&imsm YZW sfstf THE - ItTTSBTOS DISPATCH. SUNDAY. JANUARY' : "18. ' 188V 19T ITltAXSLATEO ron TnE DlSrATCn.1 Tlic old shepherd, Kudolpli, althouch Terr poor and lirinj; in a plain little cot tsce on the Lorder ol the forest, had two lorely children. The one, a beautiful little cirl called Bianca, and the other a boy, Kaymond, a britht lad of 10 rears, who every morning went into the Tillage to do what work he could in order that he might help Ins father make the home more com fortable for his sister. Bianci, who was not yet seven summers, would, on pleasant days, accompany her father to the meadow, anil, while the ehephcrd tended his sheep, the little girl would cather flowers and weave daisy chains, with which she would adorn her poldeu curls, and then smile at oud dance before the pleasing picture re flected iu the brook, lu the long evenings Bianca an J her brother would talk ot the fairy folk who, they had heard, lived iu their 1'orest. One day the shepherd noticed that the children were engaged in Tery earnest con versation, and iie paused a moment to listen to their prattle. Bjymond was baying : '! have otten beeu out in the forest whole days and sometimes at night; but the tairy queen never appeared to me and gave me cosily gems, and no dwarf king ever stood in my path and shoxved the way to a inounuiu cave filled with trcisure." "Did you ever seek the horn of the golden detr, on which the lairy queen rides?" asked Biinca. "Father says that once a year this deer sheds its horn, and certainly some of them must be lying about in the lorest. Think how rich we would be if we could find one of them." "Why do you not wish for the fern seed?" asked the shepherd, who had now joined the children. "That would make you invisible, mid u could, without being seen, enter ?- 'kW .-. Ml ,V. ffiil . ' '$ ;' 7701 HE BEGAN TO JTLAY the King's palace and watch the sur prise on His Majesty's face as you would drink the wine from his cup or take the food Irom his hand as he raised it to his mouth. Or, if you are so anxioui to become rich, why do you not seek the crown ot the Serpent Queen, which lives under the gre.it red stone on the other side ofthebroot?" The next day, on his way to the village, Bavmond crossed the brook and paused a moment beside the red rock of which his father had spoken. Bemembcring that he had once heard that serpents were fond of music, be drew out his flute, which he always carried with him, and began to play e lively air. Scarcely had he sounded the first note, when from under the rock a large serpent ot dazzling whiteness, and wearing on its head a crown, glittering with jewels, came forth, and darling out its red, spotted tonrue, hissed in a frightful manner. Bav mond at ouce ceased his playing, and in terror flea from the place. When he reached the village, he hastened to the home of old Bartbold, noted lor his wisdom, and related his adventuie. "If you wish to rob the Serpent Queen," sMd the old man, "you must, at sunset, place a white cloth belore the rock. Then the Queen will appearand place tbecrown on the cloth. If you escape across the btook before the serpent overtakes you, the crown is yours; but if, in her anger, the serpent seizes you, then death will surely follow." Bavmond listened attentively to these words; but said. nothing to his father or sister of his intention to rob the Serpent Queen. A. few evenings later, when Blanci was sitting before the cottage door, watch ing for the leturn of her brother, Bavmond ran along the path, and, after throwing the coveted crown in the little girl's lap, he fell fainting to the ground. Bianca's cries of terror brought the shepherd to the snot, and when he saw the jeweled crown, he knew that his son had seen the Serpent Queen, and he feared that death would be the result All mgbt long the shepherd and his daughter watched by the bedside of the unconscious boy, and in the morning were delighted to see the eyes open and the flush of health again appear on the pale f-ce; and they listened with interest when Bavmond told how he had allured the Ser pent Queen to place her crown on the white cloth, una how narrowly he had escaped the sting of the poisonous reptile. "And now what shall we do with the jeweled crown?" asked Bianca. The shepherd said it must be carried into the distant city, where it conld be sold lor much money." Tes," said Raymond, "father must sell the precious stones, and then we can have a new house, servants to wait upon us, and father need not work any more." The shepherd then put the crown into an old iron chest, which stood in the cottage, and said that the next day he wonld carry it to the city. When the little girl was left alone in the cottage, she took the crown from its hiding place, and gazed with ad miration on its beautiful gems, as they sparkled and glistened in the sunlight. Then she placed the Serpent's diadem on her head, and having no mirror in the house, she ran to the brook to' gain a view ot herself, and was so charmed with the lovely reflection, that she did not at first hear the bound of horses' feet tramping throuch the forest. When she raised her eyes, she saw a gav company of riders. among whom she at once recognized the count and his fair young daughter. Bianca arose, made her bebt curtsy, and was about to enter the house, when the young countess exclaimed: "Oh, fatherl see that beautiful ornament which the shepherd's daughter wears. I must have it." The Count then turned to Bianca and asked: "Little girl, how came you in possession of such a treasure?" The shepherd, who had' arrived br this time, answered for his daughter; "Years ago, while at war, my father se cured this crown as a prize. Tt -mm. daughter wishes it, the 11 welcome to it." J riw,K ws?ms . - rara &sm&'zmBk -- vfea? hX-CKs. .riiiMwrn'Mmtr r y. i ."- i i "i " v7wi.. .1. imirrii miAjr- is Mig The Count drew out a purse heavy with gold, and banded it to the shepherd. Then taking the w-rpent' crown he gave it to his daughter and the partv moved away. "When the Count and hit cay company had crossed the brook the young Countess dismounted from her horse to gather some flowers growing near the red rock. Suddenly she zave a err of naiu and nointed to her I foot, from wtiich the blood trickled over her riding boot. "You have pricked your foot on athorn," laughed the Count, "and it will be ,well in a moment." But the little girl grew pale and faint, and had to be carried to the castle, where i the most skillful physicians were sum moned. But none coum relieve tue sunercr and it seemed as if she must die. AVhen Kiymond returned home from his work in the village his father told him of the good lortuue with which they had met insclling the magic crown, and the little family now talked and planned of the happy, comfort able lite t'her should lead. Later in the evening, when Bavmond wcut to the brook to draw water, he heard a slight noise in the bushes and, looking up, saw the Serpent Queen advancing toward bim. Terrified, he started to run away, when the serpent hissed: "Stand still, or you shall die." . Kavmond did not dare to move. Then the serpent continued: "This morning I stuag the foot of the young countess, and now she lies dying at the castle. Near the red rock grows a plant which will heal the wound. Take this plant to the countess, and as a reward demand my crown, which you must b'ing at once to me. It yon will promise and perform this, your fortune is made; but if you attempt to keep my jewels gre.it trouble will come npon you." The boy gave the desired promise, and trembling with tear lollowed the white ser pent to the red rnek. Here B-tymond Sdw A LIVELY AIK. gathered the healing plant, and when he ar rived at the palace and declared that hi could restore the Countess, the Count said: "If you will heal my daughter, you shall have any reward you desire." Bavmond applied theplantto the wounded foot, and at ouce the countess revived, aud in a few bonrs was entirely well. The jew eled crown was willingly given, and also a purse, larger even than the other. Bavmond 1 then hastened to the Serpent Queen and re- turucu iu uer ucr jireciuus vciuh. Whether the Serpent -Queen still lives under the red rock and wears her jeweled crown is not known; but near the brook stands a stately mansion, in which lives the old shepherd with his beautiful daughter and brave son. Paysie. SOME ENIGMATICAL NUTS, Pozzies for UielJrtle Tolks That Will Keep Their Brains Busy for Most of the Week if They Solve Them Correctly Home Amusements. AddretM communications for this cTepartmen t to K. B. Chadbourn, Lewitton, Maine. 1882 TWO SAYINGS ILLT8TRATED. . D. M. H. 1383. A CURIOUS CURE. A young duck of a doctor beginning his course. Of attending to patients for better or worse. Was employed to prescribe for a woman one daj With the hope that his skill would her suffer ings allay. When he felt of her pulse and examined her tongne With a natural shyness because he was young Ue inquired in what work sbe was daily em ployed. For bcr symptoms were such he was greatly annoyed. She renlied with a blush of a juvenile maid, -1 suppose you uncut call me a batter by trade." Thereupon the physician, with wonderful skill. Did remove from his patient the whole of her 1 Bat, mirabile dictul his hair stood n end. And the change be observed he could scarce comprehend: For the patient had gone many feet under ground. Was alive and the physical functions were sound. . Nor was this all the change that appeared to bis sight; Mr- He discovered the patient at work with Ms might. , And although the mutations were rather com plex. What astonished him most was change In the sex. Mbdicb. 1884 STKCOPATIOK. Miss Eaty B. Is alt and pretty. And sbe Is lovely, gay, and witty. No rival has she in the city. The beaux admire her ways so sprightly When In the dance sbe moves so lightly, Bedecked In jewels shining brightly. tine lees admirers round her horn; ' MiiimMmm .. ' r-rf-yw ,-rr-.' nfoodJUi Vftjfir And yet nobodv can discover That sbe favors any lov;r. For while to all she is so clever, Ho friendly and so cordial ever, It seems as though sbe never, never Thinks about connubial mating: So lovers keep on waitinc. waiting For the iritso fascinating. Though fair is now this sweet young lady. The coming years will male bersbadv, And sbe will be an old maid, maybe. A last no more as time advances, No more a belle in giddy dances. No more niatlmonial chances. Alas! Time's ravages are naughty. And girls who are too urAole and baughtyl Will maidens be when they are forty. Neiaonias. 13s5. hidden cities. Find Eleven of Them, We planned a picnic early in the season. Each one was to consider himself both a guest and a host, so as to redouble the enjoyment. We carried hampers of food and drinks, lum ber, lines, hooks, bats and balls, to nourish with food and fun oar bodies and minds. We made our tables and seals and bad our spread in good season. It was all on donation plan, give and take, each for himself and all the rest, without any servants. In order to stop a rising wind irom blowing away our hats and napkins, we hang our gossamer coats to the lower limb of a tree and fastened them below with stone-. But royally the wind strugcled with our awning so hastily improvised, and at length the stones tumbled off and the coats flapped saucily in our faces. From each one in tbo party rose a shoot of laughter, each at the same time with much address denudinc his head from the unwel come cover. The clouds grew blackor, the rain began to beat upon us. when a furious whirl wind seized the tablespread and its contents and wbirled everything into 'the direst con fusion, saving us the trouble of uncorking our pop. After it subsided each sought in the debris, to left and right, to find what might be worth saving. Leaving baskets and lumber, necessity compelled us to seek tbe nearest shel ter. Nil Despekahdum. 1386 DECAPITATIONS. I. if "a fat, bulky woman" should part with her head. Her remains will be found in a gardener's bed. If "a young woman" next should dispose other head, "Indisposed" it would leave her, but would she be dead? in. If "a short, thick man" be deprived of his bead. What is left is not carcass, but "sarcasm" dread. 11EDIUS. t 1387 TRANSPOSITION. 'Tis Mary's place, each day, to one Tbe sitting room, you know; 8he thinks it is not work, but fun, To help ber mamma so. 'Tls quite a job, wbere knobs do next The fnrmture, but sbe Goes o'er tbem all, is never vexed; Proud mamma's help to be. Bitter Sweet. 1388 DIAMOND. 1. A letter. 2. The title assumed by the founder of Babisra. 3. Acts of selling. 4. The water thistle. 5. Signal fires. 6. Pertaining to one of tbe United States, 7. Encompassing. 8. One who obtrudes himself on anotber for bed and board. 9. A disease in hawks, la To bur den. lL A letter. Gwendoline. 1389 ANAGRAM. "JTalural Sptcies T" can find In something of unnatural kind. And a performance very droll Is what wo may consider whole. 'Tis what I've never seen, so I Can ot it little testify. Strange tbingsabout it I have beard That lor belief are too absurd. In mitbtof mystery and gloom. All seated in a darkened room; Believers in its workings wait, Silent, wondering and sedate. And ghostly forms as thry declare Are visiter that greet them there. In sorb strange tales my faith is small. Or rather I have none at all. For wholes f which I've heard, I claim That humbug is the proper name. Credulity makes some believe. While others willfully deceive. I""11 Nelsokiax. 1390 NUMERICAL. 1231 we all enjoy When overwhelmed, with life's annoy. When 3toS npon tbe brain Troves all our enortsjrf- in vain, Or when a 4 to S of thought Is intcrrnpted and forgot, O. blessed 5 to 8 to com And keep intruders from par home. Bat then we should e'er 1 to 8 Our words, or we may merit bate. DECEMBER'S COMPETITION. J'rizc-icifmert: 1. Lottie Hnghes, Apollo, Pa. 2. BebeccaNicuolls, Sharon, Pa. 3. A.M. Power, Rochester, Pa. MoU-of honor: Olive A. Kein. C. C. Murcb, Austin Bancroft, Mary M. Hanratly, Ida Ker nan, Willie C. Beatty, Gen. Ames, Dinah Mo, Glass. Esther S. Clarke, M. B. D.. Eva s. Nel son, Turnkey, go. Conrad Simrer, Schnapps, Sir Guy, A. H.TdcElroy, Lizzie Potter. ANSWERS. 1372 Chewing, drinking, lying, swearing, stealing, cbeatmg. 1373 C-her-ub. 1374 Platitude, latitule. 1375- P PAR BALES BELATED PALATINES PAL A T IN ATE 8' RETINITES S E N A T E R DETER SES I 8 1S7S Begin, being. 13rJ Speciality, specialty. 1578 Curtailment: 1. Cur. 2. Curt 3. Tail. A. Ail. 6. L ft. Men. 1379 Precedent. J 3SC Remuneration. 1381-Music. CLhVELAHD'S KIGHT OFF. A Way the Kx-Presldent Had or Taking His Little Recreation. "One night I was chatting in the lobby of Willard's Hotel," sys a-Western Congress man in the Chicago JVeics, "when a mes senger from the White House brought me word that the President wanted me to come and see him. 'At last,' thought I to myself, 'at last I am to get what I've been after; he is going to arrange about the appointments I have been seeking.' Of course I indulged in no unseemly delays; I just slipped into my overcoat as fast as ever I could and hustled up to the White House. I fonnd the President in the most felicitous mood imaginable; never had supposed he could be so affable. " 'Come right up to my room, said he, cordially. 'I want to have a nice long visit with you, and I have given orders that we must not be interrupted. "That was good news, I can assure you. It assnred me that there was balm in Gilead; that the good time, so lbngon the way, was at hand. So the President and I weut up to that secluded room, and the first thing be did was to produce A quart bottle of fine obi whisky and two glasses. We 'smiled' and 'smiled' again and kept on 'smiling,' the President meanwhile keeping up a constant fire of stories and jokes. Well, sir, there we two meu sat for four hours and not a word about appointments or politics or any thing of the kind. No, sir; not a blessed word was said except in the way of a story or joke", or a fish yarn or an experience. I had it in my heart several times to broach business, but the old man seemed to read my (intention in my eyes, for he headed me off every;time either withubat bottle of fine old whisky or with the recital ofsome joke that just then occurred to him. "You see he just was hungry for a good, old-Ia&hioned 'set-down;' he was tired out with routine work and he had made up his mind to a quiet evening's visit with one who wouldn't pester bim with importunities." Feet Vary With Age. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. If a last is made to fit tT man of 20 or 25. it will do for a few years, but after be has reached 30 he will complain that his shoes are too short Tbe feet nearly always in crease from half to one inch between SO and 40. especially if they are used freely. With a woman it is quite tbe reverse. A young lady who is obliged to wear fours will ask lor "small fours" soon after sbe gets into 20s, and can often wear Zi without punish ing herself at 25. DO NOT NEED HEADS. Some Reptiles and Insects That Get . On Well Without Them. THE NEWT CAN SPARE HIS HEART. Susceptibility to SnfferiDjr Tarles With tho Site of Brain. POISTS OH H All,,, SNOW AND STEAM rwjtlTTEN FOB TBI DISFJLTCH.l Animals that grade below the level of man have no books of etiquette. They probably have their own. ideas of "good form," in their social spheres, and possibly some of them are as punctilious as our own votaries of fashion. But from our stand point it wonld hardly be considered tbe cor rect tiling for a self-respecting creature to go about iu society without a bead, or minus a heart, or independent of such a useful appliance as an abdomen. There arc animals, however, that seem to have no more thought of impropriety in appearing without these seemingly useful members than would a Western cowboy with only one revolver in his belt. It is generally known that the tortoise (or turtle, as we Americans usually call it) is very tenacious of life; but there are some well-authenticated cases of such tenacity that are really marvelous. An eminent naturalist states, as a matter of personal knowledge, that a turtle lived 18 days after its head was cut off. An eveu more re markable case was an experiment wherein tbe skull of a turtle was cut open, the brain removed and the animal lived six months. Nearly all reptiles have a strong hold' on life. Any country boy will tell you that if you sin a snake, no matter how early in the day, its tail will wag till sundown. "This is not literally true, but it seems to take a good while for the tail of a snake to get the news that the head has been crushed. Some Headless Insects. The reptiles, however, are not comparable in this respect with some harmless littleani mals that are familiar to all of us. The loss of its head is apparently a matter of but little consequence to a beetle. Thus decapi tated it will walk about on a table and stop when it approaches the edge, seemingly more concerned about the possibility of a tumble than about its mislaid head. A dis tinguished entomologist states that dragon flies, with their heads cutoff, lived from four to six months; and, paradoxic.il as it may seem, it was the only way iu which he could keep thetn alive. Those which he attempted to keep in their natural state would invari ably die after a few days of captivity, while the headless ones seemed to enjoy life with out the pleasure of their customary diet of raw mosquito. A large yellow dragon fly, captured aud pinned through the thorax or chest was fouud in the actol eating a small fly. After leisurely finishing the fly it flapped its wings as evidence that it preferred to look about for another meal; but when another fly was offered it quietly settled down to a supplementary dinner apparently forgetful of "the fact that it was fastened to a'board by a big pin through its vital parts. An Englfsh entomologist struck down a large dragon fly and the entire abdomen of the creature was severed by the blow. Directly after ward he gave it a small fly which it ate with apparent relish, and when liberated it flew away without seeming to miud the trifling loss of its digestive apparatus. Living Without a Heart. The newt is a little animal that looks something like a lizard. It always bar a w-11-whetted appetite for juicy tadpoles, though it can get along with a plain break fast of worms. Its vitality is something amazing. .Experiments have proved that alter the heart of a newt is cut out the ani mal will run, leap, swim and otherwise en joy the pleasures of newt-lile for two or three days-'berore 'showing any sign of having missed anything. Some natnralists have attempted to prove that intensity of suffering in animals is in proportion to their brain mass; tbe larger the brain, relatively, the greater tbe suffering from bodily injury, and vice versa. In support of this theory, it is held, probably correctly, that man suf fers moro from physical injury than any other animal. But the rule is certainly not an invariable one. One species ot monkey has a propor tionately larger brain than man, but it is not probable that the amputation of its arm would cause greater pain than the amputa tion of a man's arm. The sweet-voiced little canary bird has relatively twice as much brain as the average man, but the writer has seen a canary bird enjoying a leisurely meal within an hour cfter its leg was broken. With a newlybroken leg even tbe most voracious boy would turn his head irom ajar o: jam. Formation of Snow and Hall. As weusually see the falling snow, in this latitude, it seems as light as the down from a duck's breast. As they see it in some countries, however, it is not 'so light nor so harmless in its descent. Snow and hail are the same thing, with the exception that the former is made slowly and the latter quick ly. 'Vapor slowly acted upon by a current of cold air produces snow, while an ex tremely cold current, suddenly introduced into a heavy mass of vapor, produces hail. In some countries it is very common for these extremes of heat and cold to come to gether iu the stmospbere, and the result is hailstorms which are sometimes very de structive. In India the falling hailstones are seldom smaller than walnuts, and sometimes tbey are as Urge as pumpkins. But what would you think of a hailstone as large as a cook ing stove? There is an account of one, well vouched lor, which fell in Hungary on May 8, 1832, measuring three feet in length and nearly two feet thick. A block of hail ieli in Kugland in 1841) which a local news paper described as "of irregular shape and nearly 20 feet in circumference." Of course all exceptionally large hailstones arc sinipiy aggregations of hail which happen to come together in their descent and freeze into one mass while passing through a stratum of very cold air. Tioa Cannot See Steam. Did yon ever see steam? Almost anybody who has seen a locomotive, or even n tea kettle, would probably characterize the question as absurd. Nevertheless, you can't see steam. The white substance that you see near the spout of a teakettle, for instance, is exactly the same substance that was first put into the kettle water. What is com monly thought to be escaping steam is sim ply a mass, o' little water globules, con densed Irom steam by the air into which the steam escapes. Steam is as transparent as air. It is reallv a gas evolved from water. A cubic inch of water expands to vast pro portions when converted into gas or steam, as we usually call it, and this expansion makes the power which drives the loco motive, and which wonld burst tbe teakettle if it were not for the open spout andlbe safety valve lid. Here is something about steam that pos sibly you don't kuow: It doesn't need a heat-making substance to generate steam. Snow, ice and water give ofi steam at every temperature. Steam used for propelling lo comotives, lor example, is generated rapidly by the combustion of coal or wood, and the quick expansion prod nets the power. Steam uaturally escaping from ice or waier, at a temperature o , say 60, is precisely the same as that which coal or wood heats up to the boiling point. . . J. H. Webb. Wonderful Bells of Moscow. Stir England Msc&ilne.J In the Iran Tower, Moscow, there are 31 bells, one of which, in the first story above, the chapel, weighs more than 60 tons; it swings freely, is easily rung, and if one smites it with the palm'' of the hand it re sponds in a wondermlly clear and startling manner. Two others are' of solid silver, with Tery soft, pure tones; SHAPES OF THE BACTEEIA. Odd Forms They Take and How They Mul tiply So Alarmingly. The name bacillus (a little rod), like the similar name bacterium, is commonly ap plied to the rod-shaped forms of a group of minute plants which botanists know by the title "Schizomycetes." translated by Ger man naturalists as spaltpilze (splitting molds), says Prof. Bay Lankester, in Fall Mall Budget. .The word schizomycetes re fers to the mode of multiplication of these little rods. Tbey attain a certain length and then divide across into two. Eich half grows to the size of the parent and then similarly divides, and so 011 as long as food and other conditions of their life are pres ent. One species (that common in old hay) has been observed to divide in this way every half hour, a rate which gives in 24 hours more than 300.000,000,000,000 of in dividual rods as the offspring of one parent rod. Some idea may be formed of their smallness by examining tbe drawing, and reflecting that, if a drawing of a well grown man were made to the same scale of magnification, the drawing would have to be a mile and a half long. Bods are by no means the only shapes under which the Schizomycetes, or, as it is convenient to term them, the "bacteria," present them selves. They often split up so far as to be come tiny spheres, when they are called "micrococcus" (a). The commonest form is biscuit-shancd (c), and very often the rods, instead of breaking as they grow, eloneate so as to become long filaments called "the leptothrix form," consisting of several seg ments adhering ta one another (O- '-Che filament as it grows mav take a spiral twist, when it is called "spiriflum"(h),and should it then break into segments, as it often does, each segment is called a "comma" or "comma bacillus" (i). A less twisted form than the spirillum is the "vibrio" (g). All the forms shown in the illustration may be' assumed according to the conditions of growth by one anri the same race or Bpecies of bacteria.bnt some seem to be more limited than others as to changing their form of growth. A good many are known only as micrococci; some are known which grow for a time as bacilli, or rods (e, k), and then may break up and continue to grow as micrococci. Some of tbe bacteria shown are as follows: (j) diamond or donble cone, the form of the bacterium of fowl cholera; (n) the tubercle bacillus, showing the moniliioim shape of the protoplasm as seen when stained with aniline dye; (o) a bit of tbe leptothrix form of the anthrax bacterium, showing the form ation of spores in separate chambers; (w) a spirillum with a jelly envelope (Leucono stoc). AN EMIGRATION OF ANTS. March of a Black Army That Had Grown Tired of Its Quarters. Nature's Eealm. One afternoon, while lying on a moss covered bank under cover of tbe shady wood reading "Eambles of a Naturalist Around Philadelphia," I noticed and became in terested in a great army of small black ants traveling along the dry sandy bed ef the gutter below me on the roadside. Tracing the line ot march back I found they were leaving their old habitation on the side bank among the grass for some unexplained reason. They were not encumbered by any un necessary luggage, not even provisions. Their young, like maggots without legs, were carried. Thousands of males, lemales and neuters, the latter being soldiers and workers, comprised the line marching for ward. Though scattered, a distinguished teatureof order and intelligence appeared, as some were going back and forward, stopping an ant here and there to give some order evidently. BOILING A CIGARETTE. Health and Money Easily Saved by Those ' Who Must Have the Bolls. KewTorkFress. Notwithstanding the vigorous denuncia tions medical men have launched against the smoking of cigar ettes, it is pretty evi dent the dainty little cylinders of tobacco and paper are stead- I ily growing in popu- Placing the lobacco. larity, and that the warnings "and protests so plentifully scat tered have little if any effect in deterring those who have acquired a taste for them from pursuing it too often literally to the bitter end. Without approving of the practice, read ers or the rress who will smoke cigar ettes would do well to follow the exam pic of one who has been a regular cigar ette smoker for over 20 vears and make The Firtt Fold. his own cigarettes. Hy doing this they will not only secure a healthier, but also a more enjoyable smoke. The ready-made cigarette is in more ways thon one a delu sion. In the first place, to give it shape and permaneucy, the tobacco has to be tightly packed, whereas it should be so lightly rolled that the'slightest effort will draw a sufficient current of air through it to maintain the com bustion. Again, in the bought cigarette tbe tobacco has al most invariably be come hard aud dry Soiling. before it is smoked. The result Of this Is that it burns too rapidly, giving out a hot, unpleasant smoke, which, if the smoking is continned for any length of time, will invevitably produce the burn ing of the lips and throat that novices so frequently complain ot. By purchasing tobacco and paper, the only materials required, the smoker can in sure the quality 01 both, and by making up his own cigarettes he will have them at half the cost, while the pleasure to be derived from tbem will be more than doubled. The illustrations given show the process so clearly that it is only necessary to say that the tresher the tobacco and the more lightly and evenly it is rolled the more en joyable and healthy will the smoker find bis cigarette. Do Ton Cough? Take Kemp's Balsam, the best cough cure, Sample bottles tree of druggists, Large bot-ues60c,H. M$ I V -rS OCvX''.A ga feisi r 1J V I DEINKING IS NO SIN, It Is as Right to Drink Wine as It Is to Eat Bread, bat Eicoss IS THE EVIL THAT MUST BE MET. Weak-Willed Men and Hen Whose ampla Cause Others to Fall Ex- HATE NO EIGHT TO TOUCH LIQUOR iWltlTTKN TOB THE DISPATCU.I Psalms 104:5 Wine that maketh glad the beartof man. Proverbs 20:21 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Proverbs 31:6, 7 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto them that be of heavy hearts. Bet him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more. Isaiah 25:6 The Lord of Hosts shall make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. Col. 2:21 Touch not; taste not; handle not. Jer. 35 Drink no wine, neither ye nor your sons, forever. I Tim. 523 Drink no longer water, bnt use a little wine for tby stomach's sake and thine oft infirmities. Matt. 11:19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous and a wine-bibber, a friend ot publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children. Nobody will dispute tbe importance of the subject of temperance, nor the need of emphatic utterance upon it. Intemperance is an evil to which a bnsy, hurried, alert and nervous people have peculiarlv strong temptations. And when these 'people live, as we do, in a wet climate, where rain falls two or three days out of nearly every week, intemperance becomes a most'vigorous and enterprising and treacherous adversary. In Europe, in the warmer countries of the continent, everybody drinks. The dining table at every hotel is well laden with wine glasses and bottles, and the saloon keepers are the busiest of all the citizens. But nobody gets drunk. Iu those lauds of clear skies ana warm sun and leisurely living, they have not tbe need which we have for temperance societies. But in England, and still more in Scotland, you see drunken men along the streets. Two Allies of Intemperance. A wet climate and a nervous tempera ment, the condition under which life in this country is almost universally carried on, create a craving for strong drink.' Now, the first evil which follows upon an iuebri ate indulgence in strong drink is that the drinker is unfitted for his duties. He is only the halt or the tenth part ot a man. Everybody has duties in this world, and it is everybody's business tn attend to his duties. That is what God has put us in the world for. And a man's duty demands a clear eye and a steady hand and a reason able mind. Whoever has an aching and dizzy head, and cannot see straight out of his eyes, cannot do his work. It was set down as a rule for the priests of the Jewish Church: "Donot drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor tby sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the con gregation." The priests had two exceeding ly important duties: They were o perform a service of worship before Almighty Gud, and they were to teach the will of God so that the people might understand and follow it. They needed for these duties every faculty, every ability, every measure of strength and steadiness of hand, every de gree of clearness of brain they had. And wine or strong drink might interfere. Put it away. Drink no wine nor strong drink, lest it take away ynnr manhood, and unfit you for your duty. That was good ad vice then and now. Address to the Highest Class. One of tbe most lamentable evils of in temperance is the ruin which it brings into human life, and sometimes into the lives of men who ought to stand as high amon their brethren as the priests of the ancient church stood among the people of Israel. It is significant that this warning is addressed not to the law, and degraded, aad ignorant, and besotted, but to the intelligent, the re fined, the religious, the leaders. Such men as those need that warning still. Who is there that does not know some lawyer, or physician, or merchant, or perhaps eveu a miuister, who might be at the head of hhr profession, winning honorable fame, making the world better, achieving all manner of glorioussuccesses butnpon whom thiscurse has fallen, that he cannot or will not keep from drink; and so is making a misera ble aud pitiful failure or his life, putting away all prosperous achievement and all decent happiness out of it, making his name a by-word among all Know bim. , Who is there who does not kuow some young man, the son of an honorable family, the heir to a goodly heritage of wealth and high position and fair fame, wbo might be such a man among men that all the neigh borhood and the city where he lives should be proud of him but he has taken to strong drink; be has abandoned all the.fine possi bilities of his life, and unfitted himself for its dnties; and be has a reputation which is a regret and a pity in all decent society, and is going, as men say, to the devil. ' "Do not drink wine nor strong drink." It is good advice. Others Most Suffer. And the second evil which attends a fail ure to follow this advice is that the drinker brings shame and ptin upon, his friends and npon his family.. Drnnkenuess is the most detestable selfishness. It makes a white man worse .than an Indian. It is a characteristic of the most degraded sav agery, that the meu drink nnd the women work. The man lies about the house like a great unclean animal, while tbe woman is working her bands off supporting herself and him. Every clergyman, every district visitor, everybody wbo knows any thing of tbe life of the poor, is well aware how this barbarism has its place in the midst of our Christian civilization. I would not lay all the poverty at the door of driuk. I do not believe that drunkenness causes poverty any more than poverty causes drunkenness. The two great evils of our day are forever intersecting and pounding down like two trip hammers upon the life of whole retrions ofonrcreat cities. Out of miserable, empty, uilbj m'uico uicii fcu tu me -Jicau, gllnenng, warm saloons. The saloon is tbe only decent place which a good many men have to go to. It is true that the homes might be kept cleaner; but that is pretty hard to do when poverty sits in ouechrirand discouragement in the other. The women have no heart to brighten.up their houses. But the men are selfish. In five cases out of teu, at least, the family is poor, aud tbe home is dark and mean, and the children cry for bread, and tbe woman's heart is broken, because the man steals tbe money which belongs to his family, and gives it to the saloon keeper. Thoughts a Drunken Man Inspires. The thought which comes into your heart when you see a drunken man making bis devious aud uncertain way along the street is not so much a thought about the man as about his wife and children, or about his father and mother. The man is a pitiable object; he looks part fool and part animal. All respectable .people behold bim with contempt aud sorrow, and keep as far away from him as possible. Voa are thankful that this miserable, staggering, unclean parody and caricature of manhood is not one of your acquaintances. But your thoughts go along with him, and you see him reeling into the doorway of bia house. You pioture the shame and the tears of his wile aud his little ones. vTou know how tbe children feel to have a father at whom other children jeer and call as he staggers along tbe road. Ton know that if he is not too drunk to stand and speak he will heap abuse upon abuse by mistreating his wife. There are many fathers iu this city who go home, beasts like that,, and "turn their weak, over-worked wives out of thefr doors, beat ing tbem and their children. So 1 say that drunkenness is the synonym of selfishness. It transforms a decent man into an aninial for which there is no name in the ziologies. It sacrifices upon the pagan altar of appetite all the holiest affec tion of human life. It breaks women's hearts. The author of it is tbe devil. AnAbtuted Quotation. And yet there teems to be another side to this matter. One of the, texts which I quoted was painted up on a transparency, aud set in front of a saloon" in New York City, so thev say, some years ago. It is an invitation to the bar. "Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto them that be of heavy hearts. Let him drink and forget bis poverty, and remember his misery no more." That is the advice which is given in tne Bible to the poor and miserable. Go to the saloon and drink, and forget your tronblesl I quoted, one verse, out of many like it, from the Psalter. It is a sentence in praise of wine. "Wine that maketh glad the heart of man." It is set down side by side with the praise of bread "bread that strength eneth man's heart," Presently we read a description of the joys of tbe good times to come under the symbol of a banquet which all the nations of the 'earth are bidden to, aud where the Lord Himself is tbe host, and they have wine aflbe banquet. Tbe prophet mentions that twice over, so that there may be no mistake about it "a feast of wines on the lees, of wines on the lees well refined." No unfermented grape-juice at this banqnet, but wines of the very richest and strongest quality. Such a banquet, with the servants busv with the wine flasks and the guests well provided with glasses, the Lord God Himself spreads for Hisfriends. Oft Quoted St. Paul. Jonadab, the son of Beehab, founded the first. temperance society. He took a pledge, and imposed it upon his sons, to drink no wine. But St, Paul, who is considerably nearer to us than Jonadab, the son of Beehab, advises Timothv to driuk wine rather than water. And, thongb, in the epistle to the Colossians be recites a text which the temperance societies are very fond of, saying, "Touch not, taste not, handle not" he quotes it only to differ from it. "Why are you subject to ordi nances?" be says. Why are ye bound by a multitude of petty rules and regulations, as yonwere In the days of your Judaism, following commandments which men have Kdevised, snch as "touch not, taste not, Flionrll., ...49" ru-:.i:n. ...-i. . i. r... auuii. mvi.. VU1MUAU3 UUgLh fcU UG JICC. "Let no man judge you in meat. Let no man judge you in drink." So that St. Paul can hardly be cited in defense of teeto talism. finally, we come to the Example of ex amples. And we find that tbe Lord Christ Himself came eating and drinking, and that people who desired to find fault with Him called Him a wine-bibber. We know that He began His ministry by turning water into wine, and that He ended it by consecrating wine with bread to be the chief symbol and sacrament ot His religion. -Excess Is the Sin. Now, what shall we say? Why, we will say that drinking is no sin. There is no more sin is drinking than there is in eating. It is, as right to drink wine as it is to eat bread. It is drinking too much which is sin. It is when drinking unfits one for the dnties of his life, or brings trouble upon his familv, that it becomes sin. There are two kinds of people who have no right to take liquor. First, there are tbe people who are of such a temperament, of such strength of appetite and such weak ness ol will, that they cannot keep from drinking too much. I believe that there are a good many people of that kind. For them it is true, as the writer of the proverb says, that "wine is a mocker." Keep away from it. Shun it as you would a serpent. Avoid it as you would a poison. So far as you are concerned, it is" a serpent and there is poison in it. There are a good many people for whom tbe only safe thing is a promise and vow of total abstinence. And there are other people who are the companions ol these weak-willed brethren. Their example counts fox much. If tbey abstain, it will be easy lor this brother to abstain who ought to. St. Paul said he would rather not taste wine while the world stood than make any man stumble. That is the right spirit. All the time we are of necessity making choices. And the choice is not always between good and bad. Often it is between better and good. Here is a pleasure on one side, a cheerful, delightful pleasure; that is good. And here is a duty on tbe other side, a duty which we owe tn God, and which is fulfilled by the helping of our neighbor. Shall we make any difficulty about tbe choice? Will it be hard for anybody to say which of these two is to be done? Shall a swallow of wine be preferred before the happiness of a friend's life? Not To Be Ascetics. We must make the rule for our own selves. That is what St. Paul says. Cir cumstances make infinite differences and change the whole horizon of duty. In gen eral, nothing hindering, we are to get all tbe good pleasures out of life which life has in it. "We are to delight our eyes with all the lovely scenes, and our ears with har monious sounds, and our tongues with all sweet tastes. We are not to be ascetics.mak ing our bodies miserable, for tbe sake of making them miserable. We are to live as Christ lived, among men, in society, eating and drinking what is set before us. But remember that for all these thincs God will bring us into judgment. They may be right they may be terribly and selfishly wrong. Ana the final remedy for intemperance is not to be discovered in legislation. Prohi bition will not enre it, high license Will not abolish it. It is not to be looked for in temperance societies, or promises or pledges. Intemperance will be- driven ont of human society only in proportion as real Christian ity comes in. Let a man realize his posi tion in God's world, with duties to do, and strength giveu him to do tbem; let him real ize bis relation to his brother man, a rela tion which is meant to be loving and not selfish, helpful and not harmful nor hinder ing and ne will guide his steps aright, whether in eating or in drinking or in any other of the common acts of life. We need to be converted. We need to recognize the infinite seriousness of life. We need to set our affections upon things above, not on things which are on the earth. We need to think less about what we shall eat and what we shall drink, and to think a great deal more about tbe kingdom of God aud His righteousness. 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