Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 35, Petersburg, Pike County, 11 January 1895 — Page 6

Ik-'. pi* TALMAGFS SERMON. A Visit to tlis Magnificent Mausoleum of Queen Montas, the Cost »f Sixty SUWon* «tD«thn, mmt ibi Mat S«p«rb ui Perfect Week of Art tm Um Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, in continvriutthis ’Round the World, series of sermons through the press, gives the following for publication this week. Its subject. “Tomb and Temple” Is la all the Bible this is the only book *ln which the word India occurs, but it stands for a realm of Tast interest in the time of Es ther as in our time. It yielded then, ss now, spices, and silks, and cotton, and rice, and indigo, and ores of mil richness, snd precious stones of nil sparkle, and had a civilization of Its own as marked as Egyptian or Grecian or Soman civilization. It holds the costliest tomb ever built, and the most unique snd wonderful idolatrous temple ever opened. For practical lessons, in this, my sixth disr •course in “ ’Sound the World” series, I show you that tomb and temple of In n iourney around the world it ussy not be easy to tell the exact point which divides the pilgrimage into halves. But there was one structure toward which we were all the time ’traveling, and,, having seen that, we felt that if we saw nothing more our expedition would be a success. That one object was the Taj Mahal o£ India. It is the crown of the whole earth. The spirits of architecture met to enthrone a king, and the spirit of the Parthenon of Athens was there; -and. the spirit of St. Sophia of Constantinople was there; and the spirit of St. Izsak of Si. Petersburg was there; and the spirit of the Baptistery of Pisa was there; and the spirits of the Great Pyramid, and of Luxor Obelisk, and of the Porcelain Tower of Jfankin, and of St. Mark’s of Venice; aid the spirits of all the great towers, great cathedrals, great mausoleums, ■great sarcophagi, great capitals for the living, and of great necropolises for the dead, were there. And the presiding genius of the throng with gavel of Parian marble sunote the table of Russian malachite, and called the throng of spirits to order and called for a vote as to which spirit should wear the •chief crown, and mount the chief -throne, and wave the chief scepter.snd l>v unanimous acclaim the cry was: '‘‘Long live the spirit of the Taj, king of all the spirits of architecture! Thine is the Taj Mahnl of India!” j j The building is about six miles from J^gra, and as we rode out in the early • dawn we heard nothing but the hoofs ■ add wheels that pulled and turned us along the road, at every yard of which • our expectation rose until we had some thought that we might be disappoint--ed at the first glimpse, as some say they were disappointed. But how can any one be disappointed with the Taj is almost as grea t a wonder to me as the Taj itself. There are some people always disappointed, and who knows bnt that having entered Heaven they may •criticise the architecture of the temple, and the cut of the white robes, and may that the Ri ver of life is not quite up to their expectations,'and that the , white horses on which the conquerors ride seem a little spring-hal t or spavined?

• “My son said: “There it is,” I said: '“Where?” For that whieh he saw to be the building seemed to me to be more like the morning cloud blushing under the * stare of the rising sun. It seemed not so much built up from earth as let down from heaven. Fortunately, you stop at an elaborated gateway of red sandstone one-eighth of a mile from Idle Taj, an entrance so high, so archil, so graceful; so fourdomed, so painted, and chiseled, and -scrolled that you come very gradually upon the Taj, which structure is -enough to intoxicate the eye, and .stun the imagination, and entrance the soul. We go up the winding stairs of this majestic entrance of the gateway, and buy a few pictures and examine a few curios, and; from it look off upon the Taj, and de- ■ scend to the pavement of the garden that raptures everything between the gateway and the ecstasy of marble and precious stones. Yon pass along a deep stream of water in which all manner of brilliant fins swirl and float. There are eighty-four fountains that spout and bend and arch themselves to fall in showers of pearl in basins of suowy whiteness. Beds of all imaginable flora greet the nostrils before they do the eye. and seem to roll in waves of color as you advance towards the vision you are soon to have of w hat • human genius did when it did its best; moon flowers, lilac; >, marigolds, tulips, -and almost everywhere the lotus; thickets -of bewildering bloom; on -either side trees from many lands bend their arborescence over your head, tor .seem with convoluted branches to reach •out their arms towards you in welcome. On and on you go amid tamarind, and cypress, and poplar, and oleander, and yew, and sycamore, and banyan, and palm, and trees of such novel branch and leaf and girth, you cease to ask their name or nativity. As yon approach the door of the Taj •one experiences a strange sensation of awe, and tenderness, and humility, and woorshipw The building is only a grave, but what a grave! Built for a queen, who, according to some, was very good, and according to others was very bad. I choose to think she was very good. At any rate, it makes me feel better to think that ' this commemorative pile was set np for the immortalization of virtue rather than vice. The Taj is a mountain of white marble,, but never such walls faced each other with <exquis>teness; never such a tomb was cut from block of alabaster; never such a congregation of precious stones, brightened and gloomed, and blazed, and chastened, mud glcriflud - building since sculptor’s

chisel cut its Bret curve,, or painter's j nendl traced its Bret or ma-\ soil’s plumb-line aeunred its first wall, or architect'll compass swept its first circle. * _ The Taj has sixteen great arched windows, four stench corner. Also at each of the foar corners of the Taj stands a minaret one hand red and thirty-seven feet high. Also at each side of this building is a splendid mcsqne of red t<and&tone. Taro hundred and fifty years has the Taj stood, j ami jet not a wail is cracked, nor a | mosaic loosened, nor an arch sagged, i aar a panel dulled. The storms of i two hundred ancl fifty winters hare not marred, nor the heats of two hundred and fifty summers disintegrated a marble. There is no story of age written by mosses on its white surface. Montax, the qneea, was beaatifal. aid Shah Jehan, the 1 king. Mere propaied to let all the eentnrics of time know it. She was married at twenty yean of age and died at twenty-nine. Her life ended as another life began ; is the rose bloomed the rose bush perished. To adorn this dormitory of the dead, at the command of the king Bagdad sent to this budding its Canadian, and Ceylon its lapis lazuli, and Punjab its jasper, and Persia its amethyst, iwd Thibet its torqnoise, and Lanka its sapphire, and Yemen its agate, and Panqk^ it* diamonds; and blood-stones, sod Sardonyx, and chalcedony, and moss agates are as common as though they were pebbles. Y ju find one spray of vine beset with eighty, and another with one hundred stones. Twenty thousand men were twenty years in building it, and. although the labor ires slave labor, and not paid for, the building east what would be about sixty million doll ars of our American money. Some of the jewels have been picked out of j the walls by iconoclasts or conquerors, and substitutes of less value- have taken their places, hat the vines, the tmeeries, the arabesques, the spandrels, the entablatures are so wondrous that you feel like dating the rest of your life fi*om the day you first saw them. In letters of black marble the whole of the Koran is spelled out in and on this august pile. The king sleeps in the tomb beside the queen, although be intended to build a palace as black as this was white on the opposite side of the rrrer for himself to sleep in. Indeed, the foundation of sneh a necropolis of black marble is still there, and from the white to the black temple of the dead a bridge was to cross; bu; the son dethroned him and imprisoned him, and it is wonderful that the kitng had any place at all in whieh to he buried. Instead of windows to let in the light upon the two tombs, there is a trellis work of. marble, marble cut so delicately thin that the sun shines through it as easily as through glass. Look the world over and find so much translueeney; canopies, traceries, l ace work, embroideries of stone. !}■

isut i tnought tvnue looking at tnat palace for the dead, all this constructed to cover a handful of dust, but even that handful has probably gone from the mausoleum. Hour much better it would have been to expend sixty million dollars, which the Taj Mahal cost, for the living. What asylums it might build for the sick, what houses for the homeless! What improvement our century ]0s made upon other centuries in lifting in honor of the departed memorial churches, memorial hospitals, memorial reading rooms, memorial observatories. By all possible means let us keep the memory of departed loved ones fresh in mind, and let there be an appropriate headstone or monument in the eeimetery, but there is a dividing line between reasonable commemoration and wicked extravagance. The Taj Mahal has its uses as arehit<Natural achievement, eclipsing all other architecture, but as a nSemorial of a departed wife and mother it. expresses no more than the plainest slab in many a country graveyard. The best monument we can any of us have built for us when we are gone is in the memory of those w hose sorrows we have alleviated, in the wounds we have healed, in the kindnesses we have done, in the ignorance we have enlightened, in the recreant we have reclaimed, in the souls we have saved! Such a monument 1s built out of material more lasting than marble or bronze, and will stand amid the eternal splendors long after the Taj Mahal of India shall have gone down in the ruins of a world of which it was the costliest adornment. But I promised to show yon not only a tomb of India, but a unique heathen temple, amd it is a temple underground. And now we come near the famous temple hewn from one rock of porphyry at least eight hundred years ago. On either side of the chief temple is a chapel, these cut out of the same stone. So vast was the undertaking, and to the Hindoo was so great the human impossibility that they say the gods scooped out the structure from the i-ock, and carved the pillars, and hewed its shape into gigantic idols, and dedicated it . to all the grandeurs. We climb many stone steps before we get to the gateways. The entrance to this temple has sculptured doorkeepers leaning on sculptured devils. How strange! But I have seen doorkeepers of churches and auditoriums who seemed to be leaning on the demons of liad ventilation and asphyxia. Doorkeepers ought to be leaning 6n the angel of health, and comfort, and life. All the sextons and janitors of the earth who have spoiled sermons and lec tures, and poisoned the lungs of audiences by inefficiency ought to visit this cave of Elaphanta and beware of what these doorkeepers are doing, when, instead of leaning on the angeiie the; lean on the demoniac. In these Elephanta caves everything is on a Samsw^teand Titanian scale. With chisckrlhiit were dropped from nerveless hands at least eight centuries ago, the forms of the gods Brahma, and Vishnu, ancl Siva were ent into the everlasting rock. Siva is here represented by a figure sixteen feet nine i indies high, one-half man and one

half woman. San a line from the center of the ' forehead straight to the floor of the rock, and you divide this idol into masculine and feminine. Admired as the idol is by many, it was to me about the worst thing that eras ever eat into porphyry, perhaps became there is hardly anything on earth so objections ble as a being half man and half woman. Do he one or the other, my hearer. Man is admirable, and woman is adtxirabie, but either in flesh or trap rock a cookpromise at the two Is hideous Save ns from effeminate men and masculine That evening of oor return to Bombay I visited the Yoa^ Men's Christian association with the same appointments that yon find in the Young Men's Christian association of Europe and America, and the night after that I addressed a throng of native children who are in the schools of the Christian missions. Christian universities gather under their wing of benediction n ho»t of the young men of this country. Bombay apd Calcutta, the two great commercial cities of India, feel the elevating power of an aggressive Christianity. Episcopalian liturgy and Presbyterian Westminster catechism, and Methodist anxious seat, add Baptist waters of consecration now stand where once basest idolatries had undisputed s^ay. The work which Shoe maker" ^ Carey inaugurated at Seram pore, India, translating the Bible into forty different dialects, and leaving his worn-out body amid the natives whom he had come to save, and going up into the heavens from which he ean better watch nil the field—that work will be completed in the salvation of the millions of Indin; and beside him, gening from the same high places, stand Bishop Hebcr, and Alexander Duff, and John Sendder. and Mackay, who fell nt Delhi, and Moncrieff.who fell nt Cawnpore, and Polehampton, who fell at Lneknow.tpnd Freeman, who fell at Fnttyghur, and all the heroes and heroines who, for Christ's sake, lived and died for the christianination of India; and their Heaven will not be complete until the Ganges that washes the Ghats of heathen temples shall red! between churches of the living God. and the trampled womanhood of Hindooism shall have all the rights purchased by him who amid the cuts and stabs of his own assassination cried out: “Behold thy mother!”. and from Bengal bay to Arabian ocean, and from the Himalayas to the coast of Coromandel there be lifted hosannas to Him who "died to redeem all nations. In that day Eiephanta cave will be one of the places where idols are “cast to the moles and bats." If inr clergyman asks me. as an unbelieving minister of religion once asked the duke of Wellington. “Do you not think that the work of converting the Hindoos is all a practical farce?” I answer him as Wellington answered the unbelieving minister: “Look to your marching orders, sir!” Or if any one having joined in the gospel attack feels like retreating, I say to him, as Gen. Havelock said t« a retreating regiment: “The enemy are in front, not in the rear,” and leading them again into the fignt, though two horses had been shot under him. '■

Indeed, the taking of this world for Christ will be no holiday celebration, bnt as tremendous as when in India during’ the mutiny of 1857, a: fortress manned by Sepoys was to be captured by Sir Colin Campbell and the army of Britain. The Sepoys hurled under the^approaching colums burning missiles and grenades, and fired on them shot and shell, and poured on them from the ramparts burning oil, until, a writer who witnessed it says: “It was a picture of pandemonium.” Then Sir Colin addressed his troops, saying: “Remember the women and children must be rescued!” and his men i replied: “Ay! Ay! Sir Colin! We stood by you at Balaklava, and will stand/by^S® here.” And then came the triumphal assault of the battlements. So is the gospel campaign which proposes capturing the wery last citadel of idolatry and sin, and hoisting over it the banner of the Cross, we may have hurled upon us mighty exposition and scorn and obloquy, and many may fall before the work is done, yet at every call for new onset let the cry of the church be, “Ay! Ay!. Great Captain of our salvation: we stood by thee in other conflicts, and we will stand by thee to the last!” And then, if not in this world, then from t|te battlements of the next, as the last Appolvonic fortification shall crash into ruin, we will join in the shout: “Thanks be unto God who giveth us the victory!” “Hallelujah! for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth!” ^''Travelers who have recently visited Jerusalem report that the historic city is just now growing in size and population at a rapid rate. The Jews build the greater number of houses; but Russians, Greeks and Armenians are also busy. When we consider the part which this celebrated place is soon to fill in connection with the fulfillment of that prophecy which relates to the downfall of the Turkish empire, according to interpretation of it, this sudden growth and consequent rise in impor^tnee as a city, is seen to lx? exactly what we would naturally expect. This is a short world; whether it be filled with joy or sorrow, light or shade, it matters little. Here we are to work and wait, hut soon all will be over and the eternal day will dawn—the clouds and shades and storms will pass; andO that we, when the morning breaks, may “as children of light” be found watching and waiting,' prepared for the bright and everlasting day.—Sabbath Advoea1«. —And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shal; be heard no more at all in thee: for by thy sorceries arc all aa> tions deeei ved—Bible. The Growth of Jeraulem. Be Ye Prepared.

DUN'S REVIEW. €< New You. Jan. !.>—1; ti. Don A Cft’s weekly review of to In, issued todnr. sny*; Failure*! far 18M are fully reported this week, being119,885 it the United States and 1.856 In the Dominion of Canada. Liabilities In the United States were tl73.9ee.8S6. and in Canada S17.61&31&. Neither the decrease of over half in this coawsry, nor the increase of over 90 |*er cent, in Canada, is surprising, bat the; statement shows that most of the' decrease in the United States is in man n factoring liabOitku, while the increase in Canada (suabilities of trading concerns. A few states, including New York and Pennsylvania, show more failure^ than in 18K, and in a few southern states, the °amonnt of liabilities is larger, but is the central an> t western states, very much smaller. In (.’even of the lost, thirty-eight years, reported liabilities have been larger than in 1894, though for this year. sad 1893, the statement is confined to commercial failures, as it was not in former years. The failures have been 12.5 in every 1,000 firms doing business: the liabilities have averaged 1132.77 to eaeh film in trade, and in proportion to the value of solvent business represented by all clearinghouse exchanges 13.63 for every $1,000. The complete review of different branches of business given to-day plaees in n clear light the fact that prices of commodities are i at the lowest level ever known. Eight years ago in July, prices averaged only 73,69 per eent. of the prices for the same artitieles, and in the same markets January 1, I860, and this remained the lowest point ever touched until August 10. 1896, when the average fell to 73.76. but early last year prices dropped below all previous records and have never recovered, the average, December 20, being only 68. TS per cent, of the price in 186a The range was very little higher at, the end of the year and about as low October 35. The fall since a year ago has been 5.^ per cent.; but very unequal in different" branches. In iron and steel products 14jper cent., in wool IS.4 percent. and. in woolens and. cottons about cent. These ehanges contrast sharply with the decline of wages paid per hour's work, which, as was shown last week, average only 1.3 per cent, less than a year ago. The volume of business represented by exchanges at the principal clearinghouses was $156,4^,000 daily in December, against .$141,<>04,000 in January; but 8.1 per eentr larger at the end than last year, while 35 per eent. less than last year in January. Comparing with 1893. a year of general prosperity, the decrease for December was 36.1, and ranged frod» 31.7 to 39.3 below that year since June; bat at the beginning of the year tYas 33.3 per eent. below jed from 33 to 37 per eent. year, for the first five 1893, and ra below that months. The exports$4^C6o^gbld this week are not beWtfSe of merchandise gnent, for the excess of exports imports of merchandise has from $20,000,000 to $30,000,r month. Unquestionably largt withdrawals of foreign capital, through sales of securities and otherwise have caused the outgo, the duration and extent of which, therefore, depends upon other than commercial elements.

xvxiraorainary auunuance oi money has resulted from the general dullness of trade.abcN the movement to this center hrf^'been'finp^ecedented in volume. ■ \ The condition of industries has been largely governed by the fall in prices, and while production is much greater than a year ago, the aggregate increase being fairly measured by the increase of 8.24 per cent, in hours of work done in November, compared with the previous year, it has boon the controlling feature in almost every important industry that consumption has not kept pace with the output, and has not sustained prices. > The woolen * industry records a production for the year of about a quarter less than nominal, and for the last four months 28.4? per cent, less than in 1S93 in quantity of wool consumed, but in value of product the decrease was, of course, greater. The cotton industry .while materially close to the cheapest point ever known, keeps most of the mills at work, but1 by selling goods at prices quite unprecedented. The output of boots and shoes has been the largest known in number of pairs, but besides a fall in price below all records, there lias been a general preference for the low-priced goods, and the attempted advance on account of the rise in leather caused a marked decrease in orders. The year has been especially noteworthy for the lowest prices of wheat and cotton on record. Both suffer from wholly unprecedented accumulation of stocks, crops being larger. Outside this country, wheat production has not decreased enough to justify a price of 60 cents at New York, and the accumulation is largely due to false reports of yifld intended to frighten buyers and raise prices. The same influence has been felt in cotton, which is also affected by world-wide depression in business and decrease in consumption of goods. Wants an Increased Appropriation for the National Guard. Jefferson City, Mo,, Jan. 5.—In his message to the legislature yesterday tiov. Stone asked for an increased appropriation to maintain the national guard as a positive necessity»and because an adequate militia force removed all excuses for the employment of the regular army in purely domestic affairs. Treasury Balances. New York, Jan. 5.—Treasury balances last night: Coin, 575.180,093; I currency, 576,170,504, 1

LATE HAWAIIAN NEWS. IMri 9*»«f Hosourur, Dec. SI—Correspondence of the United Press, per steamer Chinn, ▼hi San Francisco. Jnn. 7.—Three of the coaspirators. Bash. Crick and KtaaU, •who were arrested on the 8th, were committed, on the 34th, for trial kj Jwgr.. They were refused bail aid were lodged in Qahn prison* Young Weed, the fourth per* sot arrested, was released. Theexmmis»tioB of the conspirators occupied ^ a days. from the 18th to the 33d. \ hie Vnn Giesea waa arrested soon hi «r them, hat released on bail. Ho hid been n special crony and bouse* os te of Crick and intimate with Bush, writing for his paper, Ka Leo. To the co K ter nation of the prisoners, Vnn Gi *sen appeared as the chief witness a| siast them. He had been a spy of thu govern uncut, and revealed all the pl us of Bash and his associates to the miurdbaL Van tiiesen was for many ye;u* a government school teacher.and of sufficiently good record to give grifi.t weight to his testimony. IX her spies, Osmer and MeGmi cor* robnrated Van Uie en’s evidence. Oh* m;r deeply implicated Weed, but failed sufl: eientfy to connect him with Bush aid others so that the ehage of conspuing with them failed and he was released., Tinker, who had been arrested later, was also released after tea days' confinement, notwithstanding rifles were found secreted in his bowse, w The scheme of the conspirators, as fully disclosed by Van Giesen. was somewhat elaborate. Under all circus! stances it was wholly an impractical Me one. By a sadden ssd simaltnn sons movement the executive-build-ing was to be surprised.the ehieflladen and supporters of the government arrested in their houses; telephone wires _*ut certain stores raided of guns and ammunition, station house blown in wil l dynamite, and fifteen of the principal street corners, of the city occupied and held by armed squads who were to capture all citizen reserves and volun teers seeking to assemble. Xooneqllliese formidable procedures >f the undertaking was an original device of t'he conspirators, who seem to have been as poor inventors as they were calculators. All their plans had formed part of previous conspiracies of the royalists, rife during the past eighteen months. Lists of street corners to be occupied were given by Van Giesen as well as the names of republican leaders to be arrested. As to means for carry ing out such formidable and desperate plans the conspirators felt sure of the help of a targe number of whites and halfwhites. They also relied upon the aid of a large and miscellaneous mob of natiyes. Those were without military tminukg and unaccustomed to the use of arms. > The obstacles to be overcome were n strong and watchful garrison at the executive building, consisting of sixty enlisted white men, thoroughly drilled with special surprise drill. The building is well fortified and armed with six: rifled cannon and two galling guns. Secondly, there is a thoroughly drilled battalion of over 500 volunteers* from the best white eitizens, among whom are fifty extra’sharpshooters. ^Thirdly, there are 600 to 800 of the Citizen reserve, well armed and equipped and organized for prompt aetiga by day or night.

The government regards the matter as serious. They will ao their best U* make a wholesome example of those implicated. It is quite certain that all the leading royalists of responsible character and business capacity regard the restoration of the queen as now impossible, and any attempt to effect it by force as chimerical. There is, however, a body of the lower class of whites ready for acts of disorder w)io might be induced to join actively in such a movement. A large majority of half whites have sympathies with such an attempt, and some of them might be willing to risk something in it. It is very unlikely that many natives would risk anything'to make such an attempt, although the majority of natives would prefer the Kanaka monarchy to the white man’s republic. So far as can be learned, British Commissioner Hawes has never countenanced or recognised any movement to restore the queen. H. B. M. ship Hyaeinth sailed on the night of the 37th for the south seas, as is Supposed. Capt. May has made repeated efforts to get away. Three successive farewell entertainments have been given to the officers of the ship. Each time most urgent appeals have reached Commissioner Hawes from the British subjects to detain the ship for their protection, and he has twice or thrice prevailed upon Capt. May to remain longer^ Just before the departure of the Hyacinth eighteen British subjects, beaded by Bishop Willis, sent a strong petition to the commissioner again to detain the ship,. There is no mor§ ardent royalist than the Anglican bishop. He has steadily refused, to offer public prayer for the president of the republic. The government and its supporters are entirely willing to see the Hyaeinth leave. Nor are they greatly solicitous for the immediate arrival of an American war ship, although one would be very welcome. Ferreting Oat the Responsibility for tbo St. Joseph Jolt i»ellv*ry. St. Joseph, Mo,, Jan. 7.—Detective Pinkerton has been placed in charge of the work of ascertaining the responsibility for the escape of desperadoes from the jail New Year’s morning, as the Burlington railroad officials are determined to recapture Pat C. Eowe, who helped to hold up the Eli train. The man who passed revolvers to the prisoners has been identified and “b* placed under arrest some tiino^tp* dayWHO TO BLAME?

Scrofulous Taints Lark ia the Weed of almost every one Xa many cases they are mberited. Serof* ala appear* ia running acres, bunches, pimples and cancerous growth* ffmrfhla can be eared by purify tog the blood. with food’s Qures Hood's Sarsaparilla. This great tqwefly aacceae ta caving this eagbly eradkutes the 1 bkod. Hood's Sarsaparilla ceres As i and eruptions by removing theircaa imparities ia the blood. Get Hoon's. Howfa Pith e«3V sUliw Jhn Str, —A railroad to tire top of the Jmp fran has at last been authorised by the Swiss government. It is to go up the interior of the moantala in spiral tunnels, sneh as are used on the St t»othard line, to n point om thousand two hundred feet from the umnit There the greet needle will be bored and provided with an elevator carrying the traveler to the peak. A narrow ridge at the bop will be leveled by blasting. - and on the space thus secure*! a hotel - or restaurant will probably be built. And now engineers are also thinking of s railroad up the Matterhorn. . —Without egotism, «e think that the women in medicine as a eiaso are superior to men as a class; because it is the picked woman, the ambiitkma woman, whose desires are above the common level, who eaters the profession. It takes grit and gumption to be a woman physician even to-day, for the woman in the profession must have a doable motive for success; she most succeed for her own sake as well as foe the reputation of Capability all women desire. This may nob seem fair, but it is nevertheless true.—Worn? an's Medical Journal. 1 ....—a,,.. .—..-i— —i——— -

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