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BERTHINE.
A Story of the reencomProssion War,
joige I wits at Rethel that devilish winter
during the Frauco-Prussian wer, detach-
ed from my xegiment and Su charge of e
trort
o nhtaorganizetion which the
people et the tewn hacl got itp. Rethel
Is an out-of.tlieevay piece, but it ie an
old town with tr Uit,oi d, fortifica-
firms, and the eitieen$ had determined to
resist the inveders ited to stand. A siege,
if neeeseary. Of course, meet tri thew
abledIedied 'nee Were away in the twiny;
but they bought guns and seine old-
fashioned artillery that happily never
bed to be Bretj off, and they &Weil like
good fellows, wider my commend -all
ecn•ter and et/edit/lone of anee-buteliers
and bakees and grocers awl lawyers end
oretaides and carpenters, aria even apothe-
c.aries. Oh, I tell yoe they numat t, too!
%hey were only too anxious for the Pres-
eienis to come. But the days and weeks
went on and the Prussians did not come.
They were in the neighborhood, Borne -
times within eight or ten mike of the
town, but en the other side of the barest.
Several times they did enter ethe forest,
but I suppose it wee only far wood, or
perhaps for game. At any rate, an it
turned out, they did uot want Rethel.
We knew of all their movements, for we
had the beet ,sentenel in the world, an
old earaekeeper and forester,who lived in
a little house in the very heart of the
41,
wood, and who could hear a rabbit wag
its tell as far off, my friend, as eye eould
tee.
"This old man was named Nic,holas
Pichen, and Berthine was his daughter,
She, :was a fine, strapping big gal -I
think that she and her father were rath-
er superior in every way, physically,
mentally and morally, to the most of the
peasants in that region. 'lam things
sometimes happen in a country that has
had a few eenturiat ef feudal rule, At
any crate, she eras what yen might call
a fine figure of a girl -tag, plump, rosy,
as strong aa an cc and. atraid of neither
wolves nor Prussians. Oe the night of
which I speak -the night that, was so
like this -the old, man had gone into
town to notify us that a detachment of
Prussian infantry had. passed near his
house that day. Ile generally reported
once or twice a week, and took previ-
eions back with him when he returned.
He lived in a small old. stone house eight
mike from Bethel; and he made noth-
ing of running the whole distance -run-
ning, ramember-and back in the course
of an evening. He took his two great
bip., big hounds with him to defend him fro
m1!'
m
the wolves, which were feroeions in the
winter time; and the two women barte
ceded themselves in the house lintel his
return,. They were safe enough ttiere;
the house had stood for centuries, and
suppoee it is as strong to -day as it ever
evaa. It frightened the old mother to
be left in this way, and she sometimes
complained. to me when I went out
there, as we officers occasionally did, to
get a shot at a deer or a bird, We dtd
not live high ,that winter at Rethel, I
can tell y.au! I never saw Berthine
afraid, however. She simply laughed at
the idea of harm coming her way.
"On this particular evening, after the
old man had -slipped off in the dark-
ness, I3erthine split the wood for that
night and the next day, drew the water,
and, after she Lad fastened the door, to
please her mother, she set about making
soup in the kettle. That is pretty much
the staple diet of those peasentee-thin
soup for the poor days, cabbage soup for
the rich -days. To -night they were to
have cabbage soup, so that they might
save something good for the father to
refresh himself with when he got home.
And let me tell you that old Mother
Peahen and Berthine made a very good
cabbage soup for a hungry man, It is
not to be despised.
tee "It wag, just about this time of night
when the two women heard a :sound of
men marehing close to the house. The
old mother was .much alarmed, and she
nearly fell off her chair with right
when she heard a musket butt sapping
on the door. But Berthing only took her
father's heavy revolver tecrwn from, the
chimney piece and slipped it into the
pocket of her woolen petticoat, such as
our peasants wear; then she listened at
the door. She heard a deep bass voice
graying, with a strong German accent,
'Open.'
"Who are you?' she asked,
"Oorporal and five privates,' said the
German voice.
'"What do you want?' Bertbine de-
manded.
"'There is no one here' she said, 'but
my old. mother and myself.'
"The officer was a decent sort, of fel-
low -for a Prussian.
'"We don't want to hurt you,' he said;
give you my word we'll make you no
trouble; but we've got to have something
to eat and we've got to rest. My men are
almost dead,'
"Come in,' she Said, standing back
from the door'and they filed in. They
dragged their heavy feet as if they had
A hardly strength enough to take another
step, and they were almost too tired to
shake off the snow that covered them.
They sat down wearily on the two
benches between which stood the table.
"'You look worn out,' said Berthine,
as she closed the door after them;
make you some soup; it's the best I
can do for you,'
"She went about it as coolly and lin-
concernedly as though they had not been
present. She added hot water to in-
crease the volume of liquid in the ket-
tle and then made up its richness by the
addition of potatoes, more cabbage and
a great piece of salt pork. The soldiers
koked on as though they could eat it,
kettle and. all, and it must have seemed
• long time to everyone before that
soup was ready. When it was placed
before them, at lett, they fell upon it
liko half-starved creatures, taking it in
with brutish noises, and swallowing the
potatoes, *when they came to them, as
though they were strawberries. The privates said nothing, but the corporal
ittet grunted in his barbarous accent, 'Good,
good!' Finally he found himself Buell-
ciently fortified to begin to feel like
himself again, and ho asked. Berthine
if there was anything to drink in the
house.
"'I have only eider,' she answered
hint.
"'Give us some, there's a good. girl,'
be said,
"Moving thought fully and with some-
thing in her manner that probably
attracted the attention of the officer,
Bettlible took a big, old-fashioned key
from the wall, unlocked and opened the
greet trap-door in the corner of the
room and went (kWh the winding Stone
steps into the teller. She was gone a
long time; so long a time that the tor -
Oral grew uneasy, and when a strabge,
uncanny sound suddenly broke the still -
mess, he drew his revolver nuiekly and
looked stoogethe room at the old woman.
▪ .he rose trembling with affright.
"It la only the wolves, sir, she Med.
"Wolves-' repeated the corporal, In•
.credulously; but he weut to the door,
and, opening it cautiouely, looked out
and tat?the gaunt, grey eliapel
pruwl-
Ir itheitt in thsr Ono%
WeIV be fetid good-naturedly, as he
bolted the door and returned to lila plaee,
wouldn't have believed it, old 'woman.'
."Berthine came up from the cellar
Wtth the cider, a generous big atone
Nteherful, arid she gave it to her unlit-
vrted guests with a pleasant smile upon
her face. They bad it gulphea down in
it, minute or two,. and twice she refilled,
it for them, each time witli e still more
pleasant smile upon her face; which/ let
ine ateure you, my friend, Was a very
peculiar thing for a French peasant
woman giving away eider,
"By the time they had finished the
third pitcher, fatigue and their heavy
drink bad so told as them that they
began to fell asleep Wheys they sat.
'Stretch yourselves out in front of
the fire there,' said Berthine, kindlY/
'there's room enough for you all. Mr
mother and will take our supper over
here, anti when we are through we will
go up to bed. You'd better put on
another loge
"The soldiers stretched themselves out
on the stone floor; the two women made
a hasty meal of what remained of the
soup, first secretly setting aside a por-
tion to be kept for the father; and then
they climbed up the ladder to the gar-
ret that served them as bed chamber,
and left the lower story to their visitors.
The flickering firelight played on six
bearded Prussan faces; the oaken
rafters thrilled with six different Wed
of Prussian snores.,
"They bad slept long enough to be at
sleep's beaviest, when a gunshot rang
out on the air seemingly far off, yet
so exaggerated. in loudness by the sounds
of the night that it might have come
from under the very eaves. The six
soldiers leaped to their feet and stood
gazing at each other in drowsy amaze-
' 'mint. Another shot followed at once,
and then after a long interval, two
more. Suddenly a form droppecl among
them from the low ceiling. It was
Berthine, who had swung herself down
through the opening of the ladder. She
had a lighted candle in her hand, and its
yellow flame illuminated her fine figure.
She 'was barefooted, bare•armecb and
clad only ni her primitive peasant's
night dress, a coarse linen chemise and
a short pettieoat. 'Her eyes blazed wIth
anxious excitement.
"'For heaven's sake get out of the
house," she cried; 'it's the French regi-
ment from the town -five hundred of
them -and if they find you here teey
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thet tireless old man reached the gates
of Rethel, where the outpost brought
him in. In ten minutes the call to arms
was sounding in every direction; the
'OWN rang and the whole town was
topsy-turvy.
"They really did very well, however.
Had they been regulars they could hard-
ly bave been meelt more prompt in get -
tine off, and so we went inarchlog
through the forest, singing and hurrah-
ing, as though we were celebrating the
defeat of the whole Prussian enny, in-
stead bf the trapping of five privates
and a corporal in a peasant girl's cel-
lar,
"When we reached the cottage all was
still and silent. If it had not been for
the smell of powder in the air I sheuld
hardly have believed in the existence
of the captive Prussians. Berthine open-
ed the tloor and stood upon the sill,
calm and unmoved, as though her fa-
ther had not brought a delegation of 200
French soldiers home with him. I do not
know how those long and trying hours
of waiting had gone to her; but, if
they had troubled her placid spirit, she
gave no sign. Standing in the doorway,
she repeated her warning to everyone
who approacbed:
"'Don't get in front of the grating!"
"The soldiers were drawn up a couple
of hundred feet from the house, and
bonfires were lighted for warmth and
light. I entered the house, and going to
the trap-door I addressed the silent cel-
lar.
"'Is there a Prussian officer there 1' •
"There might have been no one at all
there for any answer I got. Again and
again I addressed the invisible'but no
sound cane back through the floor. I
offered that corporal all the blessings
of an honorable surrender, but he gave
no sign in answer. .
"Meanwhile something was going on
outside that I should net have approved
of. My men, of course, were standing
at ease. That is to say, they were run-
ning, jumping and stamping to keep their
feet warm. Finally someedaredevil had
discovered that Infernal grating, and
will burn the house over our heads, and
ncrthing would do him but he must run
perhaps kill my 'mother and me for giv-
across its range as a boy might run ,
ing you shelter. efitke haste, there is
across ehe danger space in the game
no time to be lost.' And she moved
toward the door. that we call barres in France -you call
"The maids face reddened. it prisoner's base, I think, This struek
same of the others as a attest amusing
"'How can we go?' he asked, eullenly.
'My men would be shot down a
sport, and the more fleet -footed kept it
mente And even as he spoke two more in zno-
up for a while, without drawing the et:-
shots were hefted close at hand. Beeemy's fire. Then there came along a
th-
t
inc cast her eyes about her, as if in des-
little, fat, round baker,
who was generally callcalled Malet,
ed the Bun, on
perate search of some way out of the aecount of his shape. They dared the
difficulty. Bun to make the trial; and, of course
1
"'Get down in the cellar, then,' she he did it, with it funny little trot that
cried, hurriedly, 'and keep quiet. Pli tell I
made the men laugh. Ile had got nearly
you when they are gone.' ; out of range, when it flash of fire shot
"She raised the heavy trap-door. The from the grating, and Malet went over
corporal grinned with delight, elapped on his back wirh a kick axle a howl,
her cordially on the shoulder, called her throwing les own gun over his head. It
a clever girl, and the six men with their struck it stone and went off. Its antizzle
guns and overcoats, filed noiselessly pointed almost straight at tlie grating.
down the , winding stone stairs. As the We conjectured that it bit somebody,
spike of the last helmet disappeared ' for an .exclamation caine from the cellar,.
from sight Berthine let down the trap- but eibether of rage or pain we could
door quickly and silently, and. the mo- I not make out Millet crawled and rolled
ment it was down she leaped upon it • out of danger, He was Wounded in hes
'with cat -like rapidity, and, leaning over,thigh; but net badly. IVIten I had re -
gave the key two quick turns. Then, formed our lines and left Malet in the
, surgeon's lands, I returned to the cot-
tage for a council of war, and found
Berthine still standing in the doorway,
looking at the picturesque scene -the sol-
diers, the snow, the great fires, the
gleaming arms --with the indifferent cur-
iosity of a well-fed cow.
" Well, my girl,' said, `this is a
pretty piece of business. You get your
rnen in the cellar, but how are we to get
them out?'
"She answered me in her matter-of-
f:tot way:
"They drank up all our cider last
night; why don't you give them a drink
of water now?'
"'What do you mean?' I asked. .
"'There is the pump,' she said, point-
ing to it; 'and there are gutters under
all the eaves of tbe house. You can
take them down and use them. But gee
should put them back again.'
"That was all the council of war. In
ten minutes those gutters were down,
stretehed, from an auger -hole which we th
made in the trap-door, through e win-
dow, to the nozzle of the big wooden
pump. Three men ranged themselves on
eaoh side of the long handle, and in o
short time the current of clear, icy water
was rushing down the ln
line of woode
troughs and pouring a steady stream
into the cellar.
"The cellar was small and sballow;
but, as you know, it takes a long eiane
to fill even the smallest of cellars
through an auger -hole. Tee snow had
stopped, and the east Wag red 'with
morning before we heard from that
cave of gloom :thy other sound than the
steady fall of the water. B -r -r -rt but it
was shivering cold, that water! Then
wo heard the hoarsest Prussian voice
that ever was dreamed of say through
the grating:
"'Mr. Officer!'
"The corporal desired to Surrender, At
my erders he passed the arms of the
detachment up through the grating, sing
ply remarldeg:
"Make haste, I am dying, and. my
.nren, are nearly drowned.'
'We opened the trap-door, and the
corpora's heed appeared, pale and ghast-
ly. Two of his men were eu,pporting
him. Itlalet's fallen gun had actually
shot him, and straight through the body.
"When we had warmed our prisoner%
80 filet they could walk, we started back
lot Bethel, carrying the wounded Bun
on
it stretcher. The wounded Prussian
wo left behind us, as our surgeon re-
portee him too daregerously hurt to be
moved .at present.
"This happened in the latter 'part el
January; and it wee that very day, by
chanee, that the Pruesian troops in our
neighborhood were <Cared to Paris. This
was fortunate for Berteine and her fam-
ily, and was probably the only thing
that sexed them from the vengeance of
the intettlers; for when .the Prussians
learned what bee become of their scout-
ing expedition, they Were as wild with
rage as we in Bethel Were with media-
ti°11"he
1•1.little town went 'fairly mad with
frensy of pride and mithusinsin, and
the good people of Bethel were quite
as slily Ana extravegant as -well, as
any eommunity tiett had lost it head
over a woman. They got up it popular
substription and gave Berthine Inchon a
sum of money; I have forgotten how
much, but it was a large sunt for the
time and plitee. The family with pre.
ter, and notify the lieutenant." serried with tlie thanke of the town in
a
*- *
"And so I was notified. It 'was tu1it silver casket, and Ilerthine receiyed
from 4,Ire municipality..,a peak of:rate:old
touch over an hour and a half later When wirriP**lieh, stippisiiisturitiretairi40
her own cider. The Pompiers-Fire De-
partment, that is -- sent her a mantel-
piece clock, with an alabaster pump on
it and she had a medal or testimonial
from every religioue society in the city.
And when the war ended in February
and, was ordered away from Rethel
the Berthine fever had reached such a
height that they were talking about es-
tablishing an aunual festival le ber
11°•lar.was not it time for festivals, how-
ever, and the absurd scheme was ebari-
doned; but when I came back to Rethel
early in April the excitement bed broken
out in a new form, and I found a most
curious dispute referred to me for de-
eision. I could hardly believe my ears
when I heard that the Mahe of the
town, and my old friend Maid, the
wounded baker, the Bun, were quarrel-
ing aS to which should marry 13erthine
Pichon a girl who could not read or
*write, ventured to suggest that she
was hardly a match for either of the
!people, but they were quite indignant
over it.
"'She is of the Aristocracy of patriot-
ism,' said Malet."She is another Joan of Arc,' said
the Maire.
"As ex -commandant I was forced to
settle between them. I decided in favor
of both, suggesting that they should
make their offers in order of seniority
and leave it to Berthine to express her
personal preference, if she had any. My
decision was regarded as novel. and
original, but perfectly satisfactory.
"But I did not knee- what I had let
myself in for, until the Maire insisted
that I should drive with him in state
to demand of Nicholas Pichon the hand
of his daughter. And, my friend, I Ead
to go; and I must tell you how we went.
"I have lived so long in America now
that I can understand how impossibly
ridiculous it must seem to you; but at
the time I was only mildly amused when
I found myself rolling through the for-
est in a big open carriage, conducted by
a liveried coachman and footman. I was
in full uniform, and I sat by the side
of the Maire, who was in evening dress
-yes, in swallow tail coat and white kid
gloves, at 11 o'clock in the morning.
That's the way thy do it in France
when they go to make a formal offer
of marriage -not addressed to the young
Indy herselt, you know but to the
yOung lady's papa. On the front seat
were two gorgeously caparisoned beadles,
borrowed from the Cathedral to lend
state and dignity to the occasion.
When we came to the bistorio cottage,
old Pichon was chopping wood before
the door. He looked up at us sullenly
and without saying a word went on with
his task. The footman descended and
announced the Mire of the City • of
Bethel. Then the old man looked up,
with insolent rage glaring out of his lit-
tle eyes,
"To the devil with your city of
Bethel.. It has cost me my daughter;
and ndw I must chop wood in my old
age."
"'Cost you your daughter," stammered
the Moire, bewildered.
"'Yes,' said the old miter 'you've set
her crazy among you with your non-
sense; and now she. and her clock and
the silver box and the money you gave
her -all the money -all the money, do
you hear -they have all gone with that
cursed hear,-they
who was to have died
and didn't.'
"It woe true. The modern, Joan of
Are had fallen in love with the captive
who had been left with her to be nursed,
and es she could never have dared marry
him openly and face the wrath of her
fellow citizens, she had slipped away
with him by night, not forgetting to
take with her the rewards of her pa-
triotism.
"We afterward heard that the corporal
with her strong forefinger, she cleaned
the dust and dirt of the floor out of two
bolt heads at the sides of the trap and.
shot the rusty bolts.
"Berthine returned to her garret, slip-
ped on her dress and came back to the
lower room. In ellence she and her mo-
ther began to warm up the soup they had
secreted, for it was getting to be the
time for the father's return. But it
was not long before the sound of voices
under their feet told them that the sus-
picions of their captives had been awak-
ened, Then the butt of a gun thwacked
against the under side of the trap door,
raid the corporal's guttural voice called
upon them to open. Berthine deigned tin
response to this command. She knew well
that hammering clown a front door was
one thing and striking up te heavy halt-
ed trap another; and that there was
no other opening ihio the cellar of thick
masonry save one little grated slit made
for ventilation,
"'Open,' eame the muffled voice of the
Prussian, 'or I'll break the door.'
'Break all you want to, my lad,'
said, Berthine pleasantly, as she stirred
the soup.
"Berthine was big, healthy and mag-
nanimous. It was her little, old, wrink-
led mother, who all these hours had cow-
ered in silent fear, who now burst into
a tempest of raging triumph. Crouch-
ing over the trap, she laurled gross in-
sults down at her daughters captives,
calling them hoes and wolves and rob-
bers, imitating their guttural accents and
mocking their bad French.
"She stopped exhausted as Berthine
raised a warning hand. Afar in the
woods sounded a strange note, like tire
ecreech owl's, yet, to a forester's ear,
unlike. The two women heard it, in
spite of the hubbub that the prisoners
made, beating on the atone ceiling and
firing their guns through the grating to
attract the attexttion of any comrades
who might be in seitrch of therm Berth-
ine put her head out of the door arta
answered with the same cry. It came
back again, and again she answered it.
Two great dogs burst out of the dark-
ness and leaped 'upon her, caressing her,
and whining with pleasure. She held
thent firixily by their broad leathelt col-
lars ane called to her father, whose tall
form could be seen emerging front The
thicket.
"'Don't pass in front of the grat-
ing! The cellar is full of Prussialls!
The old man changed his course and
entered the house. He gave the two
, women no further greeting than to xe-
peat interrogatively:
"The cellar is full of Prussians?'
"'Yes,' said the daughter, calmly.
"Ho sat down at the table; she placed
his soup before lam, and he ate stead-
ily on with the stoliki gravity of a pees -
ant, while his daughter told her story,
punetuatee by the blows of musket butts
beneath the floor and the crash of shots
fired through the grated slit. The smell
of the powder smoke mingled with thet
scent of the hot soup and the pungent
aroma of the wood fire. The story tnd
the soup were finished together. The
)110:11 made no comment whatever. Ile
merely said: 'What shall I do now?'
and, as he 'Waited for his daughter's re-
ply, wiped up the soup le the bottom of
the kettle with crusts of rye bread,
which he fed to his dogs.
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-au addition 'which Would SreatlY increase Northwest should be able ec: enjoy
the capacity ot Me reservoir .
At tee request of the government Sir Oen- large leaf,
lemln natter, who is respoesibie tor the de -
01E4 et tee earouan exectere, was requested Derimerk refuses to allow Greenland
to znalie an investigation, in the course et.
which the fact developed that the rtish of to be made a place for the treatment
water passing under great head aail Wee ,#
OVIlelt9ealtsVeries of cevities me bed. or the riv- :afraid that Ns polar bear* may exteh
envie' the sitece gates had worn consumptives, Is Kin.), Christian
er below the dam. The structure is built 14
pieces upon a rock ot a somewhat triable some gereia/
cearacter. AO la order to secure a perfectly - -
broad table 9r beech of concrete Was Iwo. 1%foritreal Uouneil haa banished the
in the river bottom, upon, which the mason-
i.y of the dam was built up. hand organ and t rank piano men from
At the time oZ Ite construction It was real-
-
trio that Lb: scour Otto the:1,e r 1,v,,,401, the city streets, on, the plea thee "the
r u t ee e ;nue ro meg music was tee diverting to people who
against, aud the concrete platform was
ex-
teudad for a certain distance forward of the ,-ehold4 have been going on with their
2rwnDeliaelutin ilelZst4A.ta.'%enttiorig uPrilzfir. work." The Instrumental performances
aescrete platform will .now be carried 'a far- were not held to come under the by-liew
Alter dietance dewn stream so as to make
sure, that the effects of scour can never work I. Vainnt. "unnecessary and disturbing
bads toward the dam Iola enciangor it4stabil-
ity,
:emelt:I:mouse, with the investigation of
the dam, there appeared in Bngland au
academie discuselow by two college profes-
sors er the question of the stability of dams ! forced parties from marrying again with-
in general. They advanced a rather fanciful; in less
theorr as to the probable line of failure et ' than a year after the divorce, and
dains,. wbich was quite et variance with RC., prohibits the party divorced for infidel.
eepted anti wen proved engineering teeory
onTheeesprsoupbolsecalt.
to increase the height of the yiteYarisr°aInfttl'ervtrheingdivIvoirtchie,nettepat r.Lthuattwao
dant the cblet englueer's Investigation of the
struCturet and the curious theories ot dam divorced couple eau remarry at any time.
failure above referred to offered an attrac-
This will prevent people in:axed/3g before
tive coincidence for the reportorial Pulsation
monger, gee seeeis to be getting -wonderfully
theewh.lnakoifsten47theaenc their
w011 acclimatized in the field ot London tshe.divothe papers,
Journalism, end tee Braise nubile has been a.
treated to whole columns of matter tending
o prove that this costly engineering tin -
prevenient M doomed to short lite, if indeed A. contemporary calls attention to tete
it is not liable to be sweet down the Nile enormous number (if men lined up in the
vediey without a moment's werning.
AB'a matter of fact, the Assouan dam, so Russ -Jap. battles. In no beetle of the
far from being in any danger of failure h
a margla of stability so great as to render past, at least not until the outbreak of
it possible to Red the eighteen feet of height the present war, have more than 50D,000
suggeste,d, and still leave the etructure proof gm boon. lined up in opposing at.inies.
:gomaienst overturning or rupture for all time to ""
3-•
The following were the totals engaged
UMW COMPLAINTS. in some of the great historic battles,
from which the colossal scale of the pres-
The very best medicine in the world eat war can be understood:
for summer complaints such as chol-
era infantum, diarrhoea and dysen-
try is Baby's Own Tablets. During
the hot weather months no wise
mother should be without a box of
Tablets in the house. These troubles
come suddenly, and unless promptly
checked, too often prove fatal. Baby's
Own Tablets act almost like xnagie
in these cases, and speedily remove
all cause of danger. Mrs. Alex. Pou-
lin, Caraquet, N. B., says: " I think
Baby's Own Tablets the best medi-
cine in the world for children. I have
used them for cholera infantum, teeth-
ing and other troubles, and it is aston-
ishing how quickly they relieve and
cure these ailments." An occasional dose
of Baby's Own Tablets will keep the
stomach and bowels right and prevent
summer complaints. No mother need be
afraid of this medicine -it is guaranteed
to contain no opiate or harmful drugt of the prosperity of the 'United States
It always does good --it cannot pos- "consists of an overproduction of fraud
sibly do harm. Be euro that every . ewe seenee
box bears the full name Baby's Own • Many branches of financial
Tablets and picture of four-leaf clov-
er bus,i,ness had been, in one way or anoth-
An7otnhintghe eitsverapisper a adraonugnedrousthe sub
-. ydetcheeivintingsctrhue-
stitute. Sold by all druggists or sent Pthsesepsusroseof obf
perliioustakfeonr
by mail at 25 cents a box by writ-
ing the Dr, Williams' Medicine Co.,
Brockville, Ont.
- The London Lancet quotes )Jr. George's
MAN'S INORDINATE VANITY. Petit us saying that there is great dan-
ger of tuberculosis being spread by balc-
Universe May Hide Greater Intelligence cries. He says English bakers' laborers
Than Ours. are affected with tuberculosis to the
proportion of some 70 per cent., it is
easy to see what feeilities there are for
the entrance of tbe tubercle bacillus
into the dough in the process of hand
kneading. Moreover, when the bread
is baked, it does not attain a tempera-
ture of over 100 degrees centigrade in
the middle of the loaf, and the slight
portion of time which elapses between
the baking of the bread and that of the
consumption is favorable to the dissem-
ination of the bacillus of tuberculosis.
Experiments by Gaitier, Mare and him-
self have shown that his fears are well
grounded l The matter is one of great im-
portance to the general public.
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Since 1896 the product of the world's
gold mines has amounted to $2,526,000,-
000. Of this about $860,000,000 have
gone into the vault% of the principal
banks of Europe, while about $300,000,000
have gone into the reserves of the na-
tional banks of the United States, mak-
ing a total of $1,160,000,000, which is re -
Norsemen, awaken the harp from its slum- presented by the inerea.sel holdings of the
hers.;
Strike for old Norway, the land of the principal banks of Europe and the 'United
Land of our fathers, wo strike it for thee, 000,000 was used in the arts and sciences,
free! States. It may be etaimeted that $757,-
High and heroic, in soul -stirring numbers,
Old recollections,
Wake one's affections this being based upon, an allowance of
Bach time we Speak of the land of our birth, 30 per cent, of the verse production,
Heart beating loudly, and cheeks glowing
proud y, though perhaps 25 per cent, would be a
closer estimate. This leaves about $600,-
Plevna, September, 1877, 130,000.
Sedan, September, 1870, 244,000.
Gravelotte, August, 1870, 300,000.
Sadowa, July, 1806, 435,000.
Gettysburg, July, 1863, 220,000.
SoIferino, June, 1859, 284,000.
Waterloo, June, 1815, 217,000.
Leipzig, October, 1813, 472,000.
Borodino, September, 1812, 251,000.
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James B. Dill, at the Oberlin Otillege
commencement, gave a definition of
"graft" in these words: "Graft is the
advanced stage of the craze for unearned
money. It is not only the desire to
get something for nothing, but it is an
attempt to get something for the grafter
in considerAon of his parting with some-
thing that does not belong to him." Fur-
thermore, Mr. Dill said, that a large part
Man's greatest vanity is the placing
of the human r‘ace at the head of crea-
tion. Prof. Oliver 3. Lodge points out
that the universe is large enough to
hide vastly superior intelligence, and
that our imperial Caesar -or our Ameri-
can, billionaire -is but a creeping dust
atom upon one of the dark lumps at-
tending one of the smaller of the five
hundred million great suns. In it -recent
illustration, T. E. Heath represented
the distance traveled by light in a year
by one mile. On this scale the sun is
a dot 1-107 of an inel in diameter, the
earth -to which buman activity is con-
linece-is a microscopic particle 1 inee
from it, ancl a table 5 feet long suffices
for the entire solar system, the nearest
fixed etas being nearly 41-2 miles away,
Even on this .scale a circle thirty miles
across would embrace only twenty-seven
of the nearest stars, the millions being
far outside.
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• Sons of Norway.
(This is an Unglish transIwtion of the
old and popular Norwegian song that just
now Is heard all over Norway, and breathes
the spirit ot courage and independence that
are conspicuous in the present national cri-
sis.)
Honor old Norway, the dearest on earth.
Spirit, look back on her far -flashing glory, 000,000 unaccounted. for. A pert of this
Gaze on the splendor that bursts on the
gleam has gone into the vaults of banks other
Chieftains aud vikings immortal in story than national in. the United. Ste/tee, and
Gazeon,
ethe splendor that bursts on the
gmee
other than the chief Government banks
Chieftains and vielegs immortat in story in Europe. But these hoklings would, af•
Pressed to the battle like maids to the
(lance. ter all, represent only a part of the $600,-
ea b
Over the ocean they carry her fame,
Chainpions enough, though, are left in the e
:ot tire traYo,
13111ovvs clash o'er thorn,
131celd flows before them,
mystery.
000,000. Where the remainder is is a
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d bleed for her freedom and London is a., microcosm, a world in
Pride of the Norsemen, the temple of free-
Stande like a rock where the stormy wiod
natty).
dore itself, and a very strange one, too. It is
it place of great figures, great activities
and great people. Here are sone points
breaks,
fmn
A book of statistics issued by the
-
Tempests howl around it, but little he 1i heed
thenl. County Council lately;
Freely be thitiks, and as freely he speaks,
Birds In their motion, Greater London has 2,017 miles of pub -
Waves of the ocean, lie bighway, and there are 74 public and
Reny can rival his liberty's voice:
Yet he obeys, with a. willing etivotion, private bodice which can open them at
Laws or his making and Mims of his choice. their own sweet will. It lias 181 miles of
Latd of the forest, the ford and the fount- tramway, besides about MAO cabs and
ithe .. .. ,,..
Blessed with the wealth of the field and - ...._
the flood,
Stewly and restful, the sons ef the mbulite
paybiteheelglad price et thy rights with their
Ocean With bound thee!
Freedom bath found thee!
Flourish, old Norway, thy flag be unfurled
Free es tho breezes and 'breakers around
thee.
Pride of thy children, the first in the World;
An Odd Epitaph.
An old churehyard neer London is
famous for the ieseriptions On 150
teltilwterieg. There is one on the me-
morial of Susannah Buford, died 1052,
aet. 10 years; and 13 weeks. The con-
cluding lines beneath the skull and
crossbones on her monument are:
t
A fair division is where we get the
noes alai*
emnilmees, era 225 utile* ot railway.
has 200 miles of main *ewer*. The
population of the administrative County
of London in the middle of ls-st yearwaiS
'estimated at 4,013,403, Fifty year ago
the marriage rate wars 22.3 per Uwe -
and, among Londoners living, in 1002 it
had fallen to 17.8. The birth rate in 1002
was 28.5 and the death rate 17.4 Landes
geta annually 30 million telegrams and
760 million letters. It has fifty-three
theatres, forty-three mu.sie halls, and
two hundred and forty-five other
plates of entertainment. Its charities
income is 47,000,000 a year. Ito hospi-
tals cost 47n5,285 yearly surd, treat ne
959 in -patients end 1,290,038 out -pa.
tieuts. About 140,000 receive help from
the rates; 30,000 dwell in lodging bowies.
There were elle and ene-half millions
of usere of the public baths anct *wash.
houses last year. London, too, sends
704,028 aildren to school, and, provides
17,000 teachers to look after them. There
are ever a million books in the multi*
pal libraries, and the issue last year WI*
about six millions.
In these times *ten we hear so much
about microbes, end when a war aaginst
spitting is being actively waged, it is
somewhat reassuring to find that there
Ls aomething to be said for sunlight, air,,
and even dust, as germicide:: . Dr. Cas-
sidy, of the Provincial Board, of Health,
writing in the Sanitary Journal, combats
the alarmiee views that have prevailed
in some quarters. He does not deny the
possibility of the spread of tuberculosis
by germeaden dust inhalation, but he
thinks the wight of evidence goes to
show that the germs are dangeous only
in proportion to the extent to Which teeter
have been shielded from air and sunlight.
He conetnds that the street dust has
really a strong disinfectant power on the
sputa of scarlet fever, diphtheria, meas-
les, whooping cough, influenza., etc, de-
stroying instead of enhancing its viru.-
Ience. Germs in a closed room will re-
tain their virulence for a c,onsiderable
time, while they are seen destroyed. by
fresh air and sunlight. This view finds
support from no less an authority than
the New York Medical Record. The
anti -spitting campaign is geed as a mat-
ter of cleanliness; it is vile to spit on the
sitiewalkg and floors; but es it matter of
sanibation it is no less bad -it may even
be worse -to spit in the grass. Cast into
the sunlight of the paved streets there
is reason to think the life of the germ of
tuberculosis is likely to be short. Sun-
light is a great purifier; if we lived more
in the sunlight and inhaled more pure air
tie should have less consumption.
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An Actor's Subterfuges.
"Every actor prides himself most upon
his ability to 'fake' when it is neces-
sary," said James Fulton. "I remenaber
once, when I was young in the business,
we were playing fly-by-nights and the
heroine was supposed to kill the heavy.
The audience was primed up th the cli-
max, as only the one -show -every -three
months -town audience can be. 'Now
die!' she cried, and pulled the trigger.
Snap went the hammer against a dead
cartridge, and the villain lived.
Snap went the gun again -
the heavy still stood waiting the re-
port. Snap for the third time, but no
flash of powder followed. The heavy
threw up his hands, and doing the stage
fall, cried, 'My God! I've been shot with
an"ainroteguhll;
Atime we Were putting on one
of those English melodramas dealing
with the coal mines of England. The
scene was laid at the bottom of tbe pit,
700 feet below the surface, The heavy
was destined to die in this act by the
bullet of one of his treacherous cohorts,
the shot being fired from behind the
scenes, supposed to come from one of
the subterranean passages. Ile gave his
cue for the shot, but the report failed,
Props was evidently busy. Again he gave
the cue, but failed to get the reply. Sud-
denly he wheeled, and, falling to the
stage, cried: 'My God, I've been. struck
by lightning' -700 feet below the ground
too, see," explained Fulton. -Kansas City
chewan. The unparalleled increast in the
Journal.
As to the Eagle. r.3.;
He mates for life.
He makes eetraordinary flights.
He has strength, size and grace.
He bee aways been considered kiug of
birds.
Eages' nests are built in lofty fast-
nesses.
For swiftness, his flight is not ap-
proached.
As an emblem we share the eagle with
many nations
The eagles lives and retains his vigor
to a great age.
No bird soars so high nor so rapidly
and impetuously.
On July 4 uo one noticed the slightest
elation among the eagles• at the Zoo.
Eagles are solitary. Though found
throughqut the word, no two pairs evet
occupy the same neighborhood.
The golden eagle was the egerign of
the Persian monarchs long before it wes
adopted by the Romans. The Persians
borrowed the symbol from the Assyrians.
—gee,
Elephant Delays it Train.
A circus train was pulling out of Spo-
kane, Wash., it few days ago whet bud -
&My the injector "broke" and persiet-
ently refused to take up water. After
working with it a few minuteit the Ow
gineer ordered an examination made,
of the tank; it was found nearly empty,
although filled at the water trane but
ahort time before.
No explanetion of this mystifying con-
dition was apparent until water in tug
meroug streams was seen running from
the elephant car next to the tender, and
then the ettuse was found. Jumbo had
amused himself by reaching his trunk
through the open one of kis ear into the
manhole of the tender and sucking up
the water, with whieb he hail delugett
the other tininxals in the car.
They looked like drowned rate, and,
needlies to say, had enjoyed their in-
voluntary bath no more than the train -
Inch had the delay.
"—gee/etre-
Cure Us villa It. '
(Detroit Free Prem.)
lloch-t knew a man ono who hed never
met with a dIseppolntreent in hie Mo.
Josh -110W Was that?
Boall-He *tag weer Mokins ter minis*
Int% Muhl*,