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THE MONROE
VOb XXXIX.
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17HAT PROF. BALDWIN DISCOV¬
ERED CONCERNING EAST¬
ERN MAGIC.
iy the Use of Natural Laws and Some
Humbug He Mystified and Fright¬
ened Adepts in the Mystic Art.
And what a Mahatma? Prof.
Baldwin explains it etymologically hr
< in a great Mil.’ I n its tech
in India and Thibet it
gnates a person who can do won¬
derful things that border upon the
supernal oral, and who is looked upon
ns nil expert or adept in tho occult
sciences. It is not an official t it ie, hut
is bestowed by genera! reclaim. In
' a Malm turn differs from a Yogi,
who is a priest by profession. A fakir
is a lower order of religious mendi¬
cants, who impose on tho public by
mere sleight of band.
How did tho Professor become a
Mahatma? Stnrtingin life us a pub¬
lic exposer of the frauds of spiritual¬
ism and tlie tricks of conjurers, lie
gradually became interested in mes
merism hypnotism, telepathy and
all kindred subject H. While he cm
phatically repudiates any belief in
the supernatural, he yet holds that
there arc unseen forces in nature
which can he irili/cd in a manner
that seems supernatural to the vul¬
gar, tn id are not within the mental
powers of the race to explain on any
known scientific basis. That that
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MAHATMAS IN PRIESTLY COSTUME.
bnsis exists he holds to be incontro¬
vertible; that with the growth of the
human intelligence it will be found
to bo within the limits of rational
explanation, lie holds as a matter of
positive faith. lit' himself has found
in his wife a clairvoyant of extraor¬
dinary powers, who, when she passes
intothe hypnotic state, can and does
perform marvels of mind reading and
of apparent vaticination. Naturally
his mind yearned toward the dim and
mysterious Fast, where the occult
sciences are believed to have reached
their highest development-. He wished
to pursue his studies into the region
of tlu> unknown. He held his mind
open to accept il ns the unknowable
if.it so appeared to him after exam
inut ion.
At last the opportunity came.
With his wife he went into the very
home of mystery and magic. He met
the Yogis and the Mahatmas face to
face, and beat them on their own
ground. He drew large audiences,
and the rajahs and maharajahs who
were familiar with the feats of the
best native mystery men confessed
themselves amazed and battled by his
performances. It w is then that a
native paper hailed him as the White
Mahatma, and 4 the Maharajah Jotun
dra Motundra Tegoa of Calcutta said
to him: "You must become one of
us," and so introduced him to the
higher circles of the Brahmins, to cir¬
cles where Mine. Bluvutskv had never
been able to penetrate, for Mine. Bla
vatskv was a woman, and woman in
India is looked on as an inferior, and
is denied admittance to the esoteric
mysteries of t he adepts.
And after he had witnessed many
of the performances of the Yogis he
said to tiie Maharajah:
^ -hese “I see things. nothing wonderful in all
1 can do them all my¬
self.”
Then the Maharajah replied:
"There are men who are greater than
these. 1 will collect a number of the
most famous Yogis in the city and
invite you to a special seance. You
will then be convinced.”
Postal Card Failures.
rp, I in- return postal card—that is.
the double one with the prepared at
taclvim m for the answer—is a fail
urc. a> the po>t office authorities pro
dieted that it would be.uml although
only of them were printed,
several years ago, the demand has
bt-eu so small that the greater part
sti,. ivmain on hand, ami l2,(AK!.UtH.>
is a small edition. The total number
( .’, f la^t year was
atK>,50o,G0t>. and 13.lbi9.tH.tO of these
wert the foreign or international cards
bearing a 2-cent stamp. There was a
great pressure for tiie double card
from certain agitators who thought
business-interests demanded it. but
it is a fiat failure. The officials at
the Postoffice Department-think the
reason is that the return card gets
ry much soiled during its liist ex
peneuee in the mails,and people pre-
FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY. GA, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 16, 1894.
I lie private prance waa given. The
^ ogis did their best to eclipse nil the
former brethren whom the White
Mahatma had seen. Some of their
exploits were undoubtedly marvelous,
Still the Professor refused to see any
thing in them save the operation of
natural law H. He leaned over to the
Maharajah and said:
T can scatter allthe.se men with a
mere wave of my hand."
‘‘Do it," replied the Maharajah,
with an incredulous smile.
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The Frofessor bade his interpreter
address the Yogis as follows:
“How dare you come before me,
who am the king of all supernatural
worker., will. »neh transparent tricks
ns these.' M .11, » wove of my hand,
lean summon lire from heaven to
burn you. ) )
And then he brought his hands to
gether and mstantly flames burst
forth from the linen garments that
they wore around their loins and
their back. Shrieking, they snatched
off their garments, thrust them away
and fled from the scene.
This exploit, earned him a great
reputation. Ever after when any
Yogis or fakirs met him on the street
they wMild flee from the presence of
t he man who had hell fire at his
command.
The Professor explains that this is
one of his own inventions in the way
of conjuring tricks. Indeed, lie ac
knowledges that in all his connection
with the Hindoos he mixed up trick-
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er.v and chicanery with honest work
and that he always found they were
more interested in the chicanery.
"No," continued the Professor,
"there is a coal of fire in all this oc
cult business, but it is clouded over
with an immense amount of smoke
and rubbish. I have learned some
thing in India, mostly in the way of
thought reading and traiuv revela
Hon. I am convinced that tiie Ma
hat mas possess secrets as to certain
forees of nature which the unitiated
for to pay one cent for a new and ,
clean one.
The "dude card" is also a failure,
The "dude card " is the familiar
name which the authorities have
given to the little postal card which
is made of fine paper and printed with
blue ink. It was made especially for
the use of the ladies and costs more
to manufacture than the large one,
but the ladies, as well as everyone
else, seem to prefer the latter, prob
ably for the reason that they get more
for their money.—[Washington Let
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"Stretch!”
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Your thoroughbred base ball crank
is one of the most genial and aeeom
modating of men' He loves hi-*
neighbor as himself, and better than a
brother. One of the loveliest-indica
tions of the broad spirit of humanity
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know nothing of. They can establish
telepathic communication bet ter than
any people on earth. I have studied
their methods. I am satisfied that
under certain conditions of healtu
and environment I can communicate
with my wife half a mile off. Nay.
when I ain to be a hundred miles
away from her, I simply agree that
at a given hour every day we shall
both shut up ourselves alone in a
dark room, and I know that if any
accident or harm befall her 1 shall
feel t lie impact of a distinct mental im¬
pression. But in other respects,
even the best work of the Yogis has
been greatly exaggerated. It is the
old story of the three crows. Stories
r* rr h l° ,noml f n,,,i are
exaggerated at each successiu* iepe
tition. Nay, even eye witnesses of
unimpeachable character cannot be
trusted. I met a fellow-countryman
in India who was a firm believer,
Among other wonderful things which
he related was the tollotving: presume A eer
tain Mahatma, in his and
that of numerous others, had thrown
a ball of thin rope up into the air,
attaching one end of the rope to
the ground. The ball soared upward
until finally it disappeared into space.
1,U1 rope was held taut. Then a
child ran up the rope and also disap
pvared into space, where the Maltat
ma shortly followed h.m. Then ha t,
<-*hild and Mahatma all returned to
solid ground. I said I could not be
Hove this unless I had the evidence
of my own eyes.
"Accordingly, we travelled a long
distance to where the Mahatma
lived. I had provided myself with a
snapshot camera. A score of people
pressed around the Mahatma while
lie performed the trick. For myself
I had a theory that he merely mes
merised the entire crowd and made
them believe what lie chose. I there
f ore kept some thirty of' feet away,
outside the influence hypnotic in
finence. While the others were
straining their necks to look upward.
and were shouting with wonder and
admiration I saw nothinw. Camera Neither
did mv assistants The re
produced the scene exactly * as we
saw it
‘When all was over my friend
came back to me triumphant
i * ‘Now’he No.!, tie said, sad ‘do do you vou believe oeiieye ? / ’
No, I replied, I saw nothing
In vain I appealed to my assist
ants. In vain I pointed to the neg
turned upon me funouJi and “5 said 1
Ithink i tJiink you vouaire are a^nave" a Knave. 8 ^
He turned on lus heel and never
spoke to me again.”
Professor Baldwin emphatically
disbelieves in the current stories of
fakirs who burv themselves alive for
months at tune, .* and , then ,
a are re
suseitated by their followers. He
bolds there is a trick here. The
faker is buried, undoubtedly. Vr\
prejudiced watchers are placed over
his Strove until the allotted time has
exp,red. hut in the interim the
fakir has made Ins way through a
subterranean passage to the outer
air and does not return till the time
when he is to be resurrected,
As mementoes of his visit to India
Professor Baldwin has a marvellous
collection of jewelry—rubies from
Burmah. green rubies, rose diamonds,
sparkling amethysts, opals and
moonstones—as well as photographs
of places and scenes, and of the Ra
jalis, Maharajahs and Sultans who
entertained him aud presented him
with royal gifts.—[New York Re
corder.
which . . , throbs and , pulsates , through , ,
lus bosom mav >e s-een anv dav at
the grand stand at the ball ground
Yet I have never seen it noted before.
It is clear to anybody who knows the
fine points of the game that if people
kept popping up and down in
to take tiie creaks ont of their joints
and unlimber themselves generally,
they would be howled down as public
nuisances. Therefore, the old spec
tat-ors have cultivated a subtle sym
pathy which teaches them when the
majority of them want to stretch,
Some man will discover this by in
spiration aud call out :
-Stretch:”
Thenthewhoieaudier.ee will rise
slowly, streieli its collective limbs.
inflate its aggregated lungs, and then
slowly subside on the hard benches
with a long drawn sigh of relief. It a
a beautiful little bit of hu^iau p»
turv.— New York Press,
QJLlJ^TL 1 3i l* AN I M 41^S
REPTILES THAT FLEW AND BIRDS
“MTH TEETH.
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The Many Straus* • Weir l Animats of
Other Hays a* Describe;! in Naturalist
Hutchinson's New Hoak-Tltc Terrible
Saber-Toothed Tiger.
Are Xovr All Extinct,
There was a time when reptiles
roamed this ca*th "mt could have
eaten a do;en ordinary human beings
for a meal Fortunate 1 !’ there were
seen ?°, lants of m mo t 5 oft . ! H these and H ,he pti.es , <!c :
have become so sm.d that they can
be crushed by the unman foot. In
those days reptiles ihw. and birds,
that were uncommon, had teeth more
terrible than but®***, and four legs,
The I lev. II. N. HnUhioson, an
Englishn.an. has jest poUlahed hi.
second work on i uu.vt animals i he
new book is cubed oeatuies of Oth
cr Days.” It is published by ID Ap
Plcton & Co., and i -of absorbing in
Merest. Mr. Hubhimon tells the
dimensions, famd;, and habits of
these strange animals. With his as
s ‘ r ' K ! n - m, ''s une, o tt.eu. atliS to go with ’
vne utseripiions. at!, t is eanier work w r
only with im fl-ters of geologi
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THE DODO, EXTINCT SINCE THE SEVEN¬
TEENTH ( KNTL'KY.
cal epoch. Some of those described
in this work were not monsters, and
some have existed during the time of
man's stay on the earth.
Lalfyrinthodonts were amphibians
found usually in coal formations, and
had teeth of a remarkably compli¬
cated construction'. * The lowest, but
perhaps the most interesting, of all
the labyrinthodonts is the archago
saurus. A learned man who came
upon an arch rgo&aurus said: “Its
head might be tbat^f a fish as we 1
as that of a lizardj r a batrachian
frog.” It was final} lecided p^ihe to be a
missing link b©tv fish-like
batr-teliia and t’-^ 1 •m ? , croco
diles. . r
The archregosaurus resembles more
nearly the salamarder than any oth
Iwing animal. It had permanent
gills and lungs, and stunted limbs
adapted for swimming. It was of
great size.
The anomodonts were animals of
uncertain family, many of which had
teeth like the modern carnivora.
The body of an anomodont was liz
ard-like and the limbs adapted for
walking. I he teeth were placed in
distinct sockets. The structure of
^ be foot was distinctly mammalian.
The anomodonts had other mamma
Dan characteristics. r J hey are ap¬
parently allies to the spiny ant-ea1er
of Australia and the duck imle,
which lays eggs like a reptile.
The parieasanrus was a remarkable
animal of the anomodont order. It
niust* have been fully nine feet long
when alive. It was very wide and
The skull looks like that of
labyrinthodont and has a frog-like
look. Internally it resembles the
present tuatara of New Zealand,
which appears to be a survival from
the friassic period. In the pelvis and
reffion F of th ilian"chamcferLHcs p thiehs the nareiasaurns
uaa ma mammalian mm tnaiacteristics. It Jt
was intermediate between the tailed
anom
oclonts were first discovered, many
raen of science maintained that they
were wt e stones =c° ne:5 which vDY had as assumed ' ani- a ul
“ al , sb a P es > so difficult ,, was it to , be
)! 1 ev v ^’ d ® that + slu ' h creatures had ever
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At remote it ...... believed
some age is
that the bird was evolved from
flying reptile The oldest known bird
archSoDtorvx “. j: _ to Mr Hutchinson js the
* P which I red in the
ontla n ,ytosozoic moder,( eto It li d
{ bird,
h but als0 tec b aod a tail. It
, a bird bat h „, 80Lje reptilian
f stul cl | n g " lng t o it. Its ver
ubra . were bl . c0 Dcave , like those of
asbes ; and „ me eJllDct saurians.
Another reptilian feature is the pres¬
ence of sclerotic plates in the eye.
The wiDgs had three free digits or
fingers, and a finger of greater length
to support the primary features, In
size it was as large as a rook.
The hespernornis, found in the
cretaceous . strata + e in • x- ^ o tli u Amerua. s. •
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was a diving bird six feet long. It
was carnivorous, and bad powerful
teeth set in a groove. It had elastic
jaws, like a boa constrictor.
The dodo is a very strange bird,
which differs from the other animals
previously mentioned here because
it has only been extinct about two
hundred years, since 1681.
Its scientific name is Did us
tus, suggesting the bird's foolish
character. It was a very unwieidv
creature with a huge beak. It \v;m
larger than a swan and a great de.<
heavier. The legs were short an
stout, having four toes on each fcol
and the tail was extremely short, cai
rying a tulj, o|folt tiutues. The bea‘
ADVERTISER.
was very mu h hooked. The dodo
existed in the islands of Mauritius.
Bourb and Rodrigues, down to
the iniullle of the seventeenth cen
turv.
8ir Thomas Herbert has left this
charming description of a dodo
which he saw in 1634:
“Her body is round and extreme
fat, her slow f ace begets that corpu
lenc'.e: few of them weigh lets than
ti ft v pound; letter to the eye than
the stem :ck: greasie appetites may
perhaps commend them, but to the
( e ,^? __.... l e art ' offen-i ve and of . no
’Urishment . Let take her pic
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lule: Her visage darts forth melan
c h°L’, ns sensible of nature’s iniurie
&['Tz • Mrs*
. t .oi winers as ire
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un,ll lL 10 ner irom
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f J otnerwise mignt
■» <’ f; h*r head » van
ousl.v , dre.-t, taeonc-halfeh oded with
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A, or c\e? be round and small
aml bright as diamonds- her clout -
"ig i. ot finest downe, such as ve
(>nKlin ,. hnr . ia ni b n
feythew:' China beard i of three nr four Vn--t
her legs thick and black
and strong; her taioos or pounces
^barp; her stomack fiery hot, so as
stones and yron are easily digested in
it; in that and shape not a little re
sernbling the Africk oestriches.”
A commonly accepted theory of the
dodo's oriein 8 is that, it, was 'the ie
scendant scenaant or o f some some large large ground-feed- ground feed
in K pigeon, which had found wings
unnecessary and food plentiful on
these islands.
Tiie last of the great attks was
killed Jq the Orkney Islands a few
° This bird larger
years ago. was *
than a goose, and very swift on foot
and ,,n,| in in the the witer Writer, hut but nmhle unable tn to fly. flu
It was so stupid that it allowed it
self to be overtaken by men In boats.
During the miocene period there
lived a very stiange and primitive
kind of elephant known as the dino
therium. Unlike all other elephants
the tasks wore In th> lower .jaw and
( lined downwaid, like those of the
walrus. On this account it is coil
jectured that it was ot' aquatiejhab
its. A length of eighteen feet has
been attributed to this animal.
Tip, of Central Park, was about
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1 8tfata iD D42 ^ Jp * tt3 of
Europe P
ln tke Sivalik hills of Northern In
dia was found the skull of a mastodon,
an extinct species of elephant, hav
ing four tusks, two In each iaw. The
tusks LUSKS alone alone were were 10 i0 feet, teet 6 b inehes inches in in
length, and the total length of the
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craniu ro and tusks was fourteen feet.
I he horse, which has only one toe
1° each foot, is, apparently, descended
^ rom a five-toed ancestor. That an
cestor was the eocene phenacodus, a
curious little animal, with the
est brain ever found in a mammal,
Ifc ha d a long tail and long h!nd legs.
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was the protohippus, which had only
two rudimentary side toes in addi
tion to the hoof -
l Amono- ^^n the the animals animals of of the the nleisfo- pleisto
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th d = one of the most
terrible terr ‘"^ carnivorous ( arnnor()U ' s animals at 1 ™ a ^ i known ° !
natural bistort. It , . had cursed
aQ d serrated tusks twelve inches long,
projecting eight inches beyond the
autns. It lived in an age when huse.
defenseless animals of the horse
Wpe abounded, and they must have
supplied It with plenty of food,
Confident of Their Safety
A German pathological journal re
cords a recent experiment of Drs.
hawtschenko and Sobolotny which
seems to border on the heroic Thev
Son vacciDated madeTom themselves with a prep
m tr ,? m the ttie cultures fUltuies Jt
the cholera , bacillus v and atterward
| swallowed virulent cholera germs
.with entire impunity. Then, with
; f ^beir blood, they
seruni rom ow n
inoculated guinea could* pigs, and found
that those animals ' thus be n o
I tpcterl the^^ struin^t r-hnipn r«ii tllv L" it
v guinea gu.nea Pi- pi who who ha* nas first first 'to to face
| the chances of life or death in ex
periments of that kind, but in this
case the doctors were -o sure that
they -houldered the ri-k themselves,
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Wants Mis Anatomical .Scrap.
Seven years ago, in Chill icothe.
Ohio, George Berner got into a dis
pute with a maD, and the latt r era
pbasized his argument with the aid of
| an ax and chipped off a piece of Per
net's skull. This little piece of l.oae
j was used by ‘he court as evidence Now
j and market. “Exhibit A.”
' Berner is searching the court records
i for the missing bit of skull,
Some men are so literal that they
J (plugs.____ expect insurance men te wear fire
The money-lender makes a deaf
farm hand.
It is the starved steer that cuts Rs
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CHEWING GUM.
Some of the Materials from Which It Is
Marie.
Tue practice of chewing gnm pre
vails to a get. at extent m to p...ts of
the country. Certain of these gums
are made i f the product of a kind of
rubber tree, a native of Mexico. This
is? a sap about the color and consist
ency of a maj lo syrup. How this is
made into only gum is a profound secret
known to the manufacturer,
-\ U T° « know " concerning the ma
feuals and manufacture of other gums.
Jt { veur favorite band is white gum
vol t . s( q aco i s j n chewing j ara-ffine—
which is a mixture of various carbo
hydrides—that has been dissolved at a
gentle heat, in olive oil and glycerine.
t > keep it soft ana to make it sweet at
the same tune.
If tolu occupies first place in your
“Actions you may indulge in a mix
lureof la’sam of tolu—which is made
by benzoin dtssolvmg orange hod shellac with and gum ad
in recti spirit, an
shl mVLdmeg dH’Iv^d’t a
senceof vanilla—catmeal and sugar.
There is a'so spruce gum. made from
exudationH of the spnico tree This
? mn fron V° mana:actm T of N ? turo
10 S arded , 85 b)th P urd un , lK>ne *
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Odd TraitH of the Lemming.
Very nea.% related to the Hold mice
ore the lemmings, tli which remarkable are in their of
wav i.mong ■ most
animals. They aro about live inches
uid’, oMh^gre”? ®ntra" 1 ^ mounSh. 0 ^
chain of Norway and Sweden, they
build their nests of straw lined with
hair, under stones and tussocks of
When grass. d^urb Thev ;d. are instead very pugnacious.
of trying to
e9ca P e > they sit upright, hissing and
sh owin * Certain cultivated dis
tricts . of Sweden and Norway, where
those known, creatures are ordinarily intervals un
are occasionally, twenty-live at of
from five to years, over
iun by armies of them, which steadily
and slowly advance, always in the same
direction, regardless of all obstacles,
swimming across streams and even
fakes several miles in breadth, and
committing great devastation. In turn
thev are pursued tfand and harassed of by
eeowds ot birds o
such as bears, wolves, foxes, wildcats,
weasels, eag es, hawks, and owls,
Even domestic animals—cattle, goats,
„K;S an A ie i nd eer join £52? in the hunt.
camc . The onwa d march of the sur
vivors never ceaiers until they reach
the sea, into which they p.unge, an t
swimming onward in the same direc¬
tion as before, perish in the waves. As
a ma “ e .' <act, the lemmings which
in safeiv. No survivofaoi TlTomkgi'^
orations, and so this gigantic
is Abnormal periodically increase repeated. of number and
conse( l uent necessity for tood
ubout tho migrat ;on from the high
lands to the lowlands, winding up in
the ocean The animals only travel at
supply compels them to proceed,
Naturally they would not turn back being on
their tracks, the region behind
eaten bare. It is a curious fact that
du ing these journeys they mul iply
enormously Such and even migration more rapidly last( from than
at home. a
one to three years.
Sy mpatliy.
None of m a e sufficiently sympa
theticinour innermost natures. We
exhaust our stock upon visib’e suffer
ing, and have little left, for deeper and
sadder evils. We need to realize that
where criticise we cannot questionable. sympathi. e our r ght
to is No one is
more to be piti* d than the wrong-doer
and no one m re truly needs the If hard ian
of sympathy extended to him we
cannot do tbw, if we cannot feel with-
111 ourseLes that even we might have
done as badlv, or eve.i worse, under
like circum-tances, ue are in no posi
“foS a„o«he,.
errs, “There is no excu e for him. He
knew per.ectlv well what should have
been dor.e, but he fai erl to do it,”
showing ^ that there is still held the ex¬ .
peclati n that perfoi . maac . e w n fo Pow
knowledge, even though it has thou
^ and ' i of time 3 been people proved a they fallacy,
\\o must deal with as are,
not as sve would like to find them
There are a few who do their duty at
once disWreLhle upon perceiving it. no matter
ho,v it may be, but most
of u temporize if possible, or perhaps "tt
^
Therefore, though our 1 ne of faith
lessness to duty may not be his. let us
keep a warm spot in our sympathies
'Sie k
rection.
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A Wonderful Bridge of Agate.
“During a trip through Arizona a
3ll0rt ' ,D », remar '"' d »
reC ently, J came across a most re mark
able natu al 1 ridge spanning a chasm
about fifty feet wide. The bridge i,
formed by” an immense tree ot agati ed
wood. -The tree had fallen many years
1 efore and bcc ime iml edde l in the
of some great inland sea or wator
over.low. The silt became in time
sa^tone and the wood graiually pass
ed through the various stage* o. min
f mfyet . r a izafon ” until ^the^'tree it is it now ao-ate nWside Fullv
r
the rav ne and can be traced but how
far the other end is buried in the
sandstone cannot be ascertained with
out blasting away the reek. The trunk
varies in size from three to four feet in
o^a^ate a iV fvl ^ w, seen." efi'
are plainly and under a
microscope the brilliancy of the color
i n o-s is clear,y brought “out in all its
beauty,
Sow AVe .Marry Late.
It is a very curious fact that the age
at which men m irrv teemi to be get¬
ting cons antly still later. bachelors Nowadays, in¬
deed, men ai*e at an age
when their grandfathers we.e hears
of families At the age of 24 years
only twenty me.) out of 1 u are “mar
ried. and evea o to 1:0 years neatly
one-half still remain -intrle. The
women do better. At the age of 24
Si&C audletoveSreKha/yS! found
nearly thive-dcarters have their
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NO. 40
SWEET BROWN EYES.
How They Were Mario to Sparkle, Wink
anti Water.
The conductor knew the man in
the rear seat, and when the ticket's
had all been punched sat down be¬
side him. They rode in silence for
some time. Then the man in the
rear seat asked abruptly, “What's the
matter?”
The conductor took his left leg of!
the right knte and crossed the right
one over the left. “I keep thinking
about a man that travels with me
sometimes,” he answered.
“What about him?”
“It's what he told me about his
wife. She ran away, you know, and
«*> «> M
a pretty woman, with large, soft,
eyes, and a sweet, tender
nmuth.”
The woman in front of him had
laree 3\ brown "f° "old eves but tlmv wore wj”
n '" M ’ and her mouth
“He ashed me to he on the loo,ton,
for her.”
The woman in front seemed to be
counting the telegraph poles along
the road,
“It breaks me all up when I see
and he says, sort of despair
>»g, ‘So, you haven’t run across her
J-eh have jou, old man:-' And then
It keeps running In my mind all the
time what 1 am to say to the woman
if 1 find her. ”
,7“?“ tta^he.Ta" L“, lmat “
cd
rear y\ seat. navis it. asnea a man in tne
*‘lou won t forget, now, will
you? he’ 1 say, putting his hand on
my shoulder. ‘You re to give her
my love, you know, and tell her that
it has been liers all the time Tell
i 1# f » P thit ^ the other .[f fellow '°V mu-tiro i ! fi J
ber, but I ucvti shall. J ,dl n ht i that
11 ^he 11 come home shell tind me
waiting for her, and trying to keep
things the way she’d like to sec
them,’and then he’ll clear his throat
and turn awav with that wistful look
nn hU 1arp
Uiat u/\ ?“ he e tlm0 .. was sa\ing ^ , e ,. told , , up , “« to V' . buy te . a " new , hCI
'
carpet for the sitting-room, because
she didn't like the blue one, and last
time he said to tell her that he'd
planted llower seeds, because he knew
she loved a garden, and then he al¬
ways tells me that I am to know her
by those soft, brown eyes and sweet,
pretty mouth.”
“He’s a fool,” said the man in the
rear seat, bluntly.
“Of course he is,” assented the con
du ^ J, fe llow ^ h *
The.V : V/i'i' wSt* a r
••»*? *orth lo.ina like that.”
I bey were neaung a station, and
the conductor went out on the plat¬
form.
The man in the rear seat took ui
his newspaperand began to read.
A change had came over the face
of the woman in front. She had a
fweet. tender mouth, .hut wa, tree,,
bling with emotion, and she wa'
vainly trying to see the landscape
with a pair of soft brown e.yes, suf
fused with tears.—Albany Post,
Monej Value of St. Louis.
When Louis IX., the saint, surren¬
dered with his whole forces to the
Saracens at Mansura, on the 5th of
April, 1250, 1,000,000 golden bezants
—equal to half that number of the
Uvres of the day—were demanded for
his freedom. But the Moslems came
down to 800,000 bezants, and, in the
end, bv surrendering Damietta, Louis
KOt 0 g f or joo.OOO marks—equal,
rou Fhly, to over £1,000,000 sterling
of to-day.
These golden bazants contained
about -JOs. wort.) of out gold, .. . but . t» .
go to market with would buy as
much, p.obably, as 71 sovereigns now
break forth here, he would probably
tell how this high-priced and saintly
carcass was treated by bis people
when Louis died, at the siege of Tu
nis, twenty years later Being hard
up for embalmera, they had (accord
ing to the Journal of Aubery) to
quarter and boil him down in sepa
rate caldrons, and so sent but hfs
whited skeleton to France.—The Sat¬
urday Review.
Writing with Milk.
In the course of a trial in France
last year a letter was read from a
man named Turpin, a chemist, under
sentence of five years’imprisonment
S^lfw'ta with a view to MtaWlSlM establishing J a lecrat secret
correspondence with him while in
prison. This led to an official in
quiry on the subject by the French
authorities, and some strange revela
tif ns wprp obtained ot)U nc ‘ from Tror SOm some of of the Ule
-
convicts. *
It appears that when information
has to be conveyed to a prisoner, a
formal letter, containing apparently
nothing but a few trivial facts of a
personal nature is forwarded to the
>rison . This is read by the Govern
or. wno who at siamp^ am ns jt, it and au i allows a.i >w.. it n to lo
: "*':*** addressed. « n l <> The the latter, man to however, whom it is
is
aware that there is another letter to
r be read wRhin the lines, this being
written in milk, and l eing easily de
cipherable on being rubbed over with
a dirty finder.—Chambers'Journal.
Grisly Legislation.
: Two most extraordinary bills were
I introduced in the Ohio Legislature.
The first bill provided for the abolish¬
ment of hanging as a penalty incases
; of capital puuLhment. and ^ubsti
| tuted the me of anesthetics and
! vivisection. The murderer was to
: turned , to the doctors, , who
' be over
: would deprive him of consciousness
I j by perjinent tbe u^e with of anaisthics bitu to and their then hearts’ ex
C ontent. The other bill was similar
. c j, e q rst . but less radical, and
*?*. ch 'ff Af
! tween dea ! h by eie -tA-ity and death
. by anesthetics and vivisectioa.