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An IdyI OF the Rail.

l.
Girl in chair car,
Railroad train,
Going eastward,
Home again.
III.
Little schoolm' am,
Been out west,
Teaching. hard work,
Wants q rest.
III.
Dashing drummer,
Gross the aisle,
Awfully horrid, but
Has to smile.
w.
Mutual mash.
Found it out
Travelling on,
Wabash route.
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Miss Elaine Goodale, the poetess, is
government supervisor Of education
among the Sioux. She lives In camp or
reservation in the most primitive way,
travelling from one Indian village to
another on horseback or in a prairie
schooner" She deliberately prefers this
life to the social success which a woman
Of her talent and culture might COM
mapd.
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Ladies' and ChiIdren's
blOMses from fffy cents vp.
N TERG.
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ICELAND.
THE NORTHERN REPUBLIC
GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBED.
Geyscrs, Destructive Volcanoes. Mud
Lakes and Barrens Of the Islands
Domestic and Commercial
Products Of the Land.

It is an interesting fact that Detroit in
cludes in its population an illustrious
representative of the sturdy race of Morse
men who people the far off Island of Ice
land. His name is Ludwig Won Dolcke,
who is not only the hardy and stalwart
man who would be expected to come
from such Il bleak and rugged country,
but an unusual accomplished linguist, a
close student of affairs and events around
him, q physician of established reputation,
q rare entertainer and man of faultless
manners.
;'Therc is no country" said DR.. Won
Dolcke to a representative of the Free
Press, $50 little understood and so gen.
orally misunderstood as the Republic of
Iceland. It is far from the regular beaten
paths of civilization, and being situated, @,
according to popular opinion, within the
region of eternal snow and ice, has been,
until within comparatively short time,
uuattractive to all but the most venture
some of travellers. 1t is a large island
geographically belonging to the western
hemisphere, situated $50 miles north and
west of Norway, 500 miles north of
Scotland and 100 miles east of Green
land. 1t is of volcanic origin, is irregu-
lar in shape, the coast being frequently
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clouds of dust and ashesthat it spread to
the i.zores and even to Scotland, where
the snow was blackened in one night.
There were l2OO lives lost and hundreds
of thousands of ponies, cattle and sheep
killed in this eruption.
Toward the centre of the island are
encountered hot springs, boiling mud
lakes and sulphurous jets of steam, which
indicate plainly the molten condition of
the earth underneath. In this district
are the Great geyser and the marvellous
Strake geyser, noted as among the
wonder of the world. Like their com
panions in the Rocky Mountains, they
are spasuodic in their action. When in
process of eruption the Great geyser
throws q column of hot water from
spout sixteen feet in diameter more than
$50 feet in the air.
"Strange Us you may regard it Ice
land actually has q summer. 1t COM
mences in June, though the days grow
longer from the early part of May.
"From the 1st, I'd or Sd of June to the
10th, 18th or 18th of July we have sum
mer indeed, and the sun shines day and
night. Then in the winter. which lasts
from October to April, from the early
part of December to within ten days of
New Years we are never visited by the
sun, and if it was not for the 'nord
hyset' (aurora borealis), which by some
stranpe dispensation of Providence con-
stantly eliminates the northern sky, we
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indented with fjords, or bays, and its
area is 1000 square miles, or about the
size of your State of Pennsylvania.
"The natural scenery Of Iceland is the
grandest and most appalling to be found
in the world. In the interior are vast
valleys, deep abysses formed of extinct
craters, plains of birthstone, ,honeycombed
rock and immense fields of lava which
have filled the beds of lakes and trans
formed fertile dales into stony deserts.
These tracts are thousands of square
miles in extent, utterly destitute of life,
and the fearful silence of these barrens
is only broken by the Kissing of hundreds
of thousands of hot springs and the con-
slant subterranean thunder of smoking
volcanoes. The whole surface of Iceland
bears the traces of fearful volcanic erup-
tions, and the most appalling of calamities
from its fiery monsters are liable to be
reported to us at any time.
"Hecla, which stands isolated in the
centre of the island, and visible from the
sea on clear days, is 500 feet in hight,
with circumference of twenty-five
miles. It is we'll known to you as one
the three great volcanoes of Europe, the
others being 4Etna and Vesuvius. But
Hccla is by no means the most furious
on our island, although 1t has erupted
thirteen times in the past century. Other
spasmodic volcanoes are the destructive
Skaptar-j -jokul, Oraefa, Krabla, Katlugia
and the Hofs. Each of these latter named
mounts have been the centres of terrible
eruptions. They are known to us as
slumbering volcanoes, and for tina treason
are all the more dangerous, as men are
tempted into fanciful security around
their basis, and the character of their
frowning neighbor is only proclaimed by
a sudden outburst of floods of hot water,
ice, stones and mud which sweeps man
and his property to destruction.
"Thc lava field of Brideamark. twenty
miles long, fifteen miles wide and four
hundred feet high, occupies what was
once a fertile aud thickly inhabited
plain.
about 1858 occurred the worst erup-
ton IN the modern history of Iceland.
For years wide tissure on the side of
Skaptar had emitted flames and smoke,
but there was no realization of the pent-
up fury which was contained. The win
ter had been mild onc-a sure indica.
tion Of an approaching eruption-but the
people who inhabited the fatal dales and
plains around did not heed the warning.
In one day, without any premonition,
Skaptar seemed to split and from it issued
4 stream of lava which flowed eighty
miles to the sea, filling lakes aad rivers
and sweeping everything before it. twas
a mile wide when it was confined to the
dale of Skaptar, and 600 feet deep, but
when the plains were reached it would
spread out in vast seas. This striam was
three years in the process of cooling. At
the same time the volcano emitted such
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In Case You Ereak Your Leg.

Immediately place something beneath
the fractured part of broken leg to sup
port and keep it motionless. In the ab-
scnce of better appliance, the broken
leg may be strapped or bandaged to the
other to keep it straight. OF course, a
board as wide as the leg and wrapped
about with even layers of cloth is to be
preferred for this purpose until the doc
ter arrives or while the patient is being
conveyed to shelter or to his home.
Accidents usually occur out Of doors, and,
therefore, information regarding the best
method of transporting those who are
seriously hurt forms an important item IN
a course of instruction IN rendering "frst
aid to the injured" A chair with two
strong sticks placed beneath its seat will
arrange g safe carriage for o wounded
person after the injured part has been
bandaged to something that will hold Its
broken or displaced bone in an inmoVa'
ble attitude. What is fam!liarly known
a '.oueen's chair" is also convenient
nears of moving one who is helpless.
The "chair" is formed by each of two
persons grasping his left wrist with MS
right hand and then clasping the right
wrist of the other with his left hand.
Seated upon this support, with an arm
about each persons neck, an injured per-
son may be safely carried long distance
without greatly fatiguing his bearers: VI
course, if the patient faints, he must be
laid in horizontal position until ne re-
covers.-Brooklyn Citizen.
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out wood for fuel and for building pur-
poses. Our wood supply was to me,
when I was boy, matter of much
wonderment, and since I have reached
mans estate I am still puzzled about it.
It comes to US as driftwood, but whers
it first enters the great and eyer-howing
ocean stream, which is discharged below
Iceland, shall never know. The guam
tity of driftwood upon the southern
shore of Iceland is so extensive that
patrols are constantly kept along the
shore to recover it. Some of the timbers
are in shape of tree-trunks broken off by
the winds, some sawed off by the hands
of men, some hewed into beams, some,
which by its shape, once formed a por-
ton OF the hull of vessel, all floating
up up to furnish a people with wood,
who would otherwise be obliged to de-
pend upon turf and brown coal for fuel.
This is curious fact and one I do not
remember of ever reading about in the
numerous descriptions of Iceland.
"One of the most extensive industries
OF our people, and certainly the mos1
historical, is that of the catching and pre-
serving of fish. Of these we have many
varieties, the more important of which
caught in salt water are the clip.fsk,
roed-spaetter, funder, torsk. herring and
tunger, while our short, furious and icy
cold rivers abound with laxsan, salmon.
eeIs, carp, pikrellen and many other un-
important varieties. There are many
ways of catching fish, some of the meth
ods being peculiar to Iceland. We use
nets, hooks, spears and harpoons and also
huge baskets, woven of water willows,
of fiat and round structure which fish
swim into, but by the peculiar mesh, are
caught by sharpened sticks and held cap
tive. One of our methods for catching
fish will sound very improbable to you.
In fact, if you discredit many of the fish
stories related by your townsmen here, I
do not know how you will characterize
this story. An ordinary boat, about
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twenty feet long, is provided on one side
with wide board which stands at about
quarter angle from the edge of the boat
into and some distance beneath the
water, reaching the entire length of the
boat. This board is made very smooth,
polished, and is sometimes painted white.
In the night the boat is rowed slowly in
such direction that the northern light
shines and glistens upon the board. Fish
Jump for the board and shoot over its
edge into the boat, someti mes filling it to
its utmost capacity in one night. This
fishing apparatus is called byu Us q fruejn
baad.
1.-THE familiar saying may be true that
Lucifcr requested permission to try has
hands at creation, and that from the
fragments left by the antagonism of fire
and water, the unused and useless rem
nants of the volcano and earthquake he
made Iceland, but I will guarantee that
he is very much disappointed over the
civil condition of the people. There is
not lawyer in the whole land and no
need of them. Every one there is his
own law-maker and law-giver. The
general code of law and liberty is so
simple that it can be readily compre-
Tended and understood by less cultivated
people than the Icelanders are.
"Theft is almost unknown upon the
island, but in case we have thief coun-
Gil is held by some chosen men, either
the folketing or landting. personally
know Of but two instances of this kind.
One man-an inborn Icelauder-during q
very severe winter, while sick and dis
nbled by broken arm from work, had
stolen four sheep. He was tried, as you
term it, by jury of thirteen men,
and it was found that be acted to
save his poor family from starva-
tion. It was decided that he acted from
necessity. and he was furnished with
food, fuel and medicine as punishment.
The other case was that of a stranger, a
shoemaker by trade, who had ample
means of subsistence, but had stolen
seventeen or eighteen sheep. He was
tried and found guilty Of enriching him
self with the property of others and was
sentenced to pay for the sheep-to pay
200 crowns into fund for charitable
purposes and to leave the country under
pain of being beheaded. We have jails
but they are unused and the hinges of
the doors are rusty. Civil disputes are
rare, but adjusted by arbitration;' no
sheriffs, constab!es or policemen are to
be supported. Our written law regu-
lates fishing, hunting, marriage or in
heritance. We live simply, drink mod
erately and hold ourselves up to the
world as people worthy of imitation
BY countries larger, richer and more in
telliSent than we are"
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

1EhfhhANCE NE"S AMI NOlLS.
Geauga and Harrison Counties, Ohio have
no saloons.
The President of the worlds Columbian
exposition, Ex-senator Palmer, of Michigan,
is tetotaler,
Forty young women Of Des Moines have
signed an agreement to receive the atten-
tions Of no young man who drinks, chews,
smokes or swears.
A casa has bsen carried to the Supreme,
Court of Connecticut to decide whether per-
sous shall be punished who rotus, to disclose
whore they purchase intoxicants
Ethcr drinking is carried on to such ON;
extent in Ireland that the priests have had.
to interfere. The practice is said to boz
equally prevalent in London society.
Thirty.six "wet" counties of Georgia have;
ono convict to every 90 p,oplc. One hum
drei aud one "dry' counties in the same
State have ono convict to every 1879 people.
Althou,h there are many wh3 would hove
Us believe that the rosilts OF the use OF aico-
holics are not 50 serious in European coun-
tries as In our own, the last cansus shows
that in Germany only II, ,Gi5 persons died by
murder and suicide, while q, j,4;9 psrished by
alcoholic drinks.
III Is kual OHAeSA SV1sSo tAas<& SeNsS wv
not attempt to enforce the prohibitory liquor
Inv crantel to Oklahoma Territory, and
that Unitel States revenue officers collects
revenue from one hnndrel and four saloons
in Guthrie and eighty-thrce in Oklahoma;
City, While every city has saloons.
Hawoii, with Its cosmopolitan populati on,
las only 1900 English speaking people. The
W. c. +. u, having its 'noa,bership s1clu-i
siyoly among this class, roceive5 and dis
burses 5000 a year, keep eps missionary at
work among the natives AMI watches oven
tho temperance interests of the entire groun
Of seven islands comprising tho Hawaiian
kingdom.
Ex-Governor Larrabee, of Iowa, in his ad-
dress before the convention Of tho Interstate,
Temperance Union lately held in Lincoln,
Neb., gave as his deliberate Judgment, result
ing from extensive observation, that there is
not one-twentieth part of tho Intoxicating
liquor consumed Ia Iowa at the present time
that thers was before the passage OF tho pro-
hibttory law.
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A Wig for Every Day.

$50 you do not believe that Mr.. r.
- wears wig4" he asked.
"Certainly not"
"Where's your proof?"
"Look at his hair-smooth, gloss.
and natural"
every good wigs are made nowadays" "
"Wcll, did you ever see q wig grow"
"Not exactly"
"His docs, if it's wig"
"Are you Sure of it9"
"Of course an-that is, sure that his
hair is his own, for I have seen him on
the day when be has had his hair cut. l
have seen it grow day by day until it
needed cutting. In fact his hair is Won
derfully vigorous. Hardly day passes
that do not sec Il and once l re-
marked to him how rapidly his hair
grew.
"sDo you think it's too long2' he said.
"'Well, yes, do, q little,' 1 an
swered.
"Tn get it cut this afternoon he
said.
"The next morning 1 met him and his
hair was cut and trimmed almost too
closely. Where ir the world did you
get the idea that he wore wig"
"My dear young innocent" was the
reply, "wigs are so skilfully made now
that one can't detect them. H has
q wig for every day in the month.
When he wants to have his hair cut no
puts on his shortest wig. The next day
be puts on longer one and so on step
by step, as his hair grows. Finally his
hair gets too long and he has it cut
that is, he goes back to the short wig
and begins all over again. Seeing is not
believing. g."--New YorE Tribune.
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would he in perpetual darkness We
have gentle rains in summer and heavy
falls of snow in winter. The snowfall is
rarely less than nine to eleven feet, level
ing all small houses and rendering sleigh.
ing by your snow vehicles in Detroit a
perilous undertaking. Our sleighs are
made very low with broad runners, and
the box is canoe-shaped to form aruuner
if the crust is broken through. Our
wheeled vehicles are also made low, with
a similar box, so that in the spring or fall
the wheels permit of transportation over
bare ground, and the box forms q runner
for snow drifts.
"The temperturc of Iceland varies
greatly with different seasons, owing en-
tirely to certain conditions. In summer
we may say that the average temperature
is sixty-seven degrees, and the extreme
ninety degrees, while zero would, per-
haps, be mild estimate for winter. The
cold is often 80 intense that the mercury
in the thermometers congeals. have
seen by spirit thermometer registry
of 127 degrees below zero, which is rath-
er chilly even for Iceland.
"No great dependence can be placed
upon Iceland's summers. The Gulf
Stream lends its balming influence to the
action of the sun, but it may also be the
very cause of many of our cold summers.
Icebergs float down west of Iceland in
summer and striking the west branch OF
the Gulf Stream, and also the prevailing
southwest winds, are brought back to
our southerly shore and left stranded
there to keep us company, frequently
during the entire summer. They are
very unwecome visitors and have caused
US many famines on account OF their
chilling influence upon our crops.
"How our people have advanced IN
the face of such fearful elemental foes as
those which constantly confront US is a
marvel to me. Do not think me ex-
trayaeant in my assertion that the Ice
landic people are distinguished for their
intelligence, and there is scarcely aperson
upon our isle who cannot read and write
the language. Iceland now lays claim to
$4,000 population, this marking a
steady decrease during the past eighty
gears, caused by psstilence (small-pox),
famine, the fiery upheavals of nature and
an emigration which is constantly upon
the increase. In my opinion. if you will
allow me to say so now, these disturbing
elements in my native country will even
tually depopulate it. The proposition to
transplant Icelanders in Alaska, formed
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CHAPTER XXXIX.

How old Mrs. Bristors eyes bright
ened and sparkled at the sight of hel
long-lost 10y and her beautiful little
grand-child.
"Why, Ray, my boy, she is just like
her mother, and lovelier creature
never breathed the breath of life; now
tell me all that has happena-@ since 1
left home"
Ray told her all, just as it was, AID
when it came to that part where jean
n:tte had played such cruel part In
the drama of his life, his mother was
very much affected.
"And to think that once, long years
ago, when you were children together,
secretly hoped that she would really
be my daughter some day, b-S I see
now that she would never have made
you happy, had such a thing hap
pened,"
mo, mother, I never could have
loved her or any woman rs d:d Lima;
God created US for each other, fo1
man and wife, and I cannot understand
why He allowed US to lie SO cruelty
separated"
Gods ways are mysterious, indeed,
my boy, and we should not question
His wisdom"
1.-The missing links of our chain OF
happiness are all found now but one,
mother, and if of that link the lost one
is not found, the chain will always be
broken, for no link could fill that
space as long as the world stands"
Don't look on the dark side too
much, for, perhaps, you may yet be
successful"
Ray then told his mother all that
Farmer Rice had told him about Lima,
and about the papers that had been
stolen, etc.
"Ohl what did I tell you, Ray?'
Churchill? Yes, that is the very
uame: Young Churchill. a fine. no
bic young man, marrleo your Aun.
Rega's daughter, and soon after their
marriage they went abroad, and never
we're heard of again; that has always
been mystery. Yes, you may well be
proud OF yo1r little wife, for the
Churohills were noble people; thei1
iamo and honor is equal to that of the
Bristo!s. They say the old Churchill
Castle still stands b. the sea. and is a
fit monument to the fame and glory OF
that ancient race"
Eyes, I have often heard it spoken
of, and know where it is. They say the
scene from the old tower is grand. ]
guess I will run down to London be-.
fore we return to America, and while
there I will go out and see my old
friend, Sir Charles Willoughby. The
Willoughby estates join the Church
Ills, you rememEer?"
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TEMPERANCE AND CIVILIZATION.

Tho statistical records Of the Austrian
War Office prove curiously how exactly the
progress of culture comedies with the pro-
gress Of temperance. The recruits from the
metropolitan districts Vienna, Prague aud
Puda-Pesth) do not always mako the most
desirable soldiers. In honesty they arc be-
hind the Hungarians, and in subordination
for behind the Tyroese anl Sa!zburgers.
But, as class, they invariably outrank their
shirk s work, they he are apt to batch plots
against obnoxious oflcars, but they keep ont
of the drunkards' calaboose. A soldier who
can read and write is less tempted to seek
diversion in alcoholic befuldleuent.--Tbe
Voico .. a..'f.r-