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IIIMAN LIFE.
BY Ll'CI II . CBEMER.
A ray of sunlight, falling to the earth.
Pierced the dark mould with its intensest power.
Loosened the cold, hard soil, and soon there sprung
Into a perfect bloom a little flower.
A light wind swayed the flower and stirred its loaves;
I listened, and it whispered this to me :
" I felt the pain, the darkness and the chill
Before I bloomed and I am like to thee."
Then from the gloomy depths of my sad soul
I heard a murmur softly, sweetly rise :
" Life is the bursting seed of Love," it said.
"Sown in the earth, to blossom lu the skiea."
TIIli:i MOTHEKS.
A little elbow leans upon your knee
Your tired knee that has so much to bear
A child's dear eyes are looking lovingly
From uuderneath a that -h of tangled liair.
Perhaps u do pot heel the vt"vet ouch
Ton do not f-rl.e tue blessing overmuch,
You almost are too tired to pray to-night.
But it is blessedness 1 A year ago
I did not see it as I do to-day ,
We are all so dull and thankless, and too slow
To catch the sunshine till It slips away.
And now it seems surprising strange to me
That while I wore the badge of motherhood
I aid not kiss mora oft aud tenderly
The little child that brought me only good.
And If, some night, when you sit down to rest.
You mica the elbow on your tired knee
The restless curly head from off your breast.
The lisping tongue that chatters constantly;
If from your own the dimpled hands had 6lipped,
And ne'er would nestle in your palm again.
If the white feet into the grave had tripped -
I could not blame you for your heartache then.
I wonder that some mothers ever fret
At their little children clinging to their gown.
Or that the footpiiuts, when the days are wet,
Ave ever black enough to mako them frown.
If I could fiud a little muddy boot.
Or cap. or jaekt, on my chamber floor
If I could kia a rosy, restless foot
And hear it patter in my house once more;
If I could mend a broken cart to-day.
To im rrow make a kite to reach tiie sky.
There is no woman in Ood's world would say
She was more blissfully content than I 1
But ah ! the dainty p. How next my own
Is never rumbled by a shining head !
Mv singing Inrdlini! from its nest haB flown
The little boy I used to kiss i dead.
X. 1". Evening Post.
A POINT OF HONOR.
BY IDA ROLAND.
The little roil scliool-hoivto on the
brow of a long hill, just at te edge of
the village. A lonely pla id at this
time, five o'clock in the afternoon; for
the last barefooted urchin aad disap
peared down the long hill o 2r an hour
ago. It would seem t.at there was
nothing to detain the pretty ichool-mis-tress
so late; but she still sa behind her
little table, leaning her hea 1 upon her
hand, and ponderinsr, not 0 7er reports,
or educational works, as one might
think from her looks, but t love-letter.
There it lay, on the table before her
and in her mind, swinging in the
balance, was the yes and no. Which
should it be? Some girls find it an easy
thiug to enprage themselves, and then
break the chain when it becomes too
irksome. But this Saidie Kempal was
a conscientious little body, just un
fashionable enough to consider an en
gagement a serious thing, not to be en
tered into lightly; and when once
formed, to be sacred and binding. So,
she was trying to probe her heart, and
discover her feelings toward the writer
of this letter, who said that he loved her
so tenderly, and could never be happy
unless she was bis wife. The study
had lasted an hour, and she was no
nearer the conclusion than at first.
Perhaps, if she had seen a little more
of the world, sho could have decided
sooner; but her days had been so bound
ed and hedged by home ties, and the
quiet village life, that she had not yet
learned the all-important lesson, a
knowledge of her own heart. Her
thoughts ran something like this:
"I like him this Harry Barrows. I
don't believe I shall ever see any one
else I can like as well. He has a good
character, is wealthy, and loves me. If
I say yes, everybody will be pleased,
and I shall doubtless be very happy.
No more pinching about money matters
at home, or drudging in the school
room. I wonder why I hesitate. I
wish I was a child again, to bo told
what to do. If I go to mother, she will
say, 'Do just what your heart tells you,
my daughter,' when my heart won't
tell me anything about it. She would
be delighted, though, if I would say
yes; and I could lighten her cares so
much. It is such a worry to mothers to
have so many daughters unsettled.
Then there is Lina Grev. How sur
prised sho would be! I believe she
rather likes Harrv herself. I believe
I believe I will say yes."
The conference was over, and spring
ing ligutly to Jier leet, she quickly
closed the shutters for the night, and
taking her wide hat, locked the door,
and started down the hill.
She was glad to find that she felt
happier, now that the question was de
cided. There is such a relief in giving
one's hapiness into anothere's keeping,
and knowing that they will guard it
well.
Saidie hurried on, for she knew ft
was getting late; and she had made an
appointment to meet her friend, Lina
Orey, under the great, weeping willow,
by the edge of the lake, and the hour for
tne meeting had more than passed.
"Meet me at our old trysting-place. un
der the willow, by the lake," she ' had
written.
Lina saw her coming, and rushed
forward tnmultuously. "Oh! Ithought
you would never be here!" she cried.
"I began to fear you hadn't got my
note in time. I only returned last
night, and had not time to see you be
fore you went to school, so I wrote,
asking you to meet me here, for then I
iiy, we conui have a half-hour's chat.
all to
ourselves, and that nftrwnrdn
uu iut
we could go home together."
",Ao A- am BO Slatl to see v
vo 11 a train.
wuiu oaune, Kissim? her.
T- 1 n
, , "ual 10 ao without vou "
I hpv tnlbo.l , .
- j aim on, as
young
on the fragrant
Of What thfi ntTi pr
sward, telling each
had been doinjr. till im1Mi.nu.:j:...
attention was arrested by footsteps ap
proaching, and looking up, she saw a
strange gentleman advancing.
Eina, too, looked aronnd," and rose
2 - -j-.--.
to her feet. "It is only Mr. Earle,
mama's nephew," she cried. "He is to
sjend the summer with us, and half
promised to meet me here; for I want
you particularly to know him. Mr.
Earle, this is my friend, Saidie Kem
pal, of whom I have so often spoken.
Saidie, Mr. Balph Earle."
The new comer took off his hat, with
marked emphasis, and then shook Saidie
cordially by tho hand, looking at her
admiringly, though not offensively,
with a pair of rather handsome eyes.
"Not half so handsome as Harry's,"
thought Saidie, though she blushed
under the gaze.
It was Lina who did most of tho talk
ing, as they walked home; sho was so
bright and merry, that it was a pleasure
to listen to her. Such a gay summer
as she planned! Saidie's school was to
break up on the morrow, for a two
months' vacation, and she would be at
liberty to enjoy it with tho rest. "And
oh ! won't we have a nice time?" cried
Lina.
Near the gato Harry was waiting.
He was introduced, in due form, to Mr.
Earle, and then fell back with Saidie,
and walked with her to the door.
"You got my letter?" he whispered,
a3 soon as the others were out of hear
ing. ,, Is it to be yes, or no?"
There was a moment's "silence, and
the girl's heart beat loudly. Finally
she raised her eyes to his face, and
there was not a shadow of doubt
their clear depths, as she answered;
in
"1 tuinlv it is to be yes, Harrv.
The glad tidings soon spread "through
the Kempal family, for there were no
secrets in that house; and it pleased
Saidie to feel that she had made them
all happier. If sho had liked Harry
less than she did, she could not have
helped but feel happier herself, to see
the brightness she had brought into the
house.
It was quite early on the first day of
Saidie's vacation, when Lina's pony
phaeton stood at the Ivempal crate; and
unuer me wuiie canopy, witn it s gay
fringe, sat it's own r, beckoning to her
friend. To slip on a hat, and step in
beside Lina, was the work of a moment,
and the two girls were soon busily talk
ing, as the lazy pony jogged along.
There was a little reserve on Saidie's
part, for she could not yet make up her
mind to confide to Lina her engage
ment, but her friend was so busy tell
ing of her own affairs, that she did not
notice it. After a while, sho spoke of
Ralph Earle..
"What do you think of nim, anyway?"
said Lina.
"I don't know. I hardly noticed him
yesterday."
"There! I wish I could tell that to
his loyal highness. I shan't tell you
now what he said about you. Do you
know why mamma has invited him here
this summer?"
"For his health, I suppose. He looks
badly."
"So he supposes. But that clever
little woman has quite another idea
in
her head, tone means that I shall
mar-
ry him.
"Why, Lina!"
"Its a fact."
"Do you like him?"
"Do I like him? Of course I do.
Ralph Earle is elegant. But it don't
follow that I'm going to marry him.
lie isn't my style at all; is altogether
too deep for shallow me. I always
liked him; but I shall hate him pretty
soon, if my step-mamma don't stop
throwing me at his head in such an ab
surd manner."
"What can be her object? I never
thought her overly fond of you."
"Oh, I'm only thrown in as an en
cumbrance. She adore3 Ralph, and he
is poor. Well, I've got money. Do
you understaud?"
"Poor child!"
"You need not poor me. I am going
to make myself just as disagreeable as
possible. And I have a little plan in
my head, and you must say yes. I
want you to pack up and be ready, when
I come for you to-morrow, to come and
stay several weeks with me. Say yes,
that's a dear."
"Not if you are going to put me in
Mr. Earle's way," said Saidie, looking
a little susnciously a Lina's mischievous
face.
"Nonsense, child! You need not
look at him, if you feel that way. Only
come; wo will have grand times.
There was no opposition to this pro
ject, and the next day found Saidie set
tled in tho great stone house over the
river. She loved luxury, and it was
like a beautiful dream to live amid such
elegance. She fancied that Mrs. Grey
was not quite as pleased as she might
have been with the arrangement; but
Ralph was so pleasant, and Lina so de
lighted, that she did not mind it. Lina
was right in pronouncing Ralph Earle
elegant. He was a gentleman in every
sense of the word; and although not
remarkably handsome, his face was one
that could be trusted forever. Mrs.
Grey was a widow, and although wealthy
this "beautiful home belonged to Lina.
So it was no wonder 6he was exerting
her utmost to make a match between
her favorite nephew and the heiress.
So the Summer days passed on.
Pleasant morning rambles in the old
woods; lazy afternoons by the willow,
at the trysting place beside the lake;
and gay evenings over the piano, or on
the croquet ground, out on the lawn,
where Harry always joined them. In
deed, he was with them most of the
time, and Saidie had grown quite used
to being engaged. There was not much
chance for love-making, as the rest did
not know of it; and Lina. in trying to
avoid Ralph, made it so that Saidie ras
his comDanion most of the time, while
6lie appropriated Harry.
Saidie could not blame her, although
she wondered how she could help lov
ing the one her mother had selected tor
her. He was so brilliant and interest
ing; so different from any one she had
ever met before. He seemed to under
stand her wants so well, and sympathize
in all her tastes. So it happened, while
Lina and Harry played games, or ran
races on the lawn in their wild fashion,
the otner two sat on one of the rustic
seats that the old elms shaded, and read
or talked. Ralph had that charm that
is so irresistible in any one, a melodi
ous voice. It seemed to Saidie, when
he read, that all the world was drifting
away, and leaving them in an enchanted
realm. What happy days those were,
and how swiftly they flew by! No one
thought of the Fall that was coming, to
part them all. They lived in the happy
present, and were satisfied. One day
Saidie had promised Ralph to meet him
at the rustic Beat, and found, on going,
that Mrs. Gray was before her. She
seemed unusually gracious, and inclined
to conversation, and, after a few com
mon places, said abruptly:
"I suppose you are aware of my
wishes concerning Laura ?"
Saidie bowed her heac
"Lina persistently defuses to believe
that I am disinterested in this matter,
and I see, has made you feel the same.
I am convinced that Mr. Earle is just
the one for her, and she is throwing
away her best chance of happiness, in
flirting as she does with Harry. As for
Ralph, I know that if he were left alone,
he would love her."
The last words were emphasized in
such a manner, that her listener could
not help but understand.
"If you think I am interfering, j'ou
are mistaken."
"I will be frank with you," said the
elder lady. "I feared you were becom
ing interested in my nephew, and I
thought I would warn you."
The bright color faded from the girl's
che.k, and a strange look came into
her eyes. For a moment she was una
ble to speak. Like a flash of lightuing
came the terrible revelation, the mean
ing of all tho hapjiiness the Summer had
brought. She know now what love
was. To her there was but one hope of
happiness in the world, and that the
must put from her. It was a hard,
strained voice that answered Mrs. Grey:
"You need not be alarmed, madam. I
am engaged to Harry Barrows."
The lady looked at her in astonish
ment; then she actually kissed her.
"You sly little puss, to keep that all
to yourself, now glad I am that you
are going to do so well. There comes
Ralph now. I am going to surprise
him with the news." And before Sai
die could stop her, she called him to
them, and in a few words told the whole
story. Then, seeing guests at the house,
she left them, with" a nod and a laugh,
thinking as she did so, "Sho loves him,
poor girl; but I can trust her. Saidie
is the very soul of honor. As for Ralph,
ho will soon overcome his admiration
for her pretty face."
There was nothiug said for some time
after she left. An observer might not
have noticed anything strange in the
figures of the two. Saidio, sitting quite
motionless, with her face turned away;
Ralph at her feet, in the same careless
attitude he had first assumed. But who
can tell of tho anguish in both their
hearts?
"Will he never move or speak?" she
thought. At last he rose, and taking
the vacant seat at her side, turned 1 er
face gently toward him. At the sight
of it, pale and tear-stained, his calmness
was p;one.
"My darling, my darling! you do love
me! What is this hateful engagement
to tis?"
For a moment she yielded to his pas
sionate carresses; then she remembered,
and cried, brokenly,
"Ralph, you muse not tempt me so. I
have promised to be Harry's wrife, and
I will never break a promiso that is so
sacred."
"But where there is no love, you
surely are not bound. It is a mistaken
sense of honor that permits such a sac
rifice." She shook her head mournfully.
"I should have thought of that' be
fore. It is too late."
Still he pleaded with her, and she,
loving him as sho did, could only re
fuse, although she felt it would be like
parting from life itself. At last, seeing
Harry and Lina ooming toward them,
he said,
"I will not take your answer now;
send me one in the morning. And re
member, dear, whatever comes, I shall
love you, only yon."
Harry overtook her as she tried to es
cape to the house, and gave her a few
tender wofds, that only made her
trouble harder to bear.
Sho locked herself in her room, and
did not go down again that night. She
wanted to face her trouble by herself,
and decide what was her duty to do.
It was a long, hard struggle. The
cold, gray dawn peeped in at her win
dow, as she wrote,
"No, Ralph. I was right. I cannot
break my promise. Forgive me and
forget that you ever loved Saidee."
She sent him this early in the morn
ing; and an hour later, before Mrs. Grey
and Lina made their appearance in the
breakfast room, he left a note for his
aunt, and ordered the coachman to drive
him to the station. One last, long look
at the closed blinds, behind which slum
bered the only being he truly loved, and
he was gone.
When Harry came, that evening, he
found Mrs. Grey in tears, Lina pouting
and Saidie invisible.
"What's up, Lina? Where is Ralph?"
"Goodness knows! I don't. Saidie is
locked in her room, Ralph gone, and
everybody else as cross a3 bears."
Harry looked bewildered, and Mrs.
Grey said,
"Harry Barrows, are you engaged to
Saidie?"
His face flushed crimson, and then
turnpd white.
"We are, Mrs. Grey; but "
"But what? You are engaged, and
that's enough," said the lady, sharply.
"No, not enough," he said, with a
pleading look at Lina, who had dropped
into a chair, and breathlessly awaited
his reply.
I did think I loved Saidie, until
Lina came back; but now I know it is
Lina alone who can make me happy. I
saw that Ralph loved Saidie, and hoped
she wonld ask to be released."
"And a pretty mess vou have made of
it. Her sense of honor was more strict
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than yours. She has refused Ralph, and
he has gone, nobody knows where. I
wash my hands of tho whole affair."
And she swept from the room with an
injured look, as if she had nothing
further to say on the subject.
After peace was made between the
lovers, Lina said, "Poor Saidie! We
must find Ralph and bring him back.
How could the child be so good? I
don't believe he will go any further
than Chester to-night, and James could
easily drive you over after him."
It was as Lina supposed; and while
Harry started off in hot haste, Lina ran
up to persuade Saidie to como down
into the parlor, and be there at the time
they would return, intending to prepare
her for it; but she could not get her
courage up, until she heard the carriage
wheels, and had only blundered out a
few words, when Ralph sprang out of
the carriage, and hurried into the room
Lina left them then, only hearing
Saidie's broken crv, of "Ralph! Dear
Ralph," as ho gathered her close, close to
his heart.
After the first rapture of the meeting
was over, and they could talk a little
more rationally, Mrs. Grey's clear, cold
tones were heard saying to some one on
tho piazza:
"Yes, the bright days are almost
gone."
And Saidie, clinging to her lover's
neck, whispered :
"Do you hear, Ralph? They are al
most gone."
"Nay, love," he answered, "they have
only begun."
And they hare only begun. A happi
er couple than Ralph and Saidie is to
be met nowhere, the wide world over.
Of one spot both are especially fond,
and they often go there. It is where
they first met the trysting place by the
willo w. Peter so ii 's ATciyaziii e.
Professional Criminals in England.
The "Register of Habitual Criminals
in Eucland and Wales for the years
ISO!) to 187G," has just been printed in
the printing works of her majesty's
prison, Brixton. The ponderous vol
ume is bound in black, and contains
the names of 12,lt;i criminals, with all
their aliases.
A summary of the proportions of ha
bitual criminals born in particular lo
calities gives rather surprising results
Stafford stands at the head of the list,
raised to that bad eminence by thirty
criminals out of a population of 15.916,
which gives the rate of 1.881 profession
al criminals to every 1,000 inhabitants.
Worcester comes next with sixty-seven
criminals out of a population of 39,116,
a rate of 1.745 to the 1,000. Where the
numbers are so small the difference
might seem the result of chance, but the
returns extend over seven years. Taun
ton comes next with twenty-seven crimi
nals, among 15.406 inhabitants, a pro
portion of 1.745 to the 1,000, and Lan
caster has a proportion of 1.C81 to the
1.000, or twenty-nine out of 17,245.
Manchester, Hereford, Wigan, Preston,
Shrewsbury, Liverpool, Stockport,
Warington, Glouoester, Cheltenham,
Blackburn, Birmingham, Bristol, Ches
ter and Hanly follow close.
The metropolis, which heads the list
for number of habitual criminals, pro
ducing 1.503 nearly three times as
many as Manchester, the next town on
the list has the low proportion of .4G1
in 1,000 when its habitual criminals are
compared with its total population.
London thus comes out not only better
than the towns already mentioned, but
better than such places as Yarmouth,
Ipswich, Brighton, Oxford and Cam
bridge. The 2laces which produced
more ihan 100 habitual criminals were
London, Manchester (630), Liverpool
(551), Birmingham (343), Leds (210),
Bristol (ISO), Sheffield (172), Preston
(112); 4,447 of the criminals came
from towns or villages which contri
bute fewer than twenty to tho returns.
The habitual criminal, whom Ireland
contributed to the prisons in England
and Wales were 1,082 in number. Those
who had been born in Scotland were
158. Of the total number of prisoners,
8,612 were males, 3,552 females. In
spite of the merciful presumption of
the law as to women acting under the
direction of their husbands, the per
centage of married female prisoners
was 5U.12. On the other hand, the sin
gle men were twice as numerous as the
married men (67.2 per centum of the
whole to 32.8 per centum). London
Times.
What Registeked Letteus Abe.
An exchange says: "The question is
very of ten asked: What is the differ
ence between a registered letter and any
other? The difference is that a regis
tered letter does not go in the mail
proper. It passes from hand to hand
outside of the mail pouches, every per
son through whose hands it passes be
ing required to sign a receipt for it on
receiving it, and secure a receipt for it
on passing it over to the next transit.
The person holding the last receipt is
thus always able to show who is ac
countable for its loss. The responsi
bility rests upon the man who has signed
a receipt for the registered package,
and who is not able to produce the
package or a receipt from somebody
else for it. The safest way to Bend
money is by money order. Where it
does not go to a money-order office it
should alwavs be sent in a registered
packajre. Money oi'ght not be sent in
an ordinary letter under any circum
stance. There i no possible way of
'tracking' such a letter."
Chinese Fkee Masonry. A Chinamen
thnsexplained to a reporter the object
of the Celestial Order of Free Masonry:
One Chinaman he bad steal he be
longput him out. S'pose Chinaman
lazy no work put out. S'pose good
work no steal he sick he die, we
cachee box and put him in.
"Have you any limbhorn bonnets?"
inquired a very modest miss of a New
xorK snopueeper.
"Yon don' mean ehorn?"
The young lady was brought to by
the proper restoratives.
Pur Water for Stoek.
Professor Law, in a lecture on animal
parasites, delivered before the Farmers
Club of Ithica, New York, a condensed
report of which we find in the Country
Gentleman, stated that intestinal worms
might find ingress to the animal through
drinking impure water.
These animals, known as pin worms
( Scleroslomum equinum and S. tetracmi
thum, and Oxturis curtula and O. rica
paraj, and which are only an inch or
two in length, attack the mucus mem
branes, and bore their way into them,
obstructing circulation, causing inflam
mation, and inducing cramps, colics and
indigestion. Other species attack
swine, sheep and poultry. Largely
magnified representations of their eggs
were also represented by charts. These
eggs aro swallowed by the animals in
drinking impure water, and hence the
importance of providing that which is
pure and free from them. The eggs
will remain uninjured for a year, and
may be carried miles in streams and
then be swallowed and hatch in stom
achs and intestines of animals. The
eggs will remain unharmed in ice, even
at the temperature of zero, and are un
affected by the heat of tho sun's rays.
They may be conveyed from the manure
which contains them by subterranean
streams into adjacent wells. In some
places sheep have perished in large
numbers from attacks of these animals,
and their presenoe in swine is well
known; but horses suffer most.
Tho first thing to be done is to pre
vent their propagation. Hence pure
water only should be supplied for drink.
Rainwater is safest, as it cannot contain
them. Springs and wells may be se
lected, if situated where there can be
no infiltration. Porous soil, near ma
nure heaps, may readily convey the
eggs. Professor Law pointed out in
detail the treatment of animals which
contain them, and the use of proper
medii-inea. The indications of the pres
ence of these worms in the horse are a
general unthrifty appearance, irregu
larity witli looseness or costiveiies f rm
internal derangement, rubbing of the
tail, etc. The passage of the worms
and 'ggs is shown by examination ot
the manure under the microscope. The
whole of this lecture was scientific and
practical, interesting and instructive in
character. Iiml New Y-i-k".r.
Sagacity of Animals. Trained or
performing horses are no novelty; all
of ns huve seen a horse fire a pistol,
stand on two legs, waltz, lie down with
his trainer, and perform- a hundred acts
of sagacity; but these are simply the
result of patient training and systemat
ic correction. But wo read of a man
who claims to understand the speech of
horses, and who says that they under
stand him. When arguing with him
that, though ho might comprehend the
meaning of the sounds emanating from
the vocal chords of a horse, yet it was
a patent impossibility for ahorse to un
derstand the English language, he re
plied: "Liviug, eating and sleeping
with my horses has given me the knowl
edge I possess; and the same intimacy
has acquired for my horses the powers
I claim for them." Here, turning to
a, slender, light-built gray pony, he
said: "Billy, we are talking of you. If
you understand what I am saying turn
your head round on the off side." The
pony did so, and then resumed its feed.
"Billy," he continued, "tell me your
age, how long you have lived here, and
on which side is your friend Vesta."
The pony whinnied for about two min
utes consecutively, and then, being
loose in his stall, walked into the ad
joining one occupied by the mare Vesta.
Afterward both horses, at their master's
word of command, went and drank
from the trough. This certainly seemed
to establish the truth of the trainer's
claims.
Sugar from Indian Corn. The
manufacture of sugar out of ordinary
corn is au industry that needs no en
couragement to enable it to become a
source of groat natural wealth. It
needs simply the removal of a tax the
tax on alcohol. The Chicago Tribune
saj's:
"We have been shown a specimen of
raw sugar manufactured near this city
from corn. It is white and very sweet.
To complete its manufacture into pure
granulated sugar, alcohol must be used
to remove the foreign matter contained
in the crude product. A bushel of
corn yields thirty pounds of raw sugar,
and this when purified by alcohol gives
twenty-seven pounds of good sugar,
marketable at four cents a pound. In
other words, a bushel of corn made
into sugar would bring a dollar and
eight cents. Our internal revenue sys
tem prohibits this development of the
market for the farmer's corn, because.
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uuiib.o mat, ui more enlightened na-
i : j . , , - . .
tiuu&, is taxes aiconoi destined tor use
in manufactures as heavily as that which
is io oe exported.
A very good rule is this : If you wish
nine-tenths of the milk for butter-making,
and only a small amount for cook
ing and tho table, then the Jersey is
preieraoie Dy lar; but H the greater
pan oi ine mine goes directly to supply
the endless wants of family consump
tion, then some other breed had better
be selected. The milk of the Jersey
throws up its cream so quickly aud so
completely that the milk is nearly
worthless tor any purpose in a few
hours after being drawn, and I have
known CGntlftmPTi tnnort vcitli ntliArwico
valuable animals for this reason and no
other. bciennjic f amer.
A Cincinnati man was terribly an
noyed by a young man who was court
ing his daughter on account of the late
hours he kept. He says that he con
cealed himself and brought a "bull's
eye" lantern, ith a blue glass, to bear
upon him. The lover clapped his hand
to his forehead, gave a wild look around
the room, and, staggering to his feet,
said he felt that he would have to 'O.
And did. The old gentleman states
that the dose will be repeated when he
calls again.
Sprains.
HalVs Journal of Health gives a chap
ter on sprains, which may contain use
ful hints to sufferers from them:
Sprains or strains of the joints are
very painful, and moro tedious of recov
ery than a broken bone. What we call
flesh is muscle; every muscle tapers
down to a kind of string, which we call .
cord or sinew. The muscle is above the
joint, and the sinewy part is below it,
or vice versa, and the action is much
like that of a string over a pulley.
When the ankle, for example, is
"sprained," the cord, tendon, or liga
ment (all mean the same thing) , if torn
in parts or whole, either in its body, or
from its attachment to the bone, and
inflammation that is. a rush of blood
to the spot takes place as instantly as in
case of a cut on the finger. Why ? For
two reasons. Some blood-vessels are
ruptured, and very naturally pour out
their contents; and second, by an infal
lible physiological law, an additional
r supply of blood is sent to the part to
repair the damages, to glue, to make
grow together, the torn parts. From
this double supply of blood, the parts
are overflown, as it were, aud push out.
causing what we call "swelling ' an ac
cumulation of dead blood, s to sneak
But dead blood cannot repaii' an injury
Two things, then, are to be done: to
get rid of it, and to allow the parts to
grow together. But if the finger be
cut, it will never heal as long as the
wound is pressed apart every half hour,
nor will a torn tendon grow together if
it is stretched upon by the ceaseless
movement of a joint; therefore, the first
and indispensable step in every case of
sprain, is perfect quietude of the part;
a single bend of the joint will retard
what nature has been hours in mending.
It is in this way that persons with
sprained ankles are many months in
getting well. In cases of sprain, then,
children who cannot be kept still should
be kept in bed, and so with many grown
persons.
The swelling can be got rid of in
sevt-ral ways; by bandage, whtoh in all
cases of sprain tshonld bo applied by a
skillful physician otherwise mortifica
tion and loss of limb may result
bandage thus applied keeps the joint
still, keeps an exe-s of blood from
coming t. the part, and by its pressure
causes an absorption of extra blood or
other extraneous matter.
Anothe-r mode of getting rid of the
swelling is, to let cold water run on the
part injured for hours.
Asiatic Doctors.
The first care of the Sart physician is
to study your general appearance, and
to ask yon about yonr temperament.
He has learned in the "Tukhpittul Mu-
nimiu, the most common meuicai toos
here, that vou belong to one of four
classes, and his treatment of your mal
ady is governed accordingly. When he
has combined your symptoms with your
temperament, he will pull a bag out of
his "pocket, or untie the scarf which
serves him lor a gmue, and open an
assortment of drugs in twisted bits of
paper, perhaps tasting or smelling to
find the right one, and having chosen
the proper medicine, will give you the
usual directions about doses and diet.
The medicaments employed by Central
Asiatic physieians are, in general, very
simple, being in most part vegetable
substances, but few animal matters and
minerals being used. Thev are usually
taken simply in the form of powders
and decoctions, and when a mixed
medicine is used, the physician deliv
ers the substances to the patient, and
allows him to mix them for himself.
This not only saves the physician trou
ble, but, in a certain way, soothes the
suspicious feelings of the patient, who
might imagine, in case he did not im
mediately improve, that he had been
poisoned by the doctor.
Over-Eating. If the food is wisely
chosen, there is not much danger of
over-eating. Dr. Beard says: It is a
fallacy to suppose that people, as arule,
eat too much, and that most of the dis
eases of the world come from over
feeding. The truth is, that among all
decent or civilized people the tendency
is directly the reverse. In our coun
try, and especially in our large cities,
far moro are under-fed than over-fed.
Throughout our land thousands and
thousands die every year from ac
tual starvation. Some of these unfor
tunates aro little children, whose pa
rents are too ignorant or too poor to
give them what is necessary to sustain
life. But many of them are adults,
whom hard poverty or sad ignorance
has forced into a habit of systematic
though undesigned starvation. Day
after day the vital powers slowly fade,
the strength grows less, the spirit be
comes morbid and the face wan and
dejected. Disease now steps in, attacks
and carries by force some important
citadel of the body, and death follows.
The process is a slow one sometimes
very slow extending, perhaps, over
many years, but it is ofteutimes as sure
as it is slow.
Sugar or Milk tor Diarrhea. Dr.
Talmy prescribes for the diarrhea of hot
countries, from 20 to 300 grammes of
sugar of milk daily. He administers it
in the simplest way; thesugar dissolved
in a little water or as a draft in the
course of the day. Au excellent mode
of administration consists in pnttiegthe
dose of sugar of milk to be taken, into
half a liter or two liters of milk, accord
ing to the habits and the digestive ca
pacities of the patient. The treatment
is9pread over several months, diminish
ing the dose as nutrition becomes more
considerable and ea-sier. According to
M. Talmy's little work (published by
Coccoz, Paris), the endemic diarrhea of
hot climates is the result of a f nm-tional
lesion of the liver, which results in tho
diminution and even the suppression of
the glycogenic function of the liver.
The sugar of milk may thus replace the
glucose which is wanting in the blood.
"GoarERs" is the reckless head-line
over the deaths iu the Chicago Tim.
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