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N ETAHYSIOIANB LOE L1"TEB,
Old saies dream'd, in lione. re.treat,
Of visionary grwe..
That had no tangIble e,)llcrete,
For secular embrace:
Platon love l and abstraet tlisq
S(Uninted to a world like tlhi).
'15 waste the rapture of a ki'.
In emlty space!
' he psychological idea
Is like the ether. tine:
lut I efer while I ait here
Ani fmae les divine.
Angelic soul in mortal moreulit,
Whose love sbould g.row as we grew .l1.,
Till death round both hl. waing. eunfold,
Such dream be mine:
Bar shall we seek, my psychic friend
(onljoin'd In sense and snIl),
; 'Those nacongruities to bllld
In one cosmic wbhole
se 6ly the philosophic mind.
With nature's onr.iuance combine,l
Coordinate ug till we find,
The terthetle goal.
DENBIA)IW' CURE.
*Ef rd a knowe d that hen war blind
I wouldn't ha' brnog it t1 ye,"
the speaker was a tall. gaunlt Ar
kansas "*bov," and the I:uady he adelh'.-',
tIet was Madoline Field, a smart, girlish
woman, standing bareheated under the
bright, cloudless sky of an Arkansas
sumlrser.
+ A soft. dimpled haIsnd 'shiadied her
eyes, and the floating :white of her
-m'orning dress enveloped her like a
summer cloud; altogether it was a
-ritrdkIg picture.
TIhe big. ro.agh-bearded fellow stand
ing in his ungainly market wagon. the
' rd wmdes with heeds downnvging,
atlir ragged.loolin; ears pathetio.
Ppilg 4t the persistent i es. tihe
rustic basket up-plle.I with luscious,
satin-cheeked peaches, and the latticed
box of fowl In the rear.
"'Not at All an unplea-tint pic-tre."
thought the weary invalid. Burt Deus
low, as he sat down opposite them and
S oted the homely events
He had the eye of an nrtit. and al
ways found the picturesque especially
luthis wildly robtantl viilate in the,
Usarks.
8o he watched the small "figure og
this pretty blonde as she stood there
negetiating with the natiLro fr an: der
ehange of fowls, as she saidtone of dthe
hens she had bought, at his prefous
visit, was blimi; another, she said, had
its and she was obliged ty have its id
e t or. while the 'third "laying heu"
peristently crowed every morning, to
distress and that of the invalid
.mother, on account oLwkose~health the
two had come there from a Northern
Matters iean saaMleatolly adjnusted.
the man drbv on th a loud eaatk of
his lashed whip, antehe.went into ber
eotta gelrrta s , . rler of three
'wenty-three years before her moth
er had married Dr. Field, who was an
army surgeon, and site a hospital
.urse, self elected, coming South from
her quiet New Engl ael lap!u to do her
.share in the grea:t strugle between
North and louith. llr lover had been'
killed in the first of the war, and she
took her aching heart down into the
blood-sprnlakled Southern hospitals,
and Dr. Field hail wooed and won it in
this unromantld life. :tidl Madoline,
their only chdd, wasu a unatural physi
elania.
. She could never see pain or illness of
S ny sort that she did not seek to re
lteve I. It was a perfect pemsion wish
She had eagerly reed all of her lath
ater books, asdonfy' the strongest op
position front both pareqts prevented
Mr from regularly studying for the
profession. Like all hobyists she had
a great many theories.
S .bopractieed on her youlng friends
when at school: all the servants. since
she was a child, hail cone in for a share
of "Mise Iladdie's doctoring," and
SeveI her parents were oh~iged to sub
Sher. tyrannpas rule. ) that par
ktringing her nioller to, Wanako
- llngs had been her idea entirely.
8he had learned tha~ tlhqgater hhere
Swaabholnte ptn, hence. se sid.
baong la itttit -t tMhe sol.dlsit must
Swriseh is her ntammi
form of rheumatism, but as
she to th's da~ suirs at.ll fronm the
dread ompan on If. damp atmosphere
and nortth ike winds, it is safe to asM
gan hMat Mladoline's theory failed ip
this Istance at least. Another of her
there was that starraiona would take
ay poison from the system. and once.
W hen only thirteen, she had starved
herself for several days in order to re
h" r herself from the poison of ivy.
Her cure (whether' it ero "faith"
- .r"mirDed Oijlr$pte!r.'; is wt Iknpwn
to Iai dat) i dla'taInlv eft'.tcted. asd
S':she alway s held 'tit up as a hlitng ex
At the time of whfich I write Wanako
Spri- a. r ta hot the triving metoi
lta town if now is, with its huge out
as hotel, Its railroad, sddttsmnsl
Ims lhoes.
* It was tw4uty miles from the railway
S ad esettially backwooday, with its
:  i,"t cottages set up on pegs.
unftghted street, and mixed
At that time they bad regularly ex
purilee meetiungs where the invalids
ap Uut told id tpe wagters of
do Ior the good of
; tdiSbo~ Af pan o thme
L Matdoine mtBart De_low,
Sa hp frakly said he mat nt fasta
.-" ere then, wsa bince for bet to
- q ue5l . eome one of her hobbies
itb" here be saolf ridden.
h- e " looked at him earnestly. He
ausoaimest of an lian, in'bls hair,
- L b is bead seemed ts hpve takeu
the bloddees of h h far-bk
, aseestry, sad is. omplexion
ad eolrts H, as marble aL
In fact. h"e fell in love with her, but
she did not recil)rocate, as he was to
her only a patleut, nothing but a
suffering human being.
Nothing so triv.al as a love afair had
tver entered into her researches
The. ph~sieal well-being of the
patient was all that interested her, al
thiomgh she was aware that it was a fine
suhbject, really a very handsome patient.,
iHe wia.s a wealthy wan. In fact, he
ha liol st his health in a mine where he
hlai dug "ol., and not being sontent I
with what lie had and could make in a
lolu"wr way, Iht determinedly followed
a h'tl tar tinder ground, hoping to
ntaken grand thing out of it, though he
had been warned by older miners to
keep "away.
But he went on' alone, anti one day
after inhaling more than usual of the
nox,ons gases, he fell in a faint at the
head of the vein, and had never since
been well.
It wuhld seem that all the water in
Waunako Springs was not sufficient to
,eliuminate the po;son. There had been
no words of love between him and Miss
Fiehl.
She had been so matter-of-fact that
"!it seemedl impossible for him to talk
Ssentiment any way.
Beside, as he bitterly said to himself:
"It would never do for a man with
one foot in the grave to think of matri
ulonV.'"
One evening he escorted Madoline
home from the invalid'a experience
tuettlin".
All the way up the long bluffy hills.
the good people of the town have placed
rude benches, that the invalids may
not weary themselves too much with
climbing.
Tl'hese two were sitting awhile be'
neath the starlit skies upon one of
these rustic seats, when Ma line Field
did a most astounding tang. She
made a proposal to this black:haired.
blonde-bearded man, with the cJ1orless
I face. Slhe declared that she knew she
could cure him if she but had him en
tirely under her supervision, so ¶bat se
could diet him and starve him to her
heart's content. So she offered to
I marry him. 1.'is wb. merely for the
sake o conveaienee.
S There was no rdoance.in the matter,
r a purely firacti Ibusihess transaction.
lhe wasu t at al n love wish him, and
She was not such~s man, pe laps, as she
should choose for a &i nd., but she
wanted him for a subject, a wished to
Seriment Q lfMm. ,
ade would uarry him a cure his
nnd then h.or he would go away and
,he oti"r would get, a divpppe on the
groupd of desertion.
1 No one In hip bump or t ras, remote
ilom tiu littdb pioneer tow lSa Arkan
sas, woou ever know anythln of it
The marriage should be dmply a
I legal contract, and broken when they
w tere reads to dksolve it.
He entered oteo tesptrtt of it. At
the rate he then wg going, he reason
ed, he eeuld not iBvPleug, anyway, sad
t he was stagnating there for want of a
r sensation of some hind, all had been so
a humdrum and abnotonous for him
since be had twent~bliged to leave the
- ustle and war of active life. Beside,
li he was very much mn love wigr this
I erratic little person, and when lie died
Sire would leave her the whole of his
r large' fbrtb e,. which should mal her
a comfortable fy thle rest of he" life,
i whether she married again or not.
D Added to this, he knew she was not
a cognizant of the fortune he was pos
sessed of, and that her interest in him
a was born entirely of her disinterested
love for all of the human race, her won
derful sympathy with suffering and a
noble self-abnegation. He adm.red and
f respected her above all women, and
- would have done so. had she been old
h and ugly:' but' when a largd-hearted
young man admires and topeet a wo
man who is young. syr hetic, and
Sgood-looking, with a tlgbtand little
.treks of" manner that me tbsolutely'
e charming, it generally happens that the
I admiration deepens into affection, and
the respect into the warmest love. So
a they were married very quietly: No
e one thought it odd in any way or differ
e cut from other marriages. Every one
I in Eureka Strings was a stranger to ev
ery one else; no one knew q1ythig of
his neighbor's home-life, or atteeedents.
or cared to inquire. She took him un
a der her especial eharge. and a strange
honermoon it was, with never a kiss or
a caress, and ulnever a word of love, for
Ii that was pert of tlp buriness arrange
it ent She had said:
a 'Of course you don't care anything
a for me, or I for you, except as the phy
es ician clr'es for his patient, and there
e is no use in pretending we do, so there
- will be no making believe the love we
p have not, and do not care to haves We
r shall treat each other iu every way ex
a actly as we have done befor, except as
u. you give up all thque pb ous medi
d cines you are taking, and leave your
Scure in my hands I
She was very much surprised when
he found the lavish way in which me
n spent money. She sugglstal a rumssian
d bathroom, and so.; lie had it con
E- structed.' She wished for th'i'or that
applianoe to ass:sat in his care; they
o were each forthcoming.
- . he was in her p~eatnt. There was
i her mother for propriety, and i seem
I- ad rS'if sha WMre lt ibme, and hemre was
this getletmannglestat ,waddtelli
y gent, only an ordinary, guest sd a
:s docile patient.
S She got all the blooks she could And
d on rgas poisons of all sorts. and entered
entlusiastlcally upon her life of experi
c- ment.
Is "One great thing." she said. "is
f kee the sltl in a  rbel tiO
ai nd thin aa little a *obe pm
a. Inanldy." So she .1 orW"al red
r, to him. entertained. stare n c
a perimentel. upon hm , with ,mtlrlg
energd and.persisteplt' gp e. -
o Denslow had a'bedy sel t e mb
Swasuher stroneg ally. He fllowed her
orders implicitly, not allowing his mas
he ter to have one thing which she: pro
1i hiblted. ,
S( ligars Wmsdinihed; wine. with
r, exception of a sooful of port every
Sm.ing, was thrown out of the ses.,
• evetitag'weot on with the most
n exact _glarli.
n- At the end oive onths he wa er
. moUh bette. almost a w ell u
ly ~ ~ ~ rr ielka '~~psS~
and wife. "She is my wife really and Il to
actually according to the laws of the g
Commonwealth of Arkansas," lie would ki
sometitmes say to himself, consoling ti
himself with that fact. al
lie had often been .orely tempted. in ti
these sweet months of what was really al
his courthip, to take her in his arms
atnd sue for the love he craved so ;s
strongly. It was bad enough when ihe d
et!pected to die and leave her, but now w
when he knew he should live, perhaps
as long as other men, and never be -a
able to win her love, it was terrible h,
And, then, when lie contemplated the Id
parting which must come soon, he felt ti
that he would rather be an invalid al- .
ways, and have her daily companionship
if nothing more.
Still it was something tol b well again, tI
and when he thought of all her patience h,
and unwearied kindness, her noble self- tº
sacrifice, he said to himself: "'1 will be s,
a man. I should be but a poor coward
did I say or do anything to offend that w
pure spirit. 1 will go away and make fi
no sign. Let her get her divorce. I tl
will see she has a sufficient allowance." d
But it was very hard for him.
• In all this time she had been a skilful f t
physician, an intelligent student of lis i
case. a considerate, tdaough despotic h
nurse, and an agreeable companion, tl
nothing more; and when she found that t,
at last the disease yielded to her per- d
sistent efforts, her professional enthusi
asm knew no bounds. She had been
the cool, careful, passionless practi
tioner, now she was the triumphant
victor. She had overcome disease in
one of Its most treacherous and insidi- a
ous shapes. She had conquered Death j
and was radiant with professional self- I
congratulation, as the most learned
sarant might be. But apparently the
weakness of a tender love had not come
with gentle insistence into her cold
heart. 1
It was the morning before i)enslow's
departure. Black ('are pressed down
his brows, and Gloom had laid its dark
mantle about his shoulders. Hessaun
tired to the window and looked out. a
Bright March sunlight lay on the moun
tain, on the white dusty road, and on
the Iagure of Madoline, as she stood I
there in her white flannel dress, peering
into the cavernous depths of a market
wagon, while the same lank Arkansan
flourished his whip over the straight y
backs of the patient, unoffending
mules.
So had she stood on t at summer
morning months befqye whan Deaslow
had seem her for the flrht time, and he
turned away sick at heart, thinking how
she was just as far away from hint now
as then, even though the lar had made
her his property. His property, in
deed! And he smiled grimly as he
thought of apy man being able to con
trol that high-spirited, strong-willedl,
imperious girL t
• She has not the slightest idea of
what love is," lie sighed. "She is ut
terly cold and emotionless. save where
her sympathy is temporarily awakened.
Even I tire her now that i can no lon
ger be deemed an invalid."
Thar's two as good cookin' hens as I
ye ever seed in yer life, and haint nary
one on am blind. 1 'lowedye wouldn t
want um ef tiey wuz, and ef they led a
been I wouldn't a brung umr."
There was a rattle of silver eoins, a
crack of the long-lashed whip, and a
creak of the mountain-break. and jhe
market wagon started on. and Madoline
turned back into the porch and vanish
ed from her husband's sight.
lie sat down,. thinking of the changes
that had been wrought since that first
morning so long ago. Then hbe had
been an invalid waiting for his coffin, a
dying man eking out a few more days.
now he was strong and comparatively
well. He looked at the dumbbells (his
little physician's prescription) and he
felt his well-muscled arms, and threw
bIck his shoulders and let the lracing
March air into his lungs, and was glad
that he lived.
S' "Ah, well," be sighed. "'a man can't
hive everything in this world. Let me
be tbanful for what I have."
He west away with a heavy heart.
"Madoline smilingly gave him her hand
at the parting, and it was all over.
He had come oit of the sweetest
dream of his life with seemingly every
thing to make him happy, health in a
fair degree, money. a good appetite.
and plenty of friends in his old homo
glad to welcome him home from the
border land of D)eath, bat man will eI
an ungratefa creature to the end of the
world sat bhe eased his fate and silh
ed for the graceful figure and the bright
sunny face of the woman, when the
world was fall of women, each ready
to be taken from the home-berth, as a
flower is willing to be plucked from thb
multitude of the unchosen.
But in medesa parlamue "he wanted
the earth," ad it 'was a very small
part of its dust embodied in the sweet
nee and charm of little Madoline, that
senA sq deirable to hipL.
loathpd ulowl enough. le
ha d. to be notied n due, legal
ratlt's Itrwlrished to beseparat
3d from him, sad was psaled to know
t why sucnd noctliestola did not make its
SIPd~f rmined to make her a hand
!some provision when the time came,
and all the old interest in business har
a i g.l.gted with his health. he be
't-e a mot assiduous man of business,
oarming stoek compales, working
mines, buiad and, and eg.
I atintioand i in al tiIs to lose
Ssense et the small pal tugging away
.-5s wardhaber a good deal at that'
abl , and at last 1inees brought him
'- b stb wF n . had.r,,# h- Ms
_ Ipmai$o. oee be t be had hard no
~w l.trem-all this while, ad be
wondered if she were still at those
Stblesead epringsw, mor wbetberdsh were
ir well and happy, and, indeed, be won
'- pad & thges abbot hbr. rf, rg was
I comtinually in his thoughts.
SAshe eame ib te hotel s eafe
a on l tamt e t t step.3m the
,lubsmm , .a b/v. *ha hJ_.ad
I see torem'"wawting and watchig from
' h im, atl aM ad *tbe weeet she
I to sc. tile tall man stoop, down.ano I
ºgather the I ttle woman in his arms and :;
kiss the pretty litt' mouth, and then .
there was the de'y ted reception-room
and lie drew her in there, and together t .
thelrv st dow n eon sofa and looked
at each other.
•"You do love me J.dt, don't you?" h,
she asked, her eews full of- tears. I wi
dou't waint any diirce. I want to livd u.
with you always. tay l?" O
And she loosed so pitiful and so by.- g
able aind so altogether womanly that e
he was on the popt of repeating the
idiocy of which h4 had tieen gulty in th
the hall, when he ams prevented by the al
· itrance of tile liveriect watchman. fe
- Will you coap home with me?" hi
asked Madoline. .'My carriage is at ln
the door." And lefore they reached w
her father's home ?n'Mbichigan Avenue hi
tlhey were both n the amost utter th
state of content. , rt
i *There is one' disease that starving di
will not cure." said Deuslow, to his
father-in-law that evening. "'and it seentms
that Madoline agrees ~tah mne. It is a li
disease of the heart calied love.' vi
After that they had their wedding lih
tour and the wedding reception, and ui
were quite "old marriet folks" before jt,
he could get accustomel to the idea of b
this shy. clinging. April-smiles-and- b
t tears, little woman being the same in- I
didual as that cool. dieisive, tyranmi- '1
cal. 'elf-assertive phydcian who had ti
Ssaved his life and bddlesn Ilint so indf- a
ferent a farewell. it
t After he left she had been restless :t
and moody and missed bim much; and tl
t still she did not properly diagnose her P
own case. I tl
She and her mother sent home. and *!
this restlessness still held possession of n
e her, this nameless longig still kept her R
company in its silent, insistent way. h
I -'.Nothing.amuses me aly more,' she a
N had said to her mother. "I wish I had fi
another patient to cure," and whenever t
her mamma suggested tle propr ety of .
h proceed.ng toward a divorce (not that v
site wanted her to get one but only to C
see what she would answer), Mandoline._
would say: 'Oh. there's time enough a
for that aiter," and during that time i
I'm afraid she developed a hitherto "
dormant taste for flirtatien, anld there
is many a young man to-day in Chica- I
t go who carries a little soar on his heart
from Mandoline's stabbing. And thetn.
g one morning, in looking over the Timtes,
she saw among the arrivals the name
of lierhashand, and lhe ienw by the
'vay the blood seemed to seektmer heart.
and then leave it for the smoothness of
her cheek, and by the trembling of her
little hands as they held the preqipts
newspaper, and by the unutterable long
lug once more to see the tall figure and
bearded face of one man greater and
more splendid in her eyes than all the
i·et of the men in the world-by all I
these signs and symptoms she knew
that this meant love. and that her
obdurate heart had fallen t victim to a
disease that all her science could not
cure.-Medor:a Clark, is the Current,
* Edward Atkinson om the Food Question.
( Edward Atkinson has an article in
a the December Century on "The Food
Question in Amer sad Wlrope." in
a *blchb e gives some remhrkable facts
aml figures. We quote as follows:
" --The food question in Europe may be
- one of possible revolution and repud.
tion of national debts, and of the dis
me ruption of nations as they now exist; to
t this branch of the victualing depart
ment attention may well be called, be
s, cause its conditions are so greatly in
ly contrast to thole of the United States;
is but this phase of the question will be
a+ treated separately in a subsequent
article. May we not find in these.
costly armies, excessive debts, and ex
cessive taxes not only the eause of pau
t per wages, hat also the cause of the in
e effectual and costly quality.of so-called
t pauper labor?' May there not also be
found in these figures the incentives to so
cialism, tocommunasm, and to anarchy '
it IWhat hope for men and women, the
r- whole of whose producnt would barely
a suflice for sunbetane. when ten, twenty
.I and perhaps even thirty pIer eaent, is
ic diverted from their own um.i, and even
me food is denied them sueient to main
m tain health and strength. In orlder that
ae these great armies mtay be sustained?
i- The victualing departient is there
it fore preseated is these thre' phases:
re First. In our own country the only
ly question i how to save the waste tf
a our abmadamee, a·4 how to teaek acdt
ie oely the workipg people, but even the
preapefous, th right methods of ob.
d tainng a good wd wholesome salubsis
l tees atJess est iq uoney than they
mt- now spend for a poor and dyspeptio
at one.
.*Seeead. In Great;tian am:rd Ire
le land the vletnatiag department under
al lies a system of b .tenure whlich iw
Snow on ito trilt mm which has led to
w secL artlielal conditions that great
its amres of good land have beqp thrown,
Sentirely out of eeiivatioe, whileb halft
d of the opl are being fed from field.
Sfrom ie thousa, to filteen thousand
m- Ilmes distant
°' Third. Upon the continent of Eu
, rope the victuaipmg dsepartnmt stand
ag fae to face with a forced method of
Sdistributing and wasting a food-product
se which, a a phok Is Inmuffelent to
sy aatasn the whole population in vigor
and health even if it were evenly di
st tributed, as tool must be equally die
m trlbuted weighlif notby gualty, in
Jy' ore t. 4ep aot *deqmt may be
' *-* .-- -wdem d des ,erapy
e came esuelet l is pNg, what wal
he become of the pefrileewhich are Is
se founded on ri s.t o ,,l.~-,al debtls
re which have been incurred by dynasities
la- withouttha eonentt of .,,pIople wao
standing armies be disbaled, whkih
i-. now Msee to be mltiMlQ being se"
be talw ., reiampi ble o -
inpdlsed. ' -
S-ebh pre some of the appaliimg
rd qustas to whishtwe are led whn we
at bean. womshhl elren now ,
he Isthe me m ea and. e d w
... oa
HORSES. hot
omee Storles of Famed Steteds and of I
Their Exploit--The Faithful blMare far
that Saved Her Mate-The Old hin
S Standby That Would Drill. c' .
In 1609 an Englishman named Bat is fed
had a horse which he ttained to follw t at"
wherever he led. over fences. ditches.
upstairs, and to the very roof of houses. err
One day they went to the very top of hot
St. Paul's church, an immensely high wit
edifice. They did various other things tgit
that were almost as astonishing. When Vs
all England was talking about these
feats Mr. Bank concluded to increase du
his reputation, as well as that of his liv
horse, by a trip to Rome. Thither he bu
went, and the obedient horse followed ric
his fond master to such great heights da
that the story of his performances we
reached the ears of the pope, and what ho
do you think he did? on
* Wanted to see the horse perform."
Well, almost anybody would think so; the
but this pope took quite a different is
view of it. He didn't believe that a
horse could go to such dizzy heights tia
unless evil spirits helped him. So he 1It
just made an end of the whole matter to
by ordering Mr. Banks and his horse r c
burned as enchanters. an
I A tishing party once drove to Lake to
Minnetonka. One of the gentlemen. of
the owner of a team, took his horses in
and tied them apart to feed. lie en- sp
tered a small cabin near by. thinking he or
would rest and sleep until the return of Al
the fishing party. He had hardly com- At
posed himself for a nap when one of to
the horses that he had tied with a or
strong rope galloped up to the door and to
neighed. Thinking it strange that she se
should be loose, he hastened after the sa
horse, that had run excitedly away as fl
soon as her master made preparation to th
follow. To his surprise he found that he
the mate had fallen into the lake, and.
Ibeing entangled with the rope, at was
with the greatest difficulty that she
could keep her head above water.
While he assisted the unfortunate horse
out of the trouble the sagacious and af
fectionate mate showed by her joy that
she understood that the master would
know just what to do. She fully ap
preciated what his help was worth when
t she managed to break the strong rope h
so that she could bring that help to her ti
companion. It
Horses, like boys. are creatures of
habit. A good while ago. when the d
country was new. the New England ft
t families rode to church on horseback. A
r sometime two or three with the help of tl
a pillion on the same horse. There a
was one, faithful creature that was for a
I years accustomed to this Sunday jourr a
Sney. After a time his services were no I
e longer needed and he was left in the h
I pasture. Long habit was strong upon
old Dobbin, so he quietly pulled down
r the bars and walked demurely to
a church, took his accustomed place un- a
der a spreading tree until the services a
were over, ane then went back to his fi
pasture. This herepealbd Sunday aft- a
or Sunday. .
L One dark night at a late hour' a · v- a
eler asked for lodging at a count y
Stavern. After talking with the guest
d for a few moments the landlord sqdr A
n denly tinned pale as e asked: "Pray, r
a sir, whio way dsyopoomel" the gen
t emlan answered that he had comaeem t
a certain direction-the south. "Impos- s
" ible!" exclaimed the landlord. "for to- t
day all the planks of that bridge were i
- removed for repairs." "It maybe so," 1
o exclaimed the man, "but I have come I
. from such a town since noon." There
was no other possible way for the tray
Seler to have come. and in the darkness
n of the night he had trusted to the in
'; telligent animal he rode to keep the
o war. While the master was wholly 1
at utteonso s of the perilous feat. the
Shose bad astually walked the string
plece of a long bridge and kept his foot
Z g. The timber was scareely a foot
w- ide. Had it been ln the daytime no
a- sane man would have dared to attempt I
i such a ride..
i, Napoleon had a bore of which he
said: "I had a horse that distiaguised I
me from the rest of the world, and
• which manifested by his bounding and
l haughty gait when 1 was upon his
Y i mbk thst he carried a man superior to
Sthose around him." Napoleon ' beau
Stihfl gray Arabisa horse Marengo was
i worthy to have borne a better nman.
SAn old horse that had for many yearns
t been riddea by a commander when be
became disthed for such use was sold
Sto a farmer. Saveral years after, when
he Ihad been reded from old age and
Shard work to a meager Rosinsats, be
Swas inthe servie of bakwoods sur
Svyors' sststants. It so happened
Sthat not far from the land undbtr lt
Spersos a larg ~eatlbr eto , voleunteer
e soldiers were drilling When the old
b horse heard the fe ad drum he mstar-.
Stal spirit took possession ol binm. i
Away be wea, over feaees and ditches.
e- The jerks sad pulls from his rider were
r- et no ava·lL I froat o4 the regiment
"' he took. his jL7p n tad pered and
to daneeds * legs would
s let him.. The evaim eq _s a nupon
Shis beek eold not I ndues hm to leave
It the grosi leog a the troops re
Is malAd thee. lTo te great amuse
ad meet d the voeiumaers and the no
s ll asmayse of his rider, he in
Ss marahg .lante the town in
of Oae d itb ld writer. tells of a horse
ct tbet w eomsous of his triumphs.
to Wbi be wsm In the O3lympian games
Lr be woald pei direct his seps to
i- th d f ir his crown.
thb*b aIag d e everal of
tinfadS g uSU E A/ A. ; soon
a the nds me~ u br he fe -i
aradaM wy tie ts d at "'
JI elasers -
M* tm thinga hIot.Iis gentle
It vlisl -euc g to ihe,·o stment
n reestt "' 8nei'Sirl udsce a
-t eeioealaems • baad, "'iihie ta
i.e .-.s their
horaes. TI s love of the nobl animal
reaeheid itsl rd elimat in the case
of the mad Caligals " He ialteed his A
favor.te horse to sup with him an41ave rani
him food from golden vessels. This latel
sa.me horse was stabled in a palace. T]
fed from a marble manager with gilded Mles
oats. He was made a high priest and pool
afterward raised to the consulship. quel
Verune. another Roman emperor. T
erected a statue of gold to his favorite rru
horse. When he died he was bur.ed Chii
with great pomp. all the dignitaries of wer
the empire attending. A magnifice nt L
ilonutuent was erected for him on
Vatican hill. pre
Copenhagen, the charger that the es
duke of Wellington rode at Waterloo,
lived to be 27 years old. lie was
buried with military honors, which he mo
richly deserved. Upon that memorable day
day when the battle of Waterloo was am
won Wellington rode his famous war I
horse seventeen and a half hours with- era
out once di.snotltint. ah
The skeleton of Mlarengo, the horse the
that Napoleon rode at the same battle, 1
is in one of the museums at London. am
When Colunmbuts caine to America sea
there were no horses on this continent. me
lie Veca, a Spaudiard, brought the firat I
to the mainland at Florida in 1527. for
Cortez carried the horses into Mexico, wo
and Pizarro into Peru. In the unucer- bu
tain warfare that was waged some I
of these horses were alandoned
in the wilderness. From these have pa
sprung the great herds that sweep Vo
over the western prairies of North er
America and the pampas of South
America. 'Travelers tell us that herds
ten thousand strong are seen feeding
on the plains extending from La: Plata
I to Patagonia. They say it is grand to
see these untamed creatures, startled
i suddenly, with mane and tail erect go
flying over the plamin. Byron wrote as th
though, somewhere in his wanderings,
L he had seen such a herd: it
The steeds rush on In plunging prile;
But where are they the reins to guidet
A thousand horse and noame to ride! ' Y.
With flowing tall and flying mane.
Wide nostrils, never stretcbhed by pain,
Mouths bloodless to the bit or rein,
And feet that iron never shod,
t And flanks unscarred by spar or rat
I A thousand horse, the wild, the freeI si
Like waves that follow o'er the sea. L
a It is great sport for the half-wild Ii
a hunters, upon the outskirts of civiliz:a. t
r tion, to catch and tame these wild, cu
free creatures.
I There is hardly a country now that b
e does not have wild horses. They are gi
ifound in different parts of Africa, in o
, Australia, on the plains of Asia, and c
f there are even some kinds that live in
e mountainous places. At the north they
Sare. small and have shaggy coats. to vi
r adapt them ao the long, cold winter.
o Upon the plains of Tartary very large B
e herds are found.
n With a Kalmuek or Tartar courtship
a my stories most end to-day.
o These people of northwestern Asia b
*- almost live on horseback, the women
is as well as men. When a young man
is aods a irl that he wants for a wife. he
t- makes known his wishes. The pair !
mount upon Boet horsese and then coie n
r- mences a race for a wife.the girl beipg -
eliven a 1.ttle statt. 'If sh does not g
Iacy the wooer she manuagm to eludd 'P
Skim., Thq yquag women are such goqod
r. riders that there is very seldom an un- Ii
a. willing bride. Ifshe rahs obe caught'
Stamnethe- plamsthe pace of the horse so I
s- as to be overtaken; bpt, CJdf 'isdil
. with the speed of the W and he a
re must indeed have a feet steed who b
would win an unwilling maid to .dwell II
te in his tent.-Cevelame Plais Dealer. t
Or- lide of the Question i
S "I see," said a man, addressing a.
t companion, "that a writer in the -
Vy $ScieaGlic imsericni. sys that laughter ' *
s prolongs life."
•- ".How doss he explain his theory?" r
*'-"Well, I don't exactly kadw, but he Ii
says that It starts Into airelation little
pt hidden particles of blood which would
otherwise remain dormant. Then he t
se goes oe humorewsl to may that the :
id time may come when physicians'
d will prescribe so many lighs to be,
id taken so many hours apart. "
S * dare say, but how do you sppose
to the phvsidia could rodue ulauer ,
"-at a stated time. It woulda' do to I
s give him laughing gas for that preduo- :t
c anger more olften that at does i
miretiLh '.
e "rha~'s a fapt. Iow wepld it do to
Id read extraets from political plat-.
Sforms'
ad ** iht do very well."
'e Say, I believe that laugidng does I
prolong lif. Irll give 'sa.-.
d staes Home time ego, wh I was
h la San Antoio, I Mw a&w U engage
sr ida quarreL One of them, b Lock.,
Id drew a pistol and told Bob lster that
r- h atme was come. el of becom
. ing excited, Foster said. Now wait a
a unuet, ZitA er ha, haw. Doa't yea
re -er i~e.he- recoileat the time when
atwe went over to see old Miller's dangia
ad ter?. Well, sir-haw, haw--I thought
id I would kdi myself. laugthing,' and
>n then he laughed uproarously. Zib,
* overcome by astonishmeat at this tim
timely mirth, lowered his psl, and, I
e- Icker thsn a a bes strLr a troll,
so foster snatchebd the weapon and killed I
a- Si. ,-y4ir'ee, this 1s a .asrum-ent
ian favor of laughter, lor t awyeid Fs
s "Tes. but it killed the other fellow.
I for, don't von see, it enabled Foster tio
Sshoot hiam."'
"o "That's a fact. I expect, after ail,I
i itsa little dnegdrdes. It's the way
of with those seisntie writers, thelgh.
a They ncver tke ep b.t e side 4 a
question.- Araen ..
Wh W. Wspelsel
t1e j'etel."W.*N , apeetiog of great
at men, what do you thilb of )Napoleon
he Miss PYddxter (from Phila t *lphia).
ng -"Pshaw! he w~a nobody. Who was,
his . rr"a ,0
"o ~York)
a. .. eies fe , r or
A few-elk have been seen wFsbeie's
rae, sear Mountainase .rNevada.
There is a fish famine il.gra Cras.
Mexico, and much suffering among the
poorer elass~ has resulted in come
quence.
There are! only thirty.f.hiaSmmn in
Truckee, Arizona. owing to the ant
Chinese agitators. One-yew ago thenr
were 5,367.
London chimneys hreo elived of the
presence of lifty thousand tome of soot
every year, for which the sweepers N
ceive about $J000,000.
A monster bear camne dlow. from the
mountains near Tullahoma, Teen., oe
day lasi week and created a great
amongst the colored people. ..
The Cascade mountais. nsear
ern Oregon. are being. penetrated
a huge tunnel. Two thousand feet
the result of the work up to date.
The codfish catch on the PaaSeo coast
amounted to 1.323,000 during the past
season. Eleven vessels, employaing 319
men, are engaged in the indutry.
The striking craze has reached Freak
fort-on-theuMain, where the fashionabie
women have combined and refuse to
buy articles of French manufaeture.
The woman suffrage law recently
passed by the lower house ofthe Ve,
mont legislature required that female :
voters should own $~.0 worth of prep
erty.
A Woodland, Cal., paper give te
pleasing information that the road to
Hell's Half Acre has beeh graded and
graveled and is now in a pasqable e-- _
dition.
-'The father of the forest" in Tulare
county, California, is the largest tree is
the state. It is 450 feet highh nd
measures 138 feet around the trse. .
It is a chestnut.
Mrs. Cors Brown. of Shrub Oak, If.
Y., Is 14-years old, and has been nast
ried one year. She still wears
clothes, althou'gh she is the moter eda t
2-month's old baby.
Coyotes are causing much appObreb
sion among the sheep-owners ne 
Ukiah, Cal. They are as thiek
i flies, and have already begun' thai r 
Stacks on the focks of sheep' stha
i cinity.
A gentleman in Culpeper, MLd,
been regularly paying tax on
n$1,000 bonds which he Ne
owned, but which, it has
1 certained, were stolen by his
S veral years ago. -
' A Boeton artist bought 4 irty
vas, which proved to be a GI
SStuart, at a recent sectlod sale
to Bromield street for $13. He was
mediately oflered, $ ,00, but
ip $1,.600 if he sells it,
Ia The ormon aburp hbas pqrty
Sbandre4 missionaties scatted aI
south, and a lar theL ed
4Jmn are a naumbbr ed Askip and
meetings are he4 nightlgs.I
ag youngo md ma in5mu i
,,. goit bed the her als
d psnltos upone the
to IVanu dr ptominent
t .I New York hae i da a
hies agint the Iaq
1I lishments. Tley a
tltpir hosme aou lanatma t
DIring hbs summer a
took pooasnof of ae
one a near Sinn
a when the owner Weut'to ki
he - tilesd one day l ast .
r seven pounds of,the
rapc are now
reMedy for obesitt.
e is given the patiet t
e day, d Urs amoat
hd e ce dbat bd or six
fleet Tedbo is
he thedkiet atlast4 ooaiRn
he A A bin e&Mitaeous coal
y ven, Conn., gsoo lOI
e and 14 feet deep
4,000 tean, aught O
"r i spite of3 ll1I
SThen workmen I
A b oU el beu" ISq,
pertolthe spire,
A Anew tubk, a
robbed In h erdi8 hotel
aa y@oun ,who aid
1 mat that the laseea we
nd The bd W in
dm4 I ekL m t
tone, Wuhi
i*d. It seemo,
Sat * lassd Orcge gse~ as M
o mea are dera terini
a) efacYt e. ! the'.I
hehovala oosea
this mwbholeome
,wa·