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f ^ mrPERANGE COLUMN. ^^THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST ' IN MANY WAYS. I - i The Poison Cui??Scientists Assert Thai Alcohol Lowers the Workinjt Power ol Man?Deductions KcgHi'<liii? tho Effect of Alcoholic Liquors on the Brain, j There is a man Across tho way, A handsome man, Is ho to-day: But read his signs: "Imported wines. And choicest liquor*" In array. He has a hoy. A pretty child, With bright blue eyes And manners mild, But, oh! how very Sad to think. He sees so many Stop to drink? Not from tho fountain Or the well; Not from the streamlet In the doll. Where thirsty man Or beast may sup; !>*.. noison from The shining cup! ?lira. II. A. Kidder, in Temperance Banner. ICobbing. - A few nights ago a young man arrived in i Boston a stranger. A tweive-hundr.;d-dollar situation awaited him. He sought lodgings in a hotel, and after three days of unconsciousness came to himself minus fifty dollars and his gold watch. ^ Only a few years ago a veteran of the late wir i>?i? tn Rnat-nn frnm Tnirim Me. to got his pension, which was awaiting tflm at the pension ofllce. A little more than fifteen hundred dollars were paid him, and he gassed out into the street a happy man. roing into a clothing store he purchased a new suit of clothes and then started out in search of his wife and child, who were living at the South End. He thought he must have just one drink, ^ and stepping into a saloon in a certain street he was detained until inside oI one week from the day he entered that saloon he was kicked into the street, money all gone, with a linen duster for a coat, an old ?air of pants, and shoes out at the toes, as t is wardrobe. Now these are true instances, and it is the | work of the saloon, licensed or unlicensed, j It not only robs a man of his money and j clothes, but it robs him of his brains. Those same saloons in Boston are still dealing out this deadly stuff. Would the citizens of this commonwealth allow any other branch of business to thus rob its inhabitants? Nn nol A thousand times no! Then veliv allow this business to carry on its work by granting a license and thus becoming a party to drunkenness and robbery??Texoerance Cause. The Total Abstainer. Bishop Spalding of Peoria, III., says: "Intoxicating drinks are not necessary to health, since iymen and children, to speak In a large sens!?, do not use them, and their health is quite as good as that o? men who drink. They are not necessary, and often they are harmful, bringing ruin upon countless individuals, despair to the hearts of innumerable wives and mothers, chang- j lag homes which were created by love into j dens of misorv and hate, flllins: asylums i with orphans to whom the deaths~of fathers and mothers came as a blessing, turning loose the spirit of lust and murder, obscuring the brightest minds and, withering the most generous hearts. Nor will any good or wise man say that all this concerns i others, not himself. "What I am I owe to a thousand influences not my own, and I am the shallowest of men if I imagine that it is possible for me to take care of myself without caring for others. What injuries the neighborhood, the city in which I live, injures me, and when my faith or my country suffer wrong I also am wronged; and a man becomes a total abstainer not necessarily ber cause he loves his fellow man, his religion, his country; because he pities women who are the wives of brutal husbands and the mothers of helpless children of drunken fathers." Alcohol Lower* the "Working Power. Professor C. F. Hodge, in reviewing some of the work of the Committee of Fifty, in Appleton's Popular Science Monthly, gives the following deductions regarding the effect of alcoholic liquors on brain workers: "Helmholtz has said, in describing his , methods of woik, that slight indulgence j in aiCOQOUC annus cuspeueu insmuuy ms j best ideas. Professor Gaule once told the writer, as an experiment during the strain of his 'Staatsexamen' that he suddenly stopped his wine and baer and was surprised to find how much better he could work. An eminent professor in Leipslc once said that the German students would do 'twice the amount of work' (kcennten zweimal so viel leiiten') if they would let their beer alone. Dr. August Smith has found that moderate non-intoxicant dcses of alcohol (forty to eighty cubic centimeters daily), lowered psychic ability to j memorize as much as seventy per cent. | Lexiner observes 'dass der Alcohol den Menschen giestig so herunterbringt, dass er schliesslich nichts mehr kann, wie politisieren,' [that the alcohol so subdues man mentally that he finally can do noth- | ing but go into politics.] Possibly the trouble with a good deal of our politics in this country." Knocking Out the Props. One after another have the props that i supported the alcoholic treatment of disease been knocked out or shown to be utterly untenable. It was long strenuously maintained that it gave strength and was an aid to digestion; but the fact has been abundantly established that few so-called remedies so effectually sap vitality and | strength and impair the digestive powers i as the alcoholics. It was then confidently j asserted tnat it was to some extent con- i sumed in the system and so contributed j to animal heat; but it has been abundantly i shown that much of it passes out of the \ system as it enters it. simply as alcohol, j and it has never been shown that any part | i of it undergoes combustion or contributes ' fe to animal heat, and the universal testimony 1 1 of polar navigators is that those resist cold | m best who make no use of spirits. The Vital Step. Mrs. Mary H. Hunt says: "The vital step is to educate the public opinion as to the | ?vil character and effects of alcohol, and j the education must be as universal as the | people, and must be imparted before t;he appetite is formed. We have a great deal of anti-saloon sentiment, but it is anti-alcohol sentiment that is wanted. Temperance orators have denounced the saloon till no flnfl wants it next door but verv little has been said against alcohol. Scientific tem- I perance Instruction in our public schools, if faithfully imparted, is creating this antialcohol sentiment." A Helpful Sign. Sign the pledge: it makes a strong obli- ! gation. when a man gives up the drink I lie must do all that can be done to j strengthen his obligation. If he simply j makes a resolution, he feels at liberty to , withdraw from it if lm chooses. But if he i double-knots his resolution with a solemn ; promise to which he has put his hand, then he feels bound by the most solemn j obligations. He cannot think of breaking ' his word. He dare not violate his plighted troth. And in the moment of temptation j his self-respect, his love for truth, his desire j to be a man of his word, his written vow, Will D0 a Siroug iwt oaviujj uu.? i Saerod Heart Review. . STATUE TO THE JUNK PILE. Ignoble Fate of a Bronze Effigy of Christopher Columbus. The work of removing the big bronze I sfltatue of Christopher Columbus which was I \J- tjrocie'l UU lUd iwui., vunio8u, uuuu^ j^^the World's Columbian Exposition was be- ! T gun. The converting of the lake front into a park has made such progress that the statue now stands In a basin on account of | filling in around it, and its removal was i ' made necessary. If the statue is replaced It will not be in the same position it now occupies, It has been regarded by many as more of an eyesore than an ornament, and it may be that the city junk pile, to which the statue has been temporarily consigned will be its final resting-place. . - y THE SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JULY 18. Lesson Text: "Paul at Thcssalonica and lierea," Act* xvli., 1-12?Goldpn Text: j Acts xili., 11?Commentary on the Day's Lesson by the Kev. I). M. Stearns. 1. "Xow4 when thoy had passed through Ajnrhipolis and Apollonia, they came to ThS&aionica, where was a synagogue of the Jews." See this company of men in this world for God. They have no aim but to honor Him. Their one thought is to magnify the Lord Jesus Christ (Phil, i., 20), and to this end they are under the control of the Holy Ghost, passing through this town or that and stopping only where He directs. Whether in prison or in Lydia's house, on the road or in the synagogue, their one business is to glorify God and make Him known. Thessalonica was about 100 miles soufhwest of Philippi, so that it must have been several days' journey: but, as is usual in Scripture, the incidents of the journey are omitted. They "passed through" and "came to." 2. "And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three Sabbath days reasoned with them out of the Scriptures." "To the Jew first" was ever Paul's principle in going after the people with the gospel (Rom. i., 16), and who can tell what we are losinc hv not continuing to act on this priuciple, both with the gospel and with gifts for missions? Ho had but one text-book, the Scriptures, which ho fully believed was sufficient to furnish any ona thoroughly'for every good work (II Tim. iii., 16, 17)*. He was not full of the opinions of men; but, being the Lord's messenger, he carried the Lord's message (Hag. i., 13). 3. "Opening and alleging that Christ must needs have suffered and risen again from the dead, and that this Jesus whom I preach unto you is Christ." The Jews were, looking for a Messiah to sit on David's throne and subdue their enemies and make Israel, as in the days of Solomon, the first nation on earth, and in this expectation they were perfeotly right, for this was promised by the prophets and will yet surely be fulfilled (Isa. ix., 6,7;Jer. iii., 17,18; Zech. xiv.,6,17). But It was just as plainly foretold and foreshadowed that the Messiah would also suffer and die and rise from the dead before He would thus reign as David's son on David's throne (Gen. ill., 15; Isa. liii.; Ps. xvi. and xxii., etc.). 4. "And some of them believed and consorted with Paul and Silas," and a multitude of men and women, the verse goes on to say. Just as in Gen. i.* the Spirit moved, God spake, and the work was done, so here and so always His word will accomplish His nlononm nnH nrnanpr in fhrt fhinc whppptn He sends It (Isa. lvM 11). It is ours to be faithful messengers; it is His to accomplish the work. There is perfect rest in His work when we are willing that He should do it all and as He pleases, we believing In His hand for His pleasure. 5. "But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certaiD lewd fellows." Then followed a mob and a riot and an assault, for the devil was losing some of his property, and he was stirred mightily, as at Phillppi, to do somewhat to resist the truth and the power of God, and so for a time the saints must suffer with Christ. Fellowship with Him in suffering is a great privilege not appreciated by the saints as it should be (Phil, i., 29; iii., 10; Col. i., 24). 6. "These that have turned the world upside down have como hither also." Not finding the apostles, they took Jason and other brethren to the city rulers with these and other accusations. It was surely quite a compliment to say that these men had power to turn the world upside down. There ought to have been enough of the supernatural in that to make them stop and consider, but when men are blinded by anger they consider neither their words nor their deeds. The facts in the case are that the world is in a sense upside down because of sin, and Jesus, whom these men preached, is the only one who can set it right side up (Ez. xxi., 27). 7. "These all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus." C?sar is the earthly, under the God of this world?that is, the devil. Jesus is the heavenly, representing tho only living and true God, God manifest in the flesh, and we must choose one or the other. His own to ^hom He came chose Ccesar instead of Him (John xix., 12), and Cffisar they have had from that day to this. The world and the church, the worldly person and the Christian, are as opposite as darkness and light and can no more assimilate than water and oil, but they sometimes try desperately hard to mix up. See Jas. iv., 4; John li., 15-17. 8, 9. "And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city when they heard these things." So. when Christ was born Kine of the Jews, Herod and all Jerusalem were troubled (Math. 11., 3), and when He shall come In His glory the world lying in the wicked one shall be greatiy troubled (Rev. i., 7; xi., 18), and their troubles may never end, for all who die in their sins shall have torment for ever and ever (Rev. xiv., 11; Mark ix., 43, 44). 10. "And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea." So they move on in His name, witnessing unto Him, and again we find them in a synagogue of the Jews. The Mastex^s instructions were to pass on when not wanted (Luke x., 10; Math, x., 23), but some And it hard even yet to obey these orders, and the more they are not wanted the more they seem to stay, to their own and others' discomfort and doubtless to the grief of the Holy Spirit. 11. "These were more noble than those in Thessalonica in that they received the word 'with all readiness of mind and searched the Scriptures daily whether those things were so." How foolish to have remained amid the opposition of Thessalonica when this open door awaited them where the people were ready to hear and receive the word! What blessing those are missing who are not willing to follow where He leadeth and let Him manage as He pleasethl No will but His, and no way but His is the only true way. 12. "Therefore many of them believed; also of honorable women which were, and of men not a few."' ^This is almost the reverse of verse 4 as to men and women. Again, His word accomplished His pleasure, and many were saved. The Spirit moved, the word was spoken, and the work was done. The next verse tells of tho persistence of the devil in sending his servants from Thessalonica to stir up persecution, and so it will be till he shall be shut up in the pit for a thousand years. But the saints have naught to fear, for our Lord shall not fail nor be discouraged. He shall see of the travail of His soul and shall be satisfled, and ever} purpose of the Lord shall be performed (isn. xlii., 4; liii., 11; Jer. lvii., 29).?Lesson Helper. PROSPERITY IN THE WEST. Crops Are Immense and Wages as Hlgb as Formerly. Western notes and desnatehes irivo evl. deuce that observers in that part of the country have remarked indications of the speedy return of prosperity. Guthriesendf out word that Oklahoma farmers are in clover, many of them having from 3500 to $1000 worth of wheat in sight, besides the other products of their farms, while those who have much land given over to fruit will be better off yet. One man mentioned bas marketed $1000 worth of cherries and will have as much more from plums and pears, and nearly as much from peaahes. A.n El Reno man who planted early potatoes is supplying the cities as far north as Minneapolis and as far West as Denver, and is clearing his laud for a second crop. 3e is using a horse power potato harvester mil has prepared an irrigating plant for use in the later season. From Perry alone $200,000 worth of hogs have been shipped within the last six months, and the farmers thereabouts are planting alfalfa with the intention of going into the hog-raising ousiness seriously. An engineering party has gone out from Sedalia, Mo., to make :he preliminary survey for a standard:?auge railroad from that place to Miami. Men from all over Kansas are conareiratine in the big wheat section around Larnpd, in that State, whore the crops are immense, ind wages are/to. be as high as in other years. A Sensational Career. Mrs. Nancy E. Clem, who died a natural death in Indianapolis, Ind., recently, was tried five times for murder, was twice sentenced to be hanged and finally escaped on a technicality. She was convicted of perjury subsequently and served four years in the State Female Reformatory. She died protesting her innocence of all the crimes with which sho had been charged. A TEMPERANCE COLUMN. THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST 1 IN MANY WAYS. ] The Poison Cup?Scientists Assert: TliaC Alcohol Lowers the Working Power ol! I Man?Deductions Kegiirdlnp the Effect of Alcoholic Liquors on the Brain. There is n man Across the way, A handsome man, Is he to-day; But read his signs: "Imported wines, And choicest liquors" In array. He has a L* v, A pretty child. With bright blue eyes Aad manners mild, But, oh! how vory Sad to think, He sees so many Stop to drinkNot from the fountain Or the well; Not from the streamlet In the dell, Where thirsty man Or beast may sup; * But poison from The shining cup! ?Mrs. 31. A. Kidder, in Temperance Banner. Robbing. A few nights ago a young man arrived in ' Boston a stranger. A twelve-hundred-dollar situation awaited him. He sought lodgings in a hotel, and after three days of unconsciousness came to himself minus fifty dollars and his gold watch. Only a few years ago a veteran of the late war came to Boston from Togus, Mo., to get his pension, which was awaiting him at the pension office. A little more tnan fifteen hundred dollars were paid him, and he passed out into the street a happy man. Going Into a clothing store ho purchased a new suit of clothes and then started out in search of his wife and child, who were living at the South End. He thought he must have just one drink, and stepping into a saloon in a certain ' street he was detained until Inside of one 1 week from the day he entered that saloon j hrc nrna fntn fhft mnnfttf All gone, with a linen duster for a coat, an old pair of pants, and shoes out at the toes, as j his wardrobe. ^ Now these are true instances, and it is the , work of the saloon, licensed or unlicensed. 1 It not only robs a man of his money and. ' clothes, but it robs him of his brains. | Those same saloons in Boston are still dealing out this deadly stuff. Would the citizens of this commonwealth I allow any other branch of business to thus ( rob its inhabitants? , No, nol A thousand times no! Then why ' allow this business to carry on its work by * granting a license and thus becoming a ; party to drunkenness and robbery??Teaj- J perance Cause. 1 The Total Abstainer. Bishop Spalding of Peoria, 111., says: 1 "Intoxicating drinks are not necessary to ' health, since women and children, to speak 1 in a large sense, do not use them, and their | health is quite as good as that of men who , drink. They are not necessary, and often they are harmful, bringing ruin upon I countless individuals, despair to the hearts ] of innumerable wives and mothers, chang- j ing homes which were created by love into dens of misery and hate, filling asylums with orphans to whom the deaths of fathers and mothers came a3 a blessing, turning loose the spirit of lust and murder, ob- | 9curing the brightest minds and withering . the most generous hearts. Nor will any 1 good or wise man say that all this concerns 1 others, not himself. ] "What I am I owe to a thousand influ- i ances not my own, and I am the shallowest . of men If I Imagine that it is possible for ' me to take care of myself without c&ring for others. What injuries the neighbor- j hood, the city in which I live, injures me, , and when my faith or my country suffer : wrong I also am wronged; and a man be- 1 comes a total abstainer not necessarily be- j cause he loves his fellow man, his religion, hia Pfinntrv- hnpatiqfi lio niflflu women who ' are the wives of brutal husbands and the < mothers of helpless children of drunken \ fathers." , Alcohol Lower* the Working Power. Professor C. F. Hodge, in reviewing some 1 of the work of the Committee of Fifty, in 1 Appleton's Popular Science Monthly, gives j the following deductions regarding the effect of alcoholic liquors on brain workers: "Helmholtz has said, In describing his i methods of work, that slight indulgence t in alcoholic drinks dispelled instantly his best ideas. Professor Gaule once told the | . writer, as an experiment during the strain j ' of his 'Staatsexamen' that he suddenly < stopped his wine and beer and was sur- ( prised to find how much better he could work. An eminent professor in Lelpsic once said that the German students would ' do 'twice the amount of work' (koennten ] zweimal so vlel leiiten') if they would let j their beer alone. Dr. August Smith has found that moderate non-intoxicant dcses ' of alcohol (forty to eighty cubic centime- < ters daily), lowered psychic ability to ; memorize as much as seventy per cent. ! Lexiner observes 'dass der Alcohol den ' Menschen giestig so lierunterbringt, aass i 3r schliesslich aichts mehr kann, wie ' i politisieren,' [that the alcohol so subdues : man mentally that he finally can do nothing but go into politics.] Possibly the trouble with a good deal of our politics in this country." I Knocking Out the Prop#. One after another have the props that i supported the alcoholic treatment of dis- , ease been knocked out or shown to be , utterly untenable. It was long strenuously maintained that it gave strength and was < an aid to digestion; but the fact has been ] abundantly established that few so-called remedies so effectually sap vitality and | , strength and impair the digestive powers i as the alcoholics. It was then confidently j ; ooan^oH fhof mo a frv aom? AvfrtTlt P.nn. i sumed in the system and so contributed to animal heat; but it has been abundantly shown that much of it passes out of the system as it enters it, simply as alcohol, and it has never benn shown that any part of it undergoes combustion or contributes to animal heat, and the universal testimony of polar navigators is that those resist cold best who make no use of spirits. The Vital (step. Mrs. Mary H. Hunt sayk: "Tho vital step is to educate the public opinion as to the I evil character and effects of alcohol, and the education must be as universal as the people, and must be imparted before the appetite is formed. We have a great deal of anti-saloon sentiment, but it is anti-aloohol sentiment that is wanted. Temperance orators have denounced the saloon till no one wants it next door, but very little has been said against alcohol. Scientific tem perance instruction In our purntc scnoois, if faithfully imparted, is creating this antialcohol sentiment." A Helpful Sign. 8ign the pledge: it makes a strong obligation. When a man gives up tho drink he must do all that can be done to strengthen his obligation. If ho simply makes a resolution, he feels at liberty to 1 withdraw from it if he chooses. But if he double-knots his resolution with a solemn promise to which lie has put his hand, then he feels bouud by the most solemn obligations. He cannot think of breaking his word. He dare uot violate his plighted troth. And in the moment of temptation his self-rospect, his love for truth, his desire to be a man of his word, his written vow, will be a strong reasou for saving no.? Sacrod Heart Review. The ltoa<l to Kicheft. When one belongs to a temperance society he saves a nickel, and whoever saves the nickel saves tli^s dollar. In order to accumulate anything for a rainy day, one , must be saving, must practice economy. ' Now, if one has been spending two or three nickels a day on drink, then stops drinking | and saves the nickels, at the end of the i year he will have from fifty to sixty dollars which he can apply to a good use. j Temperance News anil Notes. I Cardinal Manning united with Canon ] Wilberforce in calling intemperance "the national vice of England. 1 A physician says that ho has known many < bad cases of alcoholic appetite gradually | cured by eatine aooles at every meal. - :v~ - J -. CURIOUS FACTS. Ceylon lias 40,000 acres of cinna rnon. Victoria has twenty-five State carriages. A Titus ville (Penn.) trap cauglit twenty-three rats in one night last week. The largest carpet in the world belongs to the Carlton Club, London, and cost $4:0,000. Imperfect teeth are a sign of civilization. Perfect ones are four.d, as a rule, only among savages. An umbrella insurance company has just been organized in London. It will insure canes as well as umbrellas. Robert Douglas, one of the bestknown foresters in the country, died recently at Waukegan, 111. He domesticated the Colorado blue spruce. The famous St. Bernard's Hospice in Switzerland, can now be reached ' * -1 __ ii.- ct by carriage., tue roaa ou iue owiaa side having been recently completed. In Vienna, Austria, the height of a house must not exceed eighty-two feet. The floor of the last story must not be more than 65.6 above the level of the street. In the fields of the Norway coast, the water is in some places so clear that objects the size of a half-dollar may be seen at the depth of twentyfive or thirty fathoms. In Fiji the coinage (Jonsists chiefly of whale's teeth, those of greater value being dyed red. The natives exchange twenty white teeth for one red one, as we exchange nickels for a dollar.The secret marks on United States notes by which forgeries are so rapidly detected, are constantly being changed. The microscope will reveal many such peculiarites to an observant eye. A decaying oak tree at Cowthorpe, near Weatherby, England, is mdre ^aa4- on.1 ia biinu aibj icci xu i/uv/uuuciouv/c) au.4 10 believed to be the largest in the world, rwo young oaks have been planted to perpetuate its memory; The late Colonel North's greyhound Fullerton, which won the Waterloo sup four times, sold for $5000, the highest price ever paid for a sporting log. The well-known St. Bernard Plinlimmon, however, fetched some 521,250 a few years ago. In 1847 the city of Karlsruhe, Germany, had a theatre fire by which sixty-three lives were iost. This led to the formation, in the neighboring sown of Durlachs, of the first volunteer company in Germany. Twentytwo of the original members are still iving, and the other day celebrated their jubilee. Scientists Fooled bj- Owls. In one of the many glass cases in ;he Smithsonian Institution at Washington is a stuffed owl. This particular owl is the one, in the words of the late President Hayes, "that jarred the Washington monument," and therein lies the story. During the centennial y ear Congress resolved to provide the necessary funds for the completion of the monument, which up to that time had been worked it only while the several smaller appropriations lasted. It was discovsred, however, that the original foundation was likely to prove incapable of justaining the enormous weight of aiarble necessary for carrying the sha::t 300 feet above terra firma. A new foundation was therefore needed, and vrchitects thought a solid concrete bed LOO feet square and nearly fourteen ieet in thickness would accomplish the itrengthening desired. During the operation of replacing ;he old foundation it was considered jxpedient to provide means for noting jarefully the slightest vibration of the (valla, lest the monument might be ill danger of collapsing. Accordingly a leavy weight was suspended by a stout thread from the apex to a pan of thick sirup located in the base, so that no jhance drafts of air would be likely to jway the weight. An ingenious contrivance was so attached to the weight that the slightest vibration of the shaft tvould be faithfully recorded, and its insecurity would at once be an established fact. One morning a few months after, these careful precautions had been taken, there was a great oommotion among the workmen. A complete rec3rd of numerous perturbations and tremblings had been written on the index, showing conclusively that the mammoth obelisk had jarred, swayed md settled during the night. Scientific beads were dubiously shaken. After much persuasion one of the men finally consented to go to the top and examine into the cause. The astonishing report came into the midst of the anxious throng below that an owl, in seeking shelter in the lofty tower, had somehow managed to catch its wings in the thread, and was still hanging there, and the innumerable flappings and struggles of his owlship had all been recorded by the index as testimony against the stability of plum-laid marble blocks and solid concrete.?Phila* delphia Record. Want Bugs Protected. For some time past British entomologists, or bug-hunters, have been exercised over the extermination of certain insects in consequence of the zeal of the collectors, who roam, over the country with butterfly nets. It would be difficult to protect butterflies and moths by legislation, as has been done for birds; so an association has been formed under the auspices of the Eutomological Society of London. The members agree to leave rare insects alone for awhile and to do all in their power to curb the sporting instinct in others. The iusect collector who abides by it will be more than human, remarks London Graphic. Imagine a stamp collector agreeing not to pick up a rare specimen from the roadside, yet a similar temptation will be met and have to be resisted by the insect collector. llroke Kis Klb With His Own Fift. The Herald yesterday briefly referred to a curious accident that befell Major William Heimke, second Secre ary of Legation, last week at Chihuahua. While walking along one of the Jtreets of that city he slipped and fell. His right hand was close at his side at the time, and his full weight struck his hand and actually broke one of his ribs therewith. It was a unique accilent, for it seems scarcely credible that a man could break one of his own ribs with his hands.?Mexican Herald. / ~ THE EEALM OF FASHION. SOME SEASONABLE NOVELTIES IN FEMININE CARMENTS. Simple and Comfortable Nightgown for "Wear in Summer Time?New Iileas in Dress?How the Economical Woman May Kenovate Last Season's Straw. Nothing is more truly luxurious than an ample sleeping robe. The design shown in the illustration has the A COMFORTABLE NIGHTGOWN. merit of adding simplicity to that first essential, and it is especially to be commended for summer wear. Tl^e material may be cambric, muslin, nainsook nr loner r>lot,h- For the model the last-named material- wa9 chosen, trimmed with frills of linen lawn, laceedged. The pattern is cut in three pieces only?front, back and sleeve. Such fitting as is necessary is accomplished by the shoulder and under-arm seams. A.t the neck the fulness is carefully gauged and sewed to a band. The opening at the left side is finished with a hem in which buttonholes are worked that effect the closing by buttoning on to buttons sewed to the right side. The frill is rolled on the edge and whipped to the band strongly and neatly by hand. The full IAD FANCY W biyhop sleeves are simply gathered at tho shoulder, but are gauged and attached to a straight .strip at the waist. The sleeve is then faced and the frill whipped on. To make this nightgown for a woman of medium size will require seven yards of thirty-six inch material. New Idea* in Dress. Among the latest ideas in dress is the gray skirt of barege, cashmere, cloth or taffeta silk, worn with various waists as a substitute for the black silt: one which has done duty so long. Laoe and chiffon bodices, m wnite, cream or very delicate tint, and made wit'A transparent sleeves, are exceedingly pretty with the pale gray skirt. Gray is surely the color of the moment for wool gowns and many other features of dress, and the contrast between this Quaker shade and the brilliant reds which dominated dress earlier in the season is certainly very striking. A pale pink silk bodice trimmed with black velvet ribbon and steeJ beads makes a lovely combination with the gray skirt. A gray gown and a gray leather boa are two things ! to be desired if you would be in the latest fashion; yet there are compensations among other colorings which j can be made to answer very nicely if the jray gown is an impossibility. Gray is a color which must be chosen very carefully or it will prove most unbecoming; but the fashion for color in the bodice does away with many of the objections to this trying shade. Shot gray and mauve silk makes a stunning gown trimmed with black laee insertion set in to show the white silk underneath. The details of trimming and finish on the summer gowns are the most telling points in fashion this season, and the little ends of ribbon and frill of lace or hemstitched batiste set in at the back of ttie neckband make a vast difference in the becoming effect. Collars of linen trimmed with applique lace aro seen on wool gowns, aud wide collars of different shapes and materials are a distinct feature of the latest dresses. Two sailor collars, one nar ; ,.,v * r rower than the other and both like the material of the gown and edged around with a frill of lace or accordion-plaited frills of chiffon, are the finish to a lace bodice. Checked silks are pretty when made up in this way, but the lace bodice is equally effective with any of the thin materials. To be quite perfect it must have a chiffon lining between the tight-fitting silk waist and the lace. Pouched body is the special style suited to this material, and is the leading model in all the fabrics. Cloth and pique are made up in this way and elaborately trimmed with lace, bands of satin, or braid in conventional designs. One little accessory of dress which is very ietcung is tne necKtia, 01 net silk, or mull, with lace ends, which folds narrowly around the lower edge of the collar band, and ties in front in a four-in-hand knot; again it appears as a short bow made of two accordionplaited ends. Two shades of green taffeta silk cut bias and narrowly trimmed all around form the four-inhand knot on a green and blue and white foulard silk gown, which has a lace yoke and a chiffon front. The fulness in the bodice is shirred over five fine cords an inch apart at the waist to form the belt, and the skirt has two tiny ruffles at the bottom, edged with half-inch black satin ribbon gathered in the middle. A special feature of this costume is the parasol of silk to match, trimmed with three white chiffon raffles set on with a space of their own width between.? New York Sun. Hint for a Pretty Tea Gown, A pretty tea gown has the skirt set in tucks' from waist to hem, bodice crossing at one side with a large lawn collar frilled with lace. A FURNITURE FREAK. Living, Budding Table In the Parlor of an Oakland (Cal.) Kesldence. There have been many curious call _ A. i.1 l/T-Tl * 1 A.L1 3 era at toe mcunaii uouie m uaKiana, and all wanted to see that qneer table in the parlor of the McBrian's from the legs of which are sprouting buds and leaves of living green. For a year or more this freak of a table Has stood in AND CIRCULAR SKIRT. the HcBrian parlor giving forth no signs of life. It has been varnished ancl re varnished, until it is almost dead black. At the ends the legs are cut off clean and even. There has been no water near this remarkable piece of living furniture, and no more sunshine than is usually allowed to filter in through parlor windows. Some of the wise men of Berkeley say that woods are apt to show signs of life when buds are concealed just beneath the bark, but where the wood has been coated and recoated with shells and varnish, whv that is one of the " ' " * V mysteries of nature they will not attempt to solve. But the buds and leaves of green are there, growing greener and larger day ~ I THE BUDDING PARLOR TABLE OF OAK- 1 LAND. i by day, attracting crowds of the curi- I i ous to the home of the McBrians, and i 90 far no one has been found who can i explain the cause of the wonderful growth.?San Francisco Examiner. FLESH HARD AS WOOD. t|| STRANCE CASE OF A ELEVEN-YEAR. \ : OLD CONNECTICUT CIRL The Disease Is Known as Scleroderma ?Subjected to Radical Treatment by Twenty Leading Specialist of New York City Who Firmly Hope For a Cure. Miss A.nnie "Water-bury, the eleven- igM year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. . George Waterbury, of Xoroton, Conn., * is a victim of scleroderma, a rare disease, which, if not checked, will end in the girl becoming mummified. The f ^3 girl, says ?he New York Herald, is good looking, has an intelligent face, is well formed and is exceptionally briirht. At school she made an envi able record and among her associates has always been popular because of her < sunny disposition. Annie is one of seven children, there ' ^ being three older and three younger. Her father is well to do. He owns a i place at Noroton valued at 810,000 and more valuable property in Stamford. Annie's parents two months ago ^<4 noticed a slight stiffness in her move- V.-^i ments and a peculiar hardness in her <; flesh. Local physicians were consuited, but could do nothing for her. On the advice of Dr. Hurlbut and Shavoir, of Stamford, she was taken to New York City and placed in a private ' sanitarium. Here many experiments ; were made in the attempt to soften the girl's flesh, which is now as hard as ';$*i wood. The hardest pinch makes no impression on it and is not felt. In the presence of twenty leading x:.-3 scientific investigators, New York ohvsicians. the young girl was put Qefl through a course of treatment that in- . eluded everything the doctors could think of for her relief and the . ;i|le softening of the flesh. She was flafl steamed in Bussian baths, soaked in ' . water slowly brought to temperatures ' that would have boiled an ordinary v mortal, made to exercise iu a damp room, rubbed with a score of powerful oils and trenchant concoctions usually applied for the softening of bruises .: and other hardened spots?all without $ bringing the least flush or drop of ,v $3 perspiration to the surface of her white skin or rendering more pliable, in the least degree, the firm flesh. ; 'jj&M The experts say that the disease .<-^9 must have been a full year in reaching its present stage.- The girl's case is a 'U* rare one, and they were anxious . to f&Sj? keep her in New York for the purpose of experiment, but to this her parents WOIUU iiul agrbtt, uuu nuo iiuw rouioiuo ' iifi quietly at home. A peculiarity of the f case?one that puzzles the physicians ?is the fact that the girl is still able to , ^&Sj use her limbs. She is kept from school, and exercises as much as the <g|3 growing stiffness of her limbs will permit, this being the advice of the .VJM physicians. Little Annie remains sunny and -Js1 bright under her affliction. Her vital ' organs are still unimpaired, but if the M creeping hardness reaches the heart or if calcareous deposits form in the . ' blood her life will be very short. So little is known of the disease that treatment of it must be entirely experi- . mental, and the chances of arresting its progress are not good. Dr. Bulkley told a Hwald reporter ^ at his sanitarium in New York that * tfjk Miss Waterbury's disease was sclero- t \ derma, which, though uncommon, is well known to the medicm profession. It differs materially from ossification, ' Dr. Bulkley said, and is caused by the y f action of the nerves on nutrition. The si disease is sometimes fatal, the skin contracting so muoh across the cheat $ that the patient is unable to breathe. . "Miss Wat'erbury is fairly comfortable," he told me, "and I have hopes '* that she will recover. In. fact, her ; Tag condition showed some improvement ^ while I was treating her, but for a cure ' ', it is absolutely necessary that she > ] should be where she can have fre quent baths. When the new Skin Hospital, at Nineteenth street and Second avenue, is completed in the T# ^ fall, I expect to have the patient placed there. Because of the rareness of the i disease, I had the members of the New York Dermatological Society examine the girl when she was here. Her face is considerably drawn so that the eyes amMooinn and t.bft 11 ?h V O T> potUIAOii skin on her body is in the same condition. In advanced stages the joints become hardened, and death is likely . /, to result. But as I look for Miss Waterbury's recovery, the advanced stages do not apply to her." Dwelt in a Tree Trunk. The trial of John Khodes for. vagrancy in the police court at Kansas City, Mo., the other day disclosed the fact that he and his two sons had been living in a big hollow near the Chi cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul bridge since last March. Khodes is a wagon maker, fifty-two years old. Since he went to Kansas City from Logansport, Ind., a yeqr ago, he did no work, but depended for existence on what his two sons could beg. Being driven out of a hut last March, he moved into a large hollow tree on the banks of the Missouri Kiver. There he would sleep, while his sons were out begging food and clothing. Policeman Kennedy arrested him for vagrancy. J. 0. Greenman, humane agent, took charge of his sons and wants to find homes for them- They are bright boys. Their mother is dead. The Lesaon Went Home. Little Anita was an exceptionally linear /lirppf. snr- r JJUUU gill ""SU * veillance of her parents; but once out of their sight she broke loose and played all kinds of pranks. This was a source of much concern to her parents, and her father, desiring to correct the habit, impressed upon her mind that when she was out of human sight all her acts were still observed by God. The moral lesson seemed to affect her, and shortly afterward, as she was leaving the house alone, the old dog Fido attempted to follow her. This annoyed little Anita very in >, and, turning pettishly around, sue said to the devoted animal: "Fido, you do home at once; it is had enough to have Dod following me everywhere, without having you following me, too." Two Biif Garden Parties. Sheffield's Mayor is the Duke of Norfolk. On occasion of Queen Victoria's visit he gave a feast to 50,000 school children and their 1800 teachers a1; his country house near by, TrViarp Iia subseauentlv cave a tea to I 8000 persona over sixty years of age.