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PlIAITKIt XXIJC.
Hester Stuplcton j brilliant and rndl
nt, aud nil ilmt in charming, an she al
ways is out of the limits of the home cir
He. Captain Leverson is very quiet, nut
to say dull, and a little absent-minded,
even to the exteut of neglecting the
charming Hester. Editb Cameron doe
not seem to notice any one or anything in
particular, and ia jut her own graceful,
Insoucinhte self; and Muriel aita in the
dimmest corner beyond the wide fireplace.
Suddenly Kditu walks across the room
to her lover.
"It ia a lovely, misty, moonlight night,
and I feel unutterably sentimental, " ah
ays, in the gayest voice and brightest
auille that can contradict her words.
"Don't you want to see the ruins of the
old church on the whores of the lake by
the pule moonlight?" I do."
"1 ahall be most happy to see it ia your
company," Captain Leverson says, atitlly
enough, for the "bright particular atar"
be adorea ia apt to ahed effulgeut beam a
on her worshiper, and leave him in hope
less gloom by turna in a moat madden
ingly capricious manner, and the faithful
adorer ia beginning to resent it ever so
little.
Walking silently, Harry Leverson's
heart la too full for speech, and he has
stammered through a few fragmentary
sentences of gratitude for "tbia happy
opportunity," when, as they enter the
flagged, grass-grown pathway by the ruin
ed church, where the thick ivy rustles
drearily and mysteriously, though never
a breeze is stirring, he starts back sud
denly at the sight of a slender, black
robed figure, with etripa of anowy white
at her throat aud wriata; and covering
her head, above the Ivory-pale face, ia a
mass of soft, dazzling white, gleaming in
the moonlight.
"It ia only Muriel; I told her to come J
with ns," K.lith aays, calmly.
"She looks like the ghost of a widow!"
he says, irritably, ns he is both startled
and angry.
An indefinable thrill runs throngh Edith
at hi word, and to his dismay she with
draws her hand uoni hi arm.
"I do not know that she is mucii better
off than a widow, poor child," she saya;
"aud if you ran tell her anything that
may comfort her, or give her a hope for
brighter days, pray do." And with this
enigmatical nieech Miss Cameron turns
sharply round, and hurries back to t.'se
house. . .
" There is a 80 In the Lull tove, Bind
Edith sits down beside it, wrapped in Met
cloak, to wait a few minutes, and then
he enters the drawing room demurely
once more.
"What have yon done with Captain
Leverson and Muriel?" Ilettie asks, start
lug. "Done? Nothing. Inasmuch as 1
haven't drowned them," Edith says, air
ily. "They loitered, and I found it too
cold to loiter, aud they had an interesting
aubject of conversation and I hail none,
and I shivered aud they delayed, and I
fled home aud they remained behind.
There, you have the full, true and particu
lar account of the excursion, Hettie."
But just as she lays her head back in
tier cosy chair, a picture of graceful ease
and comfort, IMith catches the sound of
light footsteps hurrying past the window,
rushing ucross the hall; and in at the
drawing room door comes Muriel, wild
and hnriii-d looking, panting more with
fierce emotion through pale-dry lips than
with mere haste, aud across the room she
rushes and seizes Hester's arm with both
tier hands like the grip of a vise..
"Where is my husband's message to me
that you stole 7" she demands, iu a shrill,
clear voice that rings through the room.
"Where is it? Tell me. You had better
tell me this instant! You stole it! Eric'l
message to uie with the jewels be gave
me! Where is it, I say?" and her eyes
are glittering and full of a blue, lurid
light, like a tigress at bay, as she shakes
Uettie like a reed, and her plump, pretty
form fairly shrinks together before this
tall, slender, vengeful woman, whose grip
is like steel.
"You're mud ! you're mad !" Hettie says,
with a suppressed scream of real fright.
"Muriel! Let me got Too are bruising
ue black aud blue! You horrid creature,
you are bruising my arm dreadfully!"
"I will bruise you!" Muriel aays,
through her clenched teeth, all the fury
of her Celtic blood raging like liquid fire
In her veins. "Tell me what you did
with Eric's message to me 1 You wicked
woman; if you had stolen the Jewels I
would have forgiven you easily 1 Tell me,
Hester, or I will kill you!"
By this time, Edith and Captain Lev
erson, who have been at first too paralyzed
with alarm and amazement to stir, rush
between them, aud by passionate entreaty
Induce Muriel to let go her frenzied hold
and give Hester time to explain.
Which, however, Hester only does by
the reiteration of scornful denials of hav
ing ever seen or known anything of the
written message which Muriel asserts was
laid in the jewel case, which assertion
Captain Leverson gravely and positively
affirms.
"For I can swear that from the mo
ment Eric ahowed me the emeralds, and
lip of paper lying across them, with the
words, 'For my darling Muriel, with Eric's
love,' written on it, and then shut the
case with bis own hand, I can swear,"
repeats Captain Leverson, "that that case
was uever opened, uever touched again
even by me, as Eric fastened it up In white
wrapping paper before he left it and the
other jewel case in my secretarie iu my
dressing room until the day he left Lou
don, when he told me to take or send to
the bouse. I intrusted them to a com
missionaire whom I have known for years
as a strictly honest man, as I could not
possibly come with them myself. I am
sorry now I did not keep them until 1
brought them in person."
"I am sorry, too," Hester says, haught
ily, biting her bloodless lips, "as then I at
least might have escaped this suspicion
this lady has thought well to harbor
'aaiost me. Does any one else imagine I
atole' Mrs. Eric Llewellyn' love letter?
t lather a rara avis wltn ner, 1 p"
ZZlus!, as she has made this disgraceful
fuss over it."
"I should not like to think that any one
belonging to me could do so cruel and
foolish a deed," Edith says, but she does
not look at Hester.
"So the verdict of both of you Is guilty,"
Hester says inwardly, as she bites and
bites her lips, with the nervous, vindic
tive habit she has when angry and per
plexed. "Yes. it was a cruel and vindictive thbig
io do," Aiu.iel said, quietly and drearily;
"for it could have done you o good be
yond a momentary revenue, and it ha
helped to separate me aud my husband
lerhups forever." , ,
Late that night, ere the . moon goes
dowu, Muriel rises again from', a" sleepless,
feverish pillow, and in the weird, pale
light that fulls through the frost-rimmed
window Vanes, she kneels dowfci by her
little bedside to prayloug aud fervently
for her absent lover for bis safety and
their speedy meeting for wisdom from
nbove to be a most a loving aud'.patient
and dutiful wife and for the blessing of
Eric's love for Eric's love, and for Eric's
welfare, and for the blessing of heaven
on her husband far away so far a wail
And that very uight a passenger sJeaB
er off the coast of Madagascar is burned
to the water's edge, aud a few only'-of the
crew aud passengers are saved. A list of
the missing ones arrives In Cape Town a
week later, aud amoug that of the cabin
passengers who are known to have gone
down with the burning wreck ia the name
Major Eric Llewellyn."
CHAPTER XXX.
It Is a bitterly cold December aftef
noon, with the snow flukes drifting hea
ily down, and the chill wintry winds
howling outside, through the mouutain
glens and across the dense fir planta
tions, aud through the leafless woodlands
around the ruined church. But within,
in Curraghdene House, all is warmth aud
brightness, with a subdued sense of fes
tivity aud pleasant excitement, in the
well-warmed rooms with blazing fires, and
soft carpets, and ample draperies to ex
clude every chill breath; the glitter of
evergreens, and the glow of flowers mid
winter though It be the bloom and per
fume of azaleas, violets, roses and came
lias are everywhere.
For It is Christmas time, and the eve
of a wedding as well, for Miss Edith
Cameron's engagement with Captain Lev- j
eraou Is more than three weeks old fr
day, and the day after to-morrow, Christ
mas Eve, is to be her wedding day; aud
there exists a bustle and excitement of
marriage prepar.:?."-" that ever so quiet
a wedding will occasion; for it is to be a
very quiet wedding for one of the beau
ties of Loudon society for the last four
seasons.
"I letter, miss, please," Hannah says,
enteriug. Hester has not been able to
drill .auy vf the old O'Hara aerrr ita iuto
correct forms of address.
"Thank you," Miss Stapleton says, for
mally. "I wish you would recollect, Han
nah, that 'miss' is an incorrect title for
any young lady beyond childhood."
She goes over to the window in the
fading light to read it. A faint, flutter
ing nervousness rushes over her from
some intangible cause as she unfolds the
large, stiff, white letter, and sees that
it fills all the first page, closely written
in Mr. Farren's neat legal caligraphy.
She sees "Major Llewellyn" a few lines
down, and her eyes gleam and her lips
curl scornfully.
"Some news of Eric! He wants 'his
darling' to go out to him, aud is sending
directions through his solicitor," thinks
Ilettie, with a fierce pang of jealous envy
as she begins to read the letter. Begins
and reads, aud holds her breath, aud
stares, and looks back at the heading aud
the address; and then, panting aud star
ing, reads every word hurriedly to the
end, not comprehending it not daring to
comprehend it. Aud then again a second
aud a third attempt to read and under
stand the brief fatal news of the lawyer's
letter, aud Hettie staggers against the
window sill with a horrified sobbing cry.
"Oh, Eric! Oh, Eric! Oh, heaven, for
give me. dear Eric! Oh, Eric! It cannot
cannot be true that you are dead dead
and drowued in the depths of the sea!"
The letter Is from Mr. Farren, and be
gins with a brief but earnest apology for
his being obliged to select Miss Stapleton
as his medium of communicating the
grievous news which he has every reason
to fear is correct in all particulars, namely
that Major Eric Llewellyn, having ex
changed into an Indian regiment, sailed
from Cape Town on the twenty-fifth of
November in the steamer Cyprus, and one
week later, according to advices received
at Cape Town, the Cyprus took fire off the
coast of Madagascar and was burned to
the water's edge eleven of the crew and
nine passengers only having escaped.
"And I deeply deplore having to tell
you that among those who are known to
have gone down iu the burning wreck is
Major Llewellyn," coucludes Mr. Farren.
"I have made inquiries at the War Office,
but beyond ascertaining that Major Llew
ellyn was gazetted to a lieutenant-colonelcy
of an Indian regiment, and had cer
tainly sailed from Cape Town to join his
regiment, I could obtain no further in
formation. Should auy such occur I will
communicate with you immediately, and
please to accept the expression of my sin
cerest sympathy with you and the other
ladies of Major Llewellyn's family under
this heavy bereavement."
"It can't be! It can't be!" Hettie says,
hoaiiely, gazing blindly at the awful
words that seem to leap out of the page
at ber. "Uone dowu In the burning
wreck! Eric! poor Eric! brave, hand
some, gallant Eric!" whom she has
known and secretly loved since the day
she first saw him, a slender young lieu
tenant of live ami twenty and she a school
girl of fifteen! "Eric to meet Willi such a
fate, in the prime of his days in tEe glory
and strength of his manhood! It is too
horrible!"
She goes up to bed early, aud comolains
if having taken cold, and so has a fire la
tier room and warm soup and sherry and
a unu-s herself up most carefully.
"For I must keep up until this is all
vrr," the young lady aays. with the wls
loin of a serpent and presumably the
tiarmlessness of a dove.
Aud she does "keep up" admirably all
through the next day, and is bright, and
levi r. and amiable to everyone, save
owurds Muriel, to whom she never speaks
unless absolutely obliged, at whom she
never look.
(To be continued.)
HEATERS 2,000 YEARS AGO.
Interesting L'iscoverr Made by a Cin
cinnatl Man in Komau Antiquities.
In two of the musennis of old Ro
man antiquities at Naples there are
several water heaters, which indicates
th.it the pi'lnciple of the water tube,
the crowuiug feature of modern boil
ers, win fully understood and appre-
i-.tel 2.CJO yec.-s ago. v'. T. Bonner,
of Cluclnuatl, has been Investigating
thine beaters aud fouud them to be as
Interesting as they are beautiful. Oue
of them couslbt of an outer shell
twelve luetics la diameter and nearly
seventeen Inches high, surrounded by
x somewhat hemispherical top, which
Is leu Inches iu diameter and twelve
Inches high. The two shells are con
uocteJ at the bottom by a rim, like
ilie uuul rim of a locomotive firebox,
a n. I the space between them was tilled
with water. The grate was formed of
seven tubes made from sheet bronze,
rolled aud soldered or brazed. These
tubes open at both ends luto the bottom
of the space between the shells, thus
forinlug a water tube grate for the fuel
to rest upon. Charcoal was probably
used for this beater and was placed
on the grate through an opening 4.8
inches high and 4 Inches wide, closed
by a beautifully decorated door. The
gases from the fire escaped luto the
outer shell about S.6 Inches above the
grate. The whole apparatus was rais
ed about twelve Inches on a tripod so
as to allow air to reach the fuel. In
another boiler of somewhat the same
type the outer shell has the form of
an urn, while the lnuer shell rises from
a water tube grate to an openlngin
the side. It Is twelve inches in diam
eter at the widest part, 17.6 Inches high
and supported on a tripod about four
Inches high. Its general shape Is much
like that of the silver cream pitchers
known as the Paul Uevere patterns, al
though, of course, it is much larger and
has a top closed by a lid. It has been
suggested that these utensils may hare
served at some time to heat wine as
well as water, which suggestion ap
pears reasonable, as many historians
state that the Pompellans made great
use of hot drinks. It may be that they
were fouud iu one of the termpodi or
cafes, of which there were several la
I'ouipeiL
An Incident in Garrison Life.
In Boots aud Saddles Mrs. Custer
writes:
We spent the days together almost
uninterruptedly during the winter. The
garrison gave me those hours aud left
us aloue.
I became so accustomed to this quiet
life In the library with my husband
that 1 rarely went out. If I did begin
the rounds of ur little circle wttb our
girl-friend, whom every one besought
to visit them, an orderly soon followed
inf np. Without the glint of a smile,
and iu exactly the same tone of a man
giving the order for a battle, he said:
"The general presents hU compliments,
and would like to kuow when be shall
send the trunks?" I recollect a mes
sage of this sort being once brought to
us, when we were visiting an Intimate
friend, by the tallest, nisst formidable
soldier in the regiment, was a mys
tery to ns how he" managed to deliver
his errand without moving a muscle
of bis face. He presented the compli
ments of the commanding officer, and
added: "He sent you these." We did
Dot trust ourselves to look up at his
lofty face, but took from his extended
bands two bundles of white muslin.
There was no mistaking the shape;
they were our night-dresses. When we
hurried home, and took the general to
task for making us face the solemn or
derly, he only replied by asking if we
had Intended to stay forever, pointing
to his open watch, and speaking of the
terrors of solitary conflnemnet!
To Drive Away
Mosquitoes.
While the British steamer Bellucla
was in the harbor of Buenos Ayres on
ber last voyage to South America Cupt.
Nerison taught the people of that city
a lesson which may be of value to peo
ple In many sections of this country.
The residents of the city and the other
captains In the estuary of the River
Plata wondered why the English ves
sel's fog horn was tooted every even
ing. The echoes of the harsh, braying
of the born waked up the harbor and
caused a great deal of comment. When
the mystery was solved the horns on
other craft were blown too. The ex
planation was very simple. Oapt. Neri
son, of the Bellucla, was unable to
smoke his evening pipe on account of
the mllltous of South American mos
quitoes that made life on deck after
sundown unbearable. He happened to
remember that mosquitoes cannot
stand the pulsations in the air caused
by sound waves. So oa every dog
watch he detailed a sailor to blow a
born back of his chair on the quarter
deck and thereafter smoked his pipe
undisturbed.
He Was About Klght.
The little King of Spain bad for bis
lesson the other day the mottoes of the
different European countries. He got
as far as England and promptly recit
ed, "Dleu et uion Droit," and then
abruptly asked, "What Is the motto of
America?" Count Z , who happened
to be in the room at the time, answered,
"Dieu et Mon roe."
Personal Notes.
Henry C. Work, the author of "March
ing Through Georgia," and a host of
negro dialect songs, was the only North
ern writer of such songs to receive
praise from a responsible Southern critic.
Rev. Henry Hupp, ihe oldest active
clergyman in Ilinois, is still a strnftg
and lieu I thy man and preaches a vigorous
senium, though he is 92 years of age. ii,s
favorite pa-unie is fishing ami when
I when lie
i it in thus
has earned a vacation he siiends
Austin CollaJier. said to be the last e
. i i i -. 7 i - . . i t 1 .
AOI UIlMni llll! IUII s w. iiinhj ii t-lU!., JS
dying at his home near ilmlgenville, Ky.
lie lives about three miles from the farm
where Lincoln was horn and distinctly
remembers the youthful Abe. whom he
once pulled out of a creek into w hich he
fell.
Independently of the sculptured monu
ment which will lie erected over the
grave of Coventry PHimore, the poet, in
the cemelerv at Lymington, Kng , a mini''
ber of the deceased isiet's friends have?
proposed to plant with appropriate trees'
the neighboring portion of tl.at place.
William li Aikey, of Ko-ton, who was
in the regimenl commanded by the gal
lant Colonel Robert C Shaw, at the bat
tle of Fort Wagner, said in talking of the
memorable nit lit on which Shaw was
shot: "We could not see the rebels all the
time, but fought in the direction where
we knew them to be." J
William C. Whitrcy s.iys that the
Metropolitan Street Kailwav Company,
of New York, has searched the world for
the best motive power, and that it is now
prepared to spend $6,000,000 for the un
derground trolley.
Harm Notes.
Copper sulphule is made by addlnt !
pounds of ulhie of cornier and lr
ihiuii.Ii of lime lu -J-2 gallons of water.
I irst. dissolve the ulhaie of .er in
lii k11ou of water and the lime iu Hi
ealloui. Then ur the liinewaler inlo
the copT solution slowly, stirring well
an l bli-kly while., doiug.
It is safe to allege I list farmers would
Binre readilv adopt the soiliug system f
keeping stock but for the cost of pivparing
the food. On the MSture the cow collect!,
the food herself and stores it away for
further prcOWiatioii after she reaches the
stall. It is the objection to lh- ex.ra la
bor aud care which hus piven ed '""""
funnel's from making a pi..iit. what
hould be considered lu cattle are kepi
at the baruvai'd and the food carried to
theiu, however, is whether the labor woiil
lie well remunerated. Less In ml would
ho required, fewer fences needed, more
manure would lie saved, and a larger pro
duction of milk and butter wo ild result.
The soil iiiS' system would also lead to a
greater variety of crops grown for food
aud an improvement iu the fertility of
the soil due to more uiauure sua a oeuer
rotation on the farm. m
Where do the weeds come from ever
car on land that has beeii well worked
ami kept clean. It is probable that weea
seeds are spread with the manure. On
some farms everything is added to the
immure heas, eveu tne weeus iuii oi
that are cut down. This would not be ob
i...ii..ni.iu if the manure wns so managed
us to cause the heap to heat and decom-
spread on fields is undecoinposed und the
seeds are really preserved instead of de-
lHise, but a large poriion oi ur u.uu. j
st roved. If every farmer would make it
nle to use oulv well-rotted manure ne
would tiud fewer'weeds on his farm.
It is claimed that the use of ensilage
enables the dairvman to keep twice as
many cows as when no ensilage is used.
There is no crop so easily grop-n and at so
small an outlay for labor as ensilage corn.
aud it not only proviues a large ooi.ioik
to the bulky foods, but enables the dairvH
nuu to give succulent food in winter, thuf
keepiug the animals iu good coudition.
C round bone or bone meal does not be-
,.lat f.wul immeiliatelv. The l arti
cles are given off slowly, and, although a
liortiou will lie utliizen me ursi yem, .
next crop will be benefited more. If the
Druiin.l ia not too sandv and porous, n
application of bone meal will show its ef
fects for several seasons, n neu
r.. k is ustl the same result occurs, tut
often farmers are disappointed the Srst
year. Anv investment in pnu.c.
surely bring in good returns at some
time.
E
:verv wagon can assist in making goofl
.i it it ie tiiie.l with wide tires. ?ar-
roa
tir. cm the roads into ruts but Ivide
tires wck the surface and make the foads
better. . .-
The mistake of keeping and using fros
bred males aids materially in degenerat
ing the hogs on luauv farms. The boar
hould lie a thoi-ougnnrea, or mere
he no uniformity in the offspring. lJ?ie
is little pleasure in raising mougreis.
a dry season there is no fertilizer
h produces lietter results with Mita
thau wood ashes, notwithstamwue the
fact that ashes seem to dry themselves.
Foually good results will follow when
they are sprinkled ou the strawberry bed
tng, as well as aiier, snouiu - -
by herself, well covereu, ury au.i . .
It need not be a large lien, and should
not lie high. A pen 5 by 6 feet is large
enough. Only cut straw should, be used
for bedding, so that the sow will not pile
it iu great ouuenes anu smoiuer i itt
under it. The warmth from the sow will
keep the small pen warm enough if the
'.en is made wind-proof.
Do, not lie too gross nor top busy to care
for the tbiugs of beauty which should
sdoru the farmer's home. Thecultivation
of flowers lends to bring out that which
is hwi ami huest in our natures. Make
the door yard bloom with beauty in the
pring, aud have a thought for the Pal
or house decoration iu the winter.
i
for
tin a scale of 100 points the prize but
rf-r at the Massachusetts Agricultural
Society ranged as follows: Creamery,
97 1-2; dairy, W The standard for
judging butter adopted by the Massa
chusetts Agricultural iyety is a very
good one for others to fsjuw. It is this:
Flavor, 45; grain, 25; color, 15; salt, 10;
packing, 5. The standard of flavor was
'hat of June butter.
The egg plant is not difficult to grow,
nd it is one of those vegetables not often
ieen on fanners' tables, but which, if
provided, would help make an agreeable
vurietv. The purple egg plant is most
productive and best. The plant belongs
to the same botanical family as the po
tato, aud must be protected from attacks
of the potato larva. The best way is to
watch the plants closely so long as the
potato beetles are flying, aud kill the
beetles before they have laid their eggs.
If any larva hatch a weak dilution of
Paris green will kill them.
Every housewife knows that dandelion
greens are excellent for the table, and
none the worse because they are slightly
touic to the stomach and aid digestion at
this season. But all do not know that the
dandelion under good cultivation grows
much larger than in its wild state, and is
therefore much more easily gathered,
cleaned aud prepared for the table, it
is considerably grown for greens by mar
ket gardeners, who find it a fairly profit
able crop. Probably if farmers planted
the improved varieties of dandelion they
could find a good market in near-by cities
ir villages along with other produce.
The canker worm is tLe one that de
stroys the foliage of the apple trees. Broad
paper bands put around the tree ami fas
tened with one or two carpet tacks, and
then smeared with coal tar, will prevent
the female canker worms from ascending
the tree to do a night's work of laying
eees. Put on fresh tar as often as neces
sary. Printer's ink used in the same way
will answer the purpose as well. If not
already done, this work should be doue
immediately.
Equal parts of lime water and swee
oil well mixed will form a kind of soap
which is very efficacious in taking out or
removing the innauimation. as well as lot
healing wounds caAsed hv burns or scalds.
A captive bee striving to escape has
been made to record as many as 15.54"
wing strokes per minute in a late test.
In the city of Lmrango, Mexico, is
an iron mountain 640 feet high, and the
irou is from sixty to seventy per cent,
nine. The metallic mass spreads in all
directions for a radius of three or four
miles.
The large archaeological and ethno
graphic collection brought together by
tho covcrnmcnt of Costa Rica has now
been commodiously installed in a buildinz
erected for the purpose at ban Jose aa
Costa Kica.
A statistician says that of every 10,
OOO chimneys, three are struck hv light
ning' while of the same number of church
steeples and windmills, sixty and eighty
respectively are struck.
The Adirondack lands now owned by
the State of New xork are valued at
Jb.00o.ooi,uiid when the entire area is
acquired and put in condition it is be
lieved it will be wortn at least t.su.uiKi.lKHj.
The Vale lock manufacturers have
proved that in a patent lock having six
"stensi." each capable of being reduced
in height 20 times, the number of changes
or combinations will be Bb,40u.
Marshal Lannes' divorce from his
wife, granted ou Fructidor 8 of Ihe vear
VII H August 25, 180), has been! de
clared Valid , by the Perpignan courts.
Suit to set it aside had been brought by
descendants of his divorced wife.
. Household.
Harhecued Ham. Cut a pound of raw
hant in thin slices and soak ia rufd watei
half aa hour; dry in a towel, sad place
iu a ItM frying sn; dust each slice light
ly with pper and spread with a quar
ter of a leaspooiiful of mixed mustard
and iur into viuegar in I lie nruportiua
of half a teaspooulul to a slice, t ry
quickly, turning often. Serve on a hoi
dish, with a teaspooulul of sous jelly on
each slice.
ripiuach, with (ioldea Sauce. Wash and
drum a k of spinach; spriukle with a
tablesooiiful of salt; place iu a kettle
with water, and cook U'ri uiiuuies; drain
and put inlo a sauce au with half a hiut
of cfcaui aud a tahlesiouful of butter;
cut live hard boiled eggs iu halves; take
out the yolks and slice the whites over
the spinach; set iu a place and muke the
sauce; melt two tublespooufuls of butter;
add the same amount of cornstarch; mix
smoothly; pour on aTintof boiling water;
stir until smooth; take from the tire; sea
sou with pepper and the juice of a leuioi.;
lastly, stir in the yolks of the eggs, hich
must be finely grated; let come to a brii,
and pour over the spinach.
Marlborough Tarts. To one pint of
grated pineapple allow three-fourths of a
Pound of sugar, four tablesioonluls of
butter, five eggs and 13 tablesHMnfuls of
milk. Beat the suyar yolks and butler,
together; then add the milk, the grated
pineapple and, lastly, the whites, beaten
to a stiff froth. 4.iue two pie plates with
rood pie cnut, till with the mixture and
take in a moderate oven 3o minutes
Serve vry cold.
I Veal Potr-Pie. Takes. three pounds ot
iplanip veal-never buy the skinny kind,
fit is immature or Mrly fed which may
ue cut iroiu tne sliouiner or lie a pari oi
the rack. The first is better since less
bony. Cut in pieces of uniform size and
cook slowly in a small quanity of boiling
water, with a little piece of salt pork, or
in place of kii k, add about a quarter of a
pouiuf of butter before the veal is holly
cooked, aloug with salt, if not fortu
nate enough to have sour milk or butter
milk, as in olden days, to use with soda
(one-half teuspoonful to a cup vf milk),
make a baking powder crust and have it
thick enough to drop in balls from I lie
spoon. If the water seems to be low, add
more before dropping in the dough, as the
steam must cook it; cover perfectly tight
aud cook briskly twenty-five minutes
Serve with lutked (totatoes. "
Kvaporuted Apples and Raising. To one
half pound of evaM. rated apples, put one
teaciipfnl of raisins. The raisins should
be stemmed, and both raisins and apples
washed ami drained. Cover with warm
water, and let soak on the back of the
range for live or six hours. Stew gently
until the apple is thoroughly cooked, aud
sweeteu slightly.
Stewed Apricots. Wash the apricots
thoroughly, cover with warm water, and
let souk for two or three hours. Hlew
gently, and when they commence to get
tender, add sii:ur to taste, and boil until
soft. This makes a delicious and easily
digested dish.
Lemon Mutter. tine-half cupful of but
ter, one cupful of sugar, juice of two
lemons. Cook in a brig.t sauceitan unti
it threads. Let stand until cool, then
spread on and between the cake layers.
- Steam Roast. Take five or six pounds
of plate lieel, instruct the butcher to re
move the bones and roll up, fastening with
twine or skewers, as for corned leef.
t'aremust be taken that it is not too fat.
Place it in a large steamer over a stew
pan containing two cupfuls of water, salt
and a pinch of red iiepper; set it on the
back of ranee or stove to cook slowlV
to. C4M
The fat may tie poured off and used as a 1
substitute fiW butter in warniiug potatoes.
About an hour before serving, remove the
meat from the steamer into the stewpan,
which should contain a cupful or more of
rich, brown gravy, dripping from the
meat. Turn it over a number of times so
that it will tie seasoned through and
through. Let it brown a little. Serve as
a Hit roast, (me advantage in steaming
meats is that the cheafier meats may be
made tender and palatable in this way.
Labor Notes.
Minnesota has 2600 barbers.
There are bo4,6ts Bell telephones.
Africa's iieannt area is increasing.
Alaska gold miners get $15 a day.
Agriculture employs 20,0011, (UK) men.
iVyIou has 40,mio acres of cinnamon.
There ate rubber tired patrol wagons.
World's railroads stretch 427, 215 miles.
Louisiana levee repairing employs 12,
AMi men.
(ierniaiiy makes 2,000,000 false eyes an
nually. United States contains 150,000 seam
st resses.
Birmingham, Eng., makes 37,000,000
pins dailv.
I'nujil States have 13U0 fruit and veg
etable'caniieries. lor the first time in the history .f
Christiania, Norway, bootblacks it
found on the streets.
The woolen mill, broom handle factory
aud saw mill iu Baudon, Ore., are all
running full time.
tireat Britain has one-fourth of the
wealth of F.uroie, although possessing
only one-ninth of the population.
China has established a Consulate at
Warsaw, with the object of promoting
trade between Poland and Manchuria.
In some parts Of Tulare county, Cali
fornia, this season's sheep shearing has
been giveu entirely to Indians and Chin
ese. 4 if the $56V,00,000 worth. of goods ex
ported from the United States last year
f.'iol, Ooo.oou worth were.jigricultural pro
duce. The Transvaal produced last year 1,34)
000 tons of coal, 2,30.10 ounces oL gold,
according to the statistics of the Johan
nesburg Chamber of Mines.
According to an official organ of the
Russian overnment, saya The Engineer,
the iron and steel industry has taken the
lead in the march of industrial prufress.
The most extraordinary Wims paid for
any service rendered theinjsed Stales
Government go to the railroad and steal,
ship lines that carry our maiRThey ag
gregate in round numbers 9Mnbu,000 a
year. SjL
lu the cotton-producing statW of the
South, perhaps 30.000 individuals, firms
or corporations are engaged in the gin
ning of cotton, representing an investment
of at least $7U,0UU,000 and employ inglur
ing the ginning season certainly not less
than lOOfOO persons.
The only clay pipe factory of note in
this country is a one-story affair with a
single kiln, located up a side alley in a
New York suburb; hence the special need
of Governmental log-rolling may not strike
the average person very forcibly. Yet. as
over 5oti,0u0 pipes are annually
made in the little shed and as many mil
lions are imported, it will be seen that
the industry is not such a small one.
Statistics do not bear out the assertion
that machinery is detrimental to labor,
says the New ork Tribune. In no in
dustry, perhaps, has machinery been so
largely introduced a, in the making of
shoes. Vet, according to the figures of
the census. 8,5,000 people were employed
in this industry in New England in 1890,
against 313,000 in 1S60, while the average
wagrs per capita have risen from (246 a
year to $169-
I n German schools French is taught
to a greater extent than English. In the
higher class schools English is an op
tional subiect; in the comiSSrcial school
more ti1 is devoted to French than En-
glisK
The trollocipede is S new bicycle
which runs on a trolley wire and has the
chaiu geared to a wheel running on the
wire, the wire supporting the whole de
vice, the person silting in a framework
below the wire.
The North Carolina House passed a
bill requiring all teaajiers in the public
schools to read aloud to their pupils at
least twice each year the Constitution of
the United States aud that of the state.
. New YorkTis not only America's fi
nancial and commercial metropolis, but
also itsreate manufacturing city.
REV, OR, TALMAGE.
' Eminent li vine's usuUy
UuKourse.
laSrwIiy mt It la Aa la Mast
tho IVat of aa Mu4ut Tribal tm IIm
MMll-ml lroiMltta ummI fmm
M hy All llurlara Should K ChrUluut.
Aud Asa, in the thirrand ninth year ol
Ms reigu, was diseased lu his feet until hit
ri s-aso was exceeding groat, yet in his
diseaso he sought not to the Lord, but to
the phy-icjau. And Asa slept with hu
futhers."- II. Chronicles xvl., li, IS.
At this season of the year, when inedloa
colleges of all school of medicine are glv
lng diplomas to young doctors, and at th
capital and in many of the cities medical
asAu'ialiona are assembling to consult
about the advancement of the Interests o(
their profession, I feel this discourse la ap.
UropriatH.
In my text is King Asa with the goat,
Bwri living and no exercise have vitiated
his blood, and my text presents him with
his iuHamed and bandaged fet on an otto
man. In dertance of God, whom he hatedj
he sends for certain conjurors or quacks.
They come and give him all sorts of lotions
and panaceas. They bleed him. They
sweat him. Thev manipulate him. They
blister him. They poultice him. TUiv
scarify hun. They drug him. They cut
him. They kill him. He was only a young
man and had a disease which, though very
painful, seldom proves fatal to a young
man, and he ought to have got well, but h
fell a victim to charlatanry aud empiricism.
"Aud Asa lu the thirty and ninth year of
his reign was diseased in bis feet until bit
disease was exceeding great, yet lu his dis
ease he sought not to the Lord, but to tnt
physicians. And Asa slept wltn his fa
hers." That is, the doctors killed him.
In this sharp and graphic way the Bible
aets forth the truth, that you have no right
to shut God but from the realm of
pharmacy und therapeutics,, If Asa had
said: "O Ird, I am sick. ' Bless the in
strumentality employed for my recovery."
Now, servant, go and get the best doctor
rou can find" he would have recovered,
u other words, the world wants divinely
directed physicians. There are a great
many such. The diplomas they received
from the academies of medicine wpre
nothing compared with the diploma they
received from the Head Physician of the
universe on the day when they started out
and He said to them. "Go heal the sick and
east out the devils of pain and oien the
blind eyes and unstop the deaf ears." God
bless the doctors all the world over, and let
all the hospitals and dispensaries and In
firmaries and asylums and domestie circle
of the earth respond, "Amen."
Men ot the medical profession we often
meet in the home ot distress. We shake
bands across the table of agonized Infancy.
We join each other In an attempt at solace
where the paroxysm of grief demands an
anodyne as well as a prayer. We look into
each other's sympathetic faces through the
dusk as the night of death la falling In the
sick room. We do no- have to climb over
any barrier to-day in order to greet each
other, tor our professions are In full sym.
pathy. Vou, doctor, are our first and last
earthly friend. Vou stand at the gates ot
life when we enter this world and you stand
at the gates of death when we go out of it,
In the closing moments of oureartbly exist
ence. when the hand of the wife or mother,
or sister or daughter, shall hold our right
hand, it will give strength to oar dying mo
ments if we can feel the tins of roar ttnirera
atanjr th? oiilje o xhei iaftjty- f3?a
' uiwi c vBjyca orasra jys, in r asea
of dsxtress, but by the pleasant altars ot
God, and I propose a sermon of helpfulness
and good cheer. As la the nursery children
sometimes re-enact all the scenes of the
sick room, so to-day you play that you are
the patient and that I am the physician, and
take my prescription just once. It shall be
a tonic, a sedative, a dietetic, a disinfect
ant, a stimulus and an anodyne at the same
time. "Is there not balm in Gllead? Is
there not a physician there?"
In the first p'lace, I think all the medics,
profession should become Christians be
cause of the debt of gratitude tbey owe to
God for the honor He has nut upon their
calling. No other calling In all the world.
except It be that of the Christian ministry,
has received so great an honor as yours.
Christ himself was not only preacher, but
physician .surgeon, aurist, ophthalmologist,
and under His mighty power optic and au
ditory nerve thrilled with light and sound,
and catalepsy arote from Its fit, and the
clubfoot was straightened, and anchylosis
went out of the stiffened tendons, and the
foamtbg maniac became placid aa a child,
and the streets of Jerusalem became an ex
temporized hospital crowded with con
valescent victims of casualty and Invalid
ism. All ages have woven the garland for
the doctor's brow. Homer said:
A wise physician, skilled our wounds to
V. heal.
r?ic
lore than armies to the public weal.
Cicero hid, "There is nothing in which
men so approach the gods as when they try
to give health to other men." Charles IX
made proclamation that all the Protestants
in F ranee should be put to death on St'
Bartholomew's day, but made one excep
tion, and that the case of Pare, the fathei
of French surgery. The battlefields of the
American Revolution welcomed Drs. Hercei
aud Warren and Rush. When the French
army was entirely demoralised by fear ol
the plague, the leading surgeon ot that
army inoculated himself with the plague to
show the soldiers there was no contagion
in it, and their courage rose, and they went
on to the conflict. God has honors this
profession all the way through. Oh, the
advancement from the days when Hippo
crates tried to cure the great Pericles with
hellebore and flaxseed poultices down tc
tar later centuries when Haller announced
the theory of respiration, and Harvey th
circulation of the blood, and Ascell the uses
of the lymphatic vessels, and Jenner balked
the worst disease that ever scourged Eu
rope, and Sydenham developed the re
cuperative forces of the physical orgauism,
am cinchona bark stopped the shivering
agues of the world, and 8ir Astley Cooper
and Abernethy, and Hosack and Romeyn,
and Gri scorn and Valentine Mott, of the
generation just past, honored God ana
'ought back death with eir keen scalpels.
If we who are laymen m medicine would
jnderstand what the medical protessiot
has accomplished forthe insane, let us look
into the dungeons where the poor creature!
used to be incarcerated madmen chained
naked to the wall, a kennel of rotten strav
their only sleeping place, room unven.
tilated and unlighted, the worst calamity
of the race punished with the very worst
punishment and then come and look a.
the ffcsane asylums of L'tica and Kirkbridt
sofaed and pictured, lirVaried, concerted
until all the arts and adornments come tc
coax recreant reason to assume her throne
Look at Edward Jenner, the reat heroot
medicine. Four hundred thousand peoplt
annually dying in Europe from the small
pox, Jenner finds that by the inoculation o
people.arith vaccine from a cow the great
sPourgpif nations may be arrested. The
ministers of the gospel denounced vaccina
tion, small wits caricatured Edward Jenner
as riding in a great procession on the back
of a cow and grave men expressed It
their opinion that all the diseases of the
brute creatton would be transplanted into
the human family, and they gave instances
wuere, tney said, actually corns naa come
out on the foreheads of innocent persons
and people had begun to chew the end. But
Dr. Jenner, the hero of medicine, went on
lighting for vaccination until it baa been
estimated that one doctor in fifty years hat
saved mgj;e lives ttmn all the battles of anr
one center destroyed.
The aroleasion has done wonders for pub
lic hvglene. How often they have stool
between this nation and Asiatic cholen
and the yellow fever. The monuments ii
Greenwood and Mount Auburn and Laare
Hill tell something of the story of tho
men who stood face to face with pestilenc
In southern cities, until staggering inthei
f own slcknnss thev stumbled across tni
eor;.ses of those whom they had come to
av. This profession has been the suo
ressful advocate of ventilation, sewerage,
tratnage and immigration, until tbelt
'sentiments were well expressed by Lord
Palinerston. when he said to tns English
nation at the time a fast had been pro
claimed to keep off a great pestilence:
"Clean your streets or death will wags,
ii
I -ft
.twithMdi !i fv af tkt
aaiKas-'traa vxw stfWts aa4 tWa eas"
im ls4 tur Ita-lp."
iW what tae pT-sfe4i. a& Jom Kr h
a" tofviiy. Tar w Meh a fcwtwl
uMr ii.. Irvm kaauu lih tkal ikmiM
prv.-oxv-t thai within fww (MiuMika
world Would r left alutoMt iaaatataatUnu.
A J'U tarJ with a whoi etorwtt of
muthtv wxi-4e,- Wrote him. bat a eat otf
Ihe at.iea ot It and ualv eoutparwlivviy few
rears were left -oulv Tuu yean ot bf. aa J
then Mil. aud then 400. aad then W. aad
then 1UO. aud then SO, aadttwa tb
if human lite came to 40. aad then it
Iropped . li. But medical science eanu
a. and since the sixteenth century I K
average of human life has risen from 1H
Years to 44. and it will continue to rise ua
'II the average of human life will be 50. and
II will lie M, and it will tie 70, and a man
will have no right to die before !), and the
prophecy of Isaiah will b literally fuldlle.1,
"And the child shall die 1110 years old."
The millennium for the souls of men will
be the millennium for the bodies of men.
Sin done, disease will be done, the clergy
man and the physician getting through
with their work at the same time time.
But It seems to me that the most beauti
ful benediction of the medical profession
has been dropped upon the poor. No ex
cuse now for any one's not having scientific
attendance. Dispensaries and Infirmaries
everywhere, under the control of the best
ioctors, some of them poorly paid, some of
hem not paid at all. A half starved woman
Tomes out from the low tenement house
nto the dispensary and unwraps the rags
'rom her bitie, a bundle of ulcers and rheum
Hid pustules, and over that little sufferer
lends the accumulated wisdom of the ages,
'rom Aesculapius down to last week's
lutonsy. " in one dispensary In one yeat
I5U.000 prescripins were issued. Why do
I show you what God has allowed this pro.
fession to do? Is it to stir up your vanity)
Oh. no! The day has gone by for pompou
ioctors, with (conspicuous gold-headed
anes and powdered wigs, which were thf
iccompaniments in the days when the bar
ker used to carry through the streets ot
.joudon Dr. Brockelsby's wig, to the ad
niration and awe of the people. Buying:
-'Make way! Here comes Dr. Broc kclsby's
wig." No; I announce these things not
only to increase the appreciation of laymen
In regard to the work of physicians, but to
itir in tne nearts ot tne men ot tne medical
profession a feeling of gratitude to God
that they have been allowed to put their
hand to such a magnificent work and that
they have been called into stich illustrious
company. Have you never felt a spirit of
gratitude for this opportunity? Do you
not feel thankful now? Then, 1 am niranl,
doctor, you are not a Christian and that the
old proverb which Christ quoted in his ser
mon may lie appropriate to you, l'tiyst
vian, heal thyself."
Another reason why I think the medica.
profession ought to be Christiana is be
cause there are so many trinls ami annoy,
ances in that profession that need positive
Christian solace. I know you huve the
gratitude of a great many good people, and
I know it must lie a grand thing to walk in
telligently through the avenues of human
life, and with anatomic skill poise yourself
on the nerves and fibers which cross and
recross this wonderful T'hTiinsa nt 1 in I
suppose a skilled eye can see'winTe beauty
even in a malformation than an architect
can point out in any of bis structures,
though it lie the very triumph of arch aud
plinth aud abacus. But bow m..a;' annoy
ances ami trials.the medical pror.,
bavel Dr. ltush used to say in hia ijfiledic
tory address to the students of tlfctnedicnl
college: "Young gentlemen, h-e two pock
ots a small pocket and a l-Jg pocket; a
nall pocket in which to put your fees, a
ibikq wcty ig 'w"uu "feeni veur aaav
nces.ir ' I ' .
Vanuatu. uusy mere fc-. vs rt"sT' "VJ
snd mechanics cannot artiTToi be HiktSJfj' t'
luring the secular week, and so tbey nurse
Ihetaselyes along with lozenges aud bore
bouud candy until Sabbath morning comes,
and then they say, "I must have a doctor."
Aud that spoils the Sabbath morning church
service for the physician. Besides that,
there area grait many men who dine but
once a week with their families. Duriug
the secular days they take a hasty lunch at
the restaurant, and on the Sabbath they
make up for their six days' abstinence by
especial gormandizing, which, before
night, makes their amazed digestive or
gaus cry out for a doctor. And that spoils
'.he evening church service for the phys
.clan. Then they are annoyed by people com Inn
too late. Men wait until the last fortress
of physical strength is taken and death
has dug around it the trench of the grave,
aud then they run for the doctor. The
flight fever which might have been cured
with a footbath has become viruleut typhus,
and the hacking cough-killing pneumonia
As though a captain should sink his ship
off Amngansett,.and then put ashore in
yawl, and then come to New York to the
marine axflce and want to get his vessel In
jured. Too late for the ship, too late for
the patieutr
Then there are many who always blame
he doctor because the people die, target
ing the divine enactment, "it Is appointed
into ail men once to die." The father in
nedlclue who announced the fact that he
had discovered the art by which to make
men in this world immortal, himself died at
17 yearh of age, showing that immortality
was less than half a century for him. On,
how easy it is when people die to cry out,
'Malpractice." Then the physician must
hear with all the whims, and the sophistries,
ind the deceptions, and the stratagems,
nd the irritations of the shattered nerves
ind the beclouded brains of women, and
more especially witb men who never kuow
how gracefully to be sick, and with theli
alivated mouths curse the doctor, giving
him Ms dues, as they say about the ouh
lues he will in that case collect. The last
bill that is paid is the doctor's bill. It
teems so incoherent for a restored patient,
with ruddy cheeks and rotund form, to be
bothered with a bill charging him forbid
alomol and jalap. The physicians of wib.
sountry do more missionary work without
barge than all the other professionals put
together. From the concert room, from
the merry party, from the comfortable
couch on a cold uight, when the tfiernibm
eter is five degrees below zero, the doctor
must go right away he always must go
right away. To keep up under ibisnervou;
strain, to go through this night work, to
bear all these annoyances, ma physicians
have resorted tostrong drink Mki perished.
Others have appealed to.God for sympathy
ind help and have lived. Which were the
wise doctors, judge ye?
Again, the medical profession might to
be Christians because there are "profes
sional exigencies when twey need God.
Asa's destruction by unblessed physicians
was a warning. There are awful crisaJn
jvery medical practice when a doetorouit
:o know hitfr to pray. All the hosts of ills
will sometimes htti themselves on the
weak points of the physical organism, or
with equal ferocity will assault the entire
tine of susceptibility to suffering. The
next dose of jnedicine will decide whether
or not the happy hoas shall be broken up.
Shall it be this medicate or that medicine?
3od help the aoctor! Between the five
arops and theSan dropi may be the ques
tion of life or death. Shall it be the five or
the ten drops? Be careful how you put that
knife through those deficate portions tho
body, for if it swing out of the faV.tho
sixth part of an inch the patient perKUes.
Under such ciraamstances a physician
needs not so much consultation wirn men
of his own calling a he needs consultation
with that God who stujng tho nerves and
built the cells and swung the crimson tide
through the-teries. You wonder why the
heart throbs, why it seems to open' an.l
shnt. Thre is no wender about it. It I
God's hand, shutting, opening, shutting,
opening, on every heart. When a man
eomes to doctor the eye, hetmght to pin
oommunicatu with Him who said to the
blind, ''Receive thy sight." When a doctor
eomes to treat a paralytic arm, he ought to
be in communication with Him who said,
"Stretch forth thy hand, and he stretched
It forth." When a man comes to doctot
a bad eaw of hemorrhage, he needs to be in
communication witb Him who enred thaV
Issue of blood, saying, "Thy faith hafh
saved thee." .
Another reasoSi why the medical profe.
ston ought to be Christians is because these
opens before them such a grand flefci for
Christian usefulnes94aw auii see so many
peoi
pie in pain, in troinna, In bereavement,
ton ought to be the voice of heaven to thelt
souls. Old Dr. Oasherle De Witt, a prac
tltloner of New York, told me In his last
days.
"I always present the religion of
as r-v -
JTmtry al I N i
(s ir. is-f ; 4 1
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r- -a.
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Xfs-r sr-lwvl a,vr I v. f s . .
tKm UumoMo- "Y t-e -ts l
r'fsKs. lt x t- ;.'...
THat kekif i. IV- oif.-. e l s
Hi brolhw. Iwtv ar --v r i,, ia
which wa will a.s avtitttt ewa t-v- .-ter-x.
aad that fuial .-ttii. w'1 J-e u I
ato your taitnfulae-st. m V- 'iie.li -is
f.iT th bodv la one hiaa-t. th- 'U-tl-u fo
the soul la IH other. ...V wht a cK.ka.-v.
Thr Iwi a dviaif 4'fireoiu .a tv i.til-.w.
You nMd to hold oxer hru tile lament d
the gospl antd its light stren'ie a-T'- ti
pathway ot the departiui; I'll-frtui. au-l vou
need to erv luto the diU ear of d.-it!x.
"Hark to the- soug of heaven's w.-te.riu
that comes stealing over the waters!'
There lies on the pillow a dying sinuer.
All the morphine that you brought with
vou cannot quiet him. Teimr in the face.
Terror In the heart. How tie i"rits himsell
np on one elbow and looks wiMty iuto vuui
face aud says: "DoeCr. 1 can't .tie. 1 aiu
not ready to die. Whit make it so .lark?
Doctor, can yv prav?" Blesw.l for you
and blessed for uim If then you can kueel
dowu and say: "O God, 1 huve .l ine the
best I could to cure this man's tio.lv, and I
have failed. Now 1 commit to thee his
pi Kir, suffering an.l aiTrighte.1 soul. Opeu
Paradise to his departtnir sj.lrit."
But 1 must close, for there may lie suf
fering men and women waiting in voul
olflce, or ou the hot pillow, wondering
why you don't c.ie. Hut before you go.
O diH'tors, hear niv praver for your eternal
Wlvation. Blessed will b" the reward iu
heaven for the faithful Christian physi
cian. Some day, through overw.o-k or from
bending over a patient an. I eat.-hing his
coutuiMoils breath, the il...-t..r comes home,
and he li.-s down faint an.l si. -k. lie i-too
wearv t. feel his own pulse r take the .li
ncuosisf his own cini). lain! . He is worn
out. The fuel Is, his work on earth is
cmb'il. Tell those people ill tile otllert
therethev nee-l not wait any l.mifer. The
doctor will never ni tliereairain. II. has
written his last prescription for the allevia
ti.mof human pain. The people will run
up his front steps and iiiir", "How is tho
doctor to-ilav?" All the sympathies of th
neighliorhoo.l will be arous.Ml unl there
will be many pravers that he who has
been so kind to the sick may be com
forted in his last pang. It is all over tiow.
In tiro or three days his convalescent pa
tietits. with shawl wrapped around them.
A-ill come to the front window and look out
it the passing hearse, and the poor of the
ity, barefooted nnd bareheaded, will stand
3n the street corner, saving, "Oh, how
good he was to us all!" lhit on the other
ide of the river of death some of his old
patients who are forever cured, will comb
ut to welcome him, and the physician ol
aeaven, with locks us white as snow, a.;
lording to the Apocalyptic vision, will
come out an.l saT: "Come in, come in. i
was sick and ve visited nie '
Curious Condensation,
The fly lays four times each summer
And si) cg?s each time.
The female tly is always larger and
lighter iu color than the male.
A spider's eye is not iu his head, bur
in the upier part of the thorax.
- The army worm has cost America ui'.ra
than the Revolutionary War. . .
The descendants of a single female wasr
will often nnnilier 2ri,i)o0 iu oue season.
Female spiders are snneh larger "anrf
.in r.ioi..i.n-j-rt. the, amies and often
"CTtne ca.t'Iu rottsumel J- the
yye last La-years. f
Since im.O the'Vaiue of grain cros has
sti adily diminished, while that of pastor
al products has increased.
A St. Louis woman had a guardian ap
pointed for her hu.srjau.i on proving itiat
he spent ull his in-nsion money Mi
every mouth fou-i.atrut mcilicim's.
A young man who washed vuucelcd
pitaUe' stamfis and used them acain has
been .ent to jail in Alniue f..r :u days
the minimum penalty beint: indicted be
cause he was poor and ienoiaut.
Baltimore has mote churches, in pro
orlioti to population, llinn any city in
the world.-and, judging from the refiorts
of new editices, she intends to keep up
her record at tlie head of the procession.
A St. Louis man who died recently left
a will in which there was a bequest of
$1000 to a young woman on the "score of
gratitude," the document lead, "because
she declined to marry, me und thereby
enabled nio to pjiend my last years hap.
pier.
The art of printing, sccoi
liable and the missionaries,
tieed ui China nearly S year
Christian era. In the time of
It C ."in", books were mini
ling to Dt.
was ptuc
i la-fore tho
Cotiliicius,
of bamboo.
and about tin years ull
r Christ paper
was first made.
Current hvents.
The firemen of Kochester, N. Y
been prohibited Iroiu entering
have
loollS
a hue on duty.
The clock interests of Western .Nebras
ka have received such an imietus jluriug
the last three mouths that the dealers are
looking forward to a iiermaiient improve
ment. l!ut no tevival of the cattle king
era is exacted.
The children in the Chicago ch.ols
are induced to sign a bird plcduc. iu
which they promise not to lob the nests
or o wear the plumaite of birds.
The advance of the (neiilc,cu ray ra
ceived a legal seJai'k recently in I'bli a
go, when 'udtfe Tiiitchinsoti rcfus-d to
licrinil a series of shadowgraphs to be
usSHi as evidence iu a dumuye suit
II ill. .well. Me., has a uniifhe society
Nailed tne improvement .-society, once
iVpur ull the mule ti.en. tiers turn out
with rake, hoe and broom to clean the
streets while their wives prepare a feast
in the church. 1
roily tour scorcher were lined $ "i each
in the Itecorder's Court in Iietriot one
lllol'liilic lat week. .
Two bo s at one of the leading acade
mic in Central Massachusetts, have leon
expelled for raising money to pay a
pitcher lor liie school b.ill nine.
There Is a ln.-iu now living in Indiana,
v.ho has ilenion.-ti.ited that milk alotie
can sustain liie Kiel keep a man l..iitv
slid stroni:. He has used no other lod J
lor a iiuiiiler of year-, and, while ap
pearing about forty jears, is, in reality
ui... nt i;u.
The boast of a Molilalia paper on the
length of the strawls'iry season in that
State has prompted another paper to
point out I lint at liapnuto, a small Mexi
can town .straw terrios may be picked iu
the ojien nir any day of the year. The
natives sell large baskets of them for l 12
cents, in Atnerii an money, or 2ri cents iu
Mexican. 2
Johnson, sixth and latest in the list of
Rhode I-land cii. ,ad a population by
the last census of !ir,s.
A bov who recently cMrd at if.c hup of
13, in In.lisa. from excessive smoking,
had consuii.i 'Ttn tlic past tive yeais Su,W;0
tavarettes.
It is said that the highest single fount-,
ain jet in the world is in lteiii.ii.gt.4t,
Vt., on the estate given by tlie late Tren
ton W. Park as a home for destitute
women and children.
Pome Connecticut fisnrrrrrn report a
fivruliar freak of lightning wiiie they
nad tlfajr net in the rir reccMly. A
bolt strticfc the east end of the pole and
passed along some distance on the coik
line. When thev took up tin- net all the
shad on that end of it had turned red. 3
Certain female ineets live 1 times
as long as the male. The females oT bees
and ants are longer lived than the males.
One of Edison's latest patents is a
two pointed receiver for the phonograph,
which will (rive two recnrJat once from
the ame cyliteWr.
The JapanasV government, instead of
presenting ine.l it to the soldiers who took
part in the war affain-d Illinois to give
them excellent .wuss wati lies. w
Just the same, the man who juiiasine
there is danjer of a bicycle TTanune
better continue to look up and down
I t , on hp attempt to cross,
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