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PROFESSIONAL SECRECY. A Case Before a Fvoach Court in which it was tested Ja kitfo Insurance. Welea;ra:Irom'T^e ?hion MeoTcale that a care-was lately tried hefcr* a French court in which tho secrecy Impeded tipon medical men by the law was pleaded, by a physician as his Justification for refusing to certify ?s fco the nature and duration of the last illness of a man who had insured his life in the sum of 10,000 francs. The life insurance company demanded the certificate as one of the condi tions on which it would pay over the amount to the estate, and it appears that the heirs, for their part, united ia absolving the physi cian from the obligation of secrecy. But the doctor held that it was not within the legal power of any representative or heir of the deceased to dissolve the obligation?that, he con tended, was a function vested only in the sick person up to tho time of death, and one that could not pass into other hands after the death. He held also that he was not at lib erty to uro hin own discretion in the matter, but was absolutely bound to secrecy. He laid tho question before his professional brethren of Havre, the town ia which the case was trixi, and they luitoined him. Fur thermore, the court affirmed the validity of the position token. It was laid down that, admitting that a patient might ia certain cases relievo his medical adrisar of tha obli gation of sicrecy, that power was absolutely personal and could not be transmitted to the heirs; also, that the physician must be tho sole judge as to whether or not, in any given ease, he had been consulted under tue seal of secrecy. The writer in the French journal expresses the hope tltat these points may bo sustained on appeal, and thus the rule of procedure be definitely settled. It might work hardship in exceptional instances, unless the insurance companies were compelled to pay regardless of the causa of death, but it certainly seems as if in the generality of cases nothing but the public good would be promoted by en forcing the points put forward in this case.? New York Medical Journal Troubled in His Lungs. I had occasion lost week to call on a man of business in the Standard Oil building. Z found him in his private office, with the end of a section of rubber pipe, such as Is used on extension gas lights, in his mouth. The other end fitted in a metal plate in ono of the panes of the window nearest to his desk. Ho ap peared to be sucking away at the rubber tube as if it was the stem of a tobacco pipe, and was writing letters with great speed and de cisiveness of band. He emptied his mouth to talk, but ever and anon, in intervals of con versation, seized the tube again and took an other whiff ad it This singular proceeding so completely demoralised mo that I ab last asked him, point blank, what it moonc "Only fresh air," he replied; "I have been troubled hi my lungs for some time, and the high temperature of these steam heated of fices nearly kills kc By this means I can breathe fresh air all tho time I am at work. It's the greatest invention of the age. IC ought to be in every office building in New York." It is not uninteresting, as Illustrating the average consistency of mankind, thai this gentleman, who sucks in a steady stream of cokl air while at his desk, as a sanitary measure, wears a respirator in the street, to keep the harsh breath of out of doors from his delicate lungs. Tho invention he dis played to me is, I believe, of European origin and was imported by him.?Alfred Trumble ia New York News. Phenomenal Growth of a Town. Durham, N. C, is another southern town which lias-had ph?nomenal growth. In 1870 its population was only 250; now it has a population of 6,500, with 2,000 or 8,000 just outside tho corporate limits. The property assessed for taxation in 1870 amounted to $50,000; is is now $3,500,000. The amount assessed in. manufactures in 1S70 was $25,000; now, $2,250,000. Tho retail trade of mer chants in 18S5 was $950,000; wholesale, $200, 000; cotton and fertilizers, $250,000. There are two banks, with resources of $800,000. There lire twenty odd tobacco factories in successful operation, with an annual value of products amounting to more than $3*000,000. In addition, there is a large cotton factory of 0,000 spindles, and a wooden mill tnirning out thousands of shuttles, bobbins and other neces sary articles. There ore employed in the above factories alone about 1,100 whites and 500 blacks. A contract has been awarded for water works, and there are electric lights on all tho principal streets.?Chicago Herald. Photography by Phosphorescence. The researches of M. Ch. Zenger have shown that many substances absorb luminous rays during the day and at night emit these rays in such a manner as to impress photo graphic plates, although they may not be perceptible to tho eye. He has succeeded not only in photographing tho visiblo night phos phorescence of Mont Blanc's summit, but hes even secured an impression of an invisible midnight landscape on tho terrace of the as tronomical observatory at Prague. In another experiment a piece of printed white paper was left in the sunlight for on hour and then put in the dark in contact with ordinary sensitive paper, and so good a trans fer being produced?the block parts in white and tho white in black?that the process has since beer? adopted for copying bills and notes.?Arkansuw Traveler. Gold Mines in South Africa. Marvelous accounts are given by the English papers of tho richness of tho gold mines in South Africa. The Sheba mine is apparently enough to supply tho world with th'i precious metal ferever. The formation on one side of a thirty-fivo foot reef has been carried away, leaving exposed a mass of gold quartz, which, at a rough calculation of six teen cubic feet to the ton, will yield 1,000,000 tons of "payable" stone without sinking one sirgle inch below the level of its exposed base. Visible gold shows freely wherever thj quartz is chipped, and it is asserted thut nowhere in the whole of tho known minin; world csji such a marvelous deposit be matched.?Cleveland Leader. A Boston man makes tho following calcula tions in regard to the 250,000 edition of The Century: "The weight would be 187,500 pounds, or about ninety-four tons. The mag azines, piled one over another, would make a pile 8,312 feet high, fifteen times as high as the Washington monument, or fifty-five times as high us Bartholdi? Liberty. Placed end to end the magazines would reach a distance of thirty- nine miles. The sheets of white pa per, before folding, would cover 307 acres, or placed end to end would extend 1,130 miles, way across tho continent A cylinder press making 10,000 impressions daily of an eight page form would be kept busy for over two years in printing the editiou."?New York Tribune. Whitclaw Reid's new Madison avenue house in New York resembles a royal palaco more than anything else. It is a mass of costly marbles, cedar, mother-of-pearl and rich frescoes.?Chicago Herald. Father Beckx, the generalissimo of the Jesuits, is still hale and hearty, although be is now in his 92d year._ Have you paid the Printer? A SCENE FOR AN ARTfST. A Sharply Drawn Contrast Between Hopeless Usolessncss and Industry. Clouds of smoke belched from a gravel heap on Fifth avenue, opposite Deknonloo's. A furious fire was roaring in a section of iron tubing under the heap, which it was heating to a proper degree of caloric to be of use to the street paving men. Around the glowing mound gathered as squalid and miserable a group 03 ever camped by the roadside over in Jersey. Swaddled in rags and shuddering in the cold wind they cracked their cold knuckles over the hot pile, and two or three gnawed fragments of food like hungry wolvea With the smoke billowing up in whirling clouds of dun and black commingled, the piles of Belgian blocks, the smoking pitch boilers, the carte and wagons of the contrac tors, and the bare j?rk dripping in the No vember drizzle, the picture was one that no artist could have passed by unnoticed. But it is not the tramp6 alone who Und comfort in the contractor's area. When the workmen knock off for dinner thoy gather about them in picturesque groups. / \f It you want to note the contrast between absolute and hopeless usolessness and patient industry you can do it with a glaaco at these contrasted groups of the men who work and earn their bread and those who do not The laborers view their squalid neighbors with ptibU favor. The sight of these hulking idlers, with their hands in their pockets, look ing sullenly at better "lneh earning their hon est living is not calculated to make the better men good tempered. As one of them put it, "God knows, sir, Kb no crime to be out of work in this town. But to bo willing to be out of work, like tfcoee vagabonds, is enough to moke any deoent man tired. That big fellow there was offered a job to handle dirt this morning. What do you think be told the boss! That ho was not a ditch digger. But for throe days bo has hung about here and not been too proud to pick up the scrape we throw away."?Cor. New York News. White Hands Coming into Fashion. The remarkable discovery} has- recently been made that "white hands ore coming into fashion again." It would seem that hands have been growing less white than they used to be, and have suffered from too great at tachment in ladies to lawn tennis and boat ing and other masculine accomplishments. "Chapped and red hands are never pretty, and these, of course, invariably follow on out door exercise. The evil is, happily, not be yond remedy, and, to effect this purpose, 'the daughters of fashion,1 as many of them will learn with surprise, now have dishes of hot water shaped like a flower leaf on their toi let table, in which they stoop their hands for a while before going to bed, then anoint them with TOKoUne und put ob gloves lined with a preparation of cold cream. These gloves should be of wash brother and several sizes too large for the hand. "?Argonaut. Queer Business Ideas. A Georgia newspaper illustrates the aver age southern negro's poor business ability by telling of one who asked the prioe of coats in a store. The store keeper offered him various garments,aheap for cash, but the darky Would not bay, and" finally tho merchant picked out a coat that cost him $1.65 and offered it to the negro for $10, agreeing to take $3 in cosh and trust him for the balance. Tho customer jumped at the offer, and without oven trying on the coat, paid the $3 and went away happy in his ability to owe $8. The store keepui will not worry if he does not get the money. ?Exchange. A Leaky Barrel. L C. Gorsuch caught a lot of eels in fish pots in the Susquehanna, put them in a bar rel, and started to carry them up the bank. The bottom of the barrel fell out, and, despite Mr. Gorsuch's best efforts, every eel wriggled back into the river, and he now knows what he's talking about when he says "us slippery as an eel." Smelted by a Lightning Stroke. The applications of electricity become more varied ovory day. Air pressure, heat, stoom pressure and water stages at distant points are now recorded by its use, and now a Cali fornia electrician has invented a process whereby gold, silver and copper can be in stantly smelted by a lightning stroke.?Bos ton Budget. Cost of Being Fashionable. Kate Field says that the woman who aims to Ito fashionable might as well commit sui cide at the start. She must neglect home, husband children, put away comfort and convenience, be a first olasb hypocrite and a good slanderer, and at tho end of ton years become a physical wreck.?Detroit Free Press. Power for Arc Lights. It is estimated that at the present time not less than 14,000 horse power, derived from water falls, in in use in tho United States and Canada for driving dynamo machines. Nearly the whole of this power is employed for arc lights.?New York MaiL Japan's Grant Mementoes. The Grant mementoes and the pieces of useful and ornamental art contributed by the Japaneso government, und lf>w on their way hither, belong in the National museum at Washington, but its director cannot find room for them.?Harper's Bazar. A Famous Girl. The nurse of tho baby Alfonso XIII of Spain is a famous girl now. When the royal youngster received his three decorutions from the King of Portugal she exclaimed; "Now I trust his little majesty will keep his nose clean." The Captain was Surprised. The latest case against a sea captain is for putting a man in irons for seventy days and confining him in a space so small that he could not he down. The captain was sur prised when tho man finally died.?Exchange. An Cnusuul Honor. Miss Dora Wheeler, daughter of Mrs. T. M. Wheeler, of the Associated Artists, and re cipient of several art prizes, has been elected a member of the Society of American Artists ?a very unusual honor.?Harper's Bazar. Fish for Winter Storage. Last year tho owner of a refrigerating es tablishment at Sturgeon bay, Wis., froze fifty tons of fish for winter storage. This year he expects to freeze twice as many.? Chicago Herald. Mr. Wilson Barrett's first performance of "Hamlet" in Boston was critically observed by four of that city's most expert brain doc tors, who by odd chance were seated side by side. Mr. William Blaikie, of stroke oar renown ut Harvard, tells the White Cross society that a pure mind dwells best in a well trained body. The libel law of Texas is more stringent than any of tho other states of tho Union. A newspaper can bo sued in every county where it circulates. Have you paid the Preacher? SHAVING A DEAD MAN. ' I A Ztoquacloos Brooklyn Barber Give* a Bit of His Experience, i A loquacious barber informs me that his j most trying experience is in shaving dead ; people. He says on this cheerful subject: "You would be surprised to notice how fas tidious some people are about the tonsorial treatment of their dead. Last week I was summoned to shave the face of a deceased dry goods salesman. In lifo ho was a very fash ionable person, vain of his good looks and possessed of the notion that ho made an irre sistible impression upon susceptible female hearts. "His weakness was shown by his desire to linger in the barber's chair. He always in sisted upon having his hair dressed to perfec tion, and there was great trouble unless his mustache was curled with tho nicety of exe cution of which the most skilled artists ia my lino alouo are capable. Well, when I vrent to attend him after death his widow, who bad been extremely proud of her handsome hus band, insisted that he should be made as at tractive as be was before be relinquished the caro of oxisteoce. . . "I worked over him for more than two hours before she was satisfied. Every re source of my profession was brought ir.to play, Including a liberal expenditure of bay rum. hair tonic, cosmetic and briUi&ntine; 'He looks real nice,' .was the widow's com ment when I had finished. She was so well pleaeed that she never demurred when I charged her the rathur stiff price of $5 for the job. For work of ihis kind the rate, or dinarily runs from fifty cents to $2."?Brook lyn Eagla. . - ? A New Way to Get an Appetite. - This morning, a dyspeptic looking man en tered a UacMhith shop at Rondout Ho waited tiiit? the blacksmith put a hot shoe to the foot of the horse that was being shod, when he bent and drew iu with his nbstrils several draughts of smoke that roso from tho burning hoof. After the man left the shop a reporter of The Freeman asked the black smith if tho man who had just taken bis de parture was erolgr. : ^Oj^ no," responded the blacksmith, *hels onlySvorfung up an appe tite. Strange as it- may appear to you, yet the fuct is true that mhulution into the lungs of smoke from a horse's hoof when it is being shod is the best appetizer hi the world. That man you saw here will now go home and eat a good square meal Ho came Into tho 6hop foraii uppetite and went away hungry. I have oa ateaverago five patients a day who visit my shop for an appetizer.''?Kingston (N. Y.) Freeman. A New Society Wrinkle. The society young man will surprise the girls v.-ith a new wrinkle this winter. Lot it bo only faintly whispered, but they will powder their hair. To bo prematurely ?ray is to be in the height of foskioa If you have a florid face so much tho bettor, but gray you must be and still look young. A fashionable hairdresser has been besieged with applica tions for a lotion which will bring about the desired result, but he bos foiled to produce anything satisfactory as yet, although bo has sold large quantities of stuff which ho claims will bring the "silver threads." Those who are impatient have given up its use, howover, and will powder their hair.?Cleveland Leader._ Why the Vandefblft Gallery is Closed. It is a well known fact that Mr. Vandcrbllt bad to cloto his gallery to tho public on ac count of the way the privilege of visiting it was abused. Although he only admitted the public by card, and the people who visited his galleries were supposed to belong totbobee ter class, thoy were so rude and so recViesaTri tbo treatment of his property that he was obliged to close his doors against them. They even went so for as to try to push their way into the private apartments of his house. And on several occasions it took actual force to keep somo apparently decent people from bursting uninvited into his dining room.? New York Cor. Philadelphia Record. Tho Giant Tramp. William Dunn, tho gigantic tramp who was locked in the "dead man's room" in the City hospital because ho refused to crack stone for three hours, was released this morn ing. William not only refused to crock stone, but also to eat or sleep. He would not eat because he had not earned the food, he said, and he would not sleep because he feared tho bed was not clean. He is believed to bo a specimen of a new genus of tramps. The official figures show that William is 0 feet 7 inches in height.?Elmiro Gazette. Educative to tho Masses. George M. Pullman was lately asked whether ho did not think tho railway car riages so numerously built for the general public by his workmen unnecessarily elegant and rich. "1 consider such cars educative to the untsses," was his reply. "To many a man or woman it is a look at comfort and luxury that is their ideal They dress themselves better to travel, behave more courteously in a handsome vehicle than a tasteless and cheap one."?Boston Budget A Kich Man's Sensitiveness. After the death of S. H. Thompson, a well known restaurant keeper of Chicago, $134,000 hi bills were found in his safety deposit vault. He could not write, and it is thought that his sensitiveness on this point led him to keep his money In bills rather than let it bo known that he could not write a check. If the old gentleman had not thus tied up his fortuno it is thought that hu would have been worth $500,000.?New York Sun. When the Ex-Empress Smiled. John S. Barbour, of Virginia, has been talking to George Alfred Townsend Ho said that Mrs. James Brown Potter created a good deal of a sensation on tho other side of tho water. She went to Osborne to read to the queen and ex-Empress Eugenie by invita tion. Mr. Barbour said that it was stated in London that Eugenie, who had seldom smiled or laughed since tho death of hor son, did both when Mrs. Potter road.?New York World. How Would They Know? Borne New Yorkers want church bell ring ing abolished1.. How would a man and his wife who are punctually in thoir seats at tho opera three or four nights a week, fifteen minutes before the curtain rises, know when to start for church if it were not for tho ring ing of the church bells??Norristown Herald. Tallest Hoy in the Country. George Kersoy, the son of Dr. Kersoy, of Lancaster, Pa., is said to bo the tallest boy in tho country. Hj is 13 years old and seven feet high, and ho has mi older brother who measures six feet three inches. Tho father and mother are each six feet talL?Detroit Free Press. Turned On tho Gas. A young man in Lancaster, Pa., before boing to bed the other night hung his panta loons upon tho gas jet. The weight of tho clothes opened the stop, letting the gas out, and the young man was found dead the next morning.?Chicago Times. The emigration into Kansas this year equals tho population of Baltimore. Don't borrow your neighbor's paper. 18361! 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Be sure to call on mc when 3*011 want Groceries, and you will save Money. AUG.1.188C. peter c. brunson. UNDER WAY'S HALL. James ^VsjTi Tassel, e>i:ai,i:b: i.? CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES, Wines, Liquors and Segars, A T MY ESTABLISHMENT CAN BE FOUND ALL THE STANDARD J.\. articles of GROCERIES ;it, Kock Bottom Prices, as well ns purest and best WINES, LIQUORS. &C, sold anywhere. Also the choicest SEGARS AND TOBACC? to be found in the market. \VSIE.\ LOOKING AROI WD GIVE .1BH-: A CAE.I,. JAMES VAN TASSEL. For Mal?. THOROUGH B R E D .1 E U S K Y Calves. One yearling registered Jer sey Bull. Registered Ayresliire heifers. Several grade heifers as also several Milch Cows in milk. Apply to E. N. CI1ISOLM, Rowesvilie, S. C. <."1uy Land for Sale. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY or two hundred acres of clay land for sale at a low figure. Distant two miles from Fort Motte, on the Belleville Road. This is one of the best cotton farms in the county. Apply to W. CHANE, or J. K. HANK, Oct. 28 Fort Motte, S. C lars. MELLICHAMP'S HIGH SCHOOL. ORANGEBURG, S. C. THE SEVENTEETII ANNUAL Session of this .School for Boys and Girls will commence on Monday, September 6th. Corn's of Tkacheks. STILES lt. MELLICHAMP, Principal. MJSS F. L. MELLICHAMP, Assistant and Tendier of Music MUS. P. C 1JRUNSON. Assistant. MISS LIZZIE S. DEXTER, Teacher of Calisthenics. l?T Report the first day, if possible, for classification. J3T Send for Catalogue for full partlcu Me^Sto!! j New M J. C. PIKE, LEADER OF LOW PRICES AND dealer IS Staple nud Fancy Dry Goods. Clothing, Notions, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS, ALSO GROCERIES, PROVISION?, &c. Ruh?c11 Street. EgTA call and inspection of goods solic ited. Wheat, Rye ai Oats M. FOUTZ'S SEED WHEAT, does not rust. CAROLINA GROWN RYE, well cured. RUST PROOF OATS, Rood color and erain. All in store for the fall planting. ? MACHINE OILS, k, k. A clear, good oil for lubricating at 50 cents. Train, Neatsfoot, Cotton Seed, Lard and Engine heavy. ? ? ? !j . t Cotton Gin Insurance. 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