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"What we have to deal with is the.
human body, made up of 200 bones.
These give shape and support to the
body. They arc held to the body by
ligaments, Just as the frame timbers of a
house ere held together by clamps. This
is covered by muscle, which we call
fiesx-the same rs we cat in other ami
mss and call meat. All is covered by
skin and fat, controlled by the nerves
aud nourished by the blood. The vital
machinery is composed Of the brain,
heart, lungs, digestive and excretory or
gans. Accidents to the framework will
occur.
"We will first take up broken bones.
The symptoms and signs of broken bones
are deformities of the part, motion at
the point where there ought to be none,
great pain generally, and great tender
ness over the point of the break. If the
two ends of the broken bone are firmly
grasped and rubbed together, peculiar
grating sensation is felt by the person
grasping. If no doctor can be found,
the first thing is 10 restore the proper
shape to the limb. This can generally
be done by grasping the fractured
limb on either side of the break, and
gently, but firmly, pulling in opposite
directions until the proper shape is re-
stored to the limb. This is is what is
known as setting the bone. If We can
keep the broken parts in their proper
position nature will do the rest-that is
the bone will knit. We help nature by
putting on splint or splints, which
keep the bones in place like braces.
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A ToRNIQUET.

"Children's bones contain so much
animal matter that they knit quickly.
The bones Of older people contain more
earthly matter, ard hence are more brit
tie. They knit more slowly.
"a wrench called q sprain, which IS
twisting of the ligamcnts which hold
the bones together, shows itself by a
great swelling and pain. The way to
treat it is to bind the parts i'll cloths
wrung out in hot water as hot as can be
borne, or, as in foot. put it into hot
water. Then bind with bandage to
make the joint immovable.
"Wounds consist of cuts, bruises,
uncturcd wounds or poisoned ones. In
case OF cut wound, wash it clean; bring
the parts together. and fasten clean
bandage over them.
sin bruises the parts are usually lacer.
atcd under the skin, and the blood which
escapes under the skin undergoes changes
which make the skin look dark colored.
All to do for those is to cover them with
cloth wrung out in cold water. The
same holds true in puncturcd wounds,
of which stab is an instance. The car
dinal idea is first to remove all dirt by
allowing clean cold water to trickle over
it, and then to cover with 4 clean piece
of cloth to keep dirt out.
"Burns vary in depth, from blister
on the surface to an actual destruction
of part of limb. In addition to pain,
the burned person is in danger from an
impression made on the nervous system
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good strong pull must DC made upon
them and kept up for a few seconds.
This effects an inspiration, fills the
lungs with air and cnlarges the cavity of
the chest by drawing the ribs up. The
second thing to do is to return the arms
to the side and press the lower part of
tho ribs with them. A little whisky
may be given.
''r'or ngulat1on-nanglng, Tor In
stance-when the obstruction is got
out of the way use the same efforts to re-
store breathing as in drowning cases. In
the event Of discovering person suffer-
ing from the effects of inhaling gas, get
the person to the fresh air as quickly as
possible and use the same means de-
scribed before 10 induce breathing.
"In case of a person choking from
something sticking in the throat or
windpipe, try and dislodge it with the
fingers, or blunt-pointcd scissors may
be used. A hairpin with loop on its
end is also useful. Holding the person
with the heels in the air and vigorous
humping on the back is also of frequent
service. When children swallow mar
bles or coins it is mistake to give
purgative. The strange matter will fiud
IN escapement without effort.
When small bodies get in the eye,
like cinders, dust or chips of stone,
horschair loop will frequently do what
pulling one cyelid over the other fails to
accomplish. Pure gum arabic, in weak
solution, may be poured into the eye,
which requires cold bandagc after
wards. In case of lime, use lemon juice
and water at once.
"Convulsions in children should BIZ
treated with cold bandages to the head
and heat to the body. A tub of warm
water and mustard is good.
"Dislocations can usually be put in
place by pulling. Dislocation of the
jaw is treated by seizing the lower jaw
with both hands, the thumbs on the
teeth, and pushing first down and then
backward.
"When q blood vessel is severed or
cut in the arm or leg tourniauet should
be made of handkerchief with knot
in it, tightly twisted, so that the knot
covers the artery or main blood vessel.
When the blood stops flowing the pres
sure should cease.
Injured persons should be removed
on strctcher or shutter, If possible,
with the head above the rest of the body.
Broken limbs should be laid on a pillow,
with bandages to keep them from shp-
ping.
sin the case of poisons, vomiting
should be the first thing looked out for
and encouraged. Don't look for clean
water-the more repulsive the water the
better the result. Mustard and soap and
water are both good. Milk is one of
the best of antidotes and coffee is the
next best. ."-NeH York World.
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RABBITS.

The value OF rabbits as an article or
food is not understood by most house
keepers, declares Mrs. E. r. Parker in the
Courier Journal. Being very cheap and
plentiful, many economical and appetiz-
ing dishes may be prepared from them.
It is, however, necessary that the rab-
bits, to be acceptable, should be in good
condition when brought TO the cook;
they should be free from any unpleasant
odor, and the flesh reddish in appear
ance. If young, the paws and ears will
be soft to the touch. The following re-
cipes will furnish every houskeeper with
variety in serving this game:
Broiled Rabbit-Skin tender young
rabbit, remove the entrails, wipo we'll in
side and out with q wet towel, then dry.
Cut into halves, lay on q hot gridiron,
turn over the Goals until brown. Serve
on hot dish; drcdgc with pepper and
salt, and pour over melted butter.
Panned Rabbit-Clean, cut open,
wipe with damp cloth and dry. Place
in baking pan, spread with butter,
dust with pepper and salt, set in the
oven, baste every ten minutes, and bake
one hour. When done take up on a
heated dish, make brown gravy in the
pan, pour over the rabbit and serve.
Fricassee of Rabbit-Prepare as for
pauning, cut up, put in stew pan, COW
er with boiling water, set over moder-
ate fire, and let cook tender. Take up
the rabbit, which should be cooked very
low. Put q table spoonful of butter in
frying pan, let melt, add two table
spoonfuls of flour and mix we'll, pour in
pint of sweet milk, stir and pour in the
same pan with the rabbit gravy, and let
boil. Season with salt and pepper, take
from the fire, add the beaten yelks OF
two eggs, pour over the rabbit, sprinkle
with chopped parsley, and serve.
Fried Rabbit-Cut up, dip in beaten
egg and then in -four; season with pep
per and salt. Fry in hot lar1. Take
up and thicken the gravy with an ounce
of butter aud table spoonful OF flour,
pour in dish and lay the rabbit on top.
Roast Stuffed Rabbit-Make stutfing
of bread crumbs, little parsley, thyme,
nutmeg, salt and pepper, mix with
quarter of q pound of butter, little
cream and two beaten eggs, put in the
body of the rabbit, sew up, dredge with
-four and baste with lard while roasting.
Serve with parsley and butter sauce.
Stewcd Rabbit-Cut in pieces, soak in
salt water, put in saucepan with slices
of salt pork, let cook tender, strain Oft
the water and pour over the rabbit
teacup of milk with chopped onion, a
little salt and pepper, add two ounces
of butter, thicken with -four, let boil
and serve hot.
Larded Rabbit-Take the backs Of tHo
fat, well-grown rabbits from the -skoul-
der to the thighs, divide the solid flesh
into pieces. Lard, with y-thin mar
row strips of fat pork, and braise one
hour, arrange on hot dish in circle
and pour over brown sauce.
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but has been introduced into and thriyes
we'll in the West Indies aul Brazil. 1t
grows upon tree forty feet high, which
produces pale yellow flowers spotted with
purple. The leaves Of the trees are six
or eight inches long, and are pointed at
both ends. The fruit consists of five
long, slender pods, radiating from COM
mon centre. One of these when broken
open is found to contain several nuts,
somewhat similar to hazlenuts and of
about the same size. The nuts arc solid,
being slightly softer toward the centre
than on the outside.
1.-THE natives OF the countries where
the nuts grow use them, for various pur-
poses. They pass for money in Africa.
They are also used as symbols OF friend
ship and hate, the light-colorcd ones sig
nifying the former ana the dark. the
latter.
"They arc supposed to aid digestion,
added the botanist, land it is the prac-
tice to chew small bit before eating
meal. They alIay thirst, and if a piece
be chewcd and held in the mouth while
drinking the most bitter and stagnant
water can be taken, and will taste sweet
and agreeable. doubt if this quality
of rendering staguant water pure is pos
sessed by the nuts. rather think that
the astringcnt taste of the nut paralyzes
the gustatory nerves momcntarily, and
for that reason the water is not tasted.
Mr.. Lloyd said that they arc also sup
posed to allay hunger, but they do moro
than paralyze the nerves. They have a
stimulating effect. and when going on
long marches the natives chew hlts of
nuts continually and with about the same
effect as if intoxicating liquor had been
used, though without the same bad re.
suits. Powdered kola nut is sprinkled
in cuts and wounds and has healing
effect. A chemical analysis OF the nuts
shows them to contain twenty parts of
caffeine and but fraction OF part OF
tannin.
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CHAPTER XIV.

MR- PETERS SPECIAL PRESENT.
Mrs. Somers first thought was of their
friends in Johnstown.
Send them word at once, Algernon.
1t will relieve them Of such terrible sus
pense. would have done it the first
thing, but had no money"
Nor have !, for that matter" laugh
ing What is money? I am travelling
by the courtesy Of the railway company.
But it is impossible, for love or money, to
get private message through now.
Hundreds are trying TO and fail. There
10 very great confusion -chaos--up in
the country We came FROM"
Then" said his wife, resolutely, I'VE
will 60 there ourselves. If We have to
walk part of the way, will CO."
And I am ready to 60 to the end oi
the world with YOU"
Thus it happened that the strangely
united couple set out Immediately fol
Johnstown again.
AL I want is q pair of stout shoes,
Mrs. Somers said.
AS they were returning, gentleman
sitting in the car near them was explain.
ing to another the cause of the calamity
and the nature of the country.
The accounts are misleading. Here,
-s will say, is the South Fork Dam
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UTILIZING RANCID BUTTER.

An English writer in the Dairy tells of
her method of cleansing rancid butter,
which renders it better and more econo-
mical to use in making pastry than lard.
She melts it and then boils sliced raw
potatoes in it. When the potatoes are
brown she knows the butter is cleansed
and that they have absorbed the butyric
acid that chiefly made the butter rancid.
She skins off what matter rises upon the
surface and pours the pure oil in jars to
store it till time of use.
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SCALDING BATH TUBS.

The porcelain-lned bath tubs are the
best, for there are no cracks or rough
places for the lodgment of micro-organ.
isms. Every tub, however, should be
scalded out every time it is used. Heat
is the best disinfectant in the world, and
the frequent use of hot water for rinsing
out tubs is an absolute preventive for all
possible contaminations. This is the
great objection to public bath houses.
Not enough care is taken of the tubs,
and persons with skin diseases bathe in
any tub, Observation-Disclosures York
Journal.
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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
AMMONIA FOR CLEANING WINDOWS.

AMMONIA FOR CLEANING WINDUWB'
Ammonia and water is about the best
thing to use for cleaning windows. When
they are very dirty or when it is not safe
to use water paste made of one table
spoonful of olive oil, one tablespoonful
of sal ammonia, two tablespoonfuls of
lime and one tablespoonful of water
cleans them very nicely. Rub the paste
on the window and when it is dry re-
move it with a soft cloth.-Nep York
World.
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THE W. c. T. {. IN PHILADELPHIA.

The Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
of Philadelphia has during the last year held
160 gospel temperance meetings; made week
" visits to the Moyamensing prison, holding
gospel meetings and distributing literature
to the prisoners; conducted 1876 gospel meet
inss in the Philadelphia Hospital and Aims.
house; visited each woman convict in the
eastern penitentiary; made twenty six visits
to police stations, providing clothing and
comfort for the women and children detained
there. and distributed 4S, 297 pages Of litera,
ture bearing upon our various lines of work,
besides 131 Bibles and testaments, 1858 books
and 213 magazines. A number Of addresses
the subject Of health and social purity
work have been given, with special tails on
these subjects to the inmates of the Mid
night Mission Afagdalen and Rosine homes.
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The EOla MT,

A we'll known medical journal is rec
ommending the kola nut as substitute
for tea and coffee. The nut, it is said,
contains little tannin and not much moro
caffeine. 1t is claimed that it will soon
take the place of tea and coffee entirely.
Mr.. C. G.. Lloyd, the botanist, has
maiic special study of this nut, and
upon this point said to reporter: "The
kola nut is native of the coasts of Africa,
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The Rose Bath.

The bath of roses, so often mentioned
by writers on the luxurious age Of Ro-
man life, is comparatively cheap luxury
to-day. The warm water, in quantity
amounting to the usual requirement Of
the bath, is first softcncd by stirring into
the tub finely sifted oatmeal, to which
also is added half pint of glycerine;
lastly put into it two drops of altar OF
roses. If the massage treatment be avail
able, use it by al! means; if not, let
coarse towel and hard rubbing serve the
purpose of the massage system. This
bath is simply fine, as it softens the skin
and blends perfume into each line OF the
body.-Neu York Telegram.
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PRACTICAL HINTS
n CASES OF ACCIDENT AND
SUDDEN ILLNESS.
What to Do While Waiting for the
DOctor-Advice That Will
Save the Lives IL
Needed.

The free lectures under the auspices
OF the Board of Education are being de-
livercd every Monday and Thursday at
several Of the public schools. DR..
James f. Newcomb Is one of the lcc-
turers, and his subject is very interest
ing and instructive. 1t is entitled,
Everyday Accidents, and How to
Treat Ihem.n Hints are given as to
what to do till the doctor comes. and
arc illustrated.
DIR. Newcomb says, among other prac-
tical things:
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TEMPERANCE.
TIE GROCERY CASH BELL,

THE GROCERY CASH BELL.
From the earliest glimmer OF day
70 the setting of every sun. y,
There's Ginning of bells that merrily tells &
Or shame and Of crime begun. -.
Ching! -
Eve cents for a glass Of BE- - - -
Ching!
Ten cents for whisky straight.
And the devil stands near With a horrible q
ieer ... = 81 ~
Like the wrath Of hideous fate. tj9'
And all through the wearisome night ~
In noisone and smoke tainted ain,
Men are mixing their brains with horrible
And branding their souls with despair.
Ching, .
Ten cents glass for rye;
Ching. W
Fifteen for Bourbon sour, sss
While little babes cry because hunger IS ID.
And torturas them hoar after hour.
Oh, vain for the church bells to sound
Inc beautiful praises OF Christ. #
BY merrier chime ringing all of the time
Are the souls of our brothers enttced.
= Ching. y
Ten c.nts for glass Of wine: y
Ching. -
trteen for bumper Of rum.
While the desolate pine with patience d.. s
vine,
And the mourners with sorrow are dumb. g
Then what though hard times be abroad,
And the gaunt form Of Famine appear?
Xhere is gold and to spare to buy whisky and
care, Sss
And enough to buy sorrow and beer. s
Ching! 2
Ten cents for insanity's spell. "a
.....-... Ching! 80
Five cents for humber Of woe
'Tis a musical knell ringing souls down to
he'll,
And to frenzy and shame ere they 60?
George Horton, in Chicago Herald.
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The Austrian war office has decided
upon filling the mattresses and pillows
of the soldiers in barracks with wood
shaviugs. Experiments with this mate
rial have already been made in some MILL
fary districts
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STREEr COMMISSIONER WoLvERToN,
Of Adrian, Mich, had calf which had
the habit of sticking his head out of the
barn door. A bolt of lightning killed
it. The queer part of the story is that
the barn entirely escaped.
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BE LET LIQUOR ALONE.

California's Oldest inhabitant, ths5 indian
"Old Gabriel" who died last March. aged
15l years, was "a light eater, eschewed all
cohol and tobacco, also abstained from use of
tea and coffee; bread pudding, fruit ard
sweets were his principal food, and bot water,
with touch Of sugar and milk, his drink.
He went to bed early, rose early, and aleps5
well. Moreover, he scraped his body with O.
dull case-knife; wore clothes under protest,
because compelled by the law of the In
vaders," and, withal, was fond Of sunshine. ~
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A DRCSKARD;S WILL.

The following is will left by drunkaras4
Of Oswego, New York State: II leave tos2
society ruined character and a alwretched
example. leave to my parents as muck
sorrow as they can in their feeble state bear.
I leave to my brothers and sisters as much
shame and modification as could bring on
them. leave to my wife broken heart-
life Of shame. Ileave to each Of my chill
dren poverty, ignorance, low charafte ter
and the remembrance that their father fAed
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TIE submarine Telegraph system OF
the world consists of 120,070 nautical
miles Of cable.
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CHAPTER XVI.

MESSAGE FROM THE GRAVE
Giles Brockle urged his workmen on.
He set them the example at times by
sSmping down into their midst and
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The Living Skeleton-"I'll bet the fat
man wouldn't hev got of so easy if he
had missed his train and had to foot 1t
across the prairie. ."--Ltfe.
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.


A Toronto paper figures out that the
drunkards of that city lost sl9l, So? in wages
last year.
Five hundred children under ten years of
age were taken into custody last year III
London as drunk and incapable.
The people of northern Europe consume
more alcohol, pei capita, than their neigh
bors in the south. for the reason that, rela-
lively, they are not so we'll fed.
In ancient Greece law Of Pittacus ell
acted that ''he who commits a crime when
drunk shall receive double punshment'--
one for the crime itself and the other for
the inebriety which prompted him to conf
init it.
Rev. F. Evans. a missionary Of the Bap
tist Church in India, thinks there is no doubt
that the example Of the English has done
much to foster drinking habits among the
people Of that country, and is of the opinion
that none but total abstainerS should be sent
rs missionaries to that country.
A prisoner in the penitentiary at Colunl-
bus, Ohio, who was parioned in 1893 Oh con-
dition that he abstain from the use OF in
toxicating liquors. has Just been returned to
the establishment, having taken to
drinking. He will now have to serve out
the remainder of his term-about fifteen
months.
In an opening lecture before the medical
college in London. Ontario, DR.. Arnott took
the ground that alcohol is never directly
stimulant; that it does not aid digestion;
that it is not nourishlng. and that 1t does not
arrest waste. A stimulant increases strength;
alcohol increases action, and this is mistaken
for strength
The Noon Rest: is the title OF an insti-
luton devised for the benefit of the busi-
ness women and girls Of Indianapolis by the
Young Women's Christian Temperance
Union. 1t is sort of woman's club, the
rooms of which are open every day from 10
A. u. to 8 p. NJ. where all young women who
work in stores and shops are invited to
spend their noon hours Tables are pro-
vided for lunches, and milk, tea, coffee and
chocolate are served for three cents per
cup. -
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The Danish Government paysa bounty
ior the destruction of seals.