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lewis m. grist. Proprietor, j ^ii Independent |amili! gleirapaper: ?|oi[ the frontofion of the political, Social, Agricultural and (fominercial Interests of the ^oiith. | TERMS?$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE VOL. 39. YORKVILLE, S. C? WEDNESDAY, MAY 34, 1893. ISTO. 21. (The J>torn Irllfr. \ COMPLETE IN* THIS NT'MPER. Mr UHLDCKY ASTRALIZ1TI0N. By J. tt CONNELLY. [Copyright, 1892, by American Press Association.] CHAPTER L I discovered that it lacked but three ! minutes to four o'clock. It will hardly admit of question that ! persons addicted to roaming about in 1 their astral forms are apt to develop an i indifference to their material bodies ' which is, to say the least, indiscreet so j long as a definite purpose of final abandonment is not entertained. Our forefathers, who with rare exceptions were ; ignorant of how to get out of their , bodies and return to them at will, I thought a great deal too much of their flesh, bat that is no reason why we should think too little. The material body certainly has its j uses and deserves sufficient consideration to insure its safety, if no more. , Yet thousands of happy-go-lucky folk, j when about to astralize themselves for j an evening's amusement, drop their i bodies anywhere, with hardly more care for their comfort and security than would be bestowed upon a discarded coat, and go off feeling quite confident | of finding them all right and fit to put j on again when required. But there is : really a good deal of risk in doing so, j as I have had very vividly impressed j upon me by a recent distinctly disagree- ! able experience. Astralization is so easy j that one is readily beguiled into thinking I it safe; but in point of fact, if you are not j very careful, it is a mere question of luck whether, if you once leave your body, you will ever get into it again. You may lose it forever in the little time you take to slip out and flit around the block without it. One especially abominable evening in December last I boarded at Pittsburg, on the Pennsylvania railroad, the "fast line, number four," train from the west leaving there eastwardly at ten minutes after eight, intending to reach Baltimore by it the next morning, spend the day in that city and the next night return to my home in New York. To my disgust I found every berth in the Baltimore sleeper engaged, but argument, backed by financial influence,- obtained forme a "doable lower" in tbe sleeping car next to it, which had come from Chicago and was going on to New York. I would ; have to turn out at Harrisburg at three a. m. to transfer myself to the Baltimore bound section of the train, which divided there, but even that arrangement would give me about five hours of rest, which was certainly better than sitting up all the night. The porter pledged himself?for a consideration? to call me in good time to dress. Pardon my going into all these details. . You will see they had a rather important bearing on subsequent events. The atmosphere in that car was almost pestilential. It had been crowded all ' day; its stove worked perfectly and its 1 ventilating apparatus not at all; bleak wind and fierce driving rain had prohibited the opening of windows; so the air was thick with hot humidity and the animal smells of humanity. While the porter wjis making up my bed, I found j the dense smoke in the smoking com- j partment a temporary relief. But when ; I crawled into my "double lower," the ' situation became unbearable. With the curtains dropped before me, I felt as if l , in my coffin and seemed to be inhaling i ; the combined odors of a stable, a hos- j pital and a charnel house. And even above the roaring rumble of the train I could hear from the section opposite me i a snore, simulating a stentorian death ; rattle, which was simply maddening, j Sleep under such conditions was mani- | festly impossible. Realizing that, I said to myself, "Why | not astralize? It is my body only which j requires rest. Very well, let it rest. ! When I am out it will not be conscious j of either the snore or the smells, and I shall bo free to seek purer air and pleas- j anter surroundings, somewhere else on j the train. Even the roof of the car will ; be an improvement, since the weather can have no effect upon mv astral | form." J That I never had astralized on a rail- | road train seemed rather an incitement : to try than an argument against it. Scarcely had the*notion flashed into my j mind when I straightened myself out on my right side, changed my rate of breathing and fixed my mind, all in the ordinary way. My last thought in the body as I composed myself was, "I shall have to get back before we reach Harrisburg." The next minute I stood in the aisle, free, conscious still of my unpleasant environment, but indifferent to it in the superb exhilaration always felt by the astral man as his first sensation , of liberty and power upon escaping from the body. A natural curiosity as to the producer of that awful snore impelled me to peep behind the curtains it caused to tremble and wave. To my amazement the offender proved to be a pretty young girl. She lay upon the tlat of her little back with her mouth wide open, and from that portal of coral and pearl puffed, gurgled and snorted with the unholy vigor of a hired man. 1 felt# that it was not good for a bachelor to know such a capability existent in worn- ! an and fled in haste. Few persons were still awake other than the train hands in either of the j cars, but in the smoking compartment I found two who interested me. They were stout, well dressed, prosperous looking men, one with indecision and mental struggle manifest in his face, ! the other wearing a look of determined and confident insistence. As I, invisible. took a seat before them, the former was saying: "I don't mind admitting to you, just j between ourselves, I would like to; but I don't know how I can, seeing the flatfooted way I have already committed myselr against that bill. Why, I not only opposed it on the floor, but fought it before the committee; and now to go ! for it would give me dead away. Everybody would know I had 'got a bone' and it would ruin my chances for reelection among the farmers." "My dear sir," replied his companion, "I don't ask you to vote for it. Simply cease your opposition, and when it comes up for action have an attack of la grippe and remain in your room at the ) hotel until the next day. That is simple enough, and you know when I promise I make good every time." "Yes," assented the first speaker dubiously; "but suppose there should ever be an investigation. If they got me ' under oath my conscience would not let I me deny the consideration, nor could j you?without perjurv." "Oh, dear, yes. The easiest thing it the world. See, here is an odd bean; at African bean. I am tired of carrying i in. my pocket I shall abandon it 01 this seat when I go away. Of course . will not know what becomes of it. Ye there are curiosity seekers who woulc give a good deal to get hold of that par ticular sort of bean for their cabinets, wouldn't at all wonder if some om would give two thousand dollars fo: that beau in Albany tomorrow night." The man with prudential scruple: looked puzzled for a moment. Then ? light of comprehension dawned upoi his face and deepened gradually to i shrewd grin. "I feel certain I shall hav< an attack of the grip," he said. Tho two smiled together and wen away to their respective berths, tho mai with the bean carelessly throwing it 01 the seat as he passed out. In a few sec onds one returned for a glass of wate: at the cooler before retiring, and casu ally clutched and pocketed the bean then the other also returned for a drink looked at the seat from which the beai was gone and grinned complacently. I continued my ramble through tin train, but found nothing more to inter ncf mn orwl tlin il icpnrn fnrf <5 nf fliA pvrpn tionally unpleasant trip were even accen tuated to my consciousness through theii presentation my mind as knowledge and not as mere deductions from pos sibly illusory sensory impressions, a dis tinction my readers familiar with tin phenomena of astralization will per fectly comprehend. "But," I said to myself, "why shouli I loiter about these crawling cars, when every one who can do so is trying to for get his wretchedness in sleep, when might, with the swiftness of thought transport myself anywhere else I chose Why not go 011 to New York and sei Marian?" For the first time the idea occurred t< me that there might be some specia danger in astralization on a movinj train?something might happen to nr body while I was away. I flitted bacl and looked at it. Of course it was jus as I had left it. Dubitation about i weakened the self confidence which, a everybody knows, is so essential to an; one moving safely, as a visitor, upoi the astral plane, and I was not at al surprised to see about me instantly ; number of malicious sprites, and even ; few malignant "elementals," eager t? take advantage of my deterioratei strength. But the sight of tliem nerv?< my resolution?or at least I so fanciei at the time, thotigli now I know the ef feet was simply a stimulation of my an tagonism, not a rehabilitation of nr moral force. Hesitating no longer, transferred myself to New York, to Ma rian's parlor, where I did not doub finding her, as the hour was not ye late. I may incidentally remark tha an engagement of marriage existed be tween Marian and myself, a fact whicl did not prepare me to anticipate tin scene which presented itself to mv as tonislied gaze. It would have seemed quite natural t< me to have found her contemplating m; portrait, perhaps reading my last lette and wishing for my safe and speedy re turn to her side. But that was not a all what I saw. She sat by the piano as if she had just been playing. Instea< of my counterfeit presentment claiminj her attention, it was absorbed by a gen tleman, a stranger to me, who bent ove her, murmuring affectionate phrases ii her ear. Soon he took his leave, and ii doing so actually had the audacity t< kiss her. And she, saying "Good night,' returned the salutft. In all my astral experiences I hav< never so much missed my good, solid material right leg and foot as when saw that fellow going leisurely dowi her stoop to the pavement. Of course . did not haunt about Marian any more I was done with her. Disgusted am "mad all the way through," I wen around to my club, forgetting for th< moment that I could not take a soothing glass of wine; but that fact was sooi enough borne in upon me. I could d< nothing but look at the other fellows and listen to them, and it is just plan truth and not slang when I say thei made me tired. Nothing diverted inj painful reflections, for I had been ven fond of Marian, and that discovery limine more than I can adequately tell. It is strange that a man suffering from a grief caused by one womai should almost always seek consolation ii the presence of some other woman, bu such is the fact. Having been so deeply wounded by the girl I loved, I instinctive ly sought one whose tender love and per feet faith while life lasted I could neve: question, the one whose dear face wai the first my infancy knew. How tin placid charm of the familiar seem touched my heart as I moved slowb down through the orchard to the ole homestead! Mother slept, but as I stood by hei bedside a kindly smile suffused her age< countenance, as if her spirit was awar< of my presence and gave me kindl; greeting. How long I remained gazinj upon the wrinkles I am glad to thin! were furrowed more by smiles thai tears, and the baud of silvery hai framing them at the frilled edge of he snowy nightcap, I cannot say, but lonj enough for the influence of calm am peace and purity pervading there t< sink into and strengthen my soul. Sud denly I happened to wonder what tiin it was. It is really one of the most annoyinj things in these astral experiences?as, am sure, will be generally admittedthat we have in this form no innate feel ing Of the lapse of time or limitations o space. We lack standards of coinpari son. I don't clearly see how this can b remedied, but it ought to be somehow Moving to great distances by a mere ef fort of volition miles are absolute! meaningless to our astral consciences and .as for time, every one knows tha if we could not catch sight of a dial o draw deductions from things ou the inn terial plane we would not know any dii ference between the lapse of ten minute and a week. Clearly the most neede invention of the age is some good, relit' ble sort of astral watch. When the ide of time occurred tome I had to goilow into the sitting room for a look at tli face of the old tall clock that has'tieke generations of my family into and on of life. To my horror I discovered that i lacked but three minutes to four o'clocl And that train was divided at Harrif burg nearly an hour before. For on moment a vague sense of alarm seeme to paralyze me. Then I darted to Ha: risburg. Yes; the mischief had been doni The train had come, split and gone awa again, two-thirds of it toward Philade pliia, one-third toward Baltimore. Wliie had carried off my body? If the car porter had as much sense i a hen, I reasoned, his line of duty wottl be plain to him. My purchase of ticket obligated the company repn sented by him to transport my boil from Pittsburg to Baltimore. It was 11 concern of his that I had chosen to nl sent myself during the carrying out i that contract. His business simply wi to slide my unconscious corporealit aboard the I**timore train, and in go.j confidence of his having done so I lm ried in pursuit of it. But to my scrim displeasure I' found the fellow had n< done what I counted upon. I searche all the cars through and through, ii speeding carefully all the bodies tin contained, and mine was not anion them. Of course I felt annoyed; still thei was some satisfaction in knowing thei was but one other alternative action tl fellow could have taken. Finding impossible to wake my body up, he lui just let it lie, trusting I would have 111 sleep out by the time the train reach*. Philadelphia, or perhaps New Yorl Somewhere between Conewago an Mount Joy I overtook the main trai and ransacked it in vain. Th 3 "doub lower"' I had occupied was empty. T1 i ! snoring girl still thrilled the echc i the familiar smells were all there t j and the porter, who had sworn to ti i 1 care of me, sat asleep in the smok I i compartment with his head thrown bi t I and his mouth open, looking like a g: 1 : in a black watermelon. But what 1 . , he done with mv body? How I lonj I j to kick him awake and demand that 3 i him! But for all practical purpos< r ' was of no more good without my m ! ing corporeality than a thought wh s i has not yet occurred to anybody. 1 i hideous fact forced itself squarely uj - ! mv areentance?I had lost my body. I j CHAPTER II. : %>N 1 y"iv \ < iVy ,/irst glance at the sheet caught paragraph which had caused her grit 3 The predicament was distressing - i itself, and rendered actually exaspei : ing by the unsympathetic conduct I those who, discovering my plig s ; ^warmed about and jeered me. Fr the malicious "elementals" I could 1 I of course expect anything better, bi , ; was pained by seeing among them ? ? | emulating their lieartlessness so a ; astralized visitors from the matei plane whose unbecoming glee was : 3 j restrained by the consideration ti 1 ; their own bodies might also have b< r lost to them at that very moment y t aught they knew to the contrary. I hi i ! not deemed it necessary in the courst t 1 this narration to make any particu t | mention of the dwellers on the ast s : plane, or of the temporarily astrali; j j persons like myself whom I encounte: i I there, as my experiences were sim] 1 j those every one has, with the except: x of this incident and one other to wh x | I shall have occasion to revert fartl i on. But I cannot let pass without r 1 rehension the behavior of the a . ali; 1 | persons who clustered around me 1 1 the train that morning and declai . | they found my unhappy situat; . i "funny." y | With a vague idea that I might f I my body among the unclaimed baggi i or in the waiting room at the Harrisbi t I depot, I eluded my tormentors a t flitted back there?only to suffer anotl t | disappointment. It was nowhere to - ; seen. The last passenger train for 1 x j night had gone by, the depot was d? 0 j and the only person on the platform v 1 a watchman. I hoped some one woi 1 come and open a conversation with hi 0 ! in the course of which I might casua y i find a clue to what had been done w r : my body, for of course he would be v< - i likely to know. But the only pers< t i who came were brakemeti on the top i, | moving freight trains, who sim] 1 shouted "Hey! Jim!" or playfully sh r ' chunks of coal at liiin, social advan - j to which he responded by such ejacu r i tions, profane or otherwise, as the oc i I sions seemed specifically to demand. i j An inexplicable fascination temp 3 j mo to follow and haunt the car in wh * j I had last seen my body, which I souj I to excuse to myself by a hope the por 3 I might when he waked say something , > my presence about it. So ho did. I the Jersey City depot, while the pass i | gers were leaving the train and he v I ' gathering up the soiled linen, he si . | denly stopped, threw open a wind 1 j and beckoned to him a dingy platfo t ; sweeper. 3 ! 44'Lijah," ho exclaimed hurried j j with an air of suppressed excitein l : and mystery, 4,Go 'n play the death g 5 Play it for all you's wuf." 3 "Man or woman?" i "Man. Died on the train dismawni r ; 44 'M'm." ' That was all. They resumed tl: ' j duties. My supposed demise was t them simply an inspiration for a4 'poli play. I don't know when any Hi ' thing ever depressed me more. S( 1 was deemed dead. Strange that so 1 one had not sense enough to disco t I the fact of my having simply strol ' i away in my astral form! I would h imagined that so common and natun * I thing could not have failed to be at U r j suspected by almost anybody. 3 I Pondering upon the unpleasant c 3 sequences to me which might ensu 3 there were not a timely correction that misunderstanding, I strolled * j sentmindedly with the passeny j through the depot and aboard the fei !" boat. Moving in this way I sometii * I temporarily forget that I am not in 3 body until some incident recalls m< P j recognition of the fact. It is peril =? hardly worth speaking of, being sue 1 common experience in oiir astral in 1 ludes, but I always find it vexatious i r irritating to have persons walk throi 4 me. Ana ii Happens sw uneu. ui cui ? it is easy enough to dodge those ; meet, and if you sail along over tl D heads you have no trouble, but mov * ! in a crowd on its level you are alir 0 certain to find some one mistaking ; for empty space come plunging throi ? you from behind or lurching into ; sidewise in your unguarded moment: Both those things occurred to me t unlucky morning. A fat German w< ^ an, with a huge market basket on L" arm, almost wrecked me, and 1 1 e scarcely got my disarranged parts ; lected and in place again when, in go off the boat, a pretty, delicate look y young girl was jammed right into >> space I occupied. Hersensitive nerv * organization evidently felt my presei r though she was unaware of the cans: her sensation, for she shivered and w " pered to a companion: 8 '"Oh, Jennie, I've got goosefiesh ^ over me! I believe I'm catching colc l" That incident, I think, hurt me w< il than the other. It is distinctly unpli n ing to be shivered at by a pretty e and spoken of as giving her gooseth I was sure I would not have affected l* so if I had had my body on at the t ?a reflection which would have b lt consoling but for the doubt it awake if I would ever again possess that a iously desired materiality. 10 The day thus badly begun was < | tined to like continuance. I was in r" ! proper mental condition for the as | plane. My perturbed thoughts, fill concern about lav loss, unfitted mo y the calm self control I should have and made me subject to all mannei vicious illusions and )iainful imx> sions, artfully produced by the 11; ls cious sprites constantly besetting nit ^ Late in the afternoon, weary of ;i il less wandering about the town, I lated a resolution I had firmly fori y the night before, which was thn 10 would never look upon Marian's ) again. It seems as if there were a of fatality against a man's keeping 18 resolutions he makes concerning w y en. Doubtless if I had gone slowl; 'd her house, as mv body would have r" to, memory and reflection would 1: ls braced up resolution and turned steps aside, even from her door, to I(1 club; but having only to think of !1" place in order to be there, if I wis 'y it, I was actually in her parlor befo ? had time to remember I had abji ( her. rt> She was lying upon a sofa with ro face in its cushions, crying bitterly, 'e an evening newspaper, dropped f her hand, lay upon the floor. My l(' glanco at the sheet caught the p l-i' graph which had no doubt caused grief. It was tliis: j llAiotisiicuo. Dec.S.'.- In a sleeping vurl on the Chicago train arriving here at t ill a. in. a passenger was found dead. 1'apei p. j his jiockels enabled his identitieutiou as , ' lieiitley, of New York. lie was apparc K!S [ wc" wlicu lit, boarded the train at Pittsburg. i ! Death is ascribed to heart failure. His body is : ^ ; held to await claim by friends. ) *e 1 "May the blessing of the unlucky ' inF ; light on the writer of that item," I said ' *c. j to myself. "Why could not the wretch 1 "f ,l have said where my body is held to await *a 1 the claim of its best friend?" 1 won- j ?'ecJ , dered if it was being held "on ice," hav- j 4 ?T I ing slowly frozen out the little spark of : :3 ) life I had left in it? If some sapient !83" country doctor, to make an imposing If | spectacle of himself before a coroner's ie jury, would not want to cut it open and ,on take a look at the heart, to be sure it had failed? Either was quite possible. Plonrlv T lmrl nn timfi to lose if 1 was i ever to get that body back in reasonably serviceable condition. But to find where : it was "held" was the first thing. Perhaps some other evening paper had fuller : particulars. I-was really sorry to have to leave Marian in such bad spirits, notwithstanding her blamablo behavior the j night before, but could not do the slight- | est good by staying. Momentarily for- \ 1 getting I was practically a mere ghost, | ' I did try to tell her my views differed ; in some important particulars from i : those presented in the newspaper, but I had no more voice than a mummy, i As I have learned by bitter experience, ; an astrulized persbn suffers under onor- 1 : mous disadvantages in trying to read ] | the news. Having no material hands j with which to open and turn the papers ! V1 j he has to depend upon those who have, ; I peering over their shoulders, crouching j down before them to get sight at the j :llt? | under side, and in all sorts of undigni- ; on? i tied attitudes and inconvenient ways ! n?t adapting himself to their perverse methr ods of handling the sheets. It is simply : maddening to wait while a fellow wades V1? i slowly through a long, labored editorial on the tariff or increases the addling of ao* j his brain by perusal of the baseball col: umn, and then, just at the moment ;.en when you think he is about to turn to for the next page, see him fold the paper iV? and put it in his pocket. Eventually I I 5. gave up in despair that way of finding al; out what had become of my body. i Then a happy thought occurred to me. se*j j "My friend X.," I reflected, "is one who ; r<T can be depended upon, if he has seen j P y that item, to take prompt and energetic j !?" : measures. Most probably he is already ICU preparing to set out and hunt up my re- ! ier mains. If so, all I shall have to do will : be to go along until I hear him told | 5e j where they are, then skip ahead, retake j red Possession and be ready to welcome him when he arrives." I found liim in his room, dressing and I . , thinking aloud, a bad practice to which | 1 he is much addicted when seriously l^e troubled. The paragraph I had already ir? read lay on a stand beside him, clipped tier fr?m the paper. ^ i "I'm awfully sorry for the poor fel;he l?w," I beard him mutter; "of course I ^ j ^m. But bis dying just at this particu,ag lar timo is all sorts of a nuisance. I can't go corpse hunting tonight?even for him. Alicia would never forgive me ' T 1*on fA fUia Annvn mil v 7 1. j IX X U1U UUL lauc 1IC1 lU LUIO ; time it's to be given in the season. And - a day more or less won't matter to him jng now. They no doubt have him nicely : of , iced somewhere. Seems to me I've 0j 1 heard they give unclaimed bodies to the je(j ! medical colleges. But they would hardceg ; ly do that right away. Even if they did ja_ | I could get him back and have him fixed ca_ j up most likely. Decidedly tomorrow ; will be time enough. I shall see the ?CC^ ; item in some morning paper, wire over icli ' ra^roa<l authorities, who of course i have all the facts reported to them, find 'ter j out where he is, go on and get him. To. jn j night belongs to Alicia. I have heard jn ! nothing about John." And lie delibj erately put the clipping in the fire and V..IS | went on getting himself into full dress I was, to put it mildly, disappointed. ow Still I could not blame him, and he had nn given mo a good idea?animal that I had been not to have thought of it for mylj,. ! self long ago! Of course there would I be, somewhere in the company's offices 'itr ' over *n Jersey <^ity, an official report of ' I the incident, and I might have the luck to find it. Anyway, I could go and try I n | a good deal quicker than X. could telegraph, even if he had been willing to do j so that night. So I did, and for onco j l0.,r ; fortune favored me. The conductor of ? "fast line, number four," had duly re- j CA ported the finding of a dead man on his ; _ I j train, and the division superintendent, j )* probably with an eye to having the data i ,me handy for reference in case of inquin j j ef~ by friends of the deceased, had hung the : e_( statement, open, upon a hook beside his I a.v? desk, where I found it. From it I learned 1 a that my body had been "taken.inchargo !as by Undertaker J. B. Jablet, of HarrisI burg." 0I?I | What more did I want? Nothing. e _ Haunier. I believe, than I ever was be " fore, I darted at once to Harrisburg. n '* It was easy enough to find and enter ! ;e ? j Mr. Jablet's establishment, which was j r^* quito conspicuous, and there, sure , ne? i enough, I found my body. It had been unclothed and stretched out on a board I 50 in a sort of cold storage room, like a big refrigerator, but happily not in con- ' ,1<l | tact with ice. Life, though weak, was ter" still in it. j l"( But I had not arrived a moment too 1 soon. Another astralized man, who Irse confessed lie had lost his own body ^?.u j years before, was already there, seeking t !eiy j to appropriate mine. He was just about trying it on when I came and stopped j him. I saw at a glance it would not fit 1 him, as he, too, could have seen, if he 1 had not been so madly desirous of ob- i 011 taining a material shell that he was quito desperate. Indeed he would alIa most have rattled around in it, and could ! "?m" j not have controlled it at all, for he was ,,e!; j but a little wliiifet of a fellow, while I j mj am of the goodly size a man should be. . So I "bounced him," morally speaking, j '.sympathetically but firmly, and was just about taking up my old quarters when I ie was interrupted. The door opened suddenly and the un- j 1C(>' dertaker came in, accompanied by his ?. i son. I waited to see what they were j s" after. Mr. Jablet's look did not please i ' me. lie was a muscular fellow, short ! . ? ' but strong, with a broad, square lower ! jaw and a sloping forehead which spread j )r&0 I away gradually in a wide bald area of eas" I skull fringed at the back with short red | j hair. Altogether he seemed an ugly V . ! person to argue with, and I judged he . I had been drinking. imo j "Xhey don't get this stiff away from co'1 me," he was saying to his son as they I n< 1 entered, "until they put up handsome, i nx" Business is bad and he comes along as a , windfall. He has, judging from what i " ! was found on him, friends who are well .1M? j fixed and I mean to work them." . I felt that Jablet, if he thought me re- j ' , vtving, might be quite capable of knock- i for i , i,,, ; . , j lllg UIV Uli UAU IIVUM IW ?w??v , : i counted upon as a fat job slipping ; ? througli bis fingers. i "Ob, there ain't much in it," replied * the son indifferently; "not more than i forty or fifty dollars, and do the best L1,.n" you can with it." %1?" 1 "Ain't, eh? You're not smart, Dan'l. I "Cl: , You don't know the business yet. I'm , going to give you a pointer you'll find of 'ac? i use some dav; maybe I'm a-going to em- [ ^rt balm him." ie i "Dad, you're a daisy. I didn't think 0,.n- | of that." i i i "Course you didn't. But you ain't me. j hail | ]oaj j,j,a Up with eight shillings' j iavo j worth of fluid and get seventy-five dol- ; "D lars and the thanks of his friends for , *'10 the job. Go and get the fluid jug and a,D' we'll do him up now. His friends may j "ieij come for him in the morning." ro ~ The son went out and the old fellow, ' 110 standing by my body, slapped it on the leg with insolent familiarity, chucklier ling: "Yes, sir; we'll fix you up. Fix and you up to the queen's taste. Nothing | rom like stylo for a corpse?when there's ; first ] money to pay for it." I fairly boiled ; ara" i with rage, but what could 1 do? Were '"? i ' ' i t a. T 1.1 1 j i to enter my uuuy at uiii'u i wuum um i i precipitate my fate, for in tlie numb ami 'crth stiff condition my muscles were certain- | ly in I could not hope to whip thoso I lobn two sturdy rascals. Judge of my in- I intly ' finite relief if you can when I heard the ' son call out from another room at a little distance, "Dad, the jug's empty." "Is that so?" responded the old man regretfully. "Well, then, we will let it go tonight; but you must get up early in the morning, start the fire and make some more fluid. He will have to he fixed before the morning train gets in." Father and son went out together, closing the door behind them. Presently I heard them lock the front door and go away. Then I immediately resumed my body. Words can convey no idea of how horribly cold it was. In my astral form I of course had no sensations of temperature, and the body, being without consciousness whilo I was away, had not suffered, but when it and I were joined our common suffering was intense. I seemed to have arctic winters In my veins, and was really afraid my fingers and toes would snap off like icicles when I attempted to use them. "Yen, xir; we'll fix you up." Nevertheless I persisted in moving, crawled into the next room, where thero was a red hot stove, and when pretty well thawed out made a systematic search for my clothes. Luckily I found them all, even to the overcoat, in a closet, and soon dressed myself. The pockets were empty, but I did not mind that, for in the waistband of my trousers I had sewed a fifty dollar note, a precaution against "going broke" which I have not in years ullowed myself to travel without. With this money I made my way back to New York on that night's "fast line, number four" ?having broken out of Mr. Jablet's shop ?and before ten o'clock the next day was walking up Broadway. So ended the lesson of my unlucky nstralization, and my story is done, except that I deem it due to Marian to declare explicitly she had not been guilty of any such impropriety ns I seemed to witness. In fact, she not only had no visitor that evening, but was not even at home, having gone to spend tho night at her sister's. The scene which appeared so shockingly real to me was simply an artful illusion, got up by a couple of waggish "elemcntals," who impersonated her and the total stranger with such skill as to completely deceive me. Their trick could not have beesuccessful but for the perturbation of mind I was in at the time, but I am 110+ now sorry it was played, for it will enhance my caution in accepting as re; I even the most plausible appearances on the astral plane. What au Astral Hody Is. The structure of the inner astral man is definite aud coherent. Just as the outer body has a spine, which is the column whereon the being sustains itself with tho brain at the top, so the astral body has its spine and brain. 11 is material, for it is mado of matter, however finely divided, and is not of tho nature of tho spirit. After the maturity of tho child before birth this form is fixed, coherent and lasting, undergoing but small alteration from that day until death. And so also as to its brain?that remains unchanged until the body is given up, and does not,' like tho outer brain, give up cells to bo replaced by others from hour to hour. These inner parts are thus more permanent than tho outer correspondents to them. Our material organs, bones and tissues are undergoing change each instant. This is not the case with the inner form. It alters only from life to life, being constructed at tho time of reincarnation to last for a whole period of existence. For it is tho model fixed by the present evolutionary proportions for the outer body. It is the collector, as it were, of tho visible atoms which make us as we outwardly appear. So at birth it is potentially of a certain size, and when that limit is reached it stops the further extension of the body. At the same time the outer body is kept in shape by the inner one until the period of decay. And this decay, follotved by death, is not due to bodily disintegration per se, but to the fact that tho term of the astral body is reached when it is no longer able to hold the outer frame intact. Its power to resist the impact and war of the material molecules being exhausted, the sleep of death supervenes. Now, sis in our physical form the brain and spine are tho centers for nerves, so in the other there are the nerves which ramify from the inner brain and spine all over the structure. All of these are related to every organ in the outer visible body. They {ire more in the nature of currents than nerves, as we understand tho word, and may be called astronerves.?A Theosophist in Lucifer. One Way of Murlclng Clothes. A young woman who has a weakness for novelties has indented a new way of marking her belongings. Indelible ink she scorned as belonging to the distant past, and embroidored monograms and initials she voted commonplace. Even tho pretty device of embroidering her possessions with her favorite flower finally lost its charm, and her latest fancy is to have her own faco produced. Sho had some tiny and not unflattering photographs taken, and they are now being transferred to the corners of her handkerchiefs, tho bands of her skirts, the capes of her collars and all the other places where the sign of possession is usually fixed.?Buffalo News. A Hint For Typewriters. Typewriters ought to write the names of the persons to whom they write letters in capitals. To use ordinary letters shows lack of consideration and good tasto. No printer of any standing would issue a letter printed in that way. His training in his art lias distinctly taught him not to do it. Manufacturers of type writers claim that their machines arc educators?that the operators must necessarily become proficient in spelling, punctuation and the proper use of capitals But somehow this little matter of propriety and good tasto in address and signature has thus far been greatly overlooked.?Cor. Boston Transcript. A Fine Sight. What finer sight can be imagined than two powerful athletes, with no ill feeling toward each other, twisting, wriggling and squirming to get out of certain positions, when a spectator thinks a fall inevitable? How eagerly the throng watch them in their almost superhuman efforts as they apply holds and then break them, seize each other with irresistible force, then spring quickly upon their feet, till as a desperate resort one of the contestants will turn a complete somersault, lighting nimbly on his feet in a frantic endeavor to gain the supremacy.?Lippincott's. True Heroism. It should be an important part of the education of every child to form within him a true and worthy conception of heroism und to enable him to recognize it wherover it exists. Too often his only idea of It is found in the sensational roiuanco or in the examples around him of men who for praise or glory or gain will do daring deeds and manifest a phys ical bravery, often at a fearful cost to their fellow men. Let us give them a truer ideal and afford them a higher example.?Philadelphia Ledger. ihe World's |aiv. |i i FETE DAYS AT THE FAIR. I Dates Set Apart For the Observances ol : States and Organizations. Besides the special fete days arranged by the committee on ceremonies innumer1 able societies and organizations will meet I , in Chicago during the World's fair. The ; ! names of some of these organizations do \ j not nppear in the following official list of fete days: ; Washington May 17 i j Wisconsin May 23 . j Maine May 24 j Denmark ......Juno 5 j I Commercial travelers June 10 j Germany Juno 15 | | Nebraska June 15 i j Massachusetts June 17 j ; New Hampshire Tune 21 i \ France July 14 1 i Utah July 24 | 1 Liberia July 28 ( ] Foresters Aug. 12 j i Haytl Aug. 10 i f I Colored people Aug. 25 I AniT. 18 ! 1 Austria Aug. 18 | The Netherlands Aug. 31 j ? j Nicaragua Sept. 1 ( Catholic education Sept. 2 j New York Sept. 4 Brazil Sept. 7 ' i California Sept. 9 ! Maryland Sept. 12 I . Michigan Sept. 13 and 14 . ' Kansas Sept. 15 j 1 1 Colorado Sept. 19 | < [ Montana Sept. 20 i ' Patriotic OrderSonsof America Sept. 20 j j Iowa Sept. 21 ' j Rhode Island Oct. 5 ; Spain . Oct. 12 ! Italian societies Oct. 12 < Minnesota Oct. 13 j STATE BUILDINGS. flow Exhibits of Great Commonwealth* "Will lie Housed at tiio Fair. New York anil Pennsylvania as the j greatest states of the Union were given I the front center of the tract reserved for i state buildings at the Columbian cxposi! tion, and their structures face the great Art building on the south, New York [ having the eastern end of the plot and j Pennsylvania the western. The latter's i building, designed by Thomas P. Lon$- j ^ I B I PENNSYLVANIA BUILDING, dale, of Philadelphia, is a combination of various styles, the square and massive predominating. All the materials aro of Pennsylvania production, and the cost is $G0,000. The New Jersey building is, like most of the state structures, designed chiefly j ! for social purposes and a place of writ- | j ing and registration, and is made so far ; as possible representative of the state. It | is modeled on tho old houso at Morristown. N. J.. which was Washington's NEW JERSEY BU1LDINQ. headquarters, but there are additions for convenience sake. Thero are large and inviting piazzas front and rear, and i the main entrance leads into a largo hall I two stories high, with a circular balcony j around tho second story. i Tho Texas building is meant to be em- i I blematic of tho state so far as possible. ; It is therefore large, massive and plain j in the main portion, but topped with considerable ornament, and in its mate' rials the visitor will find an epitome of ( TEXAS BUILDINO. ! the state. With some slight exceptions j every particlo of wood, stone and other ! material in it will be of Texas produc- j i tion. The cost is to be $100,000, and the ' location is a fortunate one to show tho j structure with the finest effect. Tho Minnesota stato building will bo ; in the Renaissance style of architecture. , The framework of wood will bo coated ! with stuff to give the effect of stone coni struction. The main entrance will be in plain 6tyle, but the opposite side will MINNESOTA BUILDINO. ! more faithfully represent the state. The entrance thero is through a portico having rusticated dome columns, and on tho entablature over tho center the name i "Minnesota" will appear in a raised panel. Nebraska was fortunate in securing 1 about tho best site on the exposition grounds for her stato building, as it ' fronts south on Fifty-seventh street, j ' while a magnificent boulevard borders it on tho east and a largo lake on the west. It is CO by 100 feet and two stories high, j ' covers 0*000 square feet and has 12,000 NEBRASKA BUILDING, feet of floor space. The cast aiul west : fronts have wide porticoes, on each side 1 of which are wido steps covering one- j i third of the length of the building. Over j each portico is a largo gable on a line with tlio main cornice, and in each gable, in bas-relief, is the Nebraska state seal, five feet in diameter. | Vermont is to have a building which j will indeed represent tho state, as its walls are to be of blue, white and varie- ; gated marble from her various quarries, ; j chiefly from those of West Rutland. Tho | 1 i structure will have but one story, and be in tho familiar Queen Anne style, j ^ ^ I VERMONT BUILDING. I j Tho cornices facing tlio windows and . tho heavy oak doors will he polished and elaborately carved. The plan was drawn by Architect Jarvis Hunt, of Weathers- ; i field, and tho expense will bo borne by i 100 prominent citizens. It will contain somo groat curiosities. Arkansas has won a certain sort of ' fame by being tho only state to liavo a j ! building at tho Columbian exposition I designed by a woman. Tho lady was I Miss Jean Loughborough when her plan was adopted by the Arkansas committee, bnt soon after she was married, at :he capital of that state, to Mr. Frank M. Douglass, and she is now a resident )f Chicago. She learned architecture in ARKANSAS BUILDING. ;hat city, and her design fpr the Arkansas suilding was selected almost at the first aew, over those of many competitors, for .lb rare uuiiiuiiittijuu ui uvauij , md convenience. The Arkansas buildng looks ju3t what it was meant to be ?a homelike clubhouse, where Arkansas visitors may rest and enjoy themselves socially. Swrflluli World's Fair Iluilding. Among the minor structu/es of the Columbian exposition of 1893 the Swedish building, though small, will be conspicu jus. As the plot granted for the purpose was triangular and contains but 17,300 square feet, the building will also SWEDISH BUlLDINa^ be of that shape and cover but 12,000 squaro feet. Tho style will bo that of the old Swe'dish cathedral, and the building will consist of a main floor and gallery having a south front of 104 feet, while above tho center will rise a tower 200 feet *in height. It will be of wood md shipped in parts from Sweden. Germany's Iluilding tit Chicago. Germany's building at the Columbian exposition will be a curiosity indeed, as it will combine nearly all the styles of architecture, and its interior decoratious will represent all tho schools of German art and nearly all tho eras. The main e+TTir.tnro Tv-ill he 133 hv 106 feet, but GERMAN BUILDING, from the center and rear an extension will put out HO feet, making the central Bection 183 feet long. This extension is known as the chapel, and will contain objects of an ecclesiastical nature, such as altars and painted windows. Above it will rise a bell tower 100 feet in height. The plans were drawn by an official architect in Germany INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES. Imposing Array of Convention* Arranged by the World's Fair Auxiliary. A series of more than 100 international congresses, as planned by the \\ orld's Cougress auxiliary, will be held during the months of the exposition in the permanent Memorial Art palace erected on the lake front at the foot of Adams street, through the co-operation of the Art institute of this city, the World's fair directory and the city of Chicago, at a cost of more than $500,000. In this Memorial Art palace there will be two large audience rooms arranged to seat about 3,000 persons each, and more than 20 smaller rooms, which will accommodate from 300 to 700 persons each. Meetings of such a character as to draw a large popular audience will be held in the main audience rooms, while meetings of chapters and of sections of different conTRF. ART PALACE. gresses for the discussion of subjects of a more limited interest will be held in the smaller rooms. It will thus be possible to have two general congresses and 20 special congresses or conferences in session at the same time and to have three times as many meetings within a single day by arranging different programmes for morning, afternoon and evening sessions, but it is not anticipated that so many daily meetings will bo required in any department of the world's congress work. The world's congresses will be of twofold order. There will be a series of general congresses for the presentation in appropriate popular discourses suitable fora worldwide publication of the progress made in all the various departments of civilized life. The object of this presentation will be to promote the intelligence, culture and elevation of the people of all count ries. But a different class of congresses is also required. In addition to such general congresses there will also be special congresses for the consideration of scientific, technical or special subjects not suitable for such popular presentation. Such special congresses will be more directly in the charge of the organizations interested and represented by their respective committees of co-operation, which, acting in harmony with the auxiliary committees of arrangements, will arrange the programmes and conduct the proceedings. The special congresses of the religious denominations and the strictly scientific associations will be of peculiar interest. Both the general congresses, planned for the people, and the special congresses, planned for the advancement of great special interests, may thus be made highly successful. As the material exposition at Jackson park is designed chiefly for the pleasure and benefit of the people of all countries and subordinately for the entertainment and advantage of the specialists in the different departments, so also is the intellectual and moral exposition to be made in the world's congresses primarily intended for the benefit of the people who will hear or read the proceedings. The general assignment to the months of the exposition season of the world's congresses as arranged up to the present time is here given: May?Woman's Progress, The Public Press, Medicine and Surgery. June?Temperance, Moral and Social Reform, Commerce anil Finance. July?Music, Literature, Kducation. August?Engineering, Art, Architecture, etc.; Government, Law Reform, Political Science, etc.: General Department, Science and Philosophy September?Labor, Religious, Missions and Church Societies, Sunday Rest. October?Public Health, Agriculture. An Enterprising California Woman. Mrs. Harriot W. R. Strong, of Wliittier, Los Angeles county, Cal., is a woman of great enterprise. At the World's fair she will have two important exhibitions. One will be a, "palace" twenty feet square, mad., entirely of pampas plumes. The other exhibit will consist of a working plant for a new system of irrigation, in which one dam is placed above the other. This will irrigate all of tho orange and fruit orchards of the California stato exhibit. 1 JttiscfUaurous ^catling. [ MANIFESTATIONS OK FEAIt. It is said that Emperor Charles the { i Fifth, reading an epitaph : '-Here lies i one wlfb never knew fear," remarked, j j "Then he never snuffed a candle with | ( his fingers." It is certainly a some- : what absurd, though a favorite claim j i for a popular hero, that he "never knew | ! fear." Xo one possessing human ; nerves and brains could say this with i j truth. That a brave man never yields ? to the emotion may be true enough ; j I but to say that at no period of his j life he experienced fear is simply im- | j possible. As Lord Lytton express- j ' es it: "It shames man not to feel man's mortal j fear. It shames man only if that fear subdue." j There is a story of a young recruit in the "Thirty Years' War" going into action for the first time in his life in the highest spirit: "Look at Johann," remarked one of his comrades as the i ! troops were drawn up ready to charge, j I "he is full of jokes; how brave he is." j "Not at all," replied the veteran addressed ; "he knows nothing of what | : is coming. You and I, old comrades, ; I are far braver; we sit still on our I ' horses, though we are terribly afraid." Fear is certainly one of the most ! irrational of the passions. It is notal- j ! ways excited by the presence of danI ger. Men who can be cool and colj lected in cases of real peril will trem- : , ble at some fanciful alarm. The Duke j : of Schomber could face an enemy with [ I ready courage, but lied from a room if | he saw a cat in it. A very brave | French oflicer fainted at the sight of a j mouse. The author of the "Turkish j Spy" states that he would rather encounter a lion in a desert than be alone j j in a room with a spider. Many peo- j ! pie have similar fanciful antipathies, 1 which excite their feurs in a manner | real danger would be powerless to do. | Fear of infection is a dread that emi bitters the lives of many sensible peoj pie. There is a legend of an Eastern 1 dervish, who, knowing that a plague j was about to visit a certain city, barI gained with the disease that only a ! specified number of victims should I fall. When twice the number perish; ed, the plague explained its apparent I breach of contract by asserting "Fear ! killed the rest." In all times of epidemics doctors can tell similar tales. ; During the Great Plague of 1865-G, an unfortunate man died purely from i fright; a practical joker who met him : in the street pretended to discover the j fatal "spots" upon him and the poor ' man went home and died, not of the j disease, but of sheer terror. A long I obituary list might be compiled of the j victims of fear; from the criminal in the Middle Ages, who, reprieved after i he had laid his head on the block, was ; found to have died ere the axe could touch him; down to the poor nun mentioned by Horace Walpole. whose disreputable abbess literally "frightened her to death" by visiting her at nirrtif nil/) tollinrr lioi- tVinf clin U'rtS flv : "I'U IV...v. "."v -j I ing.?London Daily News. ? DUN T GO TO LAW. The lawyers say there is much less litigation now than formerly. They attribute it partly to the more general education of the masses. They are learning that it don't pay to go to law. It has been found that most differences can be arbitrated and settled much more satisfactorily every way. It should always be remembered that when a matter is taken into the courts, the decision has to be left to men after all, and their judgraeut is no better than that of disinterested men selected to effect a compromise. The arbitrators can be known to be men of intelligence, and with a high sense of justice; while a judge, or some of the jurymen before whom the case would go into court, may care nothing about justice. The best feature about arbitration I is the absence of the professional law] yer, whose principal mission seems to be to stir up bad blood and delay the case, not in the interest of justice, but to increase his fees. The ordinary professional lawyer takes the keenest delight in besmirching the reputation of his client's opponent. By the time this is indulged in on both sides, enough bad feeling has been engendered to make lifetime enemies of the litigants. Nor is this all; when the "law's deJ lays" are ended?when the lawyers allow the farce to end, it will be found I that the parties to the suit are worse I enemies than ever, and both, as a rule i ?counting time and fees?are in worse | financial condition than when the suit I began. By the time "justice is satisI fied," the surplus ducats have been j transferred to the lawyers' pockets, and thr?v himrh in their sleeves at the 1*011V ' of those by whose patronage their pro! fession is sustained. Wise men will stay out of the courts, : and, ius'ead, will settle their differences, if they have any, by submitting the cnse to a committee of good, intelligent peacemakers, in their own community. This is the best and cheapest plan, and leaves the contending parties better friends than ever.?Journal of Agriculture. Causks of Sudden Death.?Very i few of the sudden deaths which are said to arise from the "disease of the the heart" do really arise from that cause. To ascertain the real origin of sudden deaths, experiments have been tried in Europe and reported to a scientific congress held in Strasburg. Sixtysix cases of sudden deaths were made the subject of a thorough post mortem examination ; in these only two were found who had died from disease of the heart. Nine of the sixty-six had died from apoplexy, while there were forty-six cases of congestion of the lung?that is, the lung was so filled with blood they could not work, there not being room enough for a sufficient quantity of air to enter to support life, j The causes that produce congestion of the lungs are cold feet, tight clothing, costive bowels, sitting still chilled after being warmed with labor, or a rapid walk, going too suddenly from a close, heated room into the cold air, especially after speaking, and sudden depressing news operating on the blood. The causes of sudden death being known, an avoidance of them may serve to lengthen many valuable lives, which would otherwise be lost under verdict of "heart complaint." The disease is supposed to be inevitable and incurable; hence many may not I take the pains they would to avoid death if they knew it lay in their power. Tin: Lion's Pet.?'The late Henry Moorhouse was fond of relating an incident that beautifully illustrates a precious truth. When he was a boy there came to his native city a circus with its attending menagerie. In the motelv crowd which gathers about i such exhibitions, there was a '1111111 whose little dog had just been beaten in a fight with another clog. The man, | in a lit of senseless rage, seized the bleeding and suffering brute, and hurrying into the circus tent, roughly thrust him through the bars of the lion's cage, expecting of course to see him devoured in a moment. The (log ! also seemed to know his danger, and I crouched upon the floor in manifest terror. The lion fixed his gaze upon him, but did not stir; and at last the dog. gathering hope, crawled slowly toward the monarch of the forest, and looked up into his face as if with mute supplication for mercy. To the suri prise of the spectators, the king of beasts, who could have crushed mm with single stroke, gently drew the helpless creature to his side, and then raised his lordly neck above him like a wall of protection. Meanwhile the owner of the dog had recovered from his silly anger, and demanded his property. "You put him in ; go to the cage and ? get him," was the quiet reply of the keeper. The man drew near and called the dog, but there was no response, for the once obedient servant acted as if he had found a better master, and was satisfied with the change. The old master called again and again, and whistled and coaxed in vain, and at length began to scold and threaten ; but the ominous growl of the lion, and the flash of his flaming eyes, sent back the human brute in fright and haste, amid the laughter of all who witnessed his discomfiture; and the two friends were left in peace and mutual love. The Whole Truth.?A minister who was a witness in a case before a court had administered to him the usual oath, "You do solemnly swear that, in the case now pending, you will tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So help vnn finil." He happened to know some things about the case which neither side of the case wanted told in court. The witness, however, intended to tell all he knew. The lawyers began to ob-^ ject to his making certain statements, saying they did not wish to hear anything except what they asked him about. He appealed to the judge, and the judge said lie should not tell anything to which the lawyers objected. Your honor, didn't you make me swear I'd tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God ? You made me swear it, and I'll tell it." "And with that he jumped to his feet, and turning to the jury, commenced to rattle it off to them, and j despite all the efforts of two lawyers ' to stop him, he told it all; and then turning to the judge, he said: "Now your honor, I've told it. Now put me in jail if you like.. But hereafter, if you don't want me to tell the whole truth, don't you make me swear that I will." Judges and lawyers were a good t deal amazed; but the honest man | wasn't sent to jail. And tlie judge, ; after the court adjourned, said to a friend : "That man taught me a lesson I to-day that I had not learned in all i my forty years' experience on the j bench ; and now I very seriously question if it is right to swear men that they will tell the whole truth, and then allow lawyers to prevent them J from telling it." Who that has sat in a court room i and watched the lawyers in their at! tempts to prevent witnesses telling ! the simple truth, and endeavoring to ! confuse and break down honest men, ! and too often succeeding, has not felt that there ought to be some way of , protecting witnesses, and giving them ! a chance to tell exactly what they I know, and the whole of it. Photographing thk baby.-By the time the start for the gallery is made I the baby is thoroughly exhausted and I out of patience. The whole party go ; along, of course. When the gallery is reached, coaxing and tickling and baby talk all fail | to put the subject in a good humor, i One says she doesn't see what makes : him so cross. Another wonders what j makes him act so. Still another declares that he must be sick. The photographer comes to the rescue. He has had experience in many just such j cases and knows what to do. He can not do anything but what is a novelty j to the baby, and he generally succeeds in quieting the child and successfully j produciug his likeness. He docs it in | the midst of difficulties, though. He i has all the elderly attendants of the | baby to combat with at first. They , finally realize the fact that the artist | can do better without their efforts, and j as they go homeward one says: "How quickly he got the baby still. It's perfectly wonderful. Some men do take to children that way and can I do anything they want with them. I t j don't wonder they take all their ba bies to him to have their pictures j taken." ! Anglo-Saxon Numerals.?Our I Saxon forefathers formed words for i the numerals up to nine, but there ! their power of invention seems to have J abandoned them, for ten is not an ; original word. It comes from the SaxI on word tynam, to close, to shut in or ! up, expressive of the simple fact that, ! when the calculation had gone on to | the extent of ten fingers, one after I another having been turned in, both j hands were found "closed" or "shut ! in." Eleven is simply the an lif, "one left," of our Saxon fathers, as was the i case after both hands were closed, and ; twelve is the contracted form of two | lif, "two left." After twelve the numerals are simply compounds of ten and the lower numbers, until we arrive at twenty, which consists of dual twain, and the word, tig, meaning ten. Iron Purifies Water.?The filthy water of the Itiver Nethe is purified <"<->?. Men in Vntii'pm hv hpinfr nassed j through revolving cylinders which con, tain small pieces of iron. It has been ! ascertained that fifteen pounds of mct! alic iron will purify 1.000,000 gallons of water. The water thus treated is ! said to be completely freed from germs, bacteria and other objectionable matters. English and French chemists j find that the contact with iron reduces the organic matter by from 45 to 85 j per cent, and albuminoid ammonia by from 50 to 00 per cent, and all free ammonia is removed. The process has | been applied with success to the water of the Delaware river in Pennsylvania. ! It is simple and cheap. A fair inferj cnce from these facts is that it doesn't hurt drinking water to pass it through j iron pipes. A Tempting "Ad."?A Southern ? ? t it.- zr.ii paper puonsnes uie iunu?iug iiuuitisement: "Wanted?By n young lady, aged nineteen, of pleasing countenance, good figure, agreeable manners, general information and varied aecomI plishments and who has studied everything from the creation to crochet, a situation in a family of a gentleman. She will take the head of his table, manage his household, scold his scr| vants, amuse his babies, check his tradesmen's bills, accompany him to the theatre, cut the leaves of his new I book, sew on his buttons, warm his ; slippers and generally make his life happy. Apply in the iirst place to Miss , Hickory Grove, Ga., and afterward to papa, 011 the premises." BfeiT Father (to son who has failed in his examination three times)?I made a mistake in sending you to college. I ought to have apprenticed you to a locksmith or some other trade. "My dear father, I have often thought the same, especially when 1 have been out 1 1 i- i.,??i. in nigni mm iiiivc lurgmivu m > i.nvukoy." 8??" In some parts of Russia the snow actually is preserved in great sand and manure-covered heaps, as a means of irrigating tlie land during the sumj mcr heat. "Well, Johnnie, are you able to keep your place in your class?"' Johnnie?Yes, sir; I began at the foot I and there's not a single boy been able I to take it from me.