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The A%atio Power.
There is a subtle, mysterious' influence
about some reons that is trulyremarkable.
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ne of the singular features about it is that
those possessing it have Iittle or no control
over it, and those affected by it have no
power to resist it.
What this power is or whence it comes, is
the mystery.
It is generally believed that mind has in-
flnence over mind, independent of the will of
the person concerned. A great many may
they can feel the pressure of certain onee
without seeing or knowing they are near,
while almost everyone is more or leas affect
ed by the pressure of others, either strangers
or friends. Thus it may be traced down to
what fa generally called like and dislike,
The plain truth i9 that there is often laseblood,
mutual affection between comparative
strargere.
It Ie generally supposed that twine are
devotedly attached to each other, but such is
not the case. Even the Siamese Twins were
constantly quarrelling, and had it been pee-
Bible toget awayfrom each other; would
have done so moat cheerfully. Occasionally
twin•brothera are found who apparently are
only happy in, each other's presence, Such
instances are rare, however, r
call it magnetism, spiritus -rasa
it is the affinity of the soul, but those
who have it do not bother themselves about
its nature or cause, being satisfied wase the
affect
It le the same influence that renders
preachera, actors, and tacturere popular. To
th`mkthat theeuzeessof tbesebefore the pub.
lie is due to what they say, or the way they
toy it, he a mistake, It is this royale:: pow.
er, and it malice little difleronce about the
of tbeaon, the iluAl ty of voioe, or the nature
of the disooente. Some cf the popular aotara
have most marked defects in their voice&
The uncultured reacher, ane who heti
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never seen the inside of a college, very often
preaohea all around those who are atoonAted
profound scholars. Those preachers who are
noted ravivaliate poseeae this power in a
greater or leas degree, according as they are
more or lava etesoesaful.
It is said Int. SuuddslAnd, the elder, was
so wonderfully and Weil with this power,those
that be quit reaohia on aeoount of it. He
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feared that poraans were drAwn'iuta the folds
re the church by hie influence who did not
realise what they were doing. He Is said to
have been able to direct *allow of rsona
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simply through will power, And that without
aid of wards or Aimee
Henry Waris Beecher is filled with the
same power, tut not to as great a degree es
Dr, Sunderland. He has the fAaulty, how-
ever, of tranamitting it to the written page,
so that those who read may feel his influence
as well AS those who see and hear him,
The question *at arises just here is
whether it fa good to poetess such power er
to bee influenced by it. There are plenty of
instances where it has done A great deal of
harm. It is the strength of the libertine
the chief agent of the conspirator, And the
talisman of arch deoeivers.
This done not prevent it from being pro.
ductive of good results. It is the power of
God to influence the wicked, and that which.
renders music charming and social inter.
course agreeable, It is not at all strange
that 000meionaliy it should be turned to an
evil purpose. Bad uses are made of things
given to support life, but that done not ren-
der thane th ngs unfit for proper nae. It is
the use to which means are put, and not the
means, that is evil. This mystic power is
as much a gift as any of the special talents,
and its exercise no more sinful than that of
the other gifts, if only exercised properly,
It is not love, but it is often mistaken for
it. This is a *serious mistake, and one that
is very difficult to correct, One of its peen-
liarities is that itrianot mutual. The parson
who pause -sea it to such an extent ae to be
able to greatly influence others rarely feels
drawn towards those who are attracted by it
instances where it is mutual it forms a
strong bond, but where it it one-sided it is
very unreliable.
It is the. secret of the conjurer's spell, the
mind-readers Skill, and spiritualist's power.
To be effective these must possess it to ex-
cease, in which case it becomes a dangerous
thing, as it gives them control overrot only
the physical life of persons but also oyer
their ebul life.
OONSTANOE $ENT,
had come to her from her
George Igrandfather,how-
g II., as an argument. She was,
ever,tried and not onlymaintained the
truth of her ooefesaion, but pointed out
corroborating circumstances which had es
°AIed the notice of the police. of comae,
she was convicted, and the other poor girl
pardoned for the crime, she had never corn-
mitted. Then Constance was sentenced to
death, but interests were made in favor of
a commutation. Her youth and beauty
pleaded Strongly for her; so did a certain
feeling that, while confession waa clearly
proven not to have resulted from 7inherited
msantty' the deed Itself might have done,
Her sentence was Gosnmtied to penal semi-
Inde for life, and good behavior brought
theticket-of-leave mentioned. A niece in
though not by marriage, of the queen,
aha has spent all the beet years of her life
in a °envie* prison. Put such a story be a
novel, and what critic would not scout at
is too ah enrd for anything?
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It is not eas Signextensively Dsnmption.
known as it ought
to be that in the large majority of cases con-
gumption begins with a slight lough in the
morning on getting up. After while it is
perceived at night on going to bed; next
there is au occasional coughing spell some
time during the night; by thie tune there is
a difficulty of breathing qn any slightly tin.
usual exercise, or in ascending a hill, and
the patient expresses himself with some
eurpriee : `" Why, it never used to tire
me eo,"
; •Next, there is occasional (toughing after
a full meal, and sometiruee `" casting up,"
Even before this, persons begin to feel weak,
while there is almost imperceptible thinning
inflesh anda gradual diminution in weight—
harassing cough, loose bowels, difficult
breathing, swollen extremities, daily fever,
and a miserable death. Miserable because
it •is tedious, painful, and inevitable, How
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much it is to be wished that the tome
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of this hateful disease were more generally
studied and understood, that it might be
detected in its fist insidious approaches,
and ap; lication be made at once for ita ar-
rest and total eradication ; for certain it is
that in very many instances it could be ae.
oompliahed.
It must be remembered that cough is not
an invariable attendant of consumption of
the lungs, ivaamueh as pernme have died,
and. on examination a large portions, of the
lungs were found tp have decayed away,
and yet therm mama persons were never no.
*iced to have had a cough, er observed it
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themselves, until within a few days of death,
But such instances aro rare, and habitual
oqugh on getting up and on going to bad
may be safely set down as indicating con
gumption begun,
tough, ae just stated, is originally a Gera.
tive proaeaa—the means which nature uses
to rid the body of that which (deeds, of
that which is foreima to ttse system, and
ought to be out of it ; hence the feller of
using medicines to keep down the cough,
as all Dough remedies, sold in *hope merely
da, without taking manna At the same time
far removing that state of things which
makes cough necessary,
SWALLOWED A MOUSE.
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TWO NerQea•
School Enemy. By Daley'W--•
Of all the beautiful creations of Dickens,
if all the noble and heroic forms (and there
ire many) which we have learned to love ao
yell, there are two which stand alone ae ex-
implies of courage and heroism; yet whose
pAthetie; histo>4iee era in no way linked to.
;ether, save as both serve as models of sub-
ime self -forgetfulness. They are Thomas
?inch and Sydney Carton. Poor, awkward,
hreadbare, gentle Tom Pinch! The butt of
;he thoughtless and ill natured, thelaughing-
stock of the young ladiea'and the unconscious
supe of his employer himself; the pack -horse
is itwere, on whom were heaped the burdens
xi other's aelfiehnesa and all the indignities
and insults which cruelty and malice can
,uggest, And yet his heart ie so pure, so
ree from guile, that be suspects it not in
ethers; but rather seas all men glorified in
ale light of his own lofty ideal. Some of
he sincerest martyrs have been crucified on
nvieible crosses burned byinvisible flames
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it sometimes costa more to peri; rm a
ample act of self. deeial than to achieve many
victory fn honor of which the trumpet of
ams has resounded. '"Tho greatest battles
se fought on the battle -field of the heart,"Scientists
int the hero who like Tom Pinch can con -say
•nee his enemies b the fares of a sire heart
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aid an example of unaelMah devotion, is ig-
noise bypm whose sesta are outward
latxls of de ug and acts of physical courage,
Cam Pinch is net unhappy—far frain it. lie
.onsidershimaelftbemoat favoredofmortals;
or does he not enjoy the patronage of Peck-
nisi himself, and has he not the opportunity
>f hearing the pearls of wisdom which fall
ram that worthy gentleman's lips, And
hen there is aiwaes the organ in the village
Olerroh Where he can sit and la soft] to
play Y
liiriself when Mr. Peckenifi'dgee not require
f
:cis services. But who can describe the an
;nigh of that gentle, trusting heart, when he
a told that the man whom he has been
actaetomf d to reverence and rasps°t, whom
se has taken as his nada] of all that
t honorable and upright, is a s and
t sneak: "The star of Tom s whole life
ram bo}'hao':1 had Ireewme in a moment put.
`id vapor. It was oat that Peekanif', Tem's
?eckAndti, had ceased to exist, but that he
„taken
saver had existed. Ilia soul rises in the
trexag revolt with whirl the right mast an
rays meet but this shook
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4 his faith. in humanity in no wise tarniahee
ria own character. He lives on as noblythe
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Ind unselfishly as ever, (rushing out of sight
iia dearest hopoa, *attics shadow of a cloud
nay touch the happiness', of his Wendel. It
a pleasxit to think of him, honored and be•
oved in his sister's home, whoreyonngvoloese
vhieper loving worde in his ear, and gentle
sands minister to his wants.
Sydney Carton Is a man of a different
stamp. There is nothing partionlarly roman-
its about him, And his appearance le untidy
—nay, even 'loyally. We see him in the
soma roam of the Old Bailey, his eyes fixed
in the coiling, and his wig put on just as it
sappenesd to A�ight on his head after ita re-
t
novel, appar by oblivious to everything
,round him. Again peeing the streets of
London until far into the nicht, and return
ng to his miserable lodgings by the gray
fight of early morning to weep bitter tears
Iver his own worthleeaneaa. "Sadly, sadly
;bo sun rose; it rests upon no aaddor sight
hen the man ofgood abilitioa and good emo-
iona, incapable of his own help and his own
sappiness, tensible of the blight on ht. -n, and
•esigning himself to let it eat him away.'
Che years plea on, and the atorm which has
man threatening Franco at last bursts in all
to fury. The tumultuous times of the French
]evolution call for prompt action and physi-
:al courage. Mere pasaive unselfishness will
sot save the life of a friend, and Sydney Car-
on, all the nobility of his nature at last
trollied by his deep and tender affection for
army Darnay, has determined to save the
ife of his friend—the husband of the woman
ie loves. The step which he is about to take
seeds the concentration of all his faculties
Ind the mustering of all the courage he pos•
eases. He mayhave valued his life as little
to others valued it, and yet with the near.
prospect of death, life grows soddenly sweet,
and the most miserable of God's creatures
will cling to their wretched existence rather
brave the unknown terrors of eternity,
be the black prison of the Conciergerie,
Merles Darnay awaits his fate. Itf's not
easy for him to compose himself With his be-
oved wife's face fresh in hie memory. The
hours pass on—eleven gone forever, twelve
;one forever, one gone forever. Suddenly
he is interrupted in his meditations .by foot-
outside his cell, anda man enters. It
Carton. There is a bright, attentive look
>a his face quite (brei ilio it, Darnaydivines
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lis purpose, and, resisting him, is struck
iown insensible bythe man who has come
to lay down hie life for him. The changes
are quickly, made, and the supposed Carton
borne oat1 by the prison officials, "so afflict-
ad," as one of them remarks, "" to find that
ais friend has drawn a prize in the lottery of
the Salute Guillotine," ;,' ••
And now the fioui has arrived, and the
prfrondre, wi ll Jsound hands are conveyed to
the guillotine;that �iastrument o vengeance
by;wliieh: ' riahed th€e• flpFwar of Me <b'rench
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or tijl etc . r . U - ''
Brave and steadfast to the last, Sydney
Carton asses away,and thepeaceful lis
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seem to say : " It is a far, far better thing
that I do, than I have ever done ; it is a far,
far better rest that I go to, than I have ever
known." _
She *tory of a t onfeesed ffinrderear Said to
lbe ]gelated to the Queen.
Tfie other day the cable brought an item
of news which revives the memory of one of
the moat remarkable crimes recorded in the
history of English trials. The item ran to
the effect that Constance Kant, convicted
twenty-five years ago of the Heade murder,
had received a ticket -of -leave. The woman
thus briefly mentioned waa at the time of the
commission of the grime a young girl of la
or thereabouts, and the victim waa her 3•
year•old half brother, Arthur Kent. The
event acquired unusual prominence owuig to
the relationehfp all the parties immediately
concerned bore to the queen
William Kent, the father of Constance
and the murdered child, was a gentleman of
private fortune, living at a place called
Roade. He was said to be, and the state-
merit was never contradicted, au illegitimate
eon of the dude of Tient, fourth eon of George
Ill, and father of Queen Victoria, and his
Private fortune was euppoeed to have comep
from his royal &same. Mr. Kent was a
gentlemanquietgination
of and cultivated tastes,
enjoying a life of -Tettered ease. His first
wife,mother of Constance, bayingdied when
she, the eldest of his children, was about 10
or 11 years of ...gee he employed a lady of
educat>on as governess and, superintendent
of hie family, This lady he married, and
by her bad a eon, young Arthur, All seemed
happy in the Kant family, though the eldest
den bier C°n-tan°m, was occasfonall sub-
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lett to pia of moodiness, fcr which she as-
signed no reason..
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Early ane Sunday morning in summer the
nurse girl,whoaenameis not recalled, alarm*
ed the sleeping household with her cauterise.
p gbad
4he had awakened to find her young charge,
little Arthur, who slept is a cot by her bed-
aide, lying dead, his throat cut from ear to
�' The horeor•atr`cken parents at once
sant for assistance. The lice and the con
p°
oner were promptly on the spot, and invea.
tigatlone commenced, It war then noticed
that though there were trace& of blood on
rho antblanket on u onowhicthe child lag, there
no saturation such as world have been
the cane had the murder been oommitted
while he la eleP io . portlier examination
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reve.leti the fact that the ahild had been
to a water -closet in the house, and
that there the butchery had been performed.
A carving -knife, sharpened almost to a
enact eadgm,•wAel also found with trace* o.
blood upon it,a
Of course, all these elrtumatancos tended
to fasters aaspleion on the unfortunate nurse•
girl, for who else could hallo carried thechild
to the scene of the murder without causing
him to make some outcry. At the time of
the alarm being given it was shown that
every ono else in the house was sleeping
peacefully, including Constance, agataet
whom suespicion was not one a directed. An
attempt was also made to fasten suspicion
on Mr. Kent, the unhappy father, and the
whole of England took sides, one in favor
of this, the other in favor of that theory.
l� inall the testimony clearly exonerated
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Kant. s0 there was nothing left but the con-
elusion that theservant was the guilty party.
It is true that no motive could be shown for
the deed; that she was of a moat amiable
disposition and great favorite with all the
children, but there wore the facts, The con-
olueion was irresistible, and the poor girl
wag arrested and thrown into prison to awes
her trial.
Meantime the hent household waa broken
up, the bereaved parents trying to seek te-
lief from aorrow in travel. Constance was
sett to a sort of conventual school at Br'igh-
ton, on the south coast. This echoed waa an
attachment to a high ritualistic Jpieeopal
church, the rector to which had eatabliehed
the cc nfeseional as a part of his church die-
eipline. The time came nigh for the trial
of the imprisoned nurse -girl. Controversy
waxed warmer and higher as the day set
came nearer. When it arrived the papers
were full of correspondence on the subject,
and all sorts of theories were broached to
account for the deed without the interven-
tion of the accused. Various arrests were
made, bat always without result. Finally
the girl waa tried. and convicted. But the
public was not satisfied, and the home sec-
rotary was persuadedto grant a respite pend-
ing further investigation.
The case seemed hopeless, however, nntil
one morning Constance Kent, accompanied
by one of the Sisters of a convent school,
oalled on the rector of the church above
spoken of, and the two asked a private
audience. Constance had come to confess.
She had evidently already told her story to
the Sister. She then, calmly and lucidly,
as the clergyman afterwards said, told the
whole story of the crime. She had deeply
resented her father's second marriage,
though she had given no outward sign of
her resentment, Her anger was still more
heightened when her young half-brother
was born. She had studiously concealed
this feeling. But her jealous hate grew in
intensity as he grew from infancy into
laughing childhood. Gradually hate meter-
ed into design, and she determined to de-
atroy the little fellow. Providing herself
with the sharpened knife, shortly after
dawn she had slipped into the nursery bed-
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the child with a kiss, and, wrapping him in
his blanket, carried him with her to the
closet. Here the knife was used in such a
way that the flowing blood went down the
pipe. When life was extinct and the blood
had ceased to flow she gently returned to
the nursery, replaced the little corpse in its
cot, wiped and restored the knife to its
loco in the kitchen and then went to bedI
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and to sleep. One can imagine the horror
and excitement thiel awful confession created.
Thousands refused to believe it, saying the
girl was demented,and pointingto a sup -prayed
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posed . hereditary taint of insanity which
A 1GIi llorseo= Glri't Yotstlk 7ltilntaLen'lios
ss MO Kole,
A short time sinoethe3-year old daughter
of Dank Picker, & locomotive engineer, re -
siding at Laramie, �Pyoming, was playing
in a clothes press, when her mother heard
her suddenly scream as if frightened almost
to death. Mn, Pickard ran to her and
found her convulsively clasping the balm of
her dress, and crying out that a mouse wept
in her clothes. Her mother instituted a rape
id search amid the shrieks of the little one
but could find no mouse. The child than
screamed out that the mouse had gone down
her throat, and a physician was sant for. At
gest ha could not believe that the little girl
had swallowed the mouse , but she persisted
that she had, and a few daysf attendance
g ave undoubted evidence that the child's
statement was correct, and that the mouse
had been swallowed and di sated. It is
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hardly paas.ble that the first leap made by
the little animal could have been in the
child's month while she was in the rens.
The most remarkable theory is that it first
ran under her clothes and that she really
felt it as ehe stated tohermother at the first
alarm. While her clothing was l,e-rug
searched and she was ecreaming it was prob-
able it was brought inclose proximity to her
month in the folds of the drese and ae-ixed
the first opportunity is e3aGapa by leaping
down her throat.
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A Morbid Imagination Oared•
In reference to the influence of the ime-
on the body a doctor tells the follow-
lug story: "A big hulking fellow about
ten miles from the townI was practicing in
got the idea that he was going to die at
just 11 o'clock in the forenoon of a certain
day. About 9 o'clock a messenger Dame to
um. I hurried out, Wham I get there the
crank had fifteen minutes to live, e000rdiag
to lila oalculations. Be did look like a man
on the verge Of eternity, is eyes were
dim and sunken, hie face had thatpeculiar
pallor which heralds the near approach of
death, and his breathing waa very labored.
The family were gathered around and weep•
ing as they, took a final leave, Something
to be done quick. There was a smart-
looking woman there, and I called bar aside,
Pointing to the clock on the mautlepleee,
which the patient was watching, 1 said :
'When I have his attention, turn that ahead•
Then I crowded into the family group,
beetled them into the next room, sat down
on the edge of the bed and began tailing
that fellow ora of the moat horrible. murder
stories you over heard, I located it right
in town where he knew everybody, named
the woman killed, went into blase-Gnrdlied
details, and so completely interested the
man that he forgot his eleven o'clock ap-
pointment. When I gave him e. chance to
leak agars it was twenty minutes to twelve,
seal he waa actually mad fora time, claim•
ing he had boon tricked. He finally got to
laughing, and we all took dinner together.
The next dal be whipped two men ata
batn•raising for twitting him about the pro-
gramme cf death that miscarried. "' ifor
Pearls and Diamonds.
A London expert tells me that of 4d the
world rim/teed each year new diamonds of
abenft $250 .000 in value on the average.
Suddenly,f ,
gu 1 torn South Africa G°visa a new
PPY, exceeding 5:.'0,000,000 worth Saab
year for ten years. In consequence, the
rice of diamonds has steads] f
F y ellen from
$1�> to 3.;,; a carat.
Of (tour, e, it is known that waren they gc
over a sem arativei • ins] n fi
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of carats diemonde take a leap inter the
thousands. Brazilian diamonds are very
fine stones, but 330 stoma found there, or in
the South African dfamcnd fields, are au
inetrous And beautlfal as the gems in the
gala dmcwrationa of East India princes, sad
which have been obtained in India
during the past century by ecuquost sad
Furthers. These came mainly Iran the
min a of Golconda,
The ez-Khedive of Ep pt, Ismail Praha,
is Bald to have the finest collection of da
monde, rabid,, and emeralds In the world—
ra atio several hundred thousand dol
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here in value. Large rubies of A lurid,, lux•
trees red, without a blemlrh, are entrant
thea big diamonds, and are eoneequentle
more valuable,
Ex Queen Isabella of Spain is to have the
finest pearis in the world; and the um ccount
ably lose of many of the most valuable gams
in the apeuish crown jewels set the tongues
of Spanish courtiers going. Kir g Alienate
Isabella's affectionate non, probably thinks
hie mamma's oantinued ab&emccs a pearl be
yond price,
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Legends of the Strawberry.
The people of Bohemia are the oldest
dwellers in Europe, and retain many of the
moat carious anperatitiona. Same are unique
• and aro scarcely to be traced elsewhere. For
iaatanoe, certain units have (anions fanoles
(onnactdd with them. The strawberry is
especially reverenced. When the first traps
are gathered in the first handful is set aside
the poor, and Placed upon a tree or stump
or convenient spot in the open air, whence
:they oan be fetched away. If a mother hes
Most bat child during the previous year, she
must gather no atrawberrfee before St, John's
d iy, for if she dopa her child will not be per-
millers to join the blessed children when
they ge with the Virga to Fick strawberries
in the fields of Heaven Another version of
the same saperatition says that the child may
So many se others when
have a few, but refrain'
mothers hays refrsained from eating. The
Virgin will say to her : "" See, darling, your
share in small, because your mother has eat
ea them." In a valley at Tetsrlsan there is
a crag which the villagers say is in the form
of a human beat, and which is called the
Stone Strawberry Lase, because s legend as-
Berta that on St. John's day, in 1614, a ger.
willful m,iden persisted in dancing and
gating strawberries instead of going to meas,
and added to her sins by laughing at her
grandmother when she chid her. Thereup-
on the old lady said, " T wish thou wert a
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atone, and the lively maiden became trans •
formed. The legend further seserte that she
will ratnrnto flesh and blood whenever a pure
and pions youth is found,who has never neg-
lecied his church from his seventh year,
nor looked at a maiden during service, who
will strike the atone three times Ile high
sinaes is being said. However, the flesh is
weak, we know, and the youth ie yet to be
found who has kept his epee in his prayer-
book from his seventh year, so the inaiden
remain- petrified.
Diteeotiag Elephant Albert.
It will be remembered that a week or ten
days ago an elephant named Albert d•veI-
aped an ugly and pugnacious disposition at
Keene, N. H, where the menagerie wit},
which he was travelling was located, and
killed his keeper. He had been ugly and
treacherous on previous 000asions, And it
was not considered safe to permit him to
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live longer. By order of Mr. Barnum the
authorities of the Smithsonian Instituto
w• re notified that the execution waa to take
place, and that they could have the carcass
if they desired it. Accordingly Mesare.
Houidan and Lucas of the national museum
were despatched to Keene. Through the
aid of City elarshal E. R. Locke and Chief
Engineer George Wheelock they secured the
services of Mr, J. F. Kerwin, a wed -known
local knight of the butcher knife and cleaver,
and two other experts, and began the work
of dissecting the enormous pachyderm. The
head and trunk were firat removed, and then
the hide was taken off in two plaices, being
split on the back and belly. The hide was
in many places an inch and a quarter thick,
and the work required nearly three hours.
In the afternoon the skeleton was dissected,
and every bone was saved intact. The firing
party consisted of 29 men, 12 of whom fired
at the heart and 1; at the head. During the
autopsy, so to speak, six bullets were found
in the heart, and they had all been flattened.
In the eveningthose of epicurean tastes
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dined on elephant steak at the Cheshire
House, and it is reported that many who
did not know what • they were eating pro-
nounced the steak unusually fine in flavor,
but a bit tough. The hide weighed 1,043
pounds, and the Skeleton 1,455 pounds.
The beast alive weighed about 7,000 pounds,
was supposed to be 30 years old, and was
valued at $10,000. The preserved portion
was shipped to Washington and Messrs.
Houidan and Lucas consider that they have
secured an unusually perfect specimen for
the national museum. About 500 Keenites
witnessed the dissection with groat interest,
Why Indiana Love the Warpath•
Colonel Royal' of the serol le ane of the
best•known Indian fighters in the service
He is now an leave, his health being
much impaired by many yuan' life on the
frontier. Speaking of the present dui fu
Ancee and the logo for murder Whi(k
every Indian seems to poetess in a greatoi
or leas degree, he said : I once asked a re
markably intelligent Indian who was known
to have killed a white man some years Ago
why it was that his race enjoyed so roue]
going on the wet -path and killing people
The conversation which ensued ran some
thing like this, the Iodine beginning : "Dig
you ever shoot a rabbit ?'
" `Yea•'
" `Did you ever shoot a deur ?'
"`Yes•'
" `Didn't you get more fun out of kinin;
the deer than the rabbit ?'
" ` Yes, I guess so.'
" ` Well, there's a heap more fun for as
IrdIan to kill a man than a deer.'
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"" That was Indian logic, and pretty go
logic, too, I should say," Colonel Royal' re
marked, and added: " My experience ha
been that the minute an Indian shade hum as
blood, it seems to affect the whole tribe 1
the same way that the smell of blood wool
a pack of wild beasts. It intoxicates them
They become devils. They are bereft of al
reason. They must satisfy their lust fo:
murder, and the settlers on the trail the;
take become their victims."
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How He Saved Himself.
About three years ago, I waa working on
a five -story brick building in New York city.
The scaffold which •I was working on was
near to the top story. Well, as I was bang-
ing away at my work, I became conscious of
a swaying motion, I had just time to look
up and take in the situation at a glance, when
the scaffold began to give way beneath me,
Instinctively I threw up my hands and
clutched the end of a rope which was hang-
ing above my head, when the whole thing
fell to the ground with a crash, leaving ma
suspended in midair. Here was a situation
calculated to trythe nerves of anyman.
Seventy-five feet from the ground with noth-
ing to sustain mebut a small rope. Glancing
at the pile of rubbish below me, I realized
that should either the rope or my muscles
give out and should I fall on that debris
scatterea below, the shock produced would
j rr my system terribly. This I determined
to avoid, and I was not long in forming a
plan to save myself from an awful fall. j
let go the rope, and—" The crowd breathed
hard.
" Yer don't mean ter say that yer fell all
y 1"
that distance thont erself .'wouldn't
" No, sir ; I let go and fell till I came op-
P osite the second storywindow—"
" An' what d'yer do then ? "
" Jumped in at the window,"
The crowd breathed freer.
"Didn't it take yer breath away to fall so
far ? " inquired one,
"No ; but as the morning was a chilly one
hadput a bran new coat on. After I had
jumped into the window I looked for my
coat but found that of it I had only three
buttonholes left. The remainder had been
torn off bythe projections of the buildin as
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I was making my descent."
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Do Eight the First Time.
If you will teach the children about you
in the house to do things by the " first in-
tention," or what ie sometimes called the
primary movement, half the work of house-
keeping is saved. For instance, a boy sharp-
ens a lead pencil ; he cute it all over the
sofa or the floor. There the shavings lie
until somebody has to sweep them up. If
he had been taught to do the cutting or any
whittling over the waste basket or in win-
ter over a newspaper, then emptying his
chips into the fire, the whole performance
is finished when it is done. Just so with
the peeple who strike matches and then
leave them where they fall, on the top of
bureaus or washstands, or on mantle -shelves,
Every burnt match should go directly into
some receptacle provided for it or into the
fire. In cutting up materials to make up it
is erfectl eas to ather u the scraps as
perfectly Y g Proom.
they drop under the scissors and put them
into a little basket. In dress fitting do your
cutting over a large sheet spread on the
floor, which can be gathered up every day,
and its contents assorted for the piece -bag.
In eating fruit teach the child to put away
the skin and pits at once where they should
go,eatingthem over aplate or paper instead
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of over the whole place,
There is no need of two movements to
finish what can be done in one.
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A Ido wish I wBoas a cls ock—got of a face as
don't have to wash it—got hands and don
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have to keep them clean, and just gets 1
be looked up to by everybody—just r one
all the time, and dad never once Saye, "no
run the legs off of you, boy." Reckc
its a boy, seems to be pretty good on t he
strike, or may be its a mill-hand—anyho
its a pretty nice thing to be ; of course
can't eat 1 No good fried "" latera" for eiou
ciockio I No licorice water, either. Yon'
got hands that might shake it, but no mot th
for to drink with. Neither can you go bar
foot. Oh I'd hate that. But then you do
don
have to wear an overcoat, or mittens on yo
hands, I hate that, too ! One of your ham
is smaller than the other,I 1
that—wouldn't like to be `" unformed
'*would be such a plague—all the bo;
would find it out.
Tick 1 Tick 1 Tick 1 Tick ! My what
runner you are 1 I bet if you was running
a two dollar pair of shoes that dad had
pay for you'd be stopped mighty quick.
My dad ain't a bad man, but there is son
thingabout him that I do not like,and
his name, and I don't know why eithe
Only the big boys at school asked me, o
day, what my father's name was, I said, N
Schott •; then the said I was only"" h
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shot," and laughed so,
Pine Baths.
At some of the wateringplaces in Germanydon't
the very simple prescription of the physician
is that the patient should spend several
hours a day, walking or riding, through the
pine wood. This simple treatment is said
to be sometimes supplemented by the taking
of pine baths, and in the case of kidney die-
ease and for delicate children this is claim-
ed to be highly beneficial. The •bath ie
prepared by pouring into the water about
half a tumbler of an extract made from the
needles of the pine ;this extract is dark in
color and closely resembles treacle in con-
sistenc and whenpoured into the bath
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gives the water a muddy appearence, with
a light foam on the surface. As an adjunct
to this daily bath this infusion of pine ex-
tract is said to induce a moat agreeable
sensation ; it gives the skin a deliciously
soft and silky feeling, and the eflect on the
nerves is quieting.
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," How do you like the character of
St. Paul ?" asked a parson of his landlady,
during a conversation about the old saints
and speaks. ' ` AL he was a good,clever
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old soul, for he once said, you know, that we
moat eat what ie set before us, and' ask no
questions, for consience s sake. I always
thnnnht I should •like him for a boarder."
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A healthy body is good, but a soul in right
health—it is a thing beyond all others to be
for,the most blessed thin this earth
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receives of Heaven.
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Prof. Huxley is, it is understood, going to
retire from the variousposts he holds under
Government on a uenaion of £ 1200 a year,
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