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There has been in some instances less headaches, in others marked improvement where various disturbances to health had existed. I look for benefit to all who prac- tice regularly and faithfully. Gymnastics strengthen more sets of muscles than walk- inglor rowing. ut regulated gymnastic exercise is only one means of physical culture ; modes of dress, outâ€"of-door exercise, bathing and sleeping are equal in importance. From neglect of precautions in childhood, which seem trifling, but are very important, there are few, if any, perfect forms. The shoulders are either too round, or one is higher than the other ; the neck is sunk too deep into the body or twisted ; the figure is thick, too thin or all of a piece, as it were, and the limbs are more or less distorted. “’hen the shoulders of a young girl show a tendency to become too round, she must be made to throw her elbows well in the rear and her chest forward, and to sleep on her back. An hour’s exercise every day under the eye of a judicious teacher of calisthenics is an excellent preventive of deformities. The neck should be carried straight, but without stiffness; in such a. way, in fact, that the fleshy part below the jaw may form, as it were, a double chin. * If she will determine that as much as if possible of the time of each day in which she is sitting down she will sit with her head and neck up, trunk erect and shoulders low, and that whenever she stands or walks she will at all times be upright, she will shortly find that she is getting to be far straighter than she was, and if she has a larger and finer chest than formerly it will be nothing strange, for she has simply been using one of the means to get it. 0heese as an Article of Diet. In the digestion of food, particularly of flesh foods and cheese, poisonous ptomaines are formed, but usually one does not find these in great quantities, from the fact that the liver is able to dispose of the most of them. The small amount of cheese ordin- arily taken at a meal will not likely have any appreciable effect. But suppose a per son takes a pound of cheese, then he will get enough poison for toxic ell‘ects. Two of the worst cases of poisoning I ever knew were from eating cheese. One of the pati- ents (lied. Cheese always contains these ptomaines. The process of ripening is al- ways a process of decay, and when taken into the stomach the liver has extra work to do to dispose of these poisons. The old saying, “ Cheese, thou mi hty elf, which digests all things but thyse f,” is not true. Cheese does not help digest other foods. I met a doctor who explained why it 'was that cheese was useful as an article of diet by saying that cheese contains gastric juice from the calf’s stomach used as a rennet. I asked him to explain why it was that new cheese does not‘have as much of this pecul- iar strong acid flat or as old cheese, and whether the rennet had the capability with- in itself of multiplying. This burning, fiery-tasting fluid which comes up in the throat and which the old doctor thought was gastric juice, is really butyric acid. It results from the decay of fats and oils and belongs to the category of ptomaine'i. Sometimes cheese contains ptomaincs of a kind particularly deadly, and they are al- ways preSent. Professor Vaughn, of the Michigan University, discovered this poison in cheese and named if t 'rotoxicou. He discovered also a very easy est by which its presence could be detected, and thought in the interest of the State board of health that it would be a good plan to supply all grocers with it. But first, in order to test it still further he collected a hundred specimens of different cheeses, and to his surprise every single one showed the presenco of tyrotoxi- con, so he did nothing more about submit ting his tests to the grocers, for if followed out it would destoy the whole cheese busi- ness. “'hen Professor Vaughn wants speci- mens of tyrotoxicon, he gets a quantity of cheese, pours a. little milk and water on it, puts it in a bottle, and in due time he has plenty of the poison. If we must eat cheese it can be rendered much less harmful by being cooked. But one who wants to keep his liver in good condition and have a good healthy circulation, should avoid food which in itself is full of germsâ€"Du. KELLOGG. Oonvulsions in- Children. Fits occur at all ages. During chiidhood they are called convulsions and may come on within a few hours of birth. When a baby has a convulsion he should be at once undressed and put into a bath of warm wa- ter. The water must feel comfortably warm to thchand; in this the child should be kept until the seizure is over. If wind cs. capes from the bowels, an in jectiou of warm water will cause an anion of the bowels and often immediate relief. Fits occuring in babies are nearly always due to wrong food or overfeeding. The nervous sys- tem of babies is more developed than other organs, consequently any food that disagrees may cause a convulsion. To avoid these alarming attacks mothers must not overfeed their offsprin nor five them wrough foods. A baby fed by t e bottle or on e bosom does not need feeding more than once every four hours during the day, and once or twice in the night. Babies must not be given an foods but the bosom milk, or the mill: of t e cow, goat, or ass, until it has cut at least two tooth. and even then not before it is nine months old. To give bread and milk, or oatmeal, or biscuits, or arrowroot, or‘ any patent food, is to render a baby liable to these stacks. When babies suffer from any-kind of illness this ofm begins with a mation of the lungs, kc. \Vhen children from one to ten years old suffer from convul- sions, itis usually because food or other irritant isdisturbing the stomach or bowels. A child whose nervous system is highly developed may haves fit if he has eaten some food which has disagreed with him. In a case of this kind the clothes about the neck mustbe unfastened, a cork or hit of wood placed between the teeth to prevent the tongue from being bitten, and hot fomen. tatious should be applied over the stomach and bowels. If the attack is due to indi~ gestible food, making the child sick by giving salt and water, mustard and water, or the tickling the throat with a feather, will quickly stop the attack. Pâ€"°â€"_ Odds and Ends. There is awouien’s brass band in Glenâ€" ville, Ohio. One acre of land will comfortably support four persons on a vegetable diet. Ten days per annum is the average amount of sickness in human life. Edward Payson \Veston, the once famous pedestrian,now does all his walking in New York city, where he is a. general solicitor andcollcctor. A Vienna doctor has declared that cancer can be arrested by an injection of one of the coal tar derivatives, methyl vio- let. The story comes from Maine that a man leased a farm, agreeing to give the owner half the proceeds. At the end of the year the man’s wife came to the owner, bringing with her two cats as his share of the pro- ducts. The finger nails grow between one and a- lialf and two inches in length yearly. ‘ Twenty million acres of the land of the United States are held by Englishmen. The Buffalo News tells of a. woman who has put up enough fruit ,to last for five years. And now she has grown melancholy for fear she will die and her husband marry again before the fruit is all eaten up. “E ” is the most frequently used letter in the alphabet ; then comes “ T, ” The necktie on the statue of \\ illiam Penn ‘that is to surmount the Philadelphia City Hall will weigh 500 pounds. The peach was originally a poisonous fruit; but by cultivation the poison has disap~ peered. It is reported that Baron Alphonse de Rothschild has purchased from Prince Borg- hese Raphael’s famous picture of “Czcsar Borgia ” for the sum of 600,000 francs. It is estimated that at least $50,000,003 of the U. S. Government’s paper money sup- posed to be in circulation has been lost or destroyed. A Tennessee paper publishes a descrip- tion of a single grapevine on the McCoy flats, near Big Brasly mountain, that ex- tends over five acres of ground. It bears only on alternate years. The taste for horseflesh is evidently spreading in Berlin, and in response to the public demand a special horsemeat rest- aurant has been opened there and the num- ber of customers is very large. The farmers in the Palouse country, \Vash- iugton, havo straw roads, which are pro- nounced excellent. They take the straw after it is threshed and scatter it over the roads, and, after a. while, when it is settled down, it makes a road like papicr macho, smooth and dustless. Death is the Bear’s Cage. Katharine Wolff of Kitzingen, Bavaria, at midnight, recently, let herself down on a rope into the cage of the polar bear in the Frankfort Zoological Garden, and was torn to pieces before the eyes of the keeper. Her shrieks first attracted the attention of Goiling. a watchman, whose refusal to marry her had. caused her desperation. He saw her standing, quite nude, in the cage, with - the bear’s fore-paws on her shoulders audi its lower jaw resting on her head. From a. I tree, which extended its branches over the open top of the cage, hung the rope on which she had let herself down. She had already repented of her not and begged for help to ‘ release her from her terrible companion. Geiling, as has been shown on oflicial iii- vcstigation of his conduct, merely called other night watchmen to the ea. c and did not lift a. hand to aid the girl, alt ough the bear held her without tearing her for some forty minutes. \Vhen reminded that rifles for such emergencies were kept near by, he answc red _ “What do you mean? Kill an animal that cost $500 for such a woman '2” The bear rolled the girl round the cage and twice had her within two feet of the spot where the watchman stood. A subordinate of Geiling could endure the sight no longer and ran off for the police. When he return- ed with a Sergeant the girl had been eaten y the boar. Only her bones were left to ' prove the truth of the story of the watch- leonvulsion, as in measles, scarlatina, inflam- . .n. m... 4.-.... W. . . ........ M.."umâ€"w.waW-s»mammmmccuemusmrmxmmmww-rmuaamimbww...-.. ... P2- DHATHS 01' CELEBRITIESâ€"le d January 2ndâ€"Historian Kinglake, Lon- on. January 5thâ€"Emma Abbott,‘ Salt Lake. January l2thâ€"Baron Haussman, Paris. January Nthâ€"George Bancroft, “‘aslr ington. January 20thâ€"Kiug Kalakaua, Francisco. January 2Sthâ€"The Afghan Anieer, Af- ghanista n. January 29â€"“r'illiam Window, York. January 30tliâ€"Charles Bradlaugh, Lon- don. January 31stâ€"Meissoniei , Paris. Februaryâ€"Admiral Porter, \Vasliing ton. Februaryâ€"General W. T. Sherman, N e17 York. Februaryâ€"Ex-Senator E. K. Snowy Hili, Md. March lidâ€"Leonard Jerome, London. March l’ithâ€"Prince Napoleon, Rome. March 20thâ€"Lawrence Barrett, New York. March 23d.-â€"Rev. Howard Crosby, New York. Aprilâ€"«P. T. Barn urn, Bridgeport. Aprilâ€"General Von Moltke, Berlin. Aprilâ€"Grand Duke Nicholas, St. Peters- burg. ' May 9thâ€"Mme. Blavatsky, London. May 26thâ€"Rev. Dr. Van Dyke, Brook- lyn. J uneâ€"â€"Bensing J. Lossing, New York. Juneâ€"Sir John Macdonald K. C. B., Premier of Canada. ' . July 4thâ€"Hannibal Hamlin, Maine. August filthâ€"James Russel Lowell: Massachusetts. August l‘2thâ€"George Jones, Founder of the New York Times. September 13thâ€"Marquis de Cliambrun, New York. September lOthâ€"Balinaceda, Santiago. October Gibâ€"King Karl, qurtemberg. October 6thâ€"\Villiam Henry Smith, London. October Brighton. October 7thâ€"ISir John P. chnessey, Queenstowu. San New \Vilson, 7thâ€" Chas. Stewart - Parnell, A Berlin Mystery. A mystery of a very sensational character was solved on Tuesday in Berlin, Germany. On Sunday an elderly maiden lady, Fraulein Adler by name, in receipt of a. comfortable income, came to her death at her residence in a well-known and highly respectable street to the west of that city, ina manner that appeared to be inexplicable. She was found with her head covered with wounds inflicted by a carving knife that lay by her side. As there was no sign of a. struggle, and as no money or anything of value was missing from the apartment, it was believed that the un- fortunate woman had committed suicide in a state of sudden insanity. The medical and police evidence seemed to point in this direc- tion. The deceased kept a maidservant, who asserted that she could not effect an entrance into her mistress’s house on coming ‘ home from her Sunday out, so that she only returned on Monday, when to her horror she found the deceased in the above-mention- ed condition. Contradictions in her evidence however, and the fact of her having robbed her employer previously, aroused suspicion. In the afternoon she confessed that having tried inefl‘ectually to poisonFraulein Adler, she murderedher with a carving-knife, which she had concealed in her dress, and then having robbed her victim of some $25 that was in her purse, she proceeded to a dancing- hall, where she amused herself till past mid- night. The murderess is only nineteen years of age, and the cold-blooded, premeditated brutality exhibited by this juvenile criminal, as well as her shameless indifference to her dastardly crime since the commisSion of the murder, have excited an immense sensation in Berlin, where, during thelast two months, public attention has been occupied with an unusual number of similar atrocious deeds. Small-Pox in Quebec. A small-pox scourge prevails at St. Paul de la Croix, Que, and other places. .The cases originated with a girl named .Bujold, who in a. far gone state of variolmd topk the train at Levis and started for DalhouSie. N. S. Sue was very sick on board the cars and a lady, who was traveling from Mont- real to St. Paul with her two child:eu to spend the winter with her father, noted the good Samaritan and attended on her wants, giving her water to drink out of her own cup and doing other small acts of charity men. Subsequently her clothes, together ' for the suffering girl. Little did she think with a bank book for $3,000 on deposit, were found at the foot of the tree from which she dropped into the bear’s den. All Frankfort is calling for the punishment of Geilin . It is expected that he will be convicte of manslaughter. ....___¢__.___. Wonders of the flea. Nothing curious about a flea, ch ‘3 sec. Put one under astrong microscope. \Vliat a transformation ! It seems to be clothed in armor ” from head to foot,” formed of brown, overlapping plates, that are so exceedingly tough as to be almost indestructâ€" ible. Its head is small and ver thin with a single black eye on each si e, the rays of light scintillating through the tiny optic like sparks of fire. Puget managed to look through the eye of a flea With his powerful glass, finding that its surface diminished objects in size, while it multiplied them in numberâ€"a man appearing like an army of fairies, and the flame of acandle becoming a thousand tiny stars. From the she of its head, and for other reasons, the ca is an d to use but one eye at a time. Tmfi'ensive weapon of the little crea- ture is composed of two palpi or “ feelers," two pierceis and a tongue. When it feeds it stands erect, thrusting this sucker into the flesh and will eat without intermission if not disturbed. The flea's manner of breathing is still undetermined,bnt it is thonghttobe through two small holes at the end of the palpi. The Chinese boatwoman has her baby strapped upon her back, and it bobs up and down a she soullsio'vcnthe water. - I Let us she was nursing a smallpox patient, and much less did she think that ere a few days had passed she and hertwo little ones would be lying low in their coffins. Such, however, was the sad end, and to-day a broken-heart- ed fathcr is wailing in anguish for his beloved ones. With the deaths of these three vic- tims the dread disease is not exteriniuated and out of the numerous friends who called to see the sick ones '27 are to-day develo ing the poisonous symptoms, and it is not li ‘ely they all will survive its fatal results. This is the manner in which the smallpox reached St. Paul. 1n the same way it was contract- ed and taken to St. Thomas, Quc., by n. familv who also lent the unfortunate girl theirvaid while on the train. The family was on its way home from Louisville, Ky. where the members had been for the his three years. Faithful Unto Death. Oh words of wondrous love and truth, Spoken in bloom and flower of youth, Told in look, in touch, and sigh, Broader in meanln than the sky, Said in whispers so t and low Down on the beach where the waves do flow 0r murmured sweetly in evening air Methinks I hear them everywhere. First in the morn when l awake. ‘Faithful to death‘ for his dear sake, Last thoughts at night before repose; Ere sleep my weary eyelids close Are thoughts of one tho' far away As true and faithful every day ‘ These words shall be in r atcst breath Always f‘ faithful unto oath." .Guonos Wu. Bownx 0n the Californian peninsula the children are cradled in turtle shells, and they go 10‘ sleep b ' the rocking of these quietly as well its-our bies do. ‘ ~‘ . o HOW THE HONSOON cams. The Face of Nature Changed by the Threat- ening Advance of the Storm. Let me t to ive a icture of the end of an Ih’dia glimmer Paid Ilbs beginning of the period when the monsoon rains des- cend. Day after day the sun pours doini withering heat, the air is sick with it, the ground is hard as iron, and gapes in great cracks, as though open mouthed, pleadiu to the pitiless sky for a drop of water; the wide expanse of country that a few months 't was green and flower-bespriukled is rows, the crisped with a fierce heat and falling to powder if rubbed ; the trees, mostly evergreens, are parched and dusty ; no breath of air rustles through, no leaf stirs. They resemble great toy trees, with leaves of painted wood. There is no sound of life anywhere ;the noisy. green parrots are in. lent, and hide from the sun in the heart of the densest and leaficst top. You may, perhaps, see a crow or mynah sit solitarin on a bougli, with drooping wing and gaping beak, helpless in this great purgatory of fire. " The monsoon, the mon~ seenâ€"will it never come 2” you ask as you toss half naked on your bed, worried by prickly heat and insects which shall be nameless, not the worst of which is the per- sistaut, blood-sucking mosquito. Heat apoplexy has, perhaps, prostrated one or two of your friends, and a second in the open air unhelmeted would be sudden death. “ Will the monsoon never come 2” , Every evening the sun drops down in the west like a great ball of fire, but leaves the heat behind him. One eveniu you notice with great joy two or three ilack clouds climb up the east to take a peep at his de- scending majesty. They are the advance guard, you think, of the monsoon and it will surely rain before morning. Morning dawns, and the sun sets to blowing his heat furnace strong as ever ; the sky is once more a. great dome of burnished brass. The monsoon at last blows the warning trumpet and the soughing of his wind to the far- - away horizon calls you out from your bed to the veranda. Nature holds her breath ; a. great calm, a strange hush-â€"the hush of ex- pectancyâ€"fills earth and air. Ha ! here comes the monsoon. Away on the western horizon a great black cloud wave surges up toward the zenith, blotting out the burnished sky in its progress, just as though you poured ink slowly into a. brass bowl. Behind this black wave, and moving with it, is a. great dense cbon mass, out every instant by forked lightning and . bellowing, deafening thunder. The quick darting adder tongues of flame flash every- where, search the bellowing heavens through- out from top to bottom, throughout the whole cloud-packed dome. Now for a second, only for a second, the quick-flashing lightning ceases, and an inky blackness, the blackness of Erebus, succeeds, and the thunder bellows as an Englishman in his sea-girl; little isle never heard it bellow. It is no distant rumble, gradually rolling nearer and culminating in o. resound- ing crack overhead. No ; around, about and just overhead the infernal din never ceases. The bellied clouds are pregnant with thunder, and the flame forks flashing hither and thither pierce their wombs and loose the thunder from its prison. It reminds one of Michael and his celestial host warring with Lucifer and his legions. It is terrible. Inside your bungalow the first advancing Wind that heralded the mouoon carried with it clouds of blinding dust, which is now piled up an inch high on table and chair and shelf. And still the war of the elements goes on. You cannot hear your neighbor’s voice, though he shouts his utmost ; the birds, aflrighted, shriek in the thickets, and the native servants huddle themselves to- gether in dark corners for safety. The sky opens its floodgates, and rain in torrents pours down without intermission for eighty or ninety hours on the parched earth. Splash ! splash ! on the roofâ€"not in show- ers, but in sheets. This is the monsoon. And when it has passed what a transfor- mation it has affected. The arid plain is one great lake, through which rise innumerable trees of glossy green, and crowding their leafy cathedrals flocks of parrots and minahs chatter their thanks to God for the welcome rain. The great lake soon disappears, absorbed by the thirsty earth, and reveals a. far and fair expanse of verdure beautiful beyond words in its dazzling greenery, and sprinkled with flowers that have shot up in a night, earth’s embodied hymn of praise to the Creator for the blessing of the monsoon. â€"_‘-':pâ€"-â€"_. Lord Wolseley on Moltke. Those who know poor, weak, jealous humanity most will best realize the dangers inherentin this Prussian system of command. But, above all things, they will not fail to admire the unselfish loyalty with which Moltke served his King and the disinterest- ed patriotism with which he served his country. It would be difficult to find in history a. more remarkable example of those noble qualitiesâ€"qualities which go far to redeem humanity from contemptâ€"than Moltke displayed when, in deference to the military Constitution of Prussia, he cheer- fully acceptcd the second position in that great and splendid army which won for all Germans the unification of their fatherlaud. Abroad he was known as the greatest strategist, the ablcst soldier of his epoch. At home, revered wherever the German tongue is spoken, he is still known as the great chief of the staff of the Prussian mon- arch. Had he served any other nation, his epitaph would have described him as the conqueror of Denmark, of Austria, and of France. But in his own country he will be simply remembered forever, and he was content to be so remembered, with deep feelings of pride and affection, as the loyal patriot, the great soldier, and the faithful servant of his King. What fame could the good man wish for more! Why a Preacher Should Ride a Bicycle. John Bertram, ex-Mayor of Dundas, Ont, is in the city, says the Vancouver, B. C, Telegram. Mr. Bertram is a shrewd, sharp man, and his conversation is marked by a well-defined vein of di humor. He was passing down street to- ay with his friend Mr. Dunn, Granville street, who knew him in Dundas, when they passed the Rev. Robert R. Maitlsud, who was speeding along ' on his bicycle. v - “ That’s the way clergymen go around in Vancouver," said Mr. Dunn. " ' *Mr. Bertram looked at the spoodin form, and without a smile replied : “ \ ell, he can save soles that way for a mrtainty.” THE POET'S CORNER. Bis 01d Gray Mars. uv sax war.er mss‘ . Jim 'Bunker bed to fish fur words As bob his bait from left to right. An swish his pole an' line aroun An‘ hardly ever get a bite. e hemmed an' unwed, an' gulped an' choked. An'scratchod an‘ cluttered an‘ grew red. An' then chewed out sword or two He allus wished he hadn‘t said. ' But yet his words flow thick and fast As battle bullets through the air W on he unhitched his tied'up tongue An' then described hisol‘grsy mare. The very thought of that 01' mars .W’uz lightniu' in the ol' man's eyes, 3 east in the dough uv his 01' 8013 Tact made it bubble up an’ rise ;' Hot ginger in his lazy blood Thet give his tired natur‘ vim, Thet stun his nerves au' fired his heart An_‘ nm e obi-an new man uv Jim. It pricked the dull flanks uv his soul Au' made 'it champ its bits an‘ mar. Anidaucc ’roun' on its hind logs w'cnâ€" “ 'cn he described his 01' gray mam. W’cn Jim described his 01' my more We all stopped work : an Cyrus Brown Said, while he talked about that mare, The mills and oughtcr all shct down. Said J ud, “ The sun sh’d stop right sbo Squar‘ in the middle uv the day An'stan’ still. or. it used to do W'en bosscd aroun' by J oshcrwny. N atur' sh‘d knock off work un' git Its money’s worth an' some to spare, In listenin’ to Jim Bunker spout W'cn he describes his of gray mare. Like w'en a nod saint talks of heaven. A scamp o gittln' out of prison ; Like w‘cn my Silas talks to Sal .An’ strokes her hair an' calls her his‘n ; Like Sisscro upon the stump. A-spoutin' Latin to the nations “'uz Jim w‘cn he described thetmpre An' give her pints and qualfycations. W e sutun’ soaked in olekunco. Or walked en‘ wallcrcd in it there W"en Jim out in the hayflcld stopped An' then described his 01' gray mare. Jim's ol’ gray mare fell dead last night Down in the parsturo by the brook: Jim went an' foun’ her there stone (lend An’ jest stood still an‘ shook un' shook. I10 then began to fish for words In his 01’ unsuccessful way, An’ hemmed. an' hawcd. un' gulpcd an' choked But couldn't fin’ award to say. Of course he had no use for life With thet 01' more a. layiu'thcra, An’ so he fell down in his tracks : Au' died besxde his 01‘ gray mare. ~ [Yankee Blade The 0375;; Man. A air of very chubby logs, ‘ncascd in scarlet Lose ; A pair of little chubby boots, With rather doubtful toes ; A little kills, a little coat, Cut as a mother can-â€" .Alld lo ! before us stands in state The future’scomlng man. His eyes. poi-chance, will read the stars And search their unknown ways - Percliauco the human licartand sou Will open to their gaze ; Perchanco their keen and flashing glance \Vill bc a nation's light-â€" ’l‘hosc eyes that now are wistful bent On some big fcllow’s kite. Those handsâ€"those little busy lien deâ€" So sticky, small and brown ; Those hands whose only mission seems To ullnllorder down ; \Vho news What hidden strength may be Hidden within their clasp, Though now 'tis but a. tall‘y stick In sturdy hold they grasp? Ah, blessings on those little hands, \Vhosc work is yctundono l And blessings on those little feet, Whose race is yet unrun ! . .Arid blessings on the little brain That has not. learned tqplanl VVhate'cr the future holds in store, God bless the comin man ! â€"[bgomervillc Journal. a Bittersweet. The street waslivcly with noise and fuss, and children played in the mud . Like grubs on a. dung-heap frolicking, or larvm 11 1011 n. bud. _ . lVickc nc-ss’l Not a. bit of it! iginul sin, . But the inudaud filth stick sometimes, and we ‘ pious folk drive it in! . . '1 hey made mud pics. those children, and laugh- ed as they upcd the swells, Pretending to eat the gamcy meat, though sense went against its smells l And G 3d looked down on the rugged crowd, and in mercy let them be, For dirt and starvation and harmless fun are no sins to such as He. There's no or- Thcrcstopped. at the corner of a lane, acnrrlago with stoppers high, And a coacliniau. whose nose from pride of place turned upwn rd to the sky. It wasn't that he was better than they, those children of passion and vice, But good living and’easc had spmlqd the man, and now he was “ nasty niccl llc drew up his steeds, and he turned up his nose and his lips went down in disdain. And the footiuuu opened the carriage door and ~shut it close again. But out and into the dirty street, where the -childrcu war 0 ntplay. ' \Yalkcd a. beautiful lady of noble momâ€"and, licr carriage drove away. Into the midst of the chattering crowd the silk- en dressed lady run-1 Into the midst, with an anxmus glance, careless of Woman or man _ (Though all started with a sort of inquisltvc lcor at a lady in such a. place), And she seized a two-ycar-old baby boy. and kissed him upon the taco! Kissed him and hugged and nursed him there, regardless of poor or soc-crâ€" Kissed him, although he struggled and triedâ€"â€" naught to her was so dour- Kissed him. and cried herself, until the baby looked up in surprise And the baby's baby friends looked askancc to see tears in n. lady's eyes. Never a word the lady said, ,took no notice at all of the noise. l’aid no hch to remark or glance, to sorrows or mine or '0 H, Tightly ~ forjiisiln momcut thereâ€"she held and kissed that child, . Then run from the place in headlong race like a creature allllOpt wild. But she left in the baby‘s hand, amid the dirt she could not eras-c. A golden gift that he wondered at with a puzzled, awuitrucl: face. a s w a l e That night there was merrymaking and feast- ing along the street. But the babe was as’cep and thclndy llno went tears that were Bittersweet! TlMCliY L. ltomxsox. " Deservinc' Poor. " Dives and I on crowded streak An aged beggar oliauccd in mm: Dive»; passed by with sterile frown. A nd said, to «male conscience down: “ l lrcatnll such with rule unswervt'ig. How can one know when they're drawing 1" "You're rlirlit,” I cried, will) nodding head. ll toll for Dives for my bread ;) But since the mind is heaven-born. And earthly fcttcrs holds in scum. l :hought. " ’l'lmt wretch and many more Starved through those words,‘ Descrvlngpoor,‘ And then, because Ilia ly knew " flow Dives rich and ric ier grow. '1 moored, (in thought.) "such carefulalimi. such nice. discriminating (jllltll!.fl,. Should be observed in rule uiiswervln; lBut hr the rich who are deserving." Aloe Ca utury. Wary. ,, .._...-..‘ W'. . ‘0 i l i x