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into convulsive one, usually, however
certain indications appear to those who
can interpret them.
The muscles around the mouth and eyes
may witch. The eyes may be fixed fol
few moments on some object, or on
vacancy The thumbs may be drawn
across the palms. The fingers may
clinch them. The child notices neither
words nor persons. He soon changes the
direction OF his eyes, throwing them
systematically upward, or squirting, for
greater or less length Of time. As sad
and frightful as such commissions are to
the mother and her friends, they are less
alarming than they seem to be. As soon
as the spasms begin, or earlier, the appar-
ent sufferer loses all sense of pain and is
really not sufferer at all. Give him an
enema of spearmint tea, a teaspoon of
warm castor oil, and very warm blanket
bath. Within ten TO twenty minutes the
spasmodic action of the muscles will cease
and the child will fall into quiet sleep,
and within two hours, Will awake re-
freshed and ready to indulge in his usual
plays. We do not mean that all convuls-
ions end SO well. A large percentage OF
them do. Those nearly always do that
arise from mere irritation of the nervous
system. Now and then commissions may
arise from some disease of the brain it
self.
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bowls, plates, knives, and forks-no strain
er, gridiron or modern utensil. The brick
oven is built soIidly upon the tile floor,
and is used for washing and baking. A
horizontal iron plate is fastened to the
back of it, with five holes Of different siz-
es for saueepans. 1t is very economical
arrangement, because the wood can be
used in accordance with the amount of
heat required. The long sticks are
kindled and pushed forward under the
plate as far as there is need of il, and
pushed in as fast as it is burned. When
charcoal is used, one place is kindled.
or as many more as are required There
are no towels; the sun does the drying;
the tile floors, the dishes and the natives
are washed, but left TO dry. Scorpions
and centipedes abound, but they are not
worse than snakes or bees. A little am
monia or carbolic acid destroys all i'll
effects And as the writer is anxious to
90 back to this delightful place, it is evil
dent that the fact of her having been
obliged TO kill seven centipeeds in ono
house does not seem to have left an insur-
mountabe prejudice in her mind
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BEN AIMS CREED.

II an old city under Eastern skies
There lived Ben Aim, whom men called the
Wise.
Aed all sweet youths on noble deeds intent
The golden csunsel to Ben Azin went.
Thus in the silver silence Of the night
The sage behcld a Brahmin, strong and bright
And young as Neptune when his loyer-hand
Caught back the waves from the chanored
land,
Standing within the tent master" he said,
"The way is lbu5 Ia seek the wiser dead;
aTheref,rc come to thee Tell me, / pray
What best sufliccth for lifc's fitiul day?
what dreams are whitest when the day is
spent,
Then rare Ben Aim, loving wider brow
And broader gaze than puny spirits know,
Made answer: Come, o Prince; the moon is
high;
He led him onward where a glistcning pile
OF marble makes the solemn moOnshine smile
And willing winds may draw thccurtains iold,
And fair and rayishng the scene ihe4 hoiu'
Beneath hundred pri-oncd moons swung
low
IN sIabastcr vases, glow on glow,
one LAWN -ilkcn ease. and smiled 70 see
Tie happy dancers in their graceful elet
And sighed little with q signing lyre
Whose lulling scents divincr than desire;
And smiled again because his Nourmahal
Answered with lifted, lighted eyes his call
no tumult save the yiols enters here,
Where cycamcu and musk are atmosphere.
NO schemes make discord in that charmed
air
Where to be careless is the only care.
And age STALL sither and the dead leaves fall
And stin some amorous, fawn-eyed Nourma-
hal
"WiH feed bis heart Roses and imaidcns die,
But love and bloom and fragrance are for aye"
The Brahmin faced the teacher with surprise
And swift rcpro1ehcs in his eager eyes
"If this hc lil,. I J5mprchend,' lac said,
THE smile upon the faces of the dead
Bon Aims glance grew fond = do not say
But they who choose it walk with nshod feet,
A. one know walks yondcr stricken street
Where diving children. feeling his carcss,
Take it for their dead mothers tenderness;
And men the plague lad crushed are men
again,
Iii. courage being stronger than their pain.
Poorer than lean pariahs, none may leave
4 gift 'tWould make him richer TO receive,
Because the treasures of the gods are theirs
Whose empty hands fan free Of selfish cares,
And he who only prays for other men
Is nearest Him vino gives nor asks again;
4 ruler in The world which has no sway
on lives So rich they give themselves away.
The cboic. is thine, o Prince; this purple
state
on thai high Loneliness: the night grows late"
Yet stay, my muster" said the proud young
Life j. too lavish for this harrow choice
"Sbe gives her poets bay, her couqurcr- palm,
udpower to princes and 10 sages calm.
sIs ther, mo- boon 81 All he holds more fair
Ii was u sag, WHO heard and answered there
Pleasure ,uI tca thc body. love. lhc soul,
Nor fe-buag pint crave a mcousr dole
"Crtsus ba. $40 Of cF.lthe pure have heaven.
J. There q midland unto mortals giycu.'
fra4t e, Robins, N Hmpy's Nagrztar for
Hag-
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Why People are Poor.

1t is stated ON very excellent authority
that 'thc poor have We with you always
The remark was true when uttered, and
has been true ever since, and from APP
pcaranCc, always will be.
There are those who have no DISPOSE
ton to save: who "livc from hand to
mouth, SO to speak; who take no thought
for tomorrow Having enough for the
present hour, they are content, and leave
the future to take care of itself
If property were to be equally divided
among the people Monday morning, be
fore Saturday night the majority would
he in destitute circumstances, dead broke,
while the prudent and saving would he on
the road 10 peculiarly independence.
one class of people spend whatever
money they get hold Of, and as fast as
they got it, while others save means that
come into their hands, ijudiciously invest
the same, and become rich.
There are those who not only do not
know how to save, but they do not know
how to spend. II they get anything It
gocs for what they do not need; for
articles that could be dispensed with
4 laborcr in New ork city, who had
been out Of work two years, and during
that time had occupied tenement with
cut paving a ccHtof rent, met his land
lord lately and told linn he had got a
good iob at last and now he thought lac Il
" hlv a piano for his daughter, child
seven years old
In another locality Methodist preacher
reported himself and his numerous family
to be in q condition bordering on destitu-
ton His people made up a purse OF
5000. with which he at once bought a
gold watch for his wife and a gold chain
for himself, and Kid gloves for the
children all round.
4 woman in small village bad $40
given her by benevolent ladies ~ ieed
and cloth her naked and destitute children
She forthwith expended the whole sum
in baby carriage
And that is the way the thing runs.
7 Those who are destitute Of the comforts
Of life. as a rule, may blame themselves
therefor. If they have anything they
/ don't take care of it. They buy articles
/ that people In better circumstances would
! think they could not afford.
I 50 they are always poor. Relieve their
wants to-day, and they are no better on
tomorrow. They are bound not to save
Ito have nothing. and arc generally
I bound to be in debt if they can lind any
/ body 10 trust them.
] Of course, VIC understand that people
/ are sometimes unfortunate They get
sick. or those dependent Oh them become
so. We know that people are sometimes
overtaken by misfortune but where their
4 is one case Of this kind th.Te are fifty il
which the entire trouble may he found i
/ tie indisposition 70 save.
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A Thrilling Adventure.

IA merchant wishing to celebrate his
daughters wedding, collected a party of
her young companions. They circled
round her, wishing much happiness to
the youthful bride and her chosen one.
The father gazed proudly ON his favored
child, and hoped as bright prospects
might open for the rest of his children,
who was playing among the guests.
Passing through the hall of the base
ment he met servant who was carrying
q lighted candle in her hand without the
candestick. He blamed her for such
conduct, and went into the kitchen to see
about the supper. The girl returned, but
without the candle. The merchant i'm
mediately rccolected that several bar
rcls of gunpowder had been placed in the
cellar during the day, and that one had
been opened.
"Where is your candle?" he inquired
in the utmost alarm.
II couldn't bring it up with me, for
my arms were full of wood" SAID the
girl.
"Where did you put it2'
"Well, I'd no candlcstick, SO | stuck it
in some black sand that's in the sand bar
rel"
Her master dashed down the stairs
the passage was long and dark his knees
threatened to give way under him, his
breath was chokcd; his flesh seemed dry
and parched, as if he already felt the sut-
locating blast of death At the end of
the cellar, under the very room where his
children and their friends were rcvcling
in felicity, he saw the open barrel of
powder full to the top, the candle stuck
loosely in the grains, with a long red
snuff Of burnt wick. The sight seemed
0 wither all his powers. The ,aughter
the company struck his ear like the
nell of death. He stood a moment, I'M
able to move.
The music commenced above; the feet
of the dancers responded with vivacity;
the floor shook, and the loose bottles in
the cellar iingled with the motion. He
fancied the candle was moving-falling,
With desperate energy he sprang forward
but how to remove it. The slightest
touch would cause the red-hot wick to fall
into the powder. With unequaled pres
cncc Of mind he placed a hand on each
side of the candle, pointed toward the
object of care, which, rs his hands met,
was secured in the clasp Of his fingers
and safely moved away from his danger
Gus position. When he reached the head
OF the stairs he smiled at his previous
alarm; but the reaction was too powerful,
and he fell in fits Of the most violen,
laughter He was conveyed to his bed
scnselcss, and many weeks elapsed ere his
system recovered sufficient tone TO allow
In, a.. rl..r1,,,. Ii hrt.innas
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Fifteen FOllies.

1st. To think that tho more a mar
cats the tattcr and stronger he will he
come"
ed. t. believe that the more hou>
children study at school the faster they
learn
Sd. To conclude that, if exercise j.
healthful, the more violent or exhaustive
it Is the more good is done.
4th To imagine that every hour taken
from sleep is an hour gained.
18th. 10 act on the prc,umtion that the
smallest room in the house IS large
enough to sleep in
9th. To argue that whatever remedy
causes one to feel Immediately better +,
good for the system without regard e
more Interior effects.
18th. To commit an act which is felt
in itself to be preiudiclai, hoping thai
somehow or other it may be done ia YOU
case with impunity.
Sfl. To advise another 70 take q rem
edv which You have tried on yourself
without making special inquiry whether
the conditions are alike.
9th. To eat without An appetite, or t.
continue to eat after it had heen salts
fed. merely to crafty thc taste.
10th. To eat hearty for the pleasure
experienced during the brief time it il
passing down the throat, at the eXpens'
IF whole night Of disturbed leep, and 4
weary waking in the morning
nth. To remove portion Of tn
covering Immediately after exercise
when the most stupid drayman in New
York knows that if he docs not put
cover on his horse the moment he cease
to work 10 winter, he viii lose him in
few days by pneumonia.
12th Ia contend that because tn
dirtiest children in the street or higiiwa,
are hearty or healthy therefore it j
healthy to he dirty; forgetting that cor
tinuous daily exposure to the pure ont
door air in ioyous, uBrestraincd activities
i such powerful agency for health tina
those who live thus are well in spite O
rags and filth
18th. To presume to repeat, later IL
life, without injury, the lndiscFetions, On
posures and incompetence which in tn
Hush Of youth were practiced with impu
nifty
I4th. To believe that warm air
Decessarilv impure. or that pure cold al
! IS necessarily more healthy than the con
f9ed cir Of 4 crowded vehicle The lat
| ter at most can OILY cause nausea, Will
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NIGHT.
slowly the sunset fades /:

Slowly the sunset fades;
Nights shadows fall;
The pale moon glimmers thro' the shades
Above the poplars tall;
The rivers waves amid the reeds
Like wan gray serpents crawl.
4 hushing wind doth go
In secret, where
The rllshes bend with the waves flow,
And the reeds twist like hair
Slowly stealing, till ittakes the ashen bough
With sudden gust Of air
Somewhere, too-late bird
Makes shrilly sound;
Close by, the marsh frogs are heard
Upon the weedy ground;
a white owl fits on ghostly wings
And the bats swarm around
The quiycring planets shine
Through the black night;
They seem TO hang like iire-tiies on
The tree-tops all alight;
The rustling topmost leaves all CLEAN
With silyery white
The pale moon grows apace
A warmer hue;
IL draws a vail across the face
OF night, which looketh through;
II floods the hills and hidden dells
With misty, yellow dew.
Like pale gold dew it lies
On halfsee trees;
With broad and yellow sheets it cads
The sloping iOwery leas;
Its misty smile in the fair skies
Lights up the misty seas.
A hushing wind doth 70
In secret where
The reeds within the rivers flow
Wave like long twisted hair,
And dies in silence ON the lips
OF lilies lying there. Good Words
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Mary WOIlst0necraft.

At the age of "a, when her mind ripen-
ing late like her beautiful person, was, in
spite of past sorrows, fresh and keen and
deep in its capacity for happiness, she
met Gilbert Inlay, an American of some
talent. and in course of time contracted
with him what she intended to he a life
long union Love had never before en-
tered into her tender and maidcnly heart
Her life had been as clean of thought as
nuns life; and now her oiiensC, though
great and grave one, was, in part al
least, an intellectual oficnsC; she set aside
the Divine institution of marriage, pre-
suming to think it unnecessary to real
and permanent tie. We must not he
misunderstood when we say that her of
Tense was not against puricty. The hon
est woman who out-lives two husbands
and marrics third, is more easily crit
ciscd on this head than she; and the ordi-
nary woman Of the world, who, though
blamclcss in her own conduct, Is
apathctic as to the prohigacy of
brother and son, is. to our mind.
somewhat too indulgently credited
bv public opinion with a love Of virtue
No such arbitrary distinctions found q
place in Mary Wollstonecrof'> code OF
morals As She expresses herself, The
obligation Ito check the passions is the
duty oi mankind, not a sequdl duty.
Taking the following sentences, gathered
almost al radon from her book, il is diff
iicult to think that the hand which wrote
them was yicl ,cd, except in dignity and
honor and t9itb in the clcanness OF
=. e. n,
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Female Gamblers.

Not few of the pedestrians who pass
the aberdeen, remarks Madame Vera IN
the New York Times, Ill the fashionable
hours of promenade, have assumed a
spring toilette. They look somewhat
chilled, but doubtless are comforted by
the consciousness that they walk i'll gay
attire" OF these ultra fashionables, one
is plump partridge-like little women,
with dark eyes and hair, who comes trip
ping down the street every afternoon,
dressed in light cloth suit, which fits
like glove. She is very pretty and
graceful and as proud as Lucifer. Under
an expression of great serenity and sweet
ness she is sly and artful; and, while
bearing an honorable name, and belong
ing to what is termed good society, is ac-
cused of playing cards for money. In
short she is gambler, and what is worse,
is remarkably clever at it. This pretty
little woman has charming little en-
tertainments at her house; and by and by
after some conversation, music and sup
per, she proposes cards. Seating herself
at the least conspicuous table, and con
irving to play always with gentlemen,
she proposes as bit of fun to play for
v
pleased to humor her, and later discover
she has not only beaten them but won a
nice little sum.
''What shall do with this" holding
the amount in her jewellcd hands, oh! IL
give it for sweet charity"
This little game is understood by many
people-but strangers are duped by ii.
On expressing surprise that respectable
woman would make money in this mana
ner Aunt Knickerbocker laughed, and
told me that it is common in certain
fashionable set in this city for the ladies
to gamble; and they have a card club
meet in each others houses one evening
in each week and the women as well as
the men, play for high stakes. One lady,
belonging to this club, said not very long
ago, while admiring very elegant COS
tune she had on before mirror:
This dress cost me the winning at
cards of a single evening.
A Wall-strcct broker says that he does
not see why women may not gamble with
with cards as well as in railway shares
that he is acquainted with some ladies
who are experts at that, and have made a
great deal Of money bv watching the
market and 50 forth ItiS only a revival
of old-time customs for women of high
station in life to gamble Lady Mary
Montague was fortunate at cards, and
many other noted women of her day, who
never dreamed OF concca.mg the fact. 1t
may be the Puritan element ia our cduca-
ton that makes respectable people sur
prised to hear at the present time that
women of good reputation gamble 1t
is fortunate, perhaps, that something Of
Puritanism fingers and that good breed
ing does not require knowledge OF gam
bling, at least for women.
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BALLAD.

While toying with her jeweled hand
One afternoon at three o'clock,
She smiled upon me quite rs bland
As sunbeams on weather-coek.
drew her closer to my side,
And all my thoughts Of ,orrox fled;
Then, while her half-closed fan she eyed,
II remember right, ! said:
"Ab, wherefore are you sad and strange?
Now, prithee, tell me, fairest one.
You seem Il walking 'moated range
Have you been reading Tennyson2
"Or has some dear, confidng friend
With angels gone beyond the blue9
Or do you want the Fates 10 send
Some one TO fall in love with you?
''If So, consider me the one,
I'll be your loving lord in sooth:
Now you have land and / have none"
] told her but the simple truth.
"Oh, do not send me spurncd away;
Indeed, your dispositions such,
That every minute in the day
| think about you muchly much.
"Your brow is like the Alpine SHOWS,
Your words my soul with music thrill,
Your cheek is like a crimson rose,
ooh, be my lifc's alluring light
fancy you could fill the bill;
And well live in cottage white
With flowers ON the window sill.
"That cot shall stand meath shady trees,
Twill like little Eden look:
And you shall live in joy and case,
Aud have a waitress and cook,
"And | shall guard you and caress.
I'll revere the ground you lightly tread;
And when you buy hat or dress,
Your bills shall not be audited
"Oh, fair one, make my heart elate,
love you with your matchless charms:
Oh, say that you reeiprocate
And fondly fuge to my arms"
And then she arched her marble brow
And placed her hands before her eyes:
/ fancy can see her now,
Like Aphrodite in disguise.
III nc'er forget that sp0ony day,
Nor how she turned round in her chair,
And said, with emphasis, GO way,
You horrid thing, you've mussed my hair
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entering conveyance after walking
brikly and lowering window will, by
exposing to draft, give cold infal-
libby, or an attack of pleurisy or
pneumonia, which will cause weeks and
months Of suffering, if not actual death
within four days.
18th. To remember the Sabbath day.
by working harder and later on Saturday
than any other day in the week, with a
view of sleeping late next morning and
staying at home all day TO rest, conscience
being quoted by the plea of not feeling
very well.-HaA
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speak to some persons meet, and don't
speak to others; and what's the reasons r.
He expected the reply would be, Because
some are good and Others are bad, but, to
his discontinue, the general shout was,
'Because some are rich and others are
,,f,or
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A speedy quietus is given to hacking
monary, throat, and bronchial complain
Halls Balsam for the Lungs, which cures con
sumption, bronchitis, pneumonia, pleurisy
Iabored breathing and other disorders Of the
respiratory organs. When a cough manfests
itself, the early use of this benefient medicine
is earnestly recommended, as the difficulty is
more easily overcome in its ineipient stage
than lat or on. Sold by all Druggists.
Browns Bronchial Troches for pulmonary
and asthmatic disorders, have proved their
efficacy by test Of many years, and have re-
ceived testimonials from eminent men who
have used them. Twenty five cents box.
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protec, me sy-,sm 1ro,r M.I.,.,.

II is possible TO do this even in regions o.
country where miasma is most rife, and where
the periodic fevers which it causes assume
their most formidable types. The immense
popularity Of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is
very largely attributable to the fact Of its elf
renittents, and as preventive of the various
forms Of malarial disease. In those portions
Of the West and South where complaints OF
this nature prevail, and in the Tropics, it is
Irticularly esteemed for the protective infiu
ence which il exerts; and it has been very
widely adopted as a substitute for the danger
Gus and comparatively ineffective alkaloid
sulphate Of quinine. Physicians have not
been among The last to eoncede its merits
and the emphatic professional Endorsements
which 1t has received have added TO the reputa.
ton il has ohtained both nj home and nhrnnd