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es aie o- i 2 Human Nature in a Country - O = THE POSTMISTRESS DRAWS INFERENCES AND ARRIVES AT CONCLUSIONS. From the Rochester Demoerat and Chronicle. "T have an aunt," said a well-known _Bochesterian the other afternoon, as he sat in a down-town office to wait) until the worst of the rain had passed. over, "who is Postmistress in one of the prettiest little hamlets in western New York. . A beautiful town it is, I tell you, nestled amid vine-clad hills and bold scenery. - It is an ideal place fora summer's vacation, as it stands atthe foot ofa pretty lake, whosa waters stretch away for miles, and up- on whose waves many a moonlight ride ean be enjoyed. The men who were gatheredin the office applauded the beauty of expres- sion into' which their friend had fall- en in his poetic fervor for the place of his aunt's nativity. It was de- clared by one that to have an aunt who lived in sucha town was better far than to wear a crown, whether of el "Yes," replied the eulogist, "it is a great joy. To havean aunt serene- ly abiding in such a lovely place is more than falls to thelot of any of you ordinary mortals. But to have an aunt who is postmistress as well as resident--that is perfectly entrancing. I have been down to see her Iately, and I spent one or two mornings with her behind the little boxes into which the mail of the inhabitants is placed. Of course she knows every one, and almost all of them have a word of greeting for her. "You must get quite an insight into the affairs of this neighborhood," I said to her oneday, "handling so much of its correspondence." Yes," she said. "I known great deal that is going on. I cannot help it. Many of the letters which go through my hands tell their own story without opening them. It is all stamp- ed on the outside. I get very familiar with the handwriting of these people about me, and this fact often reveales to me some plots and schemes which the writers fancy are profoundly sec- ret." "Yon interest me greatly," I said, " Lawyers, doctors, newspaper men, and business men have their secrets,' she went on, and Post Office officials have theirs also. I think, however, ours are--guarded the best, because the law compels us to keep our mouths closed. '¢ 'There comes a girl now,' she ex- claimed as she looked out of the win- dow down the street. 'Now just watch her when she comes in. She will carry a very anxious look on her face until she sees there is a letterin her box, then just notice how her expres- sion changes. She will go and peek at the letter first, and when she sees it is from him--from the young man--she will give one little subdued exclama- tion of joy, ardask me forit witha face wrenthed in smiles, Seeif I have not described her actions correct- ly.' "Of course Iwas deeply interested, and secured a point of view where I could observe the young woman close- ly. True enough, she came in witha most preoccupied look on her face, as it she were debating whether she dared to hope for a letter; she went 'directly to the box which interested her, and when sbe saw the letter which it con- tained a httle smile rippied over her face which made me feel both guilty and envious asI watched from behind the scones. Thenshe raised herself on her tip-toes, screened her eyes with ~ her hands, and carefully examined the directions on the envelope. When her heels touched the floor again a look of of such ecstacy swept over her coun- tenance that I was for going out and congratulating ber on the spot. A man feels like throwing up his hat in the air and shouting hurrah wheu a girl beams like that, no matter if the Incky man is miles away. But the Postmistress frantically motioned for me to keep quiet as she went to the delivery window to wait on the young miss, Up walked the girl as big as life, her face radiant, her eyes full o: a laughter which told the entire story, and her whole bearing that of a very ratistfied girl. "The Postmistress handed the let ter to her demurely enough, but it was pounced upon as if it were the rarest treasure on the top of the earth. It went into her pocket after she had given it one loving glance, and then the girl disappeared down the street, walking as if she was as happy asa queen. '«"She gets a letter about every day,' explained the Postmistress, 'and she seems as anxious for every one of them as ifit was the firstin years. And when she expects a communica- tion from that 'youth and it, does not come her face is a study. Every par- ticle of joy 'seems toleave it. You noticed how triumphantly she swag- gered down the street just now, I pre- sume. *<If yeucould see her on one of the days when the coveted epistle does not reach her, you would hardly be- lieve it was the same girl. Slowly she drags herself along, her head down- cast, her eyes almost in tears and you fairly hear her exclaiming out of her heart full of woe :--"Oh, why didn't he write? What is the matter ?" Not so very strange, either. I used to feel that way myself once upona time. There were' lots of joy and sorrows, many heartburns and little quarrels, but after all it was very sweetto me--those years long ago when he was youngI thought there wasno oneon top ofthe earth his equal, It couldn't last forever, could it? He turned ont bad, and has paid the debt, but--'" "See here," said one ofthe party, "the skies are clearing, and it is time we were all going, before you go any further in the affaire of the Postmis- tress. Itis quite scandalous the way you are telling her secrets." "Yes, Ihave given you enongh for to-day, but there are anumber of characters which I saw through the eyes of the Postmistress, and some other afternoon I will give you another one ef them." And the party broke up with. the understanding that the next story from the lips of the Postmistress should not be of love, but something more blood- curdling. Fatal Fire Pei Belleville. ALD YEOMAN'S DRUG STORE BURNED-- THE PROPRIETOR LOSEN HIS LIFE, Belleville, Ostcber: 19.--L. W. 'Yeo- mans & Co.'s drug store, "Front street, caught fire about six o'clock this morn- ing and was burning dt 8.30 a. m, The loss, it is estimated, will reach $25,000 of $30,000. L. W. Yeomans, the head of the firm, lost his lifa in the fire. Just how will] never be known. He was abont 52 years of age, and was ome of the lead- ing citizens of Belleville, being an Alderman and Chairman of the Exe- cutive Committee. It appears that a car of material for the manufacture of Scott's Emul- sion, which was .put up herd for Scott & Bowne, of New York, arrived yesterday, and Mr. Yeomons notified Mr. Fowler, of New York, travelling agent for Scott & Bowne, that he wonld have his men ready at aix o'clock this morning to bring the stuff from the car to the main factory. Ac- cordingly he arose at 5.30, telling his wife that he would himself feed his horses, so as to have all ready, as agreed. That he did so is shown by the finding of the lamp litin the sta- ble. It is supposed that after leaving the stable he fell with a lantern in his hand near the hoist, aud that the flames at once shot up into the upper tories, as when first seen they were breaking through the roof. The build- ing contained so much inflaminable material that the fire could not be coutrolled. The fire was not subdued until after 4p.m. Some damage was done to adjoining property. The store of L. V. Yeomans & Co. consisted of four stories and a cellar, and was filled from top to bottom with stock. It is estimated that there was about $26,- 000 or $27,000 worth of stock in the building, but it may have been more than this. - Mr. was as follows--On stock, Caledonian, $3,500 ; Mercantile, $3,000 ; Northern. $2,000 ; London & Lancashire, 33, ei On shop fixt d heating Phoenix of Brooklyn, $2, 300 : Scott & Bowne, stock, Mercantile, $500; Connecticut, $2,000; Aetna, $2,000; Waterloo Mutai, $2,C00. Fixtures and plant, Mercantile, $5,000. Mr. Yeo- mans' stock amounted to about $16,000 and Scott & Bowne's stock and plant to about $10,000. A. L. Green's stock was damaged to a considerable extent hy smoke and water ; fmsured for $2,- 000 iu the British American and $7,000 in the'Royal. R. Bateman's stock and honse furnishings were badly damaged by smoke and water ; loss covered by insurance. Fleming & Co.'s loss by smoke and water iscovered by $1,000 insurance. in the Commercial Union. The total loss by ihe fire? wall amonnt to about $40,000. Yeomans' insurance The other night Peter Bonafacio, an employe of the cider mill at Platts- ville, met with a bad accident. While assisting to load a barrel of apple sause the platform gave way and he fell to the ground, breaking his collar kone, and the hot apple sause pouring over lim ecalded his arms and hands badly. . A Sight That Inspired Hteholders* Awe--The Play. of Bones when Motlon Witnessed--Heart. + sations Watclfed and Counted. Ann Arbor, Miob., Oct, 22. a extraordinary series of experiments were tried last evening ard to-night at the physical laboratory of the Uni- versity of Michigan under the diree- tion of Prof. H. 8. Carhart, assisted by Dean V. OC. Vaughan, of the Medi- cal Department, and Drs. W. J. Herd- man and F. G. Novy. By means of skillfully contrived ap- paratus these gentlemen and a few invited friends were able to see the heart pulsations of a living man and watch the play of the bones in var- ions parts of the body when in motion. It was a marvellous sight, and one that inspired the lesa scientific be- holders with profound awe. When the guests entered the room in which the experiments were to be tried there was nothing in sight but alot of fam- iliar electrical apparatus. A new in- duction coil stood on a table. Four cells of a storage battery. stood under the table. A resistence coil stood alongside.. A few scraps of insulated wire, a pair of crooked tubes anda curious looking box completed the equipment. It was soon explained that this box was the important element in the experiment. The spectator was to glue his eyes to the opening at the small end and look hard atthe black pasteboard in front of him. The room was then darkened and the - bat- tery turned on, a new Crooks tube of great power being put in the circuit. As soonas the box was turned to- ward the tube the inky darkness of the interior of the box disappeared and the black pasteboard became grayish white, like a pane of ground glass. Prof. Carhart then thrust his hand between the tube, uow: brilliant with the peculiar greyish phosphor- escent light that accompanies the pro- duction of the X rays, and every bone became distinctly visible on the paste- board screen, surrounded by a cloudy outline showing the. limits of tHe fleshy covering. The X ray photo- graph is shadowy. vague and unsatis- factory, compared tothe results ob. tained in th's new manner, The thin- est gauze nore obscures au object to the eye in mnlight than did the coy ing of skin and niuscle obscure the bones i: Prot. Carhart's hand. Then his wrist was putin, and his stm to the shonlder. Tho wrist was turned, the elbow fixedsand straightened, and the arm twisted back and forth, It was like watching a skeleton in slight haze mysteriously endowed with the power of self-motioa. The cloth- ing was no hindrance to the vision, the rays passing through clothing as read- ily as the naked flesh. Then Dr. Novy tried a few objects in the field, and finally sat before the tube and alluwed the spectators to count his ribs, examine the conditions of the sternum and clavicle, and sud- denly it was discovered that the heart was' visible and that its pulsa tion could be watched and counted. The heart was misty in outline, not distinct like the bones, but there it was moving regularly, and the specta- tor counted its pulsations while Dr. Herdman etood with his finger on Dr. Novy's pulse to verify the count, and make sure that it was not the filck- ering of the light that misled the eye. The inside of the screen tothe cur- ious box was covered with a layer of tungstate of calcium, by means of which layer the X rays were trans- ferred into rays of light that affect the eye, thus making the X ray vis- ble. An effort will be made after a while to fix a large screenina door- way co that all of a Ipsge audience in a dark room can see the pictures sim- ultaneously, the room supplanting the box. In this way the whole skeleton fa man may perhaps be shown at nee, and at the same time walking about. Cold Storage Warehouse at Guelph Guelph, Oct. 21.--G. R. Jones, manager of the Dominion Cold Storage company, limited, sddressed the board of trade here at its. request on Tues- day night on the subject of cold stor- age. The address was a very interest- ing and beneficial one. The board of trade is taking a deep interestin this matter at present, and it is its itten- tion tothoroughly consider the ques- tion of establishing a cold storage warehouse in this city, and, if'deemed advisable, to do so. - John C, Tisdale, oh county consta- ble of Oxford, and sheriff's bailiff, died at the hospital i in Woodstock, 'Ont., on Wednesday froma poplexy, aged 5A. Oct. 30 Wi ao the leaves fall ? "Bless me, Ww," you answer; "I sup- jos is one of nature's ar- desolation 2? When you find out why the Jeaves fall you will have discovered one of natufe's deepest secrets--why men die, Suppose we try an easier problem. Why should Mr. William Steel have written such a sentence as this ?-- At the fall of the leaf every year Igot into such a state that I took no pleas- ure in anything." No doubt there are minds so highly strung as to feel the influence of out- ward conditions, changes of the weather and of the season, andsoon. But they are rare, and for practical purposes they ought to be rare. Our friend Steel, happily for him, was not one of them. All the same he was a miserable man every time the leaves began to rattle to the ground. Here's the way he puts it: "At the fall of the leaf every year I felt languid, tired and weary, and took no, pleasure in anything. My appetite was poor, and atter everything I ate I had pain and fulness at the chest and sides. hen there was a horrible pain at the pit of the stomach, which nothing re- lieved." Now this sort of thing would spoil a man's pleasure at any time of year, but the oddity in Mr. Steel's case is that it always coincided with what you may call nature's bedtime. 'After a few mouths," he says, "the pain and distress would be easier for a while, but asautumn approached IT be- came as bad as ever. In September, 1890, I had an unusual bad time of 'it. I couldn't touch a morsel of food, and presently got so weak I was unable to stand on my legs. Every few hours I had to be poulticed, the pain was so bad. I went to bed and stayed there for a week, with a doctor attending me. He relieved me a little, but some- how be didn't succeed i in getting to the bottom of my ailment.' That may be, but it doesn't quite follow that the doctor was in the dark as to Mr. Steel's ailment. He might have understood it right enough, oak failed tocure it because he had no remedy for it among his drugs. That happens all the while. Still, the read- er may ask, What's the good of know- ing the nature of a complaint if we possess no medicine tocure it? There you have us; no use at all, to be sure. Well, Mr. Steel goes on to say: For some time I continued very feeble, and was hardly able to walk across the floor. If I tooka short walk I felt so tired and done up I didn't know where to put myself. 'This was year after reps. ios for six years. y I read. about the popular Seen alled Mother. Seigel's Cur- ative Syrup, and made up my mind to try it. So I began and kept on with it for some time. The result was that the pain left me, my appetite waked up, and my food tasted good and di- gested well ;and presently I was strong and hearty as ever. That was three years ago,and the trouble has never returned. (Signed) William Steel, Hambleton, near Oakham, Rutland- shire, Dec. 5th, 1893." Mr. Steel is grocer and postmaster at Hambleton, and known there. His complaint isn't hard to see through; it was indiges- tion and dyspepsia. But why did it come on only in the autumn? What had the fall of the leaf to do with it ? Letthe reader syndy on that point. Meanwhile it is s comfort to know that Mother's Seigel's Syrup will cure it no matter when it comes on. Phillipine Rebellion. HORRIBLE TORTURES INFLICTED UPON THE NATIVES---A SPANISH LI®UTEN- ANT CRUCIFIED. San Francisco, Oct. 21,--Cuban at- rocities are mild compared to those taking place in the Phillipine Islands, where the Spanish are trying to sup- press a revolt of the natives. Some indication of affairs has been learned from Oriental papers. The most shocking incident of the bloody repris- als was the treatment of a Spanish lientenant and hia fuieiy. The Span- ish had captured a number of prison- ers, and as an object lesson to the natives, disemboweled two and hung their bloody bodies on ove of the gates of the town. The infuriated rebels, eager for vengeance, gathered a force lieutenant on the outskirts of Manilla They captured the officer his wife and twelve-year-old daughter, and then be- gan a seene of torture. The most sav- age instincts of the natives were arous- ed. Before the eyes of his wife and daughter, the lieutcenant's skin was slit all over his body. Then the torturers crucified him, pinning him outstretch- edto a tree with their long knives. Then they turned to the woman , and girl, giving the fullest play to their animal instincts, and wreakinga dis- gusting vengeance before the dying eyes of the husband and father. The Spanish are doing the best to keep the news of these atrocities from leaving the islands, opening and inspecting all "the mail. They particularly desired cners in one night in the 'black hole." and hurried to the homeof a Spanish |-¢ to keep unknown the death of 38 pris- Int should die you would nev as Ihave don . No, notif r. could help it. As Wet as Ever.---Dear Sirs,~After suffering: By two years from acute indiges- fests tried B. B. I took only three tl es, hich was. ey recommend B, B. 8. "tall dys- peptics. Mrs, Jonn Wurre, Austin, Man, pen confession, they say, is goud for the soul. Yes, good for the soul that makes it, but very tough on the one.that 'has to listen to it. Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry cures Diarrhwa, Dysen , Colic Choiera Morbus, Cholera ag Hacleat and al, " the bowels. Never travell without it. Price 35c. Successful ae get all my checks from > Unsuccessful ang do I. TO DESTROY WORMS ana expel them from children or adults L.Dner own' Worm Syrup Say, father, why hasallthe pictures ot frames ? Why, you little fool, so thatthe artist may know when to stop painting, of course. es dnih a Bid Cunsep.--Gents,-I was in very poor health for over four years ; the aha said it was constipation. The policeman on our beat is a won- derful ma How's that ? He's on duty all ~~ and never sleeps a wink in day ti Norway Pine Syrup cures coughs. Norway Vine Sycup cures bronchitis. erway Pine Syrup heals the lungs. What are you going to be when you are aman, Willie Y asked the man who always asked that questiten: Me ? I'm going to be a policeman and gtop trolley cars right in the middle of the block, a hn Blossom, | how do you socpigier cast-ori-a 2? ¢Why, castori course ; hae else could it be 2" ad all, the doctors pronounce it harmless." What do they call the microbes that breed diseases, John? Please, sir, germs Correct--and what do they call the people who know how to handle germs in a scienti- fic way? Please, sir, Germanse, Consumption can be cured by Shiloh's cure. This great Cough Cure is the best crown remedy for that terrible disease, Alexander Wilson has sold his farm, lot 26, con. 12, Elma, to Fred. Schul- off, for $3,500. Mr. Wilsen intends to remoye to Atwood. COUGHS, Colds, Sore Throat, Asthma, f wee and all L ung 'Troables are quickly aime by rd's Pectoral Balsa 'Gig te Miss Wilbur at home ¢ Norah--No, sorr. Canny--Well--go upstairs.and ask her when she will be at home. Norah (going)--Yis, sorr. "Mrs Murphy calls her slipper Caatoria " "Because the children ery after it ! CoNsTIPATION Theis: --Gents,--I was a very poor health for over four years, the octors said it was Constipation. Not want. ing to spend t u ash, I got three bottles of Burdock Blood Bitters and took them regularly. 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