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Oari, a poor little humpback, and his
widowed mother lived in a cottage on the
ihoro of a Urge river. Although thev were
not poor, the widow and her son were
obliged to work for their living, and could
cot afford to spend their time in idleness.
Curl was an industrious lad, and beside
caring for the garden, he caught fish and
sold them for a good price in the neighbor
ing town. Xear the widow's cottage
stood a large castle where lived Count
Curth and his only child, the beautiful
Eleanor. The Count was a great traveler,
and was seldom at home, thus his daughter
led a very lonely life. One day as Carl,
with his basket of fish, was on his wav to
market he passed by the castle, and the
Count's daughter, who stood at the gate,
cried:
"Come here, boy, and let iae see what you
have in your basket."
Carl at once obeyed, and taking ofl the
cover showed the beautiful, fresh fish which
had been caught that morning.
"If I had any money," said Eleanor, "I
would bay them, for I am very fond of fish,
and we seldom have them on our table."
"You are welcomo to them," said Carl,
uhovasso charmed by the girl's beauty
that he forgot his mother needed the money
he was to take home. The little girl gladlv
took the basket and ran into the house. As
Carl talked slowly homeward, wondering
n hat excuse he should offer for returning
without enter money or basket, he heard
a light knmking sound, which seemed
to come from among the bushes.
Pushing aside the branchis ho saw,
E.tting on a toad stool, and sur
rounded by a curious crowd of squirrels,
butterflies and beetles, a little man only
about a foot high, with a yellow, wrinkled
&ee and snow-white hair and beard, busily
mending his Bhoes. Carl n.t. nm !-,.. ,
this must be one of the dwarfs, who are said J
LET SIE SEE WHAT TOTJ
lo posses great wealth, and he determined
to seize him. Taking him by the shoulder,
Carl said:
"Good day, little man; fine weather for
your work."
"Yes, it is a beautiful day," replied the
dwarf, who, though greatly frightened,
smiled and went on with his work.
"I see you are quits a shoemaker," said
CarL"
"Ye," answered the dwarf," I havo
learned the trade, but who is that crossing
the river?"
Carl was not so stupid as to look toward
the river, for he knw the moment he
timed his eyes away the little fellow would
Tanisk
"You know, you rascal, that no one is
crossing the river," said the boy, "and if
yon do not tell me where I can find a chest
ef srold I shall pierce you with my knife."
VTith thee words Carl drew his knife
from his pocket, ard, opening the sharpest
bintle placed it close to the little man's
"Oil, for Heaven's sake, take away that
horrid thing." cried the drawf, "and I shall
tell you where you can find more gold than
yoo can use."
Carl drew bjck the knife, and the dwarf
continued:
"On the very ton of yonder mountain,
which you can see in thedistance, grows a
solitary pine treo If you will dig about
its roots you -n ill find more gold than you
can carry away. And now I must co home."
"You shall not get away so easily," said
Carl, you must tell of gold that is nearer,
for I have no wish to climb that steep
mountain." And again he placed his kniS
near the dwarf
"Do not hurt me," begged the little man,
"and I shall tell you where there is yet
other gold. But we must run, for there
ccmes a raging lion, which will devour us
both."
"Where?" asked CarL as he turned to
look in the direction in which the old man
pointed. At that noment a low, mocking
laugh sounded, and the little man disap
peared, and Karl knew that he had been de
cehed. Wben he reached home he talked
so much about his adventure with the
cwarftbat his motaer forgot to ask him
nbout his money and basket She told him
that the next time he met with the Dwarf
he most threaten to kill him if he did not
eho him the treasure before he could
count 2a Carl determined to follow his
mother's advice, and the next dav on his
wev to ard from market he watched eager
ly for the Dwarf. But the little fellow did
not allow himself to be seen for two days.
Or the third day, however, Carl aiin
found him mending shoes, and seizing him
hy the arm; he cried:
"Now I have you."
"Is that you, Carl?" said the dwarf in his
usual smiling manner. "It has been some
lime Miice I have seen you."
"You cannot get nway from me this
lime," taid CarL "I am not so stupid as I
was the other dav."
I stpnase vou want cold. said the
dwarf. '-Vhv don't you ask me to straighten
yoor bscL?"'
"Because I don't believe that vou could
I do that," vas the reply, "and I know that
' yon have gold at your command, and I
mean to have some, or your blood shall
-TgFi o n n r-jf pL I 1
mMmM mk if
f "You are verv wicked to-day," said the
i dwarf," and lock so savage that I am almost
afraid of you."
f For onie time the little man paid no heed
to Carl's requen, until at last losing all
psticnce. ihj boy said:
"I shall waste no more time with you. If
toh do not show me the gold before I count
2D, 1 ha!l run my knife right through your
heart." And Carl drew out his knife and
placed the bright, sharp blade near the
litle riMn's breast
"Vou surely -would not be so cruel as to
kill me," cried thowarf. But Carl paid
no attention to him and began to count, "1
2, 3." He counted 15, before the dwarf
stirred, and then he said:
"Stop, Carl, vou are a clever bov. You
have conquered me, and you shall have all
tho gold you desire."
The dwarf then stamped on the ground,
and instantly the earth opened, disclosing
to Carl's eyes an immense oaken chest filled
with gold and silver coins.
as this real gold?" asked Carl, "or will
it vanish as soon as I turn away."
"It is genuine gold," was the reply,
"which will remain here until you carry it
away. I give you my word for that, and
when an elf once gives his word he always
keeps it"
With a quick movement, the dwarf
snranir nnon a -nine tr nearby, and cried:
"You shall be happy, Carl, and handsome,
too."
He then gave the boy such a blow In the
face with a pine branch that for a moment
Carl was almost blinded. 'When he looked
around again, the dwarf had disappeared;
but the chest of gold was still therei After
filling all his pockets with the precious
gold, the boy fastened down the lid and
covered the chest with earth. He then
hastened home and cried:
"See, mother, what I have brought yon.
I caught the dwarf, and he has given me
more gold than we shall ever be able to
use."
But instead of replying to her son's eager
words the mother gave a cry of astonishment
and said:
"Is it you, my dear Carl? The voice and
face are the same, but when you went away
this morning vou werehumpbacked,stooped
and small. .r?ow you are straight, tall and
handsome. "What has brought about this
change?
In his excitement over the gold Carl had
not noticed that his back had become
straight, and that he could run without be
ing tired. He now knew what the dwarf
meant when he said "You shall be hand
HATE IS TOUB BASKET.
some, too," and he was sure that the little
elf had by some of his magic arts given him
a straight back, and he ran back to the pine
tree in hope of seeing the dwarf and thank
ing him for this great kindness, but the lit
tle fellow could not be found, and he was
never again seen in that country.
The widow and her son were now 60 rich
that they did not know what to do with
their money, and they spent many hours
planning what use they would make of their
great wealth. Carl, who had seen many
poor children in the city where he carried
his fish, wished to build comfortable homes
for all those who were in need, and his
mother, who was a good woman, favored the
plan. Before the winter came scores of
beautiful homes were built, and iu tho
whole of that great city not a poor family
was to be found.
Carl then had a most magnificent palace
built, which was mnch grander than Count
Curth's, and a few years later he married
the beautiful Eleanor, and lived a long,
happy life. Although Carl used great
quantities of gold, the chest never became
empty, and always seemed to contain as
much as when the dwarf first gave it
Patsee,
S03IE ENIGMATICAL NUTS.
Pnxxles for the little Folks That Will Keep
Their Brains Busy for Most of the Week
if They Solve Them Correctly Soma
Amusements.
Address communication! for this department
to E. It Cttinaociar. Lewiston. Maine.
172G AMERICA! ANTICIPATION.
D. M.H.
1727 CHARADES.
IPiof j in a Xamet
I.
She raid; "Was there ever a name such as
mincT
SjcU very small sums in one word to com
bine; Not dollars, nor dimes, Just a one and a
three.
Andfuw stack between them; how small two
must hel
Two have nothing to do with a one, that Is
sure.
And my threes are but few, may they never
be fewer!
It makes me feel cheap, but one thing two
can claim.
None can say that two "haven't a three to my
name."
it
A man of peace, but fuol how he
Uls native tongue would slaughter.
He laid out many a street one three
And total was his daughter.
"One Virec," l.o alwa s called hor name.
His business well it fitted
And surely he was not to blame.
Since naught he thus omitted.
What are one two' Ah, who can toll
The two that in some one ay dwell!
Speak, ypu who love your total well,
Whose one have wrought a inasio spoil
THE
That haloes English lake and fell,
Sunset's long gleams through mossy dell,
Or bees that hum In fox glovo bell)
What are such one twol will you sell?
M. C. 8.
1T28 BEFBESHMENTS.
L At a recent party, when the guests were
leu to uo uiuiug luuuifiuey were miiouuuou
to many men and women of distinction, in
cluding "A woman of grit, protected by her
favorite weapon," "A descendant of Noah,
supported on either side by a greased staff,"
and "The Pride of Boston, with the Maid of
Orleans."
Having acknowledged the Introduction,
the host invited the company to partake of
"All things toallmen,"and"Twoforacent,"
after which they received a liberal supply of
'A wise man's beverage," and also a "Spring
offering," and before they returned to the
parlor, tliev ate heartily of "Parasite cake,
with solidified scum."
While the ladies solaced themselves with
"Old Maid's Comfort," thogentlemen burned
their "Idols" and amused the guests by re
peating "Old Jokes," which they cracked
with a relish, In the meantime distributing
an abundance of "Sweet-confection," among
the ladies, as a compensation to them for
listening so patiently to the more than twice
told tales. Rossioxol.
1729 ENIGMA.
With Pleiades I do not dwell.
But in yon silvery moon;
And in those distant torrid climes
Where blows the hot monsoon.
Yon'll find me always with the good,
And with the gracious, ever;
And from the lowly and tho poor
I'm separated never.
Though from the house I never stray,
I'm found In woods and bowers;
I never travel in the rain,
Ana yet go out in showers.
Though never seen In rattling hall.
In snow and frost you'll find me;
And while I'm always fast In stocks,
In chains you cannot bind me.
I'm always with the sailor bold,
On ocean tempest tossed;
And though I lurk in shadows dim.
In shades of .night I'm lost.
FLOaETTCB.
1730 AXAOBAK.
It is 6aid that men who become dlstln-
fuished in life manifest In childhood the
raits which lead to their success and fame.
Hence, it Is not strange that "Slondins aspire
toropex" Bossiasot.
1731 decapitaticst.
Those who attempt to ride.
And to evade the-uiftoto.
Kay find themselves outside,
While others onward roll.
On every road of life.
These two nodead bead seats.
And all the world and wire
A just assessment meets.
BittxB'Swxsr
1733 SYTC0PATI0N3 A3JD TEAITSPOSI
TIONS. Take a letter from the first word and
transpose the remaining letters to form the
second word, and a letter from tho second,
and transpose the remaining letters to form
the third, etc.
Upon applying for admission to a cathe
dral, we learned that it was customary to
give a to the verger, whereupon we
placed In his hand a , and were permit
ted to witness the periormance oi a , me
object of which was to two persons to
gether. After we had seen , on compar
ing notes to learn who had derived the most
enjoyment from the ceremonial, we discov
ered that it was . a.
1733 EIDDLB.
What each one has received
Quite early In his life;
What brave ones have achioved
By earnest toll and strife;
What every man bestows
On her whom he espouses;
What people sometimes chose
To put upon their houses;
What not a cent has cost.
Yet may not be disdained,
For if It once is lost, ,
It cannot be regained.
1734 TBASsposnioir.
Bee the school boy at his tiskt
"What his trouble," do you askt
He Is working primal now:
Watch him figure, knit his browl
Struggle on, my little man,
Keep right on as you began.
"Practice perfect makes" 'tis neOf
It is e'er a truthful text
Learn your task at publlo school.
Then to college, that's the rule.
Study science so abstract;
Then your brain will sure be racked.
Now a theologio course.
Third, or legal comes porforce.
In this age, those who have slipped,
Aro the men but poor equipped.
Studvhardand long, my friend,
It will pay you la the end.
H. C Bunam,
AUGUST SOLVING.
Prize winners. -1. H. C. Bnrger, Salem, O.
8. Ellen Meserve, Allegheny, Pa. 3. It D.
Allen, Pittsburg, Pa.
Soli of honor. Henry Teague, L, O. P., Tri
pod. Arthur Hantaan, Lorcna, G. R. L.,
Esther Brooks, Corporal, James A. Symmes,
J. J. M.
ANSWEBS.
1715 The old lady of Threadneedle street
A nickname for the Bank or England.
17151. Disinherited. S. Catastrophe.
1717-B!ur-t.
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AKRIEKEBAN
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SPORTS
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1719 Salom, Belma, lames, leams, meals,
males, amels, melas.
17 Thore, here.
1721 W
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W E A L D E K
ALDIS
D E X
1722 Break-neok.
17U-L Versed, served. 2. Severed, de
serve. S. Keeds, denso. I. Serve, verse.
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PA8SIONED
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RELOADING
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1725 Brown, row.
THE KATX DID.
rwau'iMTOBTHB niSPATOB.1
O, I am a Eaty Did,
And all summer I am hid.
In the grass;
Andyou hear my cheerful song
Which Is sweet, but is not long
As you pass;
For I sing my darling's name,
And I spread abroad the fame
Of her deed;
So that all the poets know her,
And each ope Is her adorer,
As you readl
And I can play the fiddle,
But I'll never solvo the riddle
Of what Eaty really did and what she didn't,
But I'll give you a surprise
That will make you ope' your eyes, when I
tea you tnat we
hopping creatures
don't make the
noise from our
throats, butnfake
It by rubbins; our
wings on our
thighs orlegs, and
our song has been
a favorite one in
all ages and
among all people,
and our brothers,
the poets, have
written lovely
things about us,
from the ancient
Greek poets, ho
associated us with
recn fields and
anks of thymo In
sunny Greece,
whoie shepherds
and sheep, grass-hoppers,Katy-dids
and crickets lived
a nappy out-door
liro together, down to the-tlme of Keats, the
English poet, and Dr. Oliver Wendell
Holmes, of the present time.
Atot Clabe.
Daughters, Wives and mothers.
Physicians heartily endorse the use of
Bpeer's celebrated port wine for debilitated
females. It is not an intoxicant and is ab
solutely pure, being made from grapes at
Bpeer's Yinevards, N. J. Tho claret is an
excellent table wine.
PITTSBURG -DISPATCH.
WHEN A ME IS RICH.
He May Possess All Africa's Diamonds
and Yet Be Poor Indeed.
APPRECIATION IS THE BASIS.
The Deep lesson in St. Paul's Tint Letter
to the Corinthians,
CIECUMSTANCES OP HIS WRITINGS
rwniTTKS FOB THB DISPATCH. 1
"I thank my God always on your behalf
for the grace which is given you in Christ
Jesus, that in everything ye are enriched
by Him."
St Paul wrote that to the Corinthians.
It stands at the beginning of his first letter
to them.
It is hard to see how St Paul could ha.ve
been very enthusiastically thankful for
those people at Corinth. They were rather
questionable Christians, a good many of
them. There were contentions among them,
and strife and envying and divisions. They
were wrangling in the law courts, brother
with brother. They were "puffed up" with
unseemly and ill-founded pride. They were
sceptical about the very essentials of the
faith. Their behavior at the Lord's table
was scandalous and shocking in the ex
treme. And there were worse evils among
them. St Paul reminds them that they are
a congregation of converted thieves, drunk
ards, idolaters, impure and covetous per
sons, revilers and extortioners. And the
conversion does not seem to have been a
very thorough one in the case of some of
them.
IT WAS A SOUS XXTTEB.
This epistle is a scolding letter, and the j
VJonntnians seem to nave deserved it ricniy.
The pastor is shortly to return to his peo-
fle; he writes to announce his coming: but
e may havo to bring a rod along with him.
he says, "what will ye? Shall I come with
a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meek
ness?" "I thank God always on you be
half," he writes here at the beginning; but
before he dips his pen in the ink again he
writes also. "I thank God that I baptized
none of you." It seems hard that the apos
tle could have been particularly grateful for
that Corinthian parish.
I suppose that St Paul was one of those
wise people who expect little, and so are
seldom disappointed. He knew what sort
of people lived in Corinth. He was pretty
well acquainted with the Corinthian Chris
tians, and he knew what neighbors they
had, and what kind of air they breathed,
and what temptations beset them, and how
weak they were to meet them, and he was
glad to find any goodness there at alL St
Paul was always looking on the best side of
everybody, and was always trying to dis
cover good where there was any good dis
coverable. And he did see some spiritual
Riuimi somewuere in uorinin, auu it re
joiced his heart That divine charity which
St Paul writes about to these same Corinth
ians shows itself here. This is genuine
Christianity, this is the real following of
Christ to be kind in judgment, to be
quicker to find good than bad, to make all
possible allowance.
HEAR MOST OF THE BAD.
Ko doubt but there were good people in
that Corinthian parish. It Is not fair to
measure the whole congregation by the
ofienders who are reproved in St Paul's let
ter. It is the bad people oftener than the
good who are heard of. whose names get
into the newspapers. It Is the recording of
the evil which fills most pages in the his
tories. Virtue has a gentler voice than
vice. Scolding seems to need more words
than praising. Sometimes we look out over
the world in a spirit of discouragement, and
it all looks bad enough. It seems as if the
whole world were but a multiplication of
that reprobate congregation at Corinth.
But there is always reason for thanksgiv
ing somewhere. Thero are always more
good, nonest, loyal, earnest souls than we
give credit for. And even the bad God
alone knows their temptations and their
provocations. Ko doubt but there were a
good many genuine Christians even in
Corinth, Nevertheless it took a wide
charity and profound knowledge of the
limitations of human nature and a large
measure of the spirit of Jesus Christ to look
over the communicant list of that Corinth
parish and say, as St Paul says, "I thank
my God always on your behalf."
"I thank my God always on your behalf
for the grace which is given you in Christ
Jesus, that in everything ye are enriched
by him."
SECRET OF REAL RICHE3.
St Paul may have meant that potentially;
that is, he maj have been thinking of tho
privileges which the Corinthians had under
the gospel, rather than of the use they were
making of the privileges. They were all
rich; in everything they were enriched by
Christ Yes; but it is possible to be rich
and poor at the same time. To be really
rich is not only to have riohes in possession,
but to be making the very best use of them
for the bettering and sweetening and up
lifting of life. It is not every rich man
who knowB what to do with his riches. The
spending of money is commonly accounted
one of the easiest of tasks, hut it is one of
the most difficult things in the world to do
welL A good many people who are masters
of the art of making money have never
learned the more delicate and more im
portant art of.spcnding it. And so they
are rich only in possession. They have
their wealth in their purses, and in their
houses, and in their business, and in the
bank, but they are not rich in their lives.
Let us not call him rich who owds a library
of richly-bound books which he cannot
read, or has his walls hung with lovely
pictures which he cannot appreciate. It
takes more than money to make a man rich.
The finest and truest parts of a man's pos
sessions cannot be handed over a connter,
sor added up in a ledger, nor desoribed in
a deed, "We are really rich only in propor
tion to what we have in our minds and in
our hearts. The secret oi real riches is ap
preciation. CORINTH DIDN'T APPRECIATE.
That is true of spiritual riches. The
Corinthians were in everything enriched by
Christ Christ had come into their lives,
end whatever He had touched was turned to
gold. Treasures and blessings awaited them
on every hand. They dwelt in spiritual
palaces, and had angels for ministering ser
vants. They belonged to tbe court of
Heaven. The King of Heaven was. their
friend. And jet how miserably poor some
of those Corinthians werel Because they
bad no appreciation of their privileges.
They did not know what to do with their
riches. There is a difference between hav
ing a bleesing and makin
fl.a MA..jn .,..
very own. It is the
poverty and riohes.
difference between
"n t,o MACAaAUK VIU
"We are all rich, like the Corinthians. But
are we really rich? In all things we are en
riched by Him. What are y e doing with
this spiritual wealth? Is it our own by our
good using of it? Or is it laid aside with
onr Bibles, or locked up in the church?
What are we doing with it? The secret of
real riches, I said, is appreciation. Blessings
come only to the appreciative. The first
great need of the spiritual life is real ap
preciation of spiritual riches. If we want to
be really rich we must begin by recognizing
the value of spiritual riches.
We all do recognize that, in a conven
tional way. Everybody knows what real
riches are. If it were the province of the
preacher to tell people onty what they did
not know before, I might well keep silence
here. Everybody knows that manhood is
better than money, and that duty is to be
valued above dollars. He alone Is rich who
is really rich. Whoever lacks this real
riches may have everything else in the
whole world, and yet be poor. Who is there
that does not know that?
COINING SOOI.3 IHTO DOLLARS.
And yet what need is there to-day for the
preaching of the gospel of real riches! Such
a haste there is to be rioh in the world's
way, and such a postponing of the getting-
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER
? ric " " Christ's wav. Saturday and
Monday are forever crowding and pushing
Sunday. Men's souls are being coined into
silver dollars. What labor there is to be
rich, and what lack of practical recognition
of real riches.
What need there fs of a Christian adjust
ment of values which shall set all people
and things exactly where they rightfully
belong! There in oniy one possession
JT . , is,of Kennine and lasting worth, and
that is the possession of a blameless char
acter. There is only one kind of man or
woman who deserves reverence in Christian
society, and that is the man or woman who
is rich with the priceless wealth of an
honest life. There ought to be no rich and
? Por in the Christian Church, except in
ltle Christian sense. They are rich who are
enriched by Christ They are poor who
have no appreciation forthat kind of riches.
IHE PASSENOEE3 ON A SHIP.
I am afraid that a ship at sea is a true
symbol of much of our modern society.
There is the first cabin, and the second
cabin, and the steerage. The people in the
first cabin look down upon tho steerage
passengers who are crowded together on the
lower deckhand they look across at the
seoond cabin people who have a small deck
of their own and are shut away from all the
rest of the ship by a locked gate. Between
these three classes there is no communica
tion. There is a great gulf fixed. And the
difference is a difference of money. There
are some who say that that is a symbol even
of the Christian Church, that Mammon is
euinronea on Uhristian altars, and that
Dives is the first saint in tho Christian
calendar.
I read a book the other day entitled
munist," in which the people who have none
of the riches of this world are represented
as being trodden underfoot by two great and
remorseless tyrants, one named Society and
the other named Ecclesiastical Christianity.
The accusation is often made, and we ought
to think about it and see if in any way it
means us, and take pains that it shall not
mean ns in any way. It is the mark of the
real Christian to care for real riches in him
self and in his brother men. and to value
men only by that standard. Away with all
false distinctions, and humiliations, and
unchristian judgments, and unbrotherly
barriers. There is only one point of view
from which anv of ns should be content to
look out at life, and that is the point of view
from which Christ looked. And whoever is
really enriched by Christ will look from
that point of view and from no other.
THE BASIS Off REAL RICHES.
It ia to be enriched by Christ that we
need. It is to bring out lives within the
inspiration of His uplifting example, to
guide our daily steps by His words ofl
illuminating counsel, to make earth into
heaven every day as He made it it is this
which lies at the beginning of all honest
Christianity. We need to learn of Christ,
and to love Him. We need to set Christ
first in our lives. That will remedy all
that is wrong in us. That will show us
where to put the emphasis, and what and
whom to value. Whoever would know how'
to appreciate pictures, let him look at the
best pictures, and look long at them, and
avuay mem. ijy ana Dy ms taste will be
uplifted. He will not look at daubs. Let
us associate with thoughtful and refined
people, and we will find it impossible to
enjoy the society of boors. This is one of
the great facts of life that the way to drive
tho lower out is to bring the higher in.
That is what we must do in our spiritual
life. We must live with Christ We must
studyto appreciate the real riches which
He gives. Then we will know the real
from the false.
Value things as Christ valued them.
Measure all ambitions by His ambition.
Seek the company of those whose company
Hewould seek if He were living in our
society to-day. Set the places of precedent
whereiHe set them. Draw the social and
ecclesiastical lines where He would draw
them. Test all worth by His standard of
work. What a revolution that would
make I George Hodges.
THE VOICS THAT BEACHES.
ZZ It Has Muslo in It Too. Can Hear. It
Farther Than aLouder One Tnat Hasn't.
When people speak of "a good voioe"
they very often mean a lond voice, bnt a
loud voice is not a good voice at all, either
in muslo or anything else, says a Boston
musio teooher in the St Louis Globe-Democrat.
For instance, a loud voice is seldom
a distinct voioe. You often hear critics
speak of "a low musical voice." That kind
of voice is usually very clear and distinct
Anything that is genuinely musical always
has volume. Stand across the street and
listen to two voices, one powerful and
harsh, the other low and musical. Then
turn the corner and listen again, and you
will observe that you can hear plainly each
articulation of the musical voice, whereas
the powerful, harsh voice will give a con
fused buzz or murmur. But when you are
near the musical voice may have been com
pletely drowned by the harsh, roaring voice.
At sea the long rhythmical song-like cry
of the lookout will reach ever so much
farther than the hoarse, abrupt roar of the
man who gives orders to the deck. But on
the deck itsolf the hoarse shout may appar
ently completely swallow up the musical
cry. So among hucksters tho voice that
has the music in it will be plain and will
sound blocks farther than the mere roar of
the ragged-throat vender.
TOTJ GET OH IH THE HIDDIE.
A New Style of Street Car That Slay Be
come All the Bage.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Lindell Bailway Company has just
received a new car, which is a decided nov
elty in ,'fltreet car construction. The most
novel feature is the entire absence of end
platforms. On one side of the car is a vesti
bule, or platform, inclosed on three sides,
and connecting with the two compartments
in front and rear by doorways. The forward
compartment is for the usual mixed passen
gers and the rear compartment is intended
prlmariolly for tho use of smokers, the
larger being 174 feet long and the smaller
10 K feet long. The seats in this car are
placed transversely, with capacity for two
persons on a seat, on eaoh side of the aisle,
and there is a Beat on the closed side of the
vestibule for three persons. q
At one end of the single step there is a
convenient space guarded by a stout hand
rail of polished brass for the conductor to
stand in, from which point he has complete
control of the car, and can easily reach
passengers who require his assistance in
getting on or off the car. The total seating
capacity of the car is 46 persons. The mo
torman stands in a place four feet long and
two and a quarter feet wide, well sheltered,
hut with complete view of the track. This
space is partitioned off with mahogany panels
and plate glass sash, by which he is freed
from all crowding and interference by pas
sengers. A HEW LOCOHOirVE
Which Is Expected to Develop a Speed of
100 Miles an Hour.
Kansas City Times. J
One of the smallest locomotives ever built
was that shown last night by T. J. Oookson,
the inventor, to a party of capitalists, me
chanical engineers and others. It is 5 feet
in length, 1J feet in height and weighs 223
pounds. It is the model of an engine which
Mr. Cookson expects to build soon, and
which is expected to solve the problem that
has for years been the study of locomotive
builders.
The feature of the engine is the patent
valve motion. Por years it has been recog
nized by engineers that the main point in
the locomotive of the present day that must
be improved is the valve motion. At the
exhibition last evening Mr. Cookson ran
the engine at the rate ofl,200 revolutions a
minute with only 15 pounds of steam press
ure. This speed has never before been ob
tained on a double engine. It is asserted
that a rate of speed of 100 miles an hour is
easily-obtainable. ,
20, 1891
ffl PEACE AND PLENTY
Dwells Bill Nye at Beautiful Craig-y-Nos
Next to Yanderbilt.
THE STOEY OP A SAD VISITOR.
Thought He Had Fed Him Toadstools hut
They "Were Mushrooms.
HAVOC TCEOUGHT BY A LITTLE PUZZLE
COKEESFOJTDENCE Or TITE DISPATCH.
Ckaig-t-nos,Buncojibe CoN.C., Sept.
18. Up to last Saturday our lives here had
been almost unevcntfuL I rose each morn
ing, caroled a glad ptean, ate a little breast
of kippered herring and finishing off with
some of our delightful climate, would go
gladly about my work on my autobiogra
phy. At 9 o'clock Mr. Vanderbilt comes with
the milk and vegetables fresh from his
farm. He is getting a fine start, and the
most of his products command a ready sale.
I buy everything I can of him. He has a
fine brickyard also, which is more than self
supporting. He built it for the manufac
ture of his own bricks with which to build
his new house near mine, but the bricks
were so evidently superior to those made
heretofore in this country that he was im
portuned to supply a number of builders
and contractors at good prices.
George Came Every Day.
The Baron De Lange has charge of the agri
cultiral department, and on a bright morn
ing it is a gladsome sight to see Sir. Vander
bilt and the Baron weeding onions or tarring
the noses of their sheep.
TANDEBBILT'S LITTLE GIFT.
Mr. Vanderbilt showed me yesterday a
pictnre frame which he has designed, and
which wiU be used for a large photograph
of myself to sit on his piano in the off parlor.
It is designed to contain nothing but prod
ucts of his place, such as cereals and other
grain, seeds, nuts, acoms, etc, etc These
are glued on a pine frame and then a coat of
shellao is put on over the whole so as to
look almost like a boughten frame. There
will be an inner row of buckwheat, then a
row of flaxseed, then two rows of rye and
one of wheat, then corn, oats, eta, with
acorns and nuts, chinkapins, etc., eta, in the
corners, with a rosette of corn in the ear and
festoons of dried apples over the whole.
At 8 A. II. every day Mr. Vanderbilt
rings his beU at my door and with a long
handled dipper he hands ns out our milk,
also our nice, new laid hen eggs, fresh from
the hand of the artisan, and warm with the
atmosphere of the home nest, and with now
and then a dear little white feather stlU
clinging to them. He also fetches us our
roasting ears, and when he butchers we get
all sorts oi novelties from him. No man
need ever ask for a better neighbor than
George is. He helps me during the hoeing
season, and I help him in harvest We own
a thrashing machine together, and in the
tall we not only do our own thrashing with
it, but can make as high as $80, we think,
by thrashing for the neighbors.
NO CABKINa CAP.r.S THERE.
We lead a happy life here, as I say, desti
tute of cark. There has been but one cose
of cark here since I came. One case of cark
and one of Milwaukee beer. The day goes
blithely by, and at night I write for an hour
in my diary a lot of moral thoughts, which
will be easerly published after my death.
I have decided to make no dying speech,
for I might die at the samo time when some
other eminent man is doing the same thing,
and so what I said might not receive that
attention which it so justly merited.
How I would hate to play against Mr.
Blaine, for instance, a man who could easily
score a deathbed success at any time, while
I am timid and feel almost certain that in
any forensic effort of that kind I would
probably cork myself and say something
which I would afterward bitterly regret.
What can be more pitiful than a bad break
in grammar or the frequent use of tautology
in ;a dying speccnr it is lor this reason
that I have decided to keep a dairy, to be
published when I am gone. It will be a
good thing. It will show me in my serious
moods and also, here and there, have little
trickles of pure merriment in it, a thing I
oould not Introduce into a dying speech
with credit to myself. I will also thus
have a chance to rectify the grammars in it
and have it punctuated as X go along.
AN rNTEEESTTNO VISITOB.
As.1 say, we move alone quietly here
from day to-day, with little to exoite or
n-ffprsMmnlAtft thft brain. Laat Ratnrdav a
man with a dreamy look in his pale blue
eyes came here and sat down on my porch
to look at my view. I have a good view
here, and keep my horses in a deserted caw
milL He sat there with his hat off. drink
ing in the view and fanning his high,
smooth brow with his hat At first I took
him to be my doppelganger. He had the
same Ben Davi3 style of Adam's apple, and
his high forward indicated that he was just
as brainy as he could be.
For a time I let him sit there. Then I
stepped out and passed the time of day
with him.. He answered rather in a brief
and abstracted way, but finally asked my
name. I told him what it was ana he took
my hand. He said he had been ireqncntly
taken for me. I was glad of it. I did not
care if he had been taken lor me, only why
did those authorities who took him for me
let him go again? Finally, he said he knew
some of my folks. I said that might be.
My folks never did seem to learn auythiug
by experience. Some of them, I said, were
so kind hearted that they couldn't be un
kind even to a bunko man. He laughed a
sad laugh, like one who breakfasts with the
President of tho United States on tho 1st
day of April and cuts into a Canton flannel
cake.
LETTINO HIS HOSPITALITY LOOSE.
But at last he interested me in himself.
He was here lor his health, he said, He
had air cells in his lungs, I think, or some
thing of that kind. He also had a letter
from my brother. It iras a letter of intro
duction from my brother. As I read it I
could almost see how he suffered as he wrote
it. Probably this man had supported him
when he ran for office last fall, and now he
had paid the debt by giving him a letter of
introduction to me."
Taking him by the hand, I said: "Sir,
you are my guest A letter from my brother
will be honored at all times, never mind
what I hanpen to be doing at the time. The
letter seems to be genuine, and my brother
has failed to put in the cipher whioh means
v -no you up.
So I judge that he means
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ijllfef 1
wmkm ill
for me to throw myself. Yon are now my
guest Come with me and I will show you
where they are going to build the new
bridge across Oraig-y-Kos creek,"
He rose and we went away together. As
we passed the store I invited him in and we
got someseegars. At our store here we
have a nice, smooth seegar, with mauilla
wrapper, which is a free smoker, and if kept
well tipped up so that the filler will not
sift out, affords much pleasure to the user.
CALAMUS BOOT AND MTJSHBOOSIS.
We lighted these seegars, which are called
the Belle of Tailholt, Indiana, and as we
Euffed them along the road we seemed some
ow to warm toward each other, and I told
him that I knew where we could get some
calamus root if he liked it and some mush
rooms at least they looked like mush
rooms. He said he was passionately fond
of calamus root, but still more so of mush
rooms. So we gathered some of each and
had the latter for dinner.
None of the rest of the family would eat
any of these mushrooms, for I never gath
ered any before, and to be a good mush
room gatherer one should have killed off a
camping party or two for the experience.
But my guest ate heartily of them. He
ate them alL My wife winked hopefully
at me as my doppelganger ate the last one
and carelessly ran a slice' of bread
around over the platter and breathed a
long, delicious sign.
After dinner I said: "Come on; we will
go up on the top of Mount Busbee. From
there we can see almost to Asheville."
Beally, my object was to get him off the
place before he died. I hate to have a
fuest die in the house, and if I can help it
will see that it never occurs, especially
when he has a letter of introduction from
someone I know.
HAD A MEAN BEYENGB.
We climbed the hill through the swel-
tering heat, and be seemed to hold up under
it quite welL All at once, like a clap of
thunder from a clear sky, came the terrible
thought, "Oh, heavensl oh, heavens! After
all, perhaps they were really mushrooms."
The thought maddened me so that as I
pushed my way through the underbrush
aneaa oi my guest x punea oac& a mc&ory
sapling ana let it fly back with such force
as to knock him across the Gothic oat farm
of General West, of this place. But my
guest did not mind it at all, for he came up
later with a glad smile and humming a hit
of an old love song.
That evening he took from -his valise a
puzzle and gave it to my children. They
tried to do it, but could not We were
smoking a couple of store cigars and the
butler was burning a rag. Finally the
children brought the puzzle to me. It
looked simple, and as I am a great hand
to work out difficult things, like mathemati
cal sums and social problems, I told my
colored amanuensis to keep my cigar going
for a few moments and I would show the
children how to do it
It consisted of a circular box with a
glass cover, and inside were five brass pins
with five little brass rings lying on the
bottom of the box. All there is to do, as I
may say, is to flip this little box so as to
hang the five rings on the five pins.
WANTS MOEB EEVENGE NOW.
That was a week ago. I have not done it
yet Neither have I done anything else.
The children's voices are no longer heard as
they romp and play. Each one is trying to
do this fool puzzle. That is not all. I am
away behind on my autographs. Hundreds
of such letters remain unanswered, aside
frou those answered by my colored man,
Working Qu Five Ring JftczZa.
Mr. De Fuyster Smathers. Eight letters
asking me to write what I know on a
patchwork block of silk for a raffle remain
on my desk, and the day of the raffle is
almost here.
I am all broken up by this man, and I
haven't written anything in my diary for
ten days. Possibly I may never write in it
again. When I try to think now my mind
creaks. My mirror shows me dark ciroles
under my eyes.
If this man comes again I am prepared for
him. I know a bank whereon the mush
room (?) grows.the little I ? IT I5F" mush
room, the Weeping Willow mushroom,
the kind that creates a panio sonthwest of
the liver and west of the watch pocket
I have also selected a plot in tbe prime
val forest where he can be at rest A place
where the trailing arbutus and tho wood
tick may wander o'er his cute little tomb.
BILLNSlE.
A CASE OF CHILLS AND FEVER
OF LONG STANDING TOJDS A CUBE
A Miserable Man A long Journey A Brief
Consultation An Off-Hand Prescription
A Permanent Core and a Happy Man
Extract From a Medical Lecture by Dr.
B. B. Hartman.
Several years ago a man tS years of age,
from a malarious district, came a long dis
tance to consult me for a chronio malarious
affection for which he had doctored without
Intermission for over ten years. The treat
ment which had been mainly relied on by
the various dootors he had consulted was
quinine and other derivative of chinchona
bark. Of these preparations he had taken
many pounds, and during several intervals
ho had taken a great many chill cures, but
nothing seemed to have any permanent
effect
His complexion was of that dirty yellow
so characteristic of old ague patients, and
his sunken, lusterless trrts, surrounded by
dark ciroles, indicated how completely his
health had been undermined. The tongue
was heavily furred with a thick brown coat
ing, breath very offensive, and he com
plained of a constant, dull headache. A
poor appetite, indigestion, biliousness and
constipation completed a tale of woe so com
monly heard in a malarious locality, The
chills came on at irregular intervals. Some
times he would not have one for a month;
then again every day for a while.
For this man I prescribed Pe-ru-na and
Man-a-lin as directed on tbe bottles, the
Man-a-lin to be nsed until the bowels be
came regular and digestion good. A few
weeks after T received a very enthusiastic
letter from him, in which he declared him
self nearly well, and better than he had been
in ten years, and had taken no quinine since
beginning my treatment I instructed him
to gradually leave off the Man-a-lin, which
he did. but continued the Pe-ru-na a few
months longer, and made a complete re
covery, continuing to enjoy the best of
health.
This case is one of which there are thous
ands in every malarious district who have
been many years and still are searching for
something to bring relief to their miserable
condition, I am positive that Pe-ru-na and
Man-a-lin would cure every one of these, for
T have watched its effect a good many years,
and I do not know a single failure.
1'or a complete treatise on Malaria, Chills
and Fever and Ague, send for The Family
Physician No. 1. Sent free bv The Parana
Medicine Company, Columbus, Ohio.
17
NEW EIFLE BULLETS.
One of the lead Pencil Variety Goes
Through a Man Ueatly.
WHAT A POST HOKTEJI BEVEALED.
The Amount of Carton That Comes Dotth
in Soot in London.
FOETUSES m KAISHG CHBST2nJT3
rwnrmar ron the DisrATcn. j
The tendency In the devising of improved
rifle bullets is now to attain increased pene
tration, and the consequence is that much of
the smashing power of the old bullet Is lost
Some of the latest bullets are more like a
lead pencil in sbapo than anything else. The
effect of this modification was recently
shown in tho case of a laborer who was ac
cidentally shot by a soldior who was prac
ticing at a target -with the new Lee-Metford
magazine rifle, -srhich has Just been adopted
for the British army. Although the bulle
passed clean through tho thigh, the wound
healed so rapidly that the patient was up
and on a meat diet in 11 days. In U days he
was discharged as well, with his leg in as
good condition as ever. Ilia luck in one re
spect, however, deserted him In another,
and soon after he caught cold and died of
bronchitis.
The opportunity of making valuable in
vestigations was too good to bo lost, and the
army surgeons secured permission to make
post-mortem examination. Theyfonndthal
all Internal trace of the wound had van
ished. Prom this they were able to draw
the most satisfactory conclusion that what
ever may be the power of the new weapons
In disabling a much larger number of men In
a given time than was before possible, the
severity of the Individual wounds will be
much less. In place of large apertures and
trnclcs, where there always was considerable
destruction of tissue, much smaller wounds
may be expected, with such trilling damage
to the soft thues through which tho ball
passes that the destrnction of substance re
sulting Is almost inappreciable. The size
and sevorlty of the wound will be further
decreased by the sheathing of hard metal
encasing the bullet, which prevents the lead
from breaking up on contact, and so lacer
ating the flesh.
Culture of the Chestnut
The supply of chestnuts never equals tha
demand In this country, and many districts
In whioh the trees are abnndant derive a
very respectable income from the sale of the
nuts. This industry might be made far
more productive and profl table than it now
Is by some little effort toward cultivation.
The chestnut cannot be grown successfully
on heavy clays, wet soils or limestone land.
It prefers loose, sand soils, or such as has
been derived from the decomposition of
slates and shales. It is grown readily from
tbe seed, but the greatest care must bs
taken not to let the nuts become dry. They
shonld be planted as soon as gathered or
kept In moist sand until ready to plant Tha
nut should bs planted where tbe tree is to
stand, as the long tap roots makes trans
planting dlffloult The European chestnut
is not only much larger and finer than tha
American, bnt has produced, under cultiva
tion, a number of varieties, some of which
are highly estoemed for the superior qnality
of their fruit The trees do not grow so
large as the American, but come Into bear
ing more quickly: the latter does not gen
erally fruit until 10 or IS years old. A Jap
anese variety has been lately Introduced fa
the United States which, though not very
hardy, is quite a dwarf In fabit, and while
beginning to frnlt at four or five years, pro
duces nuts larger even than the European.
Wire Bops Holder.
The forming of a loop In a wire rope by
splicing Is a tedious and difficult operation,
but by a new device an equally secure loop
can be made In a few minutes by a totally
unskilled workman. The improved ropa
holder consists of a east Iron block with
four holes in it The rope Is passed through,
the end of the block and out by one of tha
holes at the side. The end Is then so curved
round to form a loop that a tapered space U
left between the two portions of the rope In
the bloofc. A cast iron wedge hollowed at
Its sides to fit tbe rope Is then passed Into
this space and driven home by a screwed
plug. Tbe rope Is thus gripped so firmly
against the sides of the block that It ia Im
possible to draw It out In certain Instances
ft is not considered advisable to earrj tha
end of the ropa quite through the block,
and in snoh cases a block Is used in whioh
the hole in the end is smaller so that tha
rope can pass through but once. To taka
the wear and preserve the rope, a liner of
galvanized iron Is placed lnsldo the loop.
This liner can be replaced when wonx
through and the wear of the rope entirely
prevented.
Infected BaUroad Cars.
M. Prasnitz, after careful researches whloa
have shown that places Inhabited by suffer
ers from phthisis frequently contain germs
of that disease, has thought it well to com
mend to the notice of railroad authorities
the eminent desirability of careful cleaning
and disinfecting railroad cars which may
have been exposed to infection. Steam dis
infection Is recommended as both efficient
and easily applied. Tho adoption of certain
other sanitary measure, such as the intro
duction of easilv stonllzed receottcles for
the sputa of patients is also suggested, in
making his series of experiments, JI. Pras
nitz examined a number of cars which ho
knew had been used by consumptives. DusS
samples wore taken from these cars, and In
oculation experiment were made with
them on different animals. Two out of flva
such samples were found to contain tuber
culosis bacilli, and a number of the Inocu
lated animals showed symptoms of the dis
ease. The Tongue as a Respirator.
A correspondent of tho Lancet gives a use
ful hint to persons whose duties take them
much Into the night air. Ho cays that when
facing a cold east wind, or breathing quickly
the night air, he never quite closr his
mouth, but, keeping the lips a trifle parted,
he eurls up bin tongue toward the roof of his
mouth until the tip reaches as far back as
the soft palate, when the arched under sur
face of the tongue Is pressed against tho hard
palate. Tbe cold air then as it enters tha
mouth Is made to pas between the side of
the tongue and tho buccal muous membrane
of the pharynx and thereby so warmed tha
by the time It reaches the larynx it ia rid of
chill and does not excite cough and catarrh.
Some people cannot breathe through tha
nose alone, which Is tbe right thing to do In
the night air, or indeed, at any time, and for
such tha plan recommended above is a good
one.
Why Smoke Shonld Ho Consumed.
Some ides of the amount of carbon which.
Impregnates tha air in cities, especially
in those suoh as Pittsburg that burn soft
coal, may be gathered from the Investiga
tions of an English scientist who nas been
engaged In computing the amount of soot
deposited from London air. Collecting tho
smoke deposited on a patch of snow In,
Canonbury, about eight inches In extent, ha
obtained from it two grains of soot. As
London covers 110 square miles, this would
give for the whole area 1,000 tons. As tha
quantity measured fell in ten days, a
month's allowance would need 1,000 horses
to cart it off, and these stretched In a line
would extend four miles.
A New English Invasion.
If there Is one thing dear to the heart of
the Englishman it is his beer, and from tha
time of the Saxons downward he has liked
It strong and heavy. It therefore marks a
new era n tho national taste when the fact
Is established that lager beer Is steadily and
largely increasing In public favor m Eng
land. Its possible influence fln tho health
of tho average Britisher is referred to in a
letter on tbe subject in an English paper.
The writer savs: "Is it true, I wondor, tha
lager, unlike English ale, is free from gout
creating qualities If that bo the case, tha
more It replaces tho latter the better for
publio health. Gout is the great enemy of
thU generation."
PneamaUo Gates for Kallroads.
A new departure is being made on some of
the leading railway lines. It is found that
the great fault of tho flagman Is to waste hU
time and divert his attention in conversa
tion with his cronies, and at various high
way crossings two-story towers are being
erected for tho gatekeepers. From tbesa
pneumatic gates will be worked, and tho
services of the flagman, though deprived of
their amenities, will be mora trustworthy
from his exalted porch.
The New Explosive.
Terroriteis claimed by its inventor to ba
six to eight times stronger than commercial
dynamite, and to bo unaffected by Jarrhu or L
an ordinary degree of beat.
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