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^ mrPERANGE COLUMN.
^^THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST
' IN MANY WAYS.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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~ 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
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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
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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
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mysteries of nature they will not attempt
to solve.
But the buds and leaves of green are
there, growing greener and larger day
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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.