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VOL. XXVIII. NO. 39. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, JAN 15, 189G. S1.00 PER ANNUM.!
EPUBLICAN.
German women nave been appealod
to by the International Woman's
League for Tcaee in'Taris to help
thorn in bringing about a general disarmament.
Count Oknmn's proposition of a
world's fnir iu Japan is a sensible one,
thinks the Now Orleans rioayuue. The
Occidental attendance at an Oriental
exposition would be immense.
Ilenry Wattcrson, editor of the
Lonisvillo Courier-Journal, is gcing
to write a life of Abraham Lincoln
from the standpoint of an ex-Confed-rrate
who admires tho genius "of tho
martyred President.
Four professors of the University
of California, after listening, as judges,
to a publio dubnto on the New Wo
man movement, voted rolidly against
tho New Woman, deciding that the
movement "is not for tho best inter
ests of the race."
Alphonse Daudot, the French nov
elist, has been sorely troubled by his
uncomplimentary remark about Eng
lish women. He declared the other
day that ho bad decided to say noth
ing about women in the future, be
cwse this "sex, usually callod feeblo,
has too many defenders when at
tacked.' The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany has BRke.l all the important linos
using Pullman sleepers to join in a
request to tho Pullman Company to
reduce the price of upper berths
twenty-five per cent, below the prioe
charged for lower berths. Pullman
cars are ran on 127,000 out of 173,000
miles of road in this country.
Feminine caprice in dress has ruined
many a flourishing industry, and now
tho Calais lacemakers are the sufferers.
Tho present fancy for thick heavy
guipure laces prevents sale of tho fine
delicate fabrics wrought in the neigh
borhood of Calais. Calais manufac
turers hive distributed their laoe free
to Tnrishu shops, but customers will
not take it up.
The tiuth of the a Inge that an hour
oT sleep before midnight is worth two
hours after midnight is questioned by
Dr. E. T. Colby, who states that ho
made some study of the subject while
iu naval service during the Civil War.
The ship's company on shipboard
officers and men alike stand four
hour watches day and night, with the
interpolation of a dog-watch of two
hours to change tho time of each set
of men on successive days. These men
are therefore obliged to get their re
quired sleep very irregularly, but in
more thau two years of observation
Pr.. Colby could never discover that
the watcn officer and men wore not a
fully refreshed by their sleep as were
the medical and pay officers, who
etand no watch, and have hours as reg
ular as any householder. In the varied
industries of our cities, where many
workers are employed at night and
must sleep by day, further evidonoe
could doubtless be found that the time
when sleep in obtainod has not the in
fluence upon health and longevity for
luorly attributed to it.
, Tennessee hie planned and is now
conducting an industrial exposition
of interstate uud international scope
to celebrate the one hundreth anni
versary of her admission into tho
Union, to open at Nashville, the capi
tal of the State, September 1, 1895,
and to continue 109 days. The plans
call for twenty main buildings to be
grouped aronud a lake, a military
plaza, and a reproduction of the Par
thenon at Athens, standing snow white
and alone in the middle upon a high
terrace. In the maiu exposition
buildings Tennessee will present in
classified form under appropriate de
partments the evidenoes of her re
sourceful mines, her fertile fields and
her numerous manufactures. She in
vites every other State aul foreign
land to come and plaoa its exhibits
t ide by side with hers, and will make
110 charge for the space occupied.
The management to wh-ioh has been in
trusted the details of the fair desire
that the most unique and the most
complete exposition possible may re
mit from their labors. For Teuues-M-'u's
purt more than 1000 prominent
men and women scattered throughout
the State are said by the managers to
be working earnestly aud patriotically,
aud without talury, preparing exhib
its. For other States, 4 'roe sparse iu
large buildings for exhibits and sites
for individual edifices are offered, unl
the management will reader all assist
ance to such commissioners as are ap
pointed for tha fuocessful perform
unco of their duties. "1'euuessee,"
tay tho uiaua'ers, "is in earnest aud
the will prove again by her exposi
tion the iituets of the term 'Volunteer
Slate,'"
WHEN MY SHIP COMES IN.
My ship comes sailing In from the soa,.
And I am glnd as glad can bp.
Oh! I have kissed my love to-night,
And all life SMms one calm delight.
My ship comes in. my ship comes Iu.
My ship comes sailing up ths son,
And life Is like a dream to me.
The stars look larger than before
The moon Is silver now. The dool '
Of Paradise seems open wide
As yon ohurch-door for my fair brde.
My ship comes in, my ship comas tnj
My ship oomw climbing up the sen,
And land and sea are fair to me.
I kaow full well In my ship's hold
Lie neither gorgeous silks nor gold)
But obi I know my lov. loves me
And ask no mora of Ian t or sen.
My ship comes in, my ship comes In;
My ship has crossed the lonesome sen,
And I am glad as glad onn be.
--Joaquin Miller, In His "rooms."
A BAN ON THE NAME.
AM Agnes Grey,
or at least that
jgc-' when, one bright
uu.uu.w MWJ, kUU
sky as blue as
though there
never oonld be
another oloud in
it.
I camo home
across fields from
Nellie Iiobart wedding, when my
foot caught in the grass, where some
boys had tied it, and down I fell,
twisting my ankle aud hurting my
head so thet for a while I knew noth
ing. At last I felt some one lift me off
tho ground, and opened my eyes to
see that it was a great, swarthy, blaok
eyed girl of seventeen or so a girl
with all her tangled ourlstuoked under
a'dress which wsi not ladylike, bntshe
had the voice and manner of a lady,
and she asked me very kindly if I
were much hurt; and, seeing that I
was, picked me np in her strong arms,
and carried me through a garden gate,
and into a little parlor, where she
laid mo on a sofa and bathed my head
with roso water, and told mo to keep
up my courage for "Gideon had gone
for a dootor."
That name told me where I was. I
was under a roof that I had never
thought would shelter me, no matter
what came to pass. I would have
risen and gone away, if I could have
stirred from the odd old sofa, for this
was Gideou Leed's old homestead, and
here dwelt the children of the man
who, sixteen years before, had been
hung for the murder of my Unole
Matthew. I was but a baby when it
all happened, but I could remember
how the whole village was astir in
searoh of the missing man, and how a
body was found, at last, in the heart
of Aloott's woods, and how the facts
that there had been a quarrel between
Gideon Lee and Unole Matthew, and
that Gideon Lee owed the latter
money, and how they were last seen
together quarreling in Gideon's gar
den, where a bloody handkerchief
marked M. G. was found soon after,
brought Gideon to the gallcws. Ter
haps hearing tho story afterward from
my grandfather made mo fancy I re
membered it ; but, at all events, the
name I had learned to hate was that
of Gideon Lee, and now it was the
child born on the day of her mother's
death, tho very day on whioh the fath
er met hia awful fate, who lifted me
from the ground, dusky Madge Lee,
who had never founda playmate nor a
friend in the village, because of the
ban upon ber father's name, and Gid
eon, the son, who had been old enough
to understand it all at the time, who
oame in with old Dr. Humphries soon
after. They were not poor people.
The gray stone house was a substan
tial one, and the farm had prospered
in Gideon's hands, and thero were
more books and pictures and tokens
of refinement within than country
homes generally boast of ; but even
the farm hands spoke contemptuously
of the "son of the man who was
hung," and the servants who were
hired by Madge Lee were not natives
of the place.
And here was I, Matthew Grey's own
nieoe, lying uudur the roof, and like
to be there some time, for the dootor
forbade my removal.
"I must go home I must go away
from this house," I said, angrily and
feverishly.
And Mudge, looking down on me as
an Indian prinoess might, with her
dark eyes aglow, said, in a bitter
voice, "Never fear, Miss Grey, we'll
not murder you," and somewhat
abashed me, haughty as I was. Grand
pa was away from home, or I thiuk
even the risk of my life would not
have kept him from taking me home ;
and I grew ill and delirious, and
Madge Lee nursed me as a sister
might, and Gideon was kinder thau a
brother. He found sweet flowers
dripping with dew in the woods; and
he sang, as I never heaid anyono sing
before, those Scottish ballads that are
lovelier than auy other luusio ever
written to my mind, and it ended by
my loving them. So when I was well
enough to go away, I took Madge's
hand in mine and said, "How shall I
ever thank you for your tender caro
of me?"
"And she answered : Agnes Grey,
the only gratitude I ask is belief iu
us. The people down there," and she
pointed with her brown hand toward
the town, 'call us the children of a
murderer. We are the children of a
martyr instead. I never saw my
father, but we both know that he is
innocent. Your Uncle Matthew for
give me, but it is the truth was a
wild, bad fellow. He quarreled with
my father, not father with him, and
the debt was paid. And for the
bloody handkerchief, he had cut bis
hand and unbound and washed it and
tied it op afresh in mother's very
sight thaf, day. Don't be 0 cruel as
to doubtji', Agnes Grey."
And then she brought me the pie
ture that thoy kept as a sacred relio,
and verees writ ton by his hand, and
tender love-letters, yellow with age ;
and as I looked at the face, so sweet,
so good, so like that of the Gideon Lee
I knew, I folt sure that those who
stood before me, though they were
the children of the man who was bung,
were not the offspring of a murderer.
And afterwards Gideon also spoke.
"It is hard for us to bear," he said
"hard to know that We must bear it
all onr lives ; but, if you only see the
truth if only without proof you will
understand that we know no murder
was ever done by our dear father's
hand we, who have his pictured face
upon the wall, the letters written to
our mother, the words our mother
wrote, begging ns to read them often
when she was dead, and never doubt
the man who, on his knees in the con
demned cell, oallingon God to witness
his last words, had sworn to the wife
who woul 1 have love 1 him even had
he, in some hasty moment, dealt a
fatal blow, that he knew nothing of
Matthew Grey a death, and even
donbted that he was dead at all if you
can believe with us, and not with those
who were his murderers, I, at least,
shall have a lighter heart."
And I put my hand into his, and
gave the other to Madge, and said hon
estly :
"I do believe as you do, and I al
ways will."
A pretty scandal there was through
the town when 1 began to go down
to the gray stone house to see my
friends. I knew it, and fought it
bravely.
"Gideon Leo never killed any one,"
I vowed aloud to those who chided
me. "I will not ban his children for
tho fault of others."
But thero, in the village, were those
who had been at the trial, and eleven
of the jurymen, and the Jadgeand the
Sheriff and the witnesses, and under a
stone in the graveyard were the bones
that had been sworn to as Uncle
Matthew's, and in a bleak, lonely spot
tor they refused it burial in holy
ground the coffin of the man who
was hang; and how dared I, a baby
almost at the time, to judge for my
self? I knew they were right enough, but
I never faltered. I was as sure as
Madge was that her father never killed
Unole Matthew.
They would not come to my home.
Indeed, grandfather would have had
the door olosod in their faces, but
nothing could keep me from them.
And it was dangerous work for me,
too, as I began to know before long,
to sit so much by Gideon Lee's side,
to hear his voioo so often, to feel my
heart thrilling with a loving pity for
him for whioh I have no words. He
was my wounded and despised knight,
this dear Gideon Lee, before I had
known him three short months, and I
would have given my life for him.
But he said no word of love to me,
nor I to him.
We were sitting together one even
ing, when grandfather walked into
our midst and clutched me fiercely
by the arm.
No need to repeat the words he ut
tered. The insults stung me as sharp
ly as they could Gideon Lee's chil
dren. . But he forbade me ever to
speak to them again, and took me
home with him.
The last glimpse I caught of the
brother and sister showed them to me
standing hand-in-hand, their fingers
clutched tight, their teeth set, their
faces white with wrath, uuder the
bright moonlight. It was my last
glimpse for many years, for the day
after this we sailed for England.
Grandfather was an Englishman, and
it was partly to revisit his native land,
and partly to put tba ocean between
the Lees and me, that he took the voy
age. But he could not tear my heart
from them. I loved them better than
any people I ever met ; most of all, I
loved Gideon.
But I never heard of him or from
him, nor could guess whether he lived
or died, remembered or forgot me,
for three long years.
At tha end of that time my poor
grandfather died, and I, his heiress,
returned to my native land a rich wo
man and my own mistress. Thisoodi
oil to his will had left me all :
"I, Henry Grey, having cause to
fear that my beloved grandchild is
easily misled by artful persons, and is
not guileful enough to understand
their guile, do, for her own welfare,
add this proviso, that, should she ever
give ber hand in marriage to the son
of the murderer of my son, Matthew
Grey, all claim upou the moneys and
estates above bequeathed her shall be
forfeited, and said property go, with
out reserve, to the Hospital of Saint
Martha and tuechuroh attached there
unto, to be used by the trustees of
said church and institution as they
see fit."
But, despite this codicil, I went
down into the valley iu which Gideon
Lee's homestead stood before I had
been at homo a day. It was sunset
when I reached it, but the light did
not, as of yore, gild the panes of the
upper windows to sheets of burnished
gold. Every Bhutter was closed, and
the house seemed to frown upon me.
The garden bad run wild, the fields
lay desolate, the broken branches of
the orchard trees told of boyish depre
dation. Strange cattle grazed in the
meadow, aud Hover's kou nel was empty.
I went up to the old porch aud found
there, wet with rain aud tangled in
the dead relios of last year's morning
glory vine, a scarlet ribbon, one Madge
must have worn. No oue could tell
me anything of Gideon Loc'e children,
exoept what the empty house had told
me that they were gone.
I had lost them. 1 was not happy,
I c ild not be gay. I could not care
for anything very uiuob, aud 1 lived a
quiet life for two long years, aud let
those call me cold and proud who
would, I was not cold, but those who
courts! we wcra Gidoou Lee's cue-
mles, ani had persecuted pretty
Maige since her new birth, and had
done their innocent father to death,
and I had hated them for it, though I
said nothing.
But at last, one bright morning,
walking np the road to look at the
desolate dwelling where I had come to
love Gideon Lee's children, I saw a
change in it. The windows were
open ; a man was at work in the gar
den. Three figures in traveling cos
tume had just entered the broad
porch, and a carriage Btood at the
gate.
I knew Gideon's tall figure at a
glanco ; bnt who was this superb,
glowing, beautiful, with a look of tri
umph on her face who came toward
me? And who was that old man, with
the strange, sarcastic smile, that I
fancied I had seen before?
As I advanced, I knew that it was
Madge Madge, grown to be a mag
nificent woman Madge, who kissed
me ns of yore, and who left me in a
moment alone with Gideon, and drew
the stranger away with her.
And Gideon held my hand, and I
oould only say, "It has been very
long," and try to hide my tears I
"It has been long for me, Agnes t"
he said. And then there was a pause.
He broke it by saying :
"Yon are Miss Agnes Grey, and the
world honors yon. I am the son of
the man who was hung. Even now,
loving you as I do as I have all this
weary while that stands between us,
a barrier you could not cross. Is it
not so? Were I all else I am not, and 1
so worthy of you, I should still be j
Gideon Lee, and an outcast branded j
with Cain's brand, and yon could
neither love nor wed me!"
Could I say, "I love you?" It was
not in maidenhood to do that. It
was impossible. I trembled ; I falt
ered. "It is an unjust brand) My
eyes never see it I"
He showered kisses on my hand?,
but he spoke again. "Do you dare
to do it, Agnes to love an outcast,
to bring upon yourselt contempt and
hate; to relinquish wealth for the
humble life of a simple farmer? Is
your love strong enough for this?
Will you never repent?"
"Never!" I said,
"When your gold is gone, yonr
land another's, your friends turned
to enemies and your name your
very name, Agnes, that of the man
who was hung?" he asked slowly.
"Think! can you bear that igno
miny?" And I took my hands from his and
laid them on hia shoulders and said
Bat no matter what I said. I have
forgotten the words that told him that
I loved him too well to doubt my
oouraga to bear anything for his
sake.
But suddenly, as ho knelt there,
looking up into my eyes, I saw a look
in his face that I could not under
standa look that made me cry out;
and I saw the others draw near, and I
saw Madge clasp her brother'a hand,
and the old man held out both of his
to me.
"Wo hava been parted five years,"
said Gideou. "In that time I hava
been searching for something that I
believed must be hidden in the wide
world. I have found it."
"What is it," I cried.
"Could any earthly thing bnt one
embolden me to speak as I have spoken
to yon?" said Gideon. "Do you
think that I would ever have offered
any woman a name that would have
made her an ontoast? That which I
sought, that whioh I found, was a
living proof of my father's innooence.
Look I do yon not know this man?"
And I turned my eyes upon the old
man, who had taken my hand in his,
and I knew that 1 looked upon my
Uncle Matthew.
The whole town knowns the story
now. He has told them how, yielding
to his wandering impulses, he left, as
he had done once before, the home
and friends of his early manhood, and,
far from all news of Christian lands,
dwelt in the Arab's tent upon the
desert, and wandered with him over
the burning sands, loving the life too
well to leave it, and never hearing of
Gideon Lee's unjust condemnation, or
of his terrible fate, until his son stood
before him.
They speak of Gideon Lea's children
now as of those of a martyr, and the
ban is lifted from the name that 1
have taken for my own.
'Career ot a Fauiom Surgcsn,
The London Lancet says of the lata
Frofessor Barduloben that "his surgi
cal oareer extended over more than
half a century; he began his work at
the time when anaesthetics were first
used, and closed it when surgery dares
successfully to attack every organ of
the humau body. Although not per
sonally connected with any striking
inventions or methods, he was always
ready to avail himself of new meehods
in Burgery. When more than fifty
years old, at a period of life when a
change of habits is seldom seen in
medical men, he, with the lato Fro
fessor Volkmauu, made the autiseptio
method first known to the profession
of his couutiy, and in spite of the
scepticism which Sir Joseph Lister's
work met with iu tho beginning, he
was one of his most ardent champions
in Germany."
Freseuce oi Mind at ths l'olut ot Ilea Hi.
Death came to Captain H. C. Mc
Laughlin, of the steamer Resolute,
while he was in the pilot house steer
ing his boat across San Francisco har
bor the other day. As he felt his
senses leaving him he intuitively
reached forward and rau the relief
hell for the mate. When the mate
reached the pilot bouse the captain
was lying on the floor, senseless, aud
in a minute or two he was dead. Early
that day he had picked up a horse
shoe near the wharf, aud took it
aboard, telling his friends that it
meant good luck for him. New York
Suu.
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BT THE
FUNNY MEN OP THE PRESS.
"Is Rival Too Sudden A Genteel
""" Kmployment Xo Reward Ac
counted For, Ktc, Etc.
8h was happy In the love of him
Hhe married tor his pelf;
Though she adored another
Tbat other was herself.
Fuel:.
TOO SrDDES.
Cholly "How would aw like to
own a little aw puppv, Miss Mon
ey fnl?"
Miss M. "This is so sndden, Mr,
Softloigh."New York Herald.
A GENTEEL EilTLOYMENT.
Mrs. A. "Is it true that yonr son
holds the appointment of warden in a
jail?"
Mrs. R. "Yes, but only criminals
of good family ere imprisoned there."
NOT A TOTAL LOS.-
Towno "I hear yon had a fire out
at your house at Lonesomchurst. Did
it do much damage?"
Hubbubs "No, not much ; we had
it ont before the local fire company
got there." Puok.
TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE.
Goodfello "If my clothes were not
too big for you, I'd give you an old
luit." .
Hungry Hank (gratefully) "Boss,
if you'd give me 'the price of a square
meal, I warrant they' fit mo all right."
Truth.
MATHEMATICAL OEXIT'8.
Teacher "Now suppose there were
five boys going skating, and they had
only three pairs of skates ; how many
boys would have to look on?"
Boy "I know; the two that got
the worst of the fight." Harper's
Bound Table.
NO REWARD.
"Well, my littto boy," said ths nr
bane visitor, "what does mamma give
you for being good to-day?"
"3ho doesn't givo mo anything,"
said the youngster in an injured tone.
"I am just good for nothing." De
troit Free Press. -
ACCOUNTED FOR.
Farmer Waybaok "Only thiuk,
Samanthy ; thet rich Mr. Vanderbilk
allows his wife five .thousand dollars a
month fer pin-money alone."
Mrs. Waybaok "Wa al, Josh, I nf
fen think an' uster wonder where all
th' p.ns went to, an' now I know."
J udge.
THEY WERE WELL NAMED.
"These suits," seid the salesman,
"are fitted with our great Corbett
Fitzsimmons prize fight buttons."
"Er ?" faltered the customer in
quiringly. "Yes," explained the salesman,
"they never como off. "Rockland
fribune.
ALWAYS IN STOCK.
" Dyspeptic Customer "The doctor
says coffee isn't good for me, anil I
must quit drinking it. Haven't you
some preparation that makes a good
substitute for coffee?"
Grocer "Yes, sir. Our 'Pure After
sinner Java, ready ground, at twenty
eents a pound, is an excellent er
imitation, sir." Chicago Tribune.
TROOP POSITIVE.
Gladys "What are yon going to do
when you leave college?"
Toin "Ob, live on my income, I
gness."
Gladys "A man as clever as yon
might do something to piove his
cleverness."
Tom "Living on my income would
prove me one of the cleverest finan
ciers of the age." Life.
A SCaClESTlVE CONVERSATION.
"Mr. Smith, I suppose you've heard
tbat the year 1900 will not be a leap
year?"
"Ye es, Miss Jones."
"So that thero will be no chanoe to
to that is, no chance between
1890 and 2004."
"Genius, Miss Jonee, makes its own
opportunities. But I fear I'm staying
too late. Good night !" New York
Recorder.
AN EASY INTRODUCTION.
The young man had gone into a de
partment store to buy a fountain pen.
The girl in charge of the fountain pen
show case had supplied him with a
sheet of paper, a bottle of ink and
several of the pens, and in trying
them, one after auother, he covered
the sheet with the words "lompus
Fugit," tho girl looking on with a
kindly interest.
"If you buy one and it doesn't suit
you, Mr. Fugit," she remarked, "yon
can bring it back aud change it."
Chicago Tribune.
AN EVEN TIIINO.
"My friend," he t-uid in the soft
tremulo whioh bespeaks the meudi
cant, "I'm in hard hick."
The man whom ho was endeavoring
to touch only walked tho faster.
"I'm hungry and sleepy aud I ain't
pot a thing ter eat nor any place ter
lay my head."
"I haven't anything for you. I've
heard all that before.')
"Heard it before! Why, look 'ere,
mister, this aiu't no prize coutest for
originality. An' if it is, you ain't got
none the best o' me," he went on,
slackening his paoe, and dropping be
hind, "I've heard what you said be
fore ; 'bout 'leven thousand tiii:e at
the lowest calo'latiou." Washington
Star.
SCIEXTIFIC AM) I.NHCSTRIATj,
Tahiti, in the South Seas, is now
lighted by electrio lamps.
Tho Lako street elevated railroad,
iu Chicago, expects to have a completa
electrical equipment by tho first of
next February.
Twenty-fivo per cent, of all tho
babies born in Russia die before they
are a year old, and forty -two per cent,
do not reach the age of four.
A mining expert declares that there
are large deposits of gold-bearing
gravel in Nebraska, not far from Lin
coln, and that much of it is "fabu
lously rich."
Of 597 trees struck by lightning in
Moscow, Russia, 302 were white pop
lars. The planting of these trees a?
protectors against lightning is there
fore recommended to farmers.
There is said to be a scarcity o!
Cuban cedar for cigar boxes since the
outbreak of the revolution in that
country, A good substitute, and one
often nsed, however, is cumber wood,
whioh is dyed to the popular color.
An immense flywheel, twenty-eight
feet in diameter, having a face four
feet broad and weighing 180,000, is on
its way from Philadelphia to Joliet.
111. It is being transported in two
sections on two cars built for the par
pose. In Siom thera is a species of small
black ant officered by mounted "gen
erals." Among the working troops
move at regular intervals'monster ants
elephants as compared to the
others and on each of these sits or
rides one of the small ants, evidently
in command.
It was supposed that aluminum was
a mineral that would not tarnish or
deteriorate undor any ordinary use,
but aooording to naval officers its use
for naval vessels will not do at all.
Thoy say that specimens submitted to
tests in salt water hava practically
crumblod to pieoes.
Such is the clearness of the atmos
phere in the vioinity of Arequipa,
Peru, that from the observatory, 8950
feet above the sea, a black spot one
inch in diameter, placed on a white
disk, has been seen on Mt. Charohani,
a distance of eleven miles, through a
thirteen-inoh telesoope.
New bread and hot morning rolls
have been condemned as injurious and
diffioult of digestion. However true
this charge may be, the use of new
broad appears, even from the hygienic
point of view, to have some compen
sating advantages. Dr. Troitiki states
that he has found that new and uucut
bread contains no micro-organisms, as
the heat necessary to bake the bread
necessarily destroys them, while soon
after exposure many microbes, not in
frequently pathogenic, are to be found
on the loaves. -
Musiles ot the Hail'!.
In the palm of the band and between
the metacarpal bones there are small
muscles (lumbrioales and interossei)
which perform the finer motions
expanding the fingers and moving
them in every direction with quick
ness and delicacy. These small mus
cles, attached to the near extremities
of tho bones of the fingers where they
form the first joint, being inserted
near the center of motion, move tha
ends of the fingers with very great ve
locity. They are the organs whioh give
the hand the power of spinniu;, weav
ing, engraving and as they produce
the quiok motions of the musician's
fingers, they are oalled by anatomists
fidioinale?. The combined strength of
all the muscles, in grasping, must ba
very great; indeed, the power is ex
hibited when we soe a sailor haojia
by a rope and raising his wholo body
with one arm. What, then, must be
the pressure upon the hand? It
would be too much for the texture
even of bones and tendons, and cer
tainly for tho blood vessels and nervoe,
were not the palms of the hands, tho
insida of the fingers and their tips,
guarded by cushions. To add to this
purely passive defense there is a mus
cle which runs across the palm, and
more especially supports the onshiou
on the inner edge; it acts powerfully
as we grasp, aud it is this musolo
whioh, raising the edge of the palm,
hollows it and adapts it to lavo watsr,
formiug the cup of Diojenos, San
Francisco Chronicle.
VulkltiT lor Health.
When there is no orgauio weakness
which isaggravuted by the exertion, it
is the easiest and pleasautest tlnni? to
walk right into health. Of course,
there is no virtue in a dawdling walk.
The slow and languid dragging of one
foot after the other, which some peo
ple call walking, would tire an ath
lete ; it utterly exhausts a weak per
son, and that is the reason why many
delicate people think they cannot
walk. To derive any benefit from ex
ercise, it is necessary to walk with a
light, elastic step, which swiugs the
weight of the bo ly so easily from oue
leg to tho other that its weight is not
felt, aud which produoes a healthy
glow, showing that the sluggish blood
iu stirred to action in the most remote
veins. This sort of walking exhilarate?
the whole body, gives tone to the
m-rves, and produces just that sort of
healthful lutigue which encourages
souud, rostful sleep. Demorest't
Muijazine.
Cryutoxruiii 011 a Headstone,
In the northeastern corner of 'Irin
ity .-hurcnyard a eertaic James Les
sou u buried, aud purt of the incrip
tion on his headstone is in the form
of a cryptogram. The inscription is
very short ; but as oue letter is used
four times, and as this happens to be
the oue iu most geuoral use, and also
taking into account the place iu which
it is found, it requires little penetra
tion to find the hidden meauiug : "lie
member Dsath 1" Now Vorli Advertiser,
MITIOB1ES.
As a p-rfnme doth remain
In the folds where It h.itii lair.
80 the thoug.it of you remaining
Deeply folded In my brain.
Will not leave me, all tiling leave ai
You remain.
Other thoughts may eo-nc and go,
OJher moments I may know.
That shall waft me. In their goinj,
As a breath blown to and fro.
Fragrant memories; frajnnl oiomoriei
Come and go.
Only thought of yon remain
It my heart where they havj lain.
Perfumed thoughts of yon r.Mnainiu-
A hid sweetness In my braiu.
Others leave rae; nil things leave mo;
You remain.
Arthur Symons. .
11UJI0R OF THE HAY.
It does not cost mora than tho prici
of two or three ice creams to be a hero
to a girl. Atchison Globe.
The greatest trouble about blessings
in disguise is their dilatoriness about
discovering thomselves. Puck.
It is said that the idea of the toboggan-slide
first suggested itself to a
man while swallowing a raw oyster.
Lots of room tor clieerfuldes,
Though it rains a flood
Let's he thankful that It's not,
Blush instea 1 of mil l .
Silious "Leave me alone with my
thoughts!" Cynicus "What perfec
tion of solitude!" Philadelphia Bsc
ord. There is a difference between a cold
and the grip ; but yon will not realiza
it until you receive the doctor's bill.
Truth.
Poet "Hope springs eternal in tho
human breast." Cynic "Yes. That
the pool of disappointment may never
go dry." Truth.
"dappy Thought:" Mom. (from
note-book of careless man) "When
nothing elso to do, wind up my watuh.
It saves time." Punch.
There nr! bacilli in n kiss,
I've heard it onct) or twiee:
I really didn't know did you? -That
germs could he 90 niee.
Washington Sla-.
Tisitor "But this portrait of Mr
Bulger is a good deal more than life
size." Artist "I know it. That is
the size ho thinks he is." Boston
Bulletin.
Bowlder (excitedly) "I tell you,
sir, this town isn't big enough to hold
us both." Waugh (calmly) "All
right. When are yon going away?"
Somerville Journal.
"I am not going to tako my meals
at the Hash restaurant any longer."
"Why not?" "I heard the proprio
tor tell a delinquent customer to 'pony
up!"' Detroit Free Prees.
j! Proprietor "I can't engago yon;
your feet are too large!" Clerk
"But they will bo hidden by the
counter, sir," Proprietor "No
counterfeits allowed in this establish
ment!" Waterbery.
"Women," said ho oracularly to
her, "are rarely good listeners." And
the prospective mother-in-law in tho
hallway only applied her ear a little
closer to tho koy-holo an I smiled
grimly, Indianapolis Journal.
"Why, Willie t whathavo you dono
to Jimmy Woo la that lie has gone
homo crying?" Willie "Well, he
told a lot of boys that his ma said our
family was one of tho oldest in the
place an' I licked him," Pittsburg
Bulletin.
"Cheat Scott!" howled the boss,
"Joes it take you four hours to carry
a message three squares and return?"
"W'y," said the new office boy, "you
told mo to see how long it would tako
me to go there and back, and I dono
it." Indianapolis Journal.
Ethel "I suppose I shall have to
weur this veil ; it's the only one I
havi?. It's so thick oue can hardly
see my face through it." Edith'
"Oh, wear it, by all means. Every
body says you never had on anything
half so becoming." Boston Tran
script. "I want to buy a makd-up Lot,"
said the young married man. "A
make-up box?" the confeotionor
echoed. "We don't keep theatrical
supplies." "I mean a box of candy to
take home to my wife. I promised to
be home three hours 830." Indian
apolis Journal.
Judge "What is tho use of up
poiutiug a receiver for this corpora
tion? There is nothing left to re
ceive." Lawyer "Your Honor, I
will show by numerous oases that it is
not customary to appoint a receiver
while there is auytbiu; left to re
ceive." Brooklyn Life. '
"Papa." (She knelt beside the de
jected figura and fondly kissed tho
drooping bead.) "Papa, run I not
keep the wolf from the door with my
liu.iu??" Ho was without hope, al
though ho smiled. "Aly child," ho
sighed, ".yonr siugiug would keep al
most anything from the door, but tho
wolf is pretty nervy. "---Detroit Now
Tribune.
A Kcm.ii-kablo Ink.
One of the most remarkable inks
known to the chemist is made of a
preparation of Prussiau blue in com
bination with uitrio and hydroi-hlorio
acid. The writiug done with this ink
has tha singular property of fading
when exposed to tut) liht aud recnv
emu i's color when taken into tho
litt le or pla;ediu perfect darkness.
indi iuapolis Journal.
CUtiese (ireat Top Spinner.
The Chinese exctd at Hyiu kite,
but they ra eveu greater at spinui
tops. Soma of thtiir tops ara at Ur,'.j
as half a barrel, aud it requires tuo
strength, of three ('hiuameu to sec
them n-Siuuiu,'. Tha htimmiti;' '.
tueae tops can be heard ut a diiuucj
vf several luulio.l yar .Is.