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OLD BIBLE MANUSCRIPTS. *>r. .r4- , sHaeeverte* la ifc <( i alkerlor. While the disoeverj of a manuscript iealmg with the lif and deeds of the Prophet lua, by a RuMian traveller, who asserts that baa wa* identical with JBIUI Christ, ii still being discussed in the scien- tific world, EI-Mouktataf, the greit Ori- ental magazine published at Cario, Egypt, in the Arabic language, make* an import- ant announcement respecting the 8ndmg of scriptures by Fredrich Grote, a renown- ed German savant, who tome time ago obtained permission from the Turkish 1 rovernmoot to oopy the manuscript* stored in the cloister on Mount Catharine, found- ed by Emperor .lusimmn In 523 A. D. Thia anoient edifice up to the preeont time retaini ita original character of mighty fortreia, eminently well adapted aa a repository to ward off either the on ilaoght* of robber baodt from the detert or the mtriguee of rival monastery* and scientific bodies that bare an eye on vlu able record* and print*. Mount Catherine ii the highest peak in the mountain group of Jebel Nu, and from the monastery a path of granite steps leads to the " Moun tain of the Law. " The desert commence* t its bane, and the entire neighborhood is covered with the rains of Christian churches and cloisters. The very fact of the ruins' pretence beapcaks the importance and the exclusive character of the scriptures within the keeping of the Monks of Mount Catherine. The cloister fortress alone was able to withstand the exigencies of perennial wan, and the Christian dwellers of the holy region ware forced to deposit their valuable manuscripts with the monks for safe keeping. In the coarse of time the monks fell heirs to all tlieee scriptural treasure*, and now boast of a collection which the libraries of all the world could not dupli oat*. "Dr. I '.rote wae, of course, not tllowet to acquire any of the manuscript*, " says El Mountain. He found it likewise too laborious to oopy them. So he employe* photography a* a means of transcribing them, an undertaking in which he, assiste< by effective instruments, was eminently ncceasful. "The photographic platee submitted b; Dr. It rote to the editor prove that the ma jority ef manuscript* are in the ancien Arabian and Syrian languages, but the moe important discovery is an Kvanselini manuscript, which seems to be older ths any part* of the original Holy Scriptures heretofore foun- 1 " We were greatly puzzled by this man u acript when we first saw it* photographi reproduction. The handwriting was unre eopnir.able. Finally we discovered a k* for deciphering it, and found it to be part of the book of St. Viark, ix., ll-l'J beginning. ' And they asked him,' 4c., ending, 'must sutler many things and be *e at naught.' "The discovery of the key was principal ly facilitated by the occurrence ot the won Ailia, that U, Klias, in the text. " The language used U the Aramai dialect that prevailed in Syria at the tim of Christ, and it is very probable that Ur i ; rote discovered the most ancient of a existing Kvaugelium manuscript* in th Idrtii of contemporaneous Aramaic transla tioo." It should be interpolated here that Aramaic, according to Julius Furat, i* the mother of all .Semitic dialect*. The oldeet writings in that language heretofore known were th* Cbaldaiu part* of the Old Testa- ment Jremi*h, 10 and II : Daniel -J. t, 5. . 7, and '2* : Km *, S, 18, and 7, I'-' to .u* KI-Mouktataf <-ontuiu*s : "Th* last page of a translation of apart of th* Evan.'eltum in the ancient Arabic language, whicn Or. tirotes photograph reproduce*, contain* the following : '"The word was disseminated among the brethren, and they believed. * * ' And there are many other things done by Jeans, which, if written about, would till the world with more book* than it could hold.' " ' Th* holy KvaagetUHa by .John wa* finished at Kphesu*. The copying of the four holy Kvangeliumn wa* tiaiaiie<l in the middle of Lent for tho owner, Stephaiius, aou of Frich, from Antioohia, known by the name oi Kuos. Th* latter wa* a layman, and when he received his copy of the holy Kvangelium he became a monk and took the name of Arsani, anil it waa writteft for him by a sinner, a poor devil without vir- tue, known among the peasant* a* Suru, Frich's vm-m law, who deserved the tire of hell. I lo<l have pity on the reader ami the writer and forgive the writer. Amen. " 'And this happened in the year 4.'ts of the moon era, and the oopy is correct.' "Another photograph represent* part* of the first hook ot Timothy, chapter H, com- mencing aa follows : 1 'I give the* charge in the sight of Cod, who quicken* all thing*,' 4c. ' This manuscript shows trace* of the Arabic style of writing in use now. "While moet of the manuscript* are of biblical or religious import, several refer to science and philosophy. One of toe Doc- tor'* photograph* reproduce* a page from a medical book containing this bit of wi- dom : " ' There ia no wsy of producing hair on a natural bald head', lor baldneas result* from natural causes, whioh regulate the moiiture of the head !' " An extract from another ancient writer read* : ' Oh, man 1 n hen thou ha* found a master and desire to avoid the road that lead* to perdition, tak* a oar* not to be entrapped by the evil one !' " A photograph of a naaoswript of Pialm 46 produces Arabic and Syrian translation* of each v*r<- **t opposite each other. We have befei a* venes 8 and 9 : ' Come, be hold the >,,rk of the Lord.' Ac., and 'He maketh war* to cease unto the end of the earth.' "Another Arabic manuscript contains the sentence: 'Whoever killeth a man i* excluded from inheritance.' " So far th* report* in KI-Mouktataf. Dr. Grot* is DOW in Cairo preparing hi* wonderful collection of photograph* for publication. He kpM to e*t J.lnh many new iWoti in relation to th* life ei Christ, [i* disciples, and th* early Christiana, lis journey to the cloister on Mount Lath- nne waa a memorable one. The ediUoe i* ituated at an altitude of 5,500 feet, and urrounded by a wall 40 feet high. There absolutely no entrance, the only rate in xistence having been walled up a century ago. The Doctor wa* elevated to the oita el by means of a windlasvi. H* found it nhabited by forty old monk* belonging to h* Oreek Church. Though living in th* mid*t of luxury, a* it ware, with th& pro- !iut* of wouderful garden* and vineyard* at their disposal, the holy father* are levoted to asceticism in its most abject arm. The Doctor, however, wa* true ted with consideration, and waa allowed the le freedom a* Tiseheudorf, who at the ud of the fifties, discovered the Codex Sinaiticu* in the cloister, a manuscript of th* Holy Bible, writ/en in th* fourth entury, and bought by the Czar Alexander L It i* now at St. Petersburg. DAIRY FARMING. lr IBM. rrlmr Mwartf l.laa.l B-alrr l,,.|u.lr>. The farmers of Prince Edward Island appear to be cultivating a dairy industry with good results. They, likt the farmer* in itario and Quebec, have been brought to a perception of it* advantage*. When wheat and barley commanded good price*, the forehanded farmers in these province* wer* inclined to deepUe the petty return* from their lurplus butter, and, as a rnle, MISSIONARIES IN PERIL. Uirr r*ells) la MosUh Cklaa AsalMf Pere Icneni. Letters from Canton show that there i* langerou* excitement against all foreign- and that the slightest incident may ad to bloodshed and rioting. Thi* anti- oreign feeling is due mainly to the erToru made by European doctor* during the Hague to stay th* progress of the disease, were YOUTH AMD CRIME IN FRANCE- The Wesei on>.irr. ,, WsMler ISM Ac* *r Twcsir. Ths connection between crime and youth i* now one of the problem-, that are being moet seriously ducusted ID France, aays a writer in the St. James Gazette. One would naturally suppose that the most at- rocious and th* most callous criminal* would be those who liad reached mature age in a career of crime. But such u not the case. The most daring, the moat did not keep many cow* to produce surplus , "angumary, and tha moet hardened crim- inal* with whom in France justice ha* had butter. A* for cheese, they baa no idea of making it ior the market. In those times, however, what batter we had to spare sold readily in England. Toward* the end of the seventies our butter exports loomed up large, and butter rose in regard as a domestic product. Production in- creased, but car* in making and shipping did not, and soon our butter got a bad name in the English market. It fell off in quality and arrived in bad condi- tion. There ia no do'iht that there wa* a trenitudons quantity of POOR BI'TTLK MADE in Ontario and Quebec in those times. One j fertile cause of the low average of quality was the mode of placing the butter on the market. The only buyers were the country march* nt*. By taking butter they could ell more goods than if they restricted their busmen to each dealing*. As the merchants desired all the trade they cculd get they were willing to take all butter that came. to deal at late have been, with few THE JUDGE'S STORY. in. Ji.hu M. Birr rH. <> u v t* car - . .1 r Srlatlr . U brumal l-iu. I rl pplr* r ftlx fear*. T:ie Hon. John M. Rice, of Louisa, Law- rence county, Kentucky, has lor ntuy yuan erved his nstive county and state in the legislature at Frankfort and Washing- ton, and until hi* retirement waa a noted figure in political and judicial circles. A few days ago a Kentucky Post reporter called upon Judge Rioe, who in the follow, ing won!* related the history of the causes that led to his retirement ; " It i* just about x year* since I had a attack of rhenmatuin, (light at first, but soon devel- oping into sciatic rheumatism, which began exceptions, mere youths. The great major- ity have been UNDER TWKXTY YEAR-. Those who wish to be more fully informed on thi* subject would do well to oonsnlt the " Memoirs" of Abb* Faure, who, a* chap- lain at the I traud Roquette, had ample opportunity for taking note of the moat dangerous class of criminal*. M. tfiiillot, an investigating magistrate wboss name has become well-known to the public in connection with famous trials, declare* that, although slat:uc* show no general increase, in France the onntin.'ent ot young criminals is growing more and more num erous and that youthful miscreants were . first with acute shooting pains in the hips, gradually extending downward to my feet. My condition became so bad that I event- ually lost all power of my legs, and theei the liver, kidneys and bladder, and in fact my whole system became deranged. I tried tne treatment of many physicians but re- ceiving no lasting benefit from them, I went to Hot Springs, Ark. I a* not much benefited by som* month* stay there, when I returned home. In 1S91, I went to the Silurian Springs, Wakeahaw, Wi*. I tayed there some time, but without im- provement. Again I returned home, this time ^ no hopes oi recovery. The muscle* 01 my limbs were now reduced by atrophy i mere airings. Sciatic pains tortured me eoo* wa* made in prices. No woman had the alight put upon her of a lower otfer than her neighbor* had received The store- keeper paid in merchandise on which he had a profit, and waa seldom a loser on hi* oulu>r - Bu ' dd ln "" ">'l'"try a riiese efforts were partly thwarted by native intolerance, but there is no question that they prevented tn >i:'nd* of death*. Che foreign doctor* wiahed to *iml up th a big Chinese hospital, which wa* in the native quarter, and could not be isolated, and us* only the foreign hospital on the shore and a hulk in the harbor. This course would have commended itself to any reason- able people, but the Chinese literati opposed it at once. They spread stone* that th* 'hmeee afflicted with the plague were taken to the foreign hospital* so that they " u , , serious mischief. Bv maintaining one price might be safely killed and th.ir eye* "! | he d e*troyed ambition m the butter maker,, other organ* used for tho manufacture of ( a* th* meet slovenly waa rewarded with a* medicine*. Placard* to thi* effect were I high a price a* the most tidy. As thequality posted up. and th. result was that a great I f '' t " demand in Knglaad fell. Our butter could not hold Its own in competition with mob gathered, and it required all she troop* tha flne Inth Md DmnUh butler u ,.,.. of the native (governor aa well a* the for- eign police to disperse the crowd, which was Dent on looting the European quarter. Th* foreign doctors were stoned wr.en on their professional rounds, and several had narrow escape* from (treet mob* that gathered about the doors of boose* which they visited. So great was th* excitement that the foreigner* were forest to abandon their plan, and the big native hospital wa* hence- torth used a* th* main place for*snding the lick. The inspection of house* wss carried on, but not rigidly, and each doctor was accompanied by a large armed guard. With- out this precaution (very physician would have fallen a victim to the public fanaticism, of my liver that wa* I felt gradually weai> .ML' my life away. Doctor* gave aw up, all *iuds of remedies had been tried with- out avail, and their wa* nothing more young criminal* that I have become ao- 'Itiainied with it." We learn from him that many a Pans boy belonging to I the class from which th prisons are chiefly For fear of estranging a customer no differ- supplied is completely debauched at the tered in London. Our export* dwindled, butter accumulated in the country, prices fell, and quality did not improve. Then th* creameries began to come in, and butter-making started it* transfer from th* farm-house to th* factory. The tendency of thi* to raise 'h* quality and the price was not long apparent before cheese making opened to the farmer another avenue for the sal* of hi* milk. The strides to which THK '-IIKOK tXDI '-TH never so remarkable as now for cynicism ! terribly, but it was the disordered ooadition and ferocity. "I had supposed," aays M. Cuillot, " that during my long career aa judge d'in*truction I had seen th* lowest depth Hi human corruption, but it is only since I have had to do especially with for m* to do but resign myseif to fa. " I lingered on in thi* condition tuitain- ed almost entirely by stimulant* until April, 1 v.Ci. One day I saw an advertisement of Dr Williams' I'uik Pills for Pale People. This wa* something new, and a* one more 'rug after so many others could do no harm, I waa prevailed upon to try the Pink Pill*. Th* effect of the pills wa* marvelous, and I could soon eat heartily, a thing I had not done for yean. The liver begm to perform it f.mciions, and ha* done so ever since. U'.'hout doubt tnu pills saved my life, and while I do not crave notoriety I cannot refua* to testify to their worth." Dr William. Pink Pills are aold by all dealers, or will be sent post-paid, on receipt nf price (.">0 cents a box, or six boxes for *-'..-,) by addressing the Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Brockville, Out., or Schenoctady, N. V. which was roused to a high pitch. Since the decline of the plague feellug baa not abated, aad the native city is still a danger- ous place for a Kuropean. In Hong Kong much the same experience wa* met by the foreign doctor* who tried to check the plague. The same ridiculous stories of the killing of native patient* were spread broadcast and implicitly believed. Thousands of Chinese in good circumstance* led from the city to escape the disease as . well as the danger of falling into the hands of the hated "foreign devil*.' The pre- sence of the large force of Sikn police pre- vented any outrages in lioug Kong, but the native irritation found ventin the surround- ing country, where the missionaries had to bear the brunt of the Chinee* anger. At Taluk, a colony of native Christian*, numbering sixty families, wa* savag- tacked, and many person* wen injured. About on* hundred rowdiee descended on the place, drove out the Chrutian*. beat them, looted their houses, and in manv cases destroyed their furniture and good*. Several neighboring villages) ware then vwited nd looted, and the report* say i hat the mob, which was now crazy tat blood, killed several people. No details hav* been received of the destruction of tse American fresbyterian Church t Sliekloong, >t ire person killed is thought f> have been a native convert. The miseion church** at Tunghoon City w*r* threatened with attack, th* data of June -!) being givei. for the onslaught. It is a singular fact that BO Koanao r.tholic charene* have suffered from tne mob*, aa tne authorities hav* furnished guanli for all of them. .So c*o*l ia the bitter feeling against t nvijrtmnt in the vicinity of Cantm tli.it, the Viceroy, Li Huuu Chang, ha* tunt aa aiy<<nt menage to th* (.'minis at Canton, asking then to request th missionaries at TunW>n Oity to cease preaching. The mesionarie* at. other point* have been warned to If* tinn*w*.iH circumspect, a* a tritlipg quarrel may lead to grave rioting and bloodshed. Not smce the anti- foreign riots aloag the Yen^lse Kiver three year* ago have tha Chinese been *o tnaeh tirred up a* now by these lying charge* against forsignen, gzowmg out of the BUgOsX Novel Notiwet, Last Summer in the window of a walking tick shop in Plymouth, coin* canes were marked " Cant*' swagger stick* a* used by the officer* of the garrison." Thia we thought rather fnnay, l)t wre afterward to find more amusement ia stationers hop in Bristol, in the window of whioh wa* a card bearing the encouraging information " School Girls', and Boys' Pencil* Excel! ent make. Warranted to apell correctly and write easily. " Mast of ua will wish we had only had auoh aa offer in our uhael day*. A ouriou* placard pouted on tha door of a little (hop lately attracted th* attention of a visitor to Naples. It informed the pub- lic that " The title of Duke ii offered for ale inquire within." L Chamber*'* .four* grew *oon made dairy farming profitable. There has been a rapid and great increase in the number of our dairy cow*, which are coir ing to be very carefully bred and selected. Butter ha* risen in value, be- cause the material of it ha* n**n in value, owini( to the demand for it for .-in age of 13. Thi* magistrate of the republic ha* had the courage to declaru that the official withdrawal of religious intluencn* from the instruction imposed upon children of the people his had much to do with the production ol this youthful type of criminal, who, when he is before the judg*, DOK8 MOT ARID A TEAR, but appear* really astonished at the ex- planations asked of him for hi* evil con- duct. Speaaing not from sentiment, but from observation, M. Cuillot declare* that the passing away of the religion* ideal i* apt to entail the abandonment of all ideal* and the loss of all sense of duty. To Kngluh peopl* such aa expression of opinion may eeem superfluous; but in France it has uuoo a host of politician* much the same effect as a red flag is said to have upon a bulL It will be remembered how many men of lead- ing, if not light, haveitnven in France since the fall of th* empire to realize the ideal of aa atheistical state. It i* true ' hai not a few ot them, discouraged by a reaction of public opinion, have considerably modified their policy, but it still rem*m* the cherished dream of the Republican who pride* him self upon being thorough paced and conaiden ''J 3 a glorious date in French hi* tory. The criminalist* are now very busy studying the strange crop of criminals that making. In recent year* we have been doing | nM appeikrea wlth lho new nn improving export business in butter, but not nearly what we should. We have been masung butter much longer than we have cheese, but we have the more to learn about butter-making. The Australian* can carry on a suoceuful dairy industry in both branches of production. We should be able to do so too, and their example ought to be a spur to a* to do so. Th* farmer* of I'nncw Kdward I aland have a promising [uture for their dairy indiutry. They have a favorable climate, and are seven or eight hundred mile* closer to the Brituh market than we in Quebec and Ontario are. which the republic ha* reared with so much solicitude for all the virtue* of citi/enship. Where Rain is Unknown. There is, perhaps, no more curious place on the Pacific seaboard than Iquique. It stand* in a region where rain ha* never been kuown to fall, and where, a* wa* re- marked by Darwin, when he visited Iquique in 1.1.15, the inhabitant* live like people on board ship. Thsee number about 14,000. nearly all connected with ihe staple indus- try ot th* port, due to the development of the nitrate industry on th* adjacent pampas. The ram gauge* at Lima, .-lose to the 1'ac.tic, record absolutely uo rainfall. There are several pan* of liie earth where rain never fall*. >uch are th* Sahara, or great desert of Africa, and considerable tracts of Arabia, Syria, I'ersia, Thibet aad Mongolia in the old World, while in South America the ramies* dutrict* comprise narrow strips on the shore* of Peru. Bolivia xii 1 i 'niii. ami on the coast of Mexico and Cualemala, with a small district bet* COMPANY 4 MUTINIES. C. n. r.l HrrrM-rl Will Hair tesBr -Iralzhl <!; OKI I* >* 1st BHllok CelUBBfcla. A deepatch from Victoria, B. L'., says: There is mutiny and mimic war in Company quite A great number of caterpillars are being reared for them to feed upon, and it wa* wonderful to *ee the tiny niantia, a* soon % it had straightened out ita leg*, start off . op tha branch of as apple iroe on which , British Columbia Brigade of Carriaon | the y ounB caurpilUr*. now two week* old. Artillery, andcrong measure* will have to I were feeding. One little mantis, not more be immediately adopted if military discipline is to be preserved in the corps. On Tues- day night the company was ordered to par- ad* in preparation for the annual inspec- tion which is tiled for Septembder IV Tha men turned out well bus refused to drill unless one or two newly appointed of- ficer* resigned. Lieut. Townley thereupon announced that am raor* drill* would b* held until further notice, and in the mean- time he will report to Col. 1'nor.the officer commanding. Some time ago a complete new saaff ot officer* were ga/etted, not one of whom had worn tho uniform and had absolutely ao knowledge of military matter*. These wer* to be major, captain and lieu- tenant* respectively. The men objected to "being put iinder officer* who knew uouung of military duties, and in whom they could than ten minute* old, tackled a caterpillar about ten time* as heavy as himself, but was put to flight. The eggs of tbs mantis were sent from Japan, and the muesli raised are eventually to b* distributed among orchardist* to destroy caterpillars aad other insect peats. Venexuela. The Praying Mantis. Moit people have read of and st*n pic. lure* of th* "praying mantis," a cvuious .... , insect of large sine, so named from the Trinidad and Panama on the coast of the devotional attitude it assume* wh*n watch- ing for it* prey. It live* on caterpillar*, uch a* injure apple tree*. A large i umber of the** valuable in*ecta were hatched out in the vivarium at the Oregon State Horti- cultural .Society's rooms yeaterday, and by vcning had grown to be aa large a* mo*- Her Wise Papa. She " Papa nay* that when coming to see me you most not come in a street-oar any more." He "Keaily ! Doe* he expect me to walk alt this distance !" She "Of course not. He saya all ha asks i* that you will come in a carriage, hiiedby the hour." Souvenirs From Her Majesty. Jewel'ei to Queen Victoria have t ioft nap since her liking for theatrical perfor- mances at Windsor. It Ii opined that diarrond brooch** and bracelets must be nought by the grots, as her Majesty al- ways pay* the artist* in lhaae tokens of her consideration and appreciation of the jhow. Manv are the favorod star* who now own havi ao contidance if called upon for active | a Queen'* brooch, and who look on th* girt senios. As Major-Ueneral Herbert, com- | a* a lucky piece ever after. ItanwkjweU ' forces, and Man Growing Lazier. Man grows more and more lazy every year, says the Boston Herald. He i* living in a machine age, when hi* walking and bis climbing, if uot his sating, are dono for nun by some mechanical invention too obvious to be recorded. If it were not for athletic* and gymnasium*, it is believed the race would loe* th* use of it* log*, a* scientist* *ay it is losing it* jaw* and its teeth from too much civilization. Men who used to skip np th* long fligrta of Main of down town building* without a mur- mer now complain if they ar* aaked to walk up one. And it isn't age, either, for boys m their teens will " wail fur the elevator" an hour rather than give their leg* needful exercise. The result of so much Isvel .icf.oii would be horrid was there no buyrle in existence. But the wheelman goes " tip stain" for hour* and says not a word when there i* a saddle under him. It may be this universal wheel is the real cause of the present indolence. On some new principle developed by this popular i, otherwise a,ble-bodied citizens now refuse to live in houses with high storeys and no "lifts," and kick at any "step*'' over or under railroad track*. In short, there are people who would rather risk (heir lives than have the grade changed a road they would be in the habit of or mandant-in-chist of Canada's th* strictest military officer the Dominion has ever known, is himself to perform the annual inspection the liveliest kind of a rumpus is anticipated. KNOTS AND MILES Tfcrrr **** at* B4|e.*l le *! an* a staff wile*. Oa* of the thing* which it seems difficult for the public miad to grasp i* that there i* a decided difference between tho knot and the mile. It is certainly aboui. time to have it thoroughly understood that the two are not ths same thing. It seem* easy enough to remember that a mile i* only about 87 per oent. of a knot, the latter be- ing approximately 8,08:2 feet in length, while the statute mile measure* 5,280 feet. Three and one-half mile* ar* equal, within a small fraction, to three knot*. The remit of thi* difference, of course, i* that the peed of a vessel in mile* p*r hour i* alway* considerably larger than when stated in knot*, and th* coofuuon of th* term tome- time* give rise to rather remarkabli claim* of speed performance*. When a -JO -knot ship, for example, i* lightly mentioned it should b* remembered that thi* really mean* over 23 miles; similarly, with higher figure*, wbloh are often glibly enough mat- ed, the difference between the terms ia worth bearing in mind. It will help to guard against the forming of ridiculous estimate* of a vessel's capabilities. - for their loyalty and the beauty of the jewel that the recipient alway* says it shall never leave the family, but. become an heirloom from that lime' Forth. The worth of these souvenir* rarely varies in price, bnt they vary in design, and the artist who receive* a crown in diamonds and rubies with the ircitial* " V.R.I. " trim the royal hand deems the honor wirth living for. Strange, is it not, that human beings are built with ao snnoh sentiment aa that * Mm*. Sigrid Atnoldson received one of the** brooches when she sang in " Philemon t Bancm' recently, aad Mrs. Kendal has one like it which rne told some friend* was placet! in her drees by the Queen herself, wnn the Kendall were commanded to play at Wind- sor *ev*n or eight year* ago. on oroes- One View. First Tramp " There comes another four- ra-hand. What'* the good o' ridin on top of a ooach all day along a dusty road, 'spec- Lilly in hot weather V Second Tramp "Ix get* up a elegant thini." Shot His Sweetheart for a Ghost. At Newbern, Indiana, Ur. Con. Beck was spending the evening with Mi** Urace Cohee, and shortly before midnight Miss Cohee left th* doctor sitting on the front veranda and went through ths house to get a drink. She took her dippers off, aad throwing a white wrap over her shoulders oame aronnd to the front veranda " playing ghost." The Doctor did not suspect, it wa* his sweetheart, anil, pulling his pistol, called to the apparition to halt. She hoed ed him not. when he fired twice, one ball pnssmg tli rough hor stomach and one through her leg. It i* not thought she can live. The Doctor is almost frenzied. A Veteran's Story Jtr. mrlesi, an old soldier, 620 E. Utitli St., N Y. City, writes us volun- tarily. In 1*03, at the battle of Fair Oaks, n was stricken wltb typhoid fever, and after a long struggle In hospitals, lasting sev- eral yean, win dis- charged aa Incurable With C*M*raiBs>l*UB. Doctors *J<1 hoth lung* were affected and ha could not live long, but n romradn urged him to try Hood's Banapnrtlla. Before !>< had finished one bottln ms conch twnn to get loose, tho choking sensation le.ft, anil nlghl swoata grew ]e*i and !'- !; - m>w in good health Icon Hood's Sarsaparilla Jo*. Hemin<T Ich. as a general Mo<l p cte, !Hvlnlly tii hi I.I ! M in uteO. A HOOD'S PlLLS * r " hand nm.lo. and ar* ** (eel in conpvuUuu. proportion ioU appaaraaco.