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POINTS ON WOOD CARVING.
Have you a good pocket knife, one
which contains two blades, a large and
a email one ? It, out, get one at once.
The best is the cheeped:, This, and a '
quarter or throe -eighth inch ebIsel,ts
arias sharp tools you will need, An
ordinary mallet completes the outfit,
For Inaterial, get a piece of soft pine,
free from knots and about ao inch
thick,
p
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Now take some simple fpicture, which
le plainly shaded, so that you. can get
the relief points oorreetly,
If you: are not apt at drawing, get a
sheet of transfer paper et the station-
er's, Place this Ripon the boards, lay
the picture smoothly on that, and fix
the whole in plans with a few pins,
Now take a sharp dick or lead pencil
'anti follow the oatlines; the transfer
papa' will leave them plainly on the
board. Remove the papers and 11 the
'outlines are weak follow them over
with your pencil and leave them dis-
tinct. Now lay the picture handily by
to refer to.
Next Lake the ohb el, piece the edge
.square on the outer line, and with the
mallet strike lightly, driving the tool
straight down iatu the wood. Do not
•try to go too far at first, as you will
be apt to leave a ragged edge,
Follow all the outer lines this way,
going over them again and again, until
you have reached the background, (hie-
ing away as you go.
Now look at your picture, find the
next points in relief from the back-
ground; carefully eut straight down
again, do not leave any ragged or split
places, and chip this away. Work back
this way until you have finally reaoh-
ed the surface. Now you have it in
the rough.
Take the small blade of your knife,
.and proceed to round over, shape out
the curves, and carefully smooth as
you go, constantly keeping the picture
in your mind.
When you: have finished, smooth the
baclrground; if you cannot do this
neatly, make you a stamping tool and
stamp it.
To make this, get a piece of square
steel, about a quarter of an inch
through and three inches long, take a
three -cornered file, and file furrows
atoms the flat end, then turn and file
the other way, making it dozen or more
lLttle squares coming toe point. When
using this, tap firmly with a hammer.
Now you will find this a great deal
easier than you think. Try it and you
will be pleased with the result ; and
anxious to do something more difficult.
Don't say you haven't the ingenuity,
for you have, if you have patience, as
this is the secret of a genius.
A CAT TN PETTICOATS. •
Once upon a time, there was a little
girl who loved her family of dolls very
mach indeed. Sbe kept them in per -
feet order. Each doll had its ward-
robe of clothing, all neat and well
.made, and the tidy little girl was so
fond of seeing them gowned in freshly
starched daintiness, that she asked her
mamma to hang them up about the
room by a ribbon tied about their
waists, so that she would not crush.
or muss them. Then she would stand
back with folded hands, admiring them
with such tender looks that her mam-
a.
ma thought there had never been such
a very nice and careful little dear as
she,
But there was another pet that the
little girl loved more then her dolls,
and whom she treated with still great-
er tenderness. That was a large black
oat named Muff. Mule had played
with her and the dolls ever since he
was u tiny kit; and as she was very
thoughtful and kind to him, never tak-
ing .him up unless he wished to be
taken, and never running after him
or frightening him in any way, he
trusted and loved her and let her do
,just as she liked with him. So she
had gradually accustomed him to
being drowsed in olothes,like the d.olla.
For a long time she did nothing but
lay a silk start over him when he had
his nape. Then she tied a soft little
hood very tenderly over his head. Next
she put on a petticoat, taking care that
the band was not too tight to be.00m-
fortable to an easy-going, unfashion-
able oat who had never worn any-
thing lout a loose fur ovcrooat.
Finally her mamma gave her a hong
baby dress that she bad herself worn
about eight years before, and it fitted
Mr. Muff to perfection. And then she
very gently put on all the garments,
petticoat, dress, bonnet and shawl, and
laidher live blaok baby down for his
morning nap. And ieEr. Muff not only
saw no objection to steeping in cos -
tuns, but he seemed to feel. rather
proud of it; a+nd ho washed his paws
and purred himself off to sleep with
a look of the greatest aatiafaetion
gleaming out of his big, blinking yel-
Low eyes.
,After sleeping two hours, he stir-
red and :seemed to wish to get ap and
walk about. So the little .girl very
thoughtfully removed his clothes, as
she knew he would never like her if
she did not treat him exactly as she
would like to be treated if she were
in his place. ge stretched and yawn-
ed, and went away for a walk, while
1,he little girl folded up his shawl and
his gown, and his petticoat, and laid
hem neatly in a drawer. h
next morning at ten o'WLeek, when
Mull got ready for his long nap, she
took the clothes from the drawer and
int he ut theta n as before,
being
careful to undress him, the very mo
as
gat up. An11 so it
cams boat that every morning MOH
would go and sit by the drawer and
wait to have the olotlles putt on him
before taking his nap.
One day a'very Hinny thing hap-
pened. Muff had been robed in a
clean frock and was lying on the sofa
with the soft silk 011(111 about him,
which wavered bis bleak paws and grate
ooneeateet his head, when tiro hell
rang 5nd the clergyman was shown
in, Ile would probably not have n° -
r eexcept
float the bundle on the sofa
for e, slight movement under the
skirls, which was caused by Muff
twirling the end oe his tail in ills
dreams, Thinking it was a baby the
clergyman oxelaimad: "All how de -
1 ighLfull wbat 5 blessing to have a
baby in tee home," and stopping up
he turned away the shawl, with the
evident intention of kissing the Miele
ing child, When he saw' a great black
tial instead of a fair, pink baby he
dren' bask in such haste (bat he over-
set a ahatr, exolaiming: "ant -new,
just funoy 1 Who would have sup-
posed that a oat in clothes could act
like a Blaby 1"
Male blinked el him disdainfully,
than smoothed off his silky paws and
wont to sleep again; while the little
girt's mamma talked to the clergy-
man of the weather.
For several years Muff took his naps
in this droll way, until the little girl
grew to be a large girl and moved
away from her home. And then. al-
though Muff loved her very much in-
deed, he could not be induced to leave
the old house, and before very long he
died, because he had no one who un-
derstood his ways.
It is very important to understated
the ways of one's friends, whether
they be people or oats.
OUT GO THE ROCKERS.
If 111e onus popuiar airs, "Rock Me
to Sleep, Mother" and. "Rooked in the
Cradle of the Deep," are seldom heard
nowadays at the fashionable gather-
ings of the rieh it is not only be-
cause those lyrics. are considered a bit
"seedy," but also beefless it is no
longer fashionable to rook. And the
fashionable w'oinan is always quite pre;
pared to immolate at the shrine of
Fashion any oldtime fad or ouslam, be
it never so previous, even to the ex-
tent oC turning her back on tuneful
melodies and a rocking chair.
Yes, in fashionable circles the rock-
ing chair is doomed. And this is by
no means a sudden caprice on the
part of the socially elect, Slowly, but
surely, for many years there has been
a or less insidious crusade again-
st any article of furniture built with
rockers.
First of all, this new order of things
was tried on the wee infant of the
household -a force too insignifioant, of
course, to rise up in rebellion against
the enemy in the person of an aggres-
sive and impressive medical roan, who
grandly waved every comfortable era -
die tittilating on rockers oat of the
nurseries of upper tendon by declaring
them unhealthy.
This was only' the beginning. The
elimination of the cradle was soon fol-
lowed by the expurgation of the rock-
ing chair from rooms et state such as
the drawing room, dining room, and
library, and then, not yet satisfied,
fashion pursued her relentless way
above stairs, even into the very bou-
doir of my lady, which to -day, although
rich in broad divans loaded down with
the downiest of pillows and veritable
sleepy hollows of chairs, is, as a rule,
quite bereft of rocking chairs.
But the worst has not been told, It
now appears that the rocking chair -
that soothing relic of the good old
days -is to be banished even from the
piazzas of fin de sieole country houses
at fashionable watering places -New-
port in the lead.
Now if there is a time and place of
ell others when and where a nom
fortable high back rocker is at a pre-
mium it is certainly on a shady piazza
during a midsummer afternoon. But
for sons inexplicable reason Fash-
ion at present frowns on any of her
devotees who dares inolude the delight-
ful article in the furnishings of her
summer piazza -an out of door draw-
ing room :really, so far as the quantity
of furniture is concerned.
As to quality, of course, it is simpler,
For instance, the majority of the set-
tees, ohairs and tables are of splint,
rash, wicker, rattan and bamboo, with
or without cushions according to pre-
ference, and some of the very smart-
est specimens are upholstered with
matting -very fine matting, indeed -
sprinkled with various colors and de-
signs.
The newest models of chairs are low
and roomy with high backs.
Strange to say, there has been no
embargo as yet placed on the ham-
mock, but it is by no means safe to
predict for just how much longer so-
ciet), svill contemplate with complac-
ency the undulating movements of
that truly rural product of the manu-
facturer.
A most comforting conclusion, how-
ever, of the whole matter is, that, if
so inclined, one may still have the
privilege oC electing to be unfashion-
able and rook.
WEDDING PRESENTS.
After-dinner coffee cups of silver are
conspicuous among the wedding pres-
ents which are being showered upon
the brides to be. Some of these little
luxuries are of fantastic shape, fanci-
fully chased and lined with gold;
°there aro very plain, a narrow silver
beading and stiff'., angular handle be-
ing the extent of ornamentation.
lFluted saucers, like shells, are rather
pretty, and with these the cups have
fluted edges which look like Eliza-
When ruffles. The fatnoy for silver
coffee cups extends beyond the magic
011001 a of millionaires, and one can buy
ma eulps and saucers with a tray and
a coffee pot of thane design for a sum
out of all proportion to the air of lux.,
urywhich they give the dinner table
. when brought in at dessert, 01
' course, those inexpensive sots are made
of triple plats, washed with silver, but
in these daye•of fabulous wealth it is
whispered many of the rich and groat
nee triple plate rather than tempt their
servants or live always in fear of
burglars.
7:1IE WAY WE LOOK AT IT.
There is acme difference between e
joke and a mean trick.
'lhtat'et so, a joke la a mean treat
thee your play on 110Otlaer fellow, and a
mean trick lee joke that another fel"
low pints on you.
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805,111 GOOD R1CCI:PIlS,
Broiled L -tum, --Cut .Wim one quarter
of uu inch thick, scald in hot water,
wipe dry and broil over a clear lire,
Garnish win daintily fried eggs,
browned, nut In holier, but sweet
olive oil,
:Eggs and Toast, -Iron the capricious
appetite, tired of eggs and toast for
breuk[aet in the ordinary way, comes
the recipe from a notable North Caro-
lina housewife, ,After Meeting the
bread an even delicate brown dip in
melted butter. ,Boil hard es many eggs
as are =steed, chop the whites and
add to a rloh cream settee ; place no
toast in a warm dish, pour over it the
sauce and run the yolks of the eggs
through a potato masher over the
whole.
Lamb Cutlets, -Either broil, braise or
fry the lamb outlets as you please and
servo on a mound of spinach, previous-
ly rubbed through a sieve and heated
with a little csrealn, white pepper and
salt, and serve with the following sauce
round: Stew a small cucumber in
white stock till Lander enough to rub
through a sieve, then add to it a lit-
tle milk or white stook, and allow it
Lo reduce till it is a pretty thick =tree;
then ser in with this a short half pint
of 1.1011 Mehemet sauce, season to teats
with white pepper and salt, re -heat the
whole it the uammarie, coloring it to
w pale oaoumber green with a drop or
two of green coloring, and just as you
are about to use it Stir in a spoonful or
two of stiffly -whipped Dream,
Pound Cake. -Cream well together
six aunees of butter and eight ounces
of powdered sugar; add the beaten
yolks of four eggs and beat again ; add
one quarter of a teaspoonful of ground
mace, the juice and one half of the
grated rind of a lemon, one quarter of
teaspoonful of salt, and seven ounces of
sifted pastry flour. Beat hard, add
the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs
and beat again for at least ten =m-
utes. As 110 baking powder is used the
lightness of the cake depends upon
the eggs and the amount of beating,
and there eau scarcely be too much of
the latter. 'Bake 01 three layers, and
when cold put together with boiled ic-
inrVine for invalids. -Five pounds of
rhubarb stock to every gallon of water;
rain filtered water is the beat; out it
in slices and let it remain in an open
tub nine days, stirring it three times
a day; ithen squeeze it through a
ooarse cloth, and to every gallon of li-
qulor, add four pounds of brown auger,
the juice of two lemons and the rind
of one; also toasted bread and berm ;
cask it, and when fermentation ceases
bung lit.
Strawberry Cheese Cakes. -Bruise a
pine .of berries with a wooden spoon in
a china bowl; add four heaped table-
spoonfuls of powdered sugar and eight
well -beaten eggs. Line patty pans
with good paste, fill three parts with
this mixture and bake in a well -heated
aeon.
Baked Ion Cream. -You have heard
that old joke about warming ice cream?
Itt is a joke, no longer, for it has been
6ouud possible to place a brick of it in
a very hot oven and not only have it
keep its shape, bat have it improved by
the process of heating. It is only the
Work oe two or ,three minutes. At a
child's party last week it eves the
dalntest item of tile spread,
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
If you use a seater cooler in summer
you eau 000l lemonade in it by putting
the beverage in a. bottle.
A piece of its will keep some time 11
laid on a Meets of muslin which is tied.
over a bowl tight enough so that the
ice cannot touch the sides or bottom
Than tie another cloth over the top.
The water from the melting ice is be-
low, and does not accelerate the melt-
ing, as it wo,uld if the ice were stand -
tug in it.
Silk stockings should be washed and
rinsed in luke-warm water and wrung
between towels. Silk underwear should
be washed in warm soapsuds, to which
a little ammonia has bean added.
If flour is sprinkled over suet when
while ironing they will save many cal-
lous spots on the hands.
If flour is sprinkle clover suet when
it is being chopped it will prevent the
pieces from adhering togeLber.
Brooms hang in the cellarway will
keep soft end pliant and wear longer
than if kept in the dry air of the
]kitchen.
For polishing oak, woodwork or fur-
n[tltre, use raw umbar, paraffin oil,
turpentine and whiting in the tenpin -
tion of one pint of oil, ono and ono half
gills of turpentine curl three table-
spoonfuls each of raw umber and w'hit-
in7he bast way to clean petaled wails
is to use a large soft sponge. They
should be wrung out of waren water in
which ft little soda has been dissolved,
and the walls wiped downward, going
ovete a' small steles 5h a time, before it
is wiped dry again with Glean house
cloths,
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SUGGESTIONS TO HOUSEKEEPERS.
The canning season begins with the
strawberry. 'Though this fruit does
not retain se much of. eh0 'genuine
fruit flavor us some others, yet canned
atrawberrtes, strawberry jam and
strawberry pre5Orves are "not bad.
Bat, all are better if nine, sound, not
' over -ripe fruit is used -fruit (bat
should be fresh, too; in faot, the qual-
ity ot the fruit largely dotermines the
quality of: the aannec1 resultant,
Don't, to save a few pennies, try to
urs old rubbers on your fruit cans.
When your Trait "works" you'll wish
you hadn't. Save the 0a1ts wi.l:la tops
that; don't fit quite snugly for the pick-
los. If year fanuly 18 M51 (110 pint
pees are mach nicer than larger ones.
One gets ao tired of the mune sauce re-
appearing legate and again.
hough canned fruit for
a time quite
superseded preserves and jams, and
Wer, much vaunted as morn healthful
it has dawnedupOrl WA that'. they are in-
sipid annealed to those preserved In to.
rich syrup. The latter are more work
to prepare 5110 more costly, but they
are 10(0'e more agreeable to the palate,
Currants, for Matinee, liutt are nu
good oa earth wean tanned, are del.tr,
lots in jam and spiced, Variety Is the
spite of life, :Cry it in putting up your
fruit 1.11ie year, and don't can every-
thing in sight because it's easy,
A broom will wear best if the brush
is greenish, with the Ij•oom firmly fix-
ed on the handle and no stables extend-
ing below the sowing. If you, would
dip the broom in boiling water. suds,
01111x1 a week it will last twice ns long.
The ' ath toughens it.
Spots on furniture, says an exchange,
may be removed by rubbing with es-
sence of peppermint or spirits of
camphor and afterwards with furni-
ture polieh or oil. The dark spots on
dining tables anti sideboards will gen-
erally vanish after an application of
equal parts of olive oil and turpentine,
with a brisk rubbing with a flannel
cloth afterward.
Instead of rubbing that kitchen floor
any longer, cover it with linoleum, ev-
en if you don't have another new thing
for the house this spring. Think of
the backaches and weariness you: will
thus avoid! But do not gat a cheap
quality. if you do you will very likely
gall me uncomplimentary names. Do
not get any at less than fifty cents per
square yard. The good grades, as is
the case with raattinga, are the only
kinds that it pays to buy. They are
warm; there is a slight elasticity about
them that Le pleasant to the tread; they
will last for years; they are easily
cleaned, and the patterns are pretty.
What more Dns you, wish with a 1100r
covering ? Fifty Dents a yard/ seems to
some a' good deal to pay for a covering
for the kit,+hen floor, bolt think of the
work it will save you and how long, it
will serve you. Linoleum is a good
covering for the dining -room floor also.
MENDING LINEN.
.Do not watt until a rent appears, but
darn the linen. if passible, as soon as
it becomes frayed, and thin, before the
threads have broken apart. Use thread
about the same size as the thread of
the goods, or ;f tha linen has a coarse
raised thread, a little finer. Where the
linen has been torn or has broken evert,
fasten under the rent a thin piece of
linen cambric -a strong plats of an old
hanrlkerchiee will do, Draw the parts
of the tear together. Trim off the un-
even threads, and with a little of the
ravellings of the linen, replace tbem
and weave the stitches be to keep the
edges together for about en inch on
each side of the rent, sewing them
through the back of the linen cambric.
If this work is carefully done it will be
quite difficult to trace the tear, pro-
viding the linen has been properly
washed and ironed after it was mended.
SHAKESPEAR1 AND THE BICYCLE.
A New Demonstration That 1.116 llramatisl.
Is Not orae Age, but of All TIMOR.
Shakespeare, it would seem, must
have known something about the W-
eenie, for throughout his plays he
makes frequent references to .the
wheel, It must be thee Hamlet's fa-
ther had visited 5 bioycle academy
where beginners on the wheel were
plenty, for his ghost said:
What a falling 'off was there.
This description, is paralleled by an-
other in the same play, in which re-
ference was made to an accident, tee
new woman of the early sixteenth cen-
tury being evidently the greatest suf-
ferer. The First Player. says: "Break
all the spokes and follies from her
wheel."
Then the Fool iu "King Lear" gives
advice to coasters, of the merits of
which 10.0de111 4,010,s may judge for
themselves. He says:
"Let go thy hold when a great wheel
runs damn hill lest it break thy neck
with following it."
There were evidently bicycle thiev-
es in these days, and owners had to
guard carefully their precious wheels,
.In "The Terupest" Alonzo says to the
Ring:
'We, too, my lord,
Will guard your person while you
take your rest,
And watch your "safety"
In the same play Ariel undoubtedly
heard the Sing and his attendants
coming on their wheels when he sung:
Hark! now I hear them; ding-dong
. hell.
'!'hero is no doubt. that: Achilies, in
"Troilus and Cressida" travelled. on a
wheel, for he says to his myrmidons:
Attend me while I wheel.
It appears from a remark made by
the Ring in "All Well That finds
Well' that the law required lamps to
be carried at night, and that a viola-
tion of it was followed by tLeath, He
says:
Let me live after my flame lacks oil,
Chains were not noiseless 1.11r( bells
were used in the days of the "Comedy'
of Errors," as is shown by a conversa-
tion between the Mroroio of. Syracuse
and Adriana, which rtlua thus:
'11 0ha(It, a chain; do you not blear
it4"
"What? 1110 delta?"
"No, no, the bell,"
The availability of wheels in danger-
ous service is illustrated in 'Tortol-
anus" when the winged messenger
says to C'enninius•-
Spios of the Volsoes,
Hold 111e in chase, tliut I had forced
to wheel
Throe or four miles about, else had,
sir,
Half nn hour since brought my re-
port,
The tire of which Shakespeare wrote
was evidently filled with hair tusteae
of air, anal even its color was of lin-
portnnce, In"Much' Ado About No-
thing" Margaret says: "I like the
new tire within exceedingly, if the
hair were a thought browser,"
I'nk's prophetic remark about plac-
ing 5 girdle round the world in forty
lninni.0s is full equalled ley that of
Lannee 01 the "'Iwo Gentlemen of Ver-
ona." He says: Then tatty 1 set the
world on wheelie Surely tills prophecy
has been fttlfilled,
WOMEN IN WNRRIOR GUISE
When Rev. Anna thaw a few months
ago announced a desire to " become a
policeman" 111e declaration was under-
stood to mean a prompting to serve
high moral purposes rut her than apre-
Lerenlso for pugilistic encounters. The
valorous inc'Iinatien of women-1V!lith
proverbially fulls theca. at sightof o.
mouse -le usually of u shifting sort.
that admits of the adjustment of shoul-
der straps on the person of a manly
eubsLitute. Clearly, the mi asonaan spir-
it is confined to It few localities 011 the
globe, and It is prubabie that gener-
ally when women have noted as war-
riors it hes been through forced Dir
manaa:mem of birth and, education, in-
stead of an overweening :uneaten to
fight.
Not that woolen are hacking in prin-
clpies of putrintism or loyalty to home
and native land, but simply in the or-
dinary run of events their round of
duties has been prescribed in other
fields than those of Mara. If ever they
enter lite blood+y scenes of battle it is
as ministering angels of comfort and
mercy, and In this capacity womanly
heroism has been well proved.
Miriam the Bible heroine of war,
was first introduced as a girl of 13
years, keeping watch over the frail
basket among the flags of the Nile in
which her brother ;Moses lay conceal-
ed. Later she became at joint leader
with Mases and Aaron, according to
tbe Prophet Mime, and celebrated the
Passage of the children of Israel
through the .tied Sea w•ILh music and
dancing. This was in answer to the
singing by bioses of his great "Song"
the earliest recorded poetry in the
history of the world. Scripture relates
that "Miriam, the prophetess, the sis-
ter of Aaron, took a timbrel in her
hand, and all the women went out af-
ter her with Limbrels and dances. And
Miriam answered them, "Sing ye to
the Lord, for He hath triumphed glor-
ieuely; (he horse and his rider hath
He thrown into the sea.'' But Mir -
tum was smitten by leprosy, and, ex-
cept the record thee the peopi0 testi-
fied
estified their reverence and affection tor
her by remaining in camp until she
was healed, there is no further men-
tion of her mull the account ot her
death, which occurred nineteen years
later.
Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi,
who died about 230 years before Christ,
is an example of hew a womanly na-
ture may be imbued with the heroin
or ambitious spiritof the age. Her
teachings spurred hex' sons on in their
public career, her undaunted courage
prevailed against the weak tendencies
of her children. To her honor her sons
were associated with the popular cause,
yet their revolutionary measures led
to their violent death. Tha story of
Coriolanus displays like instance of the
domination of brave, womanly influ-
ence over a eon's weaker nature.
A name that is burnt into the scroll
of history by acts of military prowess
and by the martyr -pile of a May day
in 1481 is that of Joan of Aro, who,
through actually raising the siege of
a oily of that nein, acquired the title
of the Mein of Orleans. In ,Toan of
Arc were combined the rare elements
of personal beauty, purity of charac-
ter, strength of resolve and martial
propensities. Her career was partly in-
spired by religious enthusiasm, but her
power as a ooeimandaut and the great
influence she exerted over others were
elements in the fame that has pre-
served her memory in lasting story.
Another religious devotee was Char-
lotte Corday, who brooding over the
history of Judith, went forth to free
her people from the tyranny of Marat,
who, being horrified at his threat that
the Gixondiet.s should perish by the
guillotine, plunged a knife into his
heart. Her belief was that this single
deed wet docl off civil war, and one
of her tieing decimations was: "
great criminal has been laid low.
The happiness of my country makes
mine.' This was the eighteenth century
heroine to whom it. was proposed to
raise a statue with the inscription,
"Greater than Brutus,"
So for the strategic powers of wom-
en have been hardly touched upon. The
adventurous journey of the daring
wives of Weissberg has been chosen
to fitly represent that quality of wo-
manly ohnreetcr.
1Ve are indebted to the rich folk lore
of Snabia and tbe war chronicles of Cae-
sar far the relation of an act of ming-
led wifely devotion anti courageous on-
slnugllt. The ruins of an old castle at
W'einsberg, thLs'ty miles from Stutt-
gart, are fraught with an almost ro-
men'tin interest because of what is
chronicled ae the procession of the
" Welbertrue," It grew out of the
"strife between the Hohenstaufens and
Wells. in 1180 Conrad appeared be-
fore the castle and a struggle ensued
in which Welf fell, wounrled, and sur-
render was imminent " Without grecs
or mercy," was the edict of the emper-
or, and both town and castle were in-
cluded ie his fiat. Then the high-born
duchesses and wives of the town of-
ficers dleeided to try the power of a
personal appeal for their own safely,
and elan that in their emus they might
be allowed 10 carry with them "their
most precen is possession." The enapete
or woe kindly disposed neon the np-
pearance of the women and granted
them permission to leeve the besieged
town end to take with them all they
could carry upon their shoulders,
Doubtless he pictured them as a t'e-
treating foe bearing away loads of
elot.hing, jewels and silver.
When In the early morning rho gate's
wens opened and the army of Conrad
drama up 111 file, attended by Duke
Frederic, the emperor's brother, they
beheld the band of women, marching
single file, led by the stately ducbess
of the easl:le, Uta, with the 'cement ea
Deka Welf uponi iter back! leach
of the women was, similarly burdened
with the husband, of herheart "car-
ried Open hoe shoulders."
Consterna-
tion filled tbe mind of Luke Frederlo,
and, turning angrily to the Emperor,
he de0lerod that this was not the ea-
turo of the compatot..13ttt whether in
Adherence to the belief (het te Ring's
word was not to be 11101 ee, or is con -
vetoing' admiration of this exhibition
emper-
orwomanly faithfulness, (he e rat
or allowed the procession to move on
down the steep hillside and out into
the country rued.
7h<tuvn d the deserted castle
were left to the troops, and 11 is stat-
ed Mil the emperor generously order-
ed that: all this ordinary treasures of
the women be collenhod and carried out
to them. The ruins thee remain in Per-
petuation of this instance of w00105-
ly fidelity have ever shim borne the
name of " Weihertrue "- woman's
failbfulness. In a wcibpreserved por-
tion of the ruins. the, castle was main-
ly deetroyed, by fire in 1025, is an oil
painting commemorative of this wife-
ly flight, whie.h was presented in IC69
to the old Weinberg Church. Above
the picture le the inscription: "area
M:annee Herz tlarf sich auf sic verlas-
son.'' The heart of her husband doth
safely trust in her, -Proverbs, xzxh. 11,
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DISEASES OF DIVERS.
r,u'alyaix Comm. 0a ,Ertel Working at
41reat Dept its.
An interesting case of divers' para-
lysis is reported from Guy's hospital,
London. The patient was working
with five other men at a depth of 102
feat and welt down three times; re-
maining below 20 minutes each time, the
ascent occupied six minutes. Re felt
quite well after therm descents, but at
the fourth descent a heavy piece of ma-
ohinary slipped and jammed him up
against an iron beam. He did not
lose consciousness, but triedto econo-
mize the air at his disposal. After
about five minutes Is felt suffocated,
had intense pain and noise in the head
and began to lose consciousness. It had
been noticed on the lighter that the
air tube was not working, and another
diver went down and by following the
line reached the patient and freed the
air tube so that he could be drawn up.
He felt very giddy and sick, but did
not notice anything else amiss. On
standing he noticed ufeeling of numb-
ness in his feet, and this was present
also in his arms, both as to power and
sensation. On admission to the hos-
pital nine weeks afterward there was
marked loss of power in both legs.
There was no marked wasting of the
muscles of the legs, though they were
soft and flabby. The knee jerks were
normal. There was partial anaesthe-
sia over the inner aide of both legs from
three inches above the knees to three
1nc11ea above the ankles, the areas
roughly symmetrical. There was no
loss of sensation to pain ; the sensations
to heat and cold were normal,.
The patient, who had had three pre-
vious attaoka, gave some interesting In-
formation as to the difficulties to
w hich people engaged in this ocoupn-
tion are liable. He said that in his
experience the paralysis only comes on
after working at great depths and
seems to be clue to too sudden altera-
tion of pressure. The disease is fre-
quently due to divers having to be
quickly hauled up, owing to the air
tube being foul. Old men, he thought,
are more liable to these attacks than
younger ones and the character of the
water and the duration of the stay
are not so important as is the age oe
the diver. At a depth of 150 feet there
was not much inconvenience, but ev-
ery.two or three feet lower makes a
difference. IVben diving at great
depths 1110 men always have a sense of
fulness in the head, buzzing in the ears,
and flashes of light before the eyes.
On coming up there is often bleeding
from the mouth, nose, and ears. The
patient also referred to the condition
known to the men its "bends" -that is,
wrist-drop and foot-drop. This usually
lasts from tsvo hours to twenty-four
hours, when it: completely passes off,
unless it is an exceptionally bad attack.
This condition was ascribed by the pa-
tient to tbe bands applied round the
ankles end wrists Lo make the diving
suit water -tight.
A FAMOUS RUNNER.
Ran pawn 4' try to ('onniry Dearing
Despatches.
Fifty years ago the renown of Er-
nest Manson spread all over Europe.
His exploits made the pedestrian feats
ot the present day look insignificant.
He was a runner who first came into
notice by running from Paris to Mos-
cow, a distance of 1,700 miles, en thir-
teeneighteenIn 1 8
days and hours. 886
he ran through Central Asia from Cal-
cutta to Constantinople, bearing dis-
patches for the East India Company.
The distance is 5,615 miles, and he ac-
oomplishod it in fifty-nine days, one-
third oC the time taken by the swiftest
051'110501,
A favorite employment for him was
as the messenger-extraorutnary of sov-
ereigns, He ran frau) country to coun-
try bearing letters and dispatches of
the highest import, and always beat
ah
mounvaysted couriers when matched
ran. never w
against them. He alked, but
Invariably he took the direct route
to his destination, climbing moun-
tains, swimming rivers, and guiding
himself through forests in a way
known only to himself. His food was
a small quantity of biscuit and rasp-
berry syrup. His rests he took twice
in twenty-four hours, when he usually
leaned against some support, covered
his fano with 5 handkerchief and slept.
1.0 he was compelled to remain quiet
anyhead. length of time, he complained of
giddiness and rush 01 blood to the
in 1842 he was employed to diaeover
the source of the Nile. Starting from
Silesia in May, 1843, he ran to enrage,
tom, then to Caere, and up the hanks
of the Nile into Egypt. Just outside
the village of Lyang he avaSeen to
stop and rest, leaning againsta palm -
tree, his face revered as was .his wont.
IHe rested so tang that some persons
tied to wake him. They tried in vain,
tor he was dead.
C'UItRldN'lT' NOTES,
writer '1 til tee a tar
A sv itt r in the rpr 11th C n y,
Sir Martin Conway, declares that the.
highest of all arts is the "Art of Liv-
ing," This is the art wbiee compre-
hends all others. and rightly esereiset
would fill each day of every individual
with beautiful eetinne, mukhng even
the commonpiaredeeds of ordinary lite
full 01 grace and charm, The manner
of doing a tiling is often more than
the 1.hiug dopa. and 0lllilers cease-
quently belong as much. to art es dues
architecture and palating, the dltfere
once being that the art ie exer•eived tie
a different material. The greetings of
everyday life exhibit the presence or
the lack of art in the individual portion
as auroly as does the handling of his
brushes or of his chiselby the pointer
or sculptor. Are consists in the man-
ner of the work -not in what. is done,
bat in bow it is done.
If we applied ort in this sense to the
lives of the people, if the tine are cif
living were cultivated, every roxnmun-
ity would be composed of citizens who
had always time for courtesy, living in
houses as shoots as you please, but well
proportioned and well built, barmen-
taus in Dolor and tastefully decorated.
However plain their clothes, they would:
be suitable and comely, however s'tmplo
their food itwould. be well cooked sad
palatable. They would use no imple-
ments that were not of good forms and
perfectly adapted to their purpose.
They might be mahout pictures or
sculptures, but if they bad any they
would be good ones. They w'oulcl speak
their own language clearly and with
propriety. They would make their
landscape as fair as the nature of the
climate would permit. and surround
themselves with cities and towns clean
and fair to look upon.
Such in substance is. Sir Martin Con-
way's description of an ideally artistic
people. and he adds: "Assuredly the
England of the nineteenth century has
not been Inhabited by an artistic peo-
ple; will the England of the twentieth
century be better off 1" Nor, indeed,
will he find them in any country, and
yet he does nut despair that the evolve
tag years will ultimately produce such
a people. As birth and breeding are
the products of wealth and virtue in
the preceding generation. what is true
of the individual is true of the race. If
we desire to produce a community of
well-born and well-bred persons we
must set to work training and breading
the generation that is to become their
parents. We must begin with the chil-
dren, and through them finally affect
the race.
As we toots back over a hundred
years or more we can see what vast
progress mankind has already made
toward higher ideals of living, and the
cozieratst between the England or the
America o£ the eighteenth century
and the England or America of the
nineteenth century is so impressive
encs so striking that it is not difficult.
to imagine still higher and nobler
achievements, Slowly, it may be, but
quite surely how slowly soever, 80i-
ence will make its way, and this re-
volution in the art of living, will be
rounded out. When drat has hap -
pend the great: days that we now but
dimly foresee will come, and all the
fine arts will flourish and culminate
together.
OFTEN THE BEST SOURCE.
Difficulty, adversity and suffering
are not all evil, but often the best
source of strength and virtue. Some
men only require a great diffic'uliy to
set to their way to exhibit the force
of their character, and diffiouliy, once
conquered. becomes one of the great-
est incentives to their progress. It is
not prosperity so much as adversity,
not wealth so much as poverty, that
stimulates the perseverance of strong
and healthy natures.
FINES' CYCLE ROAD.
The fineal, cycle road in the world
is the Grand Trunk hood of India, It
is almost too level, the surface is ideal,
anal the scenery magnificent, so says the
Cycle. There are, in Lite seventy-five
miles between Calcutta and 13urnwan,
four places where refreshments can be
obtained., There are at least half a
dozen places of historical interest, and
hundred or charming bits for the tim-
e s; the railway runs parallel to the
I road almost l he. whole distance anal shel-
ter is abundant. 00 course the Heat. lu
the daytime makes eeoling impossible,
and most of the cycling Ln 111111) take
es place in the early morning.
A Gle\NT CANDLE.
At the Stockholm Exhibition 0, firm
of candle -manufacturers as their °eltib-
it had an immense stearin° candle
eighty feet high anis over eight feet
thick. IL was canted by a brick steu0-
j lure representing a onncllestiok. The
i bt•ir.k was silvered whit aluminum
bronze powder. A modem candle feels.
cry cuts installed in the candlestick.
CAUSE OF THE T3OU11T,.E.
Daggs -W'hal'e 50011 for inamnnta,
1toctor7 , • II 1 t
Doctor -How long Heys yeti !see'
troubled with it
3gs- 011, I hav• en't• got it et, all
but my wife baa, Sometimes she deceit'%
There are Lon places in a newspaper 'gel, t0 5105{) until 2 or 8 o'clock in the
where a man doesn't care to have his morning.
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