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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., DEC EM-BER 11, 1879- VOL. III.--NO
ALONI.
ghe stands beside the cottage door
To watoh the dying day,
1i r raven lair Is sprinkled o'er
W th flakos of silver grey;
Aid many a line of sadness sears
That palo yet lovely face,
To mark where slow and silent tear.
Have left their lasting raco.
And still her whispered th aughts wi!l toll
Of scones that are no more,
And scan the once-love I fortns that dwelt
On mon'ry's shadowy shore;
Again tile little cot to dock,
That now so nimpty stands,
Again to feel aroutid her neck
The touch of -iny bands.
low long, the weary spirit cries.
Within this world of pa*n,
Ero 'neath the never-fading skies
I meet thom-once again?
And as she views the silver night,
Blow creeping to the west,
A murmured prayer in faith takes flight
To Him who giveth rest.
His Second Wife.
What! her dowry ten thousand, and
her age under eighteen.! You are a lucky
dog, Hewett Of course,, it's a love
miateli?"
"I flatter myself, yes, on the lady's
part, at least," and the speaker, a tall,
rather handsome man drew himself up sup
ercillously; "though, in fact, it is a family
arrangement."
"How is that?"
"Why, you see, Colonel Harding was
my father's General Hewett's, greatest
chum. When dying, lie left me and my
future to the former's guardianship; a trust
he saw no beit'er nor more friendly way of
carrying out than by an engagement bet
ween myself and his daughter Kate .the
sole inheritor of a rich aunt's wealth."
, "oie people fall into pleasant places,
certainly! When is it to be?"
"In a month. I fancy, sice the Colo
nel has been such a dotard as to take home
a second wife, lie would rather his daught
er's room than her company."
"Possibly. Deuced pretty woman, Mrs.
Harding-eh? Very sparkling, self .willed,
and fast, I'm sure! Ta, ta! Remember, I
ain booked for the Benedict ceremony."
The two gentlemen between whom the
above conversation passed on the steps of
a West End club, now parted-the one ad
dressed as Hewett, known among his less
jamillars as Captain lIewett, proceediug to
-go by train to Colonel Harding's villa, at
Richmond.
Arriving there, in due course, lie was
speedily introduced to Kate and Mrs. Hard
ing; after exchanging greetings with whom,
lie was summoned to see the Colonel in the
library. The ladies were surprised at the
haste displayed, and could not refrain from
remarking oi the subject.
"Whatever is that for?" Kate remarked,
when the offlcer had gone.
"To sign your marriage settlement," i
smiled Mrs. Harding.
"Nonsensel By the way, mamma, do t
you not think papa has looked altered
lately?"
"For many days, Kate. I fear some
thing is wrong."
"Then I fancy lie mighttconfide it to yen
instead of the captain.
"True!" Mrs. Harding's lips preceptibly
contracted; then she added, "Kate, I for
got to tell miy maid about the trinmmings
for my dress next Friday. Would yon
mind doing so?"
Rising, the young girl wenit on her mis- I
mion, when the other's entire maniier I
changed. Her expression became grave,
perplexed. She cast aside hier work, und I
leaned her head on her hand.
"Can my husband possibly suspect?" I
she murnmred. "There is a change in
him! Kate sees It, tool Then there must be I
a cause ! Can lie have found us out? If so,
everything is ruined - ruined!" She
paused: then added, "I must be certain-; 1
I willl"
HurrIedly throwing a shawl of Kate's,
that laid on a sofa near, about her, she I
passed through the openf glass door into the
flower garden.
Goipg to thie side of theo villa, cautiously]
she crept through a shiubbery of lilacs and
53 rlngas until she came within slgght and
hearing of the two in the library, the wvIn-<
dow of which was open.
Captain Hewett was leaning back in a 1
chair, the Colonel, a -handsome, elderly,
militury looking man, sat by the table, 1
his brows contracted, his features expres
lie of pain and anger blended. He had
evidently been s'peakingvehiemently, and
exclaimed, as the listener came with range,
"I wouldn't have believed it of her! 01O
all women, I would have stacked my life
.oen the fidelity of'- Constance i When.you
tdthat you had seen a fellow loungIng
Utthe villa, I thought nothing of it; but
Mfickson, the under-gardener', declares that
It is true."
Theolistener became lived with rage. Her
sitspkIeous wore well founded.
"What do you intend doing?" asked
Hewett.
* "That Is my perplexity. To'accuse her,
on the word of an under-gardener seems
propoeterous,') and the Coloznel uneasily
drummed the table with his f~ngera.
"Something must-be done," ho~said, "or
Ishall go mad. I can't atippor't this terrl
blo suspicion, for-il don't mind confessing
i tto you, George, who so soon will be. my
~*n--I love Constance devotely, What 'I
'athat? Why, the wint Is -ogen,
UtI;w want noi eates4ioppers,'
Optaiu IHewett compiled, bingbefore
4,lepht brh~ and looked artnd.
the Colonel's wealth, It is nothing," ihe
said aloud, resuming his scat.
Trembllig at her 'arrow escape, Mrs.
lIar(ding hastened from the shubbery. Just
as she emerged, aht ran violegtly against a
"ol)ertt Teil me, what are you doing
here?"
"Ten thousand pardonas I tought
"Never inind what you thought. Why
are yon here? Quick, go to the door. If
in live minutes I call you, comue,--if not,
go atwiy. -
lie raised her haud to his lips.
"llow good you are !" he said. "I only
cine to say I have prepared everything for
our flight on Friday.
"I Iuh" she answered, as she lew fron
himi.
It was the morniug of the event ful Fcrl
dlay that Colonel Iarding entered Captain
llewett's apartments at Rlichmond.
"George," he exclaimed, "no man ever
was In greater perplexity than I. For the
last month I have l'een engaged to the
Dunderbulls to dintier to day. This morn
Ing Constance declares-looking well and
hearty-herself too ill to attend, but urges
me to go."
"I'll tell you, what, Colonel. If you re
fuse, you may only raise her suspicion.
You had better, therefore, go and I'll watch
ror you. Perhaps this time something may
be discovered."
"I was thinking," began the Colonel,
Ioubtfully, "whether it would not be best
to ask Constance right down the truth?'
"Absurd! If a woman will stool) to (
:olve a husband, she would not hesitate at
x falsehood."
"That Is true. Wel, George, let it be as
you say.
The Colonel' went to the dinner, and the
gentlemen had long been left to their wines
when a footman whispered to the officer
;hat he was wanted. Making an excuse,
te withdrew, and found the Captain in the
tall.
"Come home," said the latter; "I must
1peak to you at once."
Tie Colonel, growing pale, followed him
nto the road.
"What is it?"
"Bear it like a man, Colonel," returned
he other, "Your wife Is unworthy your
0ffections; site has fled with her lover. I
aw them. They are now .in the train go
ng to the city."
"Oh Constance - Constancel" Ie
rroaned, "why have you brought this dis
,race upon mct"
And lie grasped the hedge, to save him
rom falling. Rocovermng himself, his
nood changed.
- "George," lie exclaimed fircely. "Come,
ve will follow them. The villoin shall an
wer for the wrong lie has (lone me; bit
ell me all about it."
The Captain stated that a cab had passed
im on the road to the villa. In it lie had
ecognized a strange gentleman and Mrs.
Iarding. Ile pursued, but only reached
lie railway in time to see them leap into
he train.
The true statement was this: Captain
:wett had scott a cab waiting near the
'llla. Concealing himself, lie had perceived
gentleman, escorting a lady tilckly
recled and cloaked, come through tie break
n the hedge, hurriedly cress the interven
ng field, enter the cab, and drive off, after
~lying the direction.
Ihad he piut his htand out, lie could have
tayed them. Bitt that - was not lis plan.
et its go behind recall and forgiveness,
hat was what lie thought.
IHurrying straight to his dressing-room,
lie Colonel secured his pistols.
"I have never used them against a fel
ow-being before," be exclaimed, very
tern and determined, ''but a bullet shall
each hIs heart or mine. One shall not
cave the field."
"Why, goodncess, gracleous, my love,
tow early you are back! I hope nothing
a wrong I" exclaimed a pleasant voice.
Bo0th gentlemen swung round on their
tcels, with an ejaculation of surprIse, for
here In the doorway, looking chmarmitg In
ier evening dress, was standing Mrs.
larding.
"You here, Constance I"
"Here! Why, wvhere .should I be, my
ear?"
The Colonel hooked at the Captalin, and
'ice v'ersa.
"What ia the matter?", asked the
ady; "anud--gracious, Edmund, love! -
vhat are you going to do with those ple-.
ols ?".
"I--- I was going," blurted out the Colo
tel, half angrily, "to take with them the
lve of. your lover, Constance!"
"Miy lover! Burely, darling, you never
ontompted suicide!"
"Suididei Constance, can you look me
n the face and say you have no other e
han I?"
"Yes-tel', sir!i But can you look in
aine, and say you ever were cruel enough
o suspect mue of such a sin"
The Colonel dropped instantly.
"You have!" she went on. "Prayo
vhiat grounds?" y
"Tha6 of a man having been seen. to
nter youtr room, admitted by you, and
n-in-your supposed flight thIs night in
fly with~ him."
Mirs. liarding burst into S. peal of laugh
or.
, "Why, Edmund, that -was Kate's
over!" she cried.
"(ate'si.' both gentemen rcperted,
N'l,,Do not blamex the poor girl,
r 'yott io ef shave driven her to this
top,-aslm Oaptal H~ott'. pardon for
eagtng ald the'lad,' withi a aalk~
10,U0 yfOPA4fuse1 14tVdef his
father, you ordeired your daughter to accept
the Ocneral's son. She- her heart se.
cretly bestowed elsewhere - said 'Nay;'
you plaid 'Aye.' When I became your
wife, Kate made me her confidante. I
planned--yes, it was wicked-1 planned
her elopement with Rlobert Kenway, the
msn she loves. I see how all this hap
pened; this gentleman watched here while
you went to dine. Charming! Ile waited
and spied to see his own iroperty stolen!
Capitain Ilewett, I compliment you! Now,
gentlemen, I will leave you to yourselves."
She (uitted the room as she spoke, very
haughtily, and retired to her own, appar
rently the most Injured party.
A brief space after, the Colonel caine in.
"Constance," he said, "you have done
very wrong."
"Sir, how have you acted, in suspecting
a wife who was foolish enough to love you?
she answered, proudly.
'Do you love me, Constance?"
"Better than-than-all-the world!''
was the answer, given beetween a sudden
burst of sobs.
A woman's tears were the only enemies
which had ever beaten the Colonel. Ile
caught his pretty wife in hi's arms, and
cried, "Constance, forgive me, and let us
say no more about it."
"And Kate?" she sobbed.
"I'll pardon her, for your sake.
"'You dear, dear Edmfund I There I That
kiss Is for a rewardl"
And that is how Captain Ilewett was
checkmated by Colonel's Harding second
wife.
Mininr in Colorado.
It is estimated that there are at least
100,000 men prospecting in Colorado this
summer. These men do not waste their
thne, but work hard from early morn until
late at night, climbing and tramping over
the roughest of country, and digging In the
hardest of ground. Led on and on by the
wildest of enthusiasm from one place to
another, now in one country where a rich
strike is reported--then over the moun
tains to the next place, where a fortune is
sure for any one that comes-but it turns
out about the same in each case; it is
disappointment everywhere. Come with
us along the Chicago creek near Idaho,
with your trout rod; fishing has been
good, and as a black and stormy evening
approaches we will go back to a good
shelter and a comfortaple night. But as
we struggle along over the rough ways of
the canon, let us stop a moment to view
but one of the many .prospectors scattered
over the Rockys. Ile is setting on a rock
beside the prospect hole, that hole in the
hard ground which has cost him days of
exhausting work to hollow out, his head
slightly turned to one side, Is resting up
on the hand, which in turn is supported by
the handle of his pick. The long, white
beard, flowing over the rough miner's coat,
belongs to a face witI a discouraged and
Lired-out look, while the eyes. with their
far-away expression, as if th ; were gaz
ing into the distant past, show plainly
enough that he has not struck "pay dirt."
THis lone man as lie sits there in the ap
proaching darkness appears to be in every
way In smypathy with surrounding nature.
rhe black and ragged rocks rise thousands
of feet, upon eithsr side, while, scattered
over them, the scrub pines, hanging from
every crevice give out their mournful wail
in chorus with the rushing waters of the
creek. In the background, up the canon,
is an Impenetrable blackness, while over
[lead from ridge to ridge the threateuing
clouds are arched. With one except Ion the
sccne is 01n0 which Ruskin aptly calls moun
tain gloom. This exception Is a cloud at
:ne side of the gorge brilliantly Illuminated
by the setting sun, and from which Is
thirown a single stream of light across the
valley, touching the hair and the forehead
f the miner, and bringing out his feature.
n strong relief. Let us hope the miner's
iloonm has an Invisible stream of light across
its dark track In the shape of some pleasant
tnemory of the past. Thme old man proba
bly knowvs there is but one bonanza for ten
thousanmd prospectors. Still, 'with 'I e fasci
mationi that leads on the gambler, and
igainst far more fearful odds, he wll try It
agam. To-morrow he will perhaps cross
>ver the mountains to Leadville ; and as
thie chances are ninety-nine to one that he
will not strike; he will either get out of
the mountains, add one more to the 860 silent
ileepers, not covered by the sod, resting In
thme carbonate camp's city of the dead, or,
.f ho has friends, be one of thme scores ship
pod East for a final resting-place. One
imndred thousand prospectors in the muoun
:ains, one-quarter of them In and around
[Leadville and Ten Mile; thonsands upon
lhousands of prospect holes, and less than
Ifty paying mines in this locality; thous
muds around Silver Cliff, and half a dozen
paying mines-these are facts the -prospee
ors does not appreciate until It Is too late.
[I thme first place the vein is to be found.
I'hat may be comparatively easy ; but will
.t pay to work It? is the Imnportant raiestion,
[f it will pay, has the miner thme eupital to
levelop It? Suppose a vein a, few Inches
lick running through solid ,rock; It cost
rom $25 to $50 per foot to run a shaft or
ununel to take out thme ore. ThIs ore, after
ihipiment, milling and other expenses, will
>rdinarily just about clear the cost. Tihere
ire scores of mines that are considered good
itrikes that turn out just this way or miuch
vorse.
Do Monfteys Bi1mn?
.I was always under the Impression that
they did not like wetting their fur or hair,
sut at Sangua, Central India, when I was
stationed there, I had a little monkey that
was oxceedingly fond of swimming and
living. One day, on taking him 'to the
pond at the bottom of my compound, lie
jumped off my shoulder and dived (like a
man) hIto thme water, whieh was three or
four feet deep; ho hai hisi chain on at'the
tIme, and when he dived In the ~chain
caught in some grass or root at the bottom
and kept the monkey down; hie was; just
able to come to-the top of the water, Feel
ing his chain had caughit, lie dived down,
undid thme chain, and continued to swim
with the chain in his hand. Hoe swain just
like a man, -as far as I could see 'from the
mrotion of his arms. Several of my brother
offiecf came t9, see him ,swlimming, of
which Jis was yer fond, wwhummng very
Vuletly, ad ounnm ytr~n to catch the
The l mountain, divided into two peaks
called Great and Little Ararat, forms an
eiptical mass of about twenty-fle miles in
length from morthwest to southeast, and
about half that width. Little Ararat is an
elegant cone or lyramnid, risim with steep,
siooth, regular sides into a comparatively
sharp peak. Great Ararat is a huge, broad
shouldered mass, more like a dome thami a
cone, supported by strong buttresses, and
throwing out rough ridges of rock that
stand out like knotty muscles from its
trunk. Tlie latest mark which the hand of
nature has up on this mighty mountain wvaN
made in 1850, and the story is it pathetic
one. Near the mouth of the great chasm,
with its crown of tremendous precipices,
there formerly stood a pleasant little Ar
menian village of 200 houses named Ag
hurri. The dwellers there were pastorid
people like their forefathers who fed their
flocks in the Alpine pastures and cultivated
a few fields which were watered by the
glacier stream. 'lhey claimed that the vine
which bore those delicious grapes was
Father Noah's own, and that the ancient
willow, the pride of the village, had sprung
from one of the planks ofthe ark! The
little monastery of St. Jacob had for eight
humdred years stood just above the village,
on tho spot where the legend had appeared
to the monk. With tho exception of the
wandering Kurds, the inhabitants of Ag
hurri were only dwellers on the mountain;
in their village its traditions centred, and
there they were faithfully preserved. Tlius
Mr. Brice relates the fate of the unhappy
mountain village: "Towards sunset in the
evening of the 21st of Jtune 1840, the shock
of an earth quake, accompanied by a sub
terranean roar, and followed by a terrific
blast of wind, throw down the houses of
Agliurri, and at the same time detaehed
enormous mamses of rock with their subja
cent lee froln the cliffs that surround the
chasm. A showor of falling rocks over
whelmed in an instant the village, the mon
astery, and a KIurdish encaimpment on the
pastures above. Not a soul survived to tell
the tale. Four days afterwards the masses
of snow and ice that had been precipitated
into the glen suddenly melted, and forming
an irresistable torrent of water and mud,
swept along the channel of the stream and
down tihe outer slopes of the mountain, far
away into the Aras plain, bearigi with them
huge blocks, and covering the ground for
miles with a deep bed of miud and gravel.
Since then a few huts have arisen, some
what lower down the slope than the site of
old Aghurri; here dwell a few Tartars, and
pasture their cattle on the side of the valley
which grass has agaii begun to clothe. But
Noah's vine and the primeval willow and
the little monastery where Parrot lived so
happily among the few old monks who had
retired to this hallowed spot from the
troubles of the world, are gone forever, no
Christian bell is heard, no Christian service
said upon the Mountain of the Ark."
Thu abuse of Chloral,
The persons who become habituated to
chloral hydrate are of two or three classes,
as a rule. Some have originally taken
the narcotic to relieve pain, using it in the
earliest applicatson of .it for a true medical
an( legitimate object, probably under
medical direction. Finding that it gave
relief -and repose, they have continued the
use of it, and at last have got so abnormal
ly under Its influence that they cannot get
to sleep if they fail to resort to it. A sec
ond class of persons who take to cliloral
are alcoholie inebriates who have arrived
at that stage of alcoholism when sleep is
always disturbed, and often nearly Impos
sible. These persons at first wake many
times in the night with coldness of the
lower limbs, cold sweatings, starting and
rest as dreamings. In a little time they
bcie nervous about submitting theim
selves to watchfulness and restlessness
until a confirmed insomnia is the rc
sult. Worn out with sleeplessness, and
falling to find any relief that Is satIsfactory
or safe in their false friend alcohol, they
turn to chioral, and In It find for a season
the oblivion which they (lesire, aud which
they call rest. It is a kind of rest, and 1s,
no doubt, better than no rest at all ; but It
leads to the unhecalthy, states that we are
now conversant with, and It rather pro
motes than destroys the craving for alcohol.
In short, the man who takes to chloral
after alcohol enlists two cravings for a sin
gle craving, and Is double-shiotted in the
worst sense. A third class of men wvho be
comne habituated to the use of chloral are
mna of extremity nervous amnd excitable
temperament, who by nature, and often by
the labors In which they are occupied, be
come bad sleepers. A little thming In the
course of their daily routine oppresses them.
Whait to other men is a passing annoyance,
thrown off with the next step, Is to these
men a worry and anxiety of hours. - They
are over-susceptible of what Is Bald of them
and of their work, however good the work
may be. They are too elated when praised
and too depressed when not praised, or -
dIspraised. They fall to play character
p'arts on the stage of this wvorld, and as
they lie down to rest thiey take all theIr
cares and anxieties into bed with them, in
the livellest state of perturbation. Una..
ble in this condition to sleep, and not
anowilng a more natural remedy, they re- ]
sort to the use of such an instrument as1
chloral hydrate. They begin with a mod-1
crate dose ; Increase the dose as occasion
seems to demand, and at last, in what they
consider a safe and moderate system of
employing It, they depend on the narcotIc
for their falsified reposed
Sagacity of Horsern.
An old horse wandering about In grass
and water--vainly no doubt for it was du
ring a severe drought. Comfng to the great
bare market place, and~ finding a knot of
men talking there, ho singled out one of
them, and pulled -him by the sleeve with
his teeth. The man thinking the horse
might possibly bite, repulsed him, but as it
was not very roughly done, lie returned to the
man with the same eception; but lie was a
persevering animal, and praecLecally dlemostr
ated the axiom, tha "perseverence gains.-the
day," for upon his taking the chosen sleeve
for the third time hetween his teeth, the
man awoke to the ideit that a deed of kind
nless might be required of him; so, puttIng
his hand upon the horse's neck, lie said:
"All right, old fellow; march on." The
horse at once led the way to a pump at the
further side of the squar'e. Three times
was the bucket empiled and replenishbd
and empied before the '"great thirst" was
assuaged, and the grateful brute -almost
spoke his thanks to his friend hy rubbing
biB nose ently against his: arm after which
he walked of with a gr~at sigh of relief.
Th10 Indian Summer.
Indian summer is certainly a very char
acteristic aid periodical phenlW ell(;n in all
these high American latitudes, as it in
Central 'Iurope. though probably i a le&p
marked degree, and there are reasons for
believing that it exerts its softening influ
enees up to the Arctic circle, tempering the
first waves of. winter cold that descen(h
upon Arctic America. But it does not ap
pear to lavish its charms on the far South
or lower latitudes of the United States,
where, indeed, they are not much needed.
Although it is often prolonged into Dccem.
ber when a caln, hazy atmosphere fills the
sky, through which the sun, shorn of his
strength, sinks diy after day, like a globe
of fire. The Indian Summer at the Provin
cial Observatory in Toronto, Canada, bs
been occasionally recorded as early as the
6th of October. The average date of its
distinct appearance there. deducted from
fourteen years' observation, is October 27.
Search for explanation of this phenomenon
has not escaped scientific investigation. As
either pole of the earth is turned around
the sun after the vernal equinox, and solar
effcet increases in the (irecion of that pole
until a thaw of the winter's accumulated
ice sets in, when an interval of cold occurs,
eaused by the rapid absorpt ion of solar heat,
and thus the frequent ''cold spells" of the
later spring months is often accounted for.
When, on the contrary, either pole is turn
ed away from the sun after the autumnal
equinox, the converse process takes place;
the higher parts of the continent are chilled
and the ensuing condensation of the vapor
in.,the air liberating its heat, raises the
temperature, and thus an interval of com.
paratively warm weather or second suni
mer follows. This simple explanation of
Indian sutmmer first advanced by Admiral
Fitzroy, is corroborated by the fact that the
inerease of temperature attending it is the
greatest in the highest latitudes of Ameri
ca, where it is descri)ed as sometimes "op
pressive"-just where of course the earth's
crust In October is undergoing ie most
rapid refrigeration, where ice is forming
ad consequently the heat of the condensa
tion is most freely liberated from the lower
atmospheric strata. Theheat generated by
condensation is familiar to all who reflect on
their sensations when a shower is being
formed in the clouds by this process on a
miltry day. Were it not for the compara
Live dryness of the air in the interior of the
continent, or rather if it were moist enough
it this season, the cooling of the earth
would produce clouds and rain, instead of
the '"dry fog" as Indian Summer is tech
nically called. The phenomenon in ques
Lion has. it would appear, been more the
lheme of poets than of physicists. But of
minor importance In a meterological point
f view as it may seem, its further inves
tigation might furnish a chic to sonie prob
lems of our climate which are yet unsolved.
'The file particles of dust which often fall
Dn vessels in the open Atlantic, near the
L'ape Verde Islands, when subjected to the
microscope, have proved tallies on the
W;n(s, serving to fix the direcrion of the
"'trade whnids" from the African coast, and
thus clear up one of the questions of ocean
neteorology. Many no less striking exam
)les of seemingly unimportamit phenlomena
leading to Important discoveries abound In
he history of science.
A louso Cure.
Of all nervous diseases, tetanus is one of
,he most determined and objectionable, It
s usually induced by over-indulgence in
usty nails or fish-hooks, and when it once
akes hold of a patient it Is nearly impossi
ile to drive it away, One of its permanent
lymptoims is the closing of the jaws so
ightly that they cannot be pried open with
crowbar. When it is remembered that
vomen as well as men suffer from this ilis
-ase, Its tremendously powerful nature be
~omes evidcunt. Hitherto there has been no
eomedy-'which could be regarded as a spe
~ific for tetanus. In the last century the
sual treatment was to knock out a few of
he patient's teeth, so as to pour a little bran
ly down his throat; and then to order his
:ofln. With the progressof medical science,
iarious -other remedies were suggested,
imong which the subcutaneous Injection
>f curare, a particularly deadly South
m.nerican vegetable poison, gave, on the
vhole, the best results, and, frequently, so
air got the mastery over tetanus that It
dlled the patient before the dlisease could
dill him. At last, however, an ingenious
Lfreneh physician has apparently hit upon01 a
emedy before which tetanus yields as readl
ly as toothache yields to the dentist's for
eps, and which iil of course, supersede
mirare and allsother remedies. The Freiich
loctor In questioin was called to atteiid a
ady suffering from tetanus. In his rep~ort
ie says that she was a married woman of
hirty-one years of age, amid that p~revious
o his visit her family physician had tried
~very known remedy fortetamis, Including
mrare, without p~rodulcing any effect. The
>atient was lying on her back, with her
aws tightly closedl, and the muscles of her
,hest and throat were so rigid that she was
mnable to utter a souud. The doctor at
>nce sent Aut and procured a live mouse of
he usual si'ze and voracity, to the tail of
vhich 1h1 attached a strong horse-hair.
?lacing the mouse at the foot of the bed,
ie permitted It to walk the entIre length of
he patient's body. No sooner did the pa
lent notice the mouso-then she sprang up,
oudly calling to the attendants to take it
>ff, and denouncing the doctor as a horrid,
icartless wretch, who ought to be ashamed
>f himself and Suillotined on the spot.
['hero was no recurrence of the symptoms
>f tetanus. In fact, the doctor .adds that
he lady's jaws were so thoroughly and
ermanently unlocked that the husband,
vho Is, of course, Ignorant of law, has
hreatened to begin a suit of damages
igainst him. The success of this expert
nont encouraged the doctor to try the
nouse cure in other nervous diseases. IIe
easoned that thme administration of mice
owerfully stimulates the nci'ves of a fe
nale patient, and enables tihe nervous sys
em to throw of any disease with which it
s afficted. Soon after the incident just
elated he met 'with a violent case of hys
eria. The patient, a,. married lady of
hlrty-seven years, was subject to biysteri
41l attacks, but this particular one was
it unprecedent violence. Among Its promi
eont symptoms was an absence of whis
cor on one side of the husband's face, a
rknclock and an . almost irresistable
ndny on the part of the patient to lie
n thme floor and kick the panelling of a
'qseWood bookcase. The doctor at once
gqrelved that -mnite hi strong doses were
ndicated. IHe the fore ordered ;that a
nouso should 'be ~inIstered, every ten
ninutes until the vfolop13e pf the attack
tia~to Thort mhedse rm .&rwus the pa
tient's body, but there was no perceptible
clange in her heels or voice. The second
mouse, however, entangled liseif in her
hair, ai her recovery was almost instant
taneous. She, sat uap and stid that ;i the
doctor would only take that mouse away,
she would get right l) and see aboutt din
ner. No further treatment w'as necessary,
and the faet that the' diseasme has not re
turned leads the doctor to cxpress a strong
conviction that the cure Vill prove a per
imaent one. Tihe mouse cure has also been
tried with tie very best results In an attack
of paralysis of the left leg, which was in a
fair way to prevent the wife of a Parisian
banker from making a call on certain of
her husband's relativcs, and inl at case of
nervous prostration which suddenly at
tacked a lady when her husband had re
fused to take her to the seaside. Both of
these Cases yielded promptly to the exhibi
tion of mice, and there is no room for
doubt that the cure wits due solely to the
remedy employed.
Printing Paper.
The principal ingredients of this paper
are straw, rags and wood. A mill of this
kind affords a ready market for all tile straw
produced in the country for miles around.
Tihe strav is piled up in great stacks near
the mill ready for uso. The rags come Irom
all parts of this ('ount ry and Thrope. The
wood is bought in the pulp from firms who'
make a business of reducing wood to a fine
pulp. Regarding the processes which these
materials undergo while beingconverted In
to paper : In the first. place the straw is cut
il) fine and passed through at famnng mill,
which separates it from atll tie grain and
particles of dust. It is then put into huge
rolary boilers, running under eighty pounids
of steam pressure, where it is boiled and
cleansed in a si rong solution of caustic
alkali, after which It, is emptied into vats
and tlrown up into wI 9ahling eiginies filled
with water; there tle alkali is extracted,
and chlorine is added for the purpose of
wliteniig It. After remaining here until
the pulp is thaoroughly washed, it. is enmptied
imto large vats, where It is left to bleach
twenty-four hours. 'The pulp in this stage
is as white as snow, and is on(e mlass of fine
silky fiber. The rags are first carefully
assorted, and everythiing not composed of
cotton or linen is discarded. They are then
cit uap anad dustedi by machinery, after
which they are boiled and cleamsed witht a
solution of lime in other rotary bpilers.
Afterward they pass through the same pro
cess as the straw until they, too, arereduced
to a beautiful, white, fibrous pulp. Equal
quantities of rag aand straw pulp tire mixed
together wt'h a lesser quantity of wood pulp.
To this is added a small portion of kaolin,
or white clay, which is used to fill up the
pores of the paper, and give it a smoother
surface. Tle whole is then puat. into a
beatng engiae, wiere it remaains until the
different ingredients are tlaoro lily united.
This olpentiQn uasually takes about three
homrs. Mere also tie blue coloring is added
-a blue white being considered the best
shade for the paper. From the bealing
engine the pulp is pumped uap into another
engine, where It passes through the lst
stage of refining, and is dropped In a liquid
form into a aninenso tub. It is now ready
to be pit into form. There tre two kinds
of madines for this work, the Fourdriner
and the cyinder. The Fourdriner, tihe
latest invention, and the most perfect ma
chine now Iln use, is used at this mill. The
fibrous liquid is then poured from the tub
through a strainer into the machine, where
1. is cauglat on an endless slive of very fluu
wire, which filters out the water and retains
tlhe fibre. Tils slieve contliually vibrates
as it moved along thius thoroughly nitinag
the fibre, and when it reaches the section
box, all the water Is drawn from the pulp.
This sheet is carried over numerous drying
cylinders, heated by steam ; then over the
cylintder rolls, whecre it receives Its final
gloss and fluisht; and Is finally wvonmd oat
spools5, weighued, 'wratpped, - aarked and(
st~red(, ready for shipmoant.
Coffeeo.
Thtis now u'uiversal baeverage was first ian
troduced itto Enaglantd in the reignt of James
I., butt It did atot comte Into gceneral use unatil
a late period, it 1600, by ant act of Charles
11., a tax of fouarpenace wvas lamposed oat
every gallon of coffee sold, and every vcender
of thec artilcle was obliged to take out a
liceatsc. it 1 675 all thec coffee-haouses it
Londoan were closed lby proclamation, as b~e
Ing the resort of evil minaded persons antd
se~htiontaries; yet, as had beent the case oane
hauntdfed years earlier at Constantinople,
thte people were soona after left to dlrintk
coffee when and whiere they pleased. Up
to thtis period, and for some timte atfter, all
thte coffee consumed it Euraope wasq brought,
from Arabia. Thela trade was very profitable
to thec Arabs, whlo prohibitedl thae cXporta
tiona of p~alnts froma Ycean under severe
p~enatltles ; and~ It Is said that thaey diestroyed
tihc germinmating princeiple of thae berries, so
as to prevent foreigners raisintg a crop froam
seed. But abouat 1080, Witsen, buargo
mastdr of Amsterdam, persuaded thte gove
ntor of Java to procure some coffee hterries
fromt Arabia Felix. Thelase wore sownt at
BatavIa, ad in 1600 one of the plants tihus
r-aiised was sentt to Hlollantd, where it was
planted in the b~otanlc giardent at Leyden. It
floutrishued, bore frault, anid from thre rapened
seedi othter plants were propagated, froaa
which thte D.utchacolo ny of urinaam was sup j.
plied. In 1714 a younmg tree was semnt from
Amnsterdamt as a present to Louis XIV., and
preserved In thme Jardint des Planates at Paris;
aitd thais tree, it is said, fturnishted plants for
lhe Frnholne In Souath America and
the West Inadies. It seems somewhtat singu
lar thaat trop~ical counitraies, thte natutral abode
of thae coffee tree,'should have beent indebat
ed to Eutrope for It. Yet so It wvas, and from
this smtail beginninig htas grown tap 'an' Iam
tmnse coammerce.
I'utttng a 1101ad oat It.
When a French manufacturer makes a
pipe for smoking with, he puts a head on
it. That Is, the bowl represents a htead of
some distinguished man. Trhe principal
pipemaker it Pais hia just published
somte statistics about the sale of his pipes
thtat ought to shlow who are the most popu
lar people in the gay city, The head of
Tiers in clay stands first on the list'a th
a- sale of 57,500 in the year, the he~ of
Gamibetta second with 43,200, and -the
htead of Gr-ovy third with 28,800. Ca
poul comes igumrth with 28,120, and Opte
.wayo'ehaor ha paurprts to be it, fifthA
with 2 '780 as against. 2,1$0 for Judo'O
hecada 'Evon allowin ff~r the anti-Bona.
pat~tist feeling whtich is 'uaning high' in
Paris it, i difflenit to see why eth ibui
Carmelite Ntum.
"Ourvocat ion,'' said a Carmelite nuu,
is a solitary one. We are hidden from the
world, and pass our tlc in praying and
making sacrifices for the felicity of souls.
One of our duties. Is to smstain the seven
canonical hours aronnd the sacrament."
"What is the routine of your daily life?"
"'Ati a quarter to five in the morning w
rise. Onea sister strikes what Is called th
remedial rattle--a sort of small wooden
gong-and signs a short sentence calling
the sisters to morning prayer. From 5 to
6 o'clock is the first of the canonical hours,
is which we sing the Deus in adjutorlun
meutn.' At 7 we have mass, if we are
fortmnmte enough to have a priest to cele
brate it. For the last week we have - been
without a priest, mid we hope and pray
that his eminence the cardinal will send us
one. At a quarter to 8 we have breakfast
-a cup of coffee and piece of bread wi:h
out butter. After breakfast each one of
the community takes up her portion of the
household work. At 11:15 we examine
our conscience to see what we have thought
or said of wrong since daybreak. At 12:30
we have dinner, for which we have gener
ally good appetites. No meat is allowed,
save in case of sickness, but we havo vege
tables, eggs, milk, and everything else
that is necessary. We eat on a ibare table,
with a skull on the board to remind us of
the uncertainty of human life. The floors
of our chapels and cells are also bare.
After dinner we have one hour for recrea
tion. We are very cheerful, and as happy
and gay during that time as any wordly
people you know of. We spend the time
in our rooms or walking or sitting in the
garden, according to choice. We have
good religious books to read and no cares
to trouble- us. At 1 o'clock we rest for
one hour in our cells. At 2 o'clock we go
down to the choir to vespers, which on
solemn festivals are chanted in Georgian
music. After vespers thirty minutes are
spent in spiritual reading, either alone In
our cells or in the garden. We lire allowed
no newspapers, because reading the excit
Ing events of the day would tend to dis
tract our thoughts from religion. At 3
o'clock we are allowed a cup of coffee or
tea, and for the two hours following return
to our, respective tasks about the house. At
5 o'clock the bell tolls again, and we spend
one hour in prayer. On Saturday after
noons we sing '"Salve regina mater miserl
cordia." At 6 o'clock we go over our
rosaries, and at t6:30 have supper, which
consists of cof'ee or tea, bread and butter,
and now amnd then a little sweetmeauts.
After supper we have another hour of re
creation. At 8 o'clock the bell is rung,
the "De profundis" sung, and we go down
to the choir to sing Compline. At 9 o'clock
the bell rings for matins and laufls. We
examinc our consciences concerning what
we have done or said silce afternoon, and
afteaward read the "polut" or subject of
medilation for the next morning. At 10
o'clock we retire to our cells, and the
lights are put out. One of the sisters
strikes the rattle, sings a small sentence,
and then we all go to bed and sleep.
The Now Wall Papers.
Nearly all the newest papers; are imita
tions of woven or embroidered stuffs, and
in some the grounds are so skilfully
manipulated, and the patterns so well
drawn and shaded that It is hard to believe
that they are not the work of the loom and
the needle. The most gorgeous of all
seems to be a cloth of gold wrought with
suallowers and their leaves in sapphire
blue, producing hui effect gorgeous enough
to warrant one in hanging up a bit of the
paper, as one would a Japanese fan, for
the sake of its coloring. Walls covered
with anything as brilliant as this tolerate
no furniture less splendid in effect, but re
quiire rich, heavy brocatolles and masses of
dark carved wood, anid windlow hangings
birighit of hue and stiff with embroidery.
Moreover this brilliant gold background
kills-tho color of every blonde who comes
near it, andl makes her look lIke a faded
danguerreotype, so that only brunette house
wives are likely to admire the paper. Less
muagniittwnt, but very pretty anid bettor for
general use, is the poppy p~atternl on a back
ground of b~lue and silver; and several comn
binations of gold andl silver, olive andl blue,
present effects that wouldl be good both by
natural and artificial light. Some papers
have a grottndl that looks like faded pink
silk, almost coveredi by a flowering vine in
(1u11 colors. Another resembles olive raw
silk, with a garnet brocaded pattern out
lined in gold thread, amid gold grounds
almost covered with floral designs are in
numerable In variety. The tapestry papers
are in olIves and( blue grays, and their pat
tern Is almost invariably fruit and foliage. - -
The Japanese patterns represent stuffs in
which the fans, hand-*screens and vases are
mingledl with a purpose that does not re
veal Itself to the eye of the casual observer,
but which produces perfect harmony, and
they may be b~ought both in light and dark
colors. Trhe most beautiful friezes are
those that accord with tihe pattern of the
p~aper, as, for instance, those which accom
pany the Japanese designs, and which .rep.
resent Japanese plaques and vases. In'one
style these objects are depleted In garnet
and several shades of elate blues, and in
another in silver, pale blue and vermilion,
the0 fofmer matching the darker and the
hotter the light paper. In another style of
frieze one sees a Greek sacrificial proces-''
sion depicted in fresco colors on a buff
ground, and a third is Egyptian in style.
Dades are lesS used thman formerly, be~
cause so many new houses are built with
wooden dadoes that it is not necessary to
Imitate thlem with paper.
Modern Denntilons.
Blankrept-a man who gives everythng.
to a lawyer, so his credijors wIll be surie to
get it. Asmigno-a chap who has hdthe
deal and gives himself four aces. A bankr
-A place where people put, their money so
it will be handy when onher people Want
it. A depositor-A man who doilt know
how to spend his money and gets the
cashier to sliow, him. Hresident-A big 9 .
fat maa who promises to boss theb job andl
afterward subleottit. A dIrpetor-On0 iof.
those men who accep a trust that dod d ...
involte tihe use of either their eyes ft th)iW
ears. Cashierm-Often a than *h unde~
takes to support a auf i'~l~6 ; ~
and a .brownstoneo 4tO ~ 4 ~
and be honest~ Col
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