The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, February 28, 1889, Image 2
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Daring the year 1-^88 nearly 700 persons
disappeared in Philadelphia, a large
percentage of -whom were never heard
of. '
There were a greater number of lynchings
in this country last year than there
had been in any previous year since
1880, except 1SS4.
The Xcw York Herald doubts if it is
good policy for any American tuurist to
go to Cuba, as lawlessness is rife and
Americans are hated.
The City of Mexico is full of tramps,
and the anti-American papers satirically
refer to them as "prominent Americans
visiting the Capital."
The Cleveland Plain Dcahr is prepared
to see spectacle makers grow rich out of
the next generation, as so many school
children are obliged to wear glasses.
The Legislature of Ohio will be asked
to pass a law prohibiting any minister of
the Gospel from beiug present a"t an execution
as the spiritual adviser of the condemned.
Boston's January dividends amounted
to $12,500,000, a million and a half more
than those distributed in Philadelphia.
On an even distribution this would give
every Bostonian $30, and every Philadelphian
$11.
Russia built a railway especially to se
cure me iraae 01 rcrsia, uuu is uun caccssivcly
angry with that country for
opening the river Ivaruu to trade, by
nibaniof which other foreign nations
witt be enabled to compete with the
Russians.
The Bermuda Islands are at last to be
'cbnnccled by telegraph with the remainder
of civ sation. A lino from
there to Halifax, 730 miles in length,
"will be begun in the spring, and the
British Government will pay a subsidy
of $00,000 per year.
The Chinese Immigration Bureau of
San Francisco, which has for a long time
been doing a large business evading the
law and helping Mongolians to land in
this country, has finally shut up shop.
It would seem, infers the Chicago Neics,
as though the chinks in the lence had
finally been stopped up.
It has been noted in the Chicago
Times as a strange coincidence that Ellis
Rhelan, an cx-Confcdcrate soldier, was
elected Judge of Probate in "Waterbury,
Conn., at the last election, and on the
same day a Union veteran was chosen a
member of the Alabama Legislature in
the same district where Phelan formerly
lived.
A recent judicial ruling upon the
question, When is a man drunk, is:
"When consciousness becomes modified
in any degree whatever fhrough the
influence of alcohol, and when, or as j
long a?, no exercise of independent |
.nervous force is adequate to restore it to
a normal state, the man so affected is j
drunk."
With the first of this year Germany
abandoned the old pound weight and
adopted the metric system in its entirety.
? America, xrliicli set the example of the
metric system in her decimal coinage,
_*:ii iiaViinrl cava fVi? "Vfiw York
91111 llUgVIO WV44.UM, -V.J ~ |
Tcltgram, in adopting this convenient ;
and logical progression of weights and .
measures.
The Michigan cattle breeders propose
to ask the l egislature to enact that all
meat supplied to State institutions shall i
be from animals fattened and killed in
Michigan. They also ask for a meat inspection
law, which shall provide that .
all cattle killed for consumption within
towns of more than 8000 inhabitants !
shall first have been inspected alive and
on foot.
During 1888 the number of failures in
the United States was 10,o00, against j
0740 in 1887. Dut the aggregate liabili- !
ties of the parties failing in 1888, where ;
about ten per cent, less than in 1887, j
while the aggregate assets of the failing I
traders are only four per ceftt. smaller, j
This gain in the ratio of assets certainly j
"indicates increased healthfulncss in !
commercial conditions." as a leading authority
on the subject puts it.
It has been discovered by the New
York Tribune that the grave of William .
Penn is in a sadly neglected condition. j
There is not even a mound above it, and I
only a flimsy slab of stone stuck in the j
ground, at the head or foot? no one can
tell which. The Friends do not approve ;
of the erection of elaborate and costly
momimeuts, but there surely could be no !
objection to some more definite and per- 1
mancnt marking of such an interesting j
spot.
The Duke of Edinburgh has won for
himself the distinction of being perhaps
the only man who ever despatched a ship
on a journey to fetch a trunk. The occasion
was the recent trip of the Duke
and Duchess to Greece, and the trunk,
which contained a part of the Duchess's
wardrobe, was accidenfly left at Malta.
Instead of telegraphing to have the next
steamer bring along the missing baggage,
. the Duke sent one of the vessels of the
squadron after it.
The livery of the coachman of Count
d'Arco Yallev, the German Minister at
Washington, is creating a sensation in
that city. Gold and lace seem to be the
principal part of it. A double row of
silk buttons runs down the front, while
rows of gilt cord are swung across the
breast and fastened upon the right side,
from which depends a sword. The tall
blue hat is decorated with a plume and
cockade of Geiman colors. No one
seems to know what the sword is for,
unless it is to "cut behind'' at the small
boys, whose republican irreverence
causes them to "steal a ride" on the gorgeous
equipage.
CIt
is proposed to make a new county
for Connecticut from tho Sixth and
Twentieth Senatorial districts. The:
name suggested is "Waterbury" County,
and it would include eighteen towns,
with an aggregate wealth of $22,458,093. ;
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Cremation societies are being augmented
in this country by women of the
better class, who are joining them
rapicuy. in jncw iorK, jsroouiyn ana
i Boston particularly there arc a great
many well-known women enrolled among
the cremationists, and the movement is
endorsed by a still greater number who
have not taken pains to become members.
Says the Washington Star: "Phila.
delphia statistics show that the suicides
of the city during the past year reached
the astonishing number of 99, more than j
three times as many as the homicides.
The quiet and sclf-re>trained people of
the City of Brotherly Love destroy thcir
own lives rather than those ol their
neighbors. Perhaps the monotony of
life and of residence architecture causes
them to grow weary, oh, so weary, and
to wish that they were dead."
The combined Vandcrbilt wealth, according
to the New York World, amounts
to $274,000,000, and the estimated income
from it per annum is $13,864,400.
No other single family in the world is so
rich. If kept intact the total fortune
will at the end of twenty-live years
almost reach $1,000,000,000, and this
i result will bo attained by the simple
j arithmetical progression of compound
j interest. The rapid increase of the Van|
derbilt millions clearly shows how money
! begets money.
| The inventive genius who got up the
drop-aquarter-into-the slot-nnd-take-an
opera-glass device, which has been introduced
into one of the New York
j theatres, has received a bad setback at
j the outset. A busy newspaper has in!
terviewed the doctors on the subject,
t One of them says: 4'It is ccrtaiu that
contagious diseases of the eye can and
will be transmitted from one person to
another by the use, as proposed, of these
: opera-glasses." Several other physicians
| concur in this opinion.
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Yicc-President-clcct Morton's place at
l Ilhincbeck, on the Hudson, was originally
purchased from the Indians in
lGyG by Gcrrit Aartsen, Arrie Roosa,
I and Jan Elting. In 1702 it was sold to
! Hcndrick Heermance, the son-in-law of
' Aartsen, who left it to his son-in-law,
Jacobus Kip. It remained in the Kip
family until 1814, when it was sold to
Maturin Livingston. It passed through
several other hands, until it was pur
chased by William Kellcy, of New
York, who added a thousand acres to it,
spent a.fortune on it, and whose heirs at
L n el an L n a1 rl a f a en an 4 a T v?
1113 ucaiu ouiu 11 nt a datiuitt iu mi,
Morton. Mr. Morton has also spent a
fortune.in improving it, and it will be,
when completed, oue of the costliest
places in the United States.
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The St. Louis Globe-Democrat declares
that "the introduction of leprosy
into the United States must be stopped
and the terrible disease stamped out at
once, or it will be the most unmanageable
of all epidemics that ever visited
our land. There is no longer any
question of its being communicable. The
lepers have invaded British Columbia,
and had such free'access to the Indians
that the whole race of red men is infected.
The antagonism to Chinese immigration
will be more widespread than
ever, and will be based on something besides
race prejudice. It would be fa:
better to stop quarantining against yellow
fever and smallpox, for while the latter
kill more quickly, leprosy devours its
victims with a living death. "When will
our authorities get aroused to appreciate
the danger that is coming upon usl"
One-fifth of the immigration to this
port from Europe last year, observes the
New York Sun, was from two countries
which have only recently begun to contribute
to our population?Italy and
Russia. The report from Castle Garden
shows that out of 380,030 immigrants
for the year 13,683 were Italians and 32,t.37
were Russians. The immigration
from these two countries was as high as
that from Germany,and the immigration
from Italy nlone was just about equal to
that from Ireland. We are informed
that very nearly the whole body of immigrants
classified as "Russians'' belonged
to the Hebrew race, and that they
liud life here so much more desirable
than they found it under the Czar of
Russia that they are encouraging their
1 a. 1 T 4 V? r\
ureiuruii wuuui iuuj iuh ucmuu mi'iu iu
follow their example in coming to
America. There are several interesting
features in the Castle Garden report for
the past year.
1 Genuine and ArliiU-iul Honey.
Mr. WorthingtOD G. Smith, the eminent
microscopist, finds that genuine
' honey can be readily distinguished from
[ manufactured honey by the microscope.
The former has few or no sugar crystals
and abounds with pollen grains, while
the imitations have little else than these
crystals, with rarely a trace of pollen
gra ns. The honeyed taste of the manufactured
article, he thinks, may come
J from honeycomb or bees' wax being
| mashed up with the article used in the
| manufacture. L'ach class of plants has
its own specific foim of pollen grain,and
.Mr. Smith says that anyone conversant
with this branch of botany could tell
from what part of the world the honey
; came, by studying the polien grains it
! mirrlif contain. The honev he had was
, -- - ,
English honey, and it abounded with
I grains of Leguminosre, especially beans
j aud clover, the English heath and evening
primroses. In America, however,
( bees freely visit Composit i?not, how'
ever, for honey, but for the po'len.
; They are, indeed, among t lie most popuI
lar of liowers'with our pollen gatherers,
j As the bees make a separate task of
j honey-gathering from pollen-gathering,
j this may account for the rarity of the
I pollen grains of this order in honey. ?
j Neuo York Ii.deytiidsnf.
I Well watched?A jeweler's window.
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yesterday.
My friend, ho spoke of a woman face;
It puzzlod me, and I paused to think,
He told of her eyes and mouth, the traco
Of prayer on her brow, and quick as win^
I said: "Oh yes, but you wrong her years.
She's only a child, with faiths and fears
That childhood fit. I tell thee nay;
She was a girl just yesterday."
"The years aro swift and sure, I trow,"
(Quoth he). "You speak of the long ago."
Once I strolled in a garden spot,
And every (lower upraisod a head
(So it seemed), for they, I wot,
Were mates of mine; each bloom and bed,
Their hours for sleep, their morry mood,
The lives and deutbs of the whole sweet
brood,
Were known to me; it was my way
To visit them but yesterday.
Bpake one red rose, in a language low:
'We saw you last in the l.ngago."
Entering under the lintel wide,
I saw the room; 'twas all the same;
The oaken pres-i and the shelves aside,
The window small for the sunset flame,
The book I loved on the table large;
I ope'd and lo: in the yellow marge
The leaf 1 placed was shrunk and gray,
I swear it was green but yesterday.
Then a voice stole out of the sunset glow:
"You lived hero, man, in the long ago."
Tis the same old tale, though it come3 to me
By a hundred paths of pain and glee,
Till I guess the truth at last, and know
That yesterday is the long ago.
?liichurd E. Burton, in Harpn's Weekly.
DORA'S SISTER.
"I do hope you'll like her, Burtou,"
said Dora, leaning toward her handsome
young brother-in-law, with her preity
eyes bright with cngerness; "and I
don't know how you can help it. Everybody
does. And 1 don't think you'll
lind her gawky. I know you've always
thought me rather provincial, Burton,
dear "
"Xo, no," her brother-in-law interposed.
"Oh, yes, you have; and I know I am.
But Lucy's ever so much nicer than I
am. She's prettier in the first place "
' Tmnossiblfl said T'.nrtnn orallantlv
"And then,"' said pretty Sirs. Salkeld,
camostlv, ''she's awfully bright She's
been away at boarding-school for four
years. She hasn't stayed in Gordon
Centre as I did, you know, till Alfred
camo and took me away. And she's always
so stylish, apd . "Well, wait
till you sec her. 1 know you'll like her,
Burton."
"I'm certain of it, Dora," Burton declared,
reassuringly.
Mrs. Sulkcld rose lingeringly, in response
to a small cry from the nursery.
"Sarah never can find the pins in that
little blessing when he cries, and I know
they're there. She's coming to-morrow,
you know, Burton. You'll come right
around to see her, won't you? Ever so
many have promised to call."
"I'll come immediately after breakfast,"
Burton rejoined.
His sister-in-law laughed as she went
through the door, but she looked back
at him with amu-ing seriousness.
It would not have been hard for a keen
observer to guess that she was not without
a timid ambition concerning her
brother-in-law and her sister Lucy?
timid, because Burton was, in the estimation
of his brother's wife, as nearly
a perfect being, morally, mentally and
physically, as hart ever existed?the one
person who enjoyed an equal distinction
being her husband.
If it hart been any girl but Lucy, she
was sure such a thing would never have
entered her head.- But Lucy! the
smiled with sisterly fondness as she rummaged
among the baby's flannels for the
'-offending"piii.
Dora's brother-in-law called promptly
at eleven o'clock the next morning. He
was a good-natured and conscientious
young gentleman, and he would have
disappointed Dora on no account.
But his mood, as he rang the bell and
pulled off a glove, was not an especnlly
eager one. IIo was too polite to form
ulate his feelings, even to himself; but
had he done so, the fact would have
be en' clear that hc'didn'l expect much
from I'ora's sister.
A pretty girl she might bo; Dora was
pretty, liut a girl fresh from Gordon
Centre, though she had had four years
at a couutry boarding school! The young
man raised his brows, with a slight
smile.
Nothing, however, should prexonthis
doinir his utmort for Dora's sister. His
good breeding did not even allow his
dubious smile to remain. He looked
seriously expectant when the door
opened.
"Mrs. Salkcld is just gone out. Her
aressmuKer's nttic uoy is worse, ana sac
went down to sec him," the servant explained.
"Mi-s Trumbull is in?" Burton
queried.
"Yes, sir; Miss Trumbull came this
morning."
Burton gave the girl his card, put his
hut and overcoat on the rack, and took
a scat in the parlor.
It was some twenty minutes before
Dora's sister came down.
Burton was deep in the latest magazine
when the door at last admitted her.
She came in with a sweeping rustle of
draperies, a beaming smile and a warpi
greeting. j
"Mr. Salkeld, ain't it? Burton, I
come pretty near saying. Dora.^ab? always
calls you burton, and it was jefet on
the end o' my tongue. Well, I'm A|al
glad to see you. Dora, she's told mHl
about you, but hearing hbout folks aJTn't
like seeing 'em." v (
She shook hands warmly, rolled an
ottoman in front of the largest rniair
with a strong push, sat down with ihcr
feet on the stool, and smiled yet mo^re
broadly. ? \,
"Well, I'm awful glad to get hcro.|
I've been coming for I don't know how
long, but I hain't seemed to get round
to it; and so last week 1 says to pa: 'If
I'm going up to Dora's, I'm jest going
to go.' And pa says all right, to tix up
and go, then; and ma and I jest went
right round and put things together
what I needed, and pa took me down to
the cars Monday morning, and here I bo.
I ain't a bit used up, neither; ma, she
said I would be."
She laughed quite heartily, tapping
the arm of her chair and tinkering the
how of ribbon on top of her head.
Burton murmured something in reponse?he
did not know what. He sat
stiffened in the attitude of polite deference
which he had assumed, quite
motionless.
lie felt no desire to smile; he was toe
much shocked and appalled for that.
Good heavens! this w;as far worse than
anything he had imagined. His head
fairly buzzed; he sat stariDg at Dora's
sister in utter blankness.
"Pretty big place you've got here,
hain't you?" Miss Trumbull proceeded,
her cordiality unaffected by his silence.
"Considerable bigger'n Gordon Centre,
I guess. I hain't never b'en in cities
much, and I get kind o' turned rounc
in 'em. 1 don't know as I should l?k<
it iarlng here. It's so l^BPTonesome,
meeting so many pd^le you ain't
acquainted with. Wftr, in Gordon.
Centre there ain't anybody in town yoh;
don't know ^aad^fjoVdo see a stranger,
it ain't very hnrd to find out who 'tis."
Burton gasped. Was it possible that
Dora could have believed what she had
said about her sister? Yes; he reflected
t' at Bora had not jeen her before for
some time, and her fondness for her, and
her good-tempered admiration of everybody,
had done the rest.
Burton gazed at her. Her clothes did
not fit f she had a string of beads on, and
a blue bow and a breast-pin at her neck,
and red ribbons on her hair. Pretty?
Yes, she was undeniably pretty; that he
admitted freely. But stylish, and not
provincial? What could Dora have been
xl_ i _ 1- fa
lainKing oif
The young man passed his hand across
his forehead weakly.
"I s'pose I'd have be'n here long ago,"
Dora's^sister went on, serenely, "if I
hadn't be'n off to school. Dora, she's
told you I've be'n to boarding-school for
four years, I s'pose? '.Most all the Gordon
Centre girls get aloDg with what
learning they can get to home, and I
think myself it's plenty. But pa, he
thought different, and ma joined in with
him. She'most generally does. I don't
know as I learnt much. The East Lowvillc
Seminary don't amount to so terrible
much. East Lowville ain't so big as
Gordon Centre: but pa's satisfied, I
s'pose. Ever be'n out our way?"
"I have never had that pleasure,"
! Burton contrived to say.
"Well, it's a real likely place, Gordon
; Centre is, if it ain't so big as some.
' There's considerable going on 'most all
; the year. Thcre'd be'n two sociables
the week before I come away, and there
i was goiDg to Le a warm-sugar party that
night, I hated to miss it. Do you have
much going on here?"
Burton took out his watch and dazedly
consulted it.
"We have no sociables uor warm sugar
parties," heicsponded, grimly.
And then he rose.
"I am sorry to be obliged to go; but I
have an engagement at twelve," he said,
bowing.
He would have retired without further
ceremony, but Dora's sister intercepted
Kim Vnn/1
AA1111 niiu uuitoiibiciiwu uauui
"Goodness! you hain't be'n here above
fifteen minutes," she said, regretfully.
"Well, comcin again?drop in anytime.
I don' know jest how long I'll be here?
long as Dora'll keep me, 1 s'pose."
She talked on with friendly confidence,
accompanying him to the door,
and standing by while he put on his hat
and overcoat.
He was aware, as he went rapidly
dowu the street, that she was standing
in the doorway and watching his departure.
i He spent the rest of the day in trying
to forget Dora's sister, but he found it
not altogether possible; he had been too
deeply astonished and horrified. Ho
had not expected much, he reflected
somewhat wrathfully over a cigar in his
ollice; but what he had found. And
Dora's description! Surely love-and
sisterly love particularly?was blind.
I He was glad it was tho night of the
Gills's reception. If anything was calculated
to remove unpleasant impressions,
it was one of the Gills's leceptions. He
wondered, with a qualm, whether Alfred
and Dora would go?and take Miss
Trumbull. Of course they had cards.
Well, at least he could keep a safe distance.
A In* Ani maw.mm V n MnW* Ofl A
XIHJUUSC IUC Hint fJUlOVSU AlU ou<T| aa ii\j
1 entered the Gills's spacious but crowded
rooms, was his sister-in-law. She
greeted him eagerly.
i "We were so afraid you wouldn't be
here. I do want Lucy to have a good
time, and it will be so much nicer to
have somebody she knows. You'll tako
her out for the first set, won't you? unless
she's engaged."
! "Miss Trumbull is here?" said Burton,
wretchedly.
"Why, yes, of course," Dora rejoined,
briskly. There she is. Doesn't she look
lovely? And she's taking so well! Air.
SaDford has been with her ever since we
came, and he never looks at a girl. But
I don't want him to get the first set,
Burton dear. Do hurry!"
She took his arm, led him over to the
group she had been watching, and
tripped away.
I The group was composed of one young
lady and six gentlemen; and the young
lady was Dora's sister.
! bhc smiled on Burton graciously, and
went on talking to Mr. Sanford, who
p looked radiant, bestowing an occasional
smile upon one of the other five young
men, wno in mrn iooaeu uappy.
i wore a charmingly-fashioned,
perfectly-fitting, and wonderfully pretty
' gown, and she looked dazzlinglv pretty
herself. Her sole ornament was a bunch
of roses at her corsage.
She wafted her black gauze fan, and
sparkled across it in all the glory of
j black eyes, white teeth and pink cheeks,
j "Oh, I don't know that lam prepared
| to admit that, Mr. Sanford," she wa3
saying, with a light laugh. "I'm aware
of the vanity and shallowness of society
j in general; but I don't admit that every
1 individual composing society is vain or
shallow. I believe that a good share of
i the pleasure-seekers?those who seem
! mere pleasure seekers?are as serious at
as lhe rvnies and Dedants who hold
' aloof. I believo thnt a* certain amount
of social gaiety is necessary to one's
, happiness?yes, anil welfare. Emerson
| owns its value. Don't, you remember
. that passage in his 'Culture' "
The orchestra in the next room struck
I up at the next moment. Miss Trumbull
; looked at her opponent brightly.
"Now, Mr. tanfoid, you will dance
this quadrille as gaily as any of us, and
ji&jvon't prove your unworthiness either.
I We shall see your theories confuted in
practice."
She laughed mischievously.
Mr. Sanford, with an enraptured
smile, eagerly offered his arm; so did
the other live young men, frantically.
iBut Burton ouietly intercepted them
all. He placed Miss Trumbull's hand
within his elbow, with a firmness which
^roas not to be ignored, and oore ner
Away. He did not take her to the dancing-room;
he led her to a sofa in a dim
earner of the deserted hall, and sat down
| beside her.
j j ''Well?" he said, simply.
.Miss Trumbull put her fan to her lips.
There was silence for a space.
!"I?I don't know what made me do
it.Dora's sister murmured, with a queer
mixture of apology and defiance in hci
1 soft voice, and with her eyes cast down".
"Only?Dora had told me all about
; you?"
"So you remarked this morning,"Burton
interposed, with an attempt at stern1
ness.
Dora's sister laughed guiltily.
1 "And I got the idea?I don't know
how; she didn't say so,and I don't think
1 now that it is so?that you were?well,
1 'proud and haughty,' as the novels say;
'< and when she begged me to bo just as nice
as I could, because you were so particulai
i and talked so much about how?how
nice you are," said Miss 'Irurabull, with
a blush, "why, it made me feel contrary
right away, and that ridiculous idea
1 occurred to me, and?and I did it."
I The corner was dim; but he saw quite
5 plainly the pretty repentance and plead
- cM
y -i
mg la her eyes; and Dora's sister saw a
full forgiveness in his.
They laughed together, somewhat
shyly, "r _? _
"Where did yovi get the?the things?"
he queried, gazmg at her perfect attire.
"Oh, the dress was Dora's?she's so
much 8touter,you know?and the beads
are the baby's, and I hunted all through
my boxes for the ribbons! That's what
took me so long."
"And the East I.owvillc Seminary-^
you fibbed about that?" Burton questioned,
moving nearer to her.
"1634 j?iaaame ucauce -nnisneu me.
And you fibbed about your engagement
at twelve?''
"Ves," Burton confessed, inwardly
wondering how he could have done it.
How pretty she was!
"Then we're evenl" said Dora's sister,
laughing with sweet gaiety, as she took
.his arm for a quiet promenade.
Dora's doubts and anxious questionings
were speedily calmed. Her irre{iroachable
brother-in-law not only liked
ler pretty sister exceedingly, but her
pretty sister liked him?so much so that
a gay wedding at Gordon Centre that
j fall produced another Mrs. Salkeld.?
Saturday Niglit.
WISE WORDS.
Guard against quarrelsomeness.
Home is the dearest place on earth
A guilty conscience makes coward.- r>l
us all.
Willfulness is no mark of grace 01
wisdom.
It is the very reason some people are
not happy, because they thick others arc
| happier.
No person need make a great effort in
i the affectation of manners, it is noticeable
enough. ,
It is a good thing to possess confidence
in others, but much safer to depend
upon yourself.
One of the causes that leads us to misfortnnA
is that wi? livft nornrdinrr tn the
' example of others.
Everybody is* hacking and hewing
each other, trying to make a man better
than he was born.
Your goodness must have some edge
to it, else it is none. Nothing is at last
sacred but the integrity of your own
mind.
Public opinion is the strongest factor
in putting down any evil, and it is made
up of private opinion, openly expressed
and heartily followed.
Be cheerful; do not brood over fond
hopes unrealized until a chain,link after
link, is fastened on each thought and
wound about the heart. Nature intended
you to be the fountain-spring of cheer!
fulness and social life, and not the
1 traveling monument of despair and
melancholy.
As it is the manly man who wins and
satisfies a good woman, so it is the
womanly weman who pleases and re!
tains the desirable man. x She need not
be soft or silly, or weak or nervous?she
may be strong, vigorous, resolute and
brave; but, whatever she is, she must be
womanly in order to pleas >.
I He who amasses wealth, not as an
; equitable return for value given, but by
: underhand dealing or oppression of the
poor, or gambling on a high or low scale,
has been engaged in no hocorabfe competition.
lie who climb3 into power,
not by proving himself the fittest man to
wield it, but by pushing others down ana
crowding .them out, desecrates the name
of emulatiou.
Pet Animals Spread Disease.
"The spread of diphtheria which has
been so great lately," remarked a Wesl
! Side physician, "is largely attributed tc
a carelessness that is criminal when th?
j virulent nature of the distemper is considered.
It is the experience of mosl
physicians that almost all sickness comes
from the ignorance or willful carelessness
of the people, but in no case is this
so bad as in that of diphtheria, because
of its extremely infectious character.
; Once diphtheria is known to exist the
greatest precaution should be taken to
prevent its spread, but instead of thai
; nothing .is done until all the children ir
a whole tenement house, or in fact in e
j whole block, are infected, or at least en,
dangered, as was the' case down on
I Tenth avenue lately.
I Pet animals are a common and con]
stant source of the spread of this distem
! per. Cats and dogs are permitted to b(
! around and even to drink the milk lefl
by a child suffering from diphtheria.
These animals take the disease and thcr
cro out and spread it among their fellov
animals, which in turn carry it into th<
houses where they belong. I have knowi
several cases where a cat caught it ii
this manner and infected all the cats ji
the neighborhood, and was the cause o
numbers of deaths of human beings, fo
children will play with cats and pe
them if they appear sick. "When in tha
condition a cat or other pet animal i:
more inclined than at other times ti
crawl up on people to get sympathy, anc
this makes the danger all the greater
A remarkable case of this kind occurrec
' in mv own house a few years aco. 1
little girl residing in the house con
tracted scarlet fever and died. Durin<
her illness a pet alligator was around
.and soon after the child's death the ani
mal took sick and also died. A coupl
of medical students who were stoppinj
in the house made a post-mortem cxami
nation of the alligator and found all th
symptoms of death from scarlet fever,
made an examination myself, and thcr
was no doubt whatever that the creatur
had caught the fever from the child, an<
had died of it. I know of no njore pro
lific agency in the spread of diseases o
this kind than the household pets?th
dogs and cats?of which some pcopl
arc so fond."?New York Mercury.
The Horse Knew the Drill.
The following story is told bylre<
Grant: In his last year at West Poin
he held the position of captain of artil
lery. One day the visiting oliicer, wh
happened to bo his father, Gencrt
Grant, held an inspection and drill
??&fter the cadets had assembled on th
parade ground it was decided to give th
commands by bugle call. The oflicer
would then deliver them by word of mout
- .V T-? J /"I 1.1 3 ^4.
to tne men. r reu uiulil uau u uuiuuuusi
bad ear for music. He had never bee
able to master a single tune, and, wors
i still, had no idea of time. When th
announcement of the mode of giving th
orders was made he rushed up to a com
rade and said:
i "Great goodness! what shall I do?
can't tell the difference between th
'charge' and the 'retreat.'"
His friend advised him to change hi
horse for Mazeppa, a horse of one of th
sergeants. She would carry him through
He hastily did so, and wutched ever
moment of his animal during the ensuiu,
evolutions. When the bugle sounde
"forward," the knowing animal ad
i vanced; and the command was accord
ingly given to the men. When the ca
- of "halt" came, Mazeppa stood like
rock, and the proper order was issue
r by the officer. In this way the horse, b
k its ear for music, told its rider the ot
ders for the day and carriea him safel
) through the complicated movements o
. the drilh
M IMIl' BW^j
"
GJBBMANY/S BULBS AFFECTED 3DEFOBMITY
AND DISEASE.
A Combination of Circumstances At
HiR Birth Sent Him Through
Life With a Withered Arm.
In Paris two days ago, says a cablegram
to the New York Sun, I talked
about Emperor William with a friend
whose fame as a medical man is world
Wide and obtained for your readers most
interesting and definite information as
to the young ruler's physical condition.
The information may be relied upon as
cr.act beyond any question.
"Young William was unlucky in the
first place," said my friend, "in having a
Princess for a mother, and equally so in
* *? i i _ T*_; rru~~?.
navmg Deen uorn a itibcb. xuu.io mv
circumstances account for his unhappy
deformity. The usually accepted accounts
of its nnturo and origin are imaginative
rubbish. The Crown Princess
; Frederick was, as is generally known,
; traveling in an out-of-way place at a
very indiscreet period. The birth of the
present German Emperor was unexpected
and he was helped into the world
by some obscure little doctor with an
awe for royalty far in excess of his
knowledge of surgery. If he had been
allowed to think that his patient was (
simply an ordinary woman of strong
physique, all would probably have been
well; but the fact was carefully impressed
upon him that he had in his
hands the life of the future Queen, and
i the child would, perhaps, be heir to the
i Prussian throne. This so demoralized
the little doctor that he added the
strength of his own muscles to the forces i
of nature and so severed all the muscles
of the infant's left arm. ~ .
"When I was called to Windsor fly
r Queen Victoria to attend the little boy
I saw at once that his ca^e was hopeless. .
If he had been a grocer's son, some good
doctor would have been called in, and
some sound method of cure adopted and
followed. As a Prince, however, he had
. to be seen by every good doctor, no
system was followed out, and the worst
possible result of the accident ensued,
namely, complete atrophy of the arm.'
"It is wasted completely away, and is
probably smaller than when I examined
him as a boy at Windsor. Fortunately
such, wonderful skill has been shown by
the German surgeons as to save him from
1 the mortification of having it plainly
seen that one of his arms is simp'y the
withered arm of a childi The withered
limb is padded out in a most lifelike
fashion, and not only thati but within
the padding is a most wonderfully clever
machine, a series of strings and cords
acting like the muscles of the arm. These
artificial muscles are cbnnccted with the *
good muscles of the shoulder most
adroitly, so that while in a natural condition
he would be incapable of moving
his withered arm. This most ingenious
mechanism enables him to impart to it
movements that arc almost lifelike. He
can raise or lower his artificial hand and
use U sufficiently well to guide carefully
trained and broken chargers which are
sqiected for him."
The readers of this letter will remember
that I have frequently insisted upon
the great gravity of the disease concentrated
in the unlucky Emperor's head,
and which is officially describled as a
slight aflcction of the ear. My statements
as to the seriousness of this trouble
wctc based upon authentic information
from the J.'erlin court and are confirmed
by the comment of the phj-siciau quoted
above.
"The Tmperor's deformity," said he,
"is nothing, except as it mortifies and
{ irritates an extremely proud and sensitive
mail; but the disease in his head is
one which may have most serious consequences
for all Europe. It may drive
the Emperor to the most extravagant
acts, or suddenly, by killing him, end
tbe speculation as to what his career
may be.
"I can toll you positively that it
already makes him insane at intervals.
He was insane when he delivered certain
speeches which his advisers were oompelled
to revise and interpret officially.
He was mentally deranged by his suffering
and the direct effect of his malady
upon the brain. All the skill of the
doctors about him is concentrated to
fight the disease that is growing in his
head. Once already it has gone beyond
the control of the doctors, and tbe Emperor
suffered a most dreadful attack, all
knowledge of which was carefully kept
from the public. When the disease
reaches a certain point, there will como
an explosion, and the Emperor will
either die or become hopelessly insane.
"Ju^t what the disease is I Vill not
say. Its nature may be described as
that of a tumor and an abnormal growth
within the brain. The skill of his physicians
may fight off the final stages of
the disease for a longer period than at
present seems probable, but there is very
little hope that they will be able to
cure it.
"Thfi vounp Emneror is decidedly an
I J O I .
1 unlucky man. Old Emperor "William i
: suffered, which is not generally known,
1 from a form of epilepsy, and his graud^
son, who has inherited the trouble, is
" also afflicted with fits epileptic in char5
acter." ,
How to Act at a Eire.
e
, In a lecture before the Society of Arts,
? London, Air. A. W. C. Ghcan gave the
e following concise and simple directions
] how to act on the occurrence of fires:
e Fire requires air; therefore, on its ape
pearance every effort should be made to
3 exclude air; shut all doors and windows.
By this means fire may be confined to
f a single room for a sufficient period to
e enable all the inmates to be aroused and
e escape; but if the doors and windows
are thrown open, the fauning of the wind
and the draft will instantly cause tho
flames to increase with extraordinary
j rapidity. It must never bo forgotten
t that the most precious moments are at
i the commencement of a fire, and not a
^ single second should be lost in tackling
t] it. In a room a table cloth can be so
I used as to smother a large sheet of flame,
j and a cushion may serve to beat it out; a
fl coat or anything similar may be used
w th an enual successful result.
^ The great point is presence of mind,
calmness in danger, action guided by
a reason and thought. In all large houses
e buckets of water should be placed on
c every landing, a little salt being put ine
to the .water. Always endeavor to attack
the bed of afire; if you cannot extinguish
a lire shut the door when you
j make good your retreat. A wet silk
e handkerchief tied over the eyes and
nose will make breathing possible in the
midst of much smoke, and a blanket
0 wetted and wrapped around the body
! will '.table a person to pass through a
" sheet of flame in comparative safety.
? Should a lady's dress catch fire, let the
^ wearer at once lie down. Rolling may
extinguish the fire, but if not, anything
1 (woolen preferred) wrapped tightly
II around will effect the desired purpose.
d The name "Mau Bote," in the laws of
y the Anglo-Saxous, denoted the compen -
sation to be paid for killing a man. In
y King Ina's laws certaiu rates are fixed
f for the expiation of this crime, according '
I to the quality of the person slain. J
Thero^sa^piSMUin tho W
With its lo^]j-l>6nut2? head;^^HB^BH
There's a poem in the sunset ** ^^^^3
With its brilliant tinge of red; ?li
There's a poem in the forest, jl
In the lofty mountain wall;
Bat the poem of the maiden i
Is the sweetest of them.alL
She is tall or she is slender
" - i?-?- ? ?a
vy no toe mjr a xacc ui oiuw,
She is lovely as the painting
Made by sunset1* rosy light;
She is noble as the forest,
As the lofty mountain wall;
Ah, the maiden, of all nature;
Is the sweetest gom of alll_
Let the cynic rant on fashion
And its catalogue of whims;
Let him tell of the flirtations
At the church between the hymns;
Lot him point at coquettes' costumes
In the operatic stall,
Yet, the maiden, notwithstanding,
Is the sweetest gem of all,
?IPjn. Hosea Ballon, in Journalist.
HUMOR OF TilE DAY.
Harmless "White Caps"?Nurses.
Regular "old timers"?Dutch clocks.
A bad scrape?An amateur's violin
solo.
Schnapp judgment?Deciding a bet of *
the drinks. ,.
Down in a coal mine?A young miner's
first moustache. r
When the flakes begin to dance, look
out for a snowball.
Rolling stock?Cattlo on board a
steamship in a storm.
The rain of tcrror-r-For a lady with {
no umbrella and a new bonnet.
A burglar who was recently prostrated
with lockjaw cured him-.olf by picking
the lock.
A little girl's view of it: "Minerva
was the Goddess of Wisdom; she never
married." , '
The clarion notes of the rooster if
written, would, no doubt, be divided
by crow-bars.?Merchant Tratd.er^^ -
A parrot v/ill talk on the least provo
cation, but a crow seldom opens its
mouth without caws.? Neut York World.
You'd write it as sure as fate,
But don't find fault or pine,
But scratch with care tho 88,
And make it 81). ,
?Merchant Traveler.
We sometimes say "out of sight out of
mind," but wo do not necessarily imply
that a blind man is insane.?Ntto York
JViWi.
A.?"The crop of young doctors in
Now York is going to be very largo this
year." B.?"Yes, but what will the
harvest be?"?S'ftiwjs.
Nature uses a great many quills with
which to make a goose, but a man can
make a goose of himself with only one."
?Orchard and Garden.
"John, you are not listening to a word
I am saying 1" "Why, my dear, I am all
ears." "1 know you are, and that makes
it all the more provoking."
A "deaf mute" church has been dedicated
in Philadelphia. A fellow could
snore all through the service and disturb
nobody. ?Danscil'e Breeze. ' }
A young man who becomes embarrassed
when ho calls on a certain
young lady, says she gives him the shake
every time lie goes to see her.
The stores are now crowded no longer,
The salesgirls get rest and grow stronger,
Wnile prices of gifts have so dwindled
That some of as feel we've been swindled.
?Boston BudgU.
A Chicago clergyman who' married
three couples on the cars the other day
resents the suggestion that he allow
himself to be patented as a car coupler.
?Chicago Fost.
"What is your fortune, my ancient t'tt1? ^
"My wealth is my fortune, sir," she said.
"Can I marry you, my pretty maidl"
"If you are as wealthy, sir," she said.
New Yor.'t Sun,
Miss Farcntaldtem (ago .thirty-five)?
"So you arc going to get married at last,
Pauline?" Pauline? "Ves, dear, I should
think it was about time; you know I'm
twenty-four."?Life.
Wife?"Shall I put your diamond
studs in your shirt, dear?" Husband?
"What on earth are you thinking of?
Do you want to ruin mo? I have a meet- ?
ing with my creditors this morning."
?Jewelers' Weeklj. __
Ethel yto her betrothed)?"Do learn
to skate, George. I'm sure you would
look lovely on ice." George (a young
and rising undertaker)?"Look lovely
on ice, would I? Thank you. No hurry
about it."?Sijtings.
Youthful Innocence: "One of you
boys has been stealing raisins again; I
have found the seeds on the floor.
Which nni! of vou was it?" Tommy?
"It wasn't me. I swallowed the seed" in
mine."?Scranton Truth.
"Is marriage a failure?" he asked of a maid
Who clung pretty close to his side;
" I'm sure 1 can't tell, sir,!' the young lady
said?
" Until you havo made me your bride!"
?New York World.
Jeweler?"The inscription you wish
to have engraved on the inside of this
ring, if I understand you, is 'Marcellus
to Irene."' Young i.'an (with some embarrassment)?"Yes,
that's right. But
?er?don't cut the Irene' deep."?Chicago
Tribune.
The Professor having given out as
subject for an essay "The Use of Navigation,"!
one of the students concluded
his production with the somewhat novel
statement: "And thus we -may say: ^
Tho ship is the camel of the sea.'"?
Fliegende Blaetter. "5
A Collin on Her Back.
A very dignified lady of fifty, looking
like a Duchess, strode through Union
Square, New York. "That lady," said
one who knew her,carries a colliu on her
back. She is a rreruner, auu in uer
youth she had two lovers, both of whom
she encouraged. Her fickleness brought
on rivalry between them, and at last one
sent a challenge to the other. They
fought a duel, in which the younger of
them was killed, and it is the shadow of
this cofiin that she carries through the
streets of New York. After n time she
married the rival who slew her lover, but
in a short time he died under dramatic
circumstances. She subsequently became
the wife of yet another man, who
brought her to New York, where they
are well known to many who do not
know the record of her career."
Nitrn-Rlvcnrinf! in Kidncv Disease.
Nitro-glycerine bids fair, says tho
doctors, to become an importaut remedy
for diseases of the kidneys; and experiments
are now making in cases of
Bright's disease. Nitro-glycerinc of a
pure quality, possessing all the explosive
powers of the substance, is prepared in j
alcohol (which removes the explosive '31
quality) in the proportion of odc part of 'A
the nitro-glycerine to ninety-nine of
alcohol, and is then prepared with sugar
or milk in tablets. A patient in & Phila-^Mj
delphia hospital has had the dose
creased until now he is taking cigh^H^H
grains a day. He has Bright's disea^H H
and the effects are said to be
satisfactory.