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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1899-11-02, Page 7taafsaWailaWiWiftati aWidAYsieWkil • Agricultural! PAPRAMWIIIMWMANARV THE FALL CA.RE iqes. The winter season ot pork is be ginning, and the awine .enotlith for the .market ehould bursae • aa..e.,:aet‘ -:,,„." f A noun TRAVELLER. • Hew a Votive neallebutatt Wee (healed ' Out oriels Money, itiellellew It Wes Restored te That a trip on an ocean steamer Mar prove a dangeroug journey, even wbeu . the weather la fair, le abown by a atony told in Cbanibeaare Journol. It a concerns a young Englishman of whose forwerd to their full weight to Meet the demand. They ahouid be fattened with all that the, harvest fields yield. Small Potatoee that are arleleee for anything else should be gothered from the 41elds. ,and boiled for the pigs. There ts 6'ood deal of witete grain, due to threshing, wbich can be made bandy and ueeful in feeding to the swine. if one is too indolent to gather it, turn the pigs into the field or imrnyard, and let tbemi Plok it .up ; It will do them good, and unless chased and wc•rrted they will riot exercise too much, Ae . tbe.. fall advances, and • eold weather comes on, the small Pigs for late winter use should be. kePt in wenn yards, unlese thel, days happee to lye very warm. When the weether becomes wet and cold it is inviting danger to let the young .„pigs run about and forage. Many of them will catch coldi which .witl. lay the foundatzon for inmimerable winter diaeases. • Lit- tle pigs and weak pigs are poor things to winter, and they rarelY Pay Per the teouble expanded on tbate, Consequently, 0 the late pigs should be hurried forwerd just as much as poseible. in the fall.. Get 'them so walk started 'that' they will not feel any inconvenience front the cold. weather of oaf& . winter, The way to de this is to' let them Sw- age nowt and 'onoolement the tood they get in this • way. with • reeaf and roots.. Plenty of . feeding .stuff milk be put aside for Winter feed- ing, and this should be fed to the eenimals as ; thea seem to need it, and. not doled . out grudgingly. Every poond of mea 1 that a • pig i eats,. digests and assira !rites is tent- ed into. pork that. w 11 pay: a, fair profit. Therefore, so- lon'g es they use the food properly, and do not waste it, nothing is- lost by liberal feeding. One Must understand pis bea :fore he can become a 'good •tincecorrect feeder. He must know when do draw the line between waste and stinginess. By giving the pigs warn Malls and greet betiding.- in- the I fall and winter 'we • saVe food. The' tood that natural& gotta lb •make heet to gitep thei--animal,, Comfortable will , go - CO fat and muscle. Next to warmth, eistroaliness in the tall and winter quarters of 'the swine Liz important, and no oee can cerey either. hobby too far. it ta wet have a hobay like • this, .and thee. ride it..whenever poesiale.• . A good hobby is better then. none in farm- ing as well as in everythieg else. .. ' FLAYING SEED CORN. • Each 'year in Scene. sections of the country the corn is not fully Matured, because of late .planting or an early • frost. Howevee, etir Most auCcesstiii „ farmers nearly .eiery year setept theta seed, core et huskieg.time. ' When en exceptionally 'well-develoPed and -ful- ly ripened. ear le left. with a few husks attaohed; mid pat 'Into tbe .ceite with the remainder of the Mop, it simply indioatae at a glance what is .consid- ered the best for:seed, and when the . . conn;as removed for feeding or oteer purposes, the ears thus .inarked - are thrown in a .pile by themselVes, or whea battled from the field arestoxect in a separate place or hung up on wires or poLes, as in our grandfathet's day. This haeging tip. process re- moves by exposure all' surplus moire ture, consequently *there is no injury' to the germ during ger° Weather as is the case if net fully dry. 'if the sea - sop has been a wet one, the nea As full•of moLeture, ' teere is More .or lees moisture in the 'kernel and the ex - z pension caused by freezing weather is data:mental to tee germ which is in Lilt cases• the life a the 'future plant. This atteotion takes but- little time, and in many .enees insures a . fuller, better stand: of plants.. However, if there is from experience the least doubt about the germinating qualities of this er ally other seed, mike. an ex- tra effort to obtain good seed, then test it. . • •• . CO-OPERATIVE DAIRYING IN 11OL. LAND. . . AccOrding to tbo: German •ptiper, WW1 Zeitung, an extraordinary. ee- velopment has of hoe years telten plane in co-operative dairying in ifol- land. ' For several years, says that paper, meal attention has '.oeen paid to the manufacture and marketing of butter, now nearly all carried* out on coeoperative prineiples--peasant pro- prietorship in that aountry being al- most universal. Large butter butter- ies,' too, are the :rule, Where the Merit advaneed methods' are adopted. For instance, with. a view to making fix:st- raw butter, the cream is often pas- teuiized and treearated by the Sch- wartz, process, instead of by the cent- rifugal system. Art ifioial cultures are otters used, and the result le very sat- isfactory. So are the simple, hut very businesslike methods ot marketing. At illaestricht a combined association diaposes of the great bulk of the but- ter and (Meese made by the members. It not only sells the produoe for its members upon co-operetive prindiples, but endeavors to put the individual dairies into (Urea business relation with foreign firms, particulmay in England, with the aid of the - Mitch consular agente POINTS ON POULTRY HOUSES, It Is difficult to design a poultry - house that will answer for all. Those Who go to the expense of constructing elegzoitly designed and elaborately built Poultry -houses ratty adapt them nicely to the eye, bat tfie liens may not be comfortable, and Witt, not re- ward the builder fot pains: In winter the Main requirement is warmth, and a low ceiling, dry floor and tarred -paper walls, costing but very little, will induce better reaulte than the expense ot large gums to suit the conveniencee of the poultry -men. And thileis the error all fait into - that of constructing the poultry - homes for their ernivenience--when the real objeat should be to consider the *welfare of the bens first, and to make the preferences of the owner're- wiling his convenience, a socondary matter. While one may objact to a low ceiling, beettuse of lack of-t'onveni- ewe, the hens may prefer it to be Just the reVerae, as it will .be warmer; and though One may wish the door neareet the.dwelling-house, it may thus be on the north side, allowing the cold blasts to ere.eb under it and chill the birds, It May be preferred to have a partieu- , 'Jai -location for the.houee, end. that it f fade) a point of the compass correspon. log with Acme other buildieg or objeet, hut, tho hens relay prefer dry ground and the. southeast, so as to get the Sun's/ raye, ag Welt as proteetion irons the nertheast etOrme, In building a peultry-house these Matters should reeeive their proper attention as well as the eaet, The best poultraahellsee are those that are neuritis built mg eording to location and for the con- venlence of the fowl& • GERMAN FACTORY WOMEN. Abottt ono German woman in every 27 works in a factery. folly and ita conenquenoes the.writer was an eye-witnees. It was the Engliahman's first trip, and he gratingly .found bimselt drawn into a game OP poker with three or four profeeeional sharpers. The men were most prettentable In manners and dross, and older travellers than their victim might have been deceived. He played and played again. :.1:40?: knew bow to draw Min on, allowing him often to win, but getting Min in deoPeerwith OverY game. At l&st, One afternoon, only twelve hours from New York, le found himself almoet petiniless. Of • the hundred pounds With difficalty ecraped together bY hia father to glee the son a stew, only a few shillings remained. The young man set staring at the card-teble. Ile was ruined, hopeless and aiming stran- gers. Presently tbere dropped into a seat be his side a quiet-lookiog man who usually ant in A corner of the smok- ing -room, and who had once tried to ta,igvoe stilloewoung Englishman .14 hint in The aavice had been haughtily re- stated. To -day, however, the stranger fouled the youth in a different mood. In a fatherly way, he drew from him hwiosradtsory, and then spoice encouraging A little later (bat :seine quietelook- ing man joined a party of elderly Men deok. He explained to them the young Man% situation, and in a innly they sought the sharpers. One -a. Westernen-who had been appoint- ed Spokesman, aatacked• the gamblers, who were still 'laughing amontr.thens- selves, aa their success in a clea,ning out the Britisher," The spokesman did not believe in preliminaries. " You men have cleaned out' that young 'Englishman of every cent he base' he exclairaed, " I don't say you- 've swindled him, but I have- my own °Pinion, , end I think, and so do we all, that you ought to 'refund," There, wae a. stotra of .vituperative rejoinder, to the effect. thet-the game was . a square one, arid if the other fellow ba.d. lost so match the worse for him. • Then the qinet man stepped forward and looking hard at the leader of the gang, said; " .Toe pay up,". ied that was all he. did eay at the. moment. • The effeot was magieal. The sheep - glared at nip, then turned pale. and inuttered,"' Ws you, is it f Didn't jtnow eotian , • . • "No I didn't srippose yam did," was the reply, "I've grown a beard ppm I saw 'you laht. New pay up quietly, or --a" - • ' • " All right" vans the quick response, " P11' do whitt's fair." With that he, handed 'over. a roll of nOtes and some gold,: saying, "There's' ninety phonds. We got a:hundred, eat we spent otor tenoh clrinkand earns." Needless to say, the Englishinan was delighted to get back .so much of bie money.' lie vowed he Woeld never touch a caxd again. It is to be hoped that he kent his Vow. The quiet ina:n varis a kindly' detec-' tiVe., who knew the gang a,nii. the lead. et, and. they equally well knew and feered ahina. ROBINSON ClaUSOE'S 'ISLAND. et Ibis neon oreolded by a Few Certain Mid Chilton Eantliles Fader l'hlt 'au Government.. Robinson Crusoe's Island, Juan Fer-- nandez, is abOut to be turned into a colony. Robinson Crusoe, or rather a prone, type of.Robieson Cruses; existed under the name of Alexander Selkirk.. That Debnannew Selkirk's story there can be no aouht, for he closely kept to the feats of Selkirk's, existence on the is- land of Juan Fernandez. Even the story of Crusoe's man Friday has a foundation of truth, for Selkirk rescu- ed a stray Imhan from death. This man had become separated• from a party who had landed On rise isiand, and being lost in the woods was left behind and would have died had not Selkirk discovered him. Friday's death did not °emir in suett, dramatic reanner as Defoe described ••ti however, for Selkirk's retainer was lrotyned as the place seemed to Sel- kirk, it contains *many flourishing spots. The fruit trees which he planted have reproduced themsleves, and peathes, quinces, pears angrapes are at abundance1 A man who had a. steak farm on the Wand for some rea- son abandoned the andertaking sev- eral yearn ago and turned his live stone loose. Cattle, sheep, goats and pigs are now found in a wild state, so that the colonists are likely to have some good sport. 'rho sea swarms with codfish, which should provide occupation for anglers. The settlers are likely to be abund- antly supplied with meat, fish and ftuit. The 'island, which in tbe Pacific Ocean, has been occupied by a few. German and Chilian families, number- ing about fifteen persons in all. It is now prOposed by the Chilian Govern. ment to turn the island into a colony, and -about one hundred and fifty hardy Chillans will form the nuclus of the settlement, which it IA proposed In christen "Crusoe's Iolanda The cottage which Selkirk built; and which Defoe describees Mill exists as a broken-down shanty, 1.* • CONSUMPTION IN ANIMALS. laming ite) Death Ita:r hlttet Some Vold able Pointers 0111 This Disease. Nearly one fourth of the deaths am- ong the" animals at the Briliah ZOO - logical Gardens last winter were due to tuberculosis. This is nearly dou- •blit the human average, and eonfirms .the rapidly growing belief that the disease is emphatically one of con- finement and overcrowding, for this societrii superb menagerie is VerY • cramped for room. The differ- enee in the distribution of the dia- canoe between the Vlirions classes of animals at the Zoo are marked. Rep - dies of all sorts are almost exempt, probably because the tubereule batt- les cannot live at the low tenaperature of their bodies, although two or three suapicione cases Wbre found In tortoises and pethons, Animals suffer nearly 50 per cent. more severely than ,birda. But the moat atriking difference is that between the meat -eaters and vege- table feeders. Among vegetarians, monkeya, antelopes, deer and kanga- roos, it causes 26 per cent, of all deaths; among meat macre, lions, wolveg, whin eats, civets, barely 1 per cent. Among grain -eating birds, Pheasants, pea -fowl, grouse. ostrkhs, tubetele is responsible for 30 per cent.. ef all deaths. Among flesh -eater", ea- gles, vultures, owls, erows, 11 per tent. Comment is superfluous. An open-air life and a meat diet are elearls the best protection against consumption. - • TWO GOSSIPS. Mrs. Porld-4'd tell you aomething if I thought it wouldn't' go any fur- ther. Mrs. Pepper -You merio't be afraid, I knee* Pil never meg the day, I eat% make &pieta Of fiesta go ferther than son OWL' WITH KILLING IN QOM A HORRIBLE SUPLRSTITION OF THE GRES INDIANS. 1...1,•••• sate story intim Klima et e min Believed le retainer& nate sed or A h•Vii- hosidrioni as to Opiate Illsapacttrallees. "Murdered by Indiana" is now be- lieved to be the explanation of the raysterioue disappearance of a. number ot people oiti the upper Laird River and along wliat ie known as tbe Edmonton route in the far northwest a Canada. Sorae time ago two Frenchmen nam- ed Florent and Collins eet out upon ' the Edmonton trall and .were never heard trona again by their friends un til a clew waa furnished by Indians selling a quantity of tura whiels their friends recognized aa having belonged to the missing men. Information wee subeequently obtained from other Indians tbat the victims had been shot En their; cabin and their bodies drop- ped through a bole in the lett` A. prospector numed Charles Munroe, who went up into this country and never returned is' firmly believed ..by hie friends to have been murdered by Indiana. Last wieter during Christ.; new week two aediunit reported, that a boy had fallen through the ice and bad been drowned. Later the body was a:mud with the mark of an axe on the head. FIVE YOUNG WOMEN belonging to a family who had gone up the Laird .River ta trap• were mur.• dered Indians. and, strange to sena the inquiry into the case whieh n'ae in- stituted by the ituthoritlea was allow- ed to dtop wheit. it ap.peared that the young women had been done away with because ti jealowl Dollen woman had proolaimen them in witches. ,As n matter of• fact, spinie Of the dis- tant Indian agents appear afraid of taking any judicial ection. to. preeent or punish crime in their resaective.dis- teiots, Whenever such action wquitt constitute au interference with!. the. absurd- belief ann itiiporstitione of the Indians. A .eecent kesult of this polioy has been the sienple imprisone meet of nne Indian'inerderer for two • months and..the .aoquittal of another, becatise of the inexorable laW of the Weed Cress the instant of so - Sailed Wehtikoa. • ' • • * • .; . • The, atory of. the' is exi inter-. esting: example; of one of the deep- ,00ted beliefs and • superstitions of these unforttaiete People, and... aetter thaa. a whole volume, :showa up .the devil arorship• and norceity.of the Prees. Napayioosis, one of • the., aecused, tells the following story cif: the oriine. . Winter a band •oe. us, thirty.; tWo in numbet• &hinting. women ahd. children, 'Were living at the Bald hilla, some larvanty7five Milee West of tether Sieve* lake. e We livoil'irt.two shacks: :and , two tepees', ..Entominahoo, our chief,. along :wieh 'Tainaultarns ann. 10 -Y - 'self end • oue.**•famtlies*.- lived in. one Shack, MoostOos arid: eiith. . . . some :others, lived he the Other ehaek, and the • other. ',Indians in• the two tepees, We 'were all on .the best of terms:with one another,' and Moosteos was ezipecially well 'liked, • by all of ' "Sonse months beforrehe was killed, Moostoos toldatMeral of us -that he Was afraid an .evil spirit was . getting the hetter .cia hint, and that .he would torn • VEHTIKOS OR CANNIBAL, adding: 'if I. ever go Wrong; Yet had better kill nie; eta I . au not: wish te destiny my children,' • • aThe tittle passed *on, bovirever abeut the 23rd of March.; ••At that time some sickness Was attacking the Indians and two of them, Napaysis and thedittle old man, *were being treated *by • Entdmiria hoe. le • • own shack, .wlyich naight be galled the hos, peal, ae all the sick **era taken there to be:noon:wed, Entoininahoo watt chief -medicine man'. :The third day benne he was killed, Mcostoos also went (here to join in the medicine -making _arta sorceries, Winch were- ben* praetised with a view to curing the 'sick man. 1 • "During the. last 'day and 'eight I ea*. -Moostoos was. not looking as. iis-, •}118 eyes Wert rolling' tied glit- tering .and he seemed, afraid to look apy one in the face, Muttering to hint - self ell the time, ;On one occasion he aaid: 'L. look on these caildren as young moose and long to eat: them.' "I was ebsent from theishack of the daiyeini when 1. returned to - Ward evening Mcosteoz rooked 'wilder and 'more.dangerous than (Aver, and it. was clear :to all present that he Was becoming wehtiko. Ordinary incan- lationo were tried, but without result, atria as st- last resort the medicine lodge waa erectel in the shriek and the whole skill and power of,. all' of our. sorceries was enlisted in tlae, attempt to bring Moostoos back to reason, • "It was .certain from his appear- ance, words and notions that he had no bodily tomplaint, but that he was pos- sessed with a. devil, "Our usual ceremonies were begun, The singing of medicine stings, drum., ming and dancing were carried a n from sundown till about midnight,. ahd as Moostoos wits- lying covered with two blankets,.compitratively quiet, the' medicine seemed to have it good effect. . t• "There were the house t that timeRidominahoo and his wife, Eliza, the wife of Redhead; Fetix's wife, Red- head, Ittinuksoos' and his wife, Napay- ais and' the 'ante 'old man.' These last were lying eielt. All but .the sick men and ICunulisOoS, Who Was takieg care of them, were grouped round Woos - tome striving by medicine, songs anal other means at ohr comniand to drive the evil spirit out of him. Enternina- boo, our chief doetor, was inside the medicine circle ' with bis wand and using all his SCIENCE AND' SHILL. "Suddenly* Moo.stoos called out: arhis night you will all die,' and Com: maimed tWitchitire his limbs and roll- ing hia,eyes. Two of us Chuckachuck and maself, went and sat on each side of him at hie shoelders, prepared to hold him down if he became violent. while the tw9 young wonien, Eliza and Felix's wife, sat at his feet, Redhead, sick with fright, left the shack, Moos- toos began throwing his arms about and tried to get up, saying again, 'If get Up will kill you all to -night!' Then foar of un laid bold of hiii arms - and lags and held him. down, while En- torainahoo continued his medicine,' us- ing -the moat powerful songs and in- cantations at Ma command, Moostoos now became unmanageable,. flung us off, roao to his feet and sprang into the air, exclaiming: 'I wilt kill yeti ant I will not leave one alive "Feat, intenae, blind fear, took hold of ua; we jumped up, and, in spite of his gigantio straggles, we managed to pull him down and cover 'him . vvith blanketa. Entominahoo left his tnedi- eine lodge and Sat down cloSe to Moos - Loos, saying: 'It's no use; / can do no more; do your lieet.to hold hini.' "Moostoos struggled fearfally, throwing his head about and grinding hie teeth and tWict he tried tit bite me, tearing my coat At. that lime I watt holding his right arm, Chuck:tau& his left, while the two woinen held his feet, r covered bit face after he tried to bite me. The Mese of the dram - ming and singing had been golhg oh a t 6 t me.. "By this time we were crazy with fear, and What followea IS liken dream. Eliza aprung to her feet, holding in her right hand a medleine belt end in her left an axe. Her hair was flying ioese and she was daiseing end sing- ing, Alf of a Madden shie roil round and Struck Morettoos over the face and breast with Ms Mealoine belt weal down, THE • SUNDAY SCHOOL. ti,e. Cannot saY otritekbhtm with the axe, atterea head was en inn sAw pLooD INTERNATIONAL LESSON, NOY', a, outside the blanket after elle had thrashed him, and J. only knew of two "achetillehas Oreyer." arb. 1. eloltlelt other outs on the head, while the police- Teti. Neb. it. men found three. Sbe then handed PRACTICAL NOTES. the axe to Chuckachuck and mid: "Chuoirachook atruck him. with the 'Vera° 1. Nehemiah. The cupbearer, age and apift tatt Skull, treat blow as we have seen, of King Artaxerxes. killed Moostam. Chaolcachuck then 16, - banded me the axe and knife, welch ..-odern Boropeanaind American usage I refused at lira, till Chuokachuck taigat class cupbearers among menials, nailed me a coward and said I wanted hut in the East the most valued friend them all killed, I then drove the knife of A king the man wbo bas, higheet jig° bilot beevileYr atried iiliterallrtic lteheavilixge bointtho reputation' as a a omen end t t tarot*. biTorawoproe,ebearibl kilt ehaa; swtoo: pned c:. b:outsutiunusg INoecauelnii.inafbluence, regarda as his chief breathed little after he got the first honor appointment to such a post. was a man of ability, and All that night we elit around the bad become Wealthy. The in body tilt dee-Liget ey the light oe the leu. The ninth month of the Jewiah onth Chia - fire. We expected him to rim from .year, corre.sponcling to the end of Nov - the dead and we wanted to kill Mtn ember and the beginning of December. again if he tried to get op." In the twentieth year. The twentieth .Being asked what he thought was the year of Artaxerxee's reign, Thie fixes lx)Itlitctier ilith 3foo.stoos, Napaysoosis M- e . .. the date near to the elotie of D,C, 445, W ht' ninety yeara after the Unit re- . he had a, lumni of /cella his body oasis- turn from Babylonian oaptiv,. ring the malady. Why, we made it% . strong tea and poured it boiling hot into the axe -hole In the breaat to thaw elpiweetilltio8lrboutisutabea."npel0setwelineafetnrpielrrne:Felit that ice, but first PaYoo and I drove a east of the Tigris and north of the Make kite that hole time through body into the ground; then we pulled the Eneheaere les; known to 1 he arenent out the stake and poured in .the GinareeakesSalisusShrti'ht'e) rtubeinws °0d16111:48 piBielditQceu; tea. „ "After that, toward morhing En-, were disoovered licitte$52. tominatioo'a wife end I tied his lags with chains to two pickets driven into the gronea, so that if he came to life again he could not get up and run after And last of all, next day, I out off his bead with an axe, 'to make sure that he was dead and in order that, even if he got up, he could abt eat us. Then we 'left him in the shack, tied up tho door and left the P1,13"cleingl requested te say what he meant ay a Wehtilot, the prisoner 0,1a plained that it Was a person, Enna or Woman into Whose body enters +tarok maligonnt evil spirit Which incites him or her or kill and eat his or her fellow Merl or. women, A Wehtiko is posses- sed of superhuman strength and ,ottn- tang, and the only thing that eaves the Indiana is that It generally warns them beforehand of ita tenting state, He added that ie has always been the Indian custom to kill these people; that being their only means of protect., ing therneelves from tateir violence. and the sedate, exceedingly ,smell, hidden in the robe Of the magician. . EVery part of the wheel is fatal cleverly, and where hidden bona can eb employed to join the separate parts they ere used; where they moat, eateli- ea are arranged where a critical search by the uninitiated would fail to dis- cover them. By reason of.the numbizr of itpring bolts it is possible' te pot the conteiveoce together niarvellouelY quick:but even if it took somewhat lenger to do this it would pass un - obliged, for ell the time he is at work beneath the shawl the Hindoo keeps up a Constant fire. of Lamentations and seems by the noise end the struggliog to be in the grasp of the evil one. When he eirierge,s with the bicycle in- tact many in the audience believe that he has obtained it by the direot agency of the chief of the infernal regions. • RELIGIOUS FANekTIC .Through a hed of Vire and' are !Cot • • : Burned; , . that nand of fanatical teligie .ous freaks, hes pecauced aeOthet mar- oel- for the Test pathe world to ,wea- a The Shinto. devetees of theT0opl •of the: Ontaki Mountain wa,lk.;:ever a bed of ..glowirig fire and are not burned. They. Bei thet the gocd gad of the Mountain proteete them; • 'The Japanese, like.' tait amient Greeks, believe that the gods dwell,on the. tons of .the menntains, and (hie is the time. Of the . year. •wheh the dean.. tees of the vatigns :mountain deities. go through' verioes nob§ • of hom•age. The dom./Mon bathe tecent fire -walk - leg, was the festival a the -Gad of the Mountain Onteki, and, the scene ei the Wonderful petformance.. a small Shin': tennile in the Kande quarter.: • :At ..fiest there wee ...a long blaiing and. stholdering hean of damp atraw. Ilndarneath this wad a tad •of light- ed! eh:in:cool By the . Cme tbat:the' we ang began the ntraw .bad been coresumati. It ails now almoet. aatk. 1 he !held nloW own the faces of the w hi te-ra bed wo esti i pees • a nd *the crowd tf Japanese against the Imre rouentieg railings Was tnest weird. . Scene stead,. by Otte side of the fire and with huge fahs made it hotter then aver. Then tWo of them took each a wand, 'attached te the end of which were shavinga or strips ot pap- er ; a laird took a flint and steel; a' Dearth an offering of salt. They, placed themselves one at each mut and one at each aide of the; fire, Muce cere.monlel and waving of wands was inaugled in, and therein:1g exalted the fire, each man in turn lemming the place occupied by the -last. 'At' length -suddenly, after first Cara aully stepping on some of (he scattered grains of smite oee of the nien deliber- ately walked through the fire from end, to end. Ile took aoven pacee, the seventh pace landing him just 'clear of. the Bre at the other end. Others now, but at the first only men, followed. his example. Same of the:0'd meii hurried a little ; but most of them, old or young, were very de. 1.beratta 'stamping each root herd into the redhot -charcoal at every step. Examined afterward, the feet were found quite soft, and not a trace of fire opera them. inefoire tbe .peopie walked. theough the fiery Airtime the oeititte of it, where. they walked, Was beaten flat with long 'poles. They therefore, had. a. level surface to walk • ; they did not get the sided ot their feee burned, Of coterie the secret of this per- formance lay in the .feet being pro. tettea by the Salt which is a nonccm- bustibre substance, But even then the ea -oration' must be. painful, This fire walking is a very unusual thing in japan. There were present at its perfermanee some Europeans ethics had h§en 23 years in the country and hall not only never Seen it before. bab never even heard of it. 'It appears that those who want through the fire expect tu ob.ain cer- tain indu:geraces• for themeelVes end reaa tivea. • SMOKE IS COMMENDED. tom 2. Mutant, one my brethren. Not a brother Jew ,merely,. but • • his owe brother. He erne aftertyard made a civic °Meer, Neb. 7. 2. He is, in be 'distinguislied from tlie• priced of the same name, Nell, 12. 30, Came. From Jerusalem to Susa. Certain Men of Judah, "Men out of Judalir that Is, men who had just returned from the amient provinee: '1 naked them •non- cerning the Jaws.' From Josephus we learn that Nehemiah. doubtless attend- ed by a gorgeous retinue, walked one afternoon ciuteide Stistt's Walls. Cer- tain men with foreign accent and tra- yea-Worn, were drawing near td the city's gate. Listening', • be discovered that.theirepeeeh was old) Hebrew, the language his raother hail used._ Oh joining' them te discovered that they bedauet arrived frees judah, and, mote tiatonishing yet,. taat one ot thee& was his own . brother. NatarailY tis first question was a.bout the Jews in Jerusalem. Had escaped, Had been made free trent direct .Babylonian con-. trot by the cruller return. Though ninety years had• elapsed since that re- turn- the Jews of Palestine' were still known 'as "those wbo had escaped," Left of the captivity. . This phrase points .to the terrible hardships whaoh Jerusalem had suivived float the tiMe of Cyrus until now. • Coneerning. Jer- nealem. Inas city was precious to godly Jewe, net ..natteely. as ' London must always hays pecaliar interest to Britons or Parie for Frenehmen, bet, as the chosen. earthly aboee of , the. tree God; the headquarters of the true re ligioni-lenniVe----shotild • constantly have. in Our heart love ;for God's people and 'interest in God's cause. . . 3. The province. Judo., now a •prosa ince of the Persian empire. The remnant .. .. are in -great .affliction and reproach. They had never really. prospered, . • though tne. populatiOn had been increased, mane lesizses had been built, awl, foreign traders 'bed flourished. Phoenician fishermen had stalls, in Jerusalem; • treders fkom Tyre. had boothe. for their ware :. and Nethemiah has proceeded on& a little way .witnthie story bentre we hear' of guilds, ga- ae We might call' them, tiades unions, of goldsmitbs and of aPothecaries, while panpentere and locksmiths and• other creftemen • ate also mentioinid. • But . this . shows or- ganization and effort, not prosperity!. Untiring °enemies, Poor- oroPs, .lack of public conscienee, and. a . pitiable lack of leaders.hip had .brought on the bardest of hard times. The nobles had made:eine-noes with 'some of the worat en.eatiee a the nation, and the poorer cleans 'ware heglectful of the lave of God. Burdensome taxes were levied by, the iMperial Pereian goaernment•but .&rtaxerxea himself was unable. te pro- tect' this unwalled city from raids of robbers, who stole rnen and womenars well as gold and cattle ; and the eun often armies oVer the dead bodies of dews Who • had (fared overnight' to defend their own.• The wall of Jerusalem also. is broken down, and the gates there. of are burned with, fire, This meant •to Nelieratela that. the Walls nestroyed by Nebuchadnezzar had :pot been re- built nor the gates replaced.. The ruin wroeght one hundred and thirty-seven .yeare before was _unmitigated. i The -feeble attempts of the • goaernors of Jerusalem to rebuild the wails ha:d- i:Ten. foiled by. Vigorous attacks of rival chiefs. . One fact • was clear -the wall of • Jeruealem must be prompt ly rebuilt if, the eity Wits ever again, to be Lilo, capital of the Lord's people. 2. So Christ's .Church, the earthly Jeru- salem, 'mods to • be so protected -that foes shall ba kept out and.friends kept safe. 4. These Words came with a terrible shack to Nehemiah. Perstung his clutter. at the Persian. court, honored, and with wealth easily id grasp, he had often comfortably thought of the Colony at Jerusalem. Ilut now its de- plorable condialott sudnenly.reveal-.' ode Better even. than the Sews of jerttetalem this .practiciect . statesman knew the imminent danger in which theyiviiie so' long aathe city remain- ed tinvitalled. Mourned certain: days, atid fasted, and prayed. These days were extexided into aboat five. months, as we learn by Com.paring Neh. 1, 1. witb, 2, 1. All three of these pious oc- cupatiouls-mourning, fasting, and prayer -were doubtless formal as well as sincere, for the oriental always toads to formel expressimi of deep feelings. The God of heaven. This large conception of Goa became more arid more prominent among God's peo- ple When for the first time they were widely scattered.' 3. Oar prayers should bikte in -the general interest of God's' cause. 5. 0 Lord God of heaven. "Lord" means jehovah. Netwithatanding that Godat home ie the. all -including heave ens, he is still the petsonal God of' Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The great and tertibie God, that keepetli coven- ant and xnercy for them that love him and observe his commandments. it would .be difficult in one sentence to compress more of revereht theology than Nehermiah has here given us. The burned temple of Jerusalem; the de- molished walls, the dispersed nation, the destruction of Babylon, which aa 'God's agent had wrought thia destruc- tion to Jeruaalem -alt of thee° showed God% . greatness and • terriblinese. But lie "keepeth covenant" also. Ilia greatnese will be used in fulfillMent of his prom:does. Better still, he is a mer- ciful God. He haa promised reetoration and mercy arid prosperity to the .Iewe if they would turn to bine and surely the God who kept his terrible prom- latee nitaer :Wore- Austere With Melee., ises will keep his tender promities. nue Not Too the ell a, There is a comfantable touch of confidence throughout, Faulty as Tobacco certainly seeMs to Satisfy Nehemiah and his eompetriota MaY some physiologic need in certain eon. have been, they loved God and aought ditions of the system, for patterns who di observe his commandments. There- fore they had claim our God's coven - are unable to snioke at certain times ant. 4 The mightier God is the safer can do so with; pleasure and benefit are his children, even though they be at some other perad in their lives, Els full bf humah infirmities. 5, God's was the case with Huxley, Certately love Is freely given to all men, how - no habit is so common or ito generally ever wicked they may be; but only harmless, Says a writer the phihe. Unmet who give their love in retarn are in °oxidate:I to accept the bleasings of delpbta Medical jorunal. Comparative- his covenant. will delight to do his will, for he asks 6, ThoSe who iloVe God ly few use tobacco in such excess as to. Butter bad effects, no -doubt fewer nothing beyond what a rightly coley than auffer from- th.e oeeruse of coffee stituted nature freely gives. and tea, and infinitely fewer than it Thine ear, . . thine eyes. The those who suffer from overeating, NJ One will question the harmfulness of belief that Irian waS rattd6 in the imago - of God haa always helped -human de - the use ot tobaceo in the yung br in votions. When mints of old Zambezi exeessive ernounte, particularly with out after God they were tomfortedi nervous people. At no time is the et. by, thoughts of his feet hastening to feet of the weed` more pleasant and their pita, his hands outetretehed in soothing than after dinner in the evening; it heipa one forget a hard blessg, his eyes that. never slumber. ed nor alept wittehing them. his ears' dayes work; it is an aid to digestion, 8:Latent:Ivo to their prayer, And when, and makes one fee at peace vri in the fullness of time, • God rently world; then,. in the molusion of one's own quartere it cannot offend the non- name •to. earth wm in the person of a man, whom feet! and hands and eyrie user, and the one or two cigars or - and ears were all need to bring suffer- ' pipes mil work no great personal in- ing men and women eloge to their hetet jury. Two bite of adViee should be follow. v„era$ Pahnr, near the PraYttr serVant. Which .prayeri now-, tut if Oho is to enjoy taunters: Striae tny ever, le not. for himself. I may before with moderation and do tot smoke toe thee now, day and night. How tinsels cheaply, 0 00 0 — ligeatefititan.sr:fttle1:441111r1(841goTtry; our Lordt The children of Israel thy servants. God'a servants by right, even wheu unfaithful to God; the chosen people. The sine. . whieh we have atoned against thee. The favored cour ler et Artaxerxes ahrinks not from ideptifloation with the einfut nation from which be eprang. 'Both tend My fatlier's house have sinned. He recognicre his pertional failure to lease od II i ever come.s before God ehould come ze.j L. a ,11'sa TACT AND DIPLOMACY. A CURBSTONE TRAGEDY. there stood a pile of household furni. atu'Isree.veirys.teitil:S151.1:4401rziroe rltiolltegue rift Toot, in wo ita first -cousins End street In Boato th th d On the sidewalk of a din South Diplommy, rartn. are tbe ruling pow- rus,.740, Two cheap, painted bedsteads, a washstand, a few chaira, ail old burette: p in a part gelato. 7, Who- wito a cracked mirror, Setae mattrea- sem from which. a NARY Of atraw pro- oTbrunlhaevadnablYt'tillonaall too strong language in describing it. 7. We have dealt very corruptly. trudeds here and there, a ragged quilt Nehemiah can hued& met first caught the eye. character has been, so de- or two, -these were the things which A second glance cllsolosed some old Have not kept the comraandinenta, nor the elatuteo, nor the judgmente. Gen- eral Willis, these, expressing the law given to Moses, and the eptritual teaohioge_..of the prophets. . O. late word tbat thou oommandest the servant Moses. What follows is ornot2varoodesireo.. tasquwoteatnitown fhr 4004' twit!! b"illttooiikt Is in eloee harmony with Lev. 20.27-80; Dent. 28, 45.52, and other passages. 0, Rut if ye turn, etc. A oontinu- anon qf the quetatton from Moses. Nehemiah finds In the fulfiltraent of the threate a ground of hope tor tbe fulfillment, or the promisee. 10. Vow theee are Ow ser- vants, The, quotation is. end-• ed, and Nehemiah resumes Ms prayer. Redeemed. by the great power. The hietore of Israel is a. history of successive "redemptions" from dist:res.. ses resulting from . unfaltbfulness to God, • al. Tor the prayer of thy servant., ahd to the prayer of thy servants. Here Nederash 'at regtheas his faith by repelling otner earnest souls who of - feted the sante prayer, • • • "Though sumlered far, by faith we web Argued, one .comiann merey mat." ' Who desire to fear thy name. Deliglit te fear it, Prosper. I pray thee, thy servantathis daY, and 'grant bim malty in the sight a this znan. In Grans areeence the neghty king hinieelf was s.rnply "this 'nava whone will could as easily be cuabad by God as tne will of his courtier. Thir' was certainly not a petition for the JUdean- governor -- -Alp; neverthetees Nehemiab's appaint- merit to be governor of Judea was a 'direct answer to this prayer, exceed-. tinny abundmit above all he asked cr t.hoiaght. • • . STRANGE FARMING. 11111.1int Pigs ItIorth-7.4.114.4. CrO.111041 Id . Net all the laming in the world is carried on in the ' countky. Some braneles , of the farmer's work are. perifued. in cities, and even in their crowded parts. a•triresiz#rit• is reseon- &Lyle frit the eta ent that the fat-. Inning of pigs is noleincompatible with life in a densely populateil quarter, and cites a case in •point. A man Who kept ,a small -groat:Ws shop in the he,art of a city was for years eery sricoessful as a fattener of nigs. Under his shop was a caller, the front door ahd windovv of which were boarded up. Aciteas to it could be Ob- . tallied only at the brick, • This 'cellar was always oconpiee by two nage, althOugh• not always by the same ones. The. owner: would smug- gle his young charges into the cellar be night, bed theim down with. the. straw from his egg cases, and feed' them ail the bread ana potatoes and vegetables that the yoangstere of the neighlyorhood brought. him in exchange for a hahdfal or two of candy. So little did it :coat .him .to feed ais °barges that he is said to have grOwn irich•on his profits. . The same butch- er bought ane pair after another of these city -fattened pig'S. ' A stilt more unlikely place in whibh to look for pigs is a back bedroom:, but even this shelter is not an enhearaz of one to the writer. Thine parti- cular. pigs were Well 'trained. They not only. lived up -stairs, but they walked.down. Their owner keew that washing theni halped- to put on weight, so be toted to take. theta Otte the small hack 'yard for a tubbing; and taught them to walk up -stairs and down. Ile would never have been found out if eo.me of his neighbors :had not come plained of him. ' Poultry is Often fattened in the slums about Christ masstinie. In some streets nearly every cellat is occupied with fowls, ducks. and g.eese at that .season, many of them 'being bought a wont') beforehand. • One slum,dideller was more anibiti- ous still. lie bad a rabbit -farm io his cellar and back pied. Into the yard. a load of soil had been cartedt and some roots of . trees disposed in it. Among these the rabbits: burrowed. The man said he "wanted. to get es near natur' as maybe," and perhaps he sueceeded, There *as plenty of artificial shelter for the banniee, and he is believed to have raised hundreds .in a year, and to have made a. good profit out of his back-aard farming. CZARR NICHOLAS'S NAME. By all pree,edenL, the present Czar of Russia should have been named Alexander, and not. Nicholas. This is the reaeon: The Czarevitch Nicholas, uncle of.the present Czar, was to have married the Princess Dagietr of Denmark, the lady who is how Dowager- Empress. But Nicholas died. Though the marriage was an arrang- ed one, Da,gmar loved Nichola.s, It was planned that'she should marry Alex- ander, the second son. One day that young Prince found Dagmar sobbing before the portrait of his dead broth- er. Thee, says a lady Of honor in the Russian Court, the Crown Prince spoke with great tact, "Forgive me," be said, "that I am come to make' yea unhappy, I know I ant a brute, tor you have said it, bett be patient. I can never expect to take the place In your heart that was held by my poor brother, but you have my promise that if Over heaven blesses us with an heir be shall be named Nicholas in monitory of our brotbter." So they were married, and in 18118 a baby aon was born. It is the duatoin of the Greek Church for the Patriarch, in christening a child, to receive its name ftora the mother. So the Patri- arch turned to Dagmar and. asked: "And what is the name by which this child, shall be known ? Speak, that it be given him in the presence. of wit- ne8l3"efOr'eb the Grand Duchess could open her lips although she was about to say t"Alextelder," the Czarevitch cried otit inutrilaollits"11cSeo: let bis name be.t" Alexander had not forgotten his promise. A QUEEN'S FREE' LUNCH. The following amusing story is told of Queen Margaret of Italy. She re- cently :arrived in a town water° great 'preparations had been retold to do her honor, The Mayor Watt at hand to es- eort her 10 the room, where luncheon was served, but am queen detained to eat anything, saying that all she need- ed WAS a glase of water and a sandwich, - At the end of this frugal repot ehe was about to take her handkerchief from her pocket to wipe her iipe, when the Mayor, Misinterpreting her action, bowed respectful'y and said: " Your majesty tided not trouble youreelf, ban assure you the lunch le paid for." THERE ARE MANY SUCH, Inittleby•-ilow glum poor old Charlie SurnMere lookedi Lethereut--1114 ViteatiOn ended yeo- terd'ay„ Mattleby.-Vmationl The ehap hoe- n't Min natty a day thief ournmerl tetherout-Yes; but hie wife got bask yesterdes. dresees, it high chair, a pair of men' boots, a dltild's bat and a heterogene oils maas 'of cooking utensils piled hel- ter-skelter in a preoarious pyramid. The whole collection, if it bad been displayed in the window of some see- ond-hand dealer, would hardly have won a glance ; but here it attracted the attention of all who passed, for, it spoke unmistekably of failure; of the house built upon the sand; of poverty, of dietesracey of tile wreck of thin sweetest ideal of life, a home. &later of those who passed saw a tired -leaking woman aitting On the steps just inside the door, but very few notieed the children. They were huddled 'away in a corner, olgse, to the building. The oldest, was a frail girl of eleven. in her arms sbe held a bab.y, and curled up in an old nicking - chair beside her waa a boy of four. Aftm a tient the mother roused her- self, and With WOrd to the boy and girl, went away down the street. The :children still sat behind their bane - cede, Wben the baby cried tbe lit- tle girt rocked tt back and forth in her arms till it became quiet again. The little boy fell asleep purled up in the rocking-ohair. The afternoon drew to a close. It was beginning to grow dark, and the night patrolmen had just relieved the day force when one of the men from station five strolled through the little street on his first round of duty. He stopped when he reached the Ode of furniture, and peering in behind it, erei-domeatle, apeial and nationah-01 this century?. They .earry everything before them. Feminine beauty, kluglY power and even. the wealth of ther Rotheobilds bow before these greater' powers. Tact and Diplomaey have been defined as the faculty of " attraetive- ly presenting an unattractive lie," but I am of the opinion theit the art ,of prettily clothing a homely truth week' more clearly define them, saya a writer, e ' Beauty unadorned" doea not apply , ' to truth, and our hyperoritieal taste DISCOVERED THE CHILDREN. "Wbat are you doing heref" he ask- ed. . . "We!re waiting for mamma " said the little girl. "She's gone tit find anotaer place.' We Was pet out here 'cause we couldn't pay the rent." The policeman soon persuaded the children that they had better go to the station -house, He -rang. the call for the patrolewagon, -and in a few minutes the van drew op. beside the curb, the children were lifted in, the gong clanged and. the wagon rolled away... • • Just es the driver turned the (tomer into Washington Street, A policemen bailed' him from the sidewalk. He had a prisoner in charge, and by dint of • much pushing and pulling, finally got him into the wagon. • The prisoner was a middle-dged man, bloated and sodden and dirty, His hat was missang, and blood from a deep cut on his forehead had trickled down his cheek and soaked his shirt, He was too far gone in drunken stutter to resist arrept, or even to keep his place on 'the seat witholit assistance. Wben the little girl caught. sight of this wretched figure Ishe began to cry. Still holding the baba in her arms, ehe crossed over to the drunken' me and with her torn and dirty 1' e handkerchief tried to wipe the In d from his cheek. One of the policemen ' interposed, gently. "You needn't do that," he said'. "They'll fix him up all right at the. station -house." "He's nay pa.pa Ile's my papa I" the child cried between her sobs. "We didn't know where he was, and. he's been gone all the week." The officers looked at each other in silence. •Even for them, with all their experience of life at low tide. there -was-nothing to say. One of life's tragedies had: played• itself out no the last act before their eyes. - No stage coald have furnished a situation more' dramatic or more logioal, no pielpit a sermon • with a more impressive moral. FRENCH RAILWAY FAIIES HIGH. Tourists Pay Men for Only liattlfrroso ecremtneitattens. .• • All people who have reason to tra- vel along the Riviera, and from there up to' Paris, pre especially impress- ed With the shortcomings of fpreign railrOad manageinent. For several waiter months the trail running from east and west to Monte Carlo 'are so crowded that though one has paid for his seeat in a first-class carriage he lute frequently to stand or sit with ten or twelve a compartment witli placee • for only eight. For short journeys the prices are not unreasonable if the company provided adequate accommo- dations,' but when a long distance is pain ipaesctirooesntuhr the charges would ale. Two women with their maids decid- ed to go from Mentone to Paris last npring by the train deluxe,: but found they could secure onln one smell eont-• pertinent for two persons, iind for this reason had to wait a week. The price for each first-class ticket was $25,and for each, berth 9 supple- mente.re charge was made of ..$17.40, the one night's jburney from 6 in the evening untft about 11 o'clock the next morning costing for each person 642.40. The maids, with eight trunks four of which were simall ones, wen't by an earlier train, and the charge for the extra. baggage vvas $27•20. The guard on the train de luxe after it had left lYfentone informed the women that though their tickets called for a mini- eartment for two the car had been changed and Nos. 7 and 0, their num.. tiers' in the substituted car, were in a double room. The othet two berths were to be oceupied by a man,and wo- man, who would get On at Cannes., Neither entreaties nor indignation were of any avail, but a quiet "it will be to your interest" had the desired effect. The Wiemen got the room for two and the guard the extra tip. The entire cost of the journey therefore amounted to about $140. A seventeen hours' journey in this country costs about $15 or Pa including a berth in a sleeping car, a little more than a third of what it coats in France.. This Yreneh road was built meanly by ,goVernment. loans, and soon falls completely under the government's control, so no contenting lige is alloW. ed to be built. A QUEER THING. You have probably noticed, if yea are a man, that when your tie gete loose it Invariably slips round to the left This is bee,ause you use yeur right.side during' o. day alma five dance as much es your left. This Movement rebuts en your 811W -collar, musing it and your tie to move in the opposite direction. Tbe Muscles on an average man's right side have more than double strength of those on his left side; in fast, goi great is this dire, proportion in development, thdt by the time a man or woman reaches 40 the right side IS, e'en to the eye, more fully developed than the left, and in Many eases tbia disproportionate growth la bighly injurious to health, as It liable to force the interior or- gans out of plate,' /Lai IA V kititiff„ inGueerate s -e g:e ry al set) id)teens tj ma 1s0triiiltiT fan average, Oposse. Sometimes it (toes ail can rake axid wept and borfow, and emu- tirrithlehole reicul 1:6 rir BY tohwhigiolte that hap- pen f Sometinies we've got ft girl, end rnetimee we heerein:t, demands that she be net only decent- & clad, but artistically draped ite Truth and Tact are two artists; the firat belengs 'to the .realiiitic echoril, • the Peewit', to the idealletia The that painte the picture of life in detail - which is always a mietake ; the second is an impretutionist. Truth scans you coldly with Wide open eyes, aud tells you that you have not a good, feature in your face," Taot saunters by, gaining impressions as the bee gathers honey -looks at you free ander lialf-closed lids and says, "'You have. an exquisite expreesion." Both -facts are .equally true, but the one sees only what is unpleasant, the other only sees what is agreeable, There can be no doubt which Is the pleasanter companion. Tact may be only another name for hypecrisy, for dissimulatitni, but the art of dissimu- latien, is tlie mark which distinguishes the olvdiied being frOni the ouivage. Truth.- can scarcely be called u social • virtue, sinee dissimulation lies at the root of &oil manners; your 'friettu boreS yet infinitely ; you exude and ap- pear caarmed. If you do uot you ere denominated a Isere. . • Truth can 'hardly be considereit domestic,. virtue, since tact.begodmoth- er to the two little bears -"bear and forbear "-which mekes the wheels' Of domesticity glide smoothie: Triith is net altogether A religious virtue, Boleti -dissimulation is the essence of Chris- • tianity ; you- are enjoined to tura one . cheek after another, and not skew that •you feel the sting. Tact is the only thing which makee society possible ; withtut its amenities the world would ,be a beargargten. We would be forever flying at each other's': heads. Through her tact many a wife has gained far her husband high places. iu the world ,of finance and polities. • Through aier waste 'of tact she aim Often not only lost his •hortors he•might hone successfully sttiven for, but has torn from his brow the opesol- ready gained. Inca of diplomacy - in Caainet Miniater, engenders Wara; diplomacy arbitrates end aveids blood- .-shecl. The selfish morality Which en - 'joins absolute truth, epon the indiVid7 • ual• lest he lpee his :own little soul says that: diploniaoy is wrong ; it takes no heed to thegteater commandment, "Thou: *shalt :not and What is :war but wholeeele Murder licensed. We never 'celebrate a victory without .. glorying anOther nation's downfaIlL rejoioing over the death of thou:sands of human beings, whose nettle were ugh- •ered ante the preseime of their. Maker without a moment's ,preparation. Is :that true Christianity'? -Diplomacy, the art of tactfully telling a ;truth, avoids all that. . . • The truly tactful woman has strong feelings, . but she his them •under ad•• mirable centrol. The woman witli aba golutely no feeling; but only indiffer- ence, gives One tae superficiel imprea- Mon of tact, blip it ig not a true one: Iadiffeniaitoe passes .calmly by, leavatag the burdens of life in the .path of the blind who may follow after i they stem-. ' We Over them and confusion .folle*s. Tact has learned to. take up and ad.. jest. these burdens or carefully lay them aside, leaving a clear path for her saort-sighted aigter, Prejudice. . Oxygen arid hydrogen combined fotm water, a liquid partaking of the. ere- • parties of both, yet as a whole, foreign to either. And in like maneer troth and untruth enter into the compoeition of dialomacse without which we sheen(' be a nation •of aavages. It is a pity that We have no' school in which tact may be taeght, for it ie more necessary to a women than a knowledge of the mysteries of " angel food," or how to compute the distance :betweee earth and tbe planet Mars.. • PHYSICAL PAIN AS A LEVELLER AU OM surgeon Says Tliat nental Salter tag Is Mach Easier lie hears • '" One frequent& bears it said," re- marked a veteran surgeon, that men- tal suffering le a great deal harder to bear than physical suffering, hut the • peoPlit who make the assertion are usually people who know very little about bodily pain. They have a vague idea that a capacity for mental an- , guish inilicatee g fine, high-strung about a sensitivenees to pbysical dis- comfott. Such a theory is pure rub- bish, and the finite in a general way are quite to the contrary, "IL is your thoroughbred, your refined, highly intellectual person, who is moat susceptible to brute pain, and your rough, illiterate, dull-witted fele low, who is driven to distraction by ' a tormented tnind. suppose. the ex- planation is that the stupid, unedta cated man is unable to bring any phil. osophy to bear on Ms troubles, while on the other hand the nerve* of the cultured chap have been sbarpened by civilization, Bot aa far aa my obser- vation goes, pain, physical pain, is the great leveller, Se the form what it may -hunger, thirst, exhaustion or the agony of woanded flesh -a given am- oune of it will reduce all men to about the same etatus. I beg to doubt whether there. Is aingle hu- man being who Can retain his or her nobilityt of character under' long -con- tinued bodily distress. Ob. yea ; I know what you are going to say -that there are invalids and cripples wbOrte tem- per hao been only sweetened by years of torture. Such cases prove nothing, nothing at. all. They think they, are suffering continually, but they arena. There are long intervals of. relief and tOneende. Take my word for it that pain de- stroys morel fibre as surely as fire destroyo wood, and that, bY the may, was whatanade the rack such a great succeas as an instrument of judicial inquiry in the good old days. An in- dtistrious judge with a well made rook never had any treason to lack cor. • robiitatory evidence." LAM SMUGGtED BY DOGS. The smuggling of lace is a Very am- . portant and interesting feature in its history. From 1700 downward we are toid that in England the prohibition of lace went for nothing. Ladies would have foreign latie, and if they could not amuggle themselvee the einuggler brought it to them. "Books, bottles, babies, boxes, and umbrellas daily poured. out their treasureo." Everybody anauggled. At one period much lane was omuggied Into France, from Ileigium by ineane of dogs trained foe the purpose. A dog was banqueted and petted at home, tea on the tat of the land, then, after a men- tion, sent across the frontier, where he Was tied Up, half etarved, and ill treeted. The skin of a bigger: dog Watt , theft fitted to Via body, and the 1ntee- veiling apace was filled with Mee, The dog was 'then allowed to eseapei and' make hie way home, where her was kindly welcomed, with his contraband charge. These journeys were. repent- ed, till the Ereneh telethon house, get- ting stent, by degrees, put an end to 40theo8tradfogfies.43erttitiveefteturolg40, r(LOW88at% of three franca being glees for Seal.