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AUBUllN, 1 i NEBRASKA.
UP IN THE WOULD.
Tho Hunflovfror used to bo n common country
fellow
Tall and Innk and gawky, with it tint of black
And yellow;
Tho lovely Lady Lily, heir of a kingly race.
Trotnbk-u whon ho stared at her, and turned
a way hor faoo.
Tho Itoios laughed and noddod, and shook
tholr drops of dew
"Now roiilly you do not supposo thnt ho would
look ut your"
Tho prim and pretty Misses Pink stood gig
gling In a row,
And all Ix.'omiflo young Hundowor wished to bo
tholr beau.
Tho whlto nnd scarlet HcllyhookR put on an
nlr pntlmtlo;
Though nmia thoy woron't oonsldorod ospec-
lally irsthftla;
And oven llttlo Nasturtium was sauuy enough
toHiiyt
"I am Ixtttor than thnt big eronturo, I can
prove It any day."
Hut now tho times havo changed, lndood. Tho
garden's poor rolntlou
7s at tho vory head and front of modern deco
ration. With tho stately Lily, sldo by aldo, In glory ho
, appears,
On plniiio nnd pnnel, high and low, on scroons
nnt jHrtiertu,
Tho haughty llowors thnt scarcely deigned to
know this pnrvoiiii
Now throng his court with nnxlous looks, and
beir u word or two.
Tho I.lly, smiling In his face with shy itud
sweet regard,
No more reiuembora whon ho lived, a clown,
In tho buck yard.
Mr. 1 M. ItiUU, hi I'ouWi'ji Comvanton.
TUB LAWYEJISTECRET.
By B. Ij. Farjoon, Author of "Broad,
Ohooso and Kisses."
ClfArTRK IV.-Co.fTiNtiKD.
"Because, Mrs. Dulton, to answer
you I intiHt first question myself; nnd
believe mo, n mini must havo consider
able connive who can dure to ask him
boU whothor, In this tiresome journey of
llfo ho 1ms taken tho right or tho wrong
road. 1 confess inysolf n coward, and
implore you not to compel mo to bo
bravo."
He rose as ho finished speaking, and,
looking down at his dress, continued:
"The first dinner-bell rang a quarter
of an hour ago, and behold mo still in
traveling costume; tho sin is yours,
Mrs. Dallon. Till dinner time, adieu!"
Ellinor, loft alone, sank into a gloomy
reverie.
'What what can bo tho mystery of
this man's Ufo?" bIio murmured to her
aolf. " If I dared but no. no! I daro
not answer that question."
It was difficult to roeognl'.o tho gloomy
and bitter Horaco Margrave of half an
hour boforo in tho brilliant and versa
tile visitor who sat at Sir Lionel's right
hand, and whoso Incessant How of witty
vcrsijlage kept tho crowded dinner-table
In a roar of laughtor. Ellinor, charmed
In spito of herself, beguiled out of hor
nolf by tho fascination of his animated
conversation, wondored at tho extraor
dinary power possessed by this man.
" So brilliant, so accomplished," she
thought; "so admired, prosperous and
successful, and yet so unhappj'."
That ovoning tho post brought Elli
nor a lottor which had been sent to hor
town houso, and forwarded thonco to
Sir Lionel's.
Sho Btarted on seeing tho direotion,
and, taking it into tho little inner
drawing-room, which was still unten
anted, sho road it by tho light of tho wax
candio on tho chlmno3'-pieco. She ro
turnod to tho long saloon aftor refold
ing hor lottor, and, crossing over to a
liall tablo, at which Horaco Margrave
sat, bending over a portfolio of engrav
ings, sho seated horsolf near him, and
BaTd:
"Mr. Margavo, I havo just received a
lottor from Scotland."
"From Scotland!"
" Yes. From tho dear old minister,
James Stowart. You remember him?"
"Yes; a whito-hoaded old man, with
a family of daughters, tho shortest of
whom was tailor than I. Do you corre
spond with himP"
" Oh, no. It is so many years since
I loft Scotland, that my dear old
friends soom one by ono to havo dropped
off. I should like so much to havo
given them a now church at Ac hindoro,
utMr. Dalton of courso objoctod to tho
outlay of monoy; and aa that'is a point
I novor disputo with him, I abandoned
tho idea; but Mr. Stowart has written
to mo this time for a spocial purpose"
"And that isP"
"To toll mo that my old nurso, Mar-
jarot Mackay, has become blind and
uflrm, and has boon obliged to loavo
hor situation. Poor doar old aoul! sho
wont into sorvico in Edinburgh, after
my poor father's death, and 1 entirely
lost sight of hor. I should havo pro
Tided for hor long boforo this had I
known whoro to find hor; but now
thoro is no question about tlds appoal,
nnd I shall Immediately sottlo a hun
dred a year upon hor, In spito of Mr.
Dalton's rigid and praiseworthy econ
omy." " I fancy Mr. Dalton will think a
hundred a year too much. Fifty pounds
for an old woman in tho north of Abor
dcenshlro would bo almost fabulous
wealth; but you aro so suporb in your
notions, my doar Ellinor, liard-hoaded
business men, liko Dalton and myself,
can scarcoly stand against you."
"Pray do not comparo yourself to
Mr. Dalton," said Elfinor, with quiot
scorn.
"I'm afraid, indeod, I must not,"
hoansworod, gravoly; "but you woro
saving"
"That In this matter I will tako no
refusal; no pitiful and contemptible ox
cusos or prevarications. I shall write
to him by to-morrow's post. I cannot
got nn imswor till tho next day. If
that answer should bo either a refusal
or an oxcusc, I know what courso to
tako."
" And that courso"
"I will toll you what it is, whon 1 ro
colvo Henry Dalton's reply. But I am
unjust to film," she said, "ho cannot
rofuso to comply with this request"
Tlirco days aftor this conversation,
just as tliG half-hour bell had rung, and
as Sir Lionel's visitors were all hurry
ing off to their dressing-rooms, Ellinor
laid hor hand lightly on Horaco Mar
gravo's arm, as ho was leaving tho largo
drawing-room, and said:
" Pray lot mo speak to you for a fow
minutes. I havo received Mr. Dalton's
answer to my letter."
"And that nnswcrP" ho asks, as ho
follows hor into tho llttlo room commu
nicating with tho conservatory. '
" Is, as you suggested It might bo, a
refusal."
"A refu8ftll" Ho olovatcs his dark,
arched oyobrows faintly, but seems
vory llttlo surprised at tho intelligence.
"Yes; n refusal. Ho dares not oven
attempt an excuse, or invent a reason
for ids conduct. Forty pounds a year,
ho says, will bo a comfortable compe
tence for an old woman in tho north of
Scotland, whoro very few ministers of
tho Presbyterian Church havo a lnrcrer
income. That sum ho will sottlo on her
immediately, and ho boihIh mo a chock
for tho first half-year. But ho will sot
tlo no more, nor will ho endeavor to
explain motives which aro always mis
construed. What do you think of his
conductP"
As sho spoko, tho glass door, which
separated tho tiny boudoir from tho
conservatory, swung backwards and
forwards In tho autumn breeze, which
blow in through tho outer door of tho
conservatory; for tho day having been
unusually warm for tho season of year,
this door had been loft open.
" My dear Ellinor," said Horace Mar
grave, "If any ono should como into tho
conservatory, thoy might hear us talking
of your husband."
"Evoryono is dressing," sho an
swered, carelessly. " Besides, if any
one wore there, tlioy would scarcely bo
surprised to hear mo declaro my con
tempt for Henry Dalton. Tho world
does not, I hope, give us credit for being
a happy couple."
" As you will; but I am sure I heard
some ono stirring in that conservatory.
But no matter. You ask mo what I
think of your husband's conduct in re
fusing to allow a superannuated nurso
of yours more than forty pounds a yearP
Don't think mo a heartless ruffian, if I
tell you that I think lie is perfectly
right." L J
"But to withhold from mo my own
monoy! To fetter my alms-giving! To
control my very charities! I migTit for
give him, if ho refused mo a diamond
necklace, or a pair of ponies; but in this
mattor, in which my affection is con
cerned, to lot his economy step in to
frustrate my earnestly-expressed wishes
It Is too cruel."
"My dear Mrs. Dalton, like all vory
impetuous and warin-hearted people,
you aro rathor given to jump at conclu
sions. Mr. Dalton, you say, withholds
your own monoy from you. Now, your
own money, with tho exception of tho
Arden estate, which ho sold on your
marriago, happens to havo been invested
entirely in tho Throo Per Cents. Now,
suppose mind, I haven't tho least rea
son to supposo that such a thing lias
over happened, but for the sake ot put
ting a case supposo Honry Dalton, as a
olovor and enterprising man of business,
should havo been tempted to speculate
with somo of your monoy?"
" Without consulting mo?"
" Without consultingyou. Decidedly.
What do women know of speculation?"
" Mr. Margrave, if Henry Dalton has
done tliis, ho is no longer a miser, but
ho is a cheat. Tho monoy loft to mo
by my uncle's will was mine. To bo
sliarcit with him, it is truo, but still
mine. No sophistry, no lawyer's quib
blo, could over havo made it his. If,
then, ho has, without my consent or
knowledge speculated with that monoy,
I no longor despise him as a misor, but
I detest him as a dishonest man. Ah!
Horaco Margrave, you with noblo blood
In your veins; you a gontloman, an
honorablo man; what would you think
of Henry Dalton, if this wero possiblo?"
"Ellinor Dalton, havo you ovor hoard
of tho madness men havo christened
gambling? Do you know what ho feols,
this man who hazards his wifo's fortune,
his widowed mother's slender pittance,
his helpless children's inheritance, tho
monoy that should pay for his eldost
son's education, his daughter's dowry,
tho hundreds that Is duo to his trusting
creditors, or tho gold intrusted to him
by a confiding employer, on tho green
cloth of a West-end gaming-tablo? Do
you think that at that mad moment,
whon tho gas-lamp dazzles his oyes, and
the piles of gold hoavo up and down
upon tho restless green balzo, and tho
croupier's voico, crying: Mako your
gamol' is multiplied by a million, nml
deafens Ids bowlldered ear Uko tho
clamor of all tho fiends; do you think at
that moment that lie ovor supposes that
ho is going to lose this money which is
not honestly his? No; ho is going to
double, to troblo, to quadruple it; to
multiply ovory glistening guinea by a
hundred, and to tako it back to tho
starving wife or tho anxious children,
nnd cry: Was I so much to blamo, aft
or all?r Havo you ovor stood upon tho
Grand Stand at Epsom, and seen tho
whito faces of tho betting men, and
hoard tho noiso of tho eager voices
upon tho final rush to tho winning
postP Every man upon that crowded
stand, ovory creature upon that crowded
courso, from tho great nmgnato of tho
turf, who stands to win a quarter of n
million to tho wretched apprentice lad,
who has stolon half a crown from tho
tin to put It upon tho favorlto, bolloves
that ho has backed ti winning horso.
This is tho groat madnc3S of gaming;
that is tho tcrriblo witchcraft of tho
fjambllng-houso and tho ring; and that
s tho mlsorablo hallucination of tho
man who speculates with tho fortuno of
another. Pity him, Ellinor. If tho dis
honest aro ovor worthy of tho pity of tho
good, that man deserves your pity."
Ho had spoken with an energy unu
sual to him, and ho sank into a chair,
half-exhausted with his unwonted vcho
menco. " I would rather think tho man, who
I am forced to call my husband, amiser,
than a cheat, Mr. Margrave," Ellinor
said, coldly; and I am sorry to learn
thnt if he woro, indeed, capablo of such
dishonor, his crime would find nn advo
cate in you."
" You aro pitiless, Mrs. Dalton," said
Horaco Margrave, aftor a pause. Heav
en help tho man who dares to wrong
you."
" Do not let us speak of Henry Dal
ton any longer, Mr. Margrave. I told
you that if ho should refuse this favor,
this right, I had decided on what
courso to tako."
" You did; and now, may I ask what
that course is?"
" To leavo him."
"Leave him!" hcexclaimcd, anxious
ly. "Yes; leavo him in tho possession of
this fortune which he holds so tightly,
or which, supposing him to bo tho piti
ful wretoh you think ho may have boon,
lie has speculated with, and lost. Leavo
him. Ho can never have oared for me.
Ho has denied my every request, frus
trated my every wish, devoted every
hour of his life, not tome, but tohis be
loved profession. My aunt will receive
me. I shall leave this place to-morrow
morning."
" But, Ellinor, tho world"
" Let the world judge between us.
What can tho world say of mo? 1 shall
live with my aunt, as I did before this
cruel fortune was bcriucathed to me.
Mr. Margrave guardian you will ac
company mo to Paris, will you not? I
am so inexporienced in all these sort of
tilings, so little used to help myself,
that I daro not tako this journey alone.
You will accompany mo?"
"I, Ellinor?" Again tho dark oye
lashos shiver over the gloomy brown
eyes.
" Yes; who so fit to protect mo as you,
to whom with his dying lips my father
committed my guarilianshipP For his
sake, you will do mo this service, will
you not?"
" Is it a service, Ellinor? Can I bo
doing you a service in taking you away
from your husband?"
"So bo it, then," sho said scornful
ly. " You refuse to help mo; 1 will go
alono."
" Alone?"
"Yes; alono. I go to-night, and
alone." .
A bright Hush motmt&Vjjg- Horaoo
Margrave's palo fuco, aiicJ""ivld light
shone in hi handsome eyes.
"Alono, Ellinor? No.no," ho said,
"my poor child, my ward, my helpless
orphan girl, my little Scotch lassie of
tho good time gone, I will protect you
on this journey, place you safely in tho
arms of yojr aunt, and answer to Henry
Dalton for my conduct. In tins, at least,
Ellinor, I will bo worthy of your dead
father's coufidonco. Make your arrange
ments for 3 our journey. You have your
maid with you?"
" Yes, Ellis, a most excellent creat
ure. Then, to-night, guardian, by tho
mail train."
"I shall bo read'. You must make
your oxcusu to Sir Lionel, and leavo
with as littlo explanation as possible.
An rcvoir!"
As Ellinor Dallon and Horaco Mar
grave left tho littlo boudoir, a gentleman
in a groat-coat, witli a railway rug Hung
ovor his shoulder, strode out on to tho
terrace through tho door of tho conserv
atory, and lighting a cigar, paced for
about half an hour up and down tho
walk at tho sido of the houso, thinking
deeply.
CIIAPTBrt V.
FltOM LONDON TO PAIUS.
Wliilo dressing, Ellinor gave her
maid orders to set about packing im
mediately. Ellis, a vory solemn and
matter-of-fact person, expressed no sur
prise, but wont quietly to work, empty
ing tho contents of wardrobes into im
perials, and fitting silver-topped bottles
into thoir volvet-Tinod cases, as if thoro
woro no such tiling as hurry or agitation
in tho world.
It was a long ovening to Ellinor Dal
ton. Every quarter that chimed its
silver tones from tho ormolu timo-picco
over tho chimney seemed an entire hour
to hor. Never had tho county families
appeared so insufferably stupid, or tho
London visitors so supremely tiresome.
Tho voting man from tho War Olllco
took hor into dinner, nnd Insisted on
telling her some vory funny story about
U young man in another Government
office, which brilliant anecdote lastod,
exqlusive of Interruptions, from tho
soup to tho dessert, without drawing
nearer the point of witticism. Aftor
tho drenrv dinner, tho oldest daughter
of tho oldost of tho county families fast
ened horsolf and a vory difficult piece of
crochot upon hor, and inflicted all tho
agonies of a worsted-work rose, which,
as tho young lady perpetually declared,
would not como right.
But howovor distrait Ellinor might bo,
Horaco Margravo was not Horaco of
tho West-end world. Ho talked poll
tics with tho heads of tho county fami
lies; stock oxchango with tho oltv mon;
sporting magazine and TattorsnlPs with
tho country swolls; discussod tho last
debuts at Ilor Majesty's Theator with
tho young Londonors; spoko of Sir John
Horsoholfs last discovery to a .scientific
country squire, and of tho nowost
thing In farming implements to nn agri
cultural ditto; talked compliments to
tho young country ladies, and tho frosh-
cot May-fair scandal to the young Lon
don ladles; had, In short, something to
say on every subject to everybody,
without displeasing any one. And let
nny man who has tried to do this in tho
crowded drawing-room of a country
houso say whether or not Horace Mar
gravo wos a clover fellow.
"By tho by, Horace," said Sir
Lionel, as tiio accomplished lawyer
lounged against ono corner of tho long
marble mantlepiecc, talking to a group
of young mon and ono rather fast young
lady, who had edged herself into tho
circle under cover of a brother, much to
tho indignation of more timid spirits,
who sat modestly aloof, furtively re
garding Admirable Crichton Margravo,
as his friends called, him, from distant
sofas: "by tho by, my boy, where did
you liido yourself all this morning?
Wo sadly wanted you to decide a match
at billiards, and 1 sent people all over
tho houso and grounds in search of
you."
" I rodo over to Horton nftor lunch,"
said Horace. "I wanted a fow hours
thcro on electioneering business.
" You've been to Horton P" asked Sir
Lionel, with rathor an anxious expres
sion. "Yes, my dear Sir Lionel, to norton.
But how alarmed you look I I trust I
haven't been doing any tiling wrong. A
client of mine is going to stnnd ono whit
tho less the elegant and accomplished
for tho place But surely you're not
going to throw ovor tho county electors,
and stand for tho littlo borough of Hor
ton, yourself!" ho said, laughing.
Sir Lionel looked a littlo confused,
and the county families grew suddenly
vory grave; indeed, ono young lady in
pink, who was known by about sovon
fair confidantes to havo a slight tendre
for tlio'handsomo lawyer, clutched con
vulsively at the wrist of a younger sister
in blue, and listened, with nn alarmed
face, to tho conversation by tho chim-noy-pieco.
"Why, how silent every ono has
JTl'OWn!" said Iloraeii. still lmtfrlrinrr.
" It seems as if I had launcfied a
thunderbolt upon this hospitable hearth,
in announcing my visit to tho littlo
manufacturing town of Horton. What
is it "why is it how is it?" ho asked
looking round with a smile.
"Why," said Sir Lionel, hesitatingly
" the truth of tho matter that is not
to mystify you in short you know
they, tlioy' vo a fever at Horton. The
tho working classes and tho factory
pcoplo havo got it very badly, and and
the placo is in a maimer tabooed. But
of course," added tho old man, trying
to look cheerful, "you didn't go into
any of tho back streets, or amongst tho
lower classes. You only rodo through
tho town, I supposo; so you'ro safo
enough, my dear Horace."
Tho county families simultaneously
dijgf u long brentb, nnd tho young
la in pink released her sister's wrist.
"I went, my dear Sir Lionel," said
Horace, with smiling indifference, " into
about twenty narrow back streets in an
hour and a half, and talked to about
forty different factory hands, for I
wanted to find which way tho political
current set in the good town of Ilorton.
Thoy all appeareil extemoly dirty, and
now, I remember, a good many of them
loooked very ill; but I'm not afraid of
having caught tho fover, for all
that," ho added, looking round at
tho gravo faces of his hearers;
"half a dozen cigars, and a
sharp ten mile's ride through a bleak,
open country must bo a thorough dis
infectant. If not," ho continued, bit
terly, "ono must dio sooner or later,
and why not of a fover caught at Hor
ton?" Tho young lady in pink had recourso
to hor sister's wrist again, at this
speech.
Horace soon laughed off tho idea of
danger from his afternoon rambles, and,
in a fow minutes, ho was singing a
Gorman drinking song accompanying
himself at tho piano.
At last tho long evening was over,
and Ellinor, who had heard nothing
from hor distant work-table of tho con
versation about tho fever, gladly
welcomed the advent of a servant with
a tray of glistening candlesticks. As
sho lit hor candle at tho sidc-tablo,
Horaco Margravo camo ovor and lit his
own.
"I havo spoken to Sir Lionel," ho
said, " a carriage will bo ready for us
in an hour. Tho London mail does not
start till ono o'clock, and wo shall reach
town In time to cntch tho day sorvico
for Paris. But, Ellinor, it is not yottoo
late; toll mo, aro you thoroughly deter
mined on this stop?"
"Thoroughly," sho said. "I shall
bo ready in an hour."
Mrs. Dalton's apartments woro at
tho end of a long corridor; tho dressing
room oponcd out of tho bedroom, and
tho door of communication was ajar as
Ellinor ontored her room. Her boxes
stood ready packed. Sho looked at
them hurriedly, examined tho addresses
which hor maid had pasted upon them,
and was about to pass into tho dressing
room, when sho stopped abruptly on
tho threshold with an exclamation of
surprise.
Her husband, Henry Dalton, was
seated at tho tablo, with an opon port
folio spread boforo him, writing rapid
ly. On a chair by tho firo lay his great
coat, railway rug and portmanteau.
Ho looked up for a moment calmly
and gravoly, as Ellinor ontored, and
then continued writing.
"Mr. Dalton!"
"Yes," ho said, still writing; "Icamo
down by tho 5:30 train. I roturnod
sooner than I expected."
" By tho 5:80 train P" sho said, anx
iously; "by tho train which leaves
London at half-past live, I suppose,"
sho added. ,
to be contj.sued.
IIow Women Keep "Expense Books."
It Is a touching sight to eeo a woman
begin to make up her expenses, bavin
resolved to put down every cont sho
spends, so as to find out how to econ
omize, nnd where all tho monoy goes.
Procuring a small book she makes a
duo entry, nnd tho Monday after tho
first Saturday in which hor husband
brings homo his pay, alio carefully tears
the margin off a newspaper1 and, with a
blunt pencil, strikes a trial balance
something in this way.
" JohnTu-ought mo homo forty-eight
dollars and forty cents, and ono dollar
and forty-thrco cents, I had is forty
nino dollars and ninoty-throo cents, and
ono dollnr and nino cents I lent Mrs
Dixon is fifty dollars and ninoty-throo-cents
but, hold on, I ought not to en
ter that, becauso when sho returns it
it'll WO down. Tlint wrm fnrli'.iiin,. .ll
lars and ninoty-threo cents, and what
havo I dono with that?"
Then sho puts down tho figures, leav
ing out tho items to savo time a
process which enables hor to leavo out
most of tho Itoms to where a round sum
is involved, on tho supposition that
they havo already been put down. As
thus:
"Six dollars and fourteen cents for
moat; and ton cents for celery; and ten
cents on tho street cars; and a bad five
cent piece I got in exchange; and
eighty-ono cents I paid tho milkman,
who owes mo nineteen cents that's
three dollars; and fiftoon cents at
church; and tho grocorics tlioy wero
either fifteen dollars and sixtv cents or
sixteen dollars and fifty cents, nnd I
don't remember which thoy wore, but I
guess it must have boon fifteen dollars
and sixty cents, for tho grocer said if
I'd give him a dime lie could give no
half a dollar, which would mako oven
change, and I couldn't, because tho
smallest I had was n quarter; and two
dollars and seventy-five cents for mend
ing Katie's shoos, which is tho last
money that shoemaker over gets from
mo; and ton cents for celery no I put
that down."
Finally she sums up hor trial balance
sheet, and finds that it foots up sixty
four dollars and twenty-eight cents,
which is about fifteen dollars more than
sho had originally. She goes over tho
list several times and checks it carefully,
but all tho items are correct, and sho is
just about in despair whon her good an
gel hints that there may be a possiblo mis
take in tho addition. Acting upon tho
suggestion, she foots up the column and
finds that the total is forty-four dollars
and twenty-eight coitls, nnd that ac
cording to the principles of arithmetic
she ought to havo five dollars and sixty
five cents. Then she counts hor cash
several times, tho result varying from
ono dollar and forty cents up to ono dol
lar and ninety-seven cents, but then she
happily discovers that she has been
mistaking u two-doliar-and-a-half gold
piece for a cent, and remembers that
sho gave the baby a trade dollar to cut i
its gums with. On tho whole she has
como within cight)--six cents of a bal
ance, and that, sho says, is close enough,
and sho enters in ono lino of tho account
book "Dr. By household expenses"
so much, and is very happy till sho re
members, just aftor going to bod, that
she has omitted two dollars and soven-ty-iivo
cents for her husband's hat.
Chicago Jlcrald.
Is Vaccination Safe J
Ono argument against vaccination for
tho prevention ot small-pox is, that
it possibly may communicate other
discasss to the person vaccinated. A
writer in tho Medical and Surgical Re
porter, replying to a physician who
thought ho had seen two cases of tho
kind, gives the following conclusive
facts:
Mr. Mnrston, an English physician
who had performed more than fifty thou
sand vaccinations, had never scon an
instance of any othor disease thus com
municated. Similar testimony was
given by Dr. Lees, whoso experience
was equally extensive.
Dr. W. Jenner, who had some thirteen
thousand sick under his care, had no
reason to boliovo, or even to suspoct,
that in any case disease had been com
municated by vaccination. Dr. West
had treated a still larger uumhor
twenty-six thousand with a liko ex
perience. Against tho two cases referred to
above, tho writer in tho Reporter men
tions tho case of a woman who de
nounced a physician as causing hor
child's death tho child having de
veloped scrofula not long aftor its vacci
nation. But subsequently she lost un
othor child by scrofula, though sho had
refused to havo this child vaccinated.
Dr. Martin, of Boston, of forty years'
professional experience, says: "I havo
never had a patient dio in any way that
could be directly or indirectly attributed
to vaccination. I havo never had tho
slightest reason to suspect, in a single
instance, that vaccination had in any
way impaired human vitality, but havo
seen sovoral cases in which, besides pre
venting small-pox, it was tho means of
carrying off certain trivial ailments and
of improving tho general health of the
patient." Youth's Companion.
Tho greatest run by tho steamship
Alaska in her quickest trip was 194
miles in 21 hours. This is not equal to
what was accomplished boforo 18.10, tho
clipper-ship James Bainos having mado
4-20 milos in 21 hours. Tho Flying
Cloud, Mr. Lloyd's most celobratod
ship, onco mado 374 knots, or 433 miles,
in 21 hours and 25 minutes. N. Y.
Herald.
The Paterson (N. J.) Polico Magis
trate lias decided that the members of
tho salvation army aro a public nuisance,
nml tho enptain and lloutonant have
boon fined and warned to desist from
singing and shouting on tho streets.
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