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ae IN THE WEB OF 8x fe CHAPTER XXXIV. Back to Grey Oaks rode its proud possessor, but his handsome face was very pale, and in his glittering eyes was a light which betokened no mood for trifling. At the lodge gates he drew rein, his horse white with foam. “Tyrrell!” he called. The man appeared in answer at the lodge door. “Have you made up your mind? Have you concluded to give up the pa- pers? I gave you an hour to decide.” “I can’t give what I ain’t got,’ was the surly answer. “I never stole no papers!" “And the man I told you to keep un- @er close watch you let escape you. You steal, you lie and you disobey me. Do you fancy there is no limit to my patience? Well, there is, and you have reached it. After to-day you are no longer in my service.” “You mane that, Mr. Chester?” said the man, coming a step nearer, his question holding, perhaps, unconscious menace in its tone. “Yes, I mean it,” answered the mas- ter, “and take care how you act and what you say on leaving me. You may think you hold a little power in your hands. Try to use it, and I'll throw you in prison within twenty-four hours. What do you think you could say @gainst Grey Oaks’ master to which the world would listen? Pshaw! Why do I bandy words with you? Go, you idle, @runken cur, and never let me see or hear of you again. It’s what I ought to have done long ago. There's one condition, however, on which I will keep you. Give me the papers you stole that night, and I'll pension you for the rest of your life—remember, the ! rest of your life. It'll not last long, by the way. Whisky will soon make way for the undertaker, though such a car- ass as yours don’t deserve decent bur- fal.” And he rode off, with a coarse, brutal laugh. “That'll bring him,” he mused. “I'll fhave the papers before nightfall. He's got them, I know. I could read the lie fn his face. But I can’t afford, in any ease, to turn the fellow loose, only it won't do harm to frighten him.” Meanwhile Tyrrell had not stirred hand or foot from the spot where his master had left him, but the expres- gion upon his face was not good to see. The sullenness had awakened from fts usual torpor to something akin to action; the malignity of a terrible hate ghone in his eyes: the coarse, thick lips were nearly white, in contrast to the deep red of his swollen cheeks. At last he spoke aloud amd to him- elf: “And you'd be turning me away like | dog, Mister Chester, and it’s my car- cass that’s not b Shure, then, it’s on your may the crows feast! And it’s on the papers you're afther wanting—the papers as she said g@he’d prove his innocence? Well, you and me is in league with the devil. If fhe hasn’t run away with ‘em, maybe I'll be tfther giving ‘em to ye: but it @in’t done for love, belave that, and keep out o’ Tyrrell O’Byrne’s way on a @ark night, or it may be the worse for ye. I'll go and think it all over. Be- tween now and nightfall I might change my mind.” He turned and went Into the lodge. ‘As he did so, a man strolled up to the door. “You pardon!” he said, “put I've been an unseen listener to your con- versation that just took place between ; you and your master. Do you know I think I might show you a way out of his clutches? You don’t like him— meitter do I. Let's work together.’ “{ don’t mind hearing what you've got to say,” assented Tyrrell, and invit- ed his stranger guest to enter. Ten minutes later the men were in earnest colloquy, while between them | was a steaming jug. And, strange to say, as the man talked, the tones of his voice were sin- gularly like the voice of the old man _ ‘who had taken so abrupt a departure but a few hours before. But to Beatrice, the long hours brought no hope nor respite from her torturing thoughts. One picture was ever present before her. It was the picture that she had last seen as the three men once more had dragged her lover from her sight. For this they had toiled. For this they had waited. And her appeal to Bertie had brought it all about. Cora, too, had deceived her—Cora, the little friend whom she had so trusted! , And she had had reason to fear the terrible and subtle power Chester had acquired over her! It had been a pre- sentiment, and she had not heeded it! But what were her sufferings com- pared with Bertie’s? Once more he would be placed in the prisoner's dock. They would take good care this time that he should not es- cape them. They would swear away his liberty! They would make him a convict! Oh, had Randolph Chester no mercy? Was there no tender spot in the flint of his | soul that she might reach? She sprang to her feet, and began pacing anew the room, when, as if in answer to her latter thought, the door | opened to admit him who had been its e said, “I have come to time, to tell you that I nightfall I shall be in beleive befor+ possession of the papers which may prove your birth legitimate. You must let no false hope be aroused, for I ant not yet quite sure; but if I am right, I wish to give them to you on one condi- tion as your Christmas gift—in accept- ing them, you aecept me with them! If you refuse. [ swear to you that I will destroy them in a fire so hot that not even their ashes shall remain, and that fencefoth and forever the world shall worth decent burial? | LILLIAN GILLIN. ee believe that your mother possessed no prouder title to your father’s love and honor than his—” “Hush!” she interrupted. “Ah, mer- ciful heaven, spare me this last foul in- sult from your lips!” “I do not wish to hurt you, Beatrice: but so the world will name her, and the world shall have the story in all its bearings. Why should I show you mercy--who show none to me? Is it not madness to persist longer in your refusal? What does it entail upon you for the future? Your dead father’s dis- honor—your own inheritance of both— the man you love a convict, your home a mad house! Look on the other hand: I clear from the dead the stain that clings to them! I will give back to Bertram Talbot the freedom he has forfeited! I will make your life happy! For the sake of the dead and of the liv- ing—for the dead, whose voices would unite with mine, and for the living, whom your réfusal will clothe in the convict’s garb—I bid you pause! Must I not love you well that I should make to you this prayer?” Beatrice’s brain was reeling. His words held to her the confused mean- ing of a dream. What was left to her but to yield? She was in the spider's web, and no merciful hand would free her, as her’s | had freed the tiny, fluttering fly. She could but struggle on until death proved her deliverer—struggle on with the tain forever resting on the white hem of her dead mother’s shroud, and pay the forfeit of her lover's liberty. Why not end the hopeless battle, ac- cept defeat herself, and wrap those she loved best in the mantle of an unsullied honor? What matter the cost of such an end? “Leave me!” she murmured, in a voice so low and faint he scarce could catch the words. “To-night bring me | the papers, prove all that you have said true, and—and—I—consent!” A wild wave of absolute rapture swept over Randolph Chester's face. He had schemed, and plotted, and toiled, and at lastat last, victory was within his grasp! Once Beatrice Markham was his wife, what mattered all the rest? Position, fortune, honor--these would be secured to him, and revenge, revenge for ev- ery slight she had offered him, revenge for the very love he bore her, the love which at this moment surged so madly in his soul! Before she had divined or could pre- vent his purpose he bad caught her hands in his and strained them to his i lips. As though their touch had been like bureine: fire, she snatched them from his hold and stood an instant, outraged and defiant, only the next to remember that this was but the first payment of the debt. But he made neither complaint nor appeal. as he silently went out from her presence. Once more she was alone. Again she paced the limits of her room, until, ex- hausted, she would rest, only to begin anew. The short afternoon deepened into the shadow of evening. In the dim light she stood by her window, looking out, when suddenly she saw, standing beneath it, a man, half concealed by the trunk of a giant oak against which he leaned. Yet she imagined his eyes fixed on her window. Suddenly he drew a handkerchief from his pocket and cautiously waved it toward her. Who was he? She looked more closely, and fancied it the figure of Tyrrell, the lodgekeeper. Surely, he could want nothing of her. Yet he was beckoning to her. be a fresh trap, but at least it could be nothing more terrible. Her promise of to-day precluded that. The ghost of a tiny hope stalked by her side, as she swiftly sped down the stairway and through the empty halls to the place where he stood awaiting her. He waited still. “You wanted to see me?” she said. “Yes, miss,” he answered. “I just heard as how my master was going to marry ye, and, bad as I am, I’m not | bad enough to let that happen. If—if I get ye out of his clutches, ye'll help me out of the clutches of the law? Promise me this.” ; “I promise—l swear it! speak quickly!” “It’s the papers, miss, as ye said would prove your lover innocent—will | they be afther showing the guilty man?” | “No, Tyrrell, noi but they will en- able me to wrest myself forever from Mr. Chester’s cruel power. Oh, if you can help me, do it! Was it you who tore the papers from my hands? If | so, give them back to me, and I will thank you on my knees.” “Your knees, Miss Beatrice—your knees to me? Oh, no! Shure, I'd soon be telling ye all the wretched truth when ye talk like that. But come with me, and let what will happen to Tyrrell | O'Byrne, the devil to whom he sold himself'll find one white spot on his | soul for this hour's work. It’s safe and | chure I’ve hid ’em away, but I’ve not sure I’ve hidden ’em away, but I've not | forgotten the hiding place. It came back to me just now like a vision, and I said to myself as it was a sign that ye were to have what belonged to ye.” As he talked they walked rapidly aleng side by side. Beatrice’s heart was beating loudly. The ghost of het hope was taking bodily shape and sub- stance now. Suddenly Tyrrell paused. Just here was a place between two blocks of stane in the solid wall of the house, large enough, perhaps, to.admit a man’s | tiwaidas Without hesitation—secure, ex- But speak— It might | | ultant—he thrust in his, only the next | moment to withdraw it, with a deep | groan and a muttered curse. | Some one had been there before him. The parers had been stolen for the s¢c- ond time! CHAPTER XXXv. “They're gone, miss!” blurted Tyrrell —“they’re clane gone! Oh,.don’t look at me like that, with his eyes, miss— the eyes he fixed on me when they asked him to point out the thief!” But the latter part of his sentence fell on deaf ears. The papers were gone— the papers which, in her possession, might have redeemed all. Once more the structure of her newly-born hope proved to be built on the sand. Once more she lay, crushed and hopeless, among its ruins. A sudden kindly {mpulse stirred her toward the poor wretch cowering near her. It prompted her to stretch out to- ward him her hand. “You meant to serve me, Tyrrell.” she said, ‘“‘and I thank you. I can offei you no other reward, for to-day you are richer than the daughter of your old master.” For months the man had listened only to harsh commands and brutal threats, which lowered him to the level of the dog. He heard now what seemed to him the voice of an angel speaking. He fell on his knees beside her, and, catching up her dress, raised it to his lips. “Shure, I never can do ye no good now, Miss Beatrice; and it’s I as has brought all the harm upon ye.” “You? Oh, no, Tyrrell! It is your new master. Oh, what might not these papers have done for me!” she wailed, in fuller realization of her loss. “And now—and now—” Her voice died in a sob. “Why did you take them—why did you steal them from me?” she asked, bitterly. “Bekease you seemed talking to me in the dark, miss—bekase ye said they'd prove the young feller innercent. God knows I wish ye had ’em, even if ft did. I’ve a great mind to tell ye all the truth, Miss Beatrice. Maybe as it'd help ye, and as for me, anything's bet- ter than this dog’s life, with his eyes ever peering. staring at me in the dark- ness or the light. It'd help me pay my debt to him, too, and I hate him—aye, I hate him! I was only a drunkard and a thief once, Miss Beatrice. It's he as has made me a villain!” “What are you talking about, Tyr- rell? Tell me, and tell me quickly!” “And ye'll save me, Miss Beatrice— ye'll save me from the prison, or maybe worse?” “Yes. yes! than that, Tyrrell. lead a good and honest life. me what you have to say. You—you stole the papers long ago? It was you who were the thief on that dreadful night? Am I right? Is it not so?” “Yes, miss, it’s all true. The master dismissed me, as you remember, that very day—dismiss2d for drunkenness and without a character. I deserved it, miss: but it didn’t make it none the aisier. Resides, I was not quite over my spree. Well, I had been up to the village all the evening. It was past midnight, and I was half-drunk yet, when I saw a light in the master’s I brary. I will save you. More I will help you to Only tell (To Be Continued.) At Edward's Coronation. The length of the trains of the gowns which will be worn by the British peer esses of the realm at the coronatio will vary according to rank. A duchess will have a train three yards long. A marchioness, two and a half. Countesses are limited to two yards. Viscountesses, to one and a half | yards. Baronesses are restricted to a one yard train. Only peeresses in their own right— that is to say, who owe their peerage not to marriage, but to their birth, or else to a special grant by the sover- eign to them in person, will have the right to have their trains borne by a page, who must not be over the age of fourteen. . The Electric Fels Victim. At the zoological gardens a large electric eel was swimming in his tank with more activity than usual, when a big cockroach fel! into the water, and in its efforts to get out made a disturb- ance on the surface which attracted the attention of the eel. The eel turned around, swam past it, discharged its battery at about eight inches off, and the cockroach instantly dropped stone dead. It did not even move its anten- nae after. The .eel then proceeded to swallow its victim, and the narrator goes on to point out the curious cir- cumstance that the fish, which weighed about twelve pounds, should find it worth while to fire its heavy artillery at a creature an inch and a half long, when he could easily have swallowed it sans facon.—National Review. The Philosophy of the Enlightened. When we get what we want we are always disappointed to find that it is not what we wanted. , What sounds so sweet to the human voice—to the one who is doing the talk- ing? The knowledge that virtue is its own reward is what deters many from well doing. Tre trouble with most reformers is that they waste their time and energy trying to reform somebody else. ‘When a man or woman asks for a candid opinion it may safely be taken for granted that “candied” is meant.— Smart Set. Useless Precaution. Mr. Tellit—I heard at the club to-day that Mrs. Ketchum's husband had run away with her. Mrs. Tellit—That isn’t strange. She only married him because she was afraid of getting left. Mr. Tellit—Well, isn't she?—Judge. His Trouble. “What brought you here, my poor man?” inquired the prison visitor. “Well, lady,” replied the prisoner, “I guess my troubles started from attend- in’ too many weddin’s.” “Ah, you learned to drink there, or steal, perhaps?” ‘No, lady; I was always the bride- groom.”—Philadelphia Press. Yes? She—I think the doctor is just as mean as he can be! He—What’s he done? “Vaccinated me on the right arm, and I can’t use it at alt.” “It might be worse. “I can’t see how.” “He might have vaccinated you the tongue.”—Yonkers Statesman, bd | are kept. In Far Northland ~~ ‘Ti€-Bits of News fer Scan@ine- vians. HE BUILT SKANSEN, Death of Dr. Arthur Hazelius at Stockholm, Dr. Arthur Hazelius, the creator of Skansen, the marvellous park where all Sweden is to be seen innature, died on May 27, in Stockholm, aged seventy years. It might be said that Dr. Haze- lius consecrated his life to Skansen. Not only did he originate the idea, but he worked, talked, wrote and planned for it to the end of his days. Being a man of genius and original ideas and possessed of marvelous energy, he was able to accomplish a great deal. As an out-door museum, Skansen is probably the most complete and inter- esting garden of its kind in the world. Here all Sweden may be studied—its physical features, fauna and nora, cus- toms and costumes of its people, and even its history. The grounds are very extensive, and have been left, as far as possible, in their pristine beauty. The staffof attendants is a large one, but it is also a part of the show, for the Lap- landers and Dalar folk appear in their own picturesque costumes. Several ancient churches and farm houses have been removed to the place and the ancient surroundings and furni- ture restored as far as possible. To increase public interest in Skansen fetes commemorating the more im- portant events in the glorious days of Gustavus Adolphus and Charles XT. are held. The government and peopie of Sweden liberally supported every suggestion made. Dr./ Hazelius needs no other monument than Skansetu. NORTHWEST SANGERBUND. THE Ordered to Be Held at Sioux Falls, July 11-13, 1902. At the annual meeting of the board of direstors of the Northwestern Scandi- navian Singers’ union, it was decided that the biennial sangerfest should be held at Sioux, Falls, July 11-13,1902. That it will be a fine success is certain, as Minnehaha Mandskor of Sioux Falls has many of the leading business men of the town among its members, and they will make things hum when they take hold of the work. The union now includes eighteen singing societies, eight in Minnesota, four in Iowa, three in South Dakota, two in Wisconsin and one in North Dakota. Nansen’s Scientific Wor! The second volume of Nansen’s “Sci- entifis Results,” devoted to astronomi- cal, magnetic and pendulum observa- tions, has appeared from the press. The testimony of the experts who have worked up the notes to the industry and ability displayed by the explor2rs, is unanimous; and, with due allowance for inevitable defects arising from the condition of the arctic region and the often literal struggle for life, the re- sults are most satisfactory. Except the observations made on the sledge jour- ney, most of those which formed the basis for these discussions were made by Capt. Sigurd Scott-Hansen, to whom Nansen accords his hearty apprecia- tion. The astronomican computations are due to Prof. Geelmuyden, who had assisted the expedition in its outfitting and by useful advice. The magnetic observations were compiled by Aksel Steen, of the meteorological institute at Christiania. Wants the Black Granite Mountain. Daily Skandinaven makes the Rev. Gust:f Floden an offer for his black granite mountain, which will drive all other investors from the field, and cor- dially thanks his reverence ‘for not closing the $800,000,000 deal with the German syndicate, Skandinaven offers $3,000,000,000, or about 5 Oper cent more than the total amount of money in the United States, and hopes that his rever- ence will stop Ieng enough in Chicago to get the check. Having heard that the German syndicate bid only 800,000,- 000kroner, Skandinaven craves permis- sion to reduce its bid of 3,000,000.000 crowns. This is as high as John And- erson and Nicolai Grevstad are able to go, and their offer will be kept open 2 reascnable length of time. ice Sa ce Se To Aid St. Olaf. At a meeting held at St. Olaf college, Northfield, June 11, steps were taken towards organizing a St. Olaf associa- tion to further college ‘interests and foster the college spirit among ex-stu- dents. The organization is to be Simi- lar to the alumni association, but en- tirely distinct. Officers were elected as follows: Prof. I. F. Grose, Northfield, president; Rev. Cc. H. Weswig, Berlin, Wis., vice president; Ivan Ringstad, Northfield, secertary and treasurer. A committee was appointed on constitu- tion and by-laws. The next meeting will be held during commencement, All ex-students wishing to join will plesse send their names and addresses to the secretary. Permanent Northern Sperts. The carnival of Northern sports held last winter in Stockholm proved such a success that it has been decided to con- tinue them, and make them an interna- tiona! event. The next one will be held in Christiania in 1903, and will be simi- lar to the Stockholm carnival, byt on a much larger scale. Dr. Ibsen Perfectly Well. Norwegian papers, as late as May 2%, speak of Henrik Ibsen as having fully recovered from an attack of the grip and as being qquite well. There is thus probably little ground for the reports of his critical condition as a result of par- alysis. Norway Overcoming Leprosy- Leprosy is contrantly on the decline in Norway. Whereas in 1855 there were 2,870 cases of leprosy, in 1895 there were only 688. The Gecrease is attributed to measures taken for the isolation of suf- ferers by the government. Very little smallpox exists in the country, and the principal reason for this is that vaccin- ation is obligatory, inasmuch as the certificate of vaecmation must be pro- duced both at Confirmation and at mar- riage. The #untry ts divided into vac- cination districts, and complete records Natural Feeding. It has been mentioned in this depart- ment of the paper that in Canada where hogs are fed upon the principle of developing the frame first and then fattening with starchy foods, that little trouble is experienced from such dis- eases as cholera, and we maintain that there would be less of the trouble and more healthy hogs generally in our own country with larger and stronger litters of pigs if the swine were fed more naturally. As an illustration of the kind of feeding we mean it may be mentioned that the Yorkshire pigs which took the sweepstakes award at the provincial show at London, Can- ada, last year were allowed to suckle their. dam for two months, were then weaned and fed wheat middlings and skim milk four times daily until three months old. A small amount of barley and corn was added as they grew, older. After three months of age their food consisted largely of green clover and later of green corn and rape. For six weeks before beginning the finishing period they were allowed to run in a small field of artichokes, which they dug for themselves, besides receiving a small quantity of whole corn scat- tered broadcast. This system which won for the show would surely prove just as effective and economical for the production of pork. To be sure it would not produce very fat swine and they would not be of the lard variety, but they could not fail to have strong frames and the choicest of meat while healthy and in growing condition. A frame built up in this way is the one that will best lay on the fat produced: by heavy feeding of corn and will withstand the ravages of cholera, or rather ward attacks off by strength of constitution and purity of blood. In this connection we desire to say a few words in answer to a correspondent who desires to have our opinion on the subject of cooking food for swine and asks if it is not a common practice to cook’the food given to swine for ex- hibition purposes. It will be seen that these Canadian hogs did not receive cooked food and we do not believe that there is any necessity of cooking. the food of young swine that are growing; in fact, we would consider the prac- tice foolish and wasteful of time and food nutrients. For final finishing cooking is correct practice if such food as potatoes are used, for it has been shown by experimentation and indeed on our tables that the starchy mate- rials of the potaco are brought out by boiling and rendering palatable and perfect while the raw potatoes are of little use for fattening. Nitrogenous foods on the other hand suffer when boiled. Peas, for instance, are said to lose 25 per cent of their nitrogen- ous principle when boiled and the same is true in less degree of boiled barley and other grains containing large quantities of protein. It should be re- membered that boiling coagulates albu- men (nitrogenous matter or protein), thus rendering it less easy of assimila- tion, but on the other hand it is bene- ficial to starchy foods in that it rup- tures the starch cells (cellular coating of the starch grains) thus allowing the digestive fluid of the stomach to op- erate more perfectly. From this fact it will be seen that sensible feeding ideas should teach the use of natural feeding for young growing pigs, such as that followed in Canada in the pro- duction of the winning Yorkshires, while the cooking of food should be applied, if at all, to the fattening pe- riod only and to such foods as are in- cluded in we list of carbohydrates. There are exceptions to this rule, how* ever, in the case of sick animals, which sometimes do best upon scalded food, such as bran, oilmeal, etc., and the same is true of the newly weaned pig in cold weather, which sometimes needs and thrives best upon scalded food. On general principles, however, in our opinion there is no. economy or profit in cooking the food for young growing animals; it does, however, help to make the carbohydrate food of fattening animals more easily as- similated in some instances, as where potatoes are used for fattening. Life of the Cholera Germ. How long will the germ of hog’ cholera live? This is a question that is troubling a good many people, for: on its answer hinges. not only the} safety of herds that are yet to be, per~ haps a year hence, in the places of herds now affected by hog cholera. It. is the belief of some of our best breed- ers. that the germs will remain vigor- ous for at least two years. after the:|' pens once infected have been emptied. Cases are reported where fresh hogs. have been brought into, styes that had|' been empty nearly two years and where the hogs came down with chol- era within a few days of entrance. This especially affects the showing of hogs at fairs. If there have beem cholera-sick hogs in any of the pens the germs are likely to remain active till the next year. It is therefore necessary that the men having fairs in charge see that all pens are dis- imfected each year, to eliminate the possible presence of cholera germs, A government authority states that dairying is the greatest single industry im the United States. This is perhaps. putting the matter a little loosely. Certainly farming is an industry and includes dairying. Taking away dairy- ing, what remains is still greater than dairying. Nevertheless dairying is a great and a growing industry, and is really in its infancy. k Sugar contains none of the elements of fertility and therefore is not so ex- haustive to the soil as where corn and oats are sold from the farm. In the average beet field there are from three to six tons of tops that have a high teeding, value and are relished by all kinds of stock. Sheep ought not to be compelled to tat dirty food or drink foul wate, DRS the cle cd IRS RN at SE oe AAI Mb aA oa oa Fly Can’t Be Drow Whatever other fate might befall it, naturalists agree that the common house fly cannot be drowned, and many experiments have been made in rela- tion thereto. Included in such tests was the im- mersion of a fly in clear, cold water, with a piece of cardboard to fit the glass and floated so as to keep the in- sect beneath the surface. So little did the fly trouble about such an obstacle that it kept near the bottom of the glass, and there for @ quarter of an hour tan about as freely as in the fresh air, while it at times crawled across the under side of the cardboard, as on the ceiling of a room. After being immersed for twenty minutes the fly’s movements were less active, and at twenty-five minutes it turned over upon its side, apparently dead. It hung suspended in the water, just under the pasteboard, which kept it from rising to the surface, and there it remained for another twenty-five minutes. It was then taken out and placed o@ & sheet of paper, looking, to all appear- ance dead. Its next fate was to be buried by being covered by about # teaspoonful of fine salt. At the end of fifteen minutes the sa- line was shaken off, the fly having thus been completely covered, either by wa~ ter or by salt for sixty-five minutes. Immediatelyupon its release the in- sect trimmed its wings and legs active+ ly for a while and then flew away.— Pearson’s Weekly. A& Pike County Miracle. Velpen, Ind., June 17.—Wm. 0. B: Sullivan, a farmer of this place. and who is a brother of ex-Representative Sullivan of Pike and Dubois counties, has had a remarkable experience Te- cently. Mr. Sullivan is 49 years of age, and has been a citizen of Pike county for 30 years. For two years he has suf- fered with kidney trouble and rheuma tism. His shoulders and side were very sore and stiff, and his back was so bad he could hardly straighten up at all. He had palpitation of the heart, and a smothering which was very dis- tressing. He used three boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills, and is as strong and well as he ever was. He pronounces his curve a miracle. Mr. Sullivan's statement of his case is startling. “& month ago I was a cripple. To- day I can do a hard day’s work every day, and have not a single ache or pain.” : Dodda’s Kidney Pills have done some wonderful cures in Indiana, but none more miraculous than in the case of of Mr: Sullivan. Educatiow Haw An All-Round Value. A good college: education also stands for the investment of power. The stu- dent invests power and power he takes out; for education creates and increases power. Two forms it special- ly prcmotes, which modern life de- mands; the power to think and the power to: will. The power to think is the greatest intellectual power. The power of knowledge is the power of the granary, which gathers up and holds the harvests of many a field; the pow- er of thought is the power of the mill which grinds these harvests into flour for the use of man. The power of thought is the power to see, to foresee, to reason, to judge, to infer. It is the power which every stady of the college helps to train. Language gives dis-~ crimination: science, observation, an- alysis and synthesis—the taking apart and the putting together elements of thought: history, comprehension and philosophy, self-repietion and self-dis- covery. In some way—and the exact way is still unknown—the man who pursues these and the other studies of the college four years becomes a think- er. When he entered college he knew? little, and could think less; when he leaves college, his knowledge is still limited enough, but he has gained @ distinct power to: think.—Success. A Muclean and a Campbell. When Sir Archibald Campbell was governor-of New Brunswick he chanced to. meet with an aged Highlander of the name of Maclean, who had done brave soldiery service for his country, and had borne himself well in many @ fierce encounter. After his discharge he had settled in the woods; but things had not gone smoothly with him, and his circumstances were quite straiten- ed. Anxious to befriend him, his excel- lency invited him to make his home at government house, where he could find easy work to do in blacking boots and shoes and such like little things. The old man was quite indignant, the hot blood mounting to his cheeks, and, drawing himself up to his full height, he replied, with all the dignity of a lord: “Na, na, sir—na, na. A Maclean nev- er blackit a boot for a Campbell.” He preferred with independence on | the farm to ease as a menial in a rich i man’s house—a feeling that was ap- preciated by ne one more warmly tham i py the genial and kind-hearted govern- er:—Chambers’ Journal. 'The Chances in Cuba. ‘Trere is an opportunity in Cuba for the investment of capital, if person® investing will be content with moderate returns, I do not think our new pos- sessions held out any inducement for an American who proposes to support himself and to better his condition by his labor. The climate of the tropics is not favorable to the Northern working- man, and the capitalist who expects "» double his investment in a yeao or two, aecording to the present craze for 9b taining immediate wealth, is: very 1! -°~ Ty to be disappointed. Business meth~ ods, business sagacity and contentines® with reasonable returns are likely => make ventures of capital fairly rem nerative.—Senator Platt im June Sue~ cess. His Groun@s, “And on what grounds do you bys your application for divorce?" asked the lawyer of his new client. “Exertion, sah.” “You mean desertion, I suppose. Your wife has left you, doubtless?” “No, sah; she hasn't left me, sah.” “Then you can’t ask for a divorcee on the ground of desertion.” “] said exertion, sah. Dat's ds ground, perzackly. She done exert ber- gelf continually, to make me mizzable, gah. Put it on de ground 9b exertion, sah."—Detroit Free Press. a |