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A DOCTOR'S MISSION "Gliksoy," CHAPTER VII. Ws will now rtturn to look t little Into the we If art of Mr Nevergall and her torrowful niece, after the had reached the homo of their relative, Mr. Charlet Boa-era. In Charlea atreet. Liverpool, and kiddea the handsome young physician farewell, who bad cared for theui botn so tenderly during their paaaage across the Atlantic. It need only be aald, In reference to that farawall, that the teara rushed to the hazel area of Ethel aa aha saw him disappear In the diatance, and a great and loneljr void aeemed auddcnlr to have dropped into her heart. Blie knew not why aha had taken such a deep interest In thia grave and often (re-occupied atranger, but from, the first word of kMness he 'had spoken to her, th first glance Into bta earneat eyes, aha had felt towarda him aa aha had never lone towards any person of the opposite ex before. But now it waa all over, he had gone, tnd henceforward aba ran but learn to do Sltbout him. For day or ao it had al moat aeemed an Impossibility, but with the rapid failure of her aunt's atrengtb her thoughts were forced Into another channel, and her own lonely feelings had to be pushed aaide for the more moment one and Important one of their Impend ing aeparation. ' t ,; y .. ,r , The third week waa drawing to a clost and the young girl had thrown herself upon her kneea by the bedelde of the invalid to catch tiie last worda that ahe had to speak In her ear. At her request, ahe had been left alone with her child, and now, with her hand In hers, she mur mured: "Ethel, darling, I feel that I have but a few boure more to be with you, aa my strength la fat waning; but while I may, 1 wish to tell you what I thought might be kept from your ears until your twen ty -flrat birthday; but as I shall not be with you then, I must Impart to you now an Important secret, and give Into your charge some documents not to be opened until that day. My dear, will you take these papera, and promise me that you rill not break their aeal until that time arrives r "I will, dearest aunt; rest assured I will do exactly as you wish." "The papera I apeak of, then, are In my trunk, Inside a small wallet. Take charge of them Immediately, and ba aura to aotteud to them at the time I mention. Now, I must tell you a fact that I have Withheld from your knowledge for tiie test of reasons, and In order to keep a solemn pledge of secrecy given to your father when a babe. I took you, aa you art aware, when a child of a few weeks Id, aa my own had died, aa well aa my husband's alster, who waa your dear . Bother. "You were ao young, and to be so en tirely ours until your twenty-first birth dsy, that all thought It best to call you by our own name. I now tell you, for tht first time what has been kept secret. Your father still lives, but for various reasons did not wish to claim you or be known to you until that time. I have Informed him of my husband's death, my falling health, and of my return to England. I have also given him Cousin Bogera address, who will tell him where you can be found when that data arrives. . "I will only add that there la nothing to be ashamed of in your birth. You are a true gentlewoman, and when twenty one will come Into possession of property sufficient for your support; but this fact Is not to be generally known. Four months will elapse before that time comes, and I can leave only enough to bury me and purchase auitable mourning apparel for yourself. "I dare not leave you without a pro tector and guardian, and as our present host Is poor and has a struggle to pro vide for his own ii chlldreu and wife, I have written to my brother, Sir Regi nald Olendennlng, asking him to take charge of you. I told him unless he did, you would be obliged to earn your own living, and I hated to send you out Into the world alone for such a purpose, 1 asked him if you could not be of use in ome way to him, until the tifth of Oc tober, when you would be otherwise pro vided for. This letter must be sent af ter my Interment Let him be notified of my death and Invited to my funerul; then, after all Is over and your mourn tng garmenta are made, tend him the let ter. "Now, my lore, I wish you to promise me that you will go to him if be sends (or you, and aasiat bim In whatever ca paclty ha offers, even though it may be distasteful. Will you do this for your lying aunt, Kthel, my child' "I surely will," waa the low reply, aob- bed out almost witn a wall; "but I can not think of your dying. O, auntie! I have loved you ao, bow can I live with out youf "'Aa thy day, ao shall thy strength be,' Is all I can say. God will comfort you, and In a few more montha your father will claim and protect you. But what la this? I cannot aeel 1 am grow ing numb coldl Ethel Ethel I am sylngl" She spoke no more, and as Mr. and Mra. Rogers hastened back to the room at Ethel's hurried call, they aaw that , aha waa Indeed breathlug her laat. Ethel mourned, aa one with aucb a loving heart would naturally do, over her great lose, but amid all her grief ahe remembered distinctly every direc tion the bad received from those loved, dying lips. The package spoken of vrpt bidden Instantly amid her own possee- ' alons, and a message dispatched to the baronet The next day a telegraphic dispatch summoned the young girl Immediately to the presence of the baronet, saying "that be waa 111, and needed -her at once," An hour later saw her seated In a rail way train on her way to the Hall. Poor girl i shs tittle knew what awaited her thersl CnAPTEIt VIII. "Has she came!" asked 81r Reginald Olendennlng of Lady Constance, aa he distinctly heard a carriage stop before the door, and his own coachman's voice peaking to the horses. "She has; ahali ahe be brought direct ly to your presence??" "Yes; and tee to it that no one enters tills room until they are summoned, aa I wish to see this girl alons. Do you hear? Alone 1 entirely alone I" replied the baro net Lady Constance withdraw, and very oon reopened the door to other In and present to her sick husband Kthel Never tall, hit sister's adopted niece, then In stantly retired, closing the door behind bar. Vary beautiful looked the young girl aa she stood by Hit aide of th bad, BY EMILY THORNTON Author of "Roy Rcssbll's Rule," "Thc Fashionable: Mother," Etc. her heavy crap veil thrown back, re vealing ber sad, tweet fact and large, pitying eyes. "Oh, air!" aald the, after an eager, yet half haughty greeting. "I grieve to set you to helpless 1 Have you just been Injured T "Yes; this morning I was thrown from my horse, and am to lie here helpless for months, I aent for you then, in an swer to a letiter received a few moments before the accident from my alster, writ ten before ber death. In that ahe aeka me to give you a home for four months In return for any service I may wish ren dered. I aent, because I need assist ance Immediately of a very peculiar na ture. Art you willing to undertake it, at a fair salary?" "Probably. I can tell better when I bear what the duties will be." "Before I tell you that, I wish you to hand me tht email Bible you set upon that table." With wondering eyes, Ethel handed him the book. "Tht duties to be performed art of a purely confidential nature. No human being must know what I tell you. . Wife, nephew, niece, man servant, nor maid servant must ever know that you do more than read to and amuse me, write my let ters and attend to my daily business af faire. Tht true duties will bt perform ed iu half an hour each tvenlng, alone. Will you swear on this book to keep my aecret?" . . ' 1 , - "I will swear. If you will aarurt ma that these duties can bt dont with a purt conscience, and that they art perfectly proper for mt to do." "I assure you you can do them with perfect propriety. Will you take tht oath?" "I will," cama from tht Hps of tht trembling girl, reluctantly, . It must bt confessed, but still cams, because of tht promise given to her dying aunt that aha would not refine hla offer. "Then kits that book, and repeat af ter me there worda; 'I, Ethel Nevergaln, swear I will tell no peraon tht nature of my nightly duties, and that I will per form them to tht best of my ability.' " Again Ethel shuddered, yet did as he required; and, after kissing the book, repeated tht worda. nit down, and come very close, to you enn hear, while I whisper the secret Now," he continued, "listen to me In tently. I have in my possession a very rare animal, out tntirely unknown. It It tht property of a friend, and I am secretly taking cart of It for him. lie It absent now abroad, searching for mora wonders to add to a collection. On his return he is going to exhibit all, and ex perts to rtallit a fortune by doing so, which 1 am to share. Now, although wealthy, I love money, and always have: therefore, I take every care of this crea ture, In order to obtain more gold. No human being, aava myself ami ita owner, Is awaro of its existence. It la bidden In a ruined part of this house in fact, In a concealed room, the existence of which no one knowa but myself, and In close connection wll'h, but not In, a place wt call 'Tht Haunted Tower.' What I wish you to do Is this: I myatlf have alwnvs fed this ape, or ourang outang, for It pos sesses some of their nature, and If he la not attended to ht will atarve. About ton every evening you art to do thit for mt. " basket la always standing In a cer tain place In the ruined part A peraon I pay well comes every evening, under a promise or. secrecy, and puta food In It. You must get thia baaket, go through a long, covered corridor that connects thia tower to the main building and opena directly Into a small hall, or passageway near your room, and the door from your room Is hidden by a wardrobe. "Open It, and paaa through, taking a knife of a peculiar shape that you will find in a bookcaaa drawer in your room, together with plenty of candles and matches for your use, also there; and to this drawer I will give you the key. "You will find several of these knlvea put there, for fear one might accidentally get broken. Takt one, with a lighted candle, I say, go down the pauage to tht tower, then count on the wall from the door that leada up the tower stairs, back ward, three pnnele, Into a seeming crack that you will tee there Insert tht knife point, and then turn it around three times, when tht panele will fly apart, re vealing a amall opening, where a set of revolving Iron shelves will be teen. "On these place tht food. Water la In the room, where the creature can help hlmtelf, as ht wishes It Keep and re store the basket tn lta place; alao be sure and keep the knife. Push then the shelves, and they will turn slowly around, and come back to you with the plate empty. "After thia, replace the panel and rt turn to your room silently. That will bt all for about two or three weeks, when I shall add a email service, such as plao Ing a light of a certain nature In the tower, and winding up a little machinery. Will you do all this?" asked he, eagerly. "Yes," halt moaned ths poor girl, whose aoul shrank In horror from the task; "It you assure mt I will not bt harmed by tht beast." "You never will. He Is chained to a heavy iron bolt; beaidea, thia room he la in has no wludows or doors, being light ed from ths celling, and there la no mode of reaching him, save by those shelves. I could not; you can never eveu ses him, or be seen by him. When my friend rt turn, and wanta him, wt will unscrew the iron ahelvet, and so take him hence. "Will you atay now, aa he must be seen to this very night?" asked Sir Reginald, after a pause. "You can aend for your trunks when you wish. I will pay you twenty pounda a mouth." "I will atay." "Then please ring the bell you tee yon der, aa I must Inform my wife." The bell brought a footman, who. took tht desired message, and Lady Constance soon appeared. "Mis Nevergall la to remain. She la to be my amanuensis, reader, and aaset you and .the nurse generally, in my cart. I wish tut room next this prepared for her Immediate use." "Why that one? It will not bt wist to put her thtrt." "Wise or not, there the goes, to aava It In readiness." o CHAPTER IX la about an hour a servant maid en tered, to tay that tht room waa la readi ness. Taking op her bonnet and wraps, the young girl pasted through the front hall Into tht room adjoining, which tht found exceedingly beautiful. It had evi dently alwaya been exclusively a guest hanker, and so richly was It furnished, that ah guested at once why Lady Com stance bad objected to ita daily net. At toon aa tht maid bad withdrawn, Ethel commenced an examination of tht Implemcnta Blr Reginald had mentioned. Tht bookcase bt had spoken of abt knew had been carried thither from tht library for her ust since her arrival. The draw er to which he had given ber a key of a peculiar shape waa a secret one, found, at ht had whispered, behind the books, and remembering bit directions, the pro ceeded to open it, after carefully locking her door. . ' : There lay tht three tlngularly shaped, Urge knlvea, with long, sharp-pointed bladee, there, alao waa a china candle stick, wltb three or four down wax can dles. Matches were in a large tin box, ready for constant and Instant naa. Refaatenlng tht drawer, and replac ing the books, tht young girl proceeded to tht wardrobe on tht opposite tldt of tht room, and unlocking it, tht taw at tht back a door bolted on her tldt, which gave her an Immediate feeling of se curity. Softly drawing the bolt slit looked out Into a small passage that led merely from ber own room to a almllar door inside a wardrobe aha bad aeen in tht baronet's. These two rooms communicated with thit littlt pasaageway from tht Inhab ited part of tht houst, and tbest alont. Directly opposite her door waa a smaller one, which aha at once knew must lead to the Haunted Tower, and deserted rooms, belonging to this singular old mansion. Retreating to her own apartment through the wardrobe, Ethel bathed her face and hands, amoothed ber hair, and once more turned towards the room of tbt invalid. At Hit threshold, however, the met old Mra. Fredon, the nurse, who had been in the family for yean, who whispered that the baronet had fallen aaleep, therefore, ahe might walk around tht grounds If sht chose. Feeling that the fresh air would revive her shrinking spirit, Ethel tripped down tht broad staircase and stepped upon tht piazza. Aa aha did ao, she almoat ran against a gentleman just entering. Raising her eyes to apologise, the found herself face to face with Dr. Elfen stein, the kind friend that aha had part ed with a few weeka before. He was as much astounded aa herself It seemed, at her unexpected appearance. "Ia It possible that this can bt Mist Nevergall?" "It Is, Indeed; but I can scarcely be llevt thia my friend, Dr. Elfenatein. How Is It wt meet In thia unexpected place and manner J" "I wat about calling on my patient, Sir Reginald Olendennlng, when, instead of being received by a servant, Miss Nev ergall comes flying towards ms. How Is It you are here? I sea by your black robot that your aunt must hart pasted awayl But corns out upon the piazza, aa you were about to do, and tell ma of yourself." Passing from the door to the shadow of the trained vine,- followed by tht phy sician, tht young girl related the occur rences of tht 'last few weeks. "Did I understand that you were to re main here some time?" "Yes! I am to bt Sir Reginald'! secre tory, amannensls and reader. For this, and helping to amuse him, I am to re ceive a good salary, and will have a home for tht summer." (To be continued.) 13 OUR PACE TOO FAST? Weakness of ths Heart Ascribed to Too KspU Llvlas. Tha New Uavan physician who, In recent sdilress before the American Therapeutic Society, ascribed the weaknesses of the heart and tht cir culatory system now so common among certain classes of men' and women, to tha high tension of modern life, waa douttlose well within tht truth. W keep up a fast pace very wher, In our effort to keep "in tha iwlm" of business and society, gaug ing everything by tha cl ik and rush Ing from one appointment to another at literally electric apeed. "If w are actually alck," aald thia physician, "un. lew we are aerloualy 111, wt fight and wrettle with the disease, whatever it may be, Instead of calmly giving up and allowing the disease to ba tem porarily maater of tha ceremonies." "And even our children," declared the same speaker, "are early infected with thia feverish, headlong baste to do something. They aea too much, do too much, are amused too much, com pete In school too much, ara taught too much, are awakt too much, for the welfare of their nervous systems." All thia, or omerhlng very much like It, haa often been aald before, but the warning needs repetition, and perhaps, by and by, some will hear, and heed before ft ia too late. With all our many and ver-lncreaslng applications of electricity, we need to remember that the law of human organism re main the same, and the human ma chine cannot ba run on tha electric motor plan. A great deal of ths etren uoslty displayed in modern life ia totally onneceasary. Quite at much could be effected In the long run by taking things mora moderately. Les lie's Weekly. t Money In llc'lroadlng. A New York boulevard car waa go ing north one day recently when, with a sudden jar, the current was thrown off and the passenger were bumped rudely together. Ths car cam to a standstill. Tha motorman, aays tht New York Timet, threw open the front door and ran bark to the conductor on tha rear platform. ... They exchanged a few words; then both ran through tha car to the front platform. Every passenger sat mute with surprise., Suddenly the car start ed, and then backed. Then it started again, and once more barked. Then It stopped. Off jumped motorman and conductor, and aa the astonished pas sengers looked out of the windows they saw the two men down on their hands and knees, trying to crawl un der .the car. rreaeatly, with an ex clamation of delight, tha motorman, covered with mud and grime, alowly emerged. Entering the car and hold ing up for Inspection a ten-dollar bill, be said: "Excuse ma, passengers, for Jarring you and keeping you waiting; but I cam near running over this ten-dollar bill, and I hated to do it and leavt It for tht motorman on tbt car behind me," Tbt Hfia Thing. Patience And ahe aald ba fall ot her feet - ralxice Oh, well, If bt fell mt. whfrt In tht room It would bt near her feet Yonkert Statesman. ntolilt 1st Kosal. Folly 2,600 parsons commit soicids la Russia tvtry year. FATHER, GO WITH ME," Sent up to bed la the dark, alone, Wher all of the corners were weird and dim And tbt ahapea and tha shadows awaited him ( At every turning my little ton. Sent for aomt childish mischief dont At the hour when childish hearU art high With Joy of the evening's revelry And his fault at worst was a tluy onel 1 wistful moment his feet delayed, Waiting to let my face relent, And then, a pitiful penitent. His faltering, frightened way bt made; But np In tht stairway's deepest shade, I heard him pause where their shad ow crowd And whisper, "Father," and sob aloud, "Father, go with me, I'm afraid." Quirk as his calling my answer leapt, Strong at hla terror my shielding arms Folded him close from tha night's alarms. Sheltered and comforted while ha wept; Up In the nursery's light I kept . tender watch till he smiled again, Till the sobs of his half remembered pain Lessened and hushed, and tha baby slept Father of Iovt, when my day is dont And all of my treapasaee written In, Not for a thoughtless or willful sin Send me out In the dark alone; But so aa I anawered my little aon, Come to the prayer of my pleading breath And lead me aafe through the sight of death, Father of light, when my light is gone! Washington Star. eeoeeeeee-eesseseeeeeeea MILLVS FORTUNE. WHOSO craventy flies mart dl. comfort oftentimes runt Into danger. John Hardy proved tho' fact when, In an effort to escape the bustle of preparation for hla aunt' (Mr. QraJiam's) big party, ht took a tempting wood path and cam all unaware upon two very pretty girl. One stood, the moral and pattern of Impatience; the other, half bent, was eagerly aearching through tha graaa and tangle of the pathslde, now parting It greenery with two slim white hand, now letting the hand fall at her aide, while aha stooped lower, peer ing at tome small, bare space. "I ca n' t com, Betty I" he heard the searcher aay plaintively. "You know the bracelet's my mascot Aunt Helen said so when slit gave it to ma" "A mighty poor mascot," Betty re torted. "I'd throw It away rather than wear It rubbishy tiling. Ifa ten years since you got It and we art just ths same poor as church mice yet bound to live up to the Morris name. Be tides nothing but bad luck could bang about thia little old ugly cameo." Hardy drew back embarrassed. Evidently ba waa hearing things not meant for stranger ears. He waa on the point of running away when a cry of triumph, turning quickly to ter ror, arrested him. Instantly be darted forward to see the mascot's owner upright and rigid, staring at a twig wher ber bracelet hung just above tha head of a colled and hissing snake. "How ever shall I get It?" tha girl demanded, raying her hand appealing- ly on hla arm, while Betty looked on aghast Hardy smiled down at her, made a stroke or two with hla stout can, flung away tht writhing reptile, than picked the bracelet out of lta green ambush and held it toward lta owner, saylug easily, "There Mis Morris. Now I claim a reward. You are to give me the first three waltzes to-night." "Why! How do you know?" Mlll cenyt Morris began, amazed. Hardy looked at ber with twinkling eye. "You forget thers la a (peak ing likeness of you over Billy Gra ham's mantel at Yale," ha aald. "That reminds ms Billy's my cousin I'm John Hardy at your service and Just now seeking asylum from my natural r unnatural protectors." "Then com home with us. Ask lis Betty Betty's head of the house," MUly returned promptly. Hardy looked mtreaty at Betty, who answered it. hospitably euough. Thus five minutes later he found himself walking be tween tht two Into an adorable old garden, and on to a big, white silent house, the very picture of restfulnesa. "Yea, It ia nice. I love it all every ttlck and stone and blade of grass," Uilly said when he exclaimed over the charm of everything. "That's the trouble," she went on. "I want to live hers always, and Billy says when w iirt married and settled down It will have to be over there. Ha ought to have Betty, not me. She like things new and gorgeoua and well kept If I had my fortune I wouldn't change much hereonly put sound posts to the gates and plant orchards and yea, and have a brand-new rose garden that shouldn't put our old flower out of countenance) " "Don't talk so. MUly. Mr. Hardy will think you're out of your bead. Sht does got a little that way when you start ber on her fortune," Betty said, half severely, half apologetically, tha last words, of course, to Hardy. For a minute he did not answer he waa staring Intently at the cameo In the recovered bracelet "Let me look at that please," he said, holding out his hand for It "The carving Is peculiar still I seem to bavs seen It before." "No, you haven't" MUly said con Hdeutly, but handing over the bauble. "There I just one more like It, and Aunt Helen had that Her ship went down, with all on board that's why I haven t got my fortune. It's some where, all In gold and jewels, but Just where nobody knows or can find out I'm named for bar daughter that died. The brace! eta were carved for poor Ooualn MUly. Sht made the design herself. See, it's a star, and a new moon, with flower dropping down. To think of baring everything you want and dying at twenty." "It la rather tragic," Hardy admit ted. Then for fir minute be studd tha cameo closely, and at last gave It back with a face pale and preoccupied. Rallying, gallantly, ha talked brightly through half an hour. But one again la the woodpath ht sat down for a sturdy wrest! s with bis own aoul. Ht THE LARGEST TIMEPIECE IN THE WORLD. GREAT FLORAL CLOCK AT ST. LOUIS FAIR. Diameter of dial 112 ft Length of minute band 70 ft Diameter of the hands scrota tha center 10 ft Minute hand mores each min With It delicate mechanism hlddan in plants, flowers of all sizes and colors, the largest and most wonderful timepiece In tiie world has been placed In front of tha north entrance to the Palace of Agriculture at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. In a maze of vines and foliage, skilled arti sans hare constructed machinery similar to the works of a watch and the floral timepiece will keep as correct time a the most delicate Instrument rer turned out by a Swiss watchmaker. Tha clock la Just sixteen times larger than any timepiece of. which the world haa any knowledge. The disk contains a circle of flower beds one hun dred and twelve feet In diameter, and the hands are long, green pointers, tht largest of which moves five feet a minute. Tbt floral arrangement was planned by the chief of agriculture of the exposition and his assistants. Th minute hand alont weight 2,500 pounds. Ured orer again tha day when tha sea had cast up treasures at hla feet He waa alone It waa seven years back, after a phenomenal storm. He had stood ait tha very edge of the hungry breakers, watching them rave and roar, when It swept tumbling In the brass bound oaken chest, full of gold and bank notes and precious stones, unset many uncut There had been no name, no mark anywhere only at the very bottom of all, wrapped In silk, a brace let, a slender hoop of gold set with a fanciful cameo. Ha had half smiled orer the pattern of It, even though he knew some heart tragedy ley back cf It H had not told of hla find search for owners of such treasure-trove seemed so helpless. He had meant to ask hi uncle's advice, and be govern ed by it Then that very night came the dispatch the good uncle was dead, and Hardy his sole heir. Altogether Fate seemed bent on forcing him to keep what he had found. He had kept It, accounting for his change of estate by a true story of inheritance greater than he had had the right to expect Now, h knew where the bulk of his fortune belonged. Almost he persuaded himself to hurry back to th city, take out the accusing graven stone and pound it to powder. Suddenly, somewhere high above his head, a robin sang clear and gay. Th sound brought back to him a country church himself a rest less little boy, sitting at his mother's side, and suddenly growing calm aa to gether they got to their feet and re peated in unison with the rest the Lord's Prayer. "Lead us not Into temptation, but deliver us from evil." It rang In his ears like the voice of a friend. He bad flung himself face down upon mossy turf. Instantly be was up, and racing back toward the Morris borne fast aa hla feet could go. There he burst In upon Mllly and Betty, wild eyod and white-faced, but Joyous in deed, told them everything making no reserve even over hi temptation and how he had been saved from It, and wound np with: "Now my soul is at peace; I can dance and be happy. Let things stand until to-morrow, please! It would be cruel, almost inhuman, to sitring a sensation such as this, and eclipse Aunt Harriet's party." "We would never, never do that,' MUly said Joyously. "She hates me enough as It is because Billy likes me. She thinks, as I do, ba la quite wasted on me. Indeed, she said to him when he told her we ware engaged: "Oh, yon idiot! Why didn't you take Betty?" Billy asked himself fehat'questlon be fore' the party was over. He got home an hour before the guests assembled. Betty was easily far and away the star of them. All in filmy white, with strand of dull red coral at ber throat and twined In her golden balr, she was ao ravishing it ia amall wonder Billy's callow heart wavered. In the third waits he capitulated lost bis head entirely, and was only saved from making himself a pretty spectacle by Betty's superior poise. Betty was shrewdly observant she had read Hardy 'a fact Ilk an open book while he waKied with Mllly. So she man aged H that the four of them should meet In a shrubby nook outside the dancing tent There things stralghten sd themselves, with hardly a word spoken. But next day, with the great news of Mllly's fortune, the world beard that ahe had lost a lover and gained a brother in Billy Graham. San Francisco Oa'J. BIBLE WRITTEN IN 73. Multiples of This Figure Becnr Rlgulfi cantljr in New Testament. -The phenomena of the figure 7 and Its multiples, occurring In the New Testament have been touched upon by Ivan Panln, a Russian student of the Bible, who for a number of years has made his horn at Grafton, Mass. This significance of the 'seven" group will not be lost even upon tho super stitious who are outside the pale of scriptural points, and, as Mr. Panln baa ahown them, their relations of their groupings to the first eleven verses of the New Testament must suggest that they were scarcely chance. 0 For Instance, In these first eleven reuses of Matthew, the vocabulary con sists of forty-nine words, or seven sev ens; of these words there are twenty tight, Q four (evens, whlcbbegln with ute B ft Weight of minute hand.. ..2,600 lbs. Weight of bell .7,000 lbs. Diameter of bell at mouth. 70 In. Height of bell 60 In. vowels, and twenty-one, or three sev ens, which begin with consonants. "This distribution by sevens be tween vowel words and consonant words justly might bare been deemed accidental but for the fact that of tha forty-nine words forty-two of them are nouns six sevens and seven are not nouns," is the comment of the writer. "Of the forty-two nouns there are tnirty-nve proper nouns, or Ave sevens, while seven are common nouns. Of the thirty-five Droner nampa fmir mt ens are male ancestors of Jesus and seven are not such. Not only then Is the distribution of the forty-nine words of the vocabulary by sevens as between vowel words and consonant words, but also as between the parts of speech." As a further and absolute proof that these phenomena of the sevens are not accidental Mr. Panln points out that the forty-nine words of the vocabulary show fourteen words that are not used but once, while thlrty-flve of them, or five sevens, are used more than once. His conclusions after an exhanatlv or. rangement of the "seven" features are that "Not even the choice of the lan guages In which the scriptures were written was made without marked mi. m erica I design at the threshold of ths subject" Substitute ior Pumice. Artificial pumice Is made in onantl ties in Bietlghelni In the valley of the nnx in Germany, which is said to bt a valuable substitute for the genuine stone, according to the New York Post. it is made from ground sandstone and clay, and there are ten kinds, differ ing from each other In rearard to hard- ness and grain as follows: (1) a bard and a soft kind with coarse gram, particularly useful in the leather, wax cloth, felt and wood Industries: tti a hard and a soft kind with medium coarse grain, suited to stucco v.orkers and sculptors and particularly useful for polishing wood before It Is nalnt.l- (3) a soft, finegrained stone for the white and dry polish of wood and tor tin goods; (4) one of medium hardness with fine grain, for giving the wood a surface for an oil polish; (5) a hard, fine-grained one for working metals and stones, especially lithographic stones; and finally pumice stones with a very fine grain. These artificial stones are used In pretty much the same way as those of volcanic origin. For giving a smooth surface to wood, a dry stone is ap plied, but to give it a flna polish the stone Is dipped In oil. For the fine work no coarse-grained and for coarse work no fine-grained stones are used. The unreliability of pumice, both In grain and hardness, variations being noted even in the same piece, suggested the Idea of replacing it with the artificial product Yes, If Yon Do It Daily. I ran hard to overtake a street car recently and asked a physician upon the car whether it waa a safe thing to do, "Yes," be replied. "If too do It every day." Here is a point in regard to vigorous exercise. If we pracUet running daily wt strengthen tha heart and lungs and no Injury la done, pro viding we start moderately. But If we make a desperate run onlr ones u month we are liable to overtax the heart and If the heart It not In a healthy condition are liable to lose our lives. It Is possible for a human being to endure great strain, great coid, great heat, or great misfortunes of everr kind providing be accustoms himself to sum manges gradually. The firemen In the holds of ocean steamers enduro for hours at a time heat in which those unaccustomed would perish in a short time. Tht Esquimaux of thi porth can lead a comfortable life for long periods where an ordlnarr man unaccustomed to the cold would (inn perish. The lesson 1 then that what ever cnanges w mak w should make moderately, thus accunrnmlnv ourselves to th change. It Is advised that consumptives and others should sleep outdoors, or in rooms with th window well raised even on cold nights, but remember that thia change must not b made suddenly from a hn room to excessive cold. Aa Improvement. "H boasts that bt cam from a good family." "Well, I dont doubt that if a good deal better tine b cam from It" Philadelphia Bulletin, j GEO. P. CROVELL, i Successor to K. U Smith, awblisbed House In toe valley. 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