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_ _ 4 ThE QUEEN AND _3 w o j ‘THE SWITCH TENDER. ; Her thong?’n‘s’ went back first to the time when she bad a little Princess, whort and plump, with red hands, playâ€" ing with rer twin . sister, the : sister whom she loved so dearly and who re> sembled her so closely that tm had always been obliged to wear different colored ribbons to distinguish them. This was before the insurrection had overâ€" turned the throne of her parents, and she had loved the calm, peaceful atmosâ€" phere of the litile Count of Olmutz, where etiquette _ was _ tempered . with goodâ€"natured fellowship. This was during the days of her faâ€" ther‘s reign, good King Louis V., whose custom it had been to walk unescorted across the royal park, dressed in lws court clothes, to the little Chinese pavilâ€" ion, covered with woodbine and honeyâ€" suckle, where he drank his cup of, afâ€" ternoon coffee with his sister and watchâ€" ed the river, like a necklace of gleaming silver at the foot of autumn colored hills. Then came her marriage and the great ball of the presentation on the beautiful July evening when, through the open windows she had heard the murmur of the gathering crowd in the brightly ilâ€" Inminated gardens. How she had tremâ€" bled when they had left her alone in the conservatory with the young king! She loved him already; she had loved him from the first instant she had looked at him, as he advanced toward her, so graceful and proad in his blue uniform, with the diamond orders glittering on his breast. Aiter the first waltz Ottokar had taken her arm and led her into the long, eool corridor, where they had sat down together beneath a spreading palm, and then he had looked deep into her eyes, saying softly : (From the French of France Her Majesty ihe Bueen of there is always a kingdom for the convenience, of st was travelling most modesti ly incognito under the nas tountess . companied Feverish and shivering beneath her wonderful cape of blue fox, her head, with its wealth of strawâ€"colored hair tumbling from beneath her dark hat, restâ€" ing on her arm, she was staring ahead into the blackness of the night, listenâ€" ing wearily to the rattling and grinding of wheels on the rails, In memory she was living over her short life, the poor little queen, and she felt that no one was so unhappy as she. 7 C companied only by old Baroness de Georâ€" gentbal, lady of the bedchamber, and ten. HMorschwitz, her gentleman usher. In s&i.u- of the hot stones at her feet and the furs which were piled around her the queen felt cold and, tired of her novel and the General‘s continued knitâ€" tingâ€"for the old soldier was an expert with woolsâ€"she rubbed impatiently at the frosty window to see what was "IPrincess, wii you do me the nonor to become my wife?" She had blushed and looked down as she replied in a voice which she tried in vain to render natura!: "Yes, site!" arnd in the bailroom the orchestra breathed the votes of the wild march, a paen of triumoh and enthusiasm. The travelling had been hard, for all Europe was eovered with snow, but at last they were reaching their destinaâ€" tion,. ‘They hbhad had a hasty supper at Macon, and now, although the hot botâ€" tles were scarcely warm and outside the Ing flakes were falling fast, the Baroness uiul the General, in tfieir corners, dreamâ€" «d contertedly of their artmval in Paris, tent Alas! so brief a period of happiness, and then her joy had fled forever. Then she learned what everyone eise had knownâ€"that Ottokar had no real Fove for her and that he had deceived her conâ€" tinually. happening outside it was price whic in the ver trip to P: where the old lady would perform a litâ€" tle #pecial devotion and the whitehaired soldiers would repair to a certain shog of wools and yarns where he _ coul match shades to perfection. % The queen, however, was not so conâ€" it was a »udden and irres:stible ca+ price which had started ‘her imajesty, in the very widdle of the winter, on a trip to Paris to see her mother, when she bhad only to wait till the spring, when her mother would have joined her at home, The queen was accustomed to consult ‘only her immediate wishes, and regardless of the thermometer being 10 degrees below zero she shook up the Baroness from her rheumatism and her warm seat by the fire and summoned thegeneral, to his despair, for he was obliged to leave a magnificent afghan which he was knittng for his daughter and take only a modest pair of stockâ€" ings to becuile the weariness of the jourâ€" Bev Something seem{ heart, something i at the sight of he: las, who was only father. â€" Resides, : herself. There was always a s«warm of duennas | and stately nurses with enormous hmr‘ nets hovering around the royal eradle,. and whenever the queen wished to inâ€". quire for her son and embrace him a litâ€" tle, she was solemnly informed, "His Royal Highness has ecoughed a liitle toâ€" day," or "His Royal Highness is sulfering from his teeth." There was always a barâ€" rier raised between them. Xo, she eould not stand it any longer; life was too bitter. She had obtained perâ€" mission from the king to go and see her mother, the queen of Moravia, now exâ€" iled in Paris, and there she would ery out all her grief in her mother‘s arms. Only she had been obliged to leave her baby, for the tradition of the Bohemian eourt forbade that the Crown Prince should travel without his iather. F Suddeniy the qvseen awoke from her revery. What had happened*~ For some moments the train had been gradaally slowing its speed and now it had stopped altogether. What did it mean; stopping here in the open fields, in the middte of the €uC mg"** 1\.bb‘ron’m and the general awoke abruptly, vaguely anxious. . The latter, catehing sight of the lantern of a guard, sprang from his seat and put his head out of the‘door. 4; iss *what has happeved* ~ Whit are we an‘)‘mfng for?" he demanded. ‘" ~ o feet of snow on the track, sir," was the reply. "We are stalled here for an hour or more; can‘t possibly get B# 4904090009090 00400004 00066 MQMW’ @44000040404 0004940 0 0 0000 04 09 0 90 40 0 40 0 00 004 4444044444846 ¢ 4 night ? iess and the general awoke igueiy anxious. . The latter, ht of the lantern of a guard, a his seat and put bis head son min N frecze then in her never melted even , the little Vladiaâ€" riature eopy of his mever bad him to name 18 ol he honor to and voppece.} ohemiaâ€"~ Bohemia tellersâ€" ad strietâ€" of â€" the d ) q But he shook his head again,. Then the queen, much touched, rose from her seat and approached the cradle. The little girl had fallen asleep again, hugging a woodâ€" en dog tightly to her breast. "Poor child," she murmured. "Is it not sad, madame?" said the switch tender, in a heayy voice, which broke slightly, "She could not _ have had much heart, a mother who would leave her baby at that age. But, after all, it is my own fault that she left me. His was the voice of a good father,| this man with the hardened skin and the bald pate of St. Peter, the bristly | moustaches of an old soldier and the: two deep lines which told of sorrow. i "Is that your little daughter," (lemand-z ed the queen, interested. j "Yes, madame, it is my little Cecile.: She will be 3 years old next month." | "But has she no mother," inquired ; her majesty, hesitating, ard as the man ; shook his bead. ‘You are a widowert" | "I did wrong to have married a girl so much younger and gayer than Iâ€"but L loved her soâ€"and I should not have left. her to go alone to the city. But how could I dream that she would leave her baby ? plough. But, as I said, we won‘t move from here for an hour." The man disappeared with his lantern. "(Gracious! Such a thing is abominable! Your Majesty will certain‘ly take cold," eomplained the baroness, shivering. _ _"Go to sleep again, little one, go to sleep. There‘s nothing to be afraid of; these are some friends of papa‘s." | "Was it not cruel? Well, it means that I shall have to bring her up all alone, poor little thing. It is hard, too, because of my work . "Oiten in the evening I have to leave her erying and hungry when I hear the train whistleâ€"but during the daytime she is as good as gold, the little jewel, and I can take her with me and she never gives a cry when the engines come thundering along. "Yesterday I held her with one arm while 1 turned the switch with the other hand, and she only trembled when the express went by. But the hardest part, you see, is to make her dresses and bonâ€" nets. It‘s a good thing I got acquainted with needles and threads while I was a eorporal in the Zouaves." _ hour here in waterâ€"bottles "But what telegraphed The general understood that the moâ€" ment had come to be heroic. Wrappinz his coat tightly around him, he jumped from the compartment, landing in a drift of snow to his knees, and once more stopâ€" ped the man with the lantern. He spoke to him in a whisper. It was the room of a peasant. The floor was rough and uneven, bunches of onions hung from the blackened rafters, an old gun was suspended by two nails above the fireplace and a few flowered plates stood on a table against the wall, But the young queen‘s atention was fixed upon a cradle of wicker work, half hidâ€" den by the curtains of the big bed, from which came the cooing of an awakâ€" ened baby. _ ‘The switch tender hastily left his fire and turned to the cradle, rocking it gently. $ + 31 ns j "I gm chilled through row,"â€"repiied the aucen. The queen took her seat close to the grateful warmth, and, throwing her rich cape over the back of the little strawâ€" bottomed chair, she pulled off her long gloves and looked about her. "But 1 couldn‘t do anything if it was the Grand Mogul himself," replied the guard. "Still, 1 think the switch tender lives somewhere rear, and he ought to have a fire, if the lady woulda‘t mind walking a step or two. Here, Sabatier!" A second lantern approached. "Go and see if the switch tender has a fire in his house." Fortunately, he did have. _ The genâ€" eral was more delighted than if he had won a battle or finished the last strip of his famous afchan. le returned to the compartment, made known the result of his search, and a moâ€" ment later the three travellers, stamping their feet to get off the srnow that had accumulated benreath their shoes, stood before a glowing fire in the little house while the switch tender piled the dry logs upon the flames. The General had barely time to match his wools when they finally arrived in Paris, for scarcely had they reached there when the queen turned around and went home. After this she rarely went away again, but spent all her time devoting herself to her son‘s education. 2( ‘The withered governesses and stately nurses whose large bonnets cast so wide a shadow over the young prince‘s babyâ€" hood became mere sinecurists, Apd if there are still kings in Rn& whett.he little Viadilas grows up, he will be what his father never can be, a good king. ° _ Already at the age of five, he is very popular and when he travels with his mother on the good trains of Bohemia What As we ArC. Will this are can 1 to T : stone cold!" we do, sirt _ Tonnerre for I said. we w have ather to They spend Why. A have SNO W â€" , Blighting Touch of Commercialism Deâ€" i stroying Natural Beauties. + The despoilment of the natural beauty i and glory of earth for what are called | purposes of utility is so common, so conâ€" ! stant, so continualy in progress in all \ quarters, that it .seems mere folly to interpose for a moment a protest, of even to criticise it. Certainly objection ‘ has very little effect, for example, on the complete reduction of the great Niaâ€" _gara waterfall to dribbling thin streams | from a narrowing and shallowing bed of ledges over rocks revealed ni their ruin, all the myst dispelled of their cavâ€" erns beneut'hege veil, and their poetry transmitted to mere mill races and overâ€" ‘ flows. The mill races are now as much in evidence as the falls themselves, and it is easily calculable, and has in fact been calculated, that the grandeur ‘of the falls will in a few years have been quite destroyed.. The money fever has done it, and the objectors are met with , the superior statements that to make { more power for manufacturers and furâ€" | nish more electric light and trolley faâ€" | cilities for cities is more important than We reflect upon the thousands that have counted on seging Niagara in this guise, and have journeyed far to do so; we remember, the eloquent deâ€" seription of Chateaubriand of the magâ€" nificence of the waterfall ir . the wildernessâ€"fancy sketch though it was from the mere allusoins of La Salle and the pioneers of New France. We recall the high thought it has touched, for centuries, and the noble ‘paintings by great artists. . We go on to conâ€" sider that these things, and what they representâ€"the divine marvel and inâ€" spiration of the soul in the presence of mighty forces and consummate beauty joined, will always remain as ideal exâ€" pressions of something much greater than all devices for money making, and in their essence must endure lonâ€" ger than all the fortunes that may be. made from them.. Then we say, this practical . age is mistaking the veritable values of the soul. . ‘The dollar has become dominant over the idea, and as we observe the power of the doinar to convert to private profit the right possession of beauty by the people, we are at no loss to rece~~‘~~ **~~ *wesent degradation of the national life as a result of this tendency. and sees, standing by the door of the royal compartment, a switch tender with a baby on one arm and a flag in the other hand, at a sign from his mother, the young prince always blows the little girl a kiss. to retain~ the merely picturesque and poetic which have made this cataract one of the wonders of the world. We hear now of the destruction which railroad companies are wreaking in the Delaware Water Gap, one of the most nobly impressive scenic wonâ€" ders of the country. It cannac te stopped, for there is money in it, There have been attempts to save the palisades of the Hudson from the ravages of trapâ€"rock quarrymen, for the mere purpose of making roads, That roads must be made is true enuogh, but there are many places where the material can be obtained without _ ruining great scenic beauty, none of these will serve because certain contractors own the right to rob the public at this particularly convenient spot for transportation. So that while at some parts of the palisades the work has been checked by the States of New York and New Jersey, it was not until familiar and historic points had been blasted to fragments, and that imposing cliff face scarred for generationsâ€"and at other points the ravage is still going «Ol. But why should we go so far afield, when the same pocket greed has been allowed to ruin one of the most interâ€" esting spots of beauty in our own neighâ€" borhoodâ€"the Notch of the Holyoke range, now disfigured by stone crushers, which have already cracked into macâ€" ndam the talus that it took a hundred thousand years to accumulate at the {oot of the volcanic cliffs, and to cover with shrubs and â€" flowers, ferns and mosse that delighted the eyes and hearts of everyone who drove or walked through the defilet There is a trap-| rock erusher on the west side of Mount ‘Tom that has for years been eating up | the talus and undermining the superb cliffs which make that range one of the. most excellent presentments of the way of nature in making the earth that we can have. All these places of beauty go because some man can make a dollar and a halflâ€"and at the expense of his fellow beings. Will there ever come a time when the benefit of all will preâ€" serve beauty for all, and give to us a humbler source of supply?t For there are lesser heights enough to supply maeâ€" adam, though they cannot supply the glory of the earth. However that maxy be, it is sure that since Niagara Falls is to be surrendered to the .mane{ml-ker, and disappear into tradition,sit is alâ€" most, vrani to kope tha the ruin of naâ€" ‘tfi;’i loveliness will be checked in lesser _ Let us not forget that. there are moveâ€" ments for the preservation of beautiful tracts, and sometimes there is a result like the Mount Tom, Greylock and Waâ€" chusett reservations in this State. But the White Mountains still await their «doom.â€"Springfield Republican. § RESEMRBLANCE ENOUGH. . M Mr. Sinclas (who has just been knocked down)â€"Whalfo yo‘ do dat ? y % , Mr. Plunkotâ€"Yo done ben an‘ tol‘ lies about me. , _ Mr. S.â€"‘Taint so} Dat‘s mah twin bravver Rufus. / Mr. P.â€"Well, yo‘ look ‘nough lak him to‘! desarbe a~ lickin‘ anyhow ' M((.:fi N:: * " 1 ozxe J ) _' 22 4 ' pme f f ./---u, " R .' ' . ,:’/:: 3 ts | __:‘ !a}llé! d ike â€"â€"L® 7 11712 1 > . wl Thw»® nc f J â€" o) y A = llecth / f &. ;’fi" ( ,1‘ /./ e < f :“537‘ y > ’5‘\ "al *:,/\ css :W ddhez: T 25 ;7:~"~';-?..".'"'( ‘ ReSainy sin s Zelsh l oA (f 2 oR cod it da» We kh 2f i * Nee ‘ Fank l td _ t 4) P =Ss VA t * _ 3 CC * ' + o 2%e fZ# n ome" * s u/_»/ se 4 * k A » j l : /-\ a // Â¥ ! _'._//// 1 MARK OF THE DOLLAR. ONTARIO ARCHIVEsS TORONTO * °> Symptoms of Rabies Desctibed by an At the quarterly meeting of the Masâ€" sachusetts Association . of Boards .of Health recently at Hotel _ Brunswick Dr. Langdon Frothingham of the Harâ€" vard Medical School presented a paper on rabies. He said‘ in part: "I believe that â€"Aristotal was the first observer who left to the world a careâ€" ful description of raties : This was 400 years before the Christian era. There are people toâ€"day who deny its existence. There is, perhaps, no disease so sur: rounded â€" by myth and _ superstition. Rabies is an acute inféction which may affect all ,.animals, and even birds. 1 know of no warmâ€"blooded animal which is naturally immune, but it is most common in dogs. The saliva of this animal carries the infection and it is, therefore, transmitted by his bite. He is a bitter. (He bites without provocaâ€" tion and without discrimination. There is no other animal with so many, ob jectionable habits, that is permitted such unbridled liberty. He walks about unmuzzled, tunrestrained and unaccomâ€" panied, and often unlicensed and ownâ€" erless. The symptoms of rabies in a dog are manifold. ‘The first that is noticeable is a marked change in the natural temâ€" perament of the animal; the lively amiable dog, may become ‘â€" dull and morose; the unaffectionate may beâ€" come fawning and demonstrative; the noisy, silent; theâ€" silent, noisy. There is apt to be: great restlessness, moving about without. fixed purpose, hiding in secluded spots, . starting _ suddenly, listening to imaginary noises, or the eyes following phantom objects. A deâ€" praved appetite is usually present; the animal not only licks satones, metals and other cold objects, but he chews and swallows all sorts _ of foreign objects, sticks, stones, straws, paper, pins, pails, . etc. Any such symptoms as these should be looked upon with suspicion in infected districts, and warâ€" rant immediate _ isolation _ and strict quarantine. The symptoms then assume : one : of two very definite characters, which has and helpless; there is no desire, and "dumb" _ rabies ‘These terms explain themselves In the furious form the dog tends to roam and bite everything that comes in its path more especially dogs and other animals. Heâ€"bites withâ€" out preliminary . snarlâ€"or growl, â€"arnd goes on to the. next object, unless the attack is returned. He may run _ for miles, Not uncommonly the dog acts as if endeavoring to remove a bone or other foreign body from his throat > The bumb or paralytic symptoms are usually first observed about the mouth, The lower jaw hangs partly open, limp and helpless; there is no desire ,and probably no_ambility to bite. ~One can never forget the truly pitiful face, . the hind legs, _ ana> advancing forward there is complete prostration and death in a few days. The symptoms in other animals are similar to those in the dog. io tFh D * Bites upon the hands, face or other exposed parts of the body are more likely to result disastrously than those inflicted through the clothing. A free flow of blood from a bite must also be looked upon as a safeguard against infection. Many Instances in Which Women Have Disposed of Their Spouses. During the recent hearing of m case at Paddington Police Court, Syduney, New South Wales, it transpired that the plaintiit had sold ber busband, against whom she was now proceeding for using threatening language, to a lady to whom sue haa given an agreement ‘"not to in any way hereaiter molest the buyer or take any proceedings against her or join her in any procéed ibga in apy court of lay or equity." ' & Come o ts odtoontvy es EHe old BR C CA t C Tue document went on to slate: "In the event of many breach of this agreement by me 1 do bereby bind myself, my heirs, @xâ€" ecutors and administrators to pay the said purchaser the sum of £500 as and for liqu:â€" dated damages." Despite this being auly signed and witnessed, the defendant‘s soliâ€" citor alleged that the wife had repented of the transaction and was taking proceedâ€" ings for & judicial separation. ‘The samâ€" mons was eventually dismissed. At Munich recently a woman sold aer husband, good looking, ne‘erâ€"doâ€"well, and was pleased enough with her bargain until, on & distant relative‘s death, he came into a considerable fortune. Then she attempted to resume her marital rights, but she was so effectually resisted by her exâ€"husband‘s present possessor that she resolved to have recourse to the law‘s intervention. To Ciis end she consulted a,lawyer, only to . find that. through some technical flaw, her owsn marriage was illegsi, and her claims on man and fortune consequently invalic. For 100 francs a Parisian iaundress sold her husband, whose laziness and intemperâ€" ance seemed incorrigible, to the propri¢tres: of a rival estableshment.. Under. the new regime, however,; the man was compelled tc turn over a new Jleaf, and soon became such a model helpmate that his legal spouse b*â€" gan to et the transaction and made adâ€" v:::a Er'eg:dln po;union. These the purâ€" chaser ented, and o a from the seller to h;"m:m to the er‘s Lbouse with a stick, ‘,'w ‘she wielged with such vigor that the tim‘s reacaed the ears of a passing poâ€" liceman, ~whose.authoritative .. ..Appealance BCOE CR CEITIOTE S PEREARIE C CABETTCE RereZ want ORERCY alone impO#e0® p@®p@. se mmme eemmtenies In ‘the; ear §0‘ er ent i yi ns up ber tihus ctien. s acted as muctioneer, while the lot to bo disâ€" unprepossessing ~#ppearance, "who~~was ~eviâ€" dently not averse to the proceedingsâ€"sat on a stool at her feet. Bids came briskly, and HOW TO TELL A MAD DoOG. WIVES SELL HUSBANDS. | b the highest DJ stowed on bit grievous faults | five shillings & | A celightly t Southampton 1 The first month of the year is irag« rant with the fragrance of the plam tree flower. On the western side of the world there is a great calmness. In that sea there is set the country of the flowery banner. ~The affairs of that country are conâ€" trolled by men of the labor unions. Circular Issued in Shanghai Urging Boyâ€" cott of American Goodas. This is a translation of a circular is avued in Shanghai in: connection with the Chinese boycott on @n_nerican gopdsfi: nHampsmre IU"" su s which was E. the neck with a balter, which was held oY his wife, who, bhaving assured "those present that her husband was faithful, industrious and reasonably sober, invited bids. These came briskly, a guine& and a bottle of brasâ€" dy ultimately placing the busband in p398â€" session .of the proprietress of a chandler‘s shop. At Manchester a few yoars previously &A man "named Price was sold in the market place by his wife, who, to stimulate the bidâ€" ding, first proclaimed his maoy accomplishâ€" ments, whereof the wide. range extended from bootmaking to flute playing. This adâ€" imirable Crichton was the object of a keen contest and it was not until a guinea, A new dress and a pair of fowls had been bid that he was knocked down.â€"Tit Bits. â€"‘The second month is beautiful wiin the beauty of the flower of the rod &priCOt. =â€" _ We men of China who went forth * labor suffered many hardships. _ We successfully opened g'muy mines of silver and gold. For the American people we built and completed all the roads where rails are of iron. ‘The third month opens with of the flower of the peach tree. The men of the labor unions, forgetâ€" ting the work we had done in the past, devised other and newer ways. They consumed with fire the stroats of Dong Sung Ka. ‘The fourth month is the month of all the flowers and plants and harbs. As for us, we men _ of _ China, we thought upon the bitterness of our lot. As for the men of the labor unions of America they carried out the scheme of injustice they had planned; on their coasts they built prisons of wood. In them they confined us, the natives of China. 5 Officials of all grades and students of all ages received the same measure of abuse; they treated without merey. We too, have been sent into the world by Heaven; why should the treatment accorded to dead pigs be meted out to us? + Aiter taking us into the prisons of wood which they had built, they scorched us in fires of sulphur. Â¥ They burnt us natives of China until the weeping of both men and women was pitiful to hear. _ . ‘The fifth month is the month _ in which the flower of pomegranates flourâ€" ishes. r In the seventh month the hyacinth beâ€" gins to bloom. Hardships such as these we have sufâ€" fered for more than twenty years. It is a great pity that we men of China whose numbers are ten thousand times ten thousand four times over are not equal in value to the hali of the smallest copper cash. The eighth month is the month when the cinnamon sheds its sweetness. Among the members of the Native Chamber of Commerce is one who bears the name Tseng Seu Ching. This man planned a most civilized method, _ he spent money on it and advanced _ the righteous cause, and his fame has gone by his wif ll.mpsh_lre The seventh is the month in which the flower of the lily takes on its line of %. 1 1. _A uic cnatfiontmeminietennenns‘ _ Even in our own country S!0 ictions are on record. The end 0 eenth and the beginning of the oen;ury ¢flo!:lm M‘-a-'; such iHegal er. a M of uj:. employed Mn i gublgc .n;mmlfelnl!‘e!l%1 that shfi ay named se r .“:,g' good carpenter, and a foithful b the highest bidder. "Dest/ite the® CCC 01. man must Let us all assemble together and disâ€" cuss its details. 1t is best not to use American goods. To oppose America is our safest course. The tenth month is the month when beautiful flowers become green. The ninth month is the month of the yeilow chrysanthemum. oen;urly suc of I.AO! public We advise you men and women, and children of China, if you want to eat your rice in the future in peace to atâ€" tend to realize the importance of this movement. In the eleventh month the flower of the reed is blown about by the wind. We all of us must remember and not forget too soon the Pin Head Cigaretes and scented soap of the American Tradâ€" ing Company. Furthermore let us remember not to again use the American piece goods. In the twelfth month the flower of the binds are many. _ All you gentliemen who have listened to my song be civilized and retaliate. Do not learn or imitate the barbarous way of the Boxers of Pekin. CGeorge Noyes, a quarryman who reâ€" sides in Winslow Mills, in Waldoboro, has a young crow that not only can talk but is really quite fluent in conversaâ€" tion. N If we do not act which is wrong or mischivous we shall eat our bitterress. Mr, Noyes captured him about a year ago, and clipped his wing and gave him to his little girl to play with. The child He now has quite anâ€"extensive voeatuâ€" ;, mainly words he has learned fro E}n‘i?little'u:,}nstreu. He is beginning tg put words together, with some indicaâ€" ‘tion that he comprehends their meaning. y rg' stance, every morging. he wakes es aon tb ol o se was fond of the bird, and spent much time talking to him. Before long it was noticed that the crow, in making the unmusical.croak natural to him, plainly articulated words he had heard often. and. since that some pains have been taken .with his.education. »clearlyâ€"thanâ€"most cand is groatiy v_uu‘g‘ by his TtOe teacher"~ Fowiefog" up" This crow talks better and more Journal. npshire town. neck with a wife, who, bÂ¥ : her husband reasonably $ e briskly, & E1 ultimately pla Crow Taught to ‘Talk by Child AS THE CHINESE SEE IT. wife and a better man, i Mrs. Aen Ew ;, the man must _for he fetched no nd a galion of gip. etter price ‘"';d nan, who in Mrs. Bruce, at an n, He was faste a bHaiter, which w having assured ‘th« at an ‘ll:n in taz; fasten l:"’- ich was beld by red "those prflnt hful, industrious ited bids. These a bottle of brasâ€" husband in p98~ of a chandler‘s opening way | _ 4. Most of the work of doctors in the part | has been to treat symptoms, the difference between a disease and a symptom being . something the average man does not even yet know. ‘ ‘ ‘The poeple you see waiting in the lobbies of doctors‘ offices are, in a yast majority of cases, suffering through poisoning causâ€" ed by excess of food. Coupled with this go | the bad results of imperfect breathing, imâ€" | proper use of stimulants, lack of exercise, irâ€" | regular sleep, or holding the thought of | fear, jealousy and hate. All of these things, ‘ or any one of them, will, in very many perâ€" sons, cause fever, chills, congestion, cold feet | and feuity elimination. _ . «414 F4400 400. ch dltt 6c minditatcteit PiwriiP w Thew +o+ 1. Ninetyâ€"nine people out of a huadred who go to a physician have no organic disease, but ‘&re merely suffering from some sympâ€" tom of their own indiscretion. 0 Individuals who have _ diseases, niae 2. Individuals who have _ diseases, nine times out of ten, are suffering from the asâ€" cumulative evil effects of â€"amedication, %. Hence we get the proposition: Most disâ€" eases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and remove :A > AtMRpup verrrr P\ UTSTC, The value of the pedaluvia _ lies _ ip tendency to equalize circulation, not to men> tion the little matter of sanitation; and the efficacy of the hops lies largely in the fact that they are bitter. Both of these prescriptions give the pationt the soothing thought that somethi As being (lll(lmo for him, and at worst can xu- harm m. My father and I are not fully agreed on all of life‘s themes, so existence for us gever resolves itself into a dull, neutral gray. We have daily resorts to loglc.r' prove prejudices, and history is to bo!â€" ster the preconceived, but on the tollowing points we stand solid as one man: PR L CUUURLTLL LG a Auroenuaff wha bepeficent warning eymptom on Nature. o o+ PR y Sn PP ETS I To administer drugs to a man suffering from malnutrition caused by a desire to "wet even," and a lack of fresh air. is simply to compound his troubles, shuffle his maleâ€" dies and shift his pain from one place to anotber, getting him ripe for the ethercone and scalpel. _ t h Lambpche Nature is always and forever trying hard to keep people well, and most soâ€"called "disease‘"â€"which word means merely the lack of easeâ€"is selfâ€"limiting, and tends to cure Itself. If you have no appetite, do not Te ails | prove eat. 1f you have appetite, do not eat too much. Be moderat in the use of everything, except fresh air and sunshine. _ C ‘The one theme of Ecclesiastes is moderaâ€" tion. Buddha wrote it down that the greatâ€" est word in any language was equanimity. William Morris said the first blessing of life was systematic, useful work. St. Paul declarâ€" ed the greatest thing in the world wa®r love, Moderation, equanimity, work and loveâ€"let these be your physicians, and you will need no other. People and Animals Dinintivo‘?l)wufl of the MAmazon. + And in so taking I lay down a proposiâ€" tion agreed to by all physicians, again«t which no arguiment can be raised; which was expressed by Mippocrates, the Father of Medicine, and repeated in botter phrase by Epictetus, the slave, to his pupil, the Roman Emperor Marcus â€" Audelius; and which bas been known to every thinking man and woman since. Moderation, equanâ€" imity, work and love! The pigmie« at present in England are giants compared with those of the tribes of natives who inhabit the wild, desolate ani almost unknown Pamir plateau to the northâ€" west of the Hindoo Koosh range of mountâ€" ains in Central Asia. So great is the altiâ€" tude of this great tableland that geograpnâ€" ors refer to it ar "the roof of the world." Few, indeed, are the travellers or explorers who have ever ventured even on to its souâ€" thern fringe, lying just beyond the mortbâ€" west froutier of lndia. e But the scientific world is being startled by the news which is leaking out of the reâ€" sults of the explorations of the two Danish officers, ‘Messrs. Oloufsen and Philipsen, who hbhave recently penetrated into som« strange corners of this hitherto mysterious region. They have an astounding tale io tell. But they heve brought back with them over 300 photographs incontestably proving what they say. In parts of the Pamirs, it Appears, the people are not only dwarfs, but the very animals of the district, wild and domestic, are correspondingly diminutive in stature. The full grown men and women are rareâ€" ly a yard high. Their donkeys and their horses, which in appearance resemble our smallest pouies, are about the size of large dogs. The bulls and cowsâ€"fierce little creaâ€" turesâ€"are no larger than a newâ€"born Euroâ€" pean calf, and the sheep are about the size of small poodles. Tigers no larger than kitâ€" teus are said to infest the hills, E Smaller and lower even in the buman scale, however, than these Asiatic pigmies, are some creatures which the natives of the great Congo basin in Africa call Kaiek», ard will insist are men and not beasts, . The Kiacke are said to have very long hair, smali, keen eyes, to be very wildâ€"â€" never coming into townsâ€"and only to be seen in the bush, where they sometimes tr» to hold converse with the natives. Apother race of dwarfs, discovered by a J. D. Sullivan, on one of the tributaries of the Amazon, are a people remarkable chielâ€" ly for their ugliness. Their stomach, which is distended in the back as well as in front, is out of ail proportion to their tiny spindâ€" ling arms and legs. This is because of their hapit of gorging. After a hunt they will eat like animals, and then lie listlessly in the hot tropical sun for days, till hunger agaia impels to get more game. In the saime way among the wandering American pigmics a slain elephant becoms the site of a new camp until all its flesh is consumed, while the little men move off in search of a fresh quarry, which they blind before spearing to death by shooting poisonâ€" ed arrows into their eyes. Individual pigâ€" mies, however, it is said, may also be enâ€" countered in the villages of the big negroes, where they are petted as curiosities.â€"From Pearson‘t Weekly. 0ses C The marriage day arrived and the curâ€" ate was obliged to perform the ceoreâ€" mony. 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