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Wa'ECRsCEkAF'E.

Magicians, witches and wizards thrive
among the Turks, who firmly believe i'll the
occult art. They are employed secretly,
However, in most cases. Conceive the case
of two rival wives each longing for the
others death, They look in each ether's
faces with jaundiced smiles, and revel to-
gether through tournament of screech-
ing music; and each knows all the willie
that the other has, so to speak, sold her
soul to the Internal powers for the sake of
present revenge. Let such thing be but
inspected by the one, aud no power on
earth can turn her from courting every
spell of the dark craft to outdo her rival.
For does not her very life depend on her
resorting to more powerful means, to more
subtle secrets than the other knows of
Binding some old woman to her service,
she secretly sets to work. In magic, writ
ten words are supposed to have great power;
and if wish is written with the hearts
lif blood and in conjunction with the
names of some of the holiest prophets, its
fulflment is the more certain. Nearly
every Khanum wears such an amulet; the
religious minded, as q preservation from
sin; the superstitious, as a protection
against shaituns; young girls, to insure a
happy marriage; the aged to court long
life; ambitious effendis, to insure advance
ment; men who have two wives, to set
themselves beyond the power of spells;
and beautiful woman, to ward off envy.
But in the case of rival wife this amulet
is source of the keenest hope and the
gravest apprehensions. She must hide it
from all eyes, and yet it must never leave
her. Should it be discovered and tampered
with, it would reveal her paramount OBJ
ject, the names { those concerned, and the
end to be effected, being usually written in
side the little three-cornered packet.
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THE EARTH NOE A TRUE GL0HE.

Our planet is not true globe, because
of its former plastic condition before the
formation and cooling of the surface.
When the globe was soft it was more or
less yielding, and then the rotation of the
earth to which have referred tended to
drive off, as it were, the matter in the
equatorial regions; SO that the distance
through the centre of the earth between
the two surfaces as far as possible removed
from the poles of rotation, or those parts
of the earth which that imaginary axis
comes through, is rather greater than the
distance between the two points where the
axis comes to the surface. The reason of
that fact and that it must have been so, has
been beautifully established by several ex-
pariments. That the earth was once hotter
than it is now is therefore proved, both 10y
the Irregularities of its surface, and by its
shape as whole. We must not imagine,
however, that there has been but one
change. The minor irregularities are all
gradually changing by inner energies
the action of air and water, and it may be
that even the largest ones are young, COM
pared with the age of the planets surface.
Nor does the change end here; the equa-
torial protuberance itself may but after all
mark point in great cycle of change,
which has compelled the earth to rotate
now about one axis and now about another.
Mathematicians consider it highly proba-
BILE that the axis of the earth may have
been in ancient times very differently stu
ated to what it is at present, and, indeed,
that 'it might have gradually shifted
through 10, 90, 30, 40, or more degrees,
without at any time any perceptible sud-
den disturbance of either land or water"
Thus it appears that nature prevents catas-
trophies by the very hugeness of the scale
on which she works. Norman Lockyear IN
Good Words.
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and create harmony. You look like solid
capitalist, and they'd take me for a petty.
larceny thief" The photographer 'stood
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Evening is the lvliest time in the Green
land hur. Then the bright lamps are hurn-
ing, the kettles and pots (nade of soap
stone) all steaming and boiling over each
lamp, the women busily chatting at tLeir
work, and half-naked children running
about on the warm reindeer skins on the
ledge behind them. This is the scene 60
ing on before us. The seal-hunter has jast
arrived home from after his days toll ON
the sea, and while he is hanging up his
lines, his waterproof gloves, aud
other paraphernalia, a piece of skin
is drawn forth from beneath the ledge
and spread before him. Its contents-the
small dried fish called "angmagsat," or
capeling--he eats in silence, weary MS he
Is. This is only preliminary meal, an
appetizing pastime, while the more sub
stantial things over the lamp are getting
ready-and it does not take long to boil
seal flesh. After the fish he takes
draught from the water-pail behind the
door. The skin curtain of the ledge, hid
ing the mysteries of the lower regions, is
once more-drawn aside, and the skin, with
the remnants, disappears behind it, to join
host of the most heterogeneous articles.
good deal of talking in the relating line,
or in the chatting, prattling, merrymaking
style, is generally going on.
What remember most distinctly from
my many visits aud stays in the Greenland
huts are the stories and descriptions of the
men relative to heir sea adventures, ac-
companied by the most animated gestures,
showing how the seal had first appeared,
an then again dived down on hisapproach-
ing it; how he (the hunter) in his turn had
fingered behind till the ANIMAL made in
cautious by the ensuing silence, again rose
to the surface; and now the hunter, lean
ing back with graceful movement, shows
how he resolutey swept across long
surge and came within reach of his mark,
took aim, and threw his harpoon and blad-
der float; how the wounded animal dived
and again came to the surface, and SO forth.
In fact, he paints the scene with the most
lively colors, as we all listended in wrnpt
attention. Ny brother, WHO had lively
comprehension and a great talent for mimic
ry, lad in after years in Denmark often
to act the part of the seal-hunter, and 1t
strikes me thut had myself part in a
play representing an unsuccessful whale
hunt. Certainly we had many an hour of
amusement in the Greenland cottages. No
doubt we were very unpretending, and
easy to please in the extreme; but why
critcse the means when the result is hap
piness? And happy we undoubtedly were,
alike in the dark, frosty days, with the
moon shining down upon us at noontide,
and in the calm, delightful summer
time, with its bright sunlit nights. Tile
Field.
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THE EHESSsANs AND FARMING ~
I1ESNE,

Farming in Germany may be profitable
but it is not pretty, The COWS, from so to
60 in number, all live in one large stable
to the right of the great gateway. Each
COW has her own stall AMI manger, and
receives bountful portion of food and
water; but there she stays all her life,
ntver knowing the sweets of freshly
cropped grass, nor the freedom of the
sunny meadow. The very pigs live in
close confinement, aud seldom get the
chance of exercise; while the sheep are
taken out every morning between 8 and 0,
are marched back at nightfall, and locked
up in their stable. Now and then, WHEN
harvest is over, they are allowed to sp"nd
few lights in the fields, where a curious
wooden erection, looking like gray coffin
on wheels, serves us bed for the shepherd,
who never leaves them to themselves. In
winter their daily exercise is curtailed,
ami, when the cold is intense, ceases
altogether. The farm servants live in the
stables that is, one man sleeps in each
stable, with the horses, cows, and sheep.
Wages are moderate compared TO other
parts of Germany-very modernte com
pared to those in England-and the men
all receive their board ut the farm. Those
who have families in the village are allowed
to carry their portion away with them if
they like. The Hehsians are not an inter-
esting people-rough, hard featured, with
keen eye to their own interests, very
hazy idea about their neighborS rights of
property, fatal penchant for spurious
liquors, and strong desire to fight with
everybody when they are not soLer.
Pitched battles between husbands and
wives, mothers and sons, are not unfre-
quent; and it is well when they use only
the weapons with which nature has pro-
vided them, for scythes and reaping hooks
are sometimes snatched up in family dis
putes. Among Germans they have the
reputation of being stupid and obstinate.
Our English annals have had many oppor-
tunites of testifying to their bravery; and
they were loyal to their Prince, rs long as
they had one, and still speak kindly of the
last one, who, if he did little for them, let
them alone, and neither worried them by
interference in their domestic concerns nor
extracted many taxes. Now King Stork
has succeeded King Log; taxes are trebled,
quadrupled; old laws, civil and religious,
swept away; vexatious new ones intro
duced, and grumbliDgs are proportionately
bitter. Emigration has gone on for
generations: there are few families which
have not some near relatives in America,
usually in far superior position to those
at home. l am inclined to think that the
energetic and adventurous spirits have left
their fatherland, and that only the dull and
Supine have remained in it. THIS is al
most the only way to account for the differ
ence between the German as he is sup
posed to be abroad, and the German
as he really is at home. AL tie Year
PouDd
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nm ELEPHANT FISHING WITH
CHILDREN.

In the autumn of 1876 was living in
the interior of Bengal, and l went to spend
Christmas with my friend, Mair DAILY.
The Majors bungalow was on the banks
of the Ganges, near Cawnpore. He had
lived there good many years, being Chief
of the Quartermaster' Department at that
station, and had great many natives,
elephants, bullock carts, and soldiers un-
der his command.
On the morning after my arrival, after a
cup of early tea Gotten taken before day
light in India), I sat smoking with my
friend in the veranda of his Bungalow, b
looking out upon the windings of the
sacred river And, directly, asked the
Major about his children "a boy and girl,
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There must be some way devised for
stopping this heavy expenditure of
money in political campaigns. 1t is en-
tirely useless except to the bummers,
who are in the market. Not one dollar
in ten of the campaign fund subscribed
by candidates and innocent patriots is
used for any legitimate purpose. Some
of it is used in a way that the persons
who gave it would not endorse, and a
good deal more finds its way into the
pockets of patriotic party managers.
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GOT ss'EOOK.D

The Virginia Chr"micle tells of . green
looking couple who called at a photo
grapher's to have their pictures taken.
The bridegroom took the photographer
aside and said: "Sal and I got hitched
down at Carson last Monday. Now, her
folks 60 good deel on style, and they live
in the States. They never saw me, and
if | send my face back East they'll be dead
agin me sure. I'm darned sight better
than look, and when people come to
know me they vote me brick. Now
what I want is to get some good looking
man to sit with Sal for picture. Will
you stand in? She's willin': Them ere
side wLiskers Of yours i'll catch 'em sure
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LOVE looks up to receive higher infu-
ence, to be inspired by purer life. The
love of Christ must elevate us, or it is not
really love. If it sees mere glimpse of
what is noble, if it detects in us capacities
for good unknown to ourselves, then it is
love, then it unites US intimately and inte-
riorly with another soul. He has some
thing added to him, or developed out of
him, that was not there before.
Freeman Clarke.
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Are You Afflicted,

and wish torecover the same degree of health,
strength, and energy as experienced former
years? Do any OF the following symptoms or
class of symptoms meet your diseased eondi-
ton? Are you suffering from ill-health in
any OF it's many and mIltifarious forms, con-
sequent on lingering, nervous, chronic, OF
functional disease? Do you feel nervous, de.
biitated, fretful. timid, and lack the power
of will and action? Are you subject 10 loe
of memory, have spells of fainting, fullnes
OF blood in the head, feel listness moping
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CHICAGO is again all torn up about
Cincinnati whisky. The trouble is that
Cincinnati is able to sell high wines too
cheap, therefore the Government is re-
quired to look into the matter Cincin-
natl drugs and chemicals, Cincinnati
furniture, Cincinnati boots and Shoes
Cincinnati carriages and buggies, Cincin-
natl hardware, and dozens Of other arti-
cles of manufactured goods are subject to
precisely the same difficulty, that is, are
sold here much cheaper than they can be
from Chicago. Now what are you going
to do about it?
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A HUGE stone pen, of ancient masonry,
about seventy-fve feet in diameter, has
been discovered in the Santa Yuez Val
ley. 1t is thought to have been used for
religious purposes by the ancestors of
Sitting Bull. A bull pen of antiquity,
ss it were,
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"A Victim to Youthful FoE!ics,

or carried the marital relation to excess in
later years? Have these indiscretions and
excesses left you in weak and debilitated
condition? Are you timid, nervous, and for
getfuI, and your mind continually dwelling
on the subject? Have you
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Unfit for Business

or pleasure, and subject to fits Of melanS
choly? Are your kidneys, stomach, urinary
organs, liver or blood in a disoIdcred condi
ton? Do you suffer from rheumatism, nen
ralgia, or aches and pains? Have you beeB
indiscreet in early years aud
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In Virginia the Mofett punch registers
every drink of alcoholic or malt liquors
sold. The people Of Richmond, in the
eleven months ending July 3lst, smiled
three million eleven thousand and sixty
five times.
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Lost Confidence in Yourself

and energy for business pursuits Are you
subject to any of the following symptoms:
dreams, palpitation OF the heart, bashfu!ncss,
restless nights, broken sleep, nightmare,
confusion of ideas, aversion to society, dizAi-
ness in the head, dimncss of sight, pimples
and botches on the face ard back, and other
despondent symptoms? There are
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A long line of fearful tragedies has led
the Kentucky Legislature to pass an act
forbidding the carrying Of concealed
weapons.
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A New York pickle manufacturer
laid away $4,000 in a valise, A thief
stole the valise and left the pickle-maker
in pickle.
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Broken Down in Health

and spirits from disorders peculiar to their
sex, and who, from false modesty or neglect,
prolong their sufferings Why, then, further
neglect subject so productive of health and
future happiness when there is at hand a
means of cure? Why not throw off the yoks
altogether, and seek remedy that has
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THE National Greenback party is fig
uring just enough to upset calculations
and put the old party managers entirely
st sea.
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Science and Common Sense

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There are many diseases of an acute and
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by means of Electricity; but from all that
Electro Physiology teaches us, in regard ~
the D,oduS opGdndi of the
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Thousands Of Young Men,

and even the old, who suffer
from nervous and physical debility. There
are also thousands OF females
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In Newark, N. j., beer sells for two
cents glass, but it is a very expensive
beverage at that price.
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SPORTING MEN declare that 2:13i is
the Rarust time on record.
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yellow FEVER is abating, So is the
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DEMOCRATIC politicians have only two
days more for work.
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THE BUSINESS MAN IN POLITICS.

hh
That business men seldom fare well
after they enter politics is a fact that can
not be disputed, but is not easily ex-
plained. One would naturally conclude
that the same good business sense that
enables man to accumulate money and
build up reputation in mercantile life
would be a guarantee of his safety after
he had become a politician. But this
somehow proves not to be the case. One
has only to look around at the Cincinnati
business men that have reached bank
ruptcy and ruin by way of political paths
to be convinced that business sense is not
the kind of sense needed to cope with the
regulars in the political struggle. 1t may
be that part of these failures come from
the fact that business man sometimes
takes to politics as hope of rebuilding
an already lost fortune, but the more
general reason is because, when man
having money at his command and
not much knowledge of the ways and by
ways Of politics enters the arena for the
honors and emopments of Office the boys
make the most Of him, and pluck him
bare before he finds out that he is being
feeced He is made the victim Of party
assessments, committee assessments, ward
assessments assessments to help out the
boys and assessments to help in the party,
He is told that he must "come down" if
he wants to be successful, and is notified
of donations that must be made if he
wants TO be "solid with the boys" till he
finds that lie has spent dozen times as
much as he intended in the fight. Then
he is informed that having invested thus
largely all will be lost if he does not con-
tinue to spend his money freely, and be-
tween the advice Of one to "put up" and
another to "come down." he finds that if
he gets the Office it has cost him two or
three times what he will get out of it, to
say nothing of future demands that will
be made upon him because he is holding
an office through the success of his party.
When the party in this manner is enabled
to take in new and green victim, fresh
from the walks of business, and pluck
him Of his earnings, it makes mighty fat
times for the boys, and lightens it with
the regulars yery much, for, be it known,
the regulars, who are accustomed to
serving on committees and rails
ing campaign funds, and who are
most imbucd with party patriotism,
do not spend their own money when there
is any way to help it. They are always
willing TO furnish the brain power for
the campaign provided the finances are
put up by somebody else. 1t is this ter
rible cost of CAMPAIGN to a business
mcr that so often makes politics f4tal to
him. Now, what is the remedy? Not
fot The business man - lev politics alone,
Gr as well as ths, would be for the indi-
vIdlal The country Call not afford the
rev~dy. Political affairs are too much
n tha hands of nc bummers already.
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Lingering, Chronic, NerU-
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