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LOUP CITY NORTHWESTERN liKO. K. BEKKIICOTKIt. Editor and LOUP CITY, - - NBBRABK \ New York anarchists call 1’rlnce Henry the “pickled Heinrich,” yat he is not sour. Mr. Cleveland has regained his health. He had to. for the duck season is approaching. Russia, you will note, is butting into the European butter trade with its usual getthereness. President Schwab, it is a pleasure to note, was not too proud to make a call on King Edward. The baseball umpires are already begging for more protection against the dusty dabs at the bat. Boston people use 117 gallons of water a day per capita. Some of it accidentally gets drunk. Paterson probably is annoyed be cause it had such a big fire without losing a single anarchist. Sir Edwin Arnold has written a poem on the new isthmian canal treaty. Nat urally it is in a flowing meter. The Standard Oil company’s new div idend of 120,000,000 is a pretty good showing for the light of other days. There is talk of starting a music trust. Are they going to grab the coon songs away from the common people? Verily, current criminal history is considerably more thrilling than yel low journalism or Dick Turpin litera ture. The question of equitable taxation is another one of those questions that will never be settled until it is set tled right. There are now half a million mem bers of the French Legion of Honor. The habit is getting altogether be yond control. Every maritime nation laughs at our merchant marine, but when they think of our war marine they sudden ly grow polite. The man who offered himself for vivisection has aroused so much hos tile comment by his action that he feels all cut up about it. The United States raises only one flfth of the sugar it consumes each year, but it always has the necessary coin to procure the other four-fifths. A Kentucky man has been sent to jail for having thirteen wives. He should have remembered that thir teen is unlucky and stopped with a dozen. An aged Ohio colored pessimist has quit work to live in a tree. He re fuses to come down for anybody who is not a lineal descendant of Davy Crockett. There will be some lively arguments when Great Britain and Japan under take to convince Russia that their offensive and defensive treaty applies to Manchuria. The death of a Boston man from over-exertion in playing ping-pong is announced. That is no reflection on the game. Out West many a man has died suddenly at poker. King Edward’s coronation robe is to be “as bright as a golden cloud.” both inside and out. And so the old saw that every cloud has a silver lining has its teeth badly dulled. Secretary Wilson of the department of agriculture, ought to be continued in office long enough to make good on his claim that the finest tea in the world can be grown in the United States. From Patagonia comes the report of a new animal to which has been given the name of “hymchy." The female will of course be known as “hereby,” and the united family as themchy." Mme. Sarah Grand has received a $10,000 necklace for telling American women what poor creatures their hus bands are. The husbands deserve all Mme. Grand's sarcasm for handing out that $10,000. Paris undertakers are grieving over a great decrease in their profits. It seems that the doctors have been in sisting on more than their usual sev enty-five per cent share of the profits of the unholy conspiracy. Michael J. Coyne, a New York po liceman, saved five lives at a fire. He isn’t likely, however, to be regarded as half as much of a hero as he might have been if he had waved a flag some where and shot a few men to death. Another cure for consumption has been discovered, involving a liberal use of electricity. The trouble with consumption cures is that in their practical work they bear too close resemblance to smoke-burners and street-car fenders. The American clock is to be found in the most remote districts of Siam The easy-going natives do not care for 1 the time part of it, but they value highly the alarm attachment as a means of frightening off nocturnal i devils. TALM AGE’S 8EKM0N FAMILIAR ILLUSTRATION PRECEDES AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE. r*tt Matthew Will. 37: ''Etm n» I Hen tint hern h Her Chicken* tinier Vint, and V* Would Not"—Christ as Krlutr from Danger and Temptation*. (Copyright. 1802. Louis Klopsch, N T.) Washington. March 2.—A familiar Illustration from the barnyard is em ployed in this discourse by Dr. Tal mage to show the comfort and protec tion that heaven affords to all trust ing souls. The text is Matthew xxlil., 37. "Even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings and ye would not” Jerusalem was in sight as Christ came to the crest of Mount Olivet, a height of 700 feet. Spread out before his eyes are the pomp, the wealth, the wickedness and the coming destruction of Jerusalem, and he bursts into tears at the thought of the obduracy of a place that he would gladly have saved, and apostrophizes, saying, "O Jerusa lem. Jerusalem, how often would 1 have gathered Ihy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!” Why did Christ select hen and chick ens as a simile? Next to the apposite ness of the comparison, I think it was to help all public teachers in the mat ter of illustration to get down off their stilts and use comparisons that all can understand. The plainest bird on earth is the barnyard fowl. Musicians have written out in musical scale the song of lark and robin redbreast and night ingale, yet the hen of my text hath nothing that could be taken for a song, but only cluck and cackle. Yet Christ in the text uttered while looking upon doomed Jerusalem declares that what he had wished for that city was like what the hen dees for her chickens. There is not much poetry about this winged creature of God mentioned In my text, but she is more practical and more motherly and more suggestive of good things than many that tty higher and wear brighter colors. I am in warm sympathy with the un pretentious old-fasliioned hen because, like most of us. she has to scratch for a living. She knows at the start the lesson which most people of good sense are slow to learn—that the gaining of a IlVeiilKJUU iniplies WUIK UI1U lUdl dul cesses do not lie on the surface, but are to be upturned by positive and contin uous effort. The reason that society and the church and the world are so full of failures, so full of loafers, so full of deadbeats. Is because people are not wise enough to take the lesson which the hen would teach them, that if they would find for themselves and for those dependent upon them any thing worth having they must scratch for it. Solomon said, “Go to the ant. thou sluggard.’’ I say. Go to the hen, thou sluggard. In the Old Testament God compares himself to an eagle stir ring up her nest, and in the New Testa ment the Holy Spirit is compared to a descending dove, but Christ in a ser mon that began with cutting sarcasm for hypocrites find ends with the parox ysm of pathos in the text, compares himself to a hen. One day in the country we saw sud den consternation in the behavior of old Dominick. Why the he» should be so disturbed we could not understand. We could see nothing on the ground that could terrorize, and we could see nothing in the air to ruffle the feathers of the hen, but the loud, wild, affrighted cluck which brought all her brood at full run under her feathers made us look again around and above us. when we saw that high up and far away there was a rapacious bird wheeling round and round and down and dow’n, and, not seeing us as we s.ood in the shadow', it came nearer and lower until we saw’ its beak was curved from base to tip and it had two flames of Are for eyes, and it was a hawk. But ail the chickens were un der old Dominica’s wings, and either the bird of prey caught a glimpse of us, or not able to find the brood, hud dled under wing, darted back into the clouds. So Christ calls with great ear nestness to all the young. Why, what is the matter? It is bright sunlight, and there can be no danger. Health is theirs. A good home is theirs. Plenty of food is theirs. Prospect of long life is theirs. But Christ continues to call, calls with more emphasis and urges haste and says not a second ought to be lost. Oh, do tell us what is the matter. Ah, now I see; there are hawks of temptation in the air. there are vul tures wheeling for their prey, there are beaks of death ready to plunge, there are claws of allurement ready to clutch. Now I see the peril. Now I understand the urgency. Now I see the 0Bly safety. Would that Christ might this day take our sons and daughters Into his shelter "as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wing.’’ The fact is that the most of them will never mind the shelter unless while they are chickens. It is a simple matter of inexorable statistics that most of those who do not come to Christ in youth never come at all. Fathers, mothers, older brothers and idsters and Sabbath school teachers, be quick and earnest and prayerful and importunate and get the thickens tinder wing. May the Sabbath schools of America and Great Britain within the next three months sweep all their scholars into the kingdom. Remem ber. your children will remain children only a little while. What you do for 4he:n as children you must do quickly or never do at all. My hearers, if we secure the pres ent and everlasting welfare of our children, mes* other things belonging to us are of but litt'e comparative im portance. Alexander the Great allow ed his soldiers to take their families with them to war. amt he accounted j for the bravery of hia men by the fact j that many of them were born in camp i and were used to warlike scenes from the start. Would Uud that all the children of our day might be born into the army of the Lord! Hut we all need the protecting wing. If you had known when you entered upon manhood or womanhood what was ahead of you, would you have dared to undertake life? You are not at forty or fifty or sixty or seventy or eighty years of age where you thought you would be. I do not know any one except myself to whom life has been a happy surprise. I never expected anything, and so when any thing came in the shape of human fa vor or comfortable position or widen ing field of work it was to me a sur prise. I was told in the theological seminary by some of my fellow stu dents tha‘ I never would get anybody to hear me preach unless I changed my style, so thr.t when I found that some people did come to hear me it was a happy surprise. But most people, ac cording to their own statement, have found life a disappointment. Indeed, we all need shelter from its tempests. The wings of my text suggest warmth, and that is what most folks want. The fact is that this is a cold world whether you take It literally or figuratively. We have a big fireplace called the sun, and It has a very hot fire, and the stokers keep the coals well stirred up, but much of tne year we cannot get near enough to the fire place to get warmed. Ine world's ex tremities are cold all the time. Forget not that It is colder at the south pole than at the north pole, and that the arctic is not so destructive as the ant arctic. Once in a while the arctic will let exnlorers come back, but the ant arctic hardly ever. When at the south pole a ship sails in. the door of ice is almost sure to be shut against its return. So life to many millions of people at the south and many millions of people at the north is a prolonged shiver. But w.;en 1 say that this is a cold world I chiefly mean figuratively. If you want to know what is the meaning of the ordinary term of re ceiving the “cold shoulder,” get out of money and try 10 oorrow. The con versation may have been almost tropi cal for luxurance of thought and speech, but suggest your necessities and see the thermometer drop to 50 degrees below zero, and in that which till a moment before had oeen a warm room. Take what is an unpopular I UU OUIUC JMIUUL v|uvov.wu ***•'• see your friends fly as chaff before a windmill, as far as myself is con cerned, I have no word of complaint, but I look off day by day and see com munities freezing out men and wo men of whom the world is not worthy. Now it takes after < ne and now after another. It becomes popular to de preciate and defame and i xecrate and lie about some people. This is the best world I ever got into, but it is the meanest world that some people ever got into. The worst thing that ever happened to them was their cradle, and the best thing that will ever hap pen to th'm will be their grave. What people war t is warmth. The trouble is that in our efforts to save the soul there is too much coldness and icy formality. Give warmth of sympathy, warmth of kindly associa tion, warmth of genial surroundings. The world declines to give it and in many cases has no power to give it, and here is where Christ comes in, and as on a coni day. the rain beating and the atmosphere full of sleet, the hen clucks her chickens under her wings, and the warmth of her own breast puts - armth into the wet feathers and the chilled feet of the infant group of the barnyaros, so Christ says to those sick and frosted and disgusted and frozen of tne world: “Come in out of the March winds of the world's criticism, cotne in out of the sleet of the worlds assault, come in out of a world that does not understand you and does not want to understand you. I will comfort and ! will soothe, ami I will he your warmth, 'as a hen gathereth l.er chickens under her wing.’ ” Oh, ine wc -i heart of God is ready for all those to whom the world has given the cold shoulder. But notice that some one must take the storm for the chickens. Ah, the hen takes the storm. I have watched her under the pelting rain. I have seen her In the pinching frosts. Almost frozen to death or almost strangled In the waters, and what a fight she makes for the young under wing if a dog or a hawk or a man come too near! And so the brooding Christ takes the storm for us. What flood of anguish and tears that did not dash upon his holy soul? What beak of torture did not pierce his vitals? W’hat barking Cer berus of hell was not let out upon him from the kennels? Yes, the hen takes the storm for the chickens, and Christ takes the storm for us. The wings un der which we come for spiritual safety are blood spattered wings, are night shadowed wings, are tempest torn wings. In the Isle of Wight I saw the grave of Princess Elizabeth, who died while a prisoner at Carisbrooke castle, her linger on an open Bible, and pointing to tne words, “Come unto me all ye that labor and am heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Oh, come under the wings! But now the summer day Is almost past, and the shadows of the house and barn aud wagon shed have lengthened. The farmer, with scythe or hoe on shoulder. Is returning from the fields. The oxen are unyoked. The horses are crunching the oats at the full bin. The air is bewitched of honeysuckle and wild brier. The milkman, pail in hand, is approaching the barnyard. The fowls, ke< ping early hours, are collect ing their young. ‘Cluck!” “Cluck!" "Cluck!” And soon all the eyes of that feathered nursery are closed. The bachelors of the winged tribe have as ••*»»>(led to their perch, but the hen.*. In a motherhood divinely appointed, take •1! the risk of a slumber on the ground, and all night long the wings will stay outspread, and the little ones will not utter a sound. Thus at sundown, lov ingly, safely, completely, tbs hen broods her young, go, if we are the I/ord's, tlie evening of our life will come. The heats of the day will have passed. There will be shadows, and we cannot see as far. The work of life will be about ended. The hawks of temptation that hovered In the sky will have gone to the woods and fold ed their wings. Sweet silences will come. The air will be redolent with the breath of whole arbors of promises sweeter than jasmine or evening prim rose. The air may be a little chill, but Christ will call us, and wo will know the voice and heed the call, and we will come under the wings for the night, the strong wings, the soft wings, the warm wings, and without fear and in full sense of safety, and then we will rest from sundown to sunrise, "as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wing.” Dear me! How many souls the Lord hath thus brooded! Mothers, after watching over sick cradles and then watching afterward over wayward sons and daughters, at iast ..jemselves taken care of by a motherly God. Business men. after a lifetime strug gling with the uncertainties of money markets and the change of tariffs and the underselling of men who because of their dishonesties can afford to un dersell, and years of disappointment and struggle, at last under wings where nothing can perturb them any more than can a bird of prey which Is ten miles off disturb a chick at mid night brooded In a barnyard. My text has Its strongest application for people who were Dorn in the coun try, wherever you may now live, and that is the majority of you. You can not hear my text without having all the rustic scenes of the old farmhouse come hack to you. Good old days they were. You knew nothing much of the world, for you had not seen the world. By law of association you cannot re call the brooding hen ann her chick ens without seeing also the barn and the haymow and the wagon shed and the house end the room where you played and the fireside with the Dig backlog before which you sat and the neighbors and the burial and the wed ding and the deep snowbanks and hear the village tell that called you to »■» orwl oaainrr t ho horcot! U'hi/'h after pullin_ you to the church, stood around the old clapboard meeting house, and those who aat at either end of the church pew and. indeed, all the scenes of your first fourteen years, and you think oi vhat yon were then, and of what you are now, and all these thoughts are aroused by the sight of the old hencoop. Some of you had better go back and start again. In thought return to that place and hear the cluck and see the outspread feathers and come under the wing and make the Lord your portion and shel ter and warmth, preparing for every thing that may come and so avoid be ing classed among those described by the closing words of my text, "as a hen gathereth he ■ chickens under uer wings, and ye would not.” Ah, that throws the responsibility upon us. "Ye would not.’’ Ak~., for the "would nots!” If the wandering broods of the farm heed not their mother’s call and risk the hawk and dare the fresh et and expose themselves to the frost and storm, surely their calamities are not the mother’s fault. “Ye would not!” God would, but how many would not? When a good man asked a young woman who had abandoned her home and who was deploring her wretched ness why she did not return, the reply was: I dare not go home. My father is n provoked he would not receive me home.” “Then,” said me Christian man, “I will ' st this.” And so he wrote to the father, and the reply came back, and in a letter marked outside “Immediate” and inside say ing, "Let, her come at once; all is for given.” So God’s invitation for you is marked "Immediate” on the outside, and inside is written. "He will abund antly pardon.” Oh, ye wanderers from God. and happiness and home and heaven, come under the sheltering wing. A vessel in the Bristol channel was nearing the rocks called tne Steep Holmes. Under the tempest the ves sel was unmanageable, and the only hope was that the tide would change before she struck the rocks and went down, and so the captain stood on the deck, watch ir. hand. Captain and c~ and passengers were pallid with terror. Taking another look at his watch and another look at the sea, he shouted: “Thank God, we are saved! The tide has turned! One minute more and v;e would have struck the rocks!” Some of you who have been a long while drifting in the tempest of sin and sorrow and have been making for the breakers. Thank God, the tide has turned. Do you not feel the lift of the billow? The grace of God that bringeth salvation has appeared to your soul, and, in the words of Boaz to Ruth. I commend you to “the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou hast come to trust.” Well Worth the Trouble. It is only half-rate people who ig nore cost anti shrink from calcula tion. says an intelligent woman who carries her intelligence into every thing, the corners of her pantry and the depths of her flour barrel. In her opinion, you have no more right to cheat yourself out of the quality and quantity of good your Income should yield than ' ou should cheat your neighbor, say. Lie Philadelphia Pub lic Ledger. ’I* nr comfort of knowing one is fairly dealt with is worth oc casional trouble. All good dealers re spect a customer who sees for herself to such matters. Too many shops will take advantage of a careless buy er. while they correctly deal with one who demands her dues. Short Skirts In Favor. The feature of the moment in fash ions is the short skirt, which is gain ing rapidly in popular favor. It is un questionably the fad to have at least one short walking skirt for morning wear. These are extremely smart when well nude, and are really be coming, most unusual as that is fur a short skirt. To be correct these skirts must fit closer than ever over the hips, whether made in box-pleats, side pleats, or without any pleats at all, and there must always be consid erable flare around the foot. In spite of the close fitting effect, they must be wide enough to allow the wearer to walk with perfect comfort. The velveteen short skirts, with three quarter coats to match, are the smartest of any. Next come the cor duroys, and are now appearing in light-colored cloths which will be worn all through the spring. It is said, and on good authority, that ev ery influence will be exerted this spring in favor of short walking gowns.—Harper’s llazar. It is not an easy matter to gain the applause of the world, but it is in finitely easier than to gain the un qualified approval of oneself. Yet no man can be accounted successful un til he has won his own respect—the approval of his conscience.—"Suc cess.” A Knnrhtnnn'g Eip*rl«nr». Lea, S. Dak., March 3d.—Wm. H. Neelen, a ranchman, whose head quarters are here, says: "I havo been afflicted with Kidney Trouble for several years. I had a very severe pain in the small of my back, so bad that I could scarcely sit In the saddle. 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Mr. John Will, Munclc [ltd writes: Was told by two physicians, one be ing mv sou in-law, that neither ho nor any othei doctor could < lramc, but nevertheless ••Alkayis’ .lid tho work Manvladiesnlso join in testifying fe tliewoud.’rful curatlvepowers ofAlkavis in hn! ney mid allied diseases, and other troublesome afflictions peculiar to womanhood, which can not with propriety be described here. That yon may judge of the value of tills ureal Discovery for yourself, wo will semi you one Largi Case by mail Free, or’.y asking that when curcc yourself you will recommend it toothers. It is c Sure Spot* i tie Cure and can not fail. Address, let Chun li Kidney Cur® Company, Wo. 406 fourth Avenue,New \ork City. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL, T LESSON XI. MARCH 16; ACTS 8: 29 39—THE El HIOPIAN CONVERTED. I.olden Text—"With the Heart Man Ile lletelh Unto Righteousness, and With the Mouth Confession la Made l/nto Salvation" -Roman* 10:10. I. An Example of Providential Guid ance.—Vs. 2ti, 27. Deacon Philip had done n good work in Samaria, and its success was so great that the Christiana there could wisely be left to grow by themselves. Sometimes too much help is worse than none. "And the (better, "an") angel of the l.ord." "Spake unto Philip.” The deacon, or evangelist, not the apos tle. "And go toward the south.” "With his face to the south," from Samaria. "Unto Gnsa." A Philistine city. The scene of one of Samson's feats, and one of the oldest cities In the world. At pres ent it contains about sixteen thousand inhabitants. "Which is desert." That is, wild pasture lands, uncultivated, and thinly inhabited. This lonely region would be a natural one for the Ethiopian's reading aloud. "The angel said. 'Go to Gaza by the desert road.’ "—Canon Cook. "And he arose and went.” Ap parently under sealed orders, as so often in life, not knowing the object of his Journey Where the two roads from Sa maria and Jerusalem unite, or while he wus wriking along the road common to the two Journeys, he met, by the order ing of Providence, "a man of Ethiopia. Ethiopia was a vague term for the lanils south of Egypt, "but in this case we are able to identify it with the ancient Ethl oplc kingdom of Meroe by the name of its queen, Candace." “An eunuch. A chamberlain or a servant of the bedchamber. The word "denot ed the condition of a man who was chosen to watch over the women's apart ment In great houses.”—President Wol sey. "Of great authority.” A man of power, a prince. "Under Candace." Not the name of an individual, but of a dy nasty, as Pharaoh in Egypt and Caesar in Rome. "Queen of the Ethiopians. The kingdom of Meroe was governed by queens in the time of Augustus, and, ac cording to Eusebius, even to his time, three hundred years after Christ. "Charge of all her treasure." He was at the head of the linancial department of the kingdom, chancellor of the exchequer, secretary of the treasury. It is regarded as improbabl«5 that he was a Jew or a full Jewish proselyte, for Eunuchs were not permitted to Join the congregation (Deut. 23:1), but he may have been a "proselyte of the gate,” or one who In general adopted the worship of the Jews without becoming a Jew. Note 1. How God's providence guides us and compels all things to work to gether for our good, and for tile progress or ms cau»i. Note 2. Even in the deserts, the lone liest places, we can find something to do for God. III. The Ethiopian finds an Interpret er.—Vs. 23-31. As Banyan's Pilgrim found Evangelist when he was seeking to find the gate to the heavenly city. "Then the spirit said," by some inward Impulse, in fluencing not merely his feelings, but his judgment; producing not merely an im pression, but wisdom. •And Philip ran thither,” not only showing the eagerness of his obedience, but from neccs<.'ty, if he would join the company of travelers. And while run ning beside the chariot he overheard ' him read the prophet Esaias.” Greek for "Isaiah.” “Understandest thou what thou readest?” ''How' can I, except some man should guide me?" The passage in Isaiah was a very difficult one for a Jew to under stand. it seemed almost impossible to put together the idea of a Christ as a suffer* r, as despised and slain, and the promise that he should be a glorious king, triumphing over the world. ' Only the facts could solve the problem; and these facts wen familiar to Philip. "And j he desired" (besought) "Philip." This is stronger than merely asking him to do so.—Woolsey. The Need of Helps for i’nderstandlng the Full Meaning of the Scriptures. There is enough of Scripture that is per fectly plain for every one to be guided safely through life to heaven; like the light and air and water in their familiar uses. We can see plainly enough with our eyes for our ordinary dally life, in Washington Irving's Alhambra is a story of "the Moor's Legacy.” A vast treas ure was hidden within the mountains, but it required three things to obtain it— Diligent Search, certain Written Words and the Living Voice. These three best reveal to us the treasures of the Scrip tures. V. The Ethiopian confesses Christ in Baptism.—Vs. 36-39. "36. See, here is wat er." Or simply, "Behold water!” With out doubt Philip had told him about bap tism as the Christian way of acknowledg ing Christ. "If thou belie vest," etc. This verse is wanting in the best nmnuscrlps, and was probably Inserted from some marginal note made to keep readers from error. But the words are exactly true, and are found In other Scriptures, and aro im plied in the fact of baptism. It is pre cisely that believing with all the heart which is the condition of a profession of faith. “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God." He believed with his mind and his heart. He believed in him as his Master and his Saviour. Such faith, leading to love and obedience, is salva tion. “He commanded the chariot.” He or dered the chariot-driver to stop, and of course the whole retinue would see what took place, and they may certainly be regarded as the nucleus of a congrega tion lo bo established In Elhtopla.—Cam bridge Bible. "He baptized him." With out waiting further to instruct him. or delaying for a public ceremonial. VI. The Parting of the Ways: Each Man to his Work.—Vs. 39, <0. "The Spir it of the Lord caught away Philip." “The expression asserts that he left the eunuch suddenly, under the impulse of an urgent monition from above, but not that the mode of Ills departure was miraculous In any other respect.”—Hackett. "And he" (the eunuch) "went on Ills wny rejoic ing." In his new-found treasure, in his conscious possession of Christ and his salvation. Nothing else in the world could bring so much Joy. "It was.” says Bonar, "Joy from God, joy in God, the Joy of God." "But Philip was found at Azotus." Here he preached, and then in all the cities along the Mediterranean coast till he came to Caesarea, where he made his home. Here Paul and Luke called upon him several years later. He had four daughters who prophesied. The Smallest running. A Flemish artist has produced wbat Is said to be the smallest painting In the world. It Is a picture of a miller mounting the stairs of his mill and carrying a sack of grain on his back. The mill is depicted an standing near g terrace. Close at hand are a horse and cart, with a few groups of peas ants idling in the road near by. All this is painted on the smooth side of a grain of ordinary white corn. It is necessary to examine it under a micro scope and it is drawn with perfect ac curacy.