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Show I I fHE COUNTY REGISTER. RegUter Publikhlug Company. EPHRAIM, : : : UTAH. It a man bad a tau I f diamonds ht could stop active operations, provided ho could sell the name. A ton of th precious ornaments of the ordinary quality is said to be worth 8" luillion dollars. It is never well for the world to b hoodwinked, and the existence of an unnecessary mystery is a misfortune. Many of us are too ready to confound the marvelous with the miraculous, and the indulgence in an ill foundeq belief that the supernatural is possible of accomplishment opens the way to all kinds of injurious 'credulity. A HOJiTEDBEffiESS. TALE OF FACTORY LIFE IN XKW EN'OLAND. TIjr MnJor MarNainura. Chapter 1. Hrn INTBODll'ES T1IK KKADBB TO TUB OK MRS. MORIAKTl's I'OHPd RATIOS BoAIIOlJOI-HorS- AMB rARTKTLARLY TO THB LADY WHO OWNS THB (JI1A.HD PIANO. There was a little flutter of excitement among the inmates of Mrs. Moriarty's lmrdirig-hous- e, "Corporation Boarding House," as the highly polished brass plate announced on the spruce 1 r of the es-tablishment owing totlie fai:t that a new lioarder was expected; and tliirtv tongues of thirty very nice looking girls assem-bled an u ml the long table in the dining-roo- m were discussing the probable looks, disition and general characteristics of the exected addition to their society. These young ladies seemed to be esjiecial-l- y interested in one, seemingly, important uirticular, t: In wlurh room the new-come- r was to be installed. "Well, I'm sure they can't put her in our room, can they Jane)" cried 'ne of the girls, with a (rip nee of supreme confidence Into the fuce of her next neighbor. "That they can't," replied Jane as she carefully gathered a few green peas to-gether on her plate preparatory to de-vouring the same "we've got four girls in our room besides our two selves, an that is all Mrs. Moriarty allows ina single room, for 1 heard her my so." "Nor in our room, either, though there is one spare lied," exclaimed another "but I can tell you into whose room she vili go." Twenty-nin- e pair of eyes were turned ii) urn the sjieaker, ami double that nnm-le- r of knives and fol ks ceased to rattle, while the voice of one pretty creature broke sudden silence by asking: "Irto whose room will she tro Nellie?" was n ci.' in dignity bKiiil her wT.ich attract ed the beholder, and this was felt though never admitted by the whole multitude of Mrs. Moriarty's boarders. The color of her eyes was i dark bluish grey; changeable eyes, dark in moments of citeinent and serenely, sweetly gentle in periods of reie. Hit hair was very abundant and of a rich gulden color; though, in the suiiiight an auburn tinge of rare softness gently shimmered through it. Her complexion was purity itself in a word, she was a creature of rare beauty, and the reader may depend were sheotherwise she would not apear in these columns as the he-roine of this story. About three months prior to the present time, she had pulled the 111 at the front door of Mrs. Moriarty'a house and en-gaged board, informing that stout but genial dame that tshe had been recom-mended there by Mr. Jenney, the Super-intendent of the" Factory. Mrs. Moriarty bade her welcome; and the two hail quite a long conversation to-gether, and tho result of that conversation caused considerable excitement among the generally hum-dru- boarders of that es-tablishment the cause of the excitement was that Miss Weldon was to be given a whole room to herself. The boarders divided themselves into groups and discussed this very wonderful and somewhat suspicious arrangement among themselves, ami wondered what the world was coming to, and particularly Mrs. Moriarty's boarding-house- . But wonder was turned to the wildest amazement, when, a day or two after, a wagon backed up to tho dxr, and a "('hiekering Grand Piano" was carried into the house, and, marvel on marvel, right straight up to Miss Weldon's room! This was the feather that broke, the back-hon- e of tho unfortunate camel and completely demoralized what little order and regularity of mind ami sense the twenty-nin- e loarders of Mrs. Moriarty possessed. "This is putting on Tufties' with a ven- - Hue nad no ceeile.l In her purpose how- evershe bal broken the charm! the boarders gave forth a sigh of relief, and the usual chatter-chatt- er began. In the meantime, and without the attention of her attracting companions. Hai-bai-- Glendon had flitted quietly from the room. Let us follow her for a brief jieriod to her own aiartuient. a large souare loom, chaining six !edi, the usual epportion-me- nt incorporation Hoarding-house- s w itli a tre floor, a couple of washstands, half a dozen broken chairs, a couple of cracked looking glasses j a number of dresses ami other wearing apparel hanging from the walls. Barbara filendon carefully locked the door behind her. Khe then drew a letter from her pocket, which she unfolded, probably for the third time, and proceeded to read it. having done so. she let her hands fall into her lap, and bent her eyes almtractedly on the floor. Her face was very pale, and in every lineament of it the agitation of her mind was perceptible. Suddenly she sprang to her feet, and walked up anil down the room j her hands were clenched and pressed to her burning brow in a little time ahe paused, and a low sigh escaped her, and ahe mutteid : "Yes! I will do it. What is the world without him surely there it no harm yes I will see him!" Seeming thus to have come to a de-termination, she hastily liathed her face and airanged her gloriously abundant hair; donned her outer garments, and un- - perceived, stole silently from the house. She passed hastily down the main street, and in about fifteen minutes found herself upon the common, the only public ground in the enterprising city of mills where our story is located. She moved slowly along one of the walks of this green bit of ground, when she was suddenly joined by, aparcn(ly, a young and very stylish looking man. She took his arm, w hich be extended, with seeming reluctance, and together they continued down the walk." How can I thank you Barbara you will allow me to call you Barbara, won't you how can I thank you for so kindly consenting to meet me," and he stooped his head and sought to peer under the vail which shaded the young girl's face. "You pleaded so hard. Mr. Blake that I could not refuse but I hardly think I am acting right in thus acceding to your wishes." she replied in a low, hesitating voice so different from her usual self. "Acting right!" he said. "Why Bar-liar-dearest, what, ran you mean can yon not comprehend how deep, how warm is the love I bear youtf Time and time again have I written to you to tell you of it. Without your love, my Barbara,'life is worthless to me; my wealth is nothing but dross if you refuse to enjoy it with me! Night and day you are in my "Into Miss Weldon's of course there are four spare beds in her room, and only herself to occupy thein.'' The battery of eyes aforesaid, were now turned toward the farther end of the diuing-tahl- e where the young lady just mentioned. Miss Weldon, was serenely sitting, taking no part in the conversation, and paying a wise and judicious attention to the various viands before her. At the mention of her name she slight-ly raised her head, gazed coolly for an up and down the loiig table, and then, in a dra I ling voice, anil with a movement supremely graceful and a sublime indifference tothe conver-sation going on about her, she said, to the servant standing near: geance." saal JNellie Jones. 'She' 11 have a Sky-Terri- next." ex-claimed Jenny Smith, anil immediately Miss Weldon was scut to Coventry the lxwu-der- with two or three exceptions took sides against her. and the tone of their warfare may lie judged from what the reader has already perused. M iss Weldon however troubled her head but very little about the lioarders. their opinions, or their conversation ; she filled her place in the factory tothe satis-faction of her employers; was high in the graces of the Uuxom Moriarty, and what more could be desired for a young lady in her position. Chaptkh II. "A few berries, Sally, ami then I will-ret- ire." "She'll muttered one girl in a tone of smothered indignation. "Oh, my, how very fine we are!" fell from the lips of another only loud enough however for her near companions ears. I'What airs to lie sure!" mumbled a third, but Miss Weldon paid no attention to the mufterings aliout her, but finished her meal In silence; carefully folded her napkin with its ring of colored lione; and rising, swept from the room with the air and grace of a Qneen. "Well I never!" burst simultaneously ' from twenty-nin- e palpitating Ixisoms.more or less. 'Did you vr see such unsufTerable airs as that girl puts in though for that mat-ter she's no nue-- e Qirl than than I ain for she's twenty-tw- o if she's a day!" j "Yes, and and she paints!" "Ah, no Nellie; don't say that you know it isn't true." These last words came from the rosy lips of a pretty little blonde, who did not seem to share in the general feelings of ill will which characterized her compan-ions alxmt the tablet "Well, if Bhe don't she looks as if she does, and she's an airy thing any how!" Our readers will see that Lindley Mur--I ry was not fi familiar in Mrs. Moriarty's IV.IliiuIoti ft,,! WHttRKIS TIIKRR 18 SOMl'.THINO AllOCT TUB BOAHOKRS, BIT MO KB ABOt'T BARBARA AND UKR LOVKR. Who was Miss Gertrude Weldon and where did she come from? These were questions of considerable interest among the inmates of the boarding-- house where, for the time being, she resided. Numerous attempts had been made by Barbara Glendon and others less astute among the boarders to sound Mrs. Mor-iarty on the subject ; but that good lady only answered them with a good humored smile, saying invariably : "How should I know who the young la-- ' dy is or where she comes from? I only! know that she pays me for what she re- - ' ceives and gives me no trouble, and I would advise you girls to give her no trouble." "Yes, but, Mrs. Moriarty. onlv think of it a "Chii kering's Grand," ami she only t a factory girl lord! Will wonders never' cease there she is playing on it now!" She was indeed. Strains of rich music ' came floating down from the room of Miss Weldon, on the "First Flat," as the littlo advertisingslipsof "Rooms to Let" have it, and the boarding-hous- e became flooded with melody, much to the secret delight, but apparently to the visible chagrin of the young ladies assembled therein one of whom. ?'e!!i Jones, remarked. I thoughts I cannot see you m your boarding-- house, I cannot see yon in the mill, I must gaze upon you at a distance as you go and come from your home to the fac-tory, and from the factory to your home again. Right! In the name of heaven, child, what can there le wrong about it. I love you Barbara, deeply, passionately! To me you are all the world ; ay, darling! Tin icorld lm and hereafter! Tell me that you love me! Tell me that your dear heart is my own sjieak Barbara tell me that you love me tell me that you will be mine!" The man by her side spoke in low, pas-sionate tones there was a music in his voice that thrilled this girl to the very centre of her being. She loved the man by her side madly and lieynnd measure but something seemed to rise up and stand between him and herself. An impalpable something H stood with arms outstretched holding these two apart and it seemed to look imploringly up-on her soft and tender eyes and filled with expressions of unutterable love she seemed to hear it night and day ever since he had first beheld the being at her side and she knew the vision ; she knew the face of her guardian angel that stood letwecn herself and Wutif Who can tell? TO BE CONTINUED. "She's a very lady-lik- e young lady; rather exclusive if you like, but still a !ei-8o- I verv much admire," continued the generous little blonde and it seems to mo that she has a perfect right to choose her companion or keep all to herself if she so desires." "You do, Mi Gi-e- vh think no well, let me to'! you that she has no right to V "iy such thing or any one else here tor that matter. This is no place for airs she's a Factory girl and she knows it, and has no more right to put on airs over us, who are as good as she, than Rally has! It's all well enough when she's out on the street to put on 'ruffles' but in the house it is an ent'n-el- different thing! That's my opinion, and i don't care who hears it!" This bit of eloquence fell from the lips of a boldly handsome girl; who. having finished her dinner had arisen from the table, and standing by her chair bad thus bravely harangued the boarders. Barbara Glendon was a girl of raifl and peculiar beauty her features were large and bold and "faultless in moulded beau-ty. Her complexion was dark, a rich cur-rent of red blood showing through the delicate skin her lips were finely cut, and her teeth as white as jiearls large and even gleaming like a ridge of cream through the half open lips; her eyes were dark, and lighted with will and passion her hair of raven darkness was coiled in rich abundance around her shapelv head) her figure was tall, strong and graceful. Barbara Glendon was a remarkable wo-man in more ways than one as the reader will learn before reading finu to our story. She was about eighteen years of age and had been a worker in a factory for aliout six months. Her companions in Mrs. Mo. riarty's boarding-hous- e stood in con-siderable awe of her for she was out-spoken in her opinions; sometimes sav-agely sarcastic and terribly, for one so young and dependent, When she had concluded the little lieech of assertion and defiance aliove set down she left the room with a sweep so similar, and an air of grace so exactly like that of Miss Weldon, who had preceded her, that Mrs. Moriarty's boarders set up a shout of laughter which brought that good lady into the room to see what was the matter. From what we have already written the reader will proliahly see the estima-tion in which Miss Weldon was held by the inmates of Mi-s- . Moriarty's "Caravan-sary," if we may apply such a title to the eminently respected and generously con-ducted "Corporation Boarding-house- " of the amicable Mrs. M. Gertrude Weldon was not quite eighteen when she was 'introduced to our readers; the assertion of Nellie Jones to the con-trary notwithstanding. She was medium sized, slender, and in her movements as graceful as a fawn. Her beautiful head was set proudly and firmly upon a neck and shoulders, unmatched even in the wonderful marbles of the sculptor Pow-ers. Her form was rounded to perfection. Her step free and dignified and every at-- I tituda she assumed was complete with un-- I conscious The poise of her royal head seemed to add to her height. There "There goes that cranky old piano again 1 wonder if we are going to be disturb-ed in this way every evening; there's lieen no jieaee in the house since that Miss Miss Bel-do- t has pitched her tent here." "What's her other name Nellie!" que- - i ried Jane Smith, her "chum." "Gertrude, I think." j "Gertrude? oh, iny, how aristocratic I I What's that she is playing now J" "1 don't know, Jenny, some operatic air or another!" "It is an air from La Somtimnbubt, and she plays it beautifully too. Hark! She's singing!" i The conversation ceased, and a bevy of heads were bent forward to listen tothe j rich contralto voice which warbled glori- - ously from above. A few of the inmates of the seedy drawing-- room moved on tip-to- e to the door,; ami even Mrs. Moriarty and the servants gathered in the entry, to listen tothe glo- - rious vocalization from above. t Seddeidy the voice ceaseddmt the sweet music of tho piano was continued in a few moments the singers voice again fell upon the listening ears below, this time caroling an old liallad, with rare purity and power. A strange hush fell upon the little mi- - ditory below and unshed tears came into many an eye among those simple toil 'in in the Mil!, and strange to relate, in a dis-tant corner of tho lioarding-hous- draw-ing room Barbara Glendon sat, her royal head bowed in her hands and her hands we with tears as the tender words "Oh my lost love and my own, own love. And my love that loved me so; To those never a chink in the world above. Where thev listen for worJs from below" eil upon her listening ears. Was it the pure and tender tones from aliove, or was it the sweet wiJrds of Jean Ingelow that, recalling some tender memory caused the tears to till and overflow the eyes of this strangely beautiful and wayward girl. All unnoticed she set in the dark recess, her form quivering with emotion.while the rest of tho boarders were rapt in the de-licious melody that floated down to them from alxive. Hers was not the only heart whose cords rescinded to the singers gentle touch even the bitter tongue of pug-nos- e Nellie Jones was silent, and there was a dimness in her hard eyes, which, had nht known it, she would have been heartily ashamed of. At last the music ceased, aud the little community resumed their various seats, and for a few moments there was a dead silence, suddenly broken by that brazen-faced Nellie Jones with "the heartless word so the consciences of the listeners deserved them : "Well, what can that woman I thinking of to sit up there squalling and banging on that music-bo- x this time o'night ; 1 de-clare if there aint a crowd outride listen-ing.- " Now Nellie insinuated ontfib and boldly told another, in the little sentence she had given utterance to. In the first place it was quite early, not seven o'clock in the evening; and in the sacond, there was no one listening outside whatever. leares of gross prevent the manure from v calling, while tho roots prevent waste Jf anything through leaching. The further advantage from grass Is that whHt fertility the soil re-ceives when put. into grass is retained on the farm, as a smaller proportion, of the hay crop is sold than any other farmer can grow. Farm Note. Every man's farm is his garden of Eden, but he musn't fool with sour ap-ple trees. If you want 500 bushels of potatoes per acre, aim at 7(10 bushels, and you. will hit the oOO mark. Bees serve as active agents in tho fertilization of plants, and it is gener-ally conceded that they aro not de-structive to the same. Insects do not like wood ashes. Uso the ashes for the trees and vines, If you have no ashes buy some. Ashes, contain both lime and potash. Wherever potatoes are to bo grown, extensively they should he planted and harvested by improved implements. In one sense potatoes cannot bo grown successfully without a good deal of labor, but whatever lalwr is saved In planting and harvesting will bo much more productive if applied to securing more thorough cultivation. Prof. J. L. Budd argues that sugar beets can ho most profitably worked up in small factories, which will cost about 10,000 each, the crude sugar product being sent to a larger factory to be re-fined for market. On this plan, each county could have its own factory, and there would be no shipping of beets long distances. Tho objection is the scarcity of experts for tho muiuifaeturo of the crude sugar. Kotation of crops is always beneficial. Land that is given a different crop every year will not become exhausted as soon as when given up. year after year, to a single crop. A crop will take from the bind certain foods in ex-cess of others, and causes it to fail, though it may not be lacking in other element. By rotation of crops tho simply of olunt food removed is equal-ized, and the soil is bettor enabled to produce crops for a longer period of time. It is well known says the Mirror and Farmer, that linseed meal will often improve the coat of a horse. It THE FARM AND HOME. THE BEST HORSE FOR CENERAL FARM USE. Car In KeUtrting Fowls for I'rollt Kill ' the F'ai lleoa Top lreslug for rata Landa Honey Hoard The Home. The florae fur the Farm. Strength is not the sole requisite in farm horses. As a rule, the horse that plows must also draw the wagon upon the road. The average farmer cannot afford to keep road horses also in his stable. The two must be combined, and combined in such a way that the ride for business or pleasure shall not be made irksome because of dullness in the motive power, or the plow stranded in the furrow because of lack of strength to move it. It is well worth noting that ability to do good service in drawing loads, or in doing general field work, is not wholl" on size of body. Courage and a resolute way of taking hold of work will often make an 1,100 pound horse worth more in a team than an easily discouraged one having a bulk several hundred pounds heavier. Again, a farm horse should be a quick walker. One may as well use oxen ns some of these sluggish teams that seem to drug their feet over the the ground rather than lift them, while every motion is made with the utmost deliberation. Men and teams are less worried by active movements than by a mere creeping gait, To prove this, let a man walk a mile briskly, and at another time saunter over the same road, and note the difference in feeling at the end. Tho farm horse should be kind and fearless. He must be such that the oldest and youngest, the boys, the girls, and the mother, as well as the father, may all drive and pet him. A farm horse, ought really to be one of the family, since ho enters so largely into the everyday work, unci should also be the means of affording so many pleasures as to make his ownership a comfort to every member of the family. Farmers' wives and daughters, as a rule, would look amazed at the sugges-tion of a ride for the mere pleasure of riding, so accustomed are they to tho deprivation. "Tis true, 'tis pity, and j pity 'tis" that this should be true in will also brighten the plumage of birds, as well as correct indigestion and pro-mote laying. (live twice or three times a week a teaspoonful to each hen in her ground food. It answers all the purposes of medicine, as well as serv-ing as an agreeable chango of nutritive food. For drooping or mounting hens it is excellent and unsurpassed. To exterminate quack grass thesetf methods were suggested at tliej Owatonna farmers'' institute. By Mfi Sommerville: tho ground M the early spring then go at it aaa separate with a Disk harrow or plorJ cultivating the ground until Juae when it will all bo killed out." $t Air. Moore: "Turn the ground tut .with. a iW''-fcrr5iiTtr"or--iWrt- Tne'hM ,r as soon as the crop is off; then keen the ground stirred until frost comes,) when all roots will be dead. " r A close, compact head is a great ad-- ,, j vantage in aiding growers of eabbagoxt to ward off the attacks of the cabbage worm. It soft-head- varieties we i grown near by the white butterfly, I which lays the eggs will of choice de-- posit them where they can be most easily protected. Most of tho very early cabbages are loose-heade- d and more difficult to grow where the worm abounds. The early Winningstadt is an exception to these. It forms a sugar-loa- f head, which is reasonably hard, and is always a sure header. Household Hint. Use tepid water for wajhltig white silk handkerchiefs. Tin cleaned with paper will shine better than when cleaned with flannel. Wash fhitirons occasionally and dry them thoroughly before putting on to heat A teaspoonful of borax water added to cold starch renders the collars and cuffs much stiffer. When soot falls upon a carpet or rug, if covered thoroughly with salt it can be swept up without leaving a urace. "Olive slaw'1 is something new. It is olives pitted and then chopped fine and saturated with a sharp French dressing. Bathing the face daily in hot water-remove- s pimples by softening tho oil in the tiny tubes, and is said to pre-vent wrinkles. Select the meat of an old rather than a young animal for soups. It is more nutritious and has a more pro-nounced flavor. Our English Cook: "Now, 'ma'am,' 'ow will you 'ave the duck Will you heat it cold, or shall I 'eat for you?" Life. Five drops of oil of poppenniii. in a pint of hot water well shaken makes a peppermint water very soothing to itching surfaces where the skin is un-broken, used with a soft sponge. A physician remarks that there is a very direct relation between tea drink-ing and cold feet- - and that some women experience r cold porspiration of the soles of the feet as a result of tea drinking. The Lancet says that overwork is one of the bad habits of the present age. and that the evidence of it is apt to be first seen in loss of appetite and sleep, which are warning signals that it is time to rest. so large a number of households. Farm horses should havo good lung jiower and good feet and legs. It is folly to think that unsound feet are not a serious disadvantage since their work is largely on soft and yielding footing. To do his work quickly and well, and to last as he should last on the farm, must be sound in every point. Where mares aro used it is especially important that there be perfect sound-ness, that there bo no inherited weak-ness in tho progeny. A neighbor at-tempted to raise a colt last season from a mare that he owned. This animal will weigh perhaps 850 pounds, and has spavine on about as many logs as she possesses. ... In addition to this she is nervous; wtdiotnd - WhyThgr even when there is no provocation, and travels very much like a sheep. Her owner bred her to some Berub stallion that was standing at a low fee. Now this would not be worth mention-ing if it were not a sample of a very common practice. In the case men-tioned outraged nature refused to be a party to such foolishness, and the mare proved unfruitful. Am. Agriculturist The Farmer' Fowl. What breed of fowls is the best for the average farmer? This question is often asked by young people just be-ginning. Everyone must determine for himself what brSed is best for his purpose and his immediate surround-ings. If a farmer has no yard for his fowls, the Asiatic breeds will give the best satisfaction, with the exception of the Plymouth Rock, which is purely an American production. These fowls give less trouble in tho grain fields and gardens, for almost, any kind of fence will keep them out while the Light Brahma, if raised for eggs and broilers, cannot be beaten, as they lay a large, red egg and make good winter ' layers; the young cniekens grow fast and make good marketable broilers at four months old, but when matured and dressed for market the carcass is too large for ordinary customers, they having a uniform weight of about six and one-hu- lf pounds for the hens and eight pounds for the males. If one is breeding for eggs alone, the Leghorn and Minorea are excellent The Silver Spangled Hamburgs are ad-mired by all; they have beautiful mot-tled plumage; lay a white egg equal in size to the Leghorn, will bear confine-ment well; are great foragers and non-sitte- rs; and a more beautiful fowl would be hard to find. Where one is breeding for eggs alone he could make no better selection than the Silver Spangled Hamburg. For an fowl, for eggs, early broilers, beauty of plumage and a good medium-size- d market fowl, the Plymouth Rock takes the lead. The Plymouth Rock is a better sitter than the Asiatic breeds, as the medium hen will not crush the eggs like the heavier hens. But care must be taken that the nests are free from lice when the hens begin to sit, for they will soon accumulate on the little chicks as soon as they leave the shell. If the chicks trail their wings you may be sure they are infested with vermin, and a great many more are lost when small from this disease than from any other. ' Grits Lands. Both the leaves and roots of grass hold manures from wasting, and there-fore manures applied as I for these are in less danger of wasting than applied in any other way. It used to be taught that there was waste of ammonia by exposure of manure to the atmosphere. But it is now known that 4Sere is only the slowest kind of de--; nposition in manures thinly spread, ; 1 what ammonia is formed is held by ns and carried into the soil. The Steel pens are spoiled and destroyed by the acid in the ink. ' If an old nail or old steel pen is put in the ink the acid therein will exhaust itself on them, and pens in daily use will re-main in good condition much longer. It is necessary to the health of the feet to bathe them daily and change the stockings very frequently. Be al-ways careful to hang the stockings which have been worn where they will . be thoroughly aired at night if they are to be worn again.. The restoration of forests in Ger-many, France, Italy and Austria, Major Raymond says, has been followed by results surprisingly satisfactory, be-yond the most sanguine expectations. If this process of restoration of Amer-ican forests wore begun at once, made general, and prosecuted with anything like the vigor that characterizes the work in Europe there is no doubt but people of the present mature gencntr tion would live to see an end to the disastrous floods which now come very near being annual throughout the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. TliK practico has become all but uni-versal of attributing tho death of pub-lic pcrsous to "heart failure." It would bo as logical to attribute every death to lung failure or bruin failure. Heart, lungs, brain, all the vital or-gans cease their functions with the censing of life. Failure of heart is only one of the necessary concomitants of death, equally with failure of tho respiratory or digestive organs. There are cases of heart disease in which possibly tho phrase "heart failure'' may have some such vuluo us is sought to be imparted to it by the erroneous popular use of the words. Nine times in ten, however, this use is simply nonsensical, In offering an asylum to tho of every nation America has made itself a sort of international hos-pital and reformatory to which the physically and morally infirm of Europe flock for healing and refuge. This country Is under no legal or moral ob-ligation to receive such people. The fathors of tho republic did not intond that the United States should be made a dumping ground for the populous foreign centers which breed criminals and paupers. The mendicants of the old world havo no claim upon the gen-M0!- iaA the foreign and incendiaries who j have forfeited the rights of citizenship under their native governments should not expect to find protection here. ' j ' . - Time is indeed the great disinfect- - ant This has always beon under-stood in a material sense; but it is just jomlng to bo comprehended that it is; tfue of immaterial things as well if a "thing" can be immaterial. It is true, at any rate, of literature for wo have tho authority of a Yale professor and the yi; TV'-'SSOl- ? knows every-- ; hing. According to 1W.' Knapp., 0f j Yale, there is no otoV-tlor- t to immoral , language when it is ancient; it is only when it Is modern that it becomes im- - J proper to read or to use In a text book. The utterance of the professor was in- - I tended to bo sarcastic. It was a sub-- tie reproof of the rest of the faculty for opposing the study of Balzac ns ' immoral, lie was simply pointing to the fact that thore was nothing in Bui- - I zac any worse than thore was in tho old Greek and Latin authors who were freely read and studied in the uni- - j . versify. I Only a Baby Cyclone. A baby cyclone is what Amos R. Acton, of Butte City, called the storm which swept over his place receully. Here is the way he described it to a Denver reporter: "It was just about 5 o'clock in the afteruooii. and my wife and I were talking of cyclones. All at once I heard a rushing sound, and I saw my little woman turn pale with fright.. I rushed to the door which opened upon the veranda, and there was the fearful funnel-shape- d cloud which has so ofteu been described by the newspapers; but it was small. Its dimensions did not exceed those of a big country ash hop-per. Thousands of small articles of household furniture, tin pans, bits of chairs aud towels and table linen, books and music gyrated around in the air. These things were not taken over thir-ty feet high, but were carried right along with the whirliug wind. "While this diminutive tornado was approaching I got the chickens and the children, all in the house. I also had a nice dog. Captain Jack. I tied him to the leg of the table, but he got loose ami ran into the front yard just as the atmospheric revolver tore down the fence and walked into my grounds. "As soon as the injudicious dog got sight of the cyclone he made a dash for it. He was faithful to his trust. I made up my mind there and then to erect a tablet over his tomb with that inscription. However, he was uot killed, but lie was made idiotic by the terrible twirling aud the fact of his having been thrown through a straw, stack. His long hair was cork --sere wed in all directions, and it was stiffened with fright. It has ever siuce remaiued as It was when the little eve let loose of him. Captain Jack is now no longer handsome. His disposition soured, too, and our baby yells murder when- - ever the poor pup's blasted beauty meets his gaze." Tub evolution of new diseases is something that tho medical faculty have never fully explained. Some-what more than thirty years ago, peo-- . pie, old and young, were attacked by an unfamiliar and dread malady which sent them to their graves in appalling ' numbers. Nobody knew what to call it nor how to treat it Experiments were tried and learned discussions had, i but the destroyer stalked across the country leaving grief and desolation i behind him. Since that time this dis-- J ease has always been with us in more ' or less malignant form, and we now know it as diphtheria. Last year there came something that we called the grip. Those who did not suffer from it laughed in an incredulous fashion, and insinuated that it was nothing more than a particularly severe typo of cold. But after the epidemic had ' passed, we heard of scores of cases of insanity, consumption and other ail- - ments, mental and physical, that were directly attributed to the visitation. This year it came to us again, not so generally, but, if possible, with in-creased severity. Many of those who had not yet recovered from the shock of last year's attack were again pros-trated, and a terrible death rate was the result. It is no laughing matter. nd we can only hope that it has not lome to stay as did diphtheria. Her Britannic Majesty's Family. Queen Victoria's family circle now numbers fifty living descendants, in-- ! eluding sons and daughters.graiidsons, and granddaughters, great-grandson- s, an Besides these, she has four sons-in-la- four j daughters-in-la- five grand-sons-in- -I law, dad one granddaughter-in-law- . i The queen has lost one son and one j daughter, five grtiudsons. one grand-- I daughter, oue great-grandso- and one son-in-la- If these were living, her family circle would number seventy-fou- r. Ane Aieuuuehess Marie Valere, ol Austria, has 1,900.000 florins, which ' she has been accumulating since she took to saving her allowance instead of IPvDdiosf . |