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effortless and awe, 1

Speak* through the straining silence? Whence, ahtwhence •

• iSt joy, «o keen, to pure anat all Mlsttince narrows to one senie, . Lapped round and round . In rapture of sweet sound?

On, lowitwins Along the steep, and lond and loud. Over the chaam and the clond. . .

- Swells In ita lordly tide ' ®J?er and higher, and nndenied.

yoll*throated'to the atari—• Then lowlier, softer, dreaming dlea and dies

Over the closing byes, -pi®» With pay spirit away, afar Swayed as on ocean's breast.

Dies Into rest. !

EDELWEISS.

"And so that is really the Matterhorn! How bare and atern and crnel it looks; like a petri­fied deoree of judgment."

"Now you suggest it," said ho; "thatexactly describes it, but there comes the flood-tide of mercy." And the rush of glowlDg sunset crimson, which swept over Alpine peak and snow-bound plateau, hushbd them both for a moment

They two had climbed beyond the meadow and the belt of green larches and pines that hemmed it in to see the sun set as it sets nor

where else in like glory. At their feet lay Zermatt, nestled in under the frowning heights but that made the feeling.of isolation only t)Je deeper; the two old ladiea who completed their sunset party had sat down breathless, fifty yards back, and to all practical purposes they were alone with the mountains, he and she.

Pair samples of their age and period, both of them. She, Blight, fair and gentle, with the ex­quisite coloring and quiet grace of manuer that declared her nationality before one heard her English softness of speech; he, tall> dark and active; English, too, one would have said, ex­cept fo,r ^ certain ner.vous energy and.a haif Wggesiioii of difference of accent and inflection oi voioe.

Btooped his tall head to ask that last question with a lowered voica Decima'a head- was bent, as if to hide the face it was too dark for him to Bee, and for a momenf she did not speak. - Then- she slipped her small- fingers from the clasp where they still rested, and looked up.

"Yes, I understand,'1 sho said, very low and very quietly. "Thank you—good night,", and Bhe vanished into the gulf of light, and left him alone in the outer darkness.

' * • n. '"Where's Verriker gone?" was Capt Here-

ford's morning greeting as Deoima appeared at breakfast "I want to settle that trip to the Oorner Grat, and now he can't* lie found.. I wish to heaven young people would have some consideration. But Dechna prudently re­frained from all remark. At dinner her fath­er's indignation was still higher. .

"What ou earth that young fellow's lip to no one can think 1" he.jsjfOwled over1 his thin soup. "Started off afcsnferise this morning; wouldn't take a guide—only his alpenstock and nailo ooois, anu rwo a ay a provisions, must oe mau aess in his family Bah! beastly stuff this lake it awav!"

At suppor he was cynical "This comes of picking up traveling companions! The young fellow looked a gentleman, bnt no doubt he's one of the swell mob—just seo if my dressing-case is intact, will you, Decie?—or "flying from his creditors. At' all events, one gentleman does not treat another in this way. Pray, did h e h o n o r y o u w i t h . h i s p l a n s , D e o i e ? ! ' .

"No, pajjfc," ssiifl poof Decio,' l>ut she could say no mare; orn she knelt a long, -J^ng time before her Window.that night, looking, up at the Matterhorn's jigged,peak, a» it, dione in the mormlifht • * *

\

They were friends of just a fortnight's stand­ing, and had met at Chamonni in the most com­monplace way possible—a mere tablo fV(jqte acquaintance. But Ralph Verriker was cross­ing the Simplnu to Zermatt, and Capt. Here­ford and his daughter had vague intentions in that direction, too; so they 'drifted together Bomehow unci joined forces, and the last fort­night had been, at least to one of them, a whole fortnight fresh from Eden.

Perhaps many men might have found two weeks of such daily intercourse and inti­mate association with a mind eo pure and a spirit so sweet as Decima Hereford^ fatal ..to their peace of mind; bnt the peace of mind;of some people is a thing soon to be restored; and many men are novor so happy as with some such disturbing cause. Not so Ralph Verri­ker; there was a Btreugtli of will in brow and chin which weut to show that his was not a fancy lightly to wax and wane, and the most cauBiial observer might have read his present state of mind by only too obvious signs. I desire to exhibit all dne respect to age, but truth rules me; aud my testimony to Capt. Hereford's intense unpleasantness as k traveling companion only throws up Verriker's slavish objection to him in a more amiable light; and, as all virtue reaps some reward even in this world of injustice, Ralph's pay­ment had come with compound interest on this July evening, when he was aotnally irtrusted with the sole guardianship of Miss Hereford's personal safety in their sanset expedition. There was a delicious thrill of exultation to hitn in tho situation; they weire 80 Utterly alone.

The world had died And left the twiin in solitude;

and to enjoy tho unearthly glories of an Alpine sunset iu the companionship of a perfectly ap-

Sreciativo and symputliciic naturo, is a grati-cation not granted to every soul. Thero \va-» not much need of spoech after

that last lilazo of shifting color; eye met eye, and said more than words could do"; then there was a liri-iithlcss, almost awe-struck pause, Until tlio opalescent lines began to fade; and then Verriker held out his hand, for the path below them stretched down rough and steep., . "Come," he said, almost below his breath; 'that's enough; let us go before the end; all the rest will he anti-climax."

Down the slopo they went together, he guid­ing her, the small glovod finger still restiug in

•his, while tho two old ladiea trottod on, far frtiead, in amiablo oblivion. The awe and the Wonder were on her still, and she could not come back to oarth so soon again;.but a young man is bnt human after all, and Verriker was conscious, with every fiber of his frame, of the light contact of her hand with his. But once within the pine woods sho came to herself, drew a Ion? deep breath, and with a tint in her faco*»liko a reflection tossed back from the roso-dyed hills, withdrew from the support that was not now demanded by the exigences of the pathway.

"It was almost too beautiful," she said. "My first real sunset since I came to Switzer­land, you know; and then, the Matterhorn! To you it must be such liackneyod experience that you can hardly understand what it means to me."

"Yet I think.I can call," he answered. "No amount of repetition can stale a sight like that; and it's not so many years since I left Oxford and niado tho grand tour first"

"And you have been abroad so often siuce, you say. How different from me! I was never aoross the channel in all my life before, and scarcely even out of Stockmgham."

"Stockingham? Is that whore you live?" "Yes, I have lived there ever since I was a

little child. Do you know it?" "Only geographically, I'm afraid; somewhere

in the Midlands, isn't it? Is it a nice sort of place?"

"Oh, no! not nice—not pretty at all; a great mtnufactnring town, with enormous lace and stocking factories, all hard, and busy, and money-making; nothing beautiful. I think tho only nice thing in it is the school of art, a splendid one, for laco-designing is such a branch thero. I spent my happiest hours as a child, studying at that avt'school. Switzerland is the first realization of my childhood's dreams of beauty; but your life must hare oeen so different!"

"Yes, different enough !'l with half a smile. "I am international, you know. My father went to America very young, and married a New York girl, and after his death I was sent to England to be educated. Eton and Oxford made me an Englishman, aud foreign travel finished the compound. Yet my mother and my homo are in New York, and I often think there is a good deal of tho American left about toe Vet" «

"1 am sure of it/' she answered demurely. "I have heard you say, 'Whyi certainly!' at least a dozen times, and . vou distinctly 'guoased' one day at Martigny!'*

Verriker laughed delightedly. Did she act­ually remember so small a thing about him? But as the needle clings to the magnet, so the lover cleaves to one subject, and he was back again in an instant to the chief topio of in­terest.

"Speaking of guesBing," he said, drawing nearor, "I have had a fertile matter of spec­ulation in your name. What is it Capt Here­ford calls yon? Decie? How quaint and how protty! I never heard it before." ' Oh! it is short for Decima. Do you like it?

I always think it so angular and mathematical. I was tho tonth child, and the only one who lived out of childhood. It seems so strange that I should have been the one to grow up; I often wonder why."

Ralph looked as though he could have offerod & solution to that problem; bnt they were out of the woods now, aud on the high road, and a crowd of lingering children, venders of pebbles aud lichen aud Alpino flowers, saw in the be­lated travelers one last chance of centimes Bent by a beneficent Providence, and rnshed up through the gathering twilight like a horde of licensed banditti, screaming and jabbering vo­ciferously.

"Edelweiss! Oh, is it really the edelweiss!" exclaimed Decima, as a white-flannely-looking vegetablo was thrust into her face. "The first I have seen! I must have it" And she hasti­ly felt for the pocket which women now-a-daya wear rather as a penance than as a convenient receptacle, but Ralph interposed with an en­ergy which startled her.

"Miss Hereford, don't! I beg you wont think of it—pray don't Selling edelweiss; was there ever such hideous profanation? It's liue selling the bones of one's familv for knife handles. There, take that, you small reptiles !" And tho whole crew vanished, yelling, after the handful or small coins that rattled viciously down the hillside. Decima stood transfixed with surprise; then Ralph's face of righteous wrath struck her with mirth, and Slie burst into a merry laugh.

"What an exercise of ferocious sentiment!" she said, when she could speak. "What can it all be about?—not one little scrap of white flower, surely? Why am I not to have it?"

"Don't you really know?" he asked, laugh­ing too at his own vehemence. "Perhaps I was rather violent, but the vulgarization of the present age is a thing that disgusts me be­yond words. To sell edulweiss!—and for you to buy! But don't vou really know?"

"Know ? I know nothing except that it is a Swiss flower, aud grows just ou the edge of the eternal snow; and that I want one very much, as a memento of my visit to Switzerland; but that doesn't account for the energy of your conduot in defrauding me of it"

"Then you don't know the story—the mean­ing? No? Well, then, listen; and give me your hand once more, please; this bir of path is rough again.

"Once there was a maiden—ao the legend runs—so fair, BO pure, so heavenly-minded

y that no suitor was found worthy to win her; and so, though all men vainly sighed for her, at last she was metamorphosed into a white, star-like flower, and placed high up on the loftiest .mountain tops, close to the'snow she

• resembled, to be forever a type of the woman­hood that is purest and most lovely. And, be­cause {he flower was only found through peril and toil, and an upward Btruggle, it be­came a saying through all the cantons that to win the love that was highest and no­blest was "to pluck the edelweiss;" and no higher honor could any lady merit than to have the littio white flower placed, as her own em­blem, within her gentle hand. So at length ft grew to be saoreato betrothals, as the orange blossom is saored to marriage; and no maiden might be won till her lover had scaled the perilous heights himself, to seek the priceless edelweiss, and lay it at her feet And, like the, Scotch white Henher, it told in itself the old sweet tale; for, if the maiden took his offering, the hapoy lover might hope; and if she placed it in her girdle or. bosom, then be -knew that "she wad his. Now, do yon, understand why I cannot bear the edelweiss to be profaned—why I would not letyou wiy it?"

They had come out close by. the hotel now— the hotel with its yellow - tide of lamplight pouring from the open door and a babble of voices,. French, German, English, sounding from the high; balcony;amon$ them all thi gruff tones they both knew,Taised >n d^nnn-oiati-ra of th Jtwnnar^eastoniA , of tlieoomjrtrj.

the moonlight All the next day it Was the same; more irri­

tation from her father; more apprehension in her own heart and a sort of sickening feeling Of unspoken terror^ . People at the hotel began to wonder,too; tospeculate what tho rash youug American could have meant to do—when ho would return; to talk of the folly of venturing to climb without a guide; to /shake their heads. Tho hot day had cooled off iuto another brilliant night, and, again Decima knelt at her low window in the white moonlight, trying to soothe a foveiish headache, and to pray; whan all at once some one loomed out of the shadow below—Borne one whotn oven' that light showed to • be wdaiy and wprn and travel-stained; an- eaggrj voice whispered her name; and, borne high on the'* point- of a tall alpenstock, something was laid gautly down upon the win­dow-ledge at lier^aide. No neod to see what it Was'; tttepr&yer ended in-a passionate thanks­giving, and while a buret of welcomo, con-gratulat ons and questions burst from tho liotel party below, the pale moonlight shone upon a girl's face press3d upon tho small hard pillow of a narrow bed, aud a starry white flower,.bedewed with happy tears. . Half .tin hour , latoif as Capfc^ Hereford "sat smoking his cjgii? rtpori the UeaQrteQ Jbjjlcony, Ralph Verriker: came to him; £rumf>ling an 'envelope in hl»~ hand,'and looking' disturbed and agitated.

"May I sneak to you on a matter of great im portunce?" he asked. "I have just found : telegram'awaiting trie from America, summon­ing me home at once. Some one is dangerously ill—it does not Bay who, but I ftar it must be my mother. 1 must start. at day­light to-morrow; too much' time j has • been lost already by the telegrabl following me about so. But before I go I must say a word to you, sir. I don't supposo you will beniudh surprised that I have learned to love your daughter—no one could help it, I should think; and I hope—I dare to hope—sh likes ma just a little.; May I write to; hqj-'^ ought to tell you I aifc not a riohjrianj'lhave almost nothing of my otvn, for though my uncle makes me a fair allowance, I liavo cousin who is his heiress, and he will leave m nothing. But I am young—I am strong—I can work. I will get something to do at once, if only you will give your consent"'

A student of Lavator might have reaped years of education froni a study of Capt Here­ford's face during this address. Surprise, be­wilderment, consternation, chased each other over his countenance, and eventually gave way to a strange expression, which it was, unfortu­nately, too dark for Yerriker to observe, or he might have been a wiser. man. To tell the truth) Decima's father was too self-engrossed to have noticed Ralph's devotion; and perhaps even had this suitor been the man of means his appearance and surroundings had lod Capt Hereford to believe him, it would have been a soro struggle to consider his daughter's happiness before his own; but as t was, this candid avowal of poverty, for many reasons, took away his breath, and decided the question on the instant. His only thought was how most plausibly to give an absolute check to such presumptuous hopes. '"My t!eat. Verciker!" He cleared his throat,

then want oij mote firmly: "I'm very sorry— very. I confess I never guessed at this till very recently, but it's out of the question— quite. Not alone the nationality aud limited means—i trust I'm as free .from narrow prejudices as any man—but the fact is, my •ear fellow, my daughter is—ah—hum— already engaged."

"Eugaged?" uttered Verriker, in a voice of horrified incredulity.

"Yes, ves," rejoinod the reprobate, growin bolder with success. "Why, the wedding's all but settled—old friend, you kuow, and all that 'Pon my word, I'm sorry, Vol riker;'' and thero was enough shame left in tho old mau to make him blush in the darkness.

"But Miss Hereford," stammered poor, be­wildered Ralph; "I had thought—I had dared to hope—" and ho stopped short.

"Yes, yes, I think she feared so. I saw it in her manner. She's vouns. vou know, and teuder-hearted; perhaps she seemed too kind. There, there, Verriker, don't take ltTo heart;" and for a moment even this villain was touched with remorse.

Poor littio Ducie. No need for her to blush and tremble, and steal into the breakfast-room with downcast eyes and noiseless step, next morning. Only Ralph's vacant chair stared her in the face, and her father was deep in a week-old Times.

"Oh, by the way." said he, with an off-hand air, avoiding her eye, "Verriker's gone in earnest this- time. He came home late last night and found a telegram, so he's off for America early this morning. Bore, isn't it? Didn't even leave you a message; but no doubt he meant mo to say everything civil. Can you start for the Gorner Grat to-day? Why, child, what makes you wear that ugly scrap of edel­weiss in your brooch ? It is a beastly plant, and bears as much resemblance to a flower aB a sea-anemone does to an animal!"

Ah, well! it is woman's part in me to watch and wait with pleasant, smilicg face and break­ing heart. Why shonld Decima have had a happier lot than millions of siBters? This sort of trouble does not kill; ii only whitenB the hair, and dulls the eyes, and ploughs ugly lines in a smooth young face, and steals away the youth, and the brightness, and the spring. Wqy should Decima complain! She had what what -jmost women have—a relic or two, a torn glove, a shriveled scrap of flower, a memory , a heartache. What would she have more? Life was pot .oyer for her yet, alas! There was her old faf?hdr; 7ffqd;to him sho devoted herself^ little dreaming, poor child, of the cruel wrong he bau done her; and as the months dragged iway, newer, more urgent cares and troubles began to push the old pain into the back­ground—till there came a day when a co-oper­ative company broke^ and with it. went all the commuted pension her father had 'invested in it, and they were penniless; ahe young and strong, and eager to work, if. only she could find work to do; and he a weak old man, stricken into ••iidishness by ttie blow1 that? tooK away his all "toe would gladly wprk. if work were only to be found; but every place seemed so over-full already: and at last one day, in utter despair, she called on an old friend, a lace manufacturer, and asked if she might not try some of the lace-work Stockingham women do in their own homes—clipping, mending or drawing threads from the machine-made lace.

Old Mr. Stacey's gold eye-glasses needed fre­quent polishing, and his handkerchief came into constant use, aB she talked; but.he was too shocked at her story to answer anything but that she ought to have better work than that to do; and she was turning rather sadly to go when be called her baok.

"By the way, Decie," he said, "perhaps you could help me. You have been in Switzerland. Do you know. a Swiss flower called the edel­weiss?"

Did she know it? Her heart leaped up, but she assented very quietly.

"Because I'm at my wits' end. An American buyer has just come over, and wants to order a large amount of lace with the pattern of an edelweiss. I shall lose the order if I can't ex­ecute it in the next fortnight; and where to get the design I don't know. I've sent right and left and can't find even a picture of the thing; my designers don't even know it by name. You don't happen to have a sketch or a specimen of it, do you?" .

"Oh, yes. I htfve—I have a flower." "No—have you? By Jove! how lucky!

Could you—would you mind lending it to me for a few days?"

"Ob, but t believe I could do better than that—I think, with a little, help, I could de­sign you a pattern. 1 picked up a little de­signing at the School of Art years ago, and 1 know something about lace, for don't, you re­member your girls and I all learned to make nillow-laco once, for fun?"

"Upon mv soul!" said Mr. Stacey, quite breathless. ""Decie, my dear, you're an angel! Just bring that flower "to my designing-room to-morrow morning,'and try what you ana my designer can do. Ana look here; child, I'm to have a £1,000 down for- the patent of that lace, and if your pattern answers you shall have a £100 of it And what'B more, lote more work of the same sort, better than clip­ping or drawing, eh, Decie?" -And with a joy­ful heart Deoima sped home.

Yet she almost hesitated when she unlocked the little cedar box, which was the coffin of her dead past, and laid the small silvery blosso m on her soft palm. Would he not have oall ed this a profanation as complete as that of the poor Swiss pebble venders? Ye( had he no) been guilty of a greater vulgarization and des­ecration when he won her love only to cast it aside like a withered weed?

And all the long hours that she sat by the designer's side, patiently guiding bis adapta­tion of the bewildering threads to her graceful drawing, while the - Alpine flower lay before them- on the smoke-blackened table, there seemed to ring in her ears the tones of a never-forgotten voice: "Hideous profanation! I cannot b?ar the edelweiss to-be profaned?" And, as if in answer to a real accusation, ber lips would move in the voiobless murmur: •Tormy father's sake" ..

Slowly," slowly the design grew into shape, exercising a strange facinatib.i over Decima, as she lingered over the border* which was to simulate .the ridges of Alpine show, and touched up the tiny flower in perspective, which sLe insisted on putting instead of the conventional sprig so dear to macbine-lace de­signers. There had never been so original and. so exquisite" a latfe made, tbey said;/ and the exultant buyer overwhelmed Decima with congratulations before he - sped back across thn Atlantic, to dazzle the "eyes of the American ah>.rket wi.fh this latest} ttfamplt of the tockiiiguan^loonis; while Decima walked hflOM to^AyOMrteip littw sliabbr. hon«* one

night, ncn in a ban tang account oi *>iuv, ana prospective work and wages.

She was so happy that she even tried to make the story plain to the poor childish wreck that had once been Capt Hereford; and to her delight he listened, and seemed to under­stand. till she came to the end, and held up the bit of edelweiss that had laid the corner-stone of fortune for them both. The sight seemed to awake some loeg-dormant chord af associ­ation, for he moved uneasily in hiB arm-chair and muttered, "Switzerland, Switzerland," then seemed to doze heavily; and by and by awoke with a start of terror and a great tremb ling.

"Decie, Decie," he cried, with working features and frightened eyes. "You never knew; I sent him away, your young Amerioan lover. He was poor, and 1 could not let you go and leave me. I told him you were engaged to Bomo one else. I lied. Can you forgive me ? Do you mind much now?"

For just one moment Decima was silent, there was almost a recoil from tho wretched figure in its eager remorse; then she knelt down aud drew the poor old gray head to her young breast.

"Hush, mv dear, hnsb," she said brokenly "indeed, 1 forgive you; no, 1 don't niind so much now—it does not matter;" and she kissed the trembling lins that still moved feebly.

And that night the old man died.

Hi. But where was Ralph Verriker all these long,,

weary months? When, with a disappointment and sickness of heart he set off across the At­lantic, after the dream so crnelly broken, it was only to find on tho other side tne news of his uncle'B death,"a will leaving him sole inher­itor of a comfortable fortuue, and a letter in which the old man Bet forth how in leaving his money to Ralph, insteac of to his niece "Margaret, as had been popularly expected, it was in the fnll hope and belief that a marriage betw een the two young people woiild mak e matterc equal, and prevent any injustice to the girl who had, perhaps, learned to regard herself at his,heire38. Poor Ralph was confounded. No* >niy liad he never regarded his commonplace couBin Madge with more than a friendly inter­est, but the bitter experience of his Swiss trip had closed the. world, of-love for him forever, ft was not in "vain that nature'had given him that resolute brpw and chin, and a character which was So fonnod as to bo able to love bnt once for all. So at first his only thought was how best to atone to Madge for the wr.)Ug done by hid heirship; but this waa not tho easy matter it seemed at first sight; the bulk of the property was so disposed as tc come to him only in event of his marriage, and it was so settled upon his heirs as to loavo him a little more than a life interest t, and to render it impossible to alienate

irom himself. Ralph looked very grave as tho conviction slowly dawned upon him that Madgo and duty were identical; and his mother's urgent entreaties^ that he should give her tho daughter she had always longed for— all pressed into the same scale.

"1 know she has always cared for you," she kept repeating, aud though Ralph wa-> a modest fellow enough, the assurance seemed another claim. He told himself he was begin nmg to forget the woman who had been all too kiud, and honestly thought the pain of remembrance was growing less—only because he instinctively avoided everything that could remind him of the bitterness of the past; and he "himself hardly knew that he alfr&ys scanned the first; column of the Times so narrowly. 'She Waa married long ago, no doubt; and it was only right that he should marry Madge. He used to repeat the list oi lier virtues to himself, and try to feel convinced thut matter-of-fact, good natured common­place was. by no means a. drawback, in th« mother of one's children; and that it Was a blessing Madgo had no sentiment, and would not miss the love ho could not give her.

And so it came to pass that a certaiu night found them both at a New York reception, and at tho crisis of their fate. He had led her away into the conservatory, a gorgeous affair, blazing with rare exotics and colored lam is'; with shaded nooks and the splash of a tinj fountain—a sort of Fifth avenue gaiden oi Eden.

They had both heen sitting silent—they never had very much to say to each other—and Ralph, as he sat, elbow on knee, stroking his mustache, looked more like a culprit thao a lovor, for ho h»d made up his mind to settle matters to-nighr, and nevfr liad duty looked sc unlovely. Yet Margaret was at her best to­night, less florid and large than usual, and fai softer and gentler than he had ever seen her, with none of the loud colors he had such a horror of—all in simple snowy lace and muslin.

'What a pretty dress, Madge," he said kindly; "I never saw you look so well."

Madge's face brightened. She was rathei afraid of Ralph in general; he was so odd, and talked of things she did not understand; but dress was a subject on which she was at home.

"Yes, isn't it lovely?" she said, with anima­tion. "Just look at the lace; even you'll admire it, I should think. It cost me some­thing,. lean tell you. I daren't say what a hard, though it's only machine-made. But 1 evought myself very lucky to get it. It isn'i even in tho store yet. I'm the first womau in New York that lias a dress of it Mr. Slatei let me have it out of his wholesale place as a great favor—Silas P. Slater, you kuow, on Pearl street; liis buyer had just brought it ovor from England."

Ei'-plt hardly heeded her placid talk; he had bent down dutifully to' examine tho lace which she indicated; but he raised his head with a sudden start.

It is the edelweiss!" he satf, and then stopped short. That whole bright scene—con­servatory, flowers, lights, Margaret's plumr farm—air faded from Before Lis eyes, ana in­stead rose up the snow-clad hills. There was a glow of sunset light in the sky, a hush of twilight in the air, two dark figures hand in hand; his own voice, quick and eager, smote on his ear: "Profanation—vulgarization!" *

What had he been about to? He started to his feet in violent agitation, and walked to the door and then to his cousin's side. His face wore a look no one had ever seen there before —a look of deep shamo.

"Madge." he said, "I'm afraid I'm a brute: forgive me, please; but I meant to ask yot something to-night which I had no business to do; I can't doit. What I want to ask you now is, if you will let me give you half of Uncle Thomas' money annually—the money that ought to be all yours. It's left so unjustly thai Tcan't give it to you out and out; but vou'il lei me do that?"

Margaret stared at him for a moment, then bnrst into a hearty laugh.

"My gracious, Ralph!" she said, "is that all! I know what you meant, and you've tried your best, though I guess aunt rather egged you on; but it was no use; I saw that as soon as you came home from abroad; some other girl had been first As for me, don't bother yourself. I told Oharlie Anson last night that Pd marry him. I like him awfully, and he'i twice as rich as you, you know. But you spoilt my story about the lace. Of course it's edel­weiss; that's what they call it—edelweiss lace—• eome Swiss flower, Mr. Slater says. And he told me about it—in confidence, of course-how it was designed by Bome young lady in Stockingham, to help her sick father along. He was a captain in the British army and lost his money. Wasn't it queer? Did Mr. Slater tell the girl's name? Mercy! Ralph, how strange you look! Yes, he did, but I forgot it; it was like one of those English cathedrals; Gloucester, ox Worcester, or something. Not Hereford? Why, yes,"it was! How did you know? And what on earth are you doing?"—for Ralnh was oh his knees at her feet, penknife in hand. "It's my best flounce. Stop this minute!"

I'm going to have a bit of that lace—jusi one flower!" said a smothered voice.

And the endl. Ah, well! the end— I do not rhsflie to that dull elf Who cannot picture to himself.

The Arabia sailed at 10 o'olock the next morning; but we will not follow. It is alone in the silence and solemnity of the Bacred mount­ain top that the climber reverently gathers, and places in his bosom, to wear and cherish there forever, the love that has been won after long pain and trial—the peerless edelweiss !— CasselVs Magazine.

Something About Bread-51akinsr. By the process of bread-making it is intended

to convert the flour of certain grains into a cellular structure, in which it is mo3t easily chewed, saturated with the fluids of the mouth, and digested. In order to arrive at this end, alcoholic fermentation is resorted to from olden times, by introducing the same in the dough by means of brewers' yeast. Thus a small part of the flour is converted into glucose, which again is transformed into alcohol and carbonic acid. The former is recognized by its peculiar vinous odor, exhaled by tho loaves, when suffi­ciently raised. Both gasee produce the raising of the dough—L e., the porous and spongy ap­pearance.

By this fermentation the flour not only loses weight, but the bread also attains qualities which may injure the process of digestion.

In order to evade these inconveniences, chemists have long ago searched, to impart the spongy structure of the dough by other means than veast, respectively by substances evolv­ing gaseous bodies, or "which in the oven are transformed into gases themselves To the best known belong the bicarbonate of soda and cream of tartar, certainly well known' to all housewives. And with regard to mostbf the baking powders of the trade, they are mainly ^reparations containing these substances/ However, it cannot be said of any of them that they exert a beneficial influence on the system, not to speak of 'he adulterations to which most of them have lately been subjected

We are glad to. learn that Prof. E. N. Hors-ford, of Cambridge, Mass., who held the chair of ohemistry in Harvard university, invented

.some time since, a baking preparation forming ah exception to those spoken of, which has al­ready attained universal reputation.

The idea by whieh Prof. Horsford was guided was not only to furnish a substitute: for orewer's yeast, but also to provide those nutri­tious constituents of the flour lost in the bran in the process of bolting. ~ These are the' so-called phosphates, wbion are also, the nUtri-ive salts of meat, and of the utmost importance

for the building up of the organism. , llf .we takeinto cohsideration that the nutritive value of wheateri^flour . is from.12 to 15 per cent less than -OF ft* .Wheat; grain, and tHat' this loss is now restored by Prof. Horsford's. invention, then we must look tipon it its of the greatest; national. 4cciiiomio~ importance. As Justnft vbn Liebig.- said: >(^he result *ls the same, as if the fertility of our wheat fields had been increased by - one-seventh or one-eighth."^ •, l

Consumption, Dr. Felix Oswald says, is more easily cured than any othei chronic disease. He blaimsthat all bat the last stages of the disease can be snb-dued by, oat-door .exercise. .'"

A»; A.bell, proprietor of'the Balti­more San, is estimated to be worth $15,-

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Fashion Notes and Hints. While the whim lasts there is a new

industry , for, some clever girls and women in fashioning the clustered loops, bows and Rosettps oat of two or three shades or contrasting colors pf the very narrow satin.ribbons, and arrang­ing them for the ornamentation of skirts, sleeves, bodices, or as epaulets upon the shoulders. Upon one sbort dress for a girl less than five feet {ugh, over four hundred yards,(nearly, a quar ter of a mile) of narrow ribbon is said to have been recently, expended. vast amount of work is also put into ruching (frayed out,) "made very soft and thick; into shirring; and above all into embroidery. All high class modis­tes have now what are known as "nat­ural embroiders" in their pay, or upon their staff of workers, who will exe cute to order any design, with or vithout a pattern, and produce some exquisite effects.

The fashionable parasol for the conn try is of cotton, in handsome satine and chintz cretonne. They are not at all cheap, but are considered stylish be­cause they are ugly and have huge twisted handles in natural wood. Bright red parasols of large size are so commonly seen upon the streets that this may be considered their last ap­pearance, a sort of farewell season for them. There is an immense reduction of cream parasols, trimmed with Spanish lace, and thousands have been thrown upon the market in consequence of the threatened retirement of this species of dentelle and the favor bestowed upon its successor—"Van t>yke'* guipure. But real hand run Spanish lace is too effect­ive to be easily displaced j and there are combinations of Spanish patterns with guipure that are beautiful and will re­main beautiful and desirable always, ^ Rich fancy silks and black and white checks are high in vogue and they are small checked silks with raised velvet flowers upon them that are greatly ad­mired. The checks are not used for bodices but for skirts, the bodice being of plain velvet, satin, or woo). With shepherd's check, black Camel's hair looks better for the Jersey bodice than black silk, has more depth and is better suited to the useful character of the material. The velvet checks require a velvet bodice, but such a dress cannot I'e worn with any comfort in very hot weather, although fashion persists in asserting that this is the most "velvet" of seasons, and velvet does really enter into a majority of the more elegant toi­lets either as a part of the fabric or trimming.

At the rooms of the society of associ­ated artists at New York, may be seen a pair of curtains that are certainly re­markable. They are the work of Mrs. Wheeler, and the design consists simply of jars, old blue and bronze, filled with roses in every imaginable variety and stage of growth, painted in silk and crew­els upon silken canvas. But first these roses w:ere painted from nature, at St. Augustine, with the brush; every rose, every suspended leaf being a portrait which was afterward embroidered in de­tail and grouped with the needle. The result is a marvelous mass of color and form that seem to have the soul as well as the body of a beautiful rose garden.

Quite the prettiest and coolest of trav­eling dresses are composed of spotted foulards—dots in two sizes—made with pleated skirt or chemisette of plain foul­ard on the ground color and with a plain fichu trimmed with lace. The hat is of straw, the shade of the silk, and is trimmed with cross folds or half handkerchief of the dotted fabric. Other very good designs are in plain wool, dark grey, navy blue, or biscuit brown, made with Jersey bodices, the jacket form outlined with velvet and velvet upon the apron front; the bonnet of black or colored straw triinme 1 with velvet and fruit—cherries or wild black­berries.

New features of lingerie consist of straight, narrow collars and square cuffs in lace and also in linen lawn ornamen­ted in drawn work. Small round turn­over collars for morning wear are of pale blue or pink cambric attached to

yoke and decorated with minute vine of needlework. The

newest collar consists of a straight band of velvet with a triple pleating of lace or lisse set up on the inner edge and p iabot of lace in front. A pleated skirt has taken the place of the vest and this is often of lace or silk muslin.

Flannel for traveling or for seaside appears more frequently in navy blue and grey than in any other color, and is always made up with close sleeves and close fitting Jersey bodice. The long Sweck gloves, the "Ruy Bias hat with its aigrette of feathers, the soft leather satchel and slender umbrella for sun or showers, of twilied silk with natural tvood handle, are features of the toilet.

babies in scanamavnu Scandinavian peasants like grand names for

theirJIi>ttl9''(MifS8, sUeh as Adolpb, Adriciu, Gott­fried, Gustavus, for boys, and Josephina, 1'hora, Ingebors?, for girls; and ir.theyhave no names prepared they seek one in the almanac for the particular day of baby's birth. It is taken to church the next Sunday and taken to church by the godmother, who provides the christening garment*, which are often trimmed with colored bows, while the infant has beads around its neck and wears a cap with very little border. The clergyman holds it well over the font and nours water over the back of the head three times, then wipes with a-towel As the baby is Bwathed in sit-inch-wide bandages eo tliat it can not move its legs, and sometimes not even its arms, it is obliged to lie very passive during the ceremonial. Tne peasants have their rea­sons for tbis swathing, the first of which is that they''think it makes the limbs grow straight ; tho Becond, that it turns baby into a compact bundle to carry. When swathed thus, infants have been said to resemble the tail of a lobster, or even its whole body. In the-North they are often hung from a long springy pole stuck in the wall, to be out of the way; and, being by nature quiet, they are sup­posed not to mind it Their cra­dles, which te very primitive, are also frequently suspended by a spiral spring from the roof, which must be more comfortable than the pole. Both in Swedish aud Norwegian Lapland people take these "awadcjlines" to church. But instead of car­rying them into church they make a hole in the Bnow outside in the churchyard and bury them in it, leaving a shall aperture for breathing purposes. The babies are kept splendidly warm while their friends within the sacred building have their beards frozen to their fur coats by the freezing of their own breaths. As soon as a peasaut boy can walk he is put into trousers, buttoned outside his jacket; and these are so baggy behind that it is often amusing to see him. This bagginess is frequently dne to the fact that the trousers originally belonged to his father, but were cut off at the legs and simply drawn round the boy's waist without reducing their size. Add to this that the feet are shod either with little jack-boots or wooden shoes, and we have a strange picture. Their stockings either have leather heels or no heels at all, so that the mother is spared the trouble of mending them. Neither has she much trouble with their heads, the hair of which is cropped as close as a convict's. The girlB also wear wood­en shoes, but they have gingham kerchiefs or cans.on their heads, frocks down to their heels, and quaint pinafores.

About Breadstufls. The annual statement of breadstuffs grown

in this country, just issued by Chief Nimmo, of the bureatk of statistics, is quite gratifying. It runs 25 per cent higher than last year, and reaches well up toward the year ending July 1, 1881, which waB counted the banner year. Of corn exportations there were some 3,000,000 bnshelB less than last year. The exportations of wheat during the year ran 12,000,000 bushels beyond those of the preceding year. The quantity of wheat flour exported during the year was more than 1,000,000 barrels greater than in the year ending July 31, 1881, and over 3,000,000 more than last year. The exports of wheat flour in 1883 were over 9,000,000 barrels, with a value of over $54,000,000. The exports of wheat during 1883 were over 104,000,000 bushels, at an average price of $1.13 per bushel The value of wheat and wheat flour exported dur­ing the year was nearly $175,000,000, and of corn $27,000,000. The corn export of the ireceding year, however, was about double lhat of the one just ended, though of a some­what lower price. The average price at whioh corn was exported in 1871 was 55 cents per bushel, in 1882 65 cents, and in 1883 over 69 cents. The exportation of rye was very small Europe gro ws a great deal of rye ana Bats it, too, but she doeB not call much on the United States for that article. The rye sent abroad last , year was less than 2,250,000 bushels, and its value a trifle over igl,500,000. A rather interesting feature of lire report of Mr. Nimmo is a statement giving the quantities exported from the various ports. New York, of course, comes in for the lion's share. Out of $200,000,000 worth of bread-atnfls exported in 1883 over" $83,000,000 worth was from the port of New 'Kbrk. This is an increase of abotrt lO per- cent over last year. The next in order is Baltimore. Her exportations of breadstuffs last joar were over $32,000,000. San Franoisoo comes next in order, her exportatious^standiug at $31,800,-000; Boston, $15j00O,OOO; Philadelphia, $13,000,000. . :

' - ' t i - "— The following ex-governors of# Ver­

mont are octogenarians:. Hiland -Hall, Bennington; .Ryland Fletcher, .Caven-dfehi Julius Onverse, Woodstock i JPaul Dillingham,- WaterburyrFrederick Hoi-

FIELD AND FARM. Choice Cooking Recifteg.

SUMMER MINCE PIK.—One cup of rais-ens, stewed and seeded, one cup of bread crumbs, one. cup of sugar, one cup of molasses, one cup qf vine'gar, one teasDOonful of cinnamon, ewe .teappoon-ful of cloves. One-half cup of butter, can be added if desired.

NICK COOKIES.—Two cups of sugar,,pne cun of sour cream, one teaspoonful oi soda, one teaspoonful of salt, mix; soft and bake quick. Flavor to suit the taste.

MINUTE SOUP.—-Excellent for supper where something warm is desired, or for the little folks when they return from school "almost starved to death." Light bread or crackers crumbled in a bowl or deep dish, add alump of butter, half a cup of sweet cream, plenty of pepper and salt, if fond'Of onions cut a few slices thin and lay over the top and pour over plenty of boiling water, and you will be surprised to see how good it is. If not fona of onions, add an egg well beaten, after the water is poured over, and sjtir well.

SCRAMBLED EGGS.—Put butter and rich milk or thin cream in your spider, and when hot break in as many eggs as wished for your family and stir them gentlv till they set, then add salt and pepper and remove before they get hard.

SHORTCAKES,-^ne cup of butter, one quart of flour, a little salt, three heaping teaspoonfuls of" baking powder, sweet milk enough to make a dough as soft as can be well handled: roll out quickly oneihalf inch thick, and bake in pie plateB or small square tins made for the purpose: when done, split and butter sightly, put oh each layer a generous supply of strawberries, rasp-berrieSj blackberries, chopped pineap­ples, sliced oranges of peaches; do not mash the berries; sprinkle the fiuit with powdered sugar, ana pour four or five ta­ble-spoonfuls .of whipped.cream over it; pour over the whole; cake whipped cream mixed with a little of the fruit. WHITE BBEAD.—Set a rather thick

sponge at night, using two yeast cakes for four common-sized Joaves. Mix with warm water, never with milk. In the morning add to the sponge one cup of butter and three tablespoonfuls of su-

?;ar beaten to a cream, and one teaspoon-ul of salt, then add flour to make as

soft as can be handled, and mold one hour. Let it rise till very light, then mold again a few minutes—not more than ten. Let it rise again, but not so light, then squeeze it apart to make loaves. Mold each loaf five minues. When light rub a little melted butter over the top of each loaf and bake. Bread made like this is deliciously ten­der, white and flaky.

A Seaside Belle. A watering-place observer thus de­

scribes a seaside belle: "She was tall, slim, and, in herself, commonplace. Her gown was made of light yellow sa­teen, hugely flowered in olive. A long, straight untrimmed skirt reached from her feet nearly to her arm-pits, where it met a mere fragment of a waist. A belt went around her body a foot above the usual place, and olive rib-boon, crossing her bosom and back, pro­vided her support in the absence of stays. She was 'such an acute develop­ment of the esthetic craze, such a reali­zation of a figure from a painting of centuries ago', that, toi the eye of an ar­tist, she might have been agreeably picturesque, but she found no fa voir in the throng of contemporaneously fash­ionable women.'"

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Preserved Butter, This phrase has long been applied in

Germany and Dutch seaboard cities to selected butter, intended for export or for use on shipboard in long voyages. It is suspected that such butter, for which Denmark has the highest reputation^ will keep for two years under any weath­er, when so packed. It has a golden yellow color, much like that of fully ri­pened hat straw. When the flat side di a knife blade is gently pressed down oil its surface minute drops of clear brine should appea,r, not in the least milky; and no butter-, but only droplets of th6 same clear brine^should adhere to the ^back side of tie tryer* when^drawn ori% these qualities should be ehxibited when the sample of butter has stood long enough in a cool room at a temperature of 56 degrees Fahrenheit, to take this temperature to the center of the mass. The analysis of several samples of the butter shows that it contains an average of only two per cent, of salt, four per cent, being usual­ly added to the fresh butter and nalfof it worked out. Its remarkable qualities seem to be due not to a large proportion of salt, nor "yet to an unusu­ally small proportion or the nitrogenous tnatters of the milk, in which matters the decomposition ending in rancidity is supposed to start; it keeps so well largely because of the perfectly unre-tainted conditiou of this matter when the butter is first made. If, through carelessness in the management of tne milk or cream, or untidiness in respect to the utensils of the dairy, the smallest quantity of tainted nitrogeneous matter is left in the butter, the seed thus sown may soon spoil the entire mass. It has been found that the long keeping butter can be made from sour as well as sweet cream. Those who handle it have also observed that summer butter, and es­pecially that made in'early autumn has the best keeping qualities. Much care in the winter feeding. of cows and in keeping their stalls clean and well-ven­tilated is required in order to get but­ter from stall fed cows in any season, whether winter or summer, which equals that from cows that run in past­ure.

l)oor yards. In few of their surroundings is the dif­

ference between people who live in the village and those whose lives are spent on the farm more plainly marked than they are in the appearance of their re­spective door yards. The average familv in the village takes a great deal of pride in keeping the lawn neat and smooth and the yard clean and inviting. Consider­able expense is incurred every year to keep the yard in good order. But the average family in the county does not spend much money for thie purpose, and devotes but little time' to tne improve­ment of their surroundings. Many farm­er have an idea that it costs a great deal to put out ornamental trees and lay out the grounds as village .people often do. One of the most important things about a nice yard is neatness. Every farmer who owns his place, can afford tc lay out a yard with a lew ornamental trees and bed of flowers neither of which would cost a great deal, and would not be re­gretted.—Working Farmer.

More Liarge Bntter Yields. The Jersey cow Value 2d, 6844, owned

by Watts & Seth of Baltimore, Md., 25 lbs. 2 11-12 oz. in seven days; test made under the superintendence of a repre­sentative of the American Jersey cattle club and others. She averaged about 46 lbs. of milk per day.

Other tests are: Lu Ln 4705,17 lbs. 15 oz,; Fair Lady, 6723,18oz.; Chrome Skin 7881.20 lbs. 10 ox. r _

Manr Ann ot St. Lambert's, 9770, owned by V. E. Fuller of Hamilton, Ont., made in 30 days 67 lbs. 81-2 oz. unsalted butter, or 103 lbs. 6 1-2 oz. sal'ed readv for" market. . Mr. Wales' Holstein cow Mercedes 723 is still ahead nearly two liounds, and M*. Fuller sends a challenge for a 30 or 60 days' trial.

V How a Pasture is Made. In Great Britain, Holland, and in

some of the best dairy districts in this country, land is selected for a pasture as it is for any particular crop. Regard >s paid to its adaptability to produce a large amount of fine, rich grasses. The soil or sod 'is prepared to. receive the seed, which is selected with special ref­erence to the production of grass-to be eaten while it is in its green state. Great pains are taken to render the soil as productive as possible. Water is sapr plied or drained offastbe wants of -the' land may require. Weeds and bushes ate extermiiiated or Icept In .subjection. Fertilizess arte applied as they are to land d.evoted to cultivated' crops. Loose soils are rendered more compact by the. use of the roller, and very heavy soils are loosened by the employment of the harrow.. or .scarifier. MOM farmers

-in this cotintry, howefver,„ neg­lect all these things, - Land isr not 'aelec-ted for a pasture. If if j foo * rocky] broken, j>r difficult- if it is too wet or dry to produce good croptof cor^grain* potatoes or roots, it is devoted to pwtux-

jttiectedjfw

poses, but the ltind for pasturage is what •yyAs rejected as unsuitable for any other upe. Sometimes a picce of land original­ly productive is devoted to pasture pur­poses.. If this is the case it is generally after it "h^s bewf .cropped tq d£a,th.M*it! is first pjanjetf to 9orn fpr. several years, then sowrf to grain for a' period equally long, and then laid down to grass suited for mowing purposes.» AfUy the crop of grass becomes so light that it 'scarcrly pays for the work of cutting, tbei farmer concludes that the only thing he can do with the land is to devote it to support; ing stock during the summer when* he expects to mfike the most out of them. There are no evidences of, beneficieat design in most of the pastures, in .this country, They are the work .oif chance or neglect.—New York Times.

HAYTI'S NEW EMPEROR.

Gen. Bazeliaa' Triumphal March Through tlie Country—President Salomon Seems Adverse to Fighting. New York World: A private dispatch re­

ceived ia this city yesterday from , Ha^ti said that Gen. Bazeliaa, commander ;of t^e ret?el forces, bad gained a deoisiye advantage, oypr President Salomon, and that Jacmel had de­clared in bis favor. This gives the, govern­ment of the island into tbe hands of the in­surgents, and Gen. Bazolias will no doubt be eome emperor in a few days. Meanwhile Pres­ident SalomoD, with his few followers, are at Port-au-Prince and will probably try to esoape to Jamaica.

Mr. Gonzales de Cordova, merehant, doing business in this city with Hayti, ana wbo is well versed in tbe affairs of that government said to a reporter of tbe World last, night that the news waa undoubtedly true, as he also had received a cable dispatch to that effect at a late hour Thursday night •

"What effect will the going over of the pro­vince of Jacmel bave upon the insurrection?"

"Well, in my opinion, it is the beginning of tbe end of the rebellion. Jactnol is a very im­portant province, and as Gen. Bazelias has cap-iured au the government arms and ammnni-tion; I tbink that. he soon will make it very tiarm for the government officials."

''What is the feeling.of tbe Haytians toward their president, Salomon?'' , .

"He is an old man—ibotit seVenty-fiVe years of age—ifrho, I believe,- came ihto the presi* dency by intrigue about three years ago. tie is s&id to have incurred the displeasure of the people by his. cruelties to the mnl&ttoes,- and these cruelties incited a revolt, wbi6h was led by'Gen. Bazelias and Gen. Bairlow. Bazelias bad incited an insurrection previous to this and had gained a victory over the government troops. He and Barlow had been banished, and meeting in Kingston, Jamaica, assembled a number of other exiles around them, and' gathered at Inagua, one of th'e Bahama isl­ands. Their first victory was at Miragoane, where they proclaimed tbat their object was ftimplv to compel President Salomon to re-"ign.

"Is Gen. Bazelias a popular man?" "Decidedly; and he is gaining ground every

day, as vou may judge from the going over of Jacmel to his side. During the last month tbe towns of Jeremie and Ause-d'Hainault ioiued bis cause, and even the government troops, who &re very well armed, do not appear to desire to fight against him."

"Is this last accession-to their ranks of any ereat importance to the insurrectionists?"

"Oh, yes; I imagine that they will feel so strong now they will immediately move against Port-au-Prince, and there, I think, they will be successful."

"And what do you imagine will be the ulti­mata result of the'revolution?"

"I think that Gen. Bazelias will be made em-leror after Salomon has been compelled to ilee. [ think the action of Jacmel has taken tbe gov­ernment people completely by surprise."

"Will this be of any benefit to the oottntry of Hayti?"

"Well, that is a rather hard question to an­swer; under a stable government Hayti could be made very prosperous, but these revolu­tions, which occur about every two years, have been a curse to the country, and, I think, always will be. Bazelias will do very well for a time, but he, too, in turn, will dissatisfy some one, and then they will have an insurrec­tion and some other one will be made rnler. In this way there can be no stable government, and therefore the country cannot be very pros­perous. "

The opinions given expression to by Mr. Be Cordova were found to be held by si number of other persons interested in the state ot affairs in 'Hayti, ail of whom believe that President Salomon will be forced to fly when Gen. Bazelias will be made emperor. They all think that the change will be of great benefit to the country, as they say Salomon was t'io aid a man to handle the reins of tbe govern­ment, and that there was need of a young man, and that Bazelias, who is about thirty-five years old, will just about fill the bill.

No official notice of the secession 2of Jacmee bad been received by Mr. £. D. Basket, the Haytiau consul, up to last evening.

Miscellany. From 1785 to 1790 New York city %aa

the capital of'the United States and con­sequently thai city Was the first capital of the Union tinder the present consti­tution. . From 1790 to 1800 Philadelphia was the seat of government; From 1800 till the present Washington city has been the capital of the United States.

In 1803 the United States purchased from France for $15,000,000 all the coun­try west of the Mississippi not occupied by Spain as far north as the British ter­ritory and comprising the whole of the present states of Arkansas, Colorado j Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska and Oregon, the ter­ritories of Dakota, Idaho, Montana, Washington and Wyoming. This terri­tory was known as the Louisiana pur­chase. '

The first steel rail rolled in America was rolled at the North Chicago Rolling Mill Company's works in Chicago, May 25,1865, eighteen years ago the 25th of last May. The steel rail cost those who made it over half a million dollars in experiments and Outlay, and when it was made there was nothing to show for the outlay but tbat the rail was an established fact. At the time this rail was rolled the Albany and Rensselaer Works at Troy N. Y., and the Wyan­dotte, Mich., were experimenting with the Bessemer converters in making steel. The steel*from which the rail was rolled was made at Wyandotte, and the plant cost $250,000. The ingot was taken [to the North Chicago Mill to be rolled.

The marvelous rapidity with which vegetation develops in Manitoba iB main­ly due to four special causes. In the first place the weather is wonderfully favorable for the necessities of farming The spring is nearly always dry, and just about the time the crops are all in, usually the end of May, the wet spells begins, and there are a few weeks of warm, showery weather, such as starts vegetation on the gallop, and one can almost see the grain and ° grass grow­ing. The second cause is the great fer­tility of the soil. The third is the lar­ger amount of daylight in that high latitude, the days being about tweilty hours long during the summer months. The crops this year promise an extraor­dinary harvest.

Virginia City, Nev., is 7000 feet above the sea level, and it is difficult to cook meat and vegetables by boiling, as wa­ter boils at a low temperature owning to the light atmospheric pressure. There has been a great deal of discussion re­cently as to the altitude atwhicu human beings can exist. In South America there are towns, such as Potosi, placed as high as the top of Mont Blanc, tbe inhabitants of which feel no inconven­ience. The highest inhabited spot in the world is, nowever, the Bud-dist cloister ofHanie, in Thibet where twenty-one priests, live at an altitude of 16,000 feet. The brothers Schiaginweit, when they explored the glaciers of the I be Gemin, in the same country, en­camped at 21,000 feet, the highest alti­tude at which an European ever passed the night. Even at the top of Mont Blanc Professor Tyndal's party found it very unpleasant to do this, though the professor himself did not confess to feel? ing as bad as they. The highest moun­tain in the world is Mount Everest (Himalaya), 29,003 feet, and the condor has been seen winging the blue air 500 feet higher.

Something like $100,000,000 is spent every summer by American travelers in Europe, the New York Mail thinks. The amount spent every summer at the New Jersey seaside resorts is by no means insignificant. One paper esti­mates that the season receipts from Long Beach to Long Branch' inclusive are not less than $8,0f>0,000 and the Philadelphia Press thinks $6,500,000 a low estimate of the reciepts from Long Branch to Gape May; so that the 3,000.-000 inhabitantaof New York, Philadel­phia and Brooklon pour out from $14,-000,000 to $15,000,000 every summer up­on a strip of sand . less than 200 miles long. The truck farmers of New Jersey have a huge task to supply fruit and vegetables for the multitude of Dleasure-seekers, but is a noteworthy feet tbat the greater part of their produce passes through the New York in&rket on its way to the seaside hotels. * — - "• -— ' . m

The English do not trouble themselves to bave written Constitution. They mil nn precedents which are found in their' parliamentary history* There Is no such thing as a copy of fbe Itoglish

TORNADOX&

Ekslerftiffcalfy Accounted for* and Sonofe Remot# Gaitfsei thai Pfoduce PitnlUl JRenAtf Eijlstaied. ' Th6 following sytfopBls of tt lecture de­

livered by Dr. Horace R> Hamflton be-for^tM eW York so'ciety tot tbe pro­motion of scienter, contains so'mirth that is timely and important that it CflA be read with both interest and profit: 'There is probably no subject of modern

times that has caused and is causing greater attention than the origin of torna­does. Scientists hiaVd studied it for the benefit of humanity^nien have investiga­ted it for the welfare ofthetf families. It has been a vexed subject long considered, and through all .this investigation the cyclone has swept across the land carry­ing destruction to scientists as well as to the inhocent dwellers in its tracks One thing, however, is certain; the cause of the cyclone must be sought iar away from the whirling body of wind itself. Its results are powerful; its cause must also be powerful. Let us therefore con­sider & fe# facts. First, the appearance of f cyclotfe is invariably preceded by dartk. spots, upon. th£ face of the sun. These spotp inaicatiA^ a1 disttffbed condi­tion ofthq solar regions, necessarily af­fect the p^mopphere of our dartb. Aft unusual generation, of heat ih one part of the atmosphere is certairt to cause a partial vacuum in another portion. Air must rush in to fill this vacuum. Hence the disturbances—hence the cyclone. This theory finds additional confirma­tion in the fact, that tornadoes come dar­ing the day and not at night. The dark spots upon the surface of the sun, what­ever they may be, seem to cause great commotion in the atmosphere of the world, and it is almost certain that the extremely wet Weather of the present' season can be accounted for oh precise­ly this basis. Is it reasonable to sup-, pose that the marvelous effect of the sun upon vegetation and life in general shall be less than upon the atmosphere itself through which its ravs come? The cause is remote, but the effect is here.

After describing some of the terrible effects of the cyclone, the speaker went on to say ,

This rule finds its application in nearly every department of life. An operator is in San Francisco—the click of the in-stru'meni manipulated by his fingers, in New York. The president makes a slight stroke 6f the pen in his study at the White House, and the Whole nation is aroused by the act. An uneasiness and disgust with everything in life, com­monly called home-sickness, is felt by many people, when the cause is to be found in the distant bome thousands of miles away. An uncertain pain may be felt in the head. It is repeated in other parts of the body. The appetite departs and all energy is gone. Is the cause necessarily to be found in the head? The. next day the feeling increases. There are added symptoms. They con­tinue and become more .aggravated. The slight pains in the head increase to agonies. The nausea becomes chronic* The heart grows irregular, anJ the breathing uncertain; All these effects have a definite cause; and, after years of deep experience upon this subject, I do not hesitate to say that this caube is to be found in some derangement of the kidneys or liver far away yom that por­tion of the body in which these effects appear. But one may say, I have no pain whatever in my kidneys or liver. Very true. Neither have we any evi­dence that there is a tornado on the surface of tbe sun; but it is none the less certain that the tornado is here, and it is none the less certain that these great organs of the body are tbe cause of the trouble although there may be no pain in their vicinity.

I know whereof I speak, for I have passed through this very experience my­self. Nearly ten years ago,I was the pic­ture of health, weighing more than 200 pounds.and as strong and healthy as any man I ever knew. When I felt the symp­toms I have above described/they caused me annoyance,not only by reason of their aggrevating nature, but because I had never felt any pain before. Other doc­tors told me I was troubled with mala­ria, and I treated myself accordingly. I did not believe, however, that malaria could show such aggravated symptoms. It never occurred to me that analysis would help solve the trouble, as I did not presume my difficulty was located in that portion of the body. But I con­tinued to grow worse. I had a faint sen­sation at the pit of my stomach nearly every day. I felt a great desire to eat, and yet 1 loathed food. I was constant­ly tired and still I could not sleep. My brain was unusually active, but I could not think connectedly. My existence was a living nfisery. I continued in this condition fot nearly a year; never free from pain, never for a moment happy. Such an existence is far worse than death, for which I confess I earnestly longed.

It was while suffering thus that a friend advised me to make a final attempt to re­cover my health. I sneered inwardly at his suggestion, but I was too weak to make any resistance. He furnished me with a remedy, simple yet palatable and within two days I observed a Slight Change for the better. This awakened my cour­age,! felt tbat I would not die at that time. I continued the uee of the remedy, tak­ing it in accordance with directions, un til i; became not only restored to my former health and strength, but of great­er vigor than I have befoie known. This condition has continued up to the nresent time, and I believe I should have died as miserably as thousands of other men have died and are dying every day had it not been for the simple yet wonderful power of Warner's Safe Cure, the remedy I employed. .

The lecturer-then described his means of restoration more in detail, and con­cluded as follows:

My complete recovery has caused me to investigate the subject more carefully, and I believe I bave discovered the key to most ill health of our modern civiliza­tion. I am fully confident that four-filths of the diseases which afflict hu­manity might be avoided were the kid­neys and liver kept in perfect condition. Were it possible to control the action of the sun, cyclones could undoubtedly be averted.. That, however, is one of the things that cannot be. But I rejoice to say that it is possible to control the kid­neys and liver; to-render their action wholly normal, and their effect upon the system that of purifiers rather than poisoners. That this end has been ac­complished largely by means of tbe remedy I have named I do not have a doubt, and I feel it my duty to m&ke this open declaration for the enlighten­ment of the profession and for the bene­fit of suffering humanity in all parts of the world.

George W. Buck, a wealthy citizen of Henry county, 111., was brought before United States Commissioner Ountill at Far­go, charged with the subornation of per-

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frauds north of Larimore. Buck was bound over in $8,000 and Lidholm in $500.

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the proprietor, 6. Blackford, 274 East Seventh street, St. Paul, Minn.

The Testimony of a Physician. James Beecher, M. D., of Sigourney,

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The Voltaic Belt Ckx, Marshall, Midi., will •end* Dr. Drt't Celebrated Elaetro-Voltaic IMta and Biectno AppUancea on trial far thirty dwito mea (jroqnt or oU) wbo are iflttctedwith nervoaa debility, loat vitality and Uodred troablM, snaranteetnc aveedr ' and eompleU leatoratiea of heaiai tad mnly vigar. Adarat <s ttwa If. B.—Ho liak iaiacarted. as thirty dars'tttal tsafip—A, fc

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Paralytic strokes, heart disease, and kid-rey affettiOUS, prevented by tbe use of Brown's Iron Bitters.

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Mathias Paulson, one of (tie pioneer set­tlers of Meeker couuty, died1 ft* Acton re­cently, aged seventy years.

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Jacob Mueller, S» respected pioneer ©f New Ulm, died suddenly.

Perry Davis' Pain Killer ia an excellent regulator of the stomach and bowelsj and should always be. kept on band, especialiy sit this season of the year, when so many Buffer , from bowef icopiplaintB. There fa? nothing s» quick to relieve in attacks of cholera. _

L. Williams, an old and respected ci tizea of Big Lake, died at his hoine in that place on t e25th.in8t., of cancer of the stomach.

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Urinary IBBITATION, . Complaints, cured by "Bui

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