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...".-' .-, I CARRISTON'SGIFT. r nuon convtav. TAUT L tOLD BY PHILIP BKAND, It. IJ., T.O?TOON. : I wfch Ihnd thoeouraKO to begin tMstale ty turning to my professional viMtlnK tiooks, hihI, taking at rantkau any month out of the last twenty years, give its record us a fair sample of my ordinary work. The dfcuml extinct would toll you what a doctor's I sup pose I may say a successful doctor's lot li, when his practice lies in a poor and densely populated district of Loudon. Dreary as eueh a beginning might tie, it would ierha8 allay some of the incredulity which tins talo may probably provoke, as it would plainly i $hov how little room there is for things lin- aginative or romantic in work so laird as mine, or among such grim realities of jover ty, pain, and grief as those by which 1 have, been surrounded. It would certainly make 1t opiear extremely unlikely that I should have fonnd time to imagine, much less to write, a romance or melodrama. The truth is thut when a man has toiled from nine o'clock in the morning until nine o'clock at night, suth leisure as lie can enjoy 1 precious to him, especially when even that fhort respite is liable to be broken in upon at any moment : Still, in Kpite of the doleful picture I have drawn of what may be culled "the daily fc-rind." I begin tins talo with tha amount of a holiday. In the autumn of 1SC4 I turned my back with right good-will upon London streets, hospitals, and patients, and took my scat In the North Express. The lirst revolutiou of the wheels sent a thrill of d light through my Jaded frame. A joyful sense of freedom came out me. I had really got away at last ! Moreover, 1 had left no address Itehlnd me, I no for three blessed w eeks might roam an im- i disputed lord of myself. Three weeks were not very many to take out of tho fifty-two, but they were all 1 could venture to give my self; for even at that time my practice. If not to lucrative as 1 could wish, was a large and Increasing one. Having done a twelve month's hard wwk, I felt that no one In the kingdom could take his holiday with a con science, clearer that mine, so I lay back in a peculiarly contented frame of mind, and dis counted the coming pleusuiesof my brief respite from labor. ' There are many ways of passing a holiday many places at which it may be spent; hut, after all, if you wish to enjoy it thorougldy there is but one royal rule to bo followed. That Is, shiiply to please yourself go where you like, and mount the innocent holiday hobby which is dearest to your heart, let its name be botany, geology, entomology, con chology, venery, piscation, or what not. Then you will be happy, and return well braced up for the battle of life. I knew a city clerk with literary tastes, who invariably spent his annual fortnight among the musti est tomes of the British Museum, and aver red that his health was more lienctited by so doing than If he had passed the time inhaling the freshet sea-breezes. I daresay he va? right in h'.s assertion. Sketching has always been my favorltt holiday pursuit l'ooras my drawings ma be, nevertheless, as I turn them over in inj portfolio, they bring, to me at least, vivid re membrances of many sweet and picturesque spots, happy days and congenial compan ions. It is not for me to say any tiling of tlieii actual merits, but they arc dear to mo fo; their associations. This purtlciUar year 1 went to North Wales and made Cettws-y-Cocd my headquarters I stayed at the Koyal Oak, that wcll-knowi little inn dear to many an artist's heart, am. teeming with reminiscences of famous mei who have sojourned there times wlthou number. It was hero 1 made the acquaint ance of the man w ith whose life tho curiou events here told are connected. On the lirst day after my arrival at Bettw my appreciation of my liberty was so thoi ough, my appetite for tho enjoyment of th. beauties of Nature so keen and insatiable, that I went so far and saw so much, ih.' when I returned to the Royal Oak night lw fallen and the hour of dinner had long pas? ed by. I was, w hen my own meal w as placet' on the table, the only occupant of the collet room. Just then a young man entered, am ordered something to rat The waiter know lug, no doubt, something of the frank coma radcrte which exists, or should exist, between the followers of the painter's craft, laid bis rover at my table. Tho new-comer seated himself, gave me a pleasant smile and a nod, und in Jivejiiinutes we were in full swing t conversation. The moment my eyes fell upon the youn;: man I had noticed how singularly handsome he was. Charles Carrblon for this I foumt afterward to be his name was about twentj two years of agi. He was till, but slighth built; his whole tearing and figure being re markably elegant and graceful, lie looked even more than gentlemaidy, he looked dis tinguished. His face wa.sp.ile, its feature.-well-cut, straight ami regular. Ills foiv head KMke of high intellectual qualities, and there was somewhat of that devclopmen; over tho eyebrows which phrenologists, I be lieve, consider as evidence of the iosscssioJi of Imagination. The general expression oi his face was one of sadness, audits refined beauty was heightened by a pair of softdark, dreamy-looking eyes. it only remains to add that from his at tire, I Judged hhn to be an artist a profes sional artist to tho backbone. In tho course of conversation I told him how I had classi fied him. He smiled "I am only an amateur," he said; "an idle man, nothing more and you?" "Alas 1 1 am a doctor." "Then we shall not have to answer to each other for our sins in painting." WetilUed on pleasantly until our bodily wants were satisfied. Then came That pleas ant craving for tobaeeo, which after a good meal, Is natural to a well-regulated digestion. "Shall we go and smoke outride?'' said (Jur riston. The night Ls delicious." We went out and satou uno of the wooden benches. As my new friend said, the night was delicious. There was i:nrecly a breath of air moving. The stars and tho moon hone brightly, ami tho rush of the not far distant stream came to us with a soothing murmur. Near us were three or four jovial young artists. They were In merry mood; one of them had that day sold a picture to a tourist We listened to their banter until. most likely grow ing thirsty, they re-entered the Inn. Carrlston had said little since we had been out of doors. He snioVl his cigar placidly and gazed up at the .skies. With tho whito tuoonllght falling on his utrlkingly-lieautiful face the graceful pose Into which he fell he seemed to me the embodiment of poetry, lie paid no heed to the merry talk of the art ists, which so much amused me Indeed, I doubted if be heard their voices. Yet ho must have done so, for ai soon a they had left us he came out of his reverie. "It must be very nice," he said, 4to have to mike r?': ilvbig by Art" "Nice toi tfce who can make livings by It" I answered. "AU enn do that who are worth It, The rl.ty of neglected genius Is gone by. Mnller was the last sufferer, 1 think and he died young." "If you are so sanguine, why not try your own luck at it?" "I would; but unfortunately I am a rich wan." I laughed at this misplaced regret Then Carriston, in the jnost simple way, told me a good deal about himself, lie was an orphan, an only child. He had already ample means; but Fortune had still favors in store for hinu At the death of his uncle, now an aged man, he must succeed to a large estate and a bar onetcy. The natural, unaffected way In which he made these confidences, moreover made them not 1 knew, from any wish to In crease his importance in my eyes, greatly im pressed me. By the time wo parted for tho night I had grown much interested In my new acquaintancean Interest not uutinged by envy. Young, handsome, rich, free to come or go, work or play, as he listed 1 Hap py Carrlston ! ' ; 11. I am disposed to think that never beforo did a sincere friendship, one w hich was fated to last unbroken for years, ripen so quickly us that between Carriston and myself. As I now look back I find it hard to associate him with any, even a brief, period of time subsequent to our meeting, during which he was not my lnisom friend. I forget whether our meeting at the snme picturesque spot on the morning which followed our sclt-intro-duetion was the result of accident or arrange ment. Anyway, we spent the day together, and that day wits the precursor of many pass ed In each other's society. Morning after morning w e millied forth to do our best to transfer the same bits of scenery to our sketching-blocks. Evening alter evening we returned to dine side by side, a.d afterwards to talk and smoke together, Indoors or out doors 89 the temperature nd vised or our wishes Inclined. Great friends we soon became- Inseparable as long tLi my short, holiday lusted, it was, perhaps, pleasant for each to work in com pany with an amateur like himself. Each could ask the other's opinion of tho merits of tho work done, and feci happy at tho ap proval duly given. An artist's stamlard of excellence Is too high for a non-professional. When he praises your work he praises It but as the work of an outsider. You feel that such commendation condemns it and dis heartens you. However, had CurrMon cared to do so, I think he. might have fearlessly submitted his productions to any conscientious critic. His drawings were immeasurably more artistic and powerful than mine. He had undoubt edly great talent and 1 was much surprise to lind that good as he was at landscape, ho was even better at the figure. He could, with a firm, tiold haiul, draw rapidly the most marvelous likeness". So spirited and true were some of the studies he showed me, that I could without flattery advise him, provided he could finish as he began, to keep entirely to tho higher branch of the art 1 have now before me a series of outline faces drawn by him many of them from memory; and as I look at them the original of each comes at onco before my eyes. From the first 1 had been much interested In the young man, and as day by day went by, and the peculiarities of his character were revealed to me, my interest grew deoie.r and deeper. I llatter myself that I am a keen observer and skillful analyst of personal character, and until now landed that to writo a description of its comMiient parts was an easy matter. Yet when I am put to the proof I find It no simple ta-k to convey in words a proper idea of Charles Carrlston's mental or ganisation. I soon discovered that he was, I may say, afflicted by a peculiarly sonslt! ve nature. A 1 ! hough strong, and apparently in good health, the very changes of the weather seemed to affect him almost to tho same extent as they affect a flower. Sweet as his disposition al ways was, the tone of his mind, his spirits 'ds conversation, varied, as it were, w ith the dinosphere. He was full of imagination, dways rich, was at times weird, even gro tesquely weird. Not for one moment did ho ivm to doubt the stability of the wild tlieo . les he start ed, or tlie possibility of the poetic il dreams he dreamed leing realized. He ad his faults, of course; ho was hasty and impulsive; Indeed to me one of the greatest - harms about the boy was that right or wrong,-each word he spoke camo straight noiii his heart So far as I could judge, tho whole organia Jon, of his mind was too highly strung, too lineJy wrought for c very-day use. A noto of joy, of sorrow, even of pity vibrated through ;t too strongly for his comfort or well-being. As yet it had not been called ujion to bear l he test of love, ami fortunately I use the word advisedly fortunately he was not ac cording to the usual significance of the word, a religiousm an.or I should have thought it not unlikely that some riav he would fall a victim to that religious mania so well known to my professional brethren, and have developed hysteria or melancholia, lie might even have fancied himself a messenger sent from heaven for tho regeneration of mankind. From natures like Carriston 'a are prophets liade. In short 1 may say, that my exhaustive tudy of my new friend's character resulted im a certain amount of uneasiness as to his iuture-an uneasiness not entirely free from professional curiosity. Although the smile camo readily and fre quently to his lips, tho general bent of his ;i;sosition was sad, even despondent and turbid. And yet few young men's lives promised to be so pleasant as Charles Carris ton's. I was rallying him one day on his futuro rank and its respousihilitlrH. "You will, of course, be disgustingly rich?" ( said Caniston sighed. "Yes if I live long enough; but I don't supjiose I shall." "Why in the world shouldn't you? You l'Mk pale and Ihirv, but ore in eapital health. Twelve long miles we have walked to-day jou never turned a hair." Carrlston made no reply. He seemed In deep thought "lour friends ought to look after you and get you a wife," I said "1 have no friends," ho said sadly. "No nearer relation than a cousin a good deal alder than I am, who looks uon mo ns one ho was bora to rob him of what should bo his." "But by the law of prlmogenlture.so sacred to the upier ten thousand, ho must know you are entitled to It" "Yes; but for years and years I was always gting to die. My life was not thought worth six months' purshase. All of a sudden 1 got well. Kv r since then I have seemed, even to myself, a kind of Intcrlojtcr." "It must be unpleasant to have a man long ing for one's death. All the more reason you should marry, and put other lives between i him and the title." "I fancy I shall never marry' abl Carrls ton, looking st me with his soft dark eyes. "You see, a boy who has waited for years ex jxicting to die, doesn't grow up with exactly the same feelings as other people. I don't think I shall ever meet a woman I can care for'enotigh to make my wife. No, I expect my cousin will be Sir Kalph yet" I tried to laugh him out of his morbid ideas. "Those w ho live will see," I said. "Only promise te ak me to your wedding, and bet ter Btfll, If you live In town, .npolnt me your family doctor. It may pme the nucleus of that West End practice which, it is tho dream of every doctor to establish.'1 .) ;! 1 have already alluded to the strange beau ty of Carrlston's dark eyes. , Aisoon as com panionship commenced be'tmeiv us those eyes became to me, from selenflftc reasons, objects of curiosity on account ot the mysteri ous expression, which at times I dctirted in them. Often and often they wore a look tho like to which, 1 imagine, Is fbynI onjy in the . eyes of a somnambulist ft !ik which one feels certain is intently fixed upon something, yet upon something beyond the nfnse of one's own vision. Inuring the 'first 'two or tlirco days of our new-born intimacy, I found this' eccentricity of Carrlston's positively startling. When now and theu I turned, to him, and found him staring with all his night at noth ing, my eyes were compelled to follow the direction In which his own were bent It was at first impossible to divest oneself of the, belief that something should be there to' justify so fixed n gaze. 'However, as tho rapid growth of our friendly intercourse soon showed me that he was a boy of most anient poetic temperament perhaps even more a )oet than an artist I laid at the door of the Muse these absent looks and recurring llighta into vacancy. We were at the Fairy Glen ono morning, sketching, to the best of our ability, the swirl ing stre:mi. the gray rocks and the overhang ing trees tho last Just growing brilliant with autumnal tints. So beautiful was everything around that for a long time I werked, idled, or dreamed in contented silence. Carriston had set up his easel at some little distaneo from mine. At last I turned to see how his sketch was progressing. He had evidently fallen into one of his brown studies, and, ap parently, a harder one than usual. His brush had fallen from his fingers his features were immovable and his str ange dark .eyes were absolutely riveted upon a largo rock in front of him, at which ho gazed as Intently as If his hope of heaven depended upou seeing through It, He seemed for the while oblivions to things mundane. A party of laughing, chattering, terrible tourist girls scrambled down the rug ged steps, and one by one passed In front of him. Neither their presence nor the Inquisi tive glances they cast on his statuesque face roused him from ills fit of abstraction. For a moment 1 wondered if tho boy took opium or some other narcotic on theMy. Full of the thought I rose, crossed over to him, and d my hand upon his shoulder. . A he felt my touch he came to himself, and looked up at me in a dazed, inquiring war. "Really, Carriston," I saldlaughingly, "you must reserve your dreaming fits until we are in places where tourists do not con gregate, or you will bo thought a madman, or at least a poet" He made no reply. He turned away from me impatiently, even rudely; then, picking up his brush, went on with his sketch. Aft er a while ho seemed to receiver from his pct tlshncss, and we spent the remainder cf the day as pleasantly as usual. As wo trudged homo in the tw Ilight ho lid to me In an apologetic, almost penitent way. "I hope I was not rude to you just now." "When do you mean?" I asked, having al most forgotten the trivial incident "When you woke me from what you call ed my dreaming." "Uhdvar.no. You were not at all rude. Jt you luid been, it was but, the penalty due to my presumption. The flight of genius should be ruiectcd, not checked by a mater LUhand" ' TO PR CONTINUED. How the l'rinco Died. I have recentlv had a very interest ing interview with nn Euplish gentle man who was present in Zululand at the time of the death of the prince im perial, and who knew the young gen tleman well, besides being personally acquainted with all tho details of the carastrophc. says a writer in the Phila delphia Tclegrunu He wns not much impressed by the character and man ners of the ill-fated prince himself, describing him to mo as a very full fledged specimen of the most obnox ious type of a fast young Parisian so ciety man. Besides which, he was im- Iinssed with nn overwhelming idea of lis own importance, and insisted always on taking tho command o every expedition in which he was in cluded. The fatal fray in which the unfortiin nto yenth lost bis life owed its whole j success for the Zulus to the fact of tho Ermce s party being taken by surprise .very body fau away on tfcn sudden attack of the savages, and it was owiog to a broken girth that the prince failed to make his escape with tho others. There were only live Zulus concerned in the attack, and they ail belonged to ono family a father, his three sons and a son-in-law. They stripped the bodv of their victim, leaving nothing behind but a gold locket suspended around his neck, and which tho 'Zulus thought contained a charm. My informant told mo that for him, the most trying part of the whole busi ness was tho interview which the Empress Eugenie insisted upon having w ith him after he returned toEugland. She asked the most minute questions about tho prince's death, being espe cially anxious to know if the fatal wounds were not dealt him in front. But, unfortunately, they wero all in his back. Then she wanted to bo told that he had died lighting for England, and tho Englishman was compelled to assure her that such w as not the case. "But at least, Mr. X.. you can say it was." was tho uuhappy mother's sug- f:estion It did not occur to her, poor ady, that an English gentleman has a natural objectionTto telling lies on any subject whatever. Trade In Cast Off Teeth. A medical statistician ctimntes that the citizens of tho United States are carryiug gold to the value of 100,000 in the recesses ot what ought to be their teeth. Thcrvs aro no people on the face of the globe who have such bad teeth and who spend so much money upon them as the Americans. No doubt the habit of hurried feeding and tho wholesale consumption of sweet dishes have assisted much to ward this end. But is it not a mistake to suppose, as says the medical statis tician, that false teeth set in gold, are buried when their owner shuffles oil this mortal coil? If ttfs is so ia America, it is not so Iri' England, or why . the numerous adrtrllsomentj offering to buy old artiliclaleeth? The old teeth aro not bought tovse again, as some Dervous peoplo, jSancy, but simply for tho sake o'tho gold. ropular Provider.'. ,; A ' 0 In an agricultural exhibition in San Juan county, Ncwr Mexico, thirty -four varieties of grapes were displayed. SCIENCE FOR DISEASE. Stadln on the Itorder IjiqI of Medical DlHcovcry. . We are standing to-day on the bop-dor-land of a vast unexplorod region in tho domain of llfo. It eocras to be a region rich in the promises of benefit to man, .when aftor patient toll wo tshall havo loarned raoro of tho re lationships of tho-so tiny organisms t one unethcr and to higher forms. Tho richest harvest garnered hithorto in tlds "domain has boon tho power to understand tho causb of certain dread human Beourges, and thus to stay their progress. In the faco of threatoned epidemics of Aslatio cholera, wo stand to-day fully equipped with a knowledge of its natui-e, which surely enables us to bold it successfully in check. Tho surgoon can to-day undertake with just confidenco of bucccss such opera tions for tho reliof of Buffering hu manity as would havo made the hearts of his elder confreres ttand fairly still. Many of tho so-called accidents of maternity have largely lost their vaguonesH, and with this their power to harm. Tho great cloud which for so many yours has hung low over tho heads of tho children of tubercular parents has at length begun to roll away. Tho terrible epidomic scourges of former times no longer haunt tho imagination. Man is not in theses days a serious seeker for tho fountains of perpftual youth, nor may wo justly long for earthly immortality. Hut wo now see dimly, but at last that wo may lay larger claim at least to our allotted threescore years and ten If wo can but learn to copo with or to hold at bay those unseen enemies which havo robbed us already of far too many lives Little by little wo aro learning that prevention is better than euro, and that prevention is possible in a largo num ber of thoso diseases which havo claimed their victims hitherto unchal lenged. People havo always taken it as a matter of courao that a certain number of persons must sicken and dio of such diseases as typhoid fever and diphtheria; but wo know to-day that these diseases can bo largely limited if only proper care bo taken in destroy ing the waste material from tho sick. Wo know now to just what wo must at tribute the wido-sproad acquirement of tuberculosis, and that proper cleanli ness in streets and houses and all as sembling places, would greatly curtail the number of its victims. Still, again, theso delvings La tho unseen world have brought up at least one shining moral nugget which, when beaten into words, moans something liko this: we must not lay at the door cf Providence or fate those ceils which we wilfully or ignorantly bring upon ourselves. llarper's Magazine. GREAT GUNS. How They Are Made aud What They Coot. Tho forging of tho imraenso guns is a most Interesting process. Tho rilled guns of tho present are made by ro enforcing tho tube with rings and re peated layers of steel called jaek" which aro litted ono over tho other over tho original tube or barrel of the gun. The jackets or hoops must fit as closely to tho guns as If formlug an in tegral part of its composition. The only way to get them on is, of course, by heating, and thus enlarging them. When they cool, they fit snugly. It Is evident that the exact slzo of tho jacket and ling when heated so that it can bo put in its place must b5 a matter of tho nicest mathematical calculcijn. Tho coarse powder now used .Vkos such havoe with tho riHin? of tho largest guns thnt ono hundred charges aro about all that can be expected from them. Tho jackets and rings can then be removed, und fitted to another tubo. The various parts of a gun aro not put together at Bethlehem, but aro sent to Washington, to a department of the Arsenal called tho assembling room, where the tubo is rifled, and tho gun is finally completed. A steel gun of the largest calibre coit3 about $100, 000. Tho ordnanco of our modern navy is therefore ono of tho most costly items for which Congress is expected to display a patriotic generosity. Harper's Weekly. Poetry and Fart. "I loro all that is beautiful in art and nature," sho was saying to her aesthetic admirer. "I revel in tho green fields, the babbling brooks, and tho littlo waysido flowers. I feast on the beauties of earth and sky and air; They aro my dally life and food, acd "MaudieS cried out tho mother from the kltohen, not knowing that her daughter's beau wns in tho parlor "Maudio, what mado you go and oat that big dish of potjttoos that was left over from dinnorP I told you wo wanted thom warmed for suppor. I declare, if your appctito isn't enough to bank rupt your pal" Ten VutT for a Cent. Havo you ever thought" said the economist to tho spendthrift "that every puff of your cigar represents a certain amount of mony. blown to tho wlndsP How much did you pay for that big, black roofer?" "Flvo for a dollar," spendthrift replied. "Well, if you talo 200 puffs from it they will cost you at tho rato of a mill a puff, or ten puffs for a cent Look at your wasteful habit in this light after you havo blown that costly cloud of sraoko out of your soot-begrimmed mouth, and you cannot longer violate economic law by forever burning up tho money thnt you put into cigars." The Iluny nee. Thoro ls somo reason for calling them tho "busy bees." A studont of tho habits of theso sacharino insects says: To mako ono pound of honoy they must fisit from 90,000 to 200,000 flowers. IIS Had the LaM Voi1. A bacttelor tradesman who has just died in Hamburg adopted a novel method of revenging himself on tho woman who onoe jilted him. In his will he left her a legacy cf 12,000 marks, but also indited tho following letter which he ordered to bo handed to the lady, who Ls now a widow, with tho money: "Madam: Some thirty years ugo I was a suitor for your hand in marriage. You refused my offer, and as a consequence my days havo been pas.serl in peace and. quietness. Now I requite your goodness." AMUSEMENTS IN DAVARIA. Quaint W.iy la Which Hie l'eople ot That Country Knjoy Theimelren. As to amuecment you may trust a Bavarian not to be In-hind in that, says tho National Review. Tho men moot almost nightly in tho different inns und beerhouses, according to their status in the local societies, where they havo talk, singing, music, ct;., the lare glass mugs of boor at their side buing constantly replenished. Tho boor is fortunately light, but the, amount drunk is a serious expense, and much more than tho men usually can properly a! ford. Besides these nightly gatherings there are different clubs or societies that meet at certain times at one or other of tho inns for an evening's amusement, somo of thom under tho patronage of tho priest. In many of them tho women join, but the women's chief entertain melds aro kunkl, Vor spinning parties, at homo, and very coy and picturesque these spinning parties are. Tho great feature in a Bavarian sitting-room is the largo porcelain stove that stands out into tho room, and that is usually lit from tho passu go outside. Bound this stove a bench runs, making a dtlightfully warm seat, the back be ing the porcelain stove. But besides this stove, in tho older houses, there is in tho wall a hole with a chimney, where a peculiar Bort of pine, that burns brightly without sending out sparks, is burn?' at night for tho pur pose of light 6nly. In olden times, when such luxuries n. lamps were unthought of, it was often the only means of illumination. Somo 6till uso them constantly; others keep them only for festive occasions. A mun (generally the wag or story teller of tho party) sits bosido it to keep it replenished. Tho women have their spinning-wheels or knitting, and tho men sit in the darker corners; and there aro always somo to sing songs or toll stories or kp tho fun going in some way. Ono such scono espec ially occurs to mo. Imagine on old. dark-paneled room. In her armchair clor.0 to tho stove, in the full light of tho blazing pino wood, sits tho handsome old hostess, in her picturcsquo costumo, busy with her spinnLng-whoel. A young woman with a whocl Ls in an opposite corner. Thrco daughters knitting and guests sit in a circle, more or less, tho light playing on the varied facc9 and timo worn f urnituro as bright firelight alono can. Ono man has a guitar and two girls sing Tyrolese songs. At last schnapps of different kinds (sort of cheap liqueurs) and delicious coffee, with home-made cake, are handed round, and tho evening ends with hearty farewell greeting. CATHEDRAL ARCHITECTURE. How; tho Great Church of Iiomt Was Hull t of Hatter. The cathedral is first found to per fection in the thirteenth century, but it is more elaborate in tho fourteenth, says tho Philadelphia ledger. Tho tenth century was an important epoch in the history of cathodrals. It was the general belief at that time that tliM end of the world was approaching and a falling off in building activity is no ticed in consoquenco. Aftor tho bo ginning of tho year 1000 A. D. a gen eral Benso of relief is shown in the building of new churches. The erec tion of a church was a convenient means for tho expression of thankful ness. Tho founding of monasteries, especially of tha Cistercian order, led also to this phenomenal activity. An illustration of this progressive spirit is seen in the tower of the Itoucn cathe dral, which was built of butter. I mean by that that tho people of Ilouen, by giving up butter in Lent, paid for it from their savings. The sculpt'.-ro of cathedrals, which was so oxquisitely carriod out in tho middle ages, contained a moan3 for toaching tho biblo in days when books wero almost unknown. This is well fhown in tho statues of Christ. At that time it was more than a symbol; it was a sign of the living spirit. Then, too, tho cathedral was moro than a church and was not merely a religious placo. It was the one super lative place In tlio city tho center of loarning and of tho community. Our modern churches have deteriorated, ns in the early days, to moro places of worshio. The Key soap. with Dart of the of packages its hest and there is no fear of rp On the peddkrf and grocer who tell you " this is as good m," oi X Um "(he time m" l'curline. IT'S FALSE; besides, Tear line it the K.Cy nfycr peddled. 3 JAMES TYLE, New Yoik. . A New Yorker paid SS.SCO for a biowa dlaiiKiid. Queou Maiguerlta of Italy Is a devotttd student of tho Hebrew lunuaxo and lttura tuic. rtctween 15:i5 aud 15'JO four sepcrafe ver sions of tlio liblo who put bvforo Klh readers. Tho first complete traiifdatlon of tka blblo lut) Kiij:llsh was effected by Johra Wyelif in 130. In tho old linnmn day the feet of th bi iile and bridegroom wore wished afU'r t) wcd'llii ceremony. Tho reformed ( odo of Itnly forbids pirta to marry under 13, but immt of theui foist tlio tortuouts of love at 12. Deafness Can't bo Cureu by local applications, as they ran rot reach V2Z ilh-easrd portion of the cur. There is only 0114 way to cure Dcafurns, and that is by contHn tlohol rriuedii-8. Di-afncHs ia catiFrd by ai u' flamed condition of the iiuh ous lining of M KusUebian Tube. When this tube pts Uh flaimsl you have a rumbling sound or Impetfeel hearing, and when it is entirely ckiHi'd Deaf ness is the nmlt, and un!chthu intlariini.itlon can be taken out und this tube reHtoicd to its normal condition, bearing will bo destroyed forever; nine eases out of ten arn raused 07 ratanli, whlih l-i nothing but an inflamed con dition of the miicou surfaces. Wew ill ivc On Hundred Dollars for any ease of Deafness (tauKcd hv Catarrh) t hut we can not ture by taking Hall's (Marth C ure. Send fori ireulur, free. . V. J. Ci I KN K V A CO., Toledo, U. f2TSold ly Druggists, 75c. Joseph JefTcrson. Jr., is to 1)6 in a fit d in June to Miss lilan lio Lender, an uctrcso. Mr. Vlni.!otr' Soot hlnsMy rap, for Chil dren tuclhlug, softens the cu;rn, roiluec Inflamma tion. slUys puln, cures wind cullo. 20a a bottle Standing Hear, tho Moux chief who H lectin In; in Ctiieugo, has sicnt bis son to b educated In i'eniisylvuula. FITS. li HiiHuippKdfrpeby r.R. KUNsncriuT Vervo Jli'M :rT. .Vol Itntl'r li rHl:t jr'mi: e. Wur f.'l luus curt. 'I'witiM ttmti ! 00 trhtl l.ott'o Irro l k'ilcacs. bond to Dr. Klino.'.i ll An:h St., 1'hHu., la. A riil In Pittsburg ran away from horn because she lo.cd chJUico and wanted to live in a chllurcu's hospital. In t bo AVest Indies fireflies are caugh fa dark rooms und used us lamps by wh,Uti their captors find tho match box. There's a patent medicine which is not a patent medicine paradoxical as that may sound. It's a discovery! Ure golden discovery of medical science ! It's the medicine for you tired, run-down, exhausfr ed, nerve - wasted men and women ; for you sufferers frora diseases of skin or scalp, liver or lungs it's chance is with every one, it's season always, because it aims to purify the fountain of life the blood upon which all such diseases, depend. The medicine is Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. The makers of it have enough confidence in it to, sell it on trial, That is you can get it fronr your druggist, and if it doesnt do what it's claimed to do, you can get your money backt . every ce?it of it. That's what its makers call taking the risk of their words. Tiny, little, sugar-coated granules, arc what Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are. The best Liver Pills ever invented; ac tive, yet mild in operation cure sick and bilious head aches. One a dose. I'osttlve lycnrrl t uiese mine nun. Thoy also rellava Dls trc ps from Dynjpl.In 1 ideation siiilToolIesrtj Kiitlnir. A perfwt rem- rvlf for rMzzinrss.Nsnsoit Drowaintftft, Had 'isstr'tf In tho Month. CotxlLT Tnrgun.Pain in tho Fids A TtmeiD I.IVElt. Tlie& regulate tho JJowelsJt Purely Vfrotable. IrlM !tS (VlltKl Cv,lfP:it Qm- rW Qm'lllPrWi WXIUII ill, OIIIUII LUOCl UUIUII I I llOlf,. VThmn I euro I do not roosn mrU tstip tbrm for stims said thonhatothnin mturn Kin. I mK.a radical onro. 1 hT mni!o t'.i diwwso of FTTA, Y.V1 LIU'KY or FALMXO SICKNESS i;f-tong eliidj. 1 wtrrmiit mj reinndy to cars the worst cosos. Bcnoso otltors Iist failed is no reison fur not now reslv'.n a, euro. Snd at once for tmatiBO aud a Free Itattloc my infallible remedy. Oio Fxprens and PoBtOtllco. H. ii, KOOT, ill. C, 183 Pearl tit., N. Y. Success in washinsr and' cleaning is Pearls ine. By doing away with the opens the way to rubbinjr, it easy work; with Pearline. a: weekly wash can be done by a weakly woman. It shuts out possible harm and danger; all. things washed with Pcarlint last longer than if washed with': Everything is done better it. These form but a small CARTER'S i Kittle 3 PIUS. TCURE FITS I Why women use millions upon millions , of Pearline every year. Let Pearline -do' " dirt doing its worst."