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I have made an effort to meet the
public demand with a full line of
ings, Spring Overcoating,
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mens wear, at just as low figures as
any other store in the county.
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will please bear in mind that I can fur-;
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havingf furnished suits io Posts for the
last two years, hence can speak from
experience. Thanking you for your
past favors, I hope to continue your
future patronage.
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RD BUILDING, LITITZ.
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" No, sir!" said Farmer Holmes as
he energetically knocked the ashes out
of his pipe ; " no, sir ! you may marry
the girl if you choose, for I can't
prevent that; but I repeat that if you
do she nor you shall never find a home
beneath my roof! That's all I've got
to say!"
" Bat faiher once tor all, what is
your objection to Miss Weston ?"
'* Ain't she a city girl sir ?"
" Granted. But is that a crime or
a disgrace ?"
" Don't she wear her hair frizzled
and scrimped over her forehead like
our two-year bull ? and a waterfall, as
y.ou call it (sneeringly), on the top o'
her head, big enough to hold one o'
your mother's apple dumplings ?"
" Really, sir—"
" Yes, really, sir, you can't deny it.
What can a city-bred girl do but paw
the pianny and wiggle about in her
finery and turn up her nose at every-thing
good and useful ? No, sir ! Go
and marry the girl, if you please ; but
ehe shall never come here to idle about
and give herself airs and be waited
upon like a princess. That's all I've
got to say ¡" concluded the old gentle-man;
sturiiping vigorously out of the
kitchen to look after things in the
barnyard.
All this discourse—this is, of course
the matter of it, merely, softened and
doubly refined—did Richard Holmes
find himself compelled to repeat to
Clara Weston on his next visit' to the
eity. *
He was a young country doctor who
bad but recently obtained his diploma
in the city, where he had met with and
become engaged to prettv Miss Weston
He had nothing but talent to begin
on ; for his father though rich, was
parsimonious as regarded money. Yet,
living at home on the farm, as his
parents desired he should do, his ex-penses
would be few and he might soon
get into a good practice.
Clara did not loqlc at all hurt or
offended when told Mr. Holmes, Sr.'s
ideas of the capacities of city girls.
On the contrary, • she laughed and
seemed quite amused.
"So your father thinks I must be
a mere doll?'' Do you know Rich-ard
that papa calls me a famous little
housekeeper and that it was I who
made the rolls and the cake we had for
tea?"
"You ! Is it possible, darling?" ex
claimed the delighted Richard.
" And I would wager you anything
you please that I would be of more
'use'to your mother than the most
accomplished help she could hire in
"the country," continued the girl,
tossing her ''frizzled" head with a
pretty air of mock gravity.
"Suppose we try that," suggested
the lover, with a sudden bright idea.
So they talked it ov er, and agreed
to a ilttle plan thai was to effect this
desirable Consummation ; the firs
step to which wa* a private marriage,t
known but to Miss Weston's own
family.
* + * * * *
" Humph !" muttered Farmer
Holmes looking askance at the new
help which his wife had engaged —
humph! she don't look fit for much,
with such hands and such a waist."'
"Fit? Why you have'nt an idea of
all she's. done to-day ! answered Mrs.
Holmes, enthusiastically. " She's
swept the parlor, with a damp broom,
dipped in something or other—a little
alum in it, I believe—and made the
colors in it come out as fresh and clean
as when t'was new.
" Then she cleaned up the old gilt
frames that I wanted regilded, until
they shine like gold ; and told- me
how I could make a better pudding
with less eggs—that very pudding tha
you praised at dinner—and now she's
altering the pattern of rn.y new dress."
Indeed, poor Miss Holmes felt as
though a burden of daily care was
removed from her shoulders ; and she
became quite grateful and attached to
her pretty, cheerful obliging girl. She
only wished that she had such a
daughter, she added, sighing; and the
wonder to her was that Richard should
be so indifferent to Mirandy, since he
appeared to have given up all thought
of that city Miss Weston.
" Dick," said Squire Holmes, poking
in the ashes with the end of his cane,
" Dick, you don't go to see that girl,
Miss Weston, now, eh ?"
" No, sir," answered Dick,demurely.
" Glad of it! Thought you'd take
a- sensible view of the thing in time.
Still, a young fellow like you Ought to
marry." :
"I agree with you, sir," said the
doctor.
" It you Could -find a suitable girl
now," suggested the Squire, cautiously,
" a tidy, industrious, smart, good-tem-pered,
good-looking "
" Dear me, father!" interrupted
Dick, in a tone of astonishment,
where on earth am I to find such a
combination of perfections ?"
" Why," said the old man, looking
up sharply, there's Mirandy, for in-stance."
- "Oh !" said the doctor, turning over
the leaves of a big book.
" Yes, sir; and a nicer girl could'nt
be found this side o' the ocean, sir."
" Look here, Richard," said he,
solemny, "what is your objection to
Mirandy Parsons ?"
" No objection to the young lady
herself, sir," responded Richard,
gravely.
' " Then why don't you marry her ?".
said his father, bringing his cane
emphetically down upon the floor.
" Because, sir," answered I.'ichard,
hesitatingly—"because, father, to tell
the truth, I—I am already married."
" What!" roared the old man,
'• Yes, sir ; I've been married these
two months," confessed Richard,
penitently.
" You have ? and you dare tell me
so. Married to whom ?" he roared
again.
" To Miss Clara Weston, sir."
This was too much. The old gentle-man
was speechless, and his wife,
scarcely less agitated than himself,
shrieked to Mirandy for brandy and
water.
A few gulps restored him to speech,
and the first use he made of that
faulty was to order his-son to quit the
house.
" I will sir," said the doctor, calm-ly,
" but not until you have seen my
wife. She's in the next room dutifully
waiting to be presented to you and my
mother. Come here, Clara, my dear!"
And Mrs. Holmes' help, blushing
and a little frightened, advanced and
stood by the doctor's side.
" This is my wife, my dear father
and mother—Clara Weston, the city
girl. I hope you will forgive this
innocent plot, but I wished to prove to
you that she could do something more
than frizzle her hair, paw on pianos
and wriggle around in her finery."
The mother, her first astonishment
subsiding, was easily reconciled to the
state of things, and in her heart secretly
approved the young couple's proceed-ings.
Perhaps, also, in his secret
heart, her husoand did the same,
though he thought proper to grumble
and growl for a day or two over his
son's undutiful conduct in marrying
without his consent, and imposing his
wife upon him in his own house as
somebody eise.
But still, considering that only good
came of it—a good that, without the
trick, would have been lost to them all
the old gentleman finally magnani-mously
made up his mind to forgive-ness,
and even consented to his happy
wife's proposal of a big Christmas
dinner iu honor of their son and his
pretty bride.
A Great Joke.
"The funniest thing happened last
night," said a merry-looking gentle-man,
as he ran up to Desk Sergeant
Hughes at the armorv to-day. "It
was the greatest joke. Ha! ha !"
" Well, what was it ?"
" My name is H. T. Green. I keep
a cigar store on South Clark street.
Ha, ha, ha!"'
" What's the matter with you ?"
" Burglars broke into my store last
night. Ha, ha, ha!" and Mr. Green
burst into a spasm of laughter.
" I don't see much to laugh about,"
said Hughes. " What did they get?"
" Only two boxes of cigars. It was
the greatest joke. Ha, ha, ha.
" Well, that wasn't much; but I
don't see the joke."
" Don't you ?" Well, the cigars were
loaded—about two drachms of powder
jn each. I'd like to see those fellows
try to break into some house while
they were smoking some of them."
Officer Murphy entered the station
at' this moment, dragging a dirty-faced
urchin by the collar. The boy was
kicking and screaming like a trooper.
" Book this bye fer shootin' craps,"
said Murphy. " It's a purty chase ye
gave me, ye omadhaun."
The little gamin made a grimace at
Murphy, borrowed a match from a
bystander, and drawing a cigar from
his pocket began to smoke in placid
contentment.
What's your name ?" asked the
sergeant,
" Bang!" the cigar burst with a
sound like a dynamite bomb. One
piece hit Murphy in the eve, and the
frightened lad fell to the floor as
though he was shot. Mr. Green was
the only self-possessed person in the
room, and he forgot his self-posses-sion
in a spasm of laughter.
' Bett r—ha, ha !—book him for—
ha, ha! burglary, too, Mr. Hughes,"
he gasped, as he rolled in a chair and
caught his breath. Desk Sergeant
Hughes took the hint and half a
dozen loaded cigars were taken from
the lad's pocket and filed as evidence
against him.
Nantucket's Jailer.
Apropos of Nantucket, one hears
some rather odd sayings and of some
quaint happenings there.
" You see, we are somewhat out of
the way," said one of the islanders;
" so tramps seldom trouble us, and it
is only when our summer visitors come
that we think of locking our doors at
night."
Last fall a man was tried for petty
larceny, and sentenced by the judge to
three months in jail. A few days
after the trial, the judge, accompanied
by the sheriff, was on his way to the
Boston boat, when they passed a man
sawing wood.
The sawyer stopped • his work,
touched his hat, and said, " Good
morning, judge."
The judge looked at him a moment,
passed on a short distance, then turned
to glance backward, with the question
" Why, sheriff, isn't that the man I
sentenced to three months in jail ?"
" Yes," replied the sheriff, hesitat-ingly—"
ye?, that's the man ; but you
see, judge, we—we haven't any one in
jail now, and we thought it a useless
expense to hire somebody to keep the
jail for three months just for this one
man ; so I gave him the jail key, and
told him that if he'd sleep there nights
it would be all right."
It's Sally.
It's funny, but you can depend on
it every time an old chap from the
interior strikes the beach and dons a
bathing suit he wades out in a ginger-ly
fashion—gets bolder at sight of the
others around him, and finally
marches forth to meet a roller. He
sees the others jump them, and he
draws a long breath, gets his legs
under him, and springs just in time to
be caught and turned, end oyer end
and plowed along the sand into shal-low
water. He gets up indignant and
astonished. He chokes and gasps and
coughs, and as soon as he can free his
eyes he looks around for the old
woman. She stands at the edge of
the water and calls :
" What is it, pa—what's the mat-ter
?" .
And ninety-nine times out of a
hundred his reply is :
"Matter? Why, the durn thing
has been salted."
When came ashore the other day
after receiving a "swat" in the
stomach from the pitch of a waye, I
heard him say to his wife :
" Say, Mary, the intention was to
kill me deader'n a herring, and I
don't go back there without some kind
of security." ,
Coffins Sent t o Liive Men. •
- ".Here's the queerest case of swind-ling
I ever heard of," said a gentleman
as he laid down a copy of an English
newspaper. " It shows that the
British are as sharp as the Yankees.
A young man, wearing a most
melancholy countenance and all the
habiliments of woe, went, to a promin
ent undertaker, and stkting that his
uiicle (naming a wealthy citizen) was
dead, ordered a very expensive coffin-with
silver mountings to be sent to the
residence of the deceased. In pay-ment
he tendered a check considerably
larger than the price of the coffin, and
received the change in hard sovereigns.
The sorrowful young man then dis-appeared,
and when the coffin was sent
according to the address the prominent
citizen supposed to be deceased was
found alive and well.
The Editor's TaMe.
There's a little box of pills, there's a heaj> of
lengthy bills, "
Thare's a caustic letter from a country
reader.
There's a "ticket for a stall, there's another
for a ball, ,
There's a circular about a patent feeder.
There's a pack of cigarettes, there are letters
of regrets,
There's a proof of highly-colored lithograph-ing.
There's a solitary ace, thole's a photo oi her
face.
There are articles to start the angels laugh-ing.
There's a pretty chiming clock, there's some
Western mining stock,
There are stacks of verse in every sort of
meter.
There's a cotton office hat, there's a badly
ragged mat.
There's a pipe-bowl than which not hing
could be sweeter, -
There's a gaily rib boned cork, there's a map
of all New York.
There's a guide to Palestine and one to
Russia, -:
There's the latest opera score, there's a lump
of iron ore.
There's relics of a Harvard football rusher.
There are pots of ink and glue, there are
letters old and new,
There are piles of odd exchanges and e
paper.
There's a narrow pair of sheers, there's a
glass of that which cheers,
There's a double-backed-and-pointed paper-scraper.
There's a | artly smoked cigar, there an
orna mented jar,
There's the circulation-swearer's, weekly
fable.
Oh, the,sight will tickle you, if you ever
catch a; view
Of the editor while writing at his table.
THE EVANGELICAL. CHURCH.
I t s W o n d e r f u l Growth t h e P a s t Year
—Figures and P a c t s Given i n De-t
a i l . " .
From the Evangelical.
In our last issue appeared the
general statistical report of"our church
for 1888, as prepared for and published
in the official organs. The study of
this table of figures by o.ur readers
will not be uninteresting nor unprofit-able.
The figures represent facts more
or less important and significant.
They constitute pointers and way-marks
along the uneven path of de-nominatioual
progress. They teach
lessons and impress facts, and forecast
from the record of the past the outlines
of the future.
An army of 1,781 souls have passed
out our Evangelical camp—" mustered
out " by the Great Commander—and
crossed the flood into the church
triumphant. All saved, are they? All
welcomed on high with the King's
< well done? " God knows ! The
death roll for this year is 353 larger
than the preceding year, but so also
is the roll of membership. Shall we
be counted on the roll of the dead for
1889?'
An immense number are on recOrd
as lost to the church, nearly ten times
as many as the army of the departed
dead. Of these 677 were expelled,
3,207 withdrew, and 7,380 moved
away, a total of 11,264 ! These, with
the dead, constitute an army of 13,015
that have passed out of the ranks of
our church during the past year. The
''expelled" ones—did they all fall
away from Christ, and go out to swell
the hosts of Satan ? The " withdrawn"
—where are they ? In other churches,
or outside of all churches? Those who
move away—where do they move?
Beyond the bounds of the church to
which they belonged ? Ho ! ye 11,261
souls expelled, withdrawn, moved out
of the Evangelical Association—where
are you, and what are you doing ?
The newly converted are reported
at 15,200. How otten the notes of joy
in the presence of the angels of God
must have rung out during the year !
But last year; with 4,156 less members,
and 38 less itinerant preachers, there
were 2,103 more converts reported,
and 2,168 more members newly re-ceived,
the total of the latter being
17,084.
The total membership on the muster
roll is now 141,853, which is a net in-crease
of 4,156 over last year. There
are some discrepancies in the figures,
as the difference between the total
losses and total additions does not cor-respond
with the reported net gain.
Of the total membership of thi3
Evangelical host 1,159 are itinerant
preachers and 647 local preachers, a
total of 1,806. Imagine this great
host, with its' commissioned officers,
wholly consecrated to God, endued
with the .power of the Holy Spirit,
and fully equipped for service, all at
work for one year ! What a thrilling
story would the statistical tables of
1889 tell !
Baptism was administered to 2,560
adults and 9,528 infants, a total of
12,088, which is 431 less than last
year. Why this decrease we have no
means of knowing.
The churches reported number
1,916 an increase of 85, valued at-
$4,561,862, and thé -parsonages 614,
valued at $723 ,251. Increased value
of church property, $397,451.
The benevolent contributions mark
a slight advance on the preceding
year. For Conference claimants,
$7,051 82; gain $494: missionary
society, $107,511 11 ; gain, $2,104 Ô2i
S. S. and Tract Union, $2,671 42 ;
gain, $46 84; Orphan Home, $4,-
614 70.
The Sunday-schools number 2,404,
with 26,910 and officers teachers, and
165,255 scholars, making a total gain
of 62 schools and 3,371 members/There
are 723 catechetical classes, with 9,358
members, which is 241 less than last
year.
Such are the figures of totals in
the stable. Interesting comparisons
might be made between individual
conferences and various items of the
table. But we leave that to our
readers.
—Try Miller's dyspepsia cure, the
first dose will give you immediate
relief, and by continuing its use for a
short time, will effectually cure the
worst cases. Sold at the old Lititz
drug store. 30mar-ly
—In many respects, as foreigners
truthfully say, the English languageis
a very curious one, the same word
often having so many different mean-ings.
Here is an instance : A sleeper
is one who sleeps. A sleeper is that in
which the sleeper sleeps. A sleeper is
that on which the sleeper which carries
the sleeper, while he sleeps, runs.
Therefore, while the sleeper sleeps in
the sleeper, the sleeper carries the
sleeper over the sleeper, under the
sleeper, until the sleeper which carries
the sleeper jumps off the sleeper, and
wakes the sleeper in the sleeper by
striking the sleeper under the sleeper,
and there is no longer any sleeper
sleeping in the sleeper on the sleeper.
What t h e W o m e n are Doing.
Lena Obermyer, Millvale, Blair
county, committed suicide because a
fortune teller told her she possessed
a treacherous friend.
Friends of Mrs. Alice Shaw, the
whistler, assert that she is to become
Mrs. Buffalo Bill.
Florence Nightingale is now sixty-nine
years old and a confirmed invalid
in a hospital in London. ;
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris will
spend some time visiting Mrs. George
W. Childs.
The very latest feminine dress
wrinkle since the bustle has been dis-carded
is to have a little fullness in
the back drapery caught in by a
buckle or button on each side of the
waist. Only an excellent figure can
stand it.
Plaids and stripes are to be W3rn by
fashionable women this autumn for the
street and velvet is coming in for
evening wear, though few ladies under
thirty will wear it.
MiSs Ida Nixon, of Vincentown> N.
J., who recently brought suit against
R. C. Taylor, of Collirigswood, for
breach of promise, has mysteriously
disappeared. It is believed they went
off and were married.
He J u m p e d,
" I can never think well of Nash-ville
people," remarked one of the
group as we were canvassing the
Southern cities.
" Yery nice people, I think," replied
another.
" But you don't know 'em. I went
there to settle down and make the
place my home. One day, when I
had been there about two weeks, a
fellow came rubbing around me and I
told him to keep away or I'd hurt
him. He went right off and had me
put under bonds to keep the peace.
Then a dozen men came to me and
advised me to jump my bonds, and I
got out and have never gone back.!'
" What was there mean about
that?"
. " Why, I found out afterwards that
it was a regular game to get iid of a
man they didn't like. It was safer
than shooting him, and not half the
trouble to ride him on a rail."
The Name Still S t i c k s.
After gazing out upon the river
from the ferry dock for a while he
sidled up to an old fake captain who
was leaning against the rail and asked:
" How far is it down to Lake Erie ?"
" It was named after a man named
Erie, who never came down to this
dock without asking us if we'd have a
glass of beer with him. Ah! he was
a fine man. He's dead now."
" And if a man named Jones came
along and asked all of you to drink
you'd change the name to Lake Jones,
I suppose ?"
" We would, sir." :
" Very well, captain. My name is
Black, but I'll see Jones in a few days
and speak to him about it. Mean-time,
try and get along on water.
How long is this river ?"
But the captiain wouldn't answer.
C l a s s i f y i n g Express Horses.
According to reports in the Phila-delphia
papers the Adams Express
Company is about to introduce a novel
scheme into its business in the various
cities in the country. All the horses
belonging to the company are to be
classified according to color, something
that may be done very readily be-cause
of the great number of horses
owned by the company. All the white
and gray horses are to be kept in
Philadelphia, the roan horses are to be
kept in New York, and animals of
other colors will be sent to various
cities.
K n e w His Gait.
There was a tramp standing at the
corner the other day when a pedestrian
halted and looked him over and said :
" I'll tell you how you can make a
quarter."
" Well ?"
" Wash you face !"
" And lose $25 by it! Not much!"
" How would you lose ?
" Why, I go about asking for ten
cents to permit me to shave and wash
up, and I get it every time. Once I
was clean my hold on public sympathy
would be gone." _ __
Next T h i n g t o a Fortune.
Woman—" Have you been a tramp
long ?"
Tramp—" Pretty much all my life,
ma'am ; it runs in the family. My
poor old father was a professional for
twenty-seven years, but the other day
he struck big luck."
Woman—" Did he come into an
immense fortune ?"
Tramp—" Well—er—no, not quite.
Some influential friends of his got him
into the poorhouse."—Buffalo Adver-tiser.
O W E N P. U K I C K E K , Esq., attorney
ta-law, is in town every Saturday and
Monday morningaiid can be consulted
on all legal business. Lancaster office
48 North Duke street.
Habits o f t h e P r a i r i e Dog.
It is now no longer the prevailing
notion that thèse engaging littlp
animals do not drink water, but on
the contrary, however they may get it,
they are very fond of it, and in reality,
they must have it frequently. A
prairie marmot which I have as a pet
drinks water freely three or four times
a day, and if deprived of it shows the
effect at once and drinks double the
amount the very next time he gets- a
chance. This little fellow I bought
from à Navajoe Indian when it hardly
had its eyes open, at present he is full-grown
and hibernating in a burrow
which he dug in the cellar last October.
I emphasize the word hibernating
because many still believe that these
animals do not do so. Even here at
Fort Wingate, and I presume in other
parts of New Mexico, the^e animals
become torpid just as soon as-the first
cold snap strikes them, and repair to
their burrows for hibernation. ¿gain
until the return of warm weather lures
them out. There is a large "prairie
dog town" not a mile from where I sit
at present, and one may pass through
it every day during the cold weather
and when snow covers the ground, and
not a track of this little animal can be
found anywhere in the vicinity. By
thë middle of February, however, they
will begin to show themselves.
There is another old story now
nearly entirely exploded about them.
I refer to the happy family of the
" prairie dog," the prairie owl and the
rattlesnake "all living in harmony in
the same burrow. Of course they do
nothing of the kind, but the marmots
have to put up with these owls and
snakes the best they can , precisely as
we,in our large towns and communities,
have to put up with our owls and
snakes in human form—meeting and
passing men everv day of our lives
whom perhaps we know well to be
sneak-thieves and cut-threats. It is
said upon good authority that prairie
marmots will even desert the burrow
in which a big "rattler" enters, and
even, if small cobble-stones be hândy
in the neighborhood of the entrance,
deliberately seal it up with them, so
that the snake cannot get out and must
starve to death.
A f f l i c t ed J a c k s o n v i l l e.
Truly the people of Jacksonville are
shrouded in " pestilence that walketh
in darkness and the destruction that
wasteth at noonday." The deadly
epidemic seems to mock even the ut-most
care and effort, and the
list of new cases and deaths . increase
each: day.
The people remaining in Jackson-ville
in health have made a heroic
battle, but their resources are exhaust«
ed. Their suffering, and peril call
with emphasis upon every humane
citizen for prompt and generous aid.
Of, a total population of 14,000
lemaining in the city, there ai-e nearly
9,000 without means to. live or escape
the terrible.epidemic. All trade is at
a stand still, and all who depend on
daily business have been without in-'
come for weeks. ' All who can be got
away from the ill-fated city should be
aided to leave, and those who are
willing to remain should be given
bountiful means to preserve life and
health.—Philadelphia Times. '
To E a s e a Writer's Tired Eyes.
A gentleman who has made a study
of the. eye says, for the benefit of the
people who have to earn a liyelihood
with the pen : " Never write on white
paper if you can get yellow paper. A
sheet or card of the same shade placed
on the wall over the desk will assist
in giving the eye rest, and this will
facilitate the work."*! He has" made
this suggestion to many aud° in each
case has received the thanks of those
who have been benefited by it. It is
simple and does not require any phil-osophy
to prove it.
Value of tlio Eucalyptus Tree.
The eucalyptus belongs to the myrtle
tribe.1 It is said that there are as many
as 150 varieties of the tree. They are
native; to .Australia, but have already
been introduced into most of the tropical
and temperate countries of the world.
. Two kinds have been chiefly cultivated,
the red. gum (resinifera), and. the blu«
gum (globulus), which; is .the better
known. , It is ' famous for its rapid
growth, as it.of ten makes an In crease in
height of- from six to nine feet a year.
The tree continues growing at this rate
Until it lias reached an enormous size. :
. The products of this tree are. numerous
and varied. The wood is said to be val-uable
for the carpenter's and builder's
uses. The gum, or rosin, is employed in
the manufacture of "soaps, perfumes,
lozenges, court plaster, liniments, syrups,
pomades, toilet vinegars, as well as many
preparations used for artistic purposes,
such as varnishing oils, veneer and trac-ing
paper." There has been for some
years established in Paris a store for the
sale of eucalyptus perfumery.
- But by far the; most, valuable and im-portant
property of this; tree is its power,
of correcting malaria. This quality is,
perhaps, duo to the aromatic oil which
the tree contains, or more probably to
the drainage effected by its roots. It has
been proved in many countries in which
the tree " has been planted. In Algeria
the cultivation of the tree has. rendered
many low lying or marshy, districts in-habitable,
where, in the early years of
French occupation, foreigners could not
live on account1 of deadly fevers.—
Youth's Companion. '