Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 16, Number 9, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 August 1885 — Page 6

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

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vVANITY HARDWARE.

By ALAN MUIIL

PART THE SECOND.

CHAPTER XIII.

A WITT IS QUITE ILLJEOIBLE.

At last the little patient was discharged from her hospital, and, all danger from infection" being over—so the doctor said—Mand JJeville was able to thank her benefactress in person. That energetic young matron, for all her own brilliancy and her knowledge of the fashionable world beside, could not but feel that Tom needed no excuse for being smitten by Vanity Hardware.* The •light palenets which long confinement had runt, over Vanity's face enhanced her beaaty, and the light gracefulness of her manner was chastened by an unusual gravity. Most of all, there was a strange expression in her eyes, a look at once resolute and imaginative, that elevated her whole aspect. Maud felt a secret respect for the young actress, and could not utter her thanks with the sisterly warmth which she desired to express.

And yet could Maud have read Vanity's secret} The actress was possessed with an idea which Maud would certainly have called wicked, it not mean. Her soul was concentrated upon her purpose of wayward affection and merciless revenge. Her calculation was that Nancy's attractions would bo about used up by this time Vanity Judged er just the woman to fatigue a man soo»,, and to ba too stupid, too self satisfied, to detect the weariness she provoked. This provincial Nancy, ignorant of the art of ploasing, could never rekindle an affection which at the tint she could not keep alive. Well Vanity knew with what deadly strength sin could confront her rival now. Her armory was not a mere store of clumsy rustic eudearmants. Willie had known her spell owe. She kner exactly how to carta•nrte him. As t« what might follow, Vanity did not greatly concern herself. Willie she considered her twn, establishing her right by reasoning, to which neither convention ®or religion were admitted, but which satisfied Vanity well enough.

It was this wicked, reckless purpose which made Vanity grave and calm and superior us she talked with Maud Neville and in the whole conversation honest Maud was altogether at fault.

Maud poured out her thanks, praised Vanity's bravery and said whatever the occasion suggested. Vanity heard her with an air of condescending interest, as one listens to the thanks of a grateful child. *'I am glad I risked it," she said, speaking to her own heart while appearing to answer Maud. "If I bad died I should not have cared. But I am alive I"

Compressed triumphant lips, eyes flashing with purpose, the gait of one who goes t? conquer, so she turned and walked to the window, for sho coulu not keep still with Maud's face looking into her own. Her heart was not like Maud's. She must go her own vpay, and speak as little as possible with this blight, warm-hearted, honorable woman. So-— "I am alive,n she said again, and then looked out of tho window. •'Alive!" repeated Maud Neville. "But suppose your beauty had gone!"

Vanity shuddor«d. Then she remembered her own former thought "If God or Pate had wanted my beauty, it would have been taken. Now I am twioo my own."

This was Greek to Maud but she had something to say herself, and, for her own reasons, she managed to mention the name of her brother. Vanity was still standing at the window looking into the garden. At mention of the soldier's name Maud saw a sarcastic smile upon the lips of the actress, but it vanished quickly, and when Vanity turned to reply her expression was one of perfect Indifference. Maud thought she could read what was passing through Vanity's mind, and judged that now was the time to say: "I am so proud of my brother!" "No wonder," Vanity repliud. "He is a handsome man."

But slue might bavo been talking of a statue. Yes In that very tone she might have said, "It is a handsome statue."

Mnud considered this indifference father overdone. "Vanity means to give me a quiet hint," thought MIstress Maud. "Vanity means to say, 'Yes, your brother Is a wealthy, handsome soldier. Such are apt to fancy that any poor girl they look at grows conscious and agitated and so forth. Such a girl am not L'"

Thus misinterpreting Vanity's manner, and full of generous enthusiasm for her brother, Maud wont on cleverly, aa she imagined: "Tom is i: es well as handsome. Oh, he has a no'ui.' heart! Fur all his easy, selfindulgent ways, he thinks more of other people than of himself. I am sure"—Mand for* got artistic prndence in her warmth—"that if you think that Tom would trifle with the happiness of another you little understand his character."

Would Vanity notice this significant tribute! Yea, again the sarcastic smile played over ber lip*. Maud saw all now. There stood before her a virtuous young actress, whose great beauty had enabled her to know the trays of the wicked world, and who was disdainfully incredulous of masculine goodness.

You may smile," she continued, with growing tamrndenea. Cor bar temper overcame hsr, alUi fh her mood was onerous. **1 supposeyou kavegnestcd that brother admires you! Well, he does admire yoa. Indeed, it uld be hard tar him to see yon and «sJ .•«. But Wfc mo tell yon my brot1 iai the style o( man who can fancy one woman and love an* *^-srf

Vr~ty tented ua tf* least excited, bat it an ex on of a-miaiion. "He looked ee ak m- »,-« o: would been «u.^gh." the with j. gaytty. "But fvtwr I did not think ha wwai to! -I •oo.* »«He t®B Mand eagerly. •That shows whai Tom isf

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yintl of way. wiahea to be straightforward, but you might bo easily have taken offense."

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burst into tears all at once. "I understand you," she replied. "You are good and honorable, and yon have spoken as you ought"

It was not altogether surprising that the actress should be a little touched. But why was Maud made mysteriously conscious that the friend lees woman who stood before her had an individuality into which she could not penetrate! "I pyrf what I thought best," Mand said somewhat awkwardly. Then, recovering herself, "Your address repaired my blunders." "Make yourself easy," Vanity answered, resuming her amused look. "Your broth® will have no need to consider prudence or anything else. I would not many him if be asked me." "Wlsat!" exclaimed Mand Neville. She was fated to forget herself in this conversation. "Not marry Tom!"

For, remember, reader, Tom was fit for an earl's daughter. Maud always said so. And Tom might have an earl's daughter if he tried. Maud said that too. Hence the accents in which she exclaimed, "Not marry Tom!" "No," Vanity said cleverly "I would not marry Tom." "Then you love somebody dsef"| "I love somebody else." "Do tell me—forgive me for asking. Is he handsome!" "Handsome! O, more than handsome—to me." __

Vanity breathed a sigh. "Is he rich!" Maud inquired, not with empty curiosity, but with affectionate interest such as a sister might show. "No, poor—quite poor in eyes like yours." "I hope he knows what he has won I" cried Maud. "I hope he will treasure you!" "He i» my fancy," Vanity answered lightly. "He was—1 mean he is—the man I took a fancy to." "You choose to talk in that way," Maud Neville said "but yours must be a deep, true heart"

Vanity listened to these admiring words with composure, but Maud could not refrain from again expressing surprise. "So you would not have married my brother if he had asked you!" "No, indeed," Vanity answered laughingly. "Shocking taste, I know, but I would not." "And that only shows what a good heart yours must be," Maud said, once again allowing her admiration of her brother to outweigh all other considerations. "I hope you will be happy in your love."

Vanity could say nothing in reply. But she had her own secret locked in her breast. The strength of her purpose, the conviction that hor wrongs in the past justified her present schemes, enabled Jier to accept Maud Neville's congratulations with perfect calnj: ness. Vanity was a law unto herself.

But another and a mightier hand than her own will was to fashion her future. That very night the smallpox laid her low!

CHAPTER XIV. DELIRIUM.

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Poor Vanityt Tho doctor had pronounced her safe from all danger, but some inscrutable speck of infection had found its way into her blood, and tho face, whose beauty she had an hour before regarded with a thrill of vindictive pride, was at the mercy of this destructive disease.

The whole establishment was upset, and the doctor, in his fresh alarm, insisted that the family should depart Maud Neville made one bold proposal to nurse Vanity herself, but this was sternly forbidden, and Sister Catherine, who happened to be in the neighborhood, declared that she would wait upon Vanity and see her through the disease. Accordingly the house.was vacated, and the good sister, who feared neither death nor disfigurement, was placed in authority. She was assisted by a hospital nurse, and two old female servants undertook the slender household duties. In this manner the fitful life of Vanity Hardware wound its way inns the valley of the shadow of death.

Vanity realized her position. The disease brought with it a certain stupor but while this made the patient apathetic about many things, it did not obscure tho great staring fact of her life. Her beauty was ber all. Her beauty was hor sole weapon in the fight. She had resolved to win! "1 don't care about" life," she murmured impatiently to the doctor," when he said sonio hopeful word. "But if my face becomes like faces I have seen

Sho could not finish the sentence. She drew in her breath with a shudder of fear. Bister Catherine overheard this outburst hut saw nothing more in it than an expression of passionate concern for her imperiled Ixsauty, which was natural in a pretty woman. As the malady progressed Vanity grew delirious. Her imagination was quickened prudence no longer guarded her tongue, and in her wanderings she told, in hot, restless pentences, the whole story of her heart A few of these sentences, such as most conveyed her feelings, she repeated again and again, until Sister Catherine knew each by heart and, thinking the words over, the sister filled in the spaces between and interpreted their significance. "Willie, Willie!" Vanity murmured, ii a voice deep as the note of a nightingale, and just as though she were breathing the words on his breast, "wo will be sc happy—far away—over tha saa, living and loving together. Away, away from this horrid England!' Oh, how I hate England!"

She threw that out in the midst of her dreamy speech, and struck tho coverlet with her clenched hand but she forgot the next instant, and wanton as if she were chanting

Over the sea, over the seal Hear what a bonny bird whispered to mef The notes, low, rich and tender, sounded strange, coining from the sica-bed. A long silence followed then Sister Catherine was startled to hear a mocking laugh: "Nos Willie, not her*. Mine, forever mine! They might read words, and yen might say, /I take tbee, Nancy, to be my wedded wife but the words had no power. Yoa were mine before."

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The sister looked from the end of the bed upon the delirious girL "If you live," she said, speaking aloud, "poor wandering child, I will try to teach yon t*"»* there is another love than this!"

Vanity heard the words, and answered, still wandering: "Oh, Willie, it is too Tate now!" "Oh, our Father the sister cried, "slay this child's beauty, and then raise her up to be Thine for evermore 1"

CHAPTER XV. CONFLICT.

Vanity's illness might be compared to the course of a river. There was the snatch of when the patient was impetuous

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fitful then came the period of blindness and silence, as if the stream, sinking down betwean deep banks, rolled on dark and noiseless to the sea.

Amidst all ber pain and stupor one idea was ever before the girl's mind. Her face, her beautiful face, her sole treasure, the •oiiamnn which was to recover her Willie's lost love—what would become of ber beautiful face! "Tell me," die moaned to Sister Catherine one dar, after the doctor had gone, "is there any hope!" "Yes, child," she answered soothingly "with care you will recover." "I don't mean that," she replied. "Shall I be marked!" i. "He fears you will." "And I shall look into the glass and see— horror!" Vanity moaned. "Let me die! only let me die!"

Sister Catherine spoke no more at that tim». Later on she took an opportunity of saying to her charge, with a soothing, halfplayful, but most tender manner: "I don't wonder if you grieve over that pretty sweet face. But listen, child: you have to learn to say: 'Not my will, but Thine be done.' And you will learn to say it" "Never 1" criod Vanity—"Never!" "Think, my child, how much sadder it might have been. Not only yourself, but another, might have felt the anguish. If there had been any one to whom your face was as the light of life——" "There is," Vanity replied hastily—"I tell you there is!" 'Who can that be!" the sister asked. "A man whom I loved, and who loved me. We had promised ourselves to each other, and a woman came and stole his heart She was rich, and could have married a dosen equally good in her eyes but she stole—my husband." "Your husband!" "Yes, by all that makes true marriage, by vows, by tenderness, by all that what you qaU marriage caunot insure." "Did he marry this woman 1" A&, "Yes." "&E82S2&'And she is Hvingf j, "Yes." vr-V V* "Then he is hers—not yours.*' ""^9 "No he is mine—not hers."

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•"Vanity, this is wicked." "I meant to win him back," Vanity continued "I knew he could not resist me. But now my face is destroyed, and all is over,. and I want to die." "Thank God, who has given you time for. repentance," the sister said gravely. "His ways are not our ways. He is leading you by paths you know not" "I don't want to repent," Vanity answered "I cannot do what I would. I am baffled, but I have not repented—no, and I will not repent"

Another time, as Vanity lay in the darkness, the sister heard her say: "Tell me, were you always good!" "Always good, my child!" "I mean serious, you know. I am snre you were not always serious!" "Why are you sure!" "Something in your voice." "You are right," Sister Catherine said quietly. "I was not alwavs serious." "Of course not," Vanity rejoined. "Besides, you are too good-looking." "Indeed!" Sister Catherine remarked, amused at this frankness. "Are good-look-ing people never serious?' "None that I have seen," Vanity answered —except you, I mean And you only began when

Here she stopped, and said no more. Two or three houra later, Sister Catherine, inding her a littlo easier, said to her: "Would you like me to tell you about a nan who—once—wanted to marry me!"

There was a strange tremor in that usually 2alm voice as the sister spoke. "Do let me hear it," Vanity said. "I hope be was nice!" "You shall judge, child. We met when he was twenty-five and I twenty-one, and we both were poor. We fell in love. I think he really loved me. I know I really loved him. The story is commonplace enough—at least to the ear. After we had waited five years for fortune to enable us to marry, he secured a good appointment My heart was throbbing with bliss when I received a tetter from him, written in a style of cold justice and formal honor, which stabbed me to the heart "We were engaged lovers—that he admitted. Morally ami legally he was bound to me, but he had ceased to care for me the thought of a marriage with me, be must frankly tell me. was repugnant to him. What would I desire him to do! "The cold business-lite tone, the surface common sense of the letter was killing. I wrdte and released him, and when I dosed the letter I looked up, and there was my life around me, a desolate wilderness. "Child, do you know what it is to have the dull aching of brain and heart, hour after hour, day after day "I know it," Vanity answered from her darkened bed. "Ob, how bitterly I know itl" "My strength foiled, my face grew aged with anguish, my hair torped white. I watched the signs, and was glad of them. I had been wall taught or I might have killed myself. Perhaps family pride restrained me. 8o I went on dav after day, hating the light as it came morning by morning, lying down with the wish that I might never waken any mora "We were living in the country, and one Snnday morning I went oat for an early walk. Since my sorrow I had never gone to church, and I beard the bells ringing in (be village for as early service. The idea strode me that I would go in and see if there I could calm my mind. So irresolute was I, that for a time I wandered np and down and did not enter, but at last I crept in with my breaking heart. "Well I remember that ld Norman church, with its few worst:jr.=i, and thn wih-t altar at the en 1. As Ient r*d, t:i" in was rea g, ant ail rand are •aw la: n, aa- I will :ive y.m r^t'

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voice saying, 'Are there no sorrows beside your own? No breaking hearts but yours! No sickness! No hunger? No nakedness? 'Then for tin first time I realized that I was only one in a great fellowship of grief. I was overwhelmed, but with a blessed sorrow now. "And I have been happy ever since in my own way. People say all sorts of things about religion I only know what religion has been to me. A new life—a new life when the old one was withered and blasted end dead! For all that I tell you came from no effort of my own will—just as a hand might come to one who is drowning. All that was twenty years ago." "What became of him?" Vanity asked. "He went his way and prospered. He is married now, with a large and happy family. He is a judge." "A judge!" Vanity said scornfully. Then she added, "I dare say he is not the only one!"

To which Sister Catherine made no reply.

[CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.]

LIFE WITH THE LAPPS.

PECULIARITIES OF THE PEOPLE, A3 NOTED BY A TRAVELER.

Soph us Tromholt's Experienoa Under the Baya of the Aurora Borealts—Tent Lift—Dogs and Ketndear—A

Lapp Wedding.

[Globe-Democrat Book Review.] Of course the author could not live among the Lapps for a year without noting many peculiarities of their daily life. All live in tents, there being no such things as articles of furniture, the ground supplying the place of chair, table and bed, men, women, children and dogs all lying together. "It is obvious that life in such a tent is not very refined or well regulated. There are no fixed meals, caused chiefly by the circumstance that members of the family hkve each to take their turn in guarding the reindeer. A large kettle hangs always over the fire, and when a Lapp wants to eat he dives with his bands into the pot, fetches out a piece of meat, which /he devours by the aid of the knife always carried at his side, the fingers serving as forks. During the winter reindeer meat and milk, the latter either frozeu or in the form of cheese, and melted snow, constitute the food and drink of the Lapp, in addition to which, he will, when obtainable, consume a large quantity of coffee. Any one sharing in a Lapp's meal must not be disgusted if he finds a certain amount of reindeer hair in the food, as the latter sticks to every object—kettles, spoons, forks and hands. It is almost impossible to get rid of them, as by the slightest rubbing they become olectrical and adhere still more. The dogs stand by when food is being consumed and watch every morsel from hand to mouth with intense attention. In the night they crawl about the tent, selecting the warmest of the company for a couch.

It is rare that the entire family is at once collected in the tent, as the herd always requires their attention day and night Men, women, boys and girls all share in this task, being relieved twice a day. Each one brings his own dogs, which only obey his commands, while tho«e relieved take back their hungry ones. Often, therefore, eight or ten dogs walk over the sleeper to find a snug corner. And they certainly need rest, considering that they are in constant activity during the day guarding tbe flock. On them depend the well-being and safety of tho herd, and by them alone is the flock gathered and moved from one place to another. "As soon as Lapp childrea can walk they are dressed as grown-up people, and looi very funny by their dwarfish appearance. But the babies have no clothes at all, being swaddled in sheepskin and moss in a sort of half basket, half cradle formed of wooden ribs, in the shape of a little trough, covered with leather, its size being adapted to thai of the baby. For the protection of tho baby's bead there is a wooden di-k at the uppei end, similar to that on cradles. When the child is packed away, the mother throws the sustaining strap over her shoulder and thut support* it When tho cbild is packed, it it not only easier to handle, but is also safei when left to itself, and tbe cradle is often stuck on end in the snow while the mothei goes into the hut Tbe games and amusements of Lapp children consist chiefly, in make lassoes and pulks and practicing theii u-e.

When Lapp children enter school, thoy are like unbroken colts either they are defiant or seek safety in excuses. "They are indifferent to their pareuts and entirely neglect them if property or other egotistical considerations do not influence them. Only unwillingly do they take care of their parents in old age and more from a sense ol shame than from any feeling of affection. Old and decrepit people are much in the way of tbe Lapp moving from placj to place, and for this reason they are rarely taken about, but either left to beg, 01 boarded in the family of settled Lapps."

During Christmas week the author had an opportunity of attending a Lapp wedding, and, although many of the old customs have passed away the ceremony is still interesting. "The bride isdressed in a costuma which, by tbe Lepp, is considered to be the grandest and mo brilliant toilet the human mind can conceive. The striped frock is new. Around the neck and shoulders a manycolored chawl is worn, but over it is cast, in the most crqaettish manner, a gandy silk wrapper, the intense colors of which—yellow, green and red —throw tbe other entirely into the shade. Orer this again is tied a silk scarf with various colors, which is fastened with a brooch on the breast and a showy necklace of silver ornaments is hung round the neck and shoulders to crown it all. the hands are kept in a kind of muff, formed of a large plaid. But the gem of the whole is the headgear. It is a kind of crown but differing greatly fromthoae won by the peasant women of 8candinaria on such occasion*. The Lapp bridal crown is formed of colored s&k, strings ol pearls an$ silver ornaments, closed above with a bunch of flowers and silver-gilt leaves, while a number of long, many-ool-orod silk ribbons of various patterns and widths descend from the top down the neck. The bridegroom is clothe in the moal Was summer coat with a broad diver-laden belt, but the diploma of hi* dignified position is a narrow white band laid round the neck and cro««wi*e over the. breast the endneariy mc.iingtbe ground.

P.»p »ii4^ tbe question is done by the lover attempting to taxe poieeasioa of his Dt nm1* forry glowK. and her answer ii inii. ate-i by the willing, balf-wiliiag or an* willing manner in which she submit* to fc robbery. On marriage he looks with Sht ey«* r-f a man of ba-oness disappointments In ••'•tm, unhappy onions and unrequited affect on are utterly foreign to him."

A balloon is higher than a stomp, bat it taut half so reliable to hiteh to in time at a

STRANGE PRACTICES.

MEDICINE MEN AMONG TtfE INDIANS OF PARA, BRAZIL.

Working Under the Influence of Invlst-* ble Healers—How a Medicine Man Operates—The Various Prescriptions—Other Ceremonies.

IHarper's Basar.]

In Belen del gran Para, among the most ignorant of the natives, there are medicine men and women who frequently make very successful cures by mysterious means, saving patients that have been pronounced incurable by other physicians, and such cases become widely known. These medicine men say they work by order of spirits of the fire and spirits from tbe bottom of the deep those who claim the help of the fire spirits are said to euro best Each of these peculiar doctors is supposed to bo influenced by a tribe of unseen beings subordinate to a superior, who takee charge of the most difficult cases, and whose opinion is highly respected. The invisible healers are said to be ghosts of people who belonged to the most ignorant classes of humanity —black slaves, white roughs, savage Indians, cruel pirates, eta, and each answer* to some particular name. Besides his fixed number of assistant specters, in whom the medicine man has unbounded confidence, others occasionally attend, if permitted by the chief ghost, that the man pretends to hear, *ee and touch when alone, and without which permission be dares not hold intercourse with inferior spirits.

The men say that they themselves know nothing of disease or medicince, but that after awhile they are not able to free themselves from the authority of the invisibles who impose upon them the mission of always curing, at least with only intervals of a few days, and if they do not comply, the master punishes them, even corporally but on the other hand, when they work faithfully and well, the master is complaisant, and takes particular care to cure those dear to tbe medicine man. The more moral the dootor, the more certain the cure, they say for those who have acquired bad habits are influenced by evil spirits that, far from benefiting, harm tbe patient Upon such all look with horror, and condemn them as wizard--.

Tbe police of Para pursue these medicine men and women relentlessly, but tbe lower classes of society tacitly protoot them, and will never point out the plaoes where they hold their meetings. The medicine man appoints a certain day for patients who desire ta consult him, with their families, and any who have obtained permission to be present, go at night-fall—one or two at a time, not to attract attention— to some house in an unfrequented spot, where they may not be surprised by the police or annoyed ty persons outside. About 9 o'clock tho visitors, never less than fifteen or twenty, must be gathered at the place indicated. They are recommended to be very circumspect, to have much faith in all they see and hear, and to sing with eaoh spirit certain verses that correspond to them. The doors are well closed and no one can go out till the meeting adjourns, except with the master's permission. Sometimes tbey are 9loseted till early dawn.

The medicine man fir-t occupies himself for about an hour in slowly making ten or twelve cigars, very thick and nine inches long, mixing with the tobacco a small quantity of pulverised incense, and wrapping it in very thin bark that they use instead of paper. There are two bottles of firewater on band for'the libations of "the spirits," and a smalt hollow globe made of wood with holes in it inside are stones to rattle. This primitive kind of sistrum is secured to a handle, and the medicine man uses it to call the master of the spirits they say that he gave it to them for that purpose, as well as another instrument made of buzzard feathers. After various preparation* the doctir diminishes the light as much as possible without extinguishing it, lights one of the big oig ars, concentrates his thoughts, and begins to smoke calmly. From time to time he introducas the lighted end of the cigar in his mouth, and absorbs a quantity of smoke he also takes one of the instruments mentioned, and sounds it rapidly close to hia ears. With his mouth he fumigates bis arms and hands in the form of a cross, until, compelled by the repetition of these operations, he closes his eyes and seems. to be in a somnambulistic state.

Half tottering, be rises and pastes bis hands several times over his forehead, then, with his arms upliltad, goes to the nearest wall, and strikes it hard with the paints of bis bands, and rtscede a few steps, always unsteady, repeating the operation two or three tima At last, able to stand firm, be turns toward the company, and says, "Goodevening." His movements are free his features, language, way of walking, all his actions, polite or rude, take the character of tbe individual supposed to possess him. Those present never address the doctor by his name, but that of the one taid to control him, anl by his manners and language known to some among them. They answer his greeting with amiability, and try to please bim by ail the means in their power, offering him rum or some good thing they have prepared for him, beg him to sing, and if he does, join in with him, and respond to the toasts be deigns to drink to some of those pr sent Afterward by invitation or voluntarily, be attentively examines the patients, gently touching tbe affected parts, and asking questions concerning the malady. He fumigates tbe seat of the disease, makes passes over the individual, with one of the small musical instruments, ani lastly prescribes.

When be has finished attending to patients he takes more fire-water and says good-bye, then goes to the wall as before, strikes it with his open palm*, and seems greatly exhausted. After a few minutes' rest be again approaches the wall as already described, and soon is said to be no* der control of another, who, with very little difference, repeats what the first did thus one succeeds another throughout the night Some only attend to two or three patients, others to many, and tbe master to the most serious cases. They sometimes approve the prescriptions of those who have preceded tbem. but may prescribe other remedies then the master decides which shall be used. The medicament* ordered are herbs, barks, roots, and, in a few cases purgatives from the drug-*tore, to be used exactly a* directed. Wheo bleeding—in the arms or feet —is prescribed, the doctor undertakes to bleed them at once, or at the next meeting, or in tbe home of the patient o*ing apiece of class tied to a small stick.

Nearly all the medicine man and women work completely naked above the waist Same prepare tor work in complete darknesa. rpqaesting those present to light op ths room as soon as they ars inflaetiesd by the first spirit Others keep the room in ob«nm ity during the first part of the ni^ht and Ilgli* tber half.

It 3 remarkable fact that ir. Yucatan, ata the Indians hide tbemwlve* at night and perform ceremonies similar to those that take plaoe in BraxO.

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ECZEMA

And Every Species of Itch^ Ing and Burning Diseases Positively Cured.

UCZEMA, or Salt Rheum, with its a ing itching and burning, instantly relieved by a warm bath with Ctmccio and a simple application of CimcuKA, the great Skin Cure. This repeated daily^Wfth two or three dosee of Cutictra Rksolfbht» the New Blood Purifier, to keep t^i© blood cool, the perspiration pure and unirritating^ i~ the bowels open, the liver and kidney will speedilv cure Eczema, Tetter, Ittaigworm, Psoriasis, Lichen Pruritus, tWraiea Head, Dandruff, and every species of Itching, Scaly and Pimply Humors of the Scnh and Skin, when the beet physicians and at remedies fail.

Will McDonald, 2542 Dearborn St., Chirac go.^rataf ully acknowledges a cure of Eczema or Salt Rheum, on hand, neck, face, nnnsiv and legs for seventeen years not able to walk except on liandsnnd knees for one year not able to help himself for eight years tried hundreds of remedies doctors pronounced his case hopeless permanently cured by Cuticura Resolvent (blood purifier) internally, and Cuticura Soap (the great skin cures), externally.

Chas. Houghton, Esq., lawyer, 28 Statfr St., Boston, reports a case of Eczema under his observation for ton years, which covered the patient's body and limbs, and to which all known methods of treatment had beei applied without beueflt, which was completely cured solely by tbe Cuticura Remodies, leaving a clean and healthy skin.

Mr. John Thlel, Wilkesbarr®, Pa., writes"I have sutlfered from Salt Rheum for over eight years, at times so hod that I could not attend to my business for weeks at a time. Three boxes of Cuticura and four bottles Resolvent have entirely cured me of this dreadful disease.

Sold everywhere. Price: Cutictra, 60 ots. Rksolvknt, 91.00 Soap, 25 cents. Pottxb Drug and Chemical Co., Boston, Mass. Send for "How to Cure Skin Diseases.,'*1 15T? A TTTIFY the Complexion and Skin* DU/i. by using the Cuticura Soap.

"TIRED AND ACHING MUSCLES* crying through countless nerves for rest and relief." Like manna to the children of Israel is tho Cuticura

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A single doSe of Sanford's Radical Cure instantly relieves the nio-t violent Hneeslng or Heaa Colds, clears tho Head as by magic, stops watery discharges from tho Nose aivd Eyes, prevents Ringing Noises In the Head, cures Nervous Headache, and subdues Chills and Fevers. In Chronic Catarrh It cleanses the nasal passages of foul mucus, restores the senses of smell, taste, and hearing when aiftected, frees the head, throat, and bronchial tubes of offensive matter, sweetens and puilflesthe breath, stops the cough, and arrests, the progress of Catarrh towards Consumption.

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