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: HELEN LAKEMAN 1 oit,- Tho Story of a Young Girl's Strug gle With Advorslty. BY JOHN K. MDSICK, Mrmon or "The Bankeii of IlEDroBD," "Walteh Duow.nhei.d," Etc .Copyright, lSie, by A. X Ktllogg Xtvcipaper Co, little Aniosr "I don't know, I guess he'll be taken care of." i. At this moment Clarence entered the room. He had just come in at noon from plowing. This was on Monday, the day after Mothers Tartrtim's aiid Grundy's issue of information. Clar ence had not been to church and had only been told an hour ago by Henry Stuckley, who was riding down the lane and called him to come to the fence and rest. The honest face of the boy was reil with anger. "Father," ho gasped, "have you heard about Helen?" "What about her?" demanded the father, gruffly. "She's been arrested for stcalin'." "Well, what of it?" "It's a lie! that's all." thundered Clarence, in a voice full of fury. THAT'S MX." "Have you gone crazy?" asked his father, in amazement. "No, I've not; but who evcrsays that Helen Lakeman stole that bracelet is a liar! I don't care who thev are." ,rcn, .nmgc Arnold swore sliO-dlil," said the father, triumphantly. "Then Judge Arnold swore to a pos itive falsehood." "That's a grave accusation, sir; what object has Judge Arnold?" "A big one, and he's set up a job in the matter, as sure as 1 live; tho old thief." "Clareneo, behave yourself," said the father. "Have some respect for your mother and myself, if you have none lor yourself. I would like to know what object Arnold could have." "His girl is half dead after Warren, and Helen had cut her out; now, if they can blight her naino so that War ren will not have her, that freckled face, red-headed Hal Arnold may have a show." "Oh, hush! you simpleton." "I am no simpleton at all, father. I know more about this than you. I'll provo it yet, before it's over with. The last thing brother Warren said to me was to see that Helen was not imposed upon, for his sake, lie foresaw the persecutions that were coming on that poor girl's head, and tried to prepare against them. First, Mrs. Arnold went traipsing all over the country with a pack of lies and caused you to dis charge her, then when the poor girl was driven froin shelter, with her crip pled brother, a rain-storm raging and a dark night coming on, she set her trap to catcli her. Helen stopped at tho house for shelter, and tho next day was arrested." "You aro making a fool of yourself, Clarence," said Mr. Stuart. "Well, I'll make a bigger fool out o' myself than I ever have." "What do you mean?" "I mean I'm goin' to see Holer, out in this. Old King James Arnold will tied before long that tho girl ho thought so friendless has two friends I am one, and brother Warren the other." Mr. Stuart was completely dum founded at Clarence's announcement.. "Helen is in jail for lack of bonds; if it was Tom Scuttle for wife beatin' you would be ready to go on his bond, but 1 will go on Helen's hond." Ciarcnco turned and walked away. In the hall ho met his sister Hose, hor eyes red with weeping. "Oil, brother, I am so glad you aro going to help poor Helen. Do go at once let mo go with you." "You shall. I'm going to take my own horse and buggy, an' go to New ton this evening." "1 will see mother." "Get ready if yo'u aro goin', mother or no mother," cried Clarence, in whose heart tho spirit of rebellion was powerful. Tho resolution of Roso becamo as strong as her brother's, though out of a 6CHS0 of duty sho notified her mother. "Do go, Rose," Mrs. Stuart said, much to tho girl's astonishment; "tell Helen I believe her guiltless, and I want her to forgive inc." Fifteen minutes later Ciarcnco and his sister wero in tho fanner's open buggy rattling dowu tho hill toward Newton. CHAPTER XV. MR STYLUS AND Mil. LAYMATf. Helen Lakeman was a truly convert oJ Christian. Ileing nntuntJly ut .. relig ious turn of mind, and I - ir? Chris tian paronts, sho early embraced re ligion and becamo a member of tho church. Tho nogloot sho had rocoived, her many trials and persecutions, would liavo mado any other than?i true Chris tian a hater of mankind. To tho disgrace ' JL " IT 3 A MKl of church members (not churches) bo, it said, most of her persecutions came from them. Her parents wero Presby terians, and sho a member of that church. Her strong faith in ChrVt, and sweet temper, saved her from bit terly reproaching her persecutors, and the blessed promises in tho Bible wero ever a consolation to her. She found Mrs. Bridges, the jailer's wife, a very kind woman. uno not altogether incredulous as to what every body said, and yet not ready to believe as men jailors, that every per in accused is a criminal. Sho had heard Helen's story before she camo to' tho jail, and declared to herself ; "I pity the poor child, who was strug gling for her little brother, and she is more to be pitied than blamed, even if sho took t.ie bracelet." She greeted the downcast girl kindly on her cntranco to tho house, giving Helen tho first real sympathy she had received since her misfortune. Taking both small hands in her own, and gazing into the sweet face and largo blf.oeyes, Mrs. Bridges said : "There is some miako here, Jack; I know there is. This noor child never did a wrong in her life." Helen burst into tears, clasped her arms about tho neck of tho jailer s wife and fell sobbing on her bosom. It was so sweet after receivingsueh cold, cruel treatment, to find one warm, sympa thetic heart on which she could rely. Mrs. Bridges consoled her, kissed away her tears, and told her to trust in tho Lord and sho would come triumphantly out of all her troubles in tho end. Helen took her plaeo as ono of tho jailer's family, ami Mrs Bridges kept her constantly at her side. When tho prisoner took down tho family Bible, and opening at Deuteronomy, fourth chapter, thirtieth and thirty-first verses, she felt that the hand of God had surely directed hor to tho blessed promise contained in tlipso two verses. "When thou art in tribulation, and all these things aro come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God and shall be obedient unto His voice (for tho Lord thy God is a merciful God); Ho will not forsake thee, nor forget tho covenant of thy fathers, which he swore unto them." Helen closed the Bible, and clasping her hands remained for a moment in silent prayer. How light and joyous her heart at that moment. A true Christian can not bo downcast and sad, for if death sweeps away every earthly friend, they know they aro only gone to a better land. I f clouds of darkness, sorrow and suffering surround them, they know that thero is a Heaven where clouds, darkness, sorrow and suffering never come. Helen was happy at that moment. Her tears were dried and a sweet smilo was upon her face. If sho wero sent to tho penitentiary slip would go cheerfully and pray God to have mercy on the false witnesses who had worked her ruin. Sho could forgive even the Arnolds. Sho could pray God to forgive them, and bless them with I happiness. Do you doubt this, road (.A1 I T 1 1 .1 m I ii you uo, you Know nothing ot a truly converted Christian heart. There was no bitterness in Helen's soul. She was Christ-like. It wus on Monday when Mr. Styles, tho prosecuting attorney, camo to see her. Mr. Styles was a man who al ways went into a caso to win, regard less of tho right or wrong lie might do. Here was a young girl, to be sure, one who had many temptations, no doubt, but who had violated tho law. Ho de termined to prosccuto nor. Ot course, youth and beauty would be in her fa vor. Then ho would not insist on a long sentence. Two years for a brace let would do, but in order to obtain clemency from Mr. Styles sho must plead guilty. Helen sat in silence and listened to the shrewd lawyer. Ho began then a series of questions, which would have entangled any ono less innocent than herself. Sho answered him in a straight forward manner, giving him a history of her life. "Now, Helen," said the lawyer, be coming exasperated, "jou aro very shrowd, tho shrewdest, in fact, I ever met; but it will avail you nothing. Wo have tho proof solid against you. Come, now, is it not better to confess up and get only two years, than go to trial and get ten?" Mr. Styles, said Helen, "I will not I confess to a falsehood, though vou sen tenco mo to penal servitude for life." Mr. Styles went away scratching his head and declaring she was tho shrewd est and most hardened criminal ho had over seen. Wise, indeed, ho must have been to bo unablo to distinguish be tween uuiutimidated innocence and tho brazen defiance of crime? Ho was scarcely gone ero a light yehiclo rattled up to tho door of tho Jail, and to her surprise, Helen saw Ciarcnco and Rosa Sturat jump out. Rosa, tears streaming dmwix her cheeks, burst into tho room whoro Helen was, and clasped her in her arms. "Oh, Helen, Ilolon, my dear sister for you should bo my sister how you have suffered." "Darling Rosa, tho Lord has been very good to me. Ho has always given mo strength beyond my trials." 'OH, HELEN! JIKI.K.N'! HOW YOU HAVE SUFFERED. "Ad aiurel still." cried tho rouch '""""ij" ., . , Clarence, entering and taking Helen's hand. "It seems to mo that a great, rough fellow like me ought not to touch a bein' too good for this earth. Now, hero liev 1 been, ever since I heard about you. a cussin' ami swearin' and ready to go over to old Arnold's and lick him. and here vou aro forgiviu every bodv, and jest lookin' happv. "Wo mav suffer and still be haimv. Clarence." said Helen, with a smilo upon her face. "There is no need of any one's being without happines Oh, there is so much here," and sho laid her hand reverently on tho Bible, Rosa kissed her again and again, tie flaring she never would desert her while Clarence was dumfounded; his earnest zeal wanted to "punch some body's head, but Helen forbade that He must do something, though it was difficult to tell what that was "I'll go on her bond," he said, tak ing up his hat and hastening round to the magistrate. Here his hopes wero dashed to tho ground upon being in formed that a minor could not bo ac cepted as bail for the prisoner. But tho girl wai innocent; sho was an angel, he knew her to bo an angel The magistrate smiled and said ho had seen a good manv, and all Wero angels at first. Some never acknowl edged to it, and sho might be ono of the kind; but there could really be no mistake about it. She was an uiilor tunate girl, had his sympathy, too, but ho guessed she was guilty. Clarence left in despair and went to consult a lawyer. Mr. John Layman had the reputation of being a fair law yer, and he would employ him. "Good morning, Clarence," said Mr. Layman, stroking his long, black whiskers, on the entrance of the young fanner. "1 came, Mr. Layman, to get vou to attend to a ease," said Clarence, sitting in a chair near tho lawver. Mr. Lavmuu laid aside a newspaper he was and, thrusting his hands in his pockets was all attention. "You have heard of Helen Lakeman', arrest. 1 want vou to defend her Tho lawyer was soon employed, Clar enco agreeing to pav his fee. Tho two set out at once for the jail, where Mr Lavinan was introduced to his fair cli cut. Helen then proceeded to tell all sho knew of the unfortunate affair. Tho gold bracelet was found in her carpet bag, but how it got there she dill not know. Tho lawyer listened to her story and then put her through a most rigid cross-examination. " How did the bracelet get in possession?" ho filially asked. your "I kin tell ye," said Clarence, quick ly. " Ye see brother Warren and Helen hero were to be married. Well, they told lies about Helen and mother dis charged her, and then tho Arnold's set up this job on her so that Warren would marry that red-headed, freckled face Hal Arnold." Helen tried to stop tho impulsive youth, but there was no stopping him. He was determined to tell all. The lawyer smiled, and said ho hardly thought they wero that bad. Ho mado some notes in his books and left, prom ising to call the next day, " Have you written to Warren about this?" Roso asked. "No," said Helen, " I could not." " e must wnto to him now. Wo will write together, and toll him all." Helen was at last persuaded to join tho sister in sending tho letter. It was written full of tender .truthfulness and scaled. "I his will bring him here," said Rose. " Now, Clarence, what is tho number of the street?" Clarence felt in his pockets and with a look of dismay, said: " I'm blest if I ain't lost it." chapter xvr. nOSK 8TUAUT AND I1EH MOTH ICR. Roso seemed far more vexed than Helen at the loss of Warren's address, Clarence still fumbled in his pockets, and growled savagely as only a great awkward boy can. " Brother Warren gavo it to mo be foro ho left," said Clarence, thrusting his thumb first in Ids vest-pocket then tho other, whilo his faeo was contorted as only a puzzled face can be. " I had on these very clothes when ho gavo it to me. I WHS t(l tr'ivn it. tn vmi Union and you wero to writo to him; but I forgot it. He's written to vou. I know said he would." All tho time Clar ence was speaking in theso short jorky phrases, ho was rumaging his pockets, " but somebody's been getting your let ters, I knowo'd you'd novor get ono o' them, and toJd him so." Ciarcnco had to give it up; tho ad dress could not bo found, but ho would take tho letter homo with him and try It is estimated that in tho United States alono during tho year 1837 thero were manufactured and sold about half a million gallons of writing ink and about four thousand tons of printing ink. Of course a considerable quantity of this was exported, and somo ink oi European manufacture was also im ported. But tho importation of this article is constantly decreasing as tho excellence of tho homo manufactures improvo and the markot is supplied by them at a cheaper rate. Scionco lias donionstratod that sugar is contained in nearly overy vege table and animal product, tho constitu ent elements of which aro known. The sweetness of tho different varieties oi sugar varios, cano sugar- being five times sweotor than beet sugar, heel sugar sovcral times as sweet as grape sugar, and so on. But ndiv a sweot substauco has boon discovered in coal oil tar which is said to bo threo hundred times sweeter than cano sugar. Thi new substauco is called saccharide, and ono drop of it will sweeten threo quart! of water. RIDING A BUFFALO. How n Western Hunter AVmi Knino and Fllty-Uollnr Hut. In Novombor, 1S82. north of tho Yollow?tono river betweon Dry Fork and Rod Water streams, tho buffaloes wnv vory plontiful, nnd tho slaughter of thorn was prosocuted with unre lenting rljror. That was the section where V.e Smith, Doc Yahl. "Mis souri Jim," Jim Blako. Goorgo Brown and many othors followed tho buffalo like an avenging Nemesis, and, sad to sav, never lot up, until this noblo game was wiped out. At that time young man named Chas. W. Rick ueiter Known as dick hock, was Acknowledged tho quickest buffalo skinner on t ho range; ho could easilv ikin forly-Iivo buffaloes in one day. well-proportioned six-footer, and the host hor-M-man I ever saw. H claimod that ho could ride and "stick" any thing that wore hnir, tin less it was a grizzly toar. it was seldom that ho spoke of his prowess unless bantcrod by somo of his com panions. At thattinio ho was hunting M a iributarv of Drr Fork, closo to Vic S nith's camp. O lo evening In camp tho subject of breaking horses lid wi'd animals to rido c;nno up. and Dick offered to hot fifty dollars that ho could ride a buffalo. Ill money was quickly covered and Sam Bieknell chosen refcreo and stake-holdtir. Tho conditions woro that ho should ride a buffalo half an hour, barring ac c'd mi s. Mteh as tho buffalo falling down or running under limbs of trees that skirted tho small streams. Tho next morning one of tho parfy rode over to Smith's camp and acquainted him with tho facts of tho wagor, and required Ids assislaneo in securing tho animal on which Rock was lo ride, Vic acquiesced, ami soon all hands rodo out in search of the game. Thev approached within about two hundr yards of about a dozen buffaloes, and all hands stopped, with tho ex ception of Vie. who crawled on hands and knees within ono hundred 3-anls anil, sclceling a lino fat cow, took careful aim and accomplished what was intended that is, shot her through the muscles of tho neck and knocked her down, a feat that is called "croas lug. ' At tho crack of the riflo Rock on his horse sped like tho wind to the f.ilien cow and, quickly dismount ing. S rang upon tho brute's back, who had a r tidy recovered consciousness, and away thoy wont full lilt aftor tho balance of tho herd, which were about a quarter of a milo distant. His largo spurs, which ho had sunk (loop in tho c w s sidoH, served to enable, him in retaining h's soat, whilo it sorved also to irritate tho brulo; sho bellowed and bucked in a frightful manner whilo It ok app'icd tho "quirt." They soon wero among tho herd of buffalo, and remarkable as It may appear tho other buffaloos did not seem fright ened at coming in contact with man. but, on tho contrary, emlonvored to unseat him by hooking viciously at his legs. Ibo balance of tho boys soon separated Rock ami his animal from tho lost cf tho herd and ran them In a circlo until time was callod, when a half-brood Baptisto shot tho buffalo and Rock laid down on tho ground for about twenty minutos to search for his lost wind that had boon pumped out of him by tho terriblo bucking mil jolting that ho had re coived. His legs woro badly hruiaod from tho horns of the herd. But there after his ability to rido wa3 novor questioned and tho palm was at corded him as tho "boss buffalo rhior. Billing (M. T.) Gazette. VALUABLE BOOKS. Itnre Volumes Thnt Arm Worth Their Weight In GuliL It is no unusual thing to soo small volume;? that you can hldo almost in a vest-pocket go for from 20 to $30. Somo books, if thoy nro rare enough of tho incunabula and black-latter kind will bring hundreds of dollars. The first edition of ono of Longfiillow's books, "Tho Coplas do Manrique," thin and dirty though it bo, brings al most aluavs fifteen or twonty times its original price. Tennyson's first thin volume, containing also his brother's pooms, which must havo beon published for not moro than $1.50. I saw sold tho other dav for nilv a trillo short of 510. "F.r st udi ions" aro ospocially stimulative to prices, as tlioro aro so many cotlootors who prldo thomsolvos en thoir possession in this Hue. Tho edi tions, Inwoyor, must bo of books and authors thomsolvos highly os teemed. Thoir valuo rosts on tho fact hat, having long boon out of print. hey aro positively unprocurable, ex cept by tho baro accidout which tho book auction occasionally affords. An uncut copy of a first edition or book hns cx'ra value, for it boars lis own evidence that uo bookbinder has cut down tho margin. It is surprising to soo how dingy and apparontly worthless somo of the aro books aro Hint bring high liriciw. If you do not know tho special charm that Is bostowod on the nlr to tho initiated by one of theso suspicious volumes, of course you can not rate it li'y. You would giro moro for a gili-edgo modern book that has just preceded it, and was sold for 25 cents. ISut now llio coveted prlvso is an- lounced, and. lol it goos up to, per haps, $85 or 100. You must bo born book-fuiiclor to know whoreiu that aluo ioj. Paper and print and tic- criptlon nro powerless to commu. nicuio tho information. 'Cosmopoli tan. Tho Supremo Court of Pannsyl- vania lias decided that a porson may r' onions regardless of tho Inoonvou- iongo tho odor of cooking giro to thu neighbors. HONEST CARL DUNDER. Smp Unirr Thine Which tho Old Gentlo tunit Cmi't Comprehend. Maypo it vhas peoauso I vims an oldl Dutclunans dot I can't make sometingt oitdt, but 1 liko to know how sho vhas. If 1 haf somo snow on dcr sidewalk in front of my house a policemans conies along and says: "Now, you got dot snow right oil or I take sooeh law on you as vhill inako your heart acho Doan' vou know it vhas dangerous und against dor law? You'd better lcok sharp, oldt mans, or I haf you vhere some dogs doan t bite you! If somo pody haf a vacant lot next to me, and dor snow on dot sidewalk vha so high as my shoulder, nopody cleans him off. Some day vhen I vhas looking at her a policoinnns crawl through dot snow und says. "I liko to know who owns dot lot. I tells him it vhas merchant on Woodward avenue, mid dot. snow doan' get off before next Shulj. "Oh! it vhas a morohant, oh! Vhell, dot snow vhas all right. doan' hurt somepody at all, und it vhas fun to wado through it. I go in tier house und sot down und try to make it all oudt, but 1 can t do it. Ono day my poy Shako shtands oudt door und blows a horn toot! toot! toot Ho doan' toot more as life times vhen a policeman comes along und savs "Slitop dot noise or 1 gif you somo collur! Dor idea of blowing dot horn und making all tier peoples go crazv Doan' you know ho vhas agin dor law to make sooeh a nuisance?" Dot scare Shako so badt hu hides dowu cellar all day. but in two hours more asli four men mit wagons conies around t my place and blow toot! toot! toot! until I vitas almost deaf. 1 go oudt and ask dot policemans to shtop hor, but lie savs "Doan' you knowsometings, oldt mans Dot vhas according to law, und 1 can shtop luiu. I goes oop by dcr Brush farm und buvs mo a lot mit feeftv feet front. Maypo 1 build mo a house some day Vhen tax-time comes I goes over by dor city hall to pay my taxes. "All right, Mr. Dunder," says dor man mit tier tax-book, "vour tax vhas seoxt- seven dollar." It seems liko it vhas ompossible, but 1 haf to pav her. vhas going avhav, vhen a man comes in und says lie owns four hoonored feet next to me, und how mooch vhas dcr taxes? "Thirty-life dollar, und you hill please forgif mo tlot she vhas so high!" Because I haf a lot my taxes vhas seoxty-sovon dollar. Bo cause ho haf a piece his taxes vhas situs), half! I go homo und think aboudt him, und I talk with my wife, but we can t make hor oudt. Sometimes on Soonday 1 hitch oop dor pony und take tier oldt wonuuis und Shako out to Springwells to see niv brooder-in-law. Dot pony vhas blind in ono eye und ho haf two ring bones und two spavins, und ho vhas so lst.y tlot his goes jog! jog! jog! all tier time. Wo vhas coining homo when a policemans rushes oudt at us und says: "Now vou look oudt! Dor worry next time you vhas driving so fast I take vou in tier Recorder's court und mako your lino fife dollar!" shtop to shpeak mit him a few words und somebody nut two horses und a can'iago und a silver harness conies along liko lightning and almost runs my wheol off. I look at tlot police imins, but he doan' see nothings. One dnv moro ash a dozen fellers mit enrts ami wagons conies arouudt my place und calls "Rags! rags! rags!" until my head aches. By und by I goos oudt m front of my placo und calls "Beer! beer! been und shnst so quook as somo woasles I vhas arrested und fined tree dollar, und dor Shudgo says to me: "Mr. Dunder, I vhas astonished mit you! If you doan' know better ash tlot I put you in somo asylum mit dor fools! Doau' let dot happen again!" Vlioll, liko I said in dor shtart. I can't mako hor all oudt, und if somo pody can toll mo 1 vhas mooch obliged und feel tickled alloafor. Detroit Free Ire3s. Tho Leap of a Rabbit. I have, on numerous occasions, fired at tho animals when thoy havo beon running, and at tho samo time beyond tho range of my fowling piece; such a shot almost invariable has tho eflect oi so alarming the game as to mako it run at its very best rate of speed, ami, upon coming up witii the tracks thoy havo left on tho snow at such times, I havo been surprised at tho distaiico thoy can clear at cneli individual leap. Under theso conditions I ouco measured the opticus cleared by an old Moxican hare, and found the first twoequalled twelve feet apieco, whilo tho third effort was rather moro than thirteen feet, and I havo novor known this species to ex ceed this, although I have tosled not a few of t hum. Of courso tho rabbit can not compete witii such magnificent gymnastics as this; it will, however, when thus frightened, mako leaps of fully six feet; ami on ono occasion I measured ono on tho dead-level prairie which was rather moro than 'seven feet. At their common rate of going, the haro rarely clears moro than four feet at a single leap, whilo tho rabbit is satisfied with rather moro than two feet. Nature. An Allegheny woman, who took to icr bed twonty-ouo years ago, becauso sho thought sho was ill, declaring that she was suffering from a complication of diseases, was persuaded to ariso and walk about tho room tho othor day. I ho novel expeiieuco seemed so pleas ant to hor that sho has decided to loavo her bed for good. Thoro Is a remaikablo caso of horedily In San Francisco. Tho daughter of a policeman thero fre quently sleeps twelve days nt'u stretch. JJinneaj.olia Tribune. GENIUS IS INDUSTRY. bncceln I.I To Duo to Hard Work, I'ntlenoc mill llc-rch. Thero is no respect of classes with genius. It outers tho cottago of tho poor and tho mansion of tho rich. Unliko what wo call talents, it is in herited by no one; liko virtue, it is a possession of tho individual and not of tho family. Dr. Smilos, in his "Lifo nnd Labor," prints a list of eighty-one names of il lustrom scientific men, philosophers, poets, novelists, dramntisis, historians, reformers, statesmen and gcnorals. Twenty-sovon uames belong to tho nristocratic class, twenty-seven to tho middle-class and twenty-seven to tho working class from which fact it seems to bo true that groat men como from all ranks and classes. A great goal. is resembles Mclchizc dek, in that, intellectually, ho is "with out fathor, without mother," without genealogy. Ho Is his own ancestors and posterity, for ho begins, nnd ends with himself. Tho Adams family, tho Bayard family, tho Brookenridgo family nnd tho Beechor family aro illustrations of tho fact that great talent may dcscontl to tho third and fourth generations; but from thoso four illustrious Ameri can families there has risen but ono genius Henry Ward Becclier. Six of tho loading representative statesmen oi the formative period of the Republic Hamilton, Sam Adams, Jefferson, Clay and Webster have no "genealogy." It is hard totlolino the word genius, by which we express tlto subtle, elasivo something that makes a man .groat. Tho word itself, coming from tho Latin, emphasizes man's belief in tho super natural origin of tho something which dies with him. For tho genius of tho Latins was a guardian deity, which was born and which died with tho porson whoso actions it directed. Ruskin says that genius is tho power of penetrating into "tho root and deep places of tho subject." This definition recalls Newton's explanation of his achievements in scionco "always thinking of it" meaning his ability to concentrate his intellect on tho subject of his search. But then Newton, it may bo observed, was a very modest man. Ho was more. Ho was uncon scious of his great mind, nnd illustrated tho remark of tho physiologist who said "No man was over a great man who wanted to bo one." But John Dalton, tho great chemist who developed tho atomic theory, held with Newton that his genius was nothing but tho power of patient in dustry laboring continuously at a sub ject uiltil ho saw through it. Wo com mend his words, when complimented at a public meeting, on his discoveries: "If 1 have succeeded better than ninny it hns beon chiefly, nay, I may say al most solely, from unwearied assiduity. It is not so much from any superior genius that one man possesses over an other, but more from attention to study nnd perseverance in the objects boforo them, that some men riso to greater eminence than others. This it is, in my opinion, that makes ono man suc ceed better than another." Dalton's "unwearied assiduity" im pelled him to obsorvo nnd compare un til his death, in his soventy-eiglith year. On the last night of his earthly lifo, ho wrote the day's record in Ids book of meteorological observations, ol which he had made moro than two hun dred thousand during half a century. Ono can not promise himself, and keep his word, that he will bo a gouius, but he can ho industrious, and ho can train his mind to concentrate itself. If it pleases God to take any of my children, 1 hope it will bo Isaac," said a father. Isaac was a vory dull boy. But when tho "dull boy" dlod at iht enrly ago of forty-seven, ho was known ns tho groat Dr. Isaac Barrow. Ha had filled tho Greek and tho mathe matical chairs at Cambridge had writ ten soveral books on geometry and mathematics, and composed a series of sermons, which aro still read becauso thoy aro storehouses of thought, and enforce lessons of industry, godliness. prnyorfultioss and truthfulness. lie, too. ascribed his success to his indus try, anil not to his natural parte. m , Treatment of Horses. A horse should bo treated just aa you would a man or boy. My carriage horses fared bettor at tho hands of an old Englishman who know nothing about a horse than any other driver X over had. When this man usketl ma how ho should treat them ho was told to treat them jus,t as he tlitl hlmsolt only n little better. He was methodical in his ways, and ho always fed tho horses boforo ho fed himself. In warm weathor ho watered them whonovor Ira got tho chance, and in winter thrca times a day. Inasmuch ns tho horses could not scratch thomsolvcs, ho gave them n good brushing every morning, ami it is my rule in driving a horse thnt whonovor I feel that I want a drink myself I nlso feel that tho horsa may bo suffering in tho samo direction. Senator Palmer. Dr. Murray, of tho Royal Society of Edinburgh, estimates tho mean height of tho land of tho globe to b between 1,000 and 2,100 feet tho lntter limit being probably tho mora nearly correct. Humboldt's estimate of tho moan height of tho contlnonU was 1,000 feet. Merchant (on collecting tour)- "Mr. Brown, can you toll mo why my errand hero this morning is ilka n well baked loaf of broad P" Brown 'No, can not. Why Is UP" Merchant "Becauso It's dun Brown," Browa mid tho hill. An Abel discourse A. sormou e tho first murder.