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' 'kW Breathe, or Not To Breaale.
Whether our readers c.re opposed to cor-
get wmuing, or not, they will be a.mitsed at
this excellent parody on the famous Solilo-
guy, which recon ,. peared in the 'Wom-
an's Tribune.,
TO breathe, or net to breathe, that is the
question, _
Whether it is nobler for our sex to suffer
Tho pain and torture of a, steel -girt corset. •
Or to teke up arms against Dame Fashion's
tyrannies
And by opposing, end than. To unlace, to
breathe
Once more,. and with fullbreath tosay 'we end
The sideache, and the thousand. uunaturai ills.
Wetnalte fieSh heir to, ---71s a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To unlace, to broatide,
To make. perchance, the waist too large—aY,
there's the ib:r
For in that life of peace what form MaY
come,
When we have shuffled oiTthis girdle sung .
.And are at easel There is the respect
That makes tight lacing of so long a life; . .
For who would bear the sneers and scoffs.bf
men,
The corset tight, the dreas's burdening weight,
The pangs of tortured flesh. the lungs disuse,
The flutterin, g breath, and all the plaints
That patient Nature to the unworthy makes,
NIThen we might, restful comfort take
In a loose bodice Z Who would corsetwear,
To groan and ache under their weary pres-
sure, ..
But that the fear of Madam Grundy'e voiee.
That dread oracle, front whose decree few wo•
men waver—
!bids us slaves, and makes us rather bear the
ills we have
....4sskLaThanuspecienk. for case that she would frown
Thus Fashion does make cripples of us all,
And thus the natural form of womankind
Is ehringed—traneformed, till none -would
recognize ;
And figures by nature. dr tine inold and move-
ment. '
For this s.orseted in garments tight.
41„.lege their power of action.
TNE EYES OF TE WOL VES,
now a Woman's Whim Cost leer a Praire
Man's Love.
Two men and a woman; a great baronial
room, furnished half in tee English, half in
the Oriental style; a wide, low divan, cov-
ered with rich brocade and heaped wit1.
many cushions; deer -skins everywhere—on
the floor, thefurniture, the low, easy-thairs;
a buffet crowded with massive eleven a huge
stove of tiles and Dutch faience; beside it a
square table, covered with a cloth, upon
which steams always the inevitable sam-
ovar, surrounde4 by transparent cups and
crystal glasses in holders of metal filagree:
the walls hung with draperies of dark -red
'velvet, faded pastele aad, photographs, and
a fox -hunt in oil.
One of the men, wearing a brown -velvet
jacket and his feet in soft, shoes, leans back
in lb deep easy -chair reading a newspaper.
His hair has begun to whiten, but his browa
are as black as bis eyes, and his expression
is one of bored weariness. The other—a
young lieutenant in undress uniform, hie
opened coat showing beneath it a, crimson
-
silk shirt—pat:es back and forth with etep
regular and firm. He is tall and robust,
with blond be.ir and moustache, and a frank
smile on his somewhat full lips.
The lady—young also, and fair and deli-
cate, her golden heir coiled in a loose knot
low on her neck—reclines on the divan, lazi-
ly smoking a cigarette. She is in dark blue,
her waist clasped by a silver belt studded
with turquoise, her slime white wrist circled
by a narrow band of plain, dull gold. Her
eyes, bold and laughing, dilate from time to
time with those fieetinggleams and shadows
peculiar to the eyes of the feline race. In-
dolent and languid in repose, nervous and
feveriehly alive at the slightest movement,
she is a singular mixture of vivacity and in-
enfaitoftnesealtatteeterdnass,
ve ozner rote -yea ape announcing
tele an indomitable wilL
Out of doors it is a night of clear metallic
whiteness, the boar -frost tracing even the
window-panewith fantastic flowers. With-
in, all is warm and snug—.a balmy atmos-
phere impregnated with tea -fumes, tobacco,
and that subtle odor of tanned skins, the
perfume of Russian leather.
The silence of the room for the moment is
broken only by the rustle of the paper and
the lieutenants measured tread. Presently
the lady yawns, rearranges her cushions,
and begins to sip from a frail Japanese cup
tbe smoking arnoer fluid. She is awake at
last. The lieatenant turns, a. flaane like a
ray of sunlight in a dark place in his brown
eyes, and throws himself at her feet. She
answers the gay, caressing glance with a
coquettish pout and a movement of the arm
that makes the bracelet at her wrist ring
like a bell.
" "Prince," she aays, suddenly, addressing
the reader in the chair by the smoking
samovar, "-what are we going to do to -mor-
row? What are your plans for us, prince,
tell us ?"
"To beat the oak plantation," he an-
swers, tossing aside his paper. "The
wolves, the peasants tell me, make nigetly
ravages there. Two nights ago it was a
horse; yesterday a cow, killed so near day-
light, too, thatits bodywas still warm when
they foend it ay the roadside."
"We shall hunt, then?" said. Mille. Novar,
with sparkling eyes.
"Yes, the dogs are in good shape, the
hounds well-trained, and they ask nothing
better than to sharpen their teeth on the
wolves' hides."
"But it will freeze by to -morrow," the
young officer objects-- freeze hard, at
that; the moon has a haze around it."
"And what if it does freeze2" esker' the
lady. "With my habit, toque, and seal
gloves I cau face any weather. Don't for-
get the champagne, prince."
"Have no tear, madame; all will be done
as you desire."
Another long silence.
Mme. Never suddenly springs from her
cushions. Throwing back her bead with a
bird -like motion, her loosened heir lies half -
uncoiled on her beautiful neck, her half-
closed eyes open wide and eagerly.
"Listen—listen," says she; "1 have an
ideal"
"What i it ?" the lieutenant demands,
admiration of her beauty sending the blood
to his good-natured face in an ardent glow.
"1 wish, absolutely without delay, that
we go to hunt now, at once, to ' hunt in
sleighs—in a troika. Quick, printe, quick I
Give the order. What snow! What moon-
light 1 What life ! Everythieg calls us 1
Quick—quick, I say, prince, let the horses
• be harnessed while I go to dress myself."
"My dear madame," the prince responds,
• hesitatirgly, and rising stiffly from his
chair, a with the greatest pleasure but—"
"Bu(, 'bb?eWhat excuse are you seek-
ing to taid to keep us here in this downy
nest, drinking tea and tea, and tea? We
ehall turn into dried mummies. But see—
see for yourself, prince," flying to the win-
der., tad pullingback with- feverish haste
the neava curtains, so that a wave of silvery
moonlight Reeds the chamber, only half -
lighted by the shaded lamps; "a perfect
apotheosis of flery brilliancy I Howie it pos-
sible to remain at home on a night like
"My dear traralame," demurred the prince
again, a tate of coldness, if not displeasure,
In hie YigeO, " fft:Mt be frank; it is my
duty to cram yen that I am not sure of my
team. 72k.a orders of a pretty woman are
S"se eee
77711111p
absolute ; I have passed a. lifetime submit-
ting to theme bat in a case like this all de-
pends on the training and experience of the
horses. If they run'Cr upset, us, no earthly
power eau save us from the teeth of the
wolves, if they chance to be numerous, My
middle horse is perkebt—a wise old trotter;
nothing could alarm him --but the other
horses? They are young—too young, ma-
dame; they arrived fame the Don only last
spring, and. are not yet sefficiently brehen,
They have hunted, it is true, bue hunted
mounted ; it is uot the same thing, aud then,
only in day-lighe. Wolves are thick these
freezing nights, half-starved andnet at all
timid. Take the word of an old hunter,
madame, and do not expose yourself_—"
"You are jesting, my dear prince," alma,
Never interrupts, with a little, dry laugh;
"or perhaps, =V I think ef it,, maybe you
are afraid? Be careful, or you will compel
me to believe that you are growing old—
which would be truly a pity."
She speaks with such an aecent of ming.
led 'provocation, sarcasm, and defiance, and
in her eyes there is such a mocking light,
tleimLe the prince responds—by ringing the
b
A servant in Cossack dress, answers the
summons. .
"Tell Timothy to harness Faust, Arabi,
and Ares to the big hunting troika; Feast,
in the middle. Let Andre prepare the guns
and the pig, and be ready in half an hour."
The little Cossack, with his shining but-
tons and rosy faee, bows and goes out; the
prince follows ban. Left Pante witle leer,
the lieutenant, a troubled light in his eyes,
approaches Mme, Never.
"Dear madame," he begins, gently. "I
am neither an old nor a cowardly man ;but
nevertheleskal beg of you to give up this
fancy. It Lee'avy tempting, I know, for a
woman like you; but do not, I beseech you,
compel your host to expose himself ene his
servants to a risk so terrible. For I -give
you my word that, with inexperienced -
horses, at this eeasou of the year, when the
wolves are most ferocious, it is a
deadly danger to run. I entreab. you not
to insist. Our responsibility--"
"Thou, too, Serge 1" cries Mme. Novar,
with a burst of ringing laughter. "Away
with fear 1 The more danger there is, the
more one should fed one's self dive; the
more sensationa one has, the happier one
should be."
The lieutenant answers ber, with a re-
, proving gestate: "For °wee self alone,
yes; but for others !"
A big sleigh, in the shape of a halaship,
the horses harnessed, to the prow, the coach-
man in front, in Ins usual place, waits now
at the foot of the outer staircase; betweeu
the shafts a big black horse, ifs intelligent
face surmounted by long, Pointed ears and
lighted by large, brilliant eyes, stands pa-
tient and. stolid between the Dkraine run.
nen. The right -band horse is gray, the
left-haude roan, both of thorn thin, sinewy,
with thieving manes alai tails.
Tineotby, the coachman, with his strong
face and eagle glance, perched up aloft),
touches his cap to the pence as be slowly
descends the steps, eame.Novar on his arm.
She, pale and frail, but smiling, is clad
from head to foot in sealskin, her flashing
eyes sperkling like flame through her veil,
a light rifle Jiang carelessly over her shoul-
der, Tim lieutenant follow, with Andre
bearing half a dozen guns.
A clear, silvery light floods everything,
house and greautds. Each line of the her-
-nese, the guns, the oyes of the horses and
of the men shine imder it with extraordin-
ary brilliancy, and sweet° give back to it
• electric sparka. Maelleleevar runs across
the terrace, which the marvellous witchery
of snow and moonligh has turned to purest
Maiblg,. StutAorbotto t,
quickly follow; at th same instant, low
grunts and equeals are carte under the furs.
Andre flings himself down on the spot
whence come the squeals to stifle the sound,
and. the horses are off at a gallop.
Fast as the run is, it is almost noiseless,
the fall, of the horses' beefs on the soft
snow s arcely perceptible. The bells have
i
d then the coachman's whistle re -
been r inoved from both slesleighand harnese.
Now
soundid through the stillness like a bird's
shrill Ian. Again, one ot the horses sneezes,
But ever in this arrowy rush they cross the
swellin , undulating plains that stretch out
tp,
like eniese sheets of silver.
The pins once passed, they enter a
stately eepod, whose trees form lines, black
and wavsking, of limitless perceptive. Tim-
othy half at a cross -road; the vehicle
stands oue against the snow like a bit of
ebony on e field of pearl. The firs stirred
i
by the witid moan and creak dismelly, the
boughs rultand grind each other with a dull
crouching sound. The horses snort; the
smothered 'ries rise still from the bottotn
of the sleigh,
" Is it -to be here, your excellency ?"
asks Timothy, quietly.
"How far ere we fronethe Green Lake?"'
the prince responds.
"Nearly five miles e this road leads there
direct, winds atound the lake -edge, and
loses itself in the steppe on its way to the
high -road, Wince it pins near the post -
station." i
Mme. Never, litill impatient, interrepts
with the order; 4" Make the pig cry 1" e'
"It would be better to wait, I think,"
Andre replies. e This road turns sharply
out from here, and the ditches are deep;
granting even that we are able to keep on
the margin of the pond—"
Peace, fool!" erns lme. Never; " do as
you are bid 1"
And instantly there sounds from the sleigh
a hidden medley of squid's, squeals, and ear-
splitting grunts, such as only a pie has
power to utter, and. whether bleeding to
death or merely having his ear pulled, his
gamut of notes is always the same,., Mme.
Never smiles triumphantly; the lientenant
looks at her, then turns his eyes with a
slight lift of the shoulder.
All at once the horses rear. Timothy
braces himself like a recital his seat. The
edge of tbe forest glows netwavith e line of
fiery sparks, greenish and changeful—the
phosphorescent eyeballs el the wolves' ad -
Vance guard, fleeing eadeskulking,, but aa
ways returning with stubborn obstinacy to-
wards the sleigh and its 'lempting freight.
Thnothy loosens the reine, and the middle
horse starts off with hs long, swinging
stride, trotting steadily; without haste or
spurts, and always restaliaing his compan-
ions, covered with sweat and quivering in
every Muscle. .
. The wolves, seeing their prey thus escape
them, hurry to pursue. Then isabcore al-
ready, ana their number steadily increases.
Tbey run lb great leaps, two and three to-
gether, greedy, but not yeelaeold, Urged on
more by curiosity than ferocious appetite.
Mme. Nearer, calmly elated, her hand on
her rifle, awails the signal to lire. The
prince, straight and rigid, knits his brow
with somata air.. The lieutenant watcliee
Andre tea,siag the pig to make it :squeal
louder. The wolves now are scarcelytwenty
feet distant fromthe hunters, and closing
in rapidly. The troika quickens its pace,
the side horses straining at the bit with
furious energy, .
Suddenly one of them trips, falls, but
gains his footing with a frantic boiled, at
the saute time uttering a strangled neigh ;'
the sleigh jerks roughly, then follow e- with 1
a rush, But even this brief thecle hasllimr,7, Le draw back from a daring, even a I
brought the wolves dangerously near'
they foolhardy undertaking—a silly bondage ire -
posed upon us by self-esteem. Therefore,
a woman who abuses Iter privileges, who
presumes upon this sentiment and. know-
ledge, is neither more nor less than a mute
deress with premeditation; and a woman,
be her station what it may; without tender-
ness, is in my opinion, a 'monster.
"]'or that reason, madame, permit mo to
congratulate you on the happy outcome of
yonr whim and to bid you—farewell."--
Te eeeteaere from „the RUSSiOal of Tole, Dor-
tan by E. C. Waggener.
run—wolves and hors.es--side by side now,
the wolves waiting for the horses to give
oat. At this close approach of the brutes
the: Ukraine horses, wild with terror, no•
longer know what they are doing. The
time has come—with a sharp oracle the gun
goes off, and four wolves fall. Their nom-
rades ling themselves on ' their panting
bodies and attach them fiercely.
Meanwhile the sleigh has gamed. aelettle,
but the smell and taste of blood have, made.
the wolves rabid and filled theta ,Welrle a mad"
thirst for slaughter; the gap is Seen closed
between thein; again the guns „crack ; only TR.E OAMEL,
one wolf falls this time, beet falls with*.
snarling yelp that sends the:Tide horses off IS Great Adaptability to Lire Upon the
in a frenzied run, The middle horse, with Desert.
the wisdom ed an old hunter,though for There is an Arab tradition cited in Bur -
some time exhausted and panting, and no ton's "Gold Mines of efidian " regardiim
longer able to control hisyolvamates,allows the creation of the camel, which illustrates
himself to be borne along. the popular but erroneous opinion that this
The prince, white as marble; whispers a animal is ugly in feral and temper.
low order in Timothy's ear, Mine. Never The story goes that when Allah determin-
laughs no more ; her eyes shinelike a cat's; ed to create the horse, be called the south
she looks at the wolves and egain at the wind and said, "I desire to draw from thee
horses. a new being, condense thyself by parting
"Superb ! Maenifieant 1 That old horse with thy fluidity." The Creator the took
is simply amaziag1 Ms. name, prince, his a handful of this element, blew upon it the,
name?» 'breath of life and the noblequadruped
"Faust, madame," the prince answers, appeared. But horse complained against
coldly; "also perm% me to remindyou that his Maker. His neck was too short to reach
our danger is very great." the distant grass blades on the march ; his
I know, I know—you neednot tell me. back bad no hump to steady a saddle; his
If the sleigh upsets—well, nothing will re- hoofs were sharp and sank deep into the
main of ue but our guns and elie buttons of sand; and he added many similar grievances.
our eiothem Paoli I 1 traetate Eaust—he IN hereupon Allah (treated the camel to
is a, marvellous animal," prove the foolishness of his complaint. The
"By Ged's will, my Prince," says horse shuddered at the sight of what ho
Timothy, selermily, "We'll reach the lake wanted to become, and this is the reason
safely. How it will be then—I cannot every horse starts when meeting its earl -
tell ; the lake -edge is bad, rough, and sltp- ce,ture for the first time,
pery, the descent very, very steep,"- The camel is found in Arabia, Persia,
"80 I Take this, then, the Peince re- Asiallinor, Afghanistan, Beluohistan, Mon-
tane, giving Timothy his hunting -knife ; golia, Weetern China, and Northern India,
eketif we are spilled, I am not to feel alive as Well as in Syria, Tnrkey, North Africa,
iato the a.W8 01 VMS devilish brutes." and parts of Spain, The veinal is known by
I comprehend your excellency, "TIM- thasame root -word in nearly all these lands;
otby replies. not a page scarcely of an Arabic lexicon
"Ana thou, Serge," Mme. Never mur- but it .has 'reference to the camel; the lau-
tutus, pale but smiling a betwitching stnile guage itself, according to Hammer Purg-
iuto the lieutenant's face, art thou afraid ?" stall, knows him by 5,744 names. The only
"I, madame afraid?" he answers slowly, reason why ecripture is comparatively silent
looking at her straight in the eyes as be is because the topegraphy of the Holy Lend
spoke; "no. But a useless death seems to is such that in most parts the use of camels
me redieulous—criminal when imposed by is an impossibility.
the caprice of a wilful woman—but Anima The two main distinguished species among
Novar shudders; for a moment she Arabian, (one -humped camel,) and the
to ita hundreds of varieties are the Southern,
seems stunned. "And you speak thus to Northern, Bactrian, (two -humped camel.)
me, Serge!" elle (motions, amend. Each is espeoially adapted to its locality.
To you, Marta," he answers, for the The Bactrian camel is long haired, tolerant
first time calling her by her naine. of the iutense cold of the steppes, and is said
Something seems to break in her heart to eat snow 'when thirsty. The Arabian
as see listens— a whimsical, thoughtless species is short -haired, intolerant of cold,
heart, a. little too sure of its power, perhaps, but able to endure extreme heat. The limbs
but eseentially feminine, The aback ha and the structure of the foot differ also in
creases for ber tenfold tae aanger to which each, to conform to desert caravan petite in
they are exposed. the ono case and to mountain trails and
And such danger, too 1 The horses be. passes in the other.
;mud control, maddened, their heeds low. Apart from differences in species, to
enumerate thei
parts of the camel s to cata-
logue instances of evident design. His
long neck, giving wide range of vision in
desert marches and enabling him to reach
far to the meagre desert shrubs on either
side of his pathway, The cartilaginous
texture of his mouth, enabling him to eat
hard and thorny plants—the pasture of the
llama Ears very -small, ano. nostrils large
for breathing, bub also specially capable of
closure by valve -like folds against the fear-
ful simoom. Eyes prominent, but protect-
ed by a heavy overhanging upper lid, limit-
ing vision upward and guardieg from the
direct rays of the noonday sun. Cushioned
feat, peculiarly adapted for ease of AIL,
fr"•7
pads to rest on when, Kneeling ror oilmen
or repose on the hot sand. His hump—not
a fictional, but a real and acknowledged re-
serve store of nutriment, as well as nature's
packsaddle for the commerce of ages—have
you ever thought of the relation between
your morning cup of Mocha, and the hump
of
it camel in Yemen? His water reservoirs
in connection with the stomach—not as in
the Occidental Arabian Nights, for thirsty
travelers, but for the animal himself, and
enabling him when in good condition to
travel for five days without water.
Again, the camel alone of all ruminants
has incisor teeth in the upper jaw, which,
with the peculiar structure of Ins other
teeth, make his bite, the animal's first and
main defense, most formidable. The skele-
ton of the camel is fuel of proofs of design.
Notice, for example, the arched backbone.
constructed in such a way as to sustain the
greatest weight in proportion to the span
of the supports. A stroug camel can
bear 1,000pounds weight, although the
i
usual load n Yemen is not more than 000
ponnes.
The sole support and the only wealth of
a large desert population near the cradle of
the human race, all that can be obtained
from the animal is of value. Fuel, milk,
excellent hair for tents, ropes, shawls, and
coarser fabrics are obtained from the living
animal, and. fresh food, leather, bones, and
other useful substances from the dead:
Even the footprints of the camel, though
soon obliterated, are of special value in the
desert. A lighter or slnaller foot would
leave no treaks, but the camel's foot leaves
data for the 'Bedouin science of Atbar—theart
of nav igatienfor the ship of the desert. Camel
tracks are gossip and science, history and
philosophy to tho Arab caravan.
Is it not aleo remarkable that although
many diseases attack the camel, none, ac-
cording to Burekharda are epidemic ?
Thus has Providence prevented the sedden
impoverishment of those who, without th2
camel, would suffer starvation.
run haphazard, The wolves, relentless in
their chase, are almost on them. Sudden-
ly Ttmotby cries out boat sely :
The: lake, the lake ; my prince ! We
aro there 1"
Before them the forest opens, a broad,
treeless space cornea into view ; it is the
rod—the road barely visible, which slopes
like a sort of ice -covered trench whose aides
are nearlyvertical.
The sleigh flit:snow like a squall of wind.
Not even Faust attempts longer to check
their headlong flight. Ile, too, runs bliudly
flieging out his beels with the long, superb
stride of a pure-blooded racer.
" Goteprotect us I" murmurs the prince
under his breatli—",eavo.
,at re—actic mmaNovar
ands hs, rns his b . ar
and seats himself by the coachman, the
veins of whose neck swell out like whip-
cord as he pulls on the lines with all his
might.
"Let them go," says the prince, "let
them go, Timothy, No hum= power can
aid us now."
"Holy Virgin, no ; not till the lake is
passed 1" Timothy cries. "Tee steppes are
just beyond; once there, we are saved 1"
Like a bolt of lightning the horses fly
down the slope to the lake. Seeing some-
thing like a sink before him, Faust, with
lifted head and wide open eyes, recognizes
the danger confronting them, for he knaves,
like a human, what his and will be if his
inaddenea comrades drag him over the
brink of thee treacherous spa. He braces
himself stiffly, digs his feet deep in the
snow, and throw § himself to one side,
thrueting the right horse with bim and
forcing him to keep in the road edging the
water.
But the left horse slips, scrambles and
falls. Now Faust rears, forcing wall him
the right horse to his haunches. Timothy,
trusting to the instinct of the old horse,
holds fast with one hand, stretebes forward
acroee the shaft and cuts with one stroke
the fallen horse's traces. With a neigh of
agony he instantly disappears under a
swarm of snarling. devils.
The sleigh flies on, the lake and wood are
passed and the broad highway of the
steppes is before them. The hunters are
silent and speak not a word ; a light gleams
in the dietetic° and Timothy turns the steam-
ing horses toward. it. It is the post -station in
the midst of the steppes. They. enter the
court -yard. like a °barging hurreetne.
Faust for a moment breathes heavily and
loud, staggers blindly, whiunies low and
shndderingly falls—never to rise again. He
had broken a blood -vessel in the =alert he
had made to keep the sleigh straight when
the side -horse fell, and, theugh bleeding in-
wardly all the while, the strengthand cour-
age of his race upheld him to the last.
Timothy, with bowed head and wet eyes,
makes no attempt to hide his sorrow. .The
prince stands like a man of stone, gazing
dumbly at his horse, already stiffening, his
legs stretched out, his mouth and nostrils
red with blood. Mme. Nova; too, for a
moment is speechless; then throws back
her head with a gesture of hnperious d'efi-
ance. -
"It was not to be this time," she mur-
murs, softly. "We are saved—saved,
Serge, my friend, though all depended on a
horse. " •
And moved, touched, in spite ef herself,
she turns and impulsively reaches her hand
to hor lover. But he stands like a stone ;
he does not notice her hand, and his voice
is ice itself as he mechanically repeats after
her; "As you say, madame—all depends
1113Sotnilal shhoerade.
oe's' not understand him; she is
a woman and hard to convince, and she
speaks again vvieh a tender inflection;
." How strangely you speak, Serge. It
was Marta --did you know that, Serge --
Marta you called me during— during our
peril, "she adds, with- a silvery laugh.
"For the first and the last time, ma-
dame," the lieutenant returnsh, bound me "Faust has broken that whit
to my dearest desire. True courage is al-
ways admirable. I would see any woman
brave peril coolly and would commend the
effort.; in like proportion would I despise
her did her caprice endanger the life even
of a deg. How, then, judge one whase wie
fal fancy exposes human lives to the cruel -
at danger? Men are not allowed, AS you
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A Redeeming Feature,
Denounce our age as much as one may,
there is one redeeming feature, which in all
honesty and fairness should be recognized
and emphasized. Ours is pre-eminently an
age of helpfulness. It excels all others in
its aid to the helpless. The poor were
never better cared for, while all sorts of
ailments receive special and generous treat-
ment. Suffering makes its appeals more
widely than before, sad responses pour in
from all quarters: The spirit of Christ in
the way of human relief has infused Chris-
tian natione, and mankind feels Inure akin.
At one period the Russian famine might
have ravaged unheard of and unrelieved,
but now the press, religious and secular,
states the ease before the public, and a
Christian people send cargoes of food to
the far-off sufferers. At home and abroad
need finds many hearts and purses to meet
the situation. But, much ea is being done
in this direction much more remains for
,Christians to do. The unfortevaate call
constantly for assistance. Let relief be
timely, adequate and wise. Let not the
wail of the outcast pass uneeedeci, but min-
ister to his want and develop self-help on
his part. It is a nobleservice to engage in
minis trice of helpfulness to the lege highly
favored in temporal and religious things in
our own and other lands.
Bee h t, in the midst of this hot weather
some one .cornee forvvard with the question :
"Is profanity on the increase 2"
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"Casterlaissowelladaptedto childrenthat
I recommend itas superior to a.tlypreseriptlen
known to me." IL A. Anomm, IL D.,
Sp, Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. T.
"The use of Castoria • is so universal and
its merits so well lmown that it seems a work
of supererogationto endorse it. Few are the
intelligent families who do not keep Cestoria
within easyreaele"
CAneos Menem D. D..
New York City.
]ate Pastor Bloomingdale Reformed Church.
Castorla cures Collo, ConstipatRut,
Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, "
Sills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes di-
gestion%
Without in3nrious medication.
"For several, years / have recommended
yourCastoria, and shall always continue to
do so as it has invariably produced beneficial
results."
EDWIN Y. PARDEE, IL D.,
"The Winthrop," if:5th Street and lith Ave.,
New York City.
TITE CENTAUR COSTANY, 77 Mtenter STREET, NEW E.
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CURED IN 20 MUTES BY
Alpha Wafers
Purely Vegetable, Perfectly Harmless
and Pleasant to Take. ForSale by all Druggists. PRICE 25 Cts
MoCOLL BROS. & COMPANY
Toaoxiro.
Ifartufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in, the following
specialties :
Wool
Cylmder OILS Bolt Cduttlang
Red Engine Zuralta
TRY OUR LARDINE MACHINE OIL
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keeps constantly in stock ell kinds of
BUILDING MATERIAL
Dreszed. or Inzdreszocl.
PINE AND HEMLOCK LUMBER.
SHINGLES A SPECIALTY
900,000 XX and XXX Pine and Cedar Shingles now in
stock. A call solicited and satisfaction guaranted.
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REFORE MID AFTER USE.
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• Opening of a Queens Grave.
A Swedith• Queen's grave has been open-
ed at Upsida in the presence of the Prince
Regent, the Archbishop, and many profes-
sors. The grave which dates from 1584, io
situated in a side aisle of the Cathedral of
Upsala, in a :fault beheath the pavement.
On the ceiling are painted the Royal 'arms.
On the immense atone over the grave are
engraved in Latin the words—" Catherine,
Queeri of Sweden.; died September 16,
1583 -;daughter of Sigismund, Xing of Po-
land, and wife of Johann, third Xing of
Sweden. She was buried on the 16th ef
February, 1584." On removing this etoue
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a copper coffin was found and opened,
Within was a wooden coffin, somewhat de-
cayed, and lined with velvet in rags. Be-
neath a leather cover lay the corpse of the
Queen, clothed in velvet, the feet in stuffed=
shoes. Amid the folds of the velvet lay an
extremely small skull.
A Promise :lle Was Sure To Keep:
Jimmy—" Dinna greet, Bobby, maybe.
yer feather clidna, mean it when -he said etwa
he wid thresh ye." •
tobby---". too-hoo 1 Ye didna ken .• Wee—
feather, jimmy; it's no' like as if be promiee
ed to tak's to the thayter—boo-bortel
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