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A Lore Song
Dearest dear, if thou wotildst measure
What to me Is measureless.
Half the pain or half the pleasure
Of my love's great tenderness,
I will touch my heart’s-strings for thee—
Since to thee It doth belong—
And the echo shall adore thee
Tn a song within a song.
As th<* sun ks~to the flowers,
Aj the “tars—tu midnight sklrs;
As tbs rainbow—to the showers,
A# the light—to sightless eyes;
As the flame is—to the fire,
As the breeze Is—to the sea;
As the gain—to the desire,
So, dear heart, art thou to me!
—On re a Week.
A WEDDING PRESENT 1
HV IfKI.KN KOHIIKHT ORAVKS.
“Carpet*, you,ig man, if you please!”
••id Mrs. Cackle.
“What sort of carpets, ma’am? Mo
quette? Wilton? Wc have soma very de¬
sirable importations of royal' velvet—’’
“No. brussels! The cheapest thing
you base in bnuacl* that is nny way de¬
cent.”
Mr*. Cackle sat up on the eighth floor
of Meddle A Mint urn's great store, her
•ilken flounces rippling aroun I her am¬
ple form, th’ bird-o f-pa rad iso plume on
her hat nodding, ns if to give extra sig¬
nificance to every word she spoke, ller
tan kid gloves, glntoning with many
buttons, were distended with rings; her
late scarf was fastened with a gaudy
diamond-ict bar, nml her plump visage
boro the trac.s of pearl powder and
cream of roses, laid on with no sparing
hand.
Beside her sat her dear particular
friend, Mhs U»slna Rufford, who al¬
ways played the part of D.unoa to her
Pythias, and invariably wont shopping
with her.
“You sec, Uosinn,” said Mrs. Cackle,
who was one of the kind that'talk very
loulin public places, and indulge in
all sorts of details, “it's for a wedding
present. Lemuel gave me a cheek tor
a hundroi dollars, and told me to buy a
nice parlor carpet for his cousin, who is
to be marital next month—’’,
“Mr. Cackle is always so generuu*,’’
smiled M »s R ifford, whose now set of
false teeth made her smiles very smiling
indeed. “A hundred dollar.* did you
say, dear? That will buy a very nice
one, Indeed ! ’
“It would,” said Mr*. Cacklo, “if 1
was goose enough to buy it. But I
don't mean to. Cackle's only a man,
and men never do understand things.
What do these out.in -tho- wilderness
people under*tan l about carpets? And
what do they want of tlie best grade?
No, young man, I don'^^^mt any of
the dolUr-and -a-quarter 1 Tries. Tliat’s
too high. Haven’t you anything for
about a dollar, or ninety cents. It
needn’t be the wry finest quality, I toll
you. If I spe id fifty dollars on it,”
turning oaca more to Miss Rufford,
“it'll be all that is nccossiir, , 1 and the
extra sum I'll invest in a new satin gown
for myself. 11a, lm, ha! Cackle is so
very close with hi* check book that
now aud then 1 have to circumvent
him.”
4 « You aro so witty, dear,” tittered
Miss Rufford.
“Nothing under a dollar and twelve
cent*?” shrilly repeated Mi** Cackle,
a* the salesman came back again, “I
couldn’t think of paying that. 11 ivc
you do unsa'ablo patterns—nothing
that nobody else will buy? The people
that 1 want this caip-t for are dread¬
fully old-fashioned, and never will
know the d Here nee.”
‘ Oh, my dear, you are too funny!
said Mis* Rufford, behind her fan.
“We have one,” hesitated the young
clerk—“a scarlet ground, with inr
monte olive-green pineapples all over
it. We haven’t sold a yard off it.
Everyl* dy teems afraid of it, and I
ion t Nltl) think
‘ Let mo see it," said Mrs. Cacklo,
promptly.
The porter presently wheeled up a
mammoth roll on a hand-barrow; the
elerk unfolded its hideous, glaring pro
portions where, against a scarlet
ground, lomr monster vegetable en
twined itself amon-* impossible scrolls.
« * You see, ma'am, it is quite unsala
Me, said thc clerk, “Mr. Meddle
was talking of donating it to tho recop
tion room of the B ink and Doddle
Orphan Asylum, at-”
“It is a little pecu.iar,” said Mrs.
Cackle, eying it through her lorgnette.
“Quito—ahem!—what I should call an
art carpet.”
“Oh, my dear Louisa!” giggled Miss
Rufford.
4 * But very striking,” said Mrs.
Cackle.
‘ Quite *o, ma'am.’’ said the clerk,
coughing spasmodically behind his
pocket- handkeiclief.
“What miii you let uie take it for!”
said Mrs. Cackle, in ui buaiae»x-!ike
way;
‘ Eighty cent*, ma’am,” said the
e'fuk.
“Say ft vent jr« five,” * puke the cast o-
“Wo conldn’t, indeed, ma’am. It
coat u* more than that to import it.”
“I’ll tako thirty yards,” said Mis.
Cacklo. “Let me see” (calculating on
the fat tan-colored finger* where the
rings bulged out so obtrusively),
“naught’s a naught, eight times nnught’s
—that will come to twenty-four dollars,
won’t it, young man?”
‘‘Twenty-four dollars, ma’am?*’ said
the clerk, scarcely able to repress his
amazement that any one in their semes
should buy so ugly a carpet.
“And that will leave seventy-six out
of tho check,” s&id Mrs. C'ack'c, glee¬
fully. “I tell you what, Rosmn—I can
trim tho black satin with the very
nicest Escurial lace. I i-uppose ihese
back-country barbarian* will invito me
to the wedding, and I’d like to wear
something that will just paralyze them!
And my husband will never bo any the
wiser. Da look, Rosina! * nudging her
companion. 4 ‘What a beautiful mo
quette that tall young lady in tho black
ailk suit is choosing! I've got to have
something new in my reception-room
next year. I wish I coil'd atlord—’’
“The address, ma'am, please?” said
tho clerk, pencil and pad in hand.
Mrs. Cacklo hesitated.
“Well, I don’t know, ” said she, “I
suppose it had batter In sent at once,
with cur card, to tho brile. Give me
the paper, young man, if you please.
I’ll write it down, so that there can't
possibly be any mistake.
“I tell you, Roiiiia,” she ndde l, as
she sat in the elevator, being lowered
down to the level of the surface world,
“i wish I knew who that elegant young
lady was who was looking at the white*
aud-pearl moquette carpet! I’d like to
»9k her for the pattern of that shoulder
cape, I’m sure it must have come di
rect from Paris. ”
“Well, my dear,” said Mr. Cackle, as
he sat down to the soup and roast beef
of the plentiful table at homo, “what
sort of a parlor carpet did you bu/ for
cousin Erminic?”
“Oh, a beauty!” said Mrs. Cackle,
spreading out her nipkin to protect her
dress.
4 * Did you use all my check? ’
“Yes, every dollar of it,” auswered
Mrs. Cackle, salving her conscience
with tlte recollection of the black satin
nud the Escurial laec, which were al¬
ready in the dressmaker’s han Is.
“I hojie th&y’ll be p en*oJ,” sa d Mr.
Cackle. “It's very essential to make a
favorable impression, I beg you to re¬
member, my dear, on these relations,
for tho young man Erminic is to marry
is a relative of the head of our firm, and
could, I’ve no doubt, recommend me for
advancement.”
“Why didn’t you tod mo all this be
fore?” said Mrs. Cackle, with a pang of
tardy remorse. “But how on earth did
your country cousin come across such a
good match?’
“Oh, I don't know! I believe lie
came out to G'assybrook fishing or gun¬
ning or something. M nnie is very
pretty, they tell me.”
‘'Humpht*' said Mr*. Cacklo. “Red
cheeks and black eyes, and hair cut in
a pointed bang right down fo the top
of the nose—I know what these rustic
beau tie* arc!"
The time for thi welding arrived.
The Cackles, in their holiday attire,
traveled down to G assy brook —and
there, on the drawing-room floor of an
elegant icmi-Italian v.lla, Mrs. Cackle
recognized the very white-and-pearl
moquette carpet that she had so coveted
at Meddlo & Minturu’s. Au 1 the bride
—already in her white silk and floating
reil> to whom shc Wl9 illtroducei a9
Miss Erminie Brooks, soon to become
| Mr9 )IoW9ri Cretpiguy—was none
| olhe r than the elegant young lady in
j t he Paris wrap and the perfectly-fitting
gloves and boots, an l who had heard
every detail of the bargain for the un
| salable carpet.
' If the cracks in the fl >or underneath
the moqu , tto C3 i ors cou i d but have
I openci anJ 9Wallowed Mrs Cackle
. up
^ lhat raoinont< what a „ indescribable
relief it WO uld have been!
“I have to thank you. Mr. Cackle,
for rrosent ,” sa id Erminic, in her
gloWf ^ecidy way; and her smile was
a r jjd e
.q hope you liieJ it » saiJ honest
Mr . C acklc. looking down at the rose
an d. pC arUhades of the soft pile, that
c , osed P arot , a d his foot Kkc forest mass.
4 * It certainly . , . , is a pretty pattern.
Mrs. Cackle shot . imploring ... glance ,
an '
at the , ... bride—i ” g , ance that said, ... plainer * .
than . words. . “Don , t . betrav me!’ —and ,
.h. ..... Irndt .o fib .... w„h .omAod, . .
else abtut something else.
She did not enjoy ..... the back satin
dress . with the L.curmi trimmings
__® so
much , u she ... h*d expected. r , The Paris
costumes of tae “back country J cousins .
left her far in the shade.
“I'll never go to that dowdy dress¬
maker again, ’ *-aid *ho in
a rug;.
But she did, for Mia Biggs was cheap.
and Mrs. Cackle was economic*!. On
the nrj first pall the uwd« thfie after
.
FORT GAINES. GA„ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1890.
her trip to GUssybrook, however, she
gave a great start and stared around
her like one who beholds a ghost.
“My goodness me!’’ cxclaimad she.
“Wuere did you get that carpet?”
“Isn’t it nice!’’ said Miss Biggs,
beaming through her eyeglasses. “It
was a present from Mrs. Howard Crcs.
pigny. Her mother was onco a cus
tomer of mine. Wasn’t it thoughtful
of her? ’
Mrs. Cackle made a little noise as if
she was swallowing something, and
said ve*, she thought it was.
Mrs. Howard Crespigny was the
bride. The carpet was her own wed*
ding gift—the identical “unsalable
pattern.” And Mr. Cacklo never re¬
ceived promotion in the linn of Harrl
man & Cresp : gny on the recommenda¬
tion of his new reiation-in-law.
Mr. Cackle thought it very strange;
Mrs. Cackle didn’t .—Saturday Night.
The Beginning of a Bottle.
Tho process begins with the gatherer.
Hi* blowpipe is a tube of wrought iron,
five or six feet long, and of lighter
weight than the pipe used in blowing
window glass, lie dips the end of his
pipe into tho molton contents of the
boot, and brings out a mass of red-hot
plastic glass. If the bottle* to be
blown are small, one gathering suffices,
but, for larger ware*, two or even three
gatherings may be necessary to get the
requisite supply of material on thaend
of the blowpipe. When tho gathering
is done properly, this lump of red-hot
glass is a perfectly hom igoneous mass.
Its subsequent fortuie* rest with the
blower, lie takas tho blowpipe from
the gatherer, an l resting the plastic
glass against a mirveriug table of stone
<>r cast iron, lie gives the pipe a few
adroit rotations, thus fashioning the
glass into an even cylindrical shapo.
By further rolling it along the edge of
the tabic he forms the smaller prolonga¬
tion of glass which is afterward to be¬
come the neck of the bottle. Lifting
the still red-hot glass from tho table, he
blows t trough the pipe, forming a
small bubble of air in the interior ol
the mass of glass. This is afterward
extended until it becomes the inward¬
ness of the bottle.
Tho partly fashioned bit of glassware
is now introduced into the mold which
one of the “shop” boys has already
opened to receive it. For convenience
in working the mold is placed on a
somewhat lower level than that on
which the blower stands. It is made
of cast iron and commonly formed in
two pieces. One of these is stationary,
while the other opens outward, its ino
tion being controlled by a foot-lever.
When the blower places his incomplete
j bottle, still attached to the blowpipe,
1 into the mold, he closes the mold with
j his foot and blows through the pipe
until the plastic gins* is everywhere
forced against the side* of the mold,
and has impressed upo n it the form of
its prison .—Popular Sc once Monthly.
A Death Test.
If most people are afraid of anything
it is of being buried alive. That cases
do happen where it is very difficult even
for the most experienced phys c an to
determine whether a person is really or
only apparently dead without having
recourse to means which, while they
would at once settle the dispute, would
P lrc8 life . if rcali y rtill existed, in
jeopardy, may be judged from the fact
tbtU tho French Academy of Science,
tcu or fifteeQ ago, offered a prize
equal to f>SOOO, for the discovery of
some mean* by which even the inex¬
perienced might at once determine
whether in a given case death had en¬
sued or not. A phys : cinn obtained the
prize. He had discovered the follow
in S ^11-known phenomenon: If the
hand of the suspected dead person is
; toward a candlo or other artificial
^S^t, with the fingers extended and
‘ touching the other, and
one one looks
through the spaces between the fingers
toward the light, there appears a scarlet
I teX color whcrc the touch each
othcr ’ dae to thc bIood stiH circulating,
1 sllows it8el f through the tissue*
which have not yet congested. When
I lifc is cat5rel 7 extinct the Phenomenon
of scarlet space between the fingers at
• once ceascs ‘ The most extensive and
thorough trials established thc truth of
thU -»• W*
Farming in Spain.
In Spain farming is conducted in *
Grain _ . . with ...
very pr.mitive wav. is cut
small ,, . . hook , anl , .. thrashel , ,
a reaping as m
the , . of , the Cff*us, _ that . . . , by tramp
time is,
mg . aboui . . with asses hitched to a stone .
bo>t The . crookcJ sllV
£ pointed . . . with ... iron. . Iiihe _ . towns are to
be seen . heavy woolen , ca ts . drawn , by
oxen. M , r »->t * of r the u carrying, trans
ferrtsg, , . etc., . . done , . by donkeys, .
is
,, 5*md, , , brie*, . . . lumber—m . . fact , . almost ,
everything ... that , , has to , be moved—is . ,
carried on their back*. Taeso animals
are u*ei all through Spain, and fir
<*Tery purpo-e in the same wav in which
we use th:m in th* nlxaoet impassably
<^aon% of the Rocky Meuntam*,
ONLY A FEW LEFT.
Great Scarcity of Whales in the
Arctic Ocean.
Steamers and Natives Reduce
a Once Profitable Business.
“The Arctic whaling fleet,” said
Captain Kelly, a whaler, to a San Fran¬
cisco Chronicle reporter, “is now re¬
turning to port, and tho news from the
whaling ground is very discounting,
tho catch, at latest reports, not exceed¬
ing sixty-four whales, This number
will not be increased a great deal, ou
account, of the lateness of the season
when the last report was made, This
is certainly not an encouraging pros¬
pect for the owners or crews of these
vessels. The amount of capital invested
in the business sailing out of San Fran¬
cisco is considerable, There are ten
steamers, twenty barks, five schooners
and two brigs.
Two vessels have been wrecked this
season—one bark and one steamer. The
decline in whale oil lias been so great
within the last eight years that, com¬
paratively speaking, little has been
brought into the market, whalebone
being the great inducement in tho pur¬
suit of the business. The high price
paid for whalebone, for which there is
no proper substitute, lias gradually
wrought this great change in the yearly
catch; particularly during last season.
To show how this has been brought
about and to give a fair understanding
to all those interested in the business
let us go back to 1871, when the first
rifllcs were u cd in killing the walrus.
From that timo until 1883, when the
price of oil aud ivory began
to decline, the slaughter of the
walrus was so great that they
were nearly exterminated, and the few
left were so wild that the report of a
rifle was the signal for the whole herd
to plunge into the sea ancl disappear
among the vast fields of ice. Like all
game the constant pursuit drove them
back to safer retreats until now very
few are met. When walrus were
plentiful whales were plentiful; the
walrus ground was also good whale
ground, for the whales, walru* and
seals arc at times very sociable in their
habits. With the decline of tho walrus
business steamers were introduced to
pursue tho whales among the great ice
fields where it ha9 been consilercd
dangerous for sailing vessels to go.
Before tho advent of the steamers tho
whales, on being disturbed, would re¬
treat into the ice pack, but would re¬
turn frequently to the open sea, when
the hunters would get a chance at
them. This would continue at inter¬
vals uutil early m tho full, when the
whales would come out in large num¬
bers and were easily taken, Now they
take alarm at the noise of the steamer’s
propeller and retire farther into the ice.
The steamers can follow them where
the sailing vessels dare not go.”
Another and perhaps more serious
cause of the failure of late yeari is that
the demand for and increasing price*
of whalebone has brought into compe¬
tition a force hitherto despised. This
consists of tho Indians living along the
coast of the Arctic seas. A few years
ago the Indiau was catching a few
whales in his primitive way. What he
took in no way interfered with the
whaling industry— the blubber ho ate
and the bone he traded with the ships—
but it was not long belore be discovered
that whalebone was highly prized by
tho white man, and that the Indian
cfbuld get anything he asked for in ex¬
change. A great con pjtition arose for
the trade among the ship* and traders,
•nd the Indian soon learned to ask for
mort than the bone was actually worth
in the market, and unlawful means had
to be resorted to to obtain the bone.
Consequently the natives were soon sup
p ied with everything their hearts could'
desire. They became insolent, and
seeing that bone could buy any¬
thing, and that they were at a disad¬
vantage with the white man in whal¬
ing, they began to ask for b)mbs,
guns, bomb lances and haipoons. These
were readily given them in exchange
for their whalebone by the thoughtless
whalemen. Then they wanted whale¬
boat* and complete equipments. Soon
the native* were supplied all a'ong the
coast from Cape Bshrmg to Point Bar
row with the whalemen's equipments,
which they were not slow in learning to
use. This year there wen over 300
bomb* fired from along thc shore and
only eight whales were caught by the
native*. If this thing continues it will
soon result in the total extermination
of the whale* in the north.”
Captain Kelly also spoke cf the in¬
famous traffic in ri.ru which had been
introduced in the Arctic by renegade
white men and unscrupu'ous whalers
to wrc*t from the Indian by lawless
means his bone and ivory, and ts aim
ulate him in the daughter of whales.
The native*, he i&id, have
manufacture rum, or, as they call it,
nooebenoo, from flour and molasses,
until now nearly every other Indian
has his private still.
A Japanese Funeral.
The eldest daughter of Otani Kahei,
a rich rice merchant of Yokohama, died
four days ago, 15 years of age, and to¬
day, says Frederick Stearns in a letter
to the Detroit Free Press, I witnessed
the fuucral procession as it passed along
one of .the main streets of the city. It
was nearly a mile in length aiul con¬
tained probabl/ a thousand persons, in¬
cluding mourners, friends, priests and
flower-beams. First came six great
bouquets or stands of flower* arranged
in a conical form, each about eight feet
high, two feet in diameter at the but
tom, tapering to the top. These con
sisted of alternate circles of flowers and
evergreens, and were strikingly effec¬
tive in character. The stem or. liaudlo
of each was a green bamboo about five
inches in diamoter tfXe 1 at the bottom
in a somewhat ornamental wooden base.
They were carried braced to shoulder
poles by coolies, with relays of men to
relieve them occasionally. Following
these were six stands of artificial flow,
ers, gilded and silvered; after those the
young female relatives and friends of
the dead girl, richly dro*sol, each in a
jin-riki-slia. Then came no less than
fifty-two enormous stands of flowers
and evergreen!—such a* first described
borne in pair*, followed by
a large number of tsukuri-bann
(artificial fl iwers). Then came a sol¬
emn-looking “Shin-kwaa” (Shinto
priest), who tapped upon a sacred
drum; after him a number of sacred
musicians in full dross and hats, play¬
ing upon small bamboo fifes. After
these, in jin-riki-shas, a number of
Buddhist priests, with shaven head*,
dressed in rich-colored robos, holding
in their laps some symbolic vessels con¬
taining rico and other, to me, un¬
known substances. Over these wore
held enormous crimson paper umbrellas,
carried by bearer* dressed in white.
After these came a man holding “Ihai,*'
a wooden tablet on which the name ol
the dead girl was written; then two
-men followed with incense burners;
then many more stands of flowers, both
natural and artificial. Tncn came khe
body in a plain coffin covered with
white, borne high upon a platform,
over which was r. canopy. Then fol¬
lowed tho relatives on foot, and friends
of tho deceased’s parents, and after
them the public. At the cemetery hun¬
dreds of boxes containing sweetmeats
were givin away to tho friends, and
tea was served to all who wished.
Much of the ceremonywa* unintelligible
to me, but as a public spectacle it was
remarkable.
1’ulpit to Gambling House.
“Speaking of mysterious disappear
ance=,” said Captain Nelson, at tho
Girard house last night, “a case of that
kind tore up Savannah society a few
years ago. One of the most popular
clergymen in the city ki$3el his wife
and children after supper one evening,
and loft his house to go to a service at
his church. Ho never appeared at the
church, and was never seen in Savannah
again. Detective* were employed to
search for him, and a large amount ol
money was expended on the investigi
tion, but all to no avail; and within
six month* the conclusion was reached
that he had either committed suicide or
had been murdered. A year or so later
a young physician from Savannah, who
had betn an attendant upon this clergy¬
man’s ministration, was in Pari*, and
was making the round* of the city with
some friends. They went into one of
the swell gambling homes, and had not
been there many minutes before a man
enterei whom the Savannah doctor im¬
mediately recognize l as the fugitive
preacher. The physician accosted him
by name, whereupon the ex-clergyman
drew him into a corner and him
to be siient and discreet. ‘I am, ’ he
said, ‘one of the proprietors of this
house, and I am making money here.
The profession of the minister/ grew
utterly cbhorrent to me, and the desire
for an adventurous life took complete
possession of me. I could do nothing
but abscond from the town in which
you knew me. I rely upon you not to
expose me.’
“The facts,” continued Captain Nel¬
son, “were told me by the physician,
who is now one of the most eminent
and successful members of his profes¬
sion in Savannah.”— Philadelphia In¬
quirer.
The Origin of Dogs.
Tiie question of the origin of the dog
has recently been discussed by Professor
Xehring, who believe* that it has de
scended from various *tiilsurvivingspe¬
cie* of wolvss and jackals. The latter
anim&’s can be tamed, and many at*
tempts to domesticate wolves have been
successfully made in recent times. Ileyr
Rouge has so eomplotely tamed a young
w<^Kot it follows hhu exactly as a dog
Opmio.^.
■
WILL B. GRAHAM, Editor and Manager.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Fortune can take away riches, but
not courage.
A crowd always thinks with its
sympathy, never with its reasou.
Everywhere in life the truo question
is not what wc gain, but what we do.
Duty frowns only when you fleo from
it; follow it, and it smiles upon you.
Strong thoughts arc iron nails driven
in tho mind that nothing can draw out.
The weakest spot in overy man is
where ho thinks himself to be tho
wisest.
The most completely lost of all days
is the one on which wo have not
laughed.
Wo deceive ourselves in mon much
more frequently through suspicion thau
through confidence.
Our grand busiuess is not to see what
lies dimly at a distance, but to do
wliat lies clearly at hand.
If thou wouldst attain to thy highest,
fjo look upon a flower; what that does
witlessly, do thou willingly.
The Great Wall of China.
The great wall of China was measured
in many places by Mr. Uuthank, an
American engineer, lately engaged in a
survey of a Chinese railway, llis
measurements give it an average height
of eighteen feet, and a width on the
top of fifteen foot. Every few hundred
yards tho wall is widened and sur¬
mounted by a tower twenty-four feet
square, and from twenty to twenty-five
feet high. The foundation of tho wall
is of solid granite, Mr. Un thank
brought with him a brick from the
wall, which is supposed to have been
made 200 years before tho time of
Christ. In building this immense
stone and brick fence to keep out the
Tartars, the builders never a* tempted
to avoid mountains or chasms to save
expense. For 18J0 miles the wall goes
over plains and mountains, regardless
of nature’s greatest obstructions. The
foundation is everywhere the same gray
granite, as solid as it was 2000 yeais
ago, and the remainder of tho structure
of bricks, as good as tho average that
arc made today. In some places the
wall is built smooth up against the
banks of canyons or precipices where
there is a sheer descent of 1000 feet,
Small streams are arched over, but on
the larger streams the wall runs to tho
water’s edge and a tower is built on
each side. On the lop of the wall
there are breastworks, or defenses, fac¬
ing in and out, so that defending
forces could pass from one tower to
another without being exposed to an
enemy from either side. To calcu'ato
tho timo taken to build, or tho cost of
this monstrous work, is beyond human
skil 1 . So far as the magnitude of the
work i* concerne’d, it surpasses every¬
thing in aucient or modern times ©/
which we have any. knowledge.
Tho Sanitary Soldier.
The sanitary soldier learns to dis.
tingui*h the various kind* of bleeding,
and that hemorrhage proceeding from
the arteries is the most dangerous.
Here his previous anatomical knowl¬
edge comes into play, for, knowing
where the arteries run. he easily recog¬
nizes the paints where ho can comprcas
them to check bleeding. He extempo¬
rizes contrivance* for maintaining this
pressure by various molification* of
bandage*, by certain manipulations of
a pair of short rod* and by bending a
joint upon a hard body. He becomes
expert in the application of modern
surgical dressing* to shot-gun wounds,
in avoiding wound-poisoning and in
the treatment of other more common
varieties of poisoning, whether the
agent be applied externally or taken in¬
ternally.
If a comrade fall unconscious by the
wayside, the sanitary soldier is ready
w.th the proper treatment for his re¬
suscitation, for the discrimination be¬
tween the varieties of insensibility and
a familiarity with the methods of treat¬
ing each has been a prominent factor in
his instruction. Drowning is naturally
a subject that falls under consideration,
and the work upon this accident be¬
gins with a study of the best methods
of rescuing a person in danger of it,
and then extends to the treatment of
the patient when safely landed, The
sheet-anchor in treating many other
kinds of insensibility as well as this is
ar'ificial respiration, and frequent drill
in thi* procedure renders the sanitary
soldier expert in it* application.—
Sribner.
To Cat an Apple into Quarters.
Pa*s. a string by means of a needle
acres* the apple, which is divided by
pulling the two ends of the string,
crossing under thc peel. Operate in the
maimer on the opposite side of
tly»«pp>*. so m to divide it into a second
ha f, »ud it will be perfectly divided
into quarters, although enveloped by
aȤ
m
k
When the Train Contes in.
There are eager faces near,
And a half-subdued cheer,
As around the curve the cars unsteady spin;
While impatient feet await
For the opening of the gafe\.
At the station when the train comes in.
There is handshaking and kissing
And inquiries for the missing,
And a searching here and there for friends
or kin;
There are sad and tearful sighs,
And a waving of good-bys,
At the station when the train comes in.
Then from out the baggage car,
Oh, so careful, lest to jar,
Comes a long and narrow box amid the din.
As the mourners gather round,
There’s a sobbing, wailing sound,
At the station when the train comes in.
Then the ringing of the bell,
And the whistle, clearly tell,
They are ready a new journey to begin.
For it brooks not to be late,
There are other hearts that wait
At the station when the train comes in.
—Helen F, O' ye’ll in Family Album.
HUMOROUS.
When you kill tune it is your own.
Ono can nover tip a waiter so that ho
loses his balance.
It is not unusual to soe a tall mau
short of funds,
“Never say dyo” is a motto that somo
barbers would grow poor on.
Woman was made aftor matt, but
man has been after woman evor since.
“Somo of tho best people in the
country put up with me,” said the
pawnbroker.
The man who is hung may not bo
much of a reportor, but ho is successful
in getting tho noose,
Somo people get mad anil go to law.
Others fight, send for a policeman and
let tho law como to them.
Braggs—This is a little Into Inr you
to be out, isn’t it, Peck? Aren’t you
afraid your wife will miss you? Mr. N.
Peck—I hope she will. She can fling
things pretty straight, though.
Lady (leaving a store)—I am up to
tho tricks of these merchants. I made
him como down $2 on tho price. Mer¬
chant (to himself)—I inn up to the
tricks of them lady customers. I pu
the price up $4.
Albert—“Say, George, don’t you
think Miss Itoscbui is beautiful? Don’t
you think she has fine regular features?”
George (who has just proposed and
been rejected) — “Well, to toll the
truth, Albert, Idou’t like her nocs.”
Now chill winter’s surly blasts
Are howling cross the wold,
And he whose coal is not laid in
Will find the world is cold.
The “American Beauty.”
The exquisite American Beauty, which,
sosay3 a florist, is the most popular and
best-selling rose in all the market, bas
a pleasing little history of its own. In
tho first place, it is tho only new variety
of rose that America has given to tho
world. France and England have pro¬
duced nearly all the cultivated varieties.
America but this incomparable one.
Curiously onough, too, the flower was
not tho result of cultivation. Without
waiting to have its advent into the
world encouraged by the coaxing proc¬
esses of hybridization, this sturdy
floral exponent of American enterprise
was found one morning, perfoct in form
and color, exquisite in fragrance, on a
scrubby little bush in the garden of a
Washington gentleman. Its unusual
beauty attracted the immediate attention
of flower lovers, but when tho classifica¬
tion was attempted no variety was found
to include the new specimen. How it
1 produced has never boen ascer¬
was
tained. Somo 1 a > ero*s between
two especially idieted varieties, and
that cross the result of chance, probably
originated this marvo'ous and perfect
variety of the rose. Lsyat to our Ameri¬
can genius, it is emphatically self-made.
-Chicago II raid.
A Grand Mexican Volcano.
An American railroad contractor
named Stephen Heston ha* beeu an eye¬
witness of the late eruption of the vol¬
cano of Colima, which is thirty milqs
north of the Mexican city of the same
name. This volcano has its crater at »m
elevation of 20,000 feet abovo thc in
level, and is very active, intermittently
throwing up a column of 6moke and
red-hot ashes hundreds of feet in the
air. These spasmodic eruptions occur
about ten or twelve times a day, and are
followed by reports similar to the dis¬
charge of artillery. A few days before
the earthquake the volcano vcmited a
dense black smoke that hung like a pall
over the country for miles around, thi*
phenomenon lasted for several days, and
was accompanied at intervals by •bow¬
ers of red-hot ashe?, which descended
upon its side, It is not known whether
any lava is being thrown out, as the
re 1-hot ashes make investigation impos- *
lible. At night tha sudden eruptions
present a magnificent appearance, The*«
sudden spurts illuminate the country for
.. md, aqd the spectacle uA
grand one- '~~Pananm Star and
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