DONT OVER-EXERCISE. The Danger Which Confronts the Nov* ice of the Wheel. 4 When Corbett, always rugged far beyond his fellows, goes Into training, no exacting exercise is undertaken at the outset, so greatly do his mentors fear the evil consequences of over-ex ertion. The young men of the Yale and Harvard crew, exercise gently all win ter In the gymnasium before under taking any severe work upon the water, and even then the solicitous "coach" permits 110 man to reach tho limit of his endurance. Zimmerman, king of the bicycle, as Hanlon was em peror of oarsmen for so many years, trains In precisely the same manner. When out of form in consequence of a long period of Inactivity, he resumes work with tho utmost care, avoiding all fatigue nud over-exertion. Every few days his task is slightly increased and in the course of time he is ready for the starter with every muscle train ed to Its utmost capacity, and a re serve of strength up his sleeve, to uso the expressive words coined by the great cycler himself. What a contrast there Is between nil this and the reckless expenditure of energy by the young woman and the young man who have just become enamored of the bicycle. With no pre vious training of any kind, and no at tention to diet beyond that involved in consuming as much Ice water, cako and Ice cream as possible, reeling off miles by tens and twenties, and then go home overstrained and almost in a state of collapse to recuperate slowly and repeat the folly when they have sufficiently recovered to drive nature to another dangerous test. Considerate Patients. Amusing if apocryphal stories arc told of the extreme care for the feelings of their physicians displayed by some patients. One such tender-hearted man, seeing his physician coming along the i street, slipped into a doorway to avoid him. "Why did you do that?" inquired his companion. "Well," said the man, whose health had been poor until within a year, "it's so long now since I've been sick, that I'm really ashamed to meet him." An instance of still greater delicacy is recorded of a man whose case had been , pronounced hopeless by his physician, but who afterward regained perfect health. He met the doctor on the street some time after his recovery, and the latter had difficulty in making his for mer patient stop to speak with hi in. "What's the matter?" inquired the physician, bluntly. "Why," returned the other, "you said I was dying, and I'm ashamed to have you see me alive anil well." Such tenderness as this merits the approval with which a quack is said to have commended a conscientious swallower of his medicines. "All, my dear sir," he said, with strong emotion, "you deserve to be ill!" 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For lieavou itself drew nigh. i I was as lone as tho loneliest, love, With novor a dream of bliss. But not that day When you walked Love's way And loaned to my arms—my kiss, Sweetheart! And leaned to my arms—my kiss! And dear to my Hfo is your love—your love, And my soul has ceased to sigh; For sorrow seems Liko an echo of dreams, And the stars are in life's sky, Sweetheart! The stars are in life's sky! —Frank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. Tho Losing of Mrs, Pettit, BY EDITH KKELEY BTOKELY. ATURE, iu dosign \ ig old Mr. Pettit's 1 face, had not en- V\ ff flowed it with a sin -11--V \vi ai '^ Q l n °w or : j| jls\ V.| 1 ' wrinkle wherein a |j n\a \j | 'J'vf) secret might hide. *{ lAas I I '? " WftS 11 beautiful I itlx' ft r ' n "° ot w bite \l| whiskers all uround V . under the chin, wide open, mild gray eyes aud ruddy checks. Yet did a harmless deceit | lodge there but for a moment tho eyes laughed and twinkled, and all but called aloud, "Hero it is"; nud the next instant the secret was dis lodged and scurrying oil' in plain sight of everybody, and nobody more sur prised than Mr. Pettit himself. Consequently, when Mr. Pettit stepped into tho kitchen upon a cer tain Juno evening, aud hung his hat upon the peg behind the door, Mrs. Pettit, suspending the kettle liigli in air from the operation of pouring boiling water upon tho ten, saitl, iu a touo of conviction : "Ephraiui, you've got a letter from John." "Well, now, I want to know I" said Mr. Pettit, throwing an appealing glauco around upon uu imaginary and admiring audience, "If women don't beat all! I was saying that letter till after supper." "Wo can just as well havo it with our tea," said Mrs. Pettit, pulling the J cosy over the teapot, and loading the I way to tho supper table. "Johu must ' have something particular to say. We had a letter from him this week." Tho two snow crowned heads were bowed for a moment in simple grace, and thou, ns Mrs. Pettit poured tho fragrant Hyson into tho old-fashioned china cups, her husband proceeded to open the letter. Not very much, after all. Two square yellow tickets aud ono of those short notes that are always por tentous : CHICAGO, 111., Juno 10th, 1893. Dear Father and Mother; I inclose you two round-trip tickets for Chicago, which 1 expect you to make uso of right away. Our boy is to I o christened ucxt week, and tho christening can't go on without you. Your loving soil, JOHN PETTIT. P. B.—Telegraph me when you start. J. P. Mrs. Pettit dropped her hands into her lap with a look of blank dismay. "Why, Ephraim," she protested, "I cau't go." "John wouldn't liko it," said Mr. Pettit, softly, confining his fgazo to careful stirring of his tea. "It's our first grandchild, you know." Involuntarily Mrs. Pettit's gaze wandered through the open window to a tiny hillock, which, with its rnar blo shaft showing dimly through the twilight, told its own tale of*' Eleanor, aged seveu." "I liavo never left licr," sho said, with troubled eyes, "She would wish it,"said Ephraim, gontly, "Johu knows all, and ho wishes it. Sixteen years is a long time for grieving, mother. Sho is a grown woman in heaven by this time." Nothing more was said after this. Tho soft darkness of u Juuo night be gan to fall. Tho katydids called from tho grasses; a huge Juuo bug boat it self noisily against tho window screen ; tho cow lowed from tho meadow with out. At last Mrs. Pettit pushed nsido her untested food and said, with a pitiful tremor iu her old voice : "We'll go, Ephraim. It's wicked of mo to bo staying at home grieving, and noglect iug tho loved ones that need inc. Wo will write to John to-night and tell him so." Thus it came to pass that a few days later a certain train pulling out of Wilson's Ferry carried with it a quaint old couple with whom wo havo to do. Tho old gentleman wore his whiskers after a good old country style, anil looked over his silver-bowed glasses with tho most benignant eyes in the world. As for tho old lady, fellow passengers glauced idly upon her, aud then turned to gazo again. Such a sweet old fuce, seamod with addod years and care, but beautiful withal in it* frame of clustering gray curls. No ono smiled at the old-fashioned bonnet, tho long, slender-waistod black dress, or neatly folded shoulder shawl. No ono seemed to think of the oddity of the black silk mitts with their short lingers, although they hail not been put on before since Eleanor's funeral. Every ono seemed kindly interested in the big brown basket with a cover and two handles. Before tho journey ended it had opened wido its hospitable cover to soothe with ginger cakes and tarts the cries of more than half a dozen travel-worn babes, and had won the earnest bless ings of as many tired mothers. Six hours of rumble and noise and j dust, glimpses of waving green fields and distant towns, a fleeting acquaint ance with strange faces and other lives, gootl-bys 'mid youth and laugh ter and silent good-bys with tears, and the train steamed slowly into Chi cago. It seemed to bo tho final destination of all humanity. Such crowds of peo ple, such noiso and bnstlo ! But for tunately the trend of humanity seemed in a general direction. "Maybe you ought to havo tele graphed, John, as ho said to," re marked Mrs. Pettit, iu a dubious voice. "Ho would have been horo to meet us." "f know tho way. We've got to take tho suburban train," said Mr. Pettit, grasping tho big carpotsack with one hand, and parcels, bags and the umbrella with tho other. "You just keep close to me, Lucy. That suburban train doesn't wait more than five minutes." Through the big iron gates and up tho wido stairs, everybody mooting and greeting everybody else, boys khouting and cabmen crying their faros, aud at last open air. That is, not open air liko tho broad meadows and sunny garden plots of Wilson's Ferry, but open air much liko gazing up from tho bottom of a gootl old fashioned chimney, so tall were tho buildings on either side, and so very little of tho blue sky visible overhead. It was all very now and very strange to Mrs. Pettit; yet, notwithstanding her bewilderment, sho faithfully fol lowed tho guiding carpotsack, hurry ing onward iu its wake, until they were well out on tho streets and slio was quito breathless with tho brisk walk. Then, us tho carpotsack eh if tod its position for a moment to tho pave ment, nud its owner turned to mop his brow, Mrs. Pettit saw, to her utter dismay, that, while his hair was gray, and from tho back he presented an ap pearance not unlike that of Ephraim, this man sho had been religiously fol lowing was, iu fact, an utter strauger, aud that she herself, Mrs. Pettit, was lost! Quito unconscious of tho mischief ho had wrought, the stranger shortly resumed his carpetbag and his pace togother, and joined tho great merry go-ioundof peoplo ; while the old lady, liko a bit of flotsam stayed for a mo ment in its course, clinging helplessly to the brown basket, stood looking about in bewilderment, while people whirled and eddied and divided about her. "I guess yor lost, ain't you?" said a big, kindly voice at her side. Mrs. Pettit smiled into tho honest face of the man, who wore a bluo suit 1 with brass buttons, and a star upon his breast. "I don't know," sho said, a littlo tremulously, "but perhaps I am; that is, if you don't know where my son, Johu Pettit, lives." "Pettit—Johu Pettit. I don't soem to place him just now," said tho police niuu, placing his hand upon his chiu, iu a thoughtful aud reassuring man ner. "You don't happen to know his street or number, now?" "No," said the old lady ; "Ephraim always directs his letters, and ho has his address on a card iu his pocket. But I know they've put a new wing to tho house lately, uutl it's painted brown and has bow windows." Tho old lady waited anxiously, while the officer in tho kiudnessof his heart appeared to rumiuate tleoply. "I don't seem to remember such a place," ho said presently; "but wo, can find it. If you'll just step down to tho station with mo—it ain't far— whore lost peoplo stay, I'll ring up tho central police." Mrs. Pettit relinquished tho brown basket into Officer Melton's hands, and walked oheertully along by his side. "J. hopo your family are all well," bho said, politely. "Well, tol'rublo, thauk'oe," said tho officer, with rather a new sonsation. "The baby worries some o' nights. She's only two mouths old, you know, and colicky like." "Well, now, lin so glad I brought it," said Mrs. Pettit, reaching for tho basket. "Such a big buuch of catnip, too, just iutlie bloom; twico as much as John's baby will need. It's a suro relief for colic. And hero's somo young verbena plants I dug this morning with plenty of earth around them. Maybe your wife would liko them." Thereupou a paper bag and a paste boar box changed hands. "I thiink'eo kindly, ma'am," said tho policeman, touching his cap. "The cntuip wo get at the drugstoro ain't much better thau dust, and my wife ain't owned a flower since she's been married." In his secrot mind he was wondering whore ho could got enough dirt to fill a flower pot to plant them iu. Tho Detention Station was a large, high-ceilod room, with rows of long, hard benches along it* walls, a little window behind which sat a inau at a desk, and numberless policemen pass ing in and out, some accompanied, Homo alone. Tho man at tho dosk gave to each newcomer brought in, a check beuriug a number, and made a corresponding entry in a largo book. Mrs. Pettit found herself suddenly 58. "You'll bo called for," said Officer Mellon, touching his hat; "and it's much obliged I am for your kindness, ma'am." To himself ho addod as he turned ifVay; "It's a shamo for the likes of her to bo put iu this place." There woro dozens of peoplo seatod on tho benches—men, women and children—some with lioails bowed in dejection, misery, sickness or despair, others upright and defiant, many grown old iu ways of sin, others but beginning to tasto of temptation. Into this company Mrs. Pettit walked, with her dear old face and guileless eyes. "Such a lot of people lost!" Bho thought in wonder. "It's in the west end of London, happauo I to see a visiting card bearing bis name aud title exhibited as a sample of the tirm's work. Thoroughly aware that he ha I never had auy cards engraved at that shop, aud anxious to know what possible olqoct tho man could have in printing such elaborate copperplate speci mens, ho entered the store an 1 with out mentioning his na ne, inquired of the shopkooper whether Lord Don high was one of his customers. Quito fraukly tho sUtiouor informed tho poor that 110 had never had any communication with Lord Denbigh iu his life, but that tho car Is in question wero engraved by tho lirai along with those of a number of other peers and promiuent persons in response to a popular demand 011 the part of the people who bought them solely for the purpose of putting tlieni in their card baskets and salvers with tho objoct of convoying tho impression that the people whoso names wero 011 the paste boards were visitors at their houses. —Chicago Itocord. Growth ol the Paper-Making lulu si 17. None of tho great industries of the country has shown a more remarkable growth than that of paper-making. In 1881) tho total daily capacity of all tho paper mills of the. country was 6,869,889 pounds, while in 1895 it is placed at tho enormous iiguro of I i, 102,580 pouuds. Tho largest factor in causing this tromeu lou.s growth was tho development of processes for making chemical fibre and woo 1 pulp, enabling tho substitution of these materials for rags, with a consequent largo reduction in the cost of making paper. It is estimated that if tho use of wood pulp shall continue to increase at tho rate of growth maintained in the last fifteen years, live years hencj the consumption of spruce woo l fo this purpose will equal the present cut of spruce logs for lumber in all New England and New York. Tii growth of paper-makiug is one of tli * most significant facts 111 the in lustrial progress of tho tini \ —Buffalo Com mercial. A lVruliar Mnliuly. According to the Gartonlauim, an especially painful iuflauimatiou is caused by hairs of caterpillars enter ing tho eye —an event not as rare as might be supposed. The inflammation is always of long duration, au l often aud seriously impairs si kt perma nently. Within a few years, in one dispensary at Bonn, six cases of this peculiar malady were treated. As is well known, some species of caterpillar use their hairs as a means of defense, firing them off at will. Cases are ou record, however, where caterpillar hairs entered an eye wlieu caterpillars were thrown into faces in mischievous lun, QUEEN OF THE WEST. Cnllfornla, Where the Sun Gives Undo Sum u (io'od-Niglit Kiss. Glowing words of praise were ut tered by Rev. E. D. Dille, of San Fran cisco, when he described California to the Christian Endeavorers at Boston. Said he: "Were It not that Californlans are all as modest as violets, outblusliing the strawberries that grow there the year round—blushing like their world-fam ed fruits at praise of their own loveli ness—l would tell you something of California—though had I the tongues of men, and even of real estate agents, you would still say when you come to us, 'The half has uot been told!' We have a wonderful empire out there; We have arable land enough to support a population of 80,000,000, and then our population would be less dense than that of Europe; an empire of our own, as large as Spaiu—larger than the nine States of Delaware, Maine, Mary laud, Massachusetts, Now York, Now Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio and Rhode Island coiubiued. 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