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A MODEL GARDENER.
"Bill Hedger was a gardener
Who earned his daily meat
By toiling zealously all day?
His zeal was hard to beat.
He was a man of tender parts,
And thoughtful for his years?
E'en when he cut his onions down
His eyes would fill with tears.
He was so pitiful and kind
He'd dread to cut his lawn;
But though he'd never shock his friends,
He'd often shock his corn.
A score of carrots oft he'd give
To feed a widow's kine:
Such -ems of charity are rareFull
twenty carats fine.
His wretched horse could hardly creep.
Bill propped him while he grazed;
He said he'd have a better steed
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He'd sometimes cauliflower to him
When he had done his workHe
loved it stewed in buttermilk,
Or boiled with greens and pork.
But death at last mowed William down,
And they planted him in loam,
And gave him for his epitaph?
"He found sweet pease at home!"
HIS WIFE. |
The sun had just set when I arrived
at Somerset station. A whole mile to
walk in the pleasantest part of the
pleasantest country in the world! Soft
hills, bathed in the" sun's parting glow,
dotted the landscape on every side, and
over all smiled a tender, brooding sky.
U nut Keeil rjlJUVUIt'lll me Iiuukijinuiuu I
of h summer all alone with my best j
friend had alforded me?and now I j
was almost there. There was the j
house; old, brown and many-roomed, i
and most of the rooms on the ground
door. Grandmother herself had been
the architect of the establisnment.
An enthusiastic lover of nature was
this old lady of seventy years. Yes,
there she was! I caught a glimpse of
her white sleeve on the window-sill.
I would walk softly in and surprise
her. How exquiste the taste of this
presiding genius ! Heliotrope, mignonette
and white roses! Grandmother's
rose bushes were the envy of the whole
neighborhood. Shy little violets bordered
tho graveled walk leading to the
low dour-stone, and over beyond, in
grandmother's pet field, millions ofyel-1
low-hearted daisies nodded and beckoned
to the soft evening breeze. Avoiding
the treacherous pebbles, I cut quietly
across to the front door, stealing
with cat-like tread through the long,
narrow hallway, and entering the
sitting room on my tip toes. Wonderful
victory! Twice before had I tried
this wonderful dodge, and each time
had the old turkey gobbler betrayed
me. "Where was he on this occasion;
and why, when I really need his ser?
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Vices, U1U lie HUlf |iunc ill J j.wvuv? .
Softly, softly, only a step or two more.
The sensation of the next minute
wasn't anything to speak of: I mean
by that it was indescribable. The
back of grandmother's big armchair
quite hid the occupant, and nothing
doubting. I made with great dexterity
for grandmother's eyes. I found the
eyes, but they didn't belong to grandmother.
1 knew that before their
saucy owner had imprisoned my
hands.
"Who is it?" said he, like one first
awakening from a sleep, "Let me
guess. The fingers are too little for
Madge, and too long to belong to
Sarah!"
I found my tongue then. I would
not wrench my hands away. That
would be rudeness; for he evidently
supposed them the property of some '
intimate friend.
"Please release me," I said; and
then, as he rose quickly-apparently
surprised by the voice of a stranger?
I added, rather ludicrously, I suppose,
for the tall fellow in the shirt sleeves
* * 1 ?A. Uaa?4{1iv 44 T f Kaii frht rAll
IclUgllCU rigllt IlCrtl ? vuvugu V J vv%
were grandmother?"
"Never was taken for an old lady
before," he answered, with provoking
nonchalance; and then added, as he
hastily threw on a dressing-gown,
41 what do you think about it now ?"
I think I should like to know
where grandmother is, and?"
"And what am I doing here?" he
interrupted, with another laugh
" Your grandmother has gone to
spend the evening with a sick neighbor.
I belong to the next house?or rather
am visiting my sister. She was unexpectedly
telegramed away, and as I
have been ill, and am not" quite well
enough to take care of myself in the
absence of a housekeeper, your blessed
grandmother offered to look out for
me until my sister's return. My name
is David Alcott, and yours, I take it,
is Miss Susan Ellis." And then we
shook hands.
That evening marked a new era in
;r. ' my life. I was comfortable, as was
always the case at gnindmother's, and
I was happy too?happier than I had
ji""- hufnrp What. it meant was
of no sort of consequence to me then, j
I did not stop to analyze my sensations,
but enjoyed to the utmost the strange
entertainment fate and placed before
me. Mr. Alcott showed where grandmother
had left the strawberries after
tea, and then I skimmed a pan of
morning's milk, and prepared my
supper.
" Vou have been to tea, of course?"
1 inquired of the gentleman, who had
again taken up his buok.
" Yes, but I should like a few strawberries,
if you can spare me some." So
it chanced that he drew a chair up to
the little round table, proving a most
interesting companion.
In an hour or more after our little
meal was over, I sat on the door-stone
alone, watching for grandmother.
Then he came to the door and said :
"You needn't expect her before 9
o'clock. I wish I could sit here with
you."
"And why not?" I asked.
"Because I am still in quarantine.
Porhnns T micrht make it Pleasant for
0
you indoors. If you are fond of being
read to, I will do my best."
"And there is nothing I am fonder
of," I answered, and followed him
into the house.
"Make your selection," he said,
.pointing to'a table quite overlaid with
books'.
"Something c? hers," I replied, picking
up an edition of Mrs. Browning.
"Allright! now to please me, open
at random, and I will read there.'"
I laughingly assented, and placed
my forefinger plump on Lord Walter's
wife?
"But why do yon go ?" said the lady, as both
sat under the yew
And her eyes were olive in their depths, as
the kraken beneath the sea blue.
"Because I fear you," he answered; "because
you are far too fair,
And able to strangle my soul in a mesh of
your golden hair."
" Please don't go on," I interrupted.
" I like the poem, but someway it isn't
pleasant now."
"I thought as much," said grandmother,
entering just here. 441 felt
sure you had come when I saw the
lightand no pet last child, a baby,
was ever more welcomed than I by my
dear dead father's mother.
44 Vou promised me, David, you
would certainly go to bed at 8 o'clock,"
said the old lady, reproachfully, after
having satisfied hers-.-lf that I hadn't
changed a bit since she last saw me.
44 But how could I ?" he asked, with
a comical gesture in my direction.
44 Well, I hope you won't be any the
worse for it to-morrow," said she;
"ana now to oea "wun you lais
minute!"
' Dear old Vagrant, good-night,"
said the gentleman, with a rare smile,
obeying instantly; " and pleasant
dreams to you, Miss Ellis."
"Nice boy that," said grandmother,
as the door closed.
" Hoy ?" I repeated.
"Yes, bay I"
"He is twenty-five years old if he is
a day."
" What of that ? You are twenty,
and what are you but a girl, I should
inquire? Four weeks ago there didn't
anybody round here think he'd ever
get out again. The doctors gave him
up, and his sister was almost crazy;
but the fever turned, and he went to
sleep and slept two days steadily, and
when he woke up he was as bright as
a button."
t I did not see my new friend for two
: days. He had overexcited himself,
, ap^d the result was solitude for this
and thought. I never did so much
thinking in so short a space of time,
with such unsatisfactory results.
" Where under the sun have you
been all this afternoon ?" said grandmother,
;is at sunset the second day I
dragged into the kitchen porch. ' You
have torn a great slit in your dress,
Sue, and ou look like a fright. I
have wanted you?mor'n your worth?
for the last three hours."
"What are you making, grandmother
V"
" Panada."
"IIow many quarts of this stuff
does your patient consume, Mr. Ellis,
in the course of twenty-four hours?"
" That is according to his appetite,
Miss Saucebox," said a rich voice at
my elbow; and there stood Mr. Alcott.
" They've sent lor me up to Jones'.
They think the baby is dying." broke
in grandmother, while I stood blushing
like an embarrassed school-girl.
"And I want you to keep house and
take care of him while I go up a while
and see if I can do anything to help
them." And the provoking old lady
tripped away as composedly as if it
were the most commonplace thing in
the world for a young lady to be left
with the care of an invalid, and the
said invalid a man and a stranger. A
few minutes sulticed to place me entirely
at my ease, and no veteran hospital
nurse was ever more composedly
exacting than I in my new role.
Grandmother's orders wore explicit:
David musn't think of such a thing as
reading aloud, and he must lie on the
| lounge in the sitting-room until shere{turned.
Such an evening as that was! I
road to him out of Auerbach?and this
took us natural}* tothelihine?and then
found that my companion had traveled
among all my favorite European cities.
What wonderful pictures he drew nie
of the Campagna, the Coliseum and
the Forum! How exquisite was the
play of the moonlight on the Sabine
mountains, and how charmingly picturesque
the sketch of the old Roman
ramparts, in some places bare and
black with age. with here and there
patches of scarlet and gre?n made of
poppies and ivy.
Grandmother c ame all too soon. She
never was unwelcome before, six
weeks of this dolce far niente life?
and then
There is no good of life hut love?but love!
What else looks good is s me shade flung
I from love?
Love gilds it, gives it worth.
I knew as well as the queen and
poor Constance what there was in life
worth living for?what love meant.
Not one word was spoken between us
of the one subject that all-engrossed
us, and yet I knew that his heart was
as irrevocably in my possession as was
niino in his
One day, when he was fully well,
we attended a little picnic in the grove
down the road.
"We'll have a good time to-day,
Lorchen." he said, <is we made our preparations
in the morning. " 1 will
take out my scraj>-book, and when the
others are engaged, and won't missus,
we'll wander oil' by ourselves, and enjoy
after our own fashion?won't we,
Lorchen ?"
"Lorchen!" IIow that word
thrilled me! and how it epitomised
the tender purity of his regard for
me!
Oh ! day long to be remembered !
Oh ! day of heartache and agony indescribable
!
Steep the soul in one pure love,
And it will last thee long.
What kind of a love was my soul
steeped in V Ay! love has its wormwood
and gall, as well as its honeyed
sweetness.
A party of friends- David's friends
?came down from the city, and as we
| were walking slowly into the grove
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they came upon us irum one ucj/ui
road. I had David's arm. It was my I
arm?I knew it?and we should walk
that way forever. Greetings and introductions
were over. Shall I ever
forget the face of that man who aim <1
straight for my soul with his poisoned j
arrow? Walking up to David's side. J
with a contemptible familiarity, he
said:
"Saw your wife last week, Dave."
" Ah." replied my companion, perfe<
tly at his ease.
"Coming down in the 3 o'clock
train, if possible."
"Good," replied David; and then
followed inquiries about various friends
in a thoroughly cool and self-possessed
manner. It seemed to me that my
I heart stopped beating. The hand on
his arm involuntarily clenched itself,
and there it remained until we arrived
at headquarters, a little round bum h of
cords and knuckles.
" You won't be gone long, Lorchen ?"
inquired David, as I moved away, ostensibly
to help the committee of arrangements
to decide where the tables
should be set.
"What's that you call her?" my
mortal enemy asked, inquisitively.
" Lorchen," replied David.
Kitrt... llnMi nnmp. isn't
~ H ii v, una o u i/uvvu it?
I thought she looked like a foreigner."
I heard no more, waited for no more,
but watched my opportunity, and
when sure that no eyes were upon me,
struck the patii leading to the road,
and in less than an hour was home
again in Grandmother Ellis' sittingroom.
"Oh! grandmother! grandmother!
What misery has your terribie indiscretion
brought me!" I groaned aloud
?for grandmother had gone away to
spend the day. There at the foot of
the lounge were his slippers?there on
the ba.-k of the lolling-chair his dressing-gown.
I could not turn my eyes
without beholding fresh evidences of
his precious personality. What should
I do? 1 could not leave until grandmother
returned. Such a blow as that
I felt sui^ the old lady would never
rally from. I must sutler and keep it
to myself, and get away at the earliest
possible moment. In my agony I
threw myself upon the lounge, and
buried my head in the pillow?the
pillow upon which his head reclined
so often?the head I had so foolishly
called mine. After awhile tears relieved
the heated brain, and I fell
asleep. I dreamed that I was in the
water. I could not stir. Huge waves
threatened to submerge me. Just
beyond on the bank, almost within
speaking distance, stood David, a
beautiful woman by his side?his
wife!
"David! David! take hold of my
hand! Don't you see I'm sinking?''
I cried out in my terror.
" Wake up, Lorchen ! wake up!"
said a familiar voice at my side. " Here
are my hands, dear. They are both
yours?not one. Lorchen, but both.
Do you understand that?'
"Hut. David?but
" But what? Can it be that my little
brown bird was scared home because
of?"
" Because of your wife," I manag< d
to say, with his face close to mine.
" It was my chum he meant, Lorchen
! That's what we always call
them at college. I'll get a divorce
from that fellow, dear, if you will
promise to be my own real wife?"
And I did.?Relgrariu.
A Mass of Itloom.
The fashion of bedding plants of different
colors in carpet patterns has
been developed in English gardens
under conditions of warmth and mois
ture which are unknown in this climate,
says an exchange. In the *hort,
hot and dry summers of the I'nited
States, striking effects in this formal
and artificial style of planting have
not yet been attained, but every year
the tlorists are sending out new plants
obtained by careful hybridizing and
selection, with a view to produce
varieties with bright-hued foliage and
fast colors under our trying sun. It
is in stylish summer resorts that the
lawns are most profusely ribboned,
embroidered and emblazoned with
floral bravery of this sort. From Xew!
port comes the account that 20,000
plants of a single variety have been
ordered for one nutss of color on the
grounds of a swell villa. The shortest
name yet invented for any one of these
20,000 specimens is alternanthera
parychoides major, but all this name
has not yet discouraged this little
I plant from gleaming very brightly in
I crimson and gold. The casual statement
that th'S bed of alternantheras
will cost $2,000 adds a slightly prosaic
and commercial flavor to the story, but
then decorations of this class are more
A GREAT LUMBER REGION.
TIMBER CUTTING IN THE MILLS OF
THE SAGINAW VALLEY.
How a Rig saw Lor in Ilnmlled?Thc (Jnng
Saw giid IIn Swill Work-OIceliaiiicnl I)rvlrci
oftUc liuliiNtry.
A long while before one reaches
Saginaw, Mich., says a New York
Evening Post correspondent, the signs
of the prevailing industry become ap
parent. The streams arecioggeu wjui
old slabs, browned and rotting logs,
and chaotic masses of wooden debris
from the size of a match up to the
huge sawn beam which in some ancient
Hood has escaped its bonds. In
the fields still remain the tree stumps
or piles of sawdust a dozen feet high,
marking the old site of a sawmill now
removed because the material that fed
it has been cut away. Hut all these
initial symptoms <>f the lumber region
are eclipsed and forgotten when the
Saginaw river is reached and with it
the busy center of the industry. For
sixteen miles down to Hay City, near
Lake Huron, the stream flows between
wooden strands. The eye strains itself
in vain to see beyond the lumber
horizon that stretches east and
west The yellow waters, perhaps
two hundred feet wide, pass
lirst between continuous booms, each
inclosing its army of giant logs. These
booms reach far a'.ove Saginaw, and if
we include tributaries of the river and
count both sides, make up a reach of
log posts seventy-five miles long. Next
to the logs and on the bank proper
rise, most impressive of all, the tracts
of sawn lumber. 1'ile on pile they rise
on either side for sixteen miles up and
down the stream, covering acre after
acre until the wooden monotony becomes
oppressive. Now and then the
wooden sirand becomes thinner only to |
rise again t<? more imposing height and
width around a new cluster of mills.
These mills, often of grand proportions,
spring from their lumber heaps
as a giant cf fairy story looms amid
the disintegrated bones of his victims.
Their tall iron chimneys belch black
smoke, the rattling saws cut the air
with their distant rasp, and the sense
of industrial activeness is filled out by
the hiv< s of workmen swarming over
the lumber hills and loading them, by
slow but steady toil, into barges whose
hulls rival the capacity of a Cunarder.
Along this stretch 01 sixteen miles
of the Saginaw river there are cut
annually a billion feet of lumber, and
last year the figures went fifty millions
higher than that amount. Since to
most readers these figures are a vague
immensity of numbers, let us try to
simplify them by an illustration. The
Saginaw mills turn out each year so
tnu' h lumber, large and small, that if
it were ail cut in inch-thick boards,
each of them one foot wide, and then
the.se boards were placed end to end,
thev would reach about 200,000 miles,
or four times around our planet. The
product, to put the illustration a little
differently, wouia suppiy iuuiwi
enough for a fence four times around
the world, made of solid wooden posts,
with a double row of boards, each six
inches wide.
Up the Saginaw in a wild region,
reached either by the river or its tributaries,
the great pine saw log, often
three feet in diameter, has its birth.
Tine forests, now rapidly thinning out,
once covered several thousand square
miles around the headwaters. Entering
that lumber region in the late
autumn, the lumbermen establish
camps, round which the whole winter
long the axes resound, the tall trunks
fall, and in sections are rolled to the
adjacent streams for the spring Hoods
to bear away. Floating down to the
main river the " boom men " pick out
each other's logs, as identified by the
brand, and gather them inside of the
booms, which may be curtly described
as long tree trunks chained together
at the ends, often inclosing a smooth
water surface of several aero?. The
coves of the Saginaw?called locally I
"bayous," a term borrowed from the
lower Mississippi ? are specially
adapted for the gathering and organization
of these log armies. The military
metaphor, indeed, has peculiar
fitness here, for the logs are mustered
side bv side in companies held together
by a rope fastened to each log by a de
* 1!- -i??t
vice not uniiKe tne domestic ciumesyui.
As the logs down stream are worked
up by the tireless mills, these upper
booms are drawn upon for more, until
! the freezing river finds them quite
[ empty, and another winter comes onto
yield its fresh supply.
But the saw log's story becomes most
dramatic as it nears the mill and,
loosed from the restraining rope, is
steered into the glade of open water
that leads up to the wooden slide.
Enter now the great lumber mill, and
we shall be in at the saw log's death.
Down the slide on a wooden railroad
runs a heavy track, fitte 1 with two
cross lines of heavy iron teeth. With
a plunge it dashes below the water,
still holding its place on the rails.
Then three giant logs are floated above
it. At a signal the steam is let on.
the machinery reversed, the strong
chain holding the truck tightens, and
the truck itself begins to ascend. The
sharp teeth catch the logs, which in a
trice are lifted dripping from the water,
whisked up like twigs a hundred feet
to the mill, and rolled off opposite the
first- set of saws. These saws are two
in number: one set below is of the buzz
variety, perhaps six feet in diameter,
and cutting therefore through a threefoot
log; but as this semi-diameter is
often insufficient for a big log, a second
and smaller "buzz," placed above
and in front of the first, cuts the slice,
which otherwise might still hold fast
the slab. One of the largest logs
weighs a number of tons, and
human strength alone would never
suffice to turn it after one ot'
its sides has been "slabbed."
Just here comes in a beautiful piece
of powerful mechanism. At the touch
of a lever a stout beam, armed with
iron teeth, rises by the forest Titan's
side. It snatches the wood, and in
1as? time than words can tell it the log
is tumbled over, and the framework^
rushing back and forth with amazing
speed, has driven the edges of the tree
athwart the saws, until the once rough
stick stands forth asymmetrical square.
Then, in another instant it is shifted
before the "gang," a set of ordinary
upright saws placed an inch apart, and
often with thirty or even thirty-live
blades. Below an ordinary circular
planer revolves in front of the gang
and smooths the lower edges of the
boards. The immense piece of timber
is run through in a few moments, and
what was live minutes before a rough
tree trunk has passed into the inch
boards of commerce. Nor does the
work end here; for the slabs are
fo o nr?\ir YY??inl)ino rrrnatiQ
them with almost human intelligence,
and whatever part of them can be
ma-le so become laths. Other machines
take the harder woods, ;ish, elm or
oak, and covert them with equal speed
into staves, barrel heads or shingles ;
and finally the otherwise useless debris
passes to the furnaces to feed the fires
of the engine.
Sometimes, particularly in the more
mcdern mills, the routine as described
is varied by lifting the logs from the
river on an endless chain, and a num|
her of minor mechanisms till out the
j devices by which the lumber is cut and
i distributed. One ingenious machine,
I working double emery wheels, sharpens
i the buzz saws on both sides of the
! teeth during a single revolution, and
requires no attention beyond simply
i the fastening of the saw upon it and
I the unfastening after the work is
! done. Another llattens out, by a
clever mechanical expedient, the teeth
of the saw, so as to cut a wider rent
and prevent clogging as the cut becomes
deeper; finally, a system of elevated
railroads takes the lumber-laden
trucks and distributes the boards at
the points in the yard or on the wharf
whence they are to be shipped. Some
| additional conception of the size and
J importance of the industry may be de,
rived from the fact that the Michigan
! Central company takes away from
I one station here a hundred car-loads of
! lumber for each day of the working
j season, to say nothing of the large
quantities shipped from the river by
the Flint and 1'ere Marquette railroad
line and even large shipments by the
lake barges.
Qne year ago there were not over
200 people in Dickey county, Dakota.
SELECT SIFTINGS.
Horse-flesh pie is a well-known dish
in Paris. Those who partake of it say
it is a palatable dish.
In England it is the custom for the
queen to send three pounds sterling
($14.52) to the mothers of British
riplets.
"When traveling on a railroad it is
said that lying with the head toward
the engine will sometimes remove a
headache.
Some idea of the national enthusiasm
for baseball may be gathered from the
statement that in a single Michigan
factory 350,000 feet of ash, 25,000 fee
of basswood and 50,000 feet of cherry
are used.
The Chinese think that white men
wear red clothes; have red hair and
blue eyes sunk in the head, or vertical
or at the back ; fatigue themselves on
every occasion needlessly, and have
the restless curiosity of monkeys.
A remarkable scene occurred re
centiy in me jmthh upi'i-u-nuiiac. m
the midst of the performance one of
the violinists became a raving maniac,
stood itjj and shouted for the manager,
and was with dilliculty removed from
his place and quieted with a dose of
chloroform.
Between the years 18li4 and 18(!8
218 persons were condemned in (Jermany
to decapitation, and of these
twenty-six only were executed. Between
18G8 and 1878 no fewer than
428 were condemned, but in no case
was the sentence carried out. In the
year 1878, however, Ilodel was executed
for his attempt on the emperor,
but in 1871) and 1880 there were no
no executions. Since 1881 there have
been only three.
In the ' Philosophical Transactions "
for 1755 Mr. II. Bakers, K. K. 8., describes
the extraordinary case of K4ward
Lambert, whose skin, with the
exception of the inside of his hands
and l'eet-soles, head and far e, was covered
with excrescences of a wart-like
nature and cylindrical in form, rising
i 1.1- - 1. .1-1.1. _< onrl
to Hie Ill'IgllU UL ilUUllt an UK II (Uiu
growing close together at their bases,
stiff, but elastic and rustling when
touched, whi' h were shed and renewed
at intervals more or less regularly in
the autumn or winter. Xew excrescences
of a pali r color then grew
up and supplanted the old ones which
fell of!'. The man's health was generally
good. Still more extraordinary is
the statement, made on such seemingly
ex< ellent authority, that each of Lambert's
six children had a skin covered
in the same way, although at the time
Mr. liaken wrote only one was living,
who wiis publicly exhibited with his
father.
WISE WORDS.
The untruthful man makes a poor
companion and a worse friend.
Xever despair of finding a lady in a
cabin or too confident of linding one in
a mansion.
Harsh words have frequently
alienated a child's feelings and crushed
out all love of home.
If you count the sunny and cloudy
davs of the whole year you will find
that the sunshine predominates.
IIow people deceive themselves
when they think those around them
do not know their real characters.
Habit i3 almost as strong as principle,
and sometimes, when we are beset
by a multiplicity of t ares, may a-t in
its stead. Be careful, then, that your
habits are of the very best.
The rich depend on the poor, as wel
as the poor on the rich. The world is
but a magnificent building; all the
stones gradually cement together. Xo
one subsists by himself alone.
As in walking it is your greatest
care not to run your foot upon a nail,
or to tread awry and strain your leg ;
so let it be in all the affairs of human
life, not to hurt your mind or offend
your judgment. And this ride, if
carefully observed in ad your deportment,
will be a mighty security to you
in your undertakings.
The most agreeable of all companions
is a simple, frank man, without
any high pretentions to an oppressive
greatness; one who loves life and understands
the, use of it; obliging, alike
at all hours, above all. of a golden
temper, and steadfast as an anchor.
For such a one we gladly exchange
ihe greatest genius, the most brilliant
\Vit, the profoundest tliinker.
A Mexican House.
Mr. Kdward Roberts, in The L'outi
nent, gives an account of Mexico, in
which he describes the houses of Chihuahua
thus interestingly:
A stranger, unless acquainted, sees
but little of the life of Chihuahua.
The houses we wanted to enter were
apparently so inaccessible, with iron
bars at the windows, and so many servants
stood at the door, that we abandoned
any intention we may have had.
an 1 were well nigh discouraged about
seeing the inside of one when, by
chance, the artist stumbled upon a
place into which we were ushered by
a white-haired old domestic, who informed
us that the family had gone to
the States on a visit, and that we
might walk into the placita. There is
an unvaried rule followed in building
Mexican houses. They are all of whitewashed
adobe, one story high, and are
erected around a large open square,
known as the placita. The only door
way is the largo one opening directly
. into the street, anil which is wide and
high enough for any sized cart or carriage
to be driven through into the
court. The house Ave had the good
' fortune to examine was evidently the
abode of a wealthy family, for there
were servants scattered all over the
place, and our guide was apparently an
old f.uuily dependant, who took
great pride in her family and their
home. Emerging from the hallway
which we entered lirst on coming
from the stie.t, the court
was reached, and there we found
a fountain and plants and some flowers.
There was no roof to the pla-ita, and
the drawing-rooms, bedrooms and
various other apartments opened into
it, so that when one is once within the
court he is practically in the whole
I house. And if ever a house is a man's
| castle, as Hlackstone so strongly insists,
i v.nn siinilii < \f/?vi/vin tiniKii W !t Wf*ll
| uicuoimi; <*
guarded castle. The few windows
that open on the streets are heavily
barred with iron and. instead of the
gardens being around the house, the
houses are around the gardens. The
rooms into which we glanced had
floors made of brick and cover, d with
rugs, while the furniture had a very
American appearance. It was the
court, however, which we both liked
best, and in which we lingered the
longest. Shut oil from the street ;is it
was, a restful quiet lingered about the
place, disturbed only by the dripping
of the water in the fountain. Our
knowledge of Spanish being very
limited the old woman explained by
pantomime whin her words failed ti>
enlighten us. She showed us the
room she and her husband occupied, a
little closet sort of a piace leading from
the placita, and in the door of which
sat a couple of dark-eyed children, who
glanced at us once and then resumed
their play.
A Chihuahua ox-cart is a familiar
vehicle in the city. It is patterne 1
after some design of apparently a
century or two pgo, anu is so oig anu
lumbering that it fills nearly the whole
strei t, and requires two yoke of oxen
to pull it. The wheels are made of
huge blocks of- wood and the wicker
body of the alTair looks as though it
woul I last forever. But then the cart
is characteristic and, like the antiquated
plow of the Mexicans, is a
curiosity which will disappear, no
doubt, before the new order of things
and the modern regime introduced by
the Americans and their railways.
How to Travel.
An exchange has an article on " How
to travel." It will do very well for the
man who thinks of going to Europe
and has leisure to peruse it, but for the
young man that has just been informed
that her father has come in the back
door and will so >n be into the parlor to
see what is going on there with the
light turned down, there is no time to
read a half-column for directions how
to travel, he travels at once, without
stopping to purchase a ticket or get
his baggage properly checked.?Lowell
FROM BELLE TO BEGGAR.
CABEEB OF A WOMAN ONCE ENGAGED
TO SALMON P. CHASE.
An Autliore.HH mid n Daughter of an Ofllrrr
or llio ltevoliilion Wandering Train
J'lncc to Plnre in ({ncnt of Bread.
A recent letter from Olean, N. Y.,
to the Philadelphia Press tells the following
story:
While in Xew York the other day
your correspondent noticed a gray
haired woman begging at the foot of
the steps leading to the Fourteenth
street station of the Sixth avenue
elevated road. A gentleman who was
with me said that the woman's name
was Lucy E. Maclein, and that she
was a person of literary tendencies.
Residents of this place recognize in
the name a singular and unhappy woman
well known here, whose strange
actions have caused much comment.
Her mania for bustles is a prominent
characteristic of her wardrobe. In
summer and winter alike she wore a
dark calico dress, with a long full
skirt and a waist of a style in vogue
twenty or twenty-five years ago. She
is tall and in other days doubtless
graceful.
She was the daughter of Captain
Maclein, who served in the Revolutionary
war, anil who afterward moved
with his family to Ohio, and from there j
to Springville, Erie county, in this
State. Lucy Maclein and her sister
Sara moved from there about twentyfive
years ago to this place. When the
two girls were young Lucy was a great
belle, was very pretty, talented and
gay, and her admirers were many.
She wrote poetry of some merit, as the
pages of (fmham, (Jorlet/ and the
Knickerbocker testified. One of her
best pieces was a satire on a schoolmaster,
who in some manner had given
licr nfl7>nsp. it, hml a pre:it run in the
newspapers of that day. .She hail a
wide correspondence with men of
letters and, among others, with Mr.
Longfellow.
She became acquainted with the late
Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase in the
bloom of her youth, and the friendship
established terminated in an engagement
of marriage. Correspondence
continued between the two for some
time, when suddenly the letters ceased.
The reason of this Lucy would never
disclose, but it was not very lung after
this that her friends noticed that her
actions were very strange. She manifested
more and more crazy impulses,
until finally she became hopelessly insane.
For twenty years she has wandered
aimlessly, dependent upon the
charity of her sister Sara.
Some of Lucy's habits are very
singular. For years she haunted the
banks of this city, continually inquiring
for remittances that never came. Finally
she gave this up and took to borrowing,
or trying to borrow, small
sums of money. Iler usual manner
was to enter a store when the proprietor
was most busily engaged,
apologize for her intrusion in a ladylike
manner and ask for the loan of
from twenty-five cents to $2. Never
more than that and never less. A refusal
had no effect, as she woidd re
turn next day with an apology and a
similar request. She lias frequently
been to New York and several years
ago she went to Washington to see
certain members of Congress about a
subsidy which she claimed she was entitled
to as an authoress. It is a
mystery how she obtained money for
all her travels. Some say she did not
use any money at all. but trusted to
the gallantry of conductors not to put
her ofT their trains between the stations,
and when she had gone as far
as possible on one train she would
patiently await the arrival of the next.
Some of her vagaries are shown by
an incident that happened here five or
six years ago. Theodore Tilton was to
lecture one evening, and she too'; her
stand at the foot of the stairs awaiting
his coining. When he appeared, in
company with several men, she went
toward him, touched him on the shoulder
and said:
41 Mr. Tilton, I want you to pay me
the money you owe me."
Tilton was so astonished that for
some time he was unable to say anything,
but at length asked her for what
lie was indebted to her.
" You have been using my lecture
long enough," she replied, "and now
I want you to pay me for it."
A New Hand.
The last of May, 1882, Simon Snyder,
who was working in a planing mill at
Portsmouth, 0., had his hand so badly
lacerated in the machinery that amputation
was necessary. The hand w;is
buried in Mr. Snyder's garden. Two
weeks after, upon the mound which
the little twelve-year-old daughter of
the injured man had made over the
severed hand, grew a small funguslike
plant in the exact shape of a human
hand. The Portsmouth (().)
JShule called attention to the wonder,
and gavo a full description of it. 11 undreds
of citizens visited Mr. Snyder to
see this freak of nature. All were
interested. Those who tried to understand
it were mystified, and the superstitious
were sure it was some portent
of evil. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder removed
to Conesville, Louisa county, Iowa,
two months ago, and brought the
fingers with them preserved in alcohol.
Mr. C. E. Harrison, of the Brady
street pharmacy, brought the curiosity
to Davenport. Mr. Harrison
tried to prevail upon Mrs. Snyder to
give it to the Academy of Sciences, but
she has not yet consented.
The fingers are of a dark brown
color, the thumb and fingers approach
nearly the exact form, and perhaps the
queerest part of it is that the forelinger
is shorter than it should be. Mr.
Snyder lost the forefinger 01 uiau nauu
two years before the amputation. The
little finger was broken off by accident
and shows that the inside of the
fingers is white. Cases are on record
where roots and vegetable growth have
taken the place and shape of buried
objects of a perishable nature by absorption
and growth contemporaneous
with decay, but this was an exterior
development.?Davenport (I'.w i) Uazette.
A Busy Man.
Mr. Blinn had been coming in late
for several nights and reporting to his
wife that he was busy until midnight.
Her suspicions were aroused, however,
and she interviewed one of his coin
panions witno:.i leuing mm wno sue
was.
" You know Mr. Jilinn?" she asked.
"Oli, yes, madame, q.iite well. lie
is a particular friend of mine."
" You have been with him a good
deal of late?"
" Yes, every night."
"He is quite busy at night now,
isn't he?"
"He has been very busy, indeed,
every night when I have se.n him,"
and he laughed.
" Will you tell me the nature of his
business V"
"Well, lie was trying to walk on
both sides of the pavement at once
go ng home, and I assure you,madame,
a busier man I haven't seen for a long
time. If he has told you lie was busy
late at night, you may take my word
for it that he was tellin 2 vou the un
adulterated truth, and no discount to
the trade."?Merchant-Traveler.
A Safe Swinj*.
Daniel It. Clymer, ex-mayor of Reading,
sends to a local paper the following
directions how to make a swing
secure against accident:
Near to each end of a joist a hole is
bored. Run a rope through each hole,
and tie three knots on top of said joist
to secure it to hold the swing seat.
Then tio a knot in each rope three
inches below the joist; this done, tie a
strong safety rope under said knot;
then lay this rope loosely over the top
of the joist near the ends of the swing,
so that when the rope breaks at the
greatest point of friction and wear
right under the joist, the safety rope
lying idle over tne joist top wui at
once catch and rescue the falling person
from injury and even death.
The king of Prussia ones sent to a
tribe of Bedouins a very celebrated
physician, who inquired on his arrival
how they lived. " We never eat till
we are hungry, and then not to repletion,"
was the answer. " I may return
then,-' said the doctor. " I have no
mm
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
r
M. Nordenskjold maintains that the
aurora is a permanent phenomenon in
polar regions, being always seen when
the sun is below the horizon and when
the moon is invisible.
There can be little or no doubt that
me eggs 01 nens vvnue unuerguiug
process of incubation are liable to be
affected by the cholera of fowls.
In an article published by Dr. ft.
Koch it is asserted that the only substances
worthy the name of disinfectants
are cldorine, bromine, iodine,
mercuric chloride and, perhaps, potassium
permanganate and'osmic acid.
The extent of the coking coal region
I in Pennsylvania is estimated at G9,(j7-'i
acres, and tin; number of coke ovens at
10,050. In addition, the section of
3,000 more has been decided on, and
some are now in the course of construction.
Although three or four crystals of
the genuine precious topaz, remarkable
for size and clearness, have been found
near Pike's Peak, Mr. Ji. T. Cross
asserts that the stone which is cut in
Colorado and sold as tipaz to tourists
is not topaz at all, but simply smoky
quartz, or the cairgorin stone of Scotland.
Every bread-maker has observed
that the temperature at which her
dough is kept while rising has a decided
influence upon its quality. If it
is kept warm so that the process of
fermentation goes on rapidly, the bread
will be whiter and tenderer than if it
is allowed to rise in a low tempera* |
ture. The little yeast plant with thu
long name flourishes best at a temperature
of about seventy-two degrees
and when it has abundance of sugar
to feed upon. If no sugar is put into
I the dough the plant converts the starch
of the grain into sugar and feeds upon
it.
A Description of a Cowboy.
A genuine cowboy is worth describing,
says a Colorado letter to the Philadelphia
Press. In many respects he is
a wonderful creature. He endures
hardships that would take the lives of
'"lot <?nfl ia thorpfnrp a. nprfl'ft.
lllKJDlj 1i1uii, cvuvi 1>], viiv?va</?v| ? |,w
type of physical manhood. lie is the
finest horseman in the world, and excels
in all the rude sports of the field,
lie aims to he a dead shot, and universally
is. Constantly during the
herding season he rides seventy miles
a day, and a majority of the year sleeps
in the open air. His life in the saddle
makes him worship his horse, and it,
with a rifle and a six-shooter, complete
his happiness. Of vice in the ordinary
sense he knows nothing. He is a rough,
uncouth, brave and generous creature,
who never lies or cheats. It is a mistake
to imagine that they are a dangerous
set. Any one is as safe with them
as with any people in the world, unless
he steals a horse or is hunting for a
fight. In their eyes death is mild punishment
for horse stealing. Indeed it
is the highest crime known to the unwritten
law of the ranch. Their life,
habits, education and necessities breed
this feeling in them. But with all
this disregard of human life there are
less murderers and cut-throats graduated
from the cowboys than from
among the better educated classes of
the East who come out here for venture
or gain. They delight in appearing
rougher than they are. To a tenderfoot,
as they call an Eastern man, they
* 4. _ i-ii txI^a.I nnn/11!nry of Arina on/1
10VB to ten uiuuu-tuiiiiiug tivuiiw
impress him with the dangers on the
frontier. But no man need get in a
quarrel with them unless he seeks it,
or get harmed unless he commits some
crime. They very often own an interest
in the herd they are watching, and
very frequently become owners of
rauches. The slang of the range they
always use to perfection and in season
or out of season. I "nless you want to
insult them, never oiler a c >\vboy pay
for any little kindness he has done or
for a share of his rude meal. If the
changes that are coming to stock-raising
should take the cowboy from the
ranch its most interesting feature will
be gone.
A Rich Man Dies or Starvation.
"So Jones is dea l," said one Somerville
man to another, the other day.
" Yes, poor fellow," was the reply,
" he's gone." " What did lie die of V"
inquired the first speaker. "Starvation,"
was the answer. "Starvation!
Good gracious, the man was worth
it 1 l-nmir tKot- nHinl
? H11V1> Uiitv, rn. W V?
he died of starvation. I'll tell you
how it was: Jones was always fancying
that there wjis something the matter
with him; so he went to a doctor
one day and had himself examined,
and the doctor informed him that lie
had kidney disease, ;ind besides taking
medicine must diet himself. Said the
do2tor; 'You must avoid all kinds ol
salt meats, salt fish, potatoes, cabbage
and vegetables of every kind.' .lones
followed the advice, hut found himself
no better. lie went to another doctor,
and after being examined was informed
that he must avoid all kinds of fresh
meats also. This did not do him any
good, as he thought, and he went to
. mother doctor, who highly approved
of the advice which had previously
been given, and further warned him
against all kinds of pastry, likewise
shellfish, including oysters and clams.
'The best thing for you is a milk diet,'
said this doctor; so Jones lived wholly
upon milk. Xot feeling himself any
better, he went to another dor-tor, who
cautioned him to avoid milk, above all
things, if he wanted to get well.
This reduced Jones to a diet of cold
water and fresh air, and finding himself
no better upon this regimen, he
went to another doctor who urged him
to beware of drinking too much water
and being too much in the air. This
last advice cut off the last of Jones'
article of diet, and he died of starvation,
as I have told you."?SomervUle
Journal.
An Emperor's Dilemma.
The emperor of China, young as he
is, has already to maintain some seventy
women on his establishment in various
capacities, and,like any other gentleman
who has ladies under his protection,
the duty devolves on him of
cluthing them. This would be a com
paratively easy tasK wore me lair onea
ot a reasonable turn of mind. ]Jut,
unhappily for the brother of the sun
and the moon, their extravagance is
pronounced to be beyond all bounds.
Two hundred and fifty thousand thaels,
which is more than one-half the land
tax of the empire, were expended last
year in silk, satin, gauze, velvet, red
and gilt papers, and pearls. It is said
that i ne dress, which is in possession
of an empress, was covered last year
with seed pearls worked in so peculiar
a fashion as to have cost a fabulous
sum. With respect to this robe there
are great scorching* of heart. The
empress is aged, though the dress is
new. If she die, according to custom
it must be burned, supposing it to be
| in her possession at the time of her
death. She refuses to part with it,
and the idea of this wastefulness,
11 ?!A1 11? ^..AAL<um.tr rrrrvi f i?V
coupiea wii/ii liiu j g.vitv ...
penditure in the coming year, troubles
the owner of the vermilion pencil exceedingly.
How to Keep Cool.
Said a New York physician to a
Morning Journal reporter.
It is supposed by most persons that
if they bathe in cold water, drink iced
lemonade, ginger ale, ice-water, etc.,
sleep with a thin coverlet over tliem,
eat cold dinners and rub their faces
with their pocket handkerchiefs every
few moments that they will be cool, or.
at least, as comfortable as the weather
will permit. Now this is all wrong.
A cold drink makes one feel exceedingly
pomfortable for a few moments, and
then the individual will feel warmer
J than ever and perspire moreprofusetiiy.
| The best way to keep cool is as f'ol!
lows: Do not drink any ice-water,
j take only one glass of soda or lemonade
a day; e?.t a warm dinner, but do
not eat quite as much as you want;
take hot coffee or tea for breakfast,
just as you do in winter; sleep with a
very light gauze blanket over you in
the night, and take a sponge bath in
tepid salt water before retiring. This
makes the body cool and keeps
mosquitos away, do not wear a heavy
j hat or atightcollar, wear light flannels,
I low-cut shoes, carry an umbrella, and
above all do not rub your face too often,
because the action only heats the skin
to a greater degree and makes you
perspire more freely. If this advice is
strictly followed you will be cooler and
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DAWN.
The dawn flits from somber fold
Of the mantle of night, and with tints of gold
Illumines the skies;
And as he beokoned his myriad hosts
The night with its weird and spectral ghosts
Before him flies.
He sends the breath of the morning air
To drive the wolf to his tangled lair,
Out of man's sight;
And the uerpent crawls with a hissing sound
Back to his caverns under the ground,
To await the night.
He speeds the wind, with its murmurs of
rest,
To awaken the robins within their nest,
u:,l ninr**
/\uu uiu uium rxu^ j
And tells it to pause ns it wanders away,
To caress the leaves and the flowerets gay,
And their perfumes fling.
He sees a lily, with low bent head,
Drooping and withered and almost dead,
Out in the street;
He sends the raindrops tenderly down
To wipe from its fare the dust of the town
With tntir silvery feet.
Tlio breath of the flowers and the early morn
Touches a mother whose child, newly-born
Lies on her breast.
She 1 ioks through the vine-wreathed windowpane
At tho glittering drops of falling rain,
Filled with rest.
And ho spreads on the face of tho little guest
All tho rainbow hues that he Iovos best;
And the mother's eyes
Are tilled with the holy mother-love
(1 hat is nearest kin to the angels above)
And a sweet surprise.
Tho light is gilding the tall tree top8
That arc laden with myriad? of sparkling
. drops;
One fleecy clond
Floats like a ship in tho distanco away,
And the dawn making room for tho fuller
jwn day,
Lies in his shroud.
?Ejfiic M. Land.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A thunderstorm is a high-toned
affair.
A laughing stock?A collection of
good jokes.?Boston Courier.
A hog may be considered a good
mathematician when it comes to square
root.
Watermelons are here and the population
will soon double up.?Seio York
Journal.
People should inform themselve
about the tariff. It is every man's
duty.?Picayune.
To wash a mule safely, do it with a
g?rden hose, and stand on the other
side of the fence while you do it.?
Puck.
"We are told that last year nearly 400
persons were killed by the wind in this
country. This is probably a mild way
of informing us that they were talked
to death.?Statesman.
" Sponge underclothing is the latest
sensation," writes a fashion scribe. It
is nothing new. Tailors sponge everything,
and fashionable young men
sponge the tailors.?Picayune.
A Syracuse soda fountain exploded
the other day, breaking a young man's
leg and his jaw. "We have always
tried to impress the female mind with
the fact that the blame things were
loaded.?Hartford Post.
A young man dressed in the highest
of fashion and with a poetic turn of
mind, was driving along a country
road and, upon gazing at the pond
which skirted the highway, said: "Oh,
how I would like to have my heated
head in those cooling waters!" An
Irishman, overhearing the exclamation,
immediately replied : " Bedad, you
might have it there and it wouldn't
sink."?Pretzel's Weekly.
An old butcher way out in Missouri,
With neuralgia he sulT< red like fury,
St. Jacobs Oil banished
, The pain which all vanished?
And prevented a coroner's jury.
A cranky old man named Make,
Says St. Jacobs Oil "takes the cake/
lie gave it one test,
And says its the best
Cure in the worl 1 for backache.
It is estimated that Washington Ter
ritory will export this year 335,000,000
! feet of lumber, 200,000 tons of coal,
i 200.00) pounds of hops, 200,000 cases
i of salmon, 5.000,000 bushels of wheat,
i 3.000,000 bushels of oats, 100,000
bushels of potatoes and 2,500,000
pounds of wool. In cargoes of 1,500
' tons this produce will load 900 large
ships.
W'reokn of Iliuiinnity,
i Who have wasted their manly vigor and
| owers by youthful follies and perniciws
practices pursued in solitude, inducing ner'
voub debility, impaired memory, mental
i anxiety, despondency, lack of self-confidence
rnd will power, weak back, involun'ary vital
losses and kindrtd wenknesses.should address
with three letter postage stamps for large
illustrated treatise, giving unfailing means
of cure, World's Dispensary medical asb'>
jiatiojj, Buffalo, N. Y.
i Utah is to be invaded by a detachment o
thi' Salvation army.
Wadlet, Ga.?Dr. B. It. Doyle says: "1
consider Brown's Iron Bitters superior as n
tonic to any preparation now in use."
A uukmoane moves eighty miles per hour
Thousands of women bless the day on
which Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescrip'ion"
was inado known to them. In nil tho^e
derangements causing backache, draggingdown
sensations, nervous and general debility,
it is a sovereign remedy, its soothing
imd healing properties render it of the
utmost value to ladies suffering from "'internal
fever," congestion, inflammation, or
i alceration. By druggists.
The Mormons have this year sent out 3G0
missionaries.
Paralytic strokes, heart disease and kidney
affections prevented by ti e use of Brown's
[ron Bitters.
The school for Indian pupils in Genoa,
Neb., is to accommodate />00 children.
Twenty Your* a Hnflorrr.
R. y. Piehce, M. D., Buffalo, N. Dear
Sir?Twenty years ngo i was smpw rnun< u?
I he Atlantic ocean, and the cold and exlo<ure
cursed a large abscess to form on
each leg. which kept continually discharging,
Aft ">r .-pending hundreds of dollars, with no
benefit, I tried jour "Golden Medicil Discovery"
and now, in less than three tn< n hs
after taking the first bottle, I am thankful to
say I am completely curtd. and for ti e first
time in ten years can put my left heel to tl o
ground. I am yours, William Kvdeii, 87
Jeffer?ou Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
Lying acts are only the miserable substitutes
for lying words.
Anamosa, Iowa.?Dr. J. G. McGuire says
" I know Brown's Iron Bitters is a good tonic
and gives general satisfaction."
Pbiob to 14!?1 the colon was not used in
printiug.
1'. T. Baunum is seventy-three years old.
Do you evtr have atuie i>n ns in yo ir loft
breast exti nding to your arms, do you ever
have 8 >ll< c iting fe'ling- i> re ron of ;o r
heart? If n ?. you ha1 o !e r c'i <n e. I's;
Dr. Graves' Heart Regulator, a sure ^pe i.i'%
s?l {er bot'.le.
A corner in pork?A pig's ear.
Thotmnd-i testify to the merits of D".
firavos' Heart Regulator as a cure for h art
dbea o in Jill forms. It i= known fr >m
Maine to California. <-'ive it a tr.al for
those ilistresre I fee'ings.
There are no old maids in Hindostau.
Fou dyspepsia, inmoestion, depression of spirits
and general debility in their various forms;
also as a preventive against fever and ague ami
other intermittent fevers, the "Ferro-rhosphorated
Klixir of Calisaya," made by Caswell,
Hazard it Co., New York, and sold by all Druggists,
is the best tonic; and for patients recovering
from fever or other sickness it lias no equaL
This elegant preparation has been on sale
since and is recommended for loss of
appetite and general debility. Removos nil
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An unusual artiole from the Rochester
(N. Y.) Democrat and Chronicle was published
in this paper recently and has been the
subject of much conversation both in professional
circles and on the street. Apparently
it caused more oommotion in Rochester,
as the following from the fame paper
shows *
Dr. J. B. Heiiion. who is well known not
/vniw in Rochester. but in nearly every part
of America, sent an extended article to this
paper, a few days since, which was duly published,
detailing his remarkable experience
and rescne from what seemed to be certain
death. It would be impossible to enumerate
the personal inquiries which have been made
at our office a-i to the validity of the article,
but they have been bo numerous that further
investigation of the subject was deemed nn
editorial necessity.
With this end in view a representat ve of
this paper called on Dr. Henion at his residence,
when the following interview occurred:
" That article of yours, doctor, has created
quite a whirlwind. Are the statements
about the terrible condition you were in, and
the way you were rescued such as you can
susfain?"
"Every one of them and many additional
ones. Few people ever get so nenr the grave
as I did and then return, and I am not surprised
that the public think it marvelous. It
was marvelous."
"How in the world did you, a physic'an,
come to be brought so low':''
" By neglecting the first and most simple
symptoms. I did not think I was sick. It
is true I had frequent headaches; felt tired
most of the time: could eat nothing one day
and was ravenous the noxt: felt dull, indefinite
pains, and my stomach was out of order,
but I did not think it meant anything serious."
" But have the^e common ailments anything
to do with the fearful Bright's disease
which took i-o tirm a hold on you?"
" Anything? Why, they are the sure indications
of the first stages of that dreadful
malady. The fact is, few people know or
realize wnauun mem, unu j am furry to oay
that too few physicians do either."
"That is a strange statement, doctor."
" But it is a true one. The medio il profession
have been treating symptoms instead
of diseases for ye irs, and it is hich time it
ceased. We doctors have been clipping off
the twigs when wo should strike at the root.
The symptoms I have just mentioned or any
unusual action or irritation of the water
channels indicate the approach of Bright's
disease even more than a cough announces
the coming of consumption. We do not
treat the cough, but try to help the lungs.
We should not waste our time trying to relieve
the headache, stomach, pains about the
body or other symptoms, but go directly to
the kidneys, the source of most of these ailments."
" This, then, is what you meant when yon
said more than one-half the deaths which
occur arise from Bright's disease, is it
doctor?"
"Precisely. Thousands of so-called diseases
are torturing people to-day, when in
reality it is BrightYs disease in some one of
its many forms. It is a Hydra-1 eaded mons!er
and the slightest symptoms should strike
terror to every one who has them. I can
look back and recall hundreds of deaths
which physicians declared at the time were
caused by paralysis, apoplexy, heart disease,
pneumonia, malarial fever and other common
complaints which I see now were caused
by Bright's disease."
"And did all these cases have simple
symptoms at first ?"
"Every one of them, and might have been
cured as I was by the timely use of the same
remedy?Warner's Safe Cure. I am getting
my eyes thororghly open in this matter and
think I am helping ot'iers to see the facts
and their possible danger also. Why, there
are no end of truths bearing on this subject.
If you want to know more about it go and
see Mr. Warner himself. He waa sick the
same as I, and is the healthiest man in
Rochester to-day. He has made a study of
this subject and can give yon more facts
than I can. Go. too, and see Dr. I^attimore,
the chemist, at the University. If you want
facts there are any quantity of them showing
the alarming increase of Bright s disease,
its simple and deceptive symptoms,
and there is but one way by which it can be
escaped."
Fully satisfied of the truth and force of the
Doctor's words, the reporter bade him goodday
and called on Mr. Warn?r at his eslablishnwnt
on Exchange street. At first Mr.
Warner was inclined to be reticent, but learning
that the information desired was about
the alarming increase of Bright's disease, his
manner changed instantly, and he spoke very
earnestly:
' Itis true that Bright's disease has increased
wonderfully, and we find, by reliable
statistics, that in the past ten years its
growth has been 250 per cent. Look at the
prominent men it has carricd off: Everett,
humner, Chase, Wilson, Carpentsr, Bishop)
Haven and Peck, and others. This is terrible.
and shows a greater growth than that of
any other kno wn complaint. It should be
plain to every one that something must be
done to check this increase or there is no
knowing where it may end."
"Do you think many people are afflicted
with it to-day who do not realize it, Mr.
Warner?"
" Hundreds of thousands. I have a striking
example of this truth which has just
come to my notice. A prominent professoi
in a New Orleans medical college was lecturing
before his clasB on the subject of Bright's
disease. He had various fluids under microscopic
analysis, and was showing the students
what the indications of this terrible
malady were. In order to show the contrast
between healthy and unhealthy fluids he had
provided a vial, the contents of which were
drawn from his own person. 'And now,
gentlemen.' he said, ' aa.we have seen the
unhealthy indications 1 will show \ ou how it
appears in a state of perfect health.' and he
submitted his own fluid to the usual test. As
he watched the re'ults his countenance sud
? 1 1
denly changed?ms coior anu counutuiu uvm
left him, and in a trembling voice he said:
'Gentlemen, I have made a painful discovery;
/ have Bright's disease of the kidneys.'
and in less than a year he was dead."
" 5fou believe, then, that it has no symptoms
of its own and is frequently unknown
even by the person who is afflicted with it':"
" It has no symptoms of its own and very
often none at all. Usually no two people
have thj same symptoms, and frequently
death id the first symptom. The slightest
indication of any kidney difficulty should be
enough to strike terror to any one. I know
what I am talking about, for I have been
through all the stages of kidnfy disease."
" You know of I)r. Henion's case?"
" Yes, I have both read and heard of it."
" It is very wonderful, is it not?"
" A very prominent case, but no more so
than a great many others that have come to
my notice as having bean cured by the same
mo ins."
"You believe, then, that Bright's disease
can be cured?"
"I know it can. I know it from the experience
of hundieJsof prominent persons who
were ffiven up to die by both their physicians
and friends."
"You speak of your own experience, what
was it?"
' A fearful one. I had felt lauguid and Tinfitted
for business for yea:a. But I did not
ki:ow what ailed me. When, however. I
found it was kidney difficulty, I thought
there was little hoi e. and so did the doctors.
I have aiuce learned thjt one.of the physicians
of this city pointed me out to a gentleman
on the street one day, saying, 'there
goes a man who w ill he dead within a year.' I
believe his words would have provtn true if I
had not fortunately secured and used the remedy
no .v known as Warner's Safe Cure."
"And this cause J you to manufacture it?"
" No, it caused me to investigate. I went
to the principal cities, saw physicians prescribing
and usin.' it, and I therefore determined,as
a duty I owed humanity and the
suffering, to bring it within their reach, and
now it is known in every part of America, is
sold in every drugstore and has become a
houselpld necessity."
The reporter left Mr. Warner, mnch impressed
with the earnestness and sincerity
of his statements, and next paid a visit to
Dr. S. A. Lattimore, at bis residence on
Piince street. Dr. Lattimore, although
busily engaged npon some matters conntcttd
with the Statu beard of health, of
which he is one of the analysts, courteously
?<ha,,no?tinn? thnt werenroDOunded
him:
"Did you make a chemical analysis of the
cafe of Mr. U. H. Warner some three years
ago. doctor?"
" Yes, sir."
" \Vhiit did this an iljsis show yon?"
' The presence of albumen and tube casts
in great abundance."
"And what did the symptoms indicate?"
"A serious disease of the kidneys."
'Did you think Mr. Warner could recover?"
"No. sir. I did not think it i o sible. It
was seldom, indred, tint so pronounced a
case had. up lo that time, ever been cured."
' Do you know anything about the remedy
which cuie.l him?"
" Ves. I have chemically analyzed it and
upon critical examination find it entirely
free from any i olsonous or deleterious substance-."
We publish the foregoing statements in
view of the c unmotion which the publicity ,
of Dr. Henion's artie'e ha< caused and to
meet the prestations which have been
made. The standing of Dr. Henion, Mr.
Warner and Dr. Lattimore in the community
is beyond question and the statements they
make cannot for a moment I.e doubted.
They conclusively show that Bright'** disease
of the kidneys is oni* of the most deceptive
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