The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, May 22, 1879, Image 4
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Kem anil ."Votes for Women.
A woman in London has paid 200 linos i
for drunkenness.
English children wear pinafores oi 1
pink, blue ami white washing silk.
Women's underclothes are cheaper in
New York than anywhere in Europe. j
One hundred and seventy-four of the
<>32 students of Boston University are
women.
A grand ecumenical council of women
who believe in woman's rights is to be j
held in St. Louis in May.
Mr. Gladstone's constant assistant is j
his daughter, who knows every book in ;
his library and the contents of it.
Young women are almost universally '
employed as typesetters in the printing I
establishments of San Francisco, Cal.
Mrs. Ann Simpson, of Yorkshire, ,
England, has been appointed surveyor of j
roads for the parish of Kirby Grindalyth.
Twenty ladies have been authorized to
write M. 1). after their names by the J
Women's Medical College in Philadelphia.
There are real walking hats for
those who like them this season?hats
totally unlike the bonnets, and intended
to droop over the eyes.
Miss llovey, of Boston, has offered
$10,000 at once and more in the future
to Harvard University, on condition that
it onortc; tlu? linnr of its moilii-nl ci-linnl to
women.
The Princess Louise has taken the
trouble to deny in emphatic terms the
report of a London society journal that
she was being greatly bored by her
Canadian experience.
It is related of the late Mnic. Bonaparte
that she never adopted the new-fangled
notion of gas. but always used eam.les,
and she would not allow a carpet to be
laid on her bedroom floor.
The first women employed in the
National Treasury were appointed in
18o2. There are now 1.300 in the departments
of Washington, who receive salaries
varying from $000 to $1,800 yearly.
The chapel belonging to Grace church.
New York, tfcas the gift of Miss Catharine
Woolf, and cost $35,000. U was
occupied for the first time at the cclebra- j
tion feast of the conversion of St. Paul. '
A Minnesota man found a beautiful
young squaw almost frozen to death,
lie took her to his camp-fire and tried to
thaw her out. When she had melted a
little he proposed marriage and was
accepted.
It is said that Queen Victoria, in her
favorite books, uses paper-marks upon
which are inscribed in Latin these words
of Holy Writ: "Their hope is full of
immortality, and he lives even though
he be dead."
The eldest daughter of Hishon Hunting
ton not only writes newspaper articles
and provides for charities, but walks frequently
twenty miles a day, taking an
umbrella in her hand, a la Dr. Franklin,
for storm or sunshine.
An intelligent schoolgirl, by name Eva
Schelemmer, of Memphis, Tenn., has received
a gold medal from the Howard
Association for meritorious services performed
in the midst of the pestilence
which raged last summer, and which
were unremitting from the beginning to
the close.
Some of the insurance companies ol
New York have written letters of congratulation
to an up-town lady on her
bravery when she discovered that a
room in the third story of her magnificent
house was on lire. Calmly wrapping
a rug about her shoulders, she entered.
ana closing an open window and
the doors kept the flames from spreading,
and then telegraphing to the nearest
statiofi for aid. the flames were quickly
put out, hut uot until every article in the
room was reduced to a cinder.
Fashion Notes.
Lengthwise buttonholes are worked
around the waist-line of wrappers and
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inu ufit i2> run 11111114:11 iiurm.
Tlic Parisian papers speak of a very
choice new shade of blue produced by
socio chemical process with alizarine.
Organdy evening dresses are made up
with an imitation of old point lace and a
profusion of Persian ribbons arranged in
loops.
A gilt lattice, with a wild rose.vine
running over it, formed the apron of an
evening dress recently worn in New
York.
Black silk, black eamolVhair and
black cashmere are still the favorite materials
for street wear with American
women.
Nearly : "1 of the daily and weekly
press of New York city have lady associates
in the editorial department, and
the same may be said of Boston.
Cords with a clasp attached for catching
up the demi-train of a dress, that it
may be short enough for walking, are
now shown in colors to match costumes:
price, $2. Black cords are $1.50.
The pkpillon how is the pretty headdress
for the house. It is made of full
puffed loons of India muslin, with Breton
lace mixed with it, and is more compact
in shape than the long-looped Alsatian
bows. A smaller butterfly bow is shown
as a cravat bow.
Another fancy is the scarf of India
muslin, to he worn in the street as lace
scarfs formerly were. It is outside the
wrap, tied closely around the neck, with
a how in front; the ends hang down,
have plaited Breton lace across them, and
are tied with narrow ribbon to give them
the appearance of a tassel.
New pocket-handkerchiefs of sheer
linen cambric have Breton insertion
forming a cross through the middle of
the kerchief, then passing around it as a
border, with an edge of Breton lace.
Plainer ht.ndkerchiefs have a shield done
in colorec embroidery in one' corner,
while the edge is merely scalloped with
red or blue.
Fichus of white silk muslin, or else of
lisse, are squares doubled in three-cornered
shape. and all the edge bordered
with insertion in which the Breton design
is done with colors. A fine knifeplaiting
of Breton lace edges the insertion,
and the ends are caught together at
thp waist by a bouquet of rosebuds or of
yellow buttercups, a moss-rose or some
favorite flower.
New mask veils are of Breton lace, and
may be either black or white. The net
covering the face has tiny dots wrought
in it, usually two or three in a group,
and the edge is finished with Breton lace
two inches wide. Longer veils, to be
crossed behind the head and tied under
the chin, are made of black net, dotted
with gold thread. The newest grenadine
scarf veils are of tan-color or light
blue, with a gay Roman striped border
on ea< h selvedge.
The royal plate at Windsor is reported
to be worth ?1.800.000. it includes a
gold service ordered by ueorge IV.,
which will dine 110 persons, and the
same monarch added to the collection
one of the finest wine coolers in the
world, a shield formed of small boxes,
worth ?0.000. and thirty dozen plates,
worth ?10.000. There are also a variety
of pieces brought from abroad and from
India. The latter include a peacock of
precious stones of every kind, worth
?30.000, and Tippoo's footstool, a tiger's
head, with crystal teeth andasolid ingot
of gold for his tongue.
" Teaspoon Corners " is a locality in
Ingham county, Michigan. It must be
a stirring place.
HOW WHEAT IS
ShoAvluv the I*nrt that Hallway*, Crtlial?,
MiIoh, {'levators, Telegraph*, Xctrtpapevs,
TtulN mid Kenrs Take in tinTrnnxuct
ion.
The wheat crop of lite United States
for 1878 was 400.000,000 bushels. It is
| easy enough to write the figures, hut 0hard
matter for the mind tb4gra?p the
idea of so enormous a quantity. It is
enough to til' tb overflowing a granary a
mil'* long, a thousand feet wide and one
hundred feet high. To transport it ac ross
the Atlantic would require 6,'.M)0 of the
largest ships that tail on the seas; or,
loaded into freight ears, it would fill
1,'250,000 of them, which would make a
train long enough to reach from New
York to San Francisco and back again.
What becomes of this enormous crop3
Well, a general answer to this question
is not difficult. We retain about 230,000,000
bushels for our own use, to be
ground into llour and used for seed, tihd
the balance of 175,000,000 bushels is sent
abroad, chiefly to feed the over-crowded
population of Great Britain. It is this
exported balance that is chiefly interesting
to the American farmer. If it brings
a good price?if the wheat crops of Europe
are scanty, so that people must supply
themselves front the United States or
j go without?then the American farmer
gets well paid for his whole crop, both
j for what is used here and what goes
; abroad. But if, on the other hand, the
I Liu'opean crops arc plentiful, so that a
I very small extra supply is needed, then
| the American farmer finds prices low
! and his crop for that year unprofitable.
I In theory this is absolutely true, hut
j in practice the statement needs some
! mollification. The farmer has to bear
: the full burden of low prices, but most of
the advantage of a rise in value is often
reaped by merchants, speculators and
other middlemen, who stand between
I the farmer and the foreign consumer, and
who, foreseeing the advance in price, buy
cheap from the former and-sell dear to
the latter.
To a certain extent, this condition of
affairs is unavoidable; and, indeed, the
farmer should be the last man to wish
it utterly abolished. The machinery by
which the distribution of the bulky products
of the earth is accomplished, is not
only one of the wonders ot modern civilization,
but it is civilization itself. The
railways that span the continent, that
bridge the vast rivers, and bore their
way through impassable mountains; the
canals that bear hundreds of thousands
of tons of freight slow moving from the
midland country to the sea; the giant
elevators that do the work of transhipment
so safely and so speedily; the ships
that cros^s the ocean; the telegraph lines
and cables that flash intelligence from
events, and tell the people of one place
what is wanted by those of another;
the merchants who meet on 'Change to
buy and sell; the postoflice; the insurance
companies that guarantee the merchant
against the loss of his cargo; all
those are necessary agents in the work
of distribution, and are entitled to compensation
for their labor. Every one of
them is paid, and justly paid out of the
labors of producers, of farmers, miners
and manufacturers. The trouble is, that
j they often get more pay than they are
entitled to, and, growing wealthy by
degrees, become'the masters of the producers,
instead of their faithful and eflicient
servants.
To appreciate these truths, it is only
necessary for the farmer to suppose himself
deprived of the services of any of
these distributing agents, and see to
what a crippled condition he would be
reduced'. Without our canals and railways,
the grain crops of the West might
rot upon the land, or be consumed as
fuel; without elevators the annual labor
of transferring grain from one conveyance
to another would be largely increased:
without the telegraph and the
postotliee to carry intelligence, and
newspapers to make it cheaply available
for everybody, no merchant could foresee
what lie was likely to realize on his
shipments, nor what price he could afford
to pay the producer: without mer
ciianis, tno larmer woum do compelled
to accompany his produce to the very
door of the consumer, to carry with'him
sufficient money to defray all the expenses
of transportation and transhipment.
and to spend the months that
should he occupied in the production of
a second crop in endeavoring to dispose
of the first.
Let us suppose that we have, in Chicago,
a lot of wheat, graded as No. 2
Chicago Spring, which is sold at the
mling price of the day, eighty-six cents
1 e bushel. Now, what determines the
price of this wheat?
Boforc the days of ocean telegraphy,
prices depended largely upon' guesswork.
A merchant who bought grain
in March to send to England, might not
know until midsummer whether lie had
realized a profit or loss. lie made the
best calculation he could about the price
grain would ho likely to hear in the
English market at t_e time his shipment
should arrive there, and raised or
lowered his prices accordingly, en1
- *. 1? - i 1 * yr*
u encoring always 10 leave nimseii a
fair margin of profit. But nowadays the
Atlantic cable lias changed all that. A
merchant in London finds that he can
make a contract to deliver a certain
quantity of grain, in London, six weeks
hence, at a certain price. lie telegraphs
to a broker in Chicago, offering to pay
so much a bushel for Xo. 2 Chicago
Spring wheat, delivered in London on
a certain date. The Chicago broker at
once ascertains the lowest rate at which
lie can contract with the railway and
steamship companies for transporting
such a quantity of wheat from the elevator
in Chicago to the docks in London.
Next lie goes upon 'Change to learn at
what price he can purchase the grain.
If the cost of the grain in Oliioa ;o, added
to thi' expense of trmsporiing to
London, he less than tin1 price offered
by the London merchant, the broker
concludes the purchase, and pockets the
difference as a remuneration for his
trouble. But if the cost of the wheat
in Chicago, added to the cost of transportation,
amounts to more than the
London merchant is willing to pay,
then one of several things happens. The
price of wheat may rise in London, the
English merchant making a higher offer,
or it may fall in Chicago, or the railway
and steamship companies reduce
their rates of transportation, until it becomes
possible for the broker to effect
sale at a profit; or, if all parties remain
firm in their demands, no sale
takes place, and the wheat market is
said to be inactive. On the other hand,
if the marsrin of Drofit left to the broker
is very largo, t ho Chicago merchants advance
their prices, and wheat is said to
be active and rising.
These lluetuations in prices are anti< ipated
and largely speculated upon by
dealers. Our lot of wheat, for instance,
is only worth eighty-six cents per bushel
to-day; but there arc plenty of people '
who "will agree to give us eighty-seven
cents for it. delivered at the end of a '
month, or eighty-eight cents :it the end
of three months. How do these speculators
make their calculations, and
foretell a rise or fall? In the first place,
by a careful study of statistics. They i
know, very nearly, what is the stock of i
wheat'remaining in the entire world,
and where it is. They know how much
wheat will he required for consumption
in different parts of the earth within a :
given time. Combining this infornm- :
tion, they foretell eitherjn scarcity, or an i
excessive'supply, jand Tforesee a rise or
fall. A changejinlthe.ratesof transportation.
loo, is a. freouent'subject of prevision;
if west want bound" freights arc
likely to balance those eastward bound,
so that steamer lines and railways will
not be compelled to run empty iti on?
direction, then freights may he expected
to fall, and the price of wheat will rise
at the point of shipment. The abundance
or scarcity of money, also, is to he taken
into consideration: if money. becomes
scarce wheat will fall, while if plenty,
it will rise. And lastly, the present
price Of wheat may have been artificially
forced down, or driven up, by speculators
pure and simple, who buy with one
hand and sell with the cither, till flicy
bring the market to a figure to suit themselves.
From among these various causes
which govern the present and future
price of wheat, it is not diflicult. to select
those that it is possible for the farmer to
comprehend and modify. lie cannot rooeive
daily and-hourly advices from tlm
foreign and domestic markets; or bar
gain with railway and steamship companies
for special l'attfs of transportation;
or meet Ids fellow wheat growers upon
'Change to learn how far they are inclined
to augment or lower prices. All
this is properly the work of the merchants
and brokers in the great commercial
centers, and the profits which they
make by doing it are justly earned and
should be allowed them uncomplainingly.
But when it comes to calculating
the future course of the market, and
even, to some extent, to governing it, the
farmer stands on equal grounds with the
merchant, and, in some respects, has even
the advantage. The statistics from which
the merchant makes his calculations are
equally at his service, enabling him to
foresee the fluctuations of demand and
supply, as well as to judge whether
present prices are abnormally high or
low. An intelligent study of the course
of trade will teach him when the great
transportation companies will be likely
to lower their rates, and when they will
be compelled to raise them. And a careful
survey of the financial situation at
different periods will instruct him as to
the ebb and flow of the supply of money.
Moreover, he will learn that the financial
policy of the country, and the regulation
of its immense railway system, are mut
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t Via III UI1IU1 liv: il.io lllvylv' I 11?I i 1 ?111 j WIIM l
man a vital and abiding interest, which,
as a mle, is but poorly defended by his
legislative representatives.
Now that our farmers have discovered
the advantages of organization, and are
associating themselves into granges,
farmers' clubs and other societies, we
may hope that the questions suggested
may receive intelligent consideration at
their hands.?El/rich's Quarterly.
Words of Wisdom.
Never be cast down by trifles. If a
spider breaks his web twenty times,
twenty times will he mend it. Make*up
your mind to do a thing, and you will do
it. Fear not if trouble comes upon you.
Keep up your spirits, though the day
may be a dark one.
Troubles never Inst forever,
'Die darkest day will pass away.
If the sun is going down look up to the
stars; if the earth is dark keep your eyes
on heaven. With God's presence and
God's promise a man or child may be
cheerful.
Never despair when a log's in the uir,
ing.
Mind what you run after. Never he
content with a bubble that will buret, or
a firewood that will end in smoke and
darkness; but that which you can keep,
and which is worth keeping.
Something sterling, thatfwill stay
When g'dd unci silver lly away.
Fight haid against a hasty temper.
Anger will come, but resist it strongly.
A spark may seta house on fire. A fit of
passion may give you cause to mourn all
the days of your life. Never revenge an
injury.
He that revengeth knows no rest;
Tin* meek possess arpeacef*d breast.
If you have an enemy net kindly to
him and make him your friend. You
may not win him over at once, but try
again. Let one kindness be followed bv
another, till you have compassed your
end. Hy little and by little great things
ar? completed.
Water, falling day by day,
Wears the hardest rock away.
And so repeated kindnesses will soften
a heart of stone. Whatever you do, do
it willingly. A boy that is whipped at
school nevgr learns his lessons well. A
man that is compelled to work cares not
how badly it is'j performed. He who
pulls off liis coat cheerfully, strips up
his sleeves in earnest and sings while he
works is man for me.
A cheerful spirit gets on quick;
A grumbler in the mud will stick.
Kvil thoughts are our worst enemies.
Keep your heads and hearts' full of good
thoughts, that bad thoughts may not
lind room.
Be on your guard, and strive and pray
To drive ull evil thoughts away.
A Gold Mine Swindle.
Boston capitalists have recently been
swindled out of about $100,000 in eon
neetion with the purchase of a Brazilian
gold mine, known jis the San Cyriaeo.
The capitalists bought the mine on the
strength of samples of "washings"
furnished by an old colored man whose
apparent innocence and ignorance would
disarm suspicion. It was not until the
money was paid over to the Brazilian
owners of the mine that the discovery
was made that it was not a veritable
bonanza. The expert who had been j
sen: to investigate, and who had previously
reported that the mine was very i
valuable, closely observed the operations
of the colored " washer." lie saw that
the "washings," instead of being rich
in each successive yield, tapered oft",
until there was hardly any return whatever.
Then it was seen that there was
fraud somewhere. It appears that the
washer had been in the habit, of tilling
his mouth with gold-dust. He was an
incessant chewer of tobacco, and he expectorated
gold-dust with the tobacco
juice. The water carried away the
latter, and left the particles of golddust,
thus indicating a large yield.
When the washer was not closely
watched, he could replenish the stock of
with which he " watered " the
gUlU-UU'O
earth, hut when watched, his supply
soon ran out, and his game was exposed,
when he confessed the fraud.
"Salting" mines is not a new thing;
hut the shrewd Boston capitalists did
not expect that this product of civilization
was highly developed in Brazil.
They have learned, however, at an expense
of $100,000. not to put their trust
in Brazilian mines, " washings " from
which are exhibited by expectorating individuals,
and that 1,000 per cent, profit
in a short time from mining operations
cannot always be absolutely depended
upon in advance.
"Business is picking up, and no mistake!"
began Woollenburger the other
night; "why. I nut a thousand pairs of
" ""1- mnrntnir?nnlv tills
^im ra in oDuvn tmo iuw. ^
morning, gents?and, would you believe
it, when I locked up this evening there
were only live hundred pairs left; yes.
sir, only tive hundred paii-s." Of course
nil felt encouraged, arpl of course all
congratulated Woollenburger warmly.
But you should' have seen the mob go
for him as lie hurriedly shot through
the "door after*remarking, "The other
live hundred pairs were rights, you
know.Boston Transcript.
. tfllpnrrtlloled Human Ferocity.
Tlie Rangoon (India-) correspondent
if the l/mdon News writes to his paper
an account of the inhuman slaughter of
nhout ninety menibers of the. royal Burmese
family nt Mandela v. The massacre
was ofclered by the King of Burmah,
and the persons .butchered were ail related
to him. The correspondent says:
At first .he massacre was carried on accordinglo
th_ old Burmese use and wont.
The victims were led out of their cells
in twos r.nd threes, brought to shcklo
to the king, and then disposed of in ordinary
Buddhist fashion. The head of
the victim was tied down to his ankles,
and a blow on the back of the neck from
a heavy club put him out of pain. But
this soon proved too mild a spectacle
for the fiendish mania of Theebau. The
Thongzai prince, whose insolent bearing
English visitors to Mandelay will re
member, on being brought to uo reverence!
to his young brother?the king is
just twenty-one?professed an utter sconi
for what could be done to him, and
was flogged to death. The late king's
oldest son, the txmculent Mekhaya
Prince, who used to look on all foreigners
as so much dirt under his feet, turned
craven, and was taunted and driven to
madness before receiving the blow,
which only half stunned him, when
Ins writhing body was thrown into the
gigantic trench dug to receive the victims.
The massacre was carried on in
j a leisurely fashion, extending over several
days, fiendish ingenuity being taxed
to the utmost to devise fresh horrors.
Moung Oke, the Governor of Rangoon
when It was captured by the British in
1856, had his nose and mouth filled with
gunpowder, a light was applied, and
lie was then flune into the trench to be
stifled by the bodies of succeeding victims.
The daughter of the Nyoung Yan,
a young girl oi sixteen, w;ls nanaea over
to eight soldiers of the Royal Guard, to
he pitched insensible into the same heaving
grave. After some days of this sort
of thing, the executioners got weary,
and hurried through their task. Little
children were put in blankets and swung
against the palace walls; women were
battered over the head, as taking less
trouble than tying them up so as tofget
a blow at the neck. Altogether about
ninety persons are believed to have been
put to death in this way. No one was
allowed to leave the palace while the
massacre was going on, but it seems
certain that Mr. Shaw, our Resident,
was inside the palace walls within a
very short time of its commencement.
He had been to a concert given by one
of the ministers. One object of this jnvai
was to drown the cries of the victims.
The remonstrance which Mr. Shaw, at
the instance of our government, addressed
to the king was received with
the utmost contempt, and he was told
in as many words to mind his own
business; that Burmese domestic affairs
had nothing whatever to do with the
British government.
American Fiddles.
When Wilhelmj, the violinist, was in
Washington recently, he was tin? guest
of Secretary Schurz, who is, as is well
known, a musical amateur of note and
skill. Mr. Schurz regards Wilhelmj as
one of the greatest masters of the violin
the world has seen. Wilhelmj told him
the curious fact that the best violins now
made anywhere are made in this country;
and it seems that the masters of this
noble instrument will send to New York
or Brooklyn when they need a first-class
violin. Three men, it appears, have by
their skill mastered this branch of art;
two of them arc Germans?the brothers
Sehmunde; the third is an American,
Walter C'olton, himself a musician of decided
skill, and from his eighth year an
amateur of the violin. Mr. Colton is the
son of the Rev. Walter Colton, a wellknown
author, chaptain in the navy, and
the first Alcalde ofMbnterey, in California,
after the Americans took possession.
The elder Colton died many years ago.
and young Colton was educated under
tlir care his mother, now the wife of
Representative Chittenden, of the Brooklyn
district. lie was graduated from
Columbia College, studied for the medical
profession, married Miss Litchfield,
r i_l. 1 1? J v,,
or nrooKiyii, nun uiot-icn umt'inr,
where his fondness for the violin ileveloped
into a passion. He hunted
up the most celebrated old violins,
and on his return began to make instruments,
at first only for amusement, and
to give away to his friends; but presently
there arose a demand which has of
late kept him busy. Olc Bull, Renienyi,
Wilhelnij, and all the noted professional
players come to his house, and sen:! him
their instruments when they need repairing.
lie employs no workmen, but makes
all parts of the instrument himself, having
contrived many of the tools he uses,
and he aims to make but a small number
of violins in the year. Many valuable
violins are sent him from different parts
of the country to be repaired; not long
since one was received which was insured
during transmission from a Western city
to New York for $800, and the owner
presented Mr. Colton with a bow valued
at $100 for repairing the instrument. It
is certainly cud that America should lie
Cum/mio 4Vvi* Hint tlio nlfiv
launnid jv/.i uvuno uu?i v..v r-**j
ers of the world acknowledge the superior
merits of American instruments.?Harper's
Weekly.
The Way to Do It.
There is nothing like tact to help one
over the rough places of life. In a steamboat
cabin the man who persistently
stands before the light is around. 1 'arty
vith newspaper, after trying long and
usnueoessfully to read in the other's
shade, finally gives his sorrow words:
but he does it in such a cioss-gruined
manner that he gets "sasscd " back, besides
being laughed at by all present.
Which is not pleasant. Now, mark the
man of tact. Sweetly smiling, he says,
with an obsequious bending of the head:
"My dear sir, I beg your pardon for mentioning
it; hut your silhouette as it falls
athwart my paper, though eminently
pleasing to "contemplate, nevertheless, interferes
just a trille with my nerusal of
the contents of the sliect."_ Say something
like this, or refer politely to the
absence of windows in his head, and not
only will he not be offended, but he will
love you with a love surpassing that of
woman.?Boston Transcript.
A good story is told of fiener.11 um
ford, Lord Chelmsford's second in com
mnnd in South Africa. One day in
British CaflVaria, during the Cafl're war
of 1810-8, he was in the act of sitting
down on the ground, placing one liana
beneath him for that purpose. He felt
something clammy to the touch, and
found to his horror it was a pull-adder,
a most venomous reptile. Another nan
with less self-possession would have removed
his hand, probably to be stung in
the act. Not so Clillbrd. With great
presence of mind he held the snake down
firmly with one hand, with the other
drew his clasp-knife from his pocket,
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T1ii> l.itp Dr. W. II. Hall, in 1111 artu-lo
about taking carp of the eyes, saitl:
Milton's blindness was the result of
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One of the most eminent American
divihos (the kite Albert IWnes) having
for some time bceh compelled to fni'egn
the pleasure of reading, spent thousands
of dollars in value, and lost years of time
in consequence of "jetting up several
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light. His eyes never got well.
Multitudes of men and women have
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The of Strong IVerven
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