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DORIS AND L
BY JOHN F STAFRORT
CHAPTER L
There was evil in front of us, and much
tching of hearts and suffering. But the
throstle sang in the sycamore tree, and the
mallows curved and twitted all about us,
and in the rich amber light we could see
that all was fair and good ; then our eyes.
would meet, and we thought not of evil,
Doris and I. We spoke little, our hearts
being very full and words mere idleness.
Doris looked out again to the west, leaning
her head against me, and taking my hand as
it twined over her shoulder. We were in
the orchard by the old green wicket, where
a month ago, before the blossoms bad burst
their bulbs, she had allowed me to tell her
an old tale, and had said one word of her
own to give it finish. And as the throstle
sang his love -song, and the sun sank to his
bed behind the hills, I thought of then and
now, and my head lowered and I kissed her
forehead gently. Then Doris sighed as if
a spell was broken. For I had come to tell
,f my windfall ; that I was . no longer a
poor man ; that instead of waiting for
years, we might begin our married life
on my return from Canada in three
months or so ; and the sudden happiness of
the thing had wrapt us round and silenced
us both. Now that the first flush of it was
over, we remembered the fleeting minutes,
and fell to talking. What we said is of no
account here ; but so little did we dream of
harm, or s ccisient of nature to cross our
happiness, that not once did we mention
him, though we knew he was coming next
day, to stay perhaps for some weeks, as sick
people do.
Then we said good-bye, and I opened the
wicket to pass through ; but seeing the wet
in her eyes, lingered a while longer till she
was smiling again, when I let her go. But
I looked back.,3gain every dozen yards or
so ; and when I got across the second
meadow and stood by the stile before vault-
ing into the high -road, I could still see the
straight white figure among the green, and
the waving handkerchief, So I asked God
to keep hec, and went my way with the -rose
she had given me. Walking home in the
pink twilight, the heaviness at leaving her
wore off as I looked into the future and saw
what was there, or rather what I pictured
in it. For when love is the warp and for-
tune the woof, what will not the shuttle of
fancy do ?
Yesterday, things had been so different.
Of all my airy castles, there seemed hardly
one left, and I had built a good few. Be-
fore if knew Doris, such imaginings had
never troubled me ; but when I had met
her at Wincheomb flowershow, love had
touched me with its wand, and of a sudden
the dead wall of my life, like that in
Chaucer's Romaunt—forI had read a thing
or two in the long winter nights before the
old place had been hammered into other
hands—seemed all alive with pictures..
Everything was lit up ; the world seemed a
new place, and Iife had sweeter meanings
after I bad looked into Doris's eyes and she
into mine. And when, after many months,
I plucked up courage to ask her heart how
it was, and as she told me, the future widen-
ed out in such a fashion that the sight
of it nearly made me light-headed.
Had I known how things were, I should
have held my tongue, through shame and
hopelessness. Butmy father never gave a
sign that ruin was near upon him ; that my
comfortable heritage, as I deemed it, was
mortgaged to its last rood. The crash'came,
and then the sale, and then Iife in a little
cottage with a broken-down father and a
changed look -out which perhaps made me
over -moody. For sometimes I despaired of
ever posessing Doris, or of being able under
many years to support her in a way fitting
to her upbringing. Everything would be
broken off, and it would all be dead wall
again.
It was in some such humour that the
notary's letter found me that morning. I
had seldom heard of Uncle Ben, and had
never seen him. He bad in early manhood
deeply wronged my father in someway,
Ind his name was rarely mentioned. I handed
the letterto father, and he was dumb like
myself, his face working strangely between
anger and something softer. Then he put
it down and said : " Consciencemoney, lad,
every penny on it ; but it's saved yer from
my folly, so tek it, an thank God for teach -
in' Ben repentance an me forgiveness—no
easy lesson, when a brother-- Well,
well, let lie. Poor Ben !"
No wonder, then, that I saw visions as I
walked home in the light of the aftermath.
It was nearly dusk when I arrived at the
cottage ; and as I turned for a last look at
the burnished hills, a, bat eatne between me
and the light and -Buttered mockingly before
me. But I kissed my rose and -laughed at
the flittermouse.
I had lived some twenty-five years inthe
world without knowing . much- more of it
than what our valley and its neighbourhood
had to show ; so that what I saw on my long
journey to my uncle's Canadian farm made
me wonder and marvel, as young people do
when they go for the first time beyond the
mountains and see what is there. But there
is no need to dwell upon that ; and, there-
over, it doesn't concern the drift of what I
am telling you.
Nor need I say mach about the farm and
personal estate whioh had come to me
by my uncle's will. 'I found that she
latter came to some eighty thousand dollars
chiefly , invested in Northern Pacific
and other stock ; and the former a
large tract of prairie -land, with house,
farm -buildings, and every appointment of a
first-class property. There was a new trail -
way creeping up, which would double its
valve in a few years' time ; and it was for
me to say, after I had seen the place,
whether I should let it, or wait, or sell it
right out. I wrote the lawyer, saying that
for the present I would take it in hand till
the corn was safely harvested.
So one thing leads on to another, and we
prepare our own destiny without knowing
it. But I had looked at things in a Practi-
cal way an& according to my lights ; and
the notary commended me ; and Doris sent
a letter alongsaying " Yes, Jack. ; but
cion t tarry -te thrashing "too, which. "was-
only sweetheart like
. Thewelassed•on, andyl found plea
to occupy and interest meanie was ,natural
I letBoss:Wias_on keep much of his authority
-he had Ween incharge of the farm ;since
the death, and his loquacious company was
not disagreeable after I had learned to
know him.- One day in the town near by
I happened upon a Worcester _tau --cine
:Ienshaw—and hie chine -fish good feetog
made.the place stillless }:only. Then very
weetr'lil rlswrete-down her little heartforme
to-readtlaiaad I sent her an account of :mine;
end ally= ietliesarnesagwaraied`
us,.aazsd
"the ran 6 moon setrus thinking '..41he
otherwmsa-tfie day was overand, of la
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t the post -office for the usual weekly letter. I
always rode over, because the postboy who
passed us on his way to the next settle-
ment waited for the second mail at noon. I
met Mr. 'Henshaw at the door of the office
with two letters and -a newspaper in his
hands.
" Mornin', Mr. Sedley," said he ; " lot o
letters this mail ; let me hold the cob till
you come out."
That was the beginning of it—there was
no letter. I rejoined Henshaw, and walk-
ed down with him to his store, heavy with
disappointment.
" Like to see the paper ?" said ,he, as I
was leaving, after ordering some supplies
of this man. "'Tain't often I get one ; but
my brother's hay -ricks a' bin blazin', an'
he's sent the account of it. Arl new hay
too, an' on'y part insured. Ain't it a pity?"
I said it was, and looked moodily ditrough
the columns for news that might interest
me. only learned that there had been a
regatta at Evesham ; and that our old
doctor at Ranston had sold his practicsto a
Dr. Robson—that was all. But as I rode
home I kept muttering that doctor's name,
wondering where I had heard it before, till
suddenly it came to me, bringing a lot of
something else with it.
Why had Doris never mentioned him be-
yond the postscript in her first letter, weeks
ago? I had clean forgotten she bad a Cousin
Stephen, so little did I heed him ; but he
was still at Ranston, still perhaps an inmate
of her home. Why— Here I dropped the
reins, and drew out her last letter, to steady
me. I read it through, and the dear words
brought kindliness back, apd I kissed her
name at the end, saying some one was a
fool
But the doubt, had found entrance, and
grew, as cancers do, without our knowing
it. For the days went on, and no letter
came, no sign, till I grew half -wild at the
cruelty of it. I wrote, reproaching her ;
and another week went . and another. At
last the letter came. The postboy handed
it to me as I' stood at the gate—I daresay
he wondered why I was always there— and
I ripped it open, while my heart pumped
fit to break itself. Then the paper dropped
from my hands, and I held on to the gate
with a singing in my ears, and a sudden
weakness in seeing, which darkened the
sun and all beneath it. . . .
Doris unfaithful—it wasn't natural.
Our souls had grafted, and we were one ;
we were two streams that had met to turn
the same millwheel together ; our hearts
were bound with ligaments of their own
growing; there was no undoing what na-
ture had so willed. Yet there was her
handwriting, her own words in good black
ink telling white it was a liar.
Then all at once, through the rush and
swirl of it, came the thought of the new
doctor, and a queer coldness went. through
me as if I had been turned to clay before
my time. The life seemed to go out from
me, and I could scarcely move my feet as,
half staggering, I went indoors and dropped
into a chair. Again I read the note, though
every cursed word was burnt in my brain
YOUNG FOLKS.
Fifteen To -Day.
For the last time, dear dolly, I dress you,
And carefully put you away ;
You cannot tell how much I miss you.
But then I am fifteen to -day.
And you, not so very much younger-
Have you nothing at parting to say?
Are you sorry our fun is all ove'r,
And that I am fifteen to -day?
What walks we have had through the clover?
What rides on the top of the hay
What feasting in grandmother's garret
And now I must put you away.
Cousin Ethel just buried her dolly,
With its eyes open wide, and as blue
As yours, my sweet dolly, this minute ;
I couldn't do that, dear, to you.
Oh. stop dolly ! what am [ thinking?
Why cannot I give you away ?
There's a poor little girl I love dearly,
And she's only ten years to -day.
How happy your bright face would make her!
She never had playthings like you,
With all your fine dresses and trinkets.
Yes, dolly, that's just what I'll do.
I do believe, dolly, I'm crying.
" What nonsense, child! " grandma would
say.
Good -by ; one last kiss ; I'm half sorry
That I am fifteen, dear, to -day.
MARY A. DENISON.
'.how School Slates Am Made.
Slate is a variety of rock, having a small,
compact grain and a very fine, continuous
cleavage or splitting structure, by which it
can be separated into thin, even plates of
great consistency. It was originally just so
much soft mud on the floor of an ancient
sea, butin the course of ages it became con-
solidated and then metamorphosed or grad-
ually altered in character by the continued
operation of various natural forces until its
present condition was attained. The chief e m-
ployment of slate in commerce is that of a
roofing material, for which purpose it is
better adapted than any other substance
that has yet been tried.
School slates are prepared in a very sim-
pie manner from picked specimens of the
common roofing variety, those of the Welsh
quarries, however, being generally prefer-
red to any other. The plates which are to
be made into writing slates must have a
homogeneous or finely grained and equal
texture, and be without any yellow pyrites
or " slate diamonds," as these familiar glit-
tering crystals are often termed. After they
have been separated from the other sorts
they are carried to workmen, who fashion
them into school slates, by first splitting
them up evenly if required, and then finely
polishing them over with specially" adapted
steel tools. They are next sent to the join-
ers to be fitted with wooden frames, after
which they are quite ready for the educa-
tional markets at home or abroad.
Physical and Moral Health of Children.
There is no more important question in
for ever. - the social economy than than one of proper-
lbodies of. th
" I cannot marry you, dear—it is impos-
chi leve op A* heal htheindsand
ythe best herie
sible. I like you—I am fond of you, as I being
told you in the orchard that evening ; but tape that a father or mother can leave to a
child. Health is a comprehensive term and
I cannot be your wife—I cannot indeed.
earlier how things includes the moral as well as the physical
Oh, I wish I had told you
were ; it was cruel of me to let you go on nature. The child whose body is in a good
loving me without telling you the truth. I condition, but whose morals are in a poor
was afraid to at last ; but now you are away condition, is not a healthy child as I mean
it seems less difficult to say. Forgive me ' the term healthy.` Better poor health and
look elsewhere for a more fitting. mate— great morality than great health and poor
some one who can fully share your new life morality. But why cannot the equilibrium
with you, and help youas a wife should, be preserved ? The mother by observing
with head, heart, and hand—some one who certain conditions, by placing herself within
can love you better than DORIS." as well as without certain influences, by
An hour went by, maybe two, while the cultivating certain phases of her moral na-
hardening went on ; while the love died ture, can largely foreshape the character of
away, and the light, and the joy of life the offspring. But parents—the mothersas
well as the fathers
dimmed and flickered out, leaving me in —are lamentably defi-
darkness with hate and revenge. Then I cienton this point. They do not bes�ow open
rose up and looked round at the difference the subject the thought that it deserves,. If
of things ; for all seemed altered, and not they would give to their children the care
the same. I moved to my desk, and unlock- that by every natural law they are required
ing a drawer, took out all her letters, andchto give to themldren would ; there is no doubt that the
etter and
mawould
theny piecesad of altered,apenot sacredmerely
thin s to °beibenefi ed by t te he careful oversight. That
be touched with reverence, like bits of the there are many parents tt.at do not proper
ly care for their offspring is quite as true as_
holy rood. But the breath of lavender from
them got at some soft corner in me, making that there are some parents that do give
my eyes hot and tightening my throat. For them all the attention they need. A child
a second or two I paused, looking et the. should not only be well fed and properly
vision that grew out of them, till anger housed and clothed, but its moral life de -
puffed and blew it all away, leaving me with mends just as proper cultivation as a tree
only the bundle of papers. This I wrapped the r aflee or ifthere is shall i reathat either
full
up, along with a dead rose and a lock of stature in the 'one case and its complete
yellow hair, and directed to Miss Halow,
Eng -
child
in the other. And what is the
land. Ranston-in-the-Vale, Worcestershire, Eng- child in its relation to society if itsHere," said I, as Nita, my uncle's old moral nature is not careful and systematical-
lydeveloped . The evolution
of the mind hobbled- in to lay the cloth . pfind is
for tea ; " let one of the lads take this to as rmp�rtant as the evolution of matter. In
the depot before dark. No matter ; I'll many ways it is more -important. The
take it myself.—Where's Boss?" moral nature affects others.. The physical
"Goin' away ?" said Boss Wilson, as I nature chiefly affects the individual.
pulled up,•: half an hour later, at the gate he
-was mending -"just as the corn's yellowin'
for the machines? Summat wrong? Yon It Touched Saint and Sinner.
look kinder hit—hope 'tain't serious." He A few years ago a little girl applied to a
wiped his face, looking hard atmine, which pastor in one of our large cities for admission
I turned away, feeling it was a tell-tale._into his Sunday -school. She was told that
""You won't be alone long," I went n. the classes were so full there was no room
" Mysse father is on his way, and will take for her, and that the church was so small
possession of the farm and see to things in that no more classes could be organized.
my absence. I have asked him to keep you Much disappointed, the little girl began to
on, Boss, and I think you'll find him a good save pennies—her family was poor—for the
sort -Ls -Good-bye. See you again some day purpose of enlarging the church in order
whenn I've—when I've found what I want." that she and other children like her might
I glanced down et his furrowed face and saw be accommodated. She told no one of her
kindness in it. ambitions purpose, however, so that when
"Lost summat, gaffer?" said he, and I the pastor of this church was palled to her
.could feel the search of his look. He was bedside a few months later, to comforther
a shrew d man, twice my age, and may have in her severe illness, he saw nothing unusu-
noticed many things since we had been to- al, only a frail child of 61 years.
gether. The little sufferer died, and a week later
" Ay, I've lost something," I answered ; there were found in her battered red
" but it's not that I'm after, .Boas. No use pocket -book which had been her savings
hunting -for broken bubbles, I take it." bank 57 pennies and a scrap of paper that
""No, 'tain't," drawled Boss ; " but what- told yin childish print the story of her
ever you're after, it'll tek some findin'' I ambition and the purpose of her self-denial.
guess, an' you may scour the world up an' The story of the little red pocketbook and
down an' find it in yourself when all's done: its. contents, and the unfaltering faith of its
Have a good knock round, gaffer ; an' when tittle owner, got abroad. It touched the
it's all burnt out, come back again and mek heart of saint and sinner alike. Her inspire-
friends<wi' things." tion became a prophecy, and men labored
I Could see his outstretched -hand, sand and women sang and children saved to aid
mine went to it involuntarily. is its fulfillment. These 57 pennies became
sIeng,_gaffer," was all I heard as'the the nucleus of a fund that in six years grew
horse leaped away with me;down the rough toV50,000, and to -day this . heroine's plc
-
track. -" ture life-size, hangs conspicuously in the
So long," I said to the hot silence and hallway of acoils a buildingin which 1400
the' tern: refunds,;wherel had dreamed y g'
m3 dreamsawhile, tolerant of the summer students attend, and ennneeted with which
_. there area church capable of seating 8,000,
loneliness as long_ asn_people it with' . a hospital for Children. named for the Good
fancy and ace Dorm -and d good company be; Samaritan, and a Sunday -school -room large
yond it. .But to remain there with• my enough to accommodate all the boys and
dead hopes all about me grinning like niar- girls who have yet asked to enter it. A
ionettes which love had made caper, deluded fairy story Y It reads: like one, bathappily
by its awn -ma¢ic ; to live on through the it is not one. The little girl's name was
long monotonous heat with- no opposite Hattie May Wiatt, and the splendid insti-
shore for the bridge of thought to touch, tutions described are Leated ' in Philadel-'
with no future but a fogbank where had
been a fair country. No, I could not, pm8'
(TO BE CONTINUED.),
. Dr. Ma11, of'Berli '.1 ipted- recently a
navel method of testi:. e. genuineness of.
certain spirit: manifestations giver_ by Dr.
Enke* ante medium. l)r -Mai: provided
nzse1f with a syringe, of liquid caaetie, and
spirits appeared he gave the
rna a shower that_; sent thorn;
.a. result.=,of the. exRom#ra Dr.
en_s'rrest
In the Matanzas district of Cuba crops
have been destroyedand about 450 ,cattle
drowrtd by floods. The. furniture of 325
dwellings was carried away or ruined.
MISS MAHSDEN'$ IaEPEBS• THE BICYCLE IN WM An Englishwoman's Long Journey in Engcland's Eperintents. [LATEPOREI�N %
Search of Disease and Fame. England had the idea of using bicyclists
asorderlies suggested to her ie 1881 by one of
her regular officers, at a time when bicycle Succi, the faster, is insane, and now in an
clubs were being formed all over the king- asylum near Paris.
dein. Lord Ehiil
matters suggestelco, d thaant theauthorclubtyons weremitary al- The revenue collected from last ear's
ascents to the top of the Eiffel
ready in sufficient training to volunteer for amounted to $115,000.
active service in the field, all they needed In the centre of the Russian etroleum
being a "rifle slung across their back, cart- district the water used for the boilers costa
ridge boxes and well defined duties." How- more than the fuel.
ever, not until 1885 were military cyclists
The business of preparing banana meal it
employed in England, and then they made
about to be started on the Isthmus of Pane-
s, successful experiment, using them as
scouts during the Eastern manoeuvres. This ma.
was in the Sussex regiment, who have ever Philadelphia is said to be the greatest
since employed them with advantage when- carpet manufacturing city in the world.
ever field operations have deen practised. The oil fuel used in a copper -smelting
A couple of years later a commander works at Kedabeg in the Caucususus is pump
during some evolutions, finding himself ed to an elevation of 328 feet through fifteeu
short of cavalry, conceived the bold idea of miles of four inch steel pipe. g
using cyclists as scouts on the flanks of his
line of march. This was a scratch cyclist The Town of Cassel is going to spend
corps made up of volunteers and civilians, 730,000 marks, to which the Government
some of wham had no military knowledge will add 230,000 marks, in making the
whatever, but they soon fell into what was River Fulda navigable and erecting ware -
required of them. The main body of cy- houses, &c., near the harbor.
clists moved forward in the centre of the The Spanish Government has taken pos•
road, while the flankers on their bicycles session of the largest shipbuilding works in
scoured the country from eight to ten miles that country, and is offering inducements
on each side. During these same manceu- for English shipwrights to superintend the
vres two picked wheelmen were sentout on work, -
a special mission and rode fifty miles in The harbour works in Lisbon are about t4
just ander five hours, though much of the be abandoned, as far as improvements are
road was in bad condition_. concerned, as the contractor finds himself
OFFI IAL RECOGNITION. unable to carry on the work.
The success detailed above, of the first They have shot a leopard in Bengal
employment of cyclists as cavalrymen led to credited with destroying 154 persons.
the formation in England, by authority, of
several bodies of military cyclists. A 1891 saw the first increase in the export
cyclist corps, known as the Twenty-sixth of Chinese tea that has occurred in ten
Middlesex, probably the most thoroughly years.
organized body of wheelmen in the world. The best road, according to Persian ex -
was created by direction of the War Secre- perts, for hardness and unwearable service
tary, composed of 120 men of all ranks. i made of volcanic scoria.
There is also in England a well formulated Herr Sonnenschien, the Chief Judge in
scheme for training the regular soldiers as `German East Africa, has sentenced seven•
cyclists, at Aldershot, under the euperin- teen Arabs to be hanged for holding a slave
tendence of the gymnasium inspector- Be- market within his territory.
sides, volun beer battalions have been granted Last year of wine ex -
permission to organize cyclist sections with- year 6,346 pipes as against in 5 were pipet
in their establishments, the strength to be ported' p p
one officer, two non-commissioned officers, during 1890. The 1891 vintage is reported
twelve to twenty privates and one bugler. to he excellent.
In August of 1887 a series of instructions A miniature copper tea kettle has been
concerning the formation of cycle corps, hammered out of a copper cent by Robert
their duties, drills, tactics, &c., their arms, Ducker, foreman of a copper shop at the
uniform, training and the like, were set Bath (Me.) Iron Works. The kettle is per -
forth. These instructions also indicated fect in every detail, and water can be boil -
clearly that it was the intention of the ed in it. The words "one cent" can be
authorities to employ the cyclists not merely seen d�thebtttom. Ducker was eight hours
as messengers, but as a fighting force to g th
e work.
perform such duties as might fall to the lot There has been a tremendous increase of
of mounted infantry. drunkenness in France since the destruc•
So much has been given about England's tion of the vines by the philoxera. Bad wine
cyclists because even in the initial organize- is thought to be largely to blame.
tion of her bodies of military cyclists the The novelty of the production of an opera
authorities enlarged upon the greater by a woman composer occurred at the Grand
functions of the riders, who, as seen above, Theatre, Bordeaux, a short time ago. The
might be employed as infantry. In the opera is by Mme. de Grandval. It is named
armies of the Continent cyclists as a rule `t Mazeppa," and is in four acts and six
are employed in performing duties of minor tableaux. The local critics speak in high
importance. praise of the music.
Miss Kate Marsden is to visit Canada
and the United States. • Perhaps Miss
Marsden may not be well known to you.
Well, she has just returned from Siberia,
from away up the Lena River. She is now
in St. Petersburg, and has told her story
of her long journey of thousands of miles
thr eel oiberia, where she has been hunt-
ing for lepers. She says she has found a
few settlements of these outcasts, and now
she intends to lecture for the purpose of se-
curing funds to provide medical care for the
unfortunates, and to enable her to go and
place them in colonies, and so to win glory
as did Father Damian in Molokai, in the
Sandwich Islands.
From the story she tells, she has appar-
ently been to Viliusk, a place about 200
miles north of Yakootsk, on the Lena River.
There, she says, she found lepers banished
to the forests, where they were kept away
from the rest of the people, but fed by the
latter on fish and treebark. Thirty guides,
she says, were obliged to cut out a path
through the under -growth of the forests in
order that she could reach the leper villages.
She found the stricken people ill -clad, liv-
ing in indescribable degradation, and many.
of them so loathsome in appearance as to
have lost all semblance to humanity.
Miss Marsden further says that there has
been found in Yakootsk a pplaet that is a
sure cure for leprosy, but that she has not
been able to test it as yet. So far as can be
gathered from Miss Marsden's latest re-
ports, the enthusiastic woman has made a
long journey, aboet which she will doubt-
less be able to write an interesting book,
but as to any fresh knowledge about the
lepers she does not apppear to have added
much to what she started out with. -A year
ago, before she started for the Lena regions,
she met near Samara the Bishop Dionysius
of the Ufa, who had laboured at Yakootsk
for a period of over forty years, and he had
seen the plant and had known of cures of
leprosy accomplished by it agency.
THE BISHOP'S STORY.
The lepers so he informed Miss Marsden,
live in a settlement apart, of the banks of
the Vilui River. Here a number of huts
have been erected for their accommodation
and here they live in an indescribable con-
dition of filth and immorality. In spite,
however, of such unfavorable conditions by
-the use of the plant cures are said to be
effected. The plant is found growing wild
on the banks of a small river called the
Ugur. The discovery of its curative virtues
was due to a curious accident. It appears
that at this place a leper had been living
with his family. His state at length be-
came such that they could no longer suffer
him to dwell in the house, and he was ac-
cordingly turned out into the fields. His
relatives each day brought him a certain
quantity of food, but, as may readily be
imagined his length rapidly declined, till at
length he could no longer walk, and was
forced all day to lie prostrate on the ground.
After a few days he was surprised to ob-
serve that his sores commenced to heal,
and it was finally discovered that this
was owing to the contact with a certain
plant which grew there in abundance.
Further experiments were made, and it was
found that the application of this plant to
the leprous sores caused them to heal. Un-
fortunately there is no proper medical aid
in the district, so that until now no scien-
tific observation of its effects has yet been
made. Bishop Dionysius informed Miss
Marsden that a young doctor had gone to
live among the lepers, with a view of inves-
tigating scientifically the action of the
plant, but he unfortunately took ill and died
before he had time to make any communi
cation on the subject. One peculiar discov-
ery he made during his stay, and that was
the discovery of the leper bacillus in a fish
common in the district. He attributed to
the eating of this fish the prevalence of
leprosy in and around Yakutsk
MISS MARSDEN'S JOURNEY.
Miss Marsden made her journey under
the most advantageous auspieies. She was
provided with an autograph letter from the
Czarina, with whom she had been in con-
stant communication. She made the jour-
ney from Moscow as far as Omsk in com-
pany with a young English woman named
Miss .Field. At Omsk the Governor sent
an aide-de-camp to accompany her as far as
Tomsk, and as he spoke English fluently
Miss Field returned to St. Petersburg. In
one of her letters from the north, Miss
Marsden wrote :
"Dr. Alexeeff and myself are now by
the banks of the Lena waiting till our cargo
boat starts. We have found out that we
must ride on horseback fro
m Yakutsk to
Viluisk, a thousand versts, then ride about
finding the lepers, which may mean another
2,000, then 1,000 versts back again to
Yukutsk. I have to rine all these thou-
sands of versts, as there are no roads, only
marshes and forests, and I rather dread it,
I must confess. To begin with, I have been
obliged to have trousers made and very
high boots over the knees, as I must ride
like a man ; they say it is too unsafe to
ride the other way, as we have cons ta.y
to get off the horses and wade through
either the water or forests, so I shall be a
little tired when I get back to England, but
I would go through fire and water to help
my poor lepers."
Miss Marsden's most remarkable feat is
doubtless her long journey in Summer and
Winter. Her talk about lepers will, pre-
sumably, be interesting, and her idea of
caring for the poor creatures is a humani-
tarian one. But there is no cure for leprosy
on the Lena. Russian and Polish doctors
have studied •the disease thoroughly. It
was taken there in its primitive form a
hundred years ago by exiles. The disease,
an infectious one, has, in many cases, died
out in the villages where it was originally
planted, in the course of generations. But continued, without intermission, for 21 days
occasionally children are born with the the result being that the . heaviest jam of
hideous -hereditary disease on them, which ice ever seen in that locality was piled up
develops to what is styled .leprosy, but is
on the shore. Late last week it shifted and
quite incurable. The poor creatures seem on Monday she was enabled to start and
to bear upon themselves the collective in- worked her way out through the ice, of
herited punishment of past generations. which she got clear 40 miles e. s.e. of Belle
Isle. The past winter was a very mild one
- on Labrador and very few seals were
What Bo Should Learn. - • caught; Much starvation and misery have
been experienced among the people on the
Not to tease boys and irlssmaller thanSeal Island, Spotted
themselves. •g northern and at p
Island, coast,io, eta, they have suffered
Not to take the easiest chairin the room, terribly, having scarcely any food ; and as
put it in the pleasantest when she, and forget to Battle Harbor and Carter, where relief
offer it to the mother comes in to could be obtained, were not accessible to
sit down. the unfortunate people owing to the heavy
To treat the mother' as politely as if she ice, their situation was most extreme.
were a strange lady who did not spend her
life in -their service.
To be as kind ami helpful to their sisters Love puts thorns on friendship.
as they expect their sistersto:be.to them.
To make, their friends among,good brae.Jealousy is love turned upside down.
To take ride lir b' agentleman Men measure love by time ; women,- by
home. P at. eternity.
- Love is a great care.
Love needs no messenger to say it'scome.
Three meals a day is good for love.
Love is twin to sorrow.
Love cannot be hidden.
Each one has his own definition for love.
Hate is love gone mad.
A young man in Newcastle, Del., having
LASSO OF HDMAN HAIR. inherited $8,000 or $10,000, astonished his
ewe neighbors by spending $2,100 in three weeks
A Gruesome Relic in the Possession of an and starting off with another $1,000 in his
Old Indian Chief. pocket. He bought among other things two
Living in the Wenatchee, a narrow valley bicycles at $150 each, a diamond ring for
putting into the upper Columbia River at $275, eight suits of clothes, and several
a point called The Mission, because French 1,000 -mile tickets on various railway lines.
priests years ago located there and taught In addition to all this he hired a box for
the Indians, is an old Indian chief, La Pier the summer at an opera house in Philadel-
by name, who has in his possession a remark- phis.
able souvenir. It is nothing less than a The Columbus celebration at the Spanish
lasso of human hair, 50 feet long and of port of Palos, from which the navigator
variegated colors. The lasso is very old, sailed, will begin ora Aug. 2 and continue to
It announcement
of the opening
just how old is not known, for old La Pier, Oct. 13. The p g
who cowers in his cabin on the banks of the of the festivities will be made by heralds
Wenatchee, is not talkative to strange going about the streets with trumpets and
callers. Only the priests of the mission cymbals. The whole celebration will be
who have known him long can get anything very picturesque, and as romantic as the
from him regarding the curious relic. The Spanish mind.
lasso, however, speaks for itself if one gets. Because the Canet system for naval gens
his eyes on it. It is undoubtedly composed and carriages represented the most advanc-
of human hair, and women's hair at that. ed type best adapted to modern warfare is
There you see the dark tresses of women given as the reason why it is adopted for use
who once were doubtless famous, locally at on board the Greek ironclads in preference
least, as brunette beauties. Further along to other well-known types of foreign ord-
in the rope maybe noted hair of brown and nance.
of auburn and in half a dozen places of In one of the Comstock mines a new water
yellow. Hair jet black, straw-colored and wheel is to be placed which is to run 1,150
even red is shown, but the saddest of all to revolutions a minete, and have a speed at
contemplate are the Iong tresses of gray and its periphery of 10,805 feet per minute. A
white which are twisted yards long in places greater head of water than has ever before
in the strange lariat. been applied to a wheel will be used.
As has been intimated, old Chief La Pier The French appropriations for 1893 will
will not salk much aboutfiddtile islagruesomeso, but to be 645,000,000 francs for the army and 280, -
the priests he has confided its 000,000 francs for the navy. Ninety-eight
history. The hair was taken by the savages new vessels are in course of construction, of
from the heads of wives and daughters of which eight ironclads are to be finished next
pioneers. Many years has it been in the year. Twenty-one new cruisers will be
possession of the old chief. He will not lunched oy 1896. Sixty-two torpedo boats
anseld it, no matter how much he is oto any- are to be built, and the Bank of France has
one it is rare that heawirl show it any- .1447000,000 francs in gold in its vaults ;
one except a particular priest who has won 1,447,000,000
his confidence, To all others he is exceed- more than any other European nation.
ingly reticent. He will scarcely talk of the About 22,000 people of the Kaffir race are
rope at all. The lariat has been used many settled i.n one of the divisions of CapeColony,
a time on the trail Old La Pier's savage in southern Africa. They have a finely cul -
ancestors used to lasso buffalo in Blackfoot tivated tract of country there, and have
Valley, and when he got it he increased its made remarkable progress in civilization
length by the hair of several scalps he had. within a few years. They are of a peculiar -
It is believed that probably 30 women have ly peaceable, law-abiding character, and
been scalped to furnish material for this fear- have little use for the few policemen whom
ful relic the taciturn chief has in his cabin. they keep. Mr. Gresswell, an African geo-
It has come to be regarded as very valuable. grapher, who knows them well, holds that
The wily old Indian and his followers think they are a higher type than the Malays, or
there is some occult power attached to it, the Maories, or the red Indians, and believes
and it is rare that, it is brought to the light that they will become very influential in
from the blanket in which it lies. southern and central Africa.
A WIN'T>;R OF SUFFERING, near Friedricharuh in honor of Prince Bis -
The German cyclists held a grand meet
— marek, the latter delivering the following
The First News Received This Year from address : "Gentlemen, your "neat gives me
Far -of Labrador. extreme pleasure. I take it as a great honor
A Halifax, despatch says —The first that you have come from such distant parts
news received at St. John's Nfld., from the of Germany to greet me. I am also rejoiced
northern region of the island, since last tall to see, from the telegrams I have received
g from Thuringia, Silesia, and elsewhere, that
was by the steamer Panther. She had been I your comrades there unite with you in your
blocked at Battle Harbor by a gale which
Above the -len� h of nineteen or twenty
Attorney---"
Sneaky sort of
man?
What
feet, snakes in the Phillipine Islands in- do you/man, sir ? ". Witness—" Well, sour.,
crease -greatly in bulk for _ every foot= hes the sort of man that ll never look - ye
lenfith, so that' a snake nineteen feet.long ( straight in the face: until your_ back's turn -
nooks small besideouetwenty•two feet long. ed,"
Love.
greeting. I am pleased to note the prosperity
of yourjassociation. Your sport involves an
exercise by which health is promoted, and
some snbstituteeprovided for the ball and
wrestling games so popular in England.
They have not yet taken root among us,
whereas in England even the ladies delight
in such pastimes. Muscular exercises, such
as ball games involve, have not gained real
acceptance among us, Almost the only
sport which promotes the action of the lower
muscles is that which you carry on, and you
deserve all praise for procuring your coun-
trymen this blessing."
Growth of Hair After Death.
The growth of the hair and beard after
death have been too often proven to be
doubts ', but the most remarkable case on
reeordia, probably that of a man named
Haskell,%vho in the year 1868, died in
Northfield, Minn. During his life he had
worn only a heavy black mustache, but a
few years ago, when his friends removed his
body to another cemetery, this. coffin broke
open and the face and hers were feid- to
be covered with a growth of bushy black
hair over two feet in lengria. Sneb. eases
as this seem to encourage the idea 3P=cit des
air has a life of its own eva0 limey the
ody.
A Story of
BY w -
We were camped
eho River,texas, a
Aiwest of Austi
lM1 I Farris, our hu
seven persons,the o
Eastlake, his fiftee
Howland, Jack T
and the writer.
One evening we
hard day's hunt in
killed a fine jagua
Brooke and I happ
side, and graduall
the party.
Charlie appease
unusually taciturn
fatigue I did not
him, and for sev
spoke. At last he
a painful reverie, a
" That story w
the Apaches the o
me of the saddest
seldom refer to ii
doing so this eve
listen 1 will give
words."
I eagerly assen
ed :—
" It was in the
then a very youn
the two precedin
ranch on Gila Rir
the southeast cor
Indian reservation
" Up to Christm
threw of us in fam
her four-year-old
Having no childr
perfectly wrappe
and he was the d
were entirely hap
full of promise—a
filled.
" My beautiful
ing, slightly as
weeks. I believe
when pneumonia
died on Christm
words being a ten
always care for F
" Of this terribl
to speak. No la
desolation. The
alone gave me cou
pass.
" At the time m
had been for six
was making every
business in order
with my precious
cataste•ophe occur
" I had found i
reputable white
house and take ca
had engaged a M
cent, faithful peo
" When the w
took Fred with m
the range. The
perched up in fro
a king, and the co
ting him.
" One day earl
called suddenly to
and had to leave t
never forget how 1
door, kissing his
and calling out as
Charlie, goodby.'
" The job we w
tedious one, and i
noon when, accoml
ers, I came to the
ing the ranch buil
mgr but their
accursed Apaches i
all away
" Dashing like r
we reached the stn
in front of where t
lay the scalped ane
Mexican and his q
"Sick with hors
utterly unable to j
upon my saddle, bri,
search and could fir,
I so dreaded to see
probing the hot as{
we found nothing
elude that my de
carried of alive or]
sumed.
" No help was aj
tory post, Fort T
away. Gila Mounts
fifteen miles die
savages would ce�r
driven off eight h
corral, and as the
the other animals
ed down with plug
Bible that we migt
rear guard of the t
" Our rifles ha<
way of arms we ha
left. But our sad
tively fresh and
cowboys, foaming
revenge, urged an
less than twenty
we five men were s
of the murdesers—
ably, ten to one.
" 1 need not gi
except to say that
rear of the column,
just as it was ente
Utterly regardles
charged upon th
though we shot do
ed the others and
cos, not one of us
" One of the wo
minute or two aft-
forts to make him
the child's fate, or
proved unavailing,
ing his death song.
" To have follow
enemy into the mo
been sheer madne
pursuit by leaving
plunder-; partly to
we gaickly cut aw
laming only a few
ed sorrowfully to
not daring to folio
" Within three
for what I could g
z --year thereafter to
=my little Fred. I
white ascents and
Crated the haunts
one -atom of intelli
boy did they or I
combined efforts r-
two white women.
"Failing to rece
notwithstanding th
no calcined bones
the rains, it nays
tend ' kAm had ..
distinguishable ash
*at arch must be
pea, . search, re
gaged in any pre._
.re sinfts Fa mad
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