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The sinned against and sinning. Buth Bassett in Boston Transcript A WONDER OF NATURE. Some of the Unexplained Mysteries of the Hibernating Animals. LIVISQ WITHOUT FO0E 0E AIR. Front the New York Sun. "The phenomenon of hibernation iu animals, fish and reptiles," said a naturalist who has made the peculiar and little understood phases of animal life his particular study, "is soinetliioir; that from its very natuieand surround-; logs can not be investigated, and con sequently little is known as to the cause, or as to what physiological changes occur to animals that habitual ly retire to concealed places and lie dor mant, or in a lethargic sleep, for days, weeks and even months. It is known that in the perfect hibernators the pro cesses of nature are interrupted during; the period of this long insensibility. Breathing is nearly, and in some hiber nators entirely suspended, and the temperature of the blood, even in the warm-blood animals, falls so low that how life can be maintained by it is a mystery of mysteries. "A variety of Rocky Mountain ground squirrels, when iu perfect hiber nation, has a temperature, only thren degrees above the freezing point of water, and when taken from their bur rows in that condition these squirrels are as rigid as if they were not only dead, but frozen. But a few minutes in a warm room will show that they are wa. only alive, but full of life. This interesting fact in natural history was first demonstrated by the late Andrew Full r, of Ridgewood, N. J., to whom a friend in the west sent a pair of these squirrels. When the weather became cold, Mr. Fuller missed his pets one day. He supposed they hail run away from his premises. Nearly a month later he found them by accident curled up beneath a pile of straw in one cor ner of an inclosure on his place. They were so cold and stiff that he supposed they were frozen to death. He carried them iuto the house to show his wife the fate that bad befallen the poor little rodents in the harsh eastern cli mate. While he and she were discuss ing the matter sorrowfully, the squir rels began to show signs of life, and shortly were frisking about tbe room as if they had not been apparently frozen stiff for weeks. Mr. Fuller then knew that the squirrels had been in a state of hibernation, and it was such an extraordinary one that he put them out of doors again to let them resume that condition if they might, so he wight investigate it further. They bad no sooner got into the cold air than the lethargic state began to assert itself, and Mr. Fuller covered them with straw. A month later he took their temperature, and found it to be as I have stated only three degreey above the freezing point of water. Again they came back to life and activity when placed in tbe warm room, but after a few hours showed plainly that they were being bereft of their natural winter sleep. Mr. Fuller turned them loose to find it again. They found it as before, and they remained in that condition until the warm weather re turned in the spring, when they came out as chipper as if they hadn't lost a day or a meal. "As to the suspension of breathing in hibernators, the fact is proved sufficiently In the instances of the rac coon and the woodchuck. When they have laid themselves away for their winter sleep they roll themselves up comfortably and press their noses in such a peculiar position against their hinder parts that it would be an abso lute impossibility for them to draw a breath. The popular backwoods belief is that the bear roils itself up in this way and does not breathe, but, while the bear is classed as a perfect hiber nator by naturalists, it breathes while in its lethargy, as its blow holes in the snow prove holes melted in the snow beneath which the animal frequently stows itself away, under a covering of leaves, which holes frequently betray its preseuce to the woodsm -n. The marmot family produces the soundest winter sleepers. When the marmot is iu its peculiar state of hiber nation the electric spark will not rouse it. The most noxious gases do not affect it in the slighest. If its tempera ture is raLied above that at which the animal breathed in its natural state it will die almost immediately. Tnis is on the authority of the late Professor A. Browne, who at one time was con nected with Lafayette college, and in vestigated the subject of hibernation and estivation further than any other scientist that I know of. "The hamster, a rodent common In Northern Germany, is another animal that has its peculiarities as a hiber nator. Professor Browne mentions a hamster that was put into a box which was closed with earth and straw and placed where the cold was intense, but the hamster did not show any sign of becoming torpid. The box was then buried in the ground and wai dug up after some hours, when tbe animal was found in a state of the most pro ESTBLISHKD 1827. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1897. found lethargy. And 'this hamster was kept in a room where there was no fire. The animal rolled itself up in a corner, but presently woke up and came out. It was in the best of health, but died in a few days 'sufTuoated,' Professor Browne declared, 'because it could not have confined airT "Our own familiar wild animals, the bear, the raccoon and the woodchuck the ground hog of colloquial nomenclature-are classed as perfect hibernators because they store no food for winter but have acquired a thick, fatty secre tion between the skin and flesh, which, it is supposed, supplies them with sus tenance. As a matter of fact, although dormant animals absorb fat, it does not enter into their digestive organs. The same fat absorption occurs when the animal is dead. If yoi kill a rabbit, or any other animal, and leave the en trails in it, the fat will disappear in a short time. Remove the entrails and tbe fat will remain. Food introduced into the stomach of a hibernating a nl mal or reptile will be found undigest ed at all stages of its lethargy. I say 'introduced into the stomach,' because it could get iuto the stomach of such a creature only by force or artificial meaus, for a hibernating animal in variably goes into its peculiar state on an empty stomach. Why? I do not know. That is one of the mysteries of the phenomenon. But the most mys terious of ail things connected with hi bernating animals is that, although bears, and woodebucks are profound hibernators, they produce their young during their winter sleep. "ins wooacnucK is undoubtedly a perfect hibernator, and the female bear is, but the male bear is frequently rous ed f:oia his winter sleep, and is found roaming about iu midwinter. A bear hunt when the snow is deep and the cold intense is not an uncommon relief to tbe monotony of life in the back woods, but the hunted bear is i a varia bly a male. I have talk-1 with scores of old and observant woodsmen, vers-d in the ways and haunt-' of wild beasts but none has ever been able to say yet that lie ever knew a female bear to be killed after the season for hibernation has come, and none has ever yet seen a gravid female bear. V.'here do the fe males go during that time, that they are never disturbed in their retreats? No one can say. 'The raccoon is often gregarious in its hibernating, and it may be for that reason it not infrequently comes forth from its snug quarters in the hollow tree and makes foraging trips about the country the warmth engendered by the huddling colony arousing one or more of its members from their lethar gy K- .u 11 Luc V K). Quacks hiber nate in pairs, but I never knew one of these proverbially sleepy creatures to leave its hole until warm weather came in spite of the alleged practice it has of coming out invariably on the second day of February to fix the weather for the rest of the winter. I took the trouble ouce to dig into a woodehuck's burrow on a Candlemas Day and a warm, cloudy day it was; just such a day when the grojndliog is said to come out of his hole and stay out. I found two woodchucks in the burrow, with no r oresignof life about them tban if they had been shot and killed. From all outward appearances I could have taken them out and had a game of foot ball with them without their knowing it. "Squirrels are only partial hiberna tors, from the fact tli'.t they work all summer and full storing great quanti ties of food to supply them when hun ger wakes them up during the winter, if, indeed, they spend much of their time in sleep. Squirrels are systematic and long-headed providers for the emergencies of a long winter, and not only stow away their favorite food in one grand storehouse, but also make deposits of it in other places, so that if one granary or nuttery is destroyed or becomes exhausted the caches cau be depended upon. When the snow has Iain on the ground late in the spring, holes may be seen in it at various places in the woods where squirrels have dug down through it to reach nuts or grains or acorns buried in the grouud there mouths before for just sich an emer gency. The instinct with which the.-e little animals locate Buch spots, covered as they are with maybe a foot or more of snow, is unerring and marvelous. If the snow should happen to be thick ly covered with crust the squirrels are unable to dig through it, au J it is no rare thing, toward the end of an un usually long winter, for woodsmen to find squirrels dead on the crust, where they had been digging desperately to uncover the cache below, the supplies at the main store having become ex hausted. "A curious phenomenon of hiberna tion, according to Professor Browne, is shown in an auimal called tbe loir, a native of Senegal. This animal never hibernates in its native clime, but every specimen that was ever brought to Eu rope became torpid as soon as exposed to cold. The common laud tortoise, no matter where it may be, and it is a vo racious feeder, goes to sleep in Novem ber and does not waken up again until May. The hedgehog goes to sleep as soon as the weather gets cold and re mains in unbroken slumber six months. "At the beginning of cold weather bats begin to huddle together in bunches in hollow trees, dark corners in desert ed houses, and in caves and crevices in the rock. They gradually lose all sen sibility, and continue in a comatose state until the return Of genuine warm weather. When you see the first bat of the season fluttering at nightfall you can be sure that warm weather has come to stay. Tbe little hooks at the end of one of the joints of each wing are what the bat hangs itself up by when it goes to sleep, whether for a day or for months. When the bats are clustering for hibernation, one of tU9 number bangs itself up by its hooks, head downward, and the others cling to it. It is on record that sixty bats have been found in one cluster, the entire weight of the lot being sustain ed by the one bat clinging with its hooks to whatever it had fastened them to at the start a weight of at least ten pounds. Tbe position of the centnd bat in suc'u a clu-tr would be like that of a man hanging to something by his thumb nails, and supporting tbe weight of fifty-nine other en. So complete ly is animation suspended in tbe bit during the cold months that no test yet applied has induced it to show the least sign of life. Torpid bats have been inclosed by the hour in air-tight glass jars and not a particle of the oxygen in the jars has been exhausted when they were taken out, showing that the bats had not breathed. "As cold drives certain auinials, in sects and reptiles to a state of torpid ity, so heat and lack of water bring about the same condition in others. The animal or reptile that hibernates, or goes to sleep in cold weather, arran ges its body so that it will conduce to the greatest warmth, while those that estivate, or become torpid in warm weather, place themselves in positions that show that they want all the cool ness the climate will permit- The ten ric, a tropical animal, carnivorous and insectivorous, becomes torpid during the greatest heat, and lies on it b.ick with its body drawn to iu greatest length, and its limbs spread wide apart. Snakes estivate in the south, ail kinds together, just as snakes hibernate in the north, but instead of rolling them selves in great balls, as the northern snakes do, they lie singly and stretch ed to their full length. "Want of water will cause the com mon garden snail to go into a state of the most complete and curious leth argy. This is the snail of the genus lumax, and not the larger one of the genus helix. In the latter tbe phe nomenon of hibernation is specially remarkable. Iu November the snail forms ju.st a soft, silky membrane across the oriental opening of its shell. Oa the inner surface of that it deposits coating of carbonate of lime, which immediately hardens like gypsum. This partition is again lined wi h a silky membrane. The sn-iil then re tires a little further into tbe shell and firms a second membranous partition, retiring again mid again until there are six of these partiti-His bet wee 'j the snail and the lime-coated door at the entrance of tbe shell. In the recess behind all these partitions the snail lies torpid until May. All this time it lives without motion, without heat, without food, without air, and without circula tion; without the exercise of any of its functions. If this snail is prevented from hibernating for several seasons, by keeping it in a warm room, it will gradually waste away and die. Pro fessor Browne mentions a case where several snails of this genus were shut in a perforated box without food or wa ter. They retired into their shells and closed them with a thin membrane. They remained so for three years. They revived when put into tepid wter. They had been driven into torpidity by drought. The blood of this snail is white. "Auother curious thing about hiber nating anim?Js is that the bile of all other animals is the bitterest of sub stances, while the bile of hibernating animals is sweet.' A Baal Catarrh Cure The 10 cent trial sizof Eiy's Cream Balm which can le had of the drug gist is sufficient to demonstrate its great merit. Send 10 cents; we mail it. Full size 50 cents. ELY BROS., 60' Warren St,, N. Y. City. Catarrh caused diillculty in xpeakiug and to a great exteut loss of hearing. By the Use of Ely's Cream Halm drop ping of mucous has ceased, voice and hearing have greatly improved. J. W. Dtvidson, Att'y at Lw, Mon mouth, III. Lives in a Log Hjnse. Pendleton, Ind., is noted for many historic incidenU and landmarks, and also claims the distinction of having the only banker in tbe country who lives in a log house. His name is Mor ris Hardy, and be is known all over this section of the State among men of wealth and banking. He is the cash ier iu the Pendleton bank. He is one of the principal stockholders also, and is 'wealthy. He has never acquired any particular "swell heud"' Hnce be coming rich and successful in banking, and every evening after his work at the bank is oompleted he retires to a common l g hous-i. It is by no means a shackle or broken-down affair. Tbe furniture is up to date, and everything about the place bears evidence that the occupant is by no means a miser or even close-fisted. The old place has memories hanging around it which are dear to the bank er, and he is content to let his patrons live in swell residences while he occu pies t he one made of logs. It was oc cupied by his father, Neal Hardy, and it was to this house that the late rred- erick Douglass was smuggled when mobbed at Pendleton, when he first came iuto the north to plead for the iberty of his race. Within its walls the noted man, then poor and an out cast, was nursed back to life, and when in later years, his name was known the world around, he would come back to this little home and spend his time with the quaint old people. Chicago Chronicle. Bobbed the Grave. A startling Incident of which Mr. John Oliver of Philadelphia, was the subject, was narrated by him as follows: 'I was iu a most dreadful condition. My skin was almost yellow, eyessunk- en, tongue coated, pain continually in back and sides, do appetite gradually growing weaker day by day. Three physicians had given me up. Fortun ately, a friend advised trying 'Electric Bitters,' and to my great joy and sur prise, the first bottle made a decided improvement, I continued their use for three weeks, and am now a well man. I know they saved my life, and robbed the grave of another victim." No one should fail to try them. Only 53 cenU per b ttle at J. N. Snyder's Drug Store, Somerset, Pa., and O. W. Brallier's Drag Store, Berlin, Pa., In Spain they are fond at holiday time of a soup made of sweet almonds, cream and a fish first roasted before the fire and basted with lemon, garlic and oil. T pip?) r A PRAIRIE CHRISTMAS. BT MARGARET MONTCIOMKRY. All of Nell Harris's Christmas prepa rations were fiuished. They had given her a great deal of thought, for half a dollar was every cent that she could gather for her Christmas shopping. It had taken hard work and long saving to get that much, and, now that she had saved it, it took a great deal of stretching to make fifty cents bey handsome presents for six people. Every one must have a present and a handsome one at that Nell had decid ed that point long ago. It ws dreadful to live on the prairies, where you couldn't buy a single thirg but a postage stamp for less thin a nickel and a postage bt;n; didn't seem exactly the thing for a Cliristmas present. In the F.istyou could buy love ly things for a cent, so Nell had heard. But never mind, she had done very wtll with her fifty cents. She give each parcel a pleased little squeeze to see that all the things were really there a half dozen times during the afternoon of the twenty-fourth, after she bad tkd the six parcels for the last time. Iu this bj ndle was a hankerchief for father, that she had hemmed herself that cost ten ceuts. This big fat bundle was the glory of of the whole collection mother's pincushion. The pieces for it came out of the pice-box, but it bad to have a bow on it. It had to be a nice one, too, and ribbon was deprtss lugly expensive. It fairly took Nel.'s breath away when the girl iu the store said "Two bits'' ; but when t'se girl found what an important b w this was to be, and had tied the ribbou for the child into a most beautiful knot with two fancy bra-y pins stuck into it, Nell was so happy over it, she could hardly wait till Christmas to show it to her mother. Out of that same piei e box that the beautiful piucuhsion pieces came from, came some, biuof Mack silk which, with her mother's help, Nell made into a nic neck-tie for her uncle Ben, who was vi.iitiug tliem from the East, For her brother Dick there wt-s a big orange, to which Nell had givtn more than one squeeze, to make sure it was juicy. Then for Jim and Joe, the two hired men, there was a lead-pencil with a rubber on the tip for Jim, and a cigar for Joe. "I didn't know another thing he hk- ed bJt 41 a:;r li j an I the only one I could fla J cost seven dollars. Music al instruments are very expensive, don't you think so, mother? Besides I have only five cents apiece to spend for each of them." But when night came and the excite ment of pinching the six packages to see if she could have made any mistake in labelling them had worn away, Nell wasn't very happy. She went to bed early, hanging up her stocking in a forloru little way on a nail in the kitch en. She had tried so hard to have ! Christmas this year, but she knew very well that she was the only one in the hou.se who cared anything about it Iu all her life she had never lefo:e miuded much. But she did mind to-night. In tl at lovely book she had read last full, the children hung up their stockings and got them full of candy and had to many, many happy things on Christ mas Day that, beforo sh9 maut to do it, there was a little girl with a bright, freckled face sobbing away as if her heart would break. She tried bard, but couldn't dig her nose down deep enough into the pillow to prevent the sound of the sobs from g-'ttin? out. Soon her mother's head was on the pil low beside her, and it didn't take long to find out what lie dreadful trouble was. "I won't get anything in my stocking and I didn't know I cared so much!" Mrs. Harris caressed her with her lips and bands as she said:, "Santa Claus doesn't know much about this little house out here on the prairie, but you shall have something in your stocking. I saw an apple iu the cup board; I'll put tbat in." "But but that's mine already," sol bed Nell. "Well, never mind, my d.irlin," i w as all Mrs. Harris could say. "I ll try to find something for your t-tockinr, and we'll m ike doughnuts to-morrow and try to have a good time.'' But even the promised doughnut treat didn't keep Nell from a sob or two every now and then till sleep csme and took her strai ght into the region of fairyland. Not another sound did she hear ti'd, "Christmas pi, Nll! Christmas gilt! wats shouted in her ear by Dick. Then how she laughed and tumbled out bed! "Christmas gift! Christmas gift! Merry Christmas!" O it was all so delightful! It was Christmas morning at last. Every one had slept late, so that the east was streaked with crimson. How brilliant the stars still were! They bad never tieen so bright! It was Christina.-! Nell was very happy; for all the time she was buttoning her dress and ut tingon her sh-x?, she was thiuking of those beautiful presenU she had to give. Not a soul kuew about them, no one but mother and of course she didn't know all, for she didn't know a thing about that lovely pincushion. Only Jack knew about tbat, and be said "Crackief when he saw It. Nell could hardly wait till she was dressed to gi e her presents. Of course every one was pleased. How could they be anything else, when such a happy faced little girl gave the preseuUwith such an important, but such a loving air? She felt like a real sure-enough Santa Claus. Father took the new handkerchief and wiped his spectacles; then put them on to admire the little stitches in the hemming. Mother sa:d she had never seen a pincushion she liked so much as this, with its beautiful bow. In fact, every one seemed pleased, though no one quite so much as Nell. It was the first Christmas she had ever tried to keep, and she danced around clapping her hands as thequeerly done up little bundles were unrjlled. To bi sire "Well, Sis, didn't you get any thing?" brought the sudden tears to the eyes of the small Santa Claus, who ran WHOLE NO. 2-422. quickly into the kitchen, that the tears milit not be seen. Nell stopped at the door with a little gisp. Tlit re was her tx-kiiigou the nail where she had hun it the night before, but Instead of having a leaD, hopeless liok abiut it, it was as fat as could te, with the moot delightful-looking knotis all over it. Then wasn't there a dancing, happy time! O such a wonderful stocking as that was! it didn't seem possible that one small stocking could hold so much candy, besides a Isaiitiful pop-corn ball and an orange. Uncle Ben was pounc ed upon and hugged over and over ag-un; for Nell knew that Santa Claus didn't know the road to the little weather-beaten hou.-e where she lived and that it must ha.-e been some person who filled her stocking. Uucle Ben had betrayed himself by the twinkle in his eye and by pretending to be too in nocent when the happy little girl's questioning eyis first went around the family. I u that stocking there w ere a cat, a shovel, two dogs, a man oa horseback, a duck and a rooster, all in beautiful clear candy. Then, too, there were ten sticks of candy, five lovely pink and white peppermint st icksaud five yellow lemon sticks. It was nearly toon when uucle Ben said: "If you are so pleased over your candy, Nell, why d nt you eut if" "It will beso much more fun for us a'.l to have our candy together, that I'm uot g ing t eat a bi'e till f ither and the men get home." Only it seemed to take & long time for the men to get ba-rk from the wood Sot, There the candy was on the table In seven piles. Nell looked it over and over to see if s'ie had divided it fairly. At last the sharp eyes watering down the roa 1 saw the wagon of wood co;n iug. BJt how queer it looked! Nell oulila't make out what gave it the dark green look till it come eroiind the house and father drvw up the mules at the d rir as ha tumbled down a cedar tren, ( tiling, "Christmas gift, Nell! Here's a Christmas tree for you." A ChrUtm s tree! Was there ever such a lovely Christmas! Why, it was finer than the girl had in that story! She didn't have a tree. This had little blue berries on it, and that was a good deal of trimming in itself. Then Jim had brought home some litter sweet berries which looked splendid on the tree. Such a happy time as Nell bad trim ming it. All the candy was tied n it and the Christmas presents she had given, all except the orange and cigar, which J.u ii and Joe had told her were "prim."," early iu the morning. Jack popped some c ni to striug for the tree, and when m t!i.-r f-k-d the doughnuts, she made a lot of rings ami three men out of the dojg'iiiiit dough to hang on it, hen it wasal! done, Nell thought nothing in the worl I could bo pret tier. If Nell was happy b f ore, I d :i't know what s'ie was when J; caaitj home from t ie store j ut before upper and slipped 'ip to the tree to tie on a box. Wiiei s'ie 0en..J ii yoj could Lave heard her shouting all over the house, "I)ishe! I)L-!:e!()gx.ly! ' Such pretty dishes as they were and such dear little ones! The cu4s were so tiny, yoj eu!d hardly take hold f them unless your fingers were very lit tle. Tnere were four of them, and saucers to match and a suar-Uiwl and cream-pitcherand tea-pot. There never was a happier Nell thau the one that poured tea out of them the rest of the day. When bedtime cam- as Nell kused her mother gwd night, she said: "Didn't I have a beautiful Christmas? Just think, mother, of a!l that lovely candy, the p p-corn ball, the orange, and th'ise lovely, fo.-c'y dishes that Joe give m; then my 'jeauiiful tree and the bitter-sweet berries, the pop-corn Jack popped for me, and all those uice doughnuts you fried! I dou't believe any little girl ever had as nice a Christmas." Nell wondered why there were tears in her mother's eyes, as she said, "I don't believe any one ever did, my dar ling." A b jtlle of Dr. W.xi I's Norway Pine in the li-u saves doctor's bills, saves trouble, a id very often saves precious lives, (iives ahiDst instant relief in cases of coughs, colds, or lung troubles of anv sort. Th? Ducavery of the Day. Au;. J. Ugjl, the lea-ling druggist of sshrevep rt, L x., says: "Dr. King's New Discovery is the. only tiling that cures my cough, and it is the iiest seller I have." J. F. CimpYdl, m re'.iant of SafforJ, Ariz , writes: "Dr. King's New Discivery is all th ij is claim.' 1 f r it; it never fails aa 1 is a sure car j f ir Con sumption, Coughs and Cold. Icttinot say enough for its m-.ri's." Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Colds andCoii'hs is not an experiment It has been tried for a ipiarbT of a century, and to-day stands at ttie head. It never disappoint. Free trial b ittles at J. N. Snyder's Drug S'.ore, Somerset, Pa., an dO. W. Brallier's Drug Store, Berlin, Pa. Wise anl Otherwise. This is the law of benefits between men the one ought to forget at once what he has given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received. Seneca. The latest prodigal son wrote home as follows : "Father, I am coming home for the holidays." But the wise father answered : "You're a liar, John, an you kiKw it You're comin' home for money! ' Atlanta Constitution. Fayette City, IV, Nov. 23, lSfC I received the Rainy Day puzzle sent for three trademarks from Hood's Sarsa pariila and 8 cents in stamps and the children are very much pleased with It I have taken several bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla for blood disease and always get relief from iU use. I advise any one troubled with Impure blood or sores to take Hood's Sarsapa ril'a, for it has cured me. Mrs. Minnie M. Stephens. Hood's Pills are theouly pills to take with Hood's Sarsa par ilia. THE X0RXS' THREE GIFTS. A Queer Story of Scandinavian Su perstition. It happened, a lor.g time ago, that a great king had a very beautiful queen, tint the joy of his life was darkened be- I cause no prince had come to them to innerit his king'lotu. Many wtre the prayers and tffriirgs! to tbe gods to grant them their desire, made not only by the king and queen, but by all the ieple of tbe land, and one day a strange tiling happened. The queen was walking in the gar den, when suddenly, from a dark re cess, three women stood before her. They were strange looking creatun. J not at all alike, and one wondtred how , they could be together, for they were ' icscparuble. J One was an Id, decrepit woman, j with sunken eyes and wrinkKd skin. She had her head turned, looking J backwards, and this position sheniaiu- tabled all the time. The second ore j was young, strong and active. The ' i - . i- i , i ... , origin eyes iooiieo. leancssiy ancan aim her elastic step betokened the hope in her heart. The third was the youtigtst, nitre!" a girl, budding iuto womanhood, whose slight, delicate form was closely veil d from head to foot. She bad her head turned in the opposite direction from that in w t.iclt the hrst sister Us. Red. They stxsj before the beautiful queen, and the oldest said : "Sirrow is in your heart, fair queen, but I can give you no comfort. I see the suushiue all behind, but foolish mortals will not see the truth." "Nay," said the second. "I live now. Be not sad, fair queen, for much have you to live for; be glad with what you have." But the queen only wept at their words. Then the young veiled creature stepped forth, and touched the quteii gently, aud her voice was like the murmur of distant waters, as she said: "Rejoice, beautiful queen, I brirg you hope of the future. The wish Y your heart shall be grauted, and on thrt day think of my promise, and wo three shall le with yoti." Before the oue'e-n realized what she she had heard, the vi-ion vanished. And time passed away. One day great joy sj rva.l throughout the kingdom. A baby prince was in the p dace, and the people were wild with delight. As she ht Id her child in her arni, the queen bethought her of the tl.rte sisters, and immediately they were lc fore her. Then the eldtst said : "Each of us shall lestow a gilt en the bale. I promise that be shuil grow up handsome aud brave." Then the sfeemdone prophesied that he would be prtxpeous, aud would lie come a great scald, and the parents' hearts were glad. At this moment the people, in their eagerness to see the strangers, crowded iuto the room, and Skuid, the youngest sister, she that had first given hoje t tbe queen, was pushed by them from the chair. Angered at the insult she arose threateningly. The youthful figure expanded iu its indignation, and in a voiet far different from the soft mur mur in the garden, she said : "My sisters' gifla shall beef noavail. My promise to thee, fairqueen, shall !e annulled in its fulfillment. For I promise now that the princ shall live only till youder taper shall have burnt out" At these fearful words the queen ut tered a scream and cla-pcd the child closer. The taper could live but a mo ment longer, foralrcsdy it was nearly burnt to the end. But something happened then. The: oldest sister, not w ishing to e her promise set at naught, darted forward and extinguished the ilame. Then handing the still smoking stump to the mother, she said : "(iuard tills well. I cannot change my sister's words, or make her retract them ; therefore, so long as your son loves life, let him treasure this taper." Aud again the three disapcared. Years aud years passed away. Nor nagesta, as the prince was called, in honor of three Norns, or Fotes, for such were the three sisters, grew up strong and brave and handsome. He He became a great poet and singer, aud being light of heart was gl . 1 of life. So he treasured the burnt taper that his mother had given him in the hol low part of his harp. He outlived all the heroes of his time. He traveled from corrt to court, singing, and carrying glad. less to ail. He lived to se the superstitions of his land give way to the doctrine of a new faith, and by and by was com pelled to abandon the beliefs of his fathers. Then, one day, at the court of a king lie was commanded to priduce tie ta p?r. Toe king wished to prove the fal lacy of his old belief, aa I the stump was lighted. Noruagesta was an old mail now, and though be had conformed to new views, his heart was strong ia the old faith. Anxiously he watched the flame, with all the blood of his heart surging to his brain. It flickered! It went out! And with a cry, the poet fell at the f et of the king, dead. Deafaess Cannot be Cored by lcal applications, as they can nrt reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed con dition of the mucous lining of the Eu stachian Tube. When this tu'oe Is in tlamedyou have a rumbling sound '-r imperfect hearing, aid when it is en tirely closed, Deafness Is the result, and unless the hiM animation can le taken out aud this tule restored to its normal coudiliou, hearing will be de stroyed forever; niue case-s out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is noth ing but an iufLuueil condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give Oue Hundred Dollars for any cae of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can uot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, Send for circulars, frv. F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, O. fcirSedd by Druggists, 7oc. lu France the Christmas dinner in cludes a chicken roan ted and garnished as only the French can do it, and liver pudding rich with truffl and season ing. A Tenn&ssfce lady, Mrs. J. W.TowIe, of Philadelphia, Term , has been using Chamberlain's Cough Koineely for her ba by, ho is subject to croup, and say of it: "I find it just as gnod as you claim it to be. Since I've hail your Cough ItemeUy, bahy has been threatened with croup ever so many times, but I would give him a doe of the Remedy and it prevented hlsi having it every time." IJundreda of mothers say tu same. Sold by J. N. Snyder, Somerset, Pa.
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