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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1905-08-17, Page 7THE GOSPEL OF SONG'thepeople and before the king. All lnilarlface clTuritsnevitablyodestended tn/y in (locodn•e s\I'ia,- tributing to its larger cirrulinton. • RULES THE CALF OF MAN. It Is a Sin to Be Sad when You Might Regular King Who Was a Postal ,r As We11 Be Glad Clerk in Illinois. W. L. D. Cary, who possesses tho unique distinction of being the sole Let everything that hath breath .nourish jealousy or hatred. A song owner of an island which contains pruisc the Lord. -Psalm cl., 1. sof gratitude for things you have Inure than 800 acres, arrited in New Christianity is a t'clilli011 of sung. will often chase aw'tty the clouds of York recently on the White Star its forerunner, .1uduisui, left the gloom over those you dread. It is u lifter Teutonic from Liverpool. His ages the rift legacy of the Pealins. sin to be sod tthen you might as island is known ns the Calf of Man, )ts founder, when he knew that well be glad, and it is a sin to to and le situated in British waters, death was Iniurinent, sang one of silent when you might as well be east yards from the Isle of Man. the those ancient songs with his friends. singing, home of Hall Caine. The king of the His followers early gathered for w•ur,- ; Outbursts of song aro indications ('elf of :Mt some time ago trans - chip in song. Peter beguiled prison of huppiteste You cannot bottle up formed the island into a pretty sum - hours with hymns. Meeting in the ; reel happiness; it will break loose mer resort, and each season since catacombs, the early Christ intim made some way. When the man with a he hos had more than 50,000 visi- the galleries echo with their praise. heart hill of praise to God and love tors there. `1'o -day every reveval is but a wave to man goes into a church which is The island cranio into Mr. Cary's of song. The successful churches fairly glistening with the ice of dig- possession by inheritance, it having know the inspirational and the ethi- pity ho had better back out, or his been telt en to one of his remote an- ent power of good hymns. 'rile de- happiness will explode and wake resters by a (tomer ruler of Great aline of many a church may be trac- 801110 0110 U. 'There arc churches 1n Britain, for service performed for ed to the exclusion of tho people which it would be a catastrophe if the crown. Mr. Cary's futher tvus from their share in the worship, to some one should sing out the last owner, and it was (luring the attempt to praise (sod by proxy, his lite that the taxation was ot to substitute an artistic exhibition AS THOUGH Ill. MEANTIT. abol- ished. The senior Cary discovered for an act of exaltation. One song may surpass many a ser- that in the origiunl deed of gift the Not only in public worship, but in Llan in its power over a life. Great property was exempted from taxa - private life, hying and songs have n songs have sung men into battle and tion, and so informed Queen Vic- elgnificant influence. It is always stiffened their melting hearts. Great Coria. who saw to it that the Calf easy to remember rhymed forms of songs have touched our clay and of Man was not further levied upon. truth; happy the heart with a store thrilled it to the divinely heroic. The Calf of Man is inhabited hY of good hymns; it ire provisioned for Songs sting in the stillness of the only 40 people. They live in modern many a long voyage. When the light evening over the baby's cradle have houses, constructed by Mr. Cary. burns iow the heart is illuminated by ever been the mother's consecration There are many kinds of amusements the memory of choice thoughts ex- for all her sacrifice. hymns bring for the ph enure -seekers, who (luck pressed in poetry, back hallowed memories; a strain of to the island in thousands each sea - BY SONGS SUNG LANG AGO. song will touch a chord no syllogism son. There are a small hotel and When the burden seems all too heavy, could sound; the simple words of an a general store and other business and the traveler would fain Ile down old hymn bring comfort and new houses. In despair, he remembers some word hope to hearts broken and crushed. Up to 1600, fir, Cary was n resi- ot cheer, some stanza from another We may hot all make sermons, but (lent of Centralia, 111., where he p$lgrlm's song, and he is strengthen- we can all sing songs. 'To make the lived with his family. Ile was ear ed for the road. good singer there is needed not the ployed in the pustofl'ic•e as a mail But she had resolved to try her Christianity is a singing religion, artist but the heart. Sing away the clerk. The people of Centralia had best, and it was in the following up because it is a happy religion. It gloom; sing in the gratitude, the joy came to end the gloom of this world. and love, and strength; sing in the never learned a great deal of tho of this resole that she had unawares The song must take the place of the courage, the ' aspiration and hope. Cary family, although it was gen- won Master Tom's ticWpest hostility. sigh. Happiness must rule the ut- Men may reject our sermons, but orally thought they were descendants terance. Even a hearty whistle may they will rejoice in our songs, for of noble ancestry in England. be a wonderful means of grace. Every they aro theirs also. The creeds In 1900 Mr. Carry was advised by natural expression of happiness bo- change, but the old hymns stand. attorneys in Englund that his fa - conics a religious act. The flowers Store your memory with the songs ther and his older brother had died praise the gardener by being beauti- that time has tried. The thoughts and that the entire fortune of near- ful and fragrant, and men praise God that were meat and strength to ly 81.000,000 and the Calf of Man by being happy. others shall be your bread in desert were left to him. Song is a creator of happiness. days, your light, in darkness. !'raise You cannot sing songs of joy and God by a life of happy praise. 4.0+0••••• 44•a+••••••••+• t• • • How It Turned Out•• • ♦ • ♦• • • "1'11 teach her," said 'Tota; "I'll show her that I'm not the sort of fellow to have maiden aunts iuter- fering with my affairs!" "But, Tom," said his sister Cecy soberly, "Aunt Aimee was in the right. It wasn't fair of you to be copying out the answers to the al- gebra suets front L001111S KItuu's book." •'Who asked your opinion, Miss!" retorted 'nom. "1 suppose a fellow can have his own thoughts, ch? And I'll be even with Aunt Aimee yet; see if I don't -hateful, mean, old maid!" Meanwhile Arent Aimee herself. se- renely unconscious of the tempest of wrath the had evoked, was arrang- ing flowers for the dinner -table, sing- ing softly to herself as she sorted out the clusters of purple heliotrope. the sprigs of scented geranium leaves. anti the half -open Marcchal Neil rose- buds, into their various vases. She httd but recently come into the control of her widowed brother's household, and the rebellious and in- subordil.nte condition in which she had found it was a grief to her gentle soul. Nell's carelessness as to dress and regular habits; Cecy's utter disregard of rule and com- mand; 'font's habit of "cribbing" his lessons: nti(1 little Joe's dreadful un- tidinese in regard to hair end fin- ger -nails -poor Aimee feared that she never would be able to entirety era- dicate these ingrained predilect ions. 4/MBOaa/Mmmvem• .1111.• THE SUNDAY SCHOOL referring ng Los tLiterally, folding doors referring to the parallel perpcndicu- lar col s of writing on the scroll. (looks with leaves such as we have INTERNATIONAL LESSON, to -day were unknown. AUG. 20. Penknife -Literally, scribe's knife. 24. -Not Afraid -The princes had Lesson VIII. Jehoiakim Burns the trembled at the first reading of the Word of God. Golden Text law' 'Now it chane to pose when they had heated all the words they Jer. 26. 13. turned in fear one toward another" LESSON WORD STUDIES.(verse 16). Tho king's audacity and boldness reassured them. They 500111 Note -These Word Studies aro bas- to have been very wavering in their 0(1 on the text of the Revised Ver- sympathy. Tho action of the king 5108. • 1 in destroying the book of the law is Jehotakiin.-King Josiah had as we in !larked contrast frith the conduct learned in a former lesson, been kill- of his father, Josiah, when the newly ed in battle et Megiddo, B.C. 609. found book of the low was read 1'o - Ile was succeeded on the throne 1.y fore him (comp. 2 Kings 22. his second son, '1t•huahaz, who, how- Josiah on that occasion was sorrow - ever, was almost immediately (after fol and dismayed, rent his garments three months) deposed by Necho, and sent at once to inquire of Jo- king of Egypt, the victor of Megid- hovah concerning his will and tib - do, and carried by hien into Egypt. twining thereby God's mercy and Necho thereupon placed the older favor. brother and first son of Josiah Elia- All these words -That is, (he words kiln, on the throne, changing his of Jeremiah's prophecy. name 10 Jehoiakim, this change in 26. The king's sun of 1lantmelU,•h, mune being a sign of vassalage. The the expression in the original being religious and moral conditions of capable of both renderings. Judah during the reign of •)ehoiakiin Jeremiah the prophet-Jerelniah seem to have been more helpless and was born of priestly family in the degraded than at any previous per- priestly city of Ar,a(hoth, in the 10(1, and of the nation itself ,lehuia- territory of llenjamin (comp. Jer. 1, kine, the vacillating, cruel, covetous, 1). Tho city is mentioned also in LOSS BY FOREST FIRES. and godless monarch, was the repro- .nosh. 21, 18 and 1 Kings 2. 26. He (l THE STRAWBERRY. Despite the Tradition, Some Say That They are Curative. Thatstrawberries are injurious to rheumatic persons is its old a tradi- tion as that tomatoes (love apples) are conducive to love. But against science no tradition is safe. It is now asserted that the strawberry is the "real thing" in food for rheuma- tics. Litinitems, it is said, kepthim- self free from rheumatism by eating strawberries. Fontenelii, another naturalist, attributed his longevity to strawberries. Ile resorted to them as a medicine and would frequently say: "If I can but reach the season of strawberries!" Borheave is said to have sassed the strawberry with the principal red fruit remedies containing iron as well as phosphorous, salt, sulphur and sugar. It has long been a tradition that the chief demand for horse chestnuts has come from persons who bellet'o in their efficacy as a cure for rheuma- tism, or at least a palliative in rheumat le nllections. S trnwherries hat0 heretofore been barred, but if they have all the merits now claimed for theta, or indeed any of the mer- its, the bars will he down and will stay down permanently. scntative rna11. In the fourth year of therefore enjoyed the best possible ,lehuiakiln's reign the Egyptian army training in his youth for the office was defeated at ('archemish, on the which he wns celled on in early man - Euphrates; by Nebuchadnezenr, salt hood to 1i11. Ilis can cattle in the the supremacy of Egypt in Syria thirteenth year of King .1osiah's canto to nn end. Not Tong after reign, and his public activity extend - this Nebuchadnezzar invaded (rates- 0(1 from that time till some time af- tine and appeared before Jerusalem. ler the fined fall of Jerusalem, cov- To him Jehoinkim submitted, but af- ering in ail a period orf more than ter three years, incited and enconr- forty years Forseeing the Babylon - aged by the Egyptians, he ngnin re- inn cnptivity, he urged the people to belted. whereupon Nebuchneine,znr yield to it as a decree of God. \\hen once more entered Palestine and took the final struggle was over he wns Jerusalem. Concerning the death of permitted to choose between going • Jehoinkint •losephiia reports that he to ltnhylon with other captives or • was slain by Nebuchadnezzar, who remaining at home with a 11 rem - co rnnlanded that his body be thrown neat of his people. Ile chose the before t he wa 1 Is w ithout burial, thus latter; but when, after tw'o months, fulfilling literally the judgJlenl p10- it rebellion arose 811(1 the hien of war mounted against the king by the fled to Egypt Jereminh, against his 0louth of Jeremiah, "And his dead wish, was taken with therm. 'rrndi- pody shall bo east out in the heat. Linn says that he died nt the hands and in the night to the Beet" of his own people. Nis messnge to (verse 80), his people being necessarily the fore- Verse oro-Verso 21. .lelnuli-in verso 1.1 he is telling of nn impending dliom. he was alentioned ns a descendant ut ('eishi, never popular with the ruling classes which, while strictly n proper name, and wits little esteemed while he liv- seems still to point to Ethiopian de- eel. but later generations and nges scent, 111nce the word Cushi nm•.uns.lent:mei to nppreeIate his character also F:thie•pinn. !rind regard him ns one of the very '1'o fetch the roll -'!'hat is. the roll greatest of the ft lirew prophets. THE POPE'S INCOME. of the law from which Baruch the ,Jehovah hid them -'!'heir search ' scribe had read to the princes (cum!). had leen n thorough one, and the It is impossible to fix the exact Verses 12 and 1;1). and concerning fact that the prophet and his scribe' income of the Pope, because the which they had spoken to the king f were not found seemed providential. sources by which his settled income tromp. verse 20). i 27. At the mouth o1 Jeremiah -As is largely nugmented me subject to 22. In the winter house in the Jeremiah dictated. great (!actual' Such is the 8n - ninth th-The Hebrew year Le- 29. The king of Babylon shall ce r- nual subsidy called "I'eter's Pence," hnn with our month of April; tl:e thinly coma 884 destroy this 1111111- and the innumerable thank -offerings ninth month therefore be our Decent- It is probable that the king of Baby- which he receives every year from beer. The winter hotiee refers c(1 to 11 it had already once nppenre(l before nil parts of the, world. It is thought cony have been simply the inner or Jerusalem, and his departure. with IlrohnMe by authorities who have the 10u1.• and 11)01)' s,1e11e•red npitrtntents r1eit having destroyed the city, hnd hest moons of fudging that, taking of the. palace. the upper and outer lessened the fear of the king and his otic roar with another, the average nr artnents Icing known as the Punt- advisers. it is tho greater disaster nnnuml of th, I'upe cannot trier holso, since they were more ape It which wns soon to come (111o11 the mud cooler. `+till, in Lho ease of the city which the prophet here throat- fall shot 4)1 ga.0n(►,0e111, kin) it is 410110 prohnhle that he iind ens. The utter destruction of the ♦- sepivate residences for summer and city did not, however, occur until whiter. the winter residence being in during %e•tlekinh's reign, 680 11, C., the city and the summer reei,lence 7,edekiah thus being the lost of the somewhere outside. In c��mmon kings of Judah. spe.'cch, however, the lower apart- 80. Ile shall have none to Sit upon motets of every house were called sim- the throne of !►avid -itis son Jeho- ply el brit, the house. and the upper lnchin was indeed placed upon.the ) rtments nlliyeh, which is the sum- throne, but Nebuchn(Inelear imn.,•tl- mer house in the winter mouths lately hesieged the city and after most of the time wns spent in the three months carried him away cap - Int tar. ap-Inttar. five to Babylon. The Fmptess Eugenie haft been en - There was a fire -Words omitted in 52. '!'here were added beside unto gngcd on n diary For ninny years, the eriginnl, as the 'frolics indicnte. them mntiy Tike words -The secvmel and every line of it has been written • Itrtier-A fire pan placed in a de. r11l, therefore, the contents o1 which with the diamond pen used for sign - pression in the renter of the room arc still preserved for 05 111 enrlc ing the 'Treaty of i'aris in 1856. it In Which rhiirconl wns burned. There chapters of the present canonical is n quill from n golden entitle, richly were no firepinres. st01(5, oc chain- bleak of •lere•nliith. wns even faller mounted in gold and studded with nets 'n tut Oriental house,. then that which had been reati to numerous brilliants. French and German Methods Pre- vent It Entirely. Forest fires in the United titrates cost more than $25,000,000 nnnulti- ly. 1t is a kind of loss whirl' is particularly grievous, be•ause it takes many years of nature's deliber- ate processes of growth to restore 1t. A good deal of this destruction might be avoided if proper precau- tk,nt were token. Germany and Terrance do not suffer ippr,cinbly ( forest fires, because they have strict forestry laws and obey there. Here the general government can do little, except nn its own preserves. The work of protection is thus left to the States, and it is not so thoroughly done as the urgency of the case calls for. Probably there is increasing efficiency in this direction year by year, but it lentos the aver- age of loss much greater than it ought to be, and in marked contrast with that of eoelnt•ieta which have really efficient forestry laws and live up to then,. Lord itosebery in his youthful days was nn amntenr actor, but he ad- mits that he one not a shining star. lie lost his red wig while playing n character in Hob 'toy on one occa- sion. and when he mannged to re- cover it he convulsed his audience by putting It on the reverse way. She was a tall, slight girl, With soft, brown hair, eyes like the vel- vety gloss of the pansy petal. and a delicate complexion where each passing emotion was photographed in pink and white. Captain Astley took little heed of the beauty to which he had always been accustoui- ed. To hire she was "only Aimee." But others were not so blind as her brot her. "I'II be revenged on her," mutter- ed Master Tont to himself, and he straightway took his sister Cecy into his confidence. "Yogi remember, Ces, don't you," said he, "that she made you stay in all the afternoon that Saturday when the Wells girls had their pic- nic. to mend your frock, ready for Sunday? And she took away all your bweets, and she makes you practise two hours every day instead of one. Now, doesn't she?" "Yes," nodded Percy, "that's very true. But she tells me nice stories, and she gave me a little sandal- wood work -box last week." ledged to be one of the beet amateur trrneuuhered nothing more until "Oh! bother the stories and the vocalists in the United Kingdom. sandal -wood work -boxes," said Tom.A diamond buckle, worn by the awakening to lied himself unable to German Empress, belonged to Napo- get up and in darkness except for "1 tell you, Ces, I'm going to ploy Icon J., and was found anion his what seemed to be burning specks her a trick!" baggae captured at Waterloo. g on the nom- and around him. "A trick, 'Tum?" Few people remember that Lord The patient was put to bed, when "Yes. .lust look here. tree wr(t- ('urzon is the eldest son of a peer, the body showed the following con- tra her a red -hut love leiter." as well as being a peer in his own intima: Both iegs were swollen and "But you can't. write a love -letter right. Ilia father is Lord Scarsdale. green in appearance, this latter Ion- to your nun(, Tom," pleaded trou- The Duke and Duchess of Bedford clition pa.'sing off in a short lone; bled (,'cry. might claim to be zoological experts. from the knee to the toes in the 1 ft 'Troth chuckled. They have the finest private Coltec- leg the skin in some places was torn "It's from Mfr. Satvtus." said he. lints of animals in the world. away, and in others it was ruined •'Do you suppose I haven't found One of the curiosities in the posses- into blisters; (rein the middle of the out that Mr. Snlvius admires her, Moll of Queen Alexandra is a tea thigli to the ankle of the right leg and that she likes him? Well. I service, every piece of which beers a the condition was the same as in the found a letter of his to papa about view photographed by Her Majesty. left leg. The patient stated that Fume army business the other day. General Kuropntkin is so short he felt as if he had no legs at nII. And, see. I imitated his writing ex- that it is (mentionable whether ho Sensation was completely lost, and actly. She nover'1l know the differ- would have been able to enter the the feet felt very cold. 'There was rote." British Army hnd he been n native great pain in the muscles of the lege. "Oh, Tom!" cried Cecy, almost of that country. The general shock was considerable, carried away by the enormity of the King Edward stakes it ti rule to and brought (Wiliness, with conspiracy. "Oh, I don't eec how have the contents of his waste -paper you dared!" basket burnt every day, so that none RINGING. IN 'I'llh. I;AHy. "And it's all nhoelt how hatch he's of his papers shall get into the ile made a rapid recovery after the iti love with her," said Tom (lancing hands of outsiders. application of hot-water bottles and n sort of wild pas -seal about the Mr. Justin M'Cnrthy says that his i rnitssnge to the soles of the feet mud lawn in his delight; "and asking her three objects in life have leen itt-,soothing applications to the burns. to Ie his wife. And I'm going to tabled. '!'hey were: l'o write hooka, . I'wo castes of lightning stroke with post it to -day: and to -morrow he to be a tnctnber of Parliament. and burns and unconeciousness have been cones ter our house to dinner, to to live 11) London. recorded by Ur. Cook and ilr. Buult- mect that old colonel, you kn ,w, and One of the treasures of the Winter Ing, both of which recovered. (Inn Mrs Jocelyn; and. of course, *.he'll i alnce at St. Petersburg, is a col- lction of china which coin nlsen all of these patients saw "The clou<fs 811(1believe ft's all n true declaration, T opening" and a "sheet of fire fall - and trhnt n state of things that. will (he sets used lis Russian Hoyaltics ing ' as he stated. Ile heard a be! i•:h, Cecy? And you and I'll le since the time of Catherine IL deafening thunder clap anti fell Moslem Royalties on cycles in theirs hiding sernett•here• to hear her ac- stunned for sonic minutes, but hall Ce pt what's never been olTerl8l her.' own tiominions must indeed seen, a, no sensation of lm'n. Ho discuveree strange sight to the staid Orientate, 1 j The letter was duly delivered. 'tram Vet. the Queen of Siam may often Lo thnt his trousers were on fire and and Cecy were hiding behind the din - sewn cycling, attended by the ladles that his steel buckler had been tats) leg -room ehutteri, when the let ter- of her suite. from his legs. Ile sow the other man bag wns opened, 11 ,u,rtiintely miter 'fire Poet Laureate, Alfred Austin, lying t•'evnseless on the ground and bie kfast. They saw the pink glow has followed several callings. Ile was apparently den(. He had lost all suffuse Aunt Airnee's levet ycheek ns a barrister, although he never prnc- feeling In the legs and tumbled down eh., glnnced over the contents, nn fisc(; he became n journalist and 8 when he tried to walk. ilia loofa which Tum had /11/41.4. so troch rnali- war correspondent; then a poet told were "in ribbons" and fell off when cities mischief playwright. he moved. ile felt •'as though ho She had seen but very little of 11 hen Mr. leiter %anguli) has fin- had been blown from n cannon." Mr. Salt- els' writing, and 't'urn's %S one sheet of manuscript he The other man remembered nothing handiwork Was really a very excel- throws ft nn the floor and goes on of (he accident, and he neither felt lent imil8tion. The style wag, per- with the next. At the end of tho nor sow anything at the time he haps, n little abrupt; but Mr. Sal- time allotted for writing he has to twee struck. When he bee/tiny slightly wins was unlike other men; and Ai- gather then, up end put them in or- conscious he complained of having tnec Astley's heart wns full of wild, der. pain. as front a red-hot iron. which undefined rapture all that day. Adelina Pntti's explfnation of was "travelling up his legs." Tho "He docs love Inc. tiller all!" she keeping yunthftil Is that she never whole of one side was burned. He re - kept telling herself. "Ile loves mei loses her temper. Another fact in covered in three weeks. while the He wont,. me to be his wife. (1h! connection with this great singer ill other men recovered in thr,'e or four can nil this be trite?" thnt she owns a parrot which emcees days. Miss Astley dressed herself withher by tr}ing to imitate her singing. Captain Berne reports lightning unusual cern for the little dinner- Queen Itilhelmina has so line an ear striking four men in a tent in the party; while Master Toni turned Fe V_ for mash that on one occasion. as a '!•ran,.vans. They all suffered from girl. she rushed from the room when severe shook and sn►ne were severely a violinist wns playing before the burned. ile specially draws atten- Quern Mother and tiered( by Com- lion lee the peculiar odor from such mend because she said she could riot "My own!" said he. "My very e,tt•,tl., Great was the entarernent of Tom, unbounded the mystification of Ce.y when, un coming in to dessert as usual, they saw Aunt Aimee and Mr. Sult•nls. seated side by side, appur- vntly ilia. very best of friends. "Look! luok!" whispered Cecy "Do you tine the diamond ring on her engagement finger? Site's enguged, Tom, as sure 88 you live!" "Well! if this isn't perfectly unac- countable," said 'Tutu grimly, biting into his peach. Somehow the "capital joke" had fallen flat to earth. '!'here was no- thing of embarrassment in Ernest Salius's mien; nothing of mortifica- tion in the smiles that dimpled Aunt Ainee's sweet face. After the guests were gone Captain Astley called the children round hint. "Young folks," said he, "1 1111811 have to a nguge a grim old governess for you after all. Mr. Salvius is going to take Aunt Aimee away from us. They are to be married next month, and if Cecy will be very good shit shall be a little bridesmaid and carry the bride's bouquet for her. 'foal and Cecy exchanged glances once more. And at the instigation of the former, Cecy followed Aunt Aimee to her room to hazard ono last question. "Aunt. Alnico," said she, "has Mr. alvius really proposed to you?" "Yes, dear," answered the young lady. "Would -would you mind telling me how? i should so much like to knots," faltered Cecy. "110 wrote me a letter, Cecy," said the gentle bride -elect. "You'll understand all these things yourself one day." But neither Cecy nor Tony could fathom this deep mystery. "I think there's witchcraft growled 'font. "I do." But lir. ~alvius never told nor did Miss Astley herself ever know --that he himself had chanced to be reading in the little summer- house on the lawn, behind the creep- er -covered trellis, when the arch -plot was concocted, and heard every word of it. "'rhe little imps!" said he to him- self. "lf they only knew what a deal of uncertainty and trouble they are saving me!" And so beautiful Aimee was wooed and won, and the secret was kept to the end of the chapter.-1'e'trson's Weekly. EFFECTS OF LIGHTNING MANY PEOPLE RECOVER FROM THE CHOCK. Strange Freaks That the Electric Fluid Plays on Many Persons. Many persons hate been killed by lightning, but many inure ha‘,. set - tenni strange injurious effects from it after recovering irontho &Lock. A stroke of lightning bus teen 1.nt- putittc•d it limb, as in the care of a boy at Cracow, Poland, as recorded by the medical profession. The boy'n right k114.e WAS stiff from disease. and whet, riding in a field during a vio- lent storm a loud peal of thunder made the horse run away, throwing the child to the ground. When the boy recovered his settees he found that his right leg writs missing, have lug been cut through at the knee:, leaving at perfectly round end below the patella or kneecap. There were signs of burning about the body, fr all of which he recovered. Some few clays afterward the missing leg was found near where he had been thrown by the horse. Dr. Canby of Paris gives the cage of a woman who bad two children killed by lightning in her presence. She herself was rendered unconscious for four days, and atter regaining her senses she found herself paralyzed and nutnh on the left side of her body. She fully recovered in three weeks. Two years afterward in a thunderstorm she had a similar nt- tack. although there was no visible lightning. Three years later under similar circumstances she again HAD A LIKE A'T'TACK. Dr. MacDonald of England re- ports o-ports a woman of 78 years of age in it," who soon.: forty-two years previously while ironing a cap with an Italian them- iron wean stunned by a strung flash of lightning and fell back into a chair. On recovering (onset:mineets she found that the cap, which she had left on the table some distance from the iron, had been transformed into cinders. Iler clothing was not burned, nor were there any marks on the skin. Alter the stroke she felt. a creeping sensation and numbness, especially In the arm that had been next to the table. She declared that as a consequence she could predict when the atmos- phere wns highly charged with elec- tricity. ns the numbness increased on - + these occasions. She also said that ABOUT PEOPLE, shortly before and during a thunder- storm she always became nauseated. Notes on all Sorts and Conditions It Reemg thnt in thin case the nerves of Men and Women• of the arm reaching to the base of the brain had continued abnormally The lust foreign lnnguuge taught sensitive. to the King of Italy was English. 1)r. Adamson of North Borneo re - Sir Ldward Clarke was at one time Intra the following case: The per.tnn regarded as an excellent comic struck by Lightning was seated at singer. dinner when the flash came, and ho Mr. Scions, the hunter, declares felt Legal seemed t0 bo a terrific that pies made of lion's flesh are as palatable as veal pica. blow oe the left knee, as it he had The Cour_tess of Dudley is acknow- been hit by something round. IIo fell off his chair unconscious and ernl double somersaults on the lawn in the fulness of his ghoulish de- light. o-light. Mir. '+alvius, as it chanced, wns the first of all the guests to arrive Miss Astley was sitting in the drawing - room, her fair face half hidden by the shallow of n blossoming orange tree nhic•h hnd been brought In from the greenhouse. She looked up at the sound of his step, and rose. with the soft color fluttering in her face. "Oh. Ernest!" she geld; "did you really mean 117" "Tha! I laved you. Aimee?" he answered. "if you have any doubt as to my tnenning 'et Inc reiterate it ngnin mud ngnir 1'1 love your " And then he drew his chair very close to the low fauteuil un which she was sitting and put his arm ten- derly about her. endure the discord. 11iss Balfour, Britain's Prime Min- ister's sister, can give him all the genernl information nbout South Africa that he is likely to want. She knows the country well; she has travelled 1,200 miles in a waggon, and has chatted with every tribe in that vast region. Baron itrninpton. when plain Henry Ilnwkies, Q ('., declined the biggest fee ever offered to n horrister Ile wee asked to go to India. and the brief wns "marked"- with 20.1)00 guineas. he declined, and the fee was raised to 50,000 guineas, but he again refused. because he did not wish to interrupt hie lucrative prac- tice at bums, cases. which. ho says, is very mark- ed. 1t. is not the smell of latent clothing or chnrred flesh, but n mitten like diluted sulphuric acid. ♦ 'rltl;,\'I'Mh:N'r (i F• 1'1NGFit-NA11:1. The finger -nails need weekly tutting with n pair of proper nail -scissors, and the cutting should exactly follow the oetllne of the finger-en119 A piece of lemon used once or twice a week is nearly n necessity If nails are to he kept properly. Tho acid acts en the nail suhstnnee with a worlderfrl eflect of polishing, 81)11 It softens the skin ularvellnully tint fa apt to dreg itself forward avail the shining trail surfteee. 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