Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1884 — Page 6

WHAT HE SAID. OK yes. 11l tell you the story— The very words t hat were said. Ton see the supper was qooktng, And I was slicing some bread, And Richard came into the pantry; His lace was cxoeedlitgly red. He Opened his half-shut fingers, And. gave me the glimpse of a ring; And then—oh, yes, I remember, The kettle began to sing. And Fanny came in wi . h her baby— l The cunningest bit of a thing. And the biscuit were out in a minute — Well, what came next? Let me see— Oh! Fanny was there with the baby, And we all sat down to tea, And Grandma looked over her glasses So queer at Richard and me. But it wasn't till after milking The he said what he had to say. How was it? Oh! Fanny had taken The baby and gone away— The funniest rogue of a fellow— He had a new tooth that day. We were standing under the plum tree, And Richard said something low, But I was tired and flustered. And trembled, I almost know; For old Red is the hardest of milkers, And Brindle's so horrible slow. And that—let me see—where was I? Oh I the stars grew thick overhead, And we two stood under the plum taee Till the chickens flew up to bed— Well, he loved me, and we’re to be married— And that is—about what he said.

The CLERK’S. TALE.

It was a suffocating evening early in August, and I left my work at the foreign office to plod home to dinner through the dusty parks in the worst spirits. The wrongs of a junior clerk whose long-promised holiday had just been snatched away from him on the eve of fulfillment were boiling in me; I felt that they cried out for justice in a free country. Everything was prepared for this month’s leave which was to have begun the next day. My father had taken a house on one of the most attractive slopes above Grasmere, and the family residence in Lancaster Gate already bore that denuded and forlorn appearance which precedes a general family flight. We had breakfasted gaily, picnic fashion, with old and inadequate implements; we had -prophesied with unabated cheerfulness dining with still fewer of the appliances of civilization, the family plate being not lost but gone before to Grasmere. The house was in as uncomfortable a state as much packing and putting away could make it, for my people intended to spend between two and three months at ‘Emerald Bank.’ Here was I, with my wings outspread for flight, caught back and doomed to remain in solitude, with dismantled rooms and furniture lurking under dust sheets for company and all because an unstable senior clerk suddenly declared that his health demanded instant change of air, instead of waiting to take his holiday later on, as he had intended. The tale of woe is not complete, for Olga Field - ing, to whom I had been but three weeks betrothed, was coming with us to Grasmere, and we had promised ourselves a month of unalloyed bliss among the Westmoreland hills before she was obliged to go back to her filial duties in Copenhagen. There, as her mother was dead, she had to preside over all matters, social and domestic, in her father’s extensive establishment. Gracious heavens! what an ill-ar-ranged planet is this, and what a disorganized constitution was that miserable T.’s, to choose such a moment to be out of repair! In the first week in September Olga would have to follow her father, who had returned to Copenhagen, and we should meet no more till after Christmas. Was it not enough to make a worm blaspheme? and the bang I gave the hall door on entering covered a vigorous expression of feeling.

Well, the news was broken to a dismayed and sympathetic circle. Olga, who had hitherto professed to consider me as likely to prove a very small addition to the natural features of the lake scenery, was quite overcome; there was some small balm in that. My mother was very unhappy. Even Barbara, the youngest of the family, and strong in the scorn of seventeen for matters of sentiment, forbore to jibe, and gave utterance to violent exclamations of regret, coupled with equally violent abuse of vague persons unknown. My father, after the first natural shock of disgust, endeavored to console me with .unpalatable philosophy and the cool light of reason, remedies which always seefcn an insult offered to affliction, when applied to one’s own case. “It’s har<| on you, Harry, my boy, no doubt, and I’m sorry for it," he said, in that sobering tone which strikes a chill through the greatest moments <|f excitement\and makes all previous emotion appear annoyingly ridiculous; “but now you have entered on the serious duties of life, you can't learn too soon that work and not play is the object of a man’s life. I’m not at all sure that—” “Ah! how hor-r-r-rible,’’ broke in the soft voice of my betrothed, with the pretty careful intonation, and longdrawn ripple of the *r* which she had inherited from her Danish mother. “Dear Mr. Richardson, do not let us be reasonable to-night. What is the use of being British subjects if we may not have a great grumble ? No, that poor boy is very badly treated, and it is all fur-rightful!" And my lady unclasped her eloquent hands, approached the iron-gray parent for whom our affection had always been largely tempered with respect, and. flinging one arm tightly around his neck, laid her pretty head with its crown of bronze rippless confidingly on his robust' black-cloth shoulder. My fathen, no doubt, experienced a alight shock; he was unaccustomed to such audacious treatment from the young. Rut he liked it, he certainly liked it; and planting firm parental salute on the breezy coils he left us to pour put our mutual woe at leisure. * That night I found it impossible to sleep. The atmosphere was so close •nd oppressive there seemed to be no air to breathe, and a dull feeling of undefined apprehension haunted me persistently through long hours of wakefulness and miserable brief dozes, refusing to be oharmed away by the voice of reason. Haggard, unrefreshed, and still conscious of the same vague foreboding clawing at my heart, I left that bed of suffering at an unwonted hour in the morning, and dein.——. ....... „ # I

bare boards, dotted about with precipitous islands under dusty cloths. Here a pipe, that unfailing comforter of dejected manhood, restored some balance to my disordered mind, but I still felt very depressed, and was preparfng to go forth and seek the restorative dear to every unhinged 4 Briton, an early swim, when the door opened, and to my amazement Olga glided into the room, pale and drooping, with dark lines under her brown eyes. After •mutual exclamations and greetings, I demanded the reason of her wan and dejected appearance. She did not answer at first, but turned her face away and tormented the braid on her travel-ing-dress in silence. “Well, if you will know', dear friend,” she said at last, with a charming gesture of resignation, “I think your old foreign office has bewitched me. No, it is that unhappy T., who has the evil eye, for I have a feeling as if some danger was hanging over you, and I could not sleep all night for it. O Harry!” continued the impetuous damsel, suddenly throwing aside the dignity with which she was wont to treat me, now that the worst was out, “come away with us to-day. Never mind a thousand governments and clerkships! I will not go without you. Something dreadful will happen; you feel it too. You look fit for the hangman yourself. ” It took me a long while to restore Olga to calmness. I laughed at her prognostications and W’as careful to betray no similar fe<jlings on my own part. She was mor? or less convinced at last of the utter ruin it would be to my future prospects to desert my post, and we were reasonably resigned if not cheered by breakfast time. Well, I saw them all off from Euston Station, and trailed away a hapless victim, to my dreary task in the exalted gloom of White Hall. That day seemed interminable; yet there -was nothing to look forward to at the end of it, and still with the previous night’s weight on my spirits, I started on my way back to the howling wilderness in Lancaster Gate. Near Hyde Park corner, where very few carriages remained to make hay of the dust, I was startled from melancholy reflection by a great bang on the back. Turning sharply round I confronted that atheletic giant, Jack Oliver, who had been at the same college as my self, and whom I had not met since we took our respective degrees at Oxford three years before. At Oriel I had been wont to write Jack down an ass, because his invariably boisterous spirits and perpetual athe•letics were at times a perfect nuisance, but in my present forlorn condition his jolly face and infectious laugh were a real God send.

We dined at the club together, and afterward went to the theater, then smoked a pipe or two in company at Oliver’s lodgings, so that it was towardl o'clock when 1 left him to return to Lancaster Gate. Walking along under the park railings, the trees made occasionally ghostly rustlings over head; the air was very still and heavy, in expectation of a traveling thunder storm. The tall shut up houses 'facing the park looked as forbidding as so many mausoleums in the moonlight, and only the footsteps of a stray wayfarer here and there, or the welcome rattle of an occasional hansom, broke the strange stillness. All the uncomfortable feelings of the last twenty-four hours, temporarily., thrust back by Oliver's cheerful company, returned with overwhelming force. Indignant at being so befooled by what I declared to myself must be a dyspeptic imagination (though my acquaintance with dyspepsia was happily of the slightest), I argued fiercely with my own folly; but all in vain, that indescribable dead weight of apprehension still crushed my spirits. The senseless sense of unseen danger grew stronger at every yard. I was ready to roar for very disquietude of spirit, “confound it all,” I almost shouted, “this is beyond a joke! What an abject piece of imbecility, for a man who has always flattered himself on having too much reason to fall a prey to any superstitious delusions whatever! I must be ill; if things go on 1 ke this to-mor-row I shall give in, and go to old Burrows (the family 2Esculapius) to be put together again." Meanwhile every step forward appeared to grow more and more difficult. A sudden sound of footsteps close behind most unaccountably paralyzed my powers of locomotion, and filled me with horrible dread. This was monstrous ; with a kind of groan of disgust mid misery over my |own decrepitude, T resolutely turned round and waited till the steps reached me.

Merciful heaven! What was this that came up, brushed past me, and went on ? My brain reeled, a cold perspiration broke out on my forehead, for, frantic as it may sound, it was myself that I saw go by. My exact image and counterpart came toward me, looked me full in the face with cold, indifferent eyes, differing from mine only in their expression at the moment/and passed on, brushing me with the sleeve of a light over-coat exactly like the one I wore. I noted with despairing recognition on the creature’s left hand, which was raised, holding the unbuttoned flap of his coat in front of him (a favorite trick of mine), the very ring Olga had given me a week ago, and which was also on my finger at that moment For one long minute I sood stupefied with horror, the next I darted forward after that terrible familiar form, which crossed the street and went on toward our door. I felt sure that I must be mad, or in the clutches of some hideous nightmare. Oh! for some power to shake it off and awake. But no! the area railings had a firm and chill reality when I touched them. My footsteps and those others sounded all too solidly on the deserted pavement I even caught myself deliriously smiling ata peculiar trick of walking in the thing in front, with which Barbara had often taunted me. It was an extraordinary opportunity of seeing oneself as others 'see one, but what mortal conld have availed himself of it under such circumstances? r . I, staggered on behind him, unable to diminish the twenty yards or so that separated us. Would he stop at No. 264? The suspense was almost intolerable. He-did. ' He disappeared.

through the door, though the onjy surviving latchkey was in my hand. When I reached the door it was shut and bore no signs of any unusual treatment. I could not go in; I could not follow into the house and run the risk of meeting that on the dark stairs. A horror unspeakable had taken possession of my senses; I turned and fled, and spent uncounted hours in walkin g about the silent streets and squares, unconscious of the lapse of time. The early sunshine aroused ami cheered my scatted wits. Gradually the sounds of common life awakening brought back my reasoning faculties; the discordant cry of that bird of dawn the early sweep, was as music in my ears, and seemed f to make the dreadful night fade into remoteness and unreality, I made my way back to Lancaster Gate, footsore and exhausted. The milkman was driving merrily up and down; when I reached our door steps it seemed a year since I had last ascended them. I rushed to my room; it was, of course, empty, the bed untouched. But on the pillow and turned down sheet, exactly where my head and shoulders would have been in the natural course of things, lay the ruins of a large bust, the Hermes, which had been wont to stand on a bracket over the head of the bed. This bracket my mother had frequently enti eated me to replace by a firmer suppert; it had given awav at last under the ponderous weight of the bust, which, striking against the iron rail of the bed, had broken into two or three murderous portions that reposed on the pillow and sheet, the bracket only having chosen to glance off on to the floor. Had I been there Hermes must certainly have crushed my skull.

Thrilled with fresh emotion, but too exhausted then to meditate long over the event, I went slowly down to the dining room, and fell asleep on the sofa. The old charwoman x _who appeared later with my breakfast, told me she had been startled by hearing a loud, crash in the night, soon after the clock had struck 1, but having been only half awake at the time she concluded it was the thunder of my boots being thrown out to await the morning’s cleaning. She was now, however, much excited about it, and disposed to revel in a tragedy. I told her that I found the statue fallen on my bed, and that, as it took three men to move it in a general way, I had been obliged to content myself with the sofa. The brief and matter of-fact tone of my explanations quite failed to quell her exclamations of wonder and amazement, and she was not to be debarred from the pleasure of gloating over all the details of the tragedy which had been averted.

Since that nigjit all has gone well with us. My blessed chief found means to let me go in a day or two, and our time at Grasmere was all we had expected it. to be. After Christmas, to bur great joy, Mr. Fielding gave up his house at Copenhagen, and canle to live in London.- Olga and I were married the following summer, and we have never again been disturbed by presentiments, apparitions, or any other subjects worthy to exercise the industry of the Society for Psychical Research.— M. (7. Vachell, in Longman’s Magazine.

Propagating Trees.

The following novel plan of propagating valuable trees is given by a correspondent of Vick’s Magazine: A year ago last July the latent bud on a lemon tree, which I have, started and rapidly grew to the length of about three feet, and then parted into three or four branches. Last March I girdled this shoot near the main stem, by removing a band of bark about an inch wide, cutting down to the hard wood. Around Aie place thus laid bare I built a small wooden tub, filled it with earth and kept it moist Being abroad during the summer the branch suffered from neglect, but upon my return I found that it had well rooted. Having cut the stem, I potted it, and now it is full of small blossoms, so numerous that it would be troublesome to count them. Thus, eighteen months since it was a latent bud, and in less than a year since it was layered, as described, I have a lemon tree rooted and capable of bearing blossoms and fruit. With equal success I propagated an India rubber tree in the same way, and doubtless it will succeed well with every plant. capable of being girdled. It seems to me that this mode has these advantages: By it the strength of the stem is unimpaired, and thus danger of breaking and need of support is avoided; the supply of nourishment from the parent plant is undiminished, as the upward flow of sap is through the vessels in the new wood, which are not cut, and the return flow, which is by the bark, or between the bark and the stem, is checked entirely in a complete circle around the stem, for the rapid and vigorous formation of roots. By £be usual mode, that of making a slit, the branch is we-kened, the supply of nourishment is one-kalf cut off, and the return flow of sap, by which the roots are formed.*only partly impeded. Suggestion: Might not even large trees which have been accidentally barked be saved by girdling them with a sharp knife, constructing a box around the exposed part, filled with earth, the roots thus formed finally reaching and penetrating the ground? A mound could be raised around the base of the tree high enough to receive the new roots, and lead them down into the ground. In the case of injury to valuable trees their usefulness might thus possibly be prolonged for a time.

Social Rivalry.

“Mamma,” said a New York girl, “do you know that at the Fitzsimmons dinner partv yesterday peaches wefes served in unlimited quantities?” “Yes, I .heard about it.” “They are a hateful set. They knew that we are to give a dinner party next week, and they gave theirs just to spite us.” “Why so? ’ asked the mother. “Why so?” the daughter repeated. “Because they must have heard that we are to serve peach s, and they wanted to be the first to "do so. J only hope they won’t go down any in price.”-r Philadelphia Call. - *

USE ONLY PURE WATER.

Simple Te»t« by Which Impurities May Keadlly Be Detected. In suspected potable water for perspns who can not command chemical analysis the following tests are recommended as being, generally available and reliable: Color —Fill a bottle made of colorless glass with the water; look through the water at some black object; the water should appear perfectly colorless and free from suspended matter. A muddy or turbid appearance indicates the presence of soluble organic matter, or of soluble matter in suspension. It should be “clear as a crystal.” Odor—Empty out some of the water, leaving the bottle half full; cork up the bottle and place it for a few hours in a warm place; shake up the water, remove the cork, and critically smell the air contained in the bottle. If it has any smell, and especially if . tha odor is in the least repulsive, the water should be rejected for domestic use. By heating the water to boiling an odor is evolved sometimes that otherwise does not appear. Taste—Water fresh from the well is usully tasteless, even though it may contain a large amount of putrescible organic matter. Water for domestic use should be perfectly tasteless and remain so, even after it has been warmed, since warming often develops a taste in water which is tasteless when cold. If the water, at any time, has a repulsive or even disagreeable taste, it should be rejected.

Heiseh’s Taste for Sewage Contamin-ation—-The delicacy of the sense of smell or taste varies greatly in different individuals ; one person may fail to detect the foul contamination of a given water, which would be very evident tA a person of finer organization. But if the cause of bad smell or taste exists in water, the injurious effect on health will remain the same, whether recognized or not. Moreover, of some water of very dangerous quality will fail to give any indication by smell or taste. For these reasons I attach special importance to Heiseh’s test for sewage contamination or the presence of putrescible organic matter. The test is so simple that anyone can use it. Fill a clean pint bottle three-fourths full of the water to be tested, and dissolve in the water a teaspoonful of the purest sugar—loaf or granulated sugar will answer—cork the bottle and place it in a warm place for two days. If in the twenty-four or forty-eight hours the water becomes cloudy or muddy, it is unfit for domestic use. If it remains perfectly clear it is safe to use.— Sanitar an.

In the Upper Air.

Two Frenchmen claim to have solved the problem of aerial navigation. They have spent many long years in perfecting their machine. It has been demonstrated that birds and insects can travel through the air by aid of one of twelve different means of locomotion. These Frenchmen have taken for the base of their invention a hint from the insect world. We all know' that a thin sheet of paper, if it could be kept straight, or if bent downward at the corners and edges, would float for a long period in mid-air. It is tlfis principle of an extended surface,-very flexible but under control, which is to be the guiding power of this very ingeni--OU3 flying machine. It operates by setting in motion a set of rotatory wings, something like those which are used to raise the little imitation butterflies commonly sold at bazaars and fancy fairs, or as children’s toys. The principle of their action is that of scattering the air, and creating avacuum, into which the air behind rushes, carrying with it any solid body which may be floating with it. The apparatus is described as consisting of a long shaped spheroidal balloon, measuring about twelve feet from end to end and three feet m diameter. At pach end is arranged a projecting axis, having arms like a windmill, with small cards fixed to them as sails. When one of them is set in motion, the whole machine moves forward in the direction of the axis so working, and continues to do so as long as the sails revolve. By stopping these sails, and starting those at the other end a contrary movement is imparted, and so also with another similar apparatus affixed to the lower side of the balloon and intended to make it descend toward the ground. There is also an arrangement of screens on each side of the several sets of sails, by which the course can be made to deviate to the right or the left. There is no reason to doubt but that the air will be navigated successfully before the close of this century, and man will eventually discover there is not only one but many ways of sailing securely through the open air.— Demorest’s Monthly.

Garfield Writing with Both Hands.

A gentleman who knew G arfield well tells this story: “We were sitting,” said this “iff the office of the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Thompsd?, of Indiana, waiting to be heard on some matter of routine business, when Garfield took his seat at a vacant desk near by, and commenced writing with both hands upon scratch-pads on either side of him. He seemed to write with one hand as freely as with the other. Both hands, in fact, appeared to move automatically. The only difference was that the lines on the tablet written with the left hand were reversed from the usual order. The consequence was that the writing on the left hand tablet eould not be read except by an expert or by holding it up to a light or before a mirror. I looked at the one written with the left on its upper side, and, while the lines seem remarkably uniform, they conveyed no meaning; but holding the thin paper up to the light I saw not only that the words written were the same as those on the tablet written with the right hand, but that every peculiarity in the formation of a letter which was formed on the righthand tablet was exactly on the left hand. The achievement was a marvel to me, as I had never heard of. it before, although I have since heard that many people do it. Garfield said that he often wrote in that way whenever he wished to preserve an exact copy of what he was writing without having a copy made by letter-press, and

that in this manner he saved a great deal of time without any more appreciable fatigue. I asked him how he got into that habit He said that while teaching school once he had occasion to use his right hand to point out something, and that unconsciously he kept on writing on the blackboard with his left. Upon turning to the blackboard to see what he had written, he observed that the writing was reversed, but that he had full use of his left hand for writing, and from that time he made use of both hands. He was, in fact, completely ambidextrous.”— Nashville Cor. Boston Journal. «

Eloquence of the Finger.

Well, you can just bet there is mute eloquence in a finger. And sometimes it is h great deal mutter, and then, hgain, it isn’t to awfully mute as it would be if it were more mute than it was. When you shut a car door upon it. Ah! Jee-whiz! You comprawney voo, do you not? We thought you would. How mute is the eloquence then ? Let us draw the veil over the dreadful scene. Or when you are sewing on a button, and ipm the needle clear through the end of it! Hi, hi, Ho, Jimmineddy! Or you have lost a suspender. Not lost, but gone up your back. In feeling for it, you run a stray pin under your finger nail, about fourteen inches, apparently. Held, oh Baal! When you reach under a locking chair, to pick up your pencil, and a fat man rocks back on your fingers! Eheu! hei! vaha! Jimminy pelt! When you lift off a red-hot lamp chimney with your bare hand. Murder! When you take a base ball from the bat with the end of i£ Whoop! When it is hooked into your buttonhole by a man-who has a new plan for retiring the silver dollar, or has invented a safety Car coupler. Oh death! These are jjhe times when it is not so mutely mute”as its intense mutability would seem to warrant It is somewhat muter when the man from whom you are proposing to borrow $25 until next day, slowly draws down the corner of his left eye with it, as though to invite you to prospect for indications of spring in the corner “when the corners waving, Annie dear. 5 ' O, sad muteness.

When the friend to whom you are explaining the bonanza beauties of a little Western land deal into which you can let him come, gazes at you fixedly, and silently lays his eloquent fore finger alongside of his unflinching nose. O, pitifulmiscue 1 When the head waiter pins you with his distant finger and points you to the last table in the darkest corner of the long dining room. O, slow starvation! When the man taps with his finger on the counter to indicate the place where the cash must repose e’er he weigheth out the groceries. O, elequent brevity ! When he; her father, stands at the parlor door and voicelessly points at the clock, and mayhap, to the door. ! ... . .... . After all, it is a quest iop if the mute eloquence of the unspoken finger be .not the greatest eloquence. In fact, it is. — R. J. Burdette.

Overfamiliarity.

The approaches of overfamiliarity are most insiduous. So must they come in disguise. The enemy may not be known until within the walls. The first entrance lies in some form of expression denoting lack of respect for the opinion of another. There may be much familiarity in tone and gesture as well as what are termed more demonstrative acts. There is a preceptible modulation and intonation of the voice, which conveys an extreme deference from that of the more unconsidered, every day manner. There arp inflections for conveying extreme interest, or mere interest, or a partial indifference, or indifference and from there down to contempt, of which one or the other of many a married and unmated couple are but too well aware. It is a bad symptom, and the first faint precursor of the cooling of the lover’s ardor when the husband, with more or less irritation in his voice, bids the wife “hurry up,” be the hurrying up in the process Of dressing for the theater or or the ascension of the “L” road stairs.

The nearer, the more tender, the more delicate the relationship between parties, the greater care is demanded in avoiding that overfamiliarity which expresses contempt for opinion. Be the opinion expressed by another entirely wrong, beyit even no opinion at all, but a statement or assertion based on a dishonest intent, there should be the greatest care before it is met with a sneer. Respect and dignity on one side beget respect and dignity on the other. The reverse is also, unfortunately, true. When a conversation degenerates into a squabble, bo h parties suffer common damage in loss of respect for each other. But in numberless instances, and especially in the marriage relation, after a little, the man has little but a sneer for the opinion of a woman. Uncon* sciogsly he falls into the habit of deeming his opinion on every possible subject to be superior to that of his partner, and the only region in which he may allow her to express hersdf “unsnubbed” is in that regarding matters he holds in contempt as belonging exclusively to the woman’s world. His sneer may be veiled, but it is none the less a sneer. There is the affectionate sneer, the patronizing sneer, the supe-rior-being sneer,-the half-pitying, halfcaressing sneer; and behind these the darker, heavier, and blunter sneer—the sneer of indifference, of irritation, of contempt “Familiarity breeds contempt.” An old adage but hone the less applicable to new generations.

A VißGTKiAjpri married a tramp who turned out to be a Duke. We’ve no pity for her. She should have known what he was before she married him.

THE PARTLY DOCTOR.

: W Rdjg-worm m caused by a parasite and is Known by its circular form. It appears in patches, usually on the head and neck. In mild cases, pencilling with tincture of iodine or acetic acid night and morning will be quite sufficient. An ointment made of chrysaphanic acid, sto 10 grains; vaseline, 1 ounce; mix and apply night and morning. This ointment cured three cases for me and may be found useful in the treatment of others. Pencilling with sulphurous acid and water in equal parts will cure some cases. Water for Infants.—Some 'two years ago Dr. N. S. Davis, of Chicago, called attention to the condition of the blood of infants in summer, which we might term exaqueous, due to the excessive amount of liquid lost by perspiration, and which he deemed predisposed the system to the Summer diseases of children; and now Dr. Charles Remsen calls attention to this point, which has received altogether too little attention. We all know how seldom an infant is given any more water than that contained in its food, and yet we all see how eagirly they will ofte'n drink when it is offered to them. A slightly depressed condition of the anterior fontanelle is one of the earliest symptoms showing the amount of water in the system to be below the standard. Fretfulness, moderate rise of pulse and temperature, a hot, dry skin, and frequent desire to nurse, are other signs. If not relieved, collapse is apt to set in. The treatment adopted for these emergencies consists in wrapping the patient in a wet sheet, applying cold to the head, and plying as much water to the mouth as the child will swallow. The results of this simple method have been extremely satisfactory, the child becoming quiet, and even going to sleep, while all the threatening symtoms subsided with great rapidity.— Health and Home. Doctoring in the Dark—ln many diseases several organs are more or less implicated, and what seems a primary ailment may be one only remote. For. instance, a severe headache may have its erigin in a disordered stomach. On the other hand, sickness at the stomach may be caused by a blow.on the head. Boils and other eruptions on the surface often result from tho imperfect action of the liver in eliminating effete matter from the system. Se, offensive excretions of the skin, are caused by this latter organ’s throwing off what the kidneys or bowels have failed to do. A severe pain in the lower part of the spine may be due to an irritation of a nerve near the base of the brain. A pressure on one side of the brain by an effusion of blood or water (sgrum) into one of its cavities, may cause a paralysis of t"he opposite side of the body. The seat of typhoid fever is in the upper part of the bowels: but some of its worst symptoms are aften in the brain. Uterine diseases are very often dependent on diseases of the liver, and atteniion to this latter organ, as well as to the stomach, brain, spleen, etc., is far more 'important than ordinary local treatment. These facts with many others that might 'be given, help to show why most persons are incompetent to “doctor.’ themselvbs, and why patent medicines are quite likely to do harm rather than good. In sickness, and even in ailments that may seem 7 almost trivial, the most judicious course is to seek the council of a skillful physician. The years that such men have given to the study of disease and to the practiceof medicine, make his opinion of value, and worthy of confidence, and there is always a risk when a person seeks to “doctor” himself.— Youth's Companion.

An Ancient Toast.

It was a grand day in th&old chiyalric times, the wine circling around the board in a noble hall, and the sculptured Walls rang with sentiment and song. The lady of each knightly heart was pledge by name, and many a syllable significant of loveliness had been uttered, until it came to St. Leon’s turn, when, lifting the sparkling cup on high—“l drink to one,” he said, “Whose imtnage never may part, Deen graven on a grateful heart, Till memory is dead. “To one whose love for me shaft last When lighter passions long have passed, So holy ’tis and true; To one whose love has longer dwelt. More deeply fixed, more keenly fell. Than any pledged by you?” Each guest upstarted at the word, And hand upon his sword Willi fiery flashing eyes; And S. anly said, “We crave the name, Pi oud kn ght, of this most peedemrdame Whose love you count so hlgft” St. Leon paused, as if he would Not breai he her name in careless mood Thus lightly to anottfer; Then bent h s noble herd as though To give that name the i-eve-encY due. And gently said "MY MothEß.”

Nations not Parties to Suits.

It is a principle of law among all civilized nations that no government can be tried by or in its own courts. The eleventh amendment to, the constitution is as follows: “The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States ' by citizens of another State or by citizens bFSubjects of any foreign State.” On the same principle States cannot be sued. Persons who believe they have or hold certain claims against the United States may have their cases heard by the Court of Claims, to which are referred all claims founded upon any law of Congress, or upon any regulation of an executive department, or upon any contract, expressed or implied, with the Government of the United States, and all claims which may be referred to it by either House of Congress.—lnter Ocean. Lamp chimneys will las.tna great deal longer, if, when new, they are put in a kettle of cold water with a handful of salt, boil a couple of hours, then take off and let the chimney stand in it until cold. This process, I can say from experience, toughens them very much. What Sunday is to Christians, Monday is to the Greeks, Tuesday to the Persians, Wednesday to the Assyrians, Thursday to the Egyptians, Friday to the Turks, and Saturday to the dews.