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Ti'liinilllliciTuij.
VV Hftiaa THAT NEVEK DHL
; dies n motlior'a holy love
, -ar ngllicus 4-ltb every ill that may bo-
0 tide;
In every phase of life its water move
Witli"tirreiit etronfr, nud fathoinloRn, and
t Y' 'I
Fp:rt,t1is heart's other flames nfiy rise,
Ad while they seom as warm, and grand,
,ni higlu
The incense ortmo lives to'reieh the skies
A iflothor's teudor love can never die.
They never die-tho s jns of other days,
The unstrung burps nil covered o'er with
dost,
Art) in some rambling stor-honse laid away
With ninny othor wrocks of love and trust,
At eventide, when all around is still,
Each harp throws oil the dust with gonllo
it'll,
And voices long since hushed our chambers
fill
With songs of othor days that never die.
It never dies the memory of n wrong
Done to an innocent and trusting heart;
Though outwardly it eceinoth well and
strong,
A pain ii there whioh never can depart;
t Time o'er the spot may woavo a fair now
skin,
And every trace be hidden from the eye,
Cut all the ngony is cloned within,
And wounds thus healed are never known
9 to die.
dio the kindly dood and word
V Given to the seedy without pomp and
pride;
Sooner or later they reap thoir reward
Who pass not over to the other side;
,And cnunbs thus cast upon the sea if life
May not return ns man is sailing o'er
. But when he reti from agony and strifo,
He'll find thq loavos nion the other shore.
It never dies the bow of promise set
In every landscape, bo it bleak or fair,
There's hopo for all upon life's billow yet,
ForOod's own hand had placed the token
there;
Though overwhelming storms of wind and
rain t
Chase every sunboum from the pilgrim's
sky,
After much peril 'twill gleam forth again,
For rainbows come and go but nevor die.
They cover dio the moon, and tars, and
mux
sllave shono upon the wicked and the jast
Since God's mast glorious handiwork ,was
done,
And men arose so mighty from the dust;
For when we closo oa'r eyes upon this world,
To open thorn in Hoavoa by-and-bye,
, The samo bluo banner there will be un
furled,
With sun, and moon, and stars, that never
, lira. E. O. Jewell.
A CLOUDED MIND.
Lu stood behind the little counter
where sho passed so many hours of her
life, her lingers resting upon tho glass
"fTiti' which she tapped
impatiSn'tly, whilo her eyes roved from
Ned Snyder, behind tho opposite
counter,, to the door through' which
she hoped s mie customer would enter.
Ned's attention was divided between
leering at Lu with his shocking con
tortions of f;ice, and volunteering va
rioustclownlsh remarks, each of which
eliejvd from their olj ,'ct only a move
ment of Impatience, a sharper tapping
of tho glass with her fingers, but no
word of answer. Finally Ned left
his place, sauntend around behind
Lu's counter, and undo 1 the maneuver
by thru iting his la o up before hers.
" Oh, go away, NeJ," she exclaimed,
turnii.g from him, "do go now !"
" What'll I go away fury" he de
manded, creeping up ayaiu in front of
her face.
" Go. because I am tired and you
want to go," this 4n a tone of marked
impatience, which Nd evidently un
derstood that it would net do for him
to disregard. " Go back behind vour
own counter, or stay here and I'll go
there. What do yoa suppose cust jiii
ers would think to see you acting in
tl.ls way?"
Xed hustled over to his own side of
the room before he answered, in a rnat-ter-of-faet
way :
" Suppose they'd think we ought to
be married!"
"JIarrie I you foolish fellow ! Why
do you keep talking such nonsense?"
" AVal, now I toll you there is lots
of folks that talk in that way, whether
you'd think it or not, and course they're
right about it. Tell you one thing
when we bo married you don't drive
roe round this way; just make up your
mind about that."
The last part of Xed's information
had been volunteered as the door
opened to admit Homer Ilarkness; and
Lu had scowled silence at the wagging
tongue in vaiu. Hut if that young
man who entered had heard anything
of what was being vsaid he did not in
dicate it by any change of expression.
He greeted the twain with a friendly
word to each, and passed through to
the dining-room. When his footsteps
died away, Lu turned her great brown
eyes to Ned, and said, sorrowfully :
'Ned, why will you talk so, and be
'foro people most of all? Don't you
Jinow that I don't want you to talk
that way, and you mustn t!
" Mustn 1 1 Lord, wliat words vou
use! Hut you 11 get over it some day
won t always feel as bashful.
A voice from below called Ned, and
be tumbled from sight, much to Lu's
wucf.
Any person seeing Lu Towner, day
by day, would have understood how
cheerless hor young life really was. An
evil star had seemed to rulo at her
birth. Her father, formerly engaged
in a comfortable business, had taken to'
drink, ruined his custom, squandered
his little property, and Dually died,
soon after Lu's birth.
Her mother, broken-hearted, strug
gled with adverse fortune for a few
years, and then she, too, died, leaving
her little daughter to the care of her
only relative, a married aunt. The aunt
was kind, In so far as her nature knew
the meaning of the word; but she had
made Mammon her God, and nature
had given her great power for physical
endurance two dangerous qualities
for the same person to possess, espe
cially if that person be a'woman.
Lu's uncle was the proprietor of a
bakery, and In connection was a sales
room and a boarding-house. Mr.
Towner superintended the former; his
wife the latter; and so it was that when
Lu Lad mastered the rudiments of the
common school education, she was
taken in as a sort of general help for
her aunt. It was as though the sun
light of her dawning life had gone be
hind some great cloud. There was so
much that she could do, and she was so
willing to do whatever might be de
manded of her. From peeling pota
toes, chopping hash and washing
dishes, her sphere of usefulness gradu
ally extended through all the depart
ments of the boarding-house and sales
room, till now we find her, at the age
of twenty, after eight years of inces
sant toil, with no prospect of any
change so long as life and health should
remain.
From very early in the morning till
very late at night, through sjven long
days in every week, with only nn hour
or two of respite on Sunday, th ) was
here, there, wherever her services were
demanded, not conscious that she was
doing more actual physical labor than
two like her should perform, beside
shutting out from her young life the
joys of companionship, and ignoring
nil those social privileges which are so
d?ar to young life.
Lu was not especially pretty. At
first glance she seemed so her small,
compact figure, oval features andgre.it
brown eyes, so full of honest truth,
were certainly tho elements of beauty
but hor incessant toil had wrought
its lines upon hand3 and face, insulli
cient sleep, continued care and the ab
sence of social joy, tinged and shaded
her whole life with a hue of sadness.
Ned Snyder was familiarly known
as "the fool." In some respects the
epithet was quite appropriate, for
while ho had sulllcient intelligence to
be of much service in the bakery, and
even in tho salesroom, he was yet of
such uneven mental balance as to puz
zle the most acute philosopher as to his
degree of soundness and accounta
bility. Nod, too, had been adopted by
Mr. Towner, just ai he would have
taken a horse for its keeping. It would
bo handy te have such a boy about the
establishment, there was always some
thing for him to do, and there were
fragments enough left alEter the thirty
or forty boarders had finished their
mt a'.s to give the poor fool a royal repast.
At first, life had not many pleasures
for Ned, but as his sphere of useful
ness began to develop and he some
times talked about " packing up his
duds" and going to sea for Ned had
a way of talking whatever came into
his mind he began to receive better
clothes, and occasionally little pres
ents, and spare half days, till his lot
really in comparison became quite en
viable. Lu had alway3 been kind to him, out
of the kindness of her heart, and many
a favor she had taken pains to bestow
upon him because she pitied his forlorn
condition. Generally at the table she
would procure for him a nicer piece of
meat or some little delicacv which had
never been intended for him, and this
she delighted to do, even though he soon
came to look upon such favors as a
matter of course, and to scold and
growl if they were not batowed.
let, alter all, Ned did not mean to
be ungrateful, and as he could think f
no other way of repaying Lu's kind
ness, he had grown up into a convic
tion that he must marry her at some
time in tho unknown future. Dread
ful as such a thought must have been
to her, could she have brought herself
for single moment to a realization, and
annoying as was Ned's constant refer
ence to the purpose of his heart, it
had become his mental food and drink
the inspiration of his life. No more he
talked of the sea: no more of shoulder
ing his "Turk." Even his naturo
bowed to the sway of love, and in the
presence of Lu only was he happy or
contented.
Naturally enough the belief soon
gained ground that Ned did not speak
unadvisedly, and that some arrange
ments had been made by which Lu was
actually to become his wife. The girl's
uncle and aunt came in for more blame
than they deserved.
"It's just like them," said one
boarder to another, standing at a little
distance and looking upon Lu, busy
behind the counter, while Ned, near
by, was feasting his weird eyes upon
her. "Lu's indispensable to them, and
Ned is a treasure, in his way. Get tho
two married, and they are bound to
stay as long us they can render any
service."
" I hope you are wrong," thi other
returned, "for I don't like to think.
anybody can be that mean. It would
bo a downright shame to marry such
a good, faithful, kind-hearted girl as
Lu to that born idiotl I'd kick the
man who'd do such a thing, if there
were no other way to punish him "
It was Homer Ilarkness who said
this and shortly afterward passed
through the salesroom, whieji was de
serted save by Ned. Mr. Ilarkness
wa3 a young business nian of the Wty.
very comfortably situated in lifflnnd
having for several years1 taken- his
meals there, he was on quite friendly
terms witli the feeble-minded youth. .
"Ned," he asked, bending over'. the
counter, half-confklentially, "you) are-'
going to invite me to the 'yeddinjj,' I
suppose?" -t , '
"What mo and Lu?" ' ,.;;''
"Yes."
"Yes, going to invite ajl tlu? brmrd
crs," the fool said in a very business
like manner.
"When will it probably tako"' place,
Ned?" '
" Blamed if I know Lu won't say.
Say Lu," the door bad opened to ad
mit her at-that moment, "when bo we
goin to get married ? This gentleman
wants to know."
Lu looked up at Mr. Ilarkness, for
It was getting dusk in the s ilesroom,
and the gas had not been lighted. A
moment her lip quivered, and then
tears sprang to her eyes.
" Go downstairs, Ned," she replied,
turning away. " Mr. Towner wants
you."
" No he don't either. You've got to
tell me now, and the poor youth
sprang forward with a sort of frenzy,
but at that moment the sharp tones of
his master sounded his name so em
phatically that he at once turned and
went blundering away down the
stairs.
Lu was so evidently pained by the
occurrence that the young man, self
accused, went near to her and stam
mered out an apology. ,
" Indeed, you are not to blame," she
said, quickly, smiling through her
tears. "I am foolish to let this talk
annoy me; but I I can't help it. I
don't blame the poor fellow much, but
I can't stand it; at least I feel as though
I couldn't, though I don't know how I
can help myself." '
" I will tell you how you can put a
stop to his nonsense."
" Will you ? Then tell me."
" Marry me!"
Lu's lip trembled as she cast a fur
tive ghince up into the young man's
face, and her whole soul thrilled a) she
caught the magnetic love-beam of bis
dark eyes.
"What do you mean?" she de
manded. "Just what I say, Lu. I admire
you; love you. I have long wanted to
tell you so, and to ask you this. Surely
you prefer me to Ned. Now what say
you will you bo mine?"
What could she say ? She knew Mr.
Ilarkness too well to suppose for a
moment that he was trilling with her ;
but it seemed impossible to realize
that tho man she most revered of all
in her limited circla of acquaintances
had really asked her to become his
wife. Why did his request touch so
deed a chord in her soul ? AVas it be
cause it was an answer of an nspira
tion she had not dared acknowledge,
much less to cherish?, Before she
could command herself to frame an
answer a dull foot-fall sounded upon
the stairs.
"Let me go; uncle is coming."
And she tried to withdraw her hand.
"Quick, then ; yes or no?"
"I guess so," and with a tkip she
bounded into the dining-room to hide
the joy-flush which would mantle her
cheeks with a strange glow.
Homer Ilarkness did not allow the
matter to rest long in that state. Satis
factory terms were arranged with tho
uncle and aunt, and it was decided
that the marriage should take place
in a month.
Early in tho evening the ceremony
was very quietly performed, and the
happy husband started with his bride
for a Hying visit to the home of his
parents in a neighboriag town. Ned
had been given a holiday for twenty
four hours, which he was passing with
a relative in another portion of the
city ; so that an unusual sense of quiet,
almost amounting to desertion, settled
over the usually bustling establishment
of the Towners. '
But at midnight the quiet was
rudely broken and the neighborhood
rang with tho sharp cries of " Fire !"
A defective fluo in tho bakerv had
caused the misfortune; the llames
leaped rapidly from room to room of
the old wooden building, so that when
the fire department reached the s'ene
they found the Are bursting out from
basement to attic.
Just as the iiremen commenced oper
ations Ned dashed upon tho scene,
breathless and excited. He saw the
dense smoke pouring from the broken
window of Lu s room and wildly in
quired for the occupant. But no ono
answered his question, for none under
stood his meaning.
Calling her name wildly, lie rushtd
vp the stairway. What transpirel
afterward only the eye of the Inlinite
sa. A daring fireman atteinptel to
follow him a few moment afterward,
but the hall at the head of the stairs
was a sea of llames, through which
nore could pass and live.
Hours later, when the fire was ex
tinguished, from out the ruins was
takea something which, tbyugU bear
ing little rosemblance to the human
form, could still be identified as all that
remained on earth of Ned Snyder.
Lu, re ailed from the strange dream
of her new-found happiness stood bo
side tho coffined remains, and heard the
story of Ids death. The memory of
the disagreeable days and years was all
gono now; she remembered only his
man-Mi uncouth nets of devotion and tho
heroic mannr of his death, in a sup
posed effort to save her from the
flames.
. " Who would have though that he
.cared so much for me?" she said.
"Poor fellow! poorfellowl"
V Yes, dear Lu," her husband re
spon.ired, ''you see that even such as he
I roay, love so that life is disregarded in
rtXing to render service to the object
of that love. Poor fellow, indeed; but
his death slin'l not be in vain, for I
will barn from his example to devote
my life to you, as long as life shall last,
and it would indeed lie to my shame
should my love; prove less unselfish
than the love of a fool." .
Ktrcit SccH3i In Oberammergan.
In the Century, Mrs. Jackson has a
sketch of travel, entitled " The Village
of Oberammergau," where tho "Passion
Flay" annually attracts thousands of
visitois. We quota tl.e following picture
of Oberammergau life :
The open square in front of tho house
is a perpetual stage of tableaux. The
people come and go, and linger there
around the great water-tanks as at a
sort of Bethesda, sunk to profaner uses
of every-day cleansing. The com
monest labors become picturesque per
formed in open air, with a background
of mountains, by men and women with
baro heads and bare lgs and feet.
Whenever I looked out of my windows
I saw a picture worth painting. For
instance, a woman washing her
windows in the tanks, holding each
window under tho running stream,
tipping it and turning it so quickly in
the sunshine that the waters gliding off
it took millions of prismatic hues,., till
ha seemed to be scrubbing with rain-
dows. Another, with two tubs full
of clothes, which she had brought
there to wash, her petticoat tucked
up to her knies, her arms bare to the
shoulder, a bright red handkerchief
knotted round her head, and her eyes
flashing as Bhe beat and lifted, wring
ing and tossing the clothes, and fling
ing out a sharp or a laughing word to
every passer. Another, coining home
at night with a big bundle of green
grass under one arm, her rake over her
shoulder, a free, open glance, and a
smile and a bow to a gay postilion
watering his horses; another, who had
brought, apparently, her whole stock
of kitchen utensils there to be made
clean jugs, and crocks, and brass
pans. How they glittered as she
splashed them in and out ! Sho did
not wipe them, only set them down on
the ground to dry, which seemed likely
to leave them but half clean after all.
Then there came a dashing young fellow
from the Tyrol, with three kinds of
feathers in his green hat, short brown
breeches, bare knees, gray yarn stock
ings with a pattern of green wreath
knit in at the top, a happy-go-lucky
look on his face, stopping iloivn to take
a mouthful of the swift-running water
from the spout, and getting well
splashed by missing aim with liis
mouth, to the uproarious delight of two
women just coining in from their hay
making in the meadows, one of them
balancing a hay rake and pitchfork on
her shoulder with one hand, and with
the other holding her dark-blue petti
coat carefully gathered up in front,
full of hay; the others drawing behind
her (not wheeling it) a low, scoop
shaped wheelbarrow full of green
grass and clover these are a few of
amy day's pictures. ,
Horse-Breaking in Japan.
Hokusai, Japan's greatest artist, was
never weary of studyirg horses and
their funny ways, and of all creatures
Japanese horses are the most amusing.
These nags, which wear laeed-up shoes
of straw, drink out of a dipper, take
hip-baths of hot water, and stand in
tho stable with their mouths tied up
higher than their ears, are broken in to
the park or saddle in a very rough
way. In Hokusai's days, horses were
never harnessed to wagons, nor did
they draw anything. The ponies were
usually "broken in" in the large open
yards attached to temples. Fires, also,
are usually kindled, and the colts
aro driven close to them, so
that they may become accus
tomed to such a common sight.
The method of breaking them in
was as follows: The young horse was
duly harnessed, and a man on taeh
side held a bridle to jerk him to the
rijh'. or left, w hile another in the rear
beat him with a bamboo stick, keeping
well away from his hoofs. Twelve or
more men and boys then took hold of
the long ropes or "tracer, and a lively
shouting began. The horse plunged
and galloped olT, expecting to get rid
of tho noisy crew, but soon l'ouudth.tt
this was no easy tsk. It was a twelve
man power that made him go here and
there, fast or slow, occasionally stop
ping him short and giving him a tum
ble. When ut e ly exhausted, his tor
mentors led l.im back to the st.ible.
After a few such tri:ds the pony was
comide! ed broken. Such erud i train
ing, though line fun for the men, ruins
the horses, making them hard-mouthed
and vicioua vvth both heebi and teeth
A REMABKABLE RECOVERY.
HOW A MAN LIVED THREE TEAKS
WITH A H ALP-BROKE IT ITECZ.
Rcppllns Injnrle Which Kennlle.l In Tola'
rrnlvinI nnhlr to More Ilnnd or Feat
A (.'nc Which I'nzzlrd tho Doctors.
The Hartford Times gives the de
tails of the most remarkable recovery
of Mr. Eddie Crowcll, now in Li i
eighteenth year: In February, 1880,
young Crowell, while practicing on a
trapeze bar in a German gymnasium,
lost his hold and went head first, with
tremendous force, to the floor, striking
upon a sawdust stuffed lag. His
youtiy (he was in his sixteenth year)
probably paved his i fe. It was found
th it the blow bad I roktnthe atlas, the
peculiar ringlike bone which articu
lates with the occipital bone, and thus
sustains the head, and makes practica
ble its free movement. Partially stunned
he arose, with a feeling, as he ex
pressed it, "as if his head had been
jammed down between his shoulders."
He walked home alone, but soon found
himself unable to move his h' .id with
out moving his body with it. This
state of things continued. It was d?
cided, after due consultation with
medical authorities, to let the boy fin
ish his course at the high school, and
he accordingly rejoined his class and
engaged actively in his studies. His
inability to turn or bow bis head con
tinued, and, after awhile, other indica
tions began gradually to point to the
advisability of removing him from
school. He was at length kept most
in the house, though the torcldight
parades of the presidential election
drew him out ono evening, eager to
march witli his companions. This did
not prove to bo well for him; ho be
came worse, and soon paralysis ensued.
This speedily became total. He could
not move hand or foot. His parents,
distress! beyond measure, omitted no
possible means of relief. Dr. Jarvis
and other eminent surgeons were con
sulted, but they, after carefully exam
ining the case, could not give much, if
any, hope of the boy s living. Dr.
Jarvi3 was convinced, to use his own
expression, that " the boy's neck was
broken," meaning, of course, that one
of the vertebral had been dislocated.
The puzzle to tl:e surgeons wa3, how
the boy could have lived as long as h
had. They had no hope of his sur
viving long. Of course he could not
have lived had the spinal cord been
actually separated. The fracture was
so great, as it wits, as to render the
fact of continued life remarkable; but
it is even more remarkable that this
could le, with the "atlas" actually
split r splintered, and a piece of it
broken olf. The paralysis was at
tributed less to the dislocation of
the vertebra) we have named
(with its accompanying bend
ing of tho spinal cord) than to
a new growth of bone to make good
the displacement of the pieco that was
broken off. The n-nv growth, it is be
lieved, pressed directly upon the now
somewhat displace 1 nervous matter of
the spinal cord, and the more the bone
prew the greater the pressure; hence
the paralysis. The only hope afforded
by the doctors was that life might pos
sibly last until the effort of nature to
repair the broken bone had ceased, and
that, if this improbable 'state of things
should fortunately occur, the boy,
being aided by his youth, might then
possibly survive, and recover partially
(or perhaps even wholly) from the
paralysis. (The piece of bone broken
off from the atlas is, we think, sup
posed to be retained by tho ligaments,
side by side with the injured vertebral).
The chances being at least one hun
dred to one against any other than a
speedily fatal result, the surgeons were
not a little surprised at the fact that
the paralyzed boy continued to live;
and now, after a long period of slowly
increasing power first, the ability to
move a little finger; later, the power
to stand, to walk and to ride out. He
now goes out daily to walk or ride, and
his complete recovery is confidently ex
pected. Tannin?.
The appended recipe for tanning
skins with the wool or fur on for use
in sleighs or wagons, as house rugs or
other purposes is given by City and
Country, and will interest some: If
the hides are not freshly taken oil soak
them in water with a little salt until
they are soft as when green. Then
scrape, the fle.h off with a fleshing
knife, or with a butcher's knife with a
smooth round edge, and with sheep
skins the wool should be washed clean
with soft soap and water and the suds
be thoroughly rinsed out. For each
skin take four ounces of alum and
one-half ounce of borax. Dissolve
these in one quart of hot water, and
when cool enough to bear the hand ttlr
in sumcient rye meal to make a thick
paste with half an ounce of Spanish
whiting. This paste is to be thoroughly
spread over every part of tho flesh side
of tho skin, which should be folded
together lengthwise, wool side out, and
left two weeks in an airy place. Then
remove the paste, wash and dry the
kin; when not quite dry it must be
vrorked and pulled and scraped with
a knife made for tho purpose, shaped
like a chopping knife, or with a piece
of hard wood made with, a sharp edge,
The more the skia is worked and
wraped as it dries the ji
more pliable it
Will be.
No person wants striw spelt back
ward on tho end of his no'se. f '
BLANDER,
Twnd bnt a breath ' .
And yet the fair, pood nnme wn wilted ;
And friend onoe fond grew cold and stilleX
And life was worpo than death.
Ono venomed word,
That struck its coward, poisoned Mow,
In craven whispers, hushed and low
And yet the wide world heard.
'Twas bnt one whiaper-Kine
That, mattered low, for very ghame,
The thing the alnnderer dnre not name
And yet its work was done.
A hint, so slight,
And yet so mighty in its power,
A haman soul, in one short hoar,
Lies crushed beneath its blijrht f
IIU&OK OF THE DAT.
The money lender never neglects Ms
business, lie takes all the interest ho
can in it. l'ivuyune.
Fatent medicines are now made that
will cure everything except hams.
Philadelphia Chronic a, . ;
" Ma, mny I go on the street?" ' ,
" Yi s, my dearest daughter, "',''
Provided the youn j man will treat
To cake and eodn water."
A Detroit architect has calls from
nine different cities. ' He estimated the
cost of a certain building tor $14,000,
and it was Unishi-d tor $11,000.
Detroit Free Frists.
"It you:fall off that balcony you'll
get hurt," said cue iriend to another.
"No, I shan't," raid No. 2; "there's
nothing about mo to break; I'm broke
already." The J ud ye.:'
An after-dinner speaker who was
called upon after many of the com
pany, said many of his bright sayings
fell dead because it was impossible to
get a "smile" out of empty glasses.
His excellency: "You have broth
ers '" Captain "One, your excel
lency." His excellency" It's curious.
1 was talking with your sister, and she
said sho had two brothers. How is
that'r" FUegtnde Blatter.
A New York music teacher boasts
that ha has taught 1,500 boys to play on
the violin, which goes to "prove that
sometimes men can become so depraved'
that they will actually boost of and
glory in their crimes. Slf'tings.
A little boy of four year3 was sleep
ing with his brother, when his mother
said: ."Why, Moses, you are lying
right in the niidillj of the bed; what
will poor Harry do V" " Well, ma,'' ha
replied, " Harry's got both sides."
A family paper published a long
article entitled, " Housekeeping Here
after." "Oh, dear!" groaned a dis
tracted mother of five children and
keeper of one instead of two servants;
" if I thought there was going to bo
any housekeeping hereafter, I declare
I'd never dio." Burlington llaivkeye.
The Ithaca Journal tells of a littlo
four-year-old, who, upon retiring, pro
ceeded to say her pra3rers as usual.
When she had repeated the line, "If i
should die before I wake," a thought
seemed to strike her, and after pausing
a moment, she added: " What a rum
pus there would be in this house I" bhe
then repeated the concluding lino of
the prayer and scrambled into bed.
HEALTH BINTS.
Apples before breakfast, well masti
cated, are an aid to the digestive
organs.
It is reported, says Dr. Foote's Htalih
Mo it'ily, that a dub of business men
has been formed in New York, pledged
to slow eating at lunch. A good
movement.
To relieve tho swollen joints of the
feet, paint the joints with iodine morn
ing und night; wear shoes big enough
for the feet, even if they aro large;
shoes lequire to be long as we!l os
broad, and have low heels; new shoes
will not hurt if they are large enough.
In a paper read before tho Imperial
German Congress of Surgery tho caso
is described of a woman who, having
lost the whole of the biceps with tho
exception of a thin strip of llesh, was
grafted with a pieco of muscle taken
from a dog. Complete healing took
place, and subsequent treatment with
electricity rt stored motion to the limb.
The Boastful Uonsr.
A goose stood on the bank of a pond
and said: "To what animal has
Providence been so lavish of gifts as
to mo ? I belong to the air, earth and
water; I can walk, fly and swim."
The astute serpent, hearing this self
adulation, said: "Don't be such a
boaster. You can do nothing well;
yon can neither run like a doe, nor fly
like a dove, or swim like a perch." It
is better to know how to do one thin
well than many tilings awkwardly.
W. A. Croffut, in one of his New
York letters, av rs that " most of the
famous editors tlds country has pro
duced hae been largo men. llnracn
Greeley weighed "00. Thurlow Weed
weighed 210. Henry J. Raymond
weighed ISO or more ; so did Samuel
Howies. Hugh Hastings and General
James Watson Webb turn the scales
at 2o0. liohert Homier weighs nearly
?r0. George Jones weighs nmre than
200, so does Charles A. Dana, so do'-s
General llawley, so does Murat Hub
stead, godoes George Alfred Trnvnseiid,
bo dots Mr. Hurlhert, so will Wiijto
Jaw ltcid in five yeari more."