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at if-: 1 1 r,. v.; The Little Dark Doctor. From Harper' Bazaar. The doctors all said that Ladislaw must go to Europe to recover his health, and Ladislaw said I must go with him; but it was necessary that ha should travel with a physician, who would watch the variations of his pake, and a friend introduced him to the "little dark Doctor," as Ladislaw described him to me, who, having been overworsau mmseii, needed a vaca tion. On my part, I had my chaperon to be snre a widow, not too old and not too frivolous, who knew how to be blind at discretion, and who was at the same time, so dreadfully near. sighted that she could hardly distin guish a flirtation from a quarrel, and who, moreover, never made her ap pearance on deck after the first day during the whole voyage. I found the Doctor a great convenience, you may be sure. Ladislaw said one would suppose I was his patient; but Ladis law always exaggerates a little about such things. Our passage was long and rough, and Heaven only known what I should have done but for the little dark Doctor! If I wanted an ex ira wrap ana one always does cn shipboard or a book, or my chair moved, he was at hand. He read to me on calm days, he sang to me little Spanish and Italian ballads on moonlight nights; he beguil- eu me witn anecdotes of his profession when we sat upon deck in a heavy swell, with our chairs lashed to the house, and the spray driving over us that is, unless Mr. Pinch, the English gentleman who had made our acquaintance through Lad lslaw, stole a march upon him, and erected a canopy over my head with his umbrella and mackintosh, or gave me his arm for a promenade on the tipsy deck, 'the doctor, however, lavished his attentions upon me with an air which made one sensible that he would do as much for any woman kind who happened in his way; that there was nothing personal or par ticular in his devotion. Perhaps I divined his feeling from the perfect case with which he made himself at home with me, as if I were merely a companionable cousin or other indif ferent feminine relative. Shall lever forget that pitch-black night "a very Walpurgis night," the doctor had said, earlier when the engine stopped sud denly, like a tired-out heart, on the Irish coast, and all the gentlemen came tearing up from the card-room, and the ladies, in all decree? of toilettes, from their state-rooms, forgetful of seasickness or appearances; and I, with sudden visions of shipwreck in that plungiiur sea, with the bustle of launching lifeboats, and the terror of being swung into one, and possibly dropping between the two, rising be fore me like a spectral scene, fainted outright upon the deck, and waked to find myself in the Doctor's arms in the saloon? You thought this was the end of the world?" he said, smiling as only the dark Doctor could smile. "I fancy that I am dead and damn ed!" I answered laughing hysterically. He dropped me upon the sola and turned away. "They stopped to take Bouuuings, ne said, "it is nothing. You had better go to bed." "Do you charge much for your ad vice?" I asked. Well good-night. I hope we may not meet in the life boat." One day in London, as we were walking through the dim old cloisters at the Abbey, and trying to spell out the names of the dusty dead on the worn pavement, having left Ladislaw and Mrs. Adams still-mooning in the Poets' Corner, the Doctor said: "You were a little frightened that night on the Irish coast. To tell the truth, a small pipe in the engine broke; but there was no real danger, I sus pect." - "And you were not frightened at all, knowing this?" "I? We would all go together, you know. Your company would be as pleasant in heaven a on ship board.' "Equivocal but thank you. As for me, I like to choose my company, not have it thrust upon me." 'es!" he said, indifferently. " hose company would you select?" "I would select an artist, or a mu sician, or perhaps a poet." "I see. In heaven they need no doc tore' "Xor on earth either, generally speaking." And then I impertinently repeated to him the little German le gend of the Doctor whom Death paid a visit one aay. ana who, oecging to defer the debt of Nature, offered to di vide all his futuru patients with the A.mg 01 1 errors; and so engrossed were we with this pastime that we barely escaped being locked into the Abbey. "You do not think well of the pro- xession, ne said. "Oh, don't I? But, honestly, do vou think yourself that the one wl.o vol untarily elects to live in the roMtunt ight of disease and suffering can have sensiti ve or scsthetic nature? knd I love the wsthetic? He did not answer, but looked at the yellow horn of the new moon, mak ins a rift in the fog, wljich the sunset light faintly tinged, while I looked at him. There was certainly nothiug aesthetic, about the Doctor, if you ex cept his triate mustache and his gener al shapeliness. I remember once, in Holland, as we steamed in a little packet to Zaandam, and counted the windmills and the cottage roofs that appeared to grow up behind the dikes, that he, happening to speak of him Mtf, remarked that hs had been mis taken WMtioMi for a Spaniard. "Yet, van are dark enough to be tin hadow of somebody else"' I said. . "Ayjyoyr fea4a blonds hero," rtzJ Jft Iras mvjdeab!" I 'S- TiT lttiafto, 'fat vwa ass rwuow nair oi lotty srature.- i m certain Bobby was tall." The Doctor was incontestably short and thin. "But the best things are inthesmall est parcels." said Mrs. Adams coming to the rescue. What a quaint old place we found Zaandam, where Peter the Great has left an odor of romance that seemed to cling to the little green cottages with their red-tiled roofs, which resem bled the wooden villages of our infan cy! And how the Doctor scowled when I wasted my substance ou some vivid green pottery of an odd pattern! "What's the use of buying such trash?" he asked. "Ah, the aesthetic tastelacking. You call this waste; but you don't under stand the art of economy. Thisgreen dish, that looks as if it were deformed, and that cost me exactly five cents, will look so foreign and fantastic in the garish light of America that my friends will think I have brought them a bonanza. Besides, I like to spend without counting the cost; I hate to count my n.oney. I hate poverty, or a geiueei sumoency. "In other words you love luxury. "Have I ever confided my love to your l love plenty, I confess. I should die of economy; it is worse than the gout for cramping one. "lou must marry a millionaiie," said Mrs. Adams. "First catch your hare," suggested ijaaisiaw. "lhere'8 the Herr Docter,"I heard Mrs. Adams say in an aside to Ladislaw. "But he's not a millionaire, nor to caught with chad. I wondered if the Doctor's ears were as keen as mine; but his face betrayed nothing. I think it was in Heidelberg that we met acam our inend of the steam ship, Mr. Finch. We hud climbed to the Schloss, and found him seated in a loop-hole, so to speak, behind its curtain of ivy, sketching the scene. ' .Mr. t inch: J cried. "Yes," said the Doctor; "a bird in the hand." He looks more like one in the bush just now," as he hopped down from his perch to greet us with effusion. "Welcome to my studio," he said; I am just sketching the vallev of the Xeckar in passing." hat a lovely old ruin this is!" said Ladislaw. I like to think of the lords and la dies who made love on that old bal cony in the sweet June weather," Mr. Finch replied, "or when the moon light overlay the valley, who are only a handtul oi dust to-day." "I sunnose their ffhnsts wnlt there'" asked Ladislaw. "Certainly. What's an old ruin without a ehost?" Oh! I wish I could see one!" I cried. The Doctor "pshawed." "You base materialist! you do not deserve the vision. "If you will come up here with me some starlight nizht, vouchsafed Mr. Finch, "we may be able to unearth one. And Mrs. Adams will come too." said Ladislaw. It was Mr. Finch who "pshawed" this time, but beneath his breath. "Certaintly," put in the Doctor. 'Mrs. Adams is as eager to see a ehost as yourself. You should extend to her all the advantages of foreign travel." cut, lor all that, Mrs. Adams did not see one. I met Mr. Finch on the staircase the following evening, and we slipped out of the hotel and up to the Schloss, while the othe.s supposed 1 was writing letters in the retirement of my own room. Was it very wrong? i oare say Mr. ( inch thought so. We wandered up and about the old place with its haunting shadows, startling bats and owls and all sorts of night moths from the tapestry of ivy, while he repeated ghostly verses and whispered a good many ghostly nothings. And I had myreward. For while we rested in a recess that looked out upon the dark sky and river, the moon shot out a beam between the clouds, and revealed the shadows of two figures on the balcony. "There, I told you you should see a ghost. You are not faint? It is really oniy two lovers, said Mr. inch. Was I faint? Judge whether the sen sation that possessed me was fear or pain. I had recognized one of theshad ows as that of the "Herr Doctor." As they stirred and walked slowly out of sight, I saw that the lady was veiled, and leaned confidingly upon the doc tor's arm. But what business was that of mine? What was the doctor tome, or I to the doctor? Plainly, nothing. , "I think we had better go down," I said presently, to Mr. Finch. "Those shadows that passed," he said, "area noble lady whoelopedone dark night with her physician. They have been dust these hundred years, but as punishment are doomed to re trace their steps every night. Don't you want to stay till we see the old noble, her father, with all his retainers and men at arms, stalk in ghostly pursuit? ' "S'mother night," I answered, frivo lously. "If Mrs. Adams finds I am not in my room " "What would she do?" "Send the Herr Doctor after me." "And the Herr Doctor is not a favor ite," complacently, as we went slowly down the steep. I lay awake till late that night, won dering who the veiled lady might 1. The doctor looked very innocent next morning, and so did I l hope. "Why do you look at me in that tone of voice?" he asked, when my eyes had been involuntarily fixed up on him for some time, trying to un ravel the mystery, "I was looking into vacancy," I answered, briefly. "Speaking of vacancy, have you seen Mr. Finch to-day?" i "Mr. Finch is a highly esthetic na ture," I began. "And you lor the esthetic bird of a feather!" "Bt the way," I ventured, "why didn't you come up and play cards with os last evening?" -ma you watt lor mer" be awed, regarding me gravely. "i can't i But I hate say that I did. to way wttn aunxray." - - "na aa yoa war witn dumnr 7" '"Is this thT "ew England Catechism Herr Doctor?" "The New England conscience and Catechism went out of lashion, I be lieve, some time ago." "Yes; I fancied yo no longer had any use for them," I ald. "No; when I am with the Romans. I do as the Romans do;" and then we both laughed, and Ladislaw e&id were like two quarrelsome children "1 expect you will be boxing each other s ears next thine." "No," said the Doctor; "Ialway eive a kiss for a blow." But for all that, I couldn't help be ing a nitie distant to him afterward whenever I remembered the veiled lady at Heidelberg Castle. He used to call me "Lady April," I was so in constant in my moods. I don't know how it happened, but after this, where- ever we went, Mr. r inch was sure to be there before us, or to follow later, The Doctor called him my shadow and Ladislaw said he thought m shadow was the only thing about me which the doctor disliked. But, for my part, I was growing rather tired of Mr. Finch and his everlasting prating about medieval art, and color, and what not; and I couldn't go to a pict ure-gauery unless ne attached him sell, and explained the pictures loud enougn ior all creation to overhear, while I was anxious they should sud- pose that I had been familiar with the masterpieces all my da vs. and was on ly looking at them out of a sincere ap preciation of the beautiful. I'm afraid I liked better the Doctor's method of going through a picture-gallery in ten minutes, and the scientific air with which he regarded Rembrandt's "School of Anatomy" in Amsterdam ior two minutes, and remarked, pat ronizingly, that "the arm and hand were well laid open," as if Rembrandt was a pupil in the dissecting-room liut Mrs. Adams said, "I ought to be thankful for such an instructor in art and that probably Mr. Finch was a nonleman travelling incognito. "He lives in a castle hi the air. fancy," I said. But she would co on encouraginghis attentions, and he would go on fol lowing us hither and thither. Well, we were in Germany at Christmas-time, ana we had a Christmas-tree all to ourselves. The Doctor and I went out to select it, and it seemed as if the Black Forest had walked into the market-places. It took a good while to find the right one. and we went out day after day, till Ladislaw said it looked as if we were waiting for one to grow. .However, we had it planted in our own parlor, and such lovely things we coaxed into blossom upon it. It was the most wonderful tree in the whole world, when it was favilv in bloom; hung with cut papers that re- semDiea nne gold chains, dripping with a delicate dew of silver, dronnino ( a : , v fcviucu pine cones, grown in lairy-iand, ana silver acorns and walnuts, bud umg witn real roses and lilies, migno nette and Parma violets, blossoming into gorgeous cornucopias of gorgeous sweetmeats, and lighted by a hundred tapers, the Doctor took a keen pleasure in it, as if we were two chil dren. I enjoyed it all ofcourse.as if it were a dream a poem; but the vision vi me veiled laay would rise up anon, ana seemed to ask it 1 had for gotten her, although at times she had Bccnieu line me oaseiess iaoric ot a dream, 'lhe Doctor and I were ex tin guishing the tapers, after Mrs. Adams and Ladislaw had gone to their rooms, when he stoppedhummingthe Lorelei, and said, turning to me, "here is a lit tle flower that Christmas trees some times bear, which you have overlook ed. The reason I was so long in se lecting the tree was because I wanted one that was sure to bear this kind of blossom," and he held in his palm a tiny ring box in which a circlet of pearls gleamed. I put out my hand; just then the wiled lady seemed to sweep between us, her long veil almost obscuring the Doctor's face. "Shall I put it on your finger, mein Liebling, for better or worse?" he was asking. I withdrew my hand. "I did not understand," I stammered; "Ido not wear rings." And he blew out the last candle as I left the room. The Doctor was preparing to leave u mm iime, naving only agreed to spend six months with Ladislaw, who was now restored; but Ladislaw, knowing nothing of his discomfiture, would have him stay over the New Year; and, as the custom is in Germa ny, we lighted our Christmas tree again on New Year's, and talked over other dead years, and kept each other awake till ail the chimes of the old city pealed midnight with a hundred mellow tongues; then we opened the balcony doors, and listened to the weird music and the voices in the street calling a "Happy New-Year" from far and near; and presently some one stopped beneath us, and sang an Abendlied sweet as the murmuring of a little brook among the grasses, ten der as a lullaby. "A happy New-Year, Mr. Finch," I cried. "Come up and spy good-morning." 1 hen, as I leaned over the Christ mas tree to blow out a candle that had burned down to theeveigreen,and was making a rich, pungent odor in the room, the laceshawll had thrown over my head caught in the flame of another candle, and in an instant I seemed to be standing in the centre of a flame. I never knew exactly what happened. I seem to rcmembei seeing the Doctor's face through that red mist, and perhaps Mr. Finch's, I con not be sure, and then darkness. When 1 came to myself I was in bed, and the little Doctor was feeling my pulse; and I just lifted myself on my elbow to look in the big mirror opposite, and then buried my head in the pillow. I can never repeat all the nice things the Doctor said just then; how I was dearer to him than even in mybeauty; how no flame was so strong as his love, or could burn it to ashes. "And the veiled lady?" I asked, ir relevantly. "The veiled lady?" he repeated. "Yes. Who was she? In the even ing at Heidelberg Castle. You must remember. Don't try to deceive me." ana me smne was leaping veiled m.tM Mrtf Aflams afterward "confess that yea thought very little .i.. ..nnn who would walk to the uki.... -,rh the Doctor alone at tha i,, I had missed you, and we went "And has Mr. Finch been f o ask for I innn m ater. "ma ne wuu me ,. mo ir.sfl .lanueminot roses.' .hi. vinr-h ia not at liberty to in .,;.Lr vnn inst now." answered AHnma "and roses are not ex n..W in Kih line. He has thrown off "And has he turned out to be a cuckoo, or a nightingale. "He has turned out to be only a Jnil-hird. mv dear. He has been a fa mous forger, that is all." Imaginary Diseateg. Some persons ore continually im agining that they have tins or mil disease, or that they ure likely to fall victims to one or another ol the ill; which Hesh is heir to. This is partic ularly the cose with children of a ner vous, sensitive or morula muuie The injury done by such imaginary trniililes to a crowing-bov or girl is by no means insignificant. They de range the proper functions of the body and have n worse, and perhaps more lasting effect, upon the niiud, turning it from the healthy channels in which it ought to move, and cen tering it morbidly upon self. The person in this condition imagines that there is some trouble with his heart or some other organ of the b-dv, and struightway he begins to watch ami exaggerate every slight pain or unusual feeling that may oc cur in the l-egion where he supposes the trouble to bo located. Every muscular twitch in that locality is regarded os the sure indication of disease. Unless such a condition of affair is broken up, the whole physic al und mental growth will be im paired, liy taking a certain amount of care at the proper time, the trouble may be largely, if not wholly, avoided. In the first place, children ought to hear and know almost nothing of disease. Later in life the j knowledge may be valuable to them, but when voung their pioper func tions in life is to grow up healthy in mind and body, and to this end the child must be cared for and watched over. A blind knowledge of the dis eases incident to mankind is to him only a bugbear, not an assistance, as it may become when ho is old enough to appreciate cause and ef fect. It is not necessary that youncr children should know that they have such organs us heart, lungs and kid neys. They may be taught hygiene to any extent desired, but anatomy should wait until later in life. If the trouble has already begun, the best thing to do is to lead the thoughts of the young person away from him self by getting him interested in some out-door project. It is surprising how those imaginary ills disappear when themind has something healthy and interesting upon which to fix its attention. It may be necessary in some cases to call in a physician to set the sufferer's mind at" rest, but in general it is not best to seem to recognize any reason for worriment. The mind can be easily turned into a proper channel by providing the nec essary employment for it. 1 here is suffering enough to durod in this world without borrow- ing it. A mind joyous and free from anxiety, and occupied continually in healthy directions, has a vast power in keeping the body free from disease. Such a mental condition, joined to temperate and careful h nhi t nf I i v i n . has brought thousands to a green old age.-A merican Agricul tu rist. CUBBEST 10MMEST. I.v IIollavb an unmarried women always takes the right arm of her eacort sud the married woman the left At a church wedding the bride enters the edifice on the right arm of the groom and goes out on the left side of her husband. Since the termination of the dyna mite natent in 1881 there baa been ;mr,,o., imlnntrv in the invention of hiu-h exnlosives. and there are now more than thm? hundred varieties. A dynamite cartridge one iooi m length takes only 1-21,000 of a sec ond to explode. Dr. Pettkii, provost of the uni versity of Pennsylvania, greauj nnnts tn nnrn his Post, but Hie trustees will not hear of it. He gets .".,(M0 n venx salary, and gives the n ero SIO.(HH) ii venr from 1118 rxx ket. No wonder they want him i -to stay. Hew let Water Saves CkjJ u..u(cuinix iu vumese town mug uriuB wen Known, it milium, saying mat the al uvfTKrue ure uttriy and tJ neglected. There is no isolatil infectious diseases, and no attJ ib jiaiu ui cauHes oi death k i I inn . . . 1 , .... ...... iu uui lueug, tfiM Chinese cities ought to be hotlJ uuxrunr, punjevieii regularl terrible epidemics which, wit in c ill m mm V UHSOCIUttHl witl neglect of sanitary laws. KtraJ caj sutu is nut me case. Lnidl come and go without any "PI from every dimple "yes; the vi tedy of Heilelberi Castle was-Mrs AaaoMj your. cJianeron. long Life and Sleep. Not long ago Mr. OlnfWnrn. aft.; buted his sound health to the" gift of sleep." He declared that he always got seven hours and some times eight. He never took his wor ries to bed. but d promptly at the hour of retiring Napoleon could get alonrr on three or four hour' sleep in the twenty-four. But he did not rnrh old age. His cant.ivitv r,,;i,4. have had something to do with short ening his life. There have been n f great workers who' have been nn.,. sleepers. But very few ot Hi M..i. ed extreme old age. Horace Greeley could drop off to sleep in a church or m a railway car with wonderful facility. He had the gift of sleep,but not the gift of dismissing his worries If ever a man was worried out of his life because of political events.it was probably Horace Greeley Daniel Webster said on hearing of his defeat for a Presidential nom ination, that he should sleep a sound y as ever. But it wan well know that tho ,ior,. "l 1 - .." ui ins I'res -dential aspirations embittered his c oung : years. He might have hud the (nit of sleep but he did not have tnegift of dismissing fruitless worries John Bright was a poor sleeper and admitted that he took his cares and anxieties to bed. There is some satisfactory evidence that the duration of human life Sweater than it was a century g0 Dr Todd. President of the Georgia Medical Society, affirms that moru ThMtWt'C8 Conflrm thistheorV Thus the average of life in France is now forty-flve years ago. The pi. ent average found in fifty cities and towns in England he places at fifty He claims that th Vi,i L" :y' 1-o.ri., .it .".u nun. With avernire Hnrntin r m.. J rruT'i!"?. ",LJ-nve years Theee estimates ar tL'"l "rf mai me avrn. duration of human life in Vhta S try i. gradually increasing. Tern r. ... .6 prevails k a jrrentw uximi. than Y.-r ,. "Wr . v. . ti uciure. with tern- r"".0 mooeration, there U eWittM A TfT lias been made in France to see whether the color of a horse had anything to do with his charac teristics. It has been demonstrated that any such idea is all nonsense. Pedigree and early training have all to do with it, and color nothing hatever. The Piute Indians in .Nevada are in a worried triune ol mind over iue prediction of one of t heir number t hn t n great flood is soon to sweep over t heir Territory. They hn ve diverted their homes, it is reported, and tak- n to the mountain towns, carrying rovisioiiH along. Is New Yohk city three women fol low the business ol butcher and tiro successful. Cine has U-en at it for twenty-five and another for twenty years. They are Haid to be very lady like and refined women, with none of the "butcher atmosphere about them and not a bit beefy in apjiearance. A romantic couple in Indiana were married on horseback in the middle of the road, and then took a gallop into the country in lieu of a bridle trip. The bride, who is only sixteen, suggested the horse feature, and in sisted that both animals lie coal black. There was no opposition to the union. Jons Daniel, a butcher, died in New York the other day from erysipe las contracted in a peculiar way. lie was carrying some decayed animal matter in a slaughter house and ac cidentally scratched himself with a piece of bone. The animal poison got into his blood and cuused his death. reason.appeanng, perhaps. suJi luuBWK a. iieavy mortality miurt. lime, aim Itieil as audi disappearing again, thus nffr., an endless Held of simulation a foreign savant. But. h,J i v.. . ' i " ei generally, Chinese towns ei i immunity from these dangerouj ureann almost, an comn et a. r( u'i,n.il,ii,i,,.l I." .... , . w. ui.ici j.uiiHieiin nr,j nines, ,ina me cause of thin tu,J .....I : i . i'u1 iiuu UI luun UlieUOIIienOn lina variously explained. The im i tita ninM iif.l-ion. .! 4.1 v... ...... nutru uiKetl III uecuitn witn tnecontamitiated supplies of Chinese towns, the J oi wmcn on r.uronenrm iiiinnii-nir.i uin mill over lur;i I the heavy mortality which ovwl inem previous to the ..i . . iij iiMMi.-iu BHimury science, healthiness of Chinese cities l,'8 iiifcriimunij uiiriuineii ,y pie to the universal habit of fan a practice which is said to kee nniiospnere in constant eireuM now mr mis explanation cm deemed to suffice wo must , 1V, exjK'rts to decide, but. so filT a t it Ti.i.i nl..1 u n.. ....... !.. .- nmn nuijuv ISCOIIU'I ne wiievc me real secret, of inum from itH evil effects to lie in the' versa! custom of boiling nil at tended for drinkiiiL'. As a matt, fact, the ( Inni-se never drink water. Thenationa! U-verage vt, in a true sense, may le said toe but not inebriate, is tea. and ti nlways "on tap,"' even in the 1, ... me ini poor, i ne native n sion to cold water is uiidoiibf. carried to extremes, and cerii, muun-n uiwiiw-b mi n nilgiit en lie avoided by a judicious svsten uumtiru application, in the mud ol ablutions it must, however. I mitted that the Chinese enjoy fn lies which, however little t Lev taken advantage of, ore far in mu-e ui nay i ii i rig wmiin the i-i-i of the poorer classes of our own I ored land. Every little hamlet i'X.i L - . , . vuiminu a suop w nere hot wn - t . 1 . - .1 . r i-uii tie oougni ior a trilling sum any hour ol the luv or ni-ht. : . . ii j i i. iii ii wninii nsning village on a rem island in the Gulf of I'w-hili. w uie wnier spent six weeks under v utiplenHMiit circumstances durin severe inter, tins was the case, i a great convenience it proved.! national Jieview. A . 1 . mai.. ucauiy snow ts to be opened in Vienna, and the decisions are to lie made by a jury of women. Four prizes will be awarded-one to uie nanasomest man, one to the owner of the finest mustache, the third to him who has the largest ncse and the fourth to the competitor ior naving the least hair on his head. A New York physician names these among other evils to be guard- Inoy that!" indigantly rejoin- I'll Intent ion al ! v 1'iiMiir. -Again, many of the stories nl. seem humorous to ns were full serious meaning to the actors in tb There ishuinor to us in the follow! story, quoted by Prof, de Mnrjri although none to the utterers ol t loiiowing diulogue, not from a a1 of a scnee of humor, but from til se riousness of the subject: "JIoi rnony of the elect dove think the will be on the earth at present" wild oue .Scotchman to tmotfc "Maybe, a dizzen" ( dozen i respmi- the other. "Hoot, man! do near ed ne-ninof nt .... A o "uuiiiii-r resorts: uver fatigue and undue exposure to th e eun irregular eating, over f.-eding tomed, sitting orlyingonthegro.ind and unnessary exposure to the dew and dam pness after nightfall. PriVtDr el, ... i.ne ivfir iu6 high water mucK m cotton was 0,300,000 bales. The crop of last year is not vet en tirely out of the hands of the plant- uiose whose business atten- tlon m (, l,o,,..i . .i i .. .. eu uy me staple place it. nt 7 Aim n i . ' vc SU" Ver the ye(" preceding Tins season, with averagi weather " it will be 8.00(1 (Kin .? waUlr value nf ',. I'"'" .'""men the ui, tun produced in the U; year. his friend. The mime remarks a to the story of the old la-Iv who 4 very desnondent im to the conditio! of the world. She was sharply buked by n neighbor: "Janet, woiiiii ve surely think that inn-body lie saved eiceent vf.rrw'ir Ulld ttf minister!" "Weel.' responded !'' "I siniiet imi. I,,.,. i-iinlits al 'iul the minister." All the war Iloiindj IVS.l.t ... 1 K"ii una si v,.r nited States in one Ug-srettc and Heart, innnimgeiL'nreHo i.. admitted to be on. o 1 do not lie eve th,. . con mt. wd Harris, the tol ac- "Inhaling the .mt ....... , moHt mi... . 'i b is a (ven the ' will lie ertru II.:.. . convincni i;fc,""'""a an ordinary ciVniL "m ""'oke r." wn k-inn- from a n,01l' well into ii. and nt o-j?.:c" ii ,. "isiance nlmjing the sloi;ee 'luiii iiiiii rui m. """M hh cigar ette he AX Jnd his head growdi ' he1dw aot him on thVpSZ Tti organizm. teKntfc,rHillnt Pnncipiroftie tob, thl mi the blood current i .iitbe heurt in Soaimlone and Its I'ws Siientiflc Amrrirun. A writer in a London journal i attention to the unappreciated u'i and preservative (pialities of soart stone, a material, hesnys,whn h p1 sesses what inn v be rvirarded as -i traordinarv finalities in withsum ing atmospheric influences, tlifH esjtecinlly which have so much to (If wiui me f.oirohion oi iron aim ' find from exueriments made it is 8 that r.o other materia! is cnpnl-M takintr hold of the fibre ofironnuf steel Hii rffidilv nml firmly as this. JnChinii Hoanstfine is largely H I)rcKerv ir..r ..,,.( n..a ,111101 MIIW stones liulile to crumble from the feet of the ntinosobere: nnd t)a'('"v cnni? witli Ttrtwinvii hoI the form of iiiiint on some obeliskl in that country, composed of strnj liable to ntimi'st.hcreie deteriorntio'l hllM been flio nf urescrviiil them intact for hundreds of yeni A Consrentlun Cilrl. Thev the finsiileil the calm twilichthour nnd IVnelo a soft lloston girl, felt her Is-ing l'j Used with the lon.lereniotiollH of tM hour and scene nnd company. Kuddenlv ilnn,l tnn far forward nnd the plashing waves received M ifrncenii rorm. J Cln ranee was nnlv nuick euom to Seize hpr hnlr "Will it hold, dearest? U it yo own?" he nslce.l. "Ah flo . - i fl, hmtroUt ytaied np t him with a mptf prewiion, "I can not tell a "w "7i not yet been prtBted."-P,e,1 V