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Allegorical.! ' GOLDEN ROD. In all the world. There's nothing seems more llko the smllo of Than flowers do when kissed by morning llght And Queen of these Is lovely golden rod. tn nnclont days where'er sweet Flora flow, ' In ovory path the charming goddess trod, Its germs, with lovely hand, the freely throw, To dock her Holds with brilliant golden rod. Whate'cr tho songs that Nature's voices hymn, There can bo nono more llko tho songs of Ond uu hours 01 oirus, alone attuned by Him For Flora's gorgeous fields of golden rod. Though every bud that blooms with beauty And henrn tlm tnmlnr tnnnii nt inpn rf riA.i There's nono that wilder blooms and brighter nuines Than Queen of all, the gorgeous golden rod. It bloomoth not In spring or summer ravs. When countless minor beauties stud tho sod; vui laior on, in robes of riper days And regal splendor, blooms the golden rod. Ko rival beauties Justly can contend That decorate the Held or velvet sod With softer shades Its richer colors blend, Adorning all, thU brilliant golden rod. Tls not tho dainty sort of tender care, Nor doth It need a special clime or sod, But bountiful It bloomoth everywhere, This royal beauty, splendent golden rod. And though It royal bo It blooms for all. Atad sweetly, lowly bends with queenly nod, To lesser graces of the golden fall, Their uoblo slater, brilliant golden rod. Although It bears itself with stately mcln, It smiles alike for all, with smiles of God, Of every Hold nndcllmo tho Moral queen, This over rich and brilliant golden rod. The odors puro that precious flowers yield, Exhaled by solar beams from rain and sod, Exquisite- pleasures glvo, through wood and field, Distilled by film who gives the golden rod. Tho perfumoswoet that Heavenly Flora makes, As 'twere the breath af angels and of God, Is tasto of what's beyond tho "pearly gates," To bo bestowed whon fades the golden rod. In all tho world embraced In mortal sight There's nothing seems inoru ltlto the smiles of God Than llowors do when kissed by morning light And Quoen of all is lovely golden rod. N. Y. Herald. SALLY sparks. Tho Pathotio Story of Her Lb at Disappointment. UST to oaso my bursting heart I a in g o i n g to write out an ac count of jny hint disappoint ment. 1 1 is moant only for my own perusal If I thou glit n ny body olso would ovor soo it I Hhould cur tainly faint away on tho Wl WgOJ In tho first IVtUu U place, I will Hot down horo what I wouldn't on nny ac- onnt hroutho to any living bolng I m forty-ono yours old this spring; and iyot I have novor quito suecoodod in tiocurlnir a partner to walK with mo tho thorny paths of oxistonco, as some Yioly vory piratically and foollngly re marked. If I'd only known at slxtoon what awaited 1110 I roally liollovo I ho'.ld havo given up. Sixteen! Only think, that wus twenty-flvo yenrs ago though 1 give it out to tho public that I'm most thirty hut I'm afraid thoro aro Homo of them that don't bollevo it. However, I don't intend to glvo an ac count of all my past lifo. I'm only going to sot down tho particulars of my last summer's disappointment. It was just about tho first of Juno that tho thought poppod into my ho ail, what u good Idea it would bo to go to tho country to board. I'd pretty much Ijlvon up tho prospect of finding a hus band in Mlllvillo, for tho fact is, thorn factory girls impudent, brasson husslos, ob they aro nionopollxo tho attentions of all tho men, so that those who aro delicate and rollnod, llko myself, don't etand any ohanco, bocauso thoy won't ntoop to use the same arts that they do. Bloss mol what a long sentence! How ever, as no oyo but my own is over to read it, it aon't make so much dllfor nco. Woll, as I was Baying, I concluded to fro to Home country town to spend the summer, hoping that, by passing my hoU olT for a rich holross or fashionable bollo, I might bo able to catch a beau. So I began to look ovor the adver tisements of country board, and at length oame to tho conclusion to go up HE WAS I.OOKINO OUT OK THE WINDOW. to Huckloborry Cornor, in Now Hamp biro, whero all the people that ain't farmers arc agriculturists. r provided myself with as many lino drosses as I could allord, for, you know, I wanted pooplu to think I was woalthy. X found it bo expensive that, before I got through, I found myself obligod to ell tho half-aero of land that Grand father Sparks loft mo in Ills will. Hut then I thought how much tuoro valu able a husband would bo than a half acro of land. So I submitted to tho sac rifice with Christian fortitude and resignation, feeling protty confident that my reward would cotno sooner or later. It wasn't till about tho last moment that the most brilliant idea of all camo to me. It was this: I would pass my elf off for v Southern widow, with a great cotton plantation. I folt protty Buro tho men would nlbblo at that bait. . t ..... . . t Of courso thero wouldn't bo nobody in Huckloborry Cornor that would know mo, so I could get along well onough. I didn't quito know what Stnto wm'd bo tho best for mo to hall from, but I finally concluded that Alabama would bo as good as any. So I decided on that. I likowiso concluded to change my namo so as to avoid suspicion, and I wont down to tho city on purposo to havo some cards struck olf with my now name. Thoy lookod liko this: . ...... i MRS. COL. SPAUKINOTON, : SPAitKvn.r.B, Mali mi. : .................... . .... I thought Sparkingtonsoundod sort of aristocratic, and as I didn't know tho namos of any places in Alabama, I thought I would put Sparkville, as that would give people an Idea that my hus band had been u man of some Impor tance, to havo tho whole town named after him. Well, ovory thing being arranged, I loft Mlllvillo without letting anybody know where I thought of going. Indeed, 1 hinted round that I didn't know, hut I should visit some of my rolatlons In Boston, which wasn't, a falsehood, bo causo 1 do expect to, sometime, If I llvo i long enough. I On tho morning of tho second day, 1 1 found myself on board the stage that i went to Huckloborry Corner. Thoro wasn't but one othor passenger j In tho stage but myself. Ho was a tall man with elegant black whiskers and looked as If ho might bo about thirty yoarsold. I was Immodlatoly struck by his appoaranco, and considered how I might draw his attention to me, for thus far ho hadn't taken any more notice of mo that if I had boon u cat. After a little reflection 1 thought I would slip one of my cards out of my pocket, and contrive to drop it accidentally athls foot, so that ho couldn't help stooping to pick It up; whon, of course, ho would soo tho namo, and would think moro of mo in conse quence. So I just took tho opportunity whon ho was looking out of tho window at tho scenery, and silly dropped tho card just at his feet. Hut would you bollovo it,. tho provoking crittor kopt a looking out of tlio window for somo time, and whon ho got through doing that nover thought of looking at his foot. So I coughod slightly, and romarked in what I considered to be an aristocratic tono: "Would you bo kind onough to hand mo tho card which I accidentally lot fall?" "Certainly, ma'am," said ho, lndif forontly, stooping to pick it up. Hut when ho saw tho namo ho said in a moro interested tono: "I porcolvo that you are a Southorn lady." I bowed. "Would you allow mo'.'" ho continued, "to retain this card and givo you ono of my own in oxchnngo?" "I should bo ploasod to havo you do so," said I, quito dolighted at his desire to mako my acquaintance. He handod me a card on which was in scribed tho name of Erastus Lyon, M. I). "Aro you indeed a physician?" said I, enthusiastically. "It is a profession that I venerate It Is tho mission of tho physician to go about relieving pain and sickness, and although my own health has boon remarkably good, I value the profession none the less. Lot mo soo. I havon't boon sick for twenty yours, and as that was when I was a a mere child, undor ton, I don't remem ber much about It." I said this so that ho might make n calculation about my nge, and think mo uudor thirty. Ilo looked a little sur prised, 1 thought, and pretty soon ho said: "Havo you ovor boon North boforo?" "Yes," said I. "In fact I fool protty woll ncqualntod with you Northerners." "And how do you llko us, may I vont- uro'to ask?" Vory much indood. In fact I may say that I fool quito us much at homo among you uo at tho South. Since tho doath of my husband, Colonel Sparking- ton, I havo passed nil my summers at tho North." I might have said that I had passed all my springs, falls and winters also, but I thought it wasn't necessary to tell tho whole truth. "May I inquire, " said Dr. Lyon, "whothor you intend to stop any longth of tlmo at Huckloborry Cornor?" I am thinking of passing tho sum mer thero if I llko tho place and meet agreeable people" "ou have novor been thoro boforo?" "No, and 1 know no ono thoro." "Indeed," said Dr. Lyon, thoughtful ly. Aftur n moment's pause ho added: "If our brief acquaintance will justify tho offer, I will suggest that the place at which I myself havo ongagod board is an excellent ono, and very pleasantly situated." "Indoed, sir," said I, considerably moro ploasod than 1 was willing to show, "1 shall bo very much obliged to you if you will take that trouble." Wliun wo roachod Huokloborry Cor ner, l stopped at tho stagu otllco while Dr. Lyon wont ovor to ongago board for mo. Ho camo buck In about half an hour, saying it was all arranged and I could go right ovor. Half an hour aftorwards I found my- solf settled in a vory comfortable room at tho houso of Kzokiol l'roston. lie didn't take but two boarders, Dr, Lyon and my solf. I wanted awfully to know how muoh board I was oxpootod to pay, but I didn't dure to nsk, as I wanted to pass for a rich Southern widow, to whom raonoy was of no consequence. Tho next day Dr. Lyon happened to mention to me, of his own accord, that thoy barged seven dollars a week, it al most made mo jump when 1 heard It, for I had calculated on not having moro than half that to piy, and I folt sure that they piled on tho prlcn bocauso thoy thought 1 was rich. However, when ho told mo I only said vory coolly: 'Oh, vory well. Uulto roasonable, I think." 1 know that remark made quito an impression on him, for utter that hn bocumo quito uttontlvo to mo. So throe wooks passod away. Evory day regular we used to walk out togotlior, and I know tho peoplo of Huokloborry Corner had a good deal to say about tho rich Southorn lady that boarded at Mr, Pros-ton'. I At length tho expected declaration . T T . I . camo. ur. iyon toiu mo mat over sinco ho had seen mo ho had been powerfully attracted by my beauty and, attractions and ontroated mo to nccopt him. I told him it was very unexpected, and I didn't know as it would bo right to tho mem ory of Colonel SparklnRton to marry again, but If ho thought It would bo right I would mako no objection, as I felt to doploro my unprotected situa tion. I confessed, with blushes, that I had novor met a man whom I thought so worthy to fill tho placo of tho dear departed and Insinuated that ho boro a vory strong resemblance to tho Colonel. Dr. Lyon answered that in that case a socond marrlago might bo considered a compliment to my lato husband, and in timated that a rofusal might have tho effect of driving him to suicide. Woll, tho upshot of it was that we agreed to bo married In a wook by tho mlnlstorof 'WHY, THIS is tiii: oi. u Sl'AltKSl" MAID, BALI.V Huckloborry Cornor. Dr. Lyon said ho would invito a lady cousin to bo prosont and stand up with mo, as I couldn't bo oxpectod to havo many lady frionds at tho North. Llttlo did I anticipate who that female friend was. Two days bo foro tho ceremony sho camo, and to my horror 1 recognized her as my old onomy, Clarissa Higglns, of Mlllvillo. "Mrs. ColSparklngton, of Alabama," said sho iiwior shrill voico, whon wo woro introduced. "Why, this Is tho old maid, Sally Sparks, that has lived all horlifo in'Mlllvlllo." "Good hoavonsl is this Indood so?" asked Dr. Lyon, looking from hor to mo. As for mo, I fainted away in mortifi cation, and when I camo to 1 was told that my husband that was to bo hadloft town, and tho marrlago was indefinitely postponed. I used up my last cont In paying my board bill and stago faro, and bore I am at homo again, a penni less and forlorn spinster no longer Mrs. Col. Sparkington, of Alabama, but Miss Sally Sparks, of Mlllvillo. Caro lino P. l'roston, in Hoston Globo. A SUCCESSFUL AUTHOR. An Article Tliut Attracted General Atten tion unit Drought flood I'ay. It is not ovory ambitious writer that scores success with his first article. I know ono such, though his namo has now slipped my memory. At that time ho was county troasuror. Por weeks aftor his urticlo appoured in print he was visited by dilTorent noighbors and follow-citlzons of that county, who showed their appreciation of his article by leaving with him sums of monoy va rying from ono dollar to several hund drod dollars in nmotint. ills theme might havo boon called "Discourager of Hesitancy," although it was not, for that is what the urticlo did discouraged tho hesitancy of many citizens. Tho only objection to tho urti clo as a lltorary production was that tho story had too many horoos. Thoro woro nofewor than 1,500 characters, and each character was a hero in tho story. Tho tltlo of tho story was "D.' Lynn Qu'Ent Tacquoslist," Tho tltlo looks Pronchy in print, but tho story was ontiroly Amorican, and tho scone was laid in tho author's own county. What makes me remember tho story so woll, though I havo forgotton tho namo of tho author, is that I was ono of tho characters mentioned. What was said about mo ran somothing liko this: SK lot 30 lottors Ad. C. 11. Holding $31.25 I bought ono of tho papers and took it homo to show tho paragraph to my wlfo. I was Informed by tho nuthor, whon I wont up a fow doys oftorward with my fathor-ln-law to congratulato him on his success, that tho story had notted him something llko 7,780, including tho Sai.'JS which wo loft with him for mentioning my namo and so graphically describing my rosidenco. Tho story was published at tho au thor's expense. Sovoral publishers of fered to print tho narrative for what thoro was In It, but the author ohoso to pay for the work outright, and duullned tho otters of tho publishers. Tho ond justified his choice. 1 huvo mentioned this llttlo incident as an offset to tho thoory that no writar nood expect groat fame or groat pay at tho beginning of his carcor. This Inci dent also Illustrates another truth. To bo a successful writer one must weave Into his history incidents and charac ters about which his readers aro think ing or In which thoy aro personally in terested. All tho scones described In this story woro such us possossod real interest for ovory reader. Indood tho same story is published annually and nover fails to uxclto commont and ore to interest. a 11. Holding, in Writer. Almot it Freak. Pobblo Thoro goes ono of tho most romarkable men of tho ago. Stono How so? ' Pobblo Ho succeeded In growing to manhood without once having his fath er's trousurs mado ovor for him. Cloth lor and Furnisher. "Wo havo now hoard of salosmon, saleswomen, salesladies, salespersons, and salespeople," says tho Toronto Olebo. "Why not throw away tho whole bundle and say simply 'sollors?' " Agreed, provldod you will always speak of "buyers" instoad of "purcuasor." Buffalo 1-vprcsi. THE FAKIR'S CURSE. A rrophecy of Kvll Tliut Came True TTHh Cruhlntr Kfl'i-rt. James Mass, tho traveler, tolls this story: "It was about five o'clock" In tho evoning, and Colonel Yeagerand I sat on tho veranda of tho Vldullah Hotel in Bomb?, and on tho edgo of tho nativo city which is cal'od Vicullah, and not Bombay. Tho Colonel Is dead: all that ho onco owned and loved Is gone. Ho was expecting his wifo and daughter, who had been out to England on a year's visit, and tho vessel was to nrrlvo at Calcutta next day, whllo wo woro going to got tho bungalow ready to recoivo them. Tho Colonel was in tho best of spirits. Ho joked and laughed and told old stories of lovo and war; how ho was nearly captured and murdored by tho renowned ana-Said at Comporo; of his vast poppy plantations and tho rov onuo ho dorived from tho opium ho dis tilled ovory year. Pinally wo started to walk to whore wo had our horses sta bled, and then for a cantor ovor tho boautiful roads to tho bungalow fifteen miles away. Wo had to go throuirh Vi cullah to roach our destination. What kaleidoscope that nativo city Is! Tho burrah-wallah wator carrier, woarlng nothing but a breech clout, and tho malo body servant, with his red turban and long White jackets. Jews from Pal estine, Parsoes, flro worshipers, who traveled 3,000 mllos over dosort and mountain from Persia and carried thoir sacrod fires, all picturesque nil in white, bordored with red or othor bright col ors. "Well, in turning a cornor in Vicul lah wo found a crowd being haranged by ono of tho best known fakirs in India. I bad heard him spoken of as ono who could put a blight upon you. Peoplo called him Sadi-Saib, badl, my master. Colonol Yoager pushed through tho crowd to within a fow foot of tho fakir, to whom ho said somothing in Ilindo Htancso. It seemed to onrago Sadl, who jumped from his llttlo platform in front of Yeagor, saying: " 'Englishman, bo careful, or blight may fall upon you and yours. Troad not upon tho smallost thing Buddha has created, or It may turn and sting you.'" "Before I could stop him tho Colonol had cut the fakir across tho faco, and with an oath had shouted: 'Out of tho way, you Hindoo pig!' "Tho fakir with blazing oyos said: " 'Englishman, you will not meet your wlfo. You will not moot your child. Your plantations will bo dovastated; your cravon heart will wither within you. You will dio.' "Tho fakir's words woro prophotlc. I folt It then, and I also think tho Colonel did. Wo reachod tho bungalow, and woro soon In bed. How I slopt that night I don't know. Tho words, 'En glishman, bowaro,' woro continuously raging in my ear. Next morning I wont into tho breakfast room, and I shudder whon I think of it. Tho Colonol was thoro walking up nnd down with a tele gram in his hand, his faco drawn, and ho looking twenty years oldor than ho did tho night boforo. With toars in his oyos ho handed mo this mossago 'Stoamshlp Piago wont mouth of tho Iloogaly. child drowned.' I havo ashoro at tho Your wife and novor seen tho Colonol sinco, but I havo watched his caroor. His poppy crop was a failure that year and it ruined him, his bunga low was burned by either accident or do sign, nnd Yoager died within a twolvo month of a broken heart." Philadel phia Inquirer. THE GAMBLING MANIA. An ISpldeinlc Tliut Is Growing More Vlru. lent Uvery Dny. Tho passion for gambling has for many years boon increasing in this country, until it threatens to becomo pro-ominently tho national vice. Whothor it arose from tho fovor for speculation which indirectly was ono of tho most evil of tho results of tho rebel lion in tho North, or whothor tho causo is to bo lookod for in that general spirit hastoning to bo rich that is a prominent characteristic of Amorican civilization it might not bo easy to determine; but of tho fact thoro is unhappily no room for doubt. It is not alone that tho lottory has bo como a national institution; forhowovor much ono may shirk from acknowledg ing this, It is practically tho truth. It is not alone that so many millions flow year by your into tho pockots of avowed lottorlos, American and foroign, or that tho resourcos of tho country aro constantly on tho strain caused by tho in iluonco of legalized gambling of tho Stock Exchange. It Is in a hundred dlf feront ways that tho tondonoy of tho times shows itself. It Is in tho constant allusions to pokor-plnylng which flguro in tho columns of ovory nowspapor, which adorn ovory farco, and which form half tho stock in trado of tho so-callcdcomic paragrapher. It is in tho comploto mania for bolting on horso-racing that has ta ken possession of tho clerks and tho young men of Now York, and which is stoadllv on tho increaso in Hoston. Every day, rain or shine, summor and winter, in snow storms which would Boom to mako it impossible, and in going 60 bad that "mud-horses" aro a feature of tho hotting, tho races go on, not at all in tho Interest of the sport, but en tirely for tho sake of tho hook-making Tho samo spirit shows itsol? on ovory sido; and If a halt is not calloi soon, wo shall oxcol tho Chinese in tho vlco of gambling. Tho epidemic Is upon us, and who has any remedy to proposo? Bos ton Courier; What's In ii Xuiue. Millicont 1 do so dlsllko "short" namos, Mr. Jones; I novor allow nny ono to call mo "Mllly." Don't you think I am right? Mr. Jones I quito agreo with you. Millicont Wlmt do your frionds call you, Mr. Jonos? Mr. Jones My namo Is Montmoroncy Ghorthouso Jones, and or thoy always call mo "Shorty," Light. Aloxnnder Jacques, n Pronch fast ing man, has begun au attempt to boat tho record in London. Ho proposes to remain lor forty-two days without any food oxcoit n powder of socrot oomposi tlon. Ho says ho sustained hlmsolf and his comrades for many days on this pow der whllo ho was a soldior and tho Ger mans woro :osleglng BolforL AH at Onco. Tho falling of a big trco under tlio , woodman's ax is always an impressive sight and an imprcssivo sound as all country bred readers will testify. The historian of the "Seventy-ninth Highlanders," of Now York, describes the cutting down of a whole hillsido of trees under circumstances that must have made it a memorablo spectacle. It was during tho udvanco of tho Army of the Potomac after tho defeat at Bull Run. Fortifications wero or dered thrown up, and tho men of tho Maine and Wisconsin regiments wero set to work at trco felling, a work with which they proved themselves perfect ly familiur. It was an interestingsight to witness the simultaneous fall of a whole hill side of timber. Tho choppers began at the foot of tho hill, tho lino extending for per haps half a mile. They cut only part way through tho tree, and in this way worked up to tho crest, leaving tho trees in the top row in such a condition that a single blow would bring them down. Thon, when all was ready, tho buglo sounded, and the last strokes wero given. Down camo tho upper tier of trees. These brought down those be low them, and, liko tho billow on tho surface of the ocean, the entire forest fell with a crash liko mighty thunder. An Old Idea of Iimulutlon. After all, these insulated coffee pots do but represent tho application of a device familiar centuries ago to tho fishermen of south Normandy and tho Brittany coast. It has been for an in definite period tho custom thero for theso toilers of tho sea to start out with their nets in tho afternoon, carrying with them a warm meal for tho day following. The pot containing tho stow or heated delicacy is wrapped in a mattress stuffed with feathers or in closed in a box with feather lined cushions, and after fifteen hours tho dinner is spread as hot as if it had just como off the lire, not moro than three or four degrees being lost at all events. I know a man who made a little feather stutl'ed box on that idea and put his newly boiled shaving water in it just beforo ho went to bed every night. In tho morning, when ho got up early and shaving water would not havo been easy to get off hand, ho opened tho box and took out the water still scalding hot. Washington Star. Governmental Thermometers. "Tho United States government don't go in for expensive thermome ters," said Lieut. Finley. "I don't sup pose tho finest ono at tho headquarters of tho weather bureau in Washington is worth over $100. The thermometers used at the signal stations cost $5. A thoroughly reliable instrument can bo purchased for that amount. These thermometers aro about twelvo inches long. Each station has several of them. It is necessary to havo two kinds, tho spirit thermometer to meas uro minimum temperature and tho morcurial thermometer to nieasuro tho maximum temperature. Thero aro three famous makers in tho United states, two of whom aro in New York. A thermometer," Lieut, Finley re marked, "improves with ago. Tho older it gets the better it is. It is absolutely necessary for tho tube to season. It must bo several years old beforo it bo comes reliable." Jewelers' Roviow. A Delicious Meal. Anything more toothsomp and nu tritious than tho vintager's pot au feu, which I lately tasted in tho Medoc dur ing tho gathoring of tho grapes, can not well bo imagined. It was so de licious that a supply of it was ordered into tho chateau for midday lunch, and it was voted by acclamation worthy of a cordon bleu. It was mado with a log of beef, onions, carrots, cabbago and tho like, and poured smoking into bowls over slices of thiu bread. What a lesson it conveys to tho managers of our soup kitchens, and what a meal for our harvesters 1 Cor. Britisli iled ical Journal. Suicides Want Solitude. Dr. Cushing, a retired physician on tho West sido, gave mo an interesting fact a day or so ago about suicides. "Not onco in a thousand times," said lie, "do oithor men or women kill themsolves while in tho presence of another person. Tho tendency of tho suicidal mania is always toward soli tude. This is why, in all tho asylums of tho land, peoplo who havo a dispo sition to kill themselves aro always kept together, and there is uo danger then." New York Star. Where Olives Come From. Tho olivo has been cultivated in tho regions of tho Mediterranean coasts from time immemorial. Olivo oil thoro takes tho placo of butter. Spain has about 3,000,000 acres in olives; Italy, 2,L'50,000, and Franco about 300,000 .acres. Forty-fivo varieties of tho fruit aro described. Popular Sci ence. A DUciplu of Hahnemann. Breezy Young M. D. (an ardent houuooputh) I ass tiro you, miss, that in vaccination I uso only virus direct from tho calf. Clara Ah, that accounts for your excellent health. liko cures liko, you know. Pittsburg Bulletin. Worth I'roecutlii. Boulanjay I attempt tres hard, but t cannot master votro laugagol Popinjay Oh, well, old man, I wouldn't givo in now. You have it broken up pretty badly, anyway I Dry Goods Chronicle, I THE SLEEP OF DEATH. A DrowiilneM That Attack People In Some Climates Month Before Death. An interesting account descriptive of the "sleepy disease," peculiar to Africa, Ls given in tho "Journal of an African Cruiser." Persons attacked by this singular malady aro those who tako littlo exercise and live principally on vegetables, particularly cassoda and rice. Some observers ascribe it to tho cassoda, which is strongly narcotic. Not improbably tho cliiuato has much inlluence, tho diseaso being most prev alent in low and marshy regions. Irresistible drowsiness continually weighs down tho patient, who can bo kopt awake only for the few minutes needful to tako a littlo food. When this lethargy has lasted three or four months death comes, but only in tho form of deeper slumber. Tho author of tho book mentioned tells of a mem ber of tho royal family of Luakaka who was alllicted with this curious di seaso : "I found tho aspect of Queen Mau mee's beautiful granddaughter incon ceivably allecting. It was strango to see her so quiet, in a sleep from which it might be supposed sho would awako full of youthful vigor, and yet to know that this was no refreshing slumber, but a spell in which she was fading for ever from the eyes that loved her. "This young girl was but 14 years of ace. With some difficulty sho was aroused, and woko with a frightened cry a strange, broken murmur as if sho wero looking dimly out in tho j phantasies of a dream. Her eyes wero , wild and glassy ; rolled wildly in their I sockets for a second, then immediately sunk into tho deep and heavy sleep in which wo found her. This poor, doomed girl had been suffering for about threo months no, not suffering, for, except when forcibly aroused, thero appears to bo no uneasiness until after the end of the third month of this unnatural slumber, when tho victim becomes wild and constantly rolls his or her head from sido to sid nover opening the oyes death ensuing within a few days after these symptoms sot in." To Meet Her Lover. At 5 :30 in tho morning a well dressed young woman arrived in Utica from Castle Garden. Sho had como all tho way from a placo hi western Russia, and was on her way to meet her lover in Duluth, Minn., who had left her two years boforo to find a homo for both of them in tho New World. Ho went to Duluth and became fairly prosperous. As soon as he was able he wrote to his sweetheart and urged her to como to him, but tho ago and sick ness of her parents kept her in Russia until this year. Both her parents 1 having died, tho young man sent her tickets to bring her to America, with what ho supposed was sufficient money for tho journey. Tho young woman began her journey moro than a month ago, and when she arrived at Castlo Garden thought sho must bo within friend. a few hours' journey of her Sho camo on to Utica. as stated, and was taken to tho Central depot, whence sho was to proceed on her journey by another train. Sho waited about tho depot all day, and at night in broken German told Leonard Pruoy, tho baggage master, that sho had not had anything to eat all day, and had only twenty cents in her purso. When sho had recited tho whole story, and Mr. Pruey told her that instead of a few hours sho would yet havo several days of travel, her distress was pitiful. Tho kind hearted baggageman promised to do all ho could for her, and began his ministra tions by giving her a square meal. Ho then interested himself in bettering her financial condition, and told Conductor John Unser, of tho Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg, about it. Mr. Unser was bound north with his train and mado no promises, but early tho next morning when ho camo to Utica again ho gavo Mr. Pruoy a purso of monoy which ho had collected on his tmin to help tho girl on her way, Sho finally loft Utica, after a delay of about twon-ty-four hours, with a big bag of provi sions and many good wishes. Utica Herald. Snakes at Scnipesklllet. Near Scraposkillet, Ind., the swamp lands aro so infested with snakes as to bo positively dangerous for travelers. Friday, whilo a farmer and his wifo wero driving in a wagon, thoy mot threo largo snakos in tho road, which not only refused to turn out to ono sido of tho road, but showed fight They wero finally beaten off by tho farmer after considerable trouble with his mules, which wero almost crazed with fright. On tho samo day a physician from Yankeetown, driving in a road cart, was confronted by a number of snakes in tho road at tho samo place. His horso bocamo frightened and ran away, leaving him at their mercy, and but for tlio timely assistance of passers by ho would havo doubtless been bitten to death. As it was ho had a sovero tus eIo. Tho peoplo of tho neighborhood havo organized themselves for tho pur poso of exterminating the reptiles. Indianapolis Journal. Tho newest thing in baby carriages is a contrivance that by means of various appliances may bo transformed into a filed, a cradle and a go-cart, Tho cra dle, instead of being provided with rockers, hangs from tlio celling by a spiral spring, and tlio spring itself plays w Important part In tlio adjustment of tlio snn shade that goes with tho car riage when it is used in its normal char acter. .