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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
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