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his wife, meekly, “ is a circus such an awful 
wicked place ?’ 
Daniel was her only child, and some¬ 
times she dared to sympathize with him in 
his boyish love of fun. 
nothing. He was glad, too, of the notoriety it was regenerated, and had come out as straight up to the fire place and dropped the 
it would give bis circus, this escapade of spruce as could be from under the process, huge maple log plump into position. 
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e- the deacon’s son, when it came to be known, 
in Daniel had not seen the queen of the 
.circus, the clown’s wife, since the night 
is I when sin; rode into the ring, dressed like a 
The deacon sal erect and looked at his when she rode into the ring, dressed like a 
wire a moment in blank astonishment at her veritable queen, with a glittering crown on 
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The old eight-day clock was in its accus¬ 
tomed place, but it, really seemed to tick 
merrier than formerly. The dresser shone 
with its load of white stone ware, and seated 
at a table, heeling a dainty white stocking, 
They were too frightened to speak,—all 
but Lottie; that sprightly young lady 
slu'ieked out,— 
“ Oh, it’s Cousin Dan 1” and ran into the 
front room as if she had seen a ghost. 
some of the waste matter, whence the rheum 
thrown off from the head, throat and lungs, 
and the thickening and soreness of the mu¬ 
cous membrane thus called upon to perform 
an overburdening task. If there be organic 
or chronic weakness in any parts of the sys¬ 
tem an outlet will be sought through them, 
or they will suffer most from the bad blood 
—hence the alleged tendency of colds to 
“ settle ” differently in different persons. If 
BORAH.” 
But Mis. Maybrook did not repeat the 
question; she only said, faintly— 
“I wonder what keeps Daniel?” 
“ That boy needs another thrashing,” said 
the deacon. “His carnal nature must be 
subdued. Here he is thirteen years old and 
has never given us oiie evidence of regen¬ 
eration.” 
“ He’ll do better when he gets older,” an¬ 
swered his wife in an apologetic manner. 
Daniel was all the comfort she had, but 
she always felt like a criminal when she de¬ 
fended him, or acknowledged her love for 
him. 
“ Why, the fire is nearly out; what can 
be keeping the critter?" 
Tlic “ critter,” as the deacon called Dan¬ 
iel, was at that very moment two good 
miles from the village of Lansing, mounted 
on one of the trick horses of the circus, and 
in the rear of the caravan; his companion 
was a hoy, whose acquaintance he bad made 
balanced on the back of a prancing horse. 
Every time she came out the crowd cheered 
her, and Dan had been ashamed of his vo¬ 
ciferous applause; with thatshamelacedness 
natural to boys, he was afraid she would see 
him and make fun of him. 
Now he was under the same roof with 
her, he would perhaps be permitted to speak 
to her. What a sensation that probability 
, gave him! 
The queen was Elspie’s mother. In the 
course of the morning the master sent Dan 
to their room with a message, and the hoy 
went, wondering if lie trod on air; he was 
not yet disenchanted. 
lie stood a moment in doubt about, knock¬ 
ing, then lie rapped so softly no one heard 
him. The next time it might have aroused 
the house. The queen called out in a voice 
that frightened him, and lie opened the door 
and went in. 
A dirty woman, in a faded, discolored 
wife looked old and perplexed, as if some a work of time to get Lottie to speak to her the poison remain in the blood, a general 
riddle had got into her life which she should cousin, now that lie had come. Yet it turned disturbance may result, and the whole sys- 
never guess out. out right at last., and they all lived happily tern be prostrated by a fever ; indeed, some 
«it’s five years to-nigbtsaid the deacon, for many years, like the good people in fairy degree, of fever is a common accompaniment 
with a sigh; “five years to-night!” tales, but—to-day to a cold. 
The girl at the table looked up brightly. Dan and Lottie are getting to be old Various causes may give rise to this de- 
“ S.iy, uncle,” she asked, “ is Parson Hock- folks, and a new-fangled cooking stove is on rangemeut—that is, may occasion the “ tak- 
woop going away?” the hearth, and the old fire-place is filled up. mg” of the cold; as the sudden cooling of 
“ Yes, I reckon he is,” said the deacon, Dan took his hoys to see a circus, when the surface, the cooling of one part more 
“lie lias had a call.” they could understand what a show it was, rapidly than another, either by exposure to 
“I’ni so glad! said the girl, clapping her ami beyond admiration of the animals, they the air or by having some portions of the 
The girl at the table looked up brightly. 
“ Bay, uncle,” she asked, “ is Parson Rock- 
wood going away?” 
“Yes, I reckon he is,” said the deacon, 
“ he lias had a call." 
“I’m so glad! said the girl, clapping her 
hands, “ now wo will get more wide awake 
preaching, such as other churches have.” 
“Why, du tell, Lottie!” exclaimed the 
deacon, “ I thought you reckoned the parson 
such a good man.” 
“That’s just it,” cried Lottie, dropping 
her knitting and her stitches together; “ he 
was too good for us. Why he had no sym¬ 
pathy for sinners. It was only good people 
like himself he would listen to. Now 
Christ, when lie came, called the sinners to 
never had a thought about it. Lottie is as clothing wet; for drying, or the conversion 
bright and decided as ever, hut easily ruled 
by love, and that is the grand law of her 
life,—love to her neighbor, and beyond— 
well we all know where her Commandment 
law is. 
She has had many ehunces to test it. Once 
Dan found out in the barn the ghost of a 
man who had crawled in there to die, weak, 
ragged, famished. Lottie took him in and 
nursed him until he died peacefully, kuow- 
of water into vapor, ia always attended by 
great loss of heat. Sadden changes of tem¬ 
perature from warm to cold, or from cold to 
warm, will sometimes produce a like result; 
also eating too much, for too much blood 
and vital power arc required in the process 
ot digestion, nud when too much blood is 
called off for too long a time, it may produce 
this derangement. Or when in a surfeited 
condition, a slight exposure will produce a 
without the knowledge of his father or moth- gown, was sitting over a sulky fire, which 
er and who was a dangerous companion to she was coaxing to burn ; her hair was loose 
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one as susceptible of fascinating society us 
Daniel Mayurook, 
John Arnold hacl seen the world; he had 
been to foreign ports as cabin boy on a vessel; 
lie had read all the books that boys love,— 
could tell stories or sing songs by the hour; 
but he was totally unprincipled, and had not 
hesitated to poison Daniel’s mind with 
over her shoulders, and looked as if it were 
faded out. Her cheeks were sunken and her 
deacon, “ one would think she was sancti- boys do not brood over unanswered ques 
chin shorn. A little girl in a soiled calico fled, but such views are a snare and a delu- tions or sigh over forbidden joys. Their 
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dress was sitting on the bed with her arm in 
a sling—a cross, shabhy-looking child, 
whining with pain. 
The woman answered the question which 
Dan had been sent with, and he was going- 
stories of circus life, and of the world out of out in dismay, when tlic child spoke to him. 
which such things came. “Are you going to live with us?” she 
“ All the boys laugh at von,” he had said asked in a thin, piping voice. 
J ° * _ TT (11 • J At- _ t_ 
to Daniel, “ because you stay at homo and 4 * G 
get licked. Why, if you had the spunk of a “ I* u 
mouse you’d go out in the world and he your “ ^ c 
own mau; you can make heaps of money, l° w - 
and come home rich and independent, and “^ c 
then 1 guess your carnal nature would be all uian. 
right.” k) the 
And Daniel, out of the perverseness and at kcr 
obliquity of bis moral nature, saw himself a ' Vils !l 
very ill-used boy, and went to the circus,— hand < 
not against his father’s command, for Ids shesg 
father had no more dreamed that ho would home, 
dare to disobey him than that the sun would circus 
refuse to shine, and the circus was, of all !*■ w 
places, the one that, furnished Deacon May- die bo 
brook with the most gloomy illustration of always 
perdition. And to think that his sou should ' )AN s 
“ Yes 1” said the boy. 
“ Runned away ?” with a questioning look. 
“Yes!” and poor Dan’s head dropped 
low. 
“ You had better go back,” said the wo¬ 
man. “ Look at. her arm;” it was shrivelled 
to the elbow; “ well, that was a blow. Look 
at her neck; it don’t show at night,—that 
was a blow too. Every time she bolds her 
hand over her head, it a-most kills her; but 
she’s got to do it, for bread. If you have a 
home you’d better go back to it, and let the 
circus take care of itself.” 
It was well enough to say go back, but 
tlic boy capable of running away from home, 
sion; how strange that my brother Joshua 
should have such a daughter?” 
“ But she has a good heart, a very good 
heart,” murmured Mr. Maybrook, looking 
affectionately at the bent head, and thinking 
of hair that was so like hers. 
She had been with them nearly a year, 
brightening their lives with her glad, cheer¬ 
ful ways, soothing them with her company, 
and bewildering them with her orthordoxy. 
That staid Uncle Joshua, who was the very 
paragon of perfection in that house, should 
have such a daughter seemed an impossi¬ 
bility, yet they loved her dearly too. 
She had offended good, stiff Parson Rock- 
wood at her first visit. After discussing 
sonic knotty theological points with the 
deacon lie had turned to remind Mrs. May¬ 
brook that she must never cease to make 
father holds them by the hand, and if they 
sometimes lead hint it is just as well. Only 
lliey all walk together in the sunlight. 
ffiSwnw 
Information. 
WHAT IS 
COLD? 
BY JULIA C0LMAN. 
To understand the operation of a cold, we 
must first take a glance at that wonder¬ 
working life current, the blood. It. is now 
pretty well understood that the blood puts 
the finishing touches to the nutrition, and 
carries it to all parts of the system, bringing 
turbing causes, often take cold in some of 
these ways, without being able to account 
for it. 
How to Cure n Cold. 
The cause being once understood, the 
remedy, of course, is obvious; the blood 
must be brought back to th surface. As 
we have seen, a change of temperature 
readily influences its circulation, and we can 
use a knowledge of tlic same principle to 
restore it to its healthful rounds. The appli¬ 
cation of heat to the surface will cause the 
blood to flow thither. So it often happens 
that “ toasting the feet,” an hour or two, or 
bathing them in hot water, on the early ap¬ 
pearance of the symptoms, or warming the 
person thoroughly before a hot fire will often 
b sufficient to restore the circulation to its 
normal course. The feeling of “chilliness” 
iff nil indication of the disordered state of 
things, and this must be stopped or the difii- 
brook that she must never cease to make away in return the worn-out matter that things, and this must be mppea or uie uuu- 
“ wicked Daniel” a special subject of has served its purpose and been cast out of cnlty will continue to increase. If the colt 
prayer, and then it was that he saw the the tissues. The amount of this kind of is well seated, stronger measures must be 
brh-iit, audacious eyes fixed upon him with change constantly in progress, may be esti- adapted. The blood must not only be 
a look of withering satire. mated from the fact lliut. nearly all wc eat brought to the surface, but it must be nunl^ 
“Young woman?” asked the rigid be- is converted into chyle, and used in this way, to discharge the waste matter therein ac 
n„.. i, aaneiificfttinn “ Have von a while of cousc a similar amount is carried cumulated. The simplest mode of applying 
be seen there, in the seat of the ungodly and 
the sinner! What had Deacon Maybrook 
done to deserve such a punishment to his re¬ 
ligious pride as this? 
I think if lie had looked back through the 
mist of years he would have seen a boy who 
played leap-frog and “ mumhley peg-' 
a greater zest than Daniel did,—who traded 
jack knives and raced colts, aud was in for 
afraid to go home, but if his father had 
whipped him a week, he could not have 
suffered what he (lid In the six months that 
j he staid with the circus troupe. 
I suppose his “ bringing up” and memories 
of home saved him from absolute ruin, he 
was disgusted with the wickedness that had 
not even a thin disguise of virtue, and at the 
first sea port, town he came to, he ran away 
all sorts of boyish pranks, but who, by a again, and entered a sea faring life as cabin 
species of close making over, was at last 
made into the precise, matter-of-fact man, 
who discountenanced every kind of fun. 
Was lie taking a sly revenge in thrashing it 
out of Daniel, as it had been thrashed out 
ofliim? 
When the hoy ran away from home he 
did it without, premeditation; he was sore 
boy, on a merchant ship. 
I don’t think he would like me to give the 
record of those five years, that he spent in a 
distant country. JTe kept n faithful diary 
though a rude one, and there was no act 
recorded to his disgrace; but he had hard¬ 
ships that lie sadly deserved, and mishaps 
that met him at every turn, hut on that, first 
How shocked were the stern deacon and 
his humble wife and the godly parson to 
hear a peal of laughter from Lottie’s pout- . 
in£r lip8< less rapidity in different parts as they are it is applied should also he quite warm. 
“ I am so sorry 1” she explained at last, more or less used, and in different persons as The water should he as bet as can be borne, 
“but it struck me as being so queer to ask they arc more or less active, so that no and come to the neck. This will bring the 
me such a question, when i never in my life exact statement can be made of the time re- blood to tbe surface pretty promptly. A 
had a doubt ” quired to renew the entire system; but the cold cloth oil the head, and a taste, now and 
The parson noticed her no more, not even old estimate of seven years is now admitted then, of cool water will prevent a tendency 
when he heard what an acceptable teacher to he much too long for the average. of blood 10 the head. After tbe perspiration 
she made in the Sabbath school, and how The waste matter thus set free is carried commences to pour off let it continue fifteen, 
many of her hours were given to charities away by the blood and thrown out of the twenty or thirty minutes, according to lie 
that had no name system through the bowels and lungs, and age and strength of the person (say ten 
She'was not afraid of the deacon; she especially through the pores of the skin, minutes for a child,) and the violence of the 
loved to smooth the wrinkles out of his Probably half of all the waste matter cold. Then wash off with cooler water, 
away. In a growing ciinu me amount eaten 
is more than that thrown out, while in old 
age the scale inclines in thu opposite direc¬ 
tion. The change proceeds with greater or 
the heat for this purposo is through the me¬ 
dium of hot water. The water, indeed, 
helps to open the pores, but the temperature 
is the main thing; therefore the room where 
it is applied should also he quite warm. 
The water should he as hot as can he borne, 
and come to the neck. This will bring the 
blood to tbe surface pretty promptly. A 
cold cloth oil the head, and a taste, now and 
and smarting from that severe castigation, voyage he met a man, a sttange being, who 
which was real); intended for the good of worked ana muttered,and prayed and lmd 
his soul, but which roused every evil passion some influence for good ovet eyci ><k \, es en 
* .1_.laliarl rnillnH TI 1 IU IY1UTI WllSt 
in Ids heart, and made him, for the moment, 
hate his father and every body else. It was 
then the spangled accoutrements of the cir¬ 
cus came in sight,—the prancing horses and 
gay flags and transparence* and lanterns; 
and riding away with them John Arnold, 
in his best clothes. Daniel forgot the back 
log, and vaulted on to the back of the led 
horse, and spurred away out of sight. If lie 
thought of anything it was that he would 
ride a couple of miles and then walk back, 
but the tempter was at his side, and at sun¬ 
rise the next morning he entered a strange 
town, far away from home, and was finally 
enrolled a member of the Great Oriental 
Circus Company. 
CHAPTER XI. 
Rcpcutiug at Leisure. 
The company drove straight to a tavern 
the drunken defiant, sailors. This man was 
associated with Daniel Maybrook for the 
first year of Ins adventurous sea life and to 
him lie owed iumunity from punishment, 
and kindly instruction, and a complete rescue 
from the* depravity that surrounded him. 
Once Dan asked him: 
“ What made you such a good man, Ben ?” 
" I ain’t good,” old Ben answered; “ hut 
what I am Is by the grace of God, and the 
kindness of old Parson Maybrook, away in 
old Vermont.” 
Parson Maybrook ! that was Dan’s grand¬ 
father, long since dead. The boy was only 
known as Dan ; he had never told his name, 
even to old Ben. But he did then, and Ben 
gave him such advice, that once at Liverpool, 
he agreed to stay there and hunt his fortune. 
He did not find it; on the contrary, lie 
found no end of misfortunes, and live years 
loved to smooth the wrinkles out of his 
wondering old forehead, and comb his 
straight gray hair, and read the Bible to 
him, witli her own interpretation; and some¬ 
times the deacon really thought her light 
was from Heaven, so freely and so far did it 
shine. 
She it was who dared talk of Daniel 
Maybrook in the home he had forsaken 
who would talk of him so kindly and lov¬ 
ingly that his fault seemed to grow less to 
the iron gray old father. She had stored 
sweet pippins and butternuts against his 
coming home; she had hidden away the 
sweetest hive of honey; she had knitted 
fleecy white socks; her fatted calf was all 
ready for t he prodigal when he should come 
back. 
She hailed it as a good omen that the 
deacon should speak oi him this night with¬ 
out prompting—her cousin Dan, whom she 
had never seen, who was two years older 
than she, but still looked upon there as a 
child. 
thrown out. ot the body goes by this me¬ 
dium. We can readily demonstate that the 
amount must be large by placing the hand 
on or near a mirror, or some cool metallic 
surface. In a few seconds a sensible amount 
of condensed vapor will have been de¬ 
posited. If the hand be introduced into a 
glass jar, closing the mouth tolerably well, 
the whole inner surface will soon become 
bedewed, and drops will trickle down the 
sides. If the foot he for some time encased 
in a rubber shoe the stocking and sometimes 
the inner shoe will he quite damp from the 
condensed perspiration. The secreted mat- 
cold. Then wash off with cooler water, 
gently rub quite dry, wrap loosely and lie 
down for tin hour. If it he bed-time, retire, 
hut do not cover up so warmly as to re- 
iuduce sweating If this does not effect a 
complete cure, let it be repeated the next 
day. In a cold of some standing one such 
effort should hardly be prolonged sufficient¬ 
ly to clean out the system thoroughly. It 
would be too exhausting. 
This method is much safer than the sweat¬ 
ing after retiring so often practiced, because 
it can be controlled and stopped before ex¬ 
hausting the patient, and there is, he»ides 
no wet clothing to dry upon the person and 
cool it off. lie will find himself not at all 
liable to take cold the next day. If the pa- 
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ter is water, carbonic add and oil. The Lent p^h-tob! lie nceds no help.* If there is 
latter spreads over the skin or oils the bail. ° o | ja t),.Dib, use a common wash-tub; have 
The other elements disappear as vapors. another person spread hot wet cloths over 
The spiral conduits which carry this waste the shoulders, changing them frequently, 
matter to the surface are very small and only and covering the whole, except the bead, 
one-fourth of an inch in length. They arc, with a thick comforter to top ■» * 
however, exceedingly numerous so that they 
are estimated to average *,800 to the squau musc ] es> ant j c ] ear oul ],j g head, though lie 
inch. This gives fifty-eight feet per square magt not expect to be rid at once of all traces 
amt fm- thn entire surface of an ordina- of the derangement. It takes time to heal 
and put up their horses in the quietest, way alter he ran away from home lie was fain to 
imaginable, in order to get a good rest pre¬ 
vious to the grand entree ; Dan, who ex¬ 
pected to be shown to a fine room, and 
waited on as a guest, was ordered hither and 
thither as if he had been a circus hoy all his 
life; when he did not move quick enough he 
was greeted with an oath; he did not dream 
that the os. h would have been enforced by 
a blow had not John Arnold interceeded 
turn his face thitherward, poor in spirit, 
poor iu pocket, rich only in a long, hard ex¬ 
perience, and having seen just enough of life, 
so-called, to make home seem like the one 
oasis in the desert. 
cUild inch. This gives fifty-eight teet per square mQS t not expect to he l id at once ol all traces 
.. T mav as well fix this ’ere fire up,” said inch, and for the entire surface of an ordina- of the derangement. It takes time to heal 
the deacon, drawing Ike coal, forward; ry sized man abou ** SfiTSSm bedrid£ 
“then I’ll get a log and a fore-stick that will we may well believe that so extensive a sj t i 101 . 0U gi,iy. For a person who is taking 
hum a couple of nights. Just swing the tem of drainage was not laid down by the CQ j^ ^ p a< )ie without sweating only in¬ 
crane out, Deborah.” Great Architect without a purpose; and erea8CS the disorder, which proves my pie- 
“ You was fixin’ the fire that night, Dea- that a stoppage therein would create serious vious statement, that it is.theJient rat Her 
con," said kl, wife; - do you tnim, bow it change* in the interna, economy. {££& jSTS “n .% 
was ?” It must he borne m mind that the waste . never imiae of an i, ovir after eat- 
“Mind how it was! Do you ’spose I could matter is deposited hi these conduits hy the j When you have a severe cold, von are 
<• .o t ’..ii ci.anndo (v... l.innd i ftvr tiiia mimrae tile latter must coYhct tri#>at nt, :,11. I have often seen 
Do you ’spose I could matter 
CHAPTER III. 
Home Again. 
It was a cool evening in September, 
for him with the master. “He’s a green among the early frosts, just five years from 
un,” John had said; “ wait till you get him the time when little Dan Maybrook set the 
two hundred miles from home.” whole village astir by running off with the 
The master looked at Daniel’s well de- circus troupe, aud the good deacon and his 
velopod form and his rosy face, aud con- wife were seated in the same old kitchen, 
eluded that he might be a valuable addition before the smouldering embers of a low fire, 
to their force, so for the present he said The same kitchen, and yet not the same, for 
ient in a 
>om,) with 
ill! rest for 
fallacy W 
waitin’, just like this, and—” 
The back door flew open with a bang,— 
“ Say, father!” cried a voice iu the door¬ 
way, “ I’ve brought you that back log!” 
He was six feet high, and he bent his head 
mis waste unuici icicHHuv. . twenty-four hours. It is a uwge iwim^y ^ 
rank poison. The system, as in most cases u stu jf a co pt,” As a general rule, when 
of embarrassment, tries to relieve itself by s j C ] Ci the less you eat the better This is a 
other outlets, and one of the most, common hard remedy for the greedy unc j ^ 
results is an excessive tendency of the blood hglgnt ££*££*^£**2 
l „. l t ie in nel , surface (the lining of cavities 
LAV/ 1 * IV* 'vww 7 * — — I v * , n e, 
he came in the low door, and he walked 1 of the head and trunk,) where it deposits 
