DARLINGTON HERALD.
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“IF FOR THE LIBERTY OF THE WORLD WE CAN DO ANYTHING.”
OL. III.
A TRUE PORTRAIT. *
Carl Sckirs’i PartrajaUf Graver
ClevelaaA
I certainly do not pretend that Mr
Cleveland is the ideal man or the
greatest statesman of all times. He
no doubt has his limitations’ weak
nesses and shortcomings. But he
possesses in uncommon measure those
qualities which are especially desira
ble in a public servant charged with
great resposibilities. He has a con
science. He has a wilL He hat
patriotic heart He hn"k dear
He has a strong sense of right He
has a good knowledge of affairs. He
is a party man, bat not a party slave.
He is true to duty regardless of per
sonal interest This is not only the
judgment of his friends, but also of
his opponents, who, in a campaign
like this, wish they might not have
to admit it There is to-day no pub
lic man in Amenca so widely and
well known and so generally and sin
cerely respected as Mr Cleveland is.
Even those politicans of his own
party who opposed his nomination
had to respect him for those very
qualities on account of which some
of them thought him objectionable
as a President
Pratectis
ibor.
Don't Dlseaarace the Boys.
Have you stopped to consider the
effect of your complaints and discon
tent npon the boys on the farm.
Everyb »dy seems to be ont of joint
in agricultural matters, nobody seems
satisfied on the farm. Day and night
are spent in murmunngs and com
plaints at special afflictions that
come to farmers, while the farmers
themselves seem up in arms and
ready to do harm to all opposing
forces. Is there not some plan by
which we can gain our ends and re
adjust matters that seem out of joint
without so mnch complaint and bit
terness? Such conditions have a
most hurtful effect upon the younger
members of the household, to say
nothing of the very damaging effect
upon our temper aud morals.
How can we expect the boys to
cultivate any degree of fondness for
farm life when they never bear any
thing pleasant in its pursuits? How
can we censure them as they grow up
to manhood for abandoning the old
homestead, when every zephyr that
played among its flowers was turned
to a sigh and all its bright cheer in
to sadness and tears.
We must hold on to good spirits,
at least in the presence of the boys,
until we cun whip the terrible fig'it
upon Ivhich we have entered.
No mao was ever made better by
having the blues nor better fitted for
a conflict because of feeling sure that
he would be whipped in the fight
Young spirits are much more
easily broken than those that have
weathered the storm for years. Just
as young mules are rained for life
by overtaxing their strength the first
year, so young boys are made prema
turely old by putting upon them the
burden of cares leyond their years.
The farmer makes a grevious m s
take who discusses his cares and his
troubles in a complaining spirit in
the presence of his boys, and he puts
their young minds on search for
brighter surroundings and more
pleasant prospects.
Under all the complaints that
now burden the land, what mast be
the greivous consequences upon the
young in bringing about a demorali
zation that will bring failure to our
agriculture.
Make the future of your children
bright and happy by keeping the
young in years as far from care as
possible.—W. J. Northern, in South
ern Cultivator.
Bsae-raised Males.
Georgia has already started out to
raise her own Lorses and mules to
some extent, and other States are
taking similar steps. The Arkansas
Farmer is gratified that the farmers
of Mississippi are turning their at
tention to the raising of mules, and
are finding it a profital le industry.
More than half of the counties of
Arkansas are as well adapted to the
raising of mules as Missonri, Ten
nessee or Kentucky, and mula colts
could be reared to a salable age in
this climate even with less expense.
A hundred thousand mules, raised
and sold to Arkansas and Louisiana
planters, would keep a million dollars
in the State th/i$ annuallv goes out
of it for this kind of property.—
Southern Cultivator and Dixie
Farmer.
In his letter of acceptance, Presi
dent Harrison said:
“No intelligent advocate cf a pro
tective tariff system claims that it is
able, of itself, to maintain a uniform
rate of wages without regard to the
fluctuations in the supply of and de
mand for the products of labor. But
it is confidently claimed that pro
tected duties strongly tend to hold
up wages and are the only barriers
against a reduction to a European
It feAntereetiar* M*e, In
connection with Mr. Harrison’s con
fident claim, that there is no such
thing as a “European scale.” There
is quite as great a variation in the
rate of wages in the different Euro
pean countries as there is in our
several States. Wages, as are arti
cles of commerce, are regulated by
the rules of supply and demand.
Where there is a crowded population
wages are low, and vice versa. In
America, with our virgin soil and
vast undeveloped resources, there is
not any necessity for a man to labor
at a starvation price. There aie too
many avenues open to him. But in
the European countries, with their
dense and idle population, no system
can have any perceptible effect on the
price of labor. But unfortunately
for Mr. Harrison’s theory, the records
show that wages are lowest in the
protected .countries. For instance,
here are the weekly wages paid in
free trade England and protected
Germany:
Free trade
Protected
England.
Germany.
Blacksmiths,
$9.60
$4.00
Carpenters,
$9.75
4.11
Machinists,
9.00
4.60
Painters,
8.92
4.82
Masons,
8.00
4.07
Shoemakers,
6.00
2.95
Laborers,
5.29
3.11
These scales are an unanswerable
argument to the above-quoted
declaration from Preside it Harrison.
Were the tax removed from the ne
cessaries of life, our laboring classes
would gain two dollars in the ex
pense of support where they lose one
dollar by a reduction in wages. Be
sides, the impetus given business by
the increased consumption of goods
would supply constant and remunera
tive employment for the masses.
■•w t# Save Beys.
Women who have sons to rear and
dread the demoralizing influences of
bad associates ought to understand
the nature of young manhood. It is
excessively restless. It is disturbed
by vain ambitions, by thirst for ac
tion, by longings for excitements, b\
irrepressible desires to touch life in
manifold ways. If you, mothers,
rea.* your sons so that your homes are
associated with the repression of na
tural instincts, yon will be sure to
throw them in tfle society that in
any measure can supply the needs of
their hearts. They will not go to
the public house at first for love of
liquor; they go for the animated aud
hilarious companionship they find
there, which they find does so much
to repress the disturbing restlessness
in their breasts. See to it, then that
their home* compete with public
places in their attractiveness. Open
your blinds by day, and light bright
fires by night. Illumine your rooms.
Hang picture upon the walls. Put
books and newspapers upon your
tables. Have music and entertain
ing games. Banish demons of dull
ness and epathy that have so long
ruled in your household, aud bring
in mirth and good cheer. Invent
occupations for your sons. Stimulate
their ambitions in worthy directions.
While you make home their delight
fill them with higher purposes than
mere pleasure. Whether they shall
pass happy boyhood, and enter upon
manhood with refined tastes and no
ble ambitions, depends on yon. Do
not blame miserable barkeepers if
your sons miscarry. Believe it pos
sible that with exertion and right
means a mother may have more con
trol of the destiny of her boys than
any other influence whatever.—
Anon.
Bob Ingersoll is reported to have
said “I believe in protecting what are
called ’infant’ industries, but after
these infants get to be six feet high
and wear No. 12 boots, it is about
time to stop rocking the cradle, es
pecially when the ‘infant’ tells you
that if you stop rocking he will get
out of the cradle and kick your head
off?’
Peter the Great superintended the
management of the first Russian
newspaper.
DARLINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1892.
NO. 6.
Third Party Births aa* Deaths.
A Texas exchange has been look
ing up the history of third parties
for the education of its friends who
have strayed away with the people’s
party. Here is the list:
Firet. The Clinton Democracy;
born in 1812; died the same year.
Second. The anti-masonic party
born in 1826, and though such men
as Fillmore, Seward, We«d,Clay, and
Witt were identified with it, its exist
ence ceased in 183B.
TM-d. ThelH»frfri»rtt;bornln
1840; died in 1844.
Fourth. Free soil or abolition
party; born in 1848; died in 1852,
Fifth. The southern states rights
party; born in 1852, and died the
same year.
Sixth. The American or know-
nothing party; born in 1853; died in
1860.
Seventh. The liberal republican
party; born in 1872; died same year.
Eighth. The temperance party’s
birth aud death occurred in 1872.
Ninth. The labor reform party
came into aud went out of existence
in 1872.
Tenth. The American national
party was born in 1875; died in
1876.
Eleventh. The greenback party
was born in 1872; and died in
1880.
Twelfth. The prohibition party
as a national party was born in 1876,
and has been dying a slow death ever
since.
Thirteenth. The national party
was born in 1879, and died the same
year.
Fourteenth. The national liberty
party was born and died in 1879.
Fifteenth. The greenback-labor
party was born in 1882 and died so
juietly that the exact time is un
known.
Since 1872 probably a dozen differ
ent parties, all more or less tinctured
with communism aud socialism, have
flourished for a short time.
Following the gree iback-labor
party came the union-labor party,
when Br’er Streeter went down wth
a forlorn hope. And now comes its
ill-fated successor, the people’s party
to "put forth the tender bud of hope”
and have it nipped by early frost this
fall.
Boys, Read This.
Chauncy Depew, against whom no
one would think of charging a Puri
tanic spirit, speaks as follows on the
temperance question: “Twenty-five
years ago I knew every man, woman
and child in Peekskill. And it has
been a study with me to mark boys
who started in every grade of life
with myself, to see what has become
of them. I was up last fall and be
gan to count them over, audit was
an instructive exhibit. Some of
them became clerks, merchants,
manufacturers, lawyers, doctors. It
is remarkable that every one of those
who drank is dead; not one living of
my age. Barring a few who were
taken off by sickness, every one who
proved a wreck and wrecked his
family did it from rum, and no other
cause. Of those who were church
going people, who were steady, in
dustrious and hard working men,
who were frugal and thrifty, every
single one of them, without an ex
ception, owns the house in which he
lives and has something laid by the
interest of which, with his house,
would carry him through many a
rainy day. When a man becomes de
bused with gambling, rum or drink,
he does not care; all his finer feelings
are crowded ont. The poor women
at home are the ones who suffer—
suffer in their tenderest emotions;
suffer in their affections for those
whom they love better than life.”—
Herald and Presbyter.
Ingredients of a Cigarette.
Professor J. M. Laflin, the athlete
and trainer, said to a reporter:
“Think for a moment. There are
five ingredients in every cigarette,
each one of which it is calculated to
destroy human life. First, there i.
the nicotine or the oil if tobacco;
next, the oil in imported paper, which
is nearly us destructive; third, the
arsenic introduced to make the paper
burn white and add a peculiar flavor:
fourth, the saltpeter put in the to
bacco to prevent it from molding
and finally the opium that is spray
ed on tobacco to give it the insidioi s
influence which it possesses over the
brain. Can you wonder that the
animal life of a young man is killed
by such a mixture? In the cigar or
pijie we have but en: poison—
nicotine, but it is not inhaled.’—Al
bany Argus
CARING FOR THE SICK
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SOME FACTS ABOUT THE AMBU
LANCE SYSTEM OF NEW YORK.
Laxurloua Vehicles for the Comfort of
Those Taken Suddenly III In the Great
Metropolis — Why the Ambulanee la
■letter Than a Carriage.
The ambulance service of New York
city is probably the most complete in
the world. Few people reflect m to tha.
scope of its humane work when the
uoisy gong of the familiar hospital,
wagon warns everyone to “clear the
track." It b a nuisance to driven ani
tromenaden.
It would seem that the ambulam
service, perfect as it is, is appreciated
less by the public than almost any other professors, including music teach
beneficial institution which is supported
by the city.
The annual cost of a single ambnlani
is estimated at 8930. There are twenty-
six of them in daily service now. Thf
involves an expenditure of 836,920 a year.
Incidental expenses are not inclnded in
these figures, which only defray the cost
of the conveyance, the horse’s feed and
driver’s salary.
The number of ambulance calls re
sponded to in one month was 473. All
of these sick people were comfortably
and speedily carried to various hospitals
and doctored free of charge. In the
same month there were fifty-four “hurry
calls.' These were in cases of emer
gency, such at lire, poisoning, apoplexy,
alcoholism, etc.
The ambulance subject is nsnally a
person in poor circumstances. One
rarely sees a well dressed occnpant
being carried to hospitals by ambnlance.
It is strange that a lack of confidence
should be placed in such a perfect serv
ice as the city supports. And yet many
people suddenly stricken ill betray a
dread and distrust of the ambulance.
There is no doubt that Hvea are lost by
this foolish apprehension. All that sci
ence aud advanced invention can do in
the way of easy and speedy transporta
tion, accompanied by the best of medical
treatment, is given to the poor and de
pendent part of the population.
The educated and well placed sick,
when unexpectedly stricken, yield to the
first impulse to get home at all hoards.
A long ride in a close carriage unattend
ed by any physician sometimes proves
fatal. Ths ambnlance wonld be far
safer and the treatment unquestionably
better.
The ambulances which convey pa
tients to Bellevne ore probably the most
comfortable conveyances in the world.
This is an important factor in the hos
pital service, as the jolting of an ordi
nary close carriage often adds Untold
suffering to tbe invalid.
The ambulance in itself is a study.
The padded bed in it is as soft as a pil
low and fits tightly within the soft cush
ioned sides. Ovfer the bed is laid the
stretcher, npon which the patient can be
removed from the ambnlance to the hos
pital ward without a jar. The bed in
the ambulance is arranged npon rollers,
so that it withstands the shock of jolt
ing over the rough pavements altogether.
No matter which way the occupant rolls
or tosses only cushioned surfaces meet
the body. A physician in attendance
carries a handbag containing stimulants,
restoratives, antidotes for poisons and
all drugs that may be required in ordi
nary cases.
The conveyance is always equipped in
the same complete manner. Under the
driver's seat is a large box, the lid of
which forms the seat. Under it are
rolls of bandages ent in different widths
for nse on different parts of the body.
Stored away beside these are splints,
lint, oakum and oil, salves, etc., for
burns. A hip splint, long enough to ex
tend from nnder the arm to the feet, is
always a part of the equipment. This
is provided in anticipation of broken
legs. There is a lantern at the head of
the patient and another at the feet, in
order that no time may be lost in ob
taining proper light. A strong leather
belt, with iron cuffs attached at the side,
goes with every ambnlance. This is
used where a patient is violent or wildly
intoxicated.
The fire department system of harness
ing is employed, and only three minutes
are allowed the ambnlance to prepare to
respond to a call. On the second alarm
tlie driver drops the suspended harness
upon the horse. The bnckling takes less
than a minute. He hurries with his coat
and vest, and appears at the hospital en
trance jnst as an attending physician
comes ont of the door.
Any point within a distance of two
miles U reached in less than fifteen min
utes.
The ambulance call is reduced to the
minimum degree of simplicity. Every
body should know how to summon an
ambulance. The alarm is always sent
through the fire department or the police
stations. On each fire alarm box is a
notice telling where the key is kept.
The policeman on the beat usually pos
sesses a separate key. It is also his duty
to know where fhe other key is'kept.
•‘Hurry calls,” usually street cases, are
thus sent through the fire department to
ibe hospitals. Notice given at a police
station is at once telephoned to the hos
pitals. It lies within the discretion of
the police officers to decide whether a
patient is a fit subject for a prison cell
or a hospital.
If an ambulance is summoned and the
disease is contagions the sufferer is
taken to Bellevue hospital and placed in
a tent outside the building. The ambu
lance is at once fnmigated and the pa
tient transferred to the board of health.
If removal of a patient by ambulance
will endanger life thejffiysician must at
once telephone the hospital, meanwhile
remaining with the patient. Then an
other physician is sent in a coupe to at
tend the sufferer.—New York World.
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AMERICANS WHO LIVE LONGEST.
OMBpatleM That Are Conducive to Long
or Short Lives.
“What occupation tends most to pro
long life?” asked a reporter of the chief
mathematician for. one of the great life
insurance companies.
“That is a dUBcnlt question,” he re
plied. “1 con Only answer it by refer
ring to the occupations of persons whose
lives are and have been insured by ns.
Inasmuch aa they number several hun
dreds of thousands they will afford a
pretty good basis from which to draw
conclusions on the subject. According
to this evidence it appears that commer
cial travelers and agents live longer
than men in any other kind of business
notwithstanding the hazards which at-
id transportation by rail and water,
ext to them come dentists, teachers
c4 “
as
— fnr
Time Filet.
She (gushingly)—Just think, darling,
you proposed but twenty-four hours ago.
He (thrilliiigly)—Yes, and it seems as
though it were but yesterday.—London
Tit-Bits.
Personal Barometers.
A good many old housewives still re
main their own Weather prophets, and
as a consequence one of the most popular
of familiar weather sayings is, “^Then
rheumatic peopletomplaiu of more than
ordinary pains in their joints, it will
rain.” Another homemade barometer
is the tender corn or sensitive tooth.—
an.
“And who after them?”
“Next to them in point of longevity
hatters, clergymen and missionaries.
The last may occasionally furnish food
for the larder of untutored savages, hut
they are a first class risk nevertheless.
Next come bankers and capitalists, who
seem to live jnst a trifle longer than
batchers and marketmen. Lawyers and
jewelers follow, and they aro succeeded
on the list by merchants, peddlers, milk
men and pawnbrokers. Then come
gardeners, laborers, civil engineers and
canvassers. Perhaps the treatment
which canvassers are apt to receive in
the ordinary coarse of their business
shortens their lives.”
“Where do newspaper men come in?"
“Oh, they don't live as long as any of
the people I have mentioned. Even book
keepers and bank cashiers, as well as
artists and architects, ore ahead of them.
They come in next, with the printers,
physicians and gentlemen who are not
engaged in any active employment.
Then follow the apothecaries and pho
tographers, and after them in order bak
ers, cigar makers, real estate agents,
army officers and soldiers, liqnor deal
ers, mariners and naval officers. Shortest
lived of all seem to be the auctioneers,
boarding house keepers, barbers and
drivers.”
“Do yon take into consideration the
question of a customer’s occupation in
granting a policy?"
“Not unless it is more hazardous than
any of those I have mentioned, though
if we were in donbt about accepting the
man as a risk for other reasons, such a
point might turn the scale.”—Washing
ton Star.
Ad Independent Gardener.
There must be something in garden
ing that cultivates independence and
obstinacy. My old gardener, with his
one helper, and not a bit of glass on the
place save a modest hothouse or two,
WM os great a tyrant as the swell Scotch
gardeners of my friends.
“Andy,” 1 would say, “don’t put those
double anemones in the center bed this
year, and please don’t sow double poppy
seed. They are such untidy flowers.”
“Yes, ma’am.”
With spring came the anemones; in
Jnne, in a faraway corner, straggled up
the poppies.
“Andy, 1 thought I told yon 1 did not
want those things.”
“Did ye, ma’am? ’Deed an I thought'
them poppies wonld be more beneficialer
in the corner of the wall like.”
Poor old Andy I He never realized that
1 was an American, bat wonld quash
many an argument of mine with:
“That’s the way they does in Ameri-
ky. Isn’t that more beneficialer?”
He bad been in our country for a few
years and privately told me it was a
“bard place.”—Kate Field’s Washington.
Th. Greatest Natural Bridge.
Yon all know of the Natural bridge
in Virginia, aud perhaps have heard
how the first president of the United
States, in the athletic vigor of his yontb,
climbed np and carved his name high
on its cliff. A very beautiful and pic
turesque spot it is, too; bnt many of
them would not begin to make one of
the Natural bridge in the western edge
of the Tonton basin, Arizona, in the
same general region as Montezuma’s
well and castle, but it is even less
known.
The Natural bridge of Pine creek, Ari
zona, is to the world's natural bridges
what the Grand canyon of the Colorado
is to the world’s chasms—the greatest,
the grandest, the most bewildering. It
is truly entitled to rank with the great
natural wonders of the earth—us the
Natural bridge in Virginia is not No
photograph can give more than a hint of
its majesty; no combination of photo
graphs more than hint at it.—St. Nicho
las. *
Irving’s Ideal.
Mathews and 1 were one day looking
through an albnm and came across a
drawing of the back of a man.
"Lafontl" 1 cried.
Mathews cried out, "What do yon
know abont Latent?”
“I’ve seen him act,” 1 replied.
Mathews turned to me very quietly
and said, “To that man I owe all—1
built myself up on him!” The fact is,
when 1 was playing at the St. James,
after I had finished 1 would often drop
into the gallery of the Princess theater
and see the end of a French play. From
that gallery 1 saw an actor, which
caused me to say inwardly, “That’s my
man.” He was great. That actor was
Lafont. That is how 1 recognized him
in Mathew’s albnm.—Henry Irving in
Strand Magazine.
Th« Weather.
The weather is the one topic which
never wears ont. It is wet, it is dry, it
is hot, it is cold, it is fickle, it is agree
able, it is good for the crops, it is trying
for invalids, it is this or it is that, and it
furnishes a never ending, unfailing re
source for conversation. The least gifted
talker can bewail a draft; the most
incessant chatterer can magnify a flood.
Old and young meet on common ground
when they discuss the winds and the
clonds. Meanwhile the skies are blue
or gray, and the san and rain shine and
fall impartially on the good and the
eviL
The part of folly is to gird at the
occasional discomforts of the weather.
Wisdom regards the weather not with
indifference, but with co. posure, as a
background for that which is best in life
for all of ns, our work. How shall we
accomplish that if we fret and fuss and
fume and find fault?—Harper's Bazar.
A Gamp Experlauea.
A Rhode Island soldier, .while on
picket guard, was rushed npon by a
party of Confederate cavalry. He fired
at the foreuoet of them and ran. Be
fore him was an ope;i field abont fifty
rods across, bounded by an old log fence,
and beyond that a thicket of briers and
underbrush. For this bushy retreat the
soldier started, a half dozen horsemen
after him. Fortunately for the fugitive,
the rains had softened the soil, and the
horses slumped through the tnrf so badly
that parsnit was slow.
A pistol ball passed throngh the run
ner's hat, bnt he reached the fence, and
with one bound landed on the top, in
tending to give a long spring ahead, bnt
the old fence crumbled beneath his
weight and down he went.
Bnt lack favored him again, for a hog
had rooted out a gutter at this place and
at the moment was lying in it The
soldier fell plump into the hole, and the
frightened hog uttered one squeal and
scampered into the underbrnsh, leaving
the newcomer in possession of the wal
low and turned nnder the debris of the
fence.
A minute more and np dashed the
horsemen. Hearing the rustle of the
fleeing hog in the bnshes, they supposed
it to be the picket, and dashed throngh
the gap in the fence and hastened on.
When they were well ont of sight the
fugitive crawled ont from the mudhole
and ran back to camp.
The following day one of the same
horsemen was taken prisoner. Our hero
recognized him at once.
“1 say,” he asked “did yon catch that
hog yesterday?”
“We did that,” retorted the prisoner;
“bnt it wasn’t the one we were after!”—
Youth’s Companion.
A Cheap Remedy for Smallpox.
“I’ve a cheap and safe remedy for
smallpox,” said s medical man. “My
father was a physician before me and
he need it successfully. It’s sore, too,
in cholera and yellow fever. Now
guess it, gentlemen. It's a simple ar
ticle—one you’ve all used from child
hood. No, you can’t? Well, sirs, it’s
salt—common, plain, everyday salt
Balt, yon know, preserves, prevents pu
trefaction. The diseases we most fear,
according to eminent medical authori
ties, are due to putrefaction in onr sys
tem. Here's where the salt works like
a charm. Now, don’t smile, bnt try it
If you take two teaspoonfnls of salt in a
glass of water, say three times a day,
you’ll not have to be vaccinated daring
a smallpox epidemic, shunned during a
cholera scare or nursed during a yellow
fever plagne. Put a little vinegar in
the glass'to make the dose palatable and
keep it dp a week or so. Salt is a pre
server of life, gentlemen, and if yon are
ever in a position to test its efficacy
you’ll remember this conversation.”—
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Chemical Effect of Lightning.
Lightning works chemically as well
as mechanically. It has the power of
developing a peculiar odor, which has
been variously compared to that of phos-
phorus, nitrous gas and most frequently
burning sulphur. Wafer mentions a
storm on the Isthmus of Darien which
diffused such a sulphurous steqph
throngh the atmosphere that he and his
marauding companions coaid scarcely
draw their breath, particularly when
they plunged into the wood. The Brit
ish ship Montague was once struck by
globular lightning, which left such a
satanic savor behind it that the vessel
seemed nothing but sulphnr, and every
man was suffocating.
About a year ago the newspapers re
corded a similar experience of the crew
of another English ship while crossing
the north Pacific from China to the
States. In this case the crew had to
take to the rigging to prevent being
choked by the snlphnr fames.—Cham
bers’ Journal.
A Fort uu it© Cat.
A cat which patronizes the soda water
fountain is an attraction of a drug store
in Sixth avenne, near Jefferson market.
It is a fine plnmp animal, with a layer
of fat for each of its thirteen years, but
between its age and weight it is most
deliberate in its movements. Its teeth
are not what they once were by any
means, and so it gets along most easily
with liquid food. Long ago it discov
ered that the “cream” of the fountain
suited its tastes, and it has a habit of
going np to the counter and waiting
until it is served with light refreshments
in its own particular saucer. Then it
sits in the sunlight and blinks content
edly, the envy of all the small boys ef
the neighborhood, whose visits to the
fountain are limited by circumstances
over which they have no control.—New
York Times.
A Foulbl. Gm for Serpents* Poison.
The experiments which 1 have been
making consist chiefly of soaking scraps
of meat, bits of hard boiled eggs and
things of that sort, in the poison of
vipers and analyzing the changes which
resulted in them after a given interval.
From these and from similar trials it
was found that this fluid had the powei
of dissolving the albumen of flesh like
the gastric juice has, so it is thought
that one great nse (perhaps the greatest)
of the venom is to aid in the digestion of
the serpent’s food. Of course it might
do that and serve as ammunition to kill
the prey as well.—Manchester Times.
Not Piny Inx.
Mamma—1 told yon not to play on
Sunday.
Little Boy—I haven’t been playint 1
Was leamin my Sunday school lesson.
“But yon are all in a perspiration.”
“1 was turnin handsprings between
each verse so’s to get it down into my
head.”—Good News.
THE TAIL OF THE DOG
HOW A CANINE EXPRESSES PLEAS
URE OR HUMILIATION.
Bnml Advantages.
City Man—Whewt Seems to me it’s
about as hot in the country as it is in
the city.
Snbarban Host—Y-e-s; bnt if yon get
overcome by the heat here and fall in a
faint yon are in no danger of being
clubbed by a poll eman.—New York
Weekly.
It is stated aa remarkable that in most
ancient statnes the second toe is longer
than the great toe. The reverse is the
case in men of the present time.
Amaziah, king of Jndah, fled from
Jerusalem on the discovery of a con
spiracy against him, but was foUowsd
and ktllwL ^ ,
The Important Part That the Tall of a
Hunting Dog Plnya In tho Chase—All
Doga Seem to Wag Their Telia When
Pleased—Why Doge Weg Their Telia.
There are many reasons for the tail
being the chief organ of expression
among dogs. They have bnt little facial
expression beyond the lifting of the lip
to show the teeth and the dilation of the
pnpil of the eye when angry. The jaws
and the contiguous parts ore too much
specialized for the serious business of
selling prey to be fitted for such pur
poses as they are in man. With dogs
which hunt by scent the head is neces
sarily carried low, and is therefore not
plainly visible except to those close by.
Bnt in the case of all hunting dogs, snch
os foxhonnds or wolves which pack to
gether, the tail is carried aloft and is
very free in movement. It is also fre
quently rendered more conspicuous by
the tip being white, and this is almost
invariably the case when the hounds are
of mixed color.
When ranging the long grass of the
prairie or jnngle, the raised tips of the
tails wonld often be all that an individ-
ual member of the band would see of his
fellows. There is no donbt that hounds
habitually watch tip tails of those in
front of them when drawing a covert.
If a faint drag is detected suggestive of
the presence of a fox, hut scarcely suffi
cient to be sworn to vocally, the tail of
the finder is at once set in motion, and
the warmer the scent the quicker does it
wag. Others seeing the signal instantly
join -the first, and there is an assemblage
of waving tails before ever the least
whimper is heard.
Should the drag prove a doubtful one
the hounds separate again and the wav
ing ceases; hot if it grows stronger wheii
followed np the wagging becomes more
and more emphatic nntil one after an
other the hounds begin to whine and
give tongue, and stream off in Indian
file along the line of scent.
The whole question of tail wagging is
a very interesting one. All dogs wag
their tails when pleased, and the move
ment is generally understood by their
hnman associates as an intimation that
they are happy. Bnt when we attempt
to discover the reason why pleasure
should be expressed in this way the ex
planation appears at first a very difficult
one. All physical attributes of living
beings are, upon the evolutionary
hypothesis, traceable to some actual
need, past or present. The old and de
lightfully conclusive dictum that things
are as they are because they were made
so at the beginning no longer can be
put forward seriously outside the pnlpit
or the nursery.
No donbt in many cases—as, for in
stance the origin of human laughter—the
mystery seems unfathomable. But this
only results from onr defective knowl
edge of data npon which to bnild the
bridge of dedactive argument. The rea
son is there all the time could we hat
reach it, and almost daily we are able
to account for mystorions and apparent
ly anomalous phenomena which utterly
baffled onr -predecessors. Probably the
manner in which domestic dogs express
pleasure is owing to some interlocking
of the machinery of cognate ideas. In
order to understand this better it may
be helpful to consider some analogous
instances with regard to habits of our
own species.
There can be no question that the
chief delight of wild dogs, as with mod
ern honnds and sporting dogs, is in the
chase and its accompanying excitement
and consequences. One of the most
thrilling moments to the hnman hunter
(and donbtleas to the canine), and one
big with that most poignant of all de
lights, anticipation of pleasurable ex
citement combined with muscular activ
ity, is when the presence of game is first
detected. As we have seen in watching
the behavior in a pack of foxhounds,
this is invariably the time when tails
are wagged for the common good. The
wagging is an almost invariable accom
paniment of this form of pleasure, which
is one of the chiefeet among the agree
able emotions when in the wild state.
Owing to some inoculation of the
nervons mechanism, which at present
we cannot unravel, the association of
pleasure and wagging has become so in
separable that the movement of the tail
follows the emotion whatever may call
it forth.
An explanation of a similar kind can
be found for the fact that dogs depress
their tails when threatened or scolded.
When running away the tail would he
the part nearest the pursuer, and there
fore most likely to be seized. It was
therefore securely tacked away between
the hind legs. The act of running away
is naturally closely associated with the
emotion of fear, and therefore this ges
ture of putting the tail between the legs
becomes an invariable concomitant of re
treat or submission in the presence of
superior force. When a puppy taken
ont for an airing curves its tail down
ward and sends in circles and half cir
cles at fullest speed aronnd its master,
it is apparently trying to provoke its
psehdo-cynic playfellow to pursue it in
mock combat It may be observed that
this running in sharp curves, with fre
quent change of direction, is a common
ruse with animals which are pursued by
larger enemies. The reason of it is that
the centrifugal impulse acts more pow
erfully on the animal of larger balk,
and so gives the smaller an advantage.
—Dr. Lonis Robinson in Contemporary
Review.
A Bad Blander.
Magazine Office Boy—Oh, there's been
an awfnl time up in the editorial room
today.
Business Manager—Eh I What’s the
trouble?
Office Boy—The janitor made a mis
take and pat the “No Admittance” sign
at the subscription office and the “Wel
come" dpormat in front of the editor’s
room.—Good News.
A Frank Statement.
“Can I—dare I ask that little hand
for my own?” pleaded the smittep young
man.
“It is only—ah—second hand," replied
the young widow deprecatingly,—Ex
change,
Conecrlptlon.
When the gain of what is termed a
whole nation nnder arms is estimated,
the exaggeration of the pompons phrase
hides the nakedness of the fact that
large numbers of young men are loet to
their country by the means to which
they resort to escape military service.
In Italy and Germany these may he
coanted by legions; in France men are
less numerous, because in France men
are more wedded to the native soii, aud
take to service more gayly and more
naturally, but in Italy and Germany
thonsands flock to emigrant ships, thus
choosing lifelong, self expatriation, and
every year, as the military and fiscal
hardens grow heavier, will lads go
away by preference to lands where,
however hard he the work, the dreaded
voice of the drill sergeant cannot reach
them, and they can “call their soul their
own.”
Patriotism is a fine quality no donbt,
but it does not accord with the chi.l and
supercilious apathy which characterizes
the general teaching and temper of this
age, and a young man may be pardoned
if he deem that his country is less a
mother worthy of love than a cruel and
unworthy stepmother when she deman is
three of the fairest years of his life to bo
spent in a barrack yard, and wrings his
ears till the blood drops from them or
beats him about the head with the butt
of a musket because lie does not hold his
chin high enough or shift his feet quick
enough.—Ouida in Fortnightly Review.
Where Strong Men Lived.
After the Spanish occupation of the
Grand Canary a certain enormous stone
was for a long time pointed out as one
of the instruments of the Gauncho
athletic courses. The natives had hem
able to lift it, set it on their shoulders
and even throw it over their l eads.
Their degenerate posterity and the
Spaniards could not raise it from the
ground.
It was reckoned nothing out of the
common for a man to take an ur.teth-
ered ox by the horn with one lianh and
slay it with the other. A certain native
born priest of Grand Canary in th'! Sev
enteenth century showed that ha in
herited some of his aneestors’ vigor, for
one day, hearing that an enraged bull
had broken loose and was in the s're.’t,
he ran ont and grasping it by the leg
threw it down, and so held it until its
owner was able to secure it.
This doughty son of the church lefure
his death chanced to have one cf his
legs amputated for a cancer. It was
then found that his thigh bone was
solid, with no trace of marrow. It must
be confessed, however, that the relics of
the Canarians now found in their jury
ing places do not bear out the inference
that this was a national charactei istic,
though their dimensions are certainly a
testimony of the strength and size of
their late proprietors.—National Re view.
He Thought He Knew That Face.
“I pride myself on never forgetting a
face, but as a nomenclator 1 am a far-
reaching and iridescent failure,” said A.
G. Smoot as he bruised the crumbs of
the table d’hote out of his whhkers.
“Some years ago I was in a Boston street
car when a lady entered whose face was
very familiar. I felt that I knew her
well, but to save me I conld not recall
her name. 1 shook hands with her,
asked after her health and tried to make
myself very agreeable. She treated me
to ice water, hut that is a peculiarity of
some women, so 1 didn’t mind. Finally
she told me frankly that she had not the
pleasure of my acquaintance.
“That bluffed me, hut 1 handed her
my card. She read the name and shook
her head. She was quite sure that site
had never even heard of me. 1 sub
sided and pat on my thinking cap. Was
she making game of me or was it pos
sible that I was mistaken? I corldn’t
make it out. That night 1 went to the
theater and the mystery was solved.
The woman I knew so well, but who
had never heard of me, was that queen
of tragedy, Mrs. D. P. Bowers.”—St.
Lonis Globe-Democrat.
She Dreaded “Loveleits Old Age.**
The late Anne Reeve Aldrich wss the
author of the novel, “The Feet of Love,”
and of a volume of collected verses
which have attracted the attention of
the public through their intensity, great
felicity of expression and unaff rcted
simplicity and directness. Miss Aldrich
was one of the youngest of the writers
of the day. She had made an unusual
name for herself, and lived in the prom
ise of a brilliant future. A friend re
cently described her appearance to be
like that of the heroine of a success
ful novel. She was tall and had a
beautiful figure. Her manners were
charming, her carriage graceful. The
head was statuesque and adorned with
a wealth of red brown hair. This she
wore in classical style.
Coupled with her clean cut features
it gave her face a look of distinction
and refinement which made her i n ob
ject of remark. In her early death
she attained perhaps more than she
coveted. Yet her writings more than
once dwelt upon the hardships of a
“loveless old age”—a condition from
which she shrank.—Current Literature.
Why Diamond* Are Worn.
Ignorant, flippant men are fond of say
ing that ladies' fashions have nothing to
do with common sense. But there s one
fashion—at first sight a very ugly and
rather vulgar one—which is based on
reason. Not many years ago it was con
sidered vulgar to wear diamonds iu tho
daytime. Now you may see them
sparkling in dainty, ears and under well
bred chins. And it is rumored that if
the prying eye could look under cloaks
and bodices it would discern stan and
necklets and bracelets. The fact i. that
women put on their jewels when they
go out because they dare not leave them.
—San Francisco Argonaut.
German Thermometers.
In future Germans are to have the
thermometer of Celsius to tell them
how hot or cold it is. Until now Ber
lin has used that of Reaumur. It seems
strange arrangement, or derangement,
_jat the English should use the ther
mometer of the German Fahrenheit,
while the Germans make use of the
Frenchman's Reaumur, and the French,
in their turn, have the Swedish Celsius.
The number of degrees corresponding
to the temperature of Fahrenheit are 15
Reaumur and 19 Celsius respectively,—