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BURIAL OF THE PAST.
'Twas the night before the wedding
And the house was filled with guests
After all the pleasant greetings
Quietly the household rests.
Only one from out the many
Still is sitting by the fire
'Tis the bride, who on the morrow
Will have left her home and sire.
With her hand unbound and falling.
Like a mantle to the floor,
There she sits among the treasures,
For the last time looks them o'er.
One by one she reads each letter,
Then consigns it to the flame :
From its case she takes a picture,
And her white lips close in pain.
For the face smiles out upon her
As of old it used to do,
Ere that bitter hour of parting,
When each spoke what was not true,
Trembling fingers slowly clasp it,
Drop it on the embers red,
Ne'er again will she behold it,
For the face to her is dead.
There are violets in the casket
And a lock of soft dark hair,
There are books and little trinkets
And the ring she used to wear.
In the firelight, while they're burning,
Is'nt in fancy or in dream
That again she sees the river
And the old familiar scene.
Where so often they have rambled
In the autumn afternoon;
Where on summer nights they floated
'Mid the HIlles, 'neath the moon?
On the earth the box lies emptied,
On the grate the fire burns low,
And the girl stands white and silent
As the last faint embers glow.
Streaks of gray are slowly creeping
O'er the portals of the moon;
With the night the old life passes
Dawning brings her hopesnew-born.
IN IWFUL SCENE,
-0
I have the same old, old st
to tell. My conduct has b
such again-at any rate, tb
what father says ; and I've ha<
go up stairs with him, ani
needn't explain what that me.
It seems very hard, for I'd ti
to do may best, and I'd he
Sue say, 'That boy hasn't r
behaved for two days; good I
cious I wonder what can be
matter with him.' There's a f
litty about it, I'm sure. 1
father! I must give him an
Yful lot of trouble, and I know
had to get two newv bamboo es
this winter just because I've d
so wrong, though I never mn
to do it.
It happened on account of co
aing. We've got a magnificent
The road runs straight down
middle of it, and all you hay
fenc ist eep on the road. Ther
eneon one side, and, if you
in it, something has got to hb
John Kruger, who is a stupid
jof a fellow, ran into it last ai
head first, and smashed thre'. p
ets, and everybody said it w
mercy he hit it with his heat
he might have broken some oj
bones, and hurt himself. T]
isn't any fence on the other
!but ifvyon run offthe road on
side you'll go down the side of a
that's steeper than the roof of
*Episcopal Church, and aboi
*mile long, with a brook fu
stones down at the bottom.
The other night Mr. Tra
esaid-But I forgot to ssy that
iMartin is back again, and cort
to our house worse than ever.
was there, and Mr. Travers
Sue, all sitting in the parlor w
'wats behaving, and tr~'
*make things pleasant, when
Travers said, 'It's a bright mn
- light night let's all go out
tcoast.' Suie said, 'O that woul
Slovely, Jimmy get your sled
t didn't encourage them, and I
father so, but he wouldn't at
that Mr.Travers or Sue or Mr.J
.tinor anybody could do any t
Swrong. W hat I said was, 'I d
want to go coasting. It's
and I don't feel very well, a
thn e ought all to go to
early so we can wake up
sweet and good-tempered.' But
just said, 'Don't you preach,
my, if you're lazy.just say:so
and Mr. Travers will take us
,Then Mr. Martinlie must pi
and say, 'Perhaps the boy's af
do>n't tease him he ought to.!
bed anyhow.' Now I wasn'I
ing to stand this, so I said, 'Com
on. I wanted to go all the tim(
but I thought it would be best fo
old people to stay at home, an
that's why I didn't encourag
you.' So I got out my doubl<
ripper, and we all went out o
the bill and started down.
I sat in front to steer, and Su
sat right behind me, and Mi
Travers sat behind her to hold he
on, and Mr. Martin sat behin
him. We went splendidly, onl
the dry snow flew so that
couldn't see anything, and that'
why we got off the road and o
to the side hill before I know it.
The hill was just one glare c
ice, and the minute we struck th
ice the sled started away like
hurricane. I had just time t
bear Mr. Martin say, 'Boy, min
what you're about or I'll get off
when she struck something
don't know what-and everybod
was pitched into the air, an
began sliding on the ice withou
anything to help them except m<
I caught on a bare piece of rocl
and stopped myself. I could se
Sue sitting up straight, and slic
ing like a streak of lightning, an
crying, 'Jimmy father Charle
Mr. Martin 0 my help me.' M1
Travers was on his stomach, abou
a rod behind her, and gaining
little on her, and Mr. Martin wa
on his back, coming down hea
first, and beating them bott
All of a sudden he began to go t
pieces. Part of him would slid
off one way; and then anothe
part would try its luck by itbel
I can tell you it was an awful an
surreptitious sight. They a
reached the bottom after a whih
and when I saw they were no
killed, I tried it myself, and lan(
ed all right. Sue was sitting stil
and mourning, and saying :'
Dry goodness gracious, I shall nev(
be able to walk again. My com
is broken, and that boy isn't fit t
t live.'
to Mr. Travers wasn't hurt ver
much and he fixed himself a
right with some pins I gave hii
rd and hip handkerchief; but b
overcoat looked as if he'd stole
it from a scarecrow. When he ha
,ra- comforted Sue a little-and I mui
the say some people are perfectl
sickening the way they go on-E
oor t
and I collected Mr. Martin-a
except his teeth-and helped pI
him together, only I got his le
eson wrong side first, and then a
ne
atbelped him homne.
This was why father said tha
asmy conduct was such, and that h
hill friend Martin didn't seem to 1
the. able to come into his house wit
het out being insulted and injured I
~'me. I never insulted him.
saisn't my fault if he can't slu<
rdown hill without coming apai
k. However, 1've had my last suffe
>rt
ek ing on account of him. The ne:
-k- time he comes apart whore I a
I shall not wait to be punish4
or for it, but shall start straight f
ohis North pole ; and, if I discov
~eit, the British Government w
repay me morn a million dollai
:lI'm able to sit down this mornin
hat but my spirits are..crushed, and
tshalt never enjoy life any moi
he. a(Jennie Brown, in Harper's You,
i fPeople.
ers .WJSDOMI FOR BOYS.
r.
ng Do you wish to make your ma
He in the world ? Do you wish
nd be men ? Then obser.ve the f
ere lowing rules:
to Hold integrity sacred.
fr. Observe good man ners.
-etrials patiently.
nd Enad umpt in all things.
d Bepr' *w acquaintances.
be Make f{ odsorgmns
'I Yield nott dright:gearn to
old Dare to d ea
nit wrong- .ally over your p
lar- Watch caref~
ng sions. ittle bravely, mi
on't Fight life'oibe'
>ld flly.then decide p
i I Consider well~
ed itively.ne rahrt
real Sacrifice mo yrthrt
Se principle. L esure time
m- Use all your
and improvement* yI to the det
ut.' IAttend carefa~
itin of your_business.
aid, -- ofty, eleval
in ighwords-yetc.
g- tomot, summit,s
rilaieo#5.
PATENT PANACEAS.
'Well. sir; Yes, sir, I do recol
i lect agood many patent medicines
in my Limo,' said the old druggist,
e as he glanced over the bottle
laden counter. 'Some of them
r have gone out of fashion, some of
I them are no longer made, and
some of them I have upon the
I shelves still. It is curious, though,
s how the use of them has increas
3 ed. When I first went into busi
ness, and that's over thirty
f years ago now, there were only
e two or three sold. Most of the
3 stuff people used to take then
D was ordered by the doctor or
I given by the women-folks in the
' form of herb teas. Even the pat
1 ent medicines were more attempts
7 to take the place of the herbs
I every woman had in the house
t then, than regular compounds of
drugs. As for example, there was
, 'Townsend's Sarsaparilla,' which
e had a run from '40 to '45, and
then disappeared. Ayer's and
i Morris's extracts of the same plant
8 came in about the time that
Townsend's went out, and I sell
t them gtill. Wistar's 'Balsam of
a Wild Cherry,' too, is one of tbc
s oldest; and 'Pulmonary Balsam
d dates from 1826, yet 1 sell it to
t. day. But most of them die out.
o They run for about ten years, as a
e rule, and then we bear little about
r them. As I just said, the first
. came to take the place of the
d bome-made decoctions of herbs.
l Then came the reign of the bit
ters, about the time the war
t broke out, and every one took to
I- drinking them, either as medicine
I, or because they liked them. Of
F Lte years, I notice that the pro
r prietors of patent medicines talk
b less about what they are made of
0 and more about the good they
will do the purchaser. The meth
Y od of placing them upon the
market is different. They used
n to leave them with as to sell ; that
S is, we would take a dozen bottles,
n and, when the agent came round,
d would pay for what we got rid of,
it Now, bless your soul, we have tc
Y pay for them whether we sell ot
e not-pay for them when we gel
11 them. Why, I suppose I hav
t got in the store over eight hun
dred dollars worth of them that
e never have been sold, nor nevel
will be. But what can I do ? A1
Lmedicine comes out ; they adver
S tise it heavily ; people ask for it
e and so I have to keep it. Leoo
2 at that paper of ours, and coun
y the patent medicine advertise
[t ments ; nine and a half column
le out of twenty--one, ehb? Well
't. don't you suppose I have to keel
r- those things ? I tell you, peopl<
Et will buy what is advertised. It'
m only of late years that this enor.
id mously extensive advertising ha
)r been done; that is, when I sa;
r late years, I mean in the las
ill twenty. Before that, medicine
'. were allowed to make their owl
g. way. But now they have got th
I advertising of them down to
'e science.
tAbout the effect of them o1
consumers, it is somewhat diffical
to give a general opinion. Peep]
now-a-days have given up th
simples our fathers, or rather mc
k there, were so fond of, and thei
to place is filled by the patent medi
-cines. I suppose these can be di
vided into two classes-those fc
external use, and those you swal
low. The former are generall
good. Thbey consist of liniment
pain-killers, oils, salves and thins
like them, which, if they do nc
do any good, will rarely do an
do harm. But, as I said, they get
erally do good. I have pater
is- medicines in this store which I bc
liehve to be just as good linimeni
nfor cuts and bruises as any doct<
could got up. I use them mysel
os- and I recommend them to other
But when you begin to look:
an the ether class,-those which ai
to be swallowed,-it's a horse
for another color ; some of them al
good, too. You take some oft]
~lls sarsaparillas, for example, and
can get no better extracts fro
the manufacturing druggists. Thb
,ed, tbere are other things which
find the physicians constant y 0
e
der and give their patients. They
are what might be called proprie
tary medicines-uledicines which
have been discovered by pbysi
cians or chemists, and patented in
order to keep a valuable property in
the possession of the person who
first found it out. They are good,
and it is well that we have them.
Merely because they have been
patented or copy-righted is no
argument against them.
'But among these medicines
which you see advertised are some
which in my opinion are nothing
more than slow poisons; aye, I
might say, worse than poisons. I
don't suppose any one, except a
man in my business, would see a
tithe of the harm they do ; th"t
is, others might see it, but not re
cognize the cause. Look at it for
a moment. I am a duly qualified
druggist under the laws of the
State. By those laws I am for
bidden to sell certain drugs with
out a prescription from a physician.
More than that, I am expected to
know enough to be able to tell
whether a physician, in writing a
prescription, has combined drugs
in dangerous quantities ; and, if
he has, my business is to notify
him, in, order that he may cor
rect the mistake. In addition
to the drugs mentioned in the
law, which are chiefly poisons. by
the way, there are others which
I would, in common with all drug
gists of my standing, refuse to
sell, except upon order of a physi
cian. But in these patent medi
cines may be these very drugs,
and I know nothing about them.
I may suspect their presence after
noticing the effect the medicines
have; but the mischief is done
then. The position held by drug
gists in the community is a little
peculiar. We are retail traders,
dealing in drugs as articles which
people buy; but, in addition to
that, we have to guard the people
and prevent them buying things
which we have to sell, but which
way do them harm. There is not
a day passes but what I am asked
for drugs which would be dan
gerous unless used intelligently ;
that is, with a clear idea of the
danger as well as the benefit of
them. When I sell such things,
I tell the purchaser about them,
and in this way guard against
evil consequences. The greatest
danger in connection with patent
medicines is that the men who
sell them-the druggists,-do not
-know whast is in them. By that
lack of knowledge the community
is deprived of the safeguard which
it insists on having in other
-branches of my business. UJnless
I have passed an examination and
shown myself qualified, I am net
allowed to sell drugs. Why ?
3Because the people, through the
5Legislature, require me to know
-enough to guard the community
in which, I live. How can I do
this, selling patent medicines,
twhen I know nothing at all about
their composition ? I have heard
it said that the Patent Office will
refuse to patent a hurtful comn
pound. Even if it does, there is
no such check on copyrighted
ilabels; and half of the medicines
are protected by these. But sup.
pose the Patent Office should so
refuse to patent a medicine if dan
gerous, thereby obliging the pat
entee to send to the office a med.
icine which is safe ; what is there
to show that these medicines are
made according to the formula
sent in? Nobody examines themi
the only analyst who tries them
is the stomach, and its report is
never published, unless it be in
the death-rate. It is not mere
supposition on my part,-this idea
of medicines not coming up tc
formulas. I remember a cas<
where it was proved that a pateu1
~medicine-one largely sold, minc
~you,-had not one grain of the
,drug which it was supposed to be
.an extract of in it. Cheaper anc
stronger remedies had been sub
stituted ; yet the formula in tbc
~Patent Office was all right. Where
~was the check on that manufac
ie urer ?
'What are the most dangerouw
remedies? Thbose for women anc
children. I do know why it is
[ but women seem to have a mani:
.r- rdoing themnselves. I believt
they like medicine ; at least. they n,
take enourh to make one think so. a1
-Now, as any doctor will tell you, el
there are drngs which, in certain er
cases, do women a great deal of I
good, and in others act on them I
like slow poisons. The very of
strength which makes them val. SC
uable, makes them dangerous. I se
am an old man now, and I recol- r<
lect easily the women of forty re
years ago. I tell you they were Of
stronger and healthier in every c
way than those I see now. Why
was it? The women of to-day do F
the same kind of work, although
not as much as their grandmothers
and mothers did ; they eat the a
same kind of food ; they live in
the same climate. I see constant- h;
ly in the newspapers articles Ia
menting the physical degeneracy m
of the American nomen ; but I k
bave never seen, except in medi
-al journals, any reference to what
I believe is the cause,-patent i
medicines. Any druggist will tell t
you that be sells six bottles to
women where he sells one to men. t
Now, what are the drugs these
women are putting into them
selves in such quantities ? What
is the effect of them upon the mo
thers of the American race ? The a
question is a serious one. You
know how the temperance move
ment is sweeping over the coun
try; you have read the articles
and heard the speeches which a
prove that liquor is a poison a
which is ruining the men. Iam
a thorough believer in temper
ance, and I think the movement a
good one. But I have thought ,
sometimes that an 'Acti-Patent
Medicine Ass>ciation' would do as
much good to the race. If the
men are poisoning themselves
with rum, what are the women
doing with drugs ? Physicians t
will say that the child of a drunk
en man inherits a tendency or de
sire for drink. What sort of a
constitution do you- suppose the r
child of a man who drinks, and a
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woman who has dosed herself on
the strength of the medical know- I
'ledge contained in the patent med- g
icine - advertisement, until she has
no stamina left, starts out in the
world with? .
'Yes, there is a remedy for this,
and it is a very simple one. Let
the druggist know what there is
in the medicine they sell. The
druggists of this country can be
safely trusted with the care of
their fellow-citizens; they are ac
countable to the law for what
they sell, provided they know
what it is. Some of the States
have public or official analyste.
It's a pity that all have not got
them ; but that's neither here nor
there. Let some State with such
an official pass a law requiring
any man who wishes to manufac
ture a patent medicine within its
borders to deposit with the public 1
analyst the formula of its compo
sition, and oblige that official to
analyze the medicine once a year.
purchasing the same in open mar
ket. If the sample does not come
up to the formula, let the Attorney
General prosecute the case. The
penalty may be merely nominal,
for the public, on hearing of the
prosecution, would punish the
man ufacturer sufficiently by re
fusing to buy what he had to sell.
In the case I alluded to, n here it
was proved that a medicine was
being dishonestly manufactured,
the demand for it ceased in six
months, and what was a good
property became worthless. Then
let the analyst turnish a copy of
the formula to any druggist upon
application. There would be no
danger to the owner of the med
icine, because the United States
patent and copyright laws are
quite snfficient to protect l5im in
the ownership of his property.
Nor would the makers of honest
medicines be injured; on the con
trary, their trade would be in
creased. But such a law would
come down pretty heavily upon
the men who think and act as if~
having to pay an advertising bill
constitutes a diploma to prescribe
and a license to dispense drugs,
both in one. Yes, sir. a know
ledge of what is in the patentl
medicines, communicated to the
druggists of this country, would
do more thun any other one thing
to limit the sale of those that are
Jurious, to protect purchasers
,ainst the evil effects of indis
iminate dosing, and to put an
d to what I believe to be a
-cat evil. Such a law would put
stop entirely to the manufacture
a class of remedies which are
Id by the mannfacturers and
nt by express. What thes6
nedies are, you will find out by
ading in the papers the records
the hospitals and criminal
arts.
UNCTIONS OF THE NEWS
PAPER.
1. The newspaper is, first of all,
business enterprise. Publishers
ake newspapers to sell. just as
Ltters make bats or shoemakers~
ake shoes. The newspaper is
erchandise made to suit the mar
,t. Those buy it .who wish it'
id the buyers take their choice
the wares offered. Without
is commercial valuthe publca
on could not be sustained, and it
ould be as un wise as unjust not
take this fact into accounti..
ewspaper makers, like othir
anufacturers, must consule pop
lar tastes and market demand.
2. But the newspaper is also
public agent. It offers to the
ublic, for pay, certain services,
Lich as the advertisement-of com
todities, the announcement of
ublic meetings, courts, elections
ad sales. On this work, ;s an
dverfising medium and- public
erald, it depends for mudh of its
aipport.
These are the private and per
onal aspects of the -newspaper,
nd so far as these are concerned
is the private property and
usiness /affair of its publisher
ut to count the newspaper as
2erely a business enterprise, aind
o reckon with it only assci
7ould insult the public inte i
ence as much as it would trifle
vith the public interests and
ights. It assumes public fune
ions and responsibilities which
one but a public teaebr can hold.
Ve cannot absolve men from the
uties attached to-positions which. .
hey voluntarily o'cupy. Bat the
ress is the -irofessed, if not
aid, advocate of whatever set of
pinions it publicly accepts. It
fers its columns as sources -of
ublic information. It speaks n.
rint, and, therefore, with a sup.
osed deliberation, candor anid
onesty, such as men use unider
he most solemn circumstances.
tis in this public character that '
t enters into the ranks of the
vorld.'s teachers, and becomes a
i.blic edu.cator.-Professor .J.JAf.
Vregory.
A NEW THEORY ABOUT Foon.- &
L. German physician has starteda a~
ew theory with regard to food.
lie maintains taat both the vege- I
arians and the meat eaters are on _
he wrong track. Vegetables are
lot more wholesome than mest
or meat than vegetables, and
othing is gained by consuming a
~ompound of both. Wiatever na
~ritive qualities they may possess,
2e says, are destroyed in a great
rnasure, and often by the process
>f* cooking. All food should be L
laten raw. It this practice were
Ldopted there would be little or
no illness among human beings.
T hey would live their apportioned
imze and simply fade away, like
aimals in a wild state, from old
,ge. Let those affected with goat
rheumatism, and indigestion, t-y
for a time the effect of a simple
ucooked diet, such as oysters and
fruit fer instance, and they'wHl
ind all medicine ugnecess.ary and
such a rapid improvement of:their
health that they will forswear all
ooked articles of food at once and'
forever. Intemperance would at
so, it is urged, no 10onger be the
curse of ciTilized communities.
The yearning for drink is caused
by the unnatural abstraction frdim
what are termed 'solids' of the
aqueous element they contain- -
uncocked beef, for example, con
taning from 70 to 80 per cont,
and some vegetables eveni Os
ger proportion. of water. Thee
would be less thirst, and7conse.
uent.dy less desire to drin 4 ie
food were consumed in its au*~<
state without first being subjecte
to the action of fire.