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THE CREATION.
Dr. Talma DIsoourses Upon an
Important Topic.
Ifca Flnit Great Werk or the Creator
Uf lit Drives Away Darkaeaa The Last
Great Creation of All Oaa
Week's Work.
In a sermon delivered at Brooklyn on
Trinity Sunday EeT. T. DeWittTalmage
took his text from Genesis L 81: "And
tie evening and the morning were the
Bixth day." He said:
From Monday morning to Saturday
night gives us a week's work. If we
have filled that week with successes we
are happy. But I am going to tell you
what God did in one week. Cosmogony,
geology, astronomy, ornithology, icthy
ology, botany, anatomy are such vast
subjects that no human life is long
enough to explore or comprehend any
one of them. But I have thought that
I might in an unusual way tell you a
little of what God did in one week, and
that the first week. And whether you
make it a week of days or a week of
ages I care not, for I shall reach the
same pratical result of reverence and
worship.
The first Monday morning found
swinging in space the pilcd-up lumber
of rocks and metal and soil and water
from which the earth was to be build
ed. God made up His mind to create a
human family and they must have a
house to live in. But where? Not a
wall, not a door, not a room was fit for
human occupation. There is not a pile
of black basalt in Yellowstone park or
an extinct volcano in Honolulu so inap
propriate for human residence as was
the globe at that early period.
But the time was coming when a be
ing called man was to be constructed
and he was to have a bride, and where
be could find a homestead to which ho
could take her must have been a won
derment to angelic intelligences. There
had been earthquakes enough, and vol
canoes enough, and glaciers enough,
but earthquakes and volcanoes and
glaciers destroy instead of build. A
worse looking world than this never
swung. It was heaped up deformities,
scarifications and monstrosities. The
Bible says it was without form. That
Is, was not round, it was not square, it
was not octagonal, it was not a rhom
boid. Gol never did take any one in
His councils, but if He had asked some
angel about the attempt to turn this
planet into a place for human resi
dence, the angel would have said: "No,
no; try some other world; the crevices
of this earth are too deep, its crags aro
too appalling, its darkness is too thick."
But Monday morning came. I think
it was a spring morning and about half
past four o'clock. The first thing
needed was light. It was not needed
for God to work by, for He can work
as well in the darkness. But light may
lie necessary, for augelic intelligences
are to see in its full glory the process
of world building.
The record makes me think that,
standing over this earth that spring
morning, God looked upon the darkness
that palled the heights of this world,
and the chasms of it, and the awful
reaches of it, and uttered, whether in
the Hebrew of earth, or some language
celestial I know not, that word which
stands for the subtle, bright, glowing
jind all pervading fluid; that word
which thrills and garlands and lifts
everything it touches; that word the
full meaning of which all the chemists
of the ages have busied themselves in
exploring; that word which suggests a
force that flies 190,000 miles in a second
and by undulations 7:17, 000,000. 000,000 in
a sacond; that one word God utters
Light! And instantly the darkness be
gan to shimmer, and the thick folds of
blackness to lift, and there were scin
tillations and coruscations and flashes
and a billowing up of resplendence, and
in great sheets it spread out north
ward, southward, eastward, westward,
and a radiance filled the atmosphere
until it could hold no more of the
brilliance. Light now to work
by while supernatural intelligences
look on. Light, tho first chapter
of the first day of the week. Light,
tho joy of all the centuries. Light, the
greatest blessing that ever touched the
human eye. The robo of tho Almighty
is woven out of it, for it covers himself
with light as with a garment. Oh!
blessed light! I am so glad this was
tho first thing created that week. Good
thing to start every week with is light.
But now the light of the first Monday
Is receding. The blaze Is going out
The colors are dimming. Only part of
the earth's surface is visible. It is 0
o'clock, 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock; obscuration
and darkness. It is Monday night
"And the evening and tho morning
were the first day."
Now it is Tuesday morning. A deli
cate and tremendous undertaking is set
apart fqr this day. There was a great
superabundance of water. God by the
wave of his hand this morning gathers
part of it in suspended reservoirs and
i part of it he orders down into the rivers
and lakes and seas. How to hang
whole Atlantic "oceans, in the clouds
without their spilling over except in
right quantities and at right times was
an undertaking that no one but Om
nipotence would have dared. No won
der, long after this first Tuesday of cre
ation week, Ellhu confounded Job with
the question: "Dost thou know tho
balancings of the clouds?" Half
of this Tuesday work done, the other
half is tho work of compelling the
waters to lie down in their destined
places. So God picks up the solid
ground and packs it up into five eleva
tions which are the continents. With
his finger he makes deep depressions in
them, and these are the lakes while at
the piling up of the Alleghanies and
Sierra Nevadas and Tyronecs and Alps
and Himalayas the rest of the waters
start by the law of gravitation to the
lower places, and in their run down
hill become the rivers, and then all
around tke earth these rivers come into
convention and become oceans beneath,
as the clouds are oceans above. Three
quarters of the earth being land, noth
ing but Alraightyness could have caged
the three-fourths so that they could
not have devoured the one-fourth.
Thank God for water and plenty of it
'What a hint that God would have the
human race very clean.
There are several thousand people
asleep in Greenwood, who, but for the
filthy streets of Brooklyn and New
York, would have been to-day well and
in churches. Moreover, there never was
a filthy street that remained a moral
street How important an agency of
reform water is was illustrated by the
fact that when the ancient world got
outragrously wicked, it was plunged
into deluge and kept under for months
until its iniquity was soaked out of it
But I rejoice that on the first Tuesday
of the world's existence the water was
taught to know its place, and the Med
iterranean lay down at the feet of
Europe, and the Gulf of Mexico lay
down at the feet of North America, and
Geneva lay down at the feet of the
Alps, and Scroon bike fell to sleep ia
the lap of the Adirondacks. "And the
evening and the morning were the sec
ond day."
Now it is Wednesday morning of the
world's first week. Gardening and
horticulture will be born to-day. How
queer the hills look and so unattractive
they seem hardly worth having been
sade. But now all the surfaces are
chi-yiny color. Something beautiful
Is creeping all over them. It has the
coior ot emerald. Aye, it U herbage.
Hail the green grass, God's favorite
color and God's favorite plant, as I
judge from the fact that he makes a
larger number of them than of any
thing else. But look yonder! Some
thing starts out of the grouBd and goes
higher up, higher and higher and
spreads out broad leaves. It is a palm
tree. And yonder is a growth with
mighty sweep of branches. And here
they come the pear and the apple, and
the peach and the pomegranate, and
groves and orchards and forests, their
shadows and their fruit girdling the
earth.
Notice that the first thing that Ood
made for food was fruit, and plenty of
it Slaughter houses are of later in
vention. Far am I from being a vege
tarian, but an almost exclusive meat
diet is depraving. Savages confine
themselves almost exclusively to ani
mal food, and that is one reason that
they are savages. Give your children
more apples and less mutton. But we
must not forget that it is Wednesday
evening in Eden and upon that perfect
fruit of those perfect trees let the cur
tain drop. "And the evening and the
morning were the third day."
Now it is Thursday morning of the
world's first week. Nothing will be
created to-day. The hours will be
passed in scattering fogs and mists and
vapors. The atmosphere must be swept
clean. Other worlds are to heave in
sight This little ship of the earth has
seemed to have all the ocean of im
mensity to itself. But mightier craft
are to be hailed to-day on the high seas
of space. First the moon's white sail
appears and does very well until the
sun bursts upon the scene. The light
that on the previous three mornings
was struck from an especial word now
gathers in the sun, moon and stars. It
seemed as if they had all within twenty-four
hours been created. Ah. this is
a great time in the world's first week.
The moon, the nearest neighbor to our
earth appears, her photograph to be
taken in the nineteenth century, when
the telescope shall bring her within 120
miles of New York.
And the sun now appears, afterward
to be found SS8.000 miles in diameter,
and, put in astronomical scales, to be
found to weigh nearly 400,000 times
heavier than our earth; a mighty fur
nace, its heat kept up by meteors pour
ing into it as fuel, a world devouring
other worlds with its jaws of flame.
And the stars come out, those street
lamps of heaven, those keys of pearl,
upon which God's fingers play the mu
sic of the spheres. Enough! "And the
evening and the morning were the
fourth day."
Now it is Friday morning in the first
week of the world's existence. Water,
but not a fin swimming it; air, but not
a wing flying it It is a silent world.
Can it be that it was made only for
vegetables? But, hark! There is a
swirl and a splashing in all the four
rivers of I'ison, Gihon, Uiddckel and
Euphrates. They are all aswim with
life, some darting like arrows through
split crystal and others quiet in dark
pools like shadows. Everything from
spotted trout to behemoth. And while I
stand on the banks of these Paradisaic
al rivers watching these finny tribes,
I hear the whirr in the air and 1 look
up and behold wings wings of larks,
robins doves, eagles, flamingos, alba
trosses, brown threshers. Creatures of
all color, blue as if dipped in the skies,
fiery as if they had flown out of the
sunsets, golden as if they had taken
their morning bath in buttercups. And
I sit down on the bank of the Euphrates,
and the murmur of the river, together
with the chant of birds in the sky puts
me into a state of somnolence. "And
the evening and the morning were the
fifth day."
Now it is Satuaday morning of the
world's lirst week and with this day the
week closes. But O, what a climacteric
day! The air has its population and the
water its population. Yet the land has
not one inhabitant But here they
come, by the voice of God created
horses grander than those which in
after time Job will describe as having
neck clothed with thunder; cattle
enough to cover a thousand hills; sheep
shepherded by Him who made for them
the green pastures; cattle superior to
the Aldcrneys and Ayrshire and Devon
shires of after times leopards so
beautiful that we are glad they can
not change their spots; lions with
out their fierceness, nud all the quad
ruped world so gentle, so sleek, so
perfect. Ixok out how you treat
thus animal creation, whether they
walk the earth or swim the waters or
fly the air. lie who galls a horse, or
exposes a cow to the storm, or beats a
dog, or mauls a cat, or gambles at the
pigeon shooting, or tortures an insect,
will have to answer for it in the judg
ment day. You may console yourself
that these creatures arc not immortal
and they cannot appear against you,
but the God who made these creatures
and who saw the wrong yon did them
will be there. But something is want
ing in Paradise and the week is almost
done. Who is there to pluck the flow
ers of this Edenic lawn? Who is there
to command these worlds of quadruped
and fish and bird? For whom ha God
put back the curtain from the face of
sun and moon and star? The world
wauts an emperor and empress.
It is Saturday afternoon. No one
but the Lord Almighty caa originate a
human being. In the world whercH
there are in tho latter part of the nine
teenth century over 14,000,000,000 peo
ple, a human being is not a curiosity.
But how about the first human eye that
was ever kindled, the first human ear
that was ever opened, the first human
lung that ever breathed, the firsthuman
heart that ever beat, the first human
life ever constructed? That needed the
origination of a God. He had no model
to work by. What stupendous work
for a Saturday afternoon! He must
originate a style of human heart
through which all the blood in
the body mast pass every three
minutes. He must make that heart
so strong that it can during each
day lift what would be equal to 120 tons
of weight, and it mast be so arranged
as to beat over 36,994,060 times every
year. About 500 muscles must be
strung in the right place and at least
250 bones constructed. Into this body
must be pat at least 9,000,000 nerves.
Ovcr 3,098 perspiring pores must be
made for every inch of fleshy surface.
The human voice mast be so construct
ed it shall be capable of producing 17,
592,186,449,415 sounds. But all this the
most insignificant part of the human
being. The soul! Ah, the construction
of that God Himself would not be
equal to if He were any the less
of a God. Its understanding, its
will, its memory, its conscience, its
capacities, its enjoyment or suffering,
its immortality! What a work for a
Saturday afternoon! Aye! before night
there were to be two such human and
yet immortal beings constructed. The
woman as well as the man was formed
Saturday afternoon. Because a deep
sleep fell upoa Adam and by divine
surgery a portion of his side was re
moved for the nucleus of another crea
tion, it has been supposed that perhaps
several days aad mights passed between
the masculine and feminise creations.
But bo! Adam was not three hours
unmated. If a physician caa by anaes
thetics pat oae iato a deep sleep ia tare
minutes, God certainly could have pat
Adam iato a profound sleep in a short
while that Saturday afteraooa aad
sad the dee aad radical excisio
wftkoat
alatkm of the dart, the
Molded the mountains molded the
features, aad Molded ta limbs ei the
father of the haasaarae. Butaksrsa
did act see, aad hk nerves did mot feel,
and ais muscle did aet move, aad hk
laags did not breathe, aad kin heart die
aot pulsate. A perfect form he lay
along the earth, symmetrical
of Uod-like couatei
cent piece of dtviae carpentry aad
omnipotent seulpturiaf, but ao vitality.
A body without a souL Thea the
source of all life stooped to the inani
mate nostril and lip, aad, as maay a
skillful aad earnest physician has pat
hk lips to a patient ia comotose state
and breathed into hk month
nostril, and at the same time
pressed the langs aatil that which was
artificial respiration became natural
respiration, so methiaks God breathed
into tbk cold sculpture of a man the
breath of life, and the heart begins to
tramp, and the lungs to inhale, and the
eyes to open and the entire form to"
thrill, and with the rapture of life just
come the prostrate being leaps to hk
feet a man!
But the scene of this Saturday k not
yet done, and in the atmosphere, drowsy
with the breath of flowers, and the
song of bobolinks, and robin redbreasts,
the man slumbers, and by anaesthetics,
divinely administered, the slumber
deepens until without the oozing of one
drop of blood at the time, or the faint
est scar afterward, that portion k re
moved from hk side that k to be built
up the queen of Paradise, the daughter
of the great God, the mother of the
human race, the benediction of all ages,
woman the wife, afterward woman the
mother. And as the two join hands
and stroll down along the banks of the
Euphrates toward a bower of mignon
ette and wild rose and honeysuckle the
sun sinks beneath the horizon. "And
the evening aud the morning were the
sixth day. "
What do you think of that one week's
work? I review it not for entertain
ment, but because I would have you
join David's Doxology: "Great and
Marvelous are Thy Works, Lord God
Almighty;" because I want yon to
know what a homestead our Father
built for his children at the start,
though sin has despoiled it; and be
cause I want you to know how the
world will look again when Christ shall
have restored it, swinging now between
two Edens; because I want you to real
ize something of what a mighty God He
is. and the utter folly of trying to war
against Him; because I want you
to make peace with this Chief of the
Universe through the Christ who
mediates between offended Omnip
otence and human rebellion; because I
want you to know how fearfully and
wonderfully you arc made, your body
as well as yoar soul aa omnipotent
achievement; because I want you to
realize that order reigns throughout the
universe and that God's watches tick to
the second, aud that hk clocks strike
regularly though they strike once in a
thousand years. A learned maa once
asked an old Christian maa, who had
no advantages of schooling, why he be
lieved there was a God, and the good
old man, who probably had never heard
an argument on tho subject ia all hi
life, made thk noble reply: "Sir, 1
have been here going hard upoa fifty
years. Every day since I have
been in thk world I have seen the sun
rise in the east and set in the west
The north stands where it did the
first time I saw it; the seven stars and
Job's coffin keep on the same path in
the sky and never turn out. It Isn't so
with man's work. He makes clocks
and watches; they may run well for
awhile, but they get out of fix and
stand stock still. But the sun, and
moon, and stars keep on thk way all
the while Tho heavens declare the
glory of lod." Yea, I preach thk be
cause I want you to walk in apprecia
tion of Acdkon's sublime sentime
when he writes:
The spacious firmament on high
With alt thu blue ethereal ky
Antl ppangled lieav'ns , a shining frame,
Their Great Original proclaim.
In reason's ear they all rejoice
And utter lorth a glorious voice
Forever Ringing, i a I hey s'tliir.
The hand that matto u In dlvlna.
MISSED HIS CALLING.
A Jfw fireman Who Was Afraid or Get
ting Wet.
He was a new member of the fire de
partment in Pittsburgh. He had al
ways felt an inclination from hk boy
hood up to "run with the machine,"
at last the opportunity was open-d to
him. He had not been accustomed to
being ordered, and did not fully ap
preciate the importance of a man
strictly and quickly obeying a superior
officer. But he was all unconscious of
thk feeling himself, and was in a
tremor of delight when the first alarm
of fire came, and he mounted the hose
cart and went whirling away. He
stood around kind of useless like while
the preliminary preparations were made
for the fight At last, however, he
was called into action. The captain
called him, "get up the ladder there,
Jim, and help Burns with the hose;
take an ax and break in a window on
the third floor."
Jim started, but as he reached the
foot of the ladder he stopped; a flood
of water was pouring dowa on the
pavement, and everything was soaking
wet He turned to the captain and
said:
"Say, Cap, I guess ) don't want to go
up there now."
"Why not?' asked the officer, in sur
prise. "Well, you see how wet everything
Is and 1 forgot to bring my rubber
boots."
"Is that so? too bad; you wait here a
few minutes and I'll drive you to the
station and get you an umbrella."
Jim waited but the umbrella did not
come; another man shinned up the lad
der and when the fire was over Jim
was requested to try and get a job ia
the ribbon department of some store.
Arkansaw Traveler.
A ChlMa Brain Exaaa
A Parisian surgeon has the credit of
having obtained a remarkable result ia
a case in which he operated npon a
child. The patient was a girl, eight
years of age, who at the age of eighteen
months had been noticed by her par
ents to be deficient ia intelligence,
Subsequently she became subject to
epileptiform attacks, aad these had
only ceased a year before she was aeea
by the surgeon. When she came aader
professional observation her physical
development was normal, but her in
telligence was that of aa iafaat The
child had been sent to school hat she
had never been able to leara the alpha
bet, neither could she talk intelligent
ly. The conclaskm was formed-that
the brain had ceased to develop owing
to the too early coaleseeaee of the
bones of the skulL The smgeoa ac
cordingly operated, removing several
small pieces of boae from the top of
the skulL and by thk means reUevmg
the pressure oa the braia aad aUewiag
it to expand. The day following the
operation the child took notice of every
one, asking for aomethmg to eat, aad
cried for her parents. Before lea lag
the hospital she was able te walk well
aad nm herself. The
wound hi the scalp ha
in eight daya Pall Mali Gaaetta.
Knowledge k
hatk tom
ecal to get ap
TOO ITEMeV
wffl
y always
tketr
weeks old.
Wkajamaf eteck R k Important, If
the beat praat k realised, te keep them
thrifty aad growmg.
Figs which eaa have pleaty of sweet
him milk slop eaa he faMeaed far
market earlier than If fed oa dry gram
It k as serious aa error to pamper
the colts during the early stages of
their growth as it k to abase them.
They aeed plenty of exereke aad pleaty
ef wholesome feed.
Whenever the stock are ia a good
condition for market i a good time to
call oat aaddkpoae of those that are
aet up to your standard for feeding aad
flnkhiag for market
Keep yoar horses from becoming f ret
ful aad excited hy keeping calm your
self. An bout's worry will do more
harm to a horse that has to work hard
than a half day's labor.
The colts should be handled from the
first; learn them to lead readily by the
halter; to allow one to approach them
in the pasture or let; get them gentle.
If tbk k done when they are young it
will lessen very materially the work of
handling them later.
With colts, as with other stock, care
must be taken not to allow them to get
stunted, aad while with colts it may
not he as desirable to push the growth
as rapidly as with calves and pigs in
tended for market, yet it k very neces
sary to maintain a thrifty growth.
A writer in the Live Stock Indicator
says: The breeding and raking of
horses for market can readily be made
profitable, provided they are of a good
grade. It is an important item to breed
the mare to a good horse; to feed and
care for her during gestation, in order
to make sare of a good foal, aad thea
feed her well during the first season in
order to secure a vigorous, thrifty
growth.
It Ls well to look about you occasion
ally and see who is making the most
money on hogs. The chances are a
thousand to one that in every instance
it k he who buys the best hogs attain
able and gives them the best care pos
sible. And with all other live stock
the same rule will hold good. There k
money in hoga every year for those who
constantly endeavor to keep their herds
up to the best average of the country.
Western Swineherd.
A writer in a turf journal gives the
following rule to estimate the height a
colt will grow to: Take a colt at any
time between six weeks old and one
year, stand him on a level surface so
that he will stand naturally, then
measure the distance from the hair of
tho hoof to the knee joint, and for
every inch or fraction thereof he
measures he will be hands high when
matured. If he measures fifteen inches
he will grow to fifteen hands high; if
fifteen and a-half inches, he will be
fifteen aad a-half hands high and soon.
FARM NOTES.
With all young poultry it will be
found much healthier to keep them out
of the wet grass in the morning until
they are well feathored.
The easiest way of having clean fence
corners is to have as few as possible.
Plank and wire fences lessen very ma
terially the work of keeping the fence
runs clean.
Too much grain is detrimental to old
ducks; they need during the summer
plenty of grass and coarse, bulky food.
They do not bear confinement well, but
should have a good range.
In finishing up the cultivation of the
early potatoes in nearly all cases it will
pay to drill corn between the rows;
either one of the varieties of sweet corn
or one of the early maturing varieties
of field corn.
The dairy influence, by methods of
farmers' institutes, dairy conferences
and dairy schools, has got to be made
more conspicuous. Denmark, in a half
score of years, by her dairy schools and
public instruction, jumped from obscur
ity to be the great dairy exporting
country of Europe, and is actually un
dermining our foreign trade, and Can
ada k conspicuous in the same direction.
By the time the early garden crop
have matured the late cabbage plants
should be ready to set out and all the
space occupied by the earlier crops can
be cleaned up and set out with cabbage
plants. In many cases cabbage, celery
or tomato plants can be set out between
the rows of early beans and early sweet
corn, and by the time the plants need
the room the first crop will hare ma
tured and can be cleaned off.
With all root crops it k necessary to
plow the ground deep and thoroughly,
and with late potatoes thk k especislly
the case. Have the seed ready so that
the planting can be made while the
ground k fresh. Bun out the furrows
reasonably deep and then plant and
cover carefully, stepping on the hill so
as to press the soil dowa well upon the
seed. In many cases it will pay to roll
after planting, especially if the soil k
somewhat dry.
Potatoes to grow well need a good
deal of mokture aad for thk reason, in
an ordinary season, late potatoes should
be covered tolerably deep. One advan
tage in plowing and preparing the soil
deep before planting k that in giving
the cultivation afterwards the surface
only needs to be stirred, and. if care k
taken to stir it frequently, shallow cul
tivation will aid to retain mokture in
the soil, while deep cultivation, espe
cially if the plants are hilled up, will
aid to dry out the soil. St Loak Re
public. 'efee.
Shelter for food k almost as impor
tant as shelter for stock, aad aa hay
harvest will soon begin it k important
to be ready.
Sheaf oats run through a cutting box
aad fed to stock makes a good ration,
especially if wheat bran k added, while
at the same time it saves the expei
of threshing.
As a precant'onary measure, cal
newly weaned should be given one or
two tablespoons! al of lime water ia the
milk they drink. Thk will correct
acidity of the stomach if aay exkts aad
prevent it if none k present?
Do aot breed at random. Whenever
aa animal k bred have some object in
view aad make selections that will se
cure thk with the most certainty.
When a large number of fowk drink
from the same vessel it k liable to he-
come filthy, aad good care k
to keep it clean.
If the colt k allowed to run with the
mare ia a short time it will learn to eat
oats aad bran aad a little heavier ratkm
should he supplied.
Aa occasional bran mash k a good
thing te bring a horse to hk appetite if
he has dropped off ia hk feed, from
hard work.
As a general rule celts de not hear
confinement well, they aeed the run of
a fooa pasture a fair portion of the
m order to make a raaea develem-
,t
Growing colts need pleaty cf exer-
pteasy of water aad pleaty cfaa-
sthe mere fully these
the better the growth aad
thrift.
AUewmgapiieef maaarctolaycmt
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MADDENED DY FRIGHT.
Aa English oncer relate thk weird
aad most aeaaay story: One of hk
relatives received the following pre
scriptkm from her pbysieka: "Take a
carriage aad yoar maid." he said, "aad
go somewhere for a driving tour. Liva
cat of doors and do aot get tired." Fol
lowing thk advice, she atartrd for a
trip through the prettiest part of Devon
shire, stopping at the different inns en
route. After a delightful week there
came an unlucky day when everything
went wrong. The weather was bad. one
horse became lame, some part of the
harness gave way. and it was not until
a very late hour that they arrived at the
nearest village. At the inn mine host
was full of apologies. Every room was
filled, he said, "every one " The lady
protested that she waa ill. that hc
rould not go a stp further. "I will
leep anywhere." he askL "but I
mast stay to-night" Finally an idea
teemed to strikr the landlord, and he
bustled away: returning in a few initi
ates, he suggested an expedient A lady,
he said, hsd srrived a little while be
fore, and the only room be could give
her was a large, old-fashioned apart
ment oa the a rat floor. There
were two lsrgr beds in the room,
and he had inquired if ahe mould
allow the last arrival to occupy the
vacant one. She waa quite willing. aid
the landlord, t share her room, and the
heroine of our story, glad enouph tc
obtain any resting place, waa ahown tc
it at once. The original occupant i
very tired, explained the houekeerwr,
snd hsd gone directly to ed on her ar
rival, having had her supper served
sfterwsrd on a tray. She was awake,
however, when they entered, and llv
tened courteously to the other's thanks,
declaring herself pleased to be of ser
vice by one or two olltc little ejacula
tions in the midst of the last-conic r
explanations "I am very pleased,"
"Not at all." "Very glad to oblige;
and then, as if tired, she turned ott tc
go to sleep. "My sunt," said the ofli
cer who was relating the story, told tht
housekeeper that she wished for noth
ing but a cup of tea and would retire al
once. Together with her maid she ar
ranged her affairs for the nijrht
"Couldn't I sleep on the floor, madam?'
whispered the faithful Abigail, "I don't
like to leave you hen alone." "Non
sense, Sarah, 1 will le all right." sutf
her mistress. "Come to me early with
my tea. Good night"
"The rest of the story, said the offl
cer, after an impreanive pause, "was
told to ua a year or so later by my aunt
herself after her recovery from a Ioiir
and dangerous Illness. AftrrSarah left
her she locked the door and proceeded
with her toilet Suddenly and most in
explicably she felt s nervous fancy that
ahe was watched: aud ahe turned quick
ly snd involuntarily to the opposite lied.
The occupant had certainly turned over,
but she was quite quiet and apparently
asleep. "How silly of me to feel un
comfortable." said my aunt to herself.
"For slowly and noiselessly the creat
ure, still with her eyes fixed with a set
tled stare, was reaching out over the
table with her long arm. groping here
and there as If in search of something.
She found it at last it was the knife
on her tray. My aunt saw the figure
rise up in bed and she remembers no
more.
"In the morning the maid brought the
ea early as directed. The door was
locked and she was greatly frightened
to hear the strangest noise "like the
chattering of a mad monkey." she de
scriled it afterward. Terrified leyond
measure, ahe flew to the landlord, who,
with a couple of his men, forced open
the door. There on the very top of an
enormous old-fashioned wardrobe with
smooth-glazed doors, was my unfortu
nate aunt in her night dress, cowering
and gibbering and ranking the strange
chattering noises that had so alarmed
the maid. On her face waa the vacant
stare of an idiot. Below her with wild,
disheveled locks and white gown Icarwd
the maniac with noiseless tounds,
waving the knife with terrible gestures.
"How my aunt ever reached the top
of that impossible lieijilit, concluded
the officer, "ha ever remained a mys
tery. A fearful illness followed, and
on her recovery she remembered no
more than I have told you. Her terrible
room-mate hsd lieen subject, we were
told afterward, to fits of dementia, but
had never been violentandhad not been
placed under restraint Her disease,
however, assumed from this period an
acute form and her case ia now ad
judged hopeless." Albany JournaL
Me DMa't Smile.
A man with a satchel and umbrella
struck a banana peel on Jefferson ave
nue, near Wayne, yesterday, and as hr
went up and came down and tried tc
cover the whole town, his satchel hit a
passing dray horse and his umbrella
thrashed tho legs of a telegraph Ixiy.
A second man, who wa clow ltehind
him. extended a helping hand, and a
the victim scrambled up he looked a'
No. 3 and remarked:
"Isn't it fanny?"
"Not very."
"You don't laugh r
"No."
"You don't even smile?"
"No."
"It kn't because you can't, is it?"
"O, no. The reason k that I struct
the mate to that skin about two block!
further down, and I don't know ye'
whether I'm afoot or on horseback."
Detroit KreePrrs.
Do not repine because the straw
berry-box has its bottom so near Iti
top. If the boxes contained more her
riea they would contain more acid anc
more grit. Nc, my darling sir or madam
you have no reason to complain, but
rather to rekiee. Boston Transcript
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touch. "The Pursuit of Hsppineaa," hy
Tudor Jeaks a auixzical look into the
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k con tri bated by Annie Rroawm King,
under the title. -Thk Way Went the
Ladv Mary to Paradke." A good old
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Boston la 1WV k from the pea of John
L. Heatoa of the Brooklyn Times.
"Amanda Jinknm's Burden." by (Hirer
Howard, has ita serious lesaoa for eld
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Sidney's "Five Little Peppers Grown
Up" aerial, which has never been more
interesting than ia the present number
Quite a different little girl from lhna
lie Pepper, but a charmingly quaint
child, make her curtesy to Wide
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".Mis Matilda Archambeau Van Dura."
in the third aerial. "Marietta's Good j
Times," we get delightful glunprs of
the five open air lifrnf Italian children
Thk serial is from the pen of an Italian
woman recalling her childhood. Cots!
thing are as thick as ns-s in Jutw;
articles, tieautifui illustrated poems.
picture, some tine, some funny; four
pages of sparkling original ancvdot-s,
"Tanplcs." and three pe of letters
from the children crowd the number
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Wide Awake k S2.40 a year, al'JOa
voL (6 ino.); .0 cent a No. I). Lothrop
Company, lloston. Publishers.
Arvt-aaorlea of Ik ChatrlaliM-.
The accessories of the chatrlainrs
have become very comprehcnMi r A
silver walnut or an acorn contains a
powder and a powder puff: a white
mouse with jew eledeyrs contains rrt
odor; a guinea pig is tilled with a sn In
fer thr lifs and in addition to thrse Is a
netted purs-, a silver tablrt, a watch, a
pencil, a glove buttoner and a pin
cushion. Many of them are also fur
nished with a chime of little ailver Iwlls;
thus the wearer, like the lady of the
nursery rhymes who had ring on her
lingers and bells on her tors, is fur
nished with music whererrr &he noes,
providing she wears her chatelaine.
Chicago Pont
TB)orMchbra
Have "staging qualities ' Thai W, cum
petition doc notulscourairc them Foremoot
In the race for popular favor, Ho!cttrr
SUimarh HitlTa took the lead and kept it.
The- KXple of Atnencu recocnlio it ua thr
champion winner in all cnnwsta with th
vlcioua nags, malaria, hrtia, lierom
plaint constipation, rheumatism and killing
trouble. It nlwaj s wins.
"Wncfts la tho (uanertnaater of tlil
i.l'' &Viiilil1 IKa Irmi n.rfr ta rm.l IK, flair
ter knocked nrer tbrreunilirellua and brohr
two rrlmlonn a Ida analrty to respond -
Mm Ira warrtto i
W Hrxyoti feel all brokeup, and life hardlr
aeems worth living. When you hardly f-rl i
auic u iiiifiiu hi yourunuj vrnra ik-iijoii
frel you would give half you otvn for ah'ttta
tnnri' htr-tij;th, just give Vr John Hull
Saraiiparilln a trial and see whata lift It will
cive j ou You will hles the d.iy you tried
lr, John liull'a Karauparllla.
Tnc pollto rrMirter wroto that "MWa
Chromatic rrntlcrrd sorend piano plivra."
but llio printer set up that ho "reoded the
p Lu no to pieces." KschatiKn-
I'aix from indigestion, dyMpa and ton
hearty eating i relieved at'onif hy taking
one of Tartar's Little hirer Tills Immedi
ately after dinner. Don't forget lots.
J
A aeoKTsWAVa paper baa na article telling I
"Ii our io utSKa niea I ue aeaaon ia coining
when moil people vrould prefer to know
tow to unmake them.- Homervtllo Journal.
Tnot'OBTLCsa mothers arc they who trill
not give sickly children Dr. Hull's Worm
Deslroyera. They remove the- worms, and
the child grows strong.
Be not deceived uv thogreasn on the slide
of follv: there- aro all vera under It. H. V
Herald.
FnrMt:r.and purity are Impiurwil to tho
complexion fov (Jleun'a Kulphtir Snap.
Hill's liulr mid Whisker Dye, iOc
Trima facie erldnmx demooatatnt that
women are moroeipcrt coloriaia than men.
Boston Courier
FoKtwcntv-flvecentajoucan getCarter'a
LltUo Liver Hlla - the best liver regulator in
tho world. Don't forget this. OncpiU adose.
You can't tell how things will end what
begins aa a little lark may become a great
sir bat- Klniira Caiettn
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