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The Brussels Post, 1904-4-14, Page 3II 7flib GLAD SPIINGTI E Like the Birds, We Should Become Gods Singing Disciples. Moored nacording to not of tho car hatnont of Uilnada, in the year (,ne Thousand Nino klundrod and four by Wm, Batty, of Toronto, e.1 the Lepartment of Agrtae:tore, Ottawa 3. A despatch from Los Angelos, Cul. sane: Rev. Frank Ito Witt Talmage Breached from tit' following text Solomon's :Long li., 12, "The titan of Cm singing of the birds is cone," "Do you know what makes the Mow -Imolai disappear In the spring- Umoe"" asked n, nom of poetic temp- erament. "Why, yes," 1 answered. "It Is duo to the heat of rho stn boissg so much stronger now than it is in January. It 1s due to the fact that, , contact the earth is being warmed at tho sun's flreslde, even as one side of a piece of broad 10 toasted by being exposed to the kitchen stove's heat walla the othor side of that pleat of bread remains vnseorohed." "Oh, no," answerOd my noetic friend, "The snow disappears .trot on account of tho sun's rays; but because the flames glowing among the feathers of the red -breasted robins have meltod thein. have you not noticed, as a rule, the snowflakes nevor entirely disappear until those harbingers of rho summer flowers harm stamped them out of existence?" LITER TFft' SONG BIRD. its brightest lights snuffeci out ba - fore It had n,ny opportunity to shine, John Milton, In some respect's, is the greatest name in English litrra,. , ture. Yet old, blind and ntgleoted by his people, he had to write for prosperity because the men of hid own Gums and generation would not listen to his poetics song, Edmund Burke, one of the greatest of the English statesmen of lits time, most of his life w,es ]practically a states- man without an °fal'ce, or, if in oitice, ono who held a very subordinate place. So littlo was ho honored by his 13arJlamentary colleagues that it was once said, "No man could empty the house of commons so quickly as when Edmund Burice arose to speak," First, like the song bird, God bids us sing because ho has given to us =Weal 'throats with which to sing. • As the brown thrush or the redbird or the nightingale is able to llft his voice in treble or fantasia or lullaby 00 cauttata or serenade, God, by ana- tomical construction of the throat, leas made It poss[blo for us to sound forth musical notes in his name. ITe has not disconnected our windpipes front the great bellows of the lungs. He has not had us horn with palsied tomato, or with deaf ears. But as God has placed in tho larynx of every singing bird's throat a thin mom brane, so he has stir -totted over rho end of almost every human being's windpipe a fibrous, elastic tissue which will vibrate as we attempt to sing or speak. We ought, 1010 and all, to b1) grateful that God has giv- en to us ,nnntomically a musical throat with which we can sing 1»s praises. Thank Clod to -day for the power of the speaking throat. We are all ready to ackaowledee our indebtedness to him for the blessings of the eye. 7f you aro not, then rend that wonderful story written by tiro most famous of 1Jvtne English authors. The book opens with a de- se1'ipt(on of a noted war artist who is growing blind. Frenziedly ho works at his last canvas, then the ,i` dark cloud of total obscuration falls inion him. ITJs friends leave him one by oto for the Egyptian war, Iia sit4 in his room alone, an object of pity, until at last, crazed by horror, hu stores for the front and is there mercifully shot by an Arab's bullet. lOfghtt Oh, yes, with ovetry glorious sunrise, with every architecture of frost upon window pane, with ovary tnastsriiieee of autumn follags, with every walk ovr..r country hill or through city surer:, wo aro all ready to say: "Thank clod for two oyes! Thank Cod for the windows of rho sap,!" POWER Ole THE HUMAN VOICE, Not only for visual, but for audi- tory organs are wo also thankful. 1f the sounding board of one of oar ear - dooms is in any way doaclm c'd wo guard the other ear more otuefully than we do out. jewel boxes or our i` .securitles, which we place in the saf- ela vaults, Wo nrvnr let our tvtn ear become overheated by stove or regis- ter. Wo novor in a railroad train let tho draft blow upon it through open- ed windows. At the least :tight of dis- turbanco then away we rush. to the specinlist t:o hove it treated and .car- ed for by the best of {turista, Ah, yes, we all appreciate the blessings of rho oat'. Ilut how many of Us ap- preciate the blessings of the voloo? Row malty of us Itat'o int Lilo post thanked Clod than we can sing itis bhaises ns the hb•rlsipan (batten every tree branch into a choir loft in the tennplo of the woods? How many of us aro ready to thank God for this wonderful instrument of human voice, which can laugh out our joys and sob 0111, 0u1• Sorrows and make men kitow tin thoughts that aro lodging for ambito under the domes of our fore- heads nod the loves that aro billing and cooing i1) rho silent retreats of our hearts? ' GOT) BIDS US SING, Lilco tho song birds, God bids us slug because Ito has given to us au open heaven in which to sing. It is. ono thing to have a voles with which to sing, but it is just no essential to Imo° a suitable plane in which you can sing, It is one thing to have a. musical throat nice the song thrush, ill which all the siren s1:1(01ts 0f tit hills nod valleys cart find melodious etpression, but it is aliotlihr thing to 'Moo the beet:alinl voice of the yellow tippbd canary !malted into prrprtt 1)l ' sitcom by being d0nt1cilhd in a dark room or itt a clungnon. If 0 singing bird Wore compelled to live in a ground mole's tonne], or to work 11110 the motdt4 with their mouths wrapped Op with woolen gavot:las, he would h( 1111 dumb ns they. i'l1altk Clad, thein, for year 111waieal. throut and for your opportunities for osing l,1. 1Ravlti Glasgow ,iratrngt4, ono of the most t'0Sii1 ll(I0tlt cho'nc- tors b1- mom.' histoy, woo 1110'11 Jolt, 11, 1Rt11 Will1 tin t.1Mp1ion of on ruiye;40a1,111 in which he. patticipnted 1444 n here boy 01 1hittc011, 1"nrregut )100 r 1410911tH gtinpowdr e in nrlual. "O116' mail ha tens sltl.,-ane tones 111 ago, :I 1)t• nanrlp fifty long ten's ate. lyn tkp•1 tho Adria; floc* 10- 1111140 h1 peace,. Hatt he ham latirod ttL 14[01'.,1 towel, of non (151141 tine ant'vieo, .Amer( 11110.111Rio1'y would have had one of CHOOST A MIGTITY TII1IME, illutt is truo of peioting and sculp- ture is also true of,m ale, Bec1110V00 and Wagner and Mendelssohn and Handel did not employ their genius is a street ditty. Thoy trained their ears to catch the voices of the winds which can only be hoard upon tho heights of Mount Olympus, Thoy called their oratories by the mighty names of "The Messiah," "Tho Ba- hasa," The Prodigal Son," "The Light of the World," "Samson,'' "Saul," "Esther," "Joshua," "Eli- jah"' and "taut," "Jephthah," "Is- rael in Egypt," "The Creation," "The Womnn at Samaria," So our - singing birds in their oratorios hallo glorious themes to sing about. Their song is the resurrection, They slag of the bursting seeds and the it- conse of swinging flowers, Thoy sing of the winter which is gone and the harvests which are to come. They sing of titu sheep which are growing the wool that the little children may have warm clothing to defy the December blasts and of the sap giving life to the trees that the great logs may be rolled into the old fashioned fireplaces around which tho families can gather about its glow and learn the lessons of love. They sing of the open har- bors and the king's ships going to Tarsh.ish to come hack laden with gold nod silver and ivories and the wealth of foreign Wince. They sing of our earth's resurrection, which is emblematic of a heavouly glory. Oh., my frie,tds, hike the song -birds in the springtime, will ,you not choose (t mighty theme to inspire and uplift your life's music ? CHORUS OF TIM WOODS. Again, God bids us, like the song birds, sing becaase he does -not ex- pect us to he soloists, but to take an essential part in a great life's chorus. The true beauty of the song bird's singing is that he etu•- rios a part and not a whittle day's solitary musical rocitat.iot, .Like tho piccolo, Or the clarinet, his voice may be shrill, or like the Pluto, soft and sweet, or liko the bass viol, loud and deep; but wbnther soft or loud, ins voice has a part, en essen- tlatl port, in the chorus of trine woods If you would know how essential the bird's voices aro for the musical sweetness of the woods just go with mo some day up among tltn forest covered hills, As we tramp on and the twigs snap under our feet and our voices are tossed in echo from tree to tree the birds scurry away or sllontly hide bohind their Curtain of leaves. They not a good deal as do the village. children when city people are riding through the coon - try. They run into the house or barn and keep very quiet. .13111; if , you pay 110 attention to those child- 1'on they will. begin to peek out of the windows or 130hin1 the wood 1 house, and then they will gradually i come out and watoh you as you dis- appear clown the road. Swat is the • way tho feathered musicians of the II forest act. When -you first enter the Woods and call to them to sing t thoy will keep as silont as the grave, !s I1- b 6 o1) lie down n tho to If y n n t t l 1)t of some giant oak and prrthnd you aro asleep the minty toner, of the bh'ds will then begin their seonlliody end - lees thorns. First three win Ito a Twit:ter, then au IIIRWM•hng r1111, then n duet, then a third voice will brook in and mako tin trio. Theo off in rho distanee a tvoodpeeletr will beat. time, like the ilrumstJrk tripping up- on the Allmon -Alm 'Piton a grout wave of harmony, like Ifandel's "Halleluiah Chorus," will roll over you, Then sudden silence. Again the musks will start, and it new con- cert will be masterfully rentlernd, sorb bird's voice not much i1) Itself, but each an essential part of the great wood's chorus, AN INSPIRATION. It is tt'ondcrfal to ren11ze how quickly a musical cotdnctor knows when any of his musicians aro not doing as they ought. to do, I onto read of a groat metes b'a of hun- dreds of pieces being gathered to- gethor. When every misiCien Was doing his part, and the sounds rose and fell like voices of many waters, the piccolo player thought. he would stop and see if the leader would miss him. No sooner did he 'top 'than the leader pointed his baton toward the silent man and said, "filly l Play 1 You aro an essential part of the pioco. Do you hear opo? Play," So, in the groat musical chorus for the salvation of the Wo1'Id, Ooci bids us each to thtg end take our part, as each bird of the woods has his singing pert. Sing ! Sing 1 To -day in ChrIst's Immo sing, ns the song birds in the springtime. Sing your part in the "Song of tyloses and the Lamb," Like the singing birds, we should not only sing because we hay° an esscintiol part in Cod's grant chorus, but because cinch sopa bird inspires othor song birds to sing, A little canary in a room alone may not caro to warble. But it is different when two or three birdcages are hanging 1 n windows through which the suit is shining. 711011 ono lord's note will inspire the other birers. One bird's song will make rho other bink sing. So ,nen and Women, singing Clu•ist's soon, will inspire other men and 100100(1 to sing theta. Alen and women pray better and of- tener if they prey togethor, They love God more and are more wilting• to nmako sacrillcos for the Master, if they dove and servo hint in groups, ns the little company gathered in the uppor chamber, to await the coming of tho Holy Ghost. Thoy aro more willing to go into the by- ways and hedges and carry the gos- pel t0 the blind, the deaf, rho dumb, the crippled and the poor, if they go forth as Christ sent his dis- ciples, two by two, nitd not alone, 0h, my brother and sister, in God's great chorus of redemption, will you not sing ani inspire your neighbors and loved ones to sing e,lso ? Sing in Christ's name. Sing as the song ltirds side. 0i')" 114 the ndalmist bids us sing. "Let evrrvt:hi/lm that hath breath proise the Lord." Sing! Sing" Triumphantly and everlasting- ly sing, Hing, for i Ire tiros of the eilte''iile of all Christians as well as of birds bas come. NO TUNNY -BONE, That which is populm9y known as tho "funny -hone," just at the point of tins elbow, is In reality not a bone at all, but a nerve that: lies tear the surface, and which, an get- ting a knock or blow, causes the. well•kaown tingling• s(osattton in the terms and lingers. Husband --"Ars you aware, my dear that it tapes three-fourths of my sul- ore to moot your dressmaker's hills?" Wife—'"Glootlness graofous, what do you do with tits rest of your Muter?" To Detect Dampness in Beds.—]:,et the bed bo well warmed with a 1 1.1 ren pats, and hnmedial:(ly after the pan is tattoo out inl.roduc0 be - ween tho sheets, in an inverted pos- Lion, a clean glass goblet, tutor it has remained in that situation a few minutes, exumino it; it dry and lot tarnished with steam, the bed s perfectly safe, and vice versa. In ho latter' ease it will be best to loop between Lha blanksts, 1 S, oLESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, APRIL 17. Text of the Leeson, Mark int., 2- 13. Gordon Text ,'lark ix , 7. The lesson se0,us in follow Im- mediately upon 1110 last in the re- gular nl'dor of events and, like the last is tQCordrd 601 I1 by A11LtthOW and Luke. The first verso of this chapter sllmold cOl'taillly ho included in our 1714so11, an. it is the, key 1'.o the lesson, and the transfiguration is the Unfolding 111)11 fulfillment of Ills say- ing in 1-11111, V51'141', 7110 fact that pooh of the ovangclisLS ioicnrda the iransllguration immediately alter that saying 330ne01')l 141 rho kingdom of Cod is sufficient oviderlce that thorn so lIndoratoo 1 it. Pater also, ,speaking of this event, calls it "the 'power and cooling of aur Lord Jesus Chrint" (1I, J oL, J, 16, 3.5), Tho ;favored throe who were with flim !when He raised to life Litt ruler's daughter, and .afterward in His agony in Gothsemune, worn privileg- ed on this occasion to ha (Eyewit- nesses of alis majesty, Why these three instead of the others and wiry 1John should 001310 310113141' than James or Peter we may not perhaps know, taut we do know that few seem. willing to be 'ITis choice ones, His Nazaritos, either ' in re- demption, it seems to bo for "who- soever will," The 01(1 question still 'stands, "Who, then, is willing 1" (L Chron. axle:, 5). ILuke says that Ifo wont up into a lttountttin to pray, and as Ito prayed i the fashion of Ills c0untenunce was I 'a.ltered, and His raiment was white nod glistering, Oar lesson says "shining, exceeding white as snow," nod Matthew says ""white as the light" and that 23is face did shine as the sun. Somewhat thus He ap- peared to Daniel long billow) Ho came in tho flesh and many yours after HA ascension to John la Pat - 11104 (Oen. x, 6; ltov, 5, 16), Tho miracle was not so much that Ito was thus transfigured, but rather 'that such glory Coltld thus ht` veiled those thirty-three years in a mortal' body. What an inspiration to look 'forward to the titno when these h0d108 in wh1011 WO 1100' live shall be imliwrtill, incorruptible, fashioned liko unto His glorious body; when the righteous shell shine forth ns the sun in the lcinedont of their Father ! (Phil. iii, 21; Matt. x111, 43.) The transfiguration took p111co on a high mountain apltert by themselves, and so we Hulot have our ae0(0'ns apa.1't with. Trim in prayer 1f we would see and know anything of Itis glory. Our Lord always lived in the reali- ties of the unseen. Cod the Father, the holy angels, the redeemed from the earth went all more coal to IIim than. the peoplo and thins', which our natural eyes see, and uoty hero aro two 111011, ITosos and Elijah, who had bean absent from rho earth at ioast 1,400 a11Yi 600 .,, o,"'eC4ive- 1 ly, and they aro alivo and wen and talking with Jesus of that most int-' portant of all evsnts UP to that', time, "Ilia decrease which TIe should I accomplish at Jorusa.lonl" (I,ulto ix, 01). Ltltbough tho disciples wore 1 hoary with sloop, they leapt atvalco and saw 1718 glory and the two amen 1 that stood with IlitIt. We aro u.ot toll how they r000gnized !Mases nnd Elijah nor it the Lord Jesus intro- 1 duced them, but it is prob111:110 that in the glory one slain know another ; without any iutraductiot, and we' may see a now meaning in the words, "Then 511011 I loom uv01) as also I tan known" (I. Car, x111., 1'2). 1.f the atoning sac711100 of Cheat was to i Moses and Elijah and Moto!, so all i111portant a theme, how can anything else be mora important to 114? Voter, ot•0rconto by what ho saw, li and not knowing what to say, suer- 1 gested that the. make taboriiaolcas and abiri'c there, and so w0 tool would fain abide at some conference I or convention. o• in some happy frame • of mind on some nfountain top of spiritual expe'iuncc. But the king -Is dont is not yot, and there aro malty i h on the lover love, of rho wot'id, op-1 by tho devil, and few (van { t among tine rliscipios seam able to bring relief bocausn there is so llttle prayer 1111(1 fushhur (t(rsa «J), so 'iit- 1.1t' Wdtole hoartudness for (pod, so littlo value seemingly. coached to the proclous blood, which lilone 5014 019(1.1)140 11'0111 all 51n. As peter spocu a -clout, overshadaw•- ed thein, and a voice from the cloud said, "This 114 my billow -el Son, Ju whom I -am 11741 pleased; hoar ;soli 1111n" (Matt. xvil, 5). This is still Clod's word to tach 01' us, and Otero 18 no way by which ')'o ton Int pieus- ing to (pod except through J('sus Christ and no other tray by which we can have fellOWshiti with God, When we hero` the words of Christ, ! coo hear the words of (pod tht Fath- er, for the leather told 11Jul what to s('y (John xil,, 1R, 19; xtc. 10), and when we have oars for ,Jesus Christ woe will can't --Only have 00110 for any who-dlshouot' Slim or His word. And now herd is a groat word for our hearts. ""They sate no lean any mor)) 1111vo Jesus only with them- selves," 31 reminds us of othor words such as these: "The Lord alone shall ba exalt d," Cease ye from man, * * * Deltoid the Lord." "Tito Lord shall be king over all the earth; in that day there shall be one Lord, and His nam0 ono" (Isa. ii., 11, 17, 22; ill., 1; Zech. xiv., 9). ! We may anticipate in our daily life and experience the kingdom Than Cod shall be all in all, but it must be by finding in Christ note oar all in all and by seeing no ono but Jes- us only (I, Cor. x13„ 211: C'o1, 111„ II). If they had simply believed His word, �t they need not have questioned what ;Ho meant by His rising from the dead, for had they not just looked upon a representative of those who die nnd rise front the dead and also of those who shall be changed with- out dying? A1nv we see ,Iaslt14 only and simply believe his evet;y word. rsiimuI.� HINTS. H Sufferers ft'ont Asthma. and Bron- chitis should take at teaspoonful of ;this remedy three times a day, or ono dose at night will greatly m lieve wheezing and irritation : One tablespoonful of ipecacuanha wine, two tablespoonfuls of honey, two *tablespoonfuls of lemon juice, First melt the honey, then acid, the other ingr•ed ten Cs, Sufferers from Chillilafns should try this remedy : Get sen( potatoes with the jackets on, boil them with- out peeling, and bathe tho chilblains with the water, as hot es it can be borne, night and mnrning, and they will soon be cured. There is ap- parently, ;;rout value in tho skin of tate po10to. To Clean Ivory.—When ivory be- comes yellow from use 1-n• ago wash it well _in soapy Water with a brush, and place it whilo wet in the sun every day for several days. With this treatment it will in a short time become beautifully white. Or it may bo blenrhod by putting it Lit water containing chloride at lime, and letting it stay 0 short time. To destroy Bretics or Cockroaches. —Place a few lumps of uuslaoked limo Whore they frequent, or mix equal weights of rod lead, sugar, and flour, Ottd place it near their haunts. This las(: mixture, made into shoots, forms 1110 littlo wafers sold at lt ish,ps o t o o l c , t To Remove Oil and Cilrasr from + Carpets.—When oil is spilled on at' carpel., put plenty of white flour on rho spots as quickly as possible in. order to grovrnnt them front sp1'lad ing.. If tho oil is near a seam, but does not quite reach It, rip the seam ` in ordor to stop it. Put flora' on floor under the oil spot. The next' dn.y talcs up all the flour frorn the carpet. and Hoot' with a dust -Pan and a very stiff carpet-ht•ush, and put on fresh flour, using pl0nty of it. It will not bo neress*u',V to 110 it a third time., To tn.ku out grouse spots, rub theta with a piece. 0f white tunnel clipped in spirits of tor- 1 ocotillo: and, if they again become t'isible, rub the spots on both sides of the 001(10t When it is taken up . E shaken. If there care oil or f grease spots on the floor, they h0u1d bo covered with thick paper (fore the•carpot is again laid d01,00. So0nrm will not entirel • remove hem. ipefloesaf!oata leeueefeopo(•a ID 01 FOR toll • HOME efe Recipes for the Kitchen, • tiygfeno and other Notes • for the llousekreper, v til 9o01361,n4)0a',ntso;do9of?)0650 j,e DOME)S'J'IC 111CCI1'l;s, Powdered 1Torse'adlsh,-01105 tho horserndisln rather th111, 1)1'y Ju til oven till thoroughly dry, turn point( it and store in a bottle for use, 1 the horseradish is thoroughly dried it will keep a long while. Icor a. fitarch Polish,—lfakc en goo tlticic 1401111011 with gum arable, Add a tablespoonful of this to the hot starch, 11 cold starch is required, dissolve a tablespoonful of guns in ono pint of water, and use it whoa cold for mixing the starch, Tor Lenton 13unce Tako one pound sof flour, two tablespoonfuls of bilk.. mg powder, six ounces of buttor and lard, the grated rind and juice of ono lemon, and six 01113198 of caster sugar, ,tub the butter into the flour, add tho other ingredients, ,fix into small buns, and bake in a quick oven for. a quarrel• of althour. For Plain Dough Cake.—Got two pounds of bread or roll dough from .the baker; keep it wrapped up dur- ing its transit, as cold would Make it heavy. Put the dough into a basin and knead into Jt four ouncos of hurter or good clarified dripping four ounces of sugar, a gill of warm 11111k, and flavor the whole with car- , raways, spice, or currants as pre- ferred. l'ut filo dough Into a floured cake tin in a warm. place to rise, then bake in at moderate oven. Turn out and serve on a sieve. Steak and Kidney Pudding,—Lino a greased basin with nice light suet crust; cut two pounds of shin of beef or beefsteak into thick, square pieces; remote the skin and white part of a quarter• of a pound of beef kidney, mix a teaspoonful of popper, two teaspoonfuls of salt, and the sante quantity of flour. Dip each pleat of meat into this, put as light- ly as possible in tho basin, fill up with water, Cover with suet crust after wetting the edges. Tie over with a fiotu•od cloth, and boil for five hours, Tither turn the pudding out whole on a dish, or send it to table with a serviette folded round the basin. 0,014190 Patties.—First line some small patty pans with good Puff paste, stamp a little round in the t middle and bake in n sharp oven. Blanch a dozea large oysters, re -1 move the '11011rds and not the muscle I Part, and lay in cold wator to keep their color. Melt one ounce and a half of butter and try a chopped !shallot, add a small teaspoonful of flour, ditto curry powder, and liquor from the oysters. Cayrune and .lemon juice to taste. When this is ! all cooked over the fire, while stirr- ing add half a gill of cream, 011 a ; !boiled carrot cut into dice. Put in ' i the oyster's and just warm through. I%mil't•o the little pieco from the middle of the patty, scrape out the ; soft Bart and 1111 the cavity with { the oyster mixture. Put on the 1 Lop nnd servo. Gond Pon gaup. ---Soak half a pint of split pacts in soft water for twon- 1 ty-four hours, and then drain. Put on in throe pints of water, and boll for t.tvo hours. Remove all scum. }lave ready. prepared and cut into ! small Morels the foIluwing vegeta-' bles ; Two targe 011ioirs, ono carrot, 1 one turnip, one: small ]orad of celery, ' two sprigs of parsley; add these to the soup with a teaspoonful of salt, half a t(0apoonfll of sugar, a quar- ter of a t.ellspoonful of pepper, cud' ono cameo of ballet• or boot dripping. 33oi1 till tho Irons are quite tcueler, stirring occasionally; this will pros 1 "Wily be im about three hours Press I all the coup and its various ingre- i clients through a, sham, return to rho sauce -pan and stir till it boils up ' thoroughly, Band powdered dry mint and fried croutons of bread with this soup, or if '[iced substitute grated Itarmesatl cheese for the mint, If you would get up with the lark go to "ed Without one, c LIVING SNAKES FOE .SIR PRIY$1014N'S 4.000TTNT" OF A. STRANGE DISEASE. Victim a Lithuanian Lady Who . Tlad Sought Rsfuge itt Canada. "I)id you over hear of the disease known as Pli50. polooica ? Even if you hallo, you Ca11 X101101 form any idea of its horror until you have soon a case of it. Indeed, unless 1 you are a. medial elan, you aro 1011 1 likely to 1101'0 nn opportunity, end if ,you are wise you 47.111 navel wish for one," The speaker was a well know, Q sician who was travelling wast Portland, Ale., whore be had a patient on board an ocean en route for 4110 European 310111. "I had mad about it, of course, but first sate a typical also of .it two Months ago," he went on, "A Lithuanian lady of rank tad mixed herself up in one of those half road plots against the Russian C;nvera- ment which fanatical patriots are t pity from placed 3ir,ot• cont, contlaually starting', "Site was so far favored by the authorities as to receive a hint of the discovery of Igor oonnoction with the confederates before arrests were made, and sit made her escapo to this country. "Her husband, who is one of the meek of Lhe earth, called me up 0110 night and, after bogging mo to Maintain the deepest secrecy, con- ducted me to an elegantly appointed house, whore to a half reclining 1'os- tore upon a lounge, 1 found my pa- tient. There was some demur be- fore I was allowed to have the lights fully turned on so that I might make AN EXAMINATION, ""You, of course, remember the old classical story of the Gorgon's head with living snakes for hair, which turned the behoider Tato stone ? I can now understand where the ori- ginal of that idea came from. The oxplanution was before me in that beautiful boudoir. "Surrounding a Iovely oval face with a warm 01ivo complexion and strange lilac blue eyes and standing out a good twelve inches from it, was a tremendous mass of black hair. Every single hair was about ELS thick as an ordinary manila clothes lino and as stiff as that rope is when first bought, ""There was actually a palpitating kind of movement about the hairs, which added to the dreadfulness of it. The likeness to a mass of snakes about the head was very real. "I don't mind owning up to hav- ing been an exceptionally long time fn counting the heart beats at her wrist while I was palling myself to- gether and getting over the shock. S speedily found that every single hair was a tube full of viscid hum- or, and that thero were actually pul- sations near the scalp, pulsations as narked and as violent as in the case of an abscess or carbuncle. "The strain upon the head of the sufferer must be Intense, though the pain from the thousands of heated, SUPPURATING HAIRS does not appear to be as great as might be oxpocted. One need not be very much of a surgeon to see that whoa the hair ducts upon tho scalp have been inflamed and become enlarged so as to allow of the free passage of blood and humor tho cutting orf of the hair becomes am- putation of a most clangorous .kind. Indeed, local treatment of any kind is almost an impossibility, though the disease is not absolutely incur- able. "My patient was, I think, im- proving under tl•eatlnent; but acting upon either a hint from abroad, from some of her revolutionary friends, or upon n Budd .1 r s] e , e l a a 9 1- a o union to consult her old medical friend, as she told too, she left one day for Germany. Instructions were loft with her landlord to sell the furni- ture and forward the receipts to a lawyer in Berlin. "No, I don't think that the Polish disease is seriously infectious, though there slay be hereditary pre- disposition toward it. It is com- nnonly thought that cleanliness and are of the scalp and hair aro the - -best preventives. "13th it would 13e safest to look pretty closely into the condition of immigrants from tine Rossini) pro- vinces and so avoid the possibility of this terrible and really dangerous disease obtaining a foothold among 08." THE LEVIATHAN IATHAN O THE OCEAN. - I1I'GH1'lbhG 'VW joltesAei.' 'UNoocuPlEp' •.11,1' 11L0171 AGI;IDN} `S e Aril.' 5•Pss:at Fief-111Np Id6P11 rtioe, iBLtUNOGGU,PI@{,1�' tit 13 1,053. AS?:Aoa►, :5'0:18(44 COMM6S cora1- A'*fi, r i1ftR,13 1414POUIiEO Oia5EnvA'i'iote TOWS (FROM WHICH AFT, TORPt0Ot,S "'-, VIASCT'D.ARO MED, 42.po£4,, . Nli od.ARMOUft 13FLT)14- ei . ll "i ,,rH, it li?ii(riifiie� I i1) 6i1Tbi± e,AFfSETT Pt11i'. 12 1 N, 14./N1' 1. eaPO1Ly5.;WORICINt1 1H s,r•:41--j,4)(lIltdiu11111(I�I1fIiatleetit a49>1 —•-ems" a.ovJ 61- (a L 1-q et PSP p 1�= ARtiouttAtteter*.a. ▪ ,em,c f1G '}.itl1bl)RED' tiilNelsG TOWER N`S' - Rpm,' iilCHCN144OFFIICERS ARS' 9TN:r OhlsD001OPtit}(• fhA Acriol f ld,vw. 1-!4„. xi, t, d( a 13 0 FORE •BARBETTE. 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By a. study of the weather -stops it was shown that the dust, w113Ch formed a dense yellow bozo, Bice a tmrtdon fog, tort lay tike: on tr•eeo and roots, origtu- otetl on the northwest confit of Africa and after riding' 011t in a great (loud, far over the ocean, to the neighbor- hood of the Azores, turned to the lorthwost nod was sprinkled torr England, When swept tip it resenthlod a tine retldisltyellow powder,. TIE 701171) IT. Foreman (to now hand)—"tltiko, go 110 11(10 rnghto room and estop thea Leakage of gas; but bo careful, for, by the smell of it, . it's 1'athe 1' o, 11111-,e leakage," Two minutes tatty a load report was heard, The 'foramen llut'rietl, toot found lliico lying on his back outside the engin0-morn door. When he was . asked holy it happened, Mike sold; Shure, sir, when T was melting,' the sealing -wax to drop over the. leak Something sudd0517 • blew tate match out, anti - here I ant, " .First Telephone Gir1.. 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