Bloomington Courier, Volume 13, Number 50, Bloomington, Monroe County, 15 October 1887 — Page 2
THE COURIER,
BY H.
BLOOMINGTON.
Another tremendous outbreak1- of the -Apach a Indians is reported from Arixonai It will probably kst a week, it the army contractprsicanvhKre air opertunity to combine.
A Fsikch newspaper claims tnat the tomVof Napoleon I. in the Invalides has been desecrated and the remains of the great Corsican carted away, as in the case of the late A. T. Stewart. The question might be settled by taking a peep into the imperial sarcophagus.
is gralitying to know the number 'of petitions for commutation of the Chi cago Anarchists is not so large as the remonstmaces against such action. The Sriewte of the condemned parties are Very active; but the other side of- the matter will be presented with equal force and1 perseverance, and that" implies tha. ov; Ogiesby will find it impossible to err for want of sufficient formation as to the .feeling of honest and law-abiding cltizens-niton the subject. There is really no ground for interference on bis pare. The courts gave careful and thorough consideration to every feature of the case, -and their tcoaclosion should not be disturbed. i
The New York law exempting strikes from tiie list of misdemeanors turns out i to have appiicaii on only to strikes for wages, and not to a strike designed to injure trade and prevent citisens from exercising aoy 3awfnl calling. In other words, it does not authorize labor organisations to become their own judges as to violations of law, and to employ a Statute of protection for purposes of oppression. It is still necessary therefore, in New York as elsewhere, for strikers to bear in mind cbe important fact that when they undertake to prevent other men from taking" the places which they
have relinquished fheV become con
spirators and: can be punished; accordingly, no matter what grounds they -may have for strikinsr.
- O'Brien's' sentence of three months' imprisonment 'does not interfere with hie liberty to any great extent yet. Ho took an appeal, and in the meantime was admitted to bail. He improved theopportnnity 'of driving to Limerick Junction and delivered a characteristically defiant speech in which he declared that "the branches of the National League wiU decline to consider themselves suppressed until every decent man, aye, and many decent women, in the community are placed in jail. The suppression of the Irish National League is simply' an im
possibility.'' He propounded tp Mr. Balfour the problem: "If it take
Plunkett with an army of police and
military to suppress one branch of the
League, and if ho and his' army are so easily baffled, thwarted and hoodwink-
ed as they, have been to-day,, how many
of Plunkett 'a armies will be required to suppress" the 1,800 branches of the
League;.wfen all; decline to be suppress
ed."' jar. ilauoar has not figured i out yet. . ,
DNOCCUPIED FIELDS.
What tho Church, is Doing and What - it- Ought to Do .- ... ... aaasag. .. ....... AH Technicalities Must Be Dropped The Church 2 Iii Saving: Station Which Ought to Save tho Wrecked, Not Those Sailing on Calm Seas,
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Natural gas has been discovered
Herndon, Guthrie County, Iowa, which
is the only place in that-Sta'te where it
Js known to exist in considerable quan
tities.; The place issHuateu in a fertile
prairie country, some miles northwest of D8 Moines, at a crossing of the CI XL and St P., arid the Wabash narrow
gauge lines. The remarkable thing
about the discovery - is that the gas
pours forth in powerful currents, .with-
out visible diminnti n in volume, from weils only 120 to 165 feet in depth. One
well, however, was sunk to a depth of 380 feet, and in the drilling gas was
struck fct four different points first in
soft, white sandstone, at 120 feet, in slate 150 fee in hard sandstone 165
leeti and ni black slate at the depth 'of
180 feet. At the lower point reached
eruae petroleum is reported to have
been "pumped out in small quantities.
The gas producing stratum appears to be only about sixty feet in depth, immediately underlying an impervious deposit of clue .clay, about eighty feet
deep.' The gas is said to be very pure.
WATJEK AS A MEDICINE.
uses to Which it Can be Put? as' a
Curative Ageat. Harper's Magazine. . " '
Ordinary drinking water, if t?ken in
large quantities, acts as: a solvent and
diuretic and also increases the perspira
tion if the temperature of the air be high. Taken in the quantity of one or two quarts at a time the diluent effecr
of water is often sufficient to ehnrnate
an excess or alcohol from the blood, as after taking too much wine. Another effect pf large draughts of water is to
make the pulse slower, and to 'diminish slightlv the normal temperature of the
Increase inweignt has been claimed ai a result of systematic water-drinking on retiring for the . night. The latest researches do not bear out this conclusion. Water tkus taken will prevent any actual loss of weight, but it is not shown that it will do anything more.
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w un toe addition of a moderate stimulant,, however, it has often a decidedly fattening effect.? Swallowed as hoi as it can be borne, pure water has latelv. come into aottia
vogue as an . emeient remedy for dyspep-
. tic and rheumatic ailments, and for reducing the obesity consequent upon
iuio iiauiuj aju over eaimg. It is not fc yet shown that these effects are caused by the hot water. I have seen cases in which-this treatment, fcon joined with a diet almost exclusively composed of lean meat and stale bread, -has been followed by a great reduction in the invalid's
weignt; out tins result seemed to me due to the -withholding of superabundant food from the patient, and not to any positive virtue in the hot water. In dyspepsia the hot water treatment sometimes succeeds for the same reason. Nature; if given a chance, , has a good daal to say in the cure of the ailments thatresult-from the misuse of the di
gestive organs. But this treatment has the double advantage of giving the disturbed stomach comparative rest, and of gently stimulating it to the digestive duties" that it- cannot wholly forego', unless the patient is to be sustained by faith alone. Of the internal nee of mineral waters this is not the occasion
to sf eak.
. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Subject, 'Unoccupied fields." Text, Komans x v., 20. fie said: Stirring reports come from all parts ol America showing what a great work the
unurcb.es ot vrod areuoiuff, and I coiv
graulate them and their pastors. Misapprehensions have been going the rounds, saying that the. outside benevolences of this particular church arc neglected, when the fact is that large sums of money,, are being raised in various ways by this church for all styles of good objects, not always through the boards of our own denomination. This church was built by all denominations of Christians, and by many sections of this land and other lands, and that obligation has led us to raise money for manr objects not connected with ou r denomination, and this accounts for the fact that we have not regularly contrite uted to all he boards commended. But I rejoice in that you have done as a church, a magnificent work, and am grateful that we liave received during the year by the confession of faith in Christ 725 souls, which fact I mention not in boasting but lu defense of this church, showing that it has been neither idle nor inefficient. The most of out accessions have been from the outsideworld, so that, taking the idea oi my f xt, we have not been building on other people's foundations. , In laying out the plan of his missionary tour Paul sought out towns and cities which had not yet been preached to. He goes to Corinth, a city mentioned for splendor and vice, and Jerusalem, where the priesthood and the. Sanhedrim were ready to leap with both feet upon the Christian religion. He feels that he has especial work to do, and he means to doit. What was the result? The grandest life of usefulness that a man ever lived. We modern Christian workers are not apt to imitate Paul. We build 'on other people's foundations. If we build a church" We prefer to have it filled wjth families all pf whom have been pious. Do Ve gather a Sabbath-school class,: we want good boys, and girls, hair combed, . faces washed, mauners attractive. So a church in this day is apt to be built out of dthef churches; Some ministers spend all their time in fishing in other peopled ponds,and they throw the line into that church pond and jerk out a Methodist, and throw the line into another church pond and bring out a Presbyterian; or there is a religious row in some, neighboring church, and a whole school oi fish swim off from that pond, and ' we take them all in with one sweep of the net. "What is gained? Absolutely nothing for the general cause of Christ It is only as in an army when a regiment is transferred f rom; one division to . another from, the Tennessee to the Potomac. What Strengthens the army is new recruits. What I have al way s desired is thafwhile We are courteous to those
cOming'from other flocks, we build our church not out of other churches, but out of the world, lest we build on another man's foundation. The fact is, this is a big world. When in our school boy days we learned the-, diameter and circumference of this planet, we did not learn half. It is the latitude and longitude and diameter and circumference of want and woe and sin that no figures can calculate, . ....... This one spiritual continent of wretchedness reaches across all zones, and if I
were called v to give its- geographical boundary I would say it is bounded on the north and south and east and west by the great heart of; God's sympathy and love. Ch, it is a great world! Since o'clock this morning 60,800 persons have been born, 'and all these multiplied people are to be reached of the Gospel. Tn England or in our Eastern American cities we are being much crowded, and an acre of ground is of great value, but out West five hundred acres is a small farm, and twenty thousand acres is n o unusual possession. There is a vast field here and everywhere unoccupied, plenty of room more, not building on another man's foundation. .... . We need as churches to stop bombarding the old ironclad sinners that have been proof against thirty years of Christian assaults.' Alas ior that church which lacks the spirit of evangelism, spending'on.one . chandelier enough to hght five hundred souls to glory, and in one carved pillar enough to have made a thousand men "pillars in the house of our God forever" and. doing less good
than many a log-cabin meeting-house with tallow candles stuck in wooden sockets and administer who has never seen a college or known the difference between Greek and Choctaw. We need, as churches, to get into sympathy with the great outside world and let them know that none are so broken-hearted or hardly bestead that will not be: welcomed. Many of the churches are like a hospital that should advertise that its patients must have nothing worse thau toothache or urun-rounds," but no broken heads, no crushed ankles, no fractured thighs: Give us for treatment moderate sinners, velvet coated sinners and 'sinners with a eloss oh. Ii is an
though a man had a farm of three thou
sand acres and put all his work- on one
acre. He may raise never so large ears of corn, never so big head of wheat, he Would remain poor. The church of God
has bestowed its chief care on one acre.
and has raised splendid men and women in that small inclosure, but the field is the world. Thatmeans North and South
America, Europe. Asia, Africa, and all
the islands of the sea. It is as though
after a. great battle there were left fiftv
thousand wounded and dviner on the
field, and three surgeons gave all their
time to three natients unders thair
. mu ; f .
uaiKv. xu? maior-eenerai comes in
ana says to, tne doctors: "Uome out
here and look at the nearly fiftv thon-
aauuujriu iur juuk or surgical attena-
ance." lNo, 9 say the three doctors
standing ttiere fanning their patients,
we nave three important cases harr.
and we are attending to them,and when
we are not positively busy wita their wounds,, it takes all our time to keim
we; mes on." in tne awful battle
or sin and sorrow where millions havo.
fallen . on millions ' do not let na
"Fcuu au uur ume in taKiug care oi a
few people, and when the command comes "Go into the world" say practicaly c,No,I cannot eo:I have here a few
choice cases, and I am busy keeping off
vuts mva. xnere are muAtir.uaes to-day who have never had anv Christian
worker look them in the eye and with earnestness in the accentuation sav.
Come!" or they would lone aaro have
been in the Kingdom. My friends, religion is either a sham or a tremendous
reality. If it be a sham let us disband our churches and Christian flssnfiiAtimi
If it be a reality, then great populations
are on tne way to tue oar ot trod unfitted for the. ordeal, and what are we doing? In order to reach trie multitude of outsiders we must drop all technicalities out of our religion. When we talk to people about the hypostatic union and French encyclopedianinm, aud Erastinanism, and Complutensianism, we are as impolitic and little understood as if a physician should talk to an ordinary
patient about the pericardium and intercostal muscle, and scorbutic symptoms. Many of us come out of the the
ological seminaries so loaded up thai, we take the first ten years to show our people how much we .know, and the next ten years get our people to know and at the end find that neither of us
know anything as we ought to know. 4
rfpr Art h nnrlrorla nnA ilim,o')i.,li, -vf
(sinning, struggling and dying people
whb neen to realize just one thing that Jesus Christ came to save them, and will save them now. But we go into A
profound and elaborate definition of
what nisttucation is. and alter all the work there are not,outsideof the learned professions, five thousand people in the United States who can tell what justification is. Now, what is justification? I will tell you what justification is.e-When. a sinner believes, God lets hini oil. One summer iii Connecticut I Svent to a large factory, and I saw over tho door written the words, "No admittance." I entered and saw over the next door, No admittance." Of course, I entered: I got inside and found it a pin factory, and they were making pins very serviceable, fine and useful pins. So the spirit of exclusiveness has practically written over the outside door of many a church: "No admittance." And if the stranger enters he finds practically written over the second door: No admittance," while the minister stands in the pulpit, hammering on t his little niceties of belief, pounding out the technical ties of religion -making pins In the most practical comiiion-senBe way, and laying aside the non-essentials and the hard definitions of religion, go out on the God-given mission, telling the people what they need and when and how they csn get it. Comparatively litale effort as yet has been made to save that large class of persons in our midst called skeptics,and he who goes to work here wili not be building upon another man's foundation. There is a ureat multitude of them. They are afraid of us and our churches, for the reason We don't knowT how to treat them. Or.e of this, class met Chrifct) and hear with what tehderness.and pathos,and beauty,and success Christ dealt with him: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. ' This is the first commandment;, and the second is like this,1 namely: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is no other commandment greater than this." And the Scribe said to Him: "AVell Master, thou hast sai(J the truth, for there is one God, and to love him with all the heart, and all the understanding, and all the soul, and all tho strength is more than whole burnt ofierings and sacrifices." And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, He said unto him: "Thou art not far from the Kingdom of God." So a skeptic was saved in one interview. But few Christian ' people treat the skeptic in that way. Instead of taking hold "of them With the gentle hand of love, we are apt to taae hira with the iron pinchers jot ecclesiasticisui. You would not be so rough on that man if you knew by. what process he had lost his faith in Christianity. I have knowTn men skeptical from the fact that they grew up in houses' where religion was overdone. Sunday was the most awful day of the week. They had religion driven into them with a trip-hammer, ihey wrere surfeited wteh prayer meetings. They were stuffed and choked with catechism. They were often told they were the worst boys the parents ever knew because they liked to ride down hill better than they liked to read Banyan's "Pilgrim's Progress." Whenever father or mother spoke of religion they", drew down the corners of their mouth and rolled up their eyes. If any one thing will send a boy or girl to perdition sooner than another that is it. If I had such a father or mother I fear 1
should have, been an infidel. , . Remember; skepticism "always has' some reason, good or bad, for existing. Goethe's irreligion started when the' news came to Germany of the earthquake at Lisbon, November 1, 177r. That sixty thousand people should have perished in that earthquake and in the after rising of the Tagus River so stirred his sympathies that he ihrew up his belief in the goodness of God. Others have gone into skepticism from a natural persistence in asking the reaeon why. They have, been feariully stabbed of the interrogation point. There are so many things they can not get explained. They cannot understand the Trinity or how God can be sovereign and yet man a free atrent. Neither can I. They say : "I don't understand why a good God should have let sin come into the world." Neither do I. Yon say: "Why was that, child started in life with such disadvantages, while others have all physical and mental equipment?" , I cannot tell. . They go out of church on
master morning and say: "That doctrine of resurrection
heartless singing then. No cold conventionalisms then. Furthermore, the destitute children of the street offer a field of work comparatively unoccupied. The un cared for children are in tho majority in Brooklyn and most of our cities. When they grow up, if unreformed, they wili outvote your children, and they will govern your children. The whisky ring will hatch out other whisky rings, and grog shops WiU kill with their horrid stench public sobriety unless the Church of God rises up with outstretched arms and enfolds this dying population in her bosom. Public schools can not do it. Art galleries can not do it. .Blackwell's Island can not do ii. Alms houses can not do it. New York Tombs and Raymond street Jail can not do it. Since Sing can not do it. Church of God. wake up to your magnificent mission! You can do it. Get somewhere, somehow to work. I have heard of what was called the "Thunderine; Lezion." It was in 179, a part of the Roman army to which some Christians belonged, and their prayers, it was said, were answered by thunder and lightning and hail and tempest, which overthrew the invading army and saved the empire. And I would to God that this church may be so mighty in prayer and work that it would become a thundering- legion before which the forces of sin might be -routed, and the gates oi hell might tremble. Now that the autumn has come, and the Gospelship has been repaired and enlarged, it is time to launch her for another voyage. Heave away now,, lads! Shake out the reefs in the fore-topsail! Come, O, heavenly wind, and ml the canvael Jesus aboard will assure our safe 4 y Jesus on the sea will beckon us forward. Jesus on the shining shore Will welcome us into harbor. " And. so it came to pass that they all escaped safe to land." ' Evergreens aiid. Consumption. At a meeting of the American Climatological Association, held at Baltimore, Dr. Loomis, of New York, read a paper on evergreen forests as a therapeutic agent in pulmonary phthisis, in which he said that it had long been known that similar climates, as determined by geographical and metereological conditions, have different therapeutic effects. It is becoming more apparent that there is some relation between the development of organism and atmospheric conditions. Cold and high altitudes render the air aseptic; but the degree of cold and the height required are so great that clinically it is not possible to derive much benefit from this iact. The
founded me." So it is to me a mystery beyond unravelment. I understand all the processes by which men get into the dark. 1 know them all. I have traveled with burning feet that blistered away. The first word that children learn is generally paoa or mamma. I thin the first word I ever uttered was "Why?" I know what it is to have a hundred midnights pour their darkness into one hour. Such men are not to be scoffed at, but helped. Turn your back upon a
f drowning man when you have the rope
with whicn to pull him ashore, and let that .woman in. the third story of a house perish-in the flames when you have a landder with which to help her out and help her down, rather than turn your back ficoffingly on a skeptic whose son! is . in more peril than the bodies of those other endangered ones possibly can bo. Oh, skepticism is a dark land! There are 'men in this house who would
give a thousand worlds if they possessed
them, to get back to the placid faith o
their fathers and mothers, and it is our place to help them, never through their
heads, but always through the heart.
effect of a purely aseptic air upon ulcerative processes is not so creat as the effect of an atmosphere which is aseptic on account of the presence of antiseptic agents The belief in the good effects of pine forests in cases of phthisis is quite unanimous, and the clinical evidence in favor of their bene3cial influence is unquestioned. The atmosphere in such regions is not only aseptic, out also antiseptic. Such an atmosphere contains considerable turpentine Vapor, and we should therefore expect it to contain a certain amount of peroxide of hydrogen. The majority of cases of phthisis die, not directly from tho lesions in the lung, but from the second ary septicemia and dysemia which are setup. It is impossible to apply to tho ulcerations within the lung the antiseptic wTashing and dressing that is employed in external lesions; but, if an antiseptic atmosphere can be obtained, we may hope to counteract the secondary poisoning. Such an atmosphere will not destroy the bacilli, but it will accomplish niueh in the way of arresting the suppurative process. The atmosphere in the region of evergreen forests' acts in a manner similar to the anticeptic agents which are successfully used to arrest suppurative processes in other portions of the body; and, in all probability, the active agent is peroxide ol hydrogen, resulting from the oxidation of the turpentine vapor. While it is
con- j not possible for every one suffering from
pulmonary phthisis to go to an antiseptic atmosphere, yet it is possible to render the air of any particular locality anticeptic. In the course of the discussion of Professor Loomis' paper, Dr. Cohen reported excellent results in the way of alleviating the symptoms of phthisis by the inhalation of terebinthinate substances, especially when associated with the peroxide of hvdrogen or oxygen.
Again, there is a field of usefulness
but little touched occupied by those
who are astray in their habits. Al
Northern nations, like those of North
America, and England, and Scotland.
that is. in the colder climates, are devas
tated by alcoholism to keep up the
warmth. In Southern countries, like
Arabia and Spain, the blood is so they
are not tempted to firev lianids. The
ereat Roman armies never drank any
thing stronger than water tinged with
vinegar, but under our. Northern cli
mate the temptation to heating stimu
lants is most mighty, and millions succumb. When . a man's habits go
wrong the Church drops him, the social
circle drops him, good influences drop
him, we all drop him. Of all the men
who set off track but few ever get on
again. Near mv summer residence
there is a life saving station on the
beach. There are all the ropes and
rockets, the boats, the machinery for
getting people off shipwrecks. Summer
before last i saw there fifteen or twenty
men who were brea fasting after having
just escaped with their lives and nothing more. "Up and down our coast are built these useful structures, and the
mariners know it, and thev feel that if
they are driven into the breakers there will be apt from shore to come a rescue. The churches of God ought to be so many life saving stations, not. so much to those who are in smooth waters but those who have been shipwrecked. Come, let us run out the life-boats! And who will man them?.. We do not preach enough to such men, we have not enough faith in their release. Alas, If when they do come to hear us, we are laboriously trying to show the difference betwen Suplapsarianism and Supralsarianisra, while they nave a thousand vipers of remorse and despair coiling around and biting their immortal spirits. The Church is not chiefly for goodish sort of men whose proclivities are all right, and who could get to heaven praying and Bingiug in their own homes. Ir is on the beach to help the drowning.
Those bad cases fire the cases that God
ikes to get hold of. He can save a big
sinner as well aw a small sinner: and
when a man calls earnest! v to God for
help He will go out to deliver such a one. If it were necessary God would
come down from the sky, followed bv all the artillery of heaven and a million angels with drawn swords. Get one hundred such redeemed men in each i f your Churches and nothing eon ki stand before them, for such men are generally warm-hearted and enthusixs tic. No formal prayers then. No
Miles of Rope Needed. New York Times. The latv which makes it a misdemeanor for hotel proprietors to neglect to place a rope or other fire escape con
venient to each room above the ground.
floor -will involve, it is estimated, the purchase- of 350 miles of rone and total
expense of many thousands of. dollars in this city. It cost the Stewart estate $800 to equip the Grand Union Hotel at Saratoga, but hotels of ordinary size ought to be fitted up for an average of $600. The Astor House is to be fitted with rope escapes according to the law'. The Park-avenue,being fire proof is exempt. Manager John M. Otter also runs the Metropolitan and Colonade, in this city, and the Grand Union and Windsor, at Saratoga. The rope has been introduced in all four. One end of the rope is spliced to a galvanized iron eye screw, which is fastened to the window frame above the sill. Six or eight coils of rope, each weighing H)0 pounds, were required. for the Metropolitan. This hotel is also provided with fire buckets
and hand grenades. The New York
and Graud Central Hotels are not yet
equipped.
The St. Denis has disposed of 3,500
feet o; rope, although ehalf the rooms
open on fire esc apes. This house is
equipped with fire-hose extinguishers, and hand grenades, and the ropes in the
ooms are fastened to floor beams. The proprietor of the Merton House
has given orders to put the rope escape
in 215 rooms. The Ashland house job has been complered and an order has
been given to equip the Hotel Dam and
the Union Square Hotel. . Riggers are
at work on the Everett and Bartholdi.
The St. James, Fifth-Avenue, Gilsey.
Grand and Windsor are to comply with
the law. The Grand Union Hotel ha six miles of rope and eight lines of iron
fire escapes.
It is believed that every hotel in the
city will be fitted out by the middle of September. The Mayor is determined
o enforce tho law, and has re quested
the President of the Fire Commissioners
to see that it is carried out.
FATE; Lfly elm trees arching over Guard the romp of stately street; Lowly lane bath naught hnt clover, Roaming vagrant, wild and sweet, Come the sunshine, come the rain. Days of Juue or wintry weather, Stately street and lowly lane Ne'er can join together. Ygt, my fair, so far above me though my sovereign lady art; Though tilou canst not stoop to lora me, I enshrine thee iti my heart. Come the sunshine, oome ihe rain, Days of June or wintry weather, Stately street aud lowly lauo Jfa'ar ean join together. Trawled Record. EVEN THERE.
A troou of babies in summer land, At heaven's gate tho children's gate; One lifts the latch with rosy hand, Then turns aud dimpling, asks her matt "What was the last thing that you saw?" "f lay and watched the dawn begin, And suddenly, thro' the thatoh of straw, A great, clear moniitig star laughed hi." "And your "A floating thistle-down, Against June sky and olowd wings' white." 'And you?" "A falling blow, a frownIt frighta me yet; oh, clasp me tijht!" "And you!" "A face thro' tears that smiled" The trembling lips could speak no moro; Tho blue eyes swam; the lonely child Was homesick even at heaven's deor. Overland Monthly.
"Oh f look, Ida, what a gem of a picture?"
It huug in the best place in Mr. Bur-
ney's shop, where the slantitig sunset
light gave a glimmer of positive reality
to the reen waves breaking on thft
strand, and touched the tiny rose-color
ed shells with a yet pinker leam; and
Ida Maurice's eves rested upon it with
instinctive admiration. 4Yes," she said, "it is very lovely. I should like to buy it if we were rich. But come, Barbara, we shall be late." And the two girlB hurried away. Clarence Gharfeeris, who had been
carelessly turning otfer a portfolio of engravings at the back of the shop, his dark, handsome face hidden by the
brim of his Panama hat, came forward as they left the little place. "Two very pretty faces.' he said, indifferently; "What is the price of this crystal paper weight?" "Seventy cents, air," the shopman made answer promptly. "Yes, sir; they are very beautiful young ladies, and there is quite a little romance -belonging to their history." "A romance, eh?" Clarence raised his large, dark eyes to the face of the dapper little tradesman, who, delighted to obtain a new ear, went on glibly: "You've noticed that large. gray stone house in the cliff, built after the fashion of a castle? Eagle's nest it is called hereaboutSi" "Yes; I have seen it." "Well, Btr, these young ladies were born and brought up there by an uncle brought up, sir, not; to tcueh their hands to ought like work, as if they'd been two royal princesses! So it went on until the very month before the old gentleman's death, when, on overhauling a lot of old letters, he found one written by the young ladies' father his sister's husband, sir a careless letter,
such as young men will write, making
fun of him, and taking off some of his weak points he had plenty of 'em, sir, .1 i J r ' v ' i r .
cau om iuoses oarcnesier. so ne was
towering mad, and natural enough, tool And never stopped to consider that the
hand that wrote that letter and the eve
that read it, too had been moldering in the grave for flftean years, he goes and alters his wili, and leaves all his property away from the young girls, as bad been brought up to consider themselves his heiresses, to a far-away cousin up in Maine! And you can guess the shock it was when the will was read, and Miss Ida and Miss Barbara Maurice found they'd got to turn to work for a living, jmet like other folks!" ; "I should think likely," said Mr. Charteris. "How did they ;take the revelation?" "Like heroines, sir. Miss Ida is giving music lessons to the young ladies that come to Seacliff this season for ocean air and sea bathing. , Miss Barbara, the youngest, sir and you can't imagine what a pet she used to be with the old
gentleman does fine emb:oidery for a fancy store in New York." Give mu3ie lessons, eh?" said Clarence to himself. "And work finejneedle work! There are two sides, it seems, to every mundane question. And they told me, when I received the notification that old Barchester had willed his fine estate to me, that I was about to make beggars of two girls with faces like Guido's angels. I must manage to see them again!" "I really think its an oportunity, Miss Ida," said the old woman who kept house for the two orphan girls and domineered over them in a mild sort of
way.
'Ten- dollars a week and it
won't take hardly nothin' for his meals, considerin' the spring chickens and eggs, and all the early vegetables in the garding. And that there back gable room ain't no use exept to keep lumber in. Do think it over, Mies Ida, dear."
gain do not always pause to sympathize with those who loose." " That is true, more's the pity," as sen Idd OhaTteris. , "And it's something" proudly added Barbara, "to know that Ida and I can and do earn our own living. There certainly is a blessed feeling of independence thar, comes with labor. You have tasted it yourself?" "Yes," said Charteria, whose role at the seaside cottage was that of an artist "sketching up" for his winter's work, "but I am not a helpless woman." "Neither am I," aaid Barbara, with spirit. "Barbara!" "Well?" 4,If I were to confess that I loved you to ask you to marry me would you turn me out of doors?" "No," Barbara answered, with eyes sparkling half with fun, half with a deeper feeling, 'I should wonder how any one could pos3ibly prefer me to Ida." " do love you, Barbara," said Charterisjlooking into her melting blue eyes. "I do wish to win: yotf for my wife. Will you have me?" "I I think I will," Barbara answered, trying to laugh, and only succeeding in a little hysterical sob. "Only after we left Eagle's Nest I fully made up my mind to bo au old maid. Uncle Barchester always said that a woman's resolution is written in the sand." "Thank God tor the gift of your love, my Barbara!" murmured Clarence Charteris. "And nov I have another question to ask you. "What is it?" Would yon like to go back to Eagle's Nest?'' ' Barbara's woaderful, mesmeric eyes brightened. "Would Eve have liked once more to Step inside the gates of paradise?" she cried. "But why do yon put such, impracticable queries, Clarence?" "Not so very impracticable after all. Di4 you ever see the 'far away cousin' who had stepped in between you and your inheritance?" "No." "Pardon me!" with a theatrical bow "be stands before you at this instant!" "Clarence, are you mad?"
"No; on the cttntt ary, very sane. "Brit his name was Cresfsington."
"So is mine Charteris Cressington,at
your service. Barbara, my queen Bar
bara, von have said yes: you cannot
take it back now!"
Barbara Maurice and her - sister Ida went back to Eagle's Nest in the autumn
and there was a wedding there, on
OhriBtmaa morning.
FAKM AND (MRBEN.
Paralyzed by Electricity. Olwland dispatch, Oct 8.
Mary Harmon, the pretty nineteen-
year-old daughter of a, farmer living in
Ijorain tnirfcy miles from Cleveland,
was eneaeed to be married to Jacob
Eberlin, an employe in one of the elec
tric light establisment here. Some months aeo Miss Harmon came to
Cleveland, and, with a party of friends, paid a visit to the establishment where
her arBanced worfced. While passing
through the shop -Miss Harmon received a severe shock of electricity, and fell to
the flour, in a lew minutes sue recovered sufficiently to be removed from the
place, and was taken home. Medica
aid was summoned. For four days the
girl lay in bed in a paralyzed condition.
Then she regained tne use of her limbs
but immediatel y began to loose flesh.
The hair on the left side of her head
turned gray and began falling out.
Alter tour weeks ansa Harmon was
able to be about and attend to most o
her houshold duties, but in that time
3he had been transformed from
healthy girl to a feeble and premature
ly old woman. Her form, which had
been plump arta rounded, is torn and
bent, and the kin on her face and body
is dry and wrinkled. Her voice is hard
and cracked, and no one would imagine
that she is less than sixty, y ears of age
The physicians claim that the electric
current communicated directly with
the principle nerves-ot tne spine and left side of the head, and that the shock
almost destroyed their vitality.
Fred Orant's Pretty Wtte. Philadelphia Presa
in lnvokine tne neio ot nis wire m
his canvass for Secretary of State Col.
Fred Grant displays a degree of sense that does him infinite credit. He has little natural aptitude for politics. He must have been forgotten when gifts of oratorv were parceled out, for in his
most awkward days Gen. Grant was a
Cicero compared with the son. Nor has
the Colonel been rubbed up against the world and thus acquired the experience
with men of affairs that his father, had
before assnmiog public functions. Ex
cept in name and in the cut of his beard he has not yet developed any resemblance to the old commander. But he has not been blind to the advantage
that beautiful wives have secured as as
pirants to public suf frajre and he seems
to have set out to stake his game on
that card.
No inan could ask better equipment
than he -lias for that purpose. Mrs.
Grant . is wonderfully beautiful. She
was of the Honore family, of Chicago.
Ho Knew How It Was. Detroit Fr e Press. "Well, my 'little boy," he said to
his
neighbor's son, "so you've got back home, eh?" Yes,sir." e" Been out in the country rusticating?" "No, pir; we' ye been out in tho conntry living on grandpa's folks."
"but the idea of keeping boarders."
Barbara looked Jaughinglv no into
her sister's face.
"Ida! Ida!" she said, "no false pride-
no airs and graces! We're poor people,
and we must behave like poor people. Peggy, tell the gentleman he may
come." ,
And in this manner Clarance Chateris
obtained an entrance into the inner life of Ida and Barbara Maurice. The agreement was that his meals should be served by the indent attendant in his own apartiri&its; but after a chance meeting with his young hostesses, one rainy Sunday afternoon, he begged to be allowed to present himself at their table. "You can't imagine how dull it is for a man to be eating and drinking all alone by himself," pleaded he. And Barbara laughingly allowed that it must be very stupid. And the ice, once broken, formed itself no more. It was not long before Barbara took him into her confidence about what she termed the "family romance." " What a selfish villain this far away cousin of yours must be," said Charteris. "Oh' no! I don't think that necessarily follows," answered unconsciou Barbara. "If the property is legally willed to him, that is all he knows or cares about the matter. People who
"Yes," said Ida Maurice, shrinkingly; S Her sister, also a woman of noted
beautv. is the wife of Potter Palmer,
owner of the Palmer. House, Mrs. Grant
shows her IVench extraction in her
naive and graceful manners, as well as in her features, in which is the. attractive combination of black hair and lustrous blue eyes and well-modelled rosy lips, which disclose in parting a handsome set of teeth. She is a born entertainer, possessing the faculty of drawing from her guest the beat that is in them and sending them away delighted . with themselves and with her. It is quite safe to say that she will make as favorable an impression everywhere as she has in her first appearance, and that if Col. Grant shall, accomplish the up-hill task before him of election as Secretary of State, the honor of the achievement will be due to the con
quests of his charming wife.
Only a Oentinry lite.
Washington Critic
"What's all this racket?" asked a
traveling man, as he got off the train in Philadelphia. .. ..
"They're clebrating the signing of the United States' Constitution." "Why that happened a hundred year
ago!"
"Yes." "And thy are just getting on to itt
Well, if that ain't Philadelphia all
oxer.'
Tomato scions have beeia successfully grafted on to potato stalks but to no advantage. Let no weeds grow for greens, but grow mustard and kale, and keep the garden clean. Hens must be kept warm and sheltered from the inclemencies of the weather if expected to-lay in winter. , Use every endeavor to induce the birds to build near the house and barn,
as thev are the best insert extermina
tors, .-i
Buttermilk thickened with wheat
middlings and ground oats, with plenty
ot grass, is tne beBt food tor . growing
When poultrv are confined to "con
stricted runs don't neglect to supply them liberally with pounded oyster and clam shells'. Cabbages delight in frenent cultivation, and cannot be worked too often. If necessary, the hoe should : De used close to plants. A dairyman advises against the common practice of selling the calves and relying upon buying fresh cows as very risky, and often causing -loss. Sheep droppings are highly concentrated, and should be carefully saved, the best mode of so doing being to mix them with the compost heap. It is true th at it is better not to pick the small fruit than to mix the berries. Quantity does not pay as well as quality, if the commission merchant is faithful... . . ,.,,:.,;, When a young tree runs up in height with but' few strong branches and a slender trunk the top should be trimmed off a few inches, especially of the main shoots. It is best not to allow a tree so to overload itself with fruit as to compel the use of props to the limbs. The fruit should be thinned out, leaving only the choicest. , ... Beets, carrots, parsnips and turnips are not only acceptable lor feeding pur poses of themselves, but they also promote digestion and keep stock in good condition. Youngjturkeys over ten weeks old are usually past danger. Tiaey -will be tendor until they shall have the red face, but after that time they will be hardier than chicks. ... ' ; Boiled milk is recommended as a sure cure for IoObSness in colts, calves, or human beings, pi as a check for chicken cholera JFor iow:ls it must be carefully fed with a spoon. v The Husbandman says that the farmer who picks out his xaitest and best sheep and lamb3 to sell wil2 find, after a time, his flock so far ruiidowu that nobody will care to b ay. The Husbandman says that the farmer who nicks out his fattest and best
sheep and lambs to sell will .find, after a time, his flock so far run down that nobody will care to buy ; By feeding the oats uhthreshed we save the labor of threshing, and also v get the straw and grain together , in the stomach, getting a better digestion of
bath than when they ate fed separate..
It costs very little to plant trees along the road, and when they shall reach a fair size they will add something to the value of the farm. Attractiveness is often as much value as fertility when dis
posing of a farm. ." : 1 ; : .
' Carrots are valuable as food for all kinds of stock, and 500 bushels -may be raised on an acre, but turnips are grown in preference, because they germinate from the seed sooner, and are not easily overrun with grass or weeds v The earliest Lima beans, which. are usually found near the lower parts of the vines, should not be picked until enough have been allowed to dry for seed, as next season they will produce earlier than the higher grown seed. Where sheep are troubled with flies and, maggots they rapidly lose flesh, as they get but little rest and have no appetites. Damp pastures are also injurious, often causing foofeiro.t. The sheep should always be sheltered at night. ' . i . It is not generally known that hyacinth and tulip bulbs, lifted after the
foliage begins to die, kept in a- cool, dry place through the summer and reset in October, -produce the most abundant and perfect flowers. iThi& is worthy of trial. . ,.; : .. It is a fact that a strong nest of bumblebees in a clover field is worth $30 to the owner, for these insects are the chief agents infeTtiliing the blossom, thereby insuring a heavy crop of seed. In Australia there were no bumblebees of our kind,: and ' they could not raise clover-aeed until- they imported some. New York Sun. , A pigeon-loft should be arranged . on every farm. There is as much profit in pigeons as in chickens, if rightly cared for. Sell all the squabs before they fly, or use them upon the. home table. There
is no daintier morsel ot lood tnan . a squab that has still a little down on its head. After thev commence to fly the
tender flesh is soon hardened into
muscles, and they are not so palatable.
A fast horse is not: the best forth
plow or cultivator, as such horses not
only soon exhaust themselves, but the driver also. The best work can usually
be done with a slow animal, as the grass
and weeds can thus.more easily be de
stroyed.
The whi . e and brown Leghorn fowlB
begin to lay when only five month old.
They are non-setters, lay white eggs,and
rank very high as egg-producers. They
are, however, small in size, and do not
WBAItY, W E ABY W OMEff :
Words of ... Wisdom to . Amertc"-' Wives Who are Overworked V 5 S
est -vs.
3sr
m
Have yon ever noticed, asked a writer
in the American Cultivator, white
tne street, now many worae u -:,; M with ii tpA wftflrv fvrm-AHRionfl Oil tlSfiijS Ji
.. 1 - . r- .---
faces? They may be laughing an'a iiw in o rdp.nsftnt.lv. to all aDoearaRi? fH
habov as anvonecouldwis!' but' .
sweetest smiles cannot conceal tt weary want-of-rest expressions that ar stamped upon their featttres. These; may, in some cases, be to the demands
of society, which quite ireqiiently are ji the causesbf ill-health, but tiaoriy -Jami
of them are housekeeper; woriSJS housekeepers, many of thetemcewi large families. To all housekf- ?rrs, but more particularly to the latter does this article refer.-; vfv It is a duty yoa owe to yourself and, family to lighten your house worlfis' much as possible, so that your husband' and children may not be called upon to mourn the loss of wife and mother long before your natural time, Kvery year there are many women die -from oveywork, and most of them from unnecetP sary work. To be sure, this is not the disease set down as the cause on the cerrr tificate of the physician; therer- was
probably pneumonia, typhoid fever or ; y j
some other kindred disease; but coum we get the opinion of the attending: physicians. I have no doubt that thejj'
would eav that were not the constitur--
Mows of many of these women debilitated Iw nwrwnrk thAv wnnld havft hAAn
livinfif to-day. It is. I think, admitted--
by most phy sicians thp.t unless the con
stitution is naturally weak, or weakened by exeesses, the abwve, diseases seldoin' prove fatal. n;. -"OX. - 'Americsn women are nor, as a rule, of " as robust con stitutions as those of other countries. Whether the women themselvesare to tdame for thar, or the climate of the country H that, ' by the way, M. made to mother ft good many ills she had no hand in making),' it is hMd:to determine, but that men are not strong is an established fact You, then, knowittbis, have n right to abuse your constitu tion by eats cessive work where there is: no , necesst " ty for it; Don't have w the little ones to play in, but if' yon - have them, make them plain. : Thiow ; away all tucks and ruffles in 'everyiay . wear for youmelf and chiidrem BonS wear lace and linen collars every- day they are not worth the strength used in
3i
M 9m
if
out
in
doing them up, and to the ' iaumlry wear
saeh little while that they do no vy; pay in the end. Use tourists? ruffling for every day. It cannot be washed f but ifc is :.i ery pretty, and when soili can be thrown away, and in the end -be, much cheaner than collars that are"
washed every week. Particularly is thls- v f tu filing suitable to warm, sultry weath? er, as it retains ite shape and is much cooled than linen collars, which ; are- the most uncomfortable kind' of eeai; wear for hot weather. With &e -es:-ception o few articles; d but; very sightly th plain tdothea. Only tae- ; sheets for the spare bed need be iionef all over. vThe. rest need , to be pressed? onlv at topand bottom". The plam urt- ; ; . derolothing 3ieed get bur a slight ironin; and if the family is larr none at afii Some people prvtar to wear their nn: derclothing rough ried,claimittg: that is heal thier . t. The ntest and best housekeeper I sver knrwjw m W ; lady who would never haw. her . ctotii ing ironed on this Jaopi,:l She nevejrS used an iron pot . or kettle when she could get a tin W .ware ;- to answer the same purposes. ' She1 claimed that though the tin would wear : but quicker than iron, yet in the em ft ; ' was cheaper, for it saved both time strength. It saved tiiiej for when 1 hurry, ; whatever Bn could be donein one-half the time tha if iron was used, and it saved strength,. v for in lifting f torn one part of the stove
to the other required very little eer-;. :
tion. some may ciaim tow tae wiwj. , is not condudve to health, but, how-r"; J ever, if the tin is kept clean there isry jittle danger to be feared oh that - score;
e; Don't have heavy furniture, particu larly in your diningrroom ; or kitcbeA Light furniture, both m color antf : weight, will save a jgreat deal of unneces v;. sary work. Dark-colored 1 furniture v shows every speck of dust that : settles
on it, and though there woul m?t 0
enough to harm anybody yet the least speckisaneyeretothe housekeeper,; who mustkeep continually at woraf to; ifin it rlean. Liflht-colored furnitorei
a.c nAt aW dnt in this wav and iki
more preferable, and ii of light weigh? the lif tinfit of it is a very easy maeg J Get ail the larxrrBKiyihg, articleav caM . possibly afford. You will -very . uiriv :J'tinA HAme that are of little , ;
account,v but there are some .that are excellent and it will Je worth your
experiment with the other to findvthe
article you want: Aboye v all .things don't cling to a eertoin way oi doing things because your grandmother did. 0
that way, when youeannnd -an, easier way of doing it Dp you suppose your, respected ancestreor would have done it the way she did if she xmldh 1W of an easier one? tOertainiy not, BeJ
member the world moves and yore.
expected to hiove with it; $
M i m
: 1 i-. -
-A
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answer! asl well for raarket as de the
larger breeds. V ;
A difference in the yield of milk of
four quarts a day, even at two cents a
quart, is equal to $24 a year, which is
the interest at 6 per cent, on $300. A difference of 100 pounds of butter a year is equal to the same amount. With ten
cows this counts up piretty. fast.
The carrot has more fattening quali
ties than o' her roots and for this reason
is particularly adapted to sheep, young
cattle and all animals intended for meat.
Oarrots will help to fatten animals quickly and with less cost than other
roots, and quick fattening produces
tender and j uicy meat ... .... . ; : .
The food that is given the hen should
contain all the elemen ts that exist in the nti J I 1. . A. "
egg. i nese are iouuu ui wueat, oars,
corn, bran, Unseed, crushed bone, mustard seed, sunflower seed, and vegetable
matter. Reasonable mixture of all of these, varied more or less with the aid of crushed limestone' or gypsum, would
afford every element oalled for to produce a constant yield pi eggs.
How UAWJIappwe!-ij
Washington Critic
, , "How did you happen-to fall off the boat?" asked a young man after a mem.
bar of hjsboatinsrpartywwaB resuscitoted.;
1 was lymf on: top heard some . 4y
talking: Tney were cuddled down 'where the boom couldn't strike them, prettrspon a? 'fit f'.
"It was this way: of the cabin, and I
said:
" Tiahed, dshh -
" uanea some. . - ? ,y
i " sWpy, dahUng??- v u tS?eepy; soiine (tlii-i
"And thatis when-I rpHed; intaMhe . Referenoee Bxckanted. - - y .. vWewYotk San." ; "I love you m Smith," he seid ;"Will you be, my wifefv- , .,. : ".
kI confess I am not indifferent to you, ; .. m;: Mr, Brown," she replied be your wife without referenlces.' V s r Pry, Qeoig,.do not annoy me so -' . f- , With burning tales of love or bat ; f ;V . One thing alone my soul would know . .. H George, tell tne, is my hat on straight? -Washington Critie. ' t '. v
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