& .-' THE' PITTSBURG- 'DISPATCH. 'SUNDAY. JANTTATtY IV. 1S9L , , - ITRANStATED FOR TUB DISrATCII.l On the banks of a clear, swift-flowinc stream, stood a large water-mill, whose two treat wheels turned busily, night and day, and with, a roaring, splashing sound hurled the water from its immense paddles. The mill was built of red stone, and all the wood work about it was painted a bright green. Around the building grew tall linden trees, whose graceful tops were mirrored in the crystal brook, and the fragrance of whose blossoms, in the spring time, drew countless bees toward them. May had come. The bancs of the brook were covered with those little blue flowers, called forget-me-nots. The trees were put ting forth their tender green leaves, and the fi6h, who had lived all winter under the frozen ttream, now in their joy over the re turn of spring, sometimes leaped clear out of the water. The birds were all home again after their visit to warmer climes, and the meadows rang with their voices, as they chatted to their mates and planned about the nests thev were building. Aud at night when all was still tne nightingale raised its sweet voice, ami all the other birds awoke lrom their slumbers to listen to the rich xnelodv, and then fell asleep again and dreamed of paradise and sunnv realms. The sallow, because they to admired human dwellings, had, unlike the other bird. uilt their nests in the old mill, whose projecting gable roof afforded protection from the rain and the wind. This summer they had come in great numbers, and had built their small brown nests in long rows on the red stone, and the parent birds were kept busy trying to fill the tver-onen mouths of their young with flies, gnats and other in serts which swarmed over the mill pond. The miller's son was a fat, stnpid bov, who cared for little else than eating and eleepinc; hut when he saw the swallows' nests he said: "What right have those lazy THE MILLER birds to build their nests in my father's mill? I shall soon drive them away." and taking a stone he aimed it a swallow flying above his head, and struck the bird with such force that the poor little creature fell lifeless into the mill pond. "When the father bird re turned from his search after food lor his hungry children, he found the seven little swrfltows crying for the mother, and he knew not bow to comfort them. Then he began to look for bis faithful mate; but although he sought in field and forest and called in bis sweetest tones, he could gain no reply. Then a neighbor said to him: "Friend swallow, your mate is dead. I saw the miller's son strike her with a stone, and she fell into the mill pond." These words brought great sorrow to the swallow, and he wondered what would be come of his motherless children. Kear the brook stood an old willow tree, which bent over the water, and wnose low-drooping branches dipped into the waves. In this tree lived a fairy, who was as good as she was beautiful. Her shining eyes were as blue as the heavens above, and in her long golden hair was entwined a garland ot forget-me-nots. Early every miming, and in the evening, the fairy sang the sweetest songs; but no one heard her save the birds, and by them only was she seen, with the ex ception ot a water nymph, who had his home under the mill pond. The nymph was old and gray. He had green eyes with red lids, and be always sat in his stone grotto, where he seized all the crabs which by chance wandered into his den, and be frightened away all the fish which ventured into the cool grotto. For the nymph was a very thoughtful person and did not wish to have his meditations disturbed by any intruders. The swallows were especially disagreeable to him, for their continual flying back and forth and their constant chatter made so much confusion thai the old nymph coulJ scarcely think. Therefore tne swallow in his trouble did not turn to the nviuph in his grotto, but flew directly to the home of the fairy in the old willow and told Ins trouble." When the good fairy had beard all she was very angry indeed with the miller's son, and declared that he should suffer for his cruelty to the mother swallow. She then said: "In this tree is a nest, which has been deserted by its owners. Bring your children here and i shall help vou care for them." Very carefully the father bird carried the seven "little swallows to the nest in the old willow, where they were warm and well fed. But the old bird grieved so deeply for his lost mate that he soon drooped and died, and the fairy buried him on the shore ot the mill pond. rAndnowtbe kind fairy did not neglect the orphan birds, and as the little creatures grew older and stronger they learned to love their good friend, and were always ready to obey her slightest call. They promised never to forsake her, but always to have their home in the old willow tree. The nymph, who very much disliked the chat tering of the swallows, and who had little fauh in their promises, said to the fairy: 'Why do you trouble yourself about those noisy birds? They are ungrateful creatures, and as soon as they are able to take care ot themselves, they will seetc other homes, and will no longer remember you. And I, for one, shall be glad when they are gone, for their loud, boisterous ways trouble me." The lairy only smiled at this illnatured remark of the nymph, for she did not believe that the little birds, for whom she hid fo tenderly cared, and whom she loved so dearly, would ever leave her for other friends. But the nymph's prophecy proved true, for when the long summer days came, and the air was soft and warm and the fields, abloom, with flowers, then the young iwsllowj learned to use their wings, ana one after the other, having in their flights through the forest made many friends, went with them to lands even more beautiiul than their own and forgot to return to the tairy and the home in the old willow. Onlrcne little swallow, whom the fairy called Faith ful, remained true to her promise. Every evening she would tell the fairy of what she had seen during the day. and then the fairy would relate about fairyland and sing her "sweetest songs. Even the old nymph grew to be fond ot Faithful and would olten invite her into his grotto, and listen with interest, while the little bird told of her travels. One evening, when the long summer was drawing to a close, the fairy watched in vain lor the return of Faithlnl. A heavy storm had arisen and the Fairy thonght: "My little bird has sought shelter from the storm and will surely hasten home in the morn ing." But the next day came and still the swal low did not return, and in the evening she was yet absent Then the nymph slid: 'I told you that those birds were ungrateful, aud now this one, too, has cone, just as we were learning to trust her." But the lairy said: "Some harm has come to my Faithful, and if I knew where she was I should go to her." On the second evening, as the fairv was again watching for the bird, a great black crow flew to the willow tree, and said: "I come to bring you news from the little awal loir. Last evening, when she was flying toward home, the miller's son struck her with a stone, and now, severely wounded, she lies among the bushes in the meadow. I have cared lor her the best I knew; but she grows no better, and 1 have come for you." KSbe fairy lost no time in hastening to Faithful and in bringing her home, but al though both she and the nymph lavished every attention upon the bird, little Faith ful grew worse and finally died. The firy buried the little body under the willow tree, and planted blue forget-me-nots over S CRUEL SON. the grave and watered the flowers with her tears. The nymph now. declared that punish ment should speedily overtake the miller's son, and the next day when the boy was fishing in the mill pond, the nymph seized him, carried him into his grotto, and threw countless crabs upon him, after which he hurled him upon the bank. The crabs pinched with their sharp claws until the bov cried out with pain, and the men in the mill ran to his assistance. But from that time the rich miller's son always had-a large, red nose, and as he passed through the village streets the children would point their fingers at him and crv: "There goes the boy whose nose has become so large and red because be was cruel to the little swal lows." Patsik. SOME ENIGMATICAL NUTS. Pozzies for the Little Folks That Will Keep Their Brains Busy for Host of the Week If They Solve Them, Correctly Home Amusements. Address communications or this department to E. R. CHADBOUKN, Lewis ton, Maine. 1372 SDC VICES OF HUMANITY. illNKIB SINOEB. 1373 A TRANSFOBMATIOW. Jack Sprat and wife could well agree On questions tonchine food; On other things both he and she Maintained a tiger mood. A friend told Jack the proper way Of coring all his cares Was just to keep the wolf at bay. And cultivate two bears. Bat Jack, mistaking what was meant, Did ruminate a spell How Mrs. Peter was content Within a pumpkin shell. And so be took his fretful spouse And pnt her In a bear. When, lot a heaven was in his house. An angel dear was there. Medics. 1374 decapitation. The man whose talk ot wholes U fall Is one In conversation dull A fault, I think, that Is more common In talking man than talking woman. In patty platforms total loom; There they flourish, there they hsom. For there they render potent aid By keeping principles in shade A mode of using language sought For purpose of concealing thought. Wide last Is always given there To words that nothing mere declare Than state wholes, though they abound In plentltude ot empty sound. The object ot the demagogue atA Is to bewilder and befog. To make what's policy his guide And principle to shun or bide. Soch last to take is to benight The class who seek to do what's right It sbonld be plain to all indeed. That wholes are used but to mislead. NELSOIflAW. 1375 DIAMOXD. 1 1... n t. a TTT.n.11 A n. le.ter. z. .equal value. ."". - Tardy. 6. High dignataries In a sovereign's .. a ni.- . -.l.tlnat 7 In. vuuib. u. iuo provinces oi uiwh -flammable substances composed of rosin and bitumen. 8. A king's councillors. 9. To hinder. 1U. A termination. 11. A letter. Chablie. 1376 TRANSPOSITION. Life is not a bed of roses: Man proposes, God disposes: Life is largely what we make it: There's a blessing if we take It Wisdom is the best possession: We shonld senk it with discretion. Man doth first his work most bravelyj But the next observes most gravely; Do yon wonder. then, in passing. That there often is harratsingT That the good, as of t man sees it, Evil Is, as next decrees it? Let ns make a stndy careful. With a pious heart and prayerful. H. C. BUBQAB. 1377. SYNCOPATION. As much alil.o as are two pins So much alike they must be twins Are these two words; in one we see Konr syllables the other three. Yet all the difference I can spy Is in here's slang is in your I. The question is, which 1 shall choose When such a word I wish to use. Perhaps each has its proper place, For each is "a particular case." And "a peculiar case"ls well. The bother Is, which way to spell, Mr whole or last just at this time, In shaping puzzles into rhyme; In this, as well as in my talk. On words I do not wish to talk. Indeed, I always tax my mind The most appropriate word to find. But where 1 hare these two in sight I know not which is nearest right Ana Webster's Unabridged, my guide, Does not help me to decide. 'Tis my opinion, here expressed. That the shortest is the best Nxlsonian. 1378 -WORDS TVITHIN A WOBD. i In a word of 11 letters, naming a kind of puzzle, find, without transposition of letters, words havinz the following meanings: 1. A worthless dog. 2. Crusty. ' 3. The hinder part 4. To affect with pain or uneasiness. 5. Myself. 6. Males. Robebt. 1379 NUMERICAL. Borne people always want an alt For everything they dot They are so easy to appall By anything that's new. Borne one must 1 to 7, before lo follow they're inclined; And tnen tbev look their leader e'er, As If some flaw to find. 'Tis either cowardice or pride Will 9.7, 8, 6 to Make people want a constant golds In everything that's new. 1, 2. 6, 4. 3. 1 and 9. If wise, is a great gain; But heart to wisdom must incline. And then the way is plain. Bitteb Sweet. 1380 ANAGRAM. As whole defines itself, discern This answer:' "J am one return?' That is to say, should you restore All that is due, or something more. That would be whole, and you would do The thing that's right and honest too. 'Tis what is claimed by those who say They've worked for you and want their pay; 'Tis what you'll give them if you can, Unless you're a dishonest man. Kelsonxan. 1381 CBOSS WORD. In "we must part;" In "lover true;" In "my sweetheart" In "loving you;" In "last caress." Rising, falling, almost dying. Grand In cadence, soft and sighing. Holding him enthralled who hears; Heart-Inspiring, soul-entrancing. Mind enslaving, life enhancing. Sweetest sound for mortal ears. Ibon mask, ANSWEBS. 1361 Honolulu knows no snows. (H en O, lu-lu, nose, nose, nose.) 1SB1-Down-fall. 13t3 Directions, discretion. 1J61 Dark, park, hark, lark, barkmark. 1S65 A riddle. lSb6 Malapropos, 1367 Belles-lettres. 1364- R PER D O T B R DELIVER POLICEMAN RETICULATED REVELATED R E M A T K D RATED NED D 1369 Odoriferous. 1370 Quatrefoil. 1371 Sheep, Heep. A EEMAKKABLE CAT. Some of the Peculiarities of a Feline Epicure in Brooklyn. "Broady" is a big Brooklyn cat. He is a Maltese of the deepest dye. Seven years of life have passed ovr his shapely head, but each year has added to bis store of intelli gence. Now he is probably the best in formed cat in the block in which he prowls. "Broadv," says the New York Serald, is very regular in his habits. When meal time rolls around he is always found meowing in front of the refrigerator in which his food is stored. And there he stays, crying aud scratching, until some body attends to his wants. This he does three times a day. Although particular about the hour at which he is fed, he is more so in regard to -what he eats. Calves' liver, raw, too, is the only thing he indnlges in. Nothing else, not even chicken, fish or other tidbits dear to the feline heart can tempt him from the liver. His memory is strong, for he never forgets a friend or forgives a foe. When his master returns from business at the usual hour "Broady" is at the door to greet him with his deep, musical purr. If his master is not on time "Broadv" slinks away to bis favor ite place, on a chair near the kitchen range, but when his master returns he is all ani mation, and springs up to receive a caress. Outside of occasional incursions into the precincts infested by rats and mice, he sel dom absents himself from home. And there he receives every attention. Nothing is too good for him, although his wants are few. When he wishes a drink of water he climbs upon the sink and mews. Two plaintive cries notify the household that he is thirsty, and water is soon forthcoming. At the dining table he is a favored guest His chair is placed beside that of his mas ter regularly, but he will not take it until it has been nicely cushioned with a newspaper. And the loud'er it crackles the better he likes it. There he sits, quietly gazes upon each member of the family in turn until the meal is concluded, aud then he leaves the table promptly with the diners. Having beeu well and carefully trained, be is able to participate in conversations like these: "Hello, 'Broady," are you feeling well this morning?" somebody asks. "Meow," he will respond. That means "Yes." "Want some liver?" "Meow." This is always uttered with em phasis. Two cries are taken for a negative reply, and three, accompanied by the same num ber of scratches, signify that he desires to have a door opened. He dislikes whistling, and if anyone does so, he "meows" twice and stalks out of the room in which bis tor mentor is. He sleeps in the same apartment as his master, is almost as valuable as a watchdog, and, taken all in all, is quite a remarkable cat ' Hot Lemonade the TWag A very hot, strong lemonade is served by fashionable New Yorkers this winter in place oi punch, even by those who are not strictly temperate. Jndicious people are discovering that drinking punch at (after noons" is exceedingly injurious to the di gestive organs as well u to the nerves. THE ITALIAN 'FLOCKS Willi Their Melodious Bells and Pic turesque Shepherds CAHKOT BUT IKSPIKE THE POET. TTakeman's Search for the Hero of Lorenzo the Magnificent. THE MOUNTAIN BIDE AT EYEKTIDE rCOnnXSFOXDEXCX OF the DISPATCH. 1 Flobence, Italy, Dec 26. About the year 1480, at the dawn of the gulden age in Italy, there were daily gathered at the table of the chief citizen of If lorence, such men as Pulci, Fillippino Lippi, Botticelli, Ghirlandajo and Michael Angelo. The host, whose wealth and matchless attain ments made him known among the poten tates and savants of Southern Europe as "Lorenzo, the Magnificent," wrote a pas toral poem of wondrous sweetness and power called "La Nencia.Da Barbarlno.'' I was once in a position (being an editor, worse lucki) to have this little-known though sur passing composition translated for the first time into English, in the original meter, by no lest a scholar and poet than Sir Edwin Arnold. The poem, comprising 300 lir.es, depicts in simple, though glowing words and imagery, the homeless and consuming passion of the shepherd lad, "Eavellaj".' for a dainty peasant girl, "Nencia.'.' One can not read this lowly life heart-cry without the awakening in his own soul oi a thrilling and commisserative tenderness for the hum ble lives it so plaintively reveals; and it was with this feeling that I sought, perhaps over-much, for the poetic and romantio side of the picture, to know the real every-day lives ot those who tend the flocks and herds of Italy. My first wanderings were in Southern Italy, the territory of olden Apulia. Here the shepherds are not only a distinct class, but, though holding themselves aloof from all other peasant classes, are almost a dis tinct race. In ancient times all this country was subject to scourging depredations by the Saracens, to an extent requiring that people should herd together in walled towns for protection to life aud property. Then nearly the entire population of old Apulia were shepherds. They drove their herds from the towns to the mountains, returning for safety at night Unchanged by Twenty Centuries. The dependents of these in a direct line for more than 2,000 years, are doing that identical thing to-day, not for safety but from traditionary custom. 'All those.who exist in Southern Italy to-day who are not shepherds, goatherds and herdsmen, form the population of cities and towns and com prise the contadini or field laborers; and the ancestors of all these may be said to have gradually grown away from the shep herd's life, rather than that the shepheid's of our time are a product of new forms of rural economic necessities. They rarely intermarry with other classes. When they do they instantly depart from the flocks, are absorbed iu lo'wer orders of the cities, or become the most desperately hopeless of the human cattle that labor in the fields. The pride in their own descent, in the ex clusiveness of their class, in the long line of shepherd ancestrr they can trace, amounts almost to a passion. It is practically the one pride they possess. This isolation of blood and interest has preserved interesting traces in physiognomv. They are wonder fully Saracenic in their look. The tall, slender, supple figure, the oval face and shining skin, the neck, tiny at the throat, spreading quickly and heavily in protuber ent muscles, like a broad-butted tree, to the shoulders, the yellowish-blue tinge of the white of the eye.the distended nostrils, and the dazzling teeth, all pronounce; the East ern origin and retained' physiological affini ties. ' . Like Our Western Stocktralls. In every pf rt of Southern Italy you will come upon a broad, grass-grown highway. It is called the "traturo." For 20 centuries it has served the taine purpose. It can be nearly likened to our own vast Western stocktrails leading; from "grass to grass" when herds are driven northward, fattening on their way to the great live stock markets. On this "traturo" occurs the yearly spring exodus from the lower valleys and coast wise moors and marshes to the Apnlian Mountain summer pastures. In the autumn hundreds of thousands return along these ancient ways. During the winter the herds men and shepherds live in town hovels or in huts near the towns and villages. The herds and flocks are then 'driven out to and re turned from daily grazing. But in the sum mer time on the mountain sides is the real outdoor life of the guardian of the flocks and nerda. Whether he be herdsman, goatherd or shepherd, he is usually given charge of a flock or herd of from 50 to 100 animals. Among the cattle, and herding in common with them, are large numbers oi a species of buffalo, smaller and less hairy than the now extinct American bison. Iu aheidoflOO cattle, 20 will be provided with unmusical bells. In a flock of as many sheep twice as many will have bells, some of which are exceedingly melodious; and the quality of his bells are of more concern to the Apulian shepherd than that ot his sheep. The latter are odd little poddy creatures. Nearly all aie black. Their legs and hoofs are black and shiny as ebony drum-sticks. Their eyes are exceedingly small aud a brilliant yellow; while the little creatures are as agile as chamois. Weird, strange groups are these which follow the flocks and herds to the mountains. lSearly every shepherd of Southern Italy is married. He marries young. He rears, or rather there grows, seemingly all uncon scious to himself, a large family. The sons marry other shepherds' daughters; the daughters, other shepherds' sons. Himself perhaps born in the grass by the side of the "traturo," in a cleit of some rock in the edge of a torrent's gravina, or in some low hut on hill or moor, he emerges from baby hood to childhood a nomad; is a nomad in youth and manhood; he mates as a nomad; and never ceasps a nomadic life until the quicklime of some village Campo Sauto consumes his bones. So that to every flock belongs a family. The tatterdemalion group possesses no home but that of the daily grazing land of the flock. Their sole possessions never equal $5 in value. Their total earnings do not exceed 11 cents per day. Like Wallachian Gipsies they squat anywhere for rest and sleep, and eat anything that will sustain life. If they possess a single aspiration on earth, it ls'tbat secret one of so many other Italian field and moor laborers to "take to the hills;" that is, to become outright brigands. A Picturesque Being. Universal indolence and repugnance to effort are 'safeguards against this. The Apulian shepherd himself is a picturesque fellow enough, despite your consciousness of his vacuous ignorance, bis unvarying cruel ty to his flocks, and his utter sodden, rather than active, brutality to his wife and chil dren, who serve as his pack-mules, like the American squaws, for transporting his slender belongings to the lulls. Tall, and straight as an arrow, he is clad from head to foot in undressed skins. A bifurcated gar ment ot untanned bide, fashioned after the pattern of that one so well known to Ameri can dress reform ladies, lorms a sort of waistcoat and trousers combined. The latter are opened at the sides, below the knees often displaying gaudy buttons ornamenting the sides of his half-gaiter, undressed skin boots. Over his waistcoat is a long, loose armless jacket of hide, pro vided with numberless pockets, his rain proof storehouse of meager treasures. A jaunty, brigandish hat sets perkily upon his fine, curly head, and brings into striking relief his olive skin, his large, grave eves and crinkly, curly beard a half Egyptian tvne. one would sav. to see it renroduced in I painting. Blanc from his right shoulder across his left hip by a broad band ot hide, with occasionally the priceless treasure of a polished brass or bronze buckle, is the inseparable capsella or shepherds' pouch. A rusty carbine, which is never discharged, or a stout staff as high as his breast but never the shepherds' crook of the olden tales and modern tableaux vivants com pletejthe picture. Awakened tlie Hailstorms. On the mountain sides the life of this shepherd family is a changeless one the whole summer long, unless the terrible bail storms of Southern Italy fall upon the mountains, or the still more destructive windstorms, that frequently fling both shep herds and flocks lrom the crags to death, come whistling over peak or howling through gravina. Then the hnman marmot awakens from his lethargy and accomplishes prodigious feats of strength and -wondrous acts of valor, iu rescuing endangered mem bers of the flock or of his own terrified brood. His food is polenta and chestnut-flour bread. He is the one Italian who drinks water instead of wine. His fiejd-lore, though uncomcinus to himself, is marvelous. When spurred by extreme hunger, all mountain moorland birds are doomed where be sets his snare. It is n wild, strange, melancholy land he looks down upon, if he have the en ergy for looking. His wife and children around him are as voiceless as himself and his flocks. The very melody of the sheep bells becomes a meaningless din. One car ries away from his environment and com panionship with him only a pathetic sense of his hopelessness and degradation. You can only remember him as another animal in hairy hide, insensate to the trumpeting! of eternal nature around him. Shepherds of the North. But there are other shepherds in Italy of whom a sunnier picture can be drawn. These are the shepherds and shepherdesses of the peasants' lesser flocks in Piedmont, in Lombardy, in radiant Tuscany, and even in pestiferous, death-breeding Maremme, on the Tyrrhene sea. There are many among these who, like the Apulian shepherds, have descended from shepherd ancestors, and who all their lives soddenly follow the one vocation. But in the main they are the little folks and the youths and wives of all the peasantry. In Northern Italy' the peasantry are a happier folk than those of the South. The beauty of the cities, quaintness and peace fulness of the villages and hamlets, the radiance of the valleys and the noble pic turesqueness of the forests and mountains, seem to have given a reflexive peaceful ness, sunniness and even virility to the people. Their shepherds do not possess the grave,- sad, vacuous faces of the South. Companionship accounts largely for this. In the North the shepherd is always one of the villagers. He or she shares their every-day life. The feasts, espousals, marriage's, fu nerals, all are theirs for enjoyment and con templation. Nearly every family has its own little flock. Oiten several of these are merged into a larger flock and taken to the highest mountain lands for the entire sum mer. In such cases a shepherd and his family accompany them, aud they live much as do their kind in Apulia. Iu October the same flock will be driven to the moors and marshes of Maremme, where the shepherd and his family subsist almost entirely on snared wild fowl, which come here in mvriads to escape the winters of the British Isles, the Baltic regions and the German forests. A Day With the Flocks. Bnt tens of thousands of little flocks led by tens of thousands of little shepherds and shepherdesses leave the village gregia or sheeptold and home every morning for the higher glades. Sometimes a dog, often a pig trained to herd the flock, goes with them. It a maiden has charge of the flock, she will have her spindle or knitting, and will work and sing and tend her flock, the whole day long. Ifalador stripling lead a flock, he will let the pig or the dog tend the sheep, with an occasional moment of ex ecutive observation, and the rest of the day he gathers mushrooms, hunts the young of birds, all of which are eagerly eaten save those of the swallow and hawk, snares forest fowl, or pipes on his flute in idle fantasy. a Both mjast, bring,, backUtttL; otJerns,. grass', oak, elm or vine leaves, with the flocks at night. Some of this is for tem porary use; but the winter store is chiefly thus gathered. I have counted more than 100 of these little flocks descending from the mountains with the sheoherds at eventide. The valleys are voiceful with thousands of tinkling hells, with the notes' from hundreds of sheoherds' flutes, with the trilli of scores of shepherds' songs. Then, as the shadows fall softly upon the hamlets, comes the housing of the sheep in the greggia, antl the pastoral yields to the prosaic while "Ha vella" and "Nencia" gam new strength for the morrow from their bowl of steaming polenta, or porridge of crnshed white beans. Ed gab L. Wakeman. Y0TJB tf AME BY MAGICL A Simple Device That Will Reveal Any Number of Secrets. St. Lotus Globe-Democrat.! By use of the table given below yon can ascertain the name of any person or-place, providing the rules below the lettered dia gram are strictly observed: rfX.....t3... ... U.....ri.aaaa..X C......G......rj.......I.......Q E......F......F...... J .....K a o u. 1 J L K K .M. ii...i,.aa O L T a...M a ....N V ....o. w A. ....Z Y .....Y......Z AJ N N O O O ft. H T s s... ..u.. ...V. ,.v U V... w w... Y Z Have the person whose name .you wish to know iuform you in which of the upright columns the first letter of the name is con tained. If it is found in but one colnron,itis the top letter; if it occurs in more than one column, it is lound by adding the alphabet ical numbers of the top letters of the col umns in which it is to bd found, the sum being the number of the letter sought. By taking one letter, at a time, iu the way outlined above, the whole word or name may be plainly spelled out. Take the word Jane for example. J is lound in two columns beginning with Band H, which are the second and eighth letters down the alphabet; their sum is ten, and the tenth letter down the alphabet is J, the let ter sought. The next.letter, A, appears, in but oue column, the first, where it stands at the head. N is seen in the column headed B, D and H, which are the second, fourth and eighth letters of the alphabet; added, they give the fourteenth, or N, and so on. HEEEDITY AUD DISEASE. The Common Theory Is a Cruel Fetich of Quasi Science as the Facts Show. Philadelphia ITess.J "Do not think you are going to cough your life away because 'consumption is hereditary in oue family,' " says a famous Philadelphia physician. "Facts show that the decided majority of victims of this ter rible malady are the original cases; no taint can be discovered in ancestry. The majority of consumptives, I reassert, are the first cases in the family. I have it on good au thority in pnlmonary maladies that de cidedly the vast majority of the offsprings of consumptives finally die of other diseases. It is not to be denied that there is a law of heredity in disease. But the children pre disposed to consumption, for instance, being forewarned, are forearmed to caution; tak ing excellent care of themselves they out last their more 'thoughtless neighbors. Probably over 80 per cent of the insane are original cases; that is, in neither branch of the family, within three generations, can be found an insane ancestor. So live under no ancestral shadow. Live in your own sunshine. A merciful Creator has given us each our day. The dead can neither hinder nor help us mnch. We have our chance. There is, however, this curious discovery that I have made. Many people seem to actually regard such respect for their hereditary bents iu the nat ure ol filial piety. They think it sacrilegious to die of any but an inherited malady. They on it.'' FOLLOWING HIS STAR. Lesson of the Wise Men Who Game to the Bethlehem Manger TO WORSHIP THE ISPAKT KING. It Was Not a Mission of Gain, hut of Sub lime Unselfishness, WHAT THEY SAAV IS THE HEATENS IWIUTTEK FOB TUB DISPATCH. "We have seen his star in the east, and we are come fo worship him." They saw, they came, they worshiped; and then they went away again into their own land, leav ing behind them the memory oi their good example. One good thing about these "wise men" was that they saw the star saw it, that is, in the right way. Everybody saw the star. You cannothide a star. But a great many people who saw it did-not see it did not see it in the right way, did not recognize it For real sight is not the reflection of an object in the eye, but rather the sort of reflection that goes on in the mind behind the eye. It is the mind that sees.- The eye is only an optical instrument which the mind uses. Every body saw the star with their eyes. But out ot all the world, only this little company of wise men seem to have seen the star with their minds. How they came to be different from other men, and to recognize the star, we know not Perhaps there w?s some dim tradition in their country, handed down from the days of Balaam, about a star and a sceptre. Some think that Balaam was a "wise man," one of the magi, past master in the astrolo gical fraternity. And that Balaam, off there in the east, did say something about a star of Jacob and a sceptre of Israel, is plain enough. Perhaps there were more devout Jews in their neighborhood, who had told tho wise men about the old prophecies, and so given them a sort ot preparation for read ing the gospel in the stars. What Astronomers Say. Perhaps, and perhaps. The truth is, we know nothing about it None of the ex planations begin to explain 'it There was a star. The wise men who study the sky in our own day will tell us that Every 800 years, three great planets meet within the boundaries of a single constellation. And their meeting is a sight which everybody who has eyes looks at We will never see it with our eyes for the last meeting was in the winter of the year 1603. But the wise men saw it. They saw it two years before the date which is agreed npon for the birth of Christ If they looked up into the sky in Hay, or October, or December of that year, they could not miss it. Three times that year, Saturn, Mars and Jupiter stood together in the constellation Piscis. And in 1G03, when Kepler saw that sight a fourth star, bright, glowing, peculiarly colored and evanescent, joined the siderfal company. These was a star, and the wise men saw it, and they said one to another, "there is the King's star; He is born in the West," and they came and wor shiped Him. And that is all of the story that we know. The truth of God shines in this world as clear as the everlasting stars. And we all see it with our eyes, and hear it with our ears. But a great many of us somehow miss of the recognition of it And those who do recognize the truth arever'y often quite unable to tell ns why or how they know it There is a great difference -between their seeing and our seeing. Certain phrases seem to mean a whole world more to them than they do to us. But there does not appear to be any adequate explanation. We are as much in the dark about it as we are about the wise men. But it is a fact. They do see and we don't see. A Bace of Blind Men. "The wind bloweth where it listetfa, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh or wither it goeth: so is everyone that is born of the spirit" And to recognize the truth of God, and to be born of the spirit of God, are very much the same thing. What a difference in peo ple, in their perceptions intellectual, Esthetic, spiritual! How many, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not! Up above, the star, ana clown below, a whole race of blind men! Here, close before us all, the truth ol God, "and few there be that find it" s Few there be, perhaps, that really try to find ir, that would account for it The wise man tried; we may.be sure of. That they were honest men, and earnest men, desirous of truth, keeping their hearts and minds open to it. We know all that about them, because they found the truth. God never tells His truth to, any other sort of men. But to such men always. We want to know the truth of God. If there are any remarkable stars up there in the sky, we want to see them. God is our Father. The blood of Jesus Christ, his Sou, cleanseth us from all sin. Is that really true? Is it true for you? Follow the best 'religious litiht.you have; and you will learn whether it is true or not. Why, those wise men were but pagans, and yet God spoke to them, Slake the most of all the truths you know; do the will of God, as you understand it, fnlly as you can; put yourself within reach ot all the uplilting, spiritual influ ences which you can find; pray God for light And God will give you light You will be like the wise men you will see. Seelns Is Not All. Another good thing about the wise men was that when they saw they did not stop there. They did something! They came. Nobody knows just where they came from. From Arabia, most scholars think. Anyhow, from some long distance, over a hard and dangerous way; a twcMreapj' journey, some figure it They must have been very sure befure they started out ou such an adventur ous quest us that. Faith aud works always go together. Faith is never unfruitful. If there are no fruits of the spirit in a man's life and con versation something is the matter with the man's spirit. There is only one way to be sure that a man has faith, aud that is the way by which we discover that a field has been planted. The harvest shows it 'No harvest, no seed; or no good soil for seed. No works, no faith. The man who sees the star separates himself at once from the com pany of blind men and proceeds to do some thing. And you know tnat he has seen the star by the testimony of his deed. Whoever saw that star and sat still did not see it, ex cept with the eye. You can always tell the good Christians, the men and women who have seen the star. They are at work. They are not disobed ient to the heavenly visioH. They are doing something. People took note of the dis ciples that they had been with Jesus. They knew that by the behavior of the disciples. Whoever knowsChri't, as the example of onr daily life, as the Savior from the burden of our sins, as the manue station of the love of God, ot the .nature of God, cannot sit down idly as if he had seen nothing. He must"- follow Christ, as the wise men fol lowed the star. The Whole World Sneered. The wise men followed, the star alone out of alLArabia. None else joined their com pany. Among all the star-gaz-rs these only began a journey. They sat out alone, and nobody joined them all the way, even to Bethlehem. The hardest part of it must have been In Jerusalem. "Where is He that is born King of the Jews?'' they asked in the streets. And nobody could answer nobody knew that any King of the Jews had been born anywhere. And the very possi bility troubled them the King was born; the Savior has come into the world; the Messiah, looked for along the years, was at last among them, and the reigning king "was troubled" (tbst was not unnatural) and "all Jerusalem with him." That was the hard part of it . This company of pagans enters the Holy city and asks for the King of the Jews, and. vrvlviri ! trnn h1d. Ttv And hv thlt IfMil- I enoi the Jewish, religion answer tho paean'! question. Bethlehem, they say.is the place. But nobody stirts for Bethlehem. The King, indeed, says that he intends to start as soon as the wise men bring him word again. (Yes, and with a sword in his hand!) But no one else even makes so much as a lying promise. The're is the difference again between seeing and seeing. The priests and the Pagans are possessed of the same infor mation. But the priests stay in Jerusalem. They point the way to Bethlehem if anyone cares to journey thither, but they take no step. The Pagans go along alone. Faith That Is Brave. And that, as I sav, was a pretty hard" test of the pagaus' faith. People like the en couragement of majorities. It helps us to have the company of the wise and the good. And when we find that we are alone, and that the wise and the good, as men think, do not seem to be touched by the spirit which moves us, we hesitate. It is so hard to go on alone. But the men who saw the star did. And everybody who sees the star to-day does. "Tnis I know," the man says who sees the star. '-Obstacles? Arguments? Criticisms? Majorities? What care I? I know'" And then, to find the King of the Jews in a little, mean, cheap lodging-house no pal ace, no retinue, no surroundings of state a baby, in the arms of a Galilean peasant woman, whose husband is a carpenter that was another test That was another hard thing in the way. And after the weariness of the long journey, and afterthetroubled faces of the people of Jerusalem and the solitary pilgrimage over the hills between, what won der if their hearts had failed them as they stood in the narrow street and looked at the poor, small housel "The Discovery of Discoveries. The greatest discovery in the whole world is to discover God. God comes in ways most unexpected, under forms mostuulikcly. There is a deep significance in the old legends. Where the cloak of rags falls away from the beggar's shoulders, and be hold", the Christ! To recognize Him always in His brethren who need uplilting and brotherly hands held out; in temptation, in affliction, in sore pain and tronble, to find Him ministering to us, bringing a blessing it is the discovery of discoveries. The wise men found Him. "And when they were come into the house, they saw the youngs child with Mary, his mother, and fell down and worshiped Him." First they saw the star, and then they saw the child. That is the order of spiritual perception. The reward of knowledge is more and better knowledge. Whoever learns one truth of God, and follows that, shall find anofier and a higher. And they worshiped him. That is the third good thing aboit the wise men they saw, they came, and they worshiped. And they evidenced their worship by giving something. "When they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense and myrrh." Some say that they gave gold as a symbol of his royally, and incense as a symbol of his divinity, and myrrh (which was used at funerals) as a symbol of his humanity. Probably they brought gold because that was one of the products of their country, and frankincense and myrrh for the same reason as the natural tribute which strangers would offer r.t the court of a King. The essential and important fact is that they brought something the best they could. Not to Ask a Favor. Here is a company of men who have come a long journey, and laced dangers and met hardships, not to get anything, but to give something. Why, you would have thought that there was a fortune at the end of all that bard traveling! "Where is He that is born King of the Jews, for we have seen His star in the eat and are come to ask a favor of Him." That would be more like human nature. Gifts? Yes. "Let us bring Him gold, and franklncinse and myrrh. So will we get our favor granted." There i. no lack of people to bring gifts to kings. But the gifts are apt to be given as a kind of good investment Here, however, are men who give and go away again, asking nothing at all! Truly, a most notable oc currence. Sometimes religion is nothing but pious selfishness. We give we' give money, and the time and trouble which our presence at church costs, and some prayer, and some obedience (when God doesn't ask too much of us). But that is not the end of it Now, what are we going to get? 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