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Removing a Man's Kidney to
Save his Life.
Heroic Treatment of an Apparently
Hopeless Case.
An Evansville (Ind.) dispatch says: For
the last ten months Joseph Whye, of Warrick
county, has been an inmate of the Evansville
city hospital. He came to the hospital to be
treated for an intense jumping pain in his
left side, the cause of which was at first unknown.
Being carefully watched by the atrr
nKvcinions on/1 Viavincr VtAPTI PHVPT1 R
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special course of treatment for what was
considered to be Bright's 'disease of the
kidneys without avail, there was
nothing left !o do but wait for
further symptoms. These came after a time
in a small swelling which appeared in the left
ride, which, after it was hrst noticed, developed
rapidly. The case was diagnosed
then as an abscess of the kidney, and the
accompanying flow of bloody pus which
comes at a certain stage of this disease, confirmed
it The suppuration was exceedingly
Erofu.se, and was kept up by the flow of
quid through the kidney.
The disease is exceedingly dangerous and
the only chance which a person afflicted has
is that when the abscess bursts it will not be
in the loins, but in such a place as -will be
readily drained by the natural outlet. Iu
Whye's case, from the symptoms shown, it
was considered that the abscess was discharging
slightly in the loins, and that in a
short time the abdominal cavity
would be filled with virulent pus, which was
sure to set up a peritonitis which could only
end fatally. A consultation was held in the
case at which all the local physicians were
present, and the conclusion was reached that
the only chance under the circumstances
which the patient had, was to remove the offending
kidney.
This rare and difficult operation was performed
at the hospital yesterday afternoon.
It attracted all the local medical talent. After
f>?? Tvnt,if?nt. had been out under the influ
ence of an anaesthetic, an incision was made
in the abdominal wall just below the umbilicus,
about six inches long. Great care was
taken not to lacerate the intestines, and a director
was used when cutting through the
peritoneum. After the opening had been
made into the abdominal cavity, the intestines
were pushed aside and partly raised so
as to enable the surgeon to get at the diseased
kidney.
The kidney was found to be greatly swollen
and adherent in many places to the surrounding
tissue. By delicate manipulation
the adhering surfaces were separated so that
the full extent of the kidney could be readily
felt and examined. It was found to be affected
in every part by the disease and
changed in color. It was hard and soft in spots
and its elements were evidently fast changing
into pus, a large amount of which was found
in the abdominal cavity. This was at once
removed. Keeping the neighboring internal
organs out of the way, the surgeon gradually
worked the kidney upward until it
was brought into a favorable position
for cutting. The appendage which
united it to the other organs was unusually
thick, and it required several cuts with scissors
to sever it. The kidney was then removed
from the body, while the blood spurted
from the lacerated arteries into the abdominal
cavity.
The bleedine Doints were picked up after
much difficulty* and the arteries were ligatured,
after the patient had lost a large
amount of blood from hemorrhage. The abdominal
cavity was then carefully washed
out with an antiseptic solution and every
trace of the irritating pus removed. An examination
was made also of the other
kidney. It was found in a healthy enough
condition to do double duty. The intestines
and other organs being properly returned to
position, the opening in the abdoman was
closed by silver and catgut sutures and the
wound bandaged with antiseptic dressings.
The patient rallied from the attending shock
and appeared to have a chance of recovery.
MISS BAYARD'S DEATH.
The Secretary'8 Eldest Daughter Expircs
Suddenly of Heart Disease.
Miss Katherine Bayard, the eldest daughter
of the secretary of state, was to have assisted
Miss Rose Cleveland, the President's
?ister, at her afternoon reception in the executive
mansion on the 16th. When Miss Anne
Bayard called Miss Katherine, about 2
o'clock, to prepare for this duty, the silence
of death was the response to the voice of that
sister.
Since her father bocame secretary of state
the burdens of social duties incident to this
honorable position had mainly devolved upon
Miss Bayard, for the mother has been in illhealth
for some time. At this season, when receptions
are occurring nearly every night, Miss
Bayard had made it a rule not to rise
until two o'clock in the afternoon, that at
least she might have the recuperating benefit
-of a long rest after each fatiguing night
vine Duaas were ciosea ana tne room was
-darkened by curtains that the light of day
might not interfere with her sleep. To the
warning that she had no time to lose if she
intended to be at tho White House at 3
-o'clock there was no reply. The curtain was
then drawn aside and the blinds opened to
?id the sister in rousing her. Apparently
she was asleep. Her face was warm but
there was a stillness about the body that excited
the worst suspicions. Her father and
the family doctor were hastily summoned,
bat the latter decided that the unfortunate
young lady had been dead for several hours,
caving succumbed to heart disease, to
which she had been subject for some time.
Hiss Bayard had assisted her father and
mother at the secretary's usual Friday nijrht
reception during the evening, and when jhe
retired complained of feeling tired.
Miss Bayard was the only lady invited to
receive with Miss Cleveland. When the sad
news of her death was received the many
ladies who had already arrived at the White
House were shocked beyond expression, and
the reception was at once postponed. The
President also cancelled an engagement to attend
a theatre party during the evening, and
the White House was ordered closed.
Miss Bayard was one of the leading figures
in Washington society, her beauty, wit and
charming manners attracting much attention
at all entertainments where she appeared.
She was the pride of her parents, ana her untimely
death creates widespread sympathy
for the bereaved family. Her burial took
place at Wilmington. DeL
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.NJtiW oTATLo.
A Chance for Three Territories?Position
of Senator Voorhees.
United States Senator Voorhees, who has
introduced bills to admit Montana and Washington
Territories to the Union, has been
asked by a Washington correspondent if he
intended to make the admission of Dakota
conditional on the admission of Montana, as
it has been reported that the Democrats were
disposed to do. He replied; "I can speak
only for myself. I think the best arrangement
that we can make is to admit Dakota,
Montana and Washington together.
They must all come in soon, and they
mignt as well come in now. I do not see j
how we can prevent Dakota's coming in. She
has a voting population of 80,000, and is
certainly entitled to admittance. I thought
at first that I should -oppose the division of
Dakota, but I do not see how I can. The
Territory has an area of five times my own
State, and South Dakota will be about as
large as Ohio and Indiana. Montana has a
voting population of 26,000 and Washington
a voting population of 40,000.
There are not fifteen congressional
districts in the country with the
population of Washington, and not a hundred
with that of Montana. Dakota is Republican.
Montana is Democratic, and I am confident
will remain so. Washington is close and may
be won by either party. If she comes into the
Union by Democratic votes under a Democratic
administration, our chances in the new
State will be all the better. It seems to me
much the best plan to take in these three Territories
at once. They are entitled to it, j
and politically it will be as fair and equitable
an arrangement as can be made."
Several prominent Democrats are reported
to agree with Mr. Voorhees. Mr. Springer
expresses the opinion that the House committee
on Territories will report favorably
on the division and admission of Dakota unless
the party shall hold a caucus upon the
subject. In that event it is his opinion that
the decision would be adverse.
Lowly, Bat Welcome.
tThea I have said my quiet say,
When I have sung my little song,
flow sweetly, sweetly dies the day,
The valley and tlx hill along;
How sweet the summons, "Come awayf
That calls me from the busy throng.
I thought beside the water's flow
Awhile to lie beneath the leaves,
I thought in autumn's harvest glow
To rest my head upon the sheaves;
But lo! me thinks the day was brief
And cloudy; flower, nor fruit, nor leaf
I bring, and yet accepted, free
And blest, my Lord I come to thee.
What matter now for promise lost,
Through blaat of sprmg or summer rains?
What matter now for purpose crost,
For broken hopes, and wasted pains?
What if the olive little yields,
What if the grape be blighted? Thine
The corn upon a thousand tields,?
TTnAn a fhrtncnnH hi!l< fchft vine.
Thou lovest still the poor; Oh, blest
In poverty beloved to be!
Less lowlv is my choice confess'd,
I love the rich in loving thee!
My spirit bare before thee stands,
I bring no giftj I ask no sign;
I come to thee with empty hands,
The surer to be filled from thine.
?Dora Greenivell.
RELIGIOUS READING.
Urcat Triumphs.
"Behold I see the heavens open, and
the Son of Man standing on the right
hand of God."
Thus spake the proto-matyr in the
expectation or death. And in all ages
have there been those across whose
vision, at their dying hour, similar
scenes of blessedness have passed. As
orbs of light meet our gaze when the
darkness of nightfall covers the earth,
so do scenes of glory sometimes appear
to the Christian when the shadows of
evening closes his day of life.
"Christ"?"angels"?"beautiful" ?
"magnifrcent"?"delightful," wa3 the
language of the expiring Dr. Hope.
"Home, home!" said Normand Smith.
"I see the 2s'ew Jerusalem. They
praise him?they praise him."
"Now farewell, world," said Rev.
Mr. Holland, "welcome heaven; the
Day Star from on high has visited my
heart. Oh speak it when I am gone,
and preach it at my funeral. God
dealeth familiarly with man. I feel
his mercy. I see his majesty. Whether
in the body or out of the body 1
cannot tell: but I see things which are
unutterable."
I have been," said Walker of Truro,
"upon the wings of cherubim.
Heaven has in a manner been opened
to me. I shall soon be there."
"Do you see," said Edmund Auger,
"that blessed assembly who await my
arrival? Do you hear that sweet music,with
which those holy men invite
me, that I may henceforth be partaker
of their happiness? How delightful
it is to be in the society of blessed
spitits! Let us go. We must go. Let
me go!"
"You seem to enjoy foretastes of
heaven," said one to H. S. Golden.
Oh, this is no longer a foretaste," was
the joyful assent, "this is heaven. I
not only feel the climate, but I breathe
the ambrosial air of heaven, and sooj
shall enjoy the company."
"If I must die?ami die I must?
Let some kind seraph come,
And bear mo on his friendly wing,
Tft mr in I ItmnA
"V
Of Canaan's land, from Plagah's top,
May I but have a view, 1
Though Jordon should o'erflow its banks,
I'll boldly venture through.
?Independent.
The First Two Disciples.
Memorable as John's testimony was,
it seems on the first day to have produced
no immediate result But on
the second day, when the Baptist was
standing accompanied by two of his
disciples, Jesus again walked by, and
John, fixing upon him his intense and
earnest gaze, exclaimed again, a3
though with involuntary awe and admiration,
"Behold the Lamb of God!"
The words were too remarkable to
be again neglected, and the two Galilsean
youths who heard them followed
the retreating figuie of Jesus. He
caught the sound of their timid footsteps,and
turning round to look at
them as they came near, he gently
asked, "What seek ye?"
It was but the very beginning of
his ministry; as yet they could not
know him for all that he was; as yet
they had not heard the gracious words
that proceeded out of his lips; in coming
to seek Him thu3 they might be
actuated by inadequate motives, or
even by mere passing curiosity; it
was fit that they should come to Him
by spontaneous impulse, and declare
their object of their own free wilL
i3ut how deep and full of meaning
is that question, and how sternly it
behooves all who come to their Lord
to answer it! One of the holiest of
the church's saints, St. Bernard, was
in the habit of warning himself by the
solemn query, "Beniardi, ad quid
veiiistiV?"Bernard, for what purpose
art thou here?" Self-examination
could assume no more searching
form; but all the meaning which it
involved was concentrated in that
quiet and simple question, 'What
seek ye ?"
They came and saw where Jesus
dwelt, and as it was then four in the
afternoon, stayed there that day, and
probably slept there that night; and
before they lay down to sleep they
knew and felt in their inmost hearts
that the kingdom of heaven had cona*
that, f.hft hr?n?<* nf Inner ftpnturinu worn
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now fulfilled, that they had besii in
the presence of Him who wa3 the de
Bire of all nations, the Priest greater
than Aaron, the Prophet greater than
Moses, the King greater than David,
the true Star of Jacob and Scepter of
Israel.
One of those two youths who came
earliest to Christ was Andrew. The
other suppressed his own name because
he was the narrator, the beloved
disciple, the evangelist, St. John. No
wonder that the smallest details, down
even to the very hour of the day, was
treasured in his memory, never to be
forgotten, even in extreme old age.?
Farrar.
Keports frem almost every quarter are
being daily received showing conclusive
evidence that the liquor element is becoming
alarmed at the rapid progress
made by the temperance advocates. They
have deemed it imperative to organize
themselves and prepare for an aggressively
defensive campaign. Let them proceed.
The more they agitate the more
will the iniquitous system be shown up
in its true light, and the patriotic public
will demand its total extinction.? West
Grove (Penn.) Independent.
OR MIME SERMON.
CHOICE OF A HUSBAND.
Text: "The Lord grant you that ye may
find rest, each of you in the house of her husband."?Ruth
i., 9.
This was the prayer of pious Naomi -for
Ruth and Orpan, began the preacher. It
is an appropriate prayer now in behalf of
unmarried womanhood. Naomi, the good
old soul, knew that the devil would take their
cases in hand if God did not, and so she
prays: "The Lord grant you that ye may
find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.
" I applaud the celibacy of a multitude
of women who, rather than make unfit selection,
have made none at all. It has not been
a lack of opportunity for marital contract on
their part, but their own culture and refinement
and their exalted idea as to what a husband
ought to be have caused their declination.
They have seen so many women marry
imbeciles or ruffians, or incipient sots or lifetime
incapables, or magnificent nothings cm*
men who before marriage were angelic and
afterward diabolic, that they have been
alarmed and stood back. They saw so many
boats go into the maelstrom that they steered
into other waters. Better for a woman to
live alone, though she lived a thousand years*
than to bo annexd to some of these musculine
failures with which society is surfeited. The
patron saint of almost every family circle is
some such unmarried woman, and among all
the families of cousins she moves around, and
her coming in each house is the morning and
her going away is the night.
In my large circle of kindred, perhaps
twenty families in all, it was an Aunt JPhceoe.
Paul gave a letter of introduction to one
whom he calls "Phoebe, our sister," as she
went up from Cenchrea to Rome, commending
her for her kindness and Christian service,
ancl imploring for her all courtesies. I think
Aunt Phoebe was named after her. Was
there a sickness in any of the households, she
was there ready to sit up and count out the
drops of medicine. "Was there a marriage,
she nelped deck the bride for the altar. Was
there a new soul incarnated, she was there to
reioice at the nativity. "Was there a sore
bereavement, she was "there to console. The
children rushed out at her first appearance
crying, "Here comes Aunt Phoebe, and but
for parental interference they would have
pulled her down with their caresses, for she
was not very strong, and many severe illnesses
had given her enough glimp;>es of the next
world to make her lieavenly-minded.
"De Witt," she said to me one day, "twice
in my life I have been so overwhelmed with
the love of God that I fainted away and could
hardly be resuscitated. Don't tell me there is
no heaven. I have seen it twice." If you
would know how her presence would sootho
an anxiety or lift a burden, or cheer a sorrow
or leave a blessing on every room in the house
ask any of the Talmages. She has tarried
at her early home, taking care of an invalid
father, until the blood of life hud somewhat
faded, but she could interest the young folks
with some three or four tender passages in
her own history, so that we all knew that it
was not through lack of opportunity that she
was not the queen of one household, instead
of being a benediction on a whole circle of
households. At about seventy years of age she
made her last visit to my house, and when
she sat in my Philadelphia church I was more
embarrassed at her presence than by all the
audience, because I felt that in religion I had
got no further than the ABC, while she had
kerned the whole alphabet, and for many
years had finished the Y and Z. When she
went out of this life into the next what a
shout there must have been in heaven from
the front door clear up to the back seat in the
highest gatfer}\ I saw the other day in the village
cometery of Somerville, N. J., her restingplace,
the tombstone having on it the words
which thirty years ago she told me she would
like to have inscribed there, namely, "The
morning cometh." Had she a mission in the
world? Certainly. As much as Caroline
Herschel, as much as had Florence Nightin
gale, the nurse of unmea, or urace juornng,
the oarswoman of the LoDg Stone lighthouse,
or Margaret Breckenridge at Vicksburg or
Mary Snelton distributing roses and grapes
and cologne in Western hospital, or thousands
of other glorious women like them, who never
took the marriage sacrament. Appreciate
all this, my sister, and it will make yo.u deliberate
before you rush out of the single
state into another unless you are sure of
betterment. It is easier for a man to find
an appropriate wife than for a woman to
find a gocd husband. Statistics show that in
Massachusetts and Now York States women
have a majority of hundreds of thousands.
It would seem that woman is a favorite with
the Lord, and that therefore he has made
more of that kind. From the order of the
creation in Paradise it is evident that the
woman is an improved edition of man.
Whatever be the reason for it, the fact is
certain that she who selects a husband has a
smaller number of people to select from
than he who selects a wife. If a man err in
his selection he can spend his evenings at the
club and dull his sensibilities by tobacco
smoke, but woman has no club-room for
refuge, and would find it difficult to habituate
herself to cigars. If a woman makes a
bad job of marital selection the jrjbability
is notwng due a iuneroi can relieve iu divorce
cases in court may interest the public,
but the love-letters of a married couple
are poor reading except for those who write
them. Pray God that you be delivered from
irrevocable mistake. If you have made such
engagement your first duty is to break it.
Further, do not unite in maiTiage with a
man of bad habits in the idea of reforming
him. If now, under the restraint of your
present acquaintance, he will not give up his
bad habits, after he has won the prize you
cannot expect him to do so. You might as
well plant a violet in the face of a northeast
storm with the idea of appeasing it. You
might as well run a schooner alongside of a
burning ship with the idea of saving the ship
The consequence will be schooner and ship
will be destroyed together. The almshouse
could tell the story or a hundred women who
married men to reform them. If by twentyfive
years of age a man has been grappled
by intoxication he is under such headway
that your attempt to stop him would be
very much like running up the track
with a wheelbarrow to stop a Hudson River
express train. What you call an inebriate
nowadays is not a victim to wine or whisky,
but to logwood and strychnine ana
nux-vomica. All these poisons have kindled
their fires in his tongue and brain, and all
the tears of a wife's weeping cannot extinguish
the flames. Instead of marrying a
man to reform him, let him reform first and
then give him time to see whether the reform
is to be permanent. Let him understand that
if he cannot do without his bad habits
for two years he must do without you forever.
Avoid union with one supremely selfish or
so wound up in his occupation that he has no
room for another. His disposition is a longlife
protest a.gainst marriage. Some are so
married to their occupation or profession that
the taking of any other bride is a case of bigamy.
There are men so severely tied to their
literary works as was Chatterfcon, whoso essay
was not printed because of the death of
the lord mayor. Chatterton made out the
following account: "Lost by the lord mayor's
death in this essay, one pound, eleven shillings,
sixpence. Gamed in elegies and essays,
five pounds and five shillings." Then he put
what ho had gained by the lord mayor's death
opposite to what ha had lost, and wrote under
it; "Am glad he is dead by three pounds,
thirteen shillings, and sixpence." When a
man is as hopelessly literary as that he ought
to be a perp?tual celibate. Some of the mightiest
men this world ever saw have not patronized
matrimony. Cowper, Pope, Newton,
Swift, Locke, Walpole, Giboon, Hume, Arbuthnot
were single. Some of these marriage
would have helped. The right kind of
a wife would have cured Cowper's gloom
and given to Newton more practicability
and been a relief to Lockers overtasked
brain. A Christian wife might have converted
Hume and Gibbon to a belief in Christianity.
But Dean Swift did not deserve a
wife from the way in which he broke the
heart of Jane Waring first and Esther Johnson
afterward, and last of all, Vanessa. The
great wit of his day, he was outwitted by his
own cruelties. Because most marriages are
fit to be made convinces us that they are divinely
arranged. Almost every cradle has an
affinity toward some other cradle. They may
be on the opposite sides 01 ine earcn, out one
child gets out of this cradle, another child
gets out of that cradle, and with their first
steps they start for each other. They may
diverge from the straight path, going toward
the north or south or east or west. They may
fall down, but the two rise facing each other.
They are approaching all through infancy.
The one, all through the years of boyhood, is
going to meet the one who is coming through
all the years of girlhood to meet him. The decision
of parents as to what is best concerning
them and the changes of fortune may for
a time seem to arrest the two journeys, but
on they go. They may never have seen each
other. The may never have heard of each other. ,
I
but the WO pilgrim* -Who started at tb&
two cradles are Bearing. After eighteen or
twenty or thirty years the two
come within sight. At the firs#
glance they may feel a dislike and
they may slacken their step. Yet something
that the world calls fate and that religion
calls Providence urges them on and on. They
must meet. They come near enough to join
hands in social acquaintance, after while to
join hands in friendship, after awhilo to join
hearts. The delegate from the one cradle
comes up the east side of the church witb her
father. The delegate from the other cradle
comes up the west aisle of the church. The
two long journeys end at the snowdrift of the
bridal veil. The two chains made out of
many years are forged together by the golden
link which the groom puts upon the third
finger of the left hand. One on earth, may
thev be one in heaven.
But there are so many exceptions to the
general rule of natural affinity that only those
are safe who pray for a heavenly hand to
lead them. Because they depended on themselves
and not on God; there are thousands of
women every year going to the slaughter. In
India women leap on the funeral pyre of a
dead husband. We have a worse spectacle
A TvtnwiAn mAmmt ma?*aKin
uuou uuau Ui douxoi ita?tt vuigu lauuxuci auio
leaping on the funeral pyre of a living husband.
Thrust your hand through the cage at
a menagerie and stroke the back of a cobra
from the East Indies. Put your head in the
mouth of a Numidian lion to see if he will
bite. Take a glassful of Paris green mixed
with some delightful henbane. These are
safer and healthier fun than answering advertisements
for a wife. Marry a rn*n who
is a fortune in himself. Houses, lands and
large inheritance are well enough, but the whee
of fortune turns so rapidly that throug.
some investment all these in a few years may
be gone. There are some things, however,
that are a perpetual fortune?good manners,
geniality of soul, kindness, intelligence,
sympathy, courage, perseverance, industry
and wholeheartedness. Marry such a one t
and yon have married a fortune, whether he
have an income now of $50,000 a year or an ?
income of $500. A bank is secure according
to its capital stock, and not to be judged by
the deposits for a day or a week. A man is *
rich according to his sterling qualities and not r
according to the vacillation or circumstances
which may leave with him a large amount of *
resources to-day and withdraw them to- t
morrow. If a man is worth nothing but
money he is poor indeed. If a man have up- s
right character he is rich. Property may j
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kets. Nothing can buy him out, nothing can
sell him out. He may have more money one
year than another, but his better fortunes
never vacillate.
Yet, do not expect to find a perfect man. If
you find one without any faults, incapable of
mistakes, never having guessed wrongly, his
patience never having Been perturbed, immaculate
in speech, in temper, in habits, do
not marry him. Why? Because you would
enact a swindle. What would you do with
a perfect man who are not perfect yourself?
And how dare you hitch your imperfection
fast on such supernatural excellence! What
a companion you would make for an angel!
In other words, there are no perfect men.
There never was but one perfect pair, and
they slipped down the banks of Paradise together.
We occasionally find a man who
says he never sins. We know he lies when he
says it We have had financial dealings with
two or three perfect men and they cheated
us wofully. Do not, therefore, look for an
immaculate husband for you will not find
him.
But do not become cynical on this subject.
Society has a great multitude of grand men
who know how to make home happy. When
they come to be husbands they evince a nobility
of nature and self-sacrificing spirit that
surprise even the wife. These are the men
who sit cheerfully in dark and dusty business
offices, ten feet by twelve, in summertime
hard at work, while the wives and
daughters are off at Saratoga, Mount Desert
or the White Sulphur. These are the men c
who, never having much education them- i
Viavn tiioir enna at Vain Anrl Harvard
and Virginia university. These aro the men 1
who work themselves to death by fifty years of i
age and go out to Greenwood leaving large
estates and geaerous life insurance 1
provision for their families. There [
are husbands and fathers here by .
the hundreds who would die for their house- 1
holds. If outlawry should ever become dom- ?
inant in our cities they would stand in their
doorway and with their one arm would cleave ?
down one by one fifty invaders, face to frice, 1
foot to foot, and every stroke a demolition.
This is what makes an army in defense of a f
country fight more desperately than an army (
of conquest It is not so much the abstract
sentiment of a flag as it is a wife and children J
and home that turns enthusiasm into " fury.
The world has such men by the million, and
the homunculi that infest all our communities
must not hinder women from appreciating
the glory of true manhood.
I was reading of a bridal reception. The d
young man had brought home the choice of
his heart in her elaborate and exquisite ap- a
parel. As she stood in the gay drawing-room
and amid the gay group tne young man's
eyes filled with tears of joy as he thought a
that she was his. Years passed by and they
stood in the same parlor on another festal occasion.
She wore the same dress, for busi- t
ness had not opened as bright to the young B
husband as be expected, ana ne naa nevei
been able to purchase for her another dress, t
Her faco was not as bright and smooth as if j
had been years before, and a careworn look
had made its signature on her countenance. *
As tlie husband looked at her he saw the dif- r
ference between this occasion and the former, .
anl he went over where she sat and said: 1
"You remember the time when we were hen a
before. You have the same dress on. Circumstances
have somewhat changed, but yotj c
look to me far more beautiful than you did
then." There is such a thing as oonjugai
fidelity, and many of you know it in youi t
own homes. I imagine the hour for which j
you pledged your truth has arrived. Then
Is much merry-making among your young c
friends, but there is an undertone of sadness
in all the house. Your choice may have been
the gladdest and the best, and the joy of the I
whole round of relatives, but when a young t.
eaglet is about to leave the old nest and is
preparing to put out into sunshine and storm C
lor itself it feels its wings tremble l
somewhat So she has a good cry
before leaving home, and at the 1
marriage father and mother always cry, or i,
feel like it. If you think it is easy to give up
a daughter in marriage, though it be with 8
brightest prospects, you will think different- t
ly when the day comes. To have all along
watched her from infancy to girlhood, ana v
from girlhood to womanhood, studious of Her
welfare, her slightest illness an anxiety, and
her presence in your home an ever-increasing y
joy, and then have her go away to some other
home?ave. all the redolence of orange blossoms
and all the chime of marriage bells and c
all the rolling of wedding march in full
diapason, and all the hilarious coogratula- a
tions of your friends cannot make you forget v
that you are suffering a loss irreparable. But
you know it is all right, and you have a re- P
membrance of an embarkation just like it t]
twenty-five or thirty years ago, in which you ,
were one of the parties, ana suppressing as
possible your sadness, you say "Good-byr
I hope that you, the departing daughter,
will not forget to write often home, for whatever
betide you, the old folks will never lose
their interest in your welfare. Make visits
to them also as often and stay as long as you
can, for there will be changes at the old place P
after awhile. Every time you go you will q
find more gray hairs on father's head and
more wrinkles on mother's brow, and after a s.
while you will notice that the elastic step has j(
become decrepitude. And some day one of ,,
the two pillars of his early home will fall,and
after awhile the other pillar of that home fi
will fall, and it will be a comfort to yourself,
when they are gone, you can feel that while 0
you are faithful in your new home you can v
never forget your old home and the first
friends you ever had and those to whom you n
are more indebted than you ever can be to ?]
?T>w /-.Tin alsa o-rr*?r?t. tn fiod?I TTlPJin VOllT
CXL1J VUW v?w ? jl
father and mother. . lJ
The efforts of the Law and Order *
<T
league to suppress] the sale of liquor in
this town have been not only commend- r<
able but successful to an encouraging cx- *c
tent. No doubt a consibcrablc quantity
of liquor is still sold, but with great can- S1
tion and to regular customers who can ?
be relied upon not to expose the dealer. ^
It has been proved that liquor selling can 11
be restricted; and we are glad that there
are men in Marblehead who are not afraid 0
to hunt down the liquor traffic, in the ^
face of criticism, indifference and opposition.
Let the league have the support ^
of a temperance board of selectmen and u
we shall see a better condition of things c
another year.?Words of Cheer, Marble- P
head, Mass. I
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT.'
Song of tlie Drink.
Wtth garments faded and worn,
Witt eyes that with weeping were red,
A woman sat till the boars of morn,
Waiting his coming with dread.
"WaitI wait! waitl
Till tl e heart is ready to sink,
And still in a sad, despairing tone,
Shesang the Song of the Prink.
Drink t drink! drink!
While the sun is rising high,
And drink! drink! drink!
Till tbe stars are in the sky.
It is oh! to be carried in strife
Away by some barbarous band,
Rather than Kve a drunkard's sad wife,
In the midst of this Christian land.
Drink! drinkI drink!
Till the brain is all on fire;
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Till he wallows in the mire,
Rum, and brandy and gin,
Gin, and brandy, and rum,
Till in the glitter he falls asleep;
And I wait, but be does not come.
Oh, men; enriched by the drink,
Men whose coffers are filling up,
Not drink a alone are you dealing out,
But a skeleton in the cup.
You sell! sell! sell!
Though its victims downward sink,
Swallowing at once, with a double gulp,
Grim Death, as well as drink.
?Mr*. F. Terwiliger.
How Drunkards are Made.
At a meeting in Philadelphia, during
he week of prayer, one of the speak;rs
related this incident:
A lad was approached by one of
;hose dispensers of that which deprives
nen of their property and destroys
joth body and soul, who- solicited him
;o come into his place of destruction
md take a glass of lemonade. The boy
lesitated, but on being assured that
le would get nothing but a glass of
lice, sweet lemonade, he was inducetf
x> go in. Sure enough, he was offered
vhat had been promised him and nothng
more. This was repeated several
inied", till at length, the trap having
>een set, it was now time to spring it.
Accordingly, the rum-seller began his
rork by dropping into the glass of
emonade one drop of strong liquor, in:reasing
it so as imperceptibly to form in
he lad a taste for it. As the boy never
)aid for his drinks, one of the old cusomers
of the place asked the landlord
vhy he so favored him. He replied by
aying, "Do you see that fine mansion
ipon th e hill yonder? That belongs to
he boy's father, and will probably soon
)elong to him, and then in turn it may bcong
to me."
Fiendish! Horrible! A long-headed,
lecp-laid scheme to ruin a family and rob
hem of their property; for certainly such
i scheme, if successful, could be looked
ipon as nothing less than downright rob
)ery, and as much a penitentiary offence
is any o ther kind of robbery. But are
lot all rumsellers alike in this respect?
rhey do not care who is hurt, who comes
o grief, who suffers the pangs of hunger
ind cold, who goes to a home of sorrow
md wretchedness, whose children cry for
jread, or whose wife is abused, or beaten^
>r murdered, so they but fill their own
;offers and live on the fat of the land.?
Ezchanac.
The Cider Curse.
About the ugliest, sourest, meanest
[runkard on the globe, is the cider drunkrd.
He does not need to visit saloons,
is saloon is down cellar; and he drinks
nd guzzles, and scolds and swears, until
ie makes his home a hell, and life a
mrden to all around him. There are
ome who object to drinking rum, or
randy, but think there is no harm in
Irinking cider. The stimulating and inoxicating
principle in cider, wine, brandy,
fin, rum, lager beer and all these other
ntoxicants, is the same; it is alcohol,
,nd alcohol i9 the same poisonous and
leadly agent where it is found.
Distil the alcohol out of cider, wine,
?eer or brandy, and what is left would
>e simply dish-water. No man would
[rink cider if the alcohol was taken out
if it. "But sweet cider does not do any
rnrt," says one. No; and a man puts a
>arrel of sweet cider into his cellar; he
[rinks a glass of it, and it is sweet; he
akes another glass, and that is sweeter;
le keeps drinking and drinking until the
>arrel is empty, and the last glass is the
weetest of all, and then he is ready to
ap a new barrel. You can no more tell
rhen sweet cider becomes sour than you
an tell when a boy becomes a man, or
rhen a pig becomes a hog.
The man who commences with sweet
ider is likely to proceed to sour cider,
nd finish off with rum, gin, brandy,
nil t.hfi ratalofrue of alcoholic
' ? o
oisons which, ruin mankind and desolate
he world. Boys, let cider alone!?Tht
Pacific.
The Cost of It.
The venerable Archdeacon Bardsley has
ut the financial aspect of the drink
uestion in a very striking way in a
peech. He said "Regarding the subjet
from a financial point of view, if
hey took the Bible, and began with the
ret letter, and went right on to the end
f Revelation, they would find there
rere about 3,000,000 letters. They
light then place forty sovereigns on
lie top of each letter before they had
tie sum spent annually in the country
3r drink. During1 the years 1875-6 and
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v it) tjrtuAj vv/Uj uuv/ nwc iwx uixua..
'o cart that sum of money they would
squire 2,716 carts, each cart being
>aded with a ton and a quarter of gold
)vereigns. That would give a procesion
twelve miles long. The amount of
rain used for brewing purposes per
ear, if turned to good account, would
lake 117 four-pound loaves for every
imily in Great Britain. Merchants and
thers were crying 'hard times, hard
lines,' and complaining of over-producion.
This, at first sight, seemed true,
ut if the money spent in drink were
scd in clothing the poor women and
hildren to be found in large towns, overroduction
would be done away with.
Vnalith Paper.
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POPULAR SCIENCE.
The Indians of Mexico illumine their
path by night with a phosphorescent insect
which is far more brilliant than our
fire-fly. They feed their lights on sugarcane
instead of from the kerosene oil can,
and increase their brilliancy by dipping
them in water. These insects are said to
afford light enough to read by.
Dr. C. Heitzmann, of New York, an expert
microscopiat, claims that, by an examination
of the bfood of any person, he
can discover whether the blood be pure
or not, whether there be any latent impurity
or hereditary disease which should
render the person an unfit subject for
life-insurance or even for matrimony.
Somebody says in a London paper thai
the highest velocity yet imparted to a cannon
hall is 1,626 feet per second, equal to
a mile in 3.2 seconds. The velocity of the
earth at the equator, due to rotation on its
axis, is 1,000 miles per hour, or a mile in
3.6 seconds; thus, if a cannon ball were
fired due west and could maintain its
initial velocity, it would beat the sun in [
its apparent journey around the earth.
An area of about four and one-half
square miles forms the nucleus of the
whole oil-bearing region of the Caucasus, j
The naptha-bearing beds consist of sand, I
calcareous clays, marls, and in places
compact sandstone, often of great thickness
and penetrated by bands of pyrites.
As in Pennsylvania,the naphtha is in some
places associated with salt water, which
gives much trouble in driving bore holes.
The plateau is on a level of about 140
feet above the surface of the Caspian; and
a depth of 700 feet below that great lake
has been reached by the borers.
The apparent phenomenon by which
the sun and moon in rising or setting seem
greatly enlarged, says Stroobart, in the result
of causes, both purely physiological?
one, the greater sensitiveness of the eye to
angular magnitudes near the horizon; the
other, a direct effect of the feeble light in
the enlargement of the pupil, which, it
would seem, tends to magnify objects,
even when artificially produced. Thus it
is shown by experiments that the distance
between two luminous points within a
room suffers the same apparent change as
in the constellations, when, without altering
the distance from the eye, the altitude
is gradually increased.
It is stated in a foreign exchange that
a company is about to establish large
works at St. Petersburg for the purpose of
making rails from paper. The paper is
subjected to great pressure, and it is said
that the material is extremely durable, and
can be produced at one third the cost of
steel rails. A further advantage would be
in their lightness, not only on account of
the saving of the cost of carrying and lay
ing, but also because they could be made
in longer lengths than is the case at the
present time, therefore the number of
joints will be fewer, and consequently less
oscillation to the carriages, and the wear
and tear to both permanent way and rolling
stock reduced to a minimum. A
greater adhesion also would be offered by
these rails to the driving wheels of the
engine, and the working expenses reduced
accordingly.
How to Pop the Question.
I have in my possession a postal card
on which is the inquiry: "Which is the
best way to pop the question?" I have
had talks with several hundred men in
my time on this very point. These talks
partook very largely of the character of
experiences, and I may say that I have
yet to hear of a single happy connubial
union that sprung out of a purely commercial
proposal. Nor have I known
anything good to come of a marriage
springing from a proposal that had
been carefully prearranged. The happiest
I have known were those which grew
out of a moment that seemed created on
the spot for the very occasion. A man
may have loved a woman ten years without
having such a moment as this burst
upon him?though I wouldn't give
much for a love that couiant
come -to a head sooner. But if
it is love, the moment will come.
It may be in the subdued light; or on
the steps of the portico; or on the gate;
or in the solitude of the forest, where
only a bird is swinging and singing in
the tree-top, or somewhere by the sea.
The place is of no consequence necessarily,
but it ought to be secluded to
some extent; where the words are in
unison; where, when you say something,
no matter what it is about, it will touch
the invisible wire and send a current of
life into her soul. If she does not respond
by look or word you can depend
upon it, young man, that you are on a
cold trail. But if she does! Then put
on some more fuel; as it warms, fan it,
and as the flames brighten her cheek,
and her eyes sparkle as if they were
breaking into fragments?and her words
wreath about your own, so that your
hand is as gentle in its stroke as the
step of a fairy?so that she has to look
up at you from under the silken lashes?
then! If you are not moved by this
time to forget where vou are and who
you are?an<I if you do not say it then?
you deserve to be a toothless bachelor,
and you run the risk of making one
woman miserable all the days of her life.
But there is no fixed rule for it. And
when it is over?long years after, maybe
when you are sitting by your fireside
and the winds of a cruel winter are
sounding death taps on your window, if
you cannot go back to the place and the
time, over and over and over again, and
sit down by it, and feel something like
incense stealing its way into your soul,
God pity you, in your winter of loneliliness,
for you didn't pop to the right
woman.?Chicago Herald.
The Sailors and the Hen.
Sailors are usually credited with a good
deal of superstition. The following
story from the Eastport (Me.) Standard,
is a case in point. The steamer New
Brunswick, of the International line, recently
had a succession of bad voyages.
Head winds and storms were encountered
on the trips between St. John and Boston.
She was due in Eastport on Friday,
but did not reach that port until
Sunday noon. The sailors ana some of
the officers at last concluded that there
was a Jonah on board and began to look
for the cause of the steamer's ill-luck. It
seems that some time ago the steamer's
freight included a coop of hens. During
the passsage one of the hens got out and
as the owner could not get her back into
the coop without danger of letting others
escape, he gave the hen to one of the
deck hands, who kept her in a box on
the main deck. There is a superstition
among the sailors that if a hen is carried
under a tub, bead down, the vessel will
encounter head winds as long as the hen
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was just as ill an omen as a hen in a tub,
the crew began to mutter and the deck
hand was compelled to put his hen
ashore. Since that the steamer has had
favorable weather and the crew are happy.
Boston Traveler.
The statisticians now tell us that the
reputable M. D.'s in the world now number
190,000.
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BULLDOG AND BEAR. |
A CONTEST THAT ENDED DISAS* , J
TROU8LY FOB BRUIN.
A Bear Under a Barn?Whipping:
a Mongrel Gnr, bat Unable
to Shake off a Brute of
Another Sort.
Farmer Ira Howland, whose farm Is M
about four miles north of Tobyhanna, saw
some big tracks in the snow back of his
wagon barn yesterday morning, says a re- > /?
centScranton(Penn.) letter to the New
York Sun. The front of the building -T:
rests on a wall not more than six inches
from the ground7 while the back side of
it stands on stone pillars three feet or more
above the ground. The tracks,
which were unmistakably those of a large
bear, showed plainly that the animal had
gone under trie building and was their
concealed when Farmer Howland made
the unexpected discovery. It was quite $
dark underneaith the barn, and
as Farmer Howland 'stooped
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down ana peereu iuwj mc uain.iicoo, i*o -r.vss
fancied that he heard a noise like that ^
made by a beast chewing food. He got ?
a shovel and uncovered a heap of snow- f
buried stones near the corner of the #jm
building. Then he took a stone as large
as his fist and hurled it under the barn. An
angry growl from the darkness start- ^
led the farmer, and he hastened away to
summon Hank Chase, his hired man, and
to call the dog.
Chase was driving a load of wood
through the lane, and, when he heard
the voice of his somewhat frightened em- >
ployer, he stopped the team, wound the
lines around a stake in the sleigh, and r'-%3?
ran to the bam. A minute later a large,
shaggy, mongrel dog came bounding into
the barnyard to see what was wanted of
him. Farmer Howland told Chase that
there was a ferocious wild animal under
the wagon barn, and Chase got a long
pole off the fence to poke the animal with. M
Farmer Howland told him to hold on a
a minute, and then he took the dog to 3*
the side of the barn and said:
"Fetch him outr Tige?fetch him out,
DA A * VVShW
The shaggy dog rushed under the bam
as brave as a lion, barking as he went, .
and the farmer got down on his hands
and knees and looked after him. An in- 'M
stant later the dog ceased to bark, and
the farmer imagined he heard it struggle. ;
He continued to tell the dog to "fetch 'im
out." The only thing that came out
just then was the dog. He could not bo
made to go under the barn again, and ia ^
a few minutes he crawled around into .
the barnyard, lay down at the foot of ';1
the stack of straw and died.
As soon as the dog had abandoned the
conflict Chase began to poke around under
the barn with the pole. While he ^
was doing this, Farmer Howland hurried
to the fence and got another pole and be- ~-h
gan to poke, too. The only response for :
some time was a series of growls and
grunts. They kept poking away, however,
and the next thing Parmer Howland
knew was that a black monster had sud- :.i:|
denly emerged from the darkened space V ^
under the barn and tumbled him nead
over heels into the deep snow. The surprised
farmer scrambled to his feet in
time to see Chase bring his pole down on
the bear's back without harming the bear
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when he saw what the animal was, and
ran around the corner of the barn to find
a place of safety. Farmer Howland undertook
to do the same thing, but the
bear had been poked so much that he
was angry through and through, and he
gave vent to some of his rage by knock- ,
ing the farmer down again before he had - .0
time to get away.
Chase ran to the barn and got a pitch- S
fork, with which he prodded the bear,
making him more angry and desperate
than ever. Chase kept on sticking the
fork into the bear's hips until he broke
it, while Farmer Howland, whose clothes
had been badly torn, was fast becoming
exhausted from the violent exercise. The ??
hired man was hustling around to find
another weapon when he saw Hobart , Allan
and his big bulldog sauntering up the . |j
road..
"For God's sake, Allen, hurry up here - Ajj
with your dog and set him on that bear %
back of the barn 1" yelled Chase.
Allen ran up and followed Chase to the
rear of the barn, with his faithful bulldog
at his heels. Allen took in the situation
at a glance, and in a low tone he
said to his dog: * V&j
"Take him by the nose, Savage 1"
As quick as a flash the bulldog ran be
t ween "Farmer Howland and the bear, and
then turning half way round on his hind
legs round on his hind legs, he seized the
bear by the nose and settled his .teeth .
firmly into the flesh before the bear had
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a chance to defend himself. Farmer
Howland, all out of breath, became now
simply an interested spectator. The bear
groaned with pain ana made several desperate
efforts to shake the dog loose, but
he might as well have undertaken to
shake all his hair off, for the dog had gofc
a hold that could not be broken. The
infuriated bear lifted his head and
yanked the dog from the snow, and then
lowered his head quickly with the apparent
intention of knocking the life out
of him, but Savage still had his teeth set
deep in the bear's nose. Then the bear
rolled over three or four times and
tried to crush the &>g under his big body,
but Savage was too agile for that game
to be played on him, and to the nose he
clung. Allen watched the struggle for
ten minutes or so, when, fearing that the
dog might get fatally hurt, he pulled out
a big revolver and shot the bear through
the heart. The dog could not be loosed ^
his grip until the bear had been dead for
some tiiufi.
Workingr Children in Germany.
According to the Connertative Monthly
(German) there are in Germany no less
than 460,474 children under fifteen years
of age supporting themselves. Of these
148,262 are engaged in manufacture, 28,629
of them being girls. There is scarcely
a branch of industry in which children
are not employed. In mines and
salt works alone, 5,500 children are employed.
Brick, porcelain and glass
works employ 5,744 more children, a
large proportion of whom are employed
at homo in glass blowing, a kind of
work especially hurtful for breathing ap
paratus which is still in process of development.
In spinning mills there are
6.942 children. The figures touching
the spinning industry are very complete,
and the conclusions which inevitably
follow from them are terrible. Beside
the 6,942 child spinners, there are 84,000
persons ronging in age from fifteen
to twenty years, 31,000 in the years between
twenty and thirty, and but.15,700
between thirty and forty. The majority
of these workers are women. The natural
consequence is the fearful mortality
of children in spinning and weaving districts
such as Silesia, a mortality which
has increased of late jears.
Buddhism has not only many votaries
in uos Angeles, Cal., but is said to be
rapidly spreading there.
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