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The Warming From the Bake Oven

Not long'since there moved to Ches-
terton a middle-aged man and his wife,
together with a large family of chill
dren. They came from New England,
and purchased place on which stood
II of the oldest and best-known
houses to be found in the whole
country. They moved in early spring,
and when May came, naturally began
to explore the place more fully. One
day Mrs. Charles, a large wholc-souled
woman, with a strong religious temp
ermeut almost verging upon supersti-
ton, came upon an old bake-oven
which had been used in early times,
but long ago abandoned. AS Mrs.
Charles family was large, she determ-
ined to make use of the oven for the
next Saturdays baking. She heated
it, putin her dough, and the result was
six magnificent loaves Of very tempt
ing bread. But on the bottom of one
of the loaves appeared the statement:
''Dicd June 49," in old-fashioned but
well-dcfined text. The fact discomfort
ed the family, and their feeling
amounted to CONSERVATION, when week
after week the same statement appear
ed on the bread-''Died June 49,
Mrs. Charles, with her slightly super
stitious turn, thought it meant her,
and, as the date approached, gradually
grew i'll. SO strong was the power Of
Imagination, in fact, that the day be-
fore the fatal one named found her n
bed a very i'll woman and firmly con
WINGED that the next day would be her
last. The news of Mrs. Charles i'll
ness spread abroad and finally reached
the ear of an old r%esidenter, who lost
no time IN getting to the home of the
sick woman. He found her in what
she thought her last hours, but quick
ly explained that, many years before,
he had helped to build that bake-oyen,
and had used for one the bottom slabs
a part of an old tombstone that had
been spoiled in the cutting. Every
body in the neighborhood, he said,
knew about this popularity of old
Hannah Hendricks bake-oven and
should have told the newcomers. 1t
only remains to add that Mrs. Charles
superstition rapidly gave way, and her
health rs rapidly improved.-CAes-
| teTtOn Times.
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response to prayer should stop short
OF praying for relieffrom physical sui.
ferlng, or hesitate to believe that the
relief will be given. The Church, in
deed, specifically encourages this
faith, for has it not formulated special
prayers for the sick, and does it not
offer them up whenever the afflicted
cry for helpP The church, then, can
not carp if the afflicted rush in throngs
TO some ill-regulated and over Jealous
mar who that faith and
prayer are sufficient medicines for the
sick body.
Science, at any rate, is far from
scoffing at all faith-cures. There are
diseases which ne amount of faith will
affect; there are others in which faith
alone seems to be the needed medicine.
In all these endeavors there is, of
course, an enormous percentage OF
failures, though they are temporarily
lost sight of in the excitement attend
ant upon the few real and fancled
cures. But that some of them are real
any physician can testify. They have
themselves often wrought them by
bread pills Or colorcd water. The
fancy plays strange tricks with every
body. Sydney Smith tells how the
poet Rogers caught a severe cold at a
dinner party by imagining that a great
sheet of plate-glass behind him was an
open window; and there is a story of a
French criminal who died under the
impression that he was being bled to
death, when the physicians We're in
reality pricking his flesh and initiating
the sound of flowing blood. In other
cases people have been cured of ner-
vous ailments by sudden shocks like
an alarm of fire or from burglars; and
generally physicians maintain that
often n of the most difficult phases
of disease to combat is the patients
own lack of faith in his recovery.
Faith cures, then, are not only far
from impossible, but are based upon
one of the recognized laws of human
ity; and they are by no means de-
pendent upon religious ardor. Three
centuries ago, in fact, the quacks who
worked upon the ~imaginations of the
SEX were as much trusted as regular
physicians, and the .'wise women"
the vendors of herbs and %salves, were
in the time of Henry LII. protected by
law. That statute declared that
divers honest people whom God hath
cndued with the knowledge of the ma
ture, kind and operation of certain
herbs. roots and waters" were to be
allowed to prescribe for sores, swell
ings, scalds, burns, 'the web and pin
in the eye" and more dangerous COM
plants. And even Lord Audley urged
Cecil to try the virtues of a '.sow,pig,
! nine days DID," or a hedgehog distill-
ed with various spices and wines, as a
remedy for fever. We have advanced
beyond that point now, happily, but
we + still far from the day when
man will so fully understand the laws
of his W being that the quack and
the faith healer will have no further
occupation. 81. Louis Globe Democrat.
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The Teeth of Immigrants.

The immigrant train on the Central
this morning was half an hour late,
and consisted of one solitary car, in
which were forty-seven passengers.
Come with me and take a walk
through the immigrant"car. l would
like to show you the difference between
foreign and domestic teeth The
speaker, addressing the surgeon, was
an old and well-known dental surgeon
of this city. II have come down here
for the express purpose OF noting for
myself the teeth of our newlv-arrived
cousins" said the dentist. as he led
the way to the tram, which was Just
pulling INTO the yard.
In the Car were Germans, English.
Swedcs. two Danes and four Polish
Jews. Look at that fellow in the
third seat there getting away with
that bacon; see those beautiful grind
ders," said the knight of the forceps as
he intently watched a sturdy German
who with a huge jack-knife, was cut
ting alternate slices of schwarz-brod
and bacon, which he was putting under
his vest with marvellous rapidity. His
teeth were indeed magnificent spec
linens of sound grinders, milky white
evenly grown and regularly set. Pass
ing two seats further on were mother
and two children. The woman was
English, and. when spoken to, dis
played very beautiful worries. In an
swer to n question of the dentist as to
whether she had ever had any trouble
with her teeth, she laughed and said:
mo, l know what toothacheis,
Behind her was a group of several
persons chatting together, and while
talking they all displayed perfect
teeth.
''How do you account for these peo-
pie havingsuch handsome teeth2" was
asked of the dentist. After speaking
of the difference between the thick
and musty odor within the car and
pure ozone outside, he said; ''The
whole difference is in the food that is
eaten. These people at home were
wont to eat the coarsest kind of food;
they touch sweetmeats or deli
cacies of any kind, and consequently
the acids which are in all fancy tidbits
do not touch their teeth. Therefore,
decaycd teeth are something utterly
unknown to them. l have not the
least doubt that some of these people
never saw a toothbrush. They don't
think of their teeth at all, and, vet
they look as pearly and round as if a
dentist examined them every day
Utica Observer.
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Waste of Bullets in War.

Our readers may have seen or heard
the statement that it takes a soldiers
weight of lead to kill him in battle.
and they may have considered it to be
merely a rhetorical hyperbole, sug-
gested by the obvious fact that COM
~paratively few out of the whole num-
Der OF shots in war take effect. 1t
seems, however, that the assertion,
which originated with the famous
Marshal Sake, was proved by Cassen-
di, after careful mathematical calcu-
lation, to be eNaggeration. and. with
all the improvements that have been
made in muskets and in the art of
using them effectively, it is still not
far from the truth. AT the battle of
Solferino a comparison of the number
OF shots fired on the Austrian side with
the number killed and wounded on
the part of the enemy shows that seven
hundred bullets were. expended for
each man wounded, and 1920 for each
one killed. Now, as the average weight
of the ball used was thirty grams, it
must have required at least 1876 kilo-
grams, or about 277 pounds of lead, to
Kill a mani In the Franco-Prussian war
'uo CduSeu ny INC needle
gun among the French shows how
much superior that tirearm was to the
Austrian carabine; but about l,3CO
shots were required then to accom-
plish the destruction of a single sol
dier. 1t is found in practice that a
great majority of the wasted bullets
go over the heads of the enemy; hence
resort is sometimes had to the expe-
dent of pressing down. by means of
a staff, the muskets of a platoon of
men about to fire; a sergeant being
detailed for the service. When the
shots are aimed at an isolated soldier,
the chances against him are, of course,
greater; but even then the waste of
lead Is enormous. In the Franco
Prussian a according to an officer
who witnessed the performance, a
French company of chasseurs fired for
q quarter of IN hour at a German
mounted sentry posted on q hillock
about three hundred yards off. Full
four hundred shots were fired before
either man or horse was hit. A really
expert marksman would probably
have picked off the man at the very
first attempt, or certainly at the
second.-Populnr Science News.
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Another International Bone Of Con.
tention.

The subject of discussion among the
representatives of all the civilized
powers in the world. who are request
ed to meet at the city of San Domingo
September -, 1885, will be the bones
of Christopher Columbus. The aues-
tion connected with these remains of
the great navigator has lately reached
an acute stage, and it has become
necessary for the honor of those con-
cerncd that it should be settled
promptly; and as Spain and San
Domingo are not prepared to declare
war about it, the dispute is to be re-
ferred to a congress. The difficulty
has arisen in this wise: Columbus
died May 81, 1906, at Valladolid, and
his body was deposited in the Francis
can priOry there. In 1913 it was
transferred to the cathedral at Seville.
The d%iscoverer having expressed an
earnest wish to be buried at Haiti, in
San Domingo. his mortal remains were
conveyed there in 1850 (forty-four
years after his death), and Inferred in
the cathedral. When the island was
taken in 1875 by the French the bones
were removed by the Spanlards to
Lorenzo, in Havana, and were placed
in the cathedral there on January 10,
1896. The Spanish Academy of His
tory defends the thesis that they are
there still, while the government of
San Domingo maintains that.it sue
cecded in burying the bones with due
honor in the cathedral of its capital on.
September 10, 1877. The latter posi-
ton is supported by a learned and
lengthy historical disquisition which
has been officially communicated to
all the powers, who are now requested
to send representatives to a congress
to examine the facts and decide the
question once for all.
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her value. When she married, he,
fathers house and farm were sold at
auction. She managed the sale and it
was completed o admirably. The
picture is taken in her wedding dress,
and the quiet, regular, thoughtful face
would indicate to the uninitiated a
student, possibly an artist or a writer.
No one would suspect this elegantly
attired and selt-possessed young wo-
man of being a thorough farmer and
an expert stock-raiser. 81 tell you,"
said a keen old man, who has watched
her progress from early girlhood, '.it's
a lucky man that gets Helen Burdett
for a wife. She'll double his property,
in plain dollars and cents, if he'll
only take her advice, inside of five
years. "-Philudelphid Press.
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A Practical Girl.

Helen Burdctt's father was an Ill
mos farmer, with a good farm of,
perhaps, 200 acres, but without n
one to share his labors or inherit his
estate. He accordingly brought mp
his daughter Helen very much as he
would have brought up a boy. She was
strong and healthy, very intelligent,
and with a decided taste for outdoor
lie, and she very soon attained a rep
utation for Judgment" and for
knowledg second to that of no farmer
or stock-raiser in the vicinity. When
she was eighteen years old her father
died, and 1t seemed necessary that she
should carry on the place for at least
a year to come, a task to which she
was fully equal. The crops were ac-
cordingly planted unde. her direction,
and she went out to buy steers, as her
father usually went at that season.
She purchased sixty-five head of steers,
pastured them during the summer, and
sold them at the end of the season at
a clear profit of exactly ST. 66.
She knew ''every inch of ground
on the farm, as the saying is, and
just what should be done with it.
Every man in the vicinity understood
that she vas thoroughly intelligent in
her business, and that it would be USE
less to try to overreach hci. One man,
when questioned about her, remarked
in the gernacular of the country,
"There amt a mar in the State can
size up a herd of steers as close as she
can, and u droueger says she beats
him at a bargain every time" Yet
Miss Helen Burdett is as modest and
lady-like as any girl in the United
States. The drover did not mean that
she cheat hlm down. or cheat him
OUT but simply that she understood
cattle and could tell their "points''
better than he could.
When Helen was fourteen years old,
her father gave her permission to go
and buy a COW for herself. She went
forth alone and independent, bought
her COW, and came home leading it by
the rope.
Her COW proved to be an excellent
investment. 81 knew said her faith
err triumphantly, '.that she could pick
out a better one than l could myself,
and / believe she has done it.
A picture of Miss Helen Burdett
stands before me, as l write. But she
is Helen Burdett nolonger. A wealthy
young farmer from the far West came
; to know and love her, and appreciated
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Conversation.

''The power to converse well is a
very great charm" says Ruskins.
''You think anybody can talk? How
mistaken you are! Anybody can chat
ter. Anybody can exchange idle Cos
sip. Anybody can recapitulate the
troubles of the kitchen, the cost of the
last new dress, and the probable do
nigs of the neighbors. But to talk
wisely, instructiveiy, freshly and de-
lightfutly is az immense accomplish
ment. It implies exertion, observa-
ton. study of books and people, and
receptivity of impression Plato BAN
ished the musicians from his feasts
that the charms of conversation might
have no interference, but in our later
fashions many prefer music rather
than the gossip of the hour which of
ten degenerates into trivialities, wear
lsome and commonplace.
AS a mirror reflects the face, SO con-
%versation reveals the mind, and DIR.
Johnson said he could tell just how
much a man knew If he could hear
him talk for a while.-1hs Current.
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Newspapers of To-Day.

People generally, and even those
who may be termed steady readers
and close observers, have but a faint
conception of the magnitude and in
t1uence the press of this country has
attained. From a careful examina-
ton of the advance pages of the 1885
edition of the american Newspaper
Directory, issued May LIST, by George
P. Powell g. Co., of New York, it ap.
pears that there are IA, lat newspapers
and periodicals published in the United
States and Canada; of these the United
States has 1898, an average Of one
paper for every 1857 persons. In
1884 the total number of newspapers
was less than by 1923 than at present,
and while the gain this year is not SO
marked as in some previous years, it
is still considerable. Kansas shows the
greatest increase, the number being
IS while illinois follows with a gam Of
n. 1t is curious TO notice that New
York, the scene of so much political
activity during the last campaign,
should have only about one-thlrd as
many new papers as the state of Penn
sylvania. AS an index to the compar-
stive growth and prosperity of differ
ent sections of the country, especially
the Territories, the number of new pa
pers forms an interesting study, and
may well occupy the attention of the
curious.
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Tippecanoe Not a Glutton,

Gen. Harrison was neither a gour-
mand nor a glutton, but vas delicate
in his tastes, and abstemious in his in
indulgence at the table. The writer
has frequently eaten at the generals
table, and he at the writer's table,
so that our knowledge of the demands
OF his appetite are not merely hearsay.
Nor was Gen. Harrison's sickness,
which terminated in his death, brought
on by o~ver-eating large quantities of
indigestible food. He was always an
active, energetic man, and from boy
hood to the last week of his life rose
early, and, when it was to be done,
engaged at the early dawn in necessary
outdoor work. And when there was
no such work, he usually took a long
walk before breakfast. This had be-
come part of his life, and when he
came to Washington he continued the
practice.
The week before his death, in pursu-
ance of the practice of his active life,
and his habit of early rising and exer-
else, the general took a walk, as he
frequently did. across the long bridge
to Georgetown. About the time he
started to return he discovered a show
er approaching, and fastened to reach
the White House before the rain. He
worked himself into a perspiration,
and a heavy dash of rain wet him
thoroughly before he reached protec-
ton. The next day he was. quite in
disposed, which was quickly followed
by pneumonia, or bilious pleurisy,
which bafled all medical skill, and
terminated his useful life after an ill
ness of eight days. These are facts,
and he was not Killed by a "Hoosier
cook" giving him his favorite "cab.
bage, cucumbers and pickle pork
IoWd State Register.
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THE Sion Of the SnOb.

II is an infallibie sign Of s snob that
he can always inform you that he has,
been taken for somebody who is creates.
than himself. There Is story Of three
Yankees abroad who compared notes.
Onesaids .sIwas mistaken for aEmper-
or Russia" Quoth a second: .Ani1a.
continually asked If I am not louis
Napoleon" Up spoke the third: 81.
kin beat that. Yesterday / was goin'
along the Champs Eiysees, ana 8 fellow
slapped me on the back and hollered.
Satan. is that u?n-Ldaud, IN Cgti.
c00o Tribune.
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Bull terriers are fashionable pets. They are
useful in u family OF young children, since
they endure ANYTHING from their young
charges and resists any attack from stranger.
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81 say, Charlie, who was that I saw you
talking to this morninga" Jaw, he was a
man who had made me a slight advance on a
note" ''Have you known him long2'' eyes;
he used to shave my father.'' "Barber2'' 'sNo;
broker.n
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Lord Garmoyle, aw, doesn't like Belfast,
you know, because 1t has neither an. aw,
opera boufe, nor aw, a ballet, don'cher knows
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Brooklyn girls with big brothers are not
afraid to visit skatiLg Kinks, particularly II
the brothers are not their OWL.
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American Girls Abroad.

Berlin Letter in Hartford Currant.
A large contingent of the American
colonies in Berlin and Dresden is made
up of young women who come abroad to
study German and art, generally music.
Now and then there is an aimless one
among them, and of those WHO merely
want to have u good time there are more
at Dresden / am told than here. But
most OF them are hard students ond de-
serve great respect. Yet I have Won
dared and still wonder whether Young
girls, and girls not so young, ever take
into account, as they settle down in the
bo&rding-houses of these cities, what is
the estimate put upon them and their
am persuaded that they do not. Peo-
pie here have no idea whatever of a
state of society which allows young
ladies to travel alone, live alone,
receive call when and where they
will, go anywhere and with whom they
choose. This to the average European
is simply the sign of being n dissolute
person and there are hundreds of our
contrywomen who are watched and
commented on, both by men and women,
who, coming with the American free
dom, go to and fro entirely OF
the severity of the Judgment passed
upon them. And then the gayety OF the
American manners, not to speak OF what
passes as innocent Irritation with us, is
looked upon as an open finging out of
the banner OF readiness for immoral
relations. Many girls do not care for
this even when they know it. They
fling it off with a careless and contempt
uous shrus. The only way to escape
being taken for people of the demi-
monde is to be so entirely devoted to
study as toquite silence all suspicion, to
be really in love with work and to give
all time and thought to it. OF course
there are some of these in all the great
art centres, but there are enough of
the other kind to bring discredit not
only on themselves but also on the
American NAME.
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Russian Il%literacy.

From the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
All that can be said about education
in a very large portion of Russia Is that
it does not exist. There is no national
provision for the teaching of the masses
in the rural districts, and. though mu-
nicipal authorities in towns have the
power to establish schools, they have
hitherto exercised it very sparingly.
Towns, however, in the sense in which
the word is understood in America, are
hardly 20 be found in the dominions of
the Gar. The two capitals stand apart,
Of course; besides these there is not a
single city in the whole of Russia which
would be deemed a large town in Amer
lea. Only twenty have a population ex-
ceeding so, 900. and only $50 count more
than 10, 1000 Inhabitants. Not more than
Il III eight of the 5000, 900 who make
up the subjects of Alexander III. can
be called a townsman. The remaining
scven-eights Of the people are dwellers
in isolated village communities
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at the window, hidden behind the cur
tain till the carriage door closed upon
Kim and the sound OF wheels had died
away. Then she crept up slowly, az
IL who walks in his sleep, to her own
room, and closed and locked the door.
The next morning Mia was not at her
accustomed place at the breakfast table.
After waiting a few moments the doctor
sent to her room to know if she were
not we'll. The servant came down with
a white, scared face. The door was fast
locked, she said. And there had been
no answer, and no sound, when she
knocked.
DR.. Irving stood at the bedroom door
the next moment. With q mighty
strain of his powerful shoulders he
burst the door open. There lay the
girl on her bed, stark and rigid, with
her tangled, black hair falling over
The small, weird face. On the table
beside the bed was a bottle, labeled
c~hloroform. It was empty.
And this closed the last chapter of
DR.. Irving's story.