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A farmer and a miller once had a-violent
quarrel, and although they had formerly
been good neighbors, and their lands joined,
they becama the bitterest enemies, and each
wished to injure the other. Conrad, the
former's ton, and .Martha, the miller's
daughter, had been friends and playmates;
but now on account of the strife'between the
two fathers the children were not allowed
to meet nor to play together. As Conrad
walked in the field with his mother, he
said:
"It is such a long time since I haTe eeeen
Martha. "Why docs my father forbid me to
go to her hou? e?"
"Because," replied the mother, "the mil
ler is an evil man, and has done us a great
wrong."
"But surely, I can play down by the mill
pond," said the boy, "and if Martha is
there, I need not go to the miller's house-"
The farmer's wife frowned and said:
"Do not go near the mill pond, or the wa
ter nymph, iho lives there will surely
carry you to her home under the water."
These words did not frighten Conrad; for
he had heard that water sprites had very
beautiful homes, and many treasures were
to be seen under the waves. So the boy,
who was usually obdient, thought:
"If I cannot play with ilartha, I shall go
to the mill pond and watch for the water
nymph, who perhaps will tell me how I can
gain my father's permission to go to the
miller's.""
Little Martha, too, was very lonely with
out her friend and playmate, and thought
her parents very cruel because they would
not allow her to run across the wheat field
to Conrad's home.
One night the water nymph, who lived in
the miller's pond, came from her beautiful
palace under the water to the surface of the
stream. But instead of dancing over the
waves, as was her custom, the little sprite
sat down on the the shore, under the will-
lows', end pazed sadly over the fields, look
ing to whi'e in the soft moonlight. As she
&s .at, in old woman with a hooked
so--- ai d snapping black eyes, approached
nnd fuid:
"You are as charming as ever, little
nymph, bnt why are you so sad this beauti
fa' nigin, cud hr are you not chasing tbe
w. e over the j'ond'"'
The ainiph grectly disliked the old witoh,
Tho had a v -ry evil nature, and answered
without looking vp.
"I h'U verj lonely here in this pond, and
1 d i cot lvnow why my father gave me this
home so far away "from my brothers and sis
ters. Wnen tbe children used to play on
the shorr , I couid hear theirmerry voices all
dav, mid at mrht, while playing with the
waves, I could sing the 6ongs they had sung.
Hut they do not come here any more, and I
wait in vain lor them." -
'That is oecause the farmer and the mil
ler lue had a foolish quarrel," said the
witch. "You know that I am guardian of
the -a heat held, and all my beautiful grain
Is going to waste just because the miller will
not riii.l the farmer's wheat. To-morrow I
fchail set" the field on fire and, if little
Marf'-.a i among the wheat, the miller will
loo Lis daughter. But if you ere so lonely,
why do jou not persuade Conrad, the
farmer's son, to go with you to your home
under the water? Your crystal palace
would have such a charm for him that he
would soon lose ell desire to return to his
hui.ible home and tbe parents would bo
punished foi- their foolishness in not allow
ing their Fon to play with his little friend.
I am sure that he will come to the shore in
the morning and then you can carry him
cat"
With these words the old witch disap
peared, laughing at the sorrow she was
about to bring upon the two neighbors.
The next morning, when the farmer's
wife thought thai Conrad was playing in the
held, the boy stole away to the mill pond.
He had scarcely arrived there when the
water nymph, her beautiful face wreathed
in smiles, glided over the water and, draw
ing near, sjid to Conrad:
''Why have you ":ard away so long? I
have been -very lonely witboutyou."
The boy Vc so astonished over tbe lovely
creature and her sweet voice that he could
and no words to reply to her question.
"Coaie witb me," continued the nymph,
"I have long wished to show you my crys
tal palace, nlled -nith the choicest treas
ures." She then took Conrad's hand and led him
under th: water. The boy had thought to
tee noudraus bea.itics, but lis was in no
way prepared for the enchanting scenes
which 'jiread out before him. There were
broad avenues co ered with pearls and bor
dered with flowers of many gay colors.
Hfcrps, touched by ihe gentle breeze, pro
duced the sweetest music Through the
trees could be seen the lairy palace, gleam
ing and glistening as if made of precious
stones. When Conrad, accompanied by the
njmph, had examined and admired tbe
beauties and treasures of the palace, the
nymph said:
".Now, dear Conrad, I want you to stay
here, and when in a year I go to my father's
home in the deep sea this palace and all it
contains shall be yoan."
The hoy looked thoughtful for a moment,
and then replied:
"If Martha, the miller's daughter, wero
here to play with mc, I think I could stay."
"I shall go to the shore, and watch for
her, and bring her here," said the nymph,
and t,!ip then hurried to the top of the
pond, where rhe was met by the witch of
the wheat field, who said:
"So you have carried the farmer's son to
tout come, and I iate taken tho miller's
daughter to my littlo hovel A fine timo
they will have searching for their children.
If the smoke from the burning wheat smoth
ers the little girl I shall not care."
Just at that moment the miller and his
wife camo to the shore and began callingfor
their daughter. The old witch disappeared,
and the nymph hid among the willows, but
she could hear every word that was said,
and her heart was so touched at the grief of
the parents over their lost child that she
hurried to the palace, and cried:
"Conrad, haste to the miller, and tell him
that the wheat witch has taken his daughter
and carried her to her hovel."
Conrad, anxious to rescue his little friend,
lost no time in making his way to the shore.
nere ne iouna not only tne miller ana his
wife, but also his father nnd.mother, who in
great distress were searching for their son.
The boy had hardly repeated the nymph's
message when a great cloud of smoke arose
.from the field and the wheat was all ablaze.
The little nymph, peering above the waves,
also saw the flames, and knew how soon the
smoke might fill the witch's hovel and suf
focate the little girl who had been .carried
there. Then she cried in pleading tones:
'Dear water, in which I have lived so
long, you have always been kind to me, now
show kindness to others. Rise above the
shore, haste to the wheat field and destroy
the cruel flames."
The water heeded her entreaties and rose.
a first slowly, then faster and faster until
it reached and extinguished the flames
which were rapidly spreading over the
field. For a long time the neighbors, for
getful of their quarrel, sought in vain for
the witch's hoveL Then the nymph, un
mindful of her father's command not to
leave the pond, sprang out of the water and
running across the field ofiered to lead the
way to the miserable home of the witch.
When they arrived there they found the
hideous old woman cooking some bad
smelling broth over a wood fire, and in
a dark comer sat little Martha, too
frightened to more. But when she
saw her parents and the farmer and
his wife, she sprang up with a glad cry, and,
before her jailer could prevent her, the
whole party were hurrying away from the
place. The old witch was furiously angry,
and was about to resort to some of her mag
ic arts in order to bring back her victim,
wien the water, at the command of the
nymph, again arose, and, filling the hut,
drowned the wicked witch, and the country
was ever after freed from its terror of her.
Of course, the farmer and the miller never
renewed their quarrel. They once more be
came firm friends, and the two children
were, as before, constant playmates. They
loved best to spend their play hours on the
shore of the millpond, where the water
nymph would often join in their sports.
"When the year had passed, and the time
came when the little water sprite was to re
turn to her father's home, she leftherpalace
and all its treasures to Martha and Conrad.
And even to this day pearls and other treas
ures are washed up by the waves on the
shore of the millpond. Eatsie.
SOME ENIGMATICAL NUTS.
Puzzles for the little Folks That "Win Keep
Their Brains Boiy for Most of. the Week
U They Solve Them Correctly Home,
AmuscmenU.
Address communications far this department
toK.il. CaADBomur. Zewuton, Maine.
169i XS AStERICAlT BOOK.
XRANSrORMATKW SCESES.
A Turkish arrow struck a do
And thus failed "to appear"
Where It was aimed, within tho breast
Of one who crouched with fear,
li.
An Irishmnn who tried to shoot
A sea bird, did so well
"A model" for his friends he stood
"A specimen" quite swelL
hi.
A witch who lit a cindlo small
Transformed It in a trico:
It turned into a "woolly plaut"
Called ilulluln by act vice.
IV.
Aperon who In all pursuits
Could train and teach with care.
Became a "red-nosed baboon,"
And wisdom did foreswear.
GWESDOLIHE.
1G06 CKABADE.
Did you over go a-camping?
On tho hillsido pitch your tentt
Wneroyou spendthe days a-trampihg,
When prime total you are bentT
Tis a pleasant thin?. I siy It,
To escaDe tho burning neatt
Nor unduly I d'splay it
Get the ery best to cat.
last will still the yonthrul rover,
iJeatmg in our veins to-day!
EtiU ourhcart3hall;natnevei
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Llfo shall find us cheerful, pay.
H. C. BUIK3ER.
1697 DIAMOND.
L A letter. 2. Mamma, a Ban. i. Rages.
8. Cultivation (Obs). 6. Those who pay an
nual rents raised to the utmost. 7. Gaster
s'nodoua molluskn. Imvinir tnrret-shaned
shells. 8. Notched. 8. Show. 10. A plant..
11. A letter. jiUOEKE.
1698 DECAPnvtnOK.
The pitiless last of sorrow
May dull for a time, the tvhole;
But there waits a dreary to-morrow.
Bad waking for sorrowful soul.
Better the tears quick starting,
To lighten the weight of oare,
To lessen our sorrow's smarting,
Then leaden, dry-eyed despair.
Botes S wee, ,.
1699 DOUBLE CROSS TTOBD.
In "famous men;"
In "nine or ten;"
In "toil and care;1
In "part and share:"
In "Storm and shadef
In"8traw and blade."
Best, obreek, tho quiet country,
When you need a little rest:
Roam through primal, over final,
See Dfttne Xature at her best.
Here you find true relaxation,
Freedom from all troubling cars
Drink of Nature's Inspiration,
Gather sunbeams here and there.
Live your life, he good and noolei
Life, just as we wish, is made.
Eence your every act ennoble;
Trust not Fortune fickle Jade.
II. C Broom. -
1700 EHOJTBOID.
-Across: L Execrates. 2. A corpse. .. Hav
ing buds. 4. Umbrellas (Obs). 8. A dis
ease in norses. u. jmrmmg macmueu. i. in
vincible necessity.
Down: L A letter. 2. A termination. 3. A
doo in its second year. 4. A bird. 6. A mas
culine nickname. 6. Wooded land. 7. In
snared. 8. Small columns. 9. A fish. 10.
Tolled. 1L An abbreviation. 13. An abbre
viation. 13. A letter. Iron Mask.
1701 ENIGMATICAL AKAGBASL
I would not live without It,
Tis precious as my life,
And yet it cost mo nothing,
While with meaning rife
"O, merepaths?'
I ne'er have been without 1
Nor shall I ever be,
Until, with dim eyes dying,
Tho last of earth I see
"O, merepaihs."
Though no'er III bewlthouttt,
IT LHIUUb 1 JTCU BUI -i
As Barely I'm within It
As stars are in the sky.
"0,mere paths."
Dtxx.
1702 cpbt a TT.TgTana
No nleasant one permits upom
Her face an ugly whole;
Twill change the grace of sweetest face,
Like Ink an unmarked scroll.
The children shun a scowling ons.
And from her presence hide: I
While smiling dame does homage olalm
And keep them by her side.
Brmcn Sw&ik
1703 DOUBLE ACROSTia
(Word of Five Letters.
1. A man of great wealth. 2. To accustom.
8. Moving circularly. 4. Belating to an houp.
5. A dress for tho head. C Palatable. 7. To
cry out loudly. 8. A tree. 9. A sofa. 10.
Something beyond the usual course.
The initials will give the common name of
a common plant.
The finals another name of tne same plant.
COEA A. HOWABD.
1704 TEANSPOsnioir.
One dreads tho oft-descending rod,
Or cowers neath some tyrant's nod)
That tyrant may In self be found,
By appetite or passion bound.
No two are found upon his board.
Unless purloined from other's boardi
In three he'll find a healing balm,
For bruised flesh or other harm.
If first he four in limpid brook
That runs throaghjlva by many a crook.
Sehex.
ANSWERS.
16S4L Cl-pher. 2. Cl-der. 8. Bl-lent.
Ei-ren. B. 61-pbon. 8. Si-zy. ' 7. Cy-press.
Oy-nosure. 8. Bci-entiflo.
16S5 Becral. srlaro.
1683 Than-o-top-sls,
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XSra-Faltn, Hope-and Charity.
1689 Josephine. The enigma Is an
acrostic
1690 L Tract, ex-tract, abs-tract, de-tract,
con-tract,at-tract1dis-traot,re-tract,pro-traot,
sub-tract. S. Splro, a-spire, con-spire, In-splre,
per-splre, re-spire, tran-spire. 3. Scribe,
a-senbe, ciroum-scribe, con-scribe, de-scribe,
ln-scribo, pre-soribe, pro-scribe, sub-scribe,
tran-scribe,post-scribe. 4. Pose,ap-pose, com
pose, de-pese, dls-pose, er-pose, lm-pose,
inter-pose, op-pose, pre-pose, pro-pose, pur
pose, re-pose, sup-pose, trans-pose,
16911. Churl, lurch. 2. Stop, post.
lKtt-M-arc-h.
169S CLASSICS
OLUSTEKS
CHASTISE
CHATTERS
PLASTERS
BOASTERS
TOASTERS
GRASPERS
Tbe Horned Owl.
rwwTTix ron thb mm atcbj.1
Llnzie
What strange looking creature Is that, Aunt
Clare,
That looks fierce enough to give one a
scare!
Aunt Clare
That queer looking bird Is the horned owl,
Lizzie,
He sits on a height that would make you
L'zzie
What is he doing, ""
Is he out a wooing!
Aunt Clare
He's waiting 'till night,
And then he'll alight
Among tho chickens
And raise the dickens.
Lizzie
Can't tbe old rooster save their lives.
Defend himself and protect his wives?
Aunt Clare
No; the rooster may flap his wings and
crow,!
But the fattest chicken has got to go
To make a feast for tho owl's young daugh
ter. Who likes fat hens, though she hadn't
oughter. , Aukt Clabk.
Or Words to That Effect.
London Globe.
Latest additions to the Dictionary of
Daily Euphemisms. Theme: "The honor
able member made an ass of himself." Va
riation: "The honorable member unfortun
ately debarred himself, by a rather mala
droit incursion into a subject which he had
better left alone, from moving the really
valuable resolution of which he had (riven
notice."
jms6Emwm
The Horned Old.
THE FETTSBTIBG DISPATCH. SUNDAY, AUGUST 80, 1891
A SMILE AND A BOW
Is JYhat the Eich Young Man of Chile
Is Always Dispensing
BUT STBEET ETIQUETTE 18 BA1V
rTue Hale Creation Will Not Budge -and Are
Bare to Hake Remark.
HAED LINES OP THE WASHERWOMEN.
tcoiraicsroHDZxcx of the dispatch.
Concepciojt, Chile, Aug. 4. The
stranger to this remote corner of creation is
apt to imagine that the Chileansiare a semi
barbarous nation, wretchedly clad, If clad
at all, with little refinement and less edu
cation, superstitious, cruel and blood
thirsty. When first arrived here aston-
ished by the magnificence of "los Bicos"
(the wealthy class who, though numerically
few, yet rule both Church and State), their
splendid casas and numerous schools and
places of amusement, their costly living and
stylish dressing and dazzling display of
Jewels, and their graceful and generous hos
pitality he jumps at the conclusion that
his previous impressions were absurdly and
entirely erroneous.
But as time goes on, and he learns how
the "common people," who make up the
bulk of the poDulation. live and move and
have their being he reluctantly comes
back to his first opinion as concerning a
large majority of Chileans. There are so
manv conditions of existence in the land.
.and consequently such a variety of charac
ter, tnat one may say ot tnese people witn--equal
truth they are both highly civilized
and suns in barbarism; protoundly edu
oated and densely ignorant; rich as CrtEsus
and poor as Job's oft-mentioned turkey;
that they live in palaces furnished with every
modern luxury, and in mud hovels with
nothing but beans and raw clams for "daily
bread;" that they are the most warm
hearted, genial, hospitable and thoroughly
delightful people in the world, as well as
the most treacherous, revengeful and never
to be depended upon.
THE LEASING CBABACTERISIICS.
Certain natural characteristics may be
r clearly traced through all classes of society
suoh as the quick, sensational and emo
tional nature, which makes the Chilean
soldier a terrible foe; the Chilean citizen
ready to lay down his life at any moment
for a point of honor or the cherished insti
tutions of his belayed country; the Chilean
L lady or gentleman a most generous and de-
vuLeu irjeuu; uie umieuu lover, iuiub or xe
mole, ardent to an extravagant degree hard
ly conceivable by an Anglo-Saxon mind,
and inclined to jealousy as sparks fly up
ward. In Chile the typical Elco (rich man),
young or old, dresses every day in figura
tive purple and fino linen. For him there
is no "seoond-best" attire in the way of a
rough-and-ready morning costume or busi
ness suit, for he has no need of spchbeing
like the lilies in that he toils not, neither
does he spin. His clothes are always fine.
dainty and fashionable as an artist tailor
can "create" them; his polished hair care
fully parted in the middle or trained to
stand straight up a la pompadour: his im
maculate shirt cuffs, with conspicuously
Jeweled buttons, extending toward his
knuckles just so far by a hair's breadth; his
very small, sharp-toed, high-heeled shoes
reflecting his beauty as in twin mirrors; his
monogram-embroidered handkerchief deli
cately scented, and in his eyes a handsome
diamond ring and scarf-pin are no less es
sential than shirt or trousers. He has been
taught deportment from his cradle, and mas-
r tered that science to perfection at an early
age. V18 oiten as ne meets you, De it a
dozen times a day, he holds his slender cane
daintly in one well-gloved hand while tip
ping his faultless tile with the other, bows
gracefully and low, and shakes you by the
haud with never the slightest perceptible
variation in the depth of the obeisance or
the warmth of the shake; unless you happen
to be a man and an intimate friend, in
which case he may embrace and kiss you.
HOSPIIAUXY OP THE RICH..
It, being only a casual acquaintance, you
Call upon him oa an errand of business or
pleasure, he will hasten to inform you that
everytning ne possesses is unreservedly
yours his house, himself, his family, his
servants, nre all a su disposition do usted
"at your disposal." His wife, who is gener
ally beautiful and always well dressed, will
smile on you benignly through a drift of
face-powder with a touch of rouge on either
side the nose,and assure you in soft-voweled
Spanish of the pleasure she feels of thus
forming your acquaintance and make you
believe ft, too, which is the best part of it.
Fellow foreigners tell us that all this trop
ical courtesy means little and is only "skin
deep." Bat who cares to go deeper? It is
delightful, all the same, and quite deep
enough to outlast the occasion.
We, who profess to be a cultured people,
and are likely to stiffen our neoks with
Yankee conceit when our ways are com
pared with those of other nations, might
learn from the Chilenos agood many needed
lessons In common politeness. For ex
ample, they never enter or leave a coach,
street car or other publio vehicle without
bowing to all its occupants. No lady . or
gentleman to the manner born ever sat down
to or arose from a table in Chile, either
public or private, without an inclination
of the head to all present So in shopping
they bow to the merchant or his salesman
on entering or leaving a store. That sort
of thine, it seems to mc. is much more
human between fellow-travelers on life's
short journey than our don't-care-for-any-.
body way.
CUSTOM OH- THE STBEETa
In the streets, however, the average
Chilean might learn some good behavior
from Germans, Englishmen and Yankees.
Here gentlemen consider it a proper tribute
to female beauty to stare into the lady's
face as long ai she remains in the ranges of
vision, whether she appears to like it or
not; and in passing, though she be an en
tire stranger, to address her some compli
mentary remark, suoh as beso sus manors,
Senorita, "I kiss your hands, Miss;" or
"You are very beautiful," "Your eyes are
like tbe heavens," eta When a group of
gentlemen are conversing on the narrow
sidewalk, and a lady approaches they sel
dom think of making way for her, or, at
most, will move nearer the wall, leaving her
the curbstone; and' I have often seen ladies
compelled to step down into the gutter in
order to pass around them.
Tho exouse of these gentlemen is that
'they are not yet acoustomed to female
emancipation. -Lnelr real ladies are seldom
seen alone upon the publio streets, and
Chilian ideas of caste forbid them to show
much deference toward "common people."
In Chile no place Is sacred from the fumes
'of tobacco, except, perhaps, the church.
uentiemen are aiwavs smomng, whether
walking or riding, with or without ladies.
They do it in the parlor, the ball room and
at the table. .The Priest in the Pantheon
takes a whiffbetween his prayers; and the
gay bomberos (firemen), whjle running
with their engines, must pause to light the
oigarrito, be the emergency never so great.
Though in this alleged llepublic, all titles
were long since abolished, many of the old
families who would be glad to retain them,
f till keep up the retinue and state of nobil
ity. A shining example of this was the
late Countess of Torro, who gave the gov
ernment afyearly sum for the privilege of
being called a countess a gratification for
which she could well afford to pay, being
possessed of almost fabulous wealth. Her
enormous, two-storied brick casa was
painted a brilliant red, with white doors
and window casings. Her deceased husband
ordered in his will that its color should re
main unchanged and stipulated that dis
obedience on the part of the widow would
forfeit the property. To the day of her
death the estimable Countess sported a
Parisian coach and four, with four out-riders
and a postilion.
THE MIDDLE CLASS AND POOR.
"The typical middle class Chileno is very
leiristmoreraristocratiodghborUeasypeech-atinrJuflfcfSOO.
In outward annearance. His house may be
almost barren of furniture and the wolf may-
sometimes prowl dangerously near tho
premises; but at all times his manner is pre
cisely like that of los Eicos, and his clothes
are as nearly a copy of theirs as circum
stances will permit. But the Chilian
"Roto" the acknowledged poor man is
an entirely different being, who never apes
gentility, having no style to sustain and no
ambition to rise above the caste in which he
was born. He has no relations whatever
with his richer neighbor, except to servo
Mm for pay whenever occasions require:
and he regards the "Eico" as a great per
sonage, whose dignity ha would fight for
"SI. . ....
xne itoto wears a sloucn nat, aiways
mangy from long usage, dirty breeohes
rolled up at the bottom, and a garment of
indistinguishable hue which he calls a shirt
If the weather is warm, he goes barefooted!
if cold, he olatters around on a pair of
clumsy clogs with wooden soles an inch
thick that is, if he con afford them; if not
,00 goes barefooted both winter and sum
mer. When chilly he dons a heavy blanket,
called a poncho, that has a slit in the mid
dle through which he thrusts his head. He
Is not a beaut thick, course black hair
hanging straight from the crown, high
cheek bouos, wide mouth, ond skin the
color of an old shoe; bnt he has dazzling
white teeth and small hands and feet that
any Gringo might envy. He has no yearn
ings after the unattainable and his few
wants are easily supplied. He desires no
better palace than tne one-room adobe hut,
with straw roof and dirt floor. His furni
ture consists of a rude bench or two by way
of chairs, a pine table or perhaps a dry
goods box in lien of it, abide in one corner
on which to sleep, another rough box.which
serves for trunk, oloset, cup-bbard and the
shrine of his patron saint, a mate cup, and
a pot ot charcoal upon which nis wiie pre
pares the beans and garlic
FILLED WITH SUPERSTITION.
Like all ignorant people, ho is extremely
superstitious, believing in charms and amu
lets as powerful to drive away diseases, and
that the devil roams about in various
guises, perpetrating mischief upon man,
and that saints and angels and even the
Blessed Virgin herself will come in person
if importuned to wrestle with hit satanio
majesty. He is slovenly, slow and patient,
but a man whom it would be wise to avoid
when his anger is aroused. He knows how
to use the terrible curvo, and would think
no more of severing your windpipe with it
than the neck of a chicken.
His numerous sons and daughters grow
up without education, and their most hope
ful ontlook upon the future is to serve in
the rich man s casa. Happy indeed is the
young rustio who can become valet or
major-domo to a gentleman who will pay
him the splendid salary of $6 or $3 per
month, feed him from the refuse of the fam
ily table and clothe him in the cast-off
"purple." The highest aim of tho Boto
maiden1 except, of oourse, the more natural
ambition to marry and set up a home of her
own is to become a cook, with salary all
the way from $3 to $10 a moth, or a lady's
maid, who falls heir to her mi&tress' drag
gled finery.
In this country there is no objection to
"woman's rights" that is, for women of
the Boto class so far as the right to labor
in any avenue is concerned. They are not
only employed as street car conductors, but
they do the street cleaning, and gangs of
them with short willow brooms sweep the
dirt into the ditches long before sunrise.
Outside the cities they keep the shops, the
hotels and the drinking places, besides doing
all the garden work. They occupy the
markets almost exclusively, selling meats
as well as vegetables. The Boto's wife will
carry a basket of fruit around all day on her
head, peddling from door to door, or will
seat herself somewhere in the sun and
patiently await customers, content with the
profit o a few pennies between dawn and
dark.
THEZ ANTICIPATE HAGGLESTO.
To buy anything of her a lengthy negotia
tion is inevitable If she expects to get SO
cents for a basket of peaches, her first price
will 12 or 53. Then she will haggle and
chatter and plead and remonstrate with you;
and if you start away, will abandon other
customers to follow you; until she finally
splits the last straw of difference and goes
bock smiling at her own business ability.
If the husband is a ranchero, the wife or
daughter must drive for him the yoke of
oxen, hitched by the head to a lumbering
cart, and sell the farm produce or wood cut
for burning. The poor lavendera (wash
woman') secmB to have the hardest time of
it. With dresses pinned high aronnd tho
waist, they stand all day knee deep in the
river, pounding the dirt Irom other people's
clothes. In Chile water is never heated for
washing purposes, neither is soap extensive
ly used, nor fabric-destroying bleachers, and
tubs and washboards are unknown. The
lavendera, with a buudle of soiled clothes
on her head, seeks some favorite spot on the
banks of a running stream, where is a pro
jecting rock, and there standing in water
which is almost ice cold during half the
year, she moistens the garments one at a
time, and, laying them on the rock,
pounds the dirt out of them
with a club or wooden paddle. I never saw
whiter linen, but it requires three or four
days to do a washing, every piece being wet,
pounded and bleached, over and oyer again,
until white as snow. I have watched these
poor women during tho winter months,
when chilly, penetrating rains would drench
their garments and I shivered in furs and
flannels standing with bare legs in the
cold stream, six or seven hours a day, every
day in the week. In Santiago and Val
paraiso, where a river or public fountain is
not at hand and the people are more learned
in the ways of the wickel world, the laven
daras wash in shallow wooden trays, kneel
ing upon the giound near their own doors,
and use acids which quickly rot the clothes.
LABOR ALONE 13 CHEAP.
In Chile everything is wonderfully ex
pensive but muscle, and that is of compara
tively little value. A lady's bonnet costs
from $30 to $100; dress silk from 6 to $20
the yard, and the modiste will charge you
?ou from 30 to $50 for making it. In San
iago I paid 12 tho dozen for linen hand
kerchiets of small size and ordinary quality,
and $18 for a pair of button boots which at
home would have cost about 54 60. I am
informed that a gentleman's suit of common
clothes costs from 60 to 100, and a pair of
patent-leather shoes from 15 to 30; and a
silk hat not less than 25. Breadstuff's are
correspondingly high, and for beyond the
reach of the poor Botos.
But there is one luxury In which the
poorest Chilean woman will indulge, what
ever else may be wanting, and that is a
stiffiy starched white petticoat Though
her dress may bo ragged, her feet and head
bare, she would no more do without it than
a Nantucket skipper would dispense with
his pipe. I have seen them splattering
around in the mud, displaying beautifully
laundried white skirts trimmed with hand
embroidery or crocheted lace a quarter of a
yard deep. The first essentials of dress for
a Boto woman, young or old, are a volumi
nous white petticoat, a black mantu, a
cigarette, and a box of musk, gown, shoes
and other toggery being mere accessories.
Fannie B. Waed.
THE D0CT0B BEAT HIHSELE.
He Didn't Size up the Quality of the Oeih
eroslty or His Visitor.'
St. Louts Bepobllcl
A certain well-known German physician
of St, Louis was the victim of his own "prev
iousness" the other day. He had success
fully treated a wealthy lady?s daughter for
diphtheria, and the lady was extremely
grateful for it When the child was
thoroughly well mother and daughter ap-
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"But," said the physician, after an em-
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have sent you a bill
tor woo."
The Jady flushed, then said,
quietly:
"Let me have the purse, please.
She took two 100 bills out of it and re
turned it to him, with the remotk: "There
are 300 in there now, so your bill is paid,"
and left the room.
Now the doctor is cursing his clumsy
tongue for the break it made. That little
THREE GREAT EEAS
In the History of the World, and
Hajjgai Saw the Close of One.
HIS SERMONS FOE THE TEMPLE.
Again and Again He Preached and Success
r- Came to Him at Last.
HISTOET FEOM THE OLD TESTAMENT
wnrrxxir von thx dispatch.!
A study of the lost 12 books of the Old
Testament has this advantage, If it has no
other, that it brings us Into acquaintance
with 12 good men, brave men, leaders of
the people in the everlasting battle of right
against wrong,men afraid of nobsdy not of
the princes, not of the rich, not of the
priests, not even of the people fearing
God only, and so preaching sermons worth
hearing.
In every generation It comes to be be
lieved that "whatever is, Is right" People
get used to wrong, injustice, oppression and
sin, as they do to bad air. And every gen
eration, accordingly, has need of somebody
who shall fling the doors wide open and let
in the winds of heaven, who shall set him
self against the conventional iniquity of
the time and try to get it righted. And
whether they live their brave lives and
speak their fearless words in Italy, or in
America, or in Judea, they ore men whom
to know is a privilege, an uplifting and an
inspiration. And such were the men whose
speeches are set down in the last 12 books
of the Old Testament
A STUDS' TS HISTOBT.
There Is also another advantage In this
kind of study, and that is that we are not
only reading books and hearing men, but
we are learning history; and history, rightly
learned, is as profitable a study as there is.
Because history is the Btory of human life
written in large letters, and therefore plain
to read. That which is obsouro in individ
ual experience is clear in history. I wish
that all the Latin and Greek and grrmmar
and geography could be put off the lists of
studies in the publio schools and history be
put in tho place of them. Modern history,
chief of all; American history first, emphat
ically; but ancient history also, for example
and for warning. A study in the last
12 books of the Old Testament is a study
in history.
Tho Prophet Haggai saw the end of the
first great era of universal history. For the
history of the world falls into three great
eras, the Primeval, the Classic and the Mod
ern. The differences are very striking. The
ruling nations of the Primeval Era were
Egypt, Assyria and Chaldea; their great
cities wero Thebes, Nineveh and Babylon;
they were built beside the three great East
ern rivers, the Nile, the Tigris, the
Euphrates. The rulingnations of the Class
ical Era lived in Greece and Italy; their
chief cities were Athens and Borne; they
were built on hills looting toward the great
inland sea, the Mediterranean. The ruling
nations of the Modern Era speak English;
their chief cities are London and Now York;
between them reaches the wide ocean.
HOW TWO EEA3 ENDED. x
Two of these great eras have come to an
nd, each by a great catastrophe, the fall of
the chief city. And in each case this catas
trophe was brought about by an invasion
from the north. There is a strange verse in
the psalter wherein wo read that "promo
tion cometh neither from the east, nor from
the west, nor yet from the south" "up
lifting," the word means, "rule," "con
quest1' no, but from the north. Across
the great continent of Asia and Europe
stretches a long line of mountains, broken
hqre and there, but making a nearly con
tinuous wall or barrier from the Pacifio
coast of Asia to the Atlontio coast of
Europe the Himalayas, the Caucasus, the
Carpathians, the Alps, the Pyrenees. This
notable barrier of mountain divides that
vast continent, north and south, into two
unequal parts.
The great nations of the first two' eras of
tho world's history dwelt south of the moun
tain barrier; the nations of the Primeval
Era occupying tho east, and the na
tions of the Modern Era the west Behind
the mountain wall, in the north, lived the
barbarians. Down they came over the great
barrier, and first one and then the other of
the two eras ended with the fall of the
ruling city. In St Augustine's day the
Goths took Borne. In Haggai's day the
Persians took Babylon.
BELSHAZZAB'S XiAST NICHT.
Belshazzar, the King of Babylon, sat In
his marvelous palace, well named "The Ad
miration of Mankindj" and a gorgeous ban
quet was sat bciore him. And the men and
women of his wicked court kept feast with
him that night, and drank wine out of gold
and silver chalices which had once been
consecrated for God's service in the Temple
at Jerusalem. And there came a shape like
a man's hand upon the wall, and wrote
three words there, plain ior every scared
courtier to see: Mene, Tekel, Feres: num
bered (and found wanting), weighed (and
found lacking), divided (and given to the
Persians). That night was King Belshazzar
slain, and Cyrus, tho "" Persian, reigned in
his stead.
The result of this notable conquest, as it
concerned the Jewa captive there in Baby
lon, was to set them free. For there was a
bond of union between the Jews and the
Persians in their likenesses of their relig
ions. They were both setagainst polytheism
and against idolatry. Down came the mighty
statue of Bel from his majestio temple tow
ering over the city, and at one rope pulled
a Persian, while at another tugged a Jew.
Cyrus, accordingly, desiring to strengthen
the frontiers of his new kingdom, knew no
better people to live along the Mediterran
ean Sea, beside the road to Egypt, than the
people to whom that country rightfully be
longed, the Jews. And the Jews,therefore,
got permission to go back. And the long
captivity was over.
BAGS TO THE PBOMISED XiAITD.
Back they went, over the old road, a sec
ond, exodus. Again, as their fathers
marched ont of Egypt, so they entered into
the deserts of Assyria, turning their faces
toward the promised land. The Ark with
its sacred tables of stone inscribed with the
moral law of God was lost In the place of
it they carried the consecrated (and dese
crated) vessels of tbe Temple, which had
glittered on Belshazzer's table. And one
might read a prophecy here of that substi
tution of ritual for righteousness, which
was to mark the last stages of their national
history. Thus with words of leave-taking,
the music, and psalm singing, the caravan
pushed out over the gravelly plains. In
lour months they saw the snowy peaks of
Hermon. And down the way along which
Nebuchadnezzar .had pushed his armies to
the capture of the oity, they reached Jeru
salem. The first thing which the returned exiles
did was to begin the rebuilding of the
Temple. That was in the year 533 B. C a
memorable year. The primeval era of uni
versal history ended and the classical era
began in 535. The date is easily remem
bered, in this way: the first Temple at
Jerusalem was built by Solomon about the
year 1000 B.C. ; the last Temple at Jerusalem,
built by Herod, was destroyed by the
Bomans in the year A D, 70: ndw 1000
added to 70 makes 1070, and half of that is
535, the date of the rebuilding of the
Temple in the days of Haggai. .
TWO DISCOEDANT NOISES.
They had a great service the day they laid
the foundations of the Temple, with incense
and musio and' vestments and lights and
trumpets. But there were two discordant
noises; there was a sound of crying and a
sound of cursing. The crying came from
the old men, like Haggai, who had seen the
former Temple: when they contrasted this
with that, their hearts sank within them.
They could not refrain from tears.
The cursine came from the Samaritans.
.pfflo tfiamaritanaoccupiedthe-middle por
tlpn of the land. They were part Jews and
part heathen. When the people of ths
Northern Kingdom had been carried away
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brought in, and the' Jews who remained had
intermarried with them, and the Samari
tans were their descendants. And the
Samaritans wanted to help with the good
work of building the national church.
That raised a hard anestion. What should
be done? On one side was the pride of
race, or pure blood, ot high descent ana
the pride of religion aristocracy and or
thodoxy; two great arguments, one repre
sented by the word society, the other by
the word church. Ou the other side were
two great needs one was the Jews' need of
the camantons strength and money, and
the other was the Samaritans' need of the
privilege of giving their money and their
strength.
THE SA31ASTXANS SHUT OUT-
This last, nerhans. the zealous church
rbuilders did not think of. They did not
consider, perhaps, that one way to help
people is to let them help, n And, anyhow,
it is pretty sure that they had no greatde
sire to help the Samaritans at alL They
were orthodox, and they proposed to have
the orthodox build the orthodox church.
They were the aristocracy, counting back
their ancestors generation after generation,
and they wanted no intermingling of baser
blood. This, at least is certain, that they
said "No" to the Samaritans, and said it
both forcibly and disagreeably.
It was the mistake, which has been many
times repeated, of misunderstanding the use
of truth. Truth, privilege, possession is 4
trust The man, or company of men, that
have a property better than their neighbors
have hold it, in the intention of God, for
their neighbors' benefit We are to be good
stewardsof the mysteries of God. And a
steward is not a policeman nor a soldier.
His work is not so much to guard as to give.
He is a dispenser.
HAOOAI'3 TIBST SEKMON.
At last, one day in September, in the year
520 B. C, probably on the occasion of soma
religions festival, when great crowds of peo
ple were gathered on the Temple hill, this
old man Haggai got up on 'a big piece of
broken stone and made a speech. Xhey all
knew Hageai, one of the few old men among
them; a quiet man, fonder of writing than of
speaking, ot repute among them as a com
piler of their national history, and of some
fame as a poet Some think that he wrote
I part of the book called Ezra, and a dozen
jrsauns are mar&ea witn nis name ana iacn
eriah's. An old man, gray hair flowing over
his shoulders and down his breast; when
they saw him everybody gave attention.
The Prince Zerubbabel was therdvnd Joshua
his right hand, and a great company of
priests and people. So Haggai preached his
first sermon.
Sou.? ot you say, he began, that it isn't
time yet to build the house of God; but I
notica that you are building your own
houses fast enough. Is that right? Shall
the people dwell in handsome palaces, while
the temple of God is a heap of broken stone?
Consider your ways.
That was well said. The house of God,
the Church, stands in every community as
a sign of man's regard for God. It is not
the very best sign, not by any means an
adequate 'sign, but it Is; nevertheless, one
of the ways of estimating how much the
people care about religion. At least, if the
house of God is conspicuously meaner than
the houses in which the majority of the
people live, something is pretty surely the
matter with the people's religion. That is
what Haggai thought
EFFECT OF THE SER3ION.
And Haggai's speech made on impression.
It was one of those sermons which the lis
teners could get hold of and act upon. At
once they set to work. They began to order
stone and wood. They began to clear away
the rubbish from the temple hill. The
good effects of a sermon sometimes last a
long time; but more often, I am afraid, they
last a short time. Anyhow, it seems to be
considered a desirable thing to harve a new
v sermon, and even two new sermons, every
Dunaay.
Haggai's sermon stayed in the minds of
the congregation just about two weeks.
Then the enthusiasm wore away. It began
to be seen that the task was an immense
one. I suppose that the plan of the unbuilt
temple looked about as large in the eyes of
the workers as that great sanctuary which
Ezekial sketched in exile, so big that it
covered the whole country from the Jordan
to the sea, and from the peaks of Lebanon
to the desert of the South, It seemed too
much to undertake. And, beside the
splendid church they had before, how could
they ever make this look like anything?
So work was stopped. The rubbish had
been about half cleared away. Not a stone
had been laid upon a stone. Everybody
was disoouraged.
SEASONS BY WHAT Z9 LETT.
So a month passed, and then Haggai
preached again. Don't be discouraged, ne
said. It is true that the new temple cannot
equal the old to-day: perhaps, in some ways,
never. But do the best you can; that is all
God asks. Some people woa't give any
thing because they can't give 500. They
full in TPftll7( th v.llllp nr thft llttlp TliA
two richest churches in'diis country to-day
are the Boman Catholic and the Methodist
They are both of them churches of the poor.
The secret of it is that everybody helps.
Give what you can. God measures the gift,
not by what is given, but by what is left
God will bless you, said Haggai. And
he looked far ahead into the luture, and
saw the nations of the heathen bringing
their riches to adorn this temple, and God
Himself giving peace in the midst of it
And ahead we look, past Haggai's time, and
on and on, till the Christ comes, and the
temple becomes but a symbol of the uni
versal church, and the old prophecy is real
ized beyond the prophet's brightest dreams.
FORGOT (THE SEBMON AOATN.
So the people were encouraged and went
to work again; and the effect of this second
sermon seems to have lasted a whole month,
or perhaps six weeks. And then everything
stopped again. It is so much easier to get
things started than it is to keep them up
after they are started I Now it was Decem
ber, and again there was a great gathering
of the neonle to celebrate the Hebrew
Christmas, and again the prophet lifted up
his voice. He aaked-two questions of the
priests. Suppose a man carries a holy dish,
a sacred vessel of the altar, and his dress
touches somebody else; is that person made
holy? No. But suppose a man who is
ceremonially unclean from touching a dead
body touch somebody else; is that person
then clean or unclean? Unclean.
It was a statement, put in a way which
everybody could understand, of that sorry
fact of life that the evil is more pervasive
than tho good. Health is not contagious,
but disease is. I heard a young man preach
one Sunday at sea to the passengers in the
steerage. He was trying to teach them
something about the duties of good citizen
shin. One of the ways, he said, to be a good
citizen is to keep out of bad company. And
then he told a story about a man who had a
swearing parrot, and he thought that he
might reform $he swearing parrot by giving
him for a companion a good parrot that
didn't swear; but the next day the good
parrot was swearing like the bad one.
THE SACBmCES WEBE LOST.
The sermon n- the temple hill and the
sermon in the steerage taught the same
lesson the lesson of the contaminating in
fluence of evil. But what had that to do
with church-building? Why, this. There
was the great altar smoking with sacrifices
in the midst of the broken walls, and here
were these despondent, indolent and selfish
people offering them. Your offerings are
all polluted by your disobedience, the
preacher said. This is what God wants;
build His church, then your other acts of
obedience will count for something. Then
God will bless you. Look out over the
dusty fields, needing the blessing of the
rain. Look into the empty barns, prophe
sying famine. Look' up into the brazen
sky. How can you expect God to listen
and give fruitful harvests while this whole
nation is despising and defrauding God?
That same day Haggai preached a special
sermon to one man, Zernbabel, tbe Prince.
After all, it is the sermons preached to one
man that telH And after that the work
went on; and the preacher had no need for
any further sermon. And the house of God
was fininhad. Qxosas Hosgss.
A TOUR TO HALIFAX; .'3
Not Snch-aJtodPlace as a Popular' '
Expression Indicates. ""
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Yessels in tho Harbor.
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COJtBISrOOTXXCZ OV TUB DISPATCH.
Boston, Aug. 28. Onr kind Quebec
friends not only accompanied us to the"
steamer, but remained with us until tho
whistle sounded "all aboard," when all not
disposed to remain aboard took a hasty de
parture, waving a kind farewell. The Mira
michi can hardly be called a floating palace,
having been a blockade runner in our lata
war, but she carried us so smoothly over
the waters of the Gulf during the nearly
four days of our sojourn on board, that wa
should choose her again for such a trip.
The pleasant society of new made friends
from Toronto, Albany and Cincinnati mada
the time pass quickly, although the stopping
places were few.
Four hundred and fifty miles from Que
bec, a short stop wasmade at Gaspe, where
Jacques Cartiers first landed in 1534, and a
little further south is Perce, the curious,
arched rock, rising perpendicularly from
the water to a height of several hundred
feet Myriads of gulls were flying about its
surface or perched on its top looking lika
small pegs. Here would be a good place
for adventurous youths to practice the ex
ploits of birds' nest hunters.
A BABY IN FERIL.
Near several small places the steamer an
chored, while small sailboats came ont to
exchange freight and passengers, and at one
time it was such a ticklish business be
tween the rough sea and dodging boat, that
we were greatly relieved when the man
with the baby in his arm3 pitched .into a
seat without dropping the baby. The mania
for souvenir spoons having spread among
the passengers like measles, our stop at
Summuside, on Prince Edward Island, gave
an opportunity for some of the ladies to add
to their collection even there, while others
inspected tbe lobster canning, which is the
chief industry of the place. At Charlotte
town "spoons" again stood first on the pro
gramme of entertainment for those who had
the disease, but to many the innumerabla
jelly fish sporting around the steamer wer
much more interesting.
Saturday morning we were all "on deck"
early to take the train at Pictou. We wero
informed, that the train would stop at Truro
for breakfast, but it was not due there until
9:05 and it seemed as if we would never
start. Gentlemen went foraging in all di
rections but came back with the most hope
less accounts of tho capabilities of Pictou
restaurants. We diverted our thoughts
from our Inward anxieties by examining the
time-table of the Inter-Colonial Railway,
which was adorned by such euphonious
names as Pugwash, Tatamagouche, Meri
gomish, Antigonish, Assametquaghan, etc.,
and such announcements as "train leaving
Halifax at 13:30 o'clock arrives at St John
at 22:30 o'olock and at Montreal at 16:40
o'clock next day," eta
A DISOKSEBLT BREAKFAST.
Truro was reached at last and over two
dozen hungry people poured into the restaur
rant, prepared to illustrate the stimulating
effect on the appetite of a voyage on sals
water. The proprietress met us with looks
of dismay. She had prepared breakfast for
just two people. Alter trying to collect
her badly scattered wits, she promised to do
what she could if we would wait, and there
was no doubt on that point, provided the
train could. Wo distributed ourselves at
three tables ready for action, looking at va
cancy, so far as anything eatable could be
discovered; when, just as a fellow victim
from another tablo brought a bottle of
Worcestershire sauce to offer us, another
pointed to a motto on the wall, "Eat, drink
and be merry." The third point ofadvioa
was all we could follow.
Tho ride across Nova Scotia was very
pretty, especially as we approached Hali
fax, but the city itself impressed us very
unfavorably witn its dingv. weather-beaten
looking houses, and the ill-smelling streets.
Window washing seems to have gone out of
style in Nova Scotia. But the kind atten
tions of some of the residents so overbal
anced all defects as to take away all the ter
rors of the threat of our childhood, "Go to
Halifax." We visited the Public Garden,
of which the citizens are justly proud, and
heard the first concert of the Leicestershire
Begiment Band while there.
S0LSIEB3 MARCHING TO CHURCH.
The next mornintr we attended services
at the Jamison Chapel and were in time to
see Her Majesty 3 soldiers marcrung m
their gay unilorm to cnurcn. it was cer
tainly a very fine sight and we were as
sured that there were nearly 1,500 of them.
When they were seated the large gallery
that surrounds the interior of the church,
was one uninterrupted mass of scarlet
while in the body of the church the co$or
was broken here and there by more rfeace
fully disposed, although more sombrf-look-lng,
worshiperSj like- ourselves. Alhe in
fantry wore white helmets and thp artillery
the little jaunty cap often perched upon
one ear, but all wore the scarlet coat, while
here and there a black band on one arm be
tokened mourning. We had noticed tul
ouatom all througn Canada, and also how
much more mourning Is wore than with us.
The youngest children were dressed In
black, and In several Instances babies in
arms wore black ribbons, cloaks and caps.
We hold that here is another point In which
we are far in advance of our neighbors and,
trust the time may soon come when women,
will not think they honor the dead by mak
ing themselves as dismal as possible to the
living.
The above digression 1 probably due to
the faot that tho uhapel servloe was of suoa
an advanoed state of ritualism that we got
lost mentally. The altar, with its candles
and gaily colored cloths, the Intoning of the -whole
service, the sing-song tone of the
chaplain even in "Let us pray," struck us
very unpleasantly, but the singing of the
hymns by that great body of men, led by the
oomet, was simply grand. The sermon-waa
very short
ON BOAED THE BELLEKOPHON.
Two great warships lay in the beautiful
Halifax harbor, one English and one French,
and as time did not permit a visit to both,
we took the advice of friends tie next
morning and rowed out to the 'Bellerophon,
of Her Majesty's line. We were courteously
received and put in charge of a young sailor
with u good, honest face.who showed us "up
stairs and down stairs," and all sorts of
places and things strange to us. It was. all
wonderfully clean, but w e thought it miser
ably comfortless, especially to see those not
on duty stretched ou tbe bare floor asleep,
with never a pillow. The sailors all wore
white duct, which added to their clean ap
pearance, and tbe majority were In bare
feet We were told that there were nearly
BOO on the ship.
We stopped to watch a squad being drilled
in the use of one of the greavguns, and the
drill-master spoke repeatedly ofan"ole.""
It wat some time before the truth pene-trated-our
dull brains that ho was talking
about a hole. There were cannons of differ
ent sizes on board, from tho ten great ones
to pretty little ones that a child might wans
to play with, and all sorts of firearms, but
when wo asked our guide how many cannons
in all there were he said lie did not know.
Driving In the nark and suburbs over tbe
fine roads and dining with our good friends
completed our visit to Halifax, which, like
tbe other Canadian cities, we liked the bet
ter the longer we stayed. Thai steamer Hal
ifax bore us away from Her Majesty's do
minion the next morning, en route for Bos
ton, but as we had an usually rough passage,
we have no desire to share the details with
our friends, but wo are convinced that It
must have been a similar experience that
has brought into such Ill-repute the admonV '
tion "Go to Halifax," J.L.O.
The Best Teacher,
The surest lamp to guide onr wayward feet,
Is experience. It points to Hosteler's
Stomach Bitters as the best medicine, the
surest safeguard in cases of malarial dis
ease, whether in tbe lorm of chills and fever,
bilious remittent, aumb ague or ague cake.
The same guides indicate It as sovereign In.
constipation, rheumatism, "la grippe.'Mlver v
complaint, kidney trouble and ay spepsi.
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