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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-8-19, Page 7The gritio'e Apostrophe. W. P. SYOTrL We Live, and breathe, and move, and nip, and dWhichiMeritloa a belt gla Who holds within the hollow of his hi d, The universe, and, tit his slight command. A demon may become an angel bright, Or gf adsome virtue wrapt in hideous night. Theworld itself be held, and time be enaine And atagnano prevail. fa o one restrained, His power to do evil or do goon Bet all revered the awful fatherilrod,• But bora what insures did thin great bola sn .And whpriy l'ugr all celestial worlds, ,one gtr g I It one from nothing came;'hen,why not mere Why not one thousand on that mystic shore, w hoale r thorn ave en m to ofth1s i gm Y h.And made the laws that gave,ail Worlds the ocy should this God of mercy and of love, power and justice,frcm baa throne above, Look down, unmove, upon ,lie world's career, . Upon the sea or love and hope and fear, On vilest passions of the twinau mind Which stab at love and leave the taint behind Onbieai eved r /pallor!. sordid wealth. On leper sighiror the cheek of health2 Theeo evil aa u,odo 1Eoeev ni dPraurassoilbe ts heon but omits to the aures. Oh, God! My drlubtir,g soul blasphemes no The'Tie that I fail to see thy Majesty. 'Tie th..t my aching soul Inquires with sighs, If man may live as surely as man dies. Oh, devotees! Oh, men and women blind 1 Throw out the Bock and what is lent behind 1 We see a world that spins in empty space, `Which is but one of many, and its race tiay run throughout a calendar of ages .And destiny alone, e'er read its pages. W+at surety we have is earth -confined, That other home is only in the mind, Oh, earth 1 thy minion is the waiting grave, Whose arms embrace all there is worth tg save. nr REPLY Op Tun OHEISTIAN, Brother, my heart doth feel for t lee, and burn With love and sympathy intense. Oh, turn, Am; give thy heart to ain( who gave thee birth. To God, the Quiet, the ruler of tale earth, The stars, the sun, the planets, all that shine ; All these Ms glories, and His glories thine. Throw out the Book 1 Ah, there is where you touch Our ohristtan dignity - and thus we clutoh With nervous grasp that legacy, that; prize. Whose value is not found beneath the skies. ThTake allbegin'nee, our the Chretinalthis. By all Thingd s g good ur that mortals ols a dew', ; By every drop of red on palvary'a Cross; By Chri stian'again and sinners awful loss By Chriet's last breathing, gasping, moral groan ; BBy that eh his passion,sinful wercreatures e died for thee. Ab, brother 1 start now, ope thine eyes and see. Bare ilthyt proud heart and God's own rays of Shall baht from thy soul the gloom of night. Ana love lli bloomlwithinthy wieldy again. ONE NIGIIT°, A Story of the Far West, and ot a Woman's Pluck. "There's the shot -gun, Molly, and here's my revolver. Both loaded." " Yes, Tom." "Now, mind, child, there isn't one chance in ten thoueand that there will be a soul near y u. If I thought there was, Molly, 1 won 't ave you. You under- stand that ?" " Yee, Tom." " If any one does come, ib will be a neighbour or a neighbour's boy. The bandits and desperadoes have all joined travelling shows. If you don't go soaring yourself, you will be all right." " Yea, Tom." " But there's a lot of moral support in a shooting -iron, and maybe you'll feel a little safer with these." He scooped to kin her, feeling her lips trembling" little as he touched them. Bat she smiled. elle raised her head, and her good -b a was quite steady. "Plucky little thing," he said to him- self, as he rode down the trail at a long, swinging lope. At fourteen Mary Allison's mother died. Then her father, with broken health and spirits, gathered up the wreck of his for- tune and went away to the green wilder- ness of a North-West ranch, leaving the girl in an Ontario schooL Tom's college• course being at an end, he went with his father, and presently found himself mak- ing a profitable business of sheep•raising to the rhythm of Greek and Latin classics. When, four years later, Miss Allison had been properly graduated with much ceremony and white muslin, her father, too, had "joined the majority," and she found Tom living in a precarious fashion at the hands of a native house- keeper, and enthusiastically glad to wel- come even this inexperienced head to his email household. That was in July, and on that radiant September afternoon, Tom found himself imperatively called to the nearest town, twenty miles away. The woman who ruled the kitchenhad taken herself over the creek to "visit her kinsfolk," and the herders were all at the ends of the earth with their flocks, when Tom sank out of eight behind the low prairie -swells, Miss Allison had the whole green world tb herself as far as he could aee. Over her arched a wide sky of tender cloudless blue. Oat of the bounding ring of the horizon swept the world of green. From sky -edge to sky -edge a full tide of summer sunshine seemed to rise and fall. in great, firehearted billows as the south wind surged anon ,the apace. There were no ahadowa, butthe soft glare _did nob blind nor scorch. And before ehe knew it oh was feat asleep. She aa, with a audden start, broad awakeaft e � most unaccustomed �, atom ' All her senses came bank to her instantly. The whole wide heaven was aglow with sunset, an unbroken, :inflected arch of color fading down through every tender tint to the cool gray of the short twilight. She took it all in ab a single gland, and spinet the glory a man's figure standing black and motionless. Sho was on her feet at once. Not a neighbor nor a nelghbor'e boy; somebody anthems, bareheaded, with a white, drawn face and a helpless atm swan in a blood- stained bandage. She stood speeohleaa, 'motionleoc, an awful, helpless terror clutching her heart. The moral support of Tomo armory was quite but of reach in the house. ;That the man was already wounded -that he looked as if the merest pneh of her un- armed hand would be too much for him, did nob matter. Such an appearence in the heart of that cairn lenelPness was not to be avec:mated for in any ordinary fashion. Ho might bo the climax of an dreadful sequences of events. If Mise Allison had reasoned, she would have found herself afraid of what had happen- ed, rather than of what csm might , ,, g t o What do you want ?" She came for- 'ward a stop to say :it, and titled not to let her heart choke her voice. The figure g e pub out one weak, appealing g hand, uttered an inarticulate Sound and dropped forward fee° .downward on the grate.. Misr Allison looked about her a minute All the little, flashy pools in the grains caught the reflection from ,above, and 'Ilene red in the gathering gloom about them, A slender new moon and a single great, white star hung calm In the fading glow. She saw ` it all, and now herself alone with bhab prostrate figure lying black before her. She went toward him over the grass. ,lin neither spoke nor stirred. She gathered eyed back her dress and touched him viith°her foot. Ib was an involuntary, half-unconeoions gesture ; bub she woman In her reacted spontaneously. In an in- dent she was on her knees beside him, touching the cold hand and forehead. "• He has fainted 1" she said aloud, quite coolly. There was that redeeming quality in Miss Allison. Her wits were at hand in an emergency. In two minutea camphor and ammonia had done their appointed work. The stranger lay gasping feebly, but with re. stored consciousness. b What is the matter with you'?" she asked, crisply. He looked up at her, standing straight and ball in her white dress. "I'ye eaten nothing for forty-eight hours," he said quietly. Spec:ale and voice were clear and soft. Mies Allison found heraelf conscious of a glimmer of friendly interest. " can yon get into the house Ti with a matter-of-fact 000lnesa. " I will find you something to eat." Ha raised himself weakly as she turned away. Miss Allison, looking up present- ly from her struggles with the cooking - stove fire, found him standing in the doorway, regarding her out of hollow nuken eyes. She had lighted a lamp, and Tom's revolver lay within reach. A faint smile crossed the man's lips. Mise Alllaon saw it, and a libtle flash of emper sent Dolor and light into her cheeks nd eyes. "I need accounting for?" answering he flash. "Yon do certainly," sharply. "There's read and a glass of wine beside you. rink it and lie down until this coffee oils." When Miss Allison went to him pros. ntly with her ooffee, she found him sleep. And from the wounded arm a ark stream dripped slowly. Mlas Allison set down her tray, and rned faint and sink. Then she roused m gently.. "Look at your arm. What is the atter with you ?" "I have been /hot," drowsily. " It is eeding again, Can yon -get--_" fall - g off into unconsciousness, half -sleep, f•atupor. " Oh, dear ?" desperately. " He'' ing to bleed to death 1 Yon mut wake 1" seizing his shoulder, and speaking th a ring in her clear voice. He opened his eye again. " I will help you bandage your arm." The apron that she had tied over her te dress was in strips, and she was nding over him, her hands not quite ady, her face pale. There was blood her hands and gown before the work s done. `I am very sorry," looking up depre- ingly. He had long lashed, womanish s, and his face, if not handsome, was fb tainly not rtenly nor coarse. he poured his coffee and cut his foo an with one hand is not expect e expert with knife and fork ; but and drank with a refinement th e his evident eagerness more mark touching. ot a word was spoken. Miss Allis nd a table, with a revolver lying lap, watched him closely. All a conclusion flashed on her mind a her breath away. Yon are one of the horse -thieves said, slowly, She was leaning b him, her lips apart, her eyes ver open. e laid down his knife and fora, an ed at her silently. nd then the inconsequent woman's asserted itself. The man was ive from justice, certainly; but they was was in her power—hungry ded—and uninteresting. And, som the Allison blood had a, trick g the losing side. e; rose impulsively. They are after you," she said, in whisper. "" The whole community robing." know it," despondently. "" I have in the bush for two days. Some gave me'this," touching his arm. an starved out, worn out, and came o surrender." iniah your gupper," abruptly. n she went away, and on the porch steadily up and down for ten good es in the starlight. Through; the window she oouid watch hdr visitor e had her revolver firmly clutched. had finished his meal when she ask. don't know anything about you," id severely. "1 don't wane to. e a young man, and you do not if you were entirely hardened : In I am going to give you another I don't know whether I sin �ight or wrong," breaking down In ral tone. "I don't care !" She d and caught her breath. Then rried on, forgetting everything, -fashion,' in the exoltement' of the h. "The eastern train passes at k. It's only a signal -station and will bo' nobody there. I'll take wn in time for it, and that will nix hours for sleep. Tom isn't home, and you can have his s t a b D b e a d to hi m bi in hal go wi whi be ate on wa cat eye oer S Am to b ate mad and N behi her once took '' she ward wide H look A logic fngit he woun how, takin Sh {{; half - is aea been body "" I w here t The paced minut open and ah He went b she ea You ar look as crime. chance doing r her mo steppe she hu woman me men t o'cloo there you do give you coming clothes. Sho hind h room. " You come ; valiant( warning lie ob the lock the cone minutes It did time 'led ing bed " Her ten mint the coat d. ed he at ed ra veliingehawi. The horaesare ready," She was waiting for hire as he came obit. A slight, dark -clad figure ; a white face, wish wide, shining eyes and resolute, firmly set lips.. Afber all, being clad with a serpblanee of order and decency, he was not euoh a desperate looking oharag- ter. There:was more (lob' coffee, "" dome," eke said curtly, as he put down Iiia cup. Re paused ab the door. " Who harnessed ?'' I did at " And A you aro aging alone ? " Quito alone." And coming back alone ? t, Yea." She was whiter than ever, and her eyes filled with teary an ate looked up at him. Anything lees alis a 'Ikea a her i figured in an adventure. ono never "" You poor child 1" There was noth- ing bub kindly pity in his voice. "You will take your revolver 1" glancing toward it aa it lay on the table, "" Yes." "` Hsdn't youibatter," gently, load it ?" "" It is loaded. Tom said so." "" Tom wan metaken. See," her the empty chambers. There was the faintest light in carefully screened from outald vation. She had sunk back in her the, discovery of Tom'a blonde face was in strong relief as, hand, he did his work slowly an wardly. " You are sure you can nae it ? Somehow there seemed a change in. their relations. The swift ponies knew the firm hands holding the reins. The tr smooth as a floor, and the fiv vanished behind them. In tie darkness of the west burned a 1 light. "There's your train. The st jun ahead. I shall wait here til that you get away." It wan t word that was spoken. She pulled her horaes down to "I hope," forcing herself to i the occasion, "" that you won't again." " Get caught for a horse. thief 1' antly. "" I certainly shall try to it." It did not sound penitent. Mis son expeelenced a revulsion of feels "" You had better get down here said, severely. He alighted slowly and with dlffi Then he turned towards her, an saw his face pale in the shadow of slouched hat. "I do not want you to think tha not know that you are saving my and that not one woman in a th would have had the nerve to do wha have done." There was no quesbi earnestness in his voice now. "I hope you'll mend your ways, then.' " Will you tell me your name 1" not heeding her speech. •" Mary Million." "" Thank yon." F. a turned and boo a few ateps away. "" Exense me," diffi- dently, forgetting his abandoned charac- ter. He was at her side again. "" Have yon—have you—" desperately, "got any money 1' is then," dr dropping a purseyinto �his k hane d. "And I wish you'd tell me," with a sud- den impnlae, "did you take the horse 1" "" Upon my word, no." She bent towards him. "Good-bye," putting out a bare white hand. "" let me showing the room e obeer- ohair at r. His with one d awk• ,curious , little ail was e miles e clear ow, red ation is 1 I see he first a walk. mprove do it ' pleas. avoid O Alli - ng. ," ahe onify. d she Tom'e t I do life, the t you on of k • He took it with frank held on ib a brief minute, and then thendarknees in swallowed him up. at Miss Allison sat and waited. The low an rumble grew more and more distinct— the red light name eliding towards her ?" out of the gloom with an awful unawerv- o- Ing certainty in its advance. She saw y the pause—the signalling swing of the conducked d motion tb gan lantern the and turned cher horses' heads towards home. a, If Miss Allisonliweti a hundred years ahe' will never. forget that drfye, Now e that she was free from the companionship — of a desperate character, and behind a of • pair of thoroughly -broke$, swiftly -paced horaes, with Tom's revolver really loaded beside her, and not one chance' in ten thousand of wanting it, she was frlghten- a ed. The air was full` of starshine ; in the, east a faint, white glow .just indicated the coming dawn. The awfulness of the night oppressed her beyond endurance. She cried all the way home, sobbing con- vulsively while she ` unharnessed her ponies and restored everything to order ; after which, with her cold little feet in the stove -oven, she drank a cup of still hot coffee, and then went bo bed and to sleep, where Tom found her the next morning. A month later Tom wanted that coat and hat, and failing to find them raised the usual masouline whirlwind about their' disappearance. "Molly Allison, you're responsible 1 If tho'oountry produced image -venders I should say you had been making a trade 1" She shook her head, bat with the Dolor mounting In her face. "" Tramps i" -he said, accusingly, Poor Molly shuddered bo think how much, much worse it really wee. "` You wouldn't like it, I dare say, if I should go encouraging pauperism with your frocks and things," he grumbled, trying to reconcile hirnaeif with another garment. He came back from the station that night with news. "t Vlattore coming Molly." Who and when 1" "Rob McKenzie: You don't Rob. He was a classmate know of mine. Re'a coming next week to apy out the land. I haven't heard of hini since I came` out here," Rob, McKenzie alighting at the small,. sunny signal -station one day in the next week, found a atyliah apparition in white dread, and pretty garden -hat waiting the platform, on "You Lire Mr. McKen " voice sal " ziA a pleasant Tom d. I am Mary Allison. Tom sprained hia ankle last night ht an d ' oonle," g d couldn't Mr, 11cKenzie aeemedd rah' young man. Misa All t ear a quiet ponies and chattedfan drove her awayln the anrosbrain. ed delight of having a stranger to talk opened the door of a anal( room be or --an orderly, half.filied store - can stay here. Nobody will and if they do–I am' armed 1 y giving the information as a as well as an asentanoe, eyed her epeechlesely. He heard click as he stretched himself on h that awaited him, and in two he waa asleep. not eeern mach rnore'than that ore he awoke, to find her nand. de him. e are Tom'e clothes. You have tea to get drowned. I've ripped aieeve, yott Sae ; and there's a with—or rather to—and some one beet from the good times that seemed doubly good In reoolleotion. "I suppose everybody hereshoo more or lase. Are; you an experb with firearms, Mies Allison ?" They were sitting within g w doors in the alight chill of the Ootober evening. Tom answered for her. " Molly says she can, but I don't ; be- lieve it. An awful little little coward Molly.'" is t 1a she ?" quietly. "I shouldn't think ibbod." Somey opened a door inn ubio and in the strong draft the Dight went c.ut, It was McKenzie who relighted it and in the faint light glow as he bent ever the he rekindled alis e lamp, b out with an odd effect a e face came background, against the dark " Oh, my 1" in a grasp from Moll 's corner. Molly 'e turned towards her as lamp flamed up.the p She was staring at him with wide eyes full of perplexity. Are you civilized beyond lynoh,law yet"Why asked irrelevantly. y ? A private grudge agalnat any one?" One likea to see all the peculiar in- stattutions of the country. Do you, ever hang se thieves for instance ?" " We dont always catch thein," dryly. " Did you ever miss a hat and coat, Tom ?" " Molly gave them to a tramp," in slow wonder at his companion's drift. And then, catching his sister's blank face. " What have you been telling. Mary Al. lleon 1" " Oh, Tom, I—I gave them to the borne -thief, and I believe it was Mr. McKenzie." Tom sat staring. " Truth, Allison." And then came the story. "There were two of us taken to- gether.I don't know whom they mis- took us for. I dodged the most and took to the timber. I never knew whatbe- name of the other man." "I suspect he is the one I helped out of the State, the night I left you alone Molly." Kent and gold Water, be In the seaport towns of southern Bean sunstrokes are as common as chilblains in Canada, and the popular remedy is both Wimple and tffiolent, A think liners hand. age Is wrapped around the head and kept. maturated with cold, water," " per near el fuego," as they call it, " to draw out the fire." Every two minutes or so the water is, renewed, till the patient has recovered affi,sley u nil , to alt up and continuo cooling We temples witha wet sponge, I have never known that method to involve any irjarlous after effeete, and believe that its en:ploywatt wculd often break the lnoip lent symptoms of olimat fevers, though the popular prejudioe against the influence of cold n all ittlor f m s may roc less rational epeelfios, bleeding, forminstance, wbioh at beat exobanges'a momentary stupor for a week-long languor and liability to relapaes, But It seems lana easy to me - count for the egregieue obstinacy of the prejudice againet fresh water as a beverage for healthy persona under the Maw:um of excessive heat, A soldier reaching hie noonday camp in a shady grove, a wayfarer halting at a publio well, a bey returning from a butterfly ohne, are sure to be warncold waterg"- nat 'the disastrous effects of " drank in the heat.��" Wait till you cool eft" " Take a drink of ooffee first." " You'll catch your death at that old epring," etc. Yet even the popular night, dr dread is not more utterly grata, - taus, We might as well be asked to bo d Ileve that a wayworn feet traveler must i lI not sit down without first renting a few h minutes in a standing position, We might w as well warn a dreway child against shut- a ting both eyes at once at the risk of falling °h asleep too abruptly. The truth is that a w drink of cold water is healthiest when the If system la most urgently In need of It, and oh at no ether time the stomach more readily forgives the abrnptnesa of sudden repletion. Only drunkards and persons whose di- gestive organs have been debilitated by long abuse risk the least unpleasant con- sequences from a free indulgence in the But,meatural of all di. on the other band,( hutente ere is ref ne doubt that previous exposure to excessive heat increases the danger of surfeiting the system with calorific food ; that pork eaten in quantity after a warm day's work often results in a delirium equaling the. worst symptoms of cholera morbus. Greasy ragouts become more indigestible in summer ; a quantum of suet pudding, which at other times would produce only a slight heartburn, has in sultry weather to be expiated by a fit of distresotng costive- ness. Tourists on returning from a dog - day excursion, or farmers after a swelter- ing harvest day, ehenld therefore confine themselves to moderate quantities of food, and If poeeible abstain fer a meal or two from all heat-preduoing viands. A joily pudding, with cold milk and sugar, or a' plateful of odd fruit and cakes, will abundantly satisfy the demand° of nature, which on snob days are never exorbitant. The feeling of oppressive heat, in fact, di- minishes all appetites except the desire for refrigeration, , Some weeks later Rob McKenzie was going through the ceremony of fitting a diamond solitaire on Miss Allison's left- hand Index finger." "Oh, the beauty 1 Where did you get it ?" " I brought it with me, coolly. " Upon my word, Rob McKenzie 1 And you took this for granted ?" " I made up my mind one night in September, between here and the Missi- ssippi river, thee I would marry Molly Alllaon if I could get her ; and I did my best." Something to Drink. In the hot summer weather that is cern. Ing "'something to drink " will be the con- stant ory. Fathers and brothers returning from the hay er harvest field, frem the cricket fleld, from aohoal or frem shop, will be sure to ask fer something to drink 1 The following advice will be found very useful In helping to satisfy these de- mands :-- If -If you wish to keep in good health, never touch beer or spirits. Save the money you would spend in beer fer good food and clothes for yourself and family. It la astonishing how mnoh may be done with the money spent yearly on beer. In- stead of beer there are several good and nourishing drinks— No. 1. -If a Little rice is washed in oold watheter, liquid and boiled in with a little sugarood oal of added, fa water pleasant nourishing drink ; in winter, it may be drunk warm, in summer cold. It Is much used in India by our soldiers, in hot weather, You can bay an ounce ef oitrio acid and put just a pinoh into it, and you will find a very refreshing' acid drink. Yon can use the boiled rice as food, season- ed with pepper and salt ; or, fer the children, mixed with sugar, or cheap jam. Ne. 2,—When you have heavy, tiring work to do, do not take either beer, eider, or spirits. By far the boat drink is thin oatmeal water, with a little sugar. The proportions are Ilb. oatmeal to two or three quarts of water, according to the heat of the day and your thirst. It should be well belled, and an ltoz, brown sugar added, If you find it thicker than you like, add another quart of water. Before:you drink it, you must shake up the eatmeal well through the liquid. Yon . will find that it not only quenches thirst, but it will give you mere strength and endurance than any other drink. In very long har- vest days you can take dlb,, or even jib, oatmeal to three quarts of water. Y en will find this meatand drink also. It must be boiled fresh every morning, or ever night will do. You can take it out in kegs or stone jars, and keep it under the shade of the trees just as you do your beer, It le quite a mistake to suppose that beer or spirits give atrengeh. They do give a spurt to a man, but that quickly gees eff, and spurts, in hard, heavy work, too often made, certainly lessen the working powers, One mime of coffee and Jaz, of sugar boiled In two quarts ef water and cooled, is a very thirstquenching drink ; se is cold tea, but neither of these is so supporting as the oatmeal drink. A Prediction Fulfilled. The Emperor Napoleon III, was by na- ture very eaperatitiona, The following anecdote was related in 1864, long years be- fore the fulfilment of the prodietion that it contains, Napoleon I1I, one day took it into hia head to consult the celebrated chi- remanofen, Deabaroles, who died the other day at a very advnoed age. Desbarelles told him soma 'curious facie . reepooting his character, his tastes, and lois parte life, " Now," quoth the Emperor, "tell. me teetotaling about the future. Where will my death take place and by what malady shall I die 2"' Deabatollea hesitated for e moment, " Sire," he said at length. ""yo have asked me for a frank response, and I will reply to yon frankly, You are dentin- od`ro breathe your last en Englieh soil and you will peiiahby the knife.'' 'Verycur . onWas the prediction fulfilled iongh the knife peeved to be not that d fulfilled, e. sin, but that of a surgeon, ' An experirnont to teat the s , coed of the swallows flight has been me de at Pawl ' le Italy, Two hen birds were taken from their breode, carried to Milan, and there re- leased at a given hour. Both get book to their note in thirteen minutes, which gave theft rate of speed at eighty.00ven and a half miles an hour, 4 W$H E I$ my CHI P? r' Aetalfls 01 the Ceentbai f Irak- la Ta4urla Fannin Georgia, The full a000uut of the Ta Georgia, cannibalAltair altai seas :seatow days ago same of the colored people In the lower end of the county had a Plenie. had engaged as cook and overe They eullaary department an old ear et the Weare woman. Great preparations had been made feetivities, and the sport ran for the phigh. It w a hungry band' that gathered red�as 8 for dinner and awaited nit e dt nD ear the summons- on s. It was served red at last, and the merry -makers fell to with as will. Hardly had the edibles appear when began to die'' A STRANGE BOSH fell open the boisterous One had been served with a piece of meat that Mang to a email jointed bene. It did net loots like anything he had ever seen Deme from a frying.pan befere, and he showed it to his neighbor, The other looked at it attentive- ly for a moment, "It le the finger of a ohild," he said There was a sensation which quickly spread into a panic. A hasty examination of other plate were made 4108E P1NGER : WERE SOUND, and pieces of meat that were evidently hu- man flea$ were held upon forks and gazed at by the new thoroughly excited negroes. They gazed at each ether in a frightened way, and then there was a simultaneous break for, the cabin, in which the cook had prepared the meal. She met them at the oer, brandishing a large knife. A wild ght—like that of a maniao--gleamed from er epee. The crowd paused as the knife as flourished over their heads, all but one, woman, who rushed forward with a rieb, "My child ; what have you done ith my child Y There was no answer am the old cook. "I left it here in her arge," cried the excited mother, appealing to the friends about her. " w8$&E IS MY CHILD 1 She hag killed it," With fiendish yells the dusky army, fired by her agonizing Dries, bore down upon the cook and in spite of her frantic struggles tore the knife from her grasp. Evidences of the murder were about them, there was bleed en the floor and the table was emeared with it. The living child was not here te be seen, but in its place was a portion et a little hump belly which had been TAKEN PROM THE OTEN, PIeces of flesh had been carved from it; The excitement among tho eearohers was of the wildest kind. They tore everything to pieces in the cabin in their fury. It waa plain enough that the old woman had'mur- dered the child there, and then cooked half' of the body. Where was the ether half ?' There were of bleed anon the floor. Someone, let exalted than the rent, followed the tell-tale trail. It led to a barrel just eoteide and behind the shanty. .A shout informed he misain portion had been companionst found.They rushed out to find him pulling it from the barrel, where it HAD BEEN SALTED DOWN. Self-Oure. The body, to a large extent, Is a ma- chine which, when disarranged, repairs it- self,' Physicians tell ns of the vis medics rix nafurce—the power to heal inherent in nature. It is natural to get well. The body's reonperative resources are not equal to every need, but they are very great. It Is because of this even that the well man tends to; keep well, If he oonforma te na- ture's laws, for the system is ever full of poison frem its own waste, the disponi ef which nature has provided fer, better' than any pity has fer the disposal of its deadly sewage. Take the case of an ordinary wound. It needs only to have Its disrupted parte brought together, and nature does the heal- ing ; and even in many eases where the parts are not brought together, nature fills up the space with new flash, So nature will mend a broken bene, on the afmple condition that the adjusted parts be allew- ed the requisite rest, Dyspepsia, whether lndnced by improper eating, the neglect ef exercise, brain over- work, or Dare, worry and fret, will in time wholly disappear on removal of the cause and compliance with the laws of nature. The beet physfofana now freely admit that typhoid patients, in the groat ma- jority of oases, would recover without a drop ef medicine; that they need medicine mainly te promote ease and comfort, and that pure air is better for them than all drugs. The same -is true of some other diseases, More and more is it being ad- mitted that, in no ease, do drugs have any curative power, but only aid nature, as the surgeon rads in the case ef a badly broken limb, by removing irritating bits, apicula3,. etc., and teaming the proper adjnstment and fixation of the parte. The eld•time doctors greatly overdosed people—in rnultitndee of oases literally deeed people to death. Within lees than twenty years a personal friend, palled to watch with a neighbor far gone in consump- tion, was shown eleven different medicines. each of which the was to adminiatr during the night, according te the varying Blimp. tome, It gannet betoe strongly emphasized that those whe observe the lawe of their physical nature are likely to keep well—and even infections diseases have little power over such persons, and would wholly dis- appear if all observed these laws. A Beautiful Incident. A poor Arab travelling in the desert met. with a spring of clear, sweet, sparkling water. Used as he was only to braohieh wells, such water as this appeared to his simple mind worthy of a monarch, and fill- ing his leathern bottle from the spring he determined to go and present it to the caliph himself. The peer man travelled a long way before ha teohed the presonoo of hia sovereign and laird hie humble offering at his feet, Teeoaliph dict net d,tupioe the little gift, brought to him with to much trouble. He ordered tomo of the water to be poured into a cup, drank it, and; tbanki ing the Arab with a tone ordered him to be presented with a reward. The courtiers around pressed forward, eager to taste of the wonderful water ; but to the surprise of all, the caliph forbade them to touch a single drop. After the poor Arab had gafttod the royal preserlae With a light; and joyful heart, the caliph. turned to his courtiers and thus explained his oolduot " During the travels of the Arib,'a said ho, " the water in his enhern bottle booamo Impure and distasteful. But it was an offering of love, and as each I have received it with (pleasure, But I well knew that had I suffered another to.partako ef it, he Would not have oeaoeaied hie dioguet ; and therefore, 1 forbade you to touch the draught, lest the heart of the poor man should have been wounded," Then there was a general cry for ven- geance, and the frenzied shouts rang through the trees. Some euggeated.lynch- ing, but there wise ne rope. Others wanted to hack that took the nf life of theeces tittle chilh the d Still another cried " burn her," and: the ory was taken up and repeated until all the exalted crowa were burn her." She fought likeaf wild be st." barnheShe crenohad, she But her strucnpterehwere to se usedomany to teethaoopee with suooeaefully, and she was led ent te the slaughter kicking and shrieking. They dragged her te a tree and BOIIND HER TIGHTLY TO IT, Then fired t in a ds en places, ed brush around Aoe o eref fire surrounded her, and from the midst ef it she begged for mercy ane moment and shrieked her imprecations the next and around her the excited Degrees watching the flames as they scorched her flesh and seized upon her clothing and enveloped her in a sheet of fire. It was a Scene too terrible to paint, but not ene ef them took their cyan from her until she fell into the ashes a blackened corpse. The woman waa undoubtedly insane. Animals' Medicine, A Frenoh physician and savant says that animals are as good practitioners of medi- cine as a majority of the human species, and that In hygiene man may take a lesson from them. Elephants, stage, birds and ante wash themselves or bathe. Some animals get rid ref parasites by the -use ef dust, mud, or clay. These suffering from fever restrict their diet, keep quiet, seek darkness and airy places, drink water, and cemetimea plunge irate it. If a dog lens his appetite, he eats'" dog's grass." Sheep when ill ecek eat certain herbs, and puss also finds an emetio er a purgative In a certain species of grass or su hebrbst, Whennoes a dogwith is avidity. An animal suf- constipated, he eats fatty fering from rhenmatlam keep! in the sun. The warrior ants have ambulances, and when an investigator out the antenate of an ant, ether ants covered the wound with a mouthstraneparent fluid, secreted from theft- .A he, ft .A wounded ohimpanzeestepe the bleed- ing of a wound by placing leaves and grass en the wound, • A dog en being stung on the muzzle by a viper, plunged bin bead repeatedly for sever aldays in running water, and recovered. A sporting deg was run ever by a car- riage. During three weeks in winter he re- mained lying In a brook, where his feed was taken to him, and he alae recovered. A terrier deg hurt its right eye. Be re- maimed lying under a counter, avoiding light and heat, although he had previously been in the habit of keeping close te the fire. Ha rested, abstained from food,link. ed his paw, and applied - it to the wonded eye. A Preference for Lone FTiehts. " Oh, isn't it a lovely night, Adolphus Just fancy hew delightful the nights neat be in the Orient 1 The azure blue slay, the perfume of the fioworie the soft tinkling—" I toll you, Miranda dear, I prefer the nights they have in ,Alaska. They're just immense." "Immense, Adolph 1" for courting, They're so long, you knowYes,," ' Two small boys of Middletown, Conn saw a man wading in the OonneotiotRiver, and apparently bout on suicide, They pur- sued him,, dragged him out, law that he was orazy, nduced him to take a walk, and 'ben had him in the grounds of the Stat Asylum, wheaca he had escaped, '_ A Nautical Vfew,—Mamma,-•--" Don't you know .that your father is the nlainsta of the family ?" .1±'rodrty.--�" Gaily ain't he though i .And the spanker' tee i'