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tr Brothers and Sisters. Brothers I have by the score, A mil'ion, yea, and more! Men who are striving 'mid sun and rain, Resolute comrades on hill and plain, Drawers of water and hewers of wood Round in a common brotherhood, With the hearts and bands to dare and do Life’s fiery furnace passing through, Ob, Brothers, I pray foryou. And sisters have I. yea, more Than sand grains by the shore; Women who work and who know not peace, Sighing in vain for the soul’s release; Sisters of trouble, in poverty’s van. Toilworn faces I sadly scan; They come and go and are lost to view, And death shall linger and fate pursue, Oh! sisters, I weep for you. —[Ernest McGaffey. SISTER DILLY’S BONNET, BT ZEXAS DANE. The Ladies’ Society of an active lit¬ tle country church met one Friday af¬ ternoon at the home of Airs. Jonas Wellman. Every member was pres- ent, and all were in such a pleasant, merry mood that Airs. Cyrus Hodge thought it a good time to mention something she had had in mind for several days; 60 , during a momentary lull in the conversation, she said: “Sister Dilly’s wearing her oid win¬ ter bonnet again this summer, ain’t fhe?” “Yes; I noticed it Sunday, and it looked awfully old and hot for such a warm summer day. She’s worn that one old-fashioned black velvet bonnet with thorn cheap black ostrich tips for four years, ami it’s only a cotton vel¬ vet at that. I should think she might contrive some way to get her another, even if we don’t pay brother Dilly but three hundred a year.” “I get me a new bonnet every sum¬ mer with my egg money, and Sister Dilly has hen9 a-layin’ right along,” 6aid Mrs. AVclltnan. “You can get a real neat, black rough-and-ready straw bonnet in town now for forty-four ceuts,” 6aid Mrs. Plutrnn. “Yes, but I don’t suppose Sister Dilly feels that she can spend even that much for a bonnet and buy tbe triinmin’s too,” said Airs. Hodge* “You know them three little orphan gran’ children of hers was sick most all winter and her and Brother Dilly had medicine and doctors to pay for, and Brother Dilly either had to have a new suit this spring or stop preachin’, an’ that cost over twenty dollars. Then they’re paying off that mortgage of three hundred dollars that’s been on their place so long.” “Yes, that ’9 so,” 6aid Airs. Eli Curry. “Sister Dilly told me the other day that they’d paid it all off but fifty dollars and she didn't feel that she’d a cent to spend for anything hut home an’ furrin missions till that mortgage was lifted an’ she’d a ruff of her own over her head. I’d feel just so if I was 6ixty years old, and in her place I doubt if I'd feel called on to give ten dollars a year to missions of any kind as Sislcr Dilly does.” “AYcll, now, sec here,” said Airs. Hodge, coming at once to the point. “Sposin’ we club together and make up a little purse and get Sister Dilly a bonnet for a birthday gift. She’ll be sixty a week from Sunday. I know ’cause 1’ni fifty-nine the same day and we was both born in the same county, and our namc9 is Matildy, and both our husbands’ names is Cyrus, and we’ve often talked about how queer that was. “Now our society’s got over fifteen dollars in the treasury that we’ve no special use for, nnd I vote that we take two dollars of that and each member give ten cent9 extra beside, That’ll make three dollars and ninety cents, and we can get a real neat ard tasty bonnet for that. AVhat do you all say ?” The proposition was readily agreed to, and the next hour was spent in discussing the style and make of bon- ncts in general. It was agreed upon ' hat *'f tcr Diily, '' ou ! d be topt in found ignorance of tbe act,on of society, and it was further agreed that the bonnet should be black. “A black bonnet is like a nice dress; it’s suitable for almost any every occasion,” said Airs. “and nothin’ else is suitable for fun, f rals, and Sister Dilly, bein’ a er’s wife, is bound to go to fuu’rals considerable.” “I don’t think a woman of Dilly’s age bad ort to wear flowers in her bunnit nohow,” said old Grand- mother Peters, Airs. AA’ellman’s and the oldest member of the society. “No, not even wheat or oats drtifishu's, an’ when it comes to a big, flarin’ red poppy, a-standin’ straight up an’ a-bob- bin’ around on top of a body’s head, like Climeny Cawker that’s only sir months an’ three days younger’n me wears, I think it’s perfectly scan’lous, an I allow to tell Climeny Cawker so the first chance I git.” “Now, now, mother,” said Mrs. Wellman. “It ’3 only a mere matter of taste, I’m sure I don’t object to a little bunch of quiet-colored artificials n even an old ladv’s bonnet.” “I shall leave all such ideas and gnch ornaments behind me, mother,” 6aid Airs. Wellman with a little laugh, “You’d better, for you’ll find y*our- self in comp’ny that’s above sich van- ities, Priscilly Wellman,” retorted Granny Peters, as she shook one of her shining knitting needles at her daughter and frowned darkly. Mrs. Hodge and Airs. Wellman- were appointed a committee to pur¬ chase the bonnet and attend to the presentation of it with any message from the society they might think appropriate. “My niece, Alary Carver, doe9 all the trimming in a millinery store in Hartford,” said Airs. Hodge. “She comes out here for her vacation every summer and knows Sister Dilly, and I know she’d get the bonnet up for nothing for us if we’d write and ask her. I’ll tell her we want something plain and neat and nice.” “Without no poppys nor fluhdub- bcrics, mind you, if you expect ary dime from me,” put in Airs. Peters. “It will probably be plain enough to please you, Grandmother,” replied Airs. Hodge, with no trace of resent- ment in her voice, for everybody knew that Granny Peters was one of the kindest hearted old ladies in the world, notwithstanding the sharp tongue that continua'ly belied her real character, Airs. Hodge kept summer boarders, and among them that summer was a young married man named Hill, who went to Hartford every Saturday, re- turning the same day. Ho was very obliging and frequently executed little commissions for Airs. Hodge in tbe city. His wife was in the South with an invalid mother. Airs. Ilodgc did not want to go to Hartford, and wrote her niece in re gard to the bonnet, determining to ask Mr. Ilill to call for it when he went to the city on the following Saturday, “Certainly, certainly,” said Air. Hill in his kindly way when Airs. Hodge mado her request known to- him. “It won't he the least trouble, for, as it happens, 1 have to go to that very milliner’s today to get a bonnet my ivife has sent for and have it ex- pressed to her. She’s going to some kind of a garden party down in Georgia and had to have a new bonnet from her own milliner, expressly for the occasion. I’ll just kill two birds with one stone by getting your bonnet at the same time I get my wife’s.” “You are very kind,” replied Airs, Ilodge, “and now if you’ll just leave the bonnet at Pastor Dilly’s house on your way out here from the train, it will complete the whole business. I’ll give you a little note to leave with it.” The note read as follows: “Dear Sister Dilly: AVill you please ac- cept this little gift we send today as a birth' day remembrance and a slight testimonial of the esteem and affection of ‘•The Ladies’ Society.” Air. Hill said he would sec that the note was left with the bonnet and good Airs. Hodge felt rejoiced that her little plan had been carried through so successfully. Sho felt, too, the satis¬ faction one always feels over the per¬ formance of a kind deed. The next day was delightfully cool and balmy for mid-summer and had it been less fair no doubt every member 0 f the Ladies’ Society would have g 0ne to church to see the bonnet tow- ar d which they had all contributed. As “ "■ as - 11,ey wcre aK ,hcre - Tltt „rct,y l.tlle church was full, many of the mmmer boarders in the neighbor* hood haying come out for .he tat ** me ‘ “! ••' w,ully e ,ai! Si ” ,cr Dill - r don't have to wear that old bonnet to- dav,” ' whispered Airs. Ilodge ° to Airs. church - j Wellman as they entered the porch side bv side, “and T I do 1 hope members , of . 4 the , society* . . will like ... the the bonnet; bull hai n’t much doubt about that. My niece has splendid taste.” The other members of the society had already arrEred, and were sitting in their pews staring very hard at lis¬ ter Dilly’s bonnet. Mrs. Hodge’s eyes at once sought out the Dilly pew and her lips almost gave utterance to a dis¬ tinct “My good land!" when she saw the bonnet. She felt that the eyes of all the members of the society were turned toward her, some in reproach, some in inquiry and some in keen dis- pleasure. Among the latter were the shining, keen black eyes of Grand- mother Peters. The old lady's pew was directly behind Mrs. Hodge’s, and as that lady took her seat Mrs. Peters leaned forward and said ac- ridly: “Xow, you’ve done it, Matildy Jane Hodge, ain’t you? You shan’t have any dime of mine to help pay fer makin’ our paster's wife a disgrace to the neighborhood! Look at her a-set- tin’ there with her head hung down as if she was ’shamed of herself, ez she no doubt is, and orter be!” Airs. Dilly’s gray head was indeed bowed down and on it was a dainty little white lace bonnet with tics of pink satin ribbon and white tulle. A bristling pink pom-pon stood bravely up in front in a military sort of a way, and the graceful tail feathers of a bird of paradise floated jauntily out behind over Sister Dilly’s meagre little twist of gray hair. A wreath of pink and white daises seemed trying to hide in the meshes of lace and tulle, but every offending flower was seen by Granny Peters. Airs. Dilly looked very uncomfort¬ able. although evidently trying to ap¬ pear calm and self-possessed. She was a good woman, but one untrav- eled and unversed in the ways and fashions of the world. She gave no heed to the fashions, but when &ho had taken the bonnet from its box t!e night before she had held it up on the fingers of one toil-worn hand and said to her husband: “It looks awfully gay for mo, don’t it, Cyrus? They say old ladies are wearing colors a good deal now, and I know they dress gayer’a they used to; and yet such a bonnet as this don't seem exactly appropriate for me; does it, Cyrus?” Mr. Dilly bad merely glanced from the 6ermon he was writing and said: “AVell, well, Alatildy, wear it, wear it. The dear sisters who sent it likely know better than we do what the styles are and what’s becoming to you. Just wear it, and don’t worry any about it.” But Airs. Dilly did worry about it. “And yet,” she said, “I must wear it. I can’t offend the sisters by not weaving it.’’ and so she wove it, to the amusement of the society and the dis- may of Airs. Hodge, “What on earth could Alary Carver have been thinking of, was Airs. Hodge’s mental comment. “If she did it for a joke, 6he’U find out* what I think of her and her jokes when I see her. Early the next day Airs. Ilodge went away from home for a week and on her return Air. Hill handed her a letter with a queer little twinkle in his eye. The letter was from Airs. Hill and read: “AVell, Horace Ilill, what in this world were you thinking of to have ^ r6, B- send me the horrid old grandmother’s bonnet that came by express today. Both you and Airs, B-must have taken leave of your senses. Imagine me going to a garden party wearing a big black silk bonnet —with a cape to it and a white lace frill in the front.' Are you crazy, or trying to play a joke on me? If the latter, allow me to say that your joke is in very bad taste and it will cos* yon the price of two bonnets, for I went right off and got me another, and I gave the one you sent to an old col¬ ored aunty who washes for us.” “And that was Sister Dilly’s bon¬ net,” said Airs. Ilodge. “Yes. but I had your niece make Her another just like it today,” raid Mr , w , he nne wore last R d . nn .. DilTy^cdTery to GporqrJa „ ^Sister ton. tented and grateful when she appeared the next Sunday in tl.c bonnet intend- cd for her and GraDm . Pctc „ eaid . “That bnnmt looks somethmer like H, ’...... . but I , should . think Sister Dilly 7 would feel dreadful , to think ... of „ what , * show sho made . of „ , herself , last Sun- Ja - V ’ 1 ^ouldn t be a mite 8 prised if the whole thing got into the pap<-i&. r And *0 it hr.s.— [The Housewife. VIRTUES OF COCAINE. ITS WONDERFUL PROPERTIES AS A LOCAL ANESTHETIC. How It Was Discovered By a Young Austrian Doctor. It is probable that to no living man does humanity owe a greater debt of gratitude than to Dr. Carl Koller, the discoverer of the application of hydro- chloratc of cocaine as a local anaes¬ thetic. Of this important event one of the most distinguished American ophthal- mic surgeons, the late Professor C. If. Agnew, said he “would rather be the discoverer of cocaine anaesthesia than President of the United States.” In fact, it marks an epoch in surgery only second to the introduction of ether and chloroform. It is difficult for one not in daily contact with those suffering from injury or disease to fully comprehend and appreciate the benefit realized in the prevention of pain by the employment of this won¬ derful remedy. A few drops of a weak solution (two to four per cent.) dropped into the eye robs it of sensibil¬ ity to such an extent that operations otherwise causing most excruciating agony are not in Ihe least painful, The pain caused by the presence of a foreign body in the eye disappears under its local use, and the removal of the foreign substance is greatly facili¬ tated. The muscles of the eye may be ex¬ posed and divided, as in correcting squint or “cross-eye,” and the extrac¬ tion of cataract rio longer requires the employment of general anaesthesia with ether or chloroform. Cocaine so¬ lution purified by boiling has even been successfully instilled into the anterior chamber of the eyeball, in order lo completely deaden sensibility in the iris, or curtain which contains the pu¬ pil in its centre. In painful afllict’ons of the throat, mouth, nose and larynx, and in all minor surgical opera;ions upon these portions of the body, cocaine, properly applied, produces insensibility and gives relief from pain. Injected into and beneath the skin, any small opera¬ tion, such as the amputation of the fingers or toes, or the removal of small tumors, etc., may be painlessly per¬ formed with the perfect consciousness, and even with the assistance of the patient. Such is the dread of ether or chloro¬ form that many will bear with or con¬ ceal surgical maladies easily curable in early development, until, after months or years of suffering, they submit too late to a heroic operation. One of the greatest benefits to be de¬ rived from this wonderful remedy is the inducement it will offer to early operative interference. It may be of interest to know how near others came to winning the laurels so justly yielded to Dr. Koller. A re¬ cent surgical winter says: “It is true that the anaesthetic eiTecrs of cocaine had been discovered before Roller's re¬ searches secured its wide application. In 1855 an alkaloid had been extracted by Gadecke from the leaves of cry- throxylon coca. Two years later, and independently, Dr. Samuel It. Percy', of New York, exhibited an alkaloid he had isolated; and as far back as 18GS Schroff had discovered that cocaine produced in¬ sensibility of the tongue when held in the mouth; while Morena y Miaz dis¬ covered, by' hypodermic injections of the acetate, distinct loss of sensibility over a circumscribed area. And yet it was left to the brilliant y r oung Aus¬ trian to make the application and win immortal renown,” for in September, 1884, at the Ophthalmological Congress in Heidelberg, a y'oung man hitherto unknown, born in Bohemian Austria in 1S57, who had finished his course of study at the Vienna Gymnasium in 1867, grad¬ uated from Ihe Medical Department of the University of Vienna in 1882, and served for two years as interne at the General Hospital, announced his im¬ portant discovery'. It soon becime known that in experimenting upon his own person as to the constitutional effects of various alkaloids, he noticed that cocaine taken into the mouth pro¬ duced loss of sensation wherever it touched the tongue or mucous sur¬ faces. He at once concluded that the sensory nerves in other parts of the body would in like manner be aff e , t e i and within two weeks his resay which were to be of incalculable be-J fit to mankind and win for him uixW ing fame, were given to the world! [Harper’s Weekly. Medical Superstitions. There is a popular supposition J wide range, based upon I know J what, that it is very healthful for ehir dren to play with dogs. A weak ehiJ it is thought, may gain strength -J J being with a dog, or, if diseased, child may be cured by having the jJ mal “take the disease”—for inflamed eyes or any disorder of t J skin. AVitkin a year a college faith,-J <p- a( ]l ate told me, in perfect good acquaintances, a Boston doctor and meatl] h3 wife, whose little girl had been afflicted with some form of eczed which they all hoped would disappeJ doJ as the parents had purchased a fine to play with the child. I AVhen a dog is teeth’ng, the Engird nppJ incisors, according to a New superstition, must be removed as good as they' become loose, or he mj “swallow them and have fits.” pJ haps even more generally received j J the fancied danger of allowing child’s milk-tooth after extraction J fall into the possession of a dog onJ lest the animal swallow it, and child have a*dog’s or cat’s tooth grot in place of the lost one. The Alexicui and Indians in Texas 6av that even animal has brains enough to tan ij own skin; and so the hitter, in the u of the wolf, panther, wild cat, some other animals, is mainly p* pared by rubbing into the flesh sidecj it the brains of its former wearer. A somewhat common fancy arnoul children, perhaps too, among adults J well, is that “every part strengthens] hear! part”—that is, that the liver, brains, and so on of animals, wheJ eaten, go directly towards nourishiJ the corresponding organs of the eater] i] A similar doctrine was worked out great detail by the American India:,;] and is, I believe, held by many otha savage tribes. It seems allowed™ probable that such beliefs, wherevej found among civilized people, old 01 young, are survivals from remote as] tiqtiity, and that they are closely ak:i in their nature and origin to the well] known doctrine of signatures whici has played so great a part in the syd terns of medicine for primitive ped pies.—[Popular Science Monthly. AYel! Trained Horses. Every one knows the gray bond that pull the Adams Express wagd through the streets. Magnificent the] an] inals they are, too, and a \isit to stables shows how a horse should the] 1] treated. 1 saw an exhibition of training yesterday, when a drive] t*] simply by word of mouth caused powerful animals, attached to ti] T heaviest form of express wagon back up Girard street to Twelfth fro] tl] half way down the block. Slowly horses moved step by step in perfect] perfe] unison, keeping the wagon straight, the driver simpiy holding effor] tl] lines and encouraging their until Twelfth street was reached when, driving them up to the siud walk, he got down and gave each la] ] pat and half an apple. I wa3 too to find out the driver’s name, for duiflj ] this age of carelessness about animals I would certainly publish it] N let the company know of such a mane driver.—[Philadelphia Times. | Growth of a Fine Pearl. The perfect pearl is found loose ;l tbe interior of the flesh, and has it beginning iu an animal germ, T: oysters annually produce a number rl eggs which, as soon as they develop into diminutive animals, are tlirowa, out by the mother. Occasional.] an however, an egg proves abortive remains behind. It is almost nu cr u scopic in size and is inclosed in a capsule. This capsule now becom^ foreiCT to all intents and purposes, a substance. But it has certain powdj akin to those of the parent, one li . 1 which is thatof manufacturing, thro*' 1 ing out and gathering around itself 0i 1 ere. The nacre completely envcloff it, and the germ of an animal is ?0 °! incased in a beautiful prison u»ua!‘l spherical in form, but sometimes shaped. Its size, of course, depe° on the length of time to which the p' pearl is e ' cess is continued, as the larged by constant deposits from !** to year.