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CHAPTER XXyf.

DOCTOR HEDGES HAS HIS EYES OPENED IN
VERY UNPLEASANT WAY.
{ Doctor Hedges was the first one in
the party to discover the ship was In
motion. He did not suppose that Capt.
Fox knew it, SO he shouted out:
why, Captain, the ship is sailing
awayl"
"Iknow it," said the Captain, with an
easy manner and a smile, intended to
calm the anxiety on every face; i
wanted to close up the entertainment
bv giving you little surprise. We
shall take sail Of few miles, wind
and tide are favorable, and before dark
I will have you all safe at home. Don't
fear"
Fox, who was in the companion-way,
waved his hand 10 mis- guests, and
FASTENED on deck.
Bravo, Frenauld!" he said to his
lieutenant. Now get all the Sea Hawk
men between decks, order them down
Cor enrolment, and then see that they
can't come up again till we let them"
"All right, sir" replied Frenauld.
Tho bunting, awning, tables, and mu-
sicians had disappeared, and in every
way the pleasure ship at anchor was
transformed into war ship under sail.
The guests, headed by DR.. Hedges,
rushed anxiously on deck, and the for
mer, with every sign Of great nervous
ness. addressed Fox: Il and my friends,
Capt. Fox, are certainly very much in
debted to you for your kindness, but II
st is all the same to you, we'd rather
60 back 1t is near dark, the tide is
setting out, and the wind is from the
west"
"Confound it! I never thought OF
that. How foolish Of Frenauld to get
under way without letting mo know
this"
Fox said this aloud, so that all could
hear, AMI as he hurried forward to
countermand the order to 60 back. as
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NATURES coLoRs PHOTOGRAPHED. ,.
Four Baths Necessary for the Proper De-
velopnent of the Negative.

Four Baths Necessary for the Proper De-
velopment of the Negative.
Consul General Mason, at Frankfort, re-
ports to our State Department that the sell
entific sensation OF the moment In Europe ls
a new and apparently successful method OF
reproducing In photography by chemical
means the colors of nature.
The process, which is French one and
secret one at present, controlled by pow
erful financial organization, depends on the
development OF negative In four baths, one
colorless and the other red, blue and green,
The miracle appears In the fact that the
treatment of the negative plate and positive
print by limpid liquid imparts to the latter
tho occult instinct OF selective absorption
in other words, the power to absorb and as
similate from solutions Of the primary col
ors the exact quantity and proportion Of
each tint that Is required to produce all the
colara
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FOR HEAVY WASHING.

Every housekeeper should have
borax soap in the house. There is
nothing better with which to wash
aannels and blankets. To make it
take two pounds of good white soap,
three ounces of borax and two quarts
of water. Shave the soap and put itN
in porcelain kettle with the borax.
and water. Place on the fire and stir
frequently until the soap and water
are dissolved and combined. Pour the
hot mixture into a clean butter tub,
and when cold cover. "
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HOW TO MEND GLOVES.

If you wish to mend your gloves
neatly turn them inside out and sew
them over and over with fine cotton
thread. Silk seems to cut the kid. II
there is tear, set a piece of kid un',
der it and secure it with few stitches;
if you have not the kid of the right.
color, use q bit of ribbon or silk
Save the best part of the old pair to
mend the new. Court plaster will
mend break nicely, but always stiff
fens the kid. az
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HE GAVE US THE BEST.

O my soul, let thine aspirations 60 up
more and more after thy heavenly inheri-
tance. ''The Lord is the portion Of mine in.
heritance and my exceeding great reward"
What more than this, can the compassion
ate love of God bestow? He gives US life.
He gives US his only Son. He gives US his
very self. And had he known OF anything
greater in heaven, or in earth, he would
have given that, too. In God we live. we
are the temple Of God. we possess God here,
indeed, in spirit and in mystery. but there
In deed and in truth. There our hopes VIII
become blissful reality. There we snail not
simply sojuurn, but we shall dwell in u Sc
cure abode forever and cYcr.-Gerhard.
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COURSE or LOST RIVER.
A Scientific Problem Apparently Solved by
Flood.

For many years the invisible course of the
famous Lost River, which suddenly SINKS
aear the town Of Orleans, Ind, has inciteu
yround river was ever discovered until since
the recent heavy rains.
it Is now believed that Lost River runs
directly under tho town of Orleans. This
balief Is mainly based upon the fact that
iuring the recent flood, the water burst
forth rom what was supposed to be u small
cave in such volumes that the town was
aooded.
The water has now ceased 10 flow from the
save. but any one standing near the en-
trance can hear the rushing OF tho torrent
apparently hundreds Of feet below.
When borings were made for gas some
years ago at Orleans, water gushed forth al
he depth of 500 feet with terrific force.
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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
RHUBARB sHoRTCAKE.

Make q rich biscuit crust. Whe
baked split; butter and place betwee1
the layers and on top a sauce made
follows: Two cupfuls of rhubarb
stewed and sweetened, to which has
been added, just before removing
from the stove, one cupful OF chopped
dates. This filling may be used for
one-crust pies, but should be cooled
before putting in the crust and Q
meringue spread on the top. b
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WATER THE BETTER REMEDY.

DR.. James p. Nichols says: "Rum or al
cohol as an embrocation was formerly re-
garded as OF the highest efficiency: but it is
now known that hot or cold water Is much
better application for infamed surfaces.
The external use OF alcohol upon the human
body under any conditions of disease Is prac.
tically useless. 1t may serve to cool inf1amed
parts by rapid evaporation, but warm water
meets the same end, and more effectively.
Alcohol in the form OF gin, brandy, whisky
or wines may be baDished from families as
domestic remedy without risk to the welfare
OF single member, OF any age, sex or con-
dition."
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ACT OF A coMNAMBULIsT.
wisconsin Girl CTS Off Her Long and
BeRut,r rul Hair.

Miss Lulu Reeder, of GAINESVILLE, Wis.,, had
! fine head of ha.r, twenty-seven Inches
long, of which she WAS very proud. When
she got up one morn ag recently she was as
.onished to find that in tho night she had
been relieved OF her tres5es. They were cut
off close to her head.
When the family went down stairs tho
mystery was solved. Lying on the door Of
the sitting room was rho hair, with the
,hears lying on top. Miss Reeder I'D been
walking in her sleep, and had cut off her own
hair without knowing 1t.
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TO BE PROUD OF.

"How does it taste, wonder2" said Jamie,
as he saw Patrick Flynn take a glass OF
steaming punch at the bar of a restaurant.
'Did you ever taste strong drink, james,
said n handsome old man standing by.
"Never," said James. II wonder If 1t ts
good9" .,
"I cannot tell you how it tastes, said Mr..
Landers II am sixty years old, and have
never tasted it in my life, and ] am proud TO
say 1t. l see what 1t does. 1t las cheated
has clothed his poor wife and children in rags
and made him cross and quarrelsome. It is
liquid fire, and theft. and.poison. don't want
to know how it tastes"
Neither do l." said James "Thank you,
Mr.. Landers, for whatyou have said. When
1 am man sixty years old, I, too. will have
it to say. 1 never tasted strong drink In my
life, '"-Ram's Horn.
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RELIGIOUS READING.

O for a heart of calrp repose
Amid the wCrld'I loud roar,
A life that like riser flows
Along peaceful '!hore.
Come Holy Spirit, still my hear.
With gentleness divine
Indwelling peace thou canst impart,
o, make that blessing mine.
Above the scenes Of storm and strife
There speads region fair;
Give me to live that higher life,
And breathe that heavenly air.
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ALcoHoL's INFLUENCE on CHILDREN.

NJ. Lancereaux is now engaged in demon
strating the influence OF alcohol on children.
On growing children its effects are parti-
cularly lamensable. NJ. Lancereaux has
closely studied two young girls from thirteen
to fourteen, born OF alcoholic parents, and
accustomed to drink liter and half OF
wine Der day since the age Of three years:
They are victims to visceral LESSONS typical!
of alcoholism, and present all the signs OF
we'll marked "infantilisn. These cases con-
firm the results of experiments ol animals.
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TEMPERANCE IN RAILROAD SERVICE.

The extent to which the temperance agita-
tion has prevailed in railroad service Is
shown by the comments Of railroad managers
on pending bill In the Minnesota Legisla-
ture. The bill, II enacted, would render
railroad company liableto q fine If it did not
discharge an employs in the train depart
ment who was known to have been int:xi.
Gated. The only objection offered to the bill
by the railroad officers was that 1t was super
fous. The Milwaukee and st. Paul Railroad
has rule which Is more stringent than the
proposed law. 1t reads: "The use Of intoxi-
eating drinks has proved a most fruitful
source of trouble to railways as we'll as to
Individuals The company will exercise the
most rigid scrr tiny in reference to the habits
of employees in this respect, and any employe
who has been dismissed on this account will
not BIZ re-employed. Drinking when on duty
or frequenting saloons will not be tolerated.
and preference will be given to those who do
not drink at all"
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Still Jesus joins himself to us: still he
walks with us {; still he instructs u.s. speak
ing to us by his word. his providerces, his
Spirit still he seeks TO enter into our sor-
rows and trials and to console AMI cheer
us. But we know him not. Our eyes are
holden bv unbelief. We do not press him to
abide with U.s. Hence he is grieved. and we
are left alone in the nigh..-liichard Fuller.
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TEMPERANCE.

OUR JOY AND OUR DUTY.
A pledge we sign with Joy.
Up, every girl and boy,
To fight the drink;
Let each one find his place
And then from God seek grace
To set through life the face
Against the drink.
Would we our country save?
We must be true and brave,
And steadfast stand;
Have faith in God and pray,
Work, vote, and haste the day
That from the demons sway
Shall free our land.
Albert G. Lawson, D. D., in Temperance
Banner. -
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A SONS PROMISE.

SONS PROMISE.
The following true incident Is from the
lips Of Captain Henry q. Aver OF the Third
Regiment OF New Hampshire Volunteers:
'sWe were lying on Morris Island, that
God-forsaken place, digging trenches, watch
ing, fighting, taking our chances from bull
lets, shells and fever, but our men were
patient and brave, heroes, every one Of them,
with the granite Of their hills in their blood.
To show you what stuff they were made OF,
will tell you of one Of the boys, a member
Of my company.
Zone day this fellow, not more than nine
teen years old, WAS brought In from the
picket line badly wounded. Apainful gi-
cal operation was necessary. The surgeon
examined him and prepared q glass OF
brandy, which he offered him.. He refused
to drink 1t. The surgeon appealed to me,
saying: He has lost much blood, and his
vitality is low. II he does not take this, I
can not answer for his life.' said, Frank,
to oplige mo you will drink this brandy
"He said, Captain, I would do almost any
thing to oblige you. but not this
Frank. you have never disobeyed me-
You must not now. command youto drink
this
"He looked up at me, his blue eyes dim
with the anguish he endured, and replied,
Captain, when you command me to 20 to
the cannon's mouth will do 1t If can, but
this will n2t do
~ was getting excited, for loved this boy
as If he had been my brother, and tears I
could not restrain began to flow. I cried:
why do you pain ne so? You are putting
your life in peril. You have no right to do
It. Drink this for your mothers sake
"He trembled, and tears his agony had not
wrung from him came to his eyes as he re-
piled: Captain, it is for my mothers sake
tina. will not drink this brandy. My father
died drunkard, and she has told me may
have inherited this terrible appetite, and I
promised her never to taste the deadly poi
son that made her a widow and me an Or
phan. If die tell her kept my promise "
BY that time we were both crying like
girls.
"Did he die?" I cried.
"Oh, no; he made rapid recovery. From
that time my faith in brandy has been grow
ing less"
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HOW TO BENEFIT A DRINKING MAN.

There Is only one way to do It-take away
the drink. It will not benefit him to give
him money, for he will spend 1t for strong
drink. The more money he has the more
liquor he can buy. Money helps him down.
ward. Give money to his family and he has
so much more to pay to the saloon. Even
give them bread aud clothing and he has less
Of these articles to purchase. and conse-
quently more money with which to buy
whisky. Give him work and his wages 20
to the saloon. Give him good position In
a shop or store and he barters 1t for rum.
Give him personal confidence and he betrays
It. Give him time and he wastes 1t. Give
him friends and he goes back on them. Give
him credit and he abuses it. Give him
holiday and he uses 1t for revelry and shame.
Give him eight hours instead OF ten for
days labor and he has two hours more for
debauch in the saloon. But give him total
abstinence and he is saved. This will bene-
fit him and this alone. It will benefit his
family. too. Just in proportion as 1t benefits
him will his family be benefited. They thrive
as he thrives; both rise together. Abstinence
lifts them all into higher and nobler life,
as intemperance crowds them into degrade
ton and woe.-Sacred Heart Review.
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opportunity comes" said the old prov
orb with feet of wool. trcading SOFT. You
must nave the instinct of an artist for the
approaches of this good genius. You must
listen for it.-Itcv. Samuel Johnson.
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ANIMALS AND MUSIC.
A Strange Experiment Made in n
Geological Garden.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
A violinist was playing various airs
before the cages of the animals. The
bow, which had been passing back
ward and forward half drowsily, took
up a gait that would have distanced
one of the deer in the pen by the
buffaloes' yard. Then there was a
transformation scene in the home of
the lioness as rapid and as complete
as that of the tune The cubs went into
ecstasies. They rolled about, jumped,
fell over one another, raced over their
mothers recumbent body, and danced
unrebuked on her head. They ceased
their tantrums only with the ceasing
of the music.
Then they gathered at the front bars
of the cage again and silently and pa
theticallv pleaded for more. Their
plea was successful, and In response to
the delicate flattery by their manner
the playe: gave the lullaby once more.
They simply sat and listened to it
as silently as they had at the first. The
transition to the jig music was once
more made speedily. The first note of
the lively air had barely left the violin
before it's riotous contagion had once
more caught the cubs. They rollicked
and rolled about, and stopped only
when the professor, fearing to tire
their little limbs, took his bow from
his fiddle and told them they had
danced enough for debutantes.
The hyena is an uncanny brute. His
very appearance goes q great way to-
ward bearing out charges of grave
yard robbery brought against him.
He has no music in his soul nor room
for any. Sweet sounds are to him so
antipodal to everything in his nature
that they inspire him with nothing
but fear, and the most abject fear at
that. When Professor Baker tried to
interest the two skulking hyenas in
his performance on the violin they
began trembling visibly at the first
notes utterance, and then as the mu-
sic swelled they sought the further
most side of their prison, and tried
their best to squeeze their ungainly
bodies through the bars to escape the
melody.
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HIS MAJESTY INsULTED.
Searching n House for a Document
Believed to BE Disparaging.

From the New York Journal
In Baden. n beautiful little town
near Vienna, three-store house, er-
ected five years ago, Is now being dis
mantled to search for proof of lese ma
jeste. The architect Of the building,
Herr Foller, is a member Of the Chris
tian-Social party, which makes Jew
batting and opposition to the govern
ment excuse for existence. Before join
ing the anti-Semites Foller was a
Conservative, and after finishing the
house, which belongs to rich Jew
named Dangi, told some of his friends
that he had played a trick upon the
authorities by writing out n statement
fairly wreaking with insults of the
Emperor Francis Joseph, and had
placed It in n copper box, which was
immured in one of the walls of the
new building.
Foller's friends thought this a very
good Joke at the time, but gradually
later It assumed the aspect of veri-
table crime in their eyes. They began
to mutter strange things about their
former companion, and finally charged
him openly with the odious offense of
lese majestic. The authorities interro-
SaICu HOiler, VINO vaguely remembered
the fact of a certain metal box being
immured in the Dangi residence. but
that box, he said, contained nothing
save the plans of the buildings and
some coins. Where it was immured
he could not tell. A number oftstone
masons AND plumbers We're alsofAter-
rogated, with negative results.
Then the court ordered a search OF
the premises. Ten days ago the work
of dismantIing the residence COM
menced. The pillars of masonry were
broken open one after another and
searched from top to bottom, nothing
being found, however. The search
was prosecuted under the superinten-
dence of a judge. the states attorney,
and several experts. The commission
is now searching the foundations. If
the box is not found there the resi-
dence will be torn down at the expense
of the state, of course. The expenses
caused by this farcical investigation,
| exceed already several thousand flor
| ms. 1t is no wonder that European
countries are poor.
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A Life Saved.
A FOND DAUGHTER WAS NIGH To DEATH.
Frank B. Trout Tells Reporter Of How Ms Daughters
Life Was Saved. All Parents Should be Inter.
ested In This Narrative.
From The Evening News, Detroit, Mich.

Using as nucleus for his investigation
the rumor that the life of the daughter of
Frank b. Trout, well known in Detroit,
Mich, real estate circles, had been saved, q
reporter called on Mr.. Trout at his Office,
103 Griswold Avenue. Mr.. Trout showed
some hesitancy in giving his opinion for
publication, but finally said '"Circum-
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forced me to try DR.. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People, but not until the whole medical
profession had exhausted their skill. At
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Before this she had been in the best of
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began to fall away and became pale and
languid. She was so weak that she would
fall down in faint every time she tried to
walk unsupported. The best of physicians
attended her. but she continued to grow
weaker and seemed to be gradually fading
away.
"When she was fifteen she weighed only
ninety pounds, and the doctors said it was
anamia. Several physicians said she might
outgrow it, but that it would no doubt ter.
inmate in consumption. No doctor we had
could help her, and we concluded ourselves,
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1--WE had tried all the well-known reme-
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OF the first box we noticed change for the
better. She, however. gained strength daily
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and looked brighter. Every one noticed
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for her.
"When she had taken two boxes she was
strong enough TO leave her bed, and In less
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+. B. TROUT.
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ROBERT L. HULL, JR., Notary Public,
Wayne County, Michigan.
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ALEssON FROM A LADY.

AS my pet, in dresses trailing,
Tightly clinging TO the railing,
OF tho stairs, descends, she cries:
I'm "A lady-largest size"
Bonnet tied beneath her curls,
HaF piest of happy girls.
But on the lowest step she slips;
Headlong to the floor she trips.
Finery is all unheeded,
Tears are flowing unimpeded,
To my lap she gtraightway flies.
There to hide her tear-stained eyes.
you're lady; mustn't cry"
Answer comes with sob'and sigh,
AS / smooth a tangled curl:
"No; I'm just your little girl"
We may stride in plume and feather,
Proudly through the sunny weather,
But when clouds OF trouble fall
Round about us like a pail,
All unheeded garments fine,
Straight We seek the breast divine;
Far from worldly cares and harms,
Humbled children In His arms.
The Standard.