Iwricon VOL III. AMERICAN CLARA AND ALBRRT. HE Is Juat 18, with goklca ftsir and wyes large gray that gray vyen Jj laugh Just as well as he red Ups; her a flgusfe, though little frail, makes om think what a pretty woman aha will be soon. Her 'bands and arms are those of a child Is she not still a child! Clara left school but a fortnight ago. She Is the beloved and only daughter of ' a rich miller In the neighborhood ' of Avene. Nothing Is more poetical than a mill lu the conn try. It does not disturb the 'Silence erf the air with its monotonous tlc-ta- c; cm the contrary, its noise, ' strong soil 'regular, Is like an aecom- -' panlment :to the many other noises of ' the wind, and of the trees, and of the birds. Clara was charmed with It all. During a few days after her arrival the whole house was upset, making and receiving calls, dinner parties, dancing parties, lawn tennis; the days were not 'long enough to hold their pleasures. Then all was quiet at the mill. In the orchard, which was large, the walks were spread over with sand, and the trees, loaded with fruit, afforded a beautiful shady grove. This was Claras favorite nook; here she would go and read poetry. She had been given the works of Lamartine, beautifully bound. Now, Lamartine la a very tender poet, and Clara was still In her teens, and this wan summer, and the fragrance of the flowers and the murmur of the breeze acted on her young mind; and through this book she would dream of things that she bad never dreamed of before. One day her mother asked her it she remembered her cousin Albert. "O, yea Indeed! said she. This answer came from her heart; she blushed, and from her neck to her brow she felt that sort of electricity that is produced by a little shame and a great pleasure. "Well, said her mother, you will see him very soon." Clara was about to say, "O, how glad ' I am, but she thought it more proper to aay nothing. And why was she silent? I will tall Tit was beeaose she had read Lamartine. Why! does not poetry make one false? Well, I dont know, but it speaks of love and what is love? "Well, said Clara, "I have not seen him for two years. I suppose be Is yi - . changed?" "Not more than you, said her mother, casting a loving glance of admiration to her daughter; "you were a little girl when you went away yon ore a young lady now. Clara ran off to her beloved grove to hide the blushes on her checks and the beatings of her heart. She sat down, drew from her pocket her volume of poetry, but reHd not a line. Albert arrived a few days before he was expected, but alie was thinking of him. She always had rows on her cheeks, but these roses manged into peonies when she saw him. and her hands trembled. He took hold of those hands and kissed her on both checks. He was a medical student who had not yet in his brain the hast thought of anything serious; he hud suddenly discovered in himself a vocation for beautiful science of Aesculapius, i the FORK, I'fAll, Albert threw hla bundle on the table. Why does It disshould sot care for "Whst is tha? asked Clara. 1 bad Mussets works. promised "Because 1 love his poens. them to yoo. "Well, if 1 read poetry want Alfred Jack You are too late, cousin. de Musset. I shall seud you his works gave them to me long ago, as I was when I gvt to Kil ls." complaining of your forgetfulness. At this moment ihrf heard a quick 'Tell. me. Clara this Is all a dream, and Arm step on the sandy walk and la It not ? You are not going to marry a'youxg max came sipon them. Jack?" "Excuse me, mademoiselle, said he, And why not?" said She laughed. Albef i is here, "I have Juat learned that she. and 1 bars come tr shake hards." "Because I love you; because if you An. old saying came to Claras mind: mean to marry Jack I start by the first "Two Is company; three Is a crowd. never see mo She was too well behaved to say it, train, and you shall so she left the two young nren together. again." She looked at the clock, as he kad When alone sbe reflected that Albert was a very nice cousla. and might done the year before, and said, archly: make a very good husband; as for bis Then hurry up, cousin, for the train Is here, and it cannot wait friend well, lie was a very feland be nice a very man, might low but what a difference between the two! UNHAPPY PRINCES. "lour cousin is a charming girl, daratad Who Ara said Jack. O, yes, but she is only a schoolgirl. England. The nobles and princes thus trained Well, what else can she be? She Is Just out of school, and not a woman do not become Indian noblas and yvt. Do you know what wers my princes, says the Londou Spectator. thoughts at you both? In a majority of cases they develop "How can 1 know? into Englishmen of color. Although 1 wu thinking that you would make their faiths are never Interfered with a pretty couple." and pains are taken to preserve all pe"Now, Jack, what harm have I ever culiarities of caste, something which dons you that you should want to they nor their tutors could thoroughly chain me down?" divides them thenceforward explain Am you not 25? from their subjects and dependents, la that old age? them almost foreigners In their Would you give an old man to making estates and developing In hereditary your cousin, who will be only 19 next some a profound melancholy or sense yen lT If there were such of "un satisfaction, hi two years she will be 20 that a an inner acorn for In others, word; will be better still. Then I will bs n those among whom they have to live, serious man and an M. D. to play the part X?lara Is a good match; our fortunes and in all an Inability of men capable be to moat that desired, 1 are about equal. think I might make of east and slowand west reconciling a living In this country. Well, who a knows what may happen In one day? ly leading their subjects toward civilisaAsiatic an still higher though I have plenty of time to think of it." years ago "I think your cousin deserves belter tion. We heard a wry few one of them, the uttered by complaint than that, and you ought to be In love a moat successful collegian, to an Engwith her. lish friend, and could not but think It What! love at first sight! I do think Clara Is preity, but. . . . plenty of very pathetic. "1 am, the prince said, a hopelessly isolated man. No one in time.... plenty of time! or within my dominion unEverybody seemed happy at the mill; my family oven Clara, who listened with pleasure derstands my thoughts nor Is there any to the compliments of her cousin one to whom I can unfold myself. My whenever he chanced to be with her, house or as we should say, the ladles regard me when I speak and she thought him so witty that aha of my bouse with ears, as if they were straining beto show own her forgot wit quite sounds of a foreign catch to the trying fore him. In the meantime che was hoping that language. I bare no friend and can he would propose before going ba.k to have none. My ministers, though they Paris, but the last day dawned, and he obey me and lock up to me, regard me had not said the least word about mar--j as I should regard a sunyasee, aa ruled rlage. She hoped till tbe last hour; by motives which they do not compre hend, end warn me that the changes I then, till the last minute. Introduce would ail Albert gave kisses around and honW 5,ke beBt said 'to her: "I will come back next Bhake Y authority to Its base. I am year. I will write to you. and send consumed all day by ennui; I can find n enjoyment in tbe national amuse- Mussets works, as I promised." ments. and I can see that the English She plucked up courage and said to amusements which I still enjoy strike liim: Is that all you want to promise. my people as both tiresome and undignified. Our report is as nearly verAlbert? lie understood what ahe meant, but batim as we ran manage, and the would not promise more, and his prince whs spoke thus, after governing eyes rested on the clock he said: well for a year or twu. gave up the Good -- by; cousin; tbe train la here struggle with his fate, took to drinkj It cannot wait. ing, abandoned the reins of his admini istration to whoever would take them, The life of a student, especially that and. but for an occurrence romantic of & student who does not study, is even for si and utterly outside v1! probabilities, would have ended by just oa tiresome as any other. There conies a time when he gets ruining his es'ate which indeed he did tired of beer, wine, and cigars. render in his search fir excitement, Albert was in one of his dark days; nearly insolvent. His was, It may be, since morning lie had tell cross, and an exceprienall history, hut the cirwould not even smoke: hU pipe laid cumstances which preyed upon his on his table with a pile of books and mind must prey also upon a majority duaty papers. His tobacco pouch re- of his comrades, for they would prey minded him of Clara she had em- upon English imls of the same position broidered It for him during the week if educated throughout youth in forhe had spent with her. Then he was eign habits, foreign literatures, foreign also reminded that he !ad promised to ways of thought and, above all, forwrite and send Mussets works; he felt eign aspirations. badly at these thoughts, and remorse made him go out to repair his forget- KING'S DAUGHTERS AND SONS. fulness. There came a knock at the door; the The King's Daughters have endowed servant brings lip a letter to him ; it is a bed In the Woman's Free Hospital, from his mother. Brookline, Mass. Over the door are His drowsiness gives way as he the cross of the order and the motto. In His Name. reads the linos; lie gets np in a passion, upsetting the table and every- -' One of the Hyde Park (Chicago) cirthing upon it. cles of the Kings Daughters holds And whom does she marry, I won-- I afternoon socials, at which a basket is der?" exclaims he; some common conveniently placed for the reception country lad, I suppose. No. it cannot jf gifts for the benefit of the charity be! I must go there and stop It; she hospital, and at which representative cannot he snerifled In this way." men and women speak on social, religTwo hours later he started with a ious, educational, or philanthropic subvalise In one hand and a bundle under jects. one arm; It was Musset's works. The Klngshurst Circle of the King's Clara met him at the garden gate; Daughters at Rothesay, N. B., haa un-swas looking as fresh as the flowprs, ' dertaken to furnish and maintain a cot and he. being conceited, thought that in the children's ward of the St. John the happiness expressed on her face hospital. was due to his presence. She was less A new rescue home for children, timid than last year and a little stout- known aa the Cary Home, haa been er; one could read her heart through opened in Windsor, Ontario, aa the reher gray eyes and her smiles. sult of four years' efforts by the Inas"Ia what I hear true, Clara? much Circle of The King's Daughters room, "Certainly; I was about to write to In that city. Its Clover-lea- f you. I want you here for the wed- or hospital, has been furnished by a class of children. ding." circles of the The King's Thirty-fir- e It la impossible!" Daughters and Rons In Plainfield, N. J., "Quite possible and true. have bene presented with a dispensary With whom? for the use of tbe poor, and with the With Jack of rniirae.' "Ah. the scoundrel! There is noth-- 1 privilege of a summer camping-groun- d on the mountains, fur sick children of ing like a friend to betray one. poor. The necessary buildtnga at Why, Albert, what a short memory have been put up by the wlll-- j camp not would .Poor Jack you have. speak (muds of workmen from the fac-- ! of love before he was quite sure of your s. on t heir Saturday feelings toward mo. I mn thankful torios lunches The Daughters serving King's that you set him at liberty to speak. ' pon,,n drink. tn m,dd, I am so pro, el snd happy at being afternoon. loved by such a noble heart.' abashed, he added: pense you that Lamartine? j rlk faith f 1 i I j ' u;i j com-olne- u l native insect In 1889 the caterpillars appeared in such numbers in Glen wood and in parts of Medford that they stripped the trees of foliage, and armies of them were seen marching together to new fields for fof nl. In June and July of i "5'"' ' 1 11 1 I ','( V "t "'l 'I II that year they were so numerous that u 1 fHmit&k 1;.' .... : : ; V r.vy) jMfeg THE FAKIR'S METHOD OF CASTING OUT j to any. Have you forgotten the good times we had In this garden, and over there In the woods? "O, no." said she. "And when we would go rowing and I would scare you by awlnglng to and fro In the boat to capsize you?" 0, no, I remember It all." "Then why don't you put your arms around my neck and r ty pleasant Ib.inga to me as you did rwn?" "I don't know. she (altered. Thla Then he said to himself: cousin of mine 'mist be a little simpleton" ' Well. said K , aloud, and what la this book? "Lniu-irine. It Is hcaiitlful." I don't if; irk so. I Link It ftupld feeing that she was soutwhat FAKIR OF MAINF. j good-looki- i Till lleve absolutely that they are proof PLVT (JL1 STATE against all machinations of his Satanlo Majesty, and, as ihey tell one, they get the devil in a tight corner every now VORACIOUS MOTH IS STUBBANDFORD MAKES A NEW IN HEALING METHODS. and again, because Ihey can actually i BORNLY TENACIOUSOF LIFE. hear him yelp. Tbe cries uttered by those who are wrestling with the evil j C Control Orrr uni plat Claims Is Hava Tat spirit are referred to by tha saints Seagirt at aa Kzpirasa af 800.000, tlrll Spirits Casting Oat a Itavil Haa as the yelping of the devil. j St 111 llsat roy lag Wark af la BawUllarail tha JuUt Country Fur all are saints who embrace the Man Will Ha Hagalnrly and Tlgaransly an S A boat Parham. new faith aa taught by the Schlatter j lanugnratad. of the East. There la no distinction as N MAINE has apto creed, and any one who sincerely j peared a new healHE committee aper, who cures by believes may Join the hand of tbe faiththe by pointed faith and ful. state Massachusette Inbeen alone, lie has apSandford haa not always board of agriculpeared in Durham, spired. He la a graduate of Bates Col- - j ture to carry oa a aud his name is lege, and was a Free Baptist clergyman war of exterminaSuudfurd the Rev. untij within three years ago. At that fin' Hi F. V. Sandford. tion against the time he became convinced that be was Sandford and hla not preaching religion as Christ taught gypsy moth baa wife are the apossubmitted an InIt. He gave up bis charge and salary, tles of the old faith and went back to tha primitive melh- teresting report of In a new form. They believe in and oda of Apostolic times. Its operations for he preacheB divine healing. SandFor three years he baa been nepar- the last two years, ford haa made many lug himself for the work, and hla wife already tha New yorfc journal. The work cutes In and about the town of Durham, la In two parte, the first prepared by some of which he la not averse to Edward II. Furbuah, and the second by talking about. There Is one case In Charles H. Fernald. Mr. Furbuah Is particular .to wWich he refers, that field director In charge of the work the sf a woman who was thrown from of destroying the moths and their carriage and had four ribs broken. caterpillars and eggs, and Mr. Fernald She suffered intensely, and until Sand-fer- d le the professor of zoology In tbe pray'd for her. when she declared Massachusetts college, Agricultural her paina all gone and said she was board of state of the and entomologist healed completely. In Durham they aay agriculture and the Hatch experl-ment- al that many cases of the kind have ocstation. curred. More than that, they cast out devils In Europe the gypsy moth and its In Durham. Sandford cast a devil out destructiveness are well known over a of hla mothers limb. He says so himconsiderable area, but fortunately for self, and he deseriltcd the singular prothis country It never has obtained a foothold here outside of a limited disceeding In a way that ia vivid. trict in Massachusetts, and there at on Hla mother, he said, in an Interview with a Lewiston (Me.) Journal reporter, expense of hundreds of thousands of wu suffering with sciatica. She was dollars bids fair soon to exterminate It on this side of the ocean. Ita Introthe object of much solicitude on the d duction Into this country Is believed to part of her neighbors, ami they to free her of her ailment. They have been due to the accidental escape offered special prayers mid anointed of insect! which were brought here for of hands, her, and there was a laylng-u- n experiments By a naturalist In 1868 or but she was nut delivered from pain. 1869. Sandford was then appealed to to use At that time Ijeopold Trouvelot, an his lower to cast out devlla. and naturalist and astronomer, artist As he tells it. Ids mother told him from rarla, was living near Glen wood, when he arrived at her home that she Medford, Juat outside Boston. He was felt she was healed on the day when eaperlmentlng In raising silk from she wu anointed. Yet the pains bad America's native silk worms, and he returned each night, and during the Introduced a member of European ape-de- e two or three nights preceding his arworms also. of rival ahe had endured fearful agony. Among these were some gypsy moth Mother told me," said he, that she could hear it no longer. eggs. Mr. Trouvelot, being aware of Why! she 11 seems the dangerous nature of the moth, gave If of the uid, very fangs notice of the escape, but It waa net the Are fastened Into mv, limbs until 20 yean after that tha people of nlghu; I cant express it In any other Medford realized what a pest waa 'It seems something way, she said. more than sickness. Tbe pain scenn among the. Its ravages hod been noticed before In Isolated spots, but had been attributed to some kind of A I i "BECAUSE I LOVE YOU." that he might go to Paris to spend a few years of his life and waste a few thousands of his father's francs. "Ah! llttie cousin." said he, you are pretty now. Why, I am afraid I shall fall in love with you." She looked at him, not knowing whtl No. 39. SATURDAY, SElTEMRER 5, 18!Hi. he ' j ; j devilish. 'Well, mol her. I anld, for I know God heard our prayers. He dont lie, and wo laid hands on you in Hla name. I will go upxtatrH and pray, and you do so here, and we will ask God to reveal the reason you are not delivered.' I had scarcely dropped upon my knoca In the chamlsT above before God said to me plainly: It is the devil. Within one minute from the time I left her I said: Mother. God tells me that It ia the devil. Well, Frank, she said, i feel the same. I believe it la the devil rather than disease. I thank God for anointed eyes with which to perceive, as well as anointed ears with which to hear. "Though I have never been taught this by man. yet the Great Teacher, the Holy Ghost, had shown me that, while the prayer of faith would save the sick, the command of faith must cast out devils (Mark, zvl., 16). Accordingly, In Ilia name, 1 commanded the devil to lCBre niv mother's limb. Some may smile at this, hut two weeks of fearful and almost unendurable agony ended when that command was given. My mother slept like an infant that night, and the agony has never returned.'' According to the believers in the uew doctrine established by Sandford there la considerable agitation on the part of the devil owing to their power to sub- due him. In the country about Dnr-- i ham, wherp the evangelist holds ser-- j vices at regular intervals, there are some remarkable manifestations vlilch the faithful attribute to the workings of the evil spirit. Sandford holds a camp, meet trig and a series of all nln.ut the country, and at these the power for both good and evil develops many jc-- ! cullarltics. It has got so that the faithful be- - A DEVIL. aa It Is sometimes called, la a contrivance fur casting a javelin or harpoon, which ia employed by various savage races, such us the Australians, some South American tribes aud especially by the Eskimos, among whom Its use is almost universal. Roughly speaking it le a narrow grooved hoard a foot or so long, with one end cut Into a handle and ihe other provided with a stud or spur for the butt of the apear to rest against. It la used thus: Grasping tbe hnndle as he would a sword the man fits the shaft, of the spear Into the groove, with the butt resting against the stud, steadying the spear with tbe finger. Then, extending his arm and bending back his hand until the spear lh's horizontal, he aims at the mark and propels t he weapon by a quick forward jerk of the stick. In this way I have seen the Eskimo boys rasLlng their forked javelins at wounded water-fow- l. There is a very large number of Eskimos' throwing sticks In the Na- tluriJl museum ut Washington, col- lecied from u!l the different brtvpchea of ihe race. These have been carefully studied by Prof. Otis T. Mason, one of the curators of the museum, and ho has found that these implements differ greatly from each other in their details, while all arc made on the same general plan. For instance, one kind will have a plain hniiiilc, while another will have or holes or sockets, to projecting give a firmer huld for the fingers and so on. Piipiihir Scicoco Monthly. are sometimes shipped on Live Ice so ns to keep them dormant during the Journey. This ia particularly the raxn with hitmliicitccs, which hare been taken to New Zealand, where they are useful lu fertilizing the red clover that has beeu Introduced into tbe colony. ht-c- s boys slid on the sidewalks over their crushed bodice, and nobody could venture outdoors without getting covered with the worms, which dropped from the trees. After public attention had been directed to them thus they were recognized. It was found that they had spread Into thirty townships. In each place they were found In Isolated colonies. The spreading of the peat li supposed to have been accomplished mostly through the agency of man, the worms or eggs being carried from placo to place on fruit and along the lines of railroads or rarrlage roads. Wherever the worms appeared in numliers ihey ale everything that was green except the leaves of the horse chestnut trees and grass. A large part of the population of Medford turned out to fight the plague, and In the evenings, when the men came home from work, bonfires could be seen In many parts of the town where caterpillars wen being burned. Tbe people of Medford set men to work at the town's expense to destroy the moth, and finally they appealed to the state legislature for help. The stats appropriated 125,000 In 1S90, and a commission was appointed to do the work. They sprayed infested trees with Parts green, cut and burned trees and bushes in other places, and killed the clustered worms on other trees with kerosene torches, lint their efforts were roinparaiiicly puny, for It waa soon learned that fifty square miles of land bad been Inflated. In lvl the work was put Into the hands o the state hoard of agriculture ? appropriated. In 1892, 7r,nno was appropriated and the work whs rank'd cm over a more extended area. The appropriation was Increased to IIOO.ihmi in 1893, and the total sum which hud hern expended In fighting this Insert up to January 1, 1894, waa nearly $2;ii,fMio. Another 81'ht.OOO was appropriated In 1891, and II.Vt.nAO in 1S95, ho that up to the beginning of this year the gypsy inntli had rost the state half a million dollars directly, besides all the damage It had done In Infested districts. In looking at the pictures of the gypsy moth. In Its various stages of life and at specimens of both sexes, nobody would suspect that they had any rela-wysuspect that any relationship existed between them. jd