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UN- AT LAST. ~+Z%\ V. FERGUSON. ,""r i At last I hold your little hand in mine", And in the azure softness of your eyes,' O love, I see now depths of glory shine, While in my heart a passionate surprise Is mingled With a rapture half divine. So long, my darling, you were hard and cold, So long I saw your beauty from afar, And brightperfection shining hkt the gold Of some serene, unreached, unclouded star, Set high and pure for mortals to behold. What wonder if the hope grew dim and faint That in the sweet dead days had shown so fair, When, glad with dreams no bitterness could taint, No sad and sullen savor of despair, My heart was as a shrine, and you its saint. Then came a time when, weary and forlorn, I walked alone along a barren way, Like one that travels weak and.overworn, And all the tender prayers I had to pray Could only move their pity or your scorn. The bitter thought of all my fate must miss Hung dark and like a pall across the years The tender sweetness of a woman's kiss, The soft compassion of a woman's tears And, love, I dreamt not of an hour like this! But nevermore that shadow shall be cast Across the sunshine bountiful and sweet: For all the sorrowful strange years are past, And all my life is perfect and complete, Since now, at last, you love me, dearatlast! HOME GOSSIP. A HINT TO TIRED HOUSEKEEPERS. 1 believe in systematic housekeeping when not carried to excess. It is very foolish to do work when you are not able, because it is the regular day for it. When a person is not well, it is best to do as you can, not as you would like. 1 am never very well, but still manage to get through with all my work. When I do not feel able to do all my washing in one day, let me tell you how I manage. I commence in the afternoon. (I know plenty of people will laugh, but never mind.) I clean up in the morning, as carefully as though I were going to sewing in stead of washing. Then, after din ner is all cleared away, I wash all the white cloths and have them ready to hang up in the morning. Then I have the night to rest in. Let some poor tired woman try it, and see if it is not better than doing all in one day, and then be sick two or three days afterward. THE DRUDGERY OF POSITION.The wife of the rising man advances with him, and with all her might strives to enter "society." Her old friends read in the papers of her receptions, her germans, her costumes, her dis tinguished guests, and remember the days when they were poor neighbors, happy with their babies, their work, and homely little gayeties. The suc cessful woman, struggling, manoeu vring, climbing up the slippery peak ot fashion, could tell her how often the taste of the melon is bitter on her tongue she could tell the price she paid for it. She had an enormous list of friends, chiefly kept up by cuds and glimpses in a ball room but the hearty love of the people in the little village where she was born, the famil iar faces, the ready hands in sickness, the hearts that wouId#faiut and fall if she were deadshe has put these things all away from her. They were the price she paid. For in this world nothing is bought for nothing. For all sorts of success the full price must be paid. SEASONABLE HINTS.After spring cleaning is over, most housekeep ers like to add a few pretty home made trifles to their rooms, and brighten them up. Tidies made of strips of velvet or silk, with lace insertion and edge, are easily made, and may be decorated in any wav to suit your taste. Hand-em broidered vines on the strips of silk or velvet are lovely. A tidy made of a square of silk with an aplique boquet in the centre is handsome. Really serviceable tidies are made of linen, trimmed with torchon, with outhm pictures drawn with indelible ink. It you do not know how to sketch, get a sheet of tracing paper, select some simple outline picture for your first attempt, trace it delicately and cai e fully on both sides of the tracing paper, then transfer to the linen bj placing it where you wish to have th pictuie, and go over it again with th pencil, then use the ink. Yo may in the same way sketch for pain ing in oil or water colors. Tln not, to be sure, "high nit," but it pleasant work, and it you ha\e much time to give to it is fi than doing nothing of lie kind Pretty trifles of this so add 1 to the tasteful appearan o1 &&.'UklMLM i oo LICENSED RUDENESS.You ai asked to a little dinner put) and have eveiy reason co e\ pect polite treatment from voi hostess. Do you receive it NTo variablv. It is surprising to note th number of social, subtle, but nom the less ruffianly affronts that well bred people permit themselves to offer to others. Are you talking happily ?your hostess swoops down on you, and takes away your com panion as a prize too precious for you to retain. This is an affront common from women, especially where the one is to be annoyed is of the kind with whom gentlemen like to talk. She is to be taught that she must not expect to monopolize the gentlemen. Gentlemen are the confessed bones bouches of a room, and to be allowed only to be favorites of the hostess. Those whom it is desired to snub are interrupted in their conversation, and made to feel that they have not been asked to amuse themselves, but be cause of social necessities with which personality has no concern If this happens, as it most likely may, to a woman of middle age or to one of mediocre means, it naturally causes a great deal of indignation and heart burning which is exactly its object. FRETF UL W RDS.Why be so severe in dealing with the faults of those at home while we excuse any thing friends or acquaintances may do The laws of politeness should be binding at home as well as abroad. We enjoy seeing our husbands and wives polite to our neighbors, only let us be sure to practice our good "&M3&& manners at home. There are hus bands who would hasten to assure a neighbor's wife, who had. in her haste, burned her biscuits, that they greatly enjoyed them where they were so nice and brown," who would never think their own wives needed the same con sideration. No man can be a gentle man, though ever so genial abroad, who is a tyrant or habitual fault-finder at home and no woman is a real lady who is not a lady at home in her morn ing wapper, as well as in silk in her neighbor's parlor. One member of a family who begins the day with fret ful words and harsh tones, is generally enough to spoil the happiness and temper of the whole for the day. Not all who hear the impatient word give the angry answer, for many choose to suffer in silence but every such word makes somebody's heart ache and, as a rule, it is somebody whom we love and would do anything for, except to keep back the unkind, sarcastic word. Then do not let us make ourselves and others miserable by being fretful at home. A SLOVENLY BREAKFAST-TABLE. The majority of people do not bring their brightest face and mood to the first meal of the day and trifles jar them sadly. The houses-mistress may herself be out of tune. "She feels that life is a burden, the hopes of her youth are a failure, and more often her thoughts are staying in gloomy retro spection than occupied in preparing a tidy, wholesome breakfast. The re mains of yesterday's food are indiffer ently gathered and placed on a smouldering or furious fire, to dry or burn, as circumstances may dictate. A hastily-arranged table is prepared, with the dishes scattered helter skelter upon it, with generally half a dozen necessary articles omitted, that some member of the family must rise and procure when needed. Then the family is called to breakfast. They, too, well knowing the style and bill of fare, loiter and delay till the veiy last grace of patience is exhausted gather around in sullen silence or with angry altercation, and partake sparingly of such articles as may be necessary to sustain nature. The husband goes to his labor or business, thankful for the refuge offered by office or factory. The children are peevish and un manageable, often downright quarrel some for the dayfor a broken day is seldom mended. But worse than all, the poor mother takes up again her burden of employments, with that failing strength and utter giving way of natural spirits that make woeful days for her children, whom she loves better than life, for she is giving her life in the care of them, but for whom the sunshine of neither motherly love nor patience beams that day. And so a whole day is spoiled by that ill-pre pared, unwholesome breakfast. A N EVERYDAY ROMANCE.Not long ago, an Englishman occupying a good social position in New York, died suddenly in his bachelor lodgings, and a few months afterward a rosy Irishwoman claimedhis estate for her self and children. After some litiga tion, her claim was allowed, and she formally assumed his name and for tune as his widow. In the case the woman knew her husband only under his middle name, and when she heard of his death under his full name, was entirely ignorant of how nearly it concerned her. She had supposed him to be a traveling agent, and had become so accustomed to his long absence, that she had not became alarmed nor searched for him until some time after his death. In this case the motive was obvious. He was educated, in society, courted and flattered. She was ignorant, awiward, and poor. The pretty face would not cover the faults of the tongue, nor her pleasant domestic ways charm away her want of acquaintance with etiquette. She satisfied him in pri vate life but he had no desire to acknowledge her to the world so he simply put himself on ber social level, kept her existence a secret from his friends, his name from her, and so successfully carried out his cowardly game. He had, without quesion, lived two distinct lives. Some Figures of Interest. Mr. William Hoyle, of England, computes from the custom and excise returns of Great Britian that the total consumption of liquors cost that coun try 142,741,669 in the year 1875, and he finds a slight increase in the follow ing years. Dr. Young, while at the head of the bureau of statistics in the treasury department, estimated the sales of liquor in the United States for the year 1871 at $600,000,000, Some realizing sense of what these figures stand for may be gained by comparis ons with other expenditures at about the same time. Aggregate wages paid by all the manufacturing establishments in the country, as shown by the census of 1870, was only $775,534,343, an excess of less than thirty per cent, over our drink bill. The same census gives us these annual values of leading manufactur ing industries: Flour and Grist Mill Products... $444,985,143 Molasses and Sugar 119,325,2 9 Cotton Goods 177,489,739 Woolen Goods 155,405,35** Boots and Shoes 146,70o,655 The total value of church property in the United States is 8354,483,581, or the cost ot seven months drinking. Or, again, the census states the total aggregate of state taxation in 1870 in cluding therein all state, territorial, court and municipal taxes, as &280,- 591,221not half the direct tax the liquor consumers lay upon themselves. WHEN Mrs. Shoddy returned from a foreign tour she was asked by an aquaintance regarding her impres sion of the different places she visited, among which was Venice, to which she innocently replied: I don't con sider myself any judge, for all the time I was there the streets was com pletely flooded with water." I THOUGHT you took an interest in my wellfare," said William. "No sir," replied Susan "only in you farewell." VH-^US^YSMRB? s4. VIOLETS. .ij. The spring comes glinting up the strath. And bonnilie she's drest, In tender green and gold and white, J|$Pfl With violets at her breast zcMt Blue violets! violets blue! V A Blue violets scented through! In both her hands are lily bells, And underneath her feet Spring buttercups and daisy stars But fresh, and dewy sweet, The blue, shy violets rest And nestle in her breast. The birds are singing overhead The woods with music ring Open thy happy portals, Earth, Cry, Welcome, lovely spring!" Spring with her violets blue! Blue violets scented through! O violets hiding in the green, O violets sweet and shy, You have the sweetness of the earth, The beauty of the sky! No blossom fairer blows Till summer brings her rose. O violets, shy and sweet and blue, Go hide in Leila's breast Whisper to her in fragrant sighs The love I have confest. When spring to summer grows It brings our wedding rose. THE COWBOY OF THE PLAINS. Characteristics and Mode f Life of Cattle Herders. A correspondent of the New York Sun, writing from Boerne, Texas, says: Having spent a goodly portion of my days as a cowboy, I consider myself practically qualified to write on the subject. The boyhood sport of the cowboy is not with marbles or balls or tops, but with a lariat or rope rawhide, with which he lassoes the calves and everything, animate or inimate, over which a loop can be thrown. A seven years of age he is an expert horseman, and able to do service on the range in many ways. Between this age and manhood he acquires-some knowledge of the "three It's," though seldom at school, and at sixteen is usually as good a horseman and as dexterous a roper as any man in the district. He is never fleshy nor large limbed, is slightly bow-legged from constant riding, is endowed with more than average muscular strength, and is very active and capable of great endurance. He is an unerring shot, and cool in time of danger. He smokes cigarettes, chews tobacco, drinks whisky, carries a six shooter, and is guilty of many vices that would, if enumerated, shock the embezzler and stock gambler of civilized regions. He is not more quarrelsome than man in general, but, unfortunately, his quarrels are apt to end in homicide. The property ef the cow-boy is a wiry pony, a saddle and a lariat. The pony, or plug," is of Spanish stock, active and enduring. It is a stranger to the touch of currycomb and brush, and don't know corn from beans. The saddle is a ponderous affair of wood and leather, weighing from ten to fif teen pounds. It has a pommel vary ing in diameter from three to six inches. Costly saddles sometimes have silver stars plentifully be sprinkled on available parts of their surface. Two girths or sinches are necessary to hold the saddle firmly in positiona forward and a flank girth. The lariat is about forty feet long, and is composed of eight pliable raw hide thongs and plaited into a rope about half an inch in diameter. A one end is a ring, at the other a loop to fit over the saddle pommel. The wardrobe of the cowboy is unique. He wears a broad-brimmed straw or wool hat. His jacket is of ducking, his shirt of calico or hickory and his pantaloons of some stout stuff over which are worn leather leggings. Heavy boots with high heels, to which are attached a pair of spurs with two inch rowels, complete his outfit. When the weather is threatening he straps behind his saddle a slicker of oiled linen, which reaches from head to heels. Thus accoutred, the cowboy is ready for business. He is employed either to drive a herd to Kansas or to look after those on the range. The spring is his harvest time. Then the great herds are put up for the drive. This is the season, too, when the annual round-up occurs, tor the purpose of apportioning the unmarked calves and yearlings among the owners of stock on tho range, that they may be brand ed with the particular device adopted by each as his distinguishing mark, generally the initial of his name. Thd law requires the brand to be recordee in the county clerk's office, together with ear-marks, crops, half-crops, up per and under bits, upper and under slopes, splits, swallow-forks and jingle bobs. When cattle are sold the seller must countebrand them, and in case they are driven from the State the buyer must road-brand them with a device different from his regular brand. This brand must be recorded in each county through which the heard pass es. After a few transfers the animal is as well-marked as a bulletin board, and space cannot be found on his hide to place a good-sized brand. I have seen a well-known brand, A B, which extended from the shoulder to the hip-bone in letters a foot long. When convenient, the animal to be branded is driven between two paral lel lines of fencing, called a chute, bars placed -before and behind him, and the iron applied to his side or thigh at the leisure of the operator. But this is not always convenient, fencing being a scarce article on the range, and the animal must be caught and thrown to the ground. Then the cowboy must be called to the aid of the brander. Shpping about eight feet of the end of his lariat through its iron ring and putting a loop at the other and over the pommel of his saddle, he gathers its coils into his briddle hand, holding the noose in his right, and puts his horse into gallop. The animal that is wanted breaks in to a run. and when the rider is near enough for tin? lariat to reach it, he dexterously throws the noose over its head or fore feet, when the well trained pony is checked, and quickly turns and awaits thecost shock which he knows, will come. When the flying animal runs the length of the rope, it is brought to ground, the branders seize it by the head and tail, and soon the branding Iron is scorching into the cuticle its indelible characters. Great care must be taken not to burn throngh the skin into the flesh, else the brand will be blotched. After the branding comes the trou ble of the stockman, for the blowfly, the pest of Texas, deposits its egg upon the raw sore, and soon thousands of screw worms are eating their way toward the vitals of the animal. The remedy now most popular for the screw worm is cresylic ointment. To apply it, however, the animal must be roped, and sometimes thrown down. The cowboy's life is not an easy one. During the whole year he is in the saddle from daylight until dark. His diet is bread, bacon and coffee. When on the trail, in addition to driv ing during the day, he is compelled to guard the cattle during a part of the night, the force being divided into three reliefs for this purpose. In case of stampede, he must ride night and day. Secretary Windom's Policy. The New York Herald gives this as the policy with which Secretary Win dom has been most favorably im pressed by his interviews with the New York bankers: The 5 and 6 per cent, bonds now held by the banks are to be extended until congress meets, at the rate of 3, 3-30 or Z% per cent., the rate of interest to be decided on after further consideration. The banks now hold nearly 850,000,000 of 6's, and 8160,000,000 of 5's This plan would therefore take care of over 8200,000,000 of bonds temporarily at a low rate of interest. As to the 4%'s still to be issued un der the funding bill, they amount, as is well known, to 8104,000,000. In dis posing of these it is thought that the secretary would probably get a rate which would be equivalent to the buyers to 3 3-10 per cent There would be, say, 8100,000,000 from the sinking fund and surplus revenue with which to redeem bonds. This would make in all $300,000,000 of bonds taken care of. The important point in this plan is the proposition to arrange with the banks that the 5's and 6's which they hold now shall be continued bv agreement at the low rate of from 3tb Z% per cent, until congress passes a funding bill. Of course this plan could be extended to the general public, who are holders of 5's and 6's also, by stamping such bonds with the agreement, if the treasury department was prepared to force such holders to- the set terms of the agreement by threatening them to call in their bonds if they refused. The secretary's plan of operations will probably be made public imme diately. It is believed in influen tial quarters that he gives every pro mise of pursuing a conservative course, but one that will tend to make the money market easy. The bull speculation in 4's and 4%'s is the only thing which seems to be appre hended with any dread, as far as the money market is concerned. Said a Wall street magnate recently, "if the market price of this class ot bonds should- go much higher, it is to be expected that bonds will be drawn here from Europe, and that the national banks, which have this class of bonds pledged at Washington to secure note circulation will withdraw them and sell them, at the same time giving up their note circulation. Of course, as soon as the banks withdraw the security for their notes they are obliged to deposit lawful money at Washington with which to redeem their notes as presented." It will be remembered that the recent strin gency in the loan market here, pend ing the consideration of the refunding bill, was caused by lawful money deposits at Washington, the same having been drawn from bank reserves. It is not regarded as likely that any effort will be made by the banks to bring about a repetition of that stringency. President Garfield's Mother The Peoria (III.) Journal nrints the following letter from the aged mother of President Garfield to her cousin, Mrs. Mary Flint, of Peoria- The let ter is written in a peculiar handwrit ing, tremulous with age, but the let ters are well made: WHITE HOUSE, March 7,1881 My Dear Cousin: I received your good letter and picture also, and would have an cwered sooner, but waited to get my picture. .1 have some and will send you one, though they are not good. I am happy to tell you that we are all pretty well, but a good deal tired out. We have passed through the greatest rush of people for the last six months that I ever saw. Since the inauguration it is one steady stream of old friends calling. It takes pretty much all af the time to entertain them they want to see the president's mother. I am the first mother that has occupied the White House and her son president, but I feel very thankful for such a son. I don't like the word proud, but if I must use it, I think in this case it is quite appropriate. How many times my mind goes back to our girlhood school days but changes take place. I have seen sorrowful days and I have Seen happy days. I was once young and am now old, but I have never seen the righteous forsaken or his seed begging his bread. I have got a very pleasant room, nicely furnished, and waited on in the very best manner possible. Now I want you to write to me. Our folks all send love to you with very much love, I remain your aged cousin, ELIZA GARFIELD. SoarE idea of the sort of books, aside from poetry and novels, that are now most read in Germany may be obtained from the statitics of works that were issued by Leipsic publishers last year. Of these 790 treated of medicine and veterinary surgery 787 of natural science 533 of antiquity, classics, and Oriental languages 506 of modern languages and old German literature 752 of his tory and biography 356 of geography 201 of mathematics and astronomy 353 of the science of war 583 of trade and manufactures 403 of railroads, machinery, shipbuilding, etc. 433 of domestic and political economy 627 of the fine arts and stenography, and 20 of Freemasonry. SUPERINTENDENT WALK ER says the of taking the census of 1880, is probably something like 82,080,000. That is about four cents apiece for every man, wdman and child in the United States. Health Hints. "Good food, well digested." That means a great deal. Nine-tenths ot all the sickness, the bad or dull feel ings, the headachs the depression, ect., come from indigestion, though few people are aware of it, or will believe it. What is digestion? The food in the stomach is moistened and largely liquified by the fluid supplied from the blood, coming in through myriads of little openings on the inner coating of the stomach. If there is much food to be worked up, there must be a great flow of blood to supply the digesting fluid, the "gas trie juice," as it is called. The blood is then drawn away from other parts of the body. After a heavy meal one feels dull, sluggish, because there is less general circulation of the blood. If violent or strong exertion of body or mind is made soon after eating, it draws the blood from the stomach, and digestion of the food is retarded. If there is more food than the stomach can readily supply gastric juice for. some of it will be imperfect ly worked over, and will go into the system in that condition. It will disturb the brain and other organs. It will effect and tensify any local trouble or disease. If one has weak or diseased lungs, this imperfectly digested food will irritate and in tensify the trouble. For this reason a great deal f the coughing that oc curs, actually and certainly comes from indigestion. Just so any and every other affection of any part of the muscular or nervous system, is in tensified by the imperfectly digested food that is passing through the body. Nature ordains that to be well di gested by the gastric juice, the food must first be mixed with a good sup ply of saliva, and this can only be se cured by thoroughly chewing the food mastipating itworking it over in the mouth long enough for the saliva to flow out of the glands in the sides of the mouth, and time must be given for it to be collected from the blood. One may slowly eat a heavy dinner and digest it, when a small repast quickly swallowed will be slowly and imperfectly digested. Eat slow, and keep every portion of food to be swal lewed, some time in the mouth, to get its supply of saliva, sure. As every particle of food must be acted upon by the gastric juice, or some of it will be troublesome aftei wards, it stands to reason that the finer food is cut, chewed, masticated, the more easily and perfectly will it dissolve or be digested. Meats, vege tables, any food masticated as fine as small shot, will certainly be digested far more easily than if it goes down in lumps as large as buckshot, or chestnuts, or walnuts. Masticate the food line in the mouth, and mix it well there with saliva. Good teeth area means of grace," in that, if fully used, they prepare food for easy digestion, and save much of the ill-temper and bad health aris ing from indigestion. Many a sour disposition would be modified by well masticated, well digested, good food. Sharp table knives tnat make it easy to cut food finely, and save some teeth work and the danger of lumps of meat being swallowed except in a finely divided condition, area material help to good digestion and health. A.ny housekeeper ought, as one of her first lessons, to lectin how to sharpen knives, and to keep them always sharp. The natural stomach of a full grown person does not hold a bushel, or a gallon, and if it did, the surface of the stomach requires a longtime and hard work to collect enough gastric juce from the blood to digest even a quart of food. How about two quarts or more If you smile at this, just set a bowl by the side of your plate, and put into it the same amount of solid and liquid food that goes into the mouth. What is in that bowl at the end of the repast, is what the stomach has to work over and perfectly dis solve or digest, or there is to be trou ble somewhere. A small quantity of food well masticated and digested will give more real nourishment, and less trouble, than any very large meal. Broil meat or any kind of food long enough, and it will change to charcoal. After meat is heated through, every further addition of heat advances its condition towards the charcoal state. But charcoal is entirely indigestible. Rare cooked, fresh meats are far more easily digested, and furnish much more real nutriment than those well done." Habit will make one enjoy the rare cooked steak as more, juicy and palatable, and it is certainly bet ter as food. Spices, condiments, etc., in small quantity, when needed by the weak, in firm, or aged, stimulate the flow of saliva, and of the gastric juice, and these may help digestion. But the young and strong should reserve the use of these until infirmity or age makes them partially necessary, and then they will be all the more useful, because the system has not become so habituated* to them that they will have little effect. Any stimulants containing alcohol, as liquors, beers, wines, etc., are bad, because, though they excite the sali vary and gastric glands, the alcohol in them is absorbed directly into the blood, injuring its natural composition and it not only weakens these organs, but disorganizes the entire blood, and headache, depression actual disease is the postive, invariable result. A strong constitution may recover again and again, but the evil effects are going on all the time, and not only temporary, but ere long, severe dis organization will be the inevitable result. Foreign Coin Valuation. The circular of the secretary of the treasury proclaiming the estimation made by the director of the mint of the values of the standard coins in circulation in the various nations of the world, changes the values of the following coins from those proclaimed by the circular of 1880: The florin of Austria is reduced from 41.3 cents to 40.7 the boliviano of Bolivia from 83.6 cents to 82.3 the milreis of Bra zil isof increased from 54.5 64.6: the pes Equado is reduceto from 83. 9 cents to 82.3 the rupee of India from 39.7 cents to 39. Japan having adopted the free coinage system for silver, the yen, which was formerlv given as 99.7 cents in gold, is now 88.8 in silver. The Mexican dollar is reduced from 90.9 cents to 89.4* the sol of Peru from 83.9 cents to 83.2 the ruble of Russia from 66.9 cents to 65.8 the mahleula of Tripolo from 74.8 cents to 74.3 the peso of Colombia from 83.6 cents to 82.3. The peso or Cuba is given at 93.2 cents and the bolivar of Vene zuela at 19.3 cents. The monetary unit of Egypt, which formerly was stated as the pound at $4,974, is nw fixed as the piastre. The estimation of the value of the coins of other countries stands as announced last year. Keeping the Patient Quiet. He seems to be much worse to- day," said the doctor, as he contem plated the patient. "Di you keep him perfectly quiet, as I directed, nurse "Sakes a massey! of course I did," replied the nurse. "Goodness gra cious he hasn^t moved all night." Anything going on in the house to disturb him "My sakes, of course not. They had a little dancing party in the par lor, and a fight up-stairs, and some burglars got into the basement, and the servant girl set fire to her bed, and the fat boarder fell down the sec ond flight, and the man in the next room licked his wife, and the water pipe busted on the floor below, and the gentleman in the back parlor gave a little supper, and there was some mu sic in the third story, and the cats got out upon the back fence, and there was a baby born in the secone floor front, and the little girl up4 i. Jfl 3 i 'A4i third pair died in the night, but he never moved. Bless your heart, he was the quietest man you ever saw!" Quite right quite right did you give him the pills?" "My gracious! I forgot the pills, but I gave him all the powders, eight seidleitz powders, four Dover powders and all the quinine powders and the mixtures, three of 'em. and all but the pills." "Just so. Did you change the bandages on his head?" "It wasn't any use. He wouldn't keep 'em on. You never saw any thing like him. I put four pillows on his head, and he kept as still as mice after that." I see. Was he delirious during the night "Oh! wasn't he? But he hasn't hollored much for two hours. He has been pretty quiet since he fell out of bed. Before that he was awful rest- less." Of course, naturally. Any of his friends been to see him There were ten or a dozen here all night, playing caids and enjoying themselves. But he paid no attention to them." I suppose not. Hain't asked for anything, has he?" Not for along time. He's doing well, isn't he, doctor "Yes, yes as well as could be expected. As near as I can judge he has been dead about twelve hours. You need not continue the medicines. Just keep him quiet and don't let any body talk to him. What he wants now is rest." And the doctor certified to the relia bility of the nurse and departed. Brooklyn Eagle. Typhoid Fever From Infected Milk. The British Medical Journal, of December 11, reports two epidemics of typhoid fever from infected milk. The first was at Worthing, where the son of the occupier of one of two adjoining housesthe other occupier being a dairymanreturned from London in good health on September 16, and on September 24, he fell ill of typhoid fever. The two had in common a well, which had been in use for forty years or more. Examination of the interior after the outbreak occurred, showed a palpable soakage into it from the out side, a little above the water line, and on the same side as, and just be neath, the drain of the other house. For the washing out of milk-cans the well-water was used. About the middle of October cases of typhoid began to appear in the town, in some cases in houses where there were no sanitary defects, but always where the milk supply came from this dairy. In all forty-four cases occurred from this cause, eight of which proved fatal. The well was filled up Novem ber 4th, and the last case appeared November 9th. The second epidemic was at South port, where thirty-two cases of typhoid occurred from infected milkthe further spread of the disease being prevented by stopping the sale of milk. There is little doubt that we have in this country, and especially in our large cities, typhoid fever from milk contamination, but it has not been established. When typhoid fever occurs which is not traceable to water supply look out for the milk. American Extravagance. The traveling American is the le gitimate prey of foreign hotel keepers, and he has his own prodigality to blame for the fact. The majority of Americans are not in the habit of looking over the items of their hotel bills when they pay them, but, glanc ing at the sum total, they hand out the gold with an alacrity that makes the hetel keeper regret for houis after ward that he had not made the amount a third larger than it was. When he resumes his journey, and for the want of something to occupy his attention, looks over the paid bill, he finds that he has been swindled in almost every^ item. But he does not grieve over it," for he is accustomed to being "plucked." He must learn wisdom "by experience, and by-and-by become "sharp" enough to fight foreign swindlers with their own weapons. I N the very cold weather which London lately experienced, the death rate rose from 21.3 and 22.6, in the two preceding weeks, to 28.4 per 1,000. The loss of life directly caused by the weather was appalling. $