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NO. 10.
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The 8U4eit m the Prairie.
If tb* truth in all d'ncoreriea were
at oaoe accepted by the world peog-
reaa would ioojq become commonplace
and the votaries of science would, by
lack of opposition, lose occasion for
that persistency which, having been
successful is lo«dced back upon as in-
, spired force. A thrilling theory may
soon become recognized as an unstir
ring fact and a truth may be too
bright for calm consideration. It
may bedazzle the eye of the critic,
ahd seem distorted. A something
for which we most hopefully wish,
having cOme, invokes our strongest
doubt Human nature, afraid of it
self, clings to this saying, “Too
good to be true.” Bat nothing is too
good to be true, for truth is the
source of all goodness.
It is now about two years since the
world began to listen to a marvelous
story that came from Dwight, a
village on a prairie in Illinois. It
was said that a doctor there had de
clared inebriety a physical ailment,
and that he could cure it During
many years this doctor had been at
work and many cures stood out as a
result but the nation at large, not
only the state of Illinois, paid special
attention to this work. After a time,
the investigation of thinking men
was drawn to this village, and whai
followed is now known to the
world.
Dr. Keeley's treatment is a sub
ject of international discussion. It
is hemmed in by no geography and i.-
not confined to the realm of science.
Bitter enemies have arisen, but all
truth has its bitter .enemies. It it
fought by the rabid prohibitionist,
for it wipes out the pretext upon
which his party is founded, it excites
the rage of certain religionists for it
commands them to drop vague glori
fication and resort to scienee. Eighty
thousand men—think of it—eighty
thousand men have been cured by
this treatment. In Chicago, within
the sound of the Board of Trade
clock, three thousand men who four
years ago wen confirmed inebriates,
mainly out of employment, and many
of them feeling that they were for
ever disgraced in the eyes of their
former friends, are now sot only re
stored to sobriety and social respecta
bility but are a mighty factor in the
oommeroe of this great city Moral
training had failed; the pleading of
wives and the wretchedness of chil
dren had been in vain. The church
es had done a noble work; they had
lifted men from the gutter, but conld
not hold them np. The prohibition
ists had raved and had excited deri
sion; but a scientific discovery, a medi
cal fact, did the work of leformatibn
—did it as truth ever does her work
—without noise. A short time ago
the newspapers cited individual cures,
now cures mb spoken of by the thou
sand. The letters of mothers and
wives, received at Dwight, would
make a library of gratitude.
But there are failures. There are.
Nothing is sore; nothing except
death and the first of the month. Bat
what is the percentage of failure?
The Keeley company says five per
cent but an inveetigation conducted
by the Bi-Chloride of Gold Club
proves that three and one-half per
cent ia a liberal estimate. What
class of men comprise the failures?
They are not men. They are boys
who really have not the disease of
inebriety but who drink “for fun,”
and imbeciles who for years have had
no brain, and who by she aid of
whisky have kept the fact well con
cealed. The man who wants to be
cured has had all thefuu that liquor
can inspire, and he does not continue
to drink through convivial indnee-
meuts but becanse his system has be
come i o deranged that he it in phy
sical need of a stimulant It it no
longer a temptation; it has become a
necessity. He cannot eat, sleep or
work. He knows of one temporary
relief—alcohoL Of what use is it to
preach temperance to this man? The
orator speaks one language, and the
man’s system speaks another. One
is the language of persuasion and the
other is that of demand. One ad
vises and the other compels. The
orator says, “Be a man;” and the
system replies: “A little rye and
ginger ale, if yon please.” And be
cause the system refuses to hearken
to the orator and thereby glorify him
the orator denounces the Keeley cnie.
Indeed, the more of a certainty this
treatment becomes, the more will the
temperance fanatic denounce it To
persuade men to be manly is a virtu
ous undertaking, but how foolish it
would be for an orator to go into ft
hospital and preach morality as a
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#any
trffttme
cure to patients who need the sur
geon’s knife.
iy imitators of Dr. Keeley’s
.tment have come forward and
ce societies have indorsed
These imitations clauq only
good as the original. Reason
i us that all imitations are
bad, yet these temperance people in
dorse them. Why? Because they
are not true reformers. They want
to dash into the circus of conspicu-
ousness on the back of a prancing
hobby. Acknowledge the truth and
support it, and what then? The
joints of the hobby are stiff.
Branches of the Keeley treatment
are now being established over all
Europe. Medtoal journals which
fought the treatment but which real
ly did not combat the theory that
drunkenness is a disease are now be
ginning to recognize that a wonder
ful discovery has been made. The
caring of hopeless wrecks bus given
them a thought to digest, and noth
ing hurts the digestion of a medical
journal so much as a lucid thought
They are generally edited by men
who have failed as practitioners, and
who like all critics, seek revenge in
denouncing a success which they
could never hope to attain.
In the United States there are more
than one hundred institutes, and in
cluding the main institute at Dwight,
there are about ten thousand men
uow taking the treatment. The num
ber is constantly increasing, and it is
safe to say that at least nine thou
sand cures are effected every month.
Could there he a more important
movement than this? Is there a re
ligions or political lefbrm that is in
any way its equal? Hardly,^ this
means a moral and conseqneatly a
political reform. It is the gradnal
closing of saloons, and that means a
purer ballot box. It is said that a
large distillery has recently failed on
account of the Keeley care. . How
many distilleries have the prohibi
tionists shut up? The prohibitionists
sells his own corn to the distiller, and
then esoiaims affainst the rum pow
er. The eelling of his corn is well
euoufk—he must do something with
it, but he is feeding the rum power.
I know of a number of srioous that
have been eloaed by'the treatment at
Dwight; I know of a number of saloon
keepers who, having taken the treat
ment, closed their bars and sought
other employment The saloon will
go when the demand for it ceases to
exist In one Miseouri town which
once boasted—or blushed—of fifteen
saloons, there are now but eix. Did
the prohibitionists accomplish this?
No, the Keeley treatment did. The
prohibitionists did at one time close
the front doom of all the saloons in
that town, but then whisky drunk
by sleaKli is just as boisterous when
it comes out on the public square as
though it bad been bought at a con
spicuous booth.
There is many a home in this coun
try that has been blessed by Dr.
Keeley, and he who blesses the home
blesses the nation. “What is good
for the bee is good for the hive,”
said Marcus Aurelius. The hearth
stone is the altar of a nation’s happi
ness; its reforms and its glories be
gin there. How then can any well-
wisher of men assail a discovery that
has found'a wayward hope, wander
ing in a winter’s blusterous night,
and has led it home to the fireside to
thrill with joy a mother’s heart
Result ^everything. Don’t preach
of reformations yet to oome, but let
us join the one that is now at hand.
Theories see propped by well trim
med arguments, but the truth that
we present is held aloft by eighty
thousand Witnesses. Can the criti
cism of a carping doctor effect this
momentous result? Can the denun
ciation of a furious declaimer, seek
ing policul prominence, loosen one
stone cf this mighty monument?
A student of the ailments of men
worded for years in an unheard-of
village. That lone student passed
through many a dark hoar, bat the
sun is shining now, and the village
once so obscure is famous through
out the world.—Belford’s Month-
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Opii Read.
Chicago, 111.
Why Mai Safer Marriages.
The habits of modern yonng men
are antagonistic to that prudence and
preparation which make it poesible
for them to marry at twenty-five.
There are many exceptions of coarse,
but it may be safely said that a vast
nnuber of the young men who live
in oar time fill their spare time with
anpensive luxuries. It costs thewya
great deal to dresr, and still more to
keep up their social engagements.
In a score of ways they accustom
themselves to ways of life that leave
no margin between income and oat-
go. This having gone on until they
are twenty-five it then calls for more
resolution than many of them com
mand to begin the sacrifices which
accompany the saving of money.
Without money they cannot marry.
Not a few greatly exaggerate what
it should take two sensible yonng
people to begin life on, and hastily
conclude that it would be impossi
ble, on an income of $1,000, to start
in comfort So they put off mar
riage until after thirty, or do not
marry at all; and it is well that such
men should remain single. We do
not need any such weak -fiber in the
coming generation.—John L. Payne
in Ladies home Jonmal.
Animals with Peculiar Eyes.
Nature has enabled some animals
to see objects behind them as well as
in front without turning around.
The hare has this power in a marked
degree. Its eyes are large, promi
nent and placed laterally. Its power
of seeing things in the rear is very
noticeable in greyhound coursing,
for thongh this dog is mate while
running, the hare is able to judge to
a nicety the exact moment at which
it will be best for it to double.
Horses are another instance.* It is
only necessary to watch a horse,
driven invariably without blinkers,
to prove this. Take, for instance,
those on tramways. Let the driver
even attempt to take the w hip in
hand, and if the horse is used to the
work he will at once increase his
pace. The giraffe, which is a very
timid animai, is appro iched with the
utmost difficulty, on account of itt
eyes being placed so that it can see a.-
we)l behind as in front. When ap
preached this same faculty enables ii
to direct with great precision the
rapid storm of kicks with it
defends itself.
Wraith tloea Not llrlng Haiiplnvao.
Senator Stanford is tbe reputed pos
sessor of $!i0,000,000. Dy Ids own esti
mate it will be trebled in three years.
Ho has made it all, and life is approach
ing the end of its activity. He was
asked this question, “Does wealth give
happiness?”
“No,” he answered with promptness,
shaking his head slowly.
“Happiness, after the ordinary com
forts of life are possessed, does not be
long to any poet, rank or condition.
Great wealth involves immense care. It
is care that kills. It is care that put me
in my condition. It wealth is intelli
gently used, there may come a certain
happiness from its bestowal.”
“Then why this incessant rash after
wealth?”
“Bread and butter is the first essential
of life; that is, tbe first necessary, stimulus
to labor. Then men work hard that
they may enjoy the snrplns fruits of la
bor. With our Standards of living and
the products of civilisation a little does
not satisfy as a sufficient surplus. The
natives of Panama, who can count bat
ten, will labor hard to reach that goal
of acquirement*, bnt that accomplish
ment satisfies.”
“Why are successful Americans sel
dom satisfied unless increasing wealth
already great?"
“Activity has become a habit. They
are accustomed to living faster than any
where else in the world. Many men, too,
are not yet educated to enjoy anything
bnt the struggle itself. That education,
thongh, will come in time.”—New York
World.
The Orest Tulip Kaala.
Boon after the introduction of the tulip
into western Europe boards of trade
(providing they had snch things in those
days) made tnlip bulbs a basis of the
wildest financial schemes ever known,
engendering a speculative fever which
went down into history as tbe “tnlip
mania” or “tulip craze.” The staid Hol
landers allowed their “little dike locked
land” to become the center of this curious
species of speculative frenzy, and for
three years—1(144-7—the recklessness
of the dealers and the disastrous results
of the “mania” can only be compared
with the “Sontb Sea Bubble.” When
the “craze” was at its height some va
rieties of the bulbs sold for ten, twenty
and even 100 or 800 times their weight
in gold.
A single bulb of tbe Semper Angnstns,
“not much exceeding the bigness of an
onion sette,” was sold on the market tor
8,000 florins. Bat this was not alL The
gentleman who purchased it did so with
the mistaken idea that it was the only
known bnlb of the kind In existence, bat
no sooner did he register purchase than
another, “larger somewhat, bat not Mg,”
was announced, and the poor victim was
compelled to pay 4,600 florins for it or
see it go to another. This hs did and
became the owner of two of ths highest
priced botanical specimens ever pur
chased.—St. Loula Republic.
Happiness and ths Bines.
I wonder why a girl isn’t happy unless
she can have ths bines once iq awhile?
Ones ia n long Urns one finds an angtUo
being whose spirits naves pass low water
mark, and who lives through day after
day in a state of ths most snupsMttog
cheerfulness till one longs to do some
thing desperate to break theawfnl calm.
But we never love them aa we do the
dear, harum scarum people who am bine
sky ana thunder shower half a dozen
times a day. II )s suoh a satisfaction to
And out that other people are just real
faulty, human creatures like ourselves.
FORMATION OF CORAL
HOW THE POLYPS DO THEIR SI
LENT YET LASTING WORK.
The Lovely Gen Anemonee and What Is
Made from Their Skeletons—Polype
Do Not Toll) They Simply Die—BeM-
tlfnl Animal Vegrtahle*.
The term “coral bisect” survives in
literature, although science dlscafded it
long ago. Possibly the idea of "toil”
and “patience" and “building for the
fntnre,” as the lesson tanght by the coral
insect, also survives to point a moral and
adorn a tale of the same order as one
prnisj^g the industry of the ant or the
bee. Alas for old beliefs! Our grand
mothers were exhorted to reflect on the
vanity of the moth and the butterfly.
Now it is known that the moth and
the butterfly are among the chief agents
by which the most beautiful and fra
grant flowers are fertilized, and that
honey and perfume and color and frnit
largely depend upon the energy of the
insects formerly despised. The other
so called insects have no more energy
than a simple vegetable existence. Their
toil is nothing greater than dying and
leaving their skeletons behind them.
Bnt how beautiful are these skeletons,
or a conglomerated accumulation of
myriads! And how beantifnl and inter
esting, too, the animal vegetables, or
rather flowerlike animals. “Sea anem
ones'' is the popular name given to the
whole tribe with their disklike months,
their petaloid tentacles, their stomach
suggesting seed vessels and their fixed
bases corresponding to stont stems, to
say nothing of their brilliant colors,
rivaling the inoet gorgeous corollas ever
blown.
According to Dr. Gustav Eisen. there
are two kinds of corals of the sea anem
one order—those which produce coral,
that is, the hard, calcareous formation,
and thhM which do net The popular
term “coral,” as applied to theaccnmu
lated dead skeleton* of the dead pol ps.
ir not strictly Oriraoti coral, properly
speaking, refers also to the living ani
mal.
The sea flower, altbongh suggesting a
plantlike structure, is still a true ani
mal. It has a skin, also rudimentary
nerves. It can seixe with its tentacles;
it can swallow and digest its food and
throw ont the refnse from its month; it
can defend itself from its enemies by
forcibly ejecting poison from its many
stings. It has some sensation. Quite a
number of species of polyps have rudi
mentary eyes, arranged aronnd their
circular edges like heads. The hardened
base of the sea flower corresponds to
a skeleton in a higher order of animal,
even though in some anemones the hard
ness may only be relative.
Coral animals of the sea anemone or
der reproduce their kind in several ways.
One la by ova, which develop perfect
polyps within the parent flower. An
other mode is by budding; still another
by fission. In the latter method a new
month may form beside the old one in
the center of a fringed disk, which then
divides into disks, each surrounded by
its own tentacle* and each leading to its
own closed sac. In the budding process
oranches are thrown out, from which
spring new polyps. Tear one polyp to
pieces, and each piece may reproduce
all the part* it needs to form a fresh
polyp.
The familiar tree coral is the result
of the budding process. The branches
below are the dead skeletons, above
which the living polype have mounted.
The singular convnlntions in “brain
coral” were caused by fission, one mouth
giving rise to strings of others, which
never completely separated from each
other, and so left a continnous line of
stony skeletons. P most not he sup
posed, however, that zoophytes of the
style of sea anemones are the only coral
producer*. Some calcareous accretions
are left by animals related to the me-
dun®, or jellyfish. Other corah come
from the hryozoans, which look like pol
ype, bnt really belong to the snbking-
dom of molinsks. The bottom of the
sea is largely covered with deposits from
snob animate. It is even believed that
in early times they mode np the greater
part of limestone strata. Mention mwt
also be made of the beaut) fill and bril
liant corallines, or vegetable corals, cal
careous seaweeds, which look like red,
white and yellow branched coral, but
Which, properly speaking, are algae.
Corals of some kinds are found in all
seas. Those stony formations popularly
called corals are mostly produced within
the tropics. Prohihly the variety best
known is the red or pink coral, long es
teemed for ornaments. This was found
in the Mediterranean from a very early
period. Now, however, it has become
so rare as to he practically extinct.
The specimens of coral seen in mu
seums and private collections are of
course masses of dead skeletons. Hard
as rock they are, as might be expected,
when tt is remembered that the famous
reefs of Florida and tbe Pacific islands
are built np of them—no credit to the
animals, however, despite the old tale.
Yet if the antiquated moral be loet, the
study of the calcareous formation is
none the lees interesting.
There is the fungus coral, a dull gray
in color and shaped somewhat as the
umbrella of a mushroom, with ridges
running from the long mouthlike center
to the edge. The lace coral, of a pure
white, with delicate wheels, indicates
the radiate structure of each animal
when alive. The frost coral, jnat aa
dainty as its popular name implies,
shows a mossy grove of tiny upright
spires. Ths organ pipe coral is a tree
form, with smooth, round, nearly per-
pendicnlar branches.
Perhaps ths museum also contains
specimens of fossil coral from the des
erts of Arizona or Mississippi valley.
Are yon surprised to learn that a great
part of our continent ia underlaid with
corals produced thousands of years ago
by animals long extinct? In many of
these dull brdwn formations can still be
traced the radiate character of the skel
etons.—Ban Francisco Chronicle.
The Cook Was All Blahs.
“Do you like the dinner, John?” anx
iously inquired his wife. “I conked it
all by myself.”
“Ye-et,” said John, trying to he kind
and truthful at one*, “bnt Pm afraid,
dear, that there most be some misprints
in the cookbook you me."—Free Baptist.
Vflse Maaeftsetare of Wire.
The manufacture of wire as now car
ried out may be briefly and concisely
stated, and bbnsists in attenuating or re
daction in lection thin rods of the metal
under manipulation by drawing them
cold through holes in a draw plate, usu
ally made of bard steel. The wke draw
er’s bench is fjsrnished with a horizontal
cylinder, driven by steam or other power,
on which the wire is wound after leav
ing the drat 1 plate. The holes in the
iraw plate are arranged In decreasing
diameters, and a fine wire may require
some twenty or thirty drawings ere it is
red need to the size desired.
Mach, friction is generated in the pro
cess, notwithstanding tbe use of lubri
cants, and “annealing" is necessary to
counteract tbe brittleness produced In
thejfbfti:' Wbplu great acqpvacy ia re-
quisue the udze is djrp^n through rabies
oriMirhard stones in the draw plate.
The speed of the drawing cylinder is in
creased ae the diameter of the wire di
minishes.
Much confusion has existed in regard
to. the gauges of wires, no fewer than
flfty'-five different gauges being men
tioned byarecent writer, of which forty-
five were for measuring and determining
the size of wire as made and sold within
the United Kingdom. The Whitworth
gauge, introduced in 1857 by Sir Joseph
Whitworth, and the Birmingham wire
gauge (B. W. G.) have been extensively
employed. In 1884 an imperial standard
wire gauge became a law, and consti
tutes the legal gauge of this country. It
ranges from half an inch to onedhou-
sandth of an inch in diameter.—Cham
bers’ Jonmal.
Fertile Aimak*.
The nature of the whole land in
Alaska can be ronghly divided into three
conditions: Snow and icefields bury the
coast range and choke np every hollow;
to the immediate north the valleys
are rocky and barren, bnt the vast in
terior beyond is richly clothed in Inxnri-
ant vegetation. Scientific authorities
theoretically mapped ont giant ice fields
as spreading over the entire land from
the Fairweather and Mount St. Elias
ranges north almost to the valley of the
Yukon.
Colossal heights mantled in never
melting snows tower thousands of feet
in the air, but within the shadow of
these mighty uplands, in the sheltered
hollows beneath, lie immense valleys
carpeted in riclieet grasses and gracefully
tinted with wild flowers. Here in the
sdminer a genial clime is found, where
strawberries and other wild fraits ripen
in luxuriance, where there are 4%
months, of summer and 7>^ of winter.
In June and July the son is lost below
the horizon only for a few hours, and
the temperature, though chilly at night,
has an average of 68 degs. in the day
time.—E. J. Glave in Century.
Gilmore’* Baton.
When Gilmore was in Minneapolis
during the expoeition in 1888 the music
of his band was transferred to a phono
graph, and he afterward heard it.
“That ia wonderful, grand!” exclaimed
Gilmore. “It’s all there bnt my little
stick and the tap tap of the alto horn’s
heel.”
The “little stick” was his baton. It
was made of whitewood, and he always
carried it when at the head of his band.
“I have a dozen or more batons,” said
the popular leader one day, “but non>'
of them compares with this little stick.
I can tap on the edge of my music stand
with this, and it will not spoil it. My
other batons wqnld be rained, so I keep
them locked np.”
During his continental tour he was
presented with magnificiently decorated
batons in every country. Some of them
were diamond tipped, and all were gold
trimmed.—New York Advertiser.
A Jemlouit Elephant.
An amusing instance of elephantine
pride is told by Baker. The elephant
which usually led the state procession of
a rajah being sick, the magnificent trap
pings were placed on one which had up
to this time occupied only a subordinate
place. The animal, delighted with its
finery, showed its^lee by so many little
sqneaks and kicks of pleasure that gen
eral attention was attracted to it
Not long after another state proces
sion was formed, and the previous
wearer of the gold cloths, being re
stored to health, took his accustomed
place and trappings, when the now de
graded beast, imagining perhaps that
he was being defrauded of his promo
tion, was with great difficulty restrained
from attacking the leader of tbe parade.
—Pearson’s Weekly.
When Mule Wne In III Repute.
The objection of the nonconformist
conscience to musical instruments did
not stay at organs, bnt was extended to
fiddles and harps. The dram was al
most the sole instrument which was not
Babylonish and anti-Christian and conld
be heard with no uncomfortable scru
ples. Neither did that enrions con
science object simply to the nse of the
harp and the fiddle upon the village
green after the common evensong upon
Sunday afternoons, but objected to them
even upon the week days. To be a
harper or fiddler was ipso facto to he a
sinner. Any money earned by playing
a harp or viol was the “wages of in
iquity.”—London Saturday Review.
Bolt Bed* for Invalid*.
Air beds are the modern sine qna non
of the invalid. Nothing can be more
restful and comfortable to the sick frame
than the relief from the bed fatigne
which this invention affords. They are
tick covered and readily inflated. The
slightest motion alters the poeition of
the occupant, and there is no snch thing
as a lumpy surface poesible beneath him.
—New York Times.
Cricket* u Pet*.
A woman in Kennebunk, if has
made pets of five field crickets. £ach
has a name and seems to know it when
spoken. They are peculiarly sensitive
to music, and are always chirping when
the sound of a musical instrument is
heard.—New York Tribune.
A Death from Lightning.
Casper relates a case in which a yonng
man was struck and killed. His hair
was horned off and his nose bled. The
surgeon who examined him saw on the
skin of his chest a perfect impression of
an inverted tree, as if tattooed. His cap
was torn to piece#. Ha died of injury to
the brain.
A MINE THAT SHUTS ITS MOUTH.
On* of the Most R< markable Natural
Woculars of Montana.
Reference to the natural wonders of
Montana, particularly the chicken broth
and bichloride springs, brings to light
Others of equal magnitude. Colonel
John Doyle’s wonderful vinegar mine
in Beaverhead county passes the domain
of doubt into the sunlight of truth. It
is backed by crisp affidavits, and affi
davits cost one dollar each in Montana.
The colonel and his partners did not
confine themselves to vinegar. They
discovered a mountain of pure alum in
the Beaverhead range.
The discovery was considered a ten
strike and bettor than a gold mine.
They kept the find a secret for several
weeks, daring which a shaft was sank
to the depth of 900 feet The out was
made all the way through a solid vein
of alum, and it was estimated that the
whole mountain was composed of it A
large pile of stuff was heaped near the
mine ready for shipmunt, and the miners
had a scheme to flood the market with
their product and rake in $1,000,000 at
one fell swoop. Monday the colonel’s
partner went to town to lay in a supply
of grab and the former remained behind
to guard the treasure.
Daring the morning a heavy rain be
gan to fall and continued all day, and in
the afternoon the colonel had occasion
to go down into the mine, making ths
descent by sliding down the rope, and
when once down at the bottom was so
taken np with a contemplation of his
novel and wonderfnl mine that he did
not heed the fleeting hours nntil he hap
pened to cast his eyts upward and saw
that daylight had faded from the month
of the shaft. He started to climb up
ward, bnt bad not proceeded more than
half way when, to his horror, he discov-
a red that the heavy fall of rain had so
thoroughly saturated the alum sides of
the shaft that, as a natural result, they
had drawn together nntil the hole was
scarcely large enongh for a man to crawl
throngh.
The imprisoned man recognized his
awful position, and without losing mnch
time struggled toward the top of the
shaft Every foot he advanced the
shaft became smaller, and for the last
ten feet he was compelled to dig his
way with a pocketknife, and when he
finally reached the srrface he was com
pletely exhausted, his clothes were torn
and his body badly bruised. The rain,
which was still falling, soon revived the
colonel, and he started toward the camp
to meet his partner, to whom he related
his marvelous experience.
Together they started to their mine,
or at least tried to, lor although they
searched for two days they were unable
to find any sight of their late posses
sions. The rain had undoubtedly thor
oughly and tightly cloeed np the dis
covery shaft and melted away every
sign of the alum piled on the outside, so
that to this time it his been impossible
to find any trace of the mine.—Omaha
Tamtu’* Giant “Sheetsr*.”
“The largest mosquitoes in tbe world
are to he fonnd in Yu catan,” said Rich
ard Beverly. “Until a few years ago
there was not a mosquito in all Mexico.
They were introdneed by vessels from
the United States, and have in the land
of their adoption attained proportions
unknown in other countries. The low
lands of Yucatan swarm with monster
mosquitoes whose bite is almost as pain
ful as the sting of a bee. The historical
Jersey mosquito sinks into insignifi
cance beside these Titans of their kind,
which are frequently as large as house
flies. In neighborhoods where marshes
abound it is impossible to keep stock of
any kind, and daring the rainy season
people wear coarse netting stretched
over face and neck to keep these insects
from devouring them.”—St. Louis Globe-
Democrat.
A Witty Reply of Pope’*.
As narrated by Edward Walford in
his “Greater London,” Frederick, prince
of Wales, sometimes visited Alexander
Pope at his villa. On one occasion when
the prince was on a visit, Pope, after ex
pressing the most dntifnl professions of
attachment, gave his royal highness an
opportunity of observing very shrewdly
that his (the poet’s) love for princes was
inconsistent with his dislike for kings,
since princes may in time become kings.
Said his royal highness:
“Mr. Pope, 1 hear yon don’t like
princes.”
“Sir, I beg your pardon.”
“Well, then, you don't like kings.”
“Sir, I must own that I like the lion
best before his claws are grown.”
No reply could well have been happier.
A Remarkable Bible.
Mr. Augustin Daly, the theatrical
manager, possesses what ia probably the
most, remarkable Biblo in the world. It
comprlsee forty-two folio volumes, and is
illustrated by plates on Biblical subjects.
He has copies of all the Madonnas of
every age and every school of art, and in
the collection are included mezzotints,
fall line engravings, original drawings
and unique prints. He has one original
drawing of Raphael’s and several of Al
bert Durer’s. The collection ia a history
of Scriptural art.—Harper’s Bazar.
§h* Had Him.
Ei .rtallick was showing off his great
knowledge to a girl the other evening.
“Can a person strike unleea he has
something to strike with?” he asked.
"Certainly,” she said without think
ing.
He gave a conquering snicker.
“What do these laboring men strike
with?” and he snicker' d again.
"With unanimity,? she promptly re
plied, and he polled in his horns.—De
troit Free Press.
Tb* Baling Paulo*.
“Yes, brethren," sajs the clergyman
who is preaching the funeral sermon,
“our deceased brother was ent down in
a single night—torn from the arm of
his loving wife, who is thus left a dis
consolate widow at the early age of
twenty-fonr yean.”
"Twenty-two, if you please," sobs the
widow in the front pew, emerging from
her handkerchief for an instant—Lon
don Tit-Bits.
Tuberculosis in Rots.
For seven years I have been making
almost daily experiments upon the in
ternal organs of dead animals in order
to increase my knowledge of compara
tive pathology. The postmortem ex
aminations were made for the most part
at the Lamparter Glue works, in the
snhnrhs of Lancaster, Pa. Here of
course were the bodies of large numbers
of animals which afforded me an abun
dant supply of subjects for examination.
The vicinity of the works swarmed with
tats. Many of those, the workmen told
me, sickened and died from time to time,
and I became enrions to know something
about the disease that carried so many
of the rodents off,
I conld find next to nothing about the
rat in hooks, so the thought growing
upon me that the disease so fatal to ths
rat might be mad* dangerous to the
rat’s nearest neighbor, man himself, 1
undertook a.aories of experiments. My
first rat subject was a sick one which 1
captured in the yard of the glne works
without any exertion. The animal
crawled about, made no effort to escape
from me and when picked np offered no
resistance. Its appearance indicated that
it was dying of general debility. Its
body was greatly emaciated. Its hack
was arched and its face bore an expres
sion of distress. It refused food, was
racked with a constant cough and in a
few hours after being captured was
found dead in the comfortable prison in
which I had placed it.
My next subject was a healthier and
more- active rat. I oanght him only to
mark him and then gave him his free
dom. He came into the yard regularly
for his rations of flesh from various ani
mals, bnt gradually showed the same
symptoms that marked the condition of
my first subject, and in fourteen days
after capture he, too, was dead. The
postmortem examination of these two
cases developed the fact that the lungs
were badly diseased. Tuberculosis had
destroyed the right lung of each and
only a part of the left remained.—Dr.
8. E. Weber's Lecture.
Chang** la an English School.
In 1824 Mr. Milnes Gaskell writes
from Eton that an upper boy “got spurs
and rode some of ns (lower boys) over a
leap positively impossible to be leaped
over with a person on yonr back, and
every time (which is every time) we can
not accomplish it he spurs ns violently,
and my thigh is quite sore with the in
roads made by those dreadful spurs; my
new coat is completely rained.” In the
next year Ashley minor, a son of Lord
Shaftesbury, died in consequence of a
fight which lasted two hoars and a quar
ter on the same evening. The qnarrel
originated abont a seat in tbe upper
school.
Dr. Keate spoke about the sad event
to the school three days later; he blamed
the boys for letting the fight go on so
long, bnt was not to be “seduced into
any namby pamby peace-at-any-price
sentimentalism.” He said: “Not that 1
object to all fighting in itself; on the
contrary, I like to see a hoy return a
blow.” Snch a state of things has for
tunately entirely disappeared; a clergy
man, a head master, a doctor of divini
ty, however mnch ue might feel that the
meek acceptance of injuries was not the
sign of a keen and generous character,
yet would now hesitate to mark fighting
with his approval before an audience of
boys whom he was bound by statute to
instruct in Christian principles.—Na
tional Review.
How HU Heart Was Won*
When Colonel Van Wyck was run-
ning for congress many years ago in the
Fifteenth New York district, tkere was
a certain Irishman who steadfastly re
fused to give the old soldier any en
couragement. The colonel was greatly
surprised, therefore, when Pat informed
him on election day that he had con
cluded to support him.
“Glad to hear it, glad to hear it,” said
the colonel. “I rather thought yon were
against me, Patrick.”
“Well, sir," said Patrick, “I wuz, and
whin ye stnd by me pigpen and talked
that day fur two hours or worse ye
didn’t budge me a hair’s breadth, sir;
bnt after ye wuz gone away I got to
thinking now ye reached yer hand over
the fence and scratched the pig on the
back till he laid down wid the pleasure
of it, and I made np me mind that whir
a rale colonel was as sociable as that I
wasn’t the man to vote agin him.”—Ne
braska State Journal.
ON THE ALEGAZAM.
Legal Verbiage In an Old Docnment*
An old deed recorded in Pettis county,
Mo., over fifty years ago, contains a good
illustration of the legal verbiage com
mon in such instruments in early times.
In addition to forty acres of land, sold
fora const..oration of fifty dollars, the
docnment rinveys “all and singular-
appurtenances, appendages, advowsons.
benefits, commons, curtilages, cow
houses, comcribs, dairies, dovecots,
ensements, emoluments, freeholds, fea
tures, furniture, fixtures, gardens, home-
stalls, improvements, immunities, lime
kilns, meadows, marshes, mines, miner
als, orchards, parks, pleasure grounds,
pigeon houses, pigsties, quarries, re
mainders, reversions, rents, rights, ways,
water coorses, windmills, together with
every other necessary right, immunity,
privilege and advantage of whatsoever
name, nature or description.”—Chicago
Herald.
Bar Mood Changed.
A yonng man passing through a crowd
in a great dry goods store found himself
side by side with a timid looking little
man, and exactly behind a lady. A
movement of the crowd forced the
yonng man to step upon the hem of the
lady’s skirt. She turned qnickly around,
with a furious look, and waa evidently
abont to address some fierce remark to
him, when a change came over her face
suddenly: “Oh, I beg yonr pardon, sir,”
she said; “I was going toget very angry.
Yon see, I thought it was my husband!”
—San Francisco Argonaut
In 1888 a beantifnl locket, forming a
small padlock, wsa found in digging a
grave in a churchyard at Devizes, Wilt
shire, England. This was a charm, and
being valuable was buried with ths
About the Fruit Season.
Teacher—How long did Adam and
Eve remain in the Garden of Eden?
Boy—I don’t know.
Teacher—They remained in the Gar
den of Eden until—nntil
Boy (gleefully)—Oh, yes, nntil the ap
ples were ripe.—Texas Siftings.
A GRAPHIC STORY OF A THRILLING
RAILROAD WRECK.
It is not a waste to spend yonr money
at all—that is what money is made for.
It was made to give the greatest amount
vtvimvntoTW vAM* .
The Boad Was Slaw and • Horse Car
Un* Might Hare Made Better Time,
bnt th< Speed of It* Train* Wa* Appre
ciated In One Ca*e Anjrwaj—Her* It la.
“We were sitting in the smoking car
if the sleeper and the conversation un-
jteeanirly enongh, drifted into the ques
tion of railroad wrecks. It was strange,
too, that this should be, for we were all
old hands at traveling. That sort of
people seldom talk abont wrecks, hut we
were soon in the thick of tt, every man
of us telling his experiences.” So spoke
James A. Hart, to whose mind this story
waa brought by the occurrence of sev
eral bad wrecks in the east. “We were
traveling from one town to another—I
won’t say where—on a road I will call
the Alegazam, because I don’t want to
make bad friends of the railroad people.
But the experience is worth telling, for
I’ll never forget it if I live to he a thou
sand years and a day old. Then* was
one big fellow in the smoker—a drum
mer who evidently was a kicker. At all
events he did not like the Alegazam
road. ‘Why,’ said he, ‘it wouldn’t sur
prise me a bit if we were to go smash
before the night is over. I never ride
on this road without buying ten dollars’
worth of accident policy. Oh, this Ale
gazam is a beauty. If there was a
horse car line alongside of it I would
take that.’ The big drummer was get
ting to be a nuisance in the conversa
tion.
“At the end of every horrible tale ho
would brighten up and say: ‘That isn’t
a marker to what will happen some day
on the Alegazam. Mark my words.
This road is a hoodoo if there ever was
one.’ Our cigars were smoked ont as
cigars will be smoked out, and we re
ared for the night. The drummer’s
berth was only a few numbers from
mine, and as he got into bed he poked
his head out between the curtains and
said in a hoarse whisper, ‘Let your body
hang half out the window so you’ll he
on hand when it strikes;’ and then tnrned
in, and, 1 don't doubt, went sound to
sleep, never looking for an accident, not
withstanding all his talk.
“Now, a railroad wreck is a funny
thing,” continued Mr. Hart. “Every
body thinks he's the last man out and
the last to hear the shock, and conse
quently thinks there’s no hope for him.
People don’t stop to consider thet in
ninety-nine out of a hundred wrecks the
damage is all done at once or not at all.
And this case is a good exemplar. I
sleep sonndly bnt lightly When I travel,
and 1 am a ready waker when there is
any nnusual noise—that is, noise not
caused by the travel of the train over
the rails. This night 1 turned in
with a smile at my drummer’s fears and
was fast asleep in ten minutes. The
mh-a-dub-dub of the wheels sung me
into a sound slumber, and I’m sure I
don't know how long it lasted until I
was awakened by a combination of three
things, and pretty thoroughly awak nod
at that. First, the train had stepped
and there was no rattle. Then I heard
a voice cry out in the night outside:
“ ‘For God's sake stop that enginer
“And then following that np almost
instantaneously there was a great crash
ing sound of breaking glass. That was
all. Following this there was a silence
so profound that I conld hear my watch
ticking under my pillow. What did it
mean? A thousand questions rushed
into my head in the second of time that
followed the breaking of the glass. But
before I had time to get ont of the berth
a voice rang through the car in a cone
the like of which I never heard before
and hope never to hear again.
“ ‘Jump for yonr lives!'
“I have heard and seen some queer
things in my day, bnt before I heard
that voice I never knew what horror
meant. The feeling of a man’s whole
life was concentrated into that voice,
and it struck into my nerves as might a
streak of lightning that had no power to
kill.
“As 1 jumped to the ground and
rushed np the track I saw approaching
oar train on the same track, coming to
meet oar engine, the headlight of an
other locomotive. That headlight and
the dark outlines of the engine behind
it looked to me like some horrible mon
ster from another world. It was more
than a simple piece of r achinery. The *
thing was alive, and seemed to be about
ten times as large as it really was. The
impression I had of it then was the most
singular feeling I ever knew, and I can’t
describe it. Everything had been done
so quickly, and 1 was so terribly excited
that it was not for some seconds that 1
noticed I was the first man in the train
that had got out. The strange engine
slid along the rails nntil it was within a
few feet of onrs and stopped. Then the
people began coming out.
“Why, in the interval that elapsed be
tween the cry of ‘Jump for your lives!’
and the time the passengers were alarmed
and had begun to come ont, a thou
sand trains might have been wrecked.
Nearly all the passengers were now out
side Inquiring into the cause of the
trouble. In my inquiries I discovered
the cause of the crashing glass. The
man in the berth next mine had beard
the brakes put on, had heard the first
outcry and, thinking that trouble was
ahead, simply bolted through his win
dow, carrying the glass with him. He
was aot even scratched. We learned
that, throngh an error in switching at
a station np the road, the strange engii e
had slid down our track jnst in time t<>
see onr headlight and for both engines
to stop twenty feet short of a collision.
“Bnt the funniest part is to come.
Long after the first rush was over a win
dow of onr sleeper was broken through,
and our friend the drummer dived
throngh it head first to the ground. Ho
had just learned that we were going to
be wrecked, and he didn’t want to take
any chances. And in his flight from the
window to the ground 1 heard him say,
in anything 1)01 a pleasant tone of voice,
‘Oh, this is the Alegazam, this is!’
Chicago Post
T*d«m*’* Individuality.
M. Tadema’s career has been marked
by a vigorous individuality. "One reason
of my success,” he says himself, “is that
1 have alw -a worked entirely ont of my
own head d never imitated other paint
ers. Wn jver my qualities or my fail
ings have been, I have always been true
to myse&’VAtyliBiffi . * j