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To Make the Blind Se*.
A very important discovery made by
Dr. K. Deutschmann of Hamburg is
just now much spoken of by physi¬
cians, particularly by specialists on
the eye. It deals with the successful
cure of a disease of the eye, w hich but
a short time ago was considered abso¬
lutely incurable, the so-called detach¬
ing or peeling of the retina, which
sometimes follows a case of retinitis.
This disease consists in the shrinking
of the aqueous humor, a watery,
slightly salty fluid which lies between
the cornea and the crystalline lens
with the greater part of its substance
in front of tbe iris. If the quantity of
this fluid is lessened to a certain ex¬
tent the eyesight is absolutely destroyed
and the physician can do nothing but
pronounce the disease incurable. Now
Professor Deutschmann has succeeded
in introducing into the diseased eye a
sufficient amount of the aqueous humor
taken from a live rabbit’s eye te restore
the lost sight. Several canes where
this most delicate operation was per¬
formed are on record, the one of a
purser on one of the steamers of the
Hamburg-Araerican line being most
interesting. This man, totally blind
three years ago, w as able to resume his
former occupation after undergoing
the operation jirnt described, and, tbe
Philadelphia Record says, his sight
is just as good as it was at any time in
his life.
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THE DREAM TOWN SHOW.
iere is an island in Niutnoer sea
Where the drollest things are done,
ad we will sail there, if the winds ari
Just after the set of the sun.
’Tis the love place in the whole wide
world.
Or anyway so it seems,
And the folks there play at the end of each
In day
a curious show called “Dreams.”
We sail right into the evening skies,
And tlie very first thing we know
We are there at the port and ready for
Where sport
the dream folks give their show.
And what do you think they did last night
When I crossed their harbor bars?
They hoisted a plank on a great cloud bank
An 1 teetered among th? stars.
WEAKER TAN.
Dy MARGARET JOHANN.
£- \ HR reviewing by the teacher blackboard with stood
/ y. Ealph Burrows
X. a
x \ T problem in alge-
■gsZ? bra. Most of her
vAwJH pupils were from
■0V 1 the lower walks of
tkh'fiomr.s:. life, rude in dress
atl( j matiaer am i
WiTixWiMi*«!»•■» backward in i n .
telligence q; ^ e
schoolroom was a relic of an ancient
educational regime, with broken, be-
grimed walls, curtainless windows
and backless, splinter-fringed benches,
whose present incumbents could
upon the clumsy “forms” before
them, carve their initials side by side
with those of their fathers’, or im-
prison flies in dungeons gouged out
by the jack-knives of their grand-
fathers
This pupil in algebra was the sole
representative there of the township
aristocracy. The teacher was very
proud of him. He had already passed
the entrance examination for the high-
school in a distant city. He showed
what he could do when she had
material to work with, she thought,
and she was fond of showing him off
when the trustees made their p r e-
scribed “two visits a year.” The boy
liad an earnest though merry face, and
he bore with good-humored indif¬
ference the distinction of being the
best-dressed and most scholarly pupil
there.
It was a raw January dav. The
made the old Bohoolhouw quake, but
for pity of the children.it piled pro-
tecting ridges of snow about the case-
ments. For the comfort of the smaller
children benches were drawn close to
the stove; but at the forms the older
ones wrung their hands to dispel the
numbness of their fingers, and sat
upon their feet to keep them warm.
A little girl with stringy, yellow
curls, a lace-bordered apron, torn and
dingy, and a s&iled ribbon around her
neck, tugged at the teacher’s gown.
“Tin me and Weaser Tan do home?”
“Weaser Tan” (Louisa Kutau) by
her side, hung her head bashfully and
pulled her mouth awry with her
fingers. There was no attempt at finery
in Weaser Tan’s costume. She was an
ugly child, with part of her unkempt
hair gathered into a short, taperiug
braid and tied with a bit of thread,and
the rest of it hanging in striugs about,
her eyes and ears.
The teacher hesitated.
it i Me and Weaser Tan’ will freeze
on the way, Miss L-,” said Ralph,
good-naturedly turning from his prob¬
lem, “they have nearly as far to go as
I have.”
Miss L--stepped anxiously to tho
window and surveyed the road.
“If ‘Me and Weaser Tan’ will wait
till school’s out I’ll take them home on
lay sled,” continued Ralph.
The teaoher looked relieved.
“If you’ll do that, Ralph,” she said,
“you may go right away; for the
storm’s getting worse every minute.”
The boy was delighted to get out of
school so early. “Proof that a good
action is never thrown away,” he said,
with roguish familiarity. Then he
slammed his books into place, put on
his warm overcoat and tied a
bright home-knit scarf around
his neck, and the little girls
pinned on their threadbare shawls.
They went out into the storm to¬
gether, and he seated them a-tandem
upon his sled.
“Put on your mitteus, Weaser Tan,”
he said, for the child’s hands holding
to the sides of the sled were chapped
and red.
“She ain’t got none,” said Grace,
pulling at the wrists of her own and
giggling self-consciously.
“Put these on, then,” said he,
throwing his own into her lap.
She drew them on shamefacedly.
The little girls lived in adjoining
cabins; and wtien he left them in front
of their door he said:
“You may keep the mittens, Weaser
Tan; mother’ll knit me another pair.
They’re not so gay as Grace’s, but
they’re warm.”
Ralph Burrows, home on a college
vacation, came out of the woods be-
hind the Rutan cabin with his gnu
upon his shoulder His dog had run
on ahead and Ralph came upon him
eagerly lapping water from a trough in
front of the house. Grace and Weaser
Tan were there the latter with her
hand upon the handle of the pump,
from whose nozzle a stream of fresh
water was falling gently for the ani-
mat’s enjoyment
Don knows where the best water
. the neighborhood be found,
m is to
said Ralph, throwing a bunch of game
upon the grass and pumping a dipper-
fnl of water for himself as the girl
stepped bashfully aside. The dog, a
magnificent English setter, went to
her and laid his tawny head
her. She spoke gently to him,
“He seems to be an acquaintance of
T* * bei “*
“Sh'd think heought to
°t b °”' !3
ami •■rZv h i n o very’kind, orh i m
r» snre," said
taZctao 6
ZZ fOT
ser ran, he said, giving one to each 1
and laughing at the recollection of ^^ the
old childish name.
an?Gr!r u ; , Ih . h ... g rl° h hand f ; hegrate; Piping I
him a “a out of sheXn!d.^.'1 hi,™* w * V H , en ?’ Wat< ; hed ;
b “drJri™. h ., Sf ?
‘2d VZ handsome!'she \r
s-ul y °° n ‘
’
good * -
= 'Thao ^ a.?,'* e . her
frith with «-«. water. r Then Grace want . crying
Aadt S 8at0nthftm00nand SWUGg thelX
Like pendulums, to and fro.
Down Slumber sea i3 the sail for me,
FoVthe Sm fol^There on'thls ‘ curious
isle
Begin their performance at eight.
There are no encores, and they close their
floors
On every one who i9 late.
The sun is sinking behind the hills,
The seven o’clock bells chime.
I know by the chart that we ought to start
If we would be there in time.
Oh, fair is the trip down Slumber sea!
Set sail, and away we go!
The anchor is drawn. We are off and
gone
To the wonderful dream town show.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
into the house, and Wease, in the
covert S. the
the jay wic and watched the giver
out of sight,
, 4T> Room ln our town for another
Physician,” wrote distant relatives,
and there Ral P h Burrows went fresh
from an extended course of study and
travel abroad. He opened his office in
the heart of the town; his home was
with his relatives on hills that over-
l , ° ok , ? d . ., Business . came to , . him . , lag-
gmgiy, but love came on smooth, swift
wings.
Marguerite, , T heir of beauty, wealth
j aad ? ood, ? ess ’ sa J oa tho veranda,
beld S ,a88 m hand. A dozen 1 times a
da ?’she focused it upon Ealph s office
m town below A few moments
j 8iace set out upon ^ the *T homeward lock bla road. d ° orand Now
} kae ie was . U8t h ; dde v’hat , n / r ° landmark m 7 iew l bat he had 8h «
reached Y j (she t had timed him often).
so
r ° 8 P e ed tha miaute f fihe °° k "P »
. and scanned article
ma S aziae an that
essayed to settle for all times and for
f* 1 P«°P le question: “Is life worth
h ™8? When he came she met him
^ tli,J foot of tbe terraces, and with
ttio.uiid , hei he led her back to
th ® 7® raa
rat . it he asked, , tossing .
s in .
the magazine aside to make room for
them both upon tho willow settle.
“Oh, Ralph,” she cried, ai-chly, “is
life worth living?”
He took her face between his hands
andiookeduuutterabte , . . . .. , , . love into . , eyes
ttat paid him back his own.
Is Bfe worth living? And with
Marguerite? A thousand, thousand
times, sweetheart, and forever aqd
ever!” He kissed her rapturously.
“For shame,” she whispered, look¬
ing rosily foolish and happy, “there’s
Louise; she must have heard and seen
the whole performance. And, by the
way, Ealph, when you write your
mother, thank her again for solving
for us the servant problem in so far as
a waitress is concerned. This Louise
Rutau has beeii with us two months
uow, and we find her all we could de-
sire; only (with a little deprecative
shrug) her face is so stolidly sorrow¬
ful. I’m so happy myself, Ealph, that
when anyone else is sad I feel a sort
of remorse—almost as if I were re¬
sponsible.
“Well, poor girl,” he said, “I’ve
known her ever since she was—three
feet high, I suppose, and she’s had
pretty hard lines. She’ll brighten,
never fear, in the atmosphere of this
home.”
“Louise,” said Marguerite next day,
“I believe I’ll let you drive me into
town; you’re accustomed to a horse,
aren’t you?”
“Not very; but I’m not afraid,” was
the reply; so they went.
Marguerite had made her purchases,
had achieved a merry consultation with
Ralph in front of his office, and they
•were upon a homeward, uphill road
that lay along the bed of a little stream.
The queer, reticent girl by her side
was a study for Marguerite. Through¬
out the drive she had tried to make
her talk; but, baffled, she had by now
lapsed into a silence akin to pique. A
new thought came te her.
“Louise,” she asked, “is life worth
living?”
“For you it must be, Miss Mar¬
guerite.”
It was a lengthy sentence for the
girl to utter, but her eyes looked
staight ahead and her hands holding
the slack rein lay limp in her lap.
“And why not for you, Louise?”
The girl hesitated, and Marguerite,
always prone to moralizing, improved
the opportunity.
“My good girl,” she said, “you
wage-earners make a great mistake in
thinking that wealth brings happiness.
All of us, rich and poor alike, meet
with disappointments, and we can
either make the best of them and be
happy or make the worst of them and
be miserable. Now, here are these
gloves that I’ve just bought. I
couldn't get the color I wanted; these
are fully three shades too dark, but
I’m not going to fret about them; I’m
to be happy in spite of circum-
stances.'’
“Yes, ma’am,” said the girl, apatheti-
caliy.
“You have health, a home and
plenty to eat and to wear, Louise, and
I have no more than that.”
“Yes, ma’am”—but there was repu-
diation in the tone.
Marguerite recognized it, and went
on, a softness stealing over her glad,
: flower-like beauty
“Of course I have Ralph; but
some day, Louise, some honest-
hearted young fellow will come to you,
j and will love yon as his life, and then,
j Louise, if your heart responds” (her
j of voice love weighed dropped with into the sweet mystery
| “you will rhythmic cadence)
be blest indeed.”
“Yes, ma’am,” said the girl again,
| scape and*leanedTfOTwm-d to ^ide^her
**" ° f «" «*“-
Suddenly the feigned interest ^ he
f«t,
8h !„ t 5 1 *”‘ hCrei ° S “‘oMargnerite-s
l.n 7'^ ^ P |v“ ®
P ; Cke ‘ °*
b
of the ’whr shafts -
J“V’» T „„i •• - u b ^“ Vi Marguerite; .
then lh she got down and went to her
With a{MCe fQ H of astonished inquirv.
The girl’s fingers were flying from
bnckle to buckIe along the harness.
"Go home as fast a, you can go.
Mid. Her voice
tras steady, but her hands shook.
d0 Louise?”
The girl dragged the harness off:
“Vor yon," she said, “life is trorfh
living; for me”-sh. backed the horse
to the carriage-side—“death is -worth
d V
‘ hub she vaulted to the
From a
horse’s back.
“3 0 home!” she shoutod, fiercely;
*<>r by now she had lost control of her
voice.
“I believe you are insane,” said
Marguerite, k fl lf in anger, half in
fright. • . i .
To the quivering girl the suggestion
was an inspiration. She waved her
hands wildly:
“Go!” she shouted, jerking the
horse upon his haunches, “start, or
I’ll ride you down!”
Marguerite fled in terror. Once she
looked back. No one was in sight,
but she heard the horse’s hoofs clatter¬
ing downward into the town.
A eatalpa, little and old and scarred
and only of late protected from vandal¬
ism by a box, stood in front of the doc¬
tor’s office. A horse wheeled under it,
and Ealph reached the sidewalk as the
rider slipped to the ground. asked,
“What’s wrong, my girl?” he
with forced professional calmness.
Her breath came pantingly.
“Go home,” she gasped, with tense,
white lips, “they want^you.”
He sprang toward his office, but she
clutched his sleeve. She was not
fierce now-, but her tone was an agony
of pleading. first time in her
“Oh, go!”—for the
life she looked full into his face—
“don’t stop for anything—she’s dying,
I tell you—Marguerite—she’s bleed¬
ing to death by the roadside—above
the dam.”
She pressed the bridle into his hand,
but he tore away into his office. He
was out again like a flash, hatless but
his emergency kit in hand. He
snatched the bridle and the next min¬
ute the woody’, up-hill road plucked
horse and rider out of her sight.
Almost fainting, she held to the tree-
box. The street was nearly deserted,
but two women, talking earnestly,
came round a corner. She clutched
the gown of the nearer.
“The dam,” she whispered, “there’s
a leak—”
The woman started and gathered
her skirt closely about her. “Poor
creature!” she said to her companion,
“rum is the curse of this land,” and
they turned nervously into the nearest
street.
Then Weaser Tan’s strength came
again. Two boys tore past her in a
wild game of chase. She seized the
foremost by his shoulder, his compaa-
ion grabbed him at the same instant,
I and both wheeled stumbhngiy m
front of her.
“Eun for the hills!”—she shook
the boy as if to awaken him from
sleep—“the big dam is giving way!
Don’t stand and stare! Alarm the
people!”
She flung them from her, and they
plunged ahead—one shrieking like a
maniac, the other dumb with terror.
The girl herself dashed after the two
women. Ahead of her and on the op¬
posite side, upon a bank of the
“branch,” was a factory, In its see-
oud story young girls were working;
she could see them through the open
windows.
She -was flying up tho stairs when
a suspicious foreman stopped her.
“Whereaway so fast, young wo-
man?”
“The flood is coming!”
“Nonsense!” he smiled pleasantly.
“It’s the dam, the great dam above
the South Fork! Look out at the
branch!” and she tore past him.
The girls were already staring wild¬
ly into one another’s faces, for a new
din, the roar of a raging river, min-
gled with the whir and clatter of the
machinery,
“Run for your lives!”
They rushed to the street and fled
their various ways. One, half para¬
lyzed, clung to Weaser Tan.
“The railroad bridge is high and
very strong. ” From both sides peo¬
ple were crowding upon it.
Only a moment—but in it, to that
struggling cityful, terror enough to
freight eternity—and Louise, her arm
around her faiuting charge stood
upon the bridge. Then the dam sur¬
rendered its last defense and pande¬
monium plunged into the valley.
The work oi rescue was going on.
Tho young doctor had not lain down,
they said, for two days and two nights.
He was everywhere, directing, com¬
manding, executing. Some sixty rods
below where the bridge had been was
a wooded knoll, for*which the branch
in its peaceful days had turned tran-;
quilly aside. A mass of drift was
piled there now, sand and soil;!
trees, cattle and the wrecks}
of homes; stone buttress; brace
and girder and stanchion of steel
and human flesh and blood—wisps of
straw flipped aside by the torrent, the
discarded playthings of a moment.
Gangs of men were sorting it over.
A bit of blue cambric caught Ralph’s
eye. He knew it, for his mother hadj
worn it once.
“Careful there, careful,” he warned,
pressing in among the laborers, “take!
away that piece of roofing. Not your*
axe, man! For heaven’s sake don’t
use that! There’s a young girl lying
just beneath! Help me lift it, half
dozen of you—so—that will do. ”
He scooped away some debris with
his hands and wiped the soil from the
dead face.
“Thank God, there’s no mutilation
That iron beam there twisted like a
thread—it confines the arm Set your
lever just here. Steadv—steadv• ‘that
will do
“Now. some one help me carry her
Not vou, Van Courtlandt- some one
with kn awful sorrow tugging at his
heart. You’ll do McCall
lift “Gently, my man, tenderly as you’ll
that little girl of yours when you
find her. Lav her here McCall
“One moment more, mv friend
Here’s a pillow, soft and white ,™riii and
frilled it’ a daintv thincr_M fl
sent Put it into place white I lift
the head Nowthesmead 1116 ^ad-thank thank V-m you.
McCaU”
facT^rpl^in ’italpli death af^ltfe d’look^d but
stood an
wonderin 8^ and sadly. His
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softly.in.
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He 1X1 a.’MTVe
oreasi.
Th »r WCTe * P alr 7*™ mit
Stnries tens and a bine-jay. tring.-Short
A Good Figure.
John A. McCall, instance President of th,
New York Life Company, is
a three great columns man in addition. He can fake
place of ea“b, figures a yard long
rapidly . Anger on draw his hand
from top to bottom, and an
nounce the sum. Adding machines are
not in it.-Sfew York Press.
OUK BUDGET OF
LAUGHTER-PROVOKING STORIES FOR
LOVERS OF FUN.
The Plaint of an Unfortunate—Generous
—A Greek Gift—A Shrewd Reasouer—
Of Course— More Professional— Good
Bfoney After Bad—His Experience, Etc.
I never ran to hear a band
Whose dulcet strains were drawing near,
But that the music always stopped hear.
Just when I got where I could
—Cleveland Leader.
Generous.
“Give me a bite of your candy,
please Flossie ?”
“No, but you may kiss me while my
mouf is stickv.”—Life.
A Greek Gift.
Visitor—“Does mamma give you
anything for being a good boy?”
Tommy—“No; she gives it to me
when I ain’t.”—Chicago Flips.
A Shrewd Kcasoner.
Oerk—“You say you will take this
hammock, miss?”
She—“Yes, but I want two of
them.”
“Very well, madame.”—Life.
Of Course.
Bobby’s Father (reading)—“Like
the cat in the adage—now, Bobby,
what is an adage?”
Little Bobby—“Why, somethin’ to
keep cats in, I s’pose.”—Pick-Me-Up.
Good Money After Bad.
“What makes Bumply so down on
the long distance telephone?” Toledo'that
“He called up a man in
owes him $2.50. They wrangled till
it cost Bumpily $13.”—Detroit Free
press.
More Professional.
The Count— “I haf made to your
daughter a -what vou call it-proposi-
tion—proposal?”
Father—“H’m. I think proposition
sounds more like business.’^—Brook-
lyn Life.
Tlie Clieerful Idiot.
“For five years,” said the aged
boarder, ‘ ‘I had to use an invalid chair. ”
“And I, ” said the Cheerful Idiot,
“have been using crippled chairs ever
since I became a boarder.”—Indian¬
apolis Journal.
The Pride That Is Puffed Up.
Customer—‘Look here! All)the but¬
tons came off this coat the first time I
wore it.”
Cohen—-“Yes? So many beoples ad¬
mire dot coat dot yon shwell mit pride
und burst dose buttons off.”—-Tit-Bits.
An unreasartahie Beast.
Professor—“Margate, please take the
cat out of the room. I cannot have it
making such a noise while I am at work.
Where is it?”
Margaret—“Why, sir, you are sitting
011 _Flierv eu cle Blotter
A Winning Stroke.
She—“Is that the winning stroke
you are rowing, Jack?”
He—“It is indeed, Helen. Your
mother wouldn’t have let you come out
with me if I hadn’t jn'omised to keep
rowing it all the time.”—Harper’s
Bazar.
A Case ln Point.
Surburbs—“After all, it doesn’t make
much difference where a man lives.”
Towns—“What? It makes all the
difference imaginable, my boy. All
that half the world remembers about
Diogenes is the fact that he lived in a
tub.”—Truth.
His Experience.
“On the whole,” 3aidthe aged weather
prophet, “I have found that the safest
course is to predict bad weather.”
“How so?” asked the neophyte.
“Because people are much more
ready to forgive you if the prediction
does not come true.”—Puck.
The Point of View.
Harduppe—“Isn’t it a beastly thing
to have a lot of debts you can’t pay!”
Grabgrind—“I know of only one
thing worse.”
“And what’s that?”
“To have a lot of debts you can’t
make other people pay.”—Life.
A Victim of Sport.
ill! “Why, M. Embonpoint, you look
What’s the matter?”
“Bicycle.”
bicycle!” “Bicycle? But you don’t ride a
“No; but the wretch that knocked
me down did.”—Journal Amusant.
A Telling Argument. *
“The two best men I ever knew”—
began the raconteur.
“Excuse me,” interrupted the pre¬
cise man, “but you ought not to say
that.”
“I hadn’t got started yet. How did
you know what I was going to say?”
“I was referring to your English.
‘Best’ is superlative, you know. There
can’t be more than one ‘best.’”
“Humph! That shows how much
you have read.”
“There is nothing to prove the coa-
trary.”
“Yes, there is. Take any newspaper
and read the bicycle advertisements.”
—Washington Star.
The Landlord's Ruse.
“What ever induced the Gazleys to
go to that wretched mountain resort
again? They said when they got back
last year that they would not return
there even if their board were offered
to them for nothing.”
“Oh, then, you haven’t heard? Whv,
the landlord wrote to Mr. Gazley that
he had secured an impoverished foreign
nobleman to act as waiter. The old
man didn’t intend to say anything
about it to his wife and daughter, but
Mrs. Gazley found the letter in his
pocket, so they packed up and started
the next day.”—Cleveland Leader.
Romance and Reality.
Romantic Miss—“Do you love me
veil enough te do battle for me?”
Ardent Suitor—“Ay, against a thou-
3and - ”
“Well, Mr. Bigfish is paying me a
good deal of attention, Would you
fight him for me?”
“Yes, I would.”
“Could you defeat him?”
>-o; he d probably thrash the life
>ut of me.”
“Mercy! Well, never mind. I’ll
. without .
a.e please you any fighting, . and, oh,
j remember, my darling,
.•omise me Mr. on yonr honor, that if you
-er see Bigfish coming, you’ll
a.”—New York Weekly.
The Tramp Worked the Dentist.
To woru on the sympathies of a
dentist who was at first hardhearted,
a tramp at St. Joseph, Mo., asked him
to pull out two of his teeth which were
Bled with gold; for, he asked, of what
tse were gold-filled teeth if one had
:othing on which te use them? This
appealed soto the dentist that he gave
him some money instead of drawing
tee teeth.
~ “—--—
He spaK© slowly, almost painfully,
ts one not accustomed to much talk-
ing. And yet he had been married j
thirty year*.—Indiaaapoli* Journal,
WORDS OF WISDOM.
It is difficult to say who doe3 the
most mischief, enemies with the worst
intentions or friends with the best.
Such as thy words are, such will thy
affections be; such thy deeds as thy
affections, such thy life as thy deeds.
There is a great struggle between
vanity and patience when we have to
meet a person who admires us but who
bores us.
One of the highest mountains upon
which we may stand in this life, is to
be able to look back upon a long life
weR s P ent ,
I Beware of prejudices. A A man’s man s mind mind
is like a rat trap; | ae tful^if* thevTver
easily, but it is doubtful it they ever
get out again.
Want of prudence is too frequently
the want of virtue; nor is there on
earth a more powerful advocate for
vice than poverty.
Don’t get the notion that you are the
greatest person in creation. There
are plenty of other people who are just
as small as you are.
The worst penalty of evil doing is to
grow into likeness with the bad; for
each mau's soul changes according to
the nature of his deeds, for better or
for worse.
Patient, hopeful waiting is hard work
when it is the only work possible to ns
in an emergency. But patient waiting
is in its time the highest duty of a
faithful soul.
A good and wise man will at times
be angry with the world, and also
grieved at it; but no man can ever be
long discontented with the world if he
does his duty in it.
We should so live and labor in our
time that what comes to us as seed may
go to the next generation as blossom,
and that what came to us as blossom
S° to tbem a8 fruit ’ Tms 13 " hat
.
we mean P™g ress *
Many ideas grow better when rraus-
! planted into another mind than in the
one where they sprang up. That
which was a weed in one intelligence
becomes a flower in another, aud a
flower again dwindles to a mere weed
by the same change.—The South-West.
Boats Carried on the Heads of 3Ien.
The achievement has often been re¬
ferred to of the carrying of steamboats
on the backs of men. The expression
is not quite accurate, for the Congo
natives are trained from infancy to
cai’ry burdens on their heads. When
a European on the lower Congo sent
his black boy to a store to buy some
cigarettes, he was surprised to see the
servant return with the tiny package
on his head. When a Congo woman
kas smoked ker much-loved pipe, the
treasure i3 likely to repose on her
bead until she again requires it; and if
her husband, unfortunately, has been
ao '° procure a bottle of rum, he
walks home with it nicely balanced on
his head, throwing stones at the stray
' dogs and cats on his way, without the
slightest idea that he is really an ex-
pert equilibrist. Most of the many
thousands of pieces of steamboats were
carried on the heads and not on the
backs of men.
The 50,000 natives of the loiver Con¬
go who have been carrying these
steamboats and all other freight around
the cataracts are the very men who
could not bo induced, eighteen years
ago, to give a helping hand to Mr.
Stanley. He wished to carry 1S30 man-
loads, and he had only 190 Zanzibar
and Loango porters for the work.
Some of the natives would sell him a
little of their time, but they would
not carry his goods more than two or
three miles beyond their homes. Stan¬
ley’s failure to secure the carriers he
needed along the river delayed his
work on the upper Congo for more
than a year, and the labor question
was the most perplexing problem with
which he had to deal. He brought
his carriers thousands of mites, from
Zanzibar and other coasts of Africa.—
Harper’s Round Table.
Bacteria in Ink.
Bacteria, dangerous to health and
life, have been found in the air we
breathe, the water tve drink, in various
kinds of foods, and even in the mucil¬
age on the ubiquitous postage stamp,
but it remained for the eminent Ger-
man scientist, Dr. Warpmann, of Leip¬
zig, to discover the poisonous bacteria
living and thriving in ink.
He has recently made a microscopi¬
cal examination of sixty-seven samples
of ink used in the schools in Germany
and in other countries. Most of these
were gall inks, and contained various
sorts of bacteria, as well as those
other minute organisms known in the
scientific world as saprophytes and
micrococci. Nigrosin ink, taken from
a freshly opened bottle, which had up
to that time been tightly corked and
seated, was found to contain bacteria
in large quantities. Red and blue
inks of the sort so frequently used in
offices also yielded numerous bacteria.
To determine whether or not these
bacteria were really as poisonous as
chemical analysis would seem to sug¬
gest, Dr. Warpmann decided to “cul¬
tivate” some specimens for actual ex¬
periment. The result of these experi¬
ments showed that a bacillis from or¬
dinary black ink would, if introduced
into the blood of a mouse, prove fatal
within four days. Similar experi¬
ments the doctor in the interest of
science performed upon other small
animals—rabbits, guinea pigs and the
like—always with the same fatal re¬
sult.—New York World.
Klondike Mines ln Gulches,
“The mining claims in the Klondike,
region,” reports a returned miner, “are
500 by 666 feet in area. They are all lo¬
cated on gulches, and the 500 feet really
represents the length of each claim,
the 666 feet being taken crosswise.
The idea is te give a man from hill te
hill, and if what you might call the
walls are closer together than 666 feet,
why, you’re just that much short, that’s
all. You can’t get more than 500 feet
along the gulch, no matter how nar-
row it is. None of them is supposed
to be under 666 feet, but where that is
the case you have no claim te anything
more than the land between two side
lines so far apart.” The mines are
under the control, so far as any con-
trol is needed, of a- Mining Commis-
sioner, who seldom interferes with any
one, however, for there is rarely any
trouble. At the same time he can in-
terfere, and to some purpose, if it be-
comes necessary, power* for he has any
amount of and what he says
goes. A squad of Canadian mounted
police is under his orders. A couple
Q f men were s h 0 t i n the affray in Cir-
cle City, on Alaskan soil, some months
since; but in British territory “every-
thing is like a church.”—New York
Sun.
Rough on the Nurse.
According to a French journal, an
inventor has devised an electrical
arrangement which consists of a
microphone placed near the head of a
baby in its cradle, and connected to a
sort of relay which operates an elec¬
trie bell placed near to where the
nurse is asleep. A cry from the child
will therefore cause the bell to ring.
Many Biton Still Live.
After all that has been said the Am¬
erican bison isn’t so nearly extinct as
had been supposed. Forest and Stream
has just completed an investigation
which shows that at present there are
at least 600 bison or buffalo in captiv¬
ity, mostly in game parks, where they
have free ranges and natural surround¬
ings which make it likely that they
will breed and multiply. The largest
captive herd is owned by Charles and
Joseph Allard in Missouri county,
Montana. It consists of 250 fine,
healthy and fairly young animals;
Austin Corbin’s herd coines next with
82 head; Charles Goodnight, in the
Texas Panhandle, near Petty, in that
State, has 50: J. G. McNair has 10 in
St. Elmo, Oregon county. Me.; D. F.
Carlin has 30 in Leslie, N. D.; Buffalo
Bill has 24; Sir Donald A. Smith owns
15 in Winnipeg, and William C.
Whitney holds 13 in his preserves.
There are scattering specimens and
even small herds in various zoological
gardens and in the hands of private
individuals, many of whom hold them
for chow purposes, Among these is
the father-in-law of a famous military
man, who owns *ev en bison.
Inactivity,
“But I thought your husband was
an active man?”
“Active! If it weren’t for me, I
i ,| on -fc believe he’d get up in time to go
to bed.”
“Ah, well, that’s better than some
husbands, you know, who scarcely go
to bed in time to get up.”—Harper’s
Bazar. *
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A is sick disease peculiar toiler 1ST
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story, but not the whole story.
She holds something back, loses her head, jgga
becomes to and agitated, finally forgets conceals what what she wants she s|l|g laggij
say, p m
ought to have told, and thus completely wra Ft
mystifies the doctor. .
Is it any wonder, therefore, that
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A traveler who spent some time in
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