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“0““ (N. 3-) ”menu “*3 carried “'3! Amm‘m‘W-W “100595“: recess.“ . The utter absurdity of that last “I want to go home," she kept mur~ “900ml? tomekpaqucen; but that graces no need of .0," mum, your an mrmlm 3,,“ b, no, m for .I.
' ' by a flab, dud level-bl days later I“ ‘I lovetheel“ remark struck Sarah as she a rake. She murin ‘ “I want my momma.“ l of the‘heartaml life will give conmationto ‘ud you might .3 wefi submit first other splendor. and God will mist angel:
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A“ experienced 1‘3"" ”3'3 0‘“ tall looked steadily at the children with that on the branch not far from her. The bird um, man‘s, andthat alth i she had often skemi°§nwiog£e§£6§fi ““3;- marlk . wear it.“ And as the Lord W
Ill! bu I more hats than “I! ""00 3110" A SPARROW‘IS NEST strong, serene young face of hers, and fluttered down to it after a while. Some~ : been denied the right of sii‘d‘in she always 33“":- mme and ma 'it to lfer. mug: put-giro crownurm hwy» and will
Itch. boon and projections and roofs ' I they obeyed. ' how that little frail nest and little help ‘ did ‘r‘fm’ and all“)?! 2'0““ Yogi)? her influ~ need of wasting time Those poor children 33;. v.1 filial you '50.!” in shag.
are destructive to line hats on six foot , They stared at her aminute, then they less bird in the button~wood tree encouo. 23‘“:wa “3‘3:wa Whfi‘lgh‘ ‘0 l.” on the back street have been hungry 100! another. up out at. swat m
Ion. ‘ , ‘ stopped crying and went quietly back to aged Sarah. She kept her brave, patient , the dominion which? 5 “‘35" " ymwrgr "i gawk Ian“ 31* man musébave m and had her; robe waged find. 0'31” 'innl
JOIN Hawkins. an English navrgator, l" “A!" " wrtxrrrs. their seats. If the teacher w not fright~ eyes fixed u on it. began _an enumeration of some of her rights, www§i§m§?maz thisilzlaaut the blpod o. aha aeAwillminvite all the
in 1582. broughta cargo of African slaves “There‘s no use talking, I know the ened, there was no danger, t cy argued. ‘ “See the ird_in the nest,“ she 1119-; Indlhlsmo ‘ zlmsumctho subject. . of .331“ society cumin: “tonne mot prim, ‘ ““9““ km w“ “an“.
‘0 the Western "uml'lxlsfe- Te“ 3“" rent isn‘t paidl“ - Sarah remained by the window, look- troned to‘the children, but they paid lrt- g “15‘th 331:3? ‘9"3‘1“ h” “m. 399°)“ suchahard man.and l m uDid you M, W fin blah with as h.
before ‘ k" “8’0“ “1 been 30“" in “New, mother, don‘t worry‘ every. log out conuiosedly. “The brook has tle attention. § back ,0 “at; I 3:733] t‘mirar _‘,§m M “30 money 9" “01' “mm. 35° “3% “I 01m from the vineyards of God,
I-irwland. ' ' ‘ ‘ ‘t ‘ 0v ‘6 wxl l‘ " she remarked. in an Thcv were watchin the school-house. y “Wriml'i '1‘“ l '3'“ 1°" “‘0 and crimson with the twelve manner
_ ,. thing wrllturu out all right. 8! 0 u 8 litt in - . - . 8 . ~ W‘MWIM‘I‘ “will“ '13“ 01““ tddmeto murdgpt mailman“? of fruitsfrosn tbe'rreeot Lite ‘ and VII-I'-
The Greek 3,1“th consisted of 8,000 “That‘s what you “3- I don‘t see my- cum voice. on often happens on 2with lirightened eyes. Thoycould see rt . m‘rvand cornfortinatbesick. ”an.” .( i: errand. . M “n (mum at a” m will a?
lion in a alluare battalion. with shields aelf what‘s to hinder our bein turned meadow land.“ Mk‘ “Th” schoolhouse ‘3 “0"“3’ not ill: md'ari'riit‘i‘ ”3‘3““, “Tn” he? ml" 1 have_to “u y 0“ lb“ it is ' ‘ . W3 “‘3‘ “.1
iucd and spears crossing each other. out on the street, if the rent in paid in Even I“ she 8901(0) She saw that 3119- it‘fiClleY." they Bhrwkcd. th of “Ck 1:333? ‘mmu a": do woman‘s finer-right ”Wfiflm heaven Vi“ “WM"! mm M
be Macedonian slanx was sixty-one two weeks.“ water was rising; she had been using “I see it,“ ‘sard she. “I wouldn‘t with my Shauman,with “”0““ m m, "dmsldm wage a “u u “out?“ 9:” 3°}! Tam“.
deep, with shields joined. “Why, mother, you know Mr. King her attention upon a little mossv knot in wonder if it ended off like a boat.“ ‘ mi 1‘38 . .
The that General Assembly. Rhoda Is-
land. met at .l‘ortsmouth, May 19. 1848,
established a code of laws. and erected
an institution of civil government. Those
taking iatkgn-lllls meeting were the col-
lective rec e of the several plantations
of the colony.
Ivan. an infant. succeeded legitimately
to the throne of the Russians in ll-il);
’3 but Elizabeth. daughter of Peter the
Great. usurped the crown in l’ldl. and
. iln risoncd. during her life, Ivan, his
lat er. mother and family. Ivan was
kept inn dark room and finally mub
dared by his guards.
In trealrn a negro in Leipsic for 'an
ulcerated a cation, it was found neces-
sary to replace portions of the skin with
pieces taken from one or two white pers
eons. These latter iicces gradually grew
7 *- darkcr in color. and
the p‘ilient‘s own skin. This singular
fact led to an experiment being made of
transporting portions of black skin on a
white patient, and it was found that
afterafew weeks these began to grow
pale. In less than fourteen weeks they
ad. in fact, wn so whitess not tobe
distfiguishab e from the patient‘a natu-
in.
Points for Storekeepors.
Listen attentively to what every one
has teeny.
, It is better to order goods twice than to
overload once.
A good listener is appeciated more than
a good talker.
Keep your own plans and what you in-
tend doing to yourself.
Always study the wants of your cus-
tomers in taste and dress
Greet your customer! cheerily; a smile
wins when a frown doesn’t.
Prudence in promises is a fair guar-
antee of the redemption of them.
Be prepared at all times for commer.
nial revulsions and financial diflicultiee.
In writing business letters use aimple,
concise language. Let words count, not
long sentences.
Life is too short to live poor, to dress
r. Dress and address have much to
o with success in life and trade.
In order to achieve success or create
wealth. brains, energy, pluck, tact and
push and common sense are the ir ,port-
ant factors.
Never judge any one by their c~othes
so long as they are neat and cluan. A
tch shows care, and neat ness and clean~
ineas indicate self-respect, economy and
honesty.
Goods will not always sell themselves,
and the latest styles will not of them-
srlves increase your receipts unless aided
by your business abilities. However,
with them you can secure business.
Keep your store in apple~pie order.
Look at the samples of ever commercial
traveler who may offer to ow them to
on. You can only improve by it. You
on‘t_ need to buy from each one. Don‘t
buy too much at any one time—Dry
Geode Chronicle. , 7
Gold foil.
The American Micael- says that from
two to four million dollars worth of
gold are need annually. in the shape of
ld for gildin , lettering, edging of
ks, sign an ornamental painting,
and dentistry; gilding taking the greater
share. A cubic inch can be beaten out
go as to cover 3,500 square feet. and
twenty double eagles could be drawn
lntoa wire that would girdle the globe. ,
For foil. bare axltfiinches are cast and
then rolled into “ribbons“ as thick as a
Inger-nail. These are then weighed
into pack called “beatings“ of
ounces eac . One of these is divid
into 180 pieces one inch square and built
up into a l‘kutch," a- layer of gold alter-
nating with one of prepared pear 3%
inches square. Then wi h an oi. een-
und hammer a kutch is beaten until-
gold has spread out as wide and‘
long as the paper. Next they are piled
in 'ihoder“ which are madeof pieces of
square gel beater‘a akin each four
inches), and beaten until the slips of
s Th as l as tihe allp‘niof
ther. e a ar
kind of porch-mi meme «villus.
and the [oldbeater‘a skin from the la
intestines-of the ox. These four-lac
‘hhoderleevee" are quartered into pieces
of two inches square. and cited into
,niolda five inches were an beaten till
spreader-early essrneaiaeaathe
molds, which are made of the cane stud
II the aheder. They are now ready to
be sent to the rla to be trimmed and
, up into boo a holding twenty-five
R‘veeeaeh. eachthreeandehalfiaeheeg
equates These books are sold singly or
t peeks numbering twenty books.
W
All.» Between Sea Flakes.
“a W on the steamer Oi of
Muhhsttrlp from this city towthe .
. . ‘ “has!“ weretrestedtoagieat
Hank andswordllah just l
at Mnaelaiaad. ltwae
, sad the never:
. sells his bleelti‘fith.
“has f ,. ,pvres seen toleepoat
guns jute . lrty your front!»
Maim'mafter him emits
'Md.“ armoasterawordhb. The
'fihfl ed iatbeairferflhw‘
‘ as so fell back. she
finally as black as'
, committee and
wouldn‘t do such tithing as that. lie
would wait a little while. He has always
been real kind.“
“People cauft wait forever." .
"New, mother, don‘t sit here and wor-
ry about that all da .“
“I can‘t, help it. it‘s nothing but wor-
ry all the time. as far as‘ I can see.“
“Well, thew isn‘t an use in it. Per-
haps I shall get the El iot School, who
knows?“ Sarah said. lau hiugly.
“You won‘t. You rnig t have, if Flor-
ence Benton thought as much of you as
she irctendcd to once. Jud Benton
c_ouh got the place for you by lfting his
little linger. ut that‘s always the way,
the morcr any one is and the more she
nee s it, the less she has done for her.“
“You‘re all discouraged this morning.
mother. Now don‘t all here and fret and
make yourself sick. I‘ve left everything
where you can get it, and I‘ll wine home
early and bring something nice for sup-
per. What do you want!“
“I don‘t want anything,"
mother. Sarah Mayhcw s
a great button-wood tree. whic grow 'a
few feet from the window. The water
was certainly coming nearer to it. ’
This schoolhouse had not been built
for one originally. It was merely a
small, two‘story walling house. which
had been moved here, and devoted to
educational purposes, although it was
painted red and had much of the con-
ventional schoolhouse look.
The school was held in the second
stor : the first was used for st .‘riug fuel,
,so oing away with the necessity fora
woodshcd.
Sarah turnec‘. to the children. “lic-
mniu in your seats. and kec l quiet until
I return,“ she said. out oritatively.
Then she stepped out into the entry and
‘ looked down stairs. She could not see
the lnwcr floor. Out here listening.
without all those terrified faces looking
. into hcrs for a sign of weakness. she be
i more convinced of something which she
Shad suspected—the building trembled.
sighed 1," f as if it were stirring softly on its founda~
looped and ' tiou. This was not a atmngly built
kissed her, then she hurried away. Itwas house, nor was it strongly set on the
hightimc that she did. Sheltadu mile meadow That Smh lute"-
to walk to her school, and it was already water rose a little more—qt the force of
half‘past eight. the current grow a little stronger—what
It was raining very hard when .1“, thcul That Sarah May-how knew.‘
stepped enrol-doors. All the green tree. She looked out of the entry window
bougns tossed in a mist, and the grasses l ‘0“ Md “‘0 submerged strcct. If 3“.“
l
drops, The moment m,“ she opened . boat gliding to the rescue between those
the door, she could hear the great roar i d"ll’l‘lm "‘0‘"- t $31“?in ”Kilt conga.
o the river at ?some inns in o t c err-i e
hi 'h. the east. It w“ very danger to: which she and those helpless
hen she came to a“ Elliot sflmop J children were exposed. But the convic-
houfloshe looked at it ion Will)" It was, - tiou gained upon her that the danger
noble brick building, an accommodated . might be In read in certainty. and the
several graded schools. There-was short- 3 worst over fore those rescuers ap-
ly to be . vmucy in the corps of in. ; pesred. Whatever human help was to
structure; the assistant principal of the l come at all must come quickly, and come
grammar school had rest nod, the rcsig- ‘ "0‘“ h"-
natlon to take effect at t a close of the} “0 Lord," whis rered Sarah Msyhew,
present term. Sarah had resolved to a ‘ “help me to save t em."
ply for the position, which meant sis Standing there in that little. dark
pndred dolfsrs a year, and the ability to ‘ steaming entry, the horrible rush of the
hitch pretty little tenement for herselffwatcr in her ears, she gathered every
and mother, which stood vacant near the ‘ energy which was in her for effort. She
school house. ; saw a long rope, which the children had
Just after she passed the Elliot School . used for their games in a corner. she
the met Florence Benton. There was a i picked it u and carried it into the school-
etrange young lady with her, probably 3 room with er.
some school friend. she thought to lrcr- g The poor children turned their pale,
self. She knew that Florence was home inquiring faces toward her. “Get out
on a vpcation; she attended a boarding your spellingbooksn“ said she, calmly,
school in a neighboring city. ; “and study your lessons.“
The two girls in their pretty gray wa— The little things stared at her and
ter‘proofe came trippin alon . laughing 3 dbeyed. She went to the window and
an talkrn in the rain. T ey held a l looked at the button~wood tree. If any
silk timbre In between them airily. Flor-~ tree would stand the pressure of the flood.
ence‘s chcecks Were a lovely pink from . that would. It did not seem as if that
the dam .. fresh wind; her dark eyes grand trunk could be stirred. Just 0 -
were re rant. She nodded in a gay, posite this window wuss broad branch.
careless way to Sarah, as they passed, gstntching parallel to it, only a few feet;
and did not stop talking to her friend. , away.
Sarah plodded on, dam and shabby.
h_er resolute face pale. T is was the first
time she had seen Florence since her re-
turn from school :they had been gradual-
ly drifting apart for two years. but this
was the farthest drift of all. .Flurcncc ‘ran‘long- wooden benches; planks, merc-
had always stopped and greeted her ; ly, with supports.
leassntly, although she rarely visited} Sarah dragged one of themu to the
or nowadays. Sarah had told herself, i window, then she called the litt e boys.
many a tune. that it was all natural “Come here a minute, boys,“ sard she.
enough, and that Florence was not to They sprang. They had been watching;
blame. They had been almost like sis< her curiously.
tel-s when they attended the village school “NOV.“ said She. 00011:. "we‘ll all .
together. Sarah had been at home in take hold. of this together and lift the
Florence‘s house, and Florence in hers ; end up to the window."
but new, of course, it must be different. “Now. we want to push it across on to
Florence wasin a city boarding-school. that tree branch."
She was forming new acquaintances with . Sarahhad some wiry muscle in her
girls who were of her own social stand- small arms, and the nineycarold boy
3. She could not have as much in com~ was stout for his age. They pushed the
men with Sarah Mayhew, and Sarah bench across. The support at the end
Mayhew ought not to expect it nor feel caught on the branch and held firmly.
hurt. The children looked up at Sarah with
bewildered faces.
“Are we going out there?“ asked the
oldest boy. he others began to whimper.
“Stop talking and wait until I tell
you,“ said the teacher. “New I want
you to all go out in the entry and put on
your things, and get your dinnehpaile."
Sarah felt the house tremble very per-
ceptibly‘»: they went. One of them
looked k. “The house shakes, teach-
er,” he said. with a eob.
“Be quick,“ said she “it won’t do any
harm.“ ,
She tied on the little rgirl~baby‘a hood.
and buttoned up her coat carefully. and
put on her own poor waterproof cloak
again. The children all bud led around
her at the window, their dinner pails in
school-room was run
As :she went on. the roar of the river
grew lender; the road curved more and '
more in its direction. Sarah‘s little
school-house. which was in an outlying
district of the villa was peculiarly
magi. if! :03! n ameadow in an
em y e ‘unctionof a brook,
‘znown as “Stony ‘3)Brook,“ with the
river. The brook was an inconsiderable
stream, althogfh it worked a ristsmill,
eedboasted .a darn two eeabove.
However, the flood of to~d would
‘awell the tiniest rill. and Sara. as she
drew near hernhoobhouao, could hear
the little angry song of the brook bonds
the roar of the river.
She doubted if she would and a pu-
lthere, the nearest livedhalf a mile
way; but eight were assembled, the their hands.
boys and three girls. The oldest boy Sarah took it the children‘s “Copen-
Wu nine. the yo ‘ t girl live. Ber hagen rope. an slung it in acoil over
name was orton: she .was a
gritty, black-eyed little thing. She
come under the guardianship of her
older brother, but Sarah wondered how
her mother had happened to let her.
Sarah built a lire in the little box
etove. so the children could dry their
wet clothes, then she un the usual
exercises of the school. It seemed almost
a farcewith this number of pupils. but
Sarah was punetilioue in the d so of
moreover, the col
her d
e parents of this dies
were somewhat exactln . Sarah
knew that. lft sent their ldren to
her arm. Then she got on a chair. and
stepped from that to the bench‘bridge.
It trod llrrn. She walked aleu .‘ step
and atood just outside the w ndow.
“New,pWillie,‘l‘ the called to the oldest
boyx. “come ht up here, behind me.“
e was a trek?“ little fellow, lithe
aadnlmbleasa u rehIIea up
promptly and a behind her his
prett li hthairtoeslnpin thewlnd..
“. ow, ’ said the, “ take hold of my
cloak. and held on tis Look
ahead at me. and walk straight. .
l” ma I!
“I ain‘t a on mm»- ms the urn.
uties; hack
school. you expect gear to be @493. and (gllgwgio ‘ , .
lblthfu m - reae O grea , m , safely.
. umhaifaa hour before noon. Sarah Sarah’aea the be ‘on one of the
ted ‘ 3
(that; lubed him to
of the
child.
bran it with‘o'ae end
ropa‘and retained for another
mu times shah disallow am
at perilous bridge, threetlmusheeab
rled a noun. her. anus. who was
mac ma»‘r.*m“t.‘s'r.ra
m.“ , : x . v. »: a h
was about to cell theseholnntgut on the
z, 0’ :0!
‘1‘ m
tactics. V A 3 . near l. d
m [I on an on.
Wadmm at chil.
dren , W malted toward
hie. ,. sadly. ‘ .tothewlndow.
‘7 down on her
If the i
bent over, they were so heavy with rain ‘zbody would come. If she could see a:
; room. which she remembered so well.
Sarah stood gazing .t it Q minute. 5 The doctorwas there. and Mrs. Benton,
Then she decided—the furniture of this i and Florence‘s beautiful face V“ band
gh and rustic; rude 9 ing over her, with tears tn the sweet eyes.
' wooden desks, with slabs fastened to them i
, for seats. Along two sides of the room '
4 room and atocd smiling at her mother a
Sarah had a terrible anxict in her
heart. Suppose the house shou d float
this way—would it overthrow the tree!
Would it shake them from the branchesl
Suppose it should topple over, and ill
roof come crashing doves upon theml I
As the house rocked mire, she Watched .
it more steadily. as if her gale could
avert the danger. lf thi house merely
llaatcdalong,r in the current everything!
would be well. 3
“It‘s going!“ shriekcd the children,‘
“the school-house is going!“ ,
The red school-home lurched their ‘
way. lighted herself. then sailed, bub-j
hing and wavering down the current?
The button~wood tree trembled a little, i
that was all; some of the branches had .
been josllod.
The children watched the departing.
school-house with awe. “We would be ,
no down over the falls. an‘ been 1
| qudcd, iIWe‘d stayed in it,“ said the ,
nineycar old rclicvtivoly. :
Sarah held Bessie cloae. Her heart
was full of thankfulncss. before which 5
, everything else paled. If these children i
were saved to their parents, what did .
anything else matterl ' 3
The rain had ceased. but they were ;
surrounded by a thick mist, like a wall. ;
A'l‘hcy could not see a rod away. They ‘
i could only hear that awful roar of water :
in the distance, and the soft lap of it;
around the button~wood trunk. Sarah!
talked to the children and tried to keep ‘
up their courage. She made them eatl
their dinners, but the time were on;
heavily. Would help never come!
It was four o‘clock before Sarah heard _
asound of voices, faint balloon in the l
distance. “Children," she cried, “they '
are coming! Your fathers are coming
for you! in , sing quick, as loud as,
you can. so ey wrl know where you
are! Sing ‘ i htly Row.‘ “
Sarah led o the little tune they had .
sung so often in school. The children‘s 1
sweet. weak voices chimed in. Never?
would music sound as sweet as that to ‘
those anxious once mining over the .
flooded meadow in their boats. Guided f
by it they rowed straight for the button- ‘
wcod tree.
“Here they are, and all safe, thank3
God!“ said one, witha great sob. He'
was little Bessie‘a fisher.
Sarah watched them all taken down
into the boats. Sh: would not her-
self until the last me was safe; e even
helped untie the rope. but agreat faint-
ness and dizziness was cousin over her.
She realized faintly that t ey were
liftingherintoa boat. she saw Judge
Ilenton‘s face, then she knew no more.
When she came to herself she was lying
on the bed in Florence Benton‘s pretty
“0 l“ she cried, ‘she‘s better! momma,
she‘s better-l 0 Sarah, you dear old
Sarah, 1 am so glad. Mar-nine, she‘s smi~
ling at me! 0 Sarah, I‘ll never treat you
so again 3"
It was a month later when Sarah came
home from Florence‘s one eveningbehe
had been there to tea. Sheentcred the
minute. Her eyes were ahining,her cheeks
were almost as rosy as Florence's.
”Mother.“ she saidt “I‘ve got the Elliot ~
School.“-—-Gwd Cheer:
Some laden Goliath.
The Chinese giant, Chang. is eight
feet three inches.
Garpolus tells of a young giantess who
was ten feet high.
A giant eight feet high was exhibited
at Rouen in 1755. U
Lecat speaks of a Scotch giant eleven
feet six inches in height.
The Grecian giant Amanab, now ei§t~
of; years old, is seven feet eight in a
t .
The giant Gills do heat. in the Tyrol.
and one of the guards of the Duke of
Brunswick. we: more. than eight feet four
inches in height.
The Austrian giant Winckelmeie'r, who
was rocentlv ex ‘bited in Paris. meeeub
iug ei ht and a half feet, “may be re-
gard as a ospecimen of the I: beat
stature attain , by the human spec es.
A Swedish peasan cited b Buflon,
was eight feet and eig t lines in height,
and the stature of the Finnish ient Cu-
janus was the same, . while eriek
Villiam, Kin of Prussia, had a guard
of nearly so stature.
At the ogposite eatremeernay be found
numerous warfa not more than twenty
inches, and some even as little as sixteen
and even twelve inches in height; but
such dwarfs are only monsters with atro~
pbied limbs or twisted backbones, or
stunted infants whose age is usual exs
awaited by their Barnuma— ‘ and
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Diseases from “Lower Animals.”
The “lower-animals,“ aeweerepleaeed
toeall thmltave a way of revs
themselves for some of the injuries ey
receive from the higher anima man.
They contract diseases<in a rail form
and communicate thorn ea virulent epi-
demics to their masters. The cow has a
a! ht attack of scarlatina—so alighttbat .
it deadly cpufsesulszr inconvenience—«and
a . a co breaks on among
these drink
i be written anywhere. save in the clumiclca
s;
and clumsy foot, stumbl‘ around the
nick room. trying ‘3 anathema” distracted
nerves and alleviate the pains of the dressing
patient! The young man at college may
soot! at the idea of being under maternal in-
human, but at the first blast of the typhoid
fever on his cheek he says: “Where is
mother!" “Falter Scott wrote partly in
unmandpartly in mplimout when he said:
0 woman, in our hours of ease.
l‘nccrtaln, legs and hard to please :
When pain anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou.
I think the usual. pathetic pants,» in all the
Bible is the description of the lad who went
out tothe harvest tleld of Shannon and
mnstruck—tbmwiu his hands on histem S:
andcryingcut: “ l , ruv head 3 my head 3“
and they said : “ (‘arry im to his “wither."
And then the round is: “ lie mt unherknm
till noon. and than diet.“ It is an awful
lbw to be ill away from home in a strange
In . once in a while men coming in to look
at you. holding their hand over their mouth
for fear they will (mt-ch the (on ‘ How
mughly they turn you in bed. ow loudly
they talk. How you long for the ministrie-
of home. I knew one such who went away
from one of the brighruit of homes for
several weeks business IIN‘IIN at the “'an
A to came at midnight thathe was
on his nth bed. faraway than home By
exym train the wife and daughters went
westward; but. they went. too late. He feared
not to die. but be m in may to live until
his family get there. e tried to bribe
the don‘t-u- to make him live a little
while longer. He said: “I am willing to due
but not alcuie.“ But the pulses flattened. the
sync chisel. and the heart stupid. The ex~
trainnmct in the "tidal; t: wife and
liters going mutual-lifeless mania
ofhusband and father wining eastward. 0,
it wut a 3nd. pitiful. overwhelming
spectacle! “hen we are sick we want.
to be back at home. “'hen the
time comes for us to die. We went to
die at homo room mey be very
humble, and the faces thnt look into
ours may bevery n: but wbocarea for
that} Loving to bathe the hospice
herring volume!) spenkgoodcbeer. Loving
luntoreadthecomf ‘ promisesdJeesn.
In our-last dreadful war men met thalamus
non: ma: fnahionrdtbernuskeh’y: men cn'ed
' . edgeeof
y.cr " :“Cbargelc 1“butwoman
mt: vigil... wmwmi‘nM' a.
cord :wcman watched by the dying
conch; womanwmee thelastmemngeto the
home circle; worn-n wort at the solitary
burial attended by banal and four men with
a_ 'e the general bus
and wild butane: but the story is too good to
of heaven. of In. Brady, who can:- down
nursing the sick in the swamps of the t‘hicba-
harnirry: of Annie Ross. in the
hospital; of 3!: trot Brockinridgc
to men wbol beanfw weeks witbtbeir
wounds undressed—muse of them frown to
the ground. and when she turned than over
tboeethat had an arm left waved it and tilled
the air with their “hurrah;"ot Mrs Hodge.
whocame from Chicago with blankets and
with pillows, until the men shouted: “Three
cheers for the Christian t‘mnnrissilmf
God women at home."
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touainu thebo whom we have lovelso
well;tell we mtagaininthegood
landztell bertobcar myloss like tbeChris-
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Shelton, into who—e face the curry-lament
soldier looked and laid: “Y
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sacred history attest: that when the crisis
mmeeaheisbetterpre rodthanmsnto
meet the emergency. ow often you hard
seena woman whoeeemedtobeadisciple of
frivolity and indolenoe,who. under one stmko
of calamity. changed to a bot-rune. Oh. what
a great mistake those businerat men in iks
who never tell their business troubles to their
wives! There comes some great lass to their
store. or some of their companions in busi-
neu them a and trick. and th-‘y carry
the b all alone. lie- is asked in the borrow
hold againand again: What is the matter-lo.
but he believes it a sort of Christian duty
to keep all tbnt trouble within his own
soul. Uh. your first duty was to ~lcll
your wife all abom it. She perhaps might
not have disentangllai your dunnom‘ or ex-
tonded your credit but she would have
hel i you to bear misfortune You lnyeuo
rip: t to carry on one shimmer that which is
intended for two There are basin“ men
hem who know what I mean. There came
a crisis in your alfnina. You stnigirled
brnve‘y and long. but. after n while there
came a day when you said: “Herr i shall
have to mop.“ and you calla! in your part-
riers, and you called in the moist gmurrinent
men in your emphyand vou said: “We have
:to site “ \oa loft tbs store N‘dduly.
Egon mul hardly make up your mind to [us]
through the stmt and uvorun the fern-hint.
You felt evaluly would b.- lonkmg at v_uu
and blaming you and dnniunicing You. on
hastened home You boldyour Mfr all about
the affair. \Vhal am also any! Did she play
the butts-ray! Did sheulk about the silks and
the ribbnrs and the fashions! bio. She came
up to the elnergencv. She quai‘ed not under
”I’llufl SCIENCE.
Aaanrtary e? ineer suggests the im-
rtance of bul ing on streets rnnnr
Egrlhwest and southeast, or northefi
and southwest. Sunshine in all rooms.“
some time in the da can thus be in—
sured, with a great garnin healthfulnese.
Trichins: have been discovered ina hu-
man body which was being prepared for
anatomical demonstration at the Lnrver-
eity of Camerino. The man had lived
for many years in a neighboring coins
mane. and died without the presences)!
lthc lrichina being suspected. Peculiar
intern-st attaches to the case for the rea-
son that it is said to be the first case of
trickinosis ever observed in Italy.
A popular fallacy, according to Hr. A.
W. Hare, of the Royal Society of Edin-
burg. is the belief that water from a
the stroke. Shehel red on to begin to plan
rightawa. Shoo end to :00!“ of the
condomb house into a smaller one. and
wear theold cloak number winter. She was
one who ultimatum your main without
blaming you. You looked upon what you
thought was a thin, “I: woman's arm bold-
ing you up. but. while you looked at that arm
muse int) the feeble munch; of it the .
of the eternal ti hi. No chidinx.
No fretting. So tell'
tiful hm“: her fa . from which you
upright ten. twentv. or thirty’ years ago.
You said: “Well. this is the bappenst day of
my life. [am glad I hangotzenfrom under
my My wife don‘t WI don‘t
care" Attbe mt you wereumrly ex-
hausted. God sent n to meet
the host of the Amalekitu and scatter than
likecbafl'overtbe plain. There are some~
times women who sit reading sentimental
“Win...“ “if...“ “Jaws.”
(ran in w ‘ no ‘ ' _ns~
tinn powers. Oh. what (undead glorious
thing: the could do if they only an op-
purtunity My sister. you need not want for
A cries willeome in your
There will be a “canopy-ls in
household. where God will tell you
There are scores and hundreds
burseholdsmday whet-eunuch bravery and
are demanded of woman as. was ex:
Grace Darling. or lune Antor
near. or Joan of Arc. ‘
Again Insular-k. it is woman‘s right to
bring to us the kingdom of heaven. It is
ensierforawomantobeac‘bristinn tam‘f‘vor
_ . - 0.
Her heart is morensponsivewthc pleadings
of divine love. She is in vast mayor-rty. The
factthatahecanmoreenerlybwomeaCbrrs—
tiamlprove by misstatement that three-
fonrths of themembers of thecbnmhes in all
them to m for bringing
tb'u God. I may szan.
' mortal. 'I'bere isa
will refute it. I unyatnndbere
are undone without
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They may track Siberian snows, they
u in Atrican ‘u the
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and“; :2} now. as Paul cote nthlan
woman: “What kmwestebonéOwomsn, hat
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oil
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irrrenaearchof
rushi torrent is safer for drinking pur-
i water from a sluggish stream.
; or the reverse is really the fact. Sewage
iwntaminated Wlter contains 3*",132
' ganiems‘ after ten or twelve ye
lnvor water, for the reason that the
; ‘ rapid growth during the first
two or three days exhausts their food
lsupply. .
The obaen‘ations of Dr. Frantzcl. of
Berlin. show that the cflccts of immode-
._ ate smoking are seldom manifested b9
i fore the smoker is thirty. but that the
i heart troubles most often begin between
‘ the ages of fifty and sixty. Finer flavored
.cigara bring about such troubles more
1 (more: ly and more speedily than com-
mon o It may be regarded as cer—
} tain . t the injurious action of smoking
idea not depend upon the amount of
3 nicotine, but upon some as yet unknown
08“”.
' )1. Grand ‘Eury has propounda! a
theory that coal was originally a liquid
3 generated by _the_ decomposition of‘ in-
; crior vegetation in an atmosphere high-
ly charged with carbonic aci . The car-
- bell of the jelly-dike mass thus formed.
3 after passing through various transfor-
; mations into asphalt, petroleum. bitu-
men, eta, finally assumed the form of
coal. The author cites various facts con-
i nected with theoccurrcnceof coshwhich,
i he thinks. are better explained on In!
rtheorythusbytheuenaloue.
i In the belief that modern science can
command climate, Dr. B. W. Rich“-
‘aon pro. that British invalid: be
. given. in their native isles, the winter
' advantages of tropical resorts. This he
i would accomplish by establishing winter
, homes, or health palates. each tocontain
“ fifty or more wmfortablc two-story,
, houses, enclosing a large genre of orna-
; mental and prov‘ ed with libra—
‘ r. can“ 3““ Pug?“
ower- ea. on;
pzomenadee, wool ext ever the
uses under glass roofs, while the our
tral enclosure would be abut in
gran t be
created putting whole valleyflndu
roofs of forming parks of constant
beauty and healthfulneas. .
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