Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 15 November 1895 — Page 7

©he DECATUR, IND. H. WT.ACKBTJBM, ... Pbbmswwb. Trade papers report that there are 8,800,000 bags of visible coffee In the world. This Is In addition to the Invisible coffee served at boarding bouses. The most bushy-headed people in the world are found among the savago tribes, where both-professional piano players and foot-ball teams are unknown. A Chicago dry goods man estimates that the women of that city spend over 11,000,000 for big sleeves to their silk dresses alone. The expenses of a wellarmed nation are always heavy. It is said that a flrm of American publishers has offered Sarah Bernhardt 1160,000 for her autobiography. If Sarah tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, the figures are 1 lew enough. Mrs. Lulu Lare, of San Francjuco, proposes to get a divorce and tbepcotne to Chicago. We do not see why it is necessary to get a divorce in order to come to Chicago, but if it is of course her action is justifiable. The coal men, as we understand it, sincerely regret the necessity of steadily advancing prices to the consumer. As that is the only way they have of making money rapidly, however, there appears to be no alternative. Vassar’s freshman class this year numbers 220 girls and they have evolved the following class yell: Yum! Yum! Yum!! We chew gum!! Vlclssim!! We’ll be a sis to ’Im!! * Eighteen ’9B Vassar! Rah! And yet there are those who claim that woman is not as well fitted as man for higher education. The forthcoming reminiscences of Mary Anderson’s life on the stage through her profesbionthe success before the footlights that she did, can declare, as she does, that the day when she voluntarily turned her back upon it all and left the stage forever was the happiest moment she had seen, what can the boards offer other women? The brief biography of Mr. George Tyson, late president of the American News Company, whose death was reported recently, is full of Instruction and encouragement to all poor boys. He began his active career at the early age of eight by serving a newspaper route while attending school. He served with distinction in the war. He achieved success in business, and he “attributed his success in life to unflagging industry and correct business methods.”»' No memorial could say more in fewer words. Their meaning should be carefully considered, not only by the poor boys who have their way to make in this world, T>ut by the boys who are not poor and who wish to avoid the mistakes that lead to failure. Any boy who will cultivate the habit of unflagging Industry and follow correct business methods may feel secure of his future. ■""" 1 - B The intelligent objection to prize fights is not merely on account of the brutality of such exhibitions. The respectable public is disgusted with the spectacle of barroom brawlers and bullies, with not sufflcient capacity to earn a decent living in any legitimate employment, pocketing enormous sums as the profits of a few minutes’ degrading “sport.” The student or mechanic who has spent years of hard work attempting to fit himself for useful employment is unable, as a rule, to earn in a lifetime the fortune which one of these ruffians receive as his share of a single exhibition. True, people have a right ! to squander their money on these creatures if they desire to, but the moral effect Is bad. The rising generation will not so easily believe that honest labor is the royal road to success when it has before it Conspicuous evidences that ignorance and brutality win the “ quickest and largest returns. That traditlonal “bull in a ch|na shop” could hardly do more damage in a little While than a whole herd of cattle in a furniture store, as was witnessed in Louisville the other day. The cattle were being driven along the street, when six or seven made a dash into the store, following the lead of a big bull. The proprietor pushed a lady customer out of the back door, and got behind the door himself, shouting to the clerk to drive the cattle out The clerk picked up a bedslat and approacned the bull, but when the animal gave a snort and put down his head the clerk thought that he had business upstairs. The bull started to follow him, but was diverted by seeing another bull In a large plate glass mirror. He charged/ftie mirror, and when the glass shattered around him he plunged about the store, reducing the furniture to fragments, an occupation in which the rest of the cattle faeartjly joined. What else would have happened no one knows, for at that moment the drovers came in and pfesenily the cattle were peacefuly pursuing their way up the street. The French have had a hard time in reaching Antananarivo, but ’the reporta indicate that they have got there at last, And they may be expected now

and thus to establish their supremacy In Madagascar beyond the probability of dispute. The French have had colonies on the Island for two centuries or more, and have had pretty constant quarrels with the natives. Finally, they tried the experiment of a protectorate, acquiesced in by the other powers, under which the Hovas were to maintain their own government, but the French resident was to represent them in all their external relations. This partnership did not work, and when the Malagasy government undertook to grant independent concessions to foreigners the French asserted their sole right to all such privileges, with sundry other demands that led to war. The coast towns have been long in the hands of the French, but the Hovas retired to their capital, far in the interior, and it has cost much time and money and many lives to get at them. If the success now reported prove complete we may expect to see Madagascar made in effect, though probably not in name, a French co lonial dependency. In the various steps taken by the Uniter States toward providing a satisfactory defence of our coasts against attack by foreign war ships there has been a peculiar hesitancy in adopting the latest devices, quickly followed by an extraordinary advance beyond the results obtained abroad. Thus we long delayed the adoption of breech-loading rifled guns, but very soon after we decided to use them we had no superiors as gun builders. Similarly, although nickel steel armor was first manufactured in Europe, the high development that has been given to it has been due to the navy department of this country. Recently Great Britain, being convinced of the value of the wire-wound gun, has discarded the built-up system of manufacture and has constructed all the heaviest guns for her latest battleships on the wire-wound plan. The United States navy and army ordnance ex perts have not yet fallen into line, bu* when they do there is no doubt that our wire-wound guns will surpass those now building in England by as much as ■ our Harveyized nickel steel plates surpassed the compound armor that so long was regarded as the best the Brit- ■ ish works could make. Already the ex--1 ttiiordinary endurance and the unequal- \ led power of the Brown segmental wirebegun t 0 attract BUM vvusrrticnuj i!u>uu s ..u«.,———/It has no equal. 1 j' - • j In the invention of an electric an toj mobile plow science has made anothej r stride in the direction of the horseless age, and one which the farmer will b< likely to regard with peculiar interest; j The steam plow, which is already fa, ! miliar on the vast farms of the West) . has the drawbacks of great cost, cumi t bersome size and the difficulty of set curing supplies of fuel and water fo| r the engine. In the electric plow, whicl| . is a German invention of recent origlUf many of these defects are remedied, , It may be operated from a central plant ' in a distant town by means of wire} strung on poles to the farm, or it maj ( be more conveniently run from an or . dinary steam »ngine and dynamo on th< , farmer’s own premises. The plow is s ; ihuge two-wheeled affair with a motoi ( fastened upon it connected by wire, with the dynamo. In operating it a stoul cable, anchored at each end, is stretched from end to end of the field, and th« plow moves by working the cable over a ffiiaft. When the end of the furrow is reached the plow is tipped over, thq 1 current reversed and the furrow in thq other direction is begun. According to the October consular reports, in 1 which the operations pf this instrument ' fn Germany are described, the novelty has been moderately successful. Or heavy soil it plowed eight acres to a depth of about ten inches in ten hours. The cost was about $1.29 an acre, much cheaper than a man and team could have possibly done the work. In view of the experiments of Germany it 1? not Impossible that the rest of the world will yet take up the invention and thus deal another blow to the defenseless horse. If there was a single function In which the horse seemed to be secure ■ and indlspesable, it was that of plowing and performing farm duties. If he is to be driven fairly from the farm as well as from the city, where is he ts find employment? > x Just Like a Yankee. In the good old days of M. Blanc (writes George R. Sims), it was the custom at Monte Carlo, directly a suicide was found, to stuff his pocket full of bank notes. This was done to prove ■AJiat his losses at play were not the cause of his hurried departure from this world. The last person who received this generous treatment was an American. He was found lying in one of the quiet alleys of the beautiful grounds, with an empty bottle, labeled “Poison." by his side, The secret agents of the bold Blanc instantly stuffed Ms pockets full pf gold and notes, preparatory to giving information to the police. No sooner had they filled him as full of lucre as he could hold than the suicide leaped to Ms feet, raised his hat, exclaimed, “Thank you very much!” and went off to eqjoy himself with his newly acquired wealth. Midanmmer Night's Dream. Tommy Ten Year—Children, children, I had an elegant dream, last night Chorus—What? What? " Tommy Ten Year—l dreamed I dropped into a bucket of ice cream and had to eat my way out Chorus (smacking)—Whew!!—Boston Standard. * ’ ' Platinum. Platinum cun be soldered like othe{ metals. Tile parts to be soldered must be made clean, and a thin electro posit of copper made upon the surface. when it can bo goldered with tlm

MF ROSE, < ______ i A wave that rolled up on the wlnd-awept ' beach , Left a pure white rose on the shining sand; i I stooped for the flower that had fonnd ] ruy reach 1 And sheltered its leaves Jp mytremb- i ling hand. Though it long had tossed on the Ocean wide, Mid the storm and roar of the angry sea; The wind and the waves and the ebbing tide Had borne it at last to its peace with me. The waves mid the rocks, and the winds that passed Had torn at its heart ere they set it , free, But a tender hand found the’ flower at last, And no storm ah all live in its life with me. » The wind and the waves were the storm of lite, The past that is dead is the angry sea, And my pure white rose is my precious wife, And her joy and peace is her love for e. —San Francisco Town Talk. Bn Owsdoos HenBY MRS. M. L. RAVITZ. “No,” Eleanor Landsberg said as she ' crushed the cluster of fresh American beauty roses she held in her clasped hands with painful intensity, as if they were somehow to blame, “I cannot marry you, Morris—you are not my hero." “Heroes do not exist out of novels,” answered Morris Holmes, with that perfect inflection that good breeding gives to its possessor! “I cannot fight for my lady love as the mediaeval knights did, nor fly 1 to the wars, in these degenerate days." “Then be a soldier of peace; there are . daily wars to be waged that need disciplined soldiers. Be anything but a daw- , dler on the silken skirts of society. You believe that because you have inherited a fortune that other men earned for jsou by the sweat of their brows, that you are to ' be idle in the lap of luxury. Shame, • Morris Holmes! When I marry! will ' clloQse my busbayl from among the ranks you will listefK.o reason a moment you will see that with money you can remedy " a great many evils; without it you are practically helpless.” * . “How many evils have you remedied, I Morris? Answer me that.” i * ’Few as yet, I admit. But, Eleanor, i is it my fault that my father left me a forj tune ? Listen, dearest. 1 may call you so I this once. Why not help me to become t his almoner? At least lam not a profliI gate.” I “Pardon me,” returned the young ( woman, tearing the heart from a rose—a performance winch made the sensitive I Morris wince—“l think you are profligate . with time and influence, and all other i good things which you waste by lavishing on yourself. How will you account for wasted opportunities, and talents folded in a napkin, when the day of reckoning ' comes!” She was very handsome, very attractive 1 in her strong young womanhood, and as a 1 reformer, the fad of the hour. She belonged to clubs and societies for the advancement of women, and was not offensively progressive in her views and the expression of them, had been brought into contact with strong natures, full of the sap and wine of life, and had learned to disdain the wearer of purple and , tine linen. The society weakling had lost place in her world, just as social functions c had become inane and intolerably stupid, after the seamy‘side of life had shown her its nigged attractions. “What would you have me do to prove myself a hero?” asked Morris Holmes, with a gentle patronizing air, as if he had been speaking to a child, and which infuriated Eleanor. “Do?” she repeated with withering scorn, “do anything to show the world that yon are a man, anct at least capable of managing your own affairs! Life is full of instruction, but you have never learned one of its lessons. You have not even been a profitable dreamer." She was intense and angry, and at last he was aroused. He rose without his usual dawdling elegance of manner, and said: “You have taught me one lesson, Eleanor, that I shall not forget. 1 hope when you find your hero he will love you as truly as I have done—as I will continue to do, if you do not forbid me. And now good-bye. We part friends, 4p we not ?’’ Before she answered him Eleanor rose, and in so doing dropped the flowers she had been holding. Morris sprang to pick them up, when instantly she placed her small, imperative foot upon them, crushing them to the floor! He looked at her shocked and wounded. “You see how hopeless it is that you should ever understand me,” she said bitterly. “You have more consideration for these hot-house weeds than for the souls of around you. You hurt and wound me by your indifference to vital questions, but you are sorry for the roses! Goodbye, Morris!" “No berths left in the sleeper, sir," “But I tell you I must have a berth—l can’t sit up all night,” and Morris Holmes shivered at the thought of such a hardship. ’ “A great many good people do, sir," said the conductor. “There’s old Judge Skinner and his wife) they are both going to sit up 1 to-night.” « “But my man telegraphed for a aeo- 1 tlon." < 0 “They were all taken then, sir." It was strange that at the first moment that Morris Holmes started out to become a hero, and learn the seamy side of lite, he should be reduced to actual suffering like this. If he had been dressed in his usual fashionable and elegant traveling attire the conductor would have suspected that ho had unlimited wealth, and would have bought out some less important traveler,

or sold him a berth already negotiated for, - as the all-powerful car magnate has the j privilege of doing. But Morris Holmes had donned the plain dress of the ordinary business man and wore a hideous gray ulster that concealed his elegant personality, and was on his way to the mining district where a mine was located of which he was part owner; not a gold mine, but one that brought in gold—a bituminous coal mine known as the “Little Summit.” Morris had taken little or no notice of this branch of his wealth, the management and details being left to his agent, but when he left Eleanor Landsberg on the occasion of her second and final refusal of his offer of marriage, he suddenly determined to take a trip to the mining country and try his hand at heroism, in the way of improving the condition of the men who worked in underground chambers, a work to him the embodiment of hardship and privation. He was going incognito, with the feeling of one who is about to perform a long-neglected duty. The beginning was not auspicious. Morris hated contact with the unwashed stranger, and the day car turned into a rendezvous for the night seemed full of him. “I would not make a good soldier, and I certainly am .not a good hero,” he said to himself, and then be thought of Eleanor, and fancied her soothing the troublesome, crying child in the further end of the Car, and gaining the confidence of the mean-looking parents, who were poor and tired. At the next stopping place he went out to catch a breath of fresh air, and bought a bag of cakes for the baby, an act of generosity that the tired mother appreciated with a smile. He talked with the father and learned thejj story. Two children left behind relatives because they were too poor to take them along, but they had the promise of work where they were going, and then they would send for them. If Morris helped them he did not let his left hand know what his right was doing, but I do know that the children followed their parents a few weeks later. Morris prepared for a night of vigils, then fell into a sound sleep curled up in a corner of the car seat, and when he awakened it was early morning. It is an awesome thing to awaken in a car after a night of that sort. The first feeling is one of thankfulness that one is alive; the next an overpowering sense of dirt and discomfort. Morris thought at first that his limbs were paralyzed, but after a vigorous streteb he felt better, and looked out with some interest on a world that was new to him, fresh from the luxuries of the metropolis. He saw the “goodmorning” of natwe.with man a chimerical FBirres, auu ohins vrerc beaded and barefooted, were saluting tbs flying train from the open door. He could not understand how anyone could

——- — —- —— — •• - - — live in such a place. He felt no thrill of fellowship with these grovellers in the by-ways of lite, and again he wondered how Eleanor would handle such a problem. lie felt a sense of loneliness without her as if*she had once belonged to him but had gone. A longer stop was made at a rude station, and Morris came near to the great tragedy that is enacted in the lowest as well as in the grandest home. But how different the methods! It was not yet• sunrise, but the door of a cabin had been ■ flung open, and a woman with an apron , thrown over her head rushed out into the morning, followed by two weeping child-! ren. Then a man ran out hastily, and ; going to a building close by, tore a board j from its rough roof, and hurried back into the house, followed by the women and children. The train moved on, and Morris wondered over what he had just seen. Probably every man aud woman in that car read the story aright, but Morris asked a shaggy old man, who sat back of him wrapped in a time-worn plaid, what it meant. “ Weel, mon. I misdoubt it were somebody slipped awa, and they needed the board to streeekit him,” said the old Scotchman. It was gruesome when Morris understood, and be wondered if Eleanor would have known. You see she was in all his thoughts. A more desolate place than that in which the “ Little Summit” mihe was located would be hard to describe. '1 he mine that poured wealth into the coffers of its owners was conducted by ill-paid, sodden men, scrubby boys and half blind mules. The foreman was brutalized by a long course of low wages, heavy expenses aud sordid surrroundings. It was a word and a blow with him, or an oatlrmore demoralizing than blows. When a stranger appeared he was received with sullen and suspicious silence, being more than half suspected of wanting the bread out of some other mouth. Morris was shocked almost ont of recognition of himself by this unexpected state of things, for he felt himself passively to blame. He could, not lay the odium on the shoulders of his agent, for he had never asked a single question concerning the mine, or the moral or physical welfare of the men. He bad taken the revenue from it as part of his patrimony, indifferent as Ur'methods Ite had been helping to grind women and children into the dust, that he might 101 l in luxury. His conscience stung him with reproaches which were inadequate to make him suffer as he deserved. “ Your hand, friend," be bad said to the foreman, and noted the ugly scowl, aud determined air of refusal with which the man drew back. “ ’Taint as white as yours; and how do I know that you are my friend'?’ was the surly reply. “ I am here to see what you need, and will 'Help you if you will let me,” answered Morris gently. “A spy of an overseer, like enough. ’ The sooner you get out of these quarters, the better for your health. If one of the bloomin’ mine owners sent you here, go bacu an* tell him ’ta.nt sale to come spyin’ roun’. Tell him, too, that we’ll give him a warmer welcome —hounds that they all are!” The m’mers, dirty, black and complaining, had gathered around the foreman, aud although they bated hinx, they were bound to him by a common grudge. “Tell them to come and get filled with warm lead—we’d beat it fur the ’casion,” said a burly miner known as "Old Geordie." "They dass’nt come nigh their own

, livered cowards, and not worth the powI der to blow ’em to thunder!” “Go back to your master and tell him 1 what his lovin’ workmen says,” said the foreman contemptuously, “an’ get a pbotygraff of some of the hungry children and dyin' mothers, for the family album. My missus will give you hers.” “Men,” said the stranger, unbuttoning bis heavy ulster, and throwing it open, “have you ever beard of Morris Holmes’?’ X groan and a series of yells saluted him. “Aye, an’ of his father afore him. It’s that he might lie soft and eat fine food, that we gets lost in the choke an’ damp. If he sent you, go back an’ tell him to come out here himself. We hev a long account to settle, an’ the Aggers is waitin’.” It was “Old Geordie” who spoke. “I am Morris Holmes !” Now if there is any quality that the rough and lawless of creation recognize, and udmire, it is courage, and after the first start of surprise, which in that sodden crowd was genuine and dramajje, the men felt an instant respect for this weakling of wealth, who was not afraid of them, and something like a cheer broke from their hoarse throats. “I am here to right the wrongs,” continued Morris in a voice that sounded like a commander on a battlefield, “but I demand protection at your bands. I demand your confidence, and that of your wives and children. I have the right to ask this. For the present that is all I have to say.” A few cheered him, other remained sullen and discontented, good news being received with caution and suspicion. Eleanor Landsberg had no word from Morris for six months. Then she received I a paper marked in red ink, which had a , ; paragraph that interested her It gave a plain statement of the great improvement that bad taken place in the “Little Sum- , mil” mine, and went on to describe the comfortable homes of the miners,..the new machinery which bad been put into the mines to take the place of child labor, the comfortable stables above ground that bad been buiit for the mules, the improved social conditions of the men’s families, and ' ; ended with a glowing tribute to the “noI ble energy o’ the young and athletic mine owner, Morris Holmes.” t Athletic? Eleanor repeated the word , with much satisfaction. It was of moral I j athletes she was thinking, and it pleased t i her mightilv that this word could be thus applied to Morris. i In a few months she received a second j ■ newspaper, published like the first, in a j i town adjoining the mines, and giving the ! news of that section of country. It also [ i contained a marked paragraph, but the ! I marking wasjrregular black lirites, of die wrdlv Lb& -border was e “Old Geordie. • j Eleanor read in a few intense words the

j news that had been sent to her. There I had been an accident in the mine. The I roof of an entire chamber had fallen and i buried twenty miners beneath it The \ men were rescued with great difficulty, and some of them were ba.lly injured. When all were supposed to have been saved, there was a wailing cry, and the wife of “Old Geordie" struggled from J the hands of friends and tried to throw herself into the mine. Morris Holmes, pale and ' out of breath, called for (men to go down i with him to rescue Geordie. No one responded. The men owed tbeir lives to ■ their families, and they knew the danger i of a falling roof. So Morris, with one look i at the blue sky above him, swung into : the cage and was lowered alone amid an awe-stricken silence, into the bosom of death. There was not much more to tell. When the signal was given there was willing hands to help deliver the two men from the wreckage, but only one came up alive. The other had succumbed to the fatal damp. A long panegyric followed, but it meant little to Eleanor. Her eyes rested on four oft-quoted, hackneyed lines, hat closed the story; they would never ave her: *‘For whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle van, '&ie fittest place for man to die, Is where he dies for man.” 'She had found her hero, never again to lose him. He had returned on his shield. Fireproof Paint. A fire-resisting paint for woodwork has recently been tested iu New York, which seems to possess rather remarkable properties. It is composed of phosphate of ammonia and sulphate qf ammonia, with a variable amount of anhydrous chloride of calcium. This compound is injected into the wood by a vacuum process apparently similar in general principles to the ereosoting process by which wood is preserved against decay.' The solution is also used in the manufacture of paint and as a laundry compound, the Waldorf hotel employing it ini the latter form to make tire proof the lace curtains of that famous establishment. Some tests made in August were carried out by building in a vacant lot two inclosed stairways, one of treated and the other of untreated wood. The stairways and the surrounding walls formed little buildings twelve feet high and 6x9 feet iu plan. Each building had a door, closed during the trials, but no windows. The sides and floors were pine boards nailed and floor joistsz The stairwaysL.were of southern pine, ash and maple, Ind were covered with matting, which, sot one of the buildings, was treated with tire fireresisting compound. Shavings aud loose boards were placed below the foot of each stairway and saturated with kerosene oil, as were the stairways. On lighting the shavings the building of untreated wood almost immediately bur.-t into fiames, , while in the other the fire was confined to the kindlings. After twenty minutes only a portion of the 4 .first structure remained, while m the second merely the part of the stairs directly over the kindlings had gone. The treated wood did not seem to burn, but rather to char, and the newel post, on being split, was found to be in. jured to a depth of but half an inch. Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, an aged and pious lady, who lived in a mile or two of Benevolence, Ga., is dead. She was known by reputation throughout the country, was in good circum* stances and dearly loved, but she Was raised near where she died, and in all her life never left th« farm.

REMEDIAL FOODS., Things Ws Eat That Ara Helpfu! In Sickness. This list of food remedies compiled by the Housekeeper is well worth consideration and preservation for reference: Celery is invaluable as a food for those suffering from any form of rheumatism; for diseases of the nerves and nervous dyspepsia. Lettuce is useful to those suffering from insomnia. Water cress is a remedy for scurvy. Peanuts for indigestion; they are especially recommended for corpulent diabetes. Pegputs are made into a whole- < some and nutritious soup, are browned and used as coffee, are eaten as a relish, simply baked, or are prepared and served as salted almonds. Salt to check bleeding at the lungs, and as a nervine and tonic for weak, thinblooded invalids. Combined with hot water is useful for certain forms of dyspepsia, liver complaint, etc. Onions are almost the best nervine known. No medicine is so useful in cases of nervous prostration, and there is nothing else that will so quickly relieve and tone up a wornout system. Onions are useful in all cases of coughs, colds and influenza; in consumption, insomnia, hydrophobia, scurvy, gravel and kindred liver complaints. Eaten every other day, they soon have a clearing and whitening effect on the complexion. Spinach is useful to those suffering with gravel. Asparagus is used to induce perspiration. Carrots for sufferers from asthma. Turnips for nervous disorders and for scurvy. Raw beef proves of great benefit to persons suffering from consumption. It v is chopped fine, seasoned with salt, and heated by placing it in a d'sh -in hot water. It assimilates rapidly and affords the best of nourishment. Eggs contain a large amount of nutriment in a compact, quickly available form. Eggs, especially the yokes of eggs, are useful in jaundice. Beaten up raw with sugar are used to clear and strengthen the voice. With sugar and lemon juice the beaten white of egg is used to relieve hoarseness. .Honey is wholesome, strengthening, cleansing, healing and nourishing. Fresh ripe fruits are excellent for purifying the blood and toning up the system. As specific remedies, oranges are aperient Sour oranges are highly recommended for rheumatism. _ Watermelon for epilepsy and forjyellow fever. Cranberries for erysipelas are used externally as well as internally. Lemons for feverish thirst in jjgmess, —imcews niptw. forms of diarrhoea. a rn a y v < . »

Tomatoes are a powerful aperient for the liver, a sovereign remedy for dyspepsia and for indigestion. Tomatoes are invaluable in all conditions of the system iu which the use of calomel is indicated. Figs are aperient and wholesome. They are said to be valuable as a food for those suffering from cancer; they are used externally as well as internally. Bananas are useful as a food for those suffering from chronic diarrhea. Apples are useful in nervous dyspepsia; they are nutritious, medicinal and vitalizing: they aid digestion, clear the voice, correct the acidity of the stomach, are valuable in rheumatism, insomnia and liver trouble. An apple contains as much nutriment as a potato in a pleasanter and more wholesome form. Grapes dilute thick blood, send the circulation to the surface, remove obstructions from liver and lungs, dissolve and dislodge gravel and calculi and bring the stomach and bowels to a healthy condition. Pieplant is wholesome and aperient; is excellent Tor rheumatic sufferers and usa ful for purifying the blood. MONKEYS INDICTED. Strange Proceeding in a Calcutta Law Court. Everybody has heard of the sacred monkeys ot Benares and their queer antics. There are three monkeys in Calcutta just now enjoying the unique distinction (for monkeys) of being under indictment for larceny. Seven men walked into the Jorabagan thana, a court of General Sessions of Cab cutta. and gravely demanded a warrant for the arrest of three monkeys, names unknown, on the charge of “theft and causing mischief.” The complainants set forth that the offending monkeys were the greatest thieves and robbers in the whole City of Palaces. They had broken into houses, purloined food, clothing and bric-g-brac, and done even more damage by destroying what they could not eat. An English magistrate in India enjoys considerable latitude, but the magistrate was forced to refuse the warratfl to arrest monkeys. He advised the complainants to destroy the. troublesome animals. But this suggestion they could not, by reason of religious adopt. All animal life is sacred, to the Hindoos, and monkeys enjoy a special exemption from harm. Indeed, they are sacred, as the famous iMonkev Temple -at Benares and other similar buildings in India testify. The Emflish magistrate compromised by suggesting a modified indictment against the monkeys fd’r burglary of the worst type,'and the local courts at present have this proceeding under consideration. The offending Calcutta monkeys must be degenerate offspring of the famous Ilounaman, the prehistoric monkey of India, and head of the Entillus family of Simians. Ilounaman was a great monkey. He had an infant son, who, inheriting some of the paternal ambition, mistook the rising sun for) an orange and grabbed at it. He burn/d his fingers, and in revenge his papa seized the chariot of the Son of Day. India, who beheld this outrage, launched a thunderbolt at the old man. and laid him flat. Thereupon arose a feud between the monkey family and the Hindoos, which is not wholly appeased to this day. Every year the inhabitants of certain villages lay out in the principal street a store of grain, and the Entillus family march in and help themselves. This postpones the feud. If the villages neglect the offering the monkeys invade the fields and destroy the ; growing grain.