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a doctor's ad vie;:. What a Family Physician Bays Abou. ths Headache, IIotv People May Keep the Flood t Par Words of Wisdom lor Suffering Men and Womeut ("Hpsey Potts" in Arthur's Magazine. There are a great many kinds of headaches. There are various causes for them. I'erhups the most common kinds are the sick head ache and a headache which cornea from an unequal circulation of the blood. The first comes from an overburdened system, which Is obliged to call a halt and relieve ifxelf. There is generally a tendency to vomit and a pain in tome rt of the head, f reuuently the loft side. The pain la sometimes almoHt un endurable. This is taawd by there being too much bile in the system; the bile has k manufactured too rapidly or has not Ixvu worked out of the system fast enough by ac tive exercixe. Women who are subjw-t to spell of the sick headache are those who are confined ln-doors too much; their lives are monotonous and they eat too heartily of food too solid and pcrhni not digestible, or per haps they eat between meals, taking a bite off the piooe they spread for the children, or they take a handful of nuts or an apple or a drink of cold coffee. Person who have sick headache, as a rule, at ho much and exorcise too little. They have oolil feet ami they are constituted. Too often tliey are people who are low-spirited, mnrliid, stibject to the "biuret," sensitive; the kind who "bike a goid try;" persons who take ofiunxo 'cosily ; who.se love of appro bativomws Is large; who know nothing of tliut eoso and comfort that got with "a quiet biwrU" They are apt to indulge in moods to be away up In the clouds, delighted, ex altod, anl nutted, or away down in the mire, ddqxindimt, sorrowing, and gloomy. Then there is a headache that comes from tight boot and shorn, tight lacing, or a gar ment that biuds and annoys some part of the body. If from any of these causes our vor diet would be "Serves 'em right" The headache common among young per sons cornea from derangement of the diges tion, and the subjects of it are often ad dicted either to sedentary occupations or to balls, theaters, evening concerts, and other dissipations, extending far into the bom of tiienigfct The cure is so evident thutit need noHie Insisted uiou. The headache in older persons is often caused by a flow of blood to the hood, called Tortigo, anil Is throahiil atioplexy. He strictni dlot, with moderate exercise, will untuilly britig about a cure unless tliuro is positive orgunlo dUvixe, A nervous headache, brought on by over work, grief, 1( of sleep and like causes, U relieved by quietude, gentle rubbing of pity big hands or the friction brush, and by apply ing a doth dipgied In hot water and quickly wrung out on the tack of the neck. The feet above the ankles should be iu moderately hot water at the same time. Tho pain is greatly lussrnod by these slmulbtiiHousupplu'aMoua. Ministers are apt to suffer very much from the tired or nervous headache. Up above the congregation tho jioor meii got all the heat and bad air which rises, though they may es cape tho carbonic acid gas which settles In the pews. After the day's work how apt they are to drop Into sleep and sloop it off. Better tohnvetftkeuabrL.sk will', and time enough to gefcKV frr Mii(l(,to the circulation. y nieoHim.'?' rU '"j? ,to PT? xx' j pounds to the sepwe inch, -v' Wremilatod the mime way, '"' - rtansn 'Josik the 'l'lrul; we can not ut) nuVu u-i'd work before breakfast, We grow stronger toward noon; we go U with Uio sun; after !) o'cliH'k wo begin to wane. Work dime late ' ut night is a greater tat upon the life than tha) done at noon. It Is not right to turn night into day; It doe not answer the purixMe. There is a wonderful power in the light a wonderful virtue in the sun's rays. Ilraln-wurk It more exhaustive and use up tho nerve-power flutter than any sort of manual lalior, And tho worst of it Is that the biain is not upt to complain of nervous exhaustion. Husy brain-workers need ret-roa tion and rest, and they are wise if they so- niemlmr It and do not defer it too long. And there is refreshment in lying down and relaxing every muscle, even if one does not sloep. Isit tired housewives, overworked mothen, teachers, the working man, and nian of business, rumemlier this. Stimulants are a great mistake. They art the whip and the spur to the laded horse. They make the nerves start up suddenly and in anger, only to run a Utile wlule. Habitual exercise may Iw regarded as the great specific for all kinds of aches, ailments, lots of nervous energy, ana exhaustion. The IIooiii. IWlllisui Washburn. "What is it that supports this town!" I asked my western friend. "Have you any udnesr "Oh, no;nomIuas, Something more solid than that." "Any manufactures!" "Oh, no." Hlood funning landP "Nothiug but dogtowus." "What is II, then, that keeps all these hotels, newsiixis, thunder pumper poll ticiana and club bouses going f" . "Well," he replied, culting off a hug) quid from my roll of tol ax, "I reckon you're a ttrangcr. What is it support the govern ment! It's the same thing that tupimrts our town. It's the boom, sir; the boom. ' A Lon Felt Want. I'hiUdolphia Call Smith rve got into a new busiiiet I'm a wakrr-up. Jonm What in the world is that! Smith Some days ago I advertised to go around aud wake up torvaut girls in the morning. Jones Well, well; and bow are you suc ceeding! Smith-1 have had 35,00.1 applications and they are still coming in at the rate of 1,000 an hour. The Job is too big. Uuesa I'll havo to give It up. Ice Lump and mils. trhiladulplda Coll. Iceman Well, as to non-conducton of heat, wool Cloth is vory goo 1, but jwpcr does first- rate. Consumer raper! Iceman Yw; wrap Uie ice up in it Consumer Woll, when you leavo your lump, Just, please, wrap it iu the bill. The Kdllor. A good editor must always be In his write mind. Merchant Traveler. And have a sort of pen-chnnt for work. South ami West And live within his ink-come. Jewish alesaenger. Philadelphia Call: Wages are only 10 cents a day In China. How true It is that the wagot of Ab Sin Is death by starvation. Carl rretzel't Weekly: A claret punch a blow on the note. ANGELO'S " LAST JUDGMENT." A Deaorlptlon of the Wonderful f'reseo or the MUtlne Chapel, IE. 0. Stuart in Tbs Current Grand, solitary and gloomy, is it strange that Michael Angelo has made such, a scene as this as his conception of the Day of ruth 7 The freioo oo cupies the entire end of the chapel. Jo the threatening attitude of an angry An-nger, the dread Judize raises His arm as if unvoting to endless tormont the supplicants who approaoli Him liy his sido is the Virgin interceding for the accused Above and around those central figures are tho apostles, saints, and blessed martyrs, little nngolg boat triumphantly the emblems of the Pas sion, uud sunlight hovers around thorn 'J horn is the biucknoss of darkness in the loner picture. Rising from the earth are skoletou forms that, yet un conscious of doom, are borne before the supreme tribunal, and as they mount heavenward, tho different shades who have known each other, it may be in the llesh, or, perhaps, only in liados, meet and rreognie. There are smiles from lips that have mouldered away bo fore the world grew old, but that are now perennially blooming; longing arms are reached forth to embrace the loved, I he lost, tho found. Oh! in the Resurrection Morning Michael Atigelcsque there is joy and happiness, until the observer looks on the loft, on the other side of tho angol sounding the trumpets. Then the heartrending horrors chill the soul as the damned fall hoadlong into thoir place of torment. JJemons soizo thorn (Jharou's boat bears them over a darker Stygian pool than Erebus over knew, and amid wailing and dospait they enter the unlimited future of an agonizing eternity. So, with a vivid impression of horror, the spectator turns away. There is no comfort ia the picture, and no loving forgiveness in any face save Mary s. In point of drawing, in the "Last Judirmont, the maostro lias excelled himsolf. ilia grand lines, bold fore shortening, and anatomical exactness are unsurpassed. Michael Angelo de spiffed drsnory as he did oil painting, and loit all his figures in the "Last juilgmout" nuito nude, l'rom an artistio and historical standpoint this was correct; but somo later pope was scandalized, and M. liiagio do Cescna sng-'cHtol draping the women. Van iele do Yoltorra was the artist invited to clothe tho poor ladies so that thoy might no longer ollond the pope, buo cei d ng agos have decided that Voltarra would not make a fortune on tho bo lie vard as a second Worth if his tailor work in the chapel is a fair specimen, At any rate, it uas an ungrateful and oltorru's contemporaries dul luni "Jl liraghottone, in our vernac ulur "Tho Ureoches-maker." Meanwhile Michaol Angolo ha'd not been ldlo, but had carried out a deep laid scheme to wreak vengeauoo upon liiagio da Cesena, whom he regarded as the author of the suggestion to drape the nude forms. With a few well- directed strokes of his brush tho mastor altered the visago of Midai in Hell, so as to make it an exaol likeness of M liiagio. Deeply insultedt the courtier hastened to lay his case before the holy fatlior and outam redress, liiagio begged tho pope to havo tho roseni' blunce changed. His holiness ascer tained tho location of Midas, then ho said sarcastically to tho supplicant : "Ah ! Had it been Purgatory I could havo roleused you, but over Hell 1 have no power! Ho the unwilling Hiugio still growls beneath asinino ears, and Horr Teufolsdrockh, tho clothos-pliilos- ophor of a later age, has ignored lum. A Lesson from n (.'auk. Paris Figaro. J Napoleon had a cook whoso ability to cope with an emergency ma le him a worthy servant of the groat soldior. The following anocdoto illustrates the culinary tactics of the cook, which en ablod hiin to be alwuys propared. Napoleon's constant dish at breakfast was roast chicken. ISuthewas bo un' certain in his breakfast hour that some times the meal would be served as early as 8 o'clock, find sometimes as lato as 11 o'clock. Yet tho roast chicken was alwavs done to a turn. Tho fact surprised Napoleon, and ono morning ho sent for tho cool:. "I do not know how it is," said ho, "but at whatever hour I call for my breakfast my oluckeu is always ready, and always in good condition. "Sire," answered tho man of culinary genius, "tho reason is that every quarter of an hour I put a fresh olnokon down to roast, so that your majesty is sure always to have it m perfection. There is a lesson iu this anecdote which, if heeded, would crown many callings with success. Oil on Troubled Haters. (Chicago Times. The literal pouring of oil on troubled waters is sometimes a good thing. The stoam whaler Jan Mayen, which left lhindoo in 1 ehruary to proceed to tho Newfoundland seal-fishing, has ro turned to ootlmid, haung Icon un able to proceed o j her voyage, owing to stormy weather. February 18 the vesel oacountered u hurricane, iu which she was thrown on her be.uu ends, and would, it is bcl.eved bv the crew, have foundered had not tho use ofoilboin resorted to. Threo b,g:s lillod with oakum saturated i:i o.l were hung over the side of tho vessel, and in a brief space tho sea, which had ben washing complotclv over the ship, ceased to break. The raptain attributes the escape of tho ves sel to this experiment. Ilrave In the Chair or Toitnrr. Wiimepej (Minn.) Tims.J A dentist at Calgary has been busy latery extracting teeth from Indians. It is stated that before the advance of civilization, when the natives subsisted solely on buffalo meat, decayed teeth were unknown among them. E raves who stand the torture of the sun-dance without flinching are reduced t- a state of abject terror whon they feel tl'e cold grip of tho forceps. Her latest photograph shows Sarah Eerdhardt eo rapped from head lo fo t in a wonderful ad of furs, anellin.? her to the u of a dime ruuje"m fsi Woman. THE CHOLERA. A Skotch of Its Tours Around tho World. Tbe Epldemle In America totalities Where It Ha Been Moat Fatal - Will It Visit . l' A gal nt San Francisco Chronicle 1 After tbe cholera left the Indies in 1817 It was fifteen years in completing the tour of America. 1847 it it took two years to pass over tbe same route and in 1801 it was about the same length of time In making tbo samt circuit. Its last visit, which was fortunately not made until after tho rebellion, was lest fatal than either of the others. Ia BU Louis and other southern cities it resulted In a fow deaths, while iu Cincinnati the daily death- rate during iti prevalence did not exceed forty or fifty and was generally lexs. Cincin nati then had a population not much exceed ing 300,000 and the deaths wore almost inva riably among the poor, who could not very well roguluto thoir diet, or who were too reckless to care about preventive meas ures. There were no cases iu the cities on the hikes or the smaller towns of tbe north' west. It is montioned as a curious instance of the freaks of the disease, that while It was pre vailing virulently in 1S.V) at Acapuk-o, the steamer bound for San Francisco was delayed there, and, though crew and passengers were almost constantly on shore, no case ootjirnd on shipboard nor was the infection brought to this city. Tbe localities in the initocl States that suffered mot have been the hot and fertile regions of tho south and wait. It is believed that no case of it has been known in New England outside of Boston, which has had a fuw cases, nor in the elevated districts of New York and Pennsylvania. Some neighborhoods in Kentucky, not far from Cincinnati, were almost depopulated In TO, and it is a rather remarkable fact that they were in a limestone rogion, where, tho water being hard, cistern water was largely usod for drinking and household purposes. IN ARABIA, EGYPT AND TUT EAST. Since the cholera visitation of lWtt and If 07 tbe disease has not been seen in America. Thore has been scarcely a year, however, since, when cases of It have not been known In India and Uie far east. For the last five years it has appeared annually in Japan. Up to July 35, 1870, it had tnusod there 18,000 deaths, the fatality being in large proportion to the number attacked. For the last three years it has caused a large yearly mortality. In 1883 it decimated Manila! For two sum mers pest it has appeared regularly in the principal ports of China, and yot, though wo have been in constant communication with all these places, the infection has not beeu transmitted to San Francisco. In 1883 tho cholera appeared In Mecca during tho annual pilgrimage. This holy city of tho Mohammedan world is situated in tho midst of a sandy plain or largo valley, without a supply of running water, and with no water to drink but from brackish wells. Here the pilgrims gather and encamp hi swarms innumerable, poorly fed and amid daily increasing accumulations of tilth. Tho beat is great and there is no drainage, and among them the cholera, once implanted, revels in a congenial element. Last year ths epidemic wrought terrible havoc in some of the towns in Lower Egypt, which had suf fered from tho war with Arabl. Some per sons professed to think tnat it must have originated there, the conditions being so favorable, bu tho supposition was f ptiri unnecessary, considering tho nejiiVess ef Arabia aud the omnipresence of the Meocan pilgrims Two other cities or Asia are conslitoiui holy, though they never attract pilgrims bo numerously as Mecca; the.se are Meshed iu I'ersia and Bokhara in Turkcskuu At these places similar conditions exist, and the chol era once planted finis every moans of con veyance to the distant oasos of central Asia. Almost everywhere in Asia, and especially in Persia, the water is bad, except iu a few of the mountain chains, which aids in increas ing tho mortality when tho epidemic is prev alent. WILL THE EPIDEMIC SPREAD. Tho wholo world is at this time interested In the question whether tho cholera will re main at Toulon or bo gonerally disseminated Should it remain where It is, it is believed it will tie the first time that it has evor paused in its onward march after it had gained a foothold in Europe, It has stopped in Asia, it has stoped in Africa for a year or two, but-when it has organized sulUcient impetus to carry it acrot the Mod iteranean or tho Caspian its momentum hat has invariably borno it much farther. It seems, however, to hsvo lost much of its virulence sinco tho beginning of the century. The mortality attending the! 'Visitation in l&iO was greater proiwrtionately thau that of 1S.V), and that of InVJ much mare serious than that of 1800. Have we right to expect that if it crosses the ocean it will bo of a still milder typol Tho taking of proper precautions may keep it from California, but should it come, too great foar of it will Increase, tho danger of infection. It prevails more in filthy districts, and usually attacks thoso who have neglected the rulos of cleanliness, have exposed tham sclvos needlessly or been incautious hi regard to thoir diet. rrofeaaloiial Street Bcsjars. Cincinnati Enquirer. A blear-eve 1 individual who seemed on. tht verge of tremens begged a pnrty of gentle men for ton cents to get a drink of whisky. Admiring his honesty the coin was furnished him, and ho darted across tho street The men knew that the price of a drmk at the re sort he entered was fifteen cents, and awaited developments. Ho immediately approached them again and said ho could not get a drink for tho amount given him. "All right. Give me back that dime and I will give you a quarter," said tho man who had contributed for the drink. The beggar, with an expression of satisfac tion, rammed his band hastily into his pooket, and in his hurry to get out tho dime inadver tently pulled out a whole handful of change, which he quickly tried to conceal. Get out of here, you Infernal rascal, or I'll kick you across the street,' said the charitably disposed person, as ho heard the ingle of the stulT ami caught a glance of a few dimes. The fellow sneaked away. His nervousness was entirely gone. Ho was sim ply a clever actor. Having observed that people were disposed to deal kindly with a man suffering f roni tho effects of a debauch, he grasped the opportunity and was reaping a rich harvest. The street beggars are nearly all frauds, They are professionals and prey upon a class of people who, distressed at outward ap pearances and a tale of woe, give thoir scanty means to people who at tho very mo ment have hi their pockets more money than the donors. It may teem hard for a police man to run In a docrepit woman or an infirm man, but splendid homes are provided at both public and private expense for such people, and they are nuisances that should not be tolerated on the streets. BEAUT AT A BAZAAR. How I'Bklon Imbibe American mixed Drinks In London. Tbo London World. Tho bazaar at the duke of Wolling ton's riding-school. Knightsbridge. in aid of tho restoration and enlargement of Kew church, was onened by the prince ana princess oi Wales. They were ac companied by tho duke of Cambridge, tbe grand duko of Mccklenburg-Strchtz, Ludy Mpt-ncer, Maria, marchioness of Ailsbury, etc. Tho princess looked very wen in her plum bincK costumo, which beciimo her admirably, and might havo set nn example of simplicity to muny who surrounded her. it was quite vexatious to sue how everyone ran after and pressed round the royal party merely to stare. Now, I think this not only very bad taste, but it must bo any thing but pleasant to those who are thus victimized. Surely, loyalty may be shown -without rude lntrusiveuess. Most graciously her royal highness went round tho various stalls. ' stopping particularly at that held by tho duchess of cam bridge. Hero she bought some white majolica ware. Col. i.ir,'ties-llallett's clever poodle then em. rt.nned them with his tricks. After iu eating in a very precious pug puppy and a basket of flowers the prince ana princess toou their (lepnrtui-e, und we were left to the contemplation of tho bazaar. Lady Anne Sherson kept a dairy stall, wherein were tiny animals innumerable from little Australian birds, with tliuir scarlet bills, to a pony, that m an un provistd t.tall stood very contentedly munching his bay. foveral pictur esquely dressed children hovered round, selling fresh eg.s, kittens, etc., and 1 was amused by ono little maiden bring ing a basket with tumblers of milk for thirsty travelers, which she inadvert cntly recommended as, "Won't you have a class of new-laid milk? m.stantly eor renting herself with a little confused air. l'retty china placius were the firincipal novelty at Lady laro ino (Jarnier's stall, and next door Mrs. Column exhibited many fancy articUs. At the duchess of Cambridge's stall one Bide was dovotcd to whi majolica and the rest to various examples of basket work and embroidery, and much of the latter being tho handiwork of the grand duchess of Mecklenburg-!t relit. I'efre.-hments were dispensed by the Ladies Churchill and Adeliza Manner.-!, assisted by Mrs. Hughes-Hallett, who specially presided over a bar ot Ameri can drinks. Here ono imgiit have ' eve openers," corpse-ievivors," smashes and cocktails ad lib. .o successful were theso beverages that this impromptu "bar" was perpetually occupied with eager, thirsty purchasers, among whom wero very recognizable Mr. , and Mrs. Oscar Wilde, the latter in a cream-colored dress round which she had twisted a long piece of yellow liberty silk, fastening it to tho waist by a bunch of largo lilies; her hat was trimmed with white feathers and amber beads, The dowager marchioness of Waterford had a stall of brass ornaments that com bined a capital effect with usefulness; little fender sets and somo diminutive gongs wero especially fascinating. But the centor of attraction was a small Chinese boy, who stood near the mar chioness: ho was such a picturcsauo lit tle object in his loose costume of two shades of holiotropo, the sleeves turned back with blue, and a bluo cap with a long hcarlet tilk tassel on his head. 1 He woro also some wonderful silvor ornaments round his neck, and is the espcrial property of Lord Charles Bcros ford. l ook for the King. Tho Argonaut. The position of head cook to an enstern king must bo no sinecure, judging from the details given by Oriental travelers. Tho cook employed' by King John ot Abyssinia is chosen from tho native priesthood, and takes rank among the greatest dignitaries of tho court; but, on the other hand, he is bound, on pain of death, to lead an irreproachablo life in every way, and is never allowed to marry. At tho court of biam the present head cook is a lady, the sister ot the king's physician. Having prepared tho food destined for tho roval table, she ss's it up in sepnrato packets, and sends it across the river to the palace, where it i handed over to tho king's "taster," who eats successively from all tho dishes twenty or thirty in number. It is hardly necessary to add that the post of taste;- falls vacant very frequently. .11 r. Snln'a Ad vice. Chicago News. In view of a possible outbreak of cholera in London, Mr. Sala, in his "Echoes," anticipates the advantage of tho London government bill as a deter rent of diseaso by tho following coun sel: Put your trust in Providence, keep yourselves and your houses scrupulously clean; don't eat any uncooked food after midday; encourage tho smoking of to bacco "(during the cholera outbreak of 1SH3 not a single London tobacconist died of the malady); read very carefully Dr. Tanner's index of diseases; don't drink waterof the providing of which you have no knowledge; have a hltcr at home; wear a sash round your waist; keep plenty of camphor about; do not fly in a passion with everybody, and don't "funk." lie Could Mot See Why. Boston Globe. Mr. Mukaliey recently took "a day oft" and went down the harbor on a fishing excursion. Tho s'a being decid edly choppy, it was not long betore he paid tribute to old Nepiuno several times. Ho looked, as Mark Twain said he once felt, "as if ho would disgorge his immortal soul," and between tho rounds blurted out: "An (hie), begorra, an' 1 can't oonderstand phwy I shud be so sick, whin I wuz brought up within a niilo uv tho say." Such It Life. Chicago Tribune. "My dear, look down below," said a grandiose, as ho stood on tho bridge with his wifo aud gazed at a tug hauling a long lino of barge. "Such is life the tug is like a man, working and toil ing, while tho barges, liko women are " "I know," interrupted Mrs. C, acridly, "the tug does all the blowing and the barges bear all the burden." Cholera has never penetrated the pine regions of the south. THE VALUE OF "CRIP." What Prentice Hulford Has to Say About It. What la 'Grip?" Crip and Success Co Tonelber The Slate of "FJop-The Will" Structure. fRan Francisco Chronicle. It used to be said of a man in the mines when he became discouraged, downcast and disinclined to labor, plan or project and very much inclined to got drunk whenever he had a chance, "he's lost his grip. There seems to be a great deal of hidden meaning and force in many of these phrases which are evolved, not out of the dictionaries or tbe closets of pedants, but from the situa tions, necessities, emergencies and results of every-day life. Because a hopeful and energetic man or woman, full of enterprise and plan, takes a firmer hold or grip on life. You may see it in their resolute walk and carriage, by the manner in which each footstep is planted, and when they shake hands with you they take j-our hand as if they meant something by It. It seems to me that getting this "grip" on life is as yet an untaught science; that there is a quality of the mind born of resolution and decision, whereby this grip is main tained; that it is of vast Importance it should bo batter understood and compre hended; that disease and weakness, first mental, next physical, comes of losing this grip ami that it is a matter to be considered, both with reference to the "here" and the hen-after. I think a good "grip" on life will help to cure almost any failing and any disease. Doctors will tell you and many of us know of people who ought to bave died, according to all the rules of medical science, long ago, but who wouldn't die because they said thoy wouldn't and they didn't They never let go their "grip" on life. GETTING A GOOD GRIP. It is wonderful what a strengthening effect a word may have on a person's mind as re gards holding his "grip." You say to your self in time of difficulty, doubt and discour agement, "I will," "I will," "I will" do thus and so, and keep on from time to time re peating these words, and you seem to call into yourself at last a power a power of will which beljis remove the trouble. You laugh, of course, at this and say, "That's all imag ination." Of course. Laugh away. It will do you good. But try the rocipe the next time you want to climb out of the dumps. Kay "1 will climb out of this mire." Keep on saying it See if it does not help you to climb. You need so to climb, perhaps, for your heart is heavy, your body weak, your will ditto, your appetite gone, the world a vale of tears and life a burden. A "heavy heart" means literally and physically a heavy and east-down heart, for if you could examine that useful organ at such times you might find it was below its proper place; that it was not pumping Mood with its accustomed energy and that the blood about it was more or less congested and of sluggish motion, all of which causes give that peculiar mn and heaviness known as "heartache." Of course if the heart does not work properly neither will the stomach, and if the stomach does not work what will work well inside of us I Our organs are much like a row of bricks upset one and tbe rest follow suit It Ls very important that things do work properly inside of us, in order that we may properly work things outside, 1 WHAT IS GRIP? ' Whatbgripl Call it will. What iswiM I do not know. It is a quality of which each person has more or less. It is a very de sirable quality. A person having it in plenty and knowing it, and knowing tho necessity for its use, can do a great deal in tho world. Tho will is put iu as a power, and there Ls good reason to believe that it may be in creased by cultivation, or by willing to have more will. Thero Ls reason to believe that its cajMicity for increaso is illimitable. Whether it so grows inside of us, or whether it Is an element we draw to us from the outside, I caunot say and never found anybody who could. But if it can bo cultivated and in creased by so easy and simplo a process as wishing for more of it, asking for it, praying for it, demanding it and saying "I will," it is a very important thing for people to know. SMALL THINGS. Please do not bo too ready to "despise the day of small things." We know really very little of these thinkiug mysteries we call our minds. If you declared to another your be lief that a thought was a thing an invisible tiling, to be sure, but none tho loss a thing an element or combination of elements com ing out of your brain maybe, you would be met by a howl of derision. The idea that thoughts are things are anything! Thought, the mind, pictures, plun3, opiuions, wishes, lies, half -lies, and all tho products of our minds are only myths nothings of course. Wo can't see them hence thoy are nothing, or next to it So we reason in this matter. Yet it's tho thought that does it all. You plan you think out your undertaking first, and then put it in practice afterwards. You plan, first, every physical act, even to each stop made in walking. When you say "I will," or "I won't," and put your mental foot down with energy and decision on this "say so," you do create something about you which seems to make more energy, decision and resolution more power to perform the "I will," or "I won't" THK LACK OF GRIP. Why, the lack of "grip" will write itself all over people's (onus and faces. You know tho man who has "lost his grip" by the parted lips, the drooping lower jaw, tho downcast eye, tho bent form, the slouching shoulders, the irresolute, baiting, shambling gait no purpose, no aim, no end in view only to live on and encluro from day to day and growl and grumble. Surely thought, or the lack of it, has been hero an active agent iu accomp lishing sad results. I shall now become more or less visionary, in my opinion, and thon stop. I believe that thoughts are things intangible and invisible thincs, but none tho less things the finest and possibly the most powerful product of what wo call "matter." THE STATE OF FI.OP. For the sake of making an amusing theory I will assume that a person builds up a sort of thought structure all about them an in vLsiblo envelop or garment of their ideas; that this thought envelop affects others com- ine near them, pleasantly or otherwise, ac cording to its character; that the finer your organization, the more sensitive your brain threads, called nerves, the easier do you feel this thought coming from another, and this may account for your "first impressions" of people, ..hich time to often verifies as correct If you build up the "I wili" structure you draw the more will power to you and become the stronger continually. If you will even build up the "I can't" and "It's no use try ing" and "What's the use of liv-ng anyway r garment, you drive off the will element and become the weaker and worse; you drive off eventually the people of will who might help you, but who are repelled by any one in a chronic state of "flop." THE VANDERBlLTS. A Portrait Group or the Family f Uallroad Klaznatea. WILLIAM H. TANDERBILT. Mr. Wm. H. Vanderbilt, whose wealth ex ceeds 1150,000,000 and who controls mora miles of railway than any other man ia the world, is a native ot Staten Island, N. Y., and is abort 61) years of age. Hit life hat been comparatively uneventful only in tot fact that he fell h-ir to the greatest fortune ever acquired in this country. Hit recent gift of $.100,000 as a building fund to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the city ot New York is an agreeable surprise to the public, and may be the forerunner of greater benefactions which will bring honor to ths name of Vanderbilt Who Itcaldea In a $2,000,000 noose. conxET.rrs vanderbii.t, Mr. Cornelius Vnnderbilt is the chairman of the boird of di -ectors of the New York Central and Hudson River railrcaJ. In ap pearance and characteristic he resembles his grandfather, the founder of the Vander hilt lot-tunes. He also lives hi a palace, which cost $2,000,030, and to secure the site of which be purchased and rased to the ground two new houses worth $310,000. He is the most clear-headed and affable member of the Vanderbilt family. A Son of Ills Father. m WILLIAM K. VANDERBILT. Mr. W. K. Vnnderbilt owm the moat beautiful bouss ex oriorly in America. It is of white stone, aud built in the style of the French recaisanc9. In this residence have been held some of the most magnificent entertainment. Mr. Wr. K. Vanderbilt is in disposi ion snd appearance considerable like his father, William H. Vanderbilt Abou a year ago he became chairman of ths board of directors of tho Like Shore and Michigan Southern railroad, on the audi ta. iou ot that position by bU father. How the Mahdl's Men Fight. Abu-Klea Letter to London Telegraph. 1 As we descended into the wady we saw hundreds of Arabs tread and dying. In the dry water course they left behind them many water-skins, water- hot tlo3, earthenware pots and bags of dhoora. There wore even a score of tom-toms, the heads of which were instantly burst in. On the northern side, of the shallow khor they had dug numerous rifle-pits and trenches. There were ono or two cast-away niahdi uniforms and lots of Hags, but no shields, for the false prophet ha l bade his adherents ne 'hor wear their ancient chain armor nor seek the protection of thick rhinoceros hide bu.klcrs. Exploring along this wady a party of our men came upon six dead -md four wounded Arabs lying under a bushy dwarf mimosa tree. Tho soldiers had an interpreter with them, and tho Arabs were called upon to surrender and como out. That they said they could not do; would the soldiers, therefore, come and take them. Tho four wounded still held their spears in their hands. "Very good," said our soldiers, "put down your spear and we will see you are well treated, a 1 do all we can to cure your wounds." The answer of tho four Arabs came fierce and concise: "Put down our spears, infidel dogs! By God and tho prophet, never!" There was a crack of Martini-Henry's. You can guess the rest. It was again, as at Tcb and Tamal, almost impossible to take prisoners, and we secured but two of their wounded alive. The third prisoner 1 assisted to bring in, but he was hardly a capture, for the man gave himself up. tin bad a Remington and over 100 rounds of ammunition. His story was that he had been one of the Berber-Egyptian garrison, and since the fall of that place had been forced into the Mahdi'a army. Hj was glad to escape from them, he declared, and I must say the fellow looked c'Aerf ul at being taken. A trooper conducted him to Gen. Stew art. He was our ono unwounded prisoner!