B. F. HOHWEIER,
THE OONBTITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWS.
Bdltr amd Proprtetav.
VOL. XLVIII.
MIFFLINTOW1N. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 5, 1894.
NO. 51.
W4 w -
I-IIAITKR I Continued.
Cork a 'Glengary'' on one side over
Jerry'.- jro i:en curls, tuck them out of
view, and none could have wished for
a bonnier Highland ladaie. She pos
sessed the blue, bright eye and saucy
lip of eery jaunty ancestor. She
could whittle, she could stamp, she
could feat'y execute more than on
step of the sword dance and' shant-reu.-K
she could go through the High
land Hint; to admiration. It was her
sport to respond in the w idest gutteral
Gaeiic cow and again to her mystified,
nalf-in tignant relative, and she waa
seldom seen without a piece of bog
myrtle the 1 adge of her clan in the
bosom of her frock.
For her looks, her dresa, her Bueech.
or her manners, t are she had none.
It might have been from an innate
sense of superiority, it might have been
trom sheer pride of birth or certainty
of jo-ition. it might have been from
the mere heedlessness of fifteen but
certain it is that rora whateve- source
it sprung, no coit-.ige maiden on tho
lonely n.oorland thought less, or in
deed thought as I tt e, about the effect
she produced on those around he-, as
did this wild and winsome Gera' dine of
Inehinarow.
The roughest p'aUl, the wrap most
soiled and stained and worn by weather,
suited her better than any finery pro
cured from fashionable warehouses:
and when compelled to array hersel
In the latter one day in the week, and
present something of a suitable ap
pearance at the parish kirk, truth
compels us to own that the trans
formed and elegant young heiress was
usually sulky, and always miserable.
Enscouded in the urand old family
pew, she would fidjjeT from side to side,
after the fashion of a restive colt
newly caught and ill at ease. She
would kick her smart toes again-t the
boards in front until the delicate
French kid would all be worn and
shabby, to be regarded by its owner
w'th contemptuous disparagement ana
mental reference to her own dear, do
llghtful, damning hobnails at home.
She would lean bacl and crush her
fine Leghorn hat well aware that she
wasdoing so - until notall the efforts of
her long-suffering maid could restore
its normal shape or freshness. She
would pull otf and on her many-but
toned gloves, an 1 spread and twist her
fingers in them. Sue would shrug her
shoulders in her pretty cape, as if it
were an annoyance and a restrain'
upon her movements. As for hei
frock itself, it would be crumpled and
creased in every possible direction:
and it was only by uint of having a
freshly-crimped and starched muslin
or cambric ready for her to put on
very Sunday morning that tho irre
pressible young lady of the manor
ould be rendered presentab'e at all.
And yet and yet grandmamma saw
through it all.
With prophetic vision she beheld,
through the vista of a few brief years,
the hour of triumph when hor darling
hould be proclaimed peerless among
beauties, fairest among the fair.
She could alord to wait.
A faint remonstrance, bravely
started, but ending in thin air, as a.
rea ly described above, was. Indeed,
from time to time essayed; but the an
noyance would be transient, the doubt
or fear momentary, while the abiding,
deep rooted conviction of her heart
was, that there was but one created
being matchless in the world, and t'-'it
one was Geraldine.
CHAI'TEK It.
BY THE MOUNTAIN BURN.
"Thy gentlest awwp, and boldest l.ap,
Tbv'rougb rock wa la, and plunging falli,
TLy fi-nm-bella ringing fr.e;
Tl.y pools and tby shUcwi, thy lao-wortB
shadow.
Thy Hurtles and sallies, tby fern-glad. aoJ
valleys.
Were early known to me.
Very well aware was the observant
young damsel that tl.is was the case:
anil, being so it surely said something
for her that she was neither inordi
nately Belfish, nor eacting, nor al
together insulwrdinato.
She would not vex granny if she
could help it. She wo.lt not disregard
granny's hours and comforts if she
remembered them. She would not
de'y granny if she could got round
her in any way.
In her heart sha had a great affec
tion not altogether unminlod with
that pity which lies between love and
contempt for tho poor dear whocould
no longer run and jump and race all
over the place, gailbp on bare-backed
ponies, pull herself about in the small
bout, and fish in the mountnin streams,
as no doubt granny hai done in years
gone by.
l oot granny! Shu cruld have but
few pleasures now, and those of a very
tame kind.
It must be terrible to be only able to
ir along at a languid puce upon the
Jroad liuek of stir! old bandy. Granny
was, In reality, a very vigoro s dame
or her years, and prided herself uton
tli-i manner in which she mounted her
ttuniy Sl.etland pon.-. and set oil for a
rough htU r .do. i Hut Jerry would
stand sorrowfully by and see, and be
almost ashamed of the fine spring with
which she allt upon her own little sad
dto afterwards. Worse still. jnut it
l) lor her poor grandmother, aha
thought, to have to sit Idly In h
stei n of their pretty sailing boat, en
sconced in rugs and wraps, and taking
no part in the hauling-in or Uttlng-out
of the sheet, the tacking, and the
other manouvers with which the men
were proud to have t'.eir little lady
think she was rendering assistance.
1'oor granny, moreo or, h Q to ttay
at home whenever it was wjt and misty
outside.. Now nothing v.ns more ex
hilarating in Jerry's cyGi than bnlng
jut and abroad in a so.iki:.g. blin iio
''117.U. swept in gust-across tho m
unng or living up irom trie sca-io 'n,
with a dash of salt spray aV out it that
o ;ld be tasted 0:1 your liusa.'te wards.
it was delic'ous to shake out her
long wet locks to dry in the s n tnat
would by-and-by peep out. And then
what shining hnd glistening of c. ag
uttd corrie, wiiat chiiviuar of re.oicing j
bi ds what fr linens of treo and leaf, I
and, uUvo all, what thundering iro.a
the hiudea wate falls which uboun " oa
the moors of Inch.narew: Tho;e fal.s
were pretty well known to her - in es
1 ocial those belonging to her own
t rounds, and whose syerv turn
winding, pool anl shallow, she had
been ac (uainted with from early years.
Poor old granny could never see,
never get uear enough even to guess
at the half of this treasure of beaut V
and ciolight.
Jn consequence, granny was supposed
to au:'.er such loss as rendered her an
object of very real compassion and for
beui ance: a:.d in her tender moments
the child would even look with tatis
.'action on the good time for granny
which was one day to come, when, in
o der to give her some enjoyment such
as s..e could appreciate and partake of,
she. Jerry, wo.ild sacrifice herself in
so f..r as to .ollow her poor dear in and
out of a wiiolo dreadful London sea
son. i'es. she meant to do that, to go
through even with that for her poor
dear's sake granny was always her
"poor dear" when in these moods
and, however hateful and wearisome
the whole thing might be, granny
should never know how much it cost
her.
The resolution helped to salve the
willful young conscience many a time
when Jerry had been more than usu
ally 6elf-assertive and independent.
8ho was going to bo good by and-by,
and for the present she was going to
be let alone. That, at any rate, was
too often the practical outcome of a re
morseful tit.
With something of the kind in her
mind on tho present occasion, the lit
flsherwoman low ran merrily off down
to the bridge, where I'onald watted,
and v. as eagerly hailed by that expect
ant knight.
"Haste ye, haste ve. Miss Jerry,''
cried he. ' We arena' a thocht ower
stine Tho burnio's iloon eneugh, and
it'll be aye giintr'n' lower vet. And
the sun it wull no' be the sun that we
wa:.t - and the sun he wi.I be out him
sel' directly," pointing as ho spoke to
gleams of hcrht here and there break
ing out on every side. Hasto ye. then!"
exhorted the ragge 1 urchin ardently;
and sei intr the t asket, and slinging it
across his shoulders, while his young
mistress with e ;ual dispatch took from
him her rod, the two suddenly disap
peared from tho bridge and plunged
into the recesses of the wood, which at
this poiut a; pro.iched nearer the Castle
grounds than at any other.
lireath was 1 reci us, and neither
wasted it in words. A quarter o! an
hour's hurried climb brought them to
the side of the burn, which could be
heard ever more and more distiac'.y
roar ng in its tumuious depths but.
though irlof. the transit w: s rough
enough to have soaked and torn any
less nurab'.e covoritig than that donned
by the prud-nt li tie n aid. wbo now
fearlessly followed her pioneer over
mossy rock nnd quagmire, until each
had slid down the slimy bank, and
found themselves in the hollow, be
ne, .tli a swollen and be lowing water
fall. They were not to late. The waters
had barely su! sided u "cicntly for
sport, as their unxi U3 critical eyes
assured them. A siiarp point which
should pro ect from the ilea t of the
fall, when the ti.; e to f sh the pool be
neath had arrived, was .nst putting
O'lt its no e. and before that had been
dono, the stream would have been too
fu'l.
Donald nodded in silent ecstasy
speech would have been thrown away.
Both, however, understooi to 1: o e
a little lower down, to whrro the black
depth showed signs o." yielding and
flowing out In a shallower current
to-'-ards it. ocean bed, and then almost
simultuneously, eaeh threw a line.
Fortune wa on their side.
At the very first cayt a greedy trout
of lusty proportions and in excellent
humor, as though as ready to be caught
as the fair angler was to catch him,
portirely hooked himself onto Jerry's
line, and was landed in a thrice.
He was but the earnest ot the fun to
follow.
- It was hardly fishing: It see : ed a'.l
loading, all basketing1, all rejoicing,
and mute comparing.
At length, however, the little girl's
tongue could keep silence no longer,
and at an unlucky moment, for she had
worked her way to some slight d s
tance from the lad, she let it go. She
;ust landed a tine one.
"Look, look at this, Donald."
Donald at the moment drew carefully
on to the rocks its counterpart.
"Why, yours is still bigger. Oh, I
ay, isn't it splendid?" shouted bis en
chanted companion. "Isn't it glorious?
Isn't it ?"
"What's your wull?"
He thought she had somothing to
Bay, something :or him to do, or to go
for.
"Isn't it gkrious?" in rising accents.
"Ech?" Only those who know the
shrill Highland screech can Interpret
that "ixh. " . whose ,eebl Southron
meaning would be 'Eh?" "Ech?"
screeched the urchin, wrinkling up his
small, shrewd physiognomy, and put
ting his hand behind h:s ear, the bet
ter to hear and co 1 prehend.
"Nothing - nothin," impatiently. "I
only said how spiendid it was. and what
beauties iney are. oawiea aiiss jerry
back, unable woman-like to resist the
last word.
"E-c-h? ' a?ain, at the extreme pitch
of Dor aid's little yelling voice.
"Oh, what's the use of talking'" and
Jerry stamped and frowned. "Xever
mind never mind, I say. Nothing-nothing-nothing,'
as the grinning,
wrinkled, inquiring face was still
( iretched out for the information which
the noise of the waters drowned.
"Stupid boy," added she, potto Mic e,
"hear that if you tan! Oh, the idiot,
he is actually coming over tho rock t
me. Oh, Donald, you i :iot,stop wh. r.!
you are! Co back -go ba..k - I ''on i
want you. Go back, I tay-Livk
back!" waving a peremptory hand.
Go -I ack." in a last supremeeiTort.
"Can I tell the boy anything.- in
quired a voice almost in her ear.
So startling was the gentle sound,
tnat the effect produced u; on sn;one
thus taken at unawares might h:io
been nay, must have been, antici
pated; but on Geraidinc tiiis e:Vcct
was Intensified from the fnct t'.a-. in
spite of her hardihood s.r:d curly train
ing, she was usually su-cc tilde to an.--th:ng
of the kind, and in conse lenufj
was strictly guarded from the casnco
of its occurring.
It could, therefore, be no inmate of
Inch mare w, who, plainly with the i?i-
tention of causing surprise, had th s
crept up behind, and now almost
breathed In her t nr.
On the surfai o. tuo -.ntcrreren was,
of course, pardonab e. A ci il inquiry
and oiler to he:p, when il a;i e. rtd
that two of a purty wore desin us of
communicating with each other, an-i
were unable to do so, could har.iiy to
cavilled at; ana P "eat' v to
grotes ue figure he had address 5
wbiried round upon him witha gestura
tnat sent her h?nr-rod flying ov.r
the rocky promontory, and cry that
roso above the trintr of the waters,
4
he merely laughed aloud, ard that In
her very face. But he cautrht her by
the arm nevertheless, for her foot
slipped, and the place was not ote to
Blip in.
"What, you young shaver," he orled
as he did so, "what, I made you jump,
aid I-eh.' By George! it's a giri:"
catching sight of her face and of a
wavy lock around her throat. ''It's a
girl, by all that's wonderful! And a
rare pretty girl, too. Well, my lassie,
eome, come," as a burst of tears now
succeeded the first shock of alarm.
'Come, come, "continued the stranger,
I tatting her on the shoulder, and still
aughing at the success of his trick,
"no need for all this din. I would not
have done it if I had known you were
a girl; but after all, there's no harm
done. I only meant to make you jump.
And I owed you one for being before
hand with me at this pool, the best
pool in the stream, or I am mistaken.
What business have you two monkevs
to spoil the water for me eh? Little
rascals like you can't catch the trout
yourselves, and you only make a mess
of other people's sport. Oh, I say
though ' as at the moment his eye
'ell upon the brimming creel, some
what ostentatiously opened by Donald,
who had drawn near, and had under
stood enough to perceive that some
one was being rated, and that his and
his young lady's fishing was, moreover,
being dis; araged.
"Did you catch all those?" demanded
the new comer in accents which told
their own tale.
Donald nodded.
"And here in this pool?"
The brat nodded again.
"Good heavens, what luck! And I'll
warrant you have had the best of
.hem, too, you young rascal And you,
too. you Jenny or Maggie, or whatever
they call you. you can throw a line as
well as he. I saw you from the bank.
jAnd I say, what a nice rod," picking it
Up, "where did you get that rod? Wha
Igied it ye, lassfe?" essaying the broad
.Northern dialect in an unmistakably
Southern accent, and eyeing the pretty
rod, of a mak superior to that which
he himself held, jealously as he spoke.
There was no sort of response. Miss
Campbell of lnchmarew, was for once
feeling herself fairly caught In her
own trap. Granny had told her,
what might be the result of her pres
ent disguise, andthat result had strict
ly come to pass.
The person making fie mistake pre
dicted by the wiser head was clearly a
gentleman, and poor Jerry, tearful and
sobbing, had a'l the instincts of a lady.
It was dreadful to her to be addressed
ai she was now being not that there
was anything rude or disagreeable
either in the stranger's tone or m"
nar. but it was sulliciently jocose and
familiar to .ar upon the ear of a high
bora young maiden, accustomed to a
certain degree of deference added to
courtesy: and although a cottage lassie,
such as she was deemed to be, would
probably have found no fault either
with the jog of the elbow or chuck of
the chin which accompanied tho last
inquiry, it is hard to say which of the
two actions the indignant little lady
most resented.
Perhaps the swl.'t recollection that
she had brought both on herself was
wor.e to bear than all beside.
Hitherto she bad not spoken, being
sufficiently occupied in steadying her
till tremulous limbs, and checking
the tears which, do what she would,
could not all at once be restrained, but
the insult conveyed in the changing of
plain English for broad Scotch was too
much, and enabled her, better than
anything else could have done, to re
gain full command of her small self.
She now drew hastily away, drew
up to her full fhlght alas! the cruel
yellow oilskin hid the grace with
which she did it and with quivering,
passionate lips, strove to assert her
self, her rights and her dignity.
TO BE CONTINUED.
RAM'S HORN BLASTS.
rarn.11? Noted Calling the Wicked to Re.
ABHOKEN word
can never bo
ruenaea.
Dead men
have no faults.
A no sty is
not a good pcatl
market.
Sayixo no to
self is saving yes
to God.
Only when
God honors us
are we truly exalted.
G i never fails to promote the
faithful worker.
Ir is a great misfortune to be blind
to our own faults.
Try not only to be good, but to bo
ood for something.
The higher a little man Is lifted,
the smaller be looks.
Men care least for honor when
most in want ot bread. -
Don't talk about yourself when you
want to be Interesting.
I r is better to fail in trying to do
good than It is not to try.
Ir-Ve could kuow all it would not
be so hard to forgive alL
The tootprints of godliness always
point toward unselfishness.
Ki 8 11 1 no for compliments is not
much better than fishing on Sunday.
It is much harder to be happy
with riches than it is without tbeiu.
It is only when we give Christ our
burdens that we can take il.s yoke.
D(iNO will never make us lit for
Heat en, but not doing may keep us
out.
The world needs men who will do
right, do matter what is to coaie
ot it.
Find a man whom men love, and
lyou will find one wbo has Orst loved
men.
White, the sin of the heart on the
foi
reliead and who will love the
1 ght.
lr is doubtful if the devil has ever
been dr.ven back an inch by star
preaching.
Evkuy man who is carrying any
kind of a burden is invited to give it
to Christ.
While be was thinking of how the
rabbit should be cooked, another
man shot it.
Nothing is to be gained by talk
ing of Heaien to a man who wor
ships money.
There is a great difference between
serving the world and being the serv
ant of the world.
I despise the opinion of the
care for the light of the snn because yon
can use a candle.
! -Ireland hM 107,774 paupers-that
is inmates of the almshouses or in re
'ceipt of outdoor assistance.
AN OLD-TIME CLERGYMAN.
Pr.iohetl the First Protest int Rcrrnoa
Whers Chicago Now Standi.
In Plainfleld, 111., lives Rev.
Stephen IL lieggs, who preached the
Orst Protestant sermon delivered in
old Fort Daarborn,
where Chicago now
stands. Despite tlie
wear and tear of n i n e
ty - four years, this
' -vl venerable p r eachcr
retalos a wonderfully
clear memory ot tho
events of his . early
life and his trials ns
a Methodist niinis-
bit. s a begos. tcr. iiciiuus iu uiy
assignment to the Chicago circuit,"
said Rev. Mr. Peggs the other day,
"I had a circuit in Missouri. That
was where I first preached after be
ing ordained. Ministers nowadays
have no idea of what the work was
in the '20's. It took me a month to
make the round of my circuit. 1
traveled on horseback, and there
were times when progress from place
to place was nearly impossible. Thera
were no roa?s laid out, no bridges
over the streams, and t.ere wou'd be
miles and miles of rank woods and
underbrush unmarked by human hab
itation. When there were no ford-5
the traveler had to swim, and In
flood seasons on part of the circu.t it
came pretty near being a swim for it
most of the time. The minister was
not troubled much with fees In those
days it was lack vf them. I worked
one year and received $23 In cash,
most of which went for extra cloth
ing. "The next jear I received $33. The
workers were called missionaries,
and most of tho money received was
donated them by the Missionary So
ciety of the church. The mission
aries subsisted on what was given
them by the members of their con
gregations. I had to look to the sis
ters for my clothes. Tte women
made them of homespun, and great
times they used to have in getting a
new article of wearing appard for the
parson. The women of one congrega
t on In the circuit would nctice that
my coat was frayed and threadbare.
They would get up a sewing bee, and
cotton they had raised ihemselves,
perhaps, would be carded, spun and
woven. Then they'd make a coat of
the cloth, and when I gob around
again, lo, I'd have a new coat. An -
other congregation would furnish a
pair of pants, another a set of shirts.
I had no underclothes. At the end
of each week I managed to reach a
post where I had a clean shirt wait.
lng. I would don the clean shirt and
leave the other one to bo washed.
Thus, you see, it was necessary for
me n.iv a ant. f fl hirtl..np
that I wore and four that would be
ii. , . 1 til
iciu air iuu stations uiong me ci.cuu
where my laundries were 1 cated."
Rev. Sir. Beggs was born in Vir
ginia and on his mother's sidt: is a de
scendant of the old Custer family, ol
which Gen. Custer was a scion.
PLAGUE AMONG THE FLIES
Fangon . Growth thttt Kill Them OA
Rapidly In the Aatamn.
During the fall of the year the
housewife who has been pestered with
house flies will begin to find their
bodies sticking to walls and other
places, and surrounded by a white,
halo-like powder. A favorite place
for the flies to die upon is a window
pane, and upon the glass the peculiar
character of their surroundings may
be plaloly seen.
Placed under a microscope of mod
erate power, the cause of the death
of the files can be plainly distin
guished. It Is caused by a fungous
growth, which begins In the tissues
of the Insect, somewhat like a can
cer, and Anally pushes through the
skin and goes through a sort of
blossoming, producing spores by
which it Is further propaagated.
Other insects are attacked by re
lated growths. Grasshoppers are par
ticularly subject to such attacks, and
the plant that kills them Is known
as the grasshopper fungus. That
which attacks the fly Is called Eupasa
musca. It Is a plant of simple or
ganization, and Is apparently related
to the black molds. About forty re
lated species are recognized. This
ono consists of short tubular threads.
These push through the skin of the
fly and produce the spores near their
tips. When this happens the fly's
body swells up, and he fastens him
self SDmewhere to die.
Vast numbers of flies are killed by
this fungus every year, particularly
in the autumn. The marks they
leave are a great annoyance to
housekeepers. Tew York Sun.
neat
A H tn"rr rMe.) taxidermist has al
ready : tuffed and mounted thirty-nine
deerskins this leason.
4&.
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FORT DEARBOUX. I
fc ft
fWO KINDS OF BAGGAGE FIENDS
One Vlllian Travel With th. Train, tb.
Oher R.main. In the lieppt.
There are two of thcui. the one
who 1 its from station to station and
dumps your poor dumb trunk with
force enough to drive 1 ilea in a Gov
ernment breakwater, and the one
who loiters around the depot watch
ing for bis chance to shatter your
baggage, says Texas Sifting3. The
depot baegagemaa is the mast culpa
ble of the two species. In his long
and daric career of smashing trunks
he has knock the hoops oil his con
scien e, and there is no remorse
brave, foolhardy, and reckless
enough to tackle bis heart
strings and play on them. Tho
cow-boy ro;:es the Texas steer for
fun, but the baggageman ropes your
trunk for a quarter of a dollar. 'o
matter though your trunk be shod
with half-inch strap iron and armed
with solid steel corsets on the cor
ners, ana double licked with a burglar-proof
comnination the station
baggageman wants to rope it, a 1 the
Fame, and usually be terrifies all the
I assengers into letting him have hij
own way. lie approaches you with a
6:uile, goes away with r5 cents, and
ties your bruised and battered kistei
with a tow string. The strong, iron
bound chest of the drummer, and the
aristocratic though frag.ie frame oi
the Saratoga, meet on a common
level, and when they do meet the
splinters fly, and while the ownei
of the :-araloea is wringing her lily
white hands and tucking stray bin
of lace, rud.ing and bird's eye linen
into the fractured corners, the dr1!!:
mcr is using the most vigorous and
spiritual language he can command,
and a great deal of It, warming uu
with the eloquent brilliancy of UU
discourse. As the praye 9 of the
wicked avail naught, so neither da
the tears of the belle nor the curse-;
of the commercial gentleman. The
time table of the railroad is not
changed In tho least, and the sym
pathetic passengers are obliged to go
abroad. The wounded trunks are
thrown into the ambulance--baggage
car and whirled away to the nexj
slaughter-bouse farther up the road.
And the dear, sweet dude, and the
starchy old deacon, and the grand and
impressive member of the legislature
are all alike powerless in the hands
of the check r.ng. Tyre and Sidon
have passed away, and so will our
trunks. The Goths and Vandals
swarmed down upon Home and it
fell. Verily, 60 do the Goths and
Vandals of the modern railroad prey
on our baggage and It is broken up.
MONTANA HAS A PAINT MINE.
Immense Deposit fornlshlnc Four Colors
Jsns; Known to the Indtaua.
It is not generally known that we
have in this locality, very near the
"Geyser," a paint mine, says the
Townsend Messenger. Wemightsay
! it is a quarry, there is so much of it.
One of our enterprising citizens, Jo
seph Blessing, recently took a wagon
I .-1 I 1 .1 . I 1 . L. .
ia7 suo'ul auu ,""u,-u u, w,lu wo
u ,ors
jto to. .nad and brought it home,
dod it up with an old hammer
'"'xe'' 16 up J'1 lin9lou and put
11 on his picket rence. lie now has
?'1( of V?e handsomest fences in the
D"Vi PP T 7.J . K
j)"d tDf lower a aitirul maroon,
1 be mine appears to be simply inex-
haustible. This mine and the "Gey
ser, which is near it, were discovered,
or, rather, located, about eighteen
years ago by that veteran old-timer
and prince of good fellows. Nay lor
Thompson, whom everybody knows
and likes. It was shown to him in
the first place by a friendly Indian
chief wbo took a likinu to Mavlor,
nnd assured him (Naylor; that it was
the source of supply for all the In
dians west of the Mississippi liver
und had been for centuries. T. osc
were the days when Naylor could
draw his chair up to a table and sit
down without knocking the table
over he was very active. Well, the
Indians came thousands of miles for
paint and used to decorate their per
sons when on the warpath; trails led
froAP the mine in all directions, show
ing that it had been a natural center
of meeting for the red men, just the
same as the well-known pipe-stone
quarry of southwestern Minnesota.
Baylor never made any uso of tho
paint. He was In the habit of reach
ing a high state of exhilaration at
times, when he would mount b s
broncho and let out a few yells and
go In for some fun and then woe to
the tenderfoot or anyone else who
got in his way. At such times he
was in for fun and nothing else, and
a Gatling gun would not make him
change his mind when his neck was
bowed. He would tben paint the
town in lurid colors, but be did not
use any paint from the mine that
wus all long ago. He still retains his
interest in the mine, and claims he
can furnish paint in four colors, by
the train load, sufficient to paint ail
creation. If anyone doubts this Jfav
lor would like to see him.
Animals and Stimulants.
It has lately been pointed out that
man, after all, is not the only animal
who indulges In stimulants. Certain
animals also indulge themselves in
this manner with fatal results, the
vehicle of Intoxication is the case of
the lower order of beings being a
creeping vetch called the "loco
plant." This is an inhabitant of the
"Texan Panhandle," and Is a source
of serious danger to horses and cattle.
To them it has all the allurements
which are possessed by absinthe and
gin for beings of another grade, only
the results of the vetch are more
definitely fatal, even when taken in
moderate measures. Animals who
have tasted of it are liable to fail
over backwards, their brains being af
fected as well as their spinal cords.
They leap heights in their frenzy and
dash down precipice No rider of a
horse who has been thus intoxicated
is in a safe position. The Hospital.
Origin or a Curloua Mark.
A curious feature of Chinese coins,
the nail-mark, appears to have origi
nated In an accident very character
istic of China. In the time of Queen
Wentek a model In wax of a proposed
coin was brought for her majesty's
Inspection. In taking hold of it she
left on it the impression of one sail,
and the impression has In conse
quence been a marked characteristic
of Chinese coins for hundreds of
years. 15
I
RCV. DR. TALMGR
XHS BROOKLYN BIYIBTErS SUB.
OATIIKlfOfi,
Subject: "The Sick General.
Text: "Ho was a lppr." II Eintrs v., 1.
TTri w h.iva a warrior sln'c. not with
Tlpurll!s or rlKMiTintiams or cotiHunntlons.
lint with a d'snrtB worea thnn all th"o pt
toother. A r.1 mnrk hns ooms oat on tho
forebeail. precursor of eo-nnWe disfiornre
mpnt anl dissolution. I hiv something
awful to tell yoti. Oenornl Navnnn. thn
mmndrr in rhlof of all Syrian forces,
has thn lprosv ! It Is on hi hin Is. on bis
face, on hi ft. on hi -nt!rs p-ron. Thn
lpprosy Oit out of th war of th pstl-'-n'!
If hi breath strifes yon. yon are a
load man. The -ommandr in ohief or all
Ihn rorots of Srrla ! And yet ho would t,
itla I to fxnhntiTn conditions with th hoy at
hi stirrup "r tho hostlw that blnnlc!s' bis
harupr. Tho news bops like wildfire alii
thrnusrh the malm, and the pnn!e are vm
pathetic, and they cry out. "I It possible;
that our srreat hero, wo slew Ahab ami
aronnd whom we eame with such voolfera
tion when he rctnrne-1 from victorious bat
t'e -an It be possible that our errand and
Ijlorlons Naaman ha the lenrosy?"
Yi-s. Evervho iy has something he wishes
ne had not David, an Absalom to dissrraca
Mm ; Paul, a thorn to stin him ; Job, car
buncles to placrne him : Samson, a Delilah
tr. shear him ; Ahab, a Nahoth to denv him ,
TT.man. a Mordecnl to Irritate him : Oeoru
Wnshinrjton. a childlessness to affllithtm,
Tohn Wesley, a termagant wife to pester
him ; Leah, weale eye ; Pope, a crooked
back ; Byron, a elnb foot ; John Milton,
Mind eyes ; Chnrls T.anib, an insane sister,
an I you nnd yon ard you somethinjr which
yon nver t-arsraine 1 for and would like to
f-et rid of. The rmwn of thi is that God
doe, want this world to be too brleht.
Ofhi'rwise we wonM always want to stay and
eat th"se fruits and He on these lonngesand
shake hind In the pleas -nt soeletv. W
are only tn the vestibule of a erand temple.
Clod do-s not want ns to stand on the door
step.tn 1 therefore He sends aches nnd annoy,
nnci s an I so-roivs an I bereavements of all
sor s to nush n on nnd push ns np toward
rlp -r 'mi:s and brighter soeletv and mora
radiant prosrvrities. God Is only whipping
n aVa 1 . Tiie raason that E Iward Payson
nnd Ilohert Hill had more rapturous views ol
beav'n than other people had was becan9e,
through their aches and pains. Go 1 pushed
the n n-'r-r no to it. If God dashes out ne
of your pictures, it is only to show to you a
briir'it'T one. ir He stinsr your foot with
eont. yonr brain with neuralcria, vourtoniru
with an in"XtinL-ushahlh thirst, it is only he
cnuae He Is nrep irlnir to snbt tnte a better
body than yon ever dreamed 0 when ih
mortal shall put on Immortality.
It is to pash you on and to push you np
toward somthinir enn ler and better that
God sends upon you, ns n did upon Gen
eral Naaman. something yon do not want.
Seated in his Syrian manxion. all the walls
Klitterin with the shields which he had cap
lured in battle, the corridors crow led with
admiring yisitora who jnt wantei to see
him once, music nnt mirth and bar.quatinj
filling nil the mansion from tessellated floor
to picture I ceiline. X.iaman would have for
cotten that there was anythiae better an l
would have been clad to stay there 10.000
years. But. oh, how the shields dim. and
how the visitors fly the hall, and how the
music drops dead from the string, and how
the gates ot the mansion slam shut wire
sepulchral bane as yon rea l tho closing
words of the eulos'um ! "He was a leper J
He was a leper!"
There was one person more sympathetic,
with General Naamau than any other per
son. Naaman's wife walks the floor, wring
ing her hands anl trying to think what she
can do to alleviate hr husband's sufforin?.
All remedies hava failed. The surgeon g'i
ernl and the doctors of the royal staff bav
met. and they have shaken their heads, as
much ns to say. "So cure, no cure."I think
that the office soekers bad all folded optheir
recommendations and gone home. Probably
most of the employes ot the establishment
had dropped their work and were thlnkin?
of looking for some other situation. What
shall now become of poor Naaman's wife?
8he mast have sympathy somewhere. In
her despair she goes to a little Hebrew cap
tive, a servant girl in her bouse, to whom
she tells the whole story, as sometimes,
when overborne by the sorrows of the world
and finding no sympathy ai.y where else, you
have gone out and found In the sympathy
of some bumble domestic Rose or Dinah or
Bridget a help which the world could not
give you.
What a scene It was one of the grandest
women In all Syria in cabinet council with a
waiting maid over the deollning health of
tho ml'ihty general ! "I know something,"
says the little captive maid, "I know some
thing," ns she bounds to her bare feet. "In
the land from waich I was s'olen there Is a
o-rtnin prophet known by the nama ot
El'sha, who can cure almost anything, and
I shouldn't wonder It he could oure my
mister. H -na lor nira right away." "On,
hnsii !" you s iy. "If the highest medical
talent In all the land cmnot cure that leper,
there is no need of your listening to any talk
of a servant girl." Jiut do not scoff, do not
sneer. The finder ot that little captive maid
is po.uting in the right direction. She might
have said: "Tris is a judiraent upon you
for stealing me from nay native land. Didn't
they snatch me 11H in the night, breaking my
fath- r's and mother's hearts, and many a
time I have i;dn H'ld cried all night because
I was fi) lio.ui sick?" Then, flushing up
into cliil im) indignation, she might Have
said: ,-uojd lor them. I'm glad Naaman's
got l je Iri.rosy. I wish all the Syrians had
1 be leprosy." No. Forgetting her personal
sorrows, sae sympatD'zes with the suffering
of her Master and commends him to the
famous Tle:irew prophet.
And hoy o:ten it is that the finger of
ehi'ilfco'j 1 has pointe 1 grown p-rsons in the
ri-rlit .;i:ection ! O Christian soul, bow long
is it sin .-.- you got rid of the leprosy of sin?
You R iy. "Lei mu see. It must be live years
now." 1'ive years. Who was it that pointed
you to the D vin) Physician? "Oli,"you
.-ay, "t w .s my isttla Amie or Ired or
Charley thnt cix-.nered up on my knees and
looked in;o my !ac and nsked me why I
dbin't beome a Christian, and, all the
titr.s strokin r iry cheek, so I couldj
not get anicry, insisted npon knowing why
I dii'.n't have family prayers." There are
gran parrnts who have been brought to
Christ by their little graaichildren. There
are nun treds of Cnristian mothers who had
their attention tlrst called to Jfsus by their
ditla children. How did you get rid of the
opn sv or sin? How did yon find your way
to the Divine Pnysicinn? "Oh," you say,
"my cjild, my dyin child, with wan
and wasted finder, po nted that way.
O!;, I nevi-T shall forget," you say, "that
-c ne at the cradle nnd the crib that awiul
night. It was hard, hnri, very hard, but If
that little one on its dyiu bod had not
poinie.l me to Cirlst I don't think I ever
would hR.ve got rid ot my leprosy." Go into
1 he Sabbntb-S'Miool any Sunday, and you will
nnd hundreds of iiitleflngers pointing iu tie
same direct on, toward Jesus Christ and to
ward heaven.
we.-.rs aro the astronomers CC'ated th.
there must be o w rld hanging at a certain
point in the htiiV sns. nnd a large prize was
off -red lor some one wao could discover that
world. The telescope froa the great ob
eervatories were pointed in vain, but a girl
at Nantucket. M iss., las lioue 1 a telescopj,
ml looking ibrou'j it discovcrel that star
and won the pr z mi the admiration of all
the astronomical world, that stood HttiKZ'd
at her genius. And so it is oiten tiie caia
that cr'.wa pr-opie. cannot see the HsJlit.
wholesome little cnild beholds the star of
p:irdon, the star of hop.-, the star of conso
.atiun, the star of C-t'i!hem. the morning
stir o' J sns. "Not many mighty men, not
a-any wise mrn are called, i nt God hath
ciios n the weak things of tn world to con
'oou'l tlie miguty an 1 base tilings and things
mat are not 10 brin.- to naugijt things th it
Ire." Vl, do not lpi the pratttT. ot
Httle children when they are jaking about
Bod and Christ and h-av--n. You see th
ray yourchild is pointin?. Will you takethat
pointing or wait until. lathe wrench of some
wfn( bereavement. Gol shall lift that child
lo another world, and th-n it will becion'
roo npward? Will yon take that pointing,
r will yon wait for tbe beckoning? B'essed
be Ood that the little Hebrew captive polnt
sd in the right direction. Blessed bs Go 1j
lor the saving ministrvof Christian children
No wonder the advice of this little He-j
brew captive threw ail Kaoman'i mansion
ind Ben-Sadad's palaeo Ttfio exottcraenF.'
3oodby, Naaman I With face scarified and
ridged and inflamed by the pestilence and
tided by those who supported him on either
ilde. he staggers out to the chariot. Hold
last the fiery coursers of tho royal stable
vhlle the piorslo't man lifts his swollen
wet and pain struck limb into the vehicle,
Bo'stcr him np with-the pillows and let hlra
take a lingering look at his bright apart
nent. for perhaps the Hebrew captive may
w mistaken, and the next time Naaman
somes to that place he may be a dead weight
n the shoulders of those who carry bim, an
expired chieftain seeking sepulture amid the,
lamentation of an admiring nation. GooiJ
v, Naaman! Let the charioteer drive gen
tly oyer the hills ot Hermon, lest ha jo'.t
!he Invalid. Here goes the bravest' man
it all his day a captive of a horrible disease,
as the ambulanoe winds through the street
of Damascus the tears and prayers of all th j
people go after the world renowned Invalid.
Perhaps yon have had an Invalid go ou(
from your house on a health excursion. Ton
tnow how the neighbors stood around andj
aM, "Ah, he win nver coma oac .
alive.' Oh, it was a solemn moment, I tell
you, when the invalid hat departe i. an
you went Into the room to make the bed,
and to remove the medicine vlais from the
ihelf. and to throw open the shutters, so
thnt the fresh air might rush into the long
closed room. Ooodby, Naaman !
There is only one cheerful faoe looking at
him, and that Is the face of the little
Hehrew captive, who is sura he will get
c-jtM, and who is so glad she helped him.
As the chariot winds out and the escort ot
mounted courtiers, and the mules, ladei
with sacks of gold and silver and em-,
l.roidered suits of apparel, went throughl
the gates of Damascus and out on the lDDtj
way, the hills of Naphtalia and Ephraim
look down on the procession, and the re
linue goes right past the battlefields where
Naaman tn the day3 of his neaitn nsetf
rally hi troops for fearfal onset, and then
the procession stops nnd reclines awhile In
tha groves of olive and oleander, and
General Naaman so slok, so very, very sick I
How the countrymen gaped as the proces
sion passed' They had seen Naaman go
past like a whirlwind in days gone by anl
had stood aghast at the clank of his wai
equipments, but now thoy commiserate him.
Tuey say "Poir man. ha will never get
home alive! Poor man!"
G. neral Naaman wakes np from a restless
5V-n in the chariot, and he says to the
char;oteer. "How long before we shall reach
the Prophet ElishaV" The charioteer says to
a wavider, "How far is it to Elisha's
lions ?" He says, "Two miles." "Two
miles?" Then they whip np the lathere I
nn 1 lagged out horees. The whole procession
I rightens up at the prospect of speedy ar
rival. They drive up to the door of tliu
prophet. The oharioteers shout "Whoa" to
the horses, and tramping hoofs and grinding
wheels cease shaking the earth. Come out,
Elisbn, come out. loa have company. Tht
grandest company that ever came to your
house has come to it now. No stir inside
Elishn's house. The fact was. the Lord hn I
informed E.isha that the sick captain waa
coming an 1 b jw to treat him. Indeed, wiien
you are sick and the Lord wants you to get
well, He always tells the doctor how to treat
?'ou, and the roason we have so many
iunglin doctors Is because they depend
upon tneir own strength and instructions
and not on the Lcrd Got, and that always
tnakt-s malpractlae. Come out, Elisha, and
attend to yonr business.
General Naaman and his retinue waited
snd waited and waited. The fact was,
Naaman hal two diseases prida and
l''proy. The one was as hard to get rid of
as the other. Elisha sits quietly in his
house au I does not go out. After awhile,
when he thinks he has humbled this proud
man. he says to a servant, "Go out and tell
Gen-ril Na ynanto bathe siven times in Ihe
riv-T Jordan, oat yon-ter five miles, and he
will get entir-'iy well." Tae message comes
DUt. "What!" says the commander-in-chief
of tne Syrian forces, his eye kindling with
in animation which it had not shown for
weeks and his swollen foot stamping on tho
tiottom of the chariot, regardless of pain.
"What! Isn't he ooming out to see me?
Why, I thought certainly he would come and
utter some cabalistic words over me or make
fome enigm itical p tsss over my wounds.
Way, I don't think he knows who I
ira. Isn t he coming out? Way, when
ihe Slmnamite woman came to him, he
rushed out and cried : 'Is it well with thee?
Is It well with thy hasbnn 1? Is it well with
tny child?' And wid he trsnt a poor un
known woman like that nnd let me, a titled
perjouaje, s;t tier ) in my chariot an I wait
in 1 wait? I won't ea litre it any longer.
Cnarioreer. drive on ! Wash in tha Jordan !
Ha, ha I The slimy Jor Ian the mu ldy Jor
dan the monotonous Jordan I I wouldn't
be seen w ashing In such a river as that.
Why, we watered our horsf in a better river,
than that on our way here tho beautiful
river.the jaspar paved river of Pharpar. Be
jides that we hava in our coantry another
Damascene river, Abana, with foliaged bank
nd torrent ever swift and ever clear, under
the flickering shadows of sycamore and ole
nder. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers
of Damascus, better than all tha waters of
Israel?"
I suppose Naaman felt very much as
Americans would feel if, by way of medical
prescription, some one should tell ns to go
wash In tha Danube or tha Bhine. We
would answer, "Are not the Connecticut and
the Hudson just as good?" Or as an Eng
lishman would feel if he wera told, by way
of medical prescription, he must go and
wash in the Mississippi or the St. Law
rence. He would cry out. "Are not the
Thames and tha Shannon just as well?"
The fact was that haughty Naaman needed
to learn what every Englishman and every
American needs to learn that when God
tells you to do a thing you must go and do
It, whether you understand the reason or not.
Take tha prescription, wuethor you like it or
not. One thing is certain. Unless haughty
Saamnn does as Elisha commands him, be
will die of his awful sickness. And unless
rou do as Christ commands yon yon will bo
eized upon by an everlasting wasting away.
Obey nnd live ; disobey and die. Thrilling,
jyerarching, undergirding, stupendous
llternative 1
Well, General Naaman could not stand the
lest. The oharioteer gives a jerk to tha right
dne until the bit snaps Inthe horse's mouth,
md tha whir of the wheels and the flying of
the dust show the Indignation of the great
commander. "He turned and went away In
1 rage." So people now often get mad at
religion. They vituperate against ministers,
against churches, against Christian people.
One would think from their Irate behavior
that God had been studying how to annoy
and exasperate and demolish them. What
has He been doing? Only trying to cure
their death dealing leprosy. That is all.
Yet they wnlp up their horses, they dig in
the spurs, and they go awny in a ra,-e.
So, after all. It seems that this health ex
cursion of General Naaman Is to be a dead
(allure. That little Hebrew captive might as
well have not told him ot the prophet, and
this long journey might as well not have
been taken. Poor, sick, dying Naaman I
Are you point away in high dudgeon and
worse than wncn you came? As his caariot
halts a motneni his servants clamber up in
tt and coax him to do as Elisha gal l. Thej
lay : "It's easy. If the prophet had told
rou to wall", tor a mile on snarp spikes in or
der to get rid of tnis awlul disease, yon
would have done it. It Is easy. Come, my
lord. Just ret down and wash in the Jordan.
Ifou take a bath every day anyhow, and in
this climate It is so hot that it will do you
good. Co It on our account, and for tha
ake of tha army you command, and for tha
nation tbat admires you. Come, my lord,
lust try thi JorJanio bath." Well,
ii says, "lo please yoa I will
?o as yon say." The - retinue
Srlve to the brink of the Jordan. The horses
piw and neigh to get into the stream them
clv an 1 cool their hot flanks. General
K-aaman. assisted by his attendants, gets
flown out of his chariot and painfully come
lo the brink of the river an 1 steps in until
1'ie water comes to the ankl?. and goes on
deeper nntil the water ootibs 10 the girdle,
snd now stan lin? so tar down in t'ie stream
nst a little inclination ot th head will
thoroughly immerse him. He bows onoo
Into the flood and comes no and .shakes tho
water out of nostril and eye. and his attend
ants look at him and say, "Why, general,
how muoh better yon do loo"t I
And he bows a second time in'o
the final and comes np. nnd tie
wild stare Is gone out of his 'eye. He
bows the tblr I time into the floo I, and come
up, and the ghrlv.ded skin has got snoot 1
again. Hi b-w-ta fourth tima in-o the flood
nut co-a-s up, ant the hair that had fallen
out Is restore 1 ; th?re are thick loci? again
all overth head. He boxs the fl.tii tima
into tae flood, and comes no. au ti'.a hoarse-
lf3 his gone' out of Ms tliroaf. Ha Ebwa
tho sixth tima and comes np, and all tho
soreness and anguish have gone out of tha
body. "Why," ho says, "lam almost well.
Tout I will make a complete cure, and so ha
bow3 the seventh time into the flood and ha
comes np, and not so muoh as a fester or a
scale or an eruption ns big as the head of a
)in is to be seen on hi-n.
He steps out on the bank and sny3, "Is It
possible?" And the attendants look and say,
"Is it possible?" And as with the health of
pn athlete he bounds back into the chariot
and drives on there goes np from all his at
tendants a wilil "Huzza, huzza !' Of cours
they go back to pay and thank the man of
Go 1 for his counsel so fraught with wisdom.
Wuea they le't the prophet's honsi, th-y
went off mad. They have coma back glad.
People always think b stter of a minister ar
ter they are converted than they do before
conversion. Now we are to them nn Intoler
able nuisance because wa tell them to do
thlngsthat go against the grin, bnt some ol
ns have a great many letters Iro n those w n
tell ns that once they were angry at w.iat 11
preached, but aft-rwar 1 gla lb received
the gospel at our hand. Tn;y once called
n fanatics or terrorists or i'ai.iii?9. No v
they call as friends. Yonder is a man who
said he would never come into the ohurch
a.'.tin. He sal 1 that two years ago. He sai l,
"My family shall nevei come here again 11
such doctrines as that arj preac leii." But
he came again, and his family came again.
He is a Christian, his wife a Christian, all
his children Christians, the whole hous
bold Christians, and you shall dw -11 with
them in the house of the Lord forever, tx:
undying coadjutors ar those who once
heard tha gospel and "went away in a
rage."
Now, my hearers, you know that this Gen
eral Naaman did two thing In or ler to get
well. Tae first was, he got out of his char
lot, ne might hava staid there with his
Bwollen feet on tha stuffed ottoman, seated
on that embroidered cushion, until his last
gasp; he would never have got any relio.
He had to get down out ot his clianot. An I
you have got to get down out ot the chariot
of your pride if you ever beco-ne a Chris
tian. You cannot drive up to the cross with
t ie spanglos. You seem to think that tho
Lord is goin to bo complimented by
your coming. Oil, no, you poor, mis.
era.de, scaly, leprous sinner, get dojru
out of that. Wo all co:no in th
Same haughty way. We expect to ride
nto the kingdom of God. Nevei
pntil we get down on our knees will we find
mercy. The Lord has unhorsed us, un
baariole i us. Get down out ot your pride.
Get down out of your s-lf righteousness and
your hypiiroriticism. Wo have alt got to do
Uiat. That is the journey we have to make
on our knees. It 1 ot'.r internal prl le that
keeps us from get"ing rid of the leprosy ot
sin. Dyar Lord, w.iat have we to be proud
oi? Proud of our scales? Proud of our un
rleanliness? Prou I of this killing iu'e rtion?
Bring us down at Thy feet, weeping, pray
ing, penitent, believing sunpliauts.
For sinners, Lord, Ttiou cam'st to bleed
And I'm a sinner vile indeed.
Lord, I believe Thy grace is Irea,
Oh, magnity tnat grace in me.
But he had not only to get down nnt ol
his chariot. He had to wash. "Oh." you.
fay, "I am very careful with my ablutioas.
f ivory day 1 plunge into a bright an 1 beauti
ul bath." Ah, my hearer, toere is a Hoot
brighter than any that pours from these
hills. It Is the floo 1 that break from tha
granite of the eternal hills. It is the flood
of pardon anl peace and life and heaven.
That flooi startei in the te-.rs of Christ and
the sweat ot ti 'tase-n-tne and rolle 1 o.i, ac
cumulating flood, 11 nl. 1 ail e irtu an 1 heaven
could bathe in it. Z ;chari ih called it the
"fountain open for sin and uncleanue."
William CowpercalleJ it tae "fountain filled
With blood." Your fathers and mothers
washed all their sins anil sorrows away in
that fountain. Oh. my hearrs, do you not
feel like wading into it? Wade dotrn now
into this glorious flood, deeper, dep 'r,
Sleeper! Plunge onee, twice, thrice, lour
imes, flva times, six times, seven tim -s. It
vlll take as muon as that to euro your souU
Oh, wash, wash and be clean 1
, I suppose that was a great time at Damas
cus when General Naaman got back. Tha
charioteers did not have to drive slowly any
longer, lest they Jolt the invalid, but as tha
horses dashed through the streets of Damas
cus I think tho people rushed out to hail
baok their chieftain. Naaman's wife hardly
recoguized her husband. He was so won
derfully changed she bad to look at him two
or three times before she made out that it
was her restored husband. And the little cap
tive maid, she rushed out. clapping her
hands and shouting "Did he cure you? Did
he cure you?" Then music woke up the pal
aoe, and the tapestry ot the windows was
drawn away, that the multitu Is outsido
might mingle with the princely mirth inside,
and t he f. et went up ant down in the danco,
and all the streets of Damascus that night
echoed and re-echoed with the news: ' Naa
man's cured! Naaman's curst!" But a
gladder time than tbat it would be if your
soat should get cured of its leprosy. T:ie
swiftest white horses hitched to the Kind's
chariot would rush the news into th-j eternal
city. Our loved ones bofora the throne
would welcome the gla I ti lings. Your chil
dren on earth, with morj emotion than the
little Hebrew captive, would notice the
obange in your look and the change In your
manner and would put their arms around
your neck and say : "Mother, I guess you
must have become a Christian. Father, I
think you have got rid of the leprosy." Q
Lord God of Elisha, have mercy on as 1
Palming.
It is s;iid that the smallest piece ot
palatini in the world has recently
been executed by a Flemish artist.
It is painted on the smooth side of a
trrain of common white corn, and
pictures a mill and a miller mount
ing a stairs with a sack of grain oh
his back. The mill is represented as
standing on a terrace, and near it is
a horse and cart, while a iirotip of
several peasants are shown in the
road near by. The picture is bcautl
fully distinct, every obje t belnu
finished with microscopic fidelity, yet
by careful measurement it is shown
that the whole paint intr docs not
cover a surface of half an inch
square.
Worth Reinemhcrin;.
According to a recent pamphlet by
an Italian doctor a 6ure way of re
storing life In cases of syncope Is to
hold the patient's tongue Ormly. Af
ter two other aoctors had worked lor
an hour without result over a younir
man who was apparently drowned, he
thrust a spoon into the patient's
nio th, seized the tongue, and worked
It violently until the patient gave
signs of life.
Watek the horse before you feed
him; the water rapidly leaves tho
stomach nnd the gastric juices have
full play. Water with the food
weakens the digestive II u ids. II U
stomach is small, therefore do not
let him get too thirsty and drink too
much.
You can always tell a spring chick
en Ur lis crow.
We are reminded when we lay onr
head on the pillow at night that those
most interested in our welfare daring
the day had something to sell.
Josh Hillings siys gambling is tho
strongest impulse of the human heart;
it is more natural than the measles.
and fully as catching.
tie who proclaims himself ready
to buy up his enemies will never want
a supply of them.
The devil is the only individual we
know of who seems to thrive best the
more he is ridiculed.
The man who goes to church with
squeaky shoes goes to the right place.
His sole needs attention.
If yon pick up a starving dog and
make him prosperous, he will not bite
you. This is the principal difference
between a dog and a man.
Dexter, Mo., has a curfew bell which
rings at 9 p, m.
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