The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, February 08, 1882, Image 4

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

pp THE WONDERS OF COBWEBS. p?~ . ! Jnterestice Sppcltncna of the Work of Spiders in a Naturalist'* Collection. Ev% _ ' . "See anything peculiar about this9" > TiQiitrolivf ccVo/3 r>f a Vaw Vn?"lr Tfi porter who had dropped into his sanctum j at High Bridge. The object he held j up was a block of earth about eight inches in length and four in width, resembling more than anything else the frozen earth lifted ont of a small flower pot, with the Tipper surface planted with growing mosses and small plants of various kinds. "In this block of earth," he continued, "there is a regular palace and the door is right under your nose." As he spoke he inserted a long pin into the ground among the moss and lifted up an oval door that exposed a large, deep well, lined with silk in a most gorgeous manner, and as a gleam of sunlight from the window caught the gossamer it seemed changed to molten silver, deepening in the interior to a golden yellow* and at every move scintillating with dazzling rays of iridescence, in strange contrast to the rough md sombre surroundings. "It's wonderful," the naturalist said. "Ion Danny expeci so muuu lri/tu ? spider, and the isost skillful work from human Lands fails to come up to this. It's the castle cf the trap-door spider rajgaie, and this one I found near Charleston, S. C. You see it's a well about five inches deep and two wide, lined with silk, and having on top a door ihat fits so exactly that your close examination failed t? detect ir. A perlect hinge of silk allows it to work freely, ? - and- it is so nicely arranged that it always closes after the owner has passed in or out. "How did these mosses and weeds get on the door of the trap ?' "In many cases the spider places them there, its idea being to make the piace resemoie, as nearly as possime, the surrounding country, and so skL.fui are they in hiding their doors that I hunted two weeks before I found this one, and then it was only by chance. I had been tramping through the woods nearly all day, and was stretched out on a bank, about half asleep, when I heard a rustle at my elbow, and looked down just in time to see a trap-door fly up and go down with a jerk, and you may be snre I commence d operations at once. When I had located tbe door exactly I dag a trench all around it, down about a foot, and worked as near the trap as I could, and after trimming it down as you see it, I gave it four or live good coats of glue, and ultimately got it out safely. "While I was at work it was curious to see the alarm of the spider. Every few minutes the door s"- would lift a little, and i would see the hairy leg of the little fellow, but the slightest tap would send it down. 4Jter one of these retreats I inserted my knife-blade into the door and trie'.' to lift it. Something was holding it buck on the other side, evidently, as it did not lift up with the ease with which I had seen it under the nimble handling of the owner. Bending down and lifting the door at the same time, I saw tne cause, ins spiaer "was holding tne door down. Its mandibles -were fastened into the silkea lining, while with its feet it was bracing back and holding on with all its strength, and only when I had lifted it almost out"did it let go and retreat to the lower part of the well, where it coiled up its legs and pretended to be dead." " How do they build the trap ?" "Jast as a man would build a well. After making their selection of a locality, they commence taking out bits of earth with their mouths and pnshing them away with their legs. As soon as they get- below the surface a shoring-up process is begun. Silk is spun and attached to the wall by some secretion. The door is a prolongation of this silken wall; so, as the spider works down caving in is prevented iv this way, and finally the outer side of the door, which is naturally bright, is covered with scil, and bits of moss are placed on it. There are a number of different kinds of trapdoor spiders in this country and Enrope, so me having two or three traps in the different parts of the wall, the spider retreating from one to another as danger presses. "Here's a spider." ho said, handing down one cf a number of gla?3 jars covered with fine gauze, "that builds a web tunnel after the general shape of the trap, but it is infinitely more delicate, and is always at right angles with the surface, and contains no doors." holding the jcr up against the sun the fairy-like tunnel could be traced, following around the side of the jar, - perfectly cylindrical, and after extending four or five inches, widening out into a broad web, or platform, that was held in place by myriads of single sil very and almost microscopic cables, extending from it to the upper part of the glass. "The web in front," the naturalist continued, "is to catch prey, and the whole edifice was built in one night. By rights, tLe spiders would be hibernating, or in a winter sleep; but J zra keeping them in a warm room to prevent this, and see what they will do, or what tl e effect -Rill be. There is a fly. Now watch the spider." The reporter held a large hand magnifying gia-ss over the web, and the fly was released in the jar, landing on the fatal platform. At the first hum the spider darted out, with-its eyes flashing onr? ifp f!or>R in f.Vio &ir_ Tfcfi . instant the fly struck, the spider was on it, grasping it firmly in its jaws, and scon h?.?I it- in the silken tunnel. "Here's another ft-licw," he said, taking down another jir, "that seems to have no system alx>:r building, but hangs its lines and cables in every direction, for ding great sheets of web. Some in my stable are two foot l;:ng." A fly was put in and a different method of sttack became apparent. The spider waited until the fly had become ontangled in the web, and then rushed to the front. Silk was taken *rom the spinners with its legs so quickly that it was almost impossible to follow its movements and hurled about the unfortunate victim, and its wings were in a few seconds bound down firmly by the silken bands. The spider then drew nearer to end this tragedy, when another of the samejip t?es, that had been a ^^^ler^rivness. cJambered down from a ^ """ .sp.olf of web above, and evidently entered a connter claim. With fore Ifjjs high ia air, eves glistening like sparks t f fire, they moved toward each ether, and ii&e a flash they struck with t'nsir f-;re feet. at\d, with lightning like movemenlseof the other legs, tried to entangle each other. Carious beads of a yellow liquid appeared on their legs, vhich as lirss seemed to come from wcu ads on the limbs, but it was sooa teen to come from the month. They ^ ere actually foaming with rage, and the secretion was evidently used to render the cables of silk sticky and adhesive. The result of this warfare was that the legitimate owner of the fly soon succeeded in entangling the invader to such an extent that it barely escaped. "tierc's a spider that never builds a nrfii " ft was a short, hairy little fellow, and, on a fly bsing introduced, ic p^uiiced on it like a tig^r. "If a man conld jump as far in proportion to his i-izo, Harlem river wonici i>e notnmg. They only r.se their web as a cautionary measure. That is, in making a long jump from un eievi?tiou, they fasten a, single e.;ble to the point of departure, j and if they miss they swing off by it! and recover their position. They show J great caaiung, stealing upon a Hy as a mou?e, turning their heads this way j sod that, nnd then, with a leap, landing ; f-iirly on the batfs of the victim, killing j it with one ni oof their poisonous fangs, j Of all the 4,600 species of spiders j known," tikir?g down a glass covered j dish, "this one can be called king." It was a horrible creature, although dead. K. Its body was as big -as a large mouse, and when plac:d in a saucer its habj legs hung* over the sides. "It's the tarantula, aud a shipwrecked one at thai. I was cruising among cue lsianas ; oif Cuba, when we picked up a deserted i schooner. She vas in good condition, and the only living thing aboard was a j number of these living spiders, and I j ?? secured this oca. There are other ones ' that are sometimes pictured as catch- J ing small birds, and there is nothing ; improbable in it. This one could catch a small rat." On the Use of Spectacles. No more mischievous mistake can well be made than the one which is involved in tbe prevalent idea tiiat tee use of spectacles should be put off as long as possible. This becog^s evident at a glance as soon as it is&identood that the case is one o: incapacity of the lens of the eye to adapt itself to near ; vision in consequence of loss of aocom-! modating power. The continued effort of tbe delicate mechanism of the eve to J accomplish a task which is beyond the ; measure of its capacity, must necessarily ; be attended with an injurious, as; well! as a painful strain. Squinting is one of J j the evil consequences which are apt to I ensae if such fruitless efforts are long ! ! persevered in. Mr. Carter remarks upon \ this point in the following monitory i strain: "The effect of accommodation | is precisely that of adding a convex j lens to the passive eye, and so, when ; accommodation faiis, we can supply its i place by adding the required le:is by j art. To do this is the ordinary fur ction j of the spectacles, which are required bv ! all people, if their eves were originallv i natural, as time rolls on. The prin- j ciples on which stich spectacles should j UG beiecueu ciiH-u tuc* auuui-a . strong enough to be effectual, and they j should be used as soon as they are j required. Opticians often supply glasses ; which are too weak to accomplish what is needed, and which leave the eyes still struggling with an infirmity from which they ought to be entirely relieved, while the public frequently endeavor to postpone what they look upon as an evil day, and do not obtain the help of glasses until they have striven hard and fruitlessly to do without them. These are important practical errors. It cannot be too generally understood that spectacles, instead of being a nuisance, j or an incumbrance, or an evidence of bad sight, are to the far-sighted a luxury beyond description, clearing outlines which were beginning to be shadowy brightening colors which were beginning -fo/3A infAnoirrinjv fTia 1 ^r*T?f ; uv muu) iuo> vuo ! from objects by permitting them to be brought cioser to the eyes, and instantly restoring near vision to a point from which, for ten or a dozen years previously, it had been slowly and imperceptibly but steadily declining. Tnis return to juvenility of sight is one of the most agreeable experiences of middle age, and the proper principle, therefore, is to recognize loss cf near sight early, and to give optical help liberally, usually commencing with lenses of plus 1.25 or plus 1.50, so as to render the muscles of accommodation not only able to perform their tasks, but able to perform them easily. When, as will happen after a while, in consequence of the steady deciin9 of accommodation, yet more power is required, the glasses may be strengthened by from half a dioDtic to a aioptic at a time, and the | stronger glasses should at first be taken into use only by artificial light; the original pair, as long as they are found sufficient for this purpose, being still worn in the daytime." The common | prejudice against using spectacles as soon as the impairment of the sight begins to be observed with advancing age^ appears to have unfortunately arisen from the fact that there is a serious disorder of the eye known as glaucoma which is attended with obscure vision resembling that of old sight, but which is nevertheless altogether different in its essential condition. The mischief in glaucoma usually proceeds with an accelerated pace. Stronger and stronger glasses are used on account of the assistance which each fresh accession of strength at first gives. Bat the sufferer in the end becomes hopelessly blind, and the result is then erroneously j j attributed to the inflaence of the: glasses which have been employed, j although as a matter of fact this has had j nothing whatever to do with the issue of ' the case. Tlie injury to the sight in I such instances is really due to an over-1 tense state of the eyeball having been j set np, and to the destruction, in con-i sequence of abnormal pressure, of the j I delicate nerve-structure3 within. Mr j I Carter unhesitatingly affirms that the j habitual use of strong magnifying glasses is not injurious to ordinary j eyes, and he supports his opinion in this | particular by referring to the circum! stance that watch-makers, who comI nionly employ magnifying-glasses in j their work, in reality enjoy a very envi-! | able immunity from diseases of the eye. j ! It appears that it is quite an unusual j j thing to find a working watch-maker 1 ! among the patients of an ophthalmic I hospital. Mr. Carter holds that the | habitual exercise of the eye upon-fine work, such as those men are engaged in, tends to the development and pre- j serration 01 trie powers or vision, rather than their injury ? Edinhirg Review. A Mysterious Spot in North Carolina. In this county (Chatham), about three miles from the' Bandolph line, is a place that has been known to the oldest inhabitant and his grandparents : as the "Devil's Tramping Ground." Situated in the woods and sarrounded by giant tree?, principally red oak and short leaf pines, is a circle about twentvj hve feet in diameter as perfect as ! though drawn with compasses, the cir- j i cle being marked by a path as clean ! j cut as though used eveiy day; through j i the center another path, equally as i I elean. about one desree to the east of. , - - / - - - V north and south; no paths to or from : and none except cow-patbs in the neigh-j borhood. The soil of the country is ! red clay, thickly strecn with rocks, and no grass exci-pt some short scrub blades that struggle rather unsuccessfully for i sustenance. The soil within the circle i ! is sand mixed with clay and covered i with a thick growth of long wire grass ! ! (not another bunch of which grows' j within eight miles of the place) and j j which never crosses the path that marts i the circle, and though large trees have ; I grown and rotted to the ground at the ; | edge of the plot not one has ventured j to intrude within the ring. The natives have all of them a super- ; i stitious dread of the place, and it was j j with difficulty I succeeded in getting j | one of them to visit the place with me ' j for the purpose of digging into it, and ; | after getting down about three feet; j and finding nothing he was so im- i : pressed with the supernatural origin j that he refused to go any further. In j i my reading the only thing I can find as I j a comparison for my Devil's Tramping ; Ground are the fabled fairy walks of Ireland and one place in Norway. So | if any of your readers can give us any | theory of its origin or use they will j oblige me, and anyway this wi)l have : the eSVct of giving to the world uat j the old North State is not deficient in j curiosities.?L*M<r to Wilmington Sf'tr. j Tfce Story of Two Oaks. : "Within a bow shot of the great town ! gate of Mora*-, in Switzerland, stands a ! venerable oak more than five hnnd> ed j years old. It was a full-grown tree on j the eve of the famous battle of Morat, I j when Charles the Bold held conferer ce j with his generals under the shade of its : wide-spreading branches. Twenty-four j j hours iater the leaders of the Swiss j gathered around the self-same tree, a id 1 i there offered up thanks to heaven for ! j their signal victory. They dispatched a messenger to Freiburg with the tid- j ings, and in conformity with a foregoae arrangement, confided him a token by ! which the Federalists of that city might I recognize him as a duly accredited en-! voy. This token was a leafy branch, ! cut from the oak in question. Its bearer put forth such speed in executing his ! mission that when he reached Freiburg he had just strength enough left to gasp out his message, aod then dropped dea-1 on the ground, grasping his oak branch to the last. He was buried j V>A "! 1 nri/l 41?A v\] WJSC1V i> C 1 V JL > ) (4UU k,-4UUVUj ^/kWl^WA. V4 on Ids grave, is at the present moment one of the largest and stateliest trees in i Europe, having completed its 405th vt IT. ? Don't despise the lowlv ; the tinderjay does sll the ^crh. : RACES THAT TATTOO. Barbarous People Not Alone Addieted to : It?Probable Origin of the Custom and i Peculiar Features oj It. The origin of tattooing is, doubtless, tho origin of whittling?namely, pure brainless indolence. But while the civilized American merely whittles at his chair, his table, or a piece of soft j wood, the untutored and childish savage | naturally preferred whittling at his fel-' low creatures. He Baw no fun in whit- j tling at dead, unfeeling matter. The ; love of giving pain is one of the earliest i instincts of our nature, and the practice i is as agreeable to the least developed ; savage as to the most accomplished I modern libeler. We may even regard i tattooing as an upward step toward | civilzation. Man's very first impulse, j if we may believe some speculative ! philosophers, tos to eat his neighbors, I sans phrase. His next idea was to keep him alive when caught and to tattoo ; him. His third idea was to nse his ! captive as a slave. Bat the gulf be- | tween tattooing captives and the nse of j tattooing as a universal fashion is a wide j one, and we must leave some fatare in- j quirer to leap across it with the cjDjve- i tural agility of Mr. Herbert Spencer. In the infancy of mankind, before people wore clothes, and when all men, except those who shared the same cave, were enemies, it was necessary for the different groups to have some sort of j distinguishing mark. Oihevwise near relations might come to blows, and persons of the same stock might intermarry? a thing utterly repugnant to primitive morality. By way, therefore, of having some recognizable marl:, people are supposed to hava tattooed themselves with the effigy of some animal common in their neighborhood, or, which was easier and simpler, with some combination of dots or lines. One set of persons was marked with the sign of the crane, another with that of the ! wombat, a third with the turtle. Whether this was a really primitive; practice or not, it is certain that heraldic j i bearings o: this kind are traced on tne . breasts of tlie red men of North America, j J>ir they are comparatively advanced | sa *es, and, indeed, we can hardly be: liev. that very rnde tribes could draw a ! recognizable wombat, or a crane that j might not easily be mistaken for a swan, and so lead to infringements of etiquette | and morality. A man marked wi;n the j crane might marry a lady of the same i mark under the delusion that she was : tattooed with the swan, and so a'heinous I : offense against early morality might he ; J unwittingly committed. The least de-: j veloped tattooing with which we are j I acquainted is that of the natives of j j Australia. The purely decorative tat- j tooing may be traced to the primitive i stage of mere arbitrary whittling. Gen- j tlemen of fashion have their bodies covered with huge scars in relief, scars which mako no attempt to represent any object, and which are not even pretty in shape and arrangement. In i Mr. Brough Smyth's "Aborigines of Australia," there is a portrait of a goodi looking black fellow, with scars at least : an inch high all over his back. Down | j the spine runs a line of these scars; j others appear to indicate the position I of the ribs. Both men and women in I 3 XI 1 t^ueecsmna get tneniBeives marii?u iu i this way. The instrument used is a I piece of broken shell, inserted in the i end of the thro wing-stick which is used j to give velocity to the flight of the epear. This custom must probably be the survival of some very old institution, because the Australians are capa; ble of designing very graceful decora| tive patterns, such as the herring-bone, i chevron, ai.d saltire. But they keep ; these marks for their shields, and hack their own bodies in a rude and handsome fashion. In addition to the mere unmeaning scars, the different groups tattoo themselves with patterns common to the tribe. Three rows of five dots, five upright lines, and a rude curve, like an attempt to draw a boomerang, are among the recognized tribal marks. The untaunt Australians find it almost i i-UIV UliXYf iM V/U4 T U) uuio naturally limits their poweis of decorative design. The lower Brazilian tribes, according to Betes, are on the same artistic level as the Australians, and scar themselves with, mere lines and patches. The New Zealanders, on the other hand, a much more advanced race, show us tattooing on the level of a fine art. It is impossible, without the use of illustrations, to demonstrate the richness, beauty and variety of the New Zealanders tattooing. The ornaments are the herring-bone and triangular markings; but these are subordinate to the loop-coil which winds gracefully in and out of all their ornamentations. The patterns are intricate, the lines deep, and the style bold. Ornament of the same sort is fonnd in Borneo, and it has been suggested that the Polynesian style is really a debased form of the Asiatic. However this may be, the New Zealanders cut and carve j their own skins with all the resources ! of their art. The "monko" is not said to constitute a mark of rank, except in so far as inability to pay the molcoise is a sign uf poverty. Nor do thfe New Zealand tattooings indicate the differences of tribe. They appear to be merely an exhibition ox human vanity, j like expensive dress among clothed j peoples. The men, liko true savages, | keep decoration as much as possible to j themselves; or perhaps it would be | more fair to say that the better taste of j the woman revolts against the practice, j When Englishmen first settled in New Zealand they foand that the older women had one side of their faces | tattooed, so that from one point of the ; view they looked like a;c-n, while the other aspect of the profilo revealed i them as women. Now the women tattoo j only the iines of the lip3 and scroll; depending from the angles of the month. They also draw fine blue lines on their arms and breasts. The practice of the New Zealanders shows us tattooing as no longer a torture or a kind of trade-mark, but merely a form of personal ornament. It is in this shape that tattooing survives among the savage and backward classes of civilized peoples: among j boys, criminals, and the lower class of I soldiera. This modern tattooing has j recently been made the' subject of! special studies, both in Franco and I Italy. Soldir-rx are often found tattooed i literally all CT^r their bodies. The men I who ; re frequently under arrest find in j tattooing a help to kill time. Whole j pictures copied from illustrated news- j papers or the covers of match-boxes are i often imprinted on the flesh by the use j of needles and coloring matter. Mot- j toes are also, engraved, and marks of trades or religious aDd patriotic em- j blems are very common. Places like i Loretto and other centers of pilgrim- i aces are also centers of the art of tattoo ! ing. Sacred signs are stamped, for a ; small charge, on the bodies of the pil- J grims, and this practice actually pre- j vails in Jerusalem. In Paris and other ' great town3 tbere are professional tat tooers, and the cost of a really elabor-; ate design may reach twelve francs or j even twenty francs. The lowest class j of women in French Africa are also tat-: toced with a liberality which th? New < Zealand "lubras" might envy or despise. M?nkind is naturally prone to relapse j into the barbarous customs oft'^past j and there can be no better proof of this than the. extent to which tattooing is ' practiced in she armies and prisons of Prince and Italy. Indeed, these tat-1 tooed civilized men have sunk even be- j low the standard of the barbarian of j New Zealand. Civilized tattooing is ! mechanical in method and trivial or dis-, gusting in subject, while the "moke" of I' the New Zealaniers is designed on sound principles ol decoration. i. The recent French and Italian re searches prove tba: tattooing in Europe j j i3 chirfly confined to men. Roger j nn:~UT v ? J u;? 1 AlCUUUlil V? 1511^'U. LU Itttiuu HIS ( cousin, and Mr. Payn tells in the | , Belgravia Christmas number a! very moviig tale of a young lady ! of rank who tattooed her arm, with the name "Tom." School-girls should remember that however devoted they may be to " Tom" at the age of 14, at IS they will find the indelible token of this af-, faction rather inconvenient. Bu*, i: all! : aMMBBBBMaHHiaaonH EsuaawMMimHa tattooers were as expert as the Dyzks, I ladies who love fine china might consent to be tattooed. The hands of a Dvak woman in Mr. Carl Bock's " HesdEnnters in Borneo" hare the most beantifnl bine ornaments in the most exquisite taste. We have known seBtheiic ladies j who tinged their nails with henna; | from this to tattooing a la Dyik is but a | short step. Whether yoong dandies j should tattoo themselves is a question that may be left to the cultivated taste of long-haired lads who already wear bangles and bracelets. The first young man tattooed in Nankin blue will doubtless have a success, but imitation might prove monotonous. 3i; is certain that Europeans will find no better teachers in this art than tht china-colleeting head-hunting Djaks of Borneo.?London Saturday Review. Scenes in Sau Antonio. A correspondent, writing from San Antonio, Texas, says: The Spanish undoubtedly intended not only to settle, but to control this part of the countrv. mi 1 >3?J.-.J v -Lilt? pittU tvuupccu UVLV VY?0 %.\J UUUU a. series of " missions" from the coast (along the banks of the San Antonio River, about three miles apart) interior to where the city no-?? stands. There j the "Alamo" or principal miision 6e ms to have been built. These missions con-1 sisted of large churches, some of them < showing noble designs and fine sculp- j tnre. Connected with these churches j vnino rtf 1 or era Tnnn0l5f.pnp^ tVlP I aig 1 U1U7 Vi ilU^v whole surrounded by high walls, in some instances inclosing twenty acres or more. Withi:a were cclls for 'ihe monks, some of these are now inhabited by families, long galleries, corrals for animals, bake ovens, etc.; in fact, every indication of a well-equipped fortress. The situation of thsse missions is very romantic, jparticalarly so to a Northerner, located upon the beautiful San Antonio river, whose very source is a mystery, rising as it does out of the ground, a few miles above the city, a clear swift stream, its banks lined with the graceful acacia, perpetually gr een (the Germans call it the "wondertree;") interspersed are the china trees, and the ground covered with a great, variety nf rrnr>r!R <ind thfirnncmiiicent " Snanish Dagger" with its brilliant green spike3, as sharp as swords, and whose wondrous flower would fill s, good sized basket. The United Stu'.s government have recently erected a number of fine residences adjoining the Arsenal for officers' quarters, the' intention, when completed, being to provide for a full regiment?heretofore cfiicers have been quartered in private buildings, with the exception of the ordnance. The buildings, some twelve in number, are two stories, built of :;he white stone found here, and are attractive modern dwellings. located upon high ground overlooking the city. In the center of the large court yard of the aisenal is -ocated the stand pipe for water, seventy feet high. ?an Antonio i5!>en na;5 many points of interest, chie>f of which is the * Alamo," almost adjoining the hotel on the Alamo Plaza. Here it was that Colonel Travis gallantly defended its walls with a handfal of men, against a small army of Mexican.; nnder Santa Anna, in 1836. In the small tower room, on the le:ft hand side, twelve Americans were butchered?and here David Crockett lost his life. There are half a dozen of these plazas, or squares in the city, the military plaza being the mecca of the Mexicans, who visit San Antonio in large nnmbers in their ox teams. All night long the plaza is filled with tables, surmounted with large lantern*. Here coffee and lunch are to be had at any hour, and they seem to be well patronized. As 4-V? rt ^piKIACI O ?A A/1 Iax,-U U Oj UUO til \J AUiU^U up and the plaza is clear. Tbo Cathedral runs from this piiaza to the main plaza. The corner-stone of this edifice is said to have been laid in 1731. The main part of fie church has been rebuilt. The Episcopal Cathedral is a beautiful Gothic structure, situated in a perfect garden, forming a very pretty picture from a little distance. Many of the streets remind one of Montreal? very narrow, with low t nil dings. They cross the river, which winds through the cily, forming a horseshoe, upon modem iron bridges. The male Mexican possesses all the proverbial extravagance of the American woman in the headgear. Many of these hats are works of art iin& gorgeous. One made of calfskin had the merit of durability at leasi;; many are sold as high as $25. But here all expense ends, where it be:zan, and the balance of his wardrobe would1: be difficult to dercribe; his saddle and trappings, however, must be elaborate, while his small, half-fed hoise presents a painful contrast. Usefulness and Hurtfulness of Coffee. Since coffee possesses the quality of stimulating the nervous system, it is a matter of course that in. many cases its effect is rather in j oriouu. Phlegmatic people, especially, need coffee, and they are fond of drinking it ; for a similar reason it i3 a favourite t everage in the Orient, where its consumption is immense. But to persons of an excitable temperament the enjoyment of coffee is hurtful; they ought only to take it very weak. With lively children it does not agree at all, and it is very wrong to force them to drink it, as is often done; whiJe elderly people, who are in need of a stimulant for the decreasing activity of their nerves, are right in taking as much of it a:s they choose. In households of limited means it is often necessary to use chiccory with coffee. We do n:>t pretend to pronounce this, if taken in moderate quantity, hurtful, but we do say that it is a .poor .substitute for coffee, and that there is nothing in it to recommend its use, A far better mixture is milk and sugar; and there is good reason for it; both milk and sngar are articles of food. Milk contains the same ingredients as blood; and sugar is changed in the body into fat, which i3 indispensable to us, especially in the process of breathing. Having taken no food through the night the loss of our blood has suffered during sleep by perspiration and the fat which has been lost by respiration must be compensated for in the morning. For this milk and sugar in coffee are excellent. It is good for children to have a taste ; for sweetened milk or milk-coffee in the morning. We :must not find fault with them if they like i!". Nature very wisely gave them a liking for sugar; they need it because their pulse must be quicker, their respiration stronger, to facilitate the assimilation of food in their bodies, and also to promote growth. Not that adults need no sugar, but the sugar necessary for them is formed from the starch contained in their food. For this purpose the digestive apparatus must be strongly developed. With children this is not the case; therefore, they are given sugar, instead of the starch to make it from. Many diseases, particularly rickets, prevailing mostly among the children of the poor, are the consequence of feeding the child with bread and potatoes; these contain staich, it is t-ae, bnt, the digestive apparatus of children being yet too weak ; to cnange trjem into fat, the result is ! that the flesh fails away and tho bones ' grow soft and crooked. ^But lie who, io promote digestion takes coffce immediately after dinner j does best not to use sugar or milk?fo j both, so far from helping digestion, are an additional burden to the full stomach, and disturb its labor more than colfee can facilitate it.?Pmxdar Scicacc Monthly. It occasionally happens that the edi- j torial fraternity is in good luck. Now, ! for instance, when bloated bondholders j are trembling for the safety of their i wealth in l ' :.oT 1 banks, the average editor sleep ? sleep of the innocent and uaconceii) d, for he has nothing on bis mind or ia the bank.?Rome Sentinzl. Tbera is something sofc ar.tf ion-'k-r ia the [ fsll of a pingle snowflake, but i: always reminds j i/v iaai. ~ t. ~ t\- 1. un iu A jutk alter uur uutue ui ur. jjoii 3 v^uugu j Syrup, onr old standby in the days of coughs j Mid coldly for ire hare ilwaj* fbcnd it reliable. J + si I t -r RELIGIOUS RfelDl>&. He Died Rich. 1 As certain persons were returning from ! the Vrarial cf their dead, the remark was ( made, "What a sad life our friend a "* 1 ? w Via rr?no Pat?_ ! s llVeCl, HOW LUiiUIliUXi2k^3 iio nu,i. , * erty seemed to accompany him. He i I died poor." " Had he not some little i i success ?" one inquired. " No," the '2 arswer was; "everything was against i him; his life was a failure." "I do L1 not understand yon," said a voice, . which had thus far been silent; "I was | i with him in his last moments, and I 1 e thonght he died rich." " You are mis- j! taken ; his estate amounts to nothing 11 at all." " But surely he left a good : i name, and a legacy of noble deeds, and j t a holy example, and lessons of patience i' in suffering, of hope in adversity, of J heavenly confidence, when no sunbeams ' s' fell upon his path/' "Then he died rich," was the emphatic declaration, is "richer than the millionaire who went; { to his long home the san.e day, raiser- ! able in all but his gold." Any grasp-; J ing, selfish man with, a moderate share ': of brains may gather money, and learn j' the art of keeping it; but one in a hun-1j dred can conquer bravely in the battle 1 ( of life as he did, and step forth from ; ( the ranks a Christian hero.?Henry M. 1< Booth, D.i). ' ; | ( Kclisloutt Sews and Notes. \ i Among the Dakotah Indians there j \ are 800 Congregational members, -with j j ten pastors. ! i The Methodist Episcopal Church pro-.! poses to raise a fund of 825,000 for the ; building of chapels in Sweden and Nor- < way. An institution for the training of mis- ]. sionarie:?, called Selwjn College, ha3 ; been established in Cambridge, England. j; The Bev. Bishop Harris, of the Methodist Chnrch, has been appointed to j i represent the American Bible Society at the anniversary of the British and i I Foreign Bible Society in May next. The Association for the Propagation i ici 41-*a miociAnovnrr i j KJk l?JUC> JL CLXbl-L XO LiXO VXiir.A iuiiig/wiiuij j ! society of the Roman Catholic world. ; It received last year from Europe, Asia, j Africa, America, and Oceanica only | SI,204,005, of which ?21,700 was con- j tributedin America. The great bulk of the receipts was raised in Europe. i Within fifty years the number of or- j dained foreign missionaries has in- > creased from 606 to 6,696, not including native assistant.*; the number of communicants in native clnxrches has in- ; creased i'rom 70,000 to 857,332, and the i contributions of American Christians j | have risen from ?250,000 to ?2,500,000 ' ; a year. President Arthur has fo'.mally taken j ! af Tniin'a j \jk m&re n ; ^ */ u.iu o , ! church, Washington, which was occu- : | pied by Presides 11J j. dison, and since that day ha? be^u occupied by several! generationb ol Presidents. This pew, ; which is near the center of the church was set apart in 1816 for the President's ase, free of charge; the treasurer's books show that its occupants, with one ex- j ception, insisted upon paying the annual! rental. The statistics of the Methodist Church j in Vermont are as follows : Number of | circuits, 173 ; preaching stations, 221; j effective ministers, 134 ; supernumerary ! and superannuated ministers, 25; min- j I isters on probation, 15; pastoral sup-! j plies, 27 ; church membership, 15,273 ; j | probationers, .2,174; Sabbath school j j scholars,, 77,247; church edifices, 183 ; : j value of churches, $720,708; parson- i ages, 124; value of parsonages, $166, 600 ; residing Elder's salary, $4,095; j amount paid Bishops. $498 ; current j expenses, $12,385. The year just closed has been an un- ! usually prosperous one for Iowa Bap- ; f-iafa Af. fTin cfa+A ^Anvonf.lATl : society held recently, it was stated that . the aggregate membership in the state was 28,000. Fifteen societies are bnild- I ing churches. Five churches were built : last yea::. Since the last convention i eight ministers have died. The thirty one missionaries who have been at work in the interest of the denomination have baptized 111 persoas and preached ; 4,000 sermons.. They have received 193 ! persons to membership by letter, and j fifty-one by faith. Fathoms Theater Fires, The most fatal theater fires was the ! burning of the Saragossa Theater in j 1773, when 600 persons lost their lives. | j At the Ciirlsrahe Theater, in 1847, 104 j I persons perished. The burning of the 1 j Opera House, at Nice, in 18S1, in which j sixty-two persons were burned or crushed : to death, is still fresh ia the public : memory. In these islands many j theaters have been burnt down, but! 3ome providential chance has always in- i tervened to limit the proportions of the catastrophe. The fire had broken ont in the daytime ; the performance had i net begun or had not ended, or there j were few spectators in the house. If, | for example, the Surrey Theater, wher j ' it was burnt down during the daytime i in 1865, had contained an audience, few | would have escaped alive, so rapid was ! the action of the flames. But of all the | calamities which have evsr in modern , times overtaken a crowd of human! beings in a single building, the burning i cf the church of La Campania, Santiago, j in 1863, has never been equalled or ap- j proached.. In one short hour 2,000 : people, nearly all ladies of youth, rank, i and beauty, were reduced ?o ashes. The j flower cf the capital'of-Chili had j gathered in the church, in a spirit of j religious excitement, to pay its devo-j tions at the closing celebration of the ! Immaculate Conception. Every seat! was full. Nothin? that invention could suggest 01- wealth supply was omitted in the adornments of the oceasion. The I interior oi the church was hung from j roof to floor with floating gauze and rich : i drapery, and lighted with festoons of j i innumerable parafline lamps. An acolyte, j i in lighting the" last lamp before the ; shrine, raised a flame which spread in- i stantaneouslj. A rnsh soon choked the ' entrances with a wall of dead ^nd dying ; twelve feet in height. The melting 1 lead from the roof and the blazing oil i of the severed lamps ponred down upon the heads of 2,000 tender women, who j could be seen from the windows of j neighboring house.?, rushing wiidly to ! and fro, without an outlet of escape j The falling of the roof put an end to tbeir i agonie3 and completed a catastrophe xvrn'iVh stands f.honr, a narallpl.?T.nn- i ! don Times. Fenimore Cooper's Habits. Ail old New York printer, on being i asked what were J. Fennimore Cooper's : habit as a writer, replied : "Very peeuliar and erratic. Ho only famished copy as it was wanted by tho printer. Then he wonld go to work and slash it off, but, Lord the proofs! He only j began to write when he got his proof, i YTt* Tr/vnlrl 1-rwwVIr /vnf. "holf <1 f\rV7J*Tl in the middle of a paragraph or page, , and seemed tc hare an idea that the ; type would close up and fall into posi- i tion of its accord. His manuscript was i covered with great- blots caused by his [ habit of jamming his pen into the ink. i Cooper was a man of the most intense likes and dislikes. He was a bitter j enemy and an ardent friend. When-! ever he acquired a new animosity, j either personal, political or otherwise, >, re would immediately write a new book !o relieve his feelings. Most of this j: class of his works have dropped entirely : ; onl of sight." " j. The Babylon [L. I.] South Side Siena! Quotes from u Missouri paper r. Wei i F. Quinlan, Crystal City, 3Io., suffered I occasionally from rheumatic pains in his I J i c?It. :?l T.- f?n? c. hut:c?, iui lie euvjccooiuwj' w?u I Jacobs Oil. i j Massachusetts savings banks have , ' 813,000,000 more money than they had 1 x last year this time. j The Miiwaukee [Wis.j Evening Wis- j * con*in says: " In all our experience we j? have never heard of so mar.y favorable ! . reports from all classes as we have concern- j ] ing St. Jacobs Oil." '? if Boston is the home of 203 women ! Acrm a rciiiion dollars cash.. \ A BEtfABKABLE STATEMENT. Phe Unusual Experience of a Prominent Man Made Public. The foUoTring article from the Democrat and Thronicle, of Rochester, N. Y., is cf so striking . nature, and emanates from so reliable a ;ource, that it is herewith republished entire. h addition to the valuable matter it contains, t will be found exceedingly interesting: Fo the Editor of the Democrat and Chronicle: Sib My motives for the publication of the rioat unusual statements which follow are, irsi, gratitude for the fact that I have been iaved from a most horrible death, and, secoudy, a desire to warn all who read this statement igainst some of the most deceptive influences )y which they have ever been surrounded. It s a fact that to-day thousands of people are ritbin a foot of the grave and they do not know t To tell how I was canght away from just his position and to warn others against nearng it are my objects in this communication. On the first day of June, 1881,1 lay at my esidence in this city surrounded by my friends tnd waiting for death. Heaven only know s the tgony I then endured, for words can never describe it. And yet, if a few years previous, any >no had told me that I was to be brought so ow, and by so terrible a disease, I should have icolled at the idea. I had always been un:ommonly strong and healthy, had weighed >ver 200 pounds and hardly knew, in my own ixperience, what pain or sickness were. Very nany people who will road this statcmc-nt reilize" at times that they are unusually tired and :annot account for it. They feel dull and in; lefinite pains in various parts 01 tne ooay ana lo not understand it. Or they are exceedingly jungry one day and entirely without appetite ;he next. This was just the way I felt when :he relentless malady which had fastened itself apon me first began. Still I thought it was lothing; that probably I had taken a cold .vhich would soon pass away. Shortly after this I noticed a dull, and at times aeuralgic, pain in my head, but as it would :ome one day and be gone tue next, I paid but little attention to it. However, my siomach n-as out of order and my food often failed to iigest, causing at times great inconvenience. Yet I had no idea, even as a physician, that these thiDgs meant anything serious or that a monstrous disease was becoming fixed upon me. Candidly, I thought I was suffering from Malaria and so doctorzd myself accordingly. But I got no better. I next noticed a peculiar color and odor about the fluids I was passing ?also that there were large quantities one day and very little the next, and that a persisten froth and scum appeared upon the sarface, and a sediment settled in the bottom. And yet I did not realizo my danger, for, indeed, seeing these symptoms continually, I finally became accustomed to them, and my euspicion woo -nrlmllv disarmed bv the fact that I had no pain in the affected organs or in their vicinity. Why I should have been so blind I cannot understand. There is a terrible future for all physical neglect, and impending danger usually brings a person to his senses even though it may then be too late. I realized, at last, my critical condition and aroused myself to overcome it. And, Oh! how hard I tried ! I consulted the best medical skill in the land. I visited all the prominent mineral springs in America and traveled from Maine to California. Still I grew worse. No two physicians agreed as to my malady. One said I was troubled with spinal irritation; another, nervous prostration; another, malaria; another, dyspepsia; another, heart disease; another, general debility; another, congestion of the base of the brain; and so on through a long list of common diseases, the symptoms of all of which I really had. In this way several years passed,during all of which time I was steadily growing worse. My condition had really become pitiable. The slight symptoms I at first experienced were developed into terrible and constant disorders?the little twigs of pain had grown to Oalis of agony. My weight had been reduced from 207 to 130 pounds. Mylifewasa torture to myself and friends. I could retain no food upon my ?WVi/VHtt Iitt irn<v?tir>r?Q f Bl/OilittUU, CM4U. iilvu ??UVMJ ^v?..v- was a Jiving mass cf pain. My pulse was uncontrollable. In my agony I frequently fell upon the floor, convulsively clutched the" carpet, and prayed for death. Morphine had little or no effect in deadening the pain. For six days and nights I had the death-premonitory hiccoughs constantly. My urine was filled with tube casts and albumen. I was straggling with Bright's Disease of the Kidneys in its last stages. While suffering thus I received a call from my pastor, the Bev. Dr. Foote, rector of St. Paul's church, of this city. I felt that it was our last interview, bat in the course of conver-1 sation he mentioned a remedy of which I had heard much but had never used. Dr. Foote detailed to me the many remarkable cures which had come under his observation, by means of this remedy, and urged me to try it. As a practicing physician and a graduate of the schools, I cherished the prejudice both natural and common with all regular practitioners, and derided the idea of any medicine outside the regular channels being the least benefici aL So solicitous, however, was Dr. Foote, that I finally promised I would waive my prejudice and try "the remedy he so highly"recommended. I began its use on the first day of June and took it according to directions. At first it sickened me; but this I thought was a good sign for one in my debilitated condition. I continued to take it; the sickening sensation departed and I was able to retain f-x>d on my stomach. In a few days I noticed a decided change for the better, ' J - J A TV aa a lb J UIU my W.UO ami ureuui. ceased and I experienced less pain than formerly. I was so rejoiced at this improved condition that, upon what I believed a few days before was my dying bed, I vowed, in the presence of my family and friends, should I recover I would both publicly and privately make known this remedy for the good of humanity, wherever and whenever I had an opportunity. I also determined that I would give a course of icctures in the Corinthian Academy of Music of this city, stating in full the sympioms and almost utter hopelessness of my disease and t lie remarkable means by which I have been saved. My improvement was constant from that time, and in less than three months I had gained twenty-six pounds in fleth, became entirely free from pain, and I believe I owe my life and present condition wholly to Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, the remedy which I used. Since my recovery I have thoroughly reinvestigated the subject of kidney difficulties and Bright's disease, and the truths developed are astounding. I therefore state, deliberately, and as a physician, that I believe 210RE toax ?irroTf /\r?n T"D TNT X u?> ft'HAW 1 ur. jjj^vmo V?.QJ.\>H * ? ARE CAUSED BY Br.IGHT'S DISEASE OF THE KIDNEYS. Thia may sound like a rash statement, but I am prepared to fully verify it. Bright'a disease has no distincti7e symptoms oT its own (indeed, it often develops" without any pain whatever in the kidneys or their vicinity), but has the symptoms of nearly every other known complaint. Hundreds of people die daily, whose burials are authorized by a physician's certificate of "Heart Disease,'" "Apoplexy," "Paralysis," "Spinal Complaint," "Rheumatism," "Pneumonia," and other common complaints, when in reality it was Bright's Disease of the Kidneys*. Few physicians, and fewer people, realize the extent of this disease or its dangerous and insidious nature. It steals into the system like a thief, manifests its presence by"the commonest synmtoms, and fastens itself upon the constitution before the victim is aware. It is nearly as hereditary as consumption, quite as common and fully "as fataL Entire families, inheriting it froni their ancestors, have died, and yet none of the number knew or realized the mysterious power which was removing them. Instead of common symptoms it often show none whatever, but brings death suddenly, and as such is usually supposed to be heart disease. As one who has - Tered, and knows by bitter experience what ht, says, I implore every one who reads these words not to neglect the slightest symptoms of Kidney difliculiy. Certain agony and possible death will be the sure result of such neglect, and no one cai afford to hazard such chances. I am iware that such an unqualified statement as this, coming from me, known as I am throughout the entire land as a practitioner and lecturer, will arouse the surprise and possible animosity of the medical profession and astonish a1' with whom I am acquainted, but I make the .oi-egoing statements based upon facts which I am prepared to produce and truths which I can substantiate to the letter. The welfare of those who may possibly be sufferers, sncli as I was, is an ample inducement for me to take the step I have, and if I can successfully warn others from the dangerous path in which I once walked, I am willing' to endnre all professional and personal conse rnces. J. B. HEN It , M. D. Rochester, N. Y., December 30, 1881. Result of Excessive Smoking. Siro Delmonico, who died recently, doubtless owed his death indirectly, 'if not directly, to excessive smoking. He was scarcely ever without a cigarette in Vi^a -m/vnfV* nrliAr* OJIPPTI anrl Vna physician remonstrated in vain against hi3 habit. His brother Lorenzo, the j head of the four famous restaurants, j also hastened his .death by excessive j nse of tobacco, having smoked 30 cigars j a day for 50 years. Charles ;jelmonico, : Siro and Lorenzo's nephew, and present; proprietor o? the noted establishments, is also a great smoker, and bids fair to j shorten hi3 days in that way. Nobody j has any conception how many men here J destroy their health aud abbreviate their , life by extraordinary indulgence in; cigars and cigarettes. It is a far more i pernicious not to say deadly habit than j most persons, even physicians them- j selves, have any idea. ? Sew York | Letter, A Considerate Landlady. Gus De Smith is seriously consider- j ing the propriety of changing ii;s boarding house on Austin avenue. There i cvere some nice locking eggs on the! Lable for the first time in a good whiJe. i md Mrs. Flapjack said they were fresh. 3us opened one and it popped in his Kinds. i "Didn't you snow those eggs "wore itaie?" said Gus, holding his handker:hief to his ncse. "Certainly 1 did," replied Mrs. FJapack. "Then what did yea tell me they were resh for V" "Because I did not want to spoil your : lj petite for them. ?Sifiir.gz. THE STAFF OF LIFE. I Comparative Value of White Bread and Brown?Interesting Experiments. The earliest agitator in the matter i observed two years ago, when traveling i in Sicily, that'the laboring classes there 1 lived healthily aricl worked well npon a ] the stanle article of : which is bread made of well ground i ' wheat meal. Ncr are the Sicilians by ' any means the only people so support- ; ed. " The Hindoo's of the northwestern J province can walk fifty or sixty miles a j day with no ether food" than 'chapatties.' made of the whole meal, with a little : ' ghee,' or Galam bnlter." Turkish and Arab porters, capable of carrying burdens of from 400 to 600 pounds, live ( on bread only, with the occasional addi- j j tion o' fruit and vegetables. The Spa- j tans and Eomans of old time lived their j vigorous lives on bread made of wheaten ! meal. In northern as well as southern I climates we find the same thing. In j Tinscia. Sweden. Scotland and else-1 where the poor live chiefly on bread, j always made from some whole meal? 1 wheat, oats or rye?and the peasantry I of whatever climate so fed always compare favorably with our south English poor, who, in conditions of indigence precluding them from obtaining sufficient meat food, starve, if not to death, at least into sickness, on the white bread it is our modem English habit to prefer. White bread alone will not support animal life. Bread made of the whole grain will. The experiment has been tried in France by Magendie. Dogs were the subjects on trial, and every carejwas taken to equalize all the other conditions ? to proportion the quantity of food given in each case to the weight of the animal experimented upon and so forth. The result was sufficiently marked. At the end of forty days the dogs fed solely on white brc-ad died. The dogs fed on bread made of the whole grain remained vigorous, healthy arid well nourished. Whether an originally healthy human being, if fed solely on white bread for forty days, would likewise die at the end of that time remains, of course a question. The tenacity of life exhibited by Magendie's dogs will not evidently bear comparison with that of the scarcely yet forgotten -forty days' wonwonder Dr. Tanner. Nor is it by any means asserted that any given man or any given child would certainly remain in vigorous health for an indefinite length of time if fed solely on wheat meal br&'.d. Not a single piece of strong evidence has been produced, however, j to show that he would not; and in the j only case in which the whole meal bread j 'has been tried with any persistency, or j on any considerable scale among us?' to wit, in jails?facts go to show such I bread to be an excellent and wholesome 1 substitute for more costly forms of nu- j tritious food.?Nineteenth Century. United States IVeatiier Bureau, Lieutenant J. S. Powell, of the army, inspector of the signal corps of the weather, bureau, has been interviewed by a reporter." The statistics," said the lieutenant, "show that since the signal service was started the result ot its labors has been a saving of over tnree hundred percent, to the country." In what condition do you find the stations ? "I found, as a general rule, that the men conducting them performed their duties satisfactorily, and that the stations themselves are in good condition. In fact, onr system of compelling men to take observations at a particular time secures, to a certain extent, promptitude in the performance of their duties, for if they do not take the observations regularly, they know it at Washington and a court-martial is the result. In f ct, I do not beiieve that efficiency and promptitude in such a service could be secured except under military rule." "Are there any new features in the service?" "The office has now started a scientific bureau to pay exclusive attention to barometric pressure, thermometry, solar and terrestrial radiation and many objects of a kindred nature. We are j adding maoy scientific instruments to j our supply and any new device pertaining to our work is carefully studied and if found to be of worth, introduced." "Do the officers in charge of the stations improve by experience ?" ,;Onr predictions have been more and more successful under the practical experience and study gained by constant vce of our weather reports. We are no " making from eighty-five to ninety pei rentage. This year we started a new i/gtem for the benefit of the cotton districts in the South?in the way of making up piedictions for rain and reporting ihem to the districts named, and the usefulness of this work and the advantages derived from it by planters have been proven by the large number of letters received by the department, stating the good it has done. Similar work has been done for the owners 01 orange groves m xjurxua. These want frosk prediction fortyeight honrs in advance, which we give tbem: and the same work his been done for the sngar growers in regard to frost. Of conrse in the North we have separate interests to look after, but somewhat of a similar character. For instance the pork-packers receive notice from us of cold -weather approaching. We onght to have regular stations in every city in the Northwest, as it is from that direction that most of onr storms come. We ought to have stations to cover a wider extent of this tract, so that we can trace them as they come across the country to the east, i Most of our storms that we feel first arise in Dakota. As it now is we can only trace them by what are, called reporting stations." "Is tbere any movement for extending the service in any other sections than the Northwest?" "The matter is now under consideration relative to supplying missionaries { in China and Japan with meteorological I instruments, thus completing a chain j of meteorological observation? -round J the world, and will be of great benefit | wv ovtvuwg Care of Carpets. j To make sweeping an easy task, get j carpets of a kind that are easily swept, j then save them from unnecessary litter I by care about scattering fine chips or j crumbs of wood, cloth, paper or food. ' Eating should be done in room3 easily ' cleaned, with carpets of oil-cloth, or: i similar material, or with bare floors, or i with a linen crumb-cloth spread upon the carpet underneath the table. i Children should not be allowed to run j about the house with pieces of food in i their hands. If their food is not all : taken at the table, the child should be ' obliged to sit still somewhere, catching his crumbs upon a napkin bib, or apron, instead of dropping them upon the floor. Children who learn "to save mamma trouble,'* and so get at least a smile of gratitude from her for-their j tlioughtfainess, are far happier than I those who are not trained to care, but are allowed to make themselves a general nuisance among orderly people. If they wish to whittle, or to cut paper or dolly things in your best rooms, you need not necessarily refuse them. Spread a large cloth or newspaper down to catch the chips or clippings, and see j that it is safely emptied as soon as the i child's work is done. Grown up people j are sometimes very annoying, because ! of their lack of this kind of training. I They pull flowers to pieces in your j parlors, whittle on your smoothly! shaven lawn, scatter fruit peelings and ! cigar stumps about the yard, scribble on j the covers of your magazines and j margins of newspapers, and scratch! matches on the walls of the house, or' leave disagreeable marks of some kind I in eyerv possible place. The .Science of Life, or Self-Preservation. ?. j medical Tork for every man?young, middle- j aged or old. 12o invaluable prescriptions. j On Thirty Day*' Trial. The Voltaic Belt Co., Marshall, Mich., will i send tbeir Electro-Voltaic Belts and other Elec- | trie Appliances on trial for thirty days to an? r>erson afflicted with Nervous Debility, Lost Vitality, and kindred troubles*, guaranteeing complete restoration of vigor and manhood. Address as above without delay. P. S.?>*o risi.- is incurred, as SOdave* trial is allowed. False ImpretMons on the Subject ot He*?tfc Ire eagerly encouraged by those who endeavor :o hoodwink the public as to the mode of its ittainment Vague statements as to the causes )f disease are coupled by such nostrum vendors, yitii gronndless and preposterous claims as to ;he infallibility of the remedy. Widely different from the above has been the course Dursued in relation to Kostetter's Stomach Bitters. Only plain substantiate and reasonlble allegations have been made in its behalf. ' rhat it is a reliable tonic ami anti-bilious medicine, a preventive and remedy for malarial fever, and a benelicient correct :vi of weakness md irregularity of ilie stomach and bowels, ire facts which tbe American people have had imple opportunity for verifying daring the last quarter of a" century. " It banishes the mental despondency begotten of dyspepsia, as iveli a-i its originating cans?, promo es appetite and sleep and is pure and thorough The father of the British army is General 3-eorge Macdonald, who entered it in 1805 and is aged ninety-seven years and two months. ' Female Complaints.*' Dr. E. Y. Pierce, Buffalo. N. Y.: Denr Sir? I was sick for six years and could scarcely walk about the house." My breath was short and I suffered from pain in my breast and stomach all tbe time; also from palpitation and an internal fever, or burning sensation, and experienced frequent smothering or choking teneations. I * also suffered from pain low down across my bowels and in my back, and was rcucureduced in flesh. I have need your "Golden Medical .Discovery" ana -javoritc Prescription " and feel that i am well. Very respectfully, Delilah E. McMillan*, Arlington, Ga. N'eably 3,000,000 cans of mackerel, mostly fresh, were put up in Boston last year, a gain of 300 per cent, over the previous year. Cancers and 0?her Tamora are treated with unusual success by World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. ?. Send stamp for pamphlet. The State of New York expended $9,675,982 last year upon her public 'schools; a larger amount than any other State. For weak lungs, spitfing of blood, shortness of breath, consumption, night sweats and all lingering coughs, Dr. Pierce's " Golden Medical Discovery " is a sovereign remedy. Superior to cod liver oiL By druggists. The railroad construction of the country the past year is stated at 8,603 miles, the largest on record. " I Can Bid Defiance.* Syracuse, N. Y., Sept 18, 1880. H. H. Wabseb & Co.: Sirs?Thanks to your invaluable Safa Diabetes Cure, I can now bid defiance to disease. W. G. Armsteoxg. Emigbaxts who landed in New Tort city the past year brought $11,000,000 with them. A great improvement has recently been made in that useful product, Caeeolixe, a deodorized extract of petroleum, which is the only article that really cures baldness. It i3 now the finest of all hsir dressings. Yegetixe is nourishing and strengthening, purifies the blood, regulates the bowels, quiets nervous system, acts directly upon secretions, and arouses the whole system to action. Prof. Rice'* great Music Teaching System has no equal. Is forty times more rapid than all others. Beware of infringements. Sena stamp for three free pamuhlets. Children's Music, 10 cents. Address 343 State St... Chicago, PL ALLEN'S Brain Food-cures Nervous Debility & V.'eakness of Generative Organs, Si?all druggist*. Send for Circular. Allen's Pharmacy, 313 First aw.X.Y. THE 3IAUKETS. 3 NF.W YOKS. Beef Cattle? Med. Nat live wt. 9%@ 10% ; Calves?I'oor to Prime Veals... 6%@ 9% j Sheep 4%@ 6^ j Lambs "i%? 7% Hogs?Live. 6 @ 6% j Dressed, city 8 @ 8j? J Flour?Ex. State, good to fancy 5 30 @ 8 00 j "Western, good to choice 5 SO <3 9 00 j Wheat?No. 2 Red. new 1 42%@ 1 42% No. 1 White, new 1 139% Rye?State 96 @ 96 Barley?Two-rowed State 90 @ 92^ Corn?Ungraded WesternMixed 62 @ 70% Southern Yellow 70 @ 71% Oats?White State 52 @ 55 Mixed Western 46 @ 50 Hay?Prime Timothy 90 @ 100 Straw?No. 1, Rye 75 @ 80 Hops?State, 1881 26 @ 28 Pork?Mess, new, for export...17 50 @17 62% Lard?City Steam 1115 @1115 Refined 1150 @1150 Petroleum?Crude 6%@ 73? ReSned 8%@ 8% Gutter?State Creamery 84 @ 36 Dairy 18 @ 32 Western Im. Creamery 26 @ 36 roA^iw 10 (7h OK Cheese?State Factory 9 @ 13% Skims 3 @ 9 Western 9 @ 12% Eggs?State and Penn 20 @ 20 Potatoes?Early Rose, State, bbl 312 @3 37 BUFFALO. Steers?Extra 6 25 @ 6 75 Lambs?Western 5 50 @650 Sheep?Western 4 40 @ 5 25 Hogs, Good to Choice Yorkers.. 6 25 @ 6 40 Flour?C'y Ground. No. 1 Spring G 75 @ 7 25 Wheat?No. L Hard Dulntii.... 1 55 @ 1 55 Corn?No. 2 Mixed 68%? 69 Oate?No. 2 Mix. West 48 ? 50 Barley?Two-rowed State 90 @ 90 BOSTOS. Beef?Extra plate and famiiy.. 14 00 @15 00 Hogs?Live *... 6%@ 7 Hogs?City Dressed 8 @ 8 Pork?Extra Prime per bbl 15 00 @15 50 Flour?Spring Wheat Patents.. 8 25 @8 50 Corn Mixed and Yellow 71 @ 74}^ Oats?Extra White 55 @ 57 Eve?State 1 00 @ 1 00 Wool-Washed Comb & Delaine 44%? 46 Unwashed " " 30 @ 31 WATEETOWS (SUSS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef?Extra quality 6 87%@ 7 50 Slieep?Live weight 5%@ 6 Lambs 5%@ 6% Hogs, Northern, dressed 8 @ 8 PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Perm. Ex. Family, good 6 20 @ 6 20 Wheat?Xo. 2 Red 1 40 @ 1 42 Bye?State 97 @ 97 Corn?State Yellow 6969^ Oats?Mixed 49 @ 49 Butter?Creamery Extra Pa 40 @ 40 Cheese?New York Full Cream. 13%@ 13% Petroleum?Crude 6 @ 7 Refined 7y?@ VA. A GOOD FAMILY REMM! STRICTLY PURE. Harmless to the most Delicate! By its faithful use CONSUMPTION has been CURED when other Eemcdiea and Physicians have failed to effect a cure. Jeremiah Wright, of Marion County, W. Va., v*riici> us? iuiti uio rrijy uau x vu^^cjlljrtion, 3a<1 was pronounced inccbable by their physician, when the use of Allen's Lung Balsam ex ruiF.lv cured her. He writes that he and his neighbors think it the best medicine in the world. wm. 0. D:<;ges. Merchant of Bowline Green, Va., writes, April !, lsSl, that he wants us to know that the Lcsu Balsam has Ci'red His Mother of Consumption. after the ptavsieian had given her up as incurable. He says others, knowing her case, have taken the Balsam and been cured; he thinks all so afflicted should give it a trial. Be. Meredith. Dentist ot Cincinnati, was thought to be in the Last Stages of Cos-scmftios. and waa indued by his lricads to try Allen's Lung JBalsam after the iornmla was >hown him. We have his letter that it it once cured his cough and that he was able to resume his practice. Wm. A. Graham Co., Wholesale Druggists, Zanesville, Ohio, writes us of the cure of Mat bias Freeman, a well-known citizen, who had been I afflicted with Bronchitis in its worst form for twelve years. 3lie Lung Balsam cured him, as it has many others, of Bronchitis. AS ALSO CONSUMPTION, COUGHS, COLDS, ASTHMA, CROUP, 411 ixufntiity 1 li < tu i? a \ t tttv/^g 'puLM ONARY"ORG A XS." C. S. Martin. Dmcsrist at Oakly, Ky? writes that the ladies think there is 110 remedy equal to Lung Balsam for Croup and Whooping Cough. Mothers will find it a safe and sure remedy to give their children when afflicted with Croup. It is harmless io the most delicate child! It contains no Opium in any form! Recommended t," Pliyslctnnm Minister* and Xnraes. In fact oy everybody who has given it a good trial. It Xcver Fail* to Bring Relief. An an Expectorant U !ma no Equal! SOLD BY ALL MEDICINE DEALERS. More than One til i EVERYBODY WANTS BT. 258th Edition (New). 3 ii** i i? , orSelf-Preservatlor M^rpCr^liotr- (fa 's? oa Manhood; tt fp ntySC/EMCf[f hanitcd Vitality, Ne mom ' i ip-m t':i ItTj also oa thr Untc S^xil $?$ Excesses ol Mature' *7 Sto. Tie very Snest 8t -- Prescriptions for all acn TllVCTi C Bound in beautifull AnUn SnlOtLri en:, priceouiysi.2 ILLUSTRATED SAMPLE, The Science of Life, or Self-Preservation, is the mo There is nothing whatever that the married or single oi what is fully explained. In short, the book is invaluat The best medical work ever published.?London Laixm Fold and jeweled medal awarded the author oi th( stowed.?Sicmachusetts Ploughman. Thousands of exi leading journals?literary, political, religious and 6Cie: teed to b* a better medical work, in every sense, than.c money will refunded in every instance. Thousands of Copies arc sent by mall, seen: world, every month, upon receipt of price, Sl.i Address PEABUDY MEDICAL INS 4 Balflnch Street S. B.?Hi? ittthor bimj be ccaraltei oa ail discisa v. sa. -* ? . -4" _ "v ALSAYS KEEP COOL W To stick to your ffljl j subject ami the whether it 'be ire BAYtquestions of l^pnaaoeor CsMngr, *g?^7': Njpffi?;A* PTany tope wiiasMi roof and toll i ho / & P truth. Hoover; / ?? I I^B^there is a c?r/ ? slIljWEtain margin ai-/ * 4 f^nf af l?wcd for lying, / &. j|v when it comes to / aft 11 IP fishing, tbat is per/ I Sll'i i ' a- mittea in no other t >*f ' { ck subject. and no -^J g{ I T\doubt our friends 4 g?<li J. JjJin the picture are r\ ^_> /fl indulging in that 11 special employ<V,; Vi ?ent, as well, per\ (Sir lit \ r baps, as in a little \ JBSi]I IlK ? ! scientific twoe.r\ Yv\! w \ ing- Their bodies \ iVw<8/and tempers are \ Ki't. lAc p IV hot and the air is \ f$S fe-* i \V 0 81 cooljas they should \ wit5'"-' \c ?3 '.be,butatenot.)en<I \vv?1f jE I) tbey are apparentf <8 <?y in the condition. a *V~V- I -s ol -when it is much. ?| easier to catch. IwV?') .rtrli jrheuniatfcJD tjaxt \ Vfc^l in whicfr ^ise - fiemedy for this as well as other painful ailments. I TH-'ZL Mi/i 775 COLORS TO TIIE MAF7. " Hello, Denny! what is the trouble?" " < )b, Tm all broke up," was the response to the inquiry of an old shipmate of William G. Denniston, one of Farragut's war-worn veterans, well known in the southern section of this city, who came limpiag into the American office yevterdar, "I thought X would go under the batchy thls? time," continued Denniston. "I never suffered so much in my life. I bad the rheumatic gout bo bad that I could not get off the bed or put my foot to the floor, and would have b-.en there yet if a friend had not recommended Sr. Jacobs On. to me. I hesitated some time before getting a 1)0' tie,thinking it wasanother ono of theseadver- tis-id nostrums, but was finally induced to give it w * '?J? Tnr mo WllV. a trial, ana s incKyuuy n, ? bless my stars f after bathinj the Iimbthoroughlv with the Oii I felt relief, ana my faith was pinned to St. Jacob and his Oil after that I freely say that if it had not been for St. J aco3S Oil I should, in all probabiltv, be still housed. My foot pains me but little, and the swelling has enti rely passed away. It beats anything of the kind I have ever 1 heard of, and anv person w.Ho doubts it send them. to me at 1024 South Tenth &i.--Fluiadelphia limes. y~Y~y~u?3 Vegetine. The Barks, Boots and Herbs FROM WHICH VEGETINE IS JIADE IN" POWDER FORM SOLD FOE 50 Cents a Package. Voo-aHup For Kidney Complaint and Nervous Debility. IsLESBoao, Me., Deo. 28,1877. Mr. Stevens?Dear Sir: I had had a Cough for If? years when I commenced taking the Wgetine. I was very low: my system was debilitated by disease. I hau the Kidney Complaint, and was very nervous? cough bad, lungs sore. When I haa taken one bottle I found it was helping me; it Vi?-? helped my cough and it strengthens me. I am now able to do mv work I know it is everything it is recommended to be. Never have found anything like the Vegetine. . Mas. A. J. PEN"DLETO>'. Vegetine. Dr. W. ROSS Writes: Scrofula, Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, Weakness. H. R. Stevens, Boston: I have been practicing medicine for 23 years, and as a remedy for Scrofula, Liter Complaint, Dyxptpnia, ItiteuiriaUxm, Weal:tie**, and all diseases of the blood. I have never found its equal. I have sold Vegetine for seven years, and have never had one bottle returned. I would heartily recommend it to those in need of a blood purifier. T DR. W. ROSS, Druggist, Wilton, Iowa. September 18,1878. *' is sold bv all drug* ? ejfiinc in ji unuci ? ., rists and general stores. If you cannot buy it ox t nom. inclose 50c. in postage stamps for one cackage, or for two packages, ana I will send it toy return mail. Vegetine. PREPARED BY H. R. STEVENS, Boston, Mass. Vegetine is Sold by All Druggists. IlIPflTHERIA! JOHNSON'S ANODYNE LINIMENT will positively prevent this terrible disease, and will positively cure nine cases out of ten. Inforniatioa thafc will save many lives, sent free b/maiL Don't delay* moment. Prevention ia better than cure. L S. Johnson' & Co.. Boston. Mass., formerly Bangor. Stany. sirawifffiis! j Every week Solid Silver Hunting-case Watchcs are given away with The Ho>V Cfcampinn. Tho names of those who get watches are published each ^ week. It is the Best Boys'Paper in the World. Seiid 3 cents for a sample corn- to fmuBiov ?>r-r?rr^wrvr: rn_. V" jVl Vviliiftni S?t.t >Vw York7 City. tlfa MFor SOLDIER? , l??i?VJiUi%0 widows, fathers,mothers ? ^^iTX children. Thonsandsyetcntitled. Persons giro M !*& J'T loss of finj5er.toe.cye or niptcre.varicose re:ci MLJJ5K|vr *ny Bixcasc. Thonsands of pen*io?:?-rs and Wi ll*oM)'-r? entitled to INCREASEsadBOCNTY. \i?i' U PATENTS procnrcd for Inventors. Soldier* 'fri land warrants i>ro/r?re<i.'oonf:htaj:dsol<l. S?!dier* and heirs apply for your rights at once. Send 3 itaaps for "Tne Citizec-So!cicr."indPensi"3 ar.d Bounty Irxs blinks and instruction?. -W? can refer to thousands ?.f Fminans wnd Client-. Amir-' -s N.W. Fitzgerald & Cc.?k*siox ?c IATXXT Att'ys. LociwT^.x Jvs.%\a?Ii:iiecoa.D.'3THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE GUITEAU TRIAL Tlits if the only complete and fully illustrated "Lite and Trial of (Jniteau." It contains all the testimony of the experts and other noted witnesses: all th? speeches made by the cnnnin? a7S3**in i? his great f-tfort.-- to escape the sallows bv fe&ninr insanity. Beware of catchpenny books. Millions of ;*>op!e are waiting tor this work. Asr?-iitJ? w-in ted. Circulars free. Extra terms to Aerents. Address National Pcblxskisg Co.. Philadelphia, Pa. SAWING MACHINEf <3- _ i This 18 the Improved /a? /As Monarch IySffhtnlac L\-fafc-i? _ Saw-the CHEAPEST and BEST .MADE! Saw? \7. Logs EASY and FAST. IAJ Caa te operated oy boy at ' IfUyB? sixteen. Ef Send postal v y - for Illustrated Catalogue; coTitainlng testimonial* and foil particulars. AGEATS >V A XT KD. 8'- discount altowrrt to those Tvtv> come and t 'st machine. MOXAKCH JLIGHTXIXO SAVCO., t68K?rdolphStreet. Chlcaoo.ELL. > EngineeringNews A 20-pase weeklv Journal of Pnblic 'Works, Civil En- _ Kineerinfr. and Contracting: t*>J wr rear: ninth year. SENT FREE FOR THREE MONTHS to any j>erson subscribing thronph t? for one year to. Jlarirtr'* Magazine, Weekly or Bazar, Century Magazine, or Atlantic Monthly. Address ' r . ? GEO. H. FROST. 10 Tribune Building. Kew York City. y. B.?Please mention this paper. ' Tawnn' Pnrcrative PJil*" mak^^e'w^Bich R'of I : id vrill completely change the blood in th" ^.itu?. system in three month?. Anv person who will takf one pill eaeij night from 1 to jzweeis rn?v ixj restored to sound health, if such a thing be possible. Sold evervwbere or sept by mail for 8 letter stami*. I. S. JOH?0>* & CO., Boston, DIosk., formerly Bangor, Me. "4* 0I S TU '? siuuty. Th. or.f o*; ?r.a , liluin ;j" lv><. MARTINEZ 0.-Cr*it / jfi&fcX SpAoi?L ie?*r xl W:sxr! for 30 c<au with k<? / \ height. color of ere?, v.?i lock of bair, s?s<l * CGRRCCT/ < * rtCTCAC of jour fu:ur? hujbaad cr wjfe. porctoiofxaSy! prrdxted. with n*oj*, rime xo?I pl*co of c?^:ar, uxi ' <l*te of . Money retvrat<i to *11 cot uLi2ni. vjSjj' ' Aidrwj Prof. L Miftuiez, 10 Moct'y PI. Boston* Mmj. V S>:? ?,f E??^ ? TOT 1 s?2-withtmrrovM IJI 21P V a ?G6 Interest Table. Cafecdsr; J etc. Sout to an* address on receipt of two Three-Cen- Stamps. Address CHARLESE. HIKES, 4SX- Delawar. Ave., Phija. T1 I fn n IT rnn K- S. fc A. P. Lacey. Patent SolidU A I - "J I V torS!- ^"asbinjeton, V. C. OurvxI| O l i.il I MliableHandBooks/'Patents."and A AA A AJX1 A U Hints and Recipes," seni/ree. ~~Ei.ECTRIC~BELTS. A perfect cure for nremattire debility. Send fot circular. Dn. J. RARE, S3*2 Broadway. New York. AHOLrlDA T OFFER. *1000 Insurance at $6U?. verace SI 5 00 per SI000. annually. ddress MUTUAL LIVE CO.. Readinotox. N.J. Q79 A WEEK. $1-J a dav at home easily ma<lc-. Costly v ' ^ Outfit free. Adds Tsce & Co.. August a. Maine. &%8frlQ99^m Wor!)>in<> Habit Cared In 10 2-s^?3lSl9 f?20?.ny*. X?!pa,Tti)lCored. 5i58 fiwS?8 Dk. J. Stephens,Lebanon. Ohio. A YEAR AND EXPENSES TO X a S AGENTS. Outfit freo. Addresx Ij? a fi_ l_ I'. O. VtcUcry. Angn?tw, Mc. ? " * MONTH?AGENTS WAKTcQ-90 be? JfV/Vfi sjnin^ar.-lclcs In the v.-orU: i sample/red. Address <Jay ISromton, Detroit. Jileb. YAJINft ??1?M II yois would leara Telegraphy in I UullU ftiCI* fOUrmonth". audbe c?r!i?ao( a situation. .T-inos.'i/.c. Wis. \ (JESTS WANTED for the Best and Vn*tcsU A Jjeliins Pictorial Hooks and Bible. Prices reduced ;<.-r ?-t. _XationalIV.bjWbjii'r <' t >.. PI i :. . b h i a. Pa. "VyT A fpflT?Tl'C| C*U^oca* free. A&lrctJ. Staccwd ?X.YrKr? Jievoivcra. C-talcfjo frtc. .'.i.l.Tu, <i3f T-'vt. Own \r,.rV.? Pituhnrth. P?. >w_ CCC a week in your own town. Terras and #5 outtft *O IV. Add's H. HAULK'rTJgC<)..i'ortia:;d.Mam?>. Free! Catalogues of Cheap Music. C. Br-;t?a, Krie,Pi*. fc- ? CC|n COfl per day at home. Samples worth So free. \ W J iU OlU i ntcc SkTTVCAV A*1 < 2 \ t - ? CATVI ..^AinP.. V illion Copies Sold! EVERYBODY &HEDS IT. Revised and Enlarged. i. A Great Mcdienl Trra:10 Cause and C>irc of Ex- /y rrvona ana Physical Debil- ^ >!d Miseries ariiins frea tbo Venrs. 300 pnso*, !ic;r.! ^>^\jc3j2p eel ensravinss. 125 isvaiuit'.c to and chronic diseases. French Mnslia. embossed, fall 5, by mail. (New edition.) &2&Zz2di?j&la?f 6 CENTS. SEND NOW. srt extraordinary work on Physiology ever rnb!i*hM f Cither e can cither retire or ivt?h to fcnow bnt >lc to a.1 wno ^nsa for icood health.?Toronto Glob*. ' A brilliant and invaltiablA xr^rk.?Herald, Th.^ i Scicnce of Lite was fairly won and worth:"77 bttracts sicnar to the above could be tab a from the ntific?throcphoiit the land. The b<?k * Aa iaj vuwuicu ior cioiiL'ic tic i~ce, orth? rely sealed and postpaid, to all parts of the TSTUTE orW.H. PARKER, 81, D., , Boston, 3Iaea. w?iiilag tkUl ux? expexUas*.