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And tho raptured, foatherod throng
Groot tho swoot spring's welcomed coming
With their adulating song j
In hiB Hold apace tho farmor
Strikes the furrows wide and deep,
Prom his hand tho golden kornols
Casting forth with generous BWcep,
Whon tho sultry sun of summer
Shimmors down on all tho land,
Through tho days it toils uncoasing
With Its soft and plastio hand;
Toils with him to make the harvest,
Bringing fleecy clouds of rain j
And tho fertile vapor rising
In tho dew returns again.
With tho sunshine ho has labored
Till the autnmn cornos amain ;
And ho reaps tho riponed harvest
Bonding on the golden plain j
Autumn with hor lap o’orflowing
With hor gifts of all tho year,
And her song is sweet and tender
In hor promtso of good cheer.
Whon tho winter rules tho country,
Wraps tho Adds in icy sleep,
In tho barns tho stook is fooding—
Horso and kino and flocoy sheep—
Snug within his happy palace
What cares ho how wild it blows ?
lie onjoys tho yoar’s completeness,
Summer’s sun and whirling sno'vs.
ne may rost, for ho has answered
To tho world's incossant prayor
Oivo us broad, oh, Lord, and daily—
By his toil and watchful care;
And the glad ships spread their pinions
With tho harvost, oast and west,
Whore tho hungry nations waiting,
Break tho broad aud call him blost,
—Hudson Tuttles, in Young Folks' Rural.
THE STAGE-DRIVER’S STORY.
shower of mud disappeared down the
steep mountain road.
Although it was May the morning was
cold, and it was not until the sun had
olimbed well npthe eastern sky that the
ohlll thawed out of the air, and by that
hour Pool was more than twenty miles
upon his journey, with fresh horses in
tho traces and an empty coach behind
him. He began to brighten with the
sun.
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OTOO Names.
> Q -4 C. MERRIAM, Springfield, Mass.
In '07 Jake Pool was staging the
route from Gallatin to Holona, in Mon
tana, driving a four-horse coach in sum
mer and a " jerky " in winter, sevonty
milos a day through tho wildest region
and over one of tho most dangorons
routes in the United States. The coun
try through which his trail ran—for it
was ltttlo else than a trail—was totally
uninhabited, bnt for the three stago
stations whore horses were changed,
and which were dng-onts, or log-hnts,
twenty milos opart. Tho Indians,
though generally friendly, were liablo
to become onomies at a moment’s wani
ng ; road agents and outlaws were
tbiokor upon the Gallatin ronte than any
other north of the Union Pacific rail
road, and tho routo itsolf ran through
gullies and cauons, and along tbc
verge of dizzy prooipicos, as though
originally laid out by monntain sheep.
Notwithstanding all this, Jake was a
successful driver, made better time, lost
fewer mails and express safes, and ran
his coach at a smaller expense to the
company than any other man in their
employ. Bnt when misfortune did
overtake him, it was no light hand that
tho genius of evil laid upon him, which
tho following adventnro provos :
Ono muggy morning in early May as
Jake hauled up in front of the stage
office and prepared to recoivo mails, ex
press and messenger, and passengers, if
any thore should be for Helena, the
Wells-Fargo agent called to him from
within. Throwing the reins over the
foot-brake, Pool descended from his
perch and entered tho office.
The agent shut tho door behind him ;
thon drawing near he said, in a half
whisper :
" There’s fifteen thousand in currency
in the safe to take over to-day.”
" All right!” responded Jake. " I’ve
carried more before now, and carried it
safely."
"But,” said the agent, drawing still
noarer, “Dick’s siok, and there’s no
messenger.”
"Ah!’ said the driver, meditatively;
then, touohing the revolver which hung
at his belt: "I’ll be messenger and
coachman both then.”
"But,” still continued the other,
"there’s one thing more,” and he leaned
forward so that his lips touched his
companion’s ear. 1 ‘ Copper Tom and
his pal, old Jim, are on the road. A man
from Cross Trees was robbed by them
last night.”
Pool whistled long and low, and his
hand fell from his pistol-butt. “ Cop
per Tom ” was the worst road-agent in
Montana—a desperado, with both
courage and brains,
« Don’t send the rags.”
" I must 1" said the expressman, anx
iously. " The order is peremptory ; the
money must go to day, messenger or no
messenger. Now, will you take it and
carry it through ?”
Jake laughed.
"I’ll take it; that’s part of my busi
ness. Throw the safe under the seat
and give me your pistol; I may want
two." And he took the other’s revolver
from the desk where it lay and thrust it
into his boot-top. "As to oarrying it
through, that’s another matter, with
those fellows to stop it. But I’ll promise
you this—if I go through, the safe
sha 111 ’’ . j ,
The agent grasped his hand and shook
it warmly. The door was thrown open,
the driver mounted his seat, the iron
box was stowed beneath bis feet, the
single passenger (an old woman, to be
left at the first station) got in, the whip
oracked, the horses plunged, the coach
lurohed heavily forward, and amid a
" After I get through the Devil’s Pass,”
said he to himself, "Copper Tom or
any other man may whistle for me, for
from that to Diokson’B is as handsome a
road as ever a horse strnek foot upon,
and whoever tries to stop me there, un
less he shoots first, will go under the
leader’s feet. I intend to make that
little seven miles in just twenty-eight
minutes without brakes.”
And he gathered his rains with a
firmer hand, as if already whirling at
that mad pace down the monntain-side.
"Let’s see,”/he continued, "if noth
ing goes wrong and tho road’s all right
I ought to make my last change by 5
o’clock and reach the Pass before six.
It will then be broad daylight, so I con
rattle right long, and then, after the
spin down the ‘causeway,’ I’ll strike
Dickson’s before seven, certain. Beyond
that the road is too open and too much
traveled into Helena to be dangerous.
By Jove I" he concluded, his heart warm
ing as he strnek his heels against the
safe beneath the seat, "I don’t see
where the agents can slop me, unless
Good heavens 1 what if they try it in
the veiy Pass itself ? I had not thought
of that!”
Tho man was silent for a moment, and
his face grew grave; then, brightening,
ho shook his reins, loosened his revol
vers in hoot and belt, and, with a sigh,
concluded his soliloquy with the re
mark:
" Well, if they should meet me in the
Pass, ’twill be about an even thing. If
they miss their first shot, I’ll run em
down, drive ’em into the canon, or drop
’em with my pistols. If they don’t miss,
why then the swag’s theirs I”
It was now high noon, and soon sta
tion two was reached, where horses were
again changed, and where Pool dined
upon jerked bear-meat, hot bread and
black coffee. Strong food, bnt none too
strong for the long ride yet before him.
As he mounted the box and prepared
to depart tho keeper of the station
slipped from his dug-out and drew near.
“ There’s an old pard down tho road
apiece ’ll want a ride. He war here
'bout two hours ago. He’ll boar
watcliin’.”
And the rough frontiersman touched
the pistol-butt which protruded from
bis open shirt-front to emphasize hiB
warning.
Jake nodded.
" Thanks, Tom I I’ll keep my eyes
open. So-long I”
The fresh stoeds in harnoss sprang
strongly forward and tho empty coach
whirled away.
" It’s old Jim, sure 1” half whispered
Pool to himself, as his trained eyes
searched the winding road before hitn.
“ The old scamp wants to ride so that,
he’ll be on hand when Copper Tom
turns up in the Pass. I see it all.”
The teeth closed with a snap.
"GoodI” he continued, a moment
later. " Ho shall ride."
Some five miles wero passed, when,
in the shadow of a great pine that grew
near the trail, Jake espied his prospec
tive passenger, prone npon the ground at
the foot of the tree apparently resting.
As the rattling coach drew near the man
bestirred himself and slowly rose.
" Hullo, driver I Kin ye favor an old
beggar with a lift? I’m played, fer
I’m too old to tramp as I used to, an'
too poor to pay for a ride. Kin ye give
me one f”
He stepped forward as he spoke. Poor
he was, if tattered garments betoken
poverty, for his olothing was but a
single patohed rag from head to foot.
Old he surely was, for the withered
skin and scanty gray locks, the claw-
liko hands and sunken eyes, could not
well be disguised.
Half in scorn and half in pity, yet
with a brain awake to his danger, Jnke
drew rein and replied to his petitioner:
"YesI Be lively aud climb up here
I’m behind time now. Where do you
go ?’’
The old man answered, as ho struggled
to a seat at the driver’s side:
"Dickson’s.”
A touch of the whip and the horses
were again upon a quick trot. Pool
eyed his companion as they rode on
ward, and almost unconsciously dropped
his hand to his boot-top and loosened
the revolver carried there.
" Cold day for May,” said the new
comer, shivering. “ This yer wind’s
sharp, too.”
“Yes,” responded the other, men
tally wondering where about his ragged
clothes the scoundrel at his side had
concealed his weapons, " it is cold; lint
you’ll find it warmer in the Pass.”
" Sore?" said the old man, leering in
Jake’s face.
“ Sure I” responded that worthy, his
blood chilling with the covert hint in
the word; and he urged his horses to
yet greater speed.
The grade was sharply descending
now, and the road rooky and rough. A
mile more and the Pass would be
reached. The coach fairly swayed un
der its rapid motion.
Old Jim was forced to eling to the
seat with both hands in order to avoid
being hurled to the gronnd. This was
as Pool desired, and he smiled grimly
as he noticed the other’s action.
" Yer — a-drivin’ — purty — fast 1”
soreamed the gray-haited desperado, the
words fairly jerked from him as the
coach sprang forward, rooking from
side to side. " Ye’ll—hev—to—hold—
up—at—the—Pass—I—reckon!”
Jake set his teeth.
The granite walls of the Pass wero
now just before them, and the roadway,
doseending and steep, ran into the shad
ow of the coming night and the gloom
of tho grave-like opening—a narrow
path, bnt little wider than the coaoli
itself.
The roar of the angry river far below
knelled a never-ending warning as it
ran, ragged and torn, among the jagged
rooks, and the death-like mist that crept
npward was damp and chill.
" I won’t hold up I” and with these
words the driver struck bis horse,
sharply, and, snorting, they sprang for
ward into tho Devil’s Pass.
At tho samo instant, half-way through
the torriblo gorge, standing motionloss
in tho center of the roadway, a beetling
wall of rook upon the ono hand, a
chasm of unknown depth upon the
other, was seen a man 1
Copper Tom was awaiting his qnarry I
The old man at Pool’s side utterod a
cry, and loosening his grasp of the seat
with one hand, he would have thrust it
into his breast; but the other leaned
suddenly toward him, aud pressing a re
volver muzzlo against his forehead,
whispored, hoarsely:
" Down with yer hands I If ye stir
ag’in I’ll kill yo I I know ye, old Jim,
an’ ye can’t catch Jake Pool nor his load
this time I Down with yer hands!”
The shuddering rascal’s hand fell at
bis side; his faoe grew ashen hued, and
bis eyes stared before him. They wore
rapidly approaching Copper Tom.
For an instant as they drew near
that worthy stood faoing them; then
through tho fading light he saw the
position of his pal, upon whom he had
lepended—he saw tho stern, sot faco of
the drivor—he sow the furious horses
plunging down upon him—and with u
terror-stricken cry he turned and flod !
Could he but reach the lower end of
tho causeway ho might escape—could
he but find a single spot to turn aside
he would be safe; -but it was not to be.
Nearer and nearer thundered the
iron-shod hoofs behind him, narrower
aud still narrowor grew the fatal road,
until there rang a certain horrible, de
spairing ory, mingled with tho fright
enod snort of tho horses, a dark some
thing bent down before the plunging
stoeds, rolled an instant before their
grinding feet, and then, spumed by the
Hying wheels, was hurled, an undis-
tinguishable mass, into the canon be
neath, and the coach sped on!
Half an hour later Jake Pool pulled
into the corral at Diokson’s ranch, and
tumbling a half-fainting man from tho
seat at his side into the arms of the as
tounded hostlers, he said:
1 Bind that man and give him to the
sheriff 1 It’s old Jim, the road agent !
His pard’s at the bottom of the gulf in
the Pass, this one ought to stretch hemp
when the officers get him, and I’ve
driven my last run from Gallatin!
There’s too much risk about tho busi
ness for me I”
And Jal^e kept his word. He no
longer coaches it, bnt now keeps pub-
lio house in Helena itself, where, not
long since, at his own snug fireside, he
told me this thrilling tale.
SCIENTIFIC NCR A PS.
Heat and pressure applied to light
colored horn render it transparent.
The muscular flesh of animals of the
higher orders is moistened with an aoid
liquid.
Many kinds of glass when heated
become orystallino and more or less
opaqne.
Caoutchouc is the produot of trees,
and is a milky sap which exndes from
the trank.
Wood oharooal and other forms of
carbon have the property of absorbing
large quantities of gases.
Wood has been preserved three thou
sand years in Egyptian tombs where it
has boen exposed only to dry air.
Nnt-galls are excrescences on tho
leaves and stalks of the oak, made by
the gall wasp to deposit her eggs.
A manufacturer of ohemioal instru
ments in Paris has made ivory flexible
for probes and tubes by steeping it in
oil.
The petals of flowers still inolosod in
tho bud are mostly green, and only ac
quire their distinctive color by contact
with the light.
Yeast loses mnoh of its fermenting
power by prossuro or being washed with
water. It becomes inactive whon hoated,
either alone or with water.
The loss of weight in an egg during
inonbation is found to bo tho same in a
given time as that of an egg if left to
itself, so that it wonld seem to result
from simple drying.
Tho auoients manufactured cloth from
tho asbestos to wrap about the bodies
of the dead on the pyre. In modern
times one nse of it is for gloves with
which to hold rod hot crucibles.
The ashes of foathors of birds that
live on grain contain much silica. Tho
feathers of old birds contain more than
thoso of tho young, and tho wing feathers
more than those of the tail and breast.
Largo quantities of electrioity are
developed by the friction of water in
minute globules against solids. If ono
hand be held in a stream of vapor from
a boiler and tho other bronght noar tho
metal a spark may bo obtained.
LADIES? DEPARTMENT.
A Wt'ddln* In LtiLml.
A wedding is nnnounoed at tho
ohuroh, whose bolls arc pealing. We
invite ourselves. A score of us enter
the building. It is, like most Lutheran
churches, plain; bnt there is an altar,
with “seven candlesticks "and candles;
a large cross, perfectly white; a pulpit
midway, and commodious pews and
seats. The hour is 2 in the afternoon,
not in the morning, though as to light
ing the church it is " all one.” Some
dozen or so of natives, all females, with
handkerchiefs upon their heads, are
present. Our party is seated at the
front. I remain at the door. My wed
ding garment is not up to the highest
style, but as the prooession enters the
front door I fall in behind with the
small boy of the family. The bride is
a tall girl, with inflammatory hair and
oool demeanor. The groom is a tliiok-
set, stoat man, whose hair is ereot, and
whose imperturbability is quite equal to
that of the woman whom he holds, we
hope gently, by the hand. She Is
dressed plainly in blnck. A long white
veil dopends from her back hair, held
by a oirolot of ivy, a plant in great re
quest and ropntation here in Norway.
The friends of the brido and bride
groom, inolnding parents, pass up to
the platform with them and take seats
on either side. A priest comes out from
the aaytum and stands boforc the altar
silently, with his back to us, while the
precentor from a side platform raises a
sweet song, with whoso musio thoro is
not so mnoh accord by the audience.
Then the bride and bridogroom kneel,
a prayor is said, -and the two are one,
and all are bappy. The bride is ar
rayed at the door, and tho scone is con
cluded.—S. 8. Cox.
1 P°l*
at the waist, and out away or drapad
back and forming a long narrow train ovet
a plaited or gathered skirt. These ]
onaises arc made of satin, silk, of br
cade, of a different color and material
from tho skirt. For visiting dre
the polonaise is high at the neek,
for dinner and evening costumes it is
generally out square, with a stiff Mediel,
collar flaring from the sides and stand
ing very high at the back. Blaek' gren
adine is also out in this style, the under
dress being of blaek surah oovered up
the whole front with plaited ruffles o
the same.
Strangely Afflicted.
A lady of this city, the mother of a
large family, and a lady of unusual in
telligence, who is in good health and is
withal like any other lady, with the
exception of a strange malady, or what
ever one may term it, that at times occa
sions her much pain, in fact almost
prostrates her. As strange as it may
seem, her trouble is caused by looking
at any striped fabric, such as calico,
shirtings, etc. Numerous physioians
have tried to solve the mystery, but
without success. The lady states that
she was first affected some years ago
while ironing a shirt for one of her
little boys. The sensation of sickness
at the stomach and violent headache
came on so she was compelled to lay
aside the work. She soon felt better,
and not aware of the real oanse of her
indisposition made another attempt to
finish the garment, bnt with the same
result as before, the second attack prov
ing more severe than the first. The
circumstance passed from her memory
until a few days later a little ohild
entered her roorii wearing a striped
apron ; the same peculiar sensations re
turned at sight of the apron and re
mained as long as the child wore it, but
upon removing the apron all pain
ceased. If any one can explain the
cause we would be glad to publish it.—
Louisville {Ky.) Strum.
Native Born and Foreigner».
Some persons may be surprised to
learn that the proportion of foreign-
born to tho native population is not
greater in thiB country—it is 0,677,300
to 43,475,000; but, of course, the de
scendants of the foreign-born rato as
among the natives. The largest num
ber of foreign, 1,211,438, is, of course,
in this State; Pennsylvania stands next,
with 587,533; Illinois third, with 583,-
592; Massachusetts fourth, with 443,-
093; then Wisconsin, Ohio and Michi
gan, with 405,417, 392,743 and 388,340
respectively. California has 292,080
foreign and 572,000 native. In the
Northeast various manufactures and coal
and irm mining have drawn emigra
tion, mainly Irish, Gorman and French
Canadian, with some Welch; in the
Northwest ngriculture has been the at
traction, and it has been mainly l'elt
by the Gormans and Scandinavians;
in the extreme West and the Ter
ritories, mining has been the great
moving force. Nevada has the largest
number of foreign to 100,000 native,
70,010; then Arizona, 65,613; then Da
kota, 62,112; then California and Min
nesota, 51,167 and 52,172. A group of
eight States and five Territories, headed
by Wisconsin, with 44,548, and ended
by Colorado, with 25,080, have twenty-
five to fifty per cent, of foreign to na
tive. A group of ten, headed by New
Jersoy, with 24,356, and ended by the
District of Columbia, with 10,062, have
foreign equal to ten to twenty-five per
cent, of native. Nine States and one
Territory have two to ten per cent.,
and eight have less than two per cent.
In 1870 Arizona and Idaho had 150,922
and 110,838 of foreign to 100,000 native;
those were the only sections where the
native population was outnumbered.
[These figures represent proportions
merely, as the entire population was
only 9,058 in Arizona and 14,999 in Ida
ho — 4,274 of the last named being
Chinese.] This has changed since,
Arizona having now about two-thirds
as many foreign as native, and Idaho
having Jess than half as many. There
is now no State or Territory where the
native-born population does not largely
outnumber the foreign; in the United
States tho number per 100,000 of native
is but 15,359 against 16,875 in 1870. In
thirty-five States and Territories nat
ural increase—of course, of foreign as
well as of native bora—has gained upon
the native. Of these twelve Dakota
stands first, then Oregon, Colorado,
New Hampshire, New Mexico, Bhode
Island, Michigan, Maine,Massachusetts,
Florida, Arkansas and Washington.
Arizona, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and
Utah, where the proportion of settled
emigrants was largest in 1870, show the
largest rate of decline in this respect
now. The factories of New England,
the wheat fields of Dakota and Oregon
and the mines in Colorado and New
Mexico account for the relative increase
of emigrants jn those sections.—New
\ York Times.
Fashion Notes.
Polka-dot stockings are in favor,
Brooches, not laoe pins, are again
worn.
Laoe dresses continue to be in tho
ascendant.
The polonaise never goes entirely ont
of fashion.
Watered silk and ribbons are ooming
into voguo.
Bead necklaces are becoming vory
fashionable.
Flower bonnets are still the Btylo for
ovening wear.
A dash of silver brightens a black
costumo with exquisite effect.
Dark colored muslins with bright
priuted borders will bo much worn.
Scarfs of Spanish lace ore entirely of
silk, and large enough to wear as
mantles.
Pale sea-green Spanish lace bonnets
aro trimmed with heliotrope blossoms
and leaves.
Moire fabrics, especially silk, com
bined with nun’s veil ng, aro tho rage
in Paris just now.
Shirring producing tho Mother Hub-
hard effoct appears in ladies’ os well as
children’s drosses. *
Black silk clionillo netted in large
meshes is fashionable for summer
wraps of various shapes.
Both low and high coiffures are worn,
with a preference for the former, but
the style depends entirely on the wearer.
The only lace mantles that find great
favor are those of Spanish laoe in large
fichu shape, or else tho regular scarf
shape.
A surplico basque with transparent
lace sleeves and a bouffant skirt drapery
is tho latest design for white wool
dresses.
Imitation Spanish laces are of mixed
silk and worsted or cotton, and are
very thick and clumsy when contrasted
with those of silk.
With black laoe fichus nothing white
is added about the throat, and this
thin black drapery is found to be very
becoming to most ladies.
Palo rose mulle dresses should be
made effective with fiower accessories
of dark, rich, red roses, daisies with
dark centers, and other striking flowers.
Fashionable ladies in New York have
or tho moment discarded the wearing
of much jewelry, wearing no earrings
excepting very small solitaires, the
most fashionable of which fit olosely to
the ears.
One of the prettiest fabrics which is
used for infants’ cloaks is Oolberth
cloth, a canvas-like etamine which has
been much used for children’s collars
and enffs. It is now used for mantles
over linings of colored silk.
Shirred and plaited round waists are
seen upon ladies of all ages and sizes,
from the miss of sweet sixteen to the
madam of fifty, and from the ethereal
creature weighing ninety pounds to the
matronly dame weighing 200.
Moire satin and nun’s veiling is an
exceedingly popular combination in the
latest Frenoh evening dresses; and
sashes, loops and floating ends of wa
tered ribbon are scattered in greatest
profusion and grace all over these ele
gant toilets.
One of the most popular models for
visiting and evening toilets is the polo
naise in one piece, made to open in front
Milk ao an Ailment.
An English physioian, Dr. Dnck>
worth, of tho Royal College of Physi
cians, has recently put forth an import
ant paper in tho Practitioner on the in
sufficient use of milk as a diet, and
showB tho serious effect of the negleot
of this indispensable nntrient on
national health. His warning is moat
timely in an age when so many arti
ficial viands tend to destroy the appe
tite for nature’s simple and normal
food supply. An eminent physiologist
has pointed out that while "all other
matters appropriated by animals aa
food exist for themselves or for the use
of the vogotable or animal of whioh
they form a constituent part, milk is
designed and prepared by nature ex
pressly as food, and is the only mate-
1 ial thronghont tho range c f organiza
tion that is so prepared.” Pure milk
in sufficient quantity is as neoessary for
the body as pure air, but, as Dr. Duck
worth shows, its uso among thoso who
can afford to buy it has so decreased
even in the rural districts of Great
Britain as to amount almost to a milk
starvation. Tho minimum quantity re
quired for tho preservation of health,
ho calculates, is five quarts per diem to
a family of ten, and not loss than a
quart doily to each ohild. " If this, or
anything npproaching this, wero the
rule instead of the exception,” he is
confident that the disease of " rickets, ”
in its manifold phases, would be com
pletely banished from this country, and
a much higher standard of health and
robustness would unquestionably pre
vail.
If this conclusion holds at all true for
Groat Britain it will hold much more so
for tho United States. The humidity
of the British isles insures a compara
tively equable olimnte, whioh makes
few heavy drains on the Iranian system,
while in America, especially in the
West and Northwest, tho ceaReloss and
extreme alterations of temperature and
the aridity of tho atmosphere, \yhich in
duces a great waste of tho body by
evaporation, makes hoavy demands upon
its storo of energy. That storo can only
lio kept np by good nutrition, which
milk, combining us it does tho four
great staminal principles of human
nliniout, is so admirably fittod to sup
ply. Tho prejudice whioh some enter
tain agaiust it, or tho fauoy that it dis
agrees with them, may bo removed in
many cases by adding to the milk a
little carbonate of soda or of lime water,
whioh will enhance its digestibility, and
when drank for health purposes in
large quantities it is rectified by adding
u little pepsin.
There can be no question that a large
nnmber of men and women, inolined to
strumous and scrofulous habit, amemia,
catarrh and consumption would be saved
from premature deorepitude or wasting
disease by resorting to a generous milk
diet. The increasing amount of food
adulteration, through the multiplication
of glucose and oleomargarine factories,
ought to have the effect of popularizing
a dietetic article whioh nature has pro
vided and whioh cannot be tampered
with without exposing the fraud to easy
detection. Bone and sinew will not
make a nation, but the grave nutritional
loss growing out of the disuse of this
elementary artiole of food will ulti
mately make a hardy race a nation of
dwarfB, and it is well known that the
hardiest race on the globe, the Kirghiz,
of Central Asia, under the most terrible
climatio extremos, have little else to
live on but the - milk of their herds.
New York Herald.
Sponge Underclothing.
Sponge underclothing is a recent
novelty invented and patented in Ber
lin. It is claimed for it that it can be
cleansed more easily than woolen goods,
and, being more flexible, does not
chafe the skin so mneh. It is a bad
conductor, and tends to keep the surface
temperature uniform. One who wears
this underolothing is pot liable to take
cold, for it absorbs the perspiration
without checking it. After the mineral
and vegetable impurities in the sponges
have been sufficiently beaten by a
heavy hammer to admit of being readily
washed ont, the sponges are (Iried.and
pared with a sharp knife. These par
ings are then sewed together. The
fabric is prepared without the nse of
poisonous dyes, which, as incorporated
in cloth underolothing, sometimes
proves very deleterious to the system.
There are traths which some men
despise beoause they have not ex
amined, and whioh they will not
amine because they despise.