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WHF.RE THE ROUGH ROAD TURNS.
Where the rough rootl torn* aud the valley
sweet
Smiles soft with its balm and bloom.
We’ll forget the tborns that hare pierced
the feet
And the nights with their grief and
gloom,
dad the skies will smile and the stars will
beam
And we’ll lay us down in the light to
dream.
We shall lay us down in the bloom and
light
With a prayer and a tear for rest,
As tired children who creep at night
To the lore of a mother’s breast;
And for all the grief of the stormy past
Rest shall be sweeter at last—at lastl
Sweeter because of the weary way
And the lonesome night and long,
White the darkness drifts to the perfect
day
With its splendor of light and song;
The light that shall bless us aud kiss us and
lore us
And sprinkle the roses of heaven above
usl
—F. U Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution.
A SWISS LOVE STORY
V BY ANNA riEKPONT SIVITEIS.
>N a pretty chalet
W that nestled high
f against the shaggy
breast of Mount Ob¬
gadin lived the
widow Neur and her
daughter Marie.
iPiiiM A lonely home you
would have thought
Lothat it, but the fir trees
I! wailed so in
3L.r -'Ullgood layout cheer ears whispered
to Marie.
When fierce winds
I **7»r- came rushing down
the mountain side, she knew the trees
would bend their tall heads together and
twine their strong arms around her
home, until, robbed of liis victim, the
baffled storm rushed by.
When morning broke, the same
friends stood erect and stately, drawing
aside their leaves and branches, that the
sunbeams might not linger in their soft
embraces, but hasten down to awaken
their favorite, Marie,
j Very lovely was the little Swiss maid,
with violet eyes that now danced and
sparkled and then grew soft and tender
as a little child’s. Two rose rod lips
shut in her pearly teeth, and when she
smiled a tiny dimple danced for a mi)
ment on her peachy cheek. Her hair
dung in caressing curls arouud her low
white forchi ad, and fell in ripples of
golden sunshine far below her slender
waist. And her voice 1 Ah! that was
Marie’s greatest charm. 8oft and clear,
not a discordant note marred its sweet,
pure harmony. Same-times as she sung
at her evening devotions the herdsmen
far below in the valley, catching faint
notes of her song, looked up and crossed
themselves, half believing they heard
the echo of an ange’ choir.
I But very few knew of Marie’s beauty.
For when she went with her mother on
one ot her rare visits to the hamlet be
low, she brushed her wavy liair straight
and smooth back from her forehj.jci. anu
b raided it in long -ItKt plaits which fell
-^itLXtnTIer back.
I Her eyelids, with their curtains of
long silky lashes, drooped over her dauc
ing eyes until one looked in vain for a
glimpse of their beauty. Her red lips
shut firmly over her pearly teeth, while
the dimple hid itself resolutely away from
sight. And her sweet voice, frightened
at its own sound so far from home, grew
faint and husky, until, in this shrink
ing, sober damsel, walking so timidly
beside the Widow Neur, you would have
found it hard to recognize the beautiful
Marie of the mountain.
| So it happened that only her mother
and one other person knew how good
and sweet and how fair Mauo was.
l This other was a stranger who came
from a far away country and spent his
summers in a little house on the moun
tain s very top.
i T ho simple villagers called him “the
wizard,” aud told strange tales of how
he spent whole nights gazing at the
heavens through a long tube; that he
could foretell to an hour when the suu
would cover itself with darkness; but,
strangest of all, he had a little wire
stretched for miles over hills aud valleys
to the great city 1 This wiro talked to
him in a queer language which no one
elsi could understand.
I “Vick, tick, tickety tick," it said,
and it tola him things that happened
miles and miles away.
Marie did not know how wise the
wizard was when he came to her home
one morning and asked for a drink of
water -
: He followed her to the spriug when
»he went for it and stopped by the way
to break open a curious stone, lie
showed Marie how queerly marked it was
inside, and then tcld hcr a story about it.
The usually timid maiden was so inter
ested she forgot to be frightened, and
thus a strong friendship between the two
f f .* . often
,, came to
Y , l °7- 8 ; , iae , °” est ond refresh
I !°!" CV 1 ? C ber charms r‘ Ma to " C , hnn, Ua '
I wa^ , L | ^
summer en ’thp'oR th 8 !™ 0 '" 61 w DC W
that no cirl in tL. lU C ° UM H be |
comnared On*tbe with
other side of th» m in a ' Q r .
the Widow Neur« toL h«m« lip nf Tn"
widow. Sh had h.
eon her* who was the Dride and delioUt-'f °
life. This *»« thi> ^
hunter and guide Gustavus Frel *
wth^h 8 ^ .'’ 8 ":! eyes, TnVfT and a laugh as 6 ’
. rank as c.u'.ds; he
s was the favorite of
the canton, and there was not a girl
within ns bounds who would not have
n proud to plight her troth with
“ lm "
Gustavus, however, cared little for the
gaain maidens, lie would far rather |
chase the chamois up the mountainside
or guide travelers through its dangerous (
passes than spend h-.s tu.u with the finest
at tne maids of the ha he:.
His ©other often said, "My son, when
wnt thou bring me home a daughter and
thyself a wife?"
And Gustavus, smiling aud and press
ing a kiss on her forehead, would an
nrert
“When I find a maid as gool as thee.
mother; but 1 want no idle, ahrill-voiced
wife to disturb our quiet home. ’*
But one day his mother said jnore
sadly and seriously than ever before;
“Gustavus, I aui growing old and
feeble. I can no longer make and
thy clothes and keep our home. Thou
must have a wife. Fromise me at
fete next week thou wilt choose one
from among the maidens there.”
Gustavus reluctantly gave her the de¬
sired promise, but it weighed heavily
upon him. He could think of nothing
else, and the more he pondered the
heavier his heart grew.
At last he seized his gun and went
out on the mountain, but the perplexing
questions followed him, until at last he
threw himself on the ground groaning,
“Oh, that some wise man would make
this choice for me!”
A moment after he looked up and
saw, ns if in answer to his wish, the
wizard approaching him.
“Why,” ho exclaimed to himself,
“did I not think of him before? Surely
he, if Buy one, can Help me.” Then,
with a throbbing heart, Gusfavas sprang
up to meet him.
The wizard greeted Gustavus warmly,
for he felt a strong friendship for the
young guide who had taken him safely
through many a dangerous mountain
excursion.
And now his
“Why, what’s troubling you, my boy?”
opened the way for Gustavus to pour out
all his perplexity, ending his recital
with the question;
“Uanst thou not help me choose a
good wife who will make my life hap¬
py? For now I have given my mother
my promise to find a wife at the fete
next week.”
The wizard smiled sympathetically,
and then thought in silence a little
while before he answered.
“If a pure, true heart is united to a
true, pure heart, both lives must be
happy.”
“Alas!” answered Gustavus, “but I
know not which maiden among them all
has the purest, truest heart!"
“There will be one such heart at the
fete,” answered the wizard, “but you
may fail to recognize it. However, if you
will come to me to-morrow I will give
a charm that will show you this
Here was comfort, indeed, and with a
heart Gustavus thanked his friend
bounded forward.
Left alone, the wizard continued down
mountain-side until he came in sight
the Widow Neur’s chalet, where he
found Marie sitting by the spring. In.
of her usual sunshiny smile, tiny
stood in her eyes, and there
was a grieved look about her rosy lips
that made him wish to comfort her,
“What is the matter little one?” he
asked gently.
“Oh, sir,” she said, “I want to see
the great fete next week, but I have no
pretty ornaments to wear, and then—’’
The long curtains drooped over her
shining eyes and the sweet voice sank
almost to a whisper.
“The good mother says none of the
young men will cure to dance with me."
“But why?” asked the wizard in sur¬
prise.
“Because I cannot talk and laugh
with them as other maidens do. My
heart beats fast if they do but glance
toward me, and 1 know not what to say,
and so,”—hero a tear slipped from under
the long eyelashes—“my mother says I
had better not go._ - ----
“U.Tu'uige,' iittie one,” the wizard an.
swered. “Tell your mother,” be added
suddenly, “that I am going to lend you
a silver belt to wear, and that my knowl
edge tells me that the bravest, hand¬
somest youth iu all the land will dauce
with you quite joyfully."
The happy Marie thanked the wizard
as Gustavus had done, and ran off to tell
the wonderful news to her mother.
E lily next morning Gustavus went for
his charm. He tound the wizard waiting
for him, and taking him into his strange
room, the wise man said, smiling, as he
had tne day before, half quizzically,
half sympathetically:
“Here’s the charm, my good fellow.
You see it is a magic ring, Put it on
before you go to the fete, and be sure
dance with every maiden there.
When you place your arm about the
of the one whose heart is true aud
a strange foeliug will run through
OU y 0llr hand will cling to her. But
must be sure that you dance with alii”
Gustavus, greatly wondering, thanked
wizard aud slipped on the ring,
It was a curious circlet of irou, with a
extension, which the wizard bade
wear pointing toward bis palm,
When the fete day came Gustavus was
among the other young meu, eager
try his cbariu.
All the maidens of Obgadin were there
also, and on the outskirts of one of the
gay crowds little Marie hovered timidiy
beside ber mother,
“Why didst thou come, Marie?” asked
one of the girls,
“Didst thou think any youth would
want to dance with a mouse to-day?”
asked another.
Then seeing the quick tears trembling
on Marie’s lashes, she added more kind-
“Ah, well, thou eanst at least see our
times.”
“What a lovely belt thou hast,Starie!”
another maiden. “Where didst
thou get it?”
“The wizard gave it to her,” the
Widow Neur auswered shortly, for she
did not relish the girl’s tone, aud she
dteW her da "? bter aw »y
“Come, Marie, let us sit here under
and ^tch the dance.”
,; ' ne nestled close to her mother’s
3,dc ’, a ' u ' aS ,he hours fled a “ d »» T°“‘b
ber dance, her head dropped
owcr ’ w °fl^ered if the wise
“T raade »!“ isiake -
° *? eaa tim ® Gustavus danced
L . *u ^ Q ® ‘’dter auother of the maids, but
be watched with intense eager
?
1 ha - da r d 7 iththem all,” he
said -h at last to himself, “except that’shy
one over there: surely she is not the
1 girl!”
He asked her name of one of the
girls, and then going to her, said sim
ply: '“Marie,
wilt thou dance with me?”
Astonishment and delight made Marie
a moment forget her shyness. The
wizard’s words had come true!
Rising quickly, she said, beautiful smiling upon
him, and showing her eyes
already dancing with delight, and the
dear little dimple in her cheek: “Art
thou come!”
“She is not so plain, after all,"
thought Gustavus, as be answered:
“Wast thou looking for me, Marie?”
Marie hung her head without answer
. ing, aod Gustavus, wondering a little at
ber word*, led her to the dance.
As he piaeed his arm around her his
band touched her shining belt.
fnsrautiy a stradge thrill ran through
•(hem both.and (Justavus’s arm seemed tc
cling to Marie’s waist.
“Marie, didst thou feel that?” he asked
earnestly.
And Marie smilingly answerers
“Yes.”
So they began dancing, and as they
danced it seemed to those watching then:
that a wonderful transformation cam<
over Marie.
Her hair, shaken loose from its long,
stiff braids, hung like a glittering gol¬
den veil all around her, her beautiful
eyes shone like stars, and the dimpled
cheeks and pearly teeth formed a fit hid
ing-place for the laughing voice that now
aod then rang sweet and clear from he:
rosy lips. Not one of the village maid¬
ens was half so fair as she I
“Surely,” said the amazed villagers
“there was never such a hanUsomi
couple.” charm,”
“But is not Marie under a
cried others, “she has suddenly grown
so lovely?"
“Love’s witchery, if it is true and
pure, will transform all of us aud bring
out all that is loveliest and best within
us.”
As for Gustavus, he thought rightly
that he never seen so good and beautiful
a creature, and he blessed the wizard foi
the charm which had led his heart tc
hers.
Long before the summer ended, Gus
tavxs took home Maria to be his own
and his mother’s greatest joy and hap¬
piness. Wizard returned to Paris
When M. le
that winter, he read a scientific paper
before the savants of the Academy,
In it he detailed many of his wonder¬
ful discoveries and hi3 work duriug the
summer. But he did not speak of the
most interesting of all—how, by the
aid ol a little magnet, concealed in a
steel belt, and a rude ring, he had
brought together two loving human
hearts, and by so doing had caught
some of the happiness of Paradise and
imprisoned it in a chalet on old Obgadin
Mountain.—Pittsburg Bulletin.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
A door-closer is operated by gravity.
A machine is made for grooving horse¬
shoes.
Plowing by electricity is in contempla¬
tion for a large property in Spain.
At the present time the average height
of the tides the world over is only about
three feet.
An incorrodible metal, which is like¬
wise very hard, is made by amalgamating
nickel with steel.
A French chemist has succeeded in
making imitation diamonds that cost
more than the genuine.
It is believed that diphtheria is some¬
times contracted by little children while
playing near the sewers when the latter
are open for repairs or other purposes.
The u3e of minute quantities of chro¬
mium in steel to give it exceptional hard¬
ness was probably first carriod out on a
commercial scale by Jpliua Bauer, of New
York.
The life of a locomotivp crank pin,
which is almost the frSo thing about au
engine Jo Near out, is 60,0110 miles, and
c&e life of a thirty-three-inoh wheel is
66,733 miles.
A California company makes a splendid
article of toilet soap from the froth
skimmed from a boiling compound. It
is supposed to be a mixture of borax,
alkali and mineral oil.
At Baku, Russia, there is an immense
oil well that “ebbs and flows” with the
same regularity as do the ocean tides.
It is believed to have some mysterious
connection with the sea.
The lower grade of molasses sells for
such a poor price (two cents a gallon),
that some of the Louisiana sugar houses
use it for fuel. Several of the Cuban
sugar houses thus use it.
Sir John Lubbock, who probably
knows more about bees than any other
man in the world, living or dead,
says that there is strong evidence that
the queen bee has the power of control
ing the sex of the egg.
It appeals that a colored or dark pig¬
ment in the olfactory region is essential
to perfect smell. In cases where ani¬
mals are pure white they are usually
totally devoid of both smell and taste,
and some, the white cat for instance,
are almost invariably deaf.
A Boston dentist advocated hypnotism
as a local antithetic in a paper read be¬
fore the New England Dental Society
and hypnotized a patient there and then
as an object lesson in the practice, per¬
forming a dental cutting without elicit¬
ing from the patient any manifestation
of feeling. The paper was unaccom¬
panied by drawings.
The gall of a gall-fly produced on an
oak attracts, states Dr. Rathay, by their
viscid secretion, a number of small ants,
which he believes to be advantageous to
the tree in killing quantities of caterpil
lars and other insects whioh are its
natural enemies. He illustrates the
value of this protection by the statement
that the inhabitants of a single ant’s nest
may destroy in a single day upward of
100,000 insects.
It is found that masonry may be ren
dered impervious to water, especially in
positions exposed to direct contact to
that element, by the application of coal
tar. The latter is employed in a boiling
,tate, in one or more layers, or it may
be made to flame up before being used,
the first being suitable for surfaces ex
posed to the air, while the second is ap
propriate in the case of parts intended
to be covered up. This method of treat
ing foundations is declared to be of
special utility m all public buildings,
particularly those designed for the pres
tZ ^
The First Steamboat.
It is not generally ... known that . the
first steamboat ever brnlt m the United
t'sh > J * tnes Ru “‘
sev vpv’r erdierdstown ' V W "'t-ij° . v-’
CteLoIt 17 ^-, p,hert ’tv. hU
was anttei
twentv-two vear= tcconimv 6
Frederick (W. VaA News the steam
boat was fitted ud with machinerv narflv
bm’er, two cylinders, pumps, etc.,
manufactured in Baltimore Some pov
tions of he works were made at the An
Uetam Iron Works. On Much 14,
' ^
d p“j'! a n Amen «b w *» made on
,. 8uc !f eded
m attaining a speed of four miles an
hour against the curreat.-Railwaj R*
MRS. PEARY’S EXPERIENCE,
WHAT THE EXPLORER’S WIFE
SAW IN THE ARCTIC CIRCLE.
The Clothes She Wore on the Ex¬
pedition—The Home She Lived
In and Food She Ate.
-& JC RS. PEARY, wife of the
I \ y/I /I Arctic explorer, has been in
terviewed by a New York
£ World reporter on her trip
with her husband to the Far North. We
quote from the interview as follows:
“What did you take with you to wear
on your expedition?” of 1
“All my old clothes, course.
knew that I should never have such a
good opportunity to get them worn out
without any anxiety as to changing
fashions. That applies only to gowns.
My Arctic dres3 was odd enough.
Lieutenant Peary, as you know, had
been in Greenland before, and had a
good idea of the needs of the climate.
Nothing but fur will give sufficient pro¬
tection against the cold, and we did not
make the mistake of having our fur gar¬
ments made up before leaving. In addi¬
tion to the discomfort of trying on furs
in the spring, we knew that no furrier
had sufficient disregard of appearance to
make our outfit as we would order it.
Instead we took on board well-cured
deer skins, which I cut during the voy¬
age to the exact shape I wanted, Then
when we reached Greenland, we hired
the Eskimo women to sew the skins,
which they do with great skill. I had
an undergarment—a sort of divided
skirt—made of deer skins with the fur
inside. This I wore between my usual
underwear and my dress, instead of extra
skirts. Above the waist I had a hooded
blouse of fur which I put on to go out
in. I never knew what it was to suffer
from cold throughout the journey.”
“What kind of a house can one have
when the material has to be taken so far
and set up under such difficulties?”
“It was a very good house, indeed,
though it had only two rooms. In oue
of these I had a carpet, heavy curtains,
portieres and most of the comforts of a
well-appointed home in lower latitudes.
The other room, which was used for all
sorts of household purposes, could not
be made so pretty. We all lived to¬
gether in a sort of happy family. There
were seven members of the expedition,
none of whom were previously known to
us, but we found them very pleasaut and
harmonious. We had a colored boy,
Matt, whom we took with us to do the
cooking and other work. His first at¬
tempts at cookery were so bad that I as¬
sumed that duty myself for a few months,
until he was trained into a very efficient
servant. Lieutenant Peary sat at one
end of the table and I at the other. We
had a very jolly party throughout the
long winter with its three months of un¬
broken night.”
“What did you have to eat? I should
think the fare would have been very
limited?”
“Not at all. We had just the same
things that you were eatiug down here.
Most of it came out of tiu cans, but that
is a winter necessity everywhere. We
had three kinds of vegetables every day
at dinner and there was always plenty of
fresh meat. It was no trouble to keep
it in that latitude; all out-of-doors was
one great refrigerator. When we wanted
fresh water we went out to the nearest
glacier and chopped off chunks with a
hatchet till we had enough to melt for
drinking and household purposes. Under
these conditions a daily bath is labori¬
ous. It is small wonder that the natives
never think of such a thing as washing,
even their faces.”
“Did you see very much of the native
life, or were you away from even such
primitive society as that?”
“Oh, the Eskimos, or ‘Huskies,’ as
we called them, were our chief source of
entertainment all through the long
winter. They came hundreds of miles
on their sledges to see the white people
and their wonderful house. In fact, we
held one continuous reception. We
could not have been gayer at home in
Washington. We always offered re¬
freshments—coffee and biscuits—to new
comers, but made no attempt after that
to feed them, as our supplies would very
soon have been exhausted. In return
they did anything they could for us,
aud if one was asked for some little favor,
the rest all were very jealous. I could
not entertain them, good natured and
kind as they were, in my inner room, as
all natives are fairly alive with vermin
and must not be brought into contract
with anything which cannot be scrubbed;
but they swarmed into the outer room
whenever we would allow it. They are
very docile and could be sent away at
any time like a flock of exceptionally
good children.”
“I suppose you were the first white
woman most of them had ever seen.”
“Yes, and on the whole they con¬
sidered me about the most curious pos¬
session the white man had. The Eskimo,
like most other savages, devotes all his
time to hunting, and lets his womeukind
do the work. I have seen a whole party
of them sit by and watch the women
roll the heavy stones which fastem down
the edges of the skin tent—the summer
residence of the native Greenlander. As
a great concession the man will occas¬
ionally hold the tent in position while his
wife does the heavy work in securing- it.
It amazed them to see me shoulder
a gun and start out hunting with my
husband, but not so much as to see him
and the other men of the party carefully
spare me from any extra-arduous task.
‘White woman very lazy,’ was the open¬
ly expressed verdict. This, however,
did not prevent one prominent Eskimo
citizen from proposing an exchange of
wives with Lieutenant Peary. As an
additional inducement to the trade he
offered to throw in his two children.”
“How do you know when spring has
coine in such high latitudes? Is there
an ? outward and visible sign besides
perpetual day instead of perpetual
night?”
'‘The warmth of a Greenland spring
. delicious. In
13 lorin April before the ex
V S P** «.rtai I went on a little
jeuroey ot about two hundred and fifty
T fu ^ /u the WaS tUe a11 SUn the Was liaie ^ ust ’ lhtm beloK ? h '
shine and sleeping by day. I was
wrapped in deersk,ns in addition to mv
usual fur garments, aud never bad a
more ^alk aebghtful journey in my life,
about park driving! An Eskimo
sledge on the ice plains of Greenland
takes the flavor out of any other wav of
getting over ground that the world at
{or<hr
“"as then any vegetation around
your home in McCormick Bay, or was it
all barren and icy?’’
“The flowers of high latitude are ex*
quisite, and the suddenness with which
they come adds greatly to the enjoyment
of them. One day you see an ice cov.
ered space, the next day there is bare
ground, and two days later you begin to
see green. A week afterwards the whole
place will be covered with bloom. There
are poppies and daisies and buttercups,
all very much like our own, but srndler.
It is a mistake to suppose that Arctic
summers are cold. The thermometei
often gets up to ninety, and eighty de¬
grees is not exceptionally hot, evea in
high attitudes.”
WISE WORDS.
Punctuality is the politeness of kings.
What is the truest wealth? Health.
All that is ftuman must retrograde if
it does not advance.
Nothing is more unjust or capricious
than public opinion.
To have a strong head is good, but it
is bad to be headstrong.
Quarrels would not last long if the
fault was only on one side.
There is always room for a max of
force, aud he makes room for many.
Beware of sloth; for by sloth every
energy is disorganized and destroyed.
We learn to forget or to endure the
faults of others by appreciating our owu.
Pride is essential to a noble character,
aud the love of praise is one of the civ¬
ilizing elements.
At the present time friendship seems
to be taken only in homce ipathic doses
at the highest dilution.
Beware of frivolity; for through
frivolity reverence is effaced and sub¬
lime aspirations flattened into trifles.
Man stabs htmseif with a trident of
thought, and bleeds at once under the
three prongs of past, present and future.
Beware of a temper of hatred, scorn
aud revenge; for that temper kindles a
living hell in the breast which harbors
it.
He who thinks he can do anything,
and never have it known, must fancy
that the all-seeing Eye has winked itself
out. **
Man sometimes appears to be so fool¬
ish as to imagine that he frees himself
by engraving the word Liberty on his
chains.
Our estimate of a character always de¬
pends muca on the manner in which
that character affects our own interests
and passions.
True popularity takes deep root and
spreads itself wide, but the false falls
away like blossoms, for nothing that ia
false can be lasting.
Beware of sensuality; for by sensual¬
ity imagination is defiled and the htguer
part of our nature dragged down and en¬
slaved to the lower.
To procrastinate seems inherent in
man, for if you do to-day that you may
enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the
enjoyment; so that to be idle or indus¬
trious, is but with a view of procrastin¬
ating the one or the other.
Human Tre -s of India.
The human trees of India, although
not really trees at all, are at least inter¬
esting as a very clever manoeuvre. The
Bheel robbers lurk in lonely places neat
the mountains and jungles, and are very
swilt and cunning in eluding capture.
They are perfect pests iu India and a
baud of them will often be pursued by
mounted Englishmen. Tueir first attempt
is to reach the jungle, the beginning of
which has perhaps been cleared by fire,
but there is no time to seek its sheltering
depths, for their pursuers are close al
hand.
Fortunately for the robbers, some
wrecks of small burned trees are also at
hand, and taking off what little clothing
they wear, they scatter it around with
their stolen goods over the open space,
and cover the low piles with their roand
shields so that they look like mounds of
earth. Then they pick up some black¬
ened tree branches, and get into very un¬
comfortable attitudes to resemble twisted
truuks, keeping perfectly quiet, and
greatly enjoying the surorise of their
pursuers at their mysterious disappear¬
ance. When the coast is clear again
they untwist themselves, gather up their
possessions, and make off as fast as pos¬
sible.
It is said that once, before the English
had become used to these manoeuvres, au
officer with a party of horse was chasing
a small body of Bheel robbers, and was
fast overtaking them. Suddenly the
robbers ran behind a rook, or some ob¬
stacle, which hid them lor a moment,
and when the soldiers came up the men
had mysteriously disappeared. After an
unavailing search, the officer ordered his
men to dismount beside a clump of
scorched and withered trees, and the day
being very hot, lie took off his helmet
and hung it on a branch by which he
was standing.
The branch in question turned out to
be the leg of a Bheel, who burst into a
scream of laughter, and flung the aston¬
ished officer to the ground. The clump
of scorched trees suddenly became trans¬
formed into men; and the whole party
dispersed in different directions before
the Englishmen could recover from their
surprise, carrying with them the officer’s
helmet by way of trophy.—Harper’i
Young People.
The Magic Bracelet.
The rascette, or magic bracelet, it
according to authorities on palmistry, to
be found at the base ot the hand and
forms the line or lines which mark the
junction of hand and wrist, One such
line, if unbroken, deep and strongly
marked, is supposed to fortell a happy
life and to indicate calmness of disposi
tion; if the line is chained, that is,
crossed and recrossed bv numerous small
Hues, the indication is 'that of a life of
iabor . Two such lines indicate
happiness and long life, while three form
.the mavie bracelet, adding great Addition riches
to the other blessings. The of
the third liue to the other two is rare.
Uesbarroles, tue great authority on
palmistry, found it in only three cases,
P
Whisks or wisks, a word originally 3
to a light dust b™h
feathers or very light twigs, is of very S
ancient date, being derived from
Anglo-Saxon wisch, a word used t»
designate a similar contrivance, A
feather whisk made of a dried gooee
wing was called in those days a
w.scn-
Ne Wonder Thor Groan.
Groaning is permissible to the rheumatie.
But the groans will soon cease when they take
Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, which relieves
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Seven widows of revolutionary sol¬
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Complexion cleared_with Small B ile Beana.
One of the most, beautiful sights on
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If you want a positive cure for Bilious At¬
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The only heavy burdens are those we
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False worship will kill the soul as
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Chicago, IV has be^un a canal to cost $30,
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The pleasant flavor, gentle action and sooth¬
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An incandescent lamp without a filament is
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Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That
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