Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1892 — Page 5

A WOMAN'S INFLUENCE

BY LULU JAMISON

. M,n CHAPTKH XX, BRIAN'S PRESCRIPTION. “I believe I am thoroughly tired out, Margaret. I have had a very hard day’s ■work.” Margaret turned from her book as Brian entered the room with these words. “Have you?” she asked. “How nice you will And your well-earned rest. See, your chair is waiting tor you.” “It shall not be empiy a minute longer. It is wondertully comfortable. Sit there, won't you? I like to see your face: it rests me." “Then I may consider myself useful, as well as ornamental,” she laughed, wondering why the rebellious color should fly to her face in such a disagreeable wuy. “When did you get my message, Margaret?” he asked. “About 4 o'clock, I think. I was sorry you could not come home to dinner. You have had some, of course?" “I had an apology for one,” he returned. “I hadn’t time for any other; so many important cases brought in today. This hospital practice is worth a great deal to me, I, tell you. I was getting rusty, and it has polished me up considerably. I suppose Miss Hilton left, as she intended?” “She went early this afternoon.” This answer was given with a faltering voice. “Dear Margaret,” ho said with feeling, “I knov how you will miss her. I wish you would let me comfort you. Don’t go away. “Only ijor a few miputes,” she answered hastily. “I am coming back.” True to her promise she returned quickly, with a small tray in her hand. “Only some cake and coffee,” she said, “to make up for that apology tor a dinner. I made the coffee. Do you, think you will like it?” “Will I? Its fragrance is sufficiently tempting." Brian jumped from his chair, and took the tray from Margaret’s hands. “I’m just beginning to realize that lam hungry. You will help me to drink it?”

“Of course,” laughed Margaret. “I want to show my appreciation of culinary ability. Norah thinks I will be quite a finished cook in time. This is nice, and if we had some Elmwood cream it would be all to be desired. You like it? lam glad. I want you to tell me now the cause of your serious face. It looked ever so long when I came in.” “I am the least bit anxious about you. I fear you are losing the old strength you used tp boast of. Don’t shake your head so decidedly, I see with an experienced eye. I saw how that ring slipped about when you were pouring this coffee, and seven months ago, when I put it there, Margaret, It was very tight and snusr. I want to see It so again. You need the country breezes. I know that Elmwood is the magical medicine which your cash demands, and if I prescribe it, I don’t believe you will find it so bitter to take. ” “And you?” she asked, after a moment’s silence. “That is to be just as you say, Margaret. "" “Then,” she returned with a radiant face, “we will both go home.” When Wilson learned of this decision, “ The fascinations of New York have been exercised in vain,” he declared. “I think you will find something to regret when you have gone from us. Still I am sure you w.ll realize a much needed benefit, and in view of that I must be glad that you will so soon enjoy the pleasure of the country. I hope you will not quite forget ns.” “I will never forget you,” was the impulsive answer. “The service you have rendered Brian I cannot even realize, much less thank you for. The most I can do is to give you a place among the friends I cherish most highly. Brian and I will hope to see you quite often. I know you will like Elmwood. It is so beautiful. I never knew how much I longed to see it until this momont. I beliove I haven’t dared to think. The other day I took a long ride on the Madison avenue cars, just for something to do, and when we got out in the nineties there was a real little bit of country before U 3. I could not stay in the car. The sun really seemed so much brighter; and when I heard the hens and saw the ducks and geese walking along the narrow pavements I wanted to sit down and cry. ” Wilson smiled. “Did you think better of the impulse?” he questioned. “Oh, yes. Fortunately, I came upon a woman sitting on the grass with the whitest, fattest baby I almost ever saw. I adore babies, and I began to admire that one extravagantly. The mother was delighted, and by way of recompense, I presume, gave me a detailed history of the seven fatter and whiter ones which had preceded this one. By the time she finished I had forgotten that l ever wanted to cry.” “So the baby proved an effective antidote. You were very fortunate in your meeting. Now. I believe I must hurry away. I could only steal a moment just to run in to say good-by. ” “I don’t believe you have stayed that moment,” complained Margaret, “and I am sure If you were very anxious you could stretch it just the least bjt. Brian will be so sorry not to have seen you. Are you so very busy. Doctor?" “Well, rather,” was the half hesitating reply. “Summer is near at hand, and that is a time of wretchedness for the unfortunate poor. I wish we had a larger corps of free doctors. We certainly need them in those crowded, mis erabie districts, where the white crape and tiny hearses tell their own story of suffering and death. I have brought a shadow to your face; I Will say no more.” “You are merely giving me a glimpse of the other side of life,” she. said thoughtiully. “I find the contrast, as usual, sad and strong. I wish the world was different. I wish we lived under Bellamy’s order of things.” Wilson smiled. “I fear such order is too Utopian ever to be realized,” he answered. “Perhaps, though I dare say Are you really going? Well, then I must say good-by. I hope it is not necessary for me to repeat the assurance, that Elmwood always holds a welcome for you. I thank you lor your good wishes, and I wish you to remember that I appreciate more than I have pr-wer to express the—happiness you have helped to give me. ” “No more," Bald Wilson, with painful abruptness. “My service is not worth ».uoh mention.” Without another word he pressed her

hand and was gone, leaving her rather surprised at his unusual manner. CHAPTBK XXI. ELMWOOD AGAIN. Margaret had finished her breakfast, and even after Brian thad left she still pat over the table, her heart filled with •sweet content, and her eyes dim with the happy tears that shut from her vision the familiar ob'ects about her. For she was home. Home in dear old Elmwood. And now, after eating what she declared to Brian to be her biggest breakfast in three months, she wanted to sit Still and feast her eyes upon the'smooth green lawns where the bright sun sifted Itself through a luxuriant network of green branches, and the lilac and the hawthorn were bursting into a breath of fragrant flowers, and say to herself it is good to be here. She repeated the same words to Brian when he came in at luncheon, and he, looking at her face, almost marveled at the change that had come over it. “I dare say, you are right, Margaret; it is good for you to be here. I don’t believe I exaggerate when I declare that thiere is already some color in your cheeks. What have you been doing with yourself this morning?” “I don’t believe I can begin to tell you. First, there was so much to talk about With Mrs. Davis. We have been laying l our heads together and evolving some delightful plans. You will see the results after awhile; an:l then, this afternoon I must go to The Cedars. I am pining for a sight of the Colonel.” “And he, no doubt, is pining fora sight of you. I suppose that will complete your happiness.” “As nearly as it can be completed. Do you remember how we left Elmwood, Brian, under the chill and cold of winter, and we return to it in the joy of a glad resurrection? I accept it as an omen, and I am—very happy.” She left the table with these words and walked to the open window. Brian followed her. “Let me share your happiness,” he said, in a low voice. “Darling, the pro“ bation has been very long. ” He slipped his hand about her waist, and drew her to the verania outside. “You remember our compact? I shall keep it—be sure of tha't—until the day' comes that you shall bid me break it. And it will come, Margaret, as certainly as we both stand here. You will find me very patient until I have won my victory, for I feel that even the price which Jacob paid lor Bachel is not too dear to pay for you. Now, may I tell you what I have been doing to-day?” “Yps; I shall like very much to hear.” Mur ii t 1 i . • ■<<

“ Well, I have been taking with Dr. Philips. I wish you would let me see your face, Margaret, it will be more encouraging than your back. There, that Is better; thank you. I saw Dr. Philips, as I said, and i told him of my wish to build up a practice here. Just as I expected, he feels his advancing years, and will be very glad es a young assistant. He is delighted to help the son of his old partner, he tells me. So you see lam particularly fortunate. I can step right into his shoes, and, though I may find them very large ” “You will grow," put in Margaret, glad of this new turn to the conversation-. “And I am very much pleased,” she added, more gravoly. “So am I. It is the first step toward winning fay wife. ” A half hour later Margaret was sitting in the chair of honor in Alice's rooms, half-laughing, half-crying, and trying to ask and answer questions in the same breath. “I’m going to keep you a few minutes all to myself,” declared Alice, “because I have so much to tell you, Margaret. So much I could pniy hint at it in my letters. I could not express one-half the happiness I longed for you to share. ” “I am so glad, dear,” Margaret answered. “So very glad for you and for Bertie, roll me all about it now.” It was fully fifteen minutes before Alice sent the message telling her uncle that Margaret was there. It brought the Colonel in very quick time. “Oh, Colonel,” she' cried, and the'next second she was folded in his arms. “Back again, Margaret. I am so glad, child. This time we mean to keep you. Bless your dear heart; it does my eyes good to see you. Even though you have grown so thin and your face is white as our own snow-balls.”

“Colonel, you hurt my vanity. I shall grow wonderfully fat and well in a few weeks. You won’t know me. Brian thinks I have some color already.” “Brianl Let Brian go to the devil! I beg your pardon, my dear. I see I have horrified you. I am not overpleased with Brian, as you may guess. I dare say you find excuses for the scamp, however. I am glad ho has some grace left. You women can usually manage men. I was getting ready to come and shoot him, but I must acknowledge that your method has been more effectual.” “He is growing tired of doing nothing,” she answeied, without meeting the Colonel’s glance, “and he has decided to practice his profession here. I dare say he will become as highly respected as dear uncle Stephen was.” “Highly respected! Fiddlesticks! There it is again, Margaret. The outcome of prejudice, most probably. I beg your paidon a second time, and predict that Brian will become all that you want to make him. If he doesn’t I’ll " “Shoot him, I suppose,” put in Margaret, with laughing eyes. “That would be a fatal blow to my hope 3. I beg you you will spare me the humiliation of failure. And please give Brian credit on his own account.” “Certainly, my dear, all he deserves; though I must add that I don't consider the demand excessive. Alice, isn’t that that your rascally husband bawling down-stairs? I hope you have no intention of going to him. Let him use his long legs and come up to you. ” “He is using them," obseived Margaret, smiling at the long, heavy strides ascending the steps. “Alice, don’t be jealous, please, if I say that Bertie is one of the nicest men in this world.” “Thanks for the compliment, which wasn’t intended for my ears. I just heard from jour groom that you had condescended to honor us with a v.sit.” And Bertie burst into the room. “It is so natural to find you here,” he added. “Father feels ten years younger from your very presence. And you are looking better much better than when I saw you last, though you might still be the original of Tennyson’s ‘O rare, pale Margaret.’ ” “Nonsense,” interrupted the Colonel, rather testily. “Don’t be a tool, Bertie. What a long tongue you have." “You see, Margaret,” observed Bertie, with laughing eye 3, “my appreciative father still allows his admiration of my talents to surprise him into little affectionate speeches. You must not think anything of it. He is very proud of me.” “Humph!” was the contemcuous reply, at which Margaret and Alice laughed. Throughout the visit the cheerful badinage continued, and when sho was ready to go home, after not a little pressure to stay longer, Ber ie declared his intention of rid ng with her. "It was so good of you to come,” she said, after they had left The Cedars

and he had expressed his pleasure In Brian’s changed conduct. “You knew I had something to say to you.” “Your eyes tell all your secrets, Margaret What Is that something?” “ Can you not guess? It affects Brian and you. You have always been such good friends until very lately, and I am so anxious for those old feelings to be renewed. The circumstanoes of your last meeting were not—very pleasant He will remember this, and perhaps you wUI remember It too. lam going to ask you to forget it When I recall all that you have done for me before, I feel perfectly confident that you will not refush this favor. You understand me, I am sure?” “Understand! Who can fqpl to understand such goodness as yours? When I think of that, it is all the harder to forget the suffering he has caused you. Perhaps I cannot promise, Margaret. ” “Oh, yes, you can. The suffering you speak of may have been of great advantage. I may become the better and the stronger for it. Besides, Brian has struggled and suffered too. You can never know how much. Even I can never know how much. And he is trying now. For that he deserves oredit. I think you will have to do as I wish, Bertie. Indeed, I an* sure you will.” “There, I have nothing more to'say. You always have your way. I dare say we don’t realize what Brian had to overcome before lie won his victory, and as far as my words or actions are concerned, he shall have no reminder of the past.” “Thank you," was the grateful answer. “I never liked you better or admired you more than 1 do now. ” He smiled his response as they turnejl In at the gates of Elmwood. As they approached the door Margaret saw Brian waiting to meet her.' He had evidently not expected to see Bertie, and Margaret noticed a slight embarrassment upon his face. “I have Bertie with me,” she said, riding olose to him. “He has come all the way from The Cedars to see you.” “Little hypocrite.” murmured Bertie under his breath. “Don’t you think it wrong to toil ttb3?” The next second he had assisted her from her horse and turned to Brian. No word passed between them, but their hand-cla-p held a language and a mean* Ing of its own. |TO BE CONTINUED, j

CANDLES FROM PLANTS.

Vegetables Which Bear Wax and Tallow —Facts About Camphor. Several very curious substances of an inflammable nature are produced by plants, said a naturalist to a Washington Star writer. Many vegetable species bear wax, which in the form of minute scales on the surface of the plum and other stone fruit makes what Is called the “bloom. ” It exists so abundantly in the fruit of a Virginia inytle that the latter has received the name of “candle berry.” These berries are collected in great quantities for their wax and candles made from them burn with remarkable brightness and freedom from smoke, at the same time giving out a pleasant fragrance. A wax-bearing tree exists in South Africa, the berries of which yield a substance which is made into candles by the Dutch. There are several species of wax palms in South America. One of them has its leaves covered with scales of wax, while the trunk of another kind is covered with the wax as with a varnish. A substance very like tallow is yielded by a tree in China, the seed vessels of which are hard, brownish husks. Each of them contains three round white kernels, about the size and shape of hazelnuts. These kernels have small stones inside them, around which the fatty matter lies. From the pit of the stone an oil for burning in lamps Is pressed. Almost all the candles used in the south of China are made from this vegetable tallow. A tree abounds on the Malabar coast of India called the “piney” which bears a pulpy fruit that yields a great quantity of solid tallow approaching wax in firmness and superior to animal fat for the manufacture of candles. Another remarkable inflammable substance secreted by plants is camphor. It is chiefly obtained from a species of laurel native to the East Indies. In preparing it pieces of the roots are put into an iron vessel tightly covered. When the vessel is heated the camphor rises in the form of vapor and is condensed on the cover. That is the primitive method, iat all events, though I believe that it is improved upon by newly invented processes. In old trees the camphor is sometimes found, when the trunks are split open, in a very pure £tate, forming small concretions or “tears.”

An Important Omission.

The mother’s suspicions were aroused, says the Detroit Free Press, and that night, when the joung man left the house and the daughter came up stairs, she interviewed her. “Elizabeth," she said, sternly, “didn’t I hear Mr. Smipley hissing you in the parlor as I came along the hall?” “No, mamma, you didn’t,” responded the daughter emphatically. “Well, didn’t he try to kiss you?" persisted the mother. “Yes, mamma, ” demurely. The mother spoke triumphantly. “I knew it,” she eaid. “Did you permit him to do so?” “No, ma’am, I did not. I told him you had always taught me that I should not permit any young man to kiss me.” “That was right, that was right, my dear,” said the mother encouragingly. “And what did he say to that’" The girl blushed, but was undaunted. “He asked me if you had ever told me that I was not to kiss a young man.” The mother began to feel that possibly she had omitted a vital link in the chain of her instructions. “What did you tell him?” she asked nervously. “I said I didn’t remember it if you had.” Tho girl stopped, and the mother broke out urgently: “Well, goon—goon." “I guess that’s what you heard, mother!” And the daughter waited for the storm to burst. Some naval officers testing a new projectile oil the Atlantic coast were so successful as to sink a schooner. The fact that the vessel was threequarters of a mile from the line of fire says much for the efficiency of the projectile and the accuracy of tho man who aimed it. Hereafter when projectiles are being tested schooners should scurry for safety djrectly into line of Are. TnE estimate of the Kansas wheat crop by the State Board of Agriculture is 60.000,000 bushels. As the wheat so far threshed is turning out an exceptionally good quality, there seems to be no reason for doubting that the State has the best crop it has ever grown. Mat—Your last suitor, Mr. Wait, seems very magnetic. Belle—Yes, I gave him both poles. May—What do you mean? Belle- A positive negative.—Truth.

slow growth of the oak. Sixty Tears Old Before Good Seed Is Produced—Activity of the Boots. The extreme limit of the age ol the oak Is not exactly known, says the Ohio State Journal, but sound and living specimens are at least 1,000 yoars old. The tree thrives best in a deep, tenacious loam with rocks in It Stagnant water is one of its aversions. It grows better on a comparatively poor sandy soil than on rich ground imperfectly draft ned. The trunk, at first Inclined toba.irregular in shape; straightens at maturity into a grand cylindrical, shaft. The oak does not produce good seed until it is more than sixty years old. The acorn is the fruit of the oak; the seed germ is a very, small object at the pointed end - of the acorn, with the future root t uppermost. The acorn drops, and its com tents doubtless undergo important molecular and chemical changes while lilies under its winter, cohering of leaves or snow. In the mild warmth of spring the acorn swells, the little- root elongates, emerged from the end of the shell, and no matter what the position of the acorn turns downward. The. root penetrates the soil two or three inches before the ~stalk begins to show itself, and grows upward. The “meat” of the acorn nourishes both root and stylk, and two years may pass before its store of food js entirely exhausted. At the end as a year the young oak has a root twelve to eighteen inches long, with numerous shorter rootlets, the stalk being from six to eight inches high. In this stage It differs from the sapling, and again the sapling differs frppi the tree. To wutch these transformations under the iens Is a fascinating occupation. If aq oak could be suspended in the air with all its roots,and perfect and uhobscured, the sight would be considered wonderful. The activity of the roots represents a great deal of power. Tney bore into the soil, and flatten themselves to penetrate a crack in a rock. Invariably the tips turn away from the light. The growing point of a tiny outer root is back of the tip a small distance. The tip is driven In by the force behind it, and searches the soil for the easiest points of entrance. When the tips pr ( e destroyed by obstructions, cold, heat, or other causes, a new growth starts in varying directions. The first roots thicken, and become girders to support the tree, no longer feeding It dlreclly, hut serving as conduits for the moisture and nourishments gathered by the outer rootlets, which are constaantly boring their way into fresh territory. These absorb water charged with soluble earth, salts, sulphates of lime, magnesia and potash, etc , which- passes through the larger roots, stems, and branches to the leaves, the laboratory of new growth. An oak tree-may have 700,000 leaves, and from Jpne to October evaporate 226 times Its own weight of water. Taking account of the new wood growth, “we obtain some idea of the enormous gain of matter and energy from the outside universe which goes oh each summer.” Oak timber is not the lieavijst, toughest, nor most beatlful, but it combines more good qualities than any other kind. Its fruit is valuable food, and its bark useful in certain industries. An oak pile submerged for 650 years in London bridge came up in sound condition, and there are specimens from the Tower of London which date from the time of William Rufus. To produce a good oak grove requires from 140 to 200 years. It seems a long time to an American, but forestry Is a perpetual branch of economics when once established.

FOR CURIOUS BOYS.

How to Have Fua with Gunpowder and a Glass of Water. Gunpowder, as is well known, is composed of potassic nitrate (saltpeter), sulphur and charcoal. Of these ingredients the first is very soluble in water and the others insoluble. The amateur chemist can

A SIMPLE METHOD OF ANALYSIS.

perform an interesting experiment by separating the soluble salt. It is only necessary to place a little gunpowder in a glass half filled with water and allow It to stand a day or so In a warm place—such as a sunny windowsill. The saltpeter will first dissolve in the water, and then creeping up the sides of the glass will crystallize around the edge, as shown in the illustration. The creeping property of certain salts is a very interesting —and sometimes a very annoying—one to the .chemist. Ammoniac chloride, or sal ammoniac, possesses it in a high degree, and it may often be observed incrusting the edges of electric batteries, in which its solution is usdd as an exciting agent. It may he prevented by covering the edges of the vessel containing it with grease, wax or paraffin. The residue left in the tumbler consists pf sulphur and charcoal, but there is no simple method of separating them. The sulphur will dissolve in bisulphide of carbon, but we cannot recommend the use of this inflammable and offensive liquid to the amateur in chemistry.

In-Breeding.

Experiments made demonstrate that in-breeding of swine has done more than its share to spread the hog cholera, debility rendering the animals incapable of withstanding the attacks of the disease, as well aj causing them to be more susceptible to it. A breeder who used boars of different breeds every season, such ai Berkshire, Poland China, and Essex, found that the disease rarely appeared and the anlisals more quickly recovered.

FOR OUR LITTLE FOLKS.

A COLUMN OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO THEM. YThtt Children Hava Dene, Wktt .They Are Doing, and What They Should Do to I’m Their Childhood Day*,

To Bylo-Town. What’s the way to Bylo-town? Bylo-town? Bylo-town? What’s the way to Bylo-town? Baby wants to ga Cuddled In her cradle low, That's the way, That's the way: Cuddled In her cradle low. That's the way tor babe to go. That's the way. That’s the way, Way to Bylo-town. Shut her sleepy little eyes, 1 hat’s the way. That’s the way; 6hut her sleepy little eyes. Then how fust the rocker flies. That's the way, That’s the way, Way to Bylo-town. Keep the little lashes down, That's the way, f hat’s the wayi little lashes down, That's the way to Bylo-town, That’s the way, That’ssthe way, Way to By 10-to wo, —Good Housekeeping. ”

Size Inconvenient. Little Girl—What do you do when you see anysing funny in church? Homely Woman—Do? “Yes’m. I don’t sec how you keep from laughin’” V “You don’t?” “Why, no’rn. Stufflin’ your handkerchief in your rnouf wouldn’t da any good, ’cause your mouf is so big, you know." Good as a Bell. City Child—What is that queer thing in that Held? It looks like a man only it isn’t. Country Cbild-eThat’s a scare-crow. Father put it there, after planting the field, to frighten the crows away; but I think, from tho way the crows act, they has a idea it’s to let them know dinper is ready. Jt Looked Busy. “Papa,” said Willie, on his first day in the mountains, “I want a cloud,” “You can;t get a cloud, my boy." “Yes, you can, papa. There’s one up on that mountain now, and you can go up and tie a rope to it, and lead it down; oh, awful easy,"— Harper’s Young People. Fooled t'.ie Donltat. Mother—Mercy me! The dentist has pulled the wrong tooth. Little Dick (gleefully)—l fooled him bully. “Fooled him?” “Yes’em. I told him that was the one. I knew if he touched th’ achin' one it ud hurt awful."—Good Nows.

Tl»e Boy Had a Front Seat. Between the shafts of a coal-cart a horse Jogged along at a leisurely pace one day last week, says thi Brooklyn Eagle. It appeared to have the whole day before it, and looked as though it was ruminating on the perversities of fate as manifested in the social distinction between tho hauler of a heavy load of coal and the animal that wags its docked tall in front of a stylish T-cart. It was going in the direction ot Fulton street, and had just loft u coal-yard situated on a thoroughfare where the aforesaid coal-yard is, very properly, regarded as aneyesore. It* driver was a contented-looking Irishman, to whom the comforts pf a wellirnoked pipe seemed to bo appealing, to the exclusion of everything else in the world except the companion by his side. Social distinctions were not troubling him at all, notwithstanding the fact that his companion was manifestly at one end of the social line, while he was at tho other extreme. A boy in something suggestive of a Fauntleroy suit sat beside him, but there was nothing effemlnato about the lad. ll* was evidently about 8 years of age—that is to say, ho was exactly old enough to appreciate the precis* character of the exalted privilege he was enjoying. Nothing could fee more apparent than that the topmost surd fill £'or the young man’s am-' Oltion was being gratified. As' no jther horses were in gjght, and tjie danger of collision w'as therefore quite i-emote, the daintily attired young man was, for the time being, actually master of the proud situation. The reinß were in his grasp, and he was shouting “Get up! get up!” with unnecessary but most enjoyable vigor and enthusiasm. His vocal Industry has no effect whatever, either upon the animal or upon its regular driver. The horse jogged along at no accelerated speed, as though it understood the situation perfectly well, and the smoker occasionally cast an approving glance at the youngster. The procession attracted some attention, and pedestrians pnjoyed the contrast. About three hours later the same turn-out again made its appearance in the same thoroughfare. The boy did not seem to be quite so daintily attired. Not that his face was in reality any blacker than that of the regular driver, not at all! Both faces were just about as black as they could be, but the boy’s face looked the blacker of the two, because of the contrast between its color and that of such parts of it as had escaped the thick layer of coal-dust. It was quite apparent that he had helped to unload the coal, but whether he had risen to the dignity of actually using the shovel was not explained. In front of a handsome brownstone house the young man was himself finally unloaded. He did not seem to have the least misgiving. He had about him the air of one who has at last achieved the object of a perfectly legitimate and laudable ambition. His mother was looking out of the window as the coal cart materialized. She had long ago become alarmed about her soil, but she did not know him until he opened the gate. Then she raced down stairs, at once relieved and mortified. “Ob, what a sight!” she exclaimed. "Where on earth have you been, you young scamp?” “it’s pretty hard work, mamma, but you can bet it’s lots o’ fun, an’ I had a front seat ail the way. You should try it"

SOME PRECIOUS RELICS.

Mementos of Our Orest Men In the Museum »t Washington. The most valuable' Jewels in the National Museum in Washington are the relics of our great men near the entrance. These arc worth tens of thousands of dollars in intrinsic value of the gold and jewels of which they are made, to say nothing of the workmanship. There are swords by tho dozen set with diamonds, guns inlaid with precious stones, and cunes which have headsof gold in which gems are imbedded. A guard is detailed to watch them night and day. Each case has a burglar alarm connected with it, and the least meddling would set an electric bell ringing and call the Museum army together. The Grant collection is one. It is made up of hundreds of gold articles exquisitely engraved, and brought together from all parts of the world, of rare stones, of china more valuable than though it were of solid gold, and of other articles which; if meltod. down, would fully pay the President’s salary for a year or more. In one case there is a complete collection of Uold and silver coins of Japan, whtch has ft \yonjlerful numismatic value, as it is the only complete set existence except one in t,Ue Japanese treasury. Some of the gold coins are a quarter of an inch thick and as large around .as the top of a dinner-pail. Seven of them cost $5,000, and thero are perhaps a hundred in the collectipn. Iu another case there are half a dozen large elephant tusks which the King of Siam gave to General Grant, and there are six pieces of costly jade given him by one of the princes of China. All of the swords presented to him are there, and many of them have diamonds set in the hilts. Tho sword given to General Grant by tho Sanitary Fair at New Yorjc has a solid gold head, representing the .Goddess of Liberty, which has two rubles, two diamonds, and two sapphires set in it. Tho sword of. Chattanooga has fourteen diamonds imbedded in it, and many of tho gifts which he received from foreign monarchs are of gold set with diamonds. One of the medals which are in tho collection contains SOOO worth of gold, and is as largo around as tho bottom of a tin cup. Tho gold articles in this collection would fill a peck measuro, and many cities, too, gave General Grant a gold feqx containing the papers in which their freedom was presented. The box which he received at Ayr, Scotland, Is as big as a cigar box and is of solid gold. The city of Glasgow gave him a still larger one, beautifully chased, and the gold box which he received from tho city of London is a wonder of drtistlc hearing an engraving of tho Capitol on one side and tho London Guildhall on the other. Enameled on its golden surface are the union jack,*tho red, white, and blue, and the God-, dess of Liberty shaking hands with the British Lion. There is a beautiful cigar case of gold from the King of Slam, a model of tho table on which Lee’s surrender was signed, in solid gold, and a solid gold invitation card as large as a postal card and about five times as thLck, which was sent to General Grant in a solid silver envelope, in-j vltlng him to a masked ball at San| Francisco. Thero are a number ofl silver menus, a gold-handled knife! which the miners of Idaho gave him, gold-headed canes set with diamonds, and medals and other articles of gold. —-Jewelers’ Weekly.

A TROTTING DOG.

He’* a Canuck and Challenge* All Dog* of Amerlog. j Dogs that can trot in fast time are somewhat rare, but thero is one over in Brighton, Ont., the owner of which is prepared to back it in a trotting race with any other trotting dog in America. This dog, which trots under the British flag, is named

DOC AND HIS DRIVER.

Doc, and is owned and driven by Willie Ketchum. Doc is an old campaigner, and has trotted exhibition heats at races and agricultural fairs for several years. He pulls a tiny sulky, and on Ice or a hard track can trot half a mile in 1 minute 31 seconds and a quarter in 45 seconds. Doc is rather a small setter, but his stride is said to be extraodinary. From two to four furlongs is the distance the Canadian wonder usually covers. Anger and Love. Man has an unfortunate readiness in the evil hour after receiving an affront to draw together all the moon- 1 spots on the other person into an outline of shadow and a night-piece, and to transform a single deed into a whole life, and this only in'order that he may thoroughly relish the pleasure of being angry. In love he has fortunately the opposite faculty of crowding together all the light parts and rays of Its object in one focus, by means of the burning-glass of Imagination, and letting in Its sun without its spots; but he too generally does then only when the beloved and often censured being is already beyond the skies. In order, however, that we should do this sooner and oftener, we ought to act like Winckleman, but (hi# in another way., As he setasidSa particular half-hour of each day for the purpose of beholding and meditating on his too happy existence at Rome, so we ought daily or weekly to dedicate and sanctify a solitary hour for the purpose of summing up the virtues of our families, our wives, our children, and our friends, and viewing them in this beautiful and crowded assemblage of their good qualities. Indeed we should do so for this reason, that we may not forgive and love too late, when the beloved beings are already departed hence, and are beyond our reach. The discovery of what is true, and the practice of what is good, are the two most important objects of life.

THE WAY THINGS RUN

IN THE GREATEST OF GREAT STATES, INDIANA. Thine* Which Ban Lately Happened Within It* Border*—Soma Pleasant amt, Some Baal Heading. Minor State Item*. Thr diphtheria is abating in Fork Wayne. Nom.KBvn.LE has 21 teachers in her public schools. Richmond has SBO,OOO worth of public Improvements under way. The Evansville Y. M. C. A. has 621 members, and continues to gipw. The seed wheat swindler is making his annual rounds in Northern Indiana. Michigan City masons are taking steps toward building a $50,000 temple. John Renst of Huntington, was fatally injured by being trampled by a horso. Ai.lkn SriNKS, a colored rosident of Hamilton County, died at the ago ot 105 years. Diphtheria is spreading rapidly about Newport. At Perrysvllle there are 40 cases and the Schools have closed. RobkhtWoods, the Presidont of tho First National Bank of Knlghtstown and a pioneer of Uonry County, is dead. Footpads held up Jacob Carroll near Arcadia, and wbilo one hold a revolver tb bis head tho other rlQed his pockets. George Breiyogkl, a bl-chlorido pationt at Vincennes, became wild, escaped, and cut his throat He will recover. •’ Mrs. James Watson of Crawjordsvillo, mado an unsuccessful attonfpt to commit sulcldo on account of domestic affairs. John Stadtlkh’s residence and saloon at Muncio was totally destroyed bv an lncondiary lire. Loss, insurance, $1,400. The public school bulldlug at Ridgevllle, Jav County, was burned. Loss, $7,000. No insuranca Supposed InceudlariA. Benton, the Huntington burglar, who was tried in tho Wabash Cjrcuit Court, was sentenced to two years in tho penitentiary. Frank Hol/.oway, a Martin County tanner, is in jail at Shoals for killing Thomas Gllllck, his neighbor, during a quarrel. John Rokbock of Huntington, received a charge of shot in the knee wbilo hunting quails, and will have to undergo amputation. A bund fiddler played on Anderson street corners for a week recently, and two pennies were tossed iuto his box. He has moved to Mancie. The farm dwolllng of James Murdock, of the Woa Plains, Tippecanoe County, was ontiroly destroyed by fire. Loss, $3,500; partially insured. Tiik two-horse team of Barclay Moon was struck on crossing the Panhandle tracks at Windfall, by tho fast mail train and literally ground to pieces. Robert Drake, a wealthy iron manufacturer of Newark, N. J. t aged 72 years, died at Martinsville. His son is a surgical instrument doalor at Indianapolis. The State Hoalth Board has directed tho local Board of Lafaveue to investigate the sanitary condition of the old Erie canal and fill It up if thought best. Burglars secured and baulod away in a wagon clothing valued at $l,lOO fromJ. B. McGlaughlin’s storo, at Lebanon. Threo valuable horsos were also missing. Mrs. H. E. Talmage, an did resident of Westvilie, was struck by a Baltimore and Onto engine and instautiv killed. Tho accident occurred at a road crossing near Allda. The Knlghtstown Agrioultural Society, one of the most successful, in the country, has determined to disband, and will soil its buildings and other property at public sale. Miss Minerva McGbuder, aged 21, Greonsburg, attempted suicide by shooting herself lu the head and inflicting a dangorous wound. She is an orphan and was despondent The Peru Jury, In the case of R. A. Vandyne, of Wabash, charged with outrage on his niece, Miss Mullenlx, a halfwitted girl, brought In a verdict of eight years lu tho penitentiary. ' At Elkhart while taking a near cut fjom school, Ida Redor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Reder.wasrun over and killed by a train In the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern yards. There was a man in Jail at Fort Wayne recenUy who hgd boon a cowboy, pedalor,' fftoacuor, phrenologist,gambler, soldier, detective, had draak straight alcohol and written a bgyk. « • The 10-ycar-oiu son of Frank of Chosterton, died of hydrophobia, making the second death In the county from the lamo causo within a week. He was a QIMdPE about * pntfr ago.. Harvey SATTSuft'STfE, President of the Martinsville First National Bank, and his brother-in-law, Dr. J. I* Stephens, of Lebanon, Ohio, will erect a $20,Ouo sanitarium in Martinsville at an early day. ■ A battle royal occurred at Wallace’s circus winter quarters, two miles east of Peru,in which five Jumbo elephants wero the participants. For some time an enmity has existed between Prince and Diamond, the two greatest beasts of the herd. The enmity culminated in a big scrimmage during the absence of keeper Sweeny. Diamond, with a weight of four tons, was the aggressor, but Prince was bis match and succeeded in breaking his tusk and fairly crowding him through tho heavy brick wail of the building, which fell upon them both. All the elephants broke loose from their chains, at once engaging In the melee, and tor half an hour pandemonium prevailed. Quiet was finally rostored.fbut not before they wero badly hurt and the place presented the appearance of a slaughter-house. The noise and screams of the jungle giants could be heard for nearly a mile. The Edlngburgh Daily Call changes hands, G. A. Quick retiring aud Charles F. Pruitt takjng the editorial chair and publisher’s desk. Muncik cigar-makers are on a strike because the manufacturers refuse to agree to the new scale of wages presented last week. Joseph Shackman, of the firm of Shackraan & Nadel, clothing dealers, and a pioneer among the business meD of Northern Indiana, died at Elkhart of gangrene, the result of cutting a toe while trlpimlng a corn a few day£ ago. He was widely known among the cloth-ing-dealers of the country. * The barn of Thomas Williams, five miles north of Liberty, was destroyed by fire. Five horses, including a SSOO thoroughbred mare, were burned, together with about $1,200 worth of grain and farm machinery. Loss partially covered by insurance. Daniel Rhoads, living near Anderson, was returning home, driving a spirited horse. When within sight of home the animal took fright at a bicycle, ridden by Walter Carpenter, a young schoolteacher. Mr. Carpenter dismounted, but the horse lunged, and in turning into the barnyard upset the buggy. Mrs. Rhoads fell on her head. She was carried Into her home m an unconsgious condition, from which sho never recovered.