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Alabastine is less expensive, as it requires but one-half the number of pounds to cover the same amount of surface with two coats, is ready for use by adding water, and easily applied by any one. Fo: vale by your Paint Dealer. Ask for Circular containing Samples of 12 tints, manufactured only by the Alabastine Cos., v; B. Church, Manager, Grand Rapids, Mich. An experienced tramp objects to the custom so prevalent among his clients ol advising him to go to work when he asks for victuals. “Strange,” he says, “that they will persist in talking shop." Gl)c <s*umuicn)Ulc (^lycttc. VOL. XI. ?■ PURE x PAINTS ReadyForUse Olives, Terra Cottas and all the latest fashionable shades for CITY COUNTRY OR SEASIDE. Warranted durable and permanent. Desoriptive Lists, showing 32 aotual shades, sent on application. For sale by the principal dealers, wholesale and retail, throughout the country. Ask for them and take no others. BILLINGS, TAYLOR & CO. CLEVELAND, OHIO. *-*- SANDS’ * PATENT TRIPLE sMonoNyasa rREEZEP^ Thfl only Froozor over made havinp three dlatlnrt motions inside tin* can, thereby, of couree, prodmy inf* finer and smoother Cream than any other Freezer on the market. 300,000 in use. Catalogue and Prise flailed upon Application. WHITE MOUNTAIN FREEZER CO., NASHUA, N. H. WHY THE SAFE WAS OPEN. Ilnre Jewels l.cti Inseenre to Insure the I’erwonnl Maleiv of it Wile. The fact that the recent robbery of S-*>,ooo worth of diamonds Irom the resi dence of the Hon. 0. 0. B. Walker, in doming, N. Y., during his absence was committed with the greatest ease, be cause tim safe in which the jewelry was kept was not locked, has given rise to much surprise and unfavorable com ment. No one could understand, says an Elmira correspondent of the New York Sun, how a man of the ex-Oon grensman’s strict business methods could be so careless and thoughtless in | regard to the protection of his house hold treasures, especially ns many of them, through association and long family possession, had a value to him much beyond their intrinsic worth. When rpiestioned on the subject by n friend, the latter was still further sur prised to lie told by Mr. Walker that the fact of the safe being left open was not the result of carelessness or thoughtless ness, but was left open by his express order and direction. “When I am at home,” said the ex- Oongressman, “I always lock the safe and put the key away. When I go away from home it is understood in my house that the safe must not be locked. You will remember that when the Wellsboro’ Bank was robbed a few years ago, the cashier and members of his family were treated with great cru elty and violence by the robbers because of their resisting the demands for the keys to the vanlts and safe. That set me to thinking, and one day X said to my wife: “ 'We have some things in that safe which are valuable and very dear to us. Now, it is only a question of time when some ruffian or ruffians will come after them. If lam at home the chances are that they will not get them ; but X may >,e away at the time. If they come then and find that safe locked, they will hesi tate at no personal violence toward .you in their efforts to effect an entrance to it. All the precious relics and treasures in the world would not be recompense for the results of such treatment. Therefore, when I am absent from home, the safe must not be locked; then if robbers come they will secure their booty and retire without disturb ing you. ’ “Bobbers came while I was away, se cured the booty aud left without dis turbing Mrs. Walker or any one else. They were even considerate enough to administer ether to my wife for fear of disturbing her. Suppose that safe had been locked. I don’t care to even con jecture what the consequences might have been, and I feel that in saving my family from them, the paying of §5,000 was a trifling matter. ” A hen can only lay on a nest, but a ship can lay both on and off. A ship has another anx’antage over a hen. The latter can lay one egg, and the former can lay to. SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 30, 1884. SUNRISE AMONG THF HILLS. •‘His nifrrt* cr*nrw every morning- and His oom panrioun f*Jl nvt.” His mercies are new every morning, Heavy and long is the night, 'Die sea moans in blackness of darkness— There may be a wreck ere the light. Lo ! sudden—a gleam on the mountains— 'Yh**- shadows are florins away; nmi touches the elouds with sun-flngsn And (‘pens the gates of the day. Hie mercies are now every nx>rmng, Aud oh, His compassion* ne’er fail, To the timid sheep cropping the herbage, The mariner hreastiug the gale; The child, born to love and to laughter, l he sinner, whom tears cannot shrive, The mourner left “sleeping for sorrow." The sick man who wakes up alive ! mercies are new every morning !*• In the joy of our youth-time we sung, * * ilia mercies are new every morning !" We sing yet with faltering tongue. And we’ll sing it till burst* the grand music That all earth’s faint anthem stills, Aud we see the Pay-star arising Above the eternal hills. —Dinah Mulock Craik, in Conqi'fgntionalist. Too Busy. a mothkk’s confession. “Mother ! mother !” cried my little Willy, coming in upon me, as I sat busily at work, “I’ve lost my arrow in the grass and can’t find it.” He Avne just ready to burst into tears from grief at his mishap. “I’m sorry, dear,” I said calmly, as I went on with nay work. “Won’t you go and find it with me, mother ?” ho asked with a quivering lip, as he laid hold on my arm. "I’m too busy, dear," I replied, gently shaking him off. “Go and tell Jane to find it for you.” “Jane can’t find it,” said the little -fellow, in a choking voice. “Tell her to go and look again.” “She has looked all over, and can’t find it. Won’t yon come, mother, and find it for me ?” The tears were now rolling over his face. But I was too busy to attend to Willy. I was embroidering the edge of a little linen sack that I Avas making for him, and that, for the moment, seemed of more importance than the happiness of my child. “No—no,” I replied. “I’m too busy to go down stairs. You mnst take better care of your arrows. Go and aek Ellen to find it for you.” “Ellen says she won’t look for it.” Willy was now crying outright. “There! there I don’t bo so foolish as to cry at the loss of such a little thing as an arrow,” said I, in a reproving voice. “I’m ashamed of you !” “Won’t you go and find it for me, mother?” he urged, still crying. “No indeed, Willy. I’m too busy now. Go and look for it again yourself.” “But I can’t find it. I have looked.” “Then go and look again,” said I, firmly. Willy went orying down stairs, and I heard him crying about the yard for some ten minutes, until my patience began to give out. “Such a to-do about an arrow 1 I wish I’d never bought him the bow-arrow !” said I, moving uneasily in my chair. “Ellen, won’t you make me another arrow ? Here is a stick,” I heard him ask of the cook, in a pleading voice. But Ellen replied rudely— "No indeed, I shall not I I’ve got something else to do besides making ar rows. ” The child’s crying was renewed. I felt vexed at Ellen. “She might have made him the arrow,” I said. “If 1 wasn’t so busy I would go down and make him one myself. But I must get this sack done.” And I sewed away more rapidly than before. The crying went on. Willy had loet his arrow, aDd his heart was al most broken. Unfortunately, I was not in a mood to sympathize with him. An arrow, to me, was a very little thing, and it worried me to hear him orying as if his heart would break over a loss so trifling as that of an arrow. “Willy !” I at length said, calling out of the window, “you must stop that cry ing.” “I can’t find my arrow, and nobody will make me another,” replied the little fellow. "That’s nothing to make sneh a dis turbance about!" I said. “Go and find something else to play with.” “I want my arrow. Won’t yon come and find it ior me, mother ?” “No, not now. I’m too busy. The crying went on again as before, and I soon lost all my patience. Lay ing aside my work, I went to the Jiead of the stairway and called down—• “Come, now, Sir I There’s been enough of this crying, and yon must stop it.” “I can’t find my arrow,” returned Willy. “Well, suppose you can’t; will crying bring it ? You must take better care of your things. Little boys must look the way they shoot.” 'I did look, but I can’t find it.” “Go and look again, then.” “I have looked, but it ain’t there.” And then the crying went on again. To Willy the loss ol his arrow was a real grief, and he was too young to have for titude to bear his trouble patiently. But I was not in a state of mind to feel with him. “Stop that orying instantly," said I, as the worrying sound came again upon my ears. “I won’t have snoh a noise iD the house,” But my words hod no effect; they did not produce the arrow. Willy oried on. Unable longer to endnre the sound, and also thinking it wrong to let him in dulge the habit of crying, I laid my work aside, and going down stairs, took hold of him resolutely, saying ns I did so— “ Now, stop this instantly I” The child looked up to me with a most distressed countenance, while the tears covered his face. “I can’t find my arrow,” said he with quivering lip. "I’m sorry— bnt crying won’t find it. Dome up stairs with me.” Willy n oendod to my room. “Now don’t let me hear one word more of this. The next time you get an arrow take better care of it.” There was uo sympathy in my tone; for I felt none. I did not think of his loss, bnt of the evil and annoyance of crying. The little fellow stifle*! his grief, or rather the utterance of it, as host he could, and throwing himself at full length upon the floor, sighed and sobbed for some ten minutes. A sigh, longer and more fluttering than usual, aroused my attention, and then I be came aware that he hod fallen asleep. How instantly do our feelings change toward a child when we find that, it is asleep. If we have been angry or of fended, we are so no longer. Tender ness comes in the plaeo of sterner emo tions. I laid aside my work, and taking Willy in my arms, lifted him from the floor, and laid him upon my bod. An other long, fluttering sigh, agitated liis bosom as his head touched the pillow. How reprovingly came the sound upon my ears I How sadly did it eolio and •c-echo in my heart 1 ‘Toor child !” I murmured. “To him the loss of an arrow was a great, thing. It lias disturbed him to the very centre of liis little being. I wish, now, that, I had put by my work for a few minutes until 1 could have found his arrow, or made him anew one. I would have lost no moro time in doing so than I have al ready lost. And, after all, what is a lit tle time taken from my work to the happiness of my child? Ah, mo! I wish I could learn to think right at the right time. Hear little fellow I He was so happy with his bow and arrow. But all was destroyed by the untimely loss, which I could have restored in a few moments. Unfeeling—unnatural mo ther ! Is this the way you show your love for jour child ?” I stood for nearly five minutes over my sleeping boy. When I turned away, 1 did not resume my sewing, for I had no heart to work upon the little gar ment. I went down into the yard, and the first object, that met my eye was the lost arrow, partly concealed behind a rose-bush, where it had fallen. “So easily found I” said I. “How much would a minute given at the right time have saved I Ati, mo I We learn too late, and repent when repentance is of little avail.” It was an hour before the deep sleep into whioh my Willy had fallen, was broken. I had, in the meantime, re sumed my sewing, after having loet fully half an hour in oonseqnence of being unwilling to lose a fow minutes for the sake of attending to my ohild, and relieving him of the trouble that had come upon him. The first notioe I re ceived of his being awake, was his gratified exclamation at finding his lost arrow beside him. All his past grief was forgotten. In a few minntes he was down in the yard, shooting his arrow again, and as happy as before. No trace of his recent grief remained. But I oould not forget it. With me the ciroumstauoe was not as the morn ing cloud and the early dew. The sun shine that came afterward did not dis sipate instantly the one, nor drink up the other. I was sober for many hours afterward; for the consciousness of hav ing done wrong, as well as having been the occasion of grief to my child, lay with a heavy pressure upon my feelings, —T. 8. Arthur. A Heavy Cannonading. The Fredericksburg Standard says: John Russell, colored, was engaged in plowing near Alum Spring, on Saturday, and had to set fire to the stubble so it would bum off. While the fire was burning near the bank of Hazel ran, he says it oocurred to him that he ought to unhitch his horse and shelter himself behind a tree near by from some danger he knew not of at the time. This thought so impressed itself upon him that he did unhitch and took a stand near the tree. He had been there but a few minntes when a loud explosion took place, followed by another and another in rapid succession until the eleventh one had taken plaoe. John says he was terribly frightened, and for some time pieces of shells and balls, etc., fell all around him. It is supposed that a pile of shells was left there during the war and had never been found and when this fire reached them they were all ex cluded. A oobrespondknt writes: Will you please inform me when straw hats can be worn without exciting comment ? Certainly. Straw hats can be worn with out exciting comment when they are worn on the head. But when they are worn cavorting along the street in a gale r,f wind yon must expect a remark or two.— Philadelphia Gall. PRINCELY ECCENTRICITIES THF WAT TilK (IDKHTS WERE Sit- CKIVKU. Ilw n, Nlr4 New Yorker l,le|teneri III* lleepltnlUy. [Fro the New York Tim**.] Mr. Henry Havsmeyer, whose sanity is to he inquired into by a commission, has long been known to a wide circle of friends and aoquaiutancce as a jolly gixxl fellow and a princely boat, aud to this circle the announcement of his unfor tunate mental condition, If it does not <vime wholly as a surprise, will at least l>e received with unfeigned regret. Mr. Havemeyor entertained freely at his house in New York city, but it is chiefly on his entertainments at his oonntry scat that his fame for hospitality rests. Tlis oonntry seat is on an islet known as Havemeyer’s Island, in the Groat South Bay, on the Atlantic shore of Loug Island. Upon this property, which Mr. Ilavcmcynr obtained by pur chase a number of years ago, he sot up a model country establishment and insti tuted a princely and in many respects unique system of entertainment. Com munication with New Y’ork is hud chiefly by way of Babylon and the Long Island Railroad, and for the nonvoyanco of his guests between the islaud aud Itivhylou Mr. Havemeyor provided himself with a fine steam launch. He frequently en tertained parties of ladies and gentlemen, but "stag parlies” worn his particular delight. When a stag party apptoached tho island in the steam launch it? mem bers wore astonished, not to say st artled, by a salvo of artillery from a masked battery near tho landing. The surprise of the guests waa increased on landing to find a corps of tormonters attired as United States Custom Houso officers, rushing for their baggage, and insisting on ttie formality of a rigid examination of portmanteaux and bandboxes. Be ing finally, and after all tho delay ordi narily experienced l>y Now Yorkers re turned from a European trip, acquitted of attempted smuggling, tho guests pro ceeded to Mr. Havemeyer’s residence, and wore struck speechless at the sight of uniformed and armed sentries pacing Before the entrance. If the arrival did not take plaoe near his dinner hour, the party was beguiled, as It eleoted, during the intervening time, with a sailing or fishing excursion, or some other out-door amusement. It was at the dinner hour, however, that tho farcial climax was reached. The guests woro nshered into tho dining hall with great formality by Mr. Havemeyer himself. When all were seated the host plaoed himself at the head of the table and tapped a silver bell. Instantly doors flow open on different sides of the room, and in filed what seemed lo be an im posing visitation of military command ers, hut really waiters bedeoked in the grudy uniforms of Austrian and Prasian Generals, French Marshals, and offloers of other effete European monarchies. The somblanoe was complete down to the smallest particulars. The mimio officers were helmeted and plumod, spurred, besworded, and epauleted. But to heighten the carioatnre each gen eralissimo bore aloft upon his gloved and uplifted hands a dish of sumptuous and savory viands. But there the farce ended. There was no caricature abont the cuisine. Those who have had the good fortune to sit at Mr. Havemeyer’s hospitable board would have to go far to find a moro sumptuons table. The peculiar features with whioh he enoompasßod his hospitality were re garded at the time as tho enactment of a clever satire on foreign pomposity and certain existing domestio customs. A quarter of a Century. At tho meeting of the Society of the Army of the Potomac Gen. Horaoe Por ter, in his address said : "It is nearly a quarter of a century since tho first guu was fired on Sumter. It was not a loud report, but it was the most significant shot ever fired from cannon’s month. Its sound awoke a sleeping North, its echoes aroused to the frenzy of war a powerfnl people; its re verberations did not cease till they had reached to foreign shores and told the whole world that tho Great Republic was at war. Then every man, woman and child in the land became a worker in the cause which moved the nation's soul. Then came the mighty gathering of that vast army. The doors of the workshops were closed, the fields woro deserted. Armed wen poured down from the hilltops and snrged np from the valleys. The whole land became one vast military osmp, and man felt that he lived again in the heroio ages. “Burke onoe said no war ever left a nation where it found it. It was emi nently so with our war. It found sla very; it left freedom. It found treason; it left loyalty. It found the leprosy of secession; it loft a redeemed and regen erated Union. It fonnd the name of American citizen a byword and a re proach in the world; it left tho name American citizen the proudest passport that man can oarry throughout the na tions of the earth. The great lessons of the war are ever present with us. The record of its battles has passed into his tory and the scroll on whioh that history is written has been seourely lodged in the highest niohe of the temple of Fame.” NO. 28. VERY YOUNG MASONS Mfljhf Rnthrr PrUhtrnfd Both !.*! RIIdiI folded Into l.n Mlnrrrltr l.ode. Tho ceremony of Masonic baptism and adoption of children was performed in the Grand Lodge room by the French lodge La Sinoerite, of New York. This ceremony has rarely been performed in public in this oonntry, aud the great hall was crowded with invited guests of the lodge, including many ladies mid gentlemen in evening dress. A local paper thus describes the affair : The members of the lodge formed open rank in the centre aisle with crossed swords held high, while, at r given signal, eight hoys were brought in blindfolded, led by their parents, their age* ranging from three years to ten. Some of tho hoys looked a little frightened, and grasped thoir parents’ hands rather tightly. Brothor Herdet received them at the top of the steps, and at a given signal tho bandages wore removed from the yonngsters’ eyes, evidently much to their relief. They looked about in a dazed way, and timidly walked upon the platform. The youngest, to the great amusement of the andienoe, stoutly resisted being put in the place where ho was expected to stand. His mother was obliged to go upon the platform and assist in the cere monies. The sponsors of the children took the solemn obligation to aid the children to tho utmost in performing (he duties of Masonry. Then the children were in turn taken to the font nml baptized by washing of their hands, and thence to the altar, whereon was a blazing fire, and where they knelt. The youngest of tho eight kept np liis reputation, and continued to nmuso tho andienoe by stoutly resisting, and liis mother was obliged to join the circle at the altar. Next the members of LaSincerite Lodge took the solemn vow binding them to accept the children, which was duly confirmed, tho members of the lodge rising and clapping their hands in uni son at a signal. The children were then invested with the aprons and jewels of Masonry, all of them bnt tho youngest being highly pleased with their regalia. The young est, however, was again obstreperous and had to be persuaded by his mother, and possibly by surreptitious candy. Fi nally the yonngsters were all settled. Then they wore all consecrated, and tho orator of the lodge, Brother Lellemand, made an address. Brother Charles T. MoOlenaohan explained in English that La Sinoerite Lodge had pledged itself to guard and protect these little ohildren and see that they were educated In Free Masonry, to restrain them from vice and keep them from tho snares that surround the yomig. The oeremony of the wash ing of hands was not intended to inter fere in the slightest degree with any re ligions faith, bnt was symbolic of ap proaching the throne of divine grace with pure hearts. Manuring I’ear Trees. Fear trees often suffer for lack of proper fertilizers. The correct way to manage pear trees is to apply each au tumn a dressing of well decomposed stable manure, leaf mould, a little gyp sum or lime and muck, this to be forked in around the extremities of the roots. Of course, on ricli soilH this compost i u not necessary, but on poor lauds a dress ing of well rotted compost two inches deep will prove of value. Avoid fer menting manures for fruit trees. Also avoid tho common error of permitting tho trees to degenerate for waDt of plant food for several years and then apply an immense quantity. This plan induces an unnatural growth whioh is liable to bo seized with disease. By the way, a good plan when manure is required is tc apply the compost one year and wood ashos or ground bone the next.” Fear blight remains more or less of a mystery to horticulturists. Trees grown on over-moist or too rich soil that stimu lates to a late second growth are liable to blight. Avoid damp soil for pear trees and do not apply summer top-dress ing that is liable to stimulate too late growth. Eastern horticulturists say to graft or bud tho Kieffer on pear stock; it doeß not thrive when grafted on quince stock. A Washington Crank. Tho Philadelphia Press says : That remarkable crank, Manrioe Pinohovor, who has hauntod tho halls of the Capi tol at Washington so long and to whom Ben Perloy Poore gave a national fame by pntting bis pioture in tho Century Magazine, is dying in an insane asylnm at Washington. His pet delusion was that some member of Congress, ustinlly the Speaker, had swindled him out of millions of acres of land. How often he hris come storming around the House of Representatives and been forced out no body but the police can tell. Until lately he was never more violent than to pound with the big tin case in which lie carried the title deeds to his fiotitious estates whoever ventured to disagree with liim. Then his crankism took a more danger ous turn and for fear that he might do harm he was committed to the asylum in whioh he will probably take leave of life. He is an interesting mental wreck. Nobody knows anything of his antece dents, but it is evident from his talk in Incid moments that he has been a high ly educated and intelligent man. THE HUMOROUS PAPERS. WHAT WK Finn IN THEM TO NIMII.B OYMR. ONE CANDID VOTED. “Papa, what is the tariff?" asked a Congressman’s little boy. Gazing compassionately at the youthful knowl edge soeker and sadly shaking his head, the father replied: “My son, I cannot tell a He. I de not know.”— Buffalo Express. A SIT,KNOB STUNT FOB. A goldon-liaired Silence put its head in at a door. “Did you send for me ?” “Of course I didn’t,” replied a man ill a long apron. "A messenger hoy said somebody nlong here wanted to see me.” “Well, ’twa’n’t me; I’m a barber. Maybe it was the merchant next door. I heard him say he was going to quit advertising. ” — Chicago News. COMMERCIAL STATISTICS. A yomig gentleman of Austin, whoso tinanees were not in the bcßt condition, and whoso reputation for industry asd sobriety was not much better, applied to an Austin merchant for a position as salesman. He had hardly had time to get fairly into the office, when he came out very abruptly. “Did the boss hir# you as salesman ?" asked ft friend who was standing outside. “No, but ho wanted me to travel.”— Austin Siftings. BOTH WEBB BOBS. A guest entering hurriedly surprises a man and wife flushed, indignant and di shevelled. “What's the matter?” ho asks. Husband (triumphantly)—“Wo aro settling as to who is boss !’’ Guest —“Have you settled it ?” Wife—(victoriously)—“W<‘ have !” Guest —“Whioh is it?” Both—“Mo I”— Traveler’s Magazine. OAN WHISKY TALK ? Dnmley was making an evening call and the nice little boy of tho family had been allowed to remain np n little later than usual. “Ma," he said, during a lull in the conversation, “can whisky talk?” “Certainly not,” said ma; “what pnt that alißurd notion Into your head?” “Well, "he replied, “I heard you say to pa that whisky was telling on Mr. Dnmley and I wanted to know what it said.” — Chicago Tribune. BATHEB PERSONAL. When Gen. B. F. Butler was a young man, two girls, dwelling in tho same boarding-lionse, were simultaneously in love with him. Both ladies were sitting in the parlor one evening and Ben was making violent love to one of them, much to the chagrin of the other, who flounced to tho piauo and sang “Rook of Ages” at the top of her voice, layiug particular stress on the line : "Simply to thy cross-eye cling.”— Life. MTTTtIAIi CONCESSIONS. A young gentleman from Higboo, while calling on his girl here, asked for her hand and heart, and was accepted. Ho told her he had something on his mind for a long lime, bnt was afraid she would get mad. She wanted to know what it was then, and he made her promise not to get mad. Says he: “I havo two brothers in th 6 peniten tiary.” “That is nothing,” replied she. “I have two brothers in the Arkansas Leg islature.” — lioonville (Mo.) Topic. SAFE FBOM INTRUSION. Jones—“l see Eno has beencanght?” Smith—" Yes; he made a great mis take in traveling through the country instead of staying at home.” “But his house was being watched.” “Oh lof conrse it would not havo done for him to have stayed at his resi dence, hut I know a place only a square off whioh nobody ever thinks of enter ing. Ho oould have slipped in there am) been safe.” “To what plaoe do you refer ?” “To a store kept by a friend of Mr Eno’s in the next street.” “A store I" Why would he be safe from discovery there ?" “The proprietor does not advertise.” —Evening Call. SHOULD OLD ACQUAINTANCE BE FOBOOT. “Did yon know papa when he was a boy ?” asked a Somerville nrphin of his mother, os she doled him out half a dozen of strawberries at the table. “Why, what a qnestion, child 1 Cer tainly not. I didn’t know your papa until he was a yonng man. Why do you ask ?” “Oh, ’cause I wanted to know.” '■What, for ?” “ ’Cause you give him more strawber ries than you give me, and you’ve known me ever since I was born.”— Somerville Journal. ■ THE SILVEB LINING. Mrs. Blank—“Ah, Jim, our—” Mr. Blank—“Oh, Mary, the news is— “ Why, who told you?” “I saw it in the paper; tho hank has—” “The bank; what has that got to do with—” “Why, yon know the panio will—” “Who’s talking about panios ? Who cares for panics? Baby’s out a tooth I” Philadelphia Evening Call. A Reward. In tho U. S. Senate a bill waa intro duced providing for the offering of a re ward of §IOO,OOO to any person of any nationality who shall discover the true cause or germ of yellow fever, with any certain means of effecting its prevention, destruction or material modification, or who, without discovering the cause or germ of said disease, shall discover a certain and practical mode of effecting its orevention or material modification. Fiction has been invented and cul tivated to supply the wants of man, and is a necessary, just like tea and coffee.