i Hf- FIRST LETTER.
f0r rue u iUj no very Quaint and
,ru,fT. in ,uiibl from whom, fur not
kn" a!
5H, , a M rrirniH could I the
Ot"1'rtJ. , ,1,
( 21 mi tmmr this awkward way, with
aooo""' fl"'er "P" "orrwiwoilent
Ye. f brol'e ,lie mT won1'r,ng
. SfaStoilSrM sun-so few I felt
yao IS
n,','",!!,',!,! h' many re tbu "rtmim
EStta hitratnMi mBrlH wh0" "bP"
ror .1 1,'tt.T- Iraned-
, -fl" and capital AV J blot
'.hut intervened
JfcilSl toTMd, "if Tray get out 0
" burtmyi'uP1
err, vodr- "w k01 ln 1)0,11 11,7 t0" mu
a rc'li'T pulr
irflissdmsssjsaon 1 am six top boot- I'd
hitter wear."
A, ,,b. r l .)'- w" 1 r",d 10 mr VW"U
Th,,v'1',w .-1 Mend bright durk eyes hew
,'erttekJHWw
0 uttte w t0 lrl
o, iSSfhu'yow flnlshsd ' win sen.
MdJwcW vur fairest W.tta. sr a
t)lu-h "f )'.
' uniweel r welcome thus tW soaawl frets
auuas'a abseil '.
idl Burton nays. In I.- w
BRINK'S CHARGE.
Old Lovi FinaUy Mad to Admit the
Love Ho Felt for Bor.
If it WM in the shape of horse-flesh,
now, it wWlld bo a profitable Invest
MBt; but I toll you It will be a bill of
ex peine from the very first and I per
het nuisance all the while." And Farm
er Brink rose and prepared to leave the
room.
Hut. Levi, we're perfectly able ti
bear tliecvpensc." Mrs. lirink ventured,
-ami 1 will look after her myself."
"It's all foolishness to think about it.
fell vnii." he replied, crossly. "It will
Ukc S round sum to clothe her decently
Itlicy have alwaysboon poor as beggars i.
and I n uti every cent to buy that blooded
colt of Kobeson's." This time the dour
a, , hut decisively, and Mrs. Ilrink was
left alone with her thoughts and disap
pointment. They had two children of their own.
both boys and both almost men grown.
Harry, the youngest, was "as tall as
mother." anil Ifob could "chin" Harry
without a particle of trouble. Mrs.
Brink's love for little girls had finally
Httled upon Alice Mitchell, a sweet,
little, brown-haired baby of three years,
who mi left an orphan without a living
relative.
"It's just too had. anyhow," moaned
Mrs. lirink to herself, "and wicked, too:
'or the poor little thing will go to the
Orphans' Home, no doubt, and she's til
to grace any one's home." And her tears
fell on the folded hands.
"I'll clothe her out of my own allow
ance, and then Levi must give in. I
dislike to cross him, but he's in the
wrong, I'm sure; I'll go and tell him my
derision while I am so determined."
She passed out of the house, and was:
sorry to see him busy with one of his
fancy horses, for she felt them all as
barriers in her way. Mrs. Ilrink had
never been a wife who would "hold her
own." as they term it. and her husband
showed much astonishment at her words.
"Well, Levi, I've finally decided to
take Alice and clothe her out of my own
allowance. As for the annoyance, I
Shouldn't wonder if you had to put up
with a few kisses and merry laughs
now ami then; hut 1 reckon it won't
hurt you any. And, by the way, let
Barry harness a horso right away and
ID go after her." She turned toward 'he
house just in time to hide asoitof broad
smile which somehow ended in a sob.
Itwun'l because she did not want Alice,
but I a use she must, for once, oppose
her husband.
Little Alice was brought to the house
that very day. and if you want to know
whether the merry laughs and pretty
"Oh. oil's" wakened up all the echo
sprites wound the old home, you want
to ask Mrs. Ilrink. and Rob, and Harry,
lid yes- Mr. lirink. too; for his wife
caught htm listening to the baby's
merry chatter as he paused in the hall.
The dear little child settled down into
the place that had always been vacant.
Si if the had been expecting it all her
short lifetime. She never suspected the
man of the house was her enemy, but
would pat bis hands, throw kisses at him
from the doorway as he started away for
his day's work, and followed him around
from pig-pen to stable.
Bb,e asked questions by the score,
whether answered or not; and some
times, when Mr. lirink was sure no hu
man ear was near, he would call her
"Allie." and ask If she liked her new
home. But if Mrs. ilrink came down to
look after her he would say;
"I do wish. Lucy, you'd keep your
charge away from mo. She's worse to
have around under your feet than a lit
ter of pigs."
Then Mrs. Brink would catch the lit
tle happy thing, swing her upon her
shoulder and go off to see the little
joung chicks which had just arrived.
Jd which Alice persisted in calling
"'ittle birdies."
so the weeks slipped by. happier than
Weeks had ever been hefore to Mrs.
Brink, and Harry, and Kob; and. at
'east, no sadder' to Mr. ilrink. The
ys made Alice a play-house in an out
door cellar, where she played half of her
time.
N' .ir this cellar was an old well that
had been covered over with boards
for a year or so. Mrs. Hrink was great
V frightened one day to see one of the
""arils pushed off: stopping to replaei
't she was amazed to find none of them
ailed, but merely laid loosely over the
opening.
As,1K,nas nor husband appeared at
dinner-timp she said:
Did you know. Levi, that old well It
Vry unsafe?"
"Cnaaia for whatr
"or Alice, in particular. You know
her playhouse is near it. and she might
U i any time."
"'"am her u keep her place, then; I
n't time to go around and smooth tho
Place for her feet," he returned, crossly.
"But just think. Levi, it may cost a
a little, precious, human life, so
ser to us aii.-
Farmer Brink laughed sneeringly as
ey seated themselves around the din
r table.
Little Allie seemed to take especial
jeins to please Mr. Brink, much to his
Jmfort: for he was not really a
hearties man. although he would ra
ther have been considered such than to
oafes to his wife that Allie s presence)
source of pleasure tobim.
He never spoke of her before any one
any other. wt than 'Jur cbarce.
nd he let ht i n. .
i word of in,;.rf;;;:'rri -.-
One !,,,, ,, ,,,,,,,, rrom town
;"V M"'a '" W s" Ml in buy.
" beautiful bom at HowBfuA
n,1''" ied much more ItU ,
nisband and father of a year before
I wo days paaeed and Mr. Brink m
"7 1" love with bti puroKe
nd gave his family ample opportunity
OlMit. graceful motion. M hi lent It
ralloplng or trotting in a circle around
The days were very busy now, and
Mllewas left BUOb to herself. as
'laved in her little house or in the aand
iround 1 Mrs. Brink's fear about the
veil had gradually grown less, until the
langer was almost forgotten.
ne day. as the family was all busy
n the orchard, little Alice came run
ling down to then,, her Uttl.. hands
ViMd in fright, and her eye, (ride open
Indeed,
"Toltie fall, poor toltie! tome i,i
oltie, Mamma llink." she cried, her
ittle Up quivering pitifully.
"Levi," called bis wife, "Alloa thinks
omothing is wrong with the horses
i'erhaps "
But Mr. Ilrinlt bad beard Allies
vords and was already half-way to the
ban.
He found the barn-yard fence broken:
uea ne raa to the pasture where he
Icepl his other boraea, followed by the
wo boys. Hut none of them did what
Mrs. lirink did that was. to run to the
play-housfl to see the thing as Allie had
teen It.
She found that the animal had
partially fallen into the old well.
Inly a board, still held in place by a
huge stone at one side, kept the horse
from going in. There eras but a mo
ment to aOt, for the horse was franti-
illy struggling, vainly trying to free
itself.
"Itun. Allie. and get the large rope
in the barn. Quiok, my dear, or the
colt will get hurt."
"Rope?" she questioned, and was off
like a Hash, while Mrs. Brink watched
for a chance to get a tlrm seat on the
worse's head, knowing that in no other
way could she Dope to keep him still.
When the rope came she succeeded In
lipping a noose over both front feet,
still keeping her seat on its head. She
lldn'l know what to do. for the stone
Mined on the verge of sliding, and she
lid not dare leave her seat to fasten the
hindmost feet, lest ihecoit should make
i double effort to rise and all her work
lie lost.
To be more secure. Mrs. Brink had
Allie pass the other end of tin- roie
around a post of the fence about llf
teen feet away, and to this she clung
lightly.
"Now, Allie. run and II ml Papa Ilrink.
quick! Away down where the 'bossie'
is you'll Hnd him. ami tell him to come
here."
Away she ran again, tumbling once in
awhile; hut this did not binder much,
for she was up and on like a Utile sprite.
Mr. Ilrink soon appeared and succeeded
in rescuing the colt.
Two or three days rolled by. during
which time Mr. lirink was unusually
7him.
One day when Alice ran to show him
a new dress her "Mamma Ilrink" hid
made her, he pushed her roughly aside,
and then, as tic tears tilled her pretty
eyes, he snatched her up and kissed her
again and again. Turning to his wife.
w ith a guilty face, he said, in a hurried
way:
"It's no use, Lucy, I must given in
this time, for I can't bate tier, try as 1
may. You see, it's so Strange to have
lid Levi give in: I thought I couldn't.
Hut ever since ever since"
"She saved your coll," Mrs. Brink be
gan. "No, hush:" he replied, with a guilty
flush. "I liked her well ever since si "
Hrst came, and it's been the hardest j, lj
to -to "
"Make us think you didn't. Hut we
knew you did. ' she laughingly returned:
"for more than once I've played eaves
dropper and have often heard you call
her Allie." and"
"Well. I can call her 'Allie' now all
the time. Come here. Allie. and let me
see that new-fangled dresswhew! but
she doe look nice. A pride to the Brink
family, ain't she?" he added, as the lit
tle sprite perched upon his knee.
"She's a solid c ifort. to say the least.
is our little Allie." replied his wife, lov
ingly. - Bertha P. Knglet. In Santa
Clans.
Tabby Bnjojred the Bpeetaele.
A Court street merchant saw a
strange combat in his store the other
morning. It was in the middle of the
forenoon, and be was busy casting up
accounts at the back of the room, when
he heard a singular squi aking under
one of the shelves and a moment later
out rolled three gray rats engaged in a
pugilistic encounter that would have
done honor to I'eter Jackson. They
clawed and hit at each other savagely,
and were so much absorbed in the Bghl
that they paid no attention to the look
ers on. A cat walked leisurely up and
stood by Watching the row with us i h
interest as if she had a bet up. After
about two minutes the rats came to a
realizing sense of their position, broke
away and scampered otf into their
holes. It looked as if some rat family
had been rushing the growler and
enrVst their carousal like men. Hing
ha aton Republican.
-Footpad "Hold up your bands I"
Pedestrian (calmly)"! have been out
shopping all day with my wife." Foot
pad (aympatketically) - "By Jenks.
Here, take this quarter. "-N. V WSJ
r-
0-
-The only thing which beats a g.ssi
rife is a bad husband.
You can not do good or evil to Of
rs withont doing good or evil to yotw
elf.
-Vanity keeps persons in favor with
themselves, who are out of favor with
all others. Sbakspeare.
-The trouble with a man covering up
,iis tracks is that he makes new ..ties In
doing it.- Atchison filobe.
-The talent of sueeess is nothing
more than doing what you can do well;
and dting well whatever you do.-lxmg-fellow.
-Virtue wants more admirers, wis
dom more supplicants, truth more real
friends, and honesty more pra -tit loners.
Rochester Budget.
-It is always a sign of poverty of
mind where men are ever aiming to be
great, for they who are really great
never seem to know it.
-It is a wonder that the world grows
better We come into it with the faults
of our ancestors, and go out leaving add
ed faults for our descendants.
-It is certainly much easier wholly
to decline a pa-ion than to keep H
within just bounds and UIWfSrM
that which few can moderate almost
anv uuJv mav prevent. . .
A MOTHER'S HEROISM.
ii
"W U ' I Wum.,,, . ...
' wm i,-r I. lie
tn AssM Hat sun.
A friend relates to me a cam- of temals
; lroism. of 1)UjU, recent date, which
somewhat reminds me of a much older
case, iii which Mrs. Disraeli was the
I berolne. In the Qgejtto Latin of
j Vienna, the quarter around the Wiener
i Allgeinelnes Kranketibaus. there lived
I an aged widow and her only son. a
j IPalleal student. They wore' so poor
a' the mother was obliged to sew
almost day and night, ami the son gave
lessons, which occupied the time n
eSSary for his studies In order to enter
university life.
On the Continent HHir students are as
frequent to bo found as in Scotland, and
in Vienna they form the majority. A
good number ol mere hoys may be seen
running about from one end ol the city
to the other, giving lessons whilst they
are themselves still pupils at the gym
naaium (the continental grammar
school i. and of the university students
at least two-thirds are defraying theei'
pensesof their studies out of their ow n
earnings, This works satisfactorily
so long as the minor examinations have
to be passed, but when the students
have the Doktor-Ezamen or the Steats-
Examen before them, assistance lie-
oomes necessary, as studying hard and
cramming others have proved to be in
Compatible, In such cases, the poor
motber or the sister, perhaps a seam
stress or a dressmaker, or may lie the
bride-elevt, who la also dtqiendent on
needle-work, will for montns strain her
eyes and work her lingers to the boUS
to allow the candidate) w ho is the pride
of the family, and may in days to come
In- its support, todevote himself entirely
to his books to prepare for his examina
thin.
The son of this poor widow was such a
tandidate, and whilst he was diligently
applying himself to bis studies, the tlnal
examination being very near, the mother
deprived herself of the pleasure ol
even seeing him. One evening
the poor old woman pricked
her linger with her needle. Soon hoi
hand became swollen and the woman
sought medical advice at a hospital.
There she was told the tlngei
must be amputated and she
insisted upon the operation be
Ing performed at once, so that the ac
cident might be concealed from her son
Twenty-four hours later the whole hand
was gangrenous and had to be taken oil.
Not a whisper of this misfortune WM
allowed to reach her son's ears.
At last the examination day for the
doctor's degree arrived. The VOUnfj
man left for the university after taking
a hasty farewell of his mother, ami hi
bad hardly quitted the house before the
doctors arrived to amputate the arm of
the silent old sufferer. It was an ad
vanced hour of the day when the son
came home radiant with joy to tell bll
mother that their days of anxiety and
want were at an end; that he had passed
with honors, and that it would now bt
his turn to provide for his parent. Hill
the one to whom be intended to com
municate his joy was no more. Even tin
last operation was made loo late, and
blood poisoning was the consequence ol
her endeavors to hide her pains from
her studious son. -Vienna Cor. I.ondor
standard.
Thiwe Rmoklni Curs.
The smoking car is a novelty on the
South Side lines, and it looks as though
it would always Is? n novelty to the fair
-ex The poor conductor may warn then
vhen they get on that it is a smoking
ar, but they never seen to heed him
riien, when they sit down in the cloud
if smoke inside, they Isgin to kick vigor
uUsly The other day n nicely dressed
lady persisted in boarding a "smoker'
m Slate street, in spite of the conductor's
explanation, Three men were pufflruj
away at more or less questionable cigars
while a foul lb man had a stalwart pi pi
ivhich was loaded to the rim with that
1 OWerful brand of alleged lobucco know n
is "Brake n's Pleasure," As soon us
I lie lady entered this asphyxiating at
iiiosphere she turned to the door ana pro
ceeded to berate the iKr conductor foi
permitting smoking In bis car In viiir
lie tried to explain that the company'
rules permitted smoking in certain cars
She kept up her tirade until every man
lu the car who had a cigar, cigarette ol
I ipe lit it for the purKisc of giving bet
the full benefll of the new rule. As she
auk into her seat, thoroughly exhausted
two flashily dressed women stepped on
the car. "This is a smoking car, ladies,'
said the desperate conductor. "All right,
that's just what we want," said one ol
the feie iles. and thev took seats and ig
nited cigarettes. At this the objecting
lady signaled the conductor and sailed
lit of the car in high dudgeon. She
alked dow n tow n. Chicago Herald.
Helping i Sparrow t'p.
In University place the other day, n
i oy picked up a sparrow which was un
i ,e to fly from having d.tubed its wings
with fresh paint from some cornice.
He was carrying it away in his hand
when a poorly dressed man. who was
.vanning his back in the autumn sun,
held OUt bis hand and nsked for it. The
bird was passed over, and the man took
i rery ragged handkerchief from his
pocket and began wiping at the paint
saying, as he did so:
"That's the way of the world go for
S feller when lie's dow n. Fifty would
wring your neck where one would give
you a show."
He wiped away for a minute or two
and then continued:
'If somebody would give nm an en
couraging word and half a show, I could
ls a man vet; but somelxidy won't doit
It's easier to kick a man down hill than
10 boost him up There, young chap,
row wings tiro all right now. (Jo nnd
be happy Next time your nose smells
fresh paini. you shy off."
He gave the bird a toss, and it flew to
the naked limb of one of the elms and
then toned about and cried. "Peek'
ieek!" a- if in gratitude.
All right! All right!" replied the
man. with a wave of his band. "Per
baps vou II do as much for me some
time. ' Go along now and Bttend to busi
ness." New York Sun.
The limallp" Mlrrob.
Dr. Sicard, of Readers, in a memoir
handed in to the French Acadeuiie de
Medonin for competition for the Alva
renga prize, announces that he has at
last discovered the long sought for mi
crobe of smalliox. He reports it to be
a bacterion bSSQBgtSSJ to the class of
cocci, round, with a transparent center,
utnbilicated in the middle, while It
edges are raised. -m bacterion can
be readily cultivated on gelatine that
has been sterilized by bichloride of rner
curv. It can be found at all stages of
smallpox, not only in the pustules of the
akin but in the mucus of the bronchial
tubes nd in he blood as well- I
Iikewnm tounu suspended in tlieair.d
rooms containing smallpox patients, and
if u uter lie allow, si to stand in audi
rooms in open rvseeis, it soon contains
ihosnwllpoi baeteeiua rtowvrer, when
animals are Inoculated with cultures ol
ibis bscleriotl. although they manifest
iineusincus, the symptoms are entiich
transitory, not at all serious, an I, above
ill, show no relation to variola, either in
its form or evolution."
st oi. ii,. Am Panai,
A clever band at figures says- Twelve
thousand vehicles, a quarter of them
mnlbuses, pass through the Strand in
the day, and the narrow nous of tho stn-et
auses each of their ti.l nod occupants t,.
waste on an average lluee minutes The i
;otal waste of time equals .(.!" hours. ;
lie money value of w hich, at the very
moderate rate of one shilling an hour, is
tlfil pee day . or o r IM 7,000 per annum
bunion Court J.uii":.l
ADVICE TO SPEAKERS.
tr. If eekensls (lives Some I ieiui infer
nation iii Oratorical Qeailemeu,
sir Morel! Mackenzie, the great En
glisb throat specialist, has just pule
lish'd in I.oihIoii a pamphlet, in which
he gives advice to public speakers.
It is a great mistake, he says, in sub
stance, to think that speaking is a
purely Instinctive act which requires
no special 'raining and exercise. Kven
in ordinary conversation speaking ll
an art. and a difficult one, the supreme
development of which is oratory. A
man w ho knows how to speak in public
ami to spare bis voice makes biinsell
heard w ith little or no effort, while aa
untrained orator wears himself out
quite rapidly. The culture of tin
voice ought to lie given from the
cradle. This does not mean that a
mother might Hnd the means of mak
ing her baby bawl according to pre
established rules, as though it were a
conservatory pupil, but as soon as tin
child begins to prattle it ought to be
surrounded only by persons who speak
well, or at least pronounce distinctly
and correctly. The ancients were ex
ceedingly particular on thai oiiit.
Continuing, Sir Mackenzie says that a
speaker should make himself heard by
every one of his auditors, not by bring
ing his voice to a high pitch, but
through a methodical and constant reg
illation of its volume, as did Mr.
liright. whom you could not hear with
out feeling that be was keeping In re
serve three-fourths of his vocal power
An orator, too, must not hear his own
voice well. It is a somewhat general
mistake to think that the assemblagl
does not hear you because you do mil
hear your own voice very distinctly.
The reason is that when there is no res
onance in the hall your voice does not
come back to you. and, consequently,
goes the surer to your listeners.
Moreover, you never hear your own
voice as others do, because it strikes
your sense of hearing not only through
the surrounding air, hut also and
directly through the "trompo d'eu
stacbe," the bones and the muscles ot
the head and mouth. The phonograph
teaches us the truth of that principle.
We easily recognize through it the
voices of others, but not our own.
"One of the most extraordinary edi
fices in the world, in an acoustical point
of view," writes Sir Mackenzie, "is the
Mormon temple of Salt l,ake City. Its
form is that of a bee-hive and 14,om
people can Is" comfortably seated w ithin
Its walls: still from one end of nave to
the other you nan literally hear a pin
fall. The demonstration of that fact is
invariably made by the sextons.
"When visitors are present at the
services I bey are posted in someplace
along the wall. A sexton walks then t,
an opposite wall, stops, and drops a pin
in his bat. Kvery one hears the infinites
imal noise made by the fall of the pin.
"Brlgham Young boasted to have re
ceived the plan of his temple from
Heaven and never to have known any
.Vng Shoul acoustics. The truth was
that he simply imitated the St. Haul's
cupola, so famous for its resounding
gallery."
Sir Mackonde ends his pamphlet by
warning public speakers never to drink
any thing but water while delivering an
oration. Any other beverage is apt to
cause an irritation of the vocal chords,
which might bOOOmS diseased in the
long run and be the source of much dis
comfort. ARNOLD AND STANLEY.
The iret Kiplorrr'n IndsbtaaaSM In the
I'oet for Help.
Sir Kdwin Arnold is not only the great
authority on India ami India's religions;
be has always licen deeply devoted to
geographical science, and it was really
owing to his support and efforts that
Stanley was enabled to make his great
Journey across the Dark Continent and
to discover the source of the Congo.
After Stanley returned from bis news
paper expedition in Africa, where ho
had succeeded ln discovering Living
stone, he was for a time a kind of white
elephant on the newspaper proprietor's
hands, and it seemed for a time as if h
would have to be sent to the city de
partment for duty, While writing his
books in London, however, he made tho
acquaintance of Kdwin Arnold, then the
leading editorial writer of the Daily
Telegraph. To him Stanley mentioned
his poor prospects on the New York
paper for which be had made his Hrst
journey, and expressed the hope of lie
ingableto pursue his explorations in
Africa. The two men then discussed
African problems earnestly together,
and the result was that Kdwin Arnold
spoke to Ievi Lawson. proprietor of the
Daily Telegraph, urging him to take up
Stanley and Support him on another
journey of African exploration, the aim
of which was to follow the course of the
Lualaba across the continent from the
Indian ocean to the Atlantic.
Levi LaWSOe was willing to enter into
Mr. Arnold's plans for Stanley, but
feared the expense would be too great.
He therefore paused a telegram to lie
sent to New York, asking a newspaper
proprietor there if he would share in the
exfienscof such a journey of explora
tion. The answer was in the affirma
tive. Stanley was enabled to make the
greatest geographical discovery of the
century. Hut it should be placed on
record here that, only for Arnold. Stan
ley never would have had the oppor
tunity of tracing the Congo, and the In
terior of Africa would, in all probabil
ity, to-day be a blank apace on our maps.
Leaden letter.
Lady lafter giving him a supperl
"Will you saw some wood for me nowT
Tramp- "I am very sorry, but I have
another engagement' Lady "And
what pray, may that br?" Tramp
(with grea dignity) "Madam. I am
surprised that you abould so far forget
yourself aa to inquire into a gentle
man's private affairs." Orip.
VERY CURIOUS CASES.
The Ail Inn d a Drill Taken liilrrnallr
DfOS IfeS Hair.
The patient was a woman aged seventy-two.
who had had snow-white hair for
twenty years. For the symptoms of
OOmmencIng urzsmla, due to contracted
kidm twenty to thirty minims of ex
tract of Jaboralidi was preserllied several
times dally The drug was taken from
October, ls.su. to February, I8tt. During
the autumn of iss; tbe eyebrows were
becoming darker, and the hair of lbs
head became also darker in patches
This continued until the patches of hair
were quite, dark, contrasting with the
natural patches of snow-white hair. The
hairdid noi universally change liofore
her death.
In lss )r, Prentiss had published an
other case of kidney disease, pyelo
nephritis, treated with pilocarpine. The
hair of the patient, a lady, aged twenty
five, changed from light blonde to black
under t helnflueUCeof the drug. The pilo
carpine w as administered bypodSTmiOnl
ly lone-sixth of a grain twenty-two times
In the course of two months, The dose
was then increased. In one month after
commencing the treatment the hair
changed from a light blonde to a chest
nut brown: four months later it was
"almost a pun1 black." it is satisfactory
to llnd that, eight years afterward, the
hair is a dark brown. Dr. Prentiss
SSOribeS the phenomenon to the jalnir
audi and its active principle, pilocar
pine, Cases w here, as the result of tho in
fluence of the nervous system, in pain
or fright, the hair has changed color,
are pathological curiosities. So little is
known, however, of the physiological
Influence of the nervous system over
the growth and nutrition of hair that It
is at present quite Impossible to under
stand how a drug administered inter
nally can alter the color of the hair. It
would lie interesting to learn from other
practitioners who have used jalsirandl
or pilocarpine for an extended perhsl
whether any change in the color of the
hair has la-en noticed. Therapeutic
Qazette,
How Turkish Harems Are FIMril.
The polygamous Tirkish Keys and
Agas. whose hitherto regular supply of
Circassian girls from the Caucasus has
bten cut off from them since the annex
stlon of the province by Itussia. nave re
course now to a bold system of capture.
They SWOOp down OU an Armenian vil
lage, with theii arniedacoytes, and carry
off to their harems, by main force,
asmanygood looking girls and w emeu as
they can lay hands on. This is per
mitted to them: ami tbe modus operand!
by which the abduction of Armenian
girls is rendered legal by the Moslem
judges may lie summed up as follows:
When the relatives present themselves
ln court to claim the abducted victim,
the captors are ready w ith a brace of
Moslem witnesses lone hundred could
be produced if wanted)) w ho declare on
oath that the kidnappiHl woman pro
nounced in their presence the regular
formula of the Moslem faith: "There is
AoOod but (lod, and Mohammed is his
prophet." The judge thereupon dis
misses the case on the ground that the
stolen and captured girl has by that pro
fession abjured her former faith and
embraced Mohammedanism. And the
verdict of these upright judges Is not to
he set aside. New Keview.
A Napoleon In Ills Way.
A well-known mad doctor has just
died at Vienna, lie had a large prac
tice, a groat reputation, and a curious,
indeed a unique, experience. Napoleon
was the great king-maker of the cent
ury. Prof. I desdorff was the great
king-dethroner. No other medical man
lias had so large all experience. When
in IS7U Sultan Mourad V. was to lie de
posed and .MhIiiI Aziz set up on the
throne the professor was sent for to
Constantinople, examined his royal pa
tient, and promptly declared him mad.
There was no appeal from thai decision.
Later on. when Louis II. of Havarla
was getting Unusually eccentric,
his ministers did not dare
take any steps. They sent to
Vienna for the professor, who seems to
have had no difficulty in pronouncing
him mad. nnd the members felt their
rCSponslbUlty at an end. Sometimes he
would Im sent for to Petersburg. The
Romanoil family had failings. And the
professor bad to give his verdict. On
all these occasions he got great fees. It
was easy work. No doctor, not even a
mad doctor, could doubt the insanity of
the patients. Pall Mall 'iazette.
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On Three Hunilreil a Vear.
The Bangor Historical Magazine gives
an interesting account of the life of the
Bey, Jonathan Fisher, pastor at nine
hill. Me., from 17H to lHlli, who suc
cessfully overcame obstacles that might
well discourage any one. In his youth,
while teaching at Dedham at H per
month, he continued his studies and
helpisl out his salary by making bird
cages. Later, when preaching at a
salary of '.'iin a year in money and cer
tain WOOdi etc., in all amounting to not
more than gMO, he brought up a family
of seven children, sent his daughter to
boarding school, gave one son, Josiah
Fisher, of Prit ton. N. J., a liberal
education, and saved money enough l;
pay the debt contracted while getting
his own education. He Invented a
shorthand in which he wrote his ser
mons, and by using which ho estimated
that during his ministerial life he saved
three years' time and $70 worth of pa
per. m
Men and women born at the close ol
the eighteenth century did as French
people do to-day. They took a warm
bath occasionally for eleanlinsss, and
they took shower baths when they wen
prescribed by the physician for health,
and they bathed in summer seas foi
pleasure, but they did not wash them
selves all OVer every morningo However
the new custom look deep root in Kn
gland, because one of the signs of class.
It w as adopted as one of the habits of a
gentleman.
Connecticut has a wickedest town
It is Monroe, with 1.000 inhabitants, a
murder record of ten in Hfty years, and
the possession ot tlfly divorced or sepa
rated couples.
Larking In Appreciation.
Old Iinl Hertford used to tell about
meeting old Karon James de Koths
child i w hom his lordship cordially de
tested) in the street one day, almost
weeping, and of how the baron, on be
ing questioned as to thn cause of his
melancholy, naively exclaimed' "You
English are such brutal people. I
called on Iird X this morning ' (men
tioning a cabinet minister) "to make
him a present of a splendid miniature
set in diamonds, and he threatened to
kick me downstairs!" Ban Francisco
Ajvouo'
I
ivhat the Hamortsl Heard and see en a
RaUrsed Train.
Brakemea on train other day, one at
MWh end of car. NerOJ called stations
alike, Never called stations. In fact.
Tried to. may lie, but missed It Whistle
(bricked, front brakeman bsiked In.
oared "State Journal! state Journal!"
Wondered why town named after DSWS
,himt; must be type of American town.
Itear hrakeiiuin looked in: yelled "Walt,
soman!" Woman standing up to go out
fell into sent like shot. Train slowed
op at station: read name over disir -"Natrotia."q
Young man gets on at llarrisburg.
Hreezy man; two grips, one large, one
HMlL Turns seat for himself. Put
llgh slick shiny silk hat in rack. Puis
imbrella and cane with peacemaker
handles in rack. Puts on silk traveling
mp, Removei shoes, puts on allegator
lllppera, 'Takes off coat; takes loung
ing jacket from large rallsei puts on.
Takes cigar from bran new case
ind sticks it In mouth Isn't in
-moklng car, so doQJin'l llghl it;
merely advertises fad thai basii. Opens
hook) looks tiNi sweet and comfortable
for any thing. tieiier.il impression
lUlOttg all women in car that youngman
s uid 'Traveler from Rovervlllo, Wan
ler County, this state. Commercial
traveler curling Up (or nap remarks, in
low tones, audible from sleeper to
onoker "First Trip.'' F.very Issly
laughs. Young Oldtravelor, of VVandei
Sounty, looks haughty and uncon
tented. 'Train jinlls out. Conductor
nines along great consternation
uiiing Mr. Oldtraver on wrong train
arantatogoto Philadelphia this train
iow ling along to Pittsburgh Hrst regu
lar stop Huntington, llell-rope pulled.
Young man scsips his things together
lumped out into the yards near Kis'k
port. Has company of yard men, freight
srakemen and switchmen, while he
Iresses. Pleasanl meni much given to
light raillery and badinage Know the
voting man bad pleasant time with
them. Know also be will leave some
things home next time ho Ire vela
Kvery body young once.
Family party gel on at Bellwood,
Mother and little boy in one seat:
father and little girl in other. Mother
warns husband "Now lie sure, don't let
Nettle go to sleep." Says he won't.
Senile sound aa ol snoring in high key
with atmospheric disturbances, aooonv
panted by childish snuffles, Father
KMind asleep; Nettie sound asleep ill his
rms. Mother jabs Isiy viciously two
ir three times, as be nods. Finally
IrOpS off herself. Ilea I hangs back over
icat Hat falls off In my lsp. Hate to
put it on floor, Hold it best I know
how. blushing painfully, conscious of
iwkwardness. Higgling girls in next
.eat Know they are laughing at me,
hut hate to look around. T'rald cat.
Altootia!" Takes two brakcinen to
waken family, Woman looks angrily
i ud with dark suspicion in glance at
me as takes hat from me Evidently
wants me to understand she thinks i tisik
it off her head w ith intention of keeping
it. No difficulty at all in understanding
took 'Turns, reproachfully, to husband
"Oh, Deorgel After all I said you let
Nettie go to sleep! How could you'.'" I
seat glen f sympathy toward Ooorge
as he passes out. knowing he will get
my share of oration. Doesn't seem to
mind it.
Powerful tired of railway travel. Six
lays week on wheels noi travel: busi
ness. Boar and rattle, crash and bang
never out of bead: jolt and jar. ami jump
and swing, with noise thrown In. fairly
maddening, No fun. Nice enough one
lay, hard work everyday fur live months,
llild manager Ibis year, charge 8150
extra for all banquets after lecture.
Much harder work to attend banquets
than to lecture Maii rides fron six a.
m. to TslSp, m talks two hours full day,
Banquet no fun. Banquet Business,
Same way w ith "Seeing few friends aft
er lecture." Much rather see devil.
More entertaining) not so fatiguing.
Railway going not travel, anyhow,
simply transportation! Picks you up in
Brooklyn, sets you down in Chicago.
That's all. 'Transportation isn't travel
ing. Steamboat nice way to travel. Hut
rivers don'l go everywhere. Miss heap of
Scenery by clinging tO river. Stage, Um,
dUBty and rough. Ideal travel, route
and mode canal. No reckless speed
liel tired of boat, jump off on tow path
and walk. Fond of excitement, help
isiy drive mules, tireal scheme; more
ranals; railroads all freight lines; trans-
portatl f pigs and people in great
hurry, Canal boat for leisure class and
' h upper suckles." Kver carried Into ef
fect hope to have boat named after me.
Kobcr J.Burdette,ln Brooklyn Ragle,
Mum Is Composed Air.
'The follow ing Is from Justus Liebig,
the greatest chemist of the nineteenth
century: "Science has ileiiionstruteu
that man. the being w hich performs the
greatest wonders, is formed of con
densed air, or solidified and liquefied
gasses: that he lives on condensed ax
well as on unoondanied air, and by
means of the same agent, moves the
heaviest weights with Hie velocity of
the wind. Hut the strangest tiarl of the
matter Is thai thousands Of these talier
eacles formed of condensed air are go
Ing on two legs, destroying other forms
of condensed air which they may need
for fiMsl or clothing, or on account of
their power, destroying each oilier In
pitched battles, by means of the same
materials of which they are composed
Chemistry supplies the -learcst proof
that, so far as concerns this, the ulti
mate and most minute composition
and structure, which is beyond the
reach of our senses, man Is. to all
eppoernnOOO, identical with the ox. or
even with the animals lowest In the
scale of creation."
iiu i.ark of HMIael Kaowlsdge,
Kditor of Arkansas Thunderbolt i to
Assistantl Cramp, vou used the quota
tion in this morning's pepOf! "Vice Is
a monster of such frightful mien that,
to be bated, you need only to look at If
I am almost sure that's wrong.
Assistant That's the way I reincmlier
it. The words may not he exact, but the
Idea is there.
Kditor Iseverelyi Cramp, if you ex
pect to keep your job you've got to read
Lon the Bible! ( hicego Tribune.
in. Dual of Travel.
If you have Is-en traveling any dis
tance on the cars don't wash your fnce
in cold w ater the moment you reach a
vvaslistuml. If you want to remove all
trace of dust end smoke rub your face
well with vaseline or cold creiini. and
w ipe it otf on a dry towel. The towel
after the w iping will show you where
the dirt has gone. Then you may
wash your face in hot water if you
will. There is nothing like hot, rculU
hot water for thecoinplexion. ll keeps
not only clean, but clear Boston
Traveler.
BURDETTE'S MUSINQ8.
WONDERFUL LUCK.
Lost fort nasi Restored riu-ir nwiun
in Strang Vay.
The paymaster of a railroad company,
having its headquarters in Boston, went
ml on one occasion with s.lU.OOt) to pay
uff Its employee, The money was ear-
i ied under bis arm. u rapped up In an
old newspaper lie - I at a little
wayside eating-house for dinner, and on
going aw ay, in a At of absent-minded-
in ss. left the money lying on s chair.
He had not gone many miles from the
place before be missed it. and his dls
mey on discovering its loss can well he
imagined Almost despairing of re
MVeringthe package left in so public a
place, be hurried back, and, with
trembling voice, asked the woman in
charge if she had seen the pareob
"There's I bit Of pais'r on the chair be
yant." said she: "perhaps that's it,"
which it proved to lie, and the gentle
man returned a happier and a wiser man.
A man in the same city lost a roll ot
hills amounting to fMu.noo. which also
was wrapped up in a newspaper. Ho
told a friend of his loss, and the friend
made him deport be all the ground he had
Is'en over since he had the money. The
last place mentioned was the post-office.
The night was wet overhead and slushy
under foot They visited the post -office,
and going tO thn spol where the man
bad Is'cn standing they found two or
three hits of torn newspaper, It was tho
same. Thev looked further and at last
found the lost treasure. It had been
kicked in turn by every one who came
into the office, and when found was un
tiisl and completely soaked with water.
Ii was all there, however, and thn
friends returned to their hotel and Sent
MVOfal hours cleaning and drying it.
The gentleman was so grateful for tho
icnsihlc advice which had saved him
from serious loss that he tNik out his
friend ami bought htm the handsomest
pild watch chain that be could llnd in
the city.
A still more remarkable Incident Is
related of the llnding of 1110,000, lost by
M. Pages in the Northern railway sta
lion in Paris some ten years ago. Aa
me Baeloti a French soldier was walk
ing with two comrades through the sta
tion, they noticed on the floor a small
package wiaps'd in a newspaper. They
kicked it along before them for some
listance and when Kzelot was getting
into the train, going home on short
leave, one of his comrades, picking up
the package, thrust It Into the canvas
forage bag slung at bis side, Beolot go
ing on his way without having perceived
the little pleasantry. Arriving at Neu
illy, w here his parents Uved, Kzelot's
mother, emptying the forage bag, dls
oovered the bundle, hut. thinking it a
roll of old newspapers, put it on the ta
ble in the kitchen. There it remained
for four or live days, till a married sister,
'ailing in and seeing the package, was
moved by an unwonted curiosity. Open
ing it she discovered documents repre
sent ing 006,000, the loss of which M.
Pages had advertised throughout Kurope.
Tin! soldier and his parents, however,
had not seen the advertisement, and not
knowing what else to do, had recourse
This fi
Pifcis. I
munlcatlng with Paris, speedily brought
down M Pages, who, gladly paying tho
promised reward of 01,000, went off
with his oddly-reCOVered treasure, it
Would be an interesting supplement to
the narrative If we could have a record
of the feelings of the soldier who thrust
this Unexpected gcust fortune tiMin
Baelol when he heard the SOquelof his
little joke. Cincinnati Knquirer.
SMOKELESS POWDER.
The subject HUciiMeil by (leneral llenet.
Chief of Ordnance.
The subject of smokeless powder for
military uses occupies considerable
space in the annual report of Hrlgadier
deneral llenet. Chief of Ordnance, to tbe
Secretary of War. He says:
"In the absence of a suitable small
arms powder there has been no sub
stunt in) progress In the matter of a
mall caliber rule beyond what has been
heretofore reported, except in tbe nega
tive gain resulting ln tho apparent
abandonment, or tendency that way,
abroad of all powders but the so-called
smokeless. 'This change, involving the
return to a grained powder, is, If per
manent, an appreciable gain for all in
economy and efficiency of the product In
tbe i manufacture of small-arm cart
ridges, and may have been brought
alsiut as much from the difficulty of ob
taining uniform and satisfactory results
in the way of velocities and pressures
with the compressed owdors as from
thi! more valuable properties of tbe
smokeless. No American has yet sub
mitted for trial a smokeless powder, and
experiment with compressed powders
has show n thi! same eccentricity as de
veloped abroad tending to destroy confi
dence in the tlnal production of a serv-
tceabl impressed M)wder-cartrldge.
All effort, official or otherwise, to date
to obtain a smokeless powder has been
tbortive, and American powder-makers
and chemists have not yet aw akeniMl to
the lucrative opportunity presented to
them There Is reason to believe,
from an application made to an officer
I of the (Ordinance) department more
than ten years ago. that smokeless pow-
i ders originated, like many other inven
tions, In America, only to be brought to
j the attention of the world in foreign
countries, although in this instance the
person. concerned met with encourage
ment, of which he did not avail himself.
"In view of the present status of the
powder question, it is not deemed ex
pedient to produce a small caliber rifle
for compressed-powder cartridges. Such
a rifle, however excelent ln Itself, would
be inferior to foreign arms using smoke
less powder, and consequently unsatis
factory to the army and the country at
large It is believed, however, that all
the elements entering into the problem,
except the SOWde. are ready for use the
moment this powder is obtained.
"A 0-ealiher rod-bayonet Springfield
rifle has lieen made, and a rod-bayonet.
30-calilMr magazine arm Is now In prog-
: ress of construction in anticipation of
the tlnal acquisition of the much-needed
powder, so that no time may be lost In
presenting foi trial both single-loading
! and magazine small-caliber rifles." -
. Washington Letter.
Washing lu Jspsua.
V rushing was and still is done in
Japan by getting into a boat and let
tiisg the garments drag after the boat
by a long string, it is an economical
halm of traveling Jape to get a large
amount of washing thus accomplished
' by a steutulsMtt excursion, and it has
given rise to the story that once a year
they travel to wash. They have no
instinct for laundry work, like the
Chinese, nnd think It complete when
the soap is in the garment, and will
' not wring it out Halt water washes
to their taste just un well aa freak
, WasJuuirlon Capital