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K ,,,,,, For three hours we journey along. stopping } at country stations. where fresh-looking Cam . adiens crowd the low platform, and curious vehicles drive throu h the surrounding clear- ‘ ing. The sun gets ower, and as we traVel east the long nhadow oi the en ine travels 1 before us on the track. or ri p as through the fir trees as we circle roun a curve. Nearly seven o'clock it is when Lake Me- antio burstsu n us from the valley he. ind the woo s on our right. Fir-clad hills fold this exquisite mirror in their (m- brece, and the sunset hues blaze on its sheet from orange to silver steel. Ice ii es and floating timber fill some of the bays. Violet cloudlets float high above the snow-streaked mountaine. Fir trees on the crest of the western hills stand out in dark relief silhouetted against the sunset sky. The river, rushing swiftly frrm the lake, has buret its bondr, sud tears round the railway bridge. Red hot water seems to flow amidst the ice and logs, for the airy . reflected gieams througnh them as through a l Anetwork. Tonight. a wooden French ’lenadian hoetelry, on a creaking bedstead; _morrow on a cowcatcher to tho " end of 9 iron.” What is a co‘westlaher? Well. , , u never see one in t o o countr , I VOOI“ ?rxplain. It is a sort of a gird-hire 111“ and (\ fastened to the front of the engine, ' riy scraping the rails, so that if the , ‘ meets with any movable obstruction, lol‘ggghlj;‘l‘.l be ushcd on one side. A fallen if“: floci: of sheep, at: exploring; pig, n a or even a " rizz y “ won re to. ALL w' sent to the right about by thin lJon. ‘ so. It rims not strictly catch cows, It r “ docs" for them, and flinqs them niy into the vlit 3h. - ‘in was well under I opened the in and let the E “Johnville, Johnville," “All aboard, in aboard." We rattle along, and at Bulwer we have the excitement of getting a freight car on to the track. It had run of at the switch. Here the ends of the two lines are moved instead .‘of pointed tongues of metal as at home. “ Three cars," sings the firemanâ€"“two cars.” “half a car," “just is little mite." These are in- structions to the engineer as to the distance he is to send on his engineer. “Drew pin.” Then the enéiue is detached from the train, and with s yood pull reinstates the long goods waggon on the track. These ireight_cers are new 50 to 60 feet long. Awsy we hurry in the brillisnt sunshine. Leaving ,Cookshire, we duh through the long wooden bridge over the river. I say through the bridge, because ‘he...i"ii'sve‘ over the river in this height-3a, in the 3356:”; 'id°'.§3¢§°§i‘e ’lihe long but no, but suits on the floor joists. so that fidulxkgrom the engine through the ties to the rushing river benesth. “I here the line is exposed in the open country, huh board- ings are erected to catch the drifting snow ; they look like advertising bosrdings Without plecerds upon them: Penting as we climb up grades, and smoothly dashing on down grades, we soon see the houses or a village in the open coun- try before us, and the gilt spite of its church, and then pass a yoke offpatient oxen plough- ing or atone-drawing. I eel: the bell a- swinging as we roll along so slow, for I love to hear it ringing as over the truck we go. “ Jnhnvilln, Jnhnuilln ” “ All nhnn-A n‘l I am iourneying, then, from the Province of Quebec over the mountains and down into the wilds of Maine, the home of the cuiboo, the land of the moose. Punt-pent, whim whofl‘, ding-dong, creek, wheeze, and we roar through the covered bridge over Masse- wippi'e brown flood and through the cutting. Friendly hmdkerchiefe nre shaken over a gate, and then we are in the forest charging along a winding avenue of Canadian fire. Birds fly out of the way as we make 144 revolutions per minute of our driving wheel (5 feet 8 in. in diameter). We are going about 30 miles an hour. For the sake of those who are not familiar with Canada, I will continue to describe the journey until I take iny seat abovethe “ cowcatcher." But where are we 11053 to 3 To the “ end of the iron.” The Canadian Pacific Riil- way Which engirde no large a section of this earth in now completing a short cut to the Atlantic from Montreal, which will save perhaps 300 miles in the trans-continental journey to the Pacific shore. Unfortunately the State ot Maine (U. S. A.) tune 11 into Canada on the east in an objection ly ag~ greaaive manner, and we have to cross American territory in order to get a short cut to Halifax. Wonder of wonders the Government of Canada Which has aided the Canadian Pacific Railway on its own soil goes still further and heavily subaidizee it even when built in an alien country?! Where are we going to! Permit me to tell you. We ere in Esstern (Swede, in the rovince of Quebec. We have just left nnoxville station, and ere passing thron sh the "city " (300 inhabitants). The reason, however, for Lennoxville being wellvknown, even in Europe, is because of its University, and because of its containing perhnps the best public school in Canada. That fine pile of buildings on the left of the line. and rising from the banks of two riversâ€"the Saint Francis and Mmswippiâ€"contoins lecture rooms, hall, chapel, houses for pro lesson and rooms for students, and dormi- tories for the boys. The Principnl is our old friend Dr. Adams, whom we miss so much frog: the_Getesheed High Schoolfox: boys. ' beera the steemehip Adrietio no we were coming ecrou the “pond," “Yon will beer tint sound (elluding to the ehip'l hell) ell over the Amerioen continent wherever there is n track." To en Engliehmen it seem u if daily eervloee or funeral: were coutuntly being held, for the telling of brazen belle of trains epproeoh the station- or crooning. he: on Englieh church-like hound. I No my seen in the cabin of Engine 205, the “engin- eer" send- the locomotive formrd, panting out bleak balloons of thick eooty smoke from the “smoke stock ;" the firemen pulls the long line which swing: the great hreu bell hanging near the whistle; we pen the level crossing, where buckboude and aletcu'u are kept in hand, no the horses nervously gaze on the fiery manner, and then we are otf on uni-journey. A Indy qu' III 0- the (3.31an Pacific \' Inuwnyd 81th: Dlng-Joug, ding dong. ding-dong. We hum along. So sang the Englhh yeomnn in hit well- known wedding song, but be little thought how nptly he described the locomotive of this grant continent. It wu ronurked on y “10.113! Alexander A. Boddy, l“. R. G. 8., Vicar)! All Snintl'. Moukwwmuuth, author of “Kairwan. tho Hcly,” “ Scene- h Mohamedm Afr‘ca. 0! A COWCA’I‘CIIBR. ient. . .ue whistle gives al We slackenf.’ White new wooden sheds great egbni an opening of the fir forest. M‘ékwoodsmen and women and children come down and smile as they see aman with a notebook writing on the cowcatoher. As the train stops I slide off and watch the pas- ‘ sen ers alight and their baggage set down on t e edge of the forest. As some hunting is to be done, I walk along to examine the boundary between the British Dominions and the United States of America. It is a square cast-iron post about a yard above the ground. Upon two sides appear in re- lief, “ Boundary, August 9, 1842." On the States side are the words : “Albert Smith, United States Commissioner," and on the other side: "Lieut-Col. B. B. Estoourt. iH. B. Commissioner." A tattered “Stars ‘snd Stripes”hung sadl from a rude ole which some one had 1 ed to the boun any post. We shall be able to picture the scene next time we read in our papers of the plunging oars toppling one after another, and the drowning, and the burning, and the crush- ing of fair human lives. Nothing else will I raise my pen against, but it must shower out in splutterings of indignation against trestle bridges, even it its holder is ignorant and partially unjust. J ust one question to those in power on the American continent: How is it that, with all their detects, the European lines rarely have bridge acci- dents! The answer must undoubtedly be because we spend more money over our bridges, and you of the western cord-Wt“ coul do the same, even if it v" . ient. . ale whistle gives a_ Here is a treatle bridge coming ! Lean forward, my friend, while you hold tightly to the iron frame. Look down there through the sleepers ; see the rushing brown river tearing at the rocks, and hear the roar of the rapids. What is tosave us if any one of those wooden beams, creaking under our Weight, snaps or is crushed out of position 2 Ah ! you breathe freely, for we are over now, and dash again into the forest; but we do not forget trestle bridges. My steed seems to have life and to be filled with a yearning to outstrip anything which nature can produce; sometimes We fly in comparative silence as we shoot along down grades, but then we pufl‘ and toil as we pant and struggle along steepyp grades; we creek and jar as we whizz round sharp curves ; with a bound we lead over chasms as we are held up by skeletons of wood. on ! those trestle bridges! Well for the occupants of the comfortable cars reading their papers, that they see not the View from the cow- catcher. In 1842. the commissioner cut a track through the force: forty feet wide all along the boundary, from peek to peak, and across the intervening vache. Every quarter of a mile one of these post: was pieced half- way between a rquare granite atone. , 1 -_ AL- -_..:_- .4“... hm The long line of mill: stretches ahead through the forest, but every moment the scene is changing, and new beauties ahead are evolving themselves out of the mountains. Like a huge monster devouring miles of iron tape, so it iewith us. the long rails come flying towards one and then disappear be- neath the engine. Great birds fly screaming athwart our track as we charge along, thundering out in agony our gasping blasts of spark and soot. "a! WHIVVVH â€" -~l~-v-v O' 7,, The bell rings, and as the engine gives its first pant I step on to the catcher and swing into my place again. N ow the whole train dashes oown into the United States of America. Two minutes ago we were amen- able to British law; now we must do as President Cleveland tslls us. It is oil down grade now to the end of the line, and about midday we come to the engineer’s camp, and are soon enjoying a homely meal in a log hut. Thousands of men are spending their days in the forest battling with mos. quitoos and other troubles, but pushing on bravely the work of completing the last link in the chain which holds together the British Dominions in North America. The men all come from Canada. The new law which forbids anyone who is in a foreign land to be hired in order to come into the States to work prevents the railway com- pany from bringing their men in Canada to work here. Instead, they discharge them at the other side of the boundary and give them a ride into the States, and then engage them afresh. Next time I cross the Atlantic Ishnll probably land at Halifax and travel in a sleeping car over the country Ihave seen to-day from the cow-catcher. You will see that incidents of this nature might be distressingly inconvenient for the occupant of the particular seat that I had taken, and I allow that it was unwise of me to fall asleep there as I did that attornoon for a short time. Now, I must exert any descriptive powers I can conjure up to en~ able you to take a seat with me on the front of this Canadian railway engine. The un- olouded sun heats down but we cannot feel it ; tor, as we fly along throu h space, we cut our way through the still au- at so great a speed that it becomes a gale Cold and.icy is this wind, for the forest glades on either side of the line are still deep with the winter's snow. Though we see the heat glimmer danc- ing abovethe track beforeus, when wecome to the spot we only feel a passing lake-warm breath, and all is cold again until we pull up, and then the fierce sun blazes and searches, and frizzles with all his might. But now we are rattling along at full speed. I feel that the whole train is behind me, and that I a_m k ading the way. I was told the day previously the train had run into a span of oxen crossing the line, and that this rod had epeared and transfixed one ox and carried it for haFf a mile and it was so firmly fastened to the 10- comotive that they had to stop the train and cut it_away._ To ennble the engines to shunt trucks and curing“ there is on enormous strong bar lutened in front, on thick as n muscular men's um. It is “stoned to the centre of the buffer plank by a correspondingly stout link, and when not in action this stout rod lies down the front of the catcher. " I am oing .101: to the oowcetcher," aid 1 to t e engine river. and the answer only wee e grim smile. Squeexing through the narrow opcuin I was outside now, hold- ing on to the lon rue rod lutened to the boiler. The eng no rolled end jumg‘ed as we banged along, but, holdln on tig tly, 1 passed orwerd and etepped own on to the iron eheli above the cow-grid. Here was a huge, thick rope with iron hooke coiled like e great bee constrictor end reedy to be used in pirallel shunting. 0n the-e coils I eat me down. holding on tightly to one of the lemr holdere, In renting my right heel on the ink of a stout iron rod. otbp mowing sir dab in u we toiled up thg‘ojde of [he loyoly lAke Magnum). _ A Learned Member of the Pro- tession. The following letter from a member of [of th.e.lea_med professionsâ€"a “Fizfahaciin? 1 practicing In a western townâ€"wee senteta. wgolzzelg firrn in Toronto, wighgelifiemgn no r desired to ”Ea som - . :1 .. e pleasing :lfogfgnifah: 3’3" 9 of novelties in medicine mm,g..uliiery may be expected when the new laboratory is in working order. The letter is printed verbatim. “Sir as i am goin into Patent medison this aprin quite extensivei have ben advised to rig t to you and geet e cataloug of our drugs and 1 am gointo keep other me ison as well as make my own and all kinds of perfumery today i am making 7 kinds of medieons and i can make as money as will sell and i determen run a wholesale business if on will send me a catalog of dragon and if 1 can do bter with you then i can in Mon- trel i will deal with you altogether becawe i think i can hilgi ‘e gufi trad u? here wher i . mun-I. . vâ€"â€" _--_ am. things in brislggfi'dr the ontiuk fur a. larg drugiot is ate at he bus the stock and can sell good: remain yours Trulv 1)--â€" “ Babylonia is the general name for the whole region around the city of Babylon. It is a vast plain dotted with mounds, which indicate the burial place of ancient cities. The mound over the city of lhbylonis about ten miles square 3 that over Erach ten square miles. Other mounds are very small, and cover probably only single palaces. Just where we shall excavate, how long we shall stay, and what We shall do with the inscrip- tions or relics discovered, all depends on the result of negotiations now pending with the Turkish Government. We shall all meet at Aleppo, a four-day ride on horse- back six weeks through the mountains with a caravan to Bagdad. We so armed, not so much on Yaccount of the brigands, which are not so numerous as formerly, as to pro- tect ourselves from wild beasts. Ni hts we shall go into camp. I have ordere 1,000 cans of fruits and meats for the journey, so as to break the native {are upon the party gra- dually. If we work in the sheep-raising section we can get plenty of mutton; other. wise we must live on goat flesh and goat 1milk. Wheat, I am glad to say, grows wild there, so that we need not want for some- thing like bread. The Arabs, who will do the excavating proper, will be paid ten or twenty cents a do). Their work is corres~ pondingly bad. If we make large excava- tions we shall employ two, three, or four, hundred. The picks and shovels we take with us. As an experiment 1 have also ordered six wheelbarrows, though the na- tives always work with baskets. I may have the expereienoe of the man who first tried to use wheelbarrows in Brazil, where the natives put them on their heads and then piled the things on top of them. \Ve have made all arrangements tor one year’s work though everything depends on our suc- cess and the disposition of the Turkish Government.” PROP. “ I sand on a refer-nee from a drngiat. at hom i hav alt with evry some i commence to make modison. " Sorrows are like thunder-cloudsâ€"in the distance they look black, over our heads hardly gray. Goedvmn‘nners include not merely plemnb things said and done, but unpleasant ones left undone. Conduct which pleases us toward those who are rising, pleases us lean toward those who are fallingâ€"{Victor Hugo. The flowering momenta of the mind Drop half their petals in our speech. â€"[0. W. Holmes. An humble knowledge of thyself is 3 enter way to God than a deep search after knowledgeâ€"[Thomas s Kempis. Heiwh'o does not help no fat the needlul moment. never helpe‘; he whojdoes not coun- sel at the needlul moment, never counsels. Suffering becomes beautiful when on? one bears great calamities with cheerfu - nose, not through inaenaibiliry, but through greatness of mmd.â€"-[ Aristotle. . n n ., r .L...._I.L AJ awn”. n‘\'vl\llr The only previous expedition of arch- auological character to Bebyloniu was the Wolfe expedition of 1884, though French and (hrn'uan eavnnte have long prosecuted their researches in the region. The expenses of Dr. Peters’e party Will be defrayed by the Babylonian Exploration Fund, which has been subscribed by citizens of Phila- delphia. Among the members of the Executive Committee of this fund are Prof. Allen Merquand of Princeton and Mr. Liugley, Secretary of the Smith- sonian Institution. While describing the nature of the expedition to a reporter before leaving Dr. Peterseaid: A Party 0! Explorers Golng to study the Hounds In Central Alia. Dr. John P. Peters, Professor of Hebrew in the University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Harper. instructor in Assyrian at Yale College, end, Mr. J D. Prince oi the class 0' 1888, Columbia College. have left New York with the purpose of eventually con- ducting cxplorntione and excavations in Babylonia, middle Asia. They are ac- companied by Mr. J. H. Haynes. photo- grapher, and Mr. H. P. Field of Brooklyn, architect. T0 B‘CAVATB IN BABYLONIR. I 7rTZE°§n§hquéhob§hlj 15f itrrutlx. of won k, and of well~doing will not; descend upon us like the dew upon the flower without effort of our own. Lahgr, pctuvergncekaelf-denial, L_ _.-A. I tinleh now. Leta in the even once more e proeoh my Cenedien vie, Lennon lle. We trumpet out he - nee ly lrom the booming whistle the news 0 ur return. We swing the brazen bell, and ur huge lamp blezce and glues u we tight u the interior-oi the covered bridge and :01 ' efiein over Muenwip i'e swollen flood. f es, w th memories of A rice. Ania, end E ope still fresh, we ehnll sing for many a mans :â€" Wev down the Muenwippl ribher, Fer fer from home, Dere'e where my thoughts are turning ebber. Dere’e where I like to roam; v: vu- n ..,V.. fortituvdervwntchffiltleea are the elements out of which this kind of joy is formed. Do not grow old to fast. Try to keep your sympathies fresh, and your interest In little things active. Grey helm and wrinkles you pannot eazape, but; you need not grow old in feeling unless! you choose. PEARLS 0F TRUTH. A correspondent writes r-“ The f 3008 that is sung by all singers of thing-l: sent day, I am informed, is a mystery as to the author. I was raised on the rpm; farm to James Laurie, Annie Laurie’ father. I wxs personally ficqnsin 9,; "r, both her and her father. and ”h"! 0 8“" author of the song. In my knowledge, I have been rmwuse'nted to do. Annie the puhlimorn in 1827,and was about seven- Wh’y'ears old when the incident occurred which gave rise to the son hearing her name. James Laurie, Armies ether, was a fern er, who lived and owned a very large farm called Thragloetown, in Dmnfriesshire. Scotland. He hired a great deal of helg, and among those be employed was a man y the name of Wallace to act- as foreman, and while in his employ Mr. \Vallice fell in love with Annie Laurie, which fact her father soon learned, and forthwith dis- charged him. He went to his home in Max- ‘welton, and was taken sick the very night he reached there, and the next morning. when Annie Laurie heard of it. she came to his bedside and waited on him until he died, and on his deathbed he composed the song entitled "Annie Laurie.” A terribla drama has been enacted at M on- aco. A young Brazilian, named Raoul Her- quea, who was living with his brother and aister-imlnw at Villa Anita, shot them both dead and blew outhia own ‘braing. ~~~â€".-_L- About a year lateruthe widow of Prince Michael died at BademBaden. She had been living there in seclusion. Her only visitor had baen her daughter, Princess Gortschakoli’. and she had not gone there often. However, the Princess had been on more intimate and confidential terms with her mother than either of her brothers had been. Consequently Princess Gortschakofl was the only one of the heirs present at the deathbed of the widow. She declares that she found among the personal effects of her mother securities worth $160,000 and jewels valued at $35,090, and nothing more. But the servants who were present tell a different story. The nurse who prepared the body of the dead woman for burial declares, and is supported in the statement by the others, that she found the body encircled. underneath the clothes, by a belt of kidskin which at the back bore a lar e pouch like a “dress improver." In this be t and pouch were bank notes and securities amounting to $10,000,000 or the whole of the missing fortune. This the servants ex~ ‘amined and counted and handed over to Princess Gortschakofl'. Moreover. they say that the Princess got a locksmith to open a safe which she found in her mother’s room and took from it more than a million dollars' worth of jewels. This story is con~ firmed by the locksmith himself who did the job. Princess Gortschakoti‘ strenuously denies it all, and has made char es of dis- honesty against the servants in or er to dis- credit their testimony. But her brother, Gregory Stoutdza, will press a suit against her, and the whole matter will be well sifted in the courts. It is thought that if she sees the case going against her the Princess will fly to Russia and claim the Cnr’s protection, believing that that monarch would not in any event allow the fortune she has grab- bed to go out of the empire and into the hands of Roumanizms, who might some day use it against Russia. us: u have -..- __ On Monday evening Raoul, so the servants state, while at dinner was less talkative than usual, and almostimmediarely the meal was over he rose and with arevolver in each hand killed his brother and aister-in-law by firing point blank at them. That done he pointed the two revolvers at his own head, and had sent both bnllete through it before the servants occupied in clearing the table could reach the scene oi this terrible crime. ‘ It appears quite certain that Raoul had premeditated the crime, and that he meant to commit it even if he met with resistance. for in addition to the two revolvers found in hie hands there was another in his pocket. as well as two daggers. He had disagreed with his brother regarding the division of their late father‘s property. > It Anson-ted to “0.000.". In (ash. and Disappeared nest mysteriously. The Stourdzi inheritance laWsuit forms the sensation of the day. About four years ago l’rince Michael Stourdu, one of the well-known characters of Paris. died. He use l to drive about the city in a curious gild- ed coach that reminded one of the state L‘OBJllO-i of kings of the last century. He was known to be enormously rich, and at his death there was great curiosity to know how he had disposed of his fortune. His will provided that his widow should enjoy the estate as long as she lived. and at her death it should be equally divided among the three children. Gregory, Demetrius and Princess Gortschakofl'. Gregory, the eldest, is a Roumanian Senator and also a General in the army of that kingdom, and it is he who has taken the lead In the present proceed ings. Prince Michael was known to have left a fortune in real property and mint stable securities worth $6,000,000. This was easily found and disposed of accordin to the terms of the will. But he also has left another fortune of fully $l0,000,t00in cash, jewels, and securities that could readily be turned into cash by any one who got hold of them, whether the rightful owner or not. And of this fortune not a penny was to be found. The minutest search failed to reveal even the faintest trace of it. Prince Gre ory applied to the police, and offered fabu ous rewards for its recovery. All was in vain. The-$10,000,060 was gone. As a snow drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an on ‘11- tion sprin s up. But the truth blow r :‘t on over 1:, nevertheless. and at length blows it downâ€"[Henry David Thoreau. He who complains that the world is hollow and heartless unconsciously oon- iosses his own lack of sympathy, while he who believes that people as a whole are kindly and humane is certain to have the milk of human kindness in his own nature. p _ .91! -I .-. Shocking Tragedy at Monaco. Tl"! summon INIIBRITANCB The Story of “Annie Laurie.” llfltUIl‘o In drilling glass, stick a piece of stiff cl iy or {titty on the Mt. where on wish to ma e the hole. L aka a hole n the potty the size you want the halo, reaching to the glass, of course. Into this hole pour a lit- tle molten lead when. nnleaslt is very thick glass, the piece will immediately drop one. .‘line he the force 0! words Ihnt tax the tongue But once. to weak them fun and round and clear. They suit the speech, or song, and mm the ear, Like bells tam. give one tone when they are rung ; ()r bird n ices on the air. likv rain-drops flung, That pour the‘r joy for all who muse to hear. Their short, quick chords the dun sense chum and cheer} ' Thit tires and strung. Strong words 0! old, that shot right to the bum. And hit the hunt as soon. were brief and terse. Who finds mem now, and fits them ‘0 his sling, Snvoth stones from brooks of Engiish me his Ruin. Which 3113‘! make strong hla thought, in prose or \ em. Will she with scribes to write. or bind: to sing. â€"Ilarp¢r's Magazine. Close hrslde her the lnby lies. Slow] dating his eleepy eye-n Forward, bxekwa'd the uncle swings, '1‘ ~uehed by her foot a« shosaltly sings. And now ln silence her watch she keeps; The song 13 hushed for the baby slew" Up from the green. thrn- ““1 girls. Home the shouts: me printz of care. Blue eyel. emu: 15 in her bnlded hair. 1‘ 1-1- Does she ever pin~ for the meadow brook, Tne sweet-brim hedge. the clover nook? When sweet winds woo. when smiles the sun, DJes she ever wi~h that her trxsk was done? Would you know? Then watch her wh: re aha Smiling dreaming while 5'. e knits. After a housekeeper fully realizes the worth of Turpentine in the household she in never willing to be without a supply of it. It gives quick relief to burns; ibis an excel- lent application for come; it is good for rheumatism and sore throats. and it in the quickest remedy for convulsions or fill. Then it is a sure preventative against moths; by just dropping a trifle in the bottom I __..1_ 3; __:ll ".7 ““' “urn-"1: ~- of drawers, chests and on boards it will render the garments secure rom injury dur- ing the summer. It will keep ante and huge from closets and store-room: by puttin a few drops in the corners and upon t e shelves ; it is sure destruction to bod-bugs, and will effectually drive them away from their haunts, if thoroughly ap lied to the joints of the bedstead in the apt ug cleaning time, and injures neither turniture nor clothing. A spoonful of it added to a pail of warm water in excellent for cleaning paint. A little in the nude on washing day lightens laundry labor. It is said that persons sfllicted with tain forms of deafness can hear perfectly is the midst of a tumult. A locomotive engine- er, upon examination by a medical expert, was found to be very deaf, and, although he rotested that he could hear perfectly well n the cab, he was suspended. Some time afterward, having made vain attempts to butter his defect, he applied for reinstste- ment, «gain urging the fact of his perfect hearing! while on duty. Finally to satisfy him, tho physician rode with him upon a locomotive for a long distance, and put him to every possible test. To the doctor's sur- prise, he found him able not only to hear ordinary sounds without difficulty, but also to distinguish whispers and faint movements that were inaudible to the physician; Switcly the needles glnlnce. and the threw (Hides thmu_.h her fingers whit- and red. 'l‘is a baby‘s stocking. To a 1d fro And in and out the ueed'ea go. She sings as the saw; that day in June, But the low soft strain is a nursety tuue. Years and yuan have glided away. The child is a wnusn, and lhrems a! may One by one creep into her hair, And I ace the pxinta of the feet of care. Yet 1 like to watch her. To-ni-zh: she sits 15y her household are, and as then she knits. Higher yet mounts the sun at June; But. one round more tâ€"a childieh tune Ri; plea out from the childish lips. While swift and awmer the finger tips Play out and in, till I tezr her 33y, “ Twenty rounds; I‘m going to pl..y 1” Up to the hedge where the sweet-hrinr blows Down to the bank where the hrcoklet flows. Chasing the hum-mics. watchnn the bees, filminz in_ clgver ppfo her knees _ Mocking therfiofioliakg {Biniififi (\m It is to be free when the Link is done 2 The child is knitting. The open door Woos he:. tempts her more and more. The sky is cloudlcss, the air is sweet, And eadlv restless the bare brown feet. Still, as she wishes her ml: were done, She counts th rounds on, one by one. HY ILLA l‘. ALLERNN. An old time kitchen, an open door, Sunshine 1- ingv across the floor. A little maid. hex bare llld brown, Cheeks like rows‘ a cotton gown, Rippling mussel: of shining hair. And a childish forehead smooth and lair. Curious Phase of Deafness. The Value of Turpentine. You nu- . at" to me! lâ€"un I can! t to you? Out 0! the briny sea . 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