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I J A LOVER'S INVITATION. O, come to tbc Soflth, love I O, come there with roe ! And I'll hug 3-011 to warm you Heside the cold sea. "We'll wander together Through orange croves fair "Where the Icicles gleatn, love. Like diamonds rare. And I'll lend you my duster To wrap round your feet, "When we sit 'ncath the branches. The "frozed " fruit to cat. The clerk of the weather lias made a faux pas, But the fire In our hearts, love, He can't quench, tra lal Hoiton Budgtt. Doctor An tekirtt. A SEQUEL TO MATHIAS SANDORF. 3E5y Jules Verne, AUTHOR OF " JOTTKNEV. TO TI1E OUNTKK OF TIIK KAHTII," "TRIP TO T11K MOON," "AKOUND THn WOULD IN EIOUTT DAYS," "JIICHAEIj STHOOOFF," " TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDEIl THE SEA," ETC., ETC. Translation copyrighted by O. tr. Uanna, ISSi, CHAPTER VJX ran DOCTon's dilemma. A quarter of an Lour afterwards, Pierro irrived on the quays of Gravosa. For a taw minutes ho stopped to admire, tho whoouor, whoso burgee was lazily flut tering from tho mainmast-hoad. "Whence comes this Doctor Antc tirtt?" ho said to himself.- "I do not jiow that flag." Thou addressing himBolf to a pilot ho was standing near, ho asked : "Do you know what flag that is ?" Tho pilot did not know. All he could .ny about tho schooner was that she hud omo from Urindisi, aud that her papers lad been found correct by tho harbor naster ; and ns she was a pleasuro yacht he authorities had respected hor ucoguito. Pierro Bathory then hired a boat and was rowed oft" to the Savarena, while tho Moor, very mucli surprised, watched him ho ncared tho yacht. In a few minutes the young mnn had t foot on tho schooner's deck and isked if Doctor Antekirtt was on board. Doubtless the order which denied admit nnco to strangers did not apply to him, for tho boatswain immediately replied that tho Doctor was in his room. Pierre presented his card aud asked if ho could seo tho Doctor. A sailor took tho card nnd disappeared down tho companion which led to tho saloon. A minute afterwards ho returned with tho message that thoDoctor was expecting Mr. Pierro Bathory. Tho young man was immediately intro duced into a saloon whom only a half light found its way in through the cur tains overhead. But when ho reached tho double doors, both of which were wido open, the light from tho glass panels at the end shone on him strong and full. In tho half-shadow was Doctor Antc kirtt seated on a divan. At the sudden appearance of the son of Stephen Bath ory ho felt a sort of thrill go through him, unnoticed by Pierre, and these words escaped, so to speak, from his lips "Tis ho! 'tis ho !" And in truth Pierre Bathory was tho very image of his father, as tho noble Hungarian had been at his age. There was tho same energy in his eyes, tho samo nobleness in his attitude, the samo look prompt at enthusiasm for all that was good aud true and beautiful. "Mr. Bathory, " said tho Doctor, ris ing. "I am -very glad to seo you in response to the invitation contained iu my letter." And ho motioned Pierro to ait down in tho other angle of tho saloon. The Doctor had spoken in Hungarian, which ho knew was tho young man's native language. "Sir," said Pierre Bathory, "I would havo come to return tho visit you made ny mother even if you had not asked me to co mo on board. I know you are one of thoso known friends to whom tho memory is so dear of my father and tho two patriots who died with him. I thank you for having kept a placo for them in your remembrance. In thus evoking the past, now so far away, in epeakiug of his father, aud his friends Mathias Sandorf and Ladislas Zatlnnar, Pierro could not hide his emotion. "Forgivo me," ho said. "'When 1 think of these things I caunot help" Did he not feel then that Doctor Ante kirtt was more affected than he was, and that if ho did not reply it was the better to keep hidden what ho folt ? "air. Bathory," ho said after a length ened pauso. "I have nothing to forgive iu so natural a grief. You are of Hun garian blood, and whatohild of Hungary would become so denaturalized as not to feel his heart shrink nt such lomem brnuees? At that timo, fifeon years ago yes, aiready lifeen years havo passed you wero still young. You can scarcely remember your father nnd tho events in which he took part." "My mother is his other self," answered P.erre, "She brought mo up in tho creed of him she had uover ceased to mourn. All that ho did, all he tried to do, all tho life f dovotion to his people and Ins couutry, I have learned from her. 1 was only eight years old when my father died, mt it seems that he ia sti 1 living, for he lives again in my mother." " You lovo yonr mother as she deserves to bi loved," said the Doctor j "and wa venernto her as it aha vera a martyr's widow," Pierre could only thauk the Doctor for thun expressing himself. His h art beat loudly ua ho lutoned ; nnd ho did not uosico tho colduesa, naturul or acquired, 'I 'WILL 00," SAID riERKi:, CLASWKG THE with which the Doctor spoke, and" which seemed to bo characteristic. "May I ask if you know my father personally ?" asked he. "Yes, Mr. Bathory," was the reply, not without n certain hesitation ; "but I know him as a student knew a professor who was one of tho most distinguished men in the Hungarian universities. I studied modicino and physics in your country. I was ono of your father's pupils, for ho was only my senior by twelve years. I learned to esteem him. to lovo him, for I felt that through all his teaching there thrilled all that which made him later on an ardent patriot, and I left him only when I went away to finish tho studies I had begun in Hun gary. But shoitly afterwards Professor Stephen Bathory sacrificed his position for tho sake of ideas ho believed to bo noblo and just, and no privato interest could stop him in his path of duty. It was then that ho left Presburg to take up his residence in Trieste Your mother had sustained him with hor advico and encompassed him with her thoughtfulness during that timo of anxiety. She possessed all tho virtues of a woman as your father had all tho virtues of a man. You will forgivo mo for awakening your sad recollections, and if I have dono so it is only because you are not ono of thoso that can forget them !" "No, sir, no," replied tho young man with tho enthusiam of his ago; "no moro than Hungary can forget the three men who were sacrificed for her Ladis las Zathmar, Stephen Bathory, and tho boldest of tho three, Mathias Sandorf !" "If ho was tho boldest," answered the Doctor, "do not think that his two companions wero inferior to him in dovo tion, in sacrifices or in courage ! Tho three are worthy of tho same respect! The three havo tho same right to bo avenged." The Doctor paused and then as ked if Madamo Bathory had told him tho cir cumstances under which the chiefs of tho conspiracy had been delivered up, if she had told him that treason had been at work ? But tho young engineer had not heard anything. In fact Madamo Bathory had been silent on tho subject. She shrunk from instilling hatred into her aon's life and perhaps sending him on a false track, for no ono knew the names of tho traitors. And the Doctor thought that for tho present he had better maintain the samo reserve. What ho did not hesitate to say was that without tho odious deed of the Spaniard who had betrayed the fugitives in tho house of Ferrato tho fisherman, Count Sandorf and Stephen Bathory would probably havo escaped. And once beyond tho Austrian frontier, no matter in what country, overy door would bo opened to receive them. "With me," ho concluded, "they would havo found a refugo which never would havo failed them." "In what country, sir?" "In Cephalonia, whoro I then lived." "Yes, in the Ionian Islands under tho protection of the Greek flag they would have been safe, and my father would be still alive." For a minuto or two tho conversation was broken off with this return to the past Tho Doctor broko the silence. "Our recollections havo taken us far from tho present Shall wa now talk about it, aud especially of the future I nave been thinking of for you?" " I am ready," answered Pierre. "In your letter you gave mo to understand that it might bo to my interest " "In short, Mr. Bathory, as I am awara of your mother's devotion during the childhood of her son, I am also aware that you are worthy of her, and after tho bitter oxperionco you have become a man" "A man," said Pierre bitterly, "a man who has not enough to keep himself, nor to givo his mother a return for what she has dono for him." "That is sol" nuswered tho Doctor; "but the fault is not yours. I know how difficult it is for auy one to obtain a position with so many rivals struggling against you. You are an engineer?" "I passed out of the schools with tha title, but I am an ougiuecr unattached, and have no employment from the Btato. 1 have boon seeking an appointment with some manufacturing company, and up to the present I havo foun I nothing to suit mo ut least at Ilagusa." And else whoro? HAND THE DOCTOK HELD OUT TO "Elsewhere ?" replied Pierro, with some hesitation. "Yes ! Was it not about somo busi ness of the sort that you went to Zara a few days ago ?" "I had heard of a situation which a metallurgical company had vacant " "And this situation V "It was offered to me." "And you did not nccept it ?" "I had to refuse it becauso I should havo had to settle permanently in Herzegovina." "In Herzegovina ? Would not Madamo Bathory have gono with you ?" "My mother would go wherever my interests required." "And why did younot take theplaco?" persisted tho Doctor. 1 "Sir," said tho young man, "nslnm situated I havo strong reasons for not leaving Ilagusa." And as ho mado the remark thoDoctor noticed that ho seemed embarrassed. His voice trembled as ho exprossed Ins desire moro than hi3 desire his reso lution not to leave Ilagusa. What was tho reason for hi refusing tho offer that had been mado ? "That will mako what I was going to offer you unacceptable, "said tho Doctor. "Should I havo to go" "Yes to a country whoro I am about commencing some very considerable -orks which I should put uuder your management." "I am very sorry, but believe me, that as I havo mado this resolution " "I beliovo you, and perhaps I regret it as much as you. I should havo been very glad to havo been able to help you in consideration of my feelings towards your father." Pierro mado no reply. A prey to internal strife, ho showed that ho was suffering acutely. Tho Doctor felt suro that ho wished to speak and dared not. But at last an irresistible impulso impel led Pierre towards tho man who had shown so much sympathy with hia mother and himself. "Sir sir," said ho with an emotion that ho took no pains to hido, " do not think it is caprice or obstinacy that makes me refuso your offor. You have spoken like a friend ot Stephen Bathory. You would show mo all tho friendship you felt for him 1 I feel it, although I have only known you a fow minutes. Yes, I feel for you all tho affection that I should havo had for my father 1" "Pierre 1 my child!" said tho Doctor, seizing the young man's hand. "Yes! sir!" continued Pierre, "and I will tell you all 1 I am in lovo with a young lady in this town ! Between us fliero is the gulf which separates poverty and woaltli. But I will not look at tho abyss, nnd may bo sho has not seen it 1 If occasionally I can seo her in tho street or at tho window it gives mo n happiness I havo not strength to renounce ! At tho idea that I must go away, and go away for long, I become insouo ! Ah ! sir 1 understand me, and forgivo my rofusal 1" "Yes, Pierre," answered tho Doctor, "I understand you, and I havo nothing to forgive. You havo dono well to tell me so frankly ; and it may lead to some thing! Does your mother know of what you havo been telling me ?" "I havo said nothing to her yet I have not dared, becauso in our modest position she would perhaps havo tho wisdom to deprive mo of all hope I But she mav have divined and understood what I suffer what I must suffer." "Pierre," said tho Doctor, "you havo confided in mo, and you aro right to havo dono so I Is tho young lady very rich ?" "Very rich! Too rich I Yes, too rich for mol" "Is she worthy of you?" "Ah I Bir, could I dream of giving my mother a daughter that was not worthy of her?" "Well, Pierre," continued tho Doctor, "perhaps tho abyss may bo bridged !'' "Sir," said tho young man, "do not encourage mo with hopes that ore. unrealizable 1 "Unrealizable!" And tho accent with which the Doctor uttered the word betrayed audi confi dence in himself that IJiorre Hathory seemed as it wero tinnsfortned, as if ho believod himself master of tho present, master of the future. "Yes, rierre," continued tho Doctor, "liaye oonfldenoa in ran When you think fit and think tho timo has oorae you will tll mo the lady'a noma" ."Why should I lildu it uowf It i Sara Tororithnf- Tho effort tho Doctor made to keep calm as ho heard the hated name was as that of n man who strives to prevent himself from starting when tho lightning strikes at his feet. An instant several seconds ho remained motioulebs and mute. Then in a voico that betrayed not tho slightest emotion ho remarked : "Good ! Pierre, goo 1 1 I must think it over! Lot me see-" "I will go," interrupted tho young man, clasping the hand which the doc tor held out to him, " and allow mo to thauk you as I would havo thanked my father." Ho lef b tho doctor alone in the saloon, aud then gaining tho deck ho entered his boat, landed nt tho quay, nnd returned to lUgusi. Pierro felt very mueti happier in his mind. Atlast his heart had been opened 1 Ho found a friend in whom ho could trust moro than a friend, perhaps. To him this had been ono of thoso happy days of which fortune is so stingy iu this world. And how could ho doubt it when ho passed along tho Stradono ho saw tho corner of the curtain at ouo of the win dows of Toronthal's houso slowly rise und suddenly fall 1 But tho stranger had also seen tho movement, nnd ns Pierre turned up tho Hue Mnrinella sho remained motionless at tho corner. Then sho hurried to tho telegrngh ollico and despatched a mes sago which contained but one word aud that was "Come!" Tho address of that monosyllabic mes sage was "Sareany ; to bo called for; Syracuse. Sicily." (TO nr. CONTINUED. The Eye. From a lecture by Dr. II. I?. Grovo on "Color IMindness and Other Peculi arities of tho Eye:" There is no euro for color blindness. The first case of color blindness was reported in 1777. Color blindness is due to exhaustion of nerve libers. Four in every 100 males and ono in every 400 females arc color blind. It is no sign that a man is color blind because ho cannot name every color. Tho eyo of an insect contains from fifty to 20,000 small eyes. It is really composed of eyes. Wc do not neei light to seo certain objects. A sharp blow on the eyo often causes a man lo "see stars." Tho causes of color blindness, aside from natural causes, are alcohol, tobac co and disease It is in many cases hereditary. I once saw a man who was color blind take 150 colors and divide them into four groups, black, yellow, white and blue. It is nonsense to believe that there is any particular w:y to rub tho eye. It makes no difference whether you rub from or towards tho nose, or up and down. The cat, horse and birds havo a third eyelid, which is used to protect the eyo from too much light. Man has a third eyelid in tho corner of the eye, which is undeveloped. The defects of tho oyo aro numerous, hut we are pretty well satisfied with it. Everyone has a blind spot in his eye. This is proven by shutting ono eyo and looking at an object. Wo cannot seo it fully. Tho uso of eyo cups to chango tho form of the eye in hopes of bettering tho sight is rcdiculous. Thoy draw tho eyo out of shape and often causo blindness. Thousands of thoso cups aro sold every year. Buffalo Express. They Took Seats. Two young Dctroitors, who aro ac quainted i a country schoolmaster having a school about twelvo miles from tho city, were invited out to a spolling school a few nights since, nnd they took a horso nnd buggy nnd drove out. Thoro was a large gathering of farmers, and an excited contest was looked for. Just previous to tho beginning of tho exercises n young fellow, whoso head would lmvo bumped n six-foot mark, und whoso weight was about ICO pounds, called ono of the Dctroitors asido and asked: "Aro you two fellers going to spoil?" "I guess so." "Furty good at it?" "I think wo can down you nil." "You do, oh? Now you look a-hcro! I'vo come hero to-night to spell this school down. My gal is hero to see mo do it. I hain't no objections to your spnllin' along till wo come to the word catarrh,' hut after that you can't drop down any too soon! If either one o' you chaps beat mo you'd better hnvo tho wings of a dovo to fly out o' this, for I'll giv ye both tho nll-lirodcst lick ing two dudes ever got!" Thoy both stood up with him until nil tho others wero down, nnd then nt a look full of dcopost meaning both missed and left him victor. When ho hnd car ried off tho honors ho came around and mid: "Much obleognd, nnd Ihopo you don't !ecl hurt. Shouldn't havo cured about t, but Susan had her heart sot on it, and Susan's got eighty acres of land nnd a Irovo of sheop." Detroit Free Press. It It stated that fifteen Jiounuud children tmployrd In fJuw Jercy focturk- ore com piled to work fourteen hours a day, and are luiilwl the opjortuultlet of education. Aibcstoa cloth has been chosen as the jack it" for the boiler of a new locomotive built for Jie Uoiton and Albany railway. This will not tbar, at doc wood, aud will ntln more heat. ' I. I'aUklll, N Y , has t joung lady who U 0 ccl 1, India! UU. TilESlLK-WOnjfr Uow It Works From tho Raw MnleTtat to tho Finished Work. Tho insect is In one sonso n tiny manufacturer himself, finding his "raw material" chiefly in tho leaf of tho mulberry trco (mortts,) which gives naiuo to the common silk-moth (Uombjtx viori), tho catorpillar of which is the silk-worm. Tho troo ia saiil by n proverb to bo mado for tho worm and tho worm for tho tree, nnd it seems to havo a libor peculiarly suit able for textile use, sonuvof tho Pa cific islanders making clothing by mncorating the bark of tho paper mul berry, without tho intervention of tho silk-worm. Most of tho silk of com merce is mado by this ono moth from this ono food, yet' it can feed in wholo or in part, upon other leaves, as thoso of tho Osago orange in this country, ami it has a score of cousins or moro distant relations, us tho Tussah moth (Anthcri't papliia) of India, which livo upon other trees and produce a simi lar material. The moth is about an inch long, whitish, with brown stripes, and lays at tho close of summer numerous eggs about tho size ot u pin-head, attached singly to tho leaf by a kind of gum, which, when dry, has n silky appear nneo. Tho moths soon die; tho eggs do not hatch until tho next summer, aud can meanwhile be sent around tho world. Tho sale of grain or seed, as the eggs aro also called, is of itself a business, for it brings as much us $-1 per ounco, tenfold tho price years ago, before an epidemic swept through tho silk world. Each luotli lays from four hundred to seven hundred oggs, but it takes over six hundred thousand to make a pound. In obtaining oggs for breeding, tho grower usually piacos the moths on cloths iu a dark warm room, where thoy contentoilly lay thoir eggs nnd die. In tropical coun tries, as southern Ch'na und India, tho eggs hatch by natural heat; in others, artificial warmth is necessary; and iu old times hot-beds wero uso'd, or tho eggs wero carried about by women in tittle hags in tlioir bosoms. Tho care ful grower makes ready for tho hatch ing by providing latticed trays or bun dles of twigs, about which tho food of finely-chopped mulberry leaves is dis tributed. Tho tiny worm at first oats two meals a day; nt tho end of livo days he casts his llrst skin, ou tho ninth da fiis second; again, on tho fifteenth, twenty-second, anil thirty socond days ho "moults," becoming torpid, and exchanging old skins for now, liiuo Ins lellow-wonn, man, lie has "seven ages;" tho sixth, when ho has attained tho unit uru ago of thirty- . two days, is tho spinning, tho last the ' brooding period. At tho approach of tiio spinning ugo tho worms from a single ounco of eggs (nearly forty thousand eggs) will havo required over 1,200 pounds of leaves, and will I need about 181 square feet spaeo for their homes. Each day's hatching is kept togothor, lest tho older eat up tho food of tho weaker brethren, and overy euro must bo taken to prevent the growth of tho minuto fungus wliioh makes "silk- I worm rot,' and to ward off otiior diseases. In 18i7 Europo was swept of much of its silken wealth by ono ot these parasitic diseases, und ono of Pasteur's early triumphs was in dis covering its nature. Tho worm is conservative, and novor attempts to move from his placo until it is timo to begin spinning. Ho then becomes distended with the silk juico and 80iiii-transp:irciit, like a ripo yel low ilium, and can pro&ontly bo ob served lifting his head and looking nbout for u good site for his cocoon building, which lias been furnished by tho cocoon-grower in nrchos of twigs or luttico-work. Some of tho worms aro lazy, and tho twig has to bo ap plied. Tho spinner, with careful fore cast, adjusts his body in tho best posi tion for tho cocoon nnd commences to throw tho floss that forms its outer coating. The inatorial of tho silk is n gummy socrotion in soricloria, two largo glands along each side of tho body, terminating each in u spinneret in the mouth; each fiber of the thread proves on microscopic examination lo bo double, ouo stand coming from each spinnorot. What tho anglor prizes a? "silk-worm gut" is this sorioleriuin soaked in vinegar, stretched und dried In the sun. Tho worm closes himself in tighter and tighter, tho intorior thread being the finer; ho fixes his body In placo with his hooked feot, and throws his head hero and thoro as ho spins. Tho thread is sometimes 1,800 foot long without break; good cocoons should yield i)00 yards; it takes at least 2,500 worms to raise ti pound of silk. Within livo or six days tho spin ning Is completed, and the moth pres ently makes preparation to emerge, by tho help of another socrotion, which softens or dissolves tho end of tho cocoon. Since in piercing tho cocoon tho worm Ureaks tho continuity of tho thread, it is usually killed just boforo this stage by exposing tho cocoons to tho sun where tho tempor- nturo is nbovo olghty-oight dogroos or by baking, steaming, or othorwiso Heating tuoiu oiiruiiiuy, so unit iiu- fiber is not gummed together by heat. Harper's Mujazinc. the Gripsack (Jrubs. it is easier to toll n Ho than It Is to catch u fish, A wouiuu's bonnot mint bo ortho dox boforo her pruyor-book Is, Winter sou In when poverty comos. Pr nclples, not pulpits, mako a church. The knife that cuts a custard plo may also out a throat. The best fitting coat is ouo that is paid for. God makes tho roses, nnd tho dovll puts tho thorns on. The hand opens whon tho hotirt does. Tho sculptured fuoo on n gold coin may bo beniitifu , but neither tears nor smiles ever break its monotony. Hearts build religion for brains to tear down. Girls th nk men nro nil soul; women know they nr.i nil stomach, The preiielior Minis young lovo'i (lre.tm Into ii nightmare, V-'ortuuu fueiU soup lo moat mor with u fork, Merchant Traveler. Arresting a Dummy. When n boy gets so mean that hw will plav a joko on a poor policeman, ho should bo shut up in tho calabooso, and kept in durance vilo till ho repents. A young man, tho othor cvoning,. stuffed ait old suit of clothes with a small beer keg nnd somo straw, and left tho liguro on tho back stops of Fclsciihold's storo. In tho ovonlng watchman Drake camo nround trying tho back doors, when ho discovered tho straw man sleeping off n drunken stupor on tho steps. Ho told tiio fol low to got up. The stuffed individual failed to answer. Drake shouted to him but still thoro was no reply. Tho ollieor then punched tho mnn in tho ribs with his cane. Tho hard stomach of tho drunkard aroused Drake's sus picion, and ho soon discovered tho joko. Tho bad young man hero nn pearcd from behind n box, and tho policeman gavo him a cigar to smoko- Drako then started away. Ho mob policeman Long and Walker on a cor ner. Ho told them there was a drunk en man on tho back steps of Felsen held's storo, and requested tlinni to go nround and jug him. Ho excused himself from assisting in tho job, by saying ho had not yet mado hia rounds. Tho two ollicers wont to tho locality at tho back of tho store. They told tho man to got up. Ho never moved. Thoy asked him what ho was doing there. No answer. Walker put out his cano and gave the man a punch in tho ribs. Tho end of his enno entered tho bung-hole of thokog, and Walkor's hair stood on end, ns ho thought; ho had run tho fellow through. Long, stooped down, ami taking tho dummy by tho arm asked him if'ho wns- hurtJ Tho officer noticed, by tho dim light, that the straw was proti'iidlng from tho hole in its coat, and ho turned' to Walker and told him thoy wero sold. Just then a low, harsh "ohuoklo was heard behind tho boxes, nnd thoyoung; man stepped out to receive his cigars. Tho two poliaomon then wont audi found officer John Kolloy. That in dividual, with visions of nn urr'est in his mind, hastened to the locality of tho dummy. "Young moil, nruso yourscluf," ho 9aid iu a gruff voico. Thoyoung man lay thoro,. all un heeding of what was said unto him. "Cooin! cooiu! wako kup thor. Whot is yoor naino an' whor nro yoo Croom?"" No answer. "Will yoo stir yourscluf, sor. Yoo aro dronk, mon." Tho individual addressed did nob doign to reply. "Wo wtmsco if yoo will coom," quoth Kolloy, nnd he took tho liguro by tiio linn und gavo it u jerk. Ib rolled oil' tho slops and lit with a dull thud on tho ground below. Tho young man behind tho boxes stopped out und said: "All, ha! 1 saw you do that. Yoit have killed tho fellow. "Not by a doin sight," cried Kolloy iu consternation. "Tho dhrunkou' bruto drew u razor on mo furst." Whon tho olllcor desconded tho stops, nnd saw the old suit of clothos with tho beer keg and straw protrud ing, ho said to tho young man: "Don't ye tell a sool of this. I'll mako it nil rolght wid yo tho next toiino 1 coom nrouond."-' Aurora llladc, Faith Healing a Fact. Thoro can bo no question that faith healing is a fact. The bruin is nob simply tho organ of tho mind, it is also tho chief centort or series of con r.ors, of tho norvours system by wliioh Iho whole body is energized, nnd Its component parts with their several functions aro governed und regulated. Thoro Is no miracle iu healing by faith whereas it would bo u miracle if tho organism, being constituod as it is, und the laws of life such as they nro, luith healing did not under fuvorablo conditions occur. Tho fallacy of thoso who proclaim faith healing ns a religi ous function lies in the laut that they misunderstand mid misinterpret their own formula, It is tho faith that bonis, not tho hypothecated source, or object, of faitli outside the subject of faith. The wholo process is self-contained. Noth ing is done for tho beiiuvor; his net oC believing is the motor force of his euro. Wo all remeiiibur the old trick of mak ing a man ill by persistently telling him ho is ill ii ti til 1 he believes it. Tho contrary of this is making u man welt by inducing him to beliovo himself to bo so. Tho number of tho "iniraolos"' performed will be the precise number of the persons who are capable of being thrown Into a state of mind and body iu which "faith" deuom nates tho or ganic state. Pathologists will limit the area of this process to the urovinoo of functional diseasu; but wo aro not sure that they aro justified by scien tific fajt iu making this limitation. It must not bo forgotton that function goes before organism in dovelopment, and that there nro largo cla-sos ot eases in which the disabilities of a diseased organ for a fair purforniauco of its functions nro mainly due to a want of power or Irregularity in notion. And It is a fnot in pnthology Unit if tno June function of an organ be niaintnined or restored, much of tho dostructivo metamorphosis duo to proliferation of connective tissue, latty deposit, or oven certain forms of atrophic chaugo in which tho nuclei of oull-lifo nro rnthui denuded than destroyed, mny be arrested aim lo somo extent, repair ed. The vis iiMlicatrix naturae is a very potent factor in amelioration of disease, if only it be allowed fair play. An exorcise of "faith" ns a rule bus ponds the operation of adverso iiillu encos, and appeals strongly through the consciousness to tho inner and un derlying faculty of vital forou. Thoro nro many mtraotahlo oases In overy practice which might ho "ourod by Itutli." It ia well Unit those poor per sotis should be bcnulited by soma means, it matters little what; und if thoy nan lib "healed be faith" wu ought to be very glad, und thankful, too, tor the mistaken zoul ol Ukho who, bo ing witak-inlnded thoinsolvos, muka dupes of other wunk-iniuileJ folk to, thulr advantage. 1'hU U a blind lad ing of the blind In which they do not full into the ditch, hut, by ti happy ooinh'iiiUloH of wire urn i an mw itotually OHoapu diiiixttr nuil Kllm wwutUlNg to j KHiLr-lQMQH iMtmt,