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oy * i L 4 i : i Thve Ligomier Bauner, LIGONIER, B it INDIANA. T WHAT THOU DOEST, DO WELL. If thou hast but one song to sing, ~, A little song, may be, ; g O, sing it then the best thou canst, ; All blithe and earnestly. - Think not it is not worth thy while To let thy voice be heard; Some weary one may hear thy song ‘With joy for every word. If thou hast but a task to do, . - Perchance a little one, O, slight it not because 'tis small, ° : But let it be well done. g It may be one will see thy work, And, reading thy desire, g Say: ‘“He who doeth small things well . Is worthy, come up higher.” 5 If thou hast but one hour to spend, - on't think it matters naught H& it be spent, but spend it well, : And give thy earnest thought To its demands, for time alone oo The story e’er can tell ; Of wasted time, so count thy hours - And spend thy moments well. : “Who doeth small things well will prove To higher trusts most trune; “Therefore be sure thou doest well ‘Whate’er thou hast to do. And if thou hast a task to do, Or just a tale to tell, Remember, if 'tis worth thy time, . 'Tis worth thy doing well. —Annie Wall, in Farm and Fireside?

MURDER WILL OUT.

The Private Counselor’'s Story of

the Mark in the Bible.

¢“Of a verity, Zerr Magistrate,” said the Private Counselor, ‘you have just given a striking proof of the possession of thode powers of induction and deduction that characterize the born judicial investigator. It this' infinitesimally small detail, so easily overlooked by a mind less keen, had escaped your attention, there is little doubt that the culprif would have remained forever undetected. But who knows? Since we are on this subject, I could tell youa strange story, stranger even than the one you have just related, in which I e¢hanced to play a role that it is your duty to assuimne officially, I, too, once discovered a culprit, and under circumstanees so extraordinary, by means of a clue so slender and improbable, that the more I think of it the more the whole affair seems to me like a genuine miracle. I don’t refer to it to-exalt myself, for I should have discovered nothing without the direct interposition” of ‘Chance—or, Providence, if you prefer the term.”’ :

“Your preamble,” replied the Magistrate, ¢‘has already greatly excited my-curiosity. 1 hope you will relate the incident.’” " ¢“Willingly. But let us first adjourn to the library. Iknow you are an admirer of rare tomes, and I must show you mine. Don’t be afraid that they will take me away from my tale; on the contrary, they will lead usdirectiy to it, and in the most natural lanner possible.”

The two men passed from the dining-room where the above conversation had taken place into a well-filled library—four walls of shelves bristlirg with formidable folios. Every collector of books has his specialty, and that of Private Counselor Otto Grotius was Bibles. He boasted of being the possessor of several editions not owned by the richest theological library in Germany—that of ‘“Georgia Augusta,’”’ in the ancient university of Gottingen. The Magistrate, anxious to get to the story, did not, perhaps, admire as they deserved to be admired, the venerable iilustrated edition of the Holy Scriptures issued about 1456, by Gutenberg and Faust; Luther’s first Bible ; the polyglott edition of Plantin; that of Aldus Manucius, and many others. At last the Private Counselor took from his shelves two shabby, though modern-looking volumes, and said with a sarcastic smile:

“I have kept these for the last; they are the bright, particular jewels of my collection 2 : :

“What? Call this cheap reprint of the last century a jewel?” ' | “Just so, my dear guest, and. for a double reason. In the first place, the edition was .given to my father by the great Frederick himself, who has condescended to ornament one of the two volumes with marginal notes, more witty, indeed, than reverential, as might be expected from the illustrious friend of Voltaire. In the second place—and to this, Herr Magistrate, let me call your especial attention—because the other volume bears between its leaves, as a mark, this bit of yellow paper, commonplace looking enough, by itself, but with which nothing would induce me to part, since it gave me the clue to the terrible and mysterious tragedy to which I have referred.™ ;

“This time,” interrupted the Magistrate, 41 trust you will not keep me Jonger in suspense.” The Private Counselor sat down and thus began: : In the spring of 179- I married, arnd the Frau Private Counselor, my beloved departed wife, brought me as her dowry this little estate of §--—, which we readily chose as our home, seeing that it is equally distant from the cwpital and the summer residence of his highness, the Grand Duke. You have been kind enough to admire our old garden, laid out after French models, with its boxbordered walks, its yews trimmed pyramidwise, and its marble .deities pretentiously clothed in operatic costumes; but I have not yentured to lead you further a-field to show you the useful after the beautiful—the commonplace vegetable garden after the ornamental park! Inow regret it, for it.is probable that you have never seen a haunted house, and I could have shown you one there, or, at least, one reputed to be such. : z

There is nothing forbidding in the aspect of this insignificent structure where my valet assures me that he meets souls in pain. It is a one-story cottage whose thatched roof is starred with stone-crop, and whose front is entirely hidden by honey-suckle, jasmine and Bengal roses, If .one happens to enter one sees that the win«dows are no longer glazed, that the fireplace is filied with fallen plaster, that the inside partitions are 80 worn as to show the lath, and that the walls are crumbling ;under the combined action of mildew and saltpeter. This queer structure has for a long time or‘tfly been used as a convenient storage place for potted plants and garden implements. None of my servants would -consent to live in it, or even to go near it after nightfall. ‘When we moyed to B—— this cottage was wwocupied ? the gardener and his wife. . His name was Josias. He was an old Pomeranian cuirassier whom my father-in-lay had taken into his service, and ‘whom we retained in ours. Bhould Ilive a thousand years. Josias’ features would never fade from my memory. He was -about fifty, tall, with a strong muscular body, and with what is called a “square” ‘head. His heavy eye-brows met, making a ‘straight line across his face. He wore no ‘beard, but had thick red hair. If there is any truth in physiognomy he wufmbitious. -obstinate, and not at all sensitive. It seems

‘that he had several times tried to improve his worldly condition, but had always failed—a circumstance of which he was acwgustomed to complain bitterly. . “Btill lam bound to be rich,” he would :add; “I can’t tell how, or when, but some ' «day fortune will come—it will come.’’ | He was a hard master to those employed :about the place, and seemed to take delight 4n tormenting animals, beating the dogs, for ‘wexample, not apparently out of anger, but ‘because it gave him pleasure. On two oo‘ieasions, when interlopers had climbed over “shio garden wall, he bad broken their logs

the peasants declared that he cast speils on the cattle, and that if he looked at a young girl in a certain way she would from that moment fall under his diabolical influence. 'Josias had married late in life. His wife was younger than he, and, without being aware of it, increased his unsavory reputation. Not that she was suspected of doing any thing wrong, but she was believed to be the victim of her husband’s occult practices. Blonde, pale, with ligh blue eyes and soft cheeks, she trembled before her spouse as a poor bird trembles that has been fascinated by a serpeant. Besides, she was subject to lethargic fits. Sometimes she would remain for days wrapped in a strange slumber so closely resembling death that when she was first attacked they came near burying her alive.

Such were husband and wife. ITot having any special charge to make against Josias, who was active and honest, we never thought of discharging him, and attached but slight importance te the reports that had gained currency concerning him, | Josias, besides his work in the garden, had certain tasks assigned:him in the house. One Saturday, the day of the week he usually devoted to waxing the floor of my library, I happened to enter the room suddenly, and surprised him standing near these shelves in the act of reading this Bible. ‘On hearing me come in he closed it hastily, but, as the passage seemed to interest him greatly, not before marking the place with a bit of paper he had in his hand, the very piece you are now looking at, and which has on it an expense account for the first week of the month of July, 19—. I said nothing, seeing from his agitation that he thought he had been indiscreet. He put the volume back in its place, and as it was not this one that had been annotated by the ereat Frederick, I never thought of taking out the mark. . :

And it is just here, Herr Magistrate that the mystery begins. The next day being Sunday—take notice of the date—the .cook not having seen any thing of the Frau Josias, and becoming alarmed, went over to the cottage in the kitchen garden. She found the unfortunate woman stretched on her bed, white and rigid, her eyes wide open and the pupils dilated. ® *A lethargic attack,” remarked dJosias, without the least emotion.

The advisability of calling in a physician was suggested, but Josias would not hear of it { :

“No, no! I haven’t any money to throw away. She’'ll come to all right, as usual.” Three days later, when the body began to decompose, he at last consented that a doctor should be sent for. The latter said at once that the woman was dead, which did not seem remarkable considering the precarious condition of her health. A month before-note this fact also—Frau Josias had fallen heir to quite a nice little sum of money and had at once willed it to her husband. ; :

You will no doubt ask, Herr Magistrate, what connection there is between these events and the mark in the Bible. Have patience. : -

The Counselor stopped a moment to enjoy the interest manifested by his auditor in the narrative, and then proceeded: - After the death of his wife, Josias, rich to the. amounbt of several thousand thalers, left us and set up on his own account in the District of F——. We subsequently learned that fortune, so long waited for, continued to smile upon him, and that he had become burgomaster of his village. He was never seen again at S——, and never visited the burying-ground where the body of his wife rested. In fact, the burying-ground itself soon disappeared. It was 50 damp that miasma arose from ‘it night and day, invading the neighboring houses, and feeding the wandering fires that after dusk misled and frighted belatqd travelers. It was first ordered to be closed, and ten years later was altogether obliterated, a new strategic road having been surveyed aoross it. In the month of July, ¥—, the mattock was first used, and: sosne bones brought to the surface. One morning when the diggers were about getting to work they noticed an old beggar woman who had got into the graveyard through a hole in the wall, and was engaged in picking up the dead branches of _trees, or worm eaten pieces fallen from the wooden crosses that marked the graves. Suddenly she sprang backward in affright and gave a terrible scream. They ran up to and questioned her. She could only succeed in making them wnderstand by gestures and a few disjointed sentences, that she had seen a skull moving along the ground. | “Look, it moves I’ cried the terror-stricken woman.

Every one started back instinctively. True enough, on a heap of human remains and stones a skull came bouncing along, «-propelled by some strange energy. - One workman was of the opinion that the rector should be notified. Another—a more virile intellect—ran for a doctor. I was also sent for, and reached the spot assoon as the physician. |

He first ridiculed the cowardly superstitions of the by-standers, then stooped down, picked up the skull, and inside it found a toad, that, having got into the cerebrgl cavity through a narrow opening, was wainly trying to get out of its prison. ‘“You see,” be said,, laughing, “the——”

But he did not finish the sentence. A second discovery checked the words on his lips, and froze the smile on his face—a long steel spike, slenderias an upholsterer’s needle, was imbedded in the occiput, and must at some time have passed eantirely through the brain. ’ “Hoh! hoh!” he axclaimed. ‘g cleger assassin, that! Death instantane 5. no offnsion of blood, and, thanks %0 the hair, no visible trace. My predecessor no doubt attributed it to the rupture of an aneurism,” How to find out the name 0 .us waruo.or and that 04 LIS Vicului

In this portion of the cemetery the laborers had demolished four graves and thrown the remains in a single heap. The tombstones were the only means of identification left. - One of them bore the inscripiion:: :

*‘Here lies Cornelia Josias.” : o How to find out, for find out 1 was re. golveéd I should! ;

Suddenty a thought flashed thyough my brain like lightning. Pwo names stood before me as if printed in letters of fire. However, it was only a personal conviction; proofs were necessary. / Iran and shut myself up in my library—the very room in which we now gre. I opened.a book—this Bible. i

The proof was there.” I no Jonger suspected. I no longer . merely believed—l knew. s 3

The next day the representatizes of the law presented themselves at the residence of Josias, whom they found alor.e eating his supper.

A police officer accosted him, placed his hand on his head, on the very spot, in fact, in which the nail' had been driven through his victim’s brain, and said: ' “Josias, you have killed your wife.” The wretch shuddered, and with chattering teeth replied:

‘“Yes, yes, God has avenged her—the book—the book--I am choking.—’ and fell dead, struck by apoplexy. > And now, Herr Magistrate, open the Bible at the place where I opened it on my return from the cemetery—to the page that Josias himself marked the day before the crime. Here—Judges, Chapter IV., verse 21;read. ; : - The Magistrate took the volwme and read as follows: g ; .

“Then Jael, Heber’s wife, took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softiy unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground, for he was fast asleep and weary. 8o he died.”—From the French of A. Dorchain by J. Henry Hager, in the Cosmopolitan. —Be gentle with the cow, and sit down to her so that you can place your héad against her flank and control the movefm ~of her _‘!;gf g with your left arm, in case she steps aroundeor is ine sinesto kgl - .0 0 O Tadte ©SI I S BRSNSt N RR AN R N e R T R DSy

SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

—Four negatives were recently taken of a cannon ball that occupied only one-third of a second in passing a given space. ‘

- —The tensile strength and elastie limit of certain classes of iron increase during rest after stress beyond the elastic limit. e

—Experiments carried on at Astrakan show that the culture of the silk worm could be carried on as far north as the mouth of the Volga. . —Prof. Riley, the entomologist, has discovered an insect which preys upon boots and shoes. It can be-destroyed by a vapor of bisulphide of carbon, . . —*“Sperrylite,” a new discovery, is said to be the first mineral yet found containing platinvm as an important constituent other than the natural alloys with various metals of the platinum group. - » :

- —When nearest to the earth the planet Mars is about 36.000,000 miles away, a distance ‘‘which is,” says Prof. Young, in Popular Science News, ‘‘about 150 times that of the moon, and a century's journey for a ‘celestial limited’ running forty miles an hour, without stops.”’ : —Brick is, as ever, the favorite building material. A trade paper says: “There is no material that can be used for construction equal to brick. Every brick bears its own weight. Bricks have already passed the fiery ordeal before they are used in buildings, and are tempered.”

- —ln the new method for obtaining gas for balloons the hydrogen is gotten by heating slaked lime and powdered zine, to be inclosed in the cartridges for safe transportation; by heating this cartridge in an apparatus provided for the purpose, hydrogen gas is obtained in sufficient quantities to inflate an ordinary military balloon in three hours. ' —A Swedish Scientist claims to have discovered the secret of artificially petrifying wood, by which means he believes edifices may be built of wood and converted into stone. At present the cost is about $5OO per cubic inch, 80 that the discovery does not promise an immediate revolution in building. —Thomas A. Edison says he is now experimenting on an invention whereby electricity would be produced direct from coal, dispensing with boilers, engines, dynamos, etc. Besides, he said, this would use néarly the entire heat of coal, instead of only about five per cent., as done by the present system of burning. hein —A still body of water at a temperature of from 75 degrees :to 80 degrees, which is about the ordinary summer temperature, will evaporate about three-eights of an inch in 24 hours if there be no wind. With the wind blowirg at 20 miles an hour the evaporation will be about an inch. The amount will vary considerably with the variations ixfr moisture of the air. ;

—The application of electricity to the production of brilliant effects on the dramatic and operatic stage opens a new era in scenic representation. The sun, moon and stars, clouds, hail, rain and snow, sandstorms of the desert, flower gardens, fire-flies and almost everything involving color, light or shade, are represented with a verisimilitude which has never before been egualled.

IMPORTED PREACHERS.

A Comparison of the American and the English Pulpits.

€omparing the pulpit of the two nations intellectually, we mneed not fear the verdict, although England has a multitude of grand preachers, while the Scotch and Irish pulpits enjoy- a world-wide renown. A well-known | English clergyman has lately asserted that ‘¢here can be no doubt that the pulpit of the United States is more ably filled, taking it all in all, than is the pulpit of the United Kingdom.” We may well doubt so generous an assertion, for many of the British clergy who visif here easily convince us how much we gain by studying their methods. Their familiarity with the ipsissima verha of the Bible is amazing; and the chief charm amd strength of their preaching is that, basing it so en‘tirely upon Holy Writ. they yet adorn ‘the exposition of the text with such a wealth of illustration and with so much earnestness and sound judgment as to lead captive both heart and head in the listener. This seems to be the explanation of the fact that so many pulpits in New York and in other seaboard cities are occupied by British clergy-. ‘men. We must find in them something which we miss in most of our own. clergy. The factis not so discreditable to us as it appears upon the surface. - It certainly bears witness to the absence here of a certain provincial narrowness which refuses to welecome truth or power unlegs dressed in a native garb. And we must not forget that these clergy referred to are picked men, who would be successful anywhere and in almost any profession, for there are hundreds of British clergy in America filling obscure pulpits and utterly unknown. And again, such able men come to us from a land ‘where, as already shown, fhe temptations for clever young men to enter business life are not as great as here, and where (at least in the Church of ‘England) many gifted clergymen who do not happen to command influence or patronage are free to look elsewhere for appreciation and usefulness. Our parishes welcome such men, and they are wise to do so. They come also, as ‘refreshing and stimulating influence to our American clergy. Nor have we any reason to doubt, from their own _confession, that they are conscious of receiving as well as giving in their intercourse with our pastors; And we ‘ave roason wwa%m Betion st hearing the testimony lately offered by one. of the most eminent among them, who fiwmmflw‘ifl%fi?fimwfiw declare that I never met with a come e denominations in New York, especially for this, that they have no jealousies Ry e N e ”;.é}&“"*‘““-:«ffl%#fi?gkfl“kfwfgfiy’i&:ygfi%fiw}f&%

FOR OUR YOUNG FOLKS,

HOW MANY WOULD THERE BE?

It three little houses stood in a row, With never a fence to divide, : And if each littie house had three little maids At'play in the garden wide, And if each little maid had three little cats (Three times three times three), And if each little cat had three little kits How many kits would there be?

And if each little maid had three little friends With whom she loved to play, And if each little friendLhad three little dolls . In dresses and ribbons gay, And if friends and dolls and cats and kits ‘Were all invited to tea, And if none of them all should send regrets, How many guests would there be? 2 —Eudora S. Bumstead, in St. Nicholas.

TWO LOADS ON TWO ROADS.

A Double Mistake, a Double Joke, a Double Sleigh-Ride 'and a Double Driver. ; |

“Now, John,” said Aunt Clara, as she cuddled Baby Fay a little closer, “have we got every thing in thesleigh, my dear?”

“Well, I should hope so!” laughed Uncle John. “Here are all the laprobes and the handbag and three children and two dollies and the great big dinner-basket! If it were not firstclass sleighing, I don't believe old Prince could draw so much.” -

And he tucked the robes about Kitty and Jessie, who were nestling and giggiing on a snug little seat at his feet. Then he shodk the lines, and gave the word to Prince, and away they flew to Uncle Charley’s farm. = : “Let's take the spring road this time, papa,” said Kitty, ‘“for it is sucha lovely day, Uncle Chariey’s folks might be coming to see us.” “And they always come by the spring road,” put in Jessie., “Harry told me 0.1 | .

“And such dinners as they bring!” cried Kitty. ‘You can’t get such things in town.” |

Now I must tell you about the dinners. Uncle John's folks and Uncle Charley’s folks were very fond of visiting each other; and they liked to have the dinner reddy beforehand, so that the two aunties could have plenty of time to talk together, and to play games with the children. That is why each family took a| great big dinnerbasket when they went to see the other. " { 2

It was a little later that same morning when Uncle Charley put an armful of sweet hay into his big farm sled, and tucked the quilts and blankets around Aunt Mary and their three children. “We must go by the hill road this time, papa,” said Harry, “for what if Uncle John’s folks should be coming to see us? You know|they always come that way; Jessie said so last time I saw her,” 1

And so just as Uncle Charley is fairly out of sight on the hill road, here comes Uncle John on the spring road! ‘““Well, I declare!” he says, as he knocks and tries the door. *We've missed them, sure enough!” . ‘ ‘“You will find the key,” says Aunt Clara, ‘‘under the left-hand edge of the kitchen door-step. Aunt Mary would want us to go~in and warm, of course.”

So they went in and found the fires still bright. | “Why, they’ve only just gone!” said Unele John. :-

“And what's thisP Oh what's this?” cried Jessie. f “It's the dinner! | Oh it’s the dinner! Their great big dinner basket!” cried Kitty. And they began to jump and dance about it, and to peep under the cover, giggling and talking, both at once. ‘ '

. “Oh they forgot it!”” <Oh doughnuts!” “Oh chicken-pie!”’ A big, big chicken-pie!” 5 By this time Aunt Clara had taken off her wrap and Baby Fay's, and had made up her mind what to do. : “They will soon be back,” she said. “I will lay the cloth, John, and set things to warm. Aunt Mary shall not do all the work thig time.” : So Uncle John put old Prince into the barn and Aunt Clara put the big, big chicken-pie into the oven. And Kitty and Jessie played vtit,;h Baby Fay while she set the table.. When all was ready, and Uncle John had come in and sat reading, there can\l%a. loud knock at the door. They all nt to open it, and then what fun there was! .

“Why how do yo:u do, Mrs. Brown?” said Aunt Clara to| Aunt Mary. ¢T'm very glad fo see you! I hope you are all well. We thou%ht you might possibly visit us to-day! “And how do you do, Mr. Brown?” Uncle John was sat;iqg. “How do you like our new house? Finestfarm inthe country, Mr. 'Browi’i! Coms and put up your horsés. Plenty of room in our barn.” r The little folks laughed very hard at this, and the two babies chuckled and crowed as if they knew all about it. And there was more fun that day than ever before, for you see there wasa double joke and & double sleigh-ride and, best of all, a double dinner.—Eudora S. Bumstead, in Youth's Companion. | .LITTLE FAULTS. Hints to Some Chfl:dren as to How and Where They M}ayumprov“o\'rhglr. Conduct. -k kit i So many little girls, and boys too, intend to do just right, and do not do. just right in a variety of little ways, perhaps it may help some of them to be told just how a.nfl where they can do better. il oy Sb g A dear little friend of mine is very sweet tempered hd obliging indeed, but she is very fond of her book and her play snd she rar‘elfiikes to go to bed at the proper hour in'the evening. Her name is Lucy, ansfl:ba is a great pet in the home whereshe belongs.

Now Lucy, like all little girls who play and get tired, needs just .about nine hours sleep out of the twenty-four. It takes a few moments to get to bed at night, to undness, say her prayers; ete.; ' about one-half hour all told, or if she is very spry, fifteen minutes to twenty miontes in time. The family breakfast punctually at seyen o'clock in the ‘morning, and as this is the best time for wvisiting with her papa and her brother she has ‘g‘during the day, they like to bave her with them at breakfast. The rising bell rings at half past ‘#ix, and Lucy needs the full half hour “to dress in. So unless she gets off to bed punctually at nine in the eveniny

she ;fn not possibly get sleep enough to keep her strong and well. It is no use frying to cheat old dame Nature. Little children who are growing must have nine hours sleep at least, sometimes they need more than that. Very rarely, indeed, can they get along with' less, and the old lady is exacting of every minute of time and takeg her pay for cheating her out of it by nervousness and tears. Lucy has to pay whenever she tries to do without nine hours sleep; sometimes with a headache; sometimes by being cross. = Now Lucy's mother is a very kind and wise woman. It grieves her that her little girl is so dilatory in the evening about getting to bed. But she knows all habits must be formed by a willing mind in the brain of the little girl to make them of any real service. And so when she sees Lucy quite absorbed in her book or play, she simply says, “Nine, Lucy.” ¢ln just a minute, mamma,” replies Lucy. And in just one minute her mamma sometimes reminds her. ‘The minute is past, Lucy.” “‘Oh, mamma!” exclaims Lucy. But mamma,. is firm, and the book or play must be dropped. Lucy is too consecientious and too amiable, and her mamma has trained her too wisely to have her do any thing but obey at once. In fact, her habit of pufting off going to bed was noticed almost as soon as it began to form by her wise mamma, who is thus checking ‘it and helping her little girl into better ways. But you say your mamma does not say any thing to you when nine o'clock comes. Perhaps if you asked her to she would. Try it and see. Little Agnes Mayhew is very fond of romping. She loves the out-door air, the sunshine, and delights in sliding down hill and snowballing with the boys. She is getting very rude indeed, so much so I am sure her brother, a year and a half older, felt very much ashamed of her the other day. She does not like to be called ‘“tomboy,” oh mno, but if she would only learn to be a little less boisterous what a comfort she could be to all the rest of the family who really like to see her enjoy herself but wish she would be a little ladylike in doing it just as her brother Ed. is gentlemanly in his play. Do you know any little girls like her? And do you believe if they only stopped to think how rude they really were behaving they would play in that fashion any more? In playing games Susie Marshall is not quite honest. How do you suppose she would feel if she were found out in her every little trick? Andhow would you feel if you were in her place? And isn't it better to be honest all through whether you are found out or not. If you are a poor player, why learn to play better, and make up by skill what you hope to gain by dishonesty. Other little girls do not practice their music as well when the teacher is not with them. They dawdle away their practice hour and forget that music lessons cost money, and unless they are conscientious in practicing they might as well not take lessons at all. Thensome forget to do their little work well. They think they will learn it all by and by, and when by and by comes they haven’t learnt it at all, and then there is something else more important to be done.

If every little girl could remember that what she does now is the most important thing in the world for her, she would make a great many less mistakes than she is apt to do. And a great many little faults would disappear just like snow under a warm sanshine.

It is to-day we learn the lesson; tomorrow will bring another. Not the same, but its value is reciconed by how well we knew the. other.--Christian at Work. P

The Natives of Samoa,

The natives are a frank, simple race of people, possessed of undoubted courage and “grit.” They go to war in their long canoes, always with a song, the melody of which is not unlike some of qur old plantation songs, and.it serves to time their paddles, all of which seek the water with methodfcal precision. In complexion they are mostly of alight copper color, though sorpe are shades darker and a few nearly white. Their faatures are expressive, and are illumined by dark lustrous eyes, that laugh and talk in a language of their own. Their diet is almost’ pursly vegetarian, and fruits form the principal part. The women are usually handsome and well developed, and are posséssed of a natural grace that would bo the envy of the girls of our land. They are, as a class, virtuous and retiring. "Of course the climate prohibits the use of superfluous clothing, and the Samoan belle is not usually clothed as extensively as she might be, but nevertheless the ‘“lava-lava,” or colored scarf, which most women wear is hastily drawn around the form when fbreign eyes are near. They are generous and affee~ tionate in disposition, and, it is said, make good wives and rnothers. Many of them are married to white settlers, and are regular attencdants at the pretty Catholic Church oa ° Sunday.—Cor. Washington Star. o itk

. —Things One Would Rather Have Left Unsaid. (A winter health resort.) Enthusiastic LEady Visitor—What a delightful place this is, professor. And the baths, how perfact! Icould bathe all day, couldn’t you? The Professor— Well, you see, I'm a resident, and that makes a difference. Lady Visitor.—Al! to be sure. I suppose you never even think of taking a bath!—London Punch.

. —Jones, who is an - inveterate direr er-out, is also a bit of a philosopher. This is his latest ‘‘mot”: *I hear a great deal ~about the slowness of the turtle, but notice thut he generally ar‘rives in time for the soup.” —Judge..

—Customer—-I don’t know just exactly what's the matter with me. 1T think I need a tonic. Drug Clerk (late of Kansas) —Ah, certainly. How much do« you want—pint, or-quart?”—Terre Haute Express. : ) —_———————— .~A good man in Arizona, who had ‘been chosen superintendent of the Sunday school, was pained to read in the local paper thelurid announcement that he had been “chosen to run o Sunday (e

The Most AstonishingHMedical Discovery of the ‘Last One Hundred Years. - It is Pleasant to the Taste as the Sweetest Nectar, It is Safe and Harmless as the Purest Milk. = . This wonderful Nervine Tonic has only recently been introduced into this country by the Great South AmerieanyMe‘dicinz Company, and yet its Freat value as a curative agent has long been known by t%e native ¥nhabtants of South America, who rely almost wholly upon ‘its great medicinal powers to cure every form of disease by which they are overtaken. » This new and valuable South American mediaine possesses powers and qualities hitherto unknown to the medical’ })rofession. - This medicine has completely solved the problem of the cure of Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint and diseases of the general Nervous System, It also cures all forms of failing health from whatever cause. - It performs this by the Great Nervine Tonic ?uahties which it possesses and by its great curative powers upon the %fiest ve organs, the stomach, the liver and t’gg bowels. ' No remed compares with this wonderfully valuable Nervine Tonic as a builder ang strenfithener of the life forces of the human body and as a great renewer of a broken down constitution. It is also of more real permanent value in the treatment and cure of diseases of the Lungs than any ten consumption remedies ever used on this continent. It is & marvelous cure for nervousness of females of all ages. Ladies who are approaching the critical period known as change in life should not fail to use this great Nervine Tonic almos€ constantly for the space of two or three years. It ggl carry. them safely over the danger. This great strengthener and -curative ¥s of inest?;nable value to the aged and infirm, because its great energizing properties will give them a new hold on life. It will add ten or fifteen years to the lives of many of those whowill use a half dozen bottles of the remedy each year. . Nervousness and : - Broken Constitution, ’ " Nervous Prostration, : Debility of Old Age, Nervous Headache and Indigestion and Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Heartburn and Sour Stomach, Female Weakness, Weight and Tenderness in Stomach, All Diseases of Women, Loss of Appetite, Nervous Chills, Frightful Dreams, . . Paralysis, Dizziness and Ringing In the Ears, Nervous Paroxysms and ‘Weakness of Extremities and Nervous Choking, ' Fainting g Hot Flashes, Impure and Impoverished Blood, Palpitation of the Heart, Boils and Carbuncles, Mental Despondency, Scrofula, o Sleeplessness, - Scrofulous Swelling and Ulcers, - St. Vitus’s Dance, Consumption of the Lungs, Nervousness of Females, Catarrh of the Lungs, : Nervousness of Old Age, - Bronchitis and Chronic Cough, Neuralgia, Liver Complaint, Pains in the Heart, _ Chronic Diarrheea, ~ Pains in thé Back, : Delicate and Scrofulous Children, Failinig Health, ' Summer Complaint-of Infants. .\A‘n these and many other complaints cured by this Wonderful Nervine Tonie NERVOUS DISEASES. ._ - Asacure for evefiy class of Nervous Diseases, no remedy has been able to compare with the Nervine Tonic, which is very pleasant and harmless in all its effects upon the youngest child or the oldest and most delicate individual, Nine-tenths of all the ailments to which the human family is heir, are dependent on nervous exhaustion and impaired digestion. When there is an insufficient su;;gly of nerve food in the blood, a general state of debility of the brain, spinal marrow and nerves is the result. Starved nerves, like starved muscles, become strong when the right kind of food is supplied, and & thousand weaknesses and ailments disappear as the nerves recover. As the nervous system must supply all the power by which the vital forces of the body are carried on, it is the first to suffer for want of %erfect nutrition. Ordinary food does not contain a sufficient quantity of the kind of nutriment necessary to repair the wear our %resent mode of living and labor imposes upon the nerves. For this reason it becomes necessary that a nerve food be supplied. This recent production of the South American Continent has been found, by analysis, to contain the essential elements out of which nerve tissue is formed. This accounts for its magic.power to cure all forms of nervous

derangements. ' o B CRAWI'ORDSVILLE, IND., Aug. 20, ’BB. 3 T'o the Great South American Medicine Co.: 1 i DEAR GENTS:—I desire tosay to you that I have suffered for many years with a very serfous disease of the stomach and nerves. I tried every medicine I could hear of but noth< ing done me any appreciable good until I was advised to try Xout Great South American Nervine Tonic and Stomach and Liver Cure, and ince using several bottles of it I mustsay that %ham surprised at its wonderful powers to cure o stomach and general nervous system. If everyone knew the value of this remedy as I do, you would not be able to supply the demand. » J. A HABDE%O' Ex-Treas. Montgomery (

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CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND., May 19, 1886, My daughter, twelve years i)ld, had been af%loted for several months with Chorea or St. itus’s Dance. Shewasreduced to a skeleton, could nof walk, could not talk, could not swallow anything but milk; I had to handle her like an infant., Doctor and neighbors gave her up. I commenced giving herthe South American Nervine Tonic, the effects were very surprising, ‘ln three days she wasrid of the nervousness, and rapidly improved. Four bottles cured her completely. I think the South American Nervine the grandest remedy ever discovered, and _woulg recommend it to everyone, ; W. 8. ENSMINGER, Btate of Indiana, z . Montgomery Countyy °°° Subscribed and sworn fo before me this My 19, 1887. COHAS, M. TrAvIS; Notary Public.

‘ The Great South American Nervine Tonic ' Which we now offer E)u is the only absolutely unfailing remedy ever discow ered for the cure of Indigestion, nyspepsia, and the vast train of symptoms and horrors which-are the result of disease and debility of the human stomach. No perscn can afford to pass by this jewel of incalculable value who is affected by disease of the Stomach, because the experience and testimony of thousands %o to prove that this is the ONE and ONLY ONE great cure in the world for this universal desg?syer. There is no case of unmalignant disease of the stomach which can resist the wonderful curative powers of the South American Nervine Tonic. - s e

Harrlet E, Hall, of Waynetown, Ind. $ %1 owe my lite&tg"rho Great South Am:am Nervine. Ihad been in bed for five months from the effects of an exhausted Stomach, Indigestion, Nervous Prostration and a general shattered condition of my whole giy.stem. Had E}ren up all hopes of getting well. Had tried e doctors with no relie e'fihe first bottle of the Nervine Tonic imgzov me so much that I was able to walk about and a few bottles cured me enr.lrels: I believe it the best medicine in the world. I cannot recommend % too highly, Mrs. M. Russ Creek Valley, ‘lnd., Evrlteo: 6T hav:n’u;‘o?l@:l;vud bottles of Thg outh American Nervine Tonic and will say I consider it the best medicine in the world, I ab,!e‘!lave ‘%h saved the‘;l lives odt'twtgigf- my chgl& n. They were down and no ap to de them any good until I p,rocnrefi thmnody. It was ver%mxrprisingl how rapidly they both Improved on itsuse. I recommend thewedicine to all my neighbors, -

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~* CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND\, June 22, 1881, My daughter, eleven years old, was severe} afflicted with St. Vitus’s Dance or Chorea. W¢ gave her three and one-half bottles- of Soutl American Nervine and she Is completely re stored. I believe it will cure every case of S Vitus’s Dance,. I have kept it in my family fo¢ twol.;ears, and am sure it is the greatest reny edy in the world for Indi%estion and Dyspept sia, all forms of Nervous Disorders and Fasfiin( Health from whatever cause. : JonN T, MisH. Btate of Indiana, . M oggomery C’ountyg 3 Subscribed and sworn to before me this Junt 22, 1887, CHAS. W, WRIGHT, " Notary Publia

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