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JOB PRINTING people's prim LV.&E. T.BLUM, PUSLI3HEB3 AND PROPRIETORS. i mm n bis r.2 U swrs wfs S 1 l irinufy s-svi4. sa U lUi'.y rar4 l wa n:s Brf mill, CAfiTCH. a a rss VERY LOWEST TRICES TEr3lS:-CASH IX ADVANCE. $ noted to ftoUBts, giftntert, ggritvlfart, fit gjxrlels tni merit gnormifwi.' 0n Corr one xw, - - . n , , . . .11.80 , " lx mr.Jhii, .75 - three " M v as s truj w-r lwc t'J ar o5" VOL. XXXIII. SALM, N, C.?; THURSDAY, MARCEL 19, 1885, NO. 11. ' EARNEST LIVING. Daily living seemeth weary To the one who never works ; Duty always seemeth dreary -To the one who duty shirks. Only after hardest striving Cometh sweet and perfect rest life is found to be worth living - To the one who does his best . C. M. Sheldon. DR. TRIFULGAS. JCLeS VERXE'S LATEST FAKTAST. The rising gale whistles. The rain comes dewn in torrents. Low sway the trees under the blast that sweeps the Yolsinian shore, and dashes its fury against the slopes of the mountains of Crimma. The rock bound coast is rent and riven bv the tempestuous billows that surge and foam along the vast Meg alocndasea. In the depth of the bay nestles the little seaport town of Luktrop. It boasts " a few hundred houses with greenish mi radors sheltering them from the winds of the main, and four or five steep streets that look mdre like the beds of a moun tain torrent than public thoroughfares. Not far oil smokes the Vanglor, an ac tive volcano, which by day belches forth thick volumes of sulphurous vapor, and by night fitful floods of flame. The cra ter; seen fully one hundred and fifty1 kertses out at sea, answers the purposes of a beacon, and guides home to Luk trop the coasters felzanes, verliches,- or balanzes that plow the troubled waters of theMegalociida. On the other side of the town afe heaped up ruins of the Crimmerian era; while the suburb, of Moorish aspect, like an Algerian fortress, with its white wails, round roofs and terraces calcined by the It was heart-rending and horrible to hear the old hag's voice, and to think that the wind froze the blood in her veins and drenched the very bones under her skin. ' "A fit, say you! The fee is two hun dred fretzer," rejoined the heartless leech. - Wc have butjone hundred and twentv. . "Ltooa-nignt, tneni Ana once more the windows were closed. On second thoughts, however, he came to the conclusion that, for an hour's trot and half an hours attendance, one hun dred and twentv fretzers made sixtv f retzers an hour one f retzer a minute ! It was small profit at best, but not quite to be despised. So, instead of getting into bed, the doctor slipped himself into his velvet suit, hurried down stairs in a pair of thick water-proof boots, muffled himself up in a large overcoat, put on his gloves on1 annnrAetan nvrl lAntin Vv and sou'wester, and. leavinsr the lamn sun, seems a huge pile of square . stones thrown together at bap-hazard. The whole mass looks like a cluster of dice, the dots of which have been worn away with age. ": Among other peculiar structures may be seen an odd-looking building, called the 8ix-Four, from the number of its window's, six in front and four behind. A steeple rises above the town, the square steeple of Saint Philfilene, with its bells visible through the open stone work, and when these are swung (as they are at times) by the violence of the storm, it is accounted a bad sign,, and the good people of the place are filled with fear at the" omen. Such is Luktrop, with a few stray houses on the heath be yond scattered amid the broom and. furze, as in Brittany. Luktrop, how ever, is not in Brittany. Is it in France? I cannot say.. In Europe? I do not know. At any rate it were useless to look for ! H; Ti r. nln.n T. .v I til Tap,, tap ? . A discreet .. rap , is heard at the narrow door of Six-Fcrur on the left hand corner of Messagliere street. A comfortable house this, if such a -word is known as Luktrop, and one of the thrift iest of the place, if to earn on an average a few thousand fretzers a year be a sign of thrift. ' A ferocious yelp, something between a balk and a howl, as from a wolf, has bghted on the table near his Codex opened at page 197. pushed open the door of the Six-Four, and appeared 6n the threshold The old crone was there; leaning on ft sticky her frame emaciated by eighty years of misery. "The money, " said he. "Here ; and may God return it a huu- d red fold!" 'God? the money of God? one seen its color?" The doctor whistled Ilurzof, put a email lantern in the dog's mouth, and bent his steps toward the sea. The old hag trudged on behind. ' Good heavens, what weather I The bells of Saint Philfilene sway to and fro under the headlong fury of the storm, an ominous portent, as we know. But Dr. Trifulgas eschews all superstitious no tions. The fact is, he believes in noth ing at all, not even his own science ex cept for what it brings him in. What There, outstretched on his dying bed, lies the sick man, with his head outside the counterpane and motionless, like one about to breathe his last. The doctor bends forwar:d Ah! what ghastly scream is that which rends the air, and is taken up by ;he dog outside with his sinister howl ing? It is not Vort Kartif, the cracknel-maker, who is the dying man, but he, the doctor, Dr. Trifulgas himself ! he who is smitten down with brain fever he, and no other. Full well he knows the symptoms. It is cerebral apoplexy, with sudden accumulation of serosity in the cavities of the brain, and partial paralysis of the body on the side opposite that where the lesion exists. Ay, it was for him assistance was bo- sought, that one hundred, that one hun dred and twenty fretzers were paid t He who. in the hardness of his heart, had refused to attend . the poor cracknel maker! It is he now that is dying. . Dr. Trifulgas raved like a maniac The symptoms increased every minute. Not only were all the functions of rela tion dead in him, but the beatings of his heart were nearly gone, like the breath of his lungs.. Yet he had not lost all consciousness of his desperate strait. What -shall he do?. Diminish the mass pf the blood by bleeding t i There must be no hesitation, or Dr. lias any ; Trifulga9 is a dead man. Thle- j- botomy was stul practiced in volsima, and there, as here, the doctors rescued from apoplexy all those who were not to die from its effects. Dr. Trifulgas seized his case of instru ments, took his lancet, and punctured veins on his duplicate self. No blood, however, spurted from the wound. He rubbed with all his might the chest of the dying one, but le found that the pul sations of his own heart diminished; he AN AGENT OF MORMONS. lorsuczva XAarssom ami. nil WZTX EIX. TO WISE WORDS. TRYING TO RIDE A CALF. burnt the other's feet with hot bricks. but felt his own feet growing cold. Suddenly his duplicate starts up in his weather, to be s ue, anl what & road! Dea. struggles wnaiy in tne last throes Nothing but shingle and slag the shin- j gle slippery like seaweed, and the slag j crisp as clinker. And no other light to sec by than a tremulous flicker from Hurzofs lantern. At times strange, fan tastic figures seem to toss in the flames that swell from the mouth of the Yan glor. There is really no telling what lies at the bottom of those inscrutable craters. Perhaps the souls of the under world, that volatilize on reaching our at .mosDhere. The doctor and the old hag follow the line of coast that runs in and out of the small bays along the shore. The sea is of a livid whiteness and sparkles as its billows hurtle the phosphorescent fringe ! ; of surf that seems to pour wave on wave j j oi glow-worms upon tne beach. ' Thus both rush on till they reach a'; ! bend in the road between two swelling , ! .1 1 V. J T, V. I eir biaaes together lute so many oayo ; nets. , - j The dog has drawn nearer to his mas- J ter, and seems to say : f "Well, what think you? A hundred I J and twenty fretzers to place under lock j i and key in the safe ! That's the way to I build.up a fortune! 'Tis another piece! ' of ground added to the vine enclosure ! ; Another dish added to the evening meal! ; Another bowl of food for faithful Hur- j zof! Nothing like attending rich pa-! of suspended breathing, a rattle is heard in his throat, and Dr. Trifulgas, with ail his science, falls back dead in his own arms. The following morning a corpse was found in the nouse known as the Six Four that of Dr. Trifulgas. lie was placed in a coffin and conveyed, in great pomp, to the cemetery of Luktrop, after the manner of the many he had already j sent there. ; As for old Ilurzof, I am to'd the falth- ful beast may still be seen, with his lan ; tern relighted, scouring the heath and ! howling for his lost master. If this be I true or not, I cannot sav. Yet so many strange things do occur in this Yolsinian country, especially round about Luktrop that I; see no reason to doubt the state ; ment. At any rate, let me ask Of you ! once more not to, look for this town of i Luktrop on the map. The best geo i graphcrs are still uncertain as to its exact I position in latitude and even longitude. Paris Figaro, translated fr' The Argo ; naut. i Salt Lake's Mew TIlMleaarr 7Ieth4a Tne 8terr a Mew Haaipaalre rhfalclaa Tel Ills FrteaJ. , " Halston," a writer for the New York Times, while journeying in New Hamp shire unexpectedly met a former school day chum, now a physician. The newt- Sapor ma accompanied his friend, the octor, to his office, and continues his story as follows: : I was soon made acquainted with my genial friend butory since our parting. He told briefly of hjs tuccesa and his mauly ambitions. During our conversa tion he was always a close observer of events and something of a philosopher he happened to run his eye along the columns of the weekly local sheet. He read out a few sentences of a livelr edi torial on Mormonism, and then threw the paper aside in manifest disgust. "Pshaw!'1 said he, "that man knows no more about the Mormon church than the unborn babe. Tnis popular idea that Mormonism is on the decline, and that its apostles and cmissariev-ims-sionaries they call them are a brutal, degraded set of men, is all bosh. Some six years ago I spent four mon'.hs la Salt Lake City, and had a good chance to no tice some of the practical workiags of the svstem built up by Joe Smith and Brigham Young. Of course I detest that sy&tiem, and believe it to be unut terably bad; but ' these loud-moh'.bcd goody-goody people who are continually dinning into our ears their scarlet cries of Mormon atrocities become simply sickening. I tell you that Mormonism will become a big factor in the land un less it meets with more skillful opposition than it has encountered. "Do you see that house yondet over the way i e had been Bacchus baa drowned more than Nep tune. The more a man knows the leu he believes. Be charitable and lndulrent to every one but youraelf. ' Learning by study must be won; 'twas ne'er entailed from aire to ton. . The more a man speaks of himself, the leu he likes to hear another talked of. " It is not genius to much as ability that carries one through the battle of life. . . If jou are determined to live and die a lave to custom, see that it is at least a food one. -The excesses of youth are draught upon old age, payable with interest, about thirty yean after date. He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a very -long head or a very short creed. To most men experience i like the sternligbt of a ship, which illuminates only the trick it has passed. The life Is long which answers life's great end; the tree that bear no fruit deserve no name; the man of wisdom is the man of year. A a man ye and no. so his charac ter. A prompt yes or no mark the firm. the quick, the decided character; and a slow, the cautious and timid. The beauty of the face la a frail powi siou, a short lived flower, only attached to the mere epi Jcrmi, but that of the mind Is innaU and unchangeable. t IIEALT1I HINTS. window recess, and he drew my atten tion to an attractive frame house, with old-fashioned bay windows bulging from its sides, just across the bare January ex panse of village green. "Well, there a sort of latter-day story attached tp that home. It has come within my personal knowledge since I settled down here. Perhaps you'd like to be bored with it. I replie 1 that I was wholly at his dispo sal, and the physician, sinking back into an easy chair, lazily Swung his right leg over one of the rests, and looked teward expectant me with a rather solemn ex- it is aaiu mat a garj;e maae oi ttroe; black tea, used cold nijht and momioy, is an excellent preventive of sore throat. For hiccouvh. moisten crnu!ated standing in a sugar with good vinegar. Of this give snjXXTTTT. rux om a Totnra rixz UOTM 1 to an Infant from a few cralst to a trapoonful. The effect is almost instantaneous, and the dose seldom need to be repeated. Haie reports at length a singular rase ot headache that had long resisted treat ment, and ws finally cured only by strict adherence to a vegetable diet. Meat seemed to act upon the patient as a veritable poitoa. Dr. Hodg Ion recommended the follow ing recipe for nervous headache: It Al cohol diL, 4 ounces; Oh cincamon, 4 minim; rotas., bromid., a drachms; manry name. Russians and Serfs. answered the rap, whereupon a window i tients and loosening their purse-strings!" atove the door of the bix-Four is thrown open. p A young girl, shivering in the 'rain, with a so ry cape thrown over her shoulders, inquires if Dr. Trifulgas is at home. "lie is or isn't all depends "I come for my father, who is dying." "And where is he dying?" "By the Yal-Karhious, four- kertses from here." "And what's his name?" "Vort Kartif." "Vort Kartif the cracknel maker." "Yes; and if Dr. Trifulgas would only " "Dr. Trifulgas isn't at home !" And the window is brutally closed in the girl's face, while the wind and the At this point the old woman stopped She directed a finger, which shook like age, toward a red light some way oil in the gloom the house of vort Kartif, 1 the cracknel-maker. "There?" laconically put in the doctor. ! "Yes," responded the crone. ! Just then the Vanglor, vibrating to its I foundations with a noise like thunder, j threw up a mass of fuliginous flame, that mounted to the zenith and rent the clouds- Doctor Trifulgas was thrown j to the ground by the force of the con- j cussion. Regaining his footing, he ! looked around. The beldam was gone, j She must have fallen through some deep crevasse iu . the ground, or taken flight i on the floating fog-clouds of - ocean. The dog however was still there, up- j knoced Um Dr.' A. Wrieht. in his "Adventures in Servia," tells thU story : Savrimovitchf Mouravioff, and I were silently smoking i under the shelter of our hut, when a bul- let whistled between us and passed out ; through the leafy wall behind. We ! started to our feet and rushed outside. A number ef soldiers were standing or sitting about engaged in cleaning their j rifles, cooking, etc. Mouravioff de manded furiously who had fired the shot. A heavy, stupid-looking fellow was i pointed out as the culprit, whereupon j our friend strode up to him, and seizing j him by the collar, asked him sternly what , he meant by discharging a loaded rifle in camp. The soldier sulkily an swered that he had only fired his piece in the air, and did not' know there was any harm in that, whereupon the rough-and-ready Mouravioff replied: "Idiot! Don', you know that when you send a bullet 'into the air it is likely to come down again, like this?" and striking him on the head with his cyenched fist pression upon nis usuauy joviai ceunic- . KlL hyoscyam. fi., 1 1 drachm. One or nance. i . . ! two teasioonfuU as required. "One family," he slowly Lgan, "ha j ' , . , . . . lived in that bouse for three o four . A W-T. . TV'.k Up' r X,e ""J generations. Thev used to point with I "ck,J fh,Ii' lf hf! .of a deep red some pride to a long lt of Koglhh yeo- lor-. Uw"et.of Inscribing tonic in- who Lad handed downitncir -y- " , . T .V i V. They weren't rich, thty weren't j ul e Jr-lf.t i Z rua you poor, but exceedingly good represents- ( .WJ live ofthat class which snob call 'mid-j hid extract cf cornlk Is recom dlc. When I first came here the old , mended in the diarrhea of typhoid fever, gentleman called frequently upon me for It i also aaid to be a heart tonic, and U professional advice, and before long I , R'Tea in the low stages of pneumonia for became rather intimate with the house- this purpose. Professor Durham says he hold. I have seen some prettt women, j has no doubt of its good services in thi my boy, but I doubt if I ever came acrov i latter condition of the disease. JltaltX such a beautiful specimen of femininity as Susie, his daughter. Fhe was an ex ceptional type of the New England girl Hazel eves, looking out with innocent and Home. The Prisoner and The following the Blackbird. we take from surprise under well archei brows, rip- 1 Michael Davitt a "Leaves from a Prison pling chestnut hair clustered over tlie Diiry:" For sonic months I relieved the whitest of temples, a figure graceful and tedium of my solitude by efforts to wlo well fashioned, and hands and feet ns tbo confidence of my companion, with well shantd as were ever an v of a sultan's 1 the happiest results. He would sUnd houris', completed a beautiful persona tion of maidenhood. She had got the finishing touches of her education at Wilbrabam. and struck me as being t f that dreamy, romantic temperament yoa newspaper chaps like to dUcuss. "No, I wasn't In love with the girl, open, out. "Nevermind; let's go on," mumbled Doctor Infulgas. pocketed the one hundred and twenty fretzers, and must needs earn them. A solitary light is alone visible in the farer approaches, It is a singular and noteworthy fact j to observe how much the house of the cracknel-maker looks like the doctor's Six-Four, at Luktrop; there is the same I arrangement in the front windows, and j the little vaulted door at the side. Doc- tor Trifqlgas strides on as fast as the ! driving gusts of wind and rain will per- ; mit. He' reaches the door, which is aiar. i ! pushes it open, enters, and the blast closes it behind him with a bang, lhe , dog outside howls, or is silent, by turns, j How very strance! One might almost j be led to suppose that Dr. Trifulgas had come back to his own house. But this cannot be. He took no wrong iurni on the road, nor dm he lose his way rain outside mix their voices in a deafen- ! S- on nis haunches, his mouth wide in din ! open, and the li"ht oi the lantern blown ! A hard man, Dr. Trifuleas, with but j little feeling for a fcl.w creature, and one who attends a patient only if well paid in advance for his services. His i old dog, Ilurzof a cross between a bull and a spaniel- would have more hea than he. The door of the Six-Four re mains invariably closed to the poor and open only to the rich. He has. more over, his scale of prices; typhoid fever, so much ; brain fever, so much ; so much for pericarditasv and for as many more diseases as doctors choose to invent by the dozen. And Yort Kartif, the crack -nelmaker, is a poor man, with a penniless brood. Why, then, should Dr. Triful gas bedevil himself, and on such a night? "The rousing me from my sleep," snuffled he, as he went to his bed again, "is alone worth ten fretzers!" Twenty minutes had scarce gone by than the iron knocker again woke the echoes of the Six-Four. Grumbling the doctor got out of bed,, and from the window growled : : ' "Who is there?" ' . " "I am Yort Kartifs.wifc." "The cracknel maker from Val Kar niou?" "Yes, and if you don't come he'll die." a "Well, then, you'll be a widow !" ? "Here are twenty fretzers- " .1 "What! Twenty fretzers to go to Yal Karniou, four; kertses hence'?' "For God's sake, come!" with an oatn the winaow was gain slammed. . "Twenty fretzers," muttered he; "what an idea. Run the risk of catch ing a cold or a lumbago for such a sum, when one has to attend to-morrow morn ing the gouty but wealthy Edzingov, at Kiltrens, whose ailment is worth fifty . fretzers a visit." With this pleasant prospect, Dr. Trif ulgas sought his bed and went to sleep v as soundly as ever,. - 1 Rap, rap, rap! Three blows from the knocker, struck with a firm hand, have this time added their rattle to the noise of the storm. The doctor, startled from his sleep, got up in a towering passion. On opening his window the hurricane came in like' a whirlwind. "'Tis for the cracknel maker " . "What, again that wretch?" "I am his mother." "May his mother, wife and daughter, all die with him!" '"Tis a fit" "Ay, and a tight one, no" doubt," chuckled the doctor. "We have a little money," said the old woman, "an installment on the old house sold to Dantrup, the drayman of Mesfeagliere street. If you don't come, n'.v grand-daughter will be without a 'atber,' my daughter without a bnfcbacL over. This severe treat- mentj caused some murmuring among the soldiers, who were already begin ning 'to tire of Russian discipline. A : sinster rumor that many Russian officers The honest man had j had been treacherously slain in battle by i some! of their own men whose ill-will i they had incurred was current in camp, ; and it was undoubtedly true that Rus ; sian officers frequently treated the Serv- distanc. half a kertseaway. It is, doubt- j ians with great harshness, but consider less, the lamp of the dyingj or, perchance, ing the rawness and inaptitude" of dead man, and yonder must be the ! the material they had to deal with and cracknel-maker's house. There can be ! the absolute necessity of enforcing dis no mistake, the old hag pointed it out. : cipline, I do not think that the kicks And 'so saying, with the noise of the ; and cuffs that I often saw them bestow storm in his ears, Dr. Trifulgas hurried; upon their men were unmerited. Again, on toward the houie, which, standing : although the unwarlike Serbs murmured alone in the midst of a wide heath," is t at being dragooned into discipline they more distinctly perceptible as the way- . secmea very soon to regain ineir equan imity. They are naturally too good na tured and easy-going a race to be vin dictive, and therefore I believe that the heavy losses among the Russians were due to their reckless valor and not to Servian treachery. Nevertheless, many Russians I met firmly believed this rumor in spite of the indignant denial given of it by the Servians. ITaw favnvttlAl la Sf A M Camphor is made in Japan in this way. After a tree is lellea to the eartn t is cut into chips, which are laid' in a tub r a large iron pot partially filled with 1 water, and placed over a slow fire, . i i j i t : . sieam siowiy rises, sou. m-aung me No he is certainly at al-Karniou and ; chi 1? n ftnd of not at Luktrop. let how comes it his i, v.. - eye dwells on the fame low, vaulted corridor, the same winding staircase and the same massive wooden railing, hand worn like hi3 own? He ascends and stops on the landing. A faint light comes from under the door. as at the Six-Four. course, the tub with the chips has a closelv fitting cover. From this cover a bamboo pipe leads to a succession of other' tubs with bamboo connections and the last of these tubs is divided into two compartments, one above the other. perforated with ! the dividing floor being is it 8LS1BuI B u , " X pass to the lower compartment. The recoirnizes his own room there the yel low sofa; there, on the right, the old oaken chest; and there, on the left, the iron-girt safe, in which he had thought of placing his one hundred and twenty fretzers. Yonder is his arm-chair with its leather tassels, his table with its con voluted legs, and upon it, by the flicker ing lamp, his own Codex, open at page 107. ' "What ails me?" murmurs the doctor. What ails thee? Why, thou art palsied with fright. Thy eyeballs start from their sockets. Thy body contracts and dwindles in. size. An icy sweat chills thy skin, on which nameless horrors seem to creep. Quick, or the lamp, for want of oil, will go cut, and the sick man die. Ay, the bed is there his own, with its pil lows and baldachin a bed as long as it is broad, and. the closed curtains with thpJr inrcrH inwrouerht flowers. Can this a upper compartment is supplied with straw: layer, which catches and holds the camphor in crystal in deposit as it passes to the cooling process. . The camphor is then, separated from the straw; packed, in woouen ,tuDs ana is ready'for market. The oil is used by the natives for illuminating and othex purposes. Druggitt. Beef With an Onion Taste. A gentleman from the country brought in some fine beef not long since and sold it to several families. The next morning several households had steak for break fast, and the several ladies were asked why they had put so much onion with the beef." Each one denied the charge in totd.and the cooks were hauled up for an investigation. The latter said the "sperets" must have done it, for they "kno wed nothing about the ingerns." It was afterward ascertained that the been feeding j..- i. f rmor cracknel- I cattle OI mis iarmer n&u maker.. . Trembling,, the doctor draws j inj a pasture wnere onions grew in ..r mills -the curtain asme, ana .pew sicvu...vv. "v- . -' i t and she was never more than fru-ndly ; with me. - One thing she lacked. She hadn't the self-assertion, independ ence, or whatever you want to call it, i which we associate with most ew Lng land girls. Two jcars after I had won a little practice for myself and coulu begin to enjoy some of life's comforts even In this retired spot, the town was- excited over the arrival of a distinguished stranger, a Mr. Charles Hentley. Hcntley engaged the best rooms at the hotel, brought ample letters of introduction to some of the best people, and speedily developed into a rocial lion. He was one of your tall pale-faced chaps, bad a manly car riage, and was soon a favorite with al most evervbodv. My instinct, however, seemed to tell me that there was some thing more about the man, something hidden and concealed. One night as 1 was coming up the street the hour was sufficiently late I saw the stranger in earnest conversation with Susie, who seemed to be opposed to what he was urging upon her. I thought first of playing the role oi eavesdropper, but gave up the idea and walked past to my lodging. How often since have 1 re crretted that hesitation ox mine on a point of honor. "Two davs later the village was stirred by the news that busie had. run away from home. It was true; she had fled in the company with the pseud o Charles Hcntley. Her lather found in her chamber the morning after the flirht a note saying that she had Tesolved to de part with Mr. Hentley where she could lead a better life than the soulless exist ence she had hitherto passed; that it was useless to attempt to fallow her, as she was already a member of a great sect, and under the instruction of her teacher would soon become initiated into the mysteries of newer and more sacred rites.' ; The letter was calm and passionless, and closed with some natural expressions of affection to the writer's parents. Susie was evidently under a spell. I had occa sion to visit Upper Canada not long after this event, ana told .one of my friends this story ot our village disappearance. My listener closely questioned me as to Hentley's appearance and traits, and finally informed me that the abductor was a notorious 'missionary' in the pay of the Mormon church. This was a rev elation to me. busie s departure was fully explained. You want the moral of my tale f It is this: ilormonlsrn -has taken anew departure; the ignorant and illiterate, the merely animal and muscu lar are no longer the need in the taberna cle. When we read of she society girl who wins a titled foreigner it means some times more than we suspect. The church has wealth enough and now seeks refine menL Its strides will be fatally rapl.l to our civilization, too, unleas some newer and sharper, sturdier opposition is placed in its war. Women in our Atlantic cities ladies the world calls them suscepti ble to flattery, ready to fall the victims of men whose talent are sold for Mor mon money, are drifting toward the great city of the desert in number greater than wo think. Who shall u gest a remedy I cannot say." upon my breast as 1 uv in bed in toe morning and awsken me from sleep. He would ierch upon the edge of my plate and share my porridee. His familiarity was such that on showing him a small piece of slate pencil and then pUciog it in my waistcoat pocket, he would imme diately abstract it He would perch uion the ease of my slate as it was ad justed between my knees, and, watching the course of the pencil as I wrote, would make the most amuing efforts to peck the marks from off the slate. He would fetch and carry" as faithfully as any well-trained dog. Toward evciiog be would resort to his perch, the post of the iron bedstead, and there remain, silent and still, till the dawning of another day. One evening as "Joe" sat upon hi Ix-rch it appeared to me to constitute iini chairman and audience of a course of lectures; and with him constantly be fore me as the representative of my fel- low-creatuirs, I jotted down what lhava substantially reproduced on the following pge. Early Xaa la America. According to Professor Brintoo, of the Academy of Natural Science, many important traces of esrly man arc to be discovered in the Mississippi valley. Near St. Paul besins the mwdiSd gla cial drift of an intermediate glacial pe riod. Fifteen feet below the surface ia U are found stone implements and re mains of workshop. In i'atsgonis re mains of fires, tools and implements of bone were found. These thing indi cate a somewhat advanced stage of civ ilization and were left by men who lived here before the horse'was extinct. From these things it is inferred that a race, with race types and charactcrutics, ex isted here as early, if not earlier, than elsewhere on the globe. The character- lines oi ine v iucim.u im i iviut ij ing from copper to white: ti2 hair and littlool it; forehead retreaung, com pressed at the sides, and low; eyes straight; noses dissimilar; mouths large; chin round, small and regular: expres sion hard and unpleasant, lhe seies are much alike in appearance when they do not wear garments fashioned lor la purpose of distinguishing them. The higher the development of man. the more pronounced is the uisuncuon oe- tween the sexes. in- ttttf, I Railways are about to invade the Holy Ua1 U icreril UuwUcsi, Killing the Canine. The lost and starving dog ia London are carefully couccieu ana men to a "home, where, to the number some times of 100 a aav, they are killed by process, that which none could be mora humane. Alter oemg given a neany meal, they are placed in cages, graded according to sue as nearly as possible, and with the vicious dog by themselves. The cage are then surrounded with an atmosphere charged with chloroform and bisulphide ot carbon, in one or two minutes sleep falls upon the animals. often stertorous, like that or men ia ua easy attitudes or when dreaming. Thev be cm breathing fainter ana fainter, and in six minutes are dead, Thrlr bodies are then buried in heap of bog moss, so prepared that decomposition is com pletely perfected within a week from interment, Th relative proportion of nutritive elements in one hundred parti of dUTtr eat kinds of animal food has been esti mated as follows: Beef, SS; mutteo. 29 chicken, 27; pork, SI; brain. SO; blood. 21; codSsh, 21; whits of egg. 14; milk, 7. bce,5l. ' Am Ills 71 - Has a ralllar esl wltk ! rarsllas raiimsa A VIUI apsl!. Mrs. Mulkittle had promised the boy that lf he would be goJ, he m'eht ac company her on a visit to a friend ia the country. The youngster rcmemberol th promise; and sometime at alght when he said his rrsTtrs, be would ia terpolate the protocol of "Now I lay me down to sleep, ana throw in a few suggestions of reminder concerning the vis. i. bra the day arrived. Mrs. Mai- kitt'.e decided that the bov had beea good. The excitement of a bogjy rids, the objects of ioUrvat aloojr the road a rabbit jumping amoeg th briar and a squirrel that crowed the road and ras up a tree, mad him shout in mcrrimeat. Sister Carolir I'sttersoa. whoa they visited, was delighted to are tbem. and ber son Avery, when he saw young Mul kittle, took a "duck fit, a his mother eipreed it, "Now, Willie. said the an i iocs moth er, you must not go near the horss." "Nome. "And you mutt not ro down to the creek." Nome. "Come on, B'.ll, shouted Avery. 'You Avery P said Mr. Patterson. "Well. hv don't he come ooT "Dccaue hi mother is talkie to him." "Don't go ia the m?d. contlaued Mrs. MutkiiUe. "I ain't. " "There now, run along and be a rood DOT.- The two youngster went out to the lot. "That a fine calf," said Molkittle. "You bet he is," Patterson replied. "WUh I had thought about it aM brought my saddle. We would ride him." "Who ever heard tell of aa ybody ridia' a calf r - T"1jsi mirvlf. tiwf rLfsn f star n 1 sr at ttit a calf like this here is belter than a ho. Don't need a saddle, only it easier. Don't need a bridle, either. Want to ride him around the lot a time or twoP "No, not thi time. Wait till I com nest time. "Ho, you are afraid, that's what. "No, I ain't. Ye,jouare afrali. Bet jour life if I waster to come to town an you waster tell me that 1 wa afraid t tide anything. I'd bop on him too quick. i ou wouldn t do to lire ia the country. lou haven I col the sand, loti are a coward, that's what. ".No, I aia t a coward. I red a bos by myself. "Anybody can do that. II o, a baby can ride a ho." "Weil, if 1 had a bridle an' saddle I'd ride him. "What do jou wast with a bridle an saddle! That's the way girls ride. Do you want to ride like a girtP "Girls ride s'J sways, but I don't. "Come on here aa let's drive him up in the fence corner. Come up, Yo-i nee ln't ride him unless yoa wast to. I ain't beggia you to do it. The calf, a Iaxy looking thing, was eaily driven into the fence corner. Pat terson went up to him and began stroke his bead. "Git around there. Bill, an' climb on the fence. Now doot you are how putty you could throw your leg over him. I wish I had a boy here that wasn't a coward. I believe yoa are a girl aav. how." "I ain't a girlT Indignantly replied the visitor. "How can I git on him when he won't keepstillP "Now he's stilL There, I kaowed yoa was afrsiJ. Mutkittle, still hesiutieg. stood with one foot on the fence and with the other on the calf a back. " Wbv don't now yoa got him I Hold him! Whoop r The calf lowered his head and with a ba r r, darted across the lot, Mul kittle veiled, and the next aomral Lis mother emerged from the house. Just before she reached the lot,th calf threw the vounrster. With a shriek the fright ened mother ra to him. II was act hurt, having tMog oa a pile of leave, but hi mother seized him la her arms and carried him ia the house. Why did yoa get on that calf; yP "Av-Av-Avery made me." "Didn't do aav such a thing, maw. He said that if he had a aadile he would ride him, an I said that he could at If he had a saddle, aa' he said he could rid him anyhow, an when the calf went in the corner be ciunbed on the fence aa I tried to pu'.l him o3 and he jumped en th calf and Young Mulkitll could stand it no lon ger. Springing from his mother side, he struck Avery ia the face, salted him by the hair, jerked him down between a trunk and the wall and before the ft cited women couli drag him away, be Lad kicked Avery and blooded hi fare. When the boy had been separated the women drew themselvr up d looked at each other. "Don't you asy a word to n! aaid Mrs. Patterson. Oh. dont be alarmed." Mrs. Molkit tle replied. "I have no desire to talk to s ssm t a woman wno has rjcn a son. idn io kill my poor child with a calf. "My son is not a murderer, and yours It," snapped Mr. Patterson. "If you don't like that Mr. Patterson wiU setUe it with your husband." "Oh. uv nusbsad, likt mr son, is quite enough to settle any of the Patter son. Good da v, madam, bowtag w&b mocking grace. "I shall never eater your boue again, and when Tou come to town to spend a few days, as you euen do, I hope jou w ill remember that w are not keeping bouse merely for l&e ac commodation of country ciod-horprr. Good-day, madam," Arla 7eswr. Many r4nlU now have the nwf muscle of the risg Is get cvt for mjih fmdoca. The reescat emperor cf Rsi Is ee f th stroetest men In lis rtsj ! herculean in hridssla. The oldest parrot lahshiuat Is oad by Dr. Uawman, f Mtorfc tVak. Pa. The bird I sevcety five, but as spry as ever and a rood ta'krr. The Urge Rma mail U still estea Ij CoatineaUl epicure, sad csUcd a great delicacy. They are tdtfl ia sssil bou and led a common wiuie rrr- An ksgUt&man declare last i uful ia shsorbiBg the gerras of d -seise and in pee eating the spread ef ; detsW by its dtilsftjcn ef carbon aid s-lrhsir. A fcu-e lemon was recttuv ptcara ax thi no a or TMooviit OswcAJ scj4. As! sskv u4 s if, Asd sVO-r 41 ss4 IUw A4 tWy wwf atfC Iss a?ri, "A Ibry st Ur -. TVt WtMd rt ttiX Is IW ml c-cm;X And IU e'j wl m r. 1W5. At srWv c4j mrnXt. Tit th sw-l sl rj iw sre TTV. Xml If 4 lX lnr tl Sbs TTUrk wwJi .- V ra. Pansjofre, TU. Umxvrl twenty- four inche la elrrumfcTVK ene w y. tweety-two lach the other aid ;VJ four pousdt, thirteen oaace. The juke of thecuriou lak f-Uatof New Greeade re-iuirrs no rvpars!iia before beinj used fv wriuar. The eclor I rrtidUh ahea tril applkd to psprr, but sooa become uep tsk. whkh is verv darrUe. The lok Is used for publio records J docutsests. Crocod;. ftrmtar tetoma'comaon. The Isrgesl aaim are k4l sad skinned, their ch lis ad to feed their buerrv descendsa'a. That tJe teediag r iser a f ao mean d.itsa sion is shown bv the fact that t own ers of one cf then sup4ed a Uaaer at M. Louis d uriaf the current j tar wi'.h ao tea than 3.0 allies! or skias. Th Tukhaa wss aa arUr em rioted bv the mdksaaUl of Netth I'Jg Und asd SKotlaad, some haedrvdsot vtar aco. ia order to obtain the tail from tew milch cow. It was nra!f ski a. stuped tit to fesembW a tslf. wi'h head bent forward. Th.s rlm.:.:!e fa calf was brought ul at asi'.kta; time, and while the cow s'.ool qi e-.iy rails: arouai at the ?r-rd c' b de her. the artfal t&t.kmsid oa the other aide was securing the muk whkh the unsuapectier cow m rvMrviag f her calf. The "TulcLsa" U losg titer obo.ete A tsh found nowhere In tie world is the r;J-a trout of Krm itiver. California. I:s Ceh Is bans and set, b it it Is noted partkuUriy for the ! tiful color whkh Cske iu si Irs. tookirg as though they had tn sutmitted to a coating f g-old foiL The lajo .iai rat say : "Thi pe-euUsriiy f co'or std their d-stisct specie t prrserved by a Batorsl barrier eiUtieg Urtaeen tbew and the other varklfc whkh are f4l la this trtxk. A erk ef high asJ rockT fsJU t re reel cthet fsij fro asceadiag and tnloUeg a ilh thin, sad so, from grneration to grnetatioa, they Lave, by m aalursl barrier, been aMe te presrrve lhlr distlact cha?atr. At lirtr some ,f them b deKal ed loto the loer course of the stream, and n tai-l tribr, csaUiag the speckled and golden trout. bs U fartnd. lad if ideals cf ahkhareoftea Aal sw Vt t ja aX sJj. rtriWcW wr t'.a ay, l tus ssrtsv J-K sswt," saw sail wiA rra. "-) raail3s laiUrs as lbr?.m AUtl aalsU'kf ' trt s3 t s ff k f re s awsiir a "!. Or fcat fvU MJ le oar f r tr lis sbp tm Um4 rwj1 t- H,f ! t-f ncsoc OT THE DAT. A great ws a d c t wL A roIUsg a tv- a-l tabl p?L- (;ht. W A sr k s! M.asi ic . U U a prsctki easy be cs. 'td. U lts icg t!rf, a iiae. There is a )- Use joe boaa." ssv the prt. ll l bm ef ; j 1 sis js r alter. ManUe ts4r 1 j,!y sja. nvrn sotai!htlifc i le-lsxy to jvolace rsm.fe lsli lt Cver. TVe csts-tl i the ea'i U 1 e jeua te ber site, slur l.' sic to a seta ttrsrs.rg to fisy U-e wis. i a3 iwr A Clstiststi ed.Sev clsStb l bse re a p veted I tu.tfl AaL M-e jt4.aUy c.s- C4ghL Us rreat the 014 Werl. It ill no doubt be tews ia scry taaa j thrali well la forme! ba.iSi tc learn that a-by no tncsas lsij:awa&t Krcecure of the e-r uI in AtV to j are not laid by Ataetkan hens. Wh;k the UnitcU !stc u aaaai;y seoauf more meat and larger qcaatitk of brrai stuSs abroad, the iscrvied lapotili f egg his teen corns poadio-ly gTS- Th busioesa was started oa four five year ago. hae heg been an ci port article f letmaik. The lapov tatjoos for the Cnt year was not Urjr sl a ready ceaxket was fosod. Ibc ice realiied were higher than those obtained ia EagUad. for this reason the number sol to New York larger than the foliowleg year. The ia crease ha anoosl'y been more t&ukcd. Not only iVonvsrk, but IV : -iunv, Gr manv. IlBarsrv. and eta poUad have coatributed to the supp?. T-gj from Denmark, boa ever, are held .ia great! fator and comaisad the b g!-l ptxe. e rr is Lr They are received here durUg the ext. re jrsr, wit a the eicepuoa l i&e .ot sum mer month. They are Imported, ordi narily, ten months in the j ear. the great portion daring the period from Ocwbet to the middle of March. Th Import l oss sre greatly arreted by the weaiher. Ills said that th ;g prrpaml In lime on the oher sJt of the AtUatic re suptrir to the limed" ef g f thi co-aatrj. Tbetefor the rt iaporta tioE f limed" egg lroht wiiila three to five rent of the price f fresh docnestk. Now the dlfc rrace Is much greater. As the Lenten roa ap MturhM the rcice are not very wd anart. The eurtlf f freh smaller and the demand rrrsur. peaa limed" eg sIl akgJ domea tk. and ia some lastaac the former have the advseur ia ptk. This Is ia twrt due to auaair. bvl malaly to the isct that those froo some foreign caa tries, especially Deaavark, are sorted aa J graded ccocdig to site. Thi U not done in America. The price the far have ranged front aitUen to twenty two cent prr doren at wbo:aale. Bat it U not alone ia 'Ussed' err that importer dcaL large nuaa'.ttK of fresh egg eome over danag the colder weather, sad are brocght iato sharp competition with the dos axvke. rggshavsbeea free ef daly fr masy rears. They were a the free list ef the hi trU and remained so a the l re visioa. The forelga egx am easily Ls tlaroishcd ia the who4rsa trade, se Ueycome packed ia case of t.'lt doxe each, larger than those la use in this country. Cut three I noh.rg to dene the dJlerencw in the retail trale. It is ciaiaoed thai the Ltrcpeaa erg are card almost titluit'T for cook is- pupose. .v r too. covrmj last soe uw Mt e taa w- net ctsct y Lie brta. Pearl fcctk-arrs artdoaa tbrsp th-s star iLat a ae can be ba!t foe lJ.fX lejib g stesi te fssxe th poor e&aa. ' . The lt li-'.t g te girt je:r tty is foriienrs," rttMk a i'tilt. Th.s Is psrtifistar'y the te if jo.r enrtsy hsjpr lo l ls.-gr itaa J' are. The drrsol ss z.m:'r aorn by the grooa at tW e.ty wedi.sg; "V.t for tte tlorrfictl, th Ikusioa Tr .-r '.rr et.iag l.sc tLl Cil aay." PmJal Arthur gor Itoosewith a deep, dark stmt ia L.s bosKa. No tasn kros who ss e-n Mr. Arth-r' i4rr t-iic.. (Vr vfrsu iVhr aid jour fcistrvs rrlKfaf" askrl the caikr iail IVst tasls-ta wssouU I'sal say. sr." saii Jac. Wba sle sefcds tarn dea to m? s o.t, I ca never be sure." i:erjthir la it flare -A fauh a the fsce is thoerht to itlms c' beas'y. bt a ich rx th loons of the sm.I boy is an st irrl ort.walko, tim Tirj4. An artkle in n New I rater U kraifvl. "How to Vwttf Mra " The f:hr of set ervl easm(rrfcb.e dsvrS ter la th riiy ha ad4 i tie f is of rvacUag lhrs wkh thtr l. V . ,vwC to at f U r. Aat r- v m U "' St. swl t4 turn . ?" tr; As ty fy fc4 rB IxaJoa jeopesr t bo" I a w4 fair s coni;l; of jrs Iksk-t. It U a!s to prsolkt tht lb aasrrs sJl t Clamor for lh Ull5-5-s"s -l Mriy hll lo place cn riLUUiML-.Yrrfr Jit' A prulrtt tasn sdied bis druakn srrvaat lo pt by his mvmy I n rs-a day. Is a few fks bs bsr is?- rl Low Dwh be Lai d. -Ki:h. a t ats:f.sil be: "i rised jcturly aal it ail ett." A boy, diisg f -e a skc&k, la L castrr Coiity, I r-s., f4i a lao of ra:aeral whkh o4d ssiser ser lo be gclj. That jit a boy" lock; ay cUr fr son woull bate found lhe skata, He bal hired a w srt.l wbra b wat dass to lb Sk ia the saoralsr, and on h- rttaia h'.ae at a ffhl asked: Well. dear, is the m r" r-C l rirhtr 'Hwaitef iaatlo bc.r irs," wss Use prompt atsa. iVsf. iai s UJ rrm f stTkat s U bat wa,Ux ft SOtJKTVf llauthrrx)!. S4a4 Ttsa wsOrin S wWs sjs Lte t4. HriJ rVwvWr. ! The first Ntwsasfer !!!estrUa. Arcord'.sc te a both oa the -.htt i-.it I tsld Iron Ar Ik AaelraU. So very few ankle of iron of waques tiooabl antiquity have been discovered amors th remain of aacicat Egyptian art, while Meet of broai hav been brought to light in abundance, that many hav doubted whether lrcn had been Introduced into Egypt before the time of the Pto'.mie. Uot it U very certain that other and nefghboriac T" plea, who never reached no high a stag of civUixatioa as the Egyptian, knew well the manufacture and uses cf Iron, and It I scarcely possible that the builder of the monumental work of 1 1 Egypt should have neglected so useful a tactah Beside there are cheaxkal rea son why th irca remain are so few &4 the bronze re'.ic o msav. Yt It would seem that the aacieat tgrptlsa had a marked preference foe beetle wsaoeaa, implements, asd pra start Is Ws The TpetTarhy r Ue Braia. Abuadaat troof ha been adJoced f th fact that the beaia nsay te Laaikd, irritated or partially desire jrd without ftecrasery damage to bfe. tae ef the Utrsl drtclopoxat f this saetbod of lavrstlgation ha been the discovery f those crater la the octet whkh prea-le over voluntary naoCoa. whkh Tae Wen, ss ore est-tsi!y by Professor Terrier. diScrealislsd and locaiirrd w.ih rrvst I precisioa. Thia imponaat kaow Wdg La been arrirrd at bf an i leaded se- rie f eiperimeaU condocted on linsg sa!f&ala ia whkh, by Wrvlxr the sev eral tit or destroy lag tlsi:ed area of tSie braiaa the difrrrat faacUoea cf ttm local; fee have beea dettrslae A toeccratby of the certbrea ha the been ceasirocted. La which the varioo fsroltir fcav beea &FPd oct. .Ve- Isrr. la Ijosic-s. it p;war that the 2ort lo 111 atir! Uaponatl or special tumtt evta: as snawb arlier n&adclhaa ay are aaare. The frst atutapt lo iUatate the a cf the dy srrsc te bs'S brew saad ia 17?. wbea a lrt ca "Wo J Ne trm Wsies" eurtttCv lliattraud s f.;od that orc-srre4 In Mos9uthhov. Anocbrr tract, la tb ssae year. fc teres floods In !cwTsirulie sad York Tbrr were ocbra. in lClt sad the bars . s g of T irrua at. 4 J W derfthe Wdk Witter." Pstorvte l.bwu with lb ear" wfodcsjSSrr were na-rier, l4tr aai rck., w sw and then n s-spMnitfcra tUihr. w Uthrr f ghost or tbe'.eor. Tbre wre 00 try good c!t In nl 1UX, or to beig a'coaaird worthy tbe p-v f a taodrrn U aVtrslrJ par. Tw tmfaper that atirtjd rrar'y 19 i::irs: frsirr ci r. fs Xrrxrt. Crwas, yvUWl is Lnit dsr.cg lb civd war. r r-s;a wrr . " . s . m m m .a. CU-srvi ss eariy -a aia r cv an '.a drsslxg ef tbeseatef war In It:?; n 1.4 tie iHU a Jmrl gat a .n cf lb baiil f CoIklen, The Baak ef Trs-nr ha aa tavus-li TV toa f His, In Siberia, populaueei ef l&i, asd act a teraoa la iht tsw can nnl or wris. i.Io la a rs-rr so that at n sigra l15 4lbr asy soirretel caHomM w.3 tntcsaCf be b picture taken w.Ocl knea'iedft. The W-efl del ts lb c the cirrus r.tg is th Cml Cf. eeaast b. a4 bs a n V Lac he th kk, fo.r