supposed to have come from one of the telephone con duits, which are infested with mice. From the pole the little rodent walked deliber ately along one of the telephone wires and up St Paul street to Payette street Here he was seen by two sparrowswho im mediately showed fight, probably because they thought the 'wires the exclusive prop erty of their tribe, and reseuted the intru sion. The apairows- would swoop down as near as they dated, giving vent to their pe culiar, shrill notes of anger, bnt, as the mouse also showed fight, they were a little afraid of making too clo'e an acquaintance. The two sparrows were soon joined by oth ers, and, if their cries had been of any avail, would have come off victorious. As it was, the mouse traveled on up Fayette street to Charles street and finally escaped. The Koch Lymph Will not be needed If yaunse Kemp's Balsam, the best cough-cure. Bampla. tree; all druggists. FCBNlTTXRE packed, hauled and stored. -, Hauoh & Kr.TiHAK, 33 Water street On the Tight- Rope. MEN WILL MEYER FLY. Human Birds, Like Perpetual Motion, Are Impossibilities; AKAT0MT OP THE SPEEDT BAT. The Moat Widely Accepted Story of tk Eirth of tba Earth. MA5I SATELLITES CA5N0T BE BBBI iw&irruN roa the dispatch.1 Is there any good reason why mankind might not fly. It isn't necessary, in order to fly, that we should have such- wings as birds have, for the best of all flyers, the bat, has neither quills nor feathers, nor has it any semblance of a bird wing. A recognized' authority in natural history says that "if the fingers of a man were to be drawn out like wire to about fonrfeet in length, a thin mem brane to extend from finger to finger,' and another membrane to fall from the little finger to the ankles, he would make a verj tolerable bat. Bqt could tfe artificial bat-man fir, even if he should be able to exactlv duplicate the bat's equipments, making it to correspond with liia size and weight? Man men have attempted to contruct seIf-propeIIeI flying machines, and their initial flights have always terminated in violent contacts with the grcund. The bat-man would fare no better. No, man will never fly without the aid of some power many times greater than his owa muscles afford. The great condor of the Andes is a bird that weighs half as much as a 13-year-old boy. Then, why might not a boy, fitted with the bat flying appliance, also sail through the air? It is because the condor, in the muscular equipment which operates ' its wings, is at least ten times stronger than the boy. An example of the wonderful construction of wing-moving power is found in the bird that Noah sent from the ark in search of land. The dove, or what is essentially the same thing, our familiar pigeon, is the fastest of long-distance flyers. The pigeon, as we all know, has A Tery Prominent Breast It is a light and delicately-built bird in its other parts, but the breast is relatively heavy, having a mass of powerfnl muscles connecting with the wings. The conse quence is that the pigeon can fly hundreds of miles without stopping at a rate that no railway train has ever equalled. Pigeons have been killed in the State of 27ew York with Carolina rice in their crops, and the progress of digestion showed that the rice could not have been eaten more than six hours before. This would indicate a speed of more than SO miles an hour. Carrier pigeons have traveled much faster than that in still longer flights. The little humming bird, the smallest of all the feathered tribe, U the best example of muscular force adaDted to flying purposes. This beautiful little creature (found only in America) has longer and stronger wing mus cles in proportion to iU size than anything else of bird kind. No other bird could poise itself in the air, as the humming bird dots, while extracting the sweets from a flower. In order to work a pair of wings after the manner of a humming bird a boy would need to be at least SO times stronger In breast and arm muscles than is the aver age boy. It is safe'to say, there'ore, that no boy will ever poise in the air flapping & pair of artificial wings while calmly pluck ing the farmer's best apples in'defiance of the angry dog below. Birth of the Planets. If we accept the theory of astronomers that! our sun and the millions of other suns were evolved from masses of nebulous matter. then we should like to know bow the earth and the rest of our sun's planetary brood came into existence. The Bible tells us something about the earth's infancy and in ferentially abont the other planets. "The earth was without form, and void," we are told, in the first chapter of Genesis. There was no division of land and water nothing but darkness and chaos. This agrees with well known scientific facts. Geology faces us back to the time when land and water began to take form as we see them now. But we should like to know something about the earth's history farther hack than the Bible and geology takes us. We are satisfied with the evidence as to it's child hood, but when and how was our dear old earth born? How came the sun's eight planets, and the little asteroids, to be made into balls, and placed outward in spaces at distances ranging from 35,000,000 to 3,000, 000,000 miles from the parent sun? Even the astronomers do not pretend to say positively how this mighty work of world-making was accomplished, but some of them have a theory which seems plausi ble and which fully harmonizes with demonstrated facts. What ajro called spiral nebula nebulous bodies which are evidently rotating or whirling have lately been studied with greater care and minuteness than ever before. It seems probable that these spirals indicate a stage in which masses of nebulous matter begin to concentrate and begin the initial work of making a star system, alter the manner of our solar system. The attraction of nebula. as we know by analogy, wonld cause a ro tory motion, parts nearest the nucleus mov ing with the greatest rapidity, and other parts moving more slowly in proportion to their distances from the center. Such a nebula as this would extend billions of miles in space. Formation of the Kings. The different velocities of the parts would naturally produce the spirals, and as the process of condensation went on the nucleus would become a comparatively solid body like onr sun, while spirals, at various dis tances therefrom, would by their own at traction become more closely defined as in dividual rings. In course of time, perhaps millions of years, these rings would grad ually draw together and assume the spherical form which seems to be the ulti mate shape ot all the heavenlybodies: If. this supposition is true the earth was once a section of spiral nebula. As the sun- set tled down into comparative solidity the nearest spiral or ring became the planet Mercury, the next one Venus, the next the earth, and so on out to Neptune, nearly 3,000,000,000 miles away. And if planets were thus evolved, from spiral nebula surrounding the sun or star, then it logicall v follows t.ht our moon, and the moons of other planets, are the spherical outgrowth of nebnlous rings. Astronomer! who believe in this theory declare that Saturn's rings will eventually increase the already very liberal allowance of that planet's moons. Bnt if this planet-making theory is correct why cannot the completed planets of a star be discovered through the; telescope? Because the stuff of which tha planet is made becomes thousands of times smaller, when completed, than it was in the : nebulous state. A woman's dress may.be. not more than four feet high and two feet in diameter; but probably there are 20 yards of stuff in it. The spirals of which bar - planets were made must have been biIlIoa of miles in diameter; hut the diameter of tha -largest planet is only 80,000 miles. J. H. Webb. - GETTING TEETH PULLED. If Gas Is to Be Taken It Should Bo Takes OS an Empty Stomach. New York Herald. J As to when to extract teeth I have only to say that once it is decided to have th tooth removed the sooner it be done the bet ter. If it is designed to take gas, tha dentist should not be visited immediately after a meal, as the presence of food in the stomach is likely to result in nausea and vomiting, which is unpleasant for both the patient and the operator. Take gas oa n "' empty stomach. - ' As to how to extract teeth much could o -said. In the first place, as in other things-?? a certain knack is required rather thast'', mere strength of the wrist OccadottanjrA , considerable -force must be exerted, btttf more usually the pain of the operation mi' be much lessened by dexterity,
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