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INTERNATIONAL PRESS ASSOCIATION. CHAPTER VI.— (CoNTmt'BD.) But the boy could never be brought to see that be had done anything wrong when he stole. Nor, indeed, did the , Itortor think he had; but that gentle man was never very scrupulous when in want of a retort: "And now,” he concluded, "do you begin to understand? My only friends were those who ruined me. Gretx has been my academy, my sanatorium, my heaven of innocent pleasures. If mil lions are offered rne, I wave them back: Retro. Sathan&s!-Evil one. begone! Fix your mind on niv example; despise riches, avoid the debasing Influence of cities. Hygiene—hygiene and medioc rity of fortune—these be your watch words during life!” The Doctor’s system of hygiene strik ingly coincided with his tastes; and his picture of tin* perfect life was a faithful description of the one he was leading at the time. But It is easy to convince a boy, whom you supply with all the facts for the discussion. And besides, there was one thing admirable In the philosophy, and that was the enthusiasm of the philosopher. There was nevei anyone more vigorously de termined to be pleased: and If he was not a great logician, and so had no right to convince the intellect, he was M certainly something of a poet, and had i fascination to seduce the heart. What he could not achieve In Ills customary humor of a radiant admiration of him self and his circumstances, he some times effected in his fits of gloom. "Boy.” he would say, “avoid me to day. If I were superstitious, I should even beg for an interest in your pray ers. I am in the black fit; the evil spirit of King Haul, tile hug of the merchant Abudah, the personal devil of the mediaeval monk, is with me— s In me,” tapping on liis breast. "The vices of my nature are now uppermost; innocent, pleasures woo me in vain; I long for Paris, for my wallowing in "TAKE IT. KKEI* IT." he nil re. See,” he would continue, >primiiik u handful of silver, “I de tilde myself I uni tut* til be trusted vith the price of a fare. Take It. keep •i for me. 'jitander it on deleterious -and). throw It In the deepest of the "Iter I will homologate your action, lav* me f»«*ti that part of nivself shlch I disown If ton see me falter. In mu hast tat*: If necessary, wreck the rvln I «P< <>« of course ti» a parable \ny estreti. •* were ttettee than fctr u« to ronch 1‘arla aliv*.'' tkinbtles* the IhMior *nJ-o*d these title scenes as a variation on Ms part; h« repreietlled the It) Mini- element in the somewhat srtti* lal poetry of )U etistelt » tail to the ts>> though i,, was ditult aware of Ihetr 'h'atrl* • *Jn I thev t*pi*»ent*l more Ths I ks tor mad* perhaps too little th bo) sasa I Id) too muck of the reulil) and (IWVltr of these tentplwtiont I toe da* 4 gieal light short*- tor leak Mil to t'mM nwt rlckew tw used ski*' ho ask si * In thourv i« replied the |hs >ot It u it tw found in *i|HMt*nc*» that no ns does so til Ik* out Id nirgme j Ml Will h' *k*»pttonal when the* •low wealthy hut paw worst on ts d* SI* Ok We . -tewtreo spring op and the 1 uilv Isde f>* KtlrSl.'ISk srk's t at th Mil o< phrsktk** ' then IMS* might hi ImMt#ff II |%HK i 144 l « » t i!» h-*) “Certainly not,” replied the Doctor; but his voice quavered as he spoke. “Why?” demanded pitiless inno cence. CHAPTER VII. OCTOR DESPREZ saw all the colors of the rainbow In a moment; the sta ble universe ap peared to be about capsizing with h I m. "Because," said he -affecting deliberation after an obvious pause —"because I have formed my life for my present Income. It Is not good for men of my years to be violently dissevered from their hab its.” That was a sharp brush. The Doctor breathed hard, and fell Into taciturnity for the afternoon. As for the boy, he was delighted with the resolution of his doubts; even wondered that he had not foreseen the obvious and conclu sive answer. His faith In the Doctor was a stout piece of goods. Desprez was Inclined to be a sheet In the wind's eye after dinner, especially after Rhone wine, Ills favorite weakness. He would then remark upon the warmth of his feeling for Anastasle. and with Inflamed checks'and a loose, flustered smile, debate upon all sorts of topics, and be feebly and indiscreetly witty. Hut the adopted stable-boy would not permit himself to entertain a doubt that savored of Ingratitude, it is quite true that a man may be a second father to you, and yet take too much to drink; but the best natures are ever slow to accept such truths. The Doctor thoroughly possessed his heart, but jierhaps he exaggerated Ills influence over his mirid. Certainly Jean-Marie adopted some of his mas ter's opinions, but I have yet to learn that tie ever surrendered me <»f his own. Con v lit Ions existed in him by dlvlue right, they were virgin, un wrought. the brute met a I of decision, lie could add others. Indeed, hut he could not put away; neither did he rare If they weir perfectly agreed among themselves, and his spiritual pleasures | had uothlug u> do with turning them over or Justifying them lu words, j Words were with him a more acorn j pllshment, like dam lug When he was by himself, his pleasures were almost yegslable lie would slip lulu the wood* toward t, here* and ,|i m the mouth of a cate among gray tdrche* .do while the lb* lor Mad* himself drunk wttk word*, the adopted si able boy bwatussd him»*lf with .liems. numK VIII IIK |ks tar s lib itags wa« n i*o sheeted gig Wph a huud a kind sf • •■hi. w >n gwsMi ■ tty d*n tors On i how man, loads ha*an* not >«*s it. a grew! stay <»• ks> tween the poptwr*1 ' tn ho* many , tillage *u«wt* lied to a gate pass:' this sort of . hat tat la *l*tel pan i, o tatty at the I tat by a ktttd ad ,t|*. king movement to and fro across the axle which well entitles it to the style of n Noddy. The hood describes a consid erable arc against the landscape, with a solemnly absurd effect on the con templative pedestrian. To ride in such a carriage cannot he numbered among the things that appertain to glory: but I have no doubt it may be useful in liver complaint. Thence, perhaps. It? wide popularity among physicians. One morning early. Jean-Marie led forth the Doctor's noddy, opened the gate, and mounted to the driving-seat. The Doctor followed, arrayed from top to toe In spotless linen, armed with an immense flesh-colored umbrella, and girt with a botanical case on a baldric: and the equipage drove off onartly In a breeze of Its own provocation. They were hound for Franchard, to collect plants, with an eye to the ‘‘Compara tive Pharmacopoeia." A little rattling on the open roads, and they came to the borders of the forest and struck Into an unfrequented track; the noddy yawed softly over the sand, with an accompaniment »f snap ping twigs. There was a great, green, softly murmuring cloud of congregated foliage overhead. In the arcades of the forest the air retained the freshness of the night. The athletic hearing of the trees, each carrying its leafy mountain, pleased the mind like so many statues and the lines of the trunk led the eye admiringly upward to where the ex treme leaves sparkled in a patch of azure. Squirrels leaped In mid air. It was a proper spot for a devotee of the goddess Hygela. (to nacoxrtvuso.i CURIOUS CLOCKS. How Koine People of l oreijftt I mitJft Kerkou Time. Neither clock nor timepiece Is to be found In Liberia. The reckoning of time is made entirely by the movement and position of the sun. which rises at ti a. m. and sets at ti p. m., almost to the minute, all the year round, and at noon Is vertically overhead, says Popu lar Science News. The islanders of the south Pacific have no clocks, but make an Ingenious und reliable time-marker of their own. They take the kernel from the nuts of the candle tree and wash and string them on the rib of a paint leaf. The first or top kernel is then lighted. All of the kernels are of I he same size and substance, and each will burn a certain number of minute* uni! then net tire to the one next below. The native* tie piece* of black cloth at regular Interval* aloug the Hiring to mark the division* of time Among the native* of rtlngar, In the Malay archipelago, another peculiar device I* lined Two bottle* are placed neck and neck and *and I* pul In one of them, which pour* Itaelf into the other every half hour, when the i<ot tlea are reverted. There i* a line near by. al»o on which are hung twelve toil* with noiche* fiout one to twelve. ImoMl Ural uf the I elk It I* found from oitwrvailon* made In very deep boring* that the aver age increase of lempetature for a long w*y down toward* the tenter of tha •with I* about one degree for i <wy if feet of itewcn* Tht* t* not row* »tan< however being tea* down to w terrain depth and won# leowil n The IW* rewae «arts* In amount too, IW different be a lute* the** reault* are |*li* iw agieement with the *up poaltbMi lh«l the tenter of the earth ■ <ot*i*i* of milt*! Iw a **ate of ft* *i.o< the Wearer we get to tht* mottew maitev thw faster should the temper* tore ris and t '• rate may *i«u U *« pnlrd to vary on *< «*mnt of the rtuai no* being all of the ****** thnhnewa. n«u c)««*tating of malaria! espial Iw rowlmtlng guff**. TALM AGE’S SERMON. BENEDICTION FOR DOCTORS LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. From the Text: "Ami Asa. In the Thirty Mini Mnth Year of lllx Itelgn XYax l>lx enniMl In IIU Feet I ill It III* Dlirao II n< Exceeding Ureal"—11. Clirun. 111:11. IX T this season of the year, when medical colleges of nil schools of medicine are giving diplomas to young doctors, and at the capital and In many of the cities medical asso ciations ure assem bling to consult about the advance ment of the Interests of their profes sion, I feel this discourse Is appropri ate. In my text Is King Asa with the gout. High living aud no exercise have vitiated his blood, and my text presents him with his Inflamed aud bandaged feet on an ottoman. In defiance of God, whom he hated, he sends for cer tain conjurers or quacks. They come and give him all sorts of lotions and panaceas. They bleed him. They sweat him. They manipulate him. They blis ter him. They poultice him. They scarify him. They drug him. They cut him. They kill him. He was on ly a young man, aud had a disease which, though very painful, seldom proves fatal to a young man, and he ought to have got well; but he fell a victim to charlatanry aud empiricism. nin» m iuv < imi i j J • of his reign was diseased In his feet, until his disease was exceeding great; yet In his disease he sought not to the Ixird, but to the physicians. And Asa slept with his fathers.” That is, 'ho doctors killed him. * * * Men of the medical profession we oft en meet In the home of distress. We shake hands across the cradle of agon ized infancy. We join each other In an attempt at solace where the parox ysm of grief demands an anodyne ns well as a prayer. We look Into each other's sympathetic faces through the dusk, as the night of death is falling in the sick room. We do not have to climb over any barrier today in order to greet each other, for our professions are In full sympathy. You, doctor, are our first and last earthly friend. You stand at the gates of life when we en ter this world, and you stand at the gates of death when we go out of It. In the closing moments of our earth ly existence when the hand of the wife, or mother, or sister, or daughter, shall hold our right hand, it will give strength to our dying moments if we can feel the tips of your fingers along the pulse of our left wrist. We do not meet today, as on other days, in houses of distress, but Itf the pleasant altars of God, and 1 propose a sermon of help fulness and good cheer. As in the nursery children sometimes re-enact nil the scenes of the sick room, so today you play that you are the patient and that I am the physician, and take ray prescription Just once. It shall be a tonic, a sedative, a dietetic, a disinfect ant, a stimulus, and an anodyne at the same time. "Is there not balm In Gil ead? Is there not a physician there?” In the first place, I think all the med ical profession should become Chris tians because of the debt of gratitude they owe to God for the honor he has put upon their calling. No other call ing in all the world, except it be that of the Christian ministry, has received so great an honor as yours. Christ himself was not only preacher, but phy sician, surgeon, aurist, ophthalmolo gist, and under his mighty power optic and auditory nerve thrilled with light and sound, and catalepsy arose from Its fit, and the club foot was straightened, and anchylosis went out of the stiffened tendons, and the foaming maniac be came placid as a child, and the streets of Jerusalem became an extemporUed hospital crowded with convalescent vic tims of casualty and invalidism. All ages have woven the garland for the doctor's brow. Homer said: A wise physician, skilled our wound to heul. Is more than armies to the public weal. (’Icero «ald: "There Is nothing In which men ho approach the gods as when they try to give health to other men.” Charles IX made proclamation that all the Protestants of France should he put to death on St. Ilartholo mews day. hut made one exception, and that the case of Pare, the father of French surgery. The battlefields of the American revolution welcomed lira Mercer and Warren and Mush When the French army waa entirely demor t! lard at fear of the plague, the leading surgeon of that army Innuculated him | self with the plague to show the sol I dlers that there was no contagion In U; 1 and their courage roae. and the) went on to the lottfllct Hod ha* honored this profeaaluu all the *j> through Ob. the advattteiueti; from the days when Hippocrates tried to cure the great Pern lea with hellebore and Six seed poultice# down to far later its. turte* when Halter annnuu<*d the th* ory uf reepiratlon aud llarvey ibe rtr «illation of the blood and tsceli the Uee of ibe lymphatic veceeta. and J«nu»r lialbed lb# worm diseaae that ever scourged Kurupe an I MydeUham detel oped Ihe recuperative form* uf he phi sk at organism and t isi hues Ua'b ••upped Ihe shivering ague* of 'he world sad Mr A alley Cooper and AU-n n»lh» and l|oaa> a and Momeyn and 1 ii. is* *»ik and \ai»ntin* Mott of <h« a-uoiaUou fuat paced honored li>d and fought ha< b death with their been m alpel* If we who are tayfn-ui in mednine eoatd understand wbnt the n> l» a! j |ii ilt irl-a has a«< lOupllshsd for the | la sane, le- ua heib In ■ ibe Jungeons where the poor creatures used to be in- | carrerated. Madmen chained naked to , the wall. A kennel of rotten straw their only sleeping place. Room un ventilated and unlighted. The worst calamity of the race punished with the very worst punishment. And then come and look at the insane asylums of Utl ca and Kirkbride sofaed and pictured, libraried, concerted, until all the arts and the adornments come to coax re creant reason to assume her throne, i/ook at Edward Jenner, the great hero of medicine. Four hundred thousand people annually dying In Europe from the smallpox. Jenner finds that by the inoculation of people with vaccine from a cow the great scourge of nations mav be arrested. The ministers of the Gospel denounced vaccination; small wits caricatured Edward Jenner as rid ing in a great procession on the back of a cow; and grave men expressed It as their opinion that all of the dis eases of the brute creation would be transplanted into the human family; and they gavo instances where, they said, actually horns had come out on the foreheads of Innocent persons, and people had begun to chew the cud! Ilut Dr. Jenner, the hero of medicine, went on fighting for vaccination until it has been estimated that that one doctor, In fifty years, has saved more lives than all the battles of any one century de stroyed. Passing along the streets of Edin burgh a few weeks after the death of Sir James Y. Simpson, I saw the pho tograph of the doctor In all the windows of the shops and stores, and well might that photograph be put In every win dow, for he first used chloroform as an anaesthetic agent. In other dayB they tried to dull human pain by the hash eesh of the Arabs and the madrepore of the Roman and the Greek; but it was left to Dr. James Simpson to In troduce chloroform as an anaesthetic. Alas for the writhing subjects of sur gery lu other centuries! Blessed he God for the wet sponge or vial lu the hand of the operating surgeon in the clinical department of the medical col lege, or in the sick room of the domes tic circle, or on the battle field amid thousands of amputations. Napoleon after a battle rode ulong the line and saw under a tree, standing lu the snow, I.arrey the surgeon operating upou the wounded. Napoleon passed on, and twenty-four hours afterward came along the same place, and he saw the same surgeon operating In the same place, and he had not left It. Alas for the battlefields without chloroform. But now the soldier boy takes a few breaths from the sponge ami forgets all the pangs of the gunshot fracture, and while the surgeons of the field hospital are standing around him, he lies there dreaming of home, and mother, and heaven. No more parents standing around a suffering child, struggling to get away from the sharp Instrument, hut mild slumber Instead of excrucia tion. and the child wakes up and says, "Father, what's the matter .’ What s the doctor here today for?" Oh, blessed be God for James Y. Simpson and the heaven descending mercies of chloro form. The medical profession steps Into the court room, and after conflicting wit nesses have lert everything In a fog, by chemical analyses shows the guilt or innocence of the prisoner, as by math ematic demonstration, thus adding ho ors to medical Jurisprudence. • • * It seems to me that the most beauti ful benediction of the medical pro fession has been dropped upon the poor No excuse now for any one's not having scientific attendance. Dispen saries and infirmaries everywhere un der the control of the best doctors, some of them poorly paid, some of them not paid at all. A half-starved woman comes out from the low tene ment house into the dispensary, and I unwraps the rags from her babe, a i bundle of ulcers, and rheum, and pus ! tules, and over that little sufferer | bends tie a<cumulated wisdom of the ages, from Bseulapius down to last i mitnnsv. In one dispensary, in ! one year, one hundred anil fifty tlions | and prescriptions wore issued. Why do ! i show you what God lias allowed this profession to do? Is it to stir up your vanity? Oh, no. The day has gone by j for pompous doi tors, with conspicuous gold-headed citns and powdered wigs, which were the accompaniments in the i.iayg when the barber used to carry through the streets of London Dr. Brockelsby's wig. to the admiration | ar.d awe of the people, saying “Make way! here com m Hr. Uro kel iby's wig." No. I announce these tilings not only to increase the appreciation of lavtneu | in regard to the work of physicians, j hut to sttr In the hearts of men of the medical profession a feeling of grati tude to God that they have been al« i lowed to put their hand to such a mag uiAcent work, and that they have been ■ ailed Into such Illustrious company. 1 Have you never felt a spirit of gtatl i Hide for this opportunity? I to yon not ; (eel thankful now ' Then I am afraid, i doctor, you are not a Christian, and ; that the old proverli which t'hrtsl glutted lu hi* sermon may I* appro priate to you "Tbyaip au beat th> t«*H/* • # • There are many who always Mam* the di C or ttecauae the people die for gelltag the I It t me rU4<tM<nl “tl I* appointed unto nit men once to die lh* father in medicine who anmutneed the fact that he had diavwtered Ik* ail by which to mah* men tn iht* world immortal himaaif died at forty •even years of age showing that inn mortality was leaa than half a century for him Ok huw easy it la when peer pte din, to cry out Malpractice then the phy septan MU*t bear with all the WblMa. and 'he sophistries, and the de-'pioana, and the t*tiugtnc ant thp irritation* uf the shattered net ter ab I the beeho ute,| brain of s iMt ant Mute engsretnlly of M*n who never knew how g* e.efuily to he etch, and t who with their salivated mouth curve the doctor, giving him his dues, as they say—about the only dues he will la that case collect. The last bill that Is paid is the doctor’s bill. It seems so Incoherent for a restored patient, with ruddy cheeks and rotund form, to be bothered with a bill charging him for old calomel and jalap. The physicians of this country do more missionary work without charge than all the other professiones put together. From the concert room, from the merry party, frr m the comfortable couch on a cold night, when the thermometer Is live degrees below zero, the doctor must go right away; he always must go right away. To keep up under this nervous strain, to go through this night-work, to bear all these annoy ances, many physicians have resorted to strong drink and perished. Others have appealed to G id for sympathy and help, a.id have lived. Which were the wise doctors, judge ye? Again: The medical profession ought, to be riirlstlBi.!i because there are pro fissional exigencies when they need God. Asa's destruction by unblessed physicians was a warning. There are awful crises In every medical practice when a doctor ought to know how to pray. All the hosts of Ills which some times hurl themselves on the weak points of the physical organism, or with equal ferocity will assault the en tire line of susceptibility to suffering The next dose of medicine will decide whether or not the happy home shall he broken up. Shall It be this medi cine or that medicine? God help the doctor. Between the five drops and the ten drops may he the question of life or death. Shall It be the live or ten drops? Be careful how you put the knife through those delicate portions of the body, for If It swings out of the utti v flirt ul vt h tia of un Itwli flirt nil. tlcnt perishes. Under such circum stances a physician needs not so much consultation with men of his own call ing. as he needs consultation with that God wbo strung the nerves and built the cells, and swung the crimson tide through the arteries. You wonder why llie heart throbs why i' seems to open and shut. There is no wonder about it. It is God’s bind, shutting, opening, shutting, opening, on every heart. When a man comes to doctor the eye, he ought to lie in communication with him who said to the blind: ‘‘Receive thy sight,” When a doctor comes to Heat a paralytic arm, he ought, to he in communication with him who said: "Stretch forth thy hand, and he stretched It forth.” When a man comes to doctor a had case of hemorrhage, he needs to be in communication with him who cured the issue of blood, saying: "Thy faith hath saved thee.” I do not mean to say that piety will make up fur medical skill. A bungling doctor, confounded with what was not a very had case, went into the next room to pray. A skilled physician was called in. lie asked for the first prac titioner. "Oh,” they said, "lie’s in the next room praying." “Well,” said the skilled doctor, “tell him to come out here and help; he can pray and work at the same time.” It was all in that sentence. I)o the best we can and ask God to help us. There are no two men in all the world, it seems to me, that so much need the grace of God as the minister who doctors the rick soul, and the physician who prescribes for the diseased body. • * * But I must close, for there may be suffering men and women waiting in your office, or on the hot pillow, won dering why you don’t come. But be fore you go, O doctors, hear my prayer for your external salvation. Blessed will be the reward in heaven for the faithful Christian physician. Some day, through overwork, or from bend ing over a patient and catching his contagious imam, me uvuiur comes heme, and lies down faint and sick. He is too weary to feel his own pulse or take the diagnosis of his own com plaint. He is worn out. The fact Is his work on earth is ended. Tell those people in the office there they need not wait any longer; the doctor will never go there again. He has written his last presi rlption for the alleviation of human pain. The people will run up to his front steps and inquire: "How is 1 the doctor today?" All the sympathies of the neighborhood will he aroused, and there will be mauy prayers that lie who has been so kind to the sick i may be comforted In his lust pang. It Is all over now. In two or three days I ts convalescent patients, with shawl i wrapped around them, will come to the front window and look out on the pass ing hearse, and the poor of the city, barefooted, mil hare-headed, will stand on the street corners, saying: I "Oh, how good he was to us all?" But i on the other side of the river of death ; some of hte old patients, who are fi rever cured, will com# to wreic min him and the Physician of heaven with locka aa whit# a* snow, according to the Apocalyptic vision, will eons out and say, "Come in. coat# in. I was tick and ye visited me?" five I tab! el Ih. HwM At tk* beet light in the world la Ike warm light of the sun. so the heat il Iannua'ton of life ta not frun the moon, like beauts of human speculation but fi»w the love of Uwt That Ms. like the sun opens the universe, turns even clouds into glory and lifts death itself in a mount of t ran« Agorat ton • >vm u«>a*U Moselt .Smith Out bed of n sett am ttteal a light the Ate with kerosene this morn mi dunes Have you discharged her ' rtutl* A hr have only found her left Mm and i ha end uf her now# 1 he lorpado Ash K* Mft« £ i MMM weidM sight) pounds and a single shush from this Ask will hill the atieugawl ksfw