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iiST € || . ■> > HERALD. IF FOR THE LIBERTY OF THE WORLD WE CAN DO ANYTHING.” r OL. II. DAHL1NGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1892. NO. 41. D»cl*r Neeley’s Leetire at Breoklya Tafeenaele. tie quired, it rough use, n gtoater power of resistance ot a physological char ooison. The more My friends, I can only give yon a plain story. I hare nothing to do with sentiment, only _ with the cold facts that come before me in a mate-1 ft small dose of morphine, rial way in this cure for the liquor jj^.p* on taking the poison, the habit, and also incidentally for the - - - opium or morphine habit. It is now thirty years since I first began to look up a cure for the liquor habit It came to me in this way, that it could Iniisi think in these terms offeree not be heriditary, for the ream |h|frLu||j«eaj8tanoe to/orce, otherwise w* unless a man drank.alcqh^ljfetppmAilnl dSiimIa%sAin:>kc Mistakes. If, isons ilii'n,ft man can acquire'by long con . Only tii.nod poisonings with morphine a re idieBaoe sistance to the poison sufficiently to acter to the poison. The moro poison while life lasts the more resistance, or in other words, the more poison a man can take without killing him. In ordinary health a man can take If he more he takes the moro resistance he wiil have, until he can take a holilcfull of morphine at a dose. In thinking of poisoning, and ot all diseases, we of inebriety, and that was alcohol. Alcoholism was always classed as a vise; we knew nothing of it as u dis ease. Now, if a man was born with an erosis, that, perhaps or might drive him into the disease of alcoholism; for any cause needing a “bracer,” as ““ id become what it-is called, he woul is commonly known ana 'drunkard. Now, if per contra, he was troubled nightly from this erosis—sloeplesncss of insomnia—and he went to a phy sician for the purpose of getting some thing to make him sleep, and the physician Would give him morphine or opium, he would become what is known as an opium user. Therefore, not born with any disease, he would become diseased. I, therefore, to night have only to present you with cold facts, as I said when I began. That drunkenness is a disease, and is curable, and that tens of thousands are cured, or being cured, is a fact The fact is known to every reading or listening man, woman and child, so far as cit ilization extends. I hope I may not 1« thought vain when 1 say that 1 believe nothing more start ling, or successful 01 usefnl to human ity than the cure of drunkenness, honors the glory of the nineteenth century Truth cannot be gain said. The gold cure and the village of Dwight are familiar words in all languages and among all people. The saloon jester follows his dram with a jpke on his prospects of his some day- taking tip; Keeley treatment. The gentleman who fakes a turn down the strpet between two policemen, or rides in the patrol wqgon to the lock up, the men who get drunk and com mit crimes, the drunkards who de grade themselves, impoverish their families and corrupt society, these men arc all pronounced by thepublic wherever they may be, as “candidates for Keeley.” The public press, t he temperance societies, the churches, the saloons, the whiskey trusts, all talk of the gold cure for drunkenness, with • ari- ons colorings of faith or doubt or op position or belief. Over 60,000 men are now filling the stations and oc cupations of manhood who were once drunkards, and are cured; 60,000 men make a large army. They are march ing on. Shoulder to shoulder they march, with clear eyes aud unclouded brain chanting in unison the song of redemption from the curse which ‘‘biteth like a serpent and stingeth like fln adder,” wliose breath is pol lution, whose toncli is disease, whose bonds are death, whose steps take hold gn perdition and lead to destruc tion. Only a short time ago the doctrine was prevalent that drinking had but one cause, and that was vice. I >rin k- Jug was then a licensed, crime, government took the iqftpey os a li cense, or the government under this doctrine, compounded the felony, think drinking is a vie.*—when a man begins drinking—but when be becomes a drunkard then he drinks because the alcohol has caused the disease of alcoholism. He drinks be cause he is a slave to alcohol He is no more responsible fur drinking when a drunkard, than a man is for having u chill or fever when be is poisoned by malaria. The drunkard will stop drinking for a few days, or weeks, or months, perhaps You may say then why not stop contmn- oiis'lvi’ But this is a law of the disease of alcoholism. A man may have an attack of ague and may then go . - i wo its)r, «.r a weefc, or two or three *»<-«li*, «>r even a year wilhont. a pirnxyxin. You may say that if a man can throw < tf the disease for a wi ek, or a month, or a year, why enn’t he do so coniinuotixly? The reason he cannot is because the nn lure o| ihe disease is toeniwc these paroxysms peiiodh alK. If the ma i.<ii.il disease is cured, the paroxysm* will e.tase forever and the same law is toiind to hold gia*t with alcohol Dm.. Much seeming evidence has al ways been torlhconiing that drunken ness is hereditary. I believe that it is all mistaken or short-sighted tesii inony. The daughters of drunkard* are notably temperate people. Every one knows that the direct Hue of heredity is from father lit daughter and from inolher lo son. The mol h- eis of drunkards are usually the put ext and Ircxl of women. Snare ntollmrs of sober men. , Bat what 1 believe about heredity canals, is that in relation lo driiHkenm sa it tends io prevent drinking. The same law bohlx good in all other so called dDeaxcx, as conxuinp'ioti, scrofula, the plague, and so fortn. To umli r stand ibis you tnnxi know that in nil disca-cx there uie two main factors or thirex the action ot a |eiis m and the pl'y-iologie.tl re*i*liiuce lo the |wd<oM. THele i* no wav ot gelling a resist MH-e In M |H> H..II t Xeepl by fight h>g the pnisim or hy being poisoned. If.a limn takes a poinoil and is not killed, lin o llic next lime he call lake • largi r quaiilUy, because he lias ae enable him lo safely swallow mor phine enough to kill ten men, he has lo that extent increased his resisting power to the drug. •Now this power of resisting drugs or poisons—whiskey, tobacco, opium, typhoid poison, consumption poison, ami all oilier poisons, is a physiologi e.il add iinaloinicul quality ot the ner voiih system. It is, in lad, a quality of every tissue cell of a man's body, and the quality of resisting poison is traiismilie I by hereditary di scern. It is Ibis quality which gives a pro pie immunity from diseases. It is this qii.tlily which pievcuts people from having smallpox uflerlhey have been vacciiiatcd. It is this quality which prevents six sevenths of Un people of the world from dying of cons-jinplion, though the remaining one seventh die of this disease. The pcoplu who inherit a weak resi-t unv die with tin- disease. As a general nilc, all people are equally exposed to all diseases; bul only a small portion are suscepi ihle to anv one disease. The reason is that Ihc'y inherit a resistance lo tie disease trom an ancestry who rcquiri-il, the resistance from a long comlmi with the poison lasting through many generations. Nearly all people throughout Chrisieiiiiom drink wim , beer, or whiskey, or brandy, Wen cleat alcohol. It isnn ihc side boards of tin- rich, in the cellars id the good, in llo- saloon* of I he w u-k ed and in ihcliitlc flasks of ill- trav eler. It is in nearly all me lie.iues, in many patent uostruins—in short,al cohol is almost as universal as air and water. The only rea-ou why all peo ple are not drunkards is because so many of them inherit a resistance t • alcohol. Some incn during an illness can lake alcohol a* a uic lteiiie; others, il given the same quantity, would Ik; drunkards. The only rca son is Ih-c.iu-c the former inlet it a resistance to alcohol, and they io hcril from an ancestry who drank tin poison, aud tin reby acquired th - re sistance and"tr insmittea it. Native Au<t a’ians, native 'Aim-t'- cans, or oil cr aborigim s who did not inherit Noah's lin-w will -dl alike he c.-me drunkards if furnished with whiskey. None of ihi-m have any phyxical resistance to alcohol as a beicrage. Bul throughout the conn tiies of corn, rye and the grape only a sm ill portion of the actual c-ni- sumt-is of the fermentative product w ill become drunkards or arc drunk urds. Nothing can be clearer than (lie prop atition that if all people had 3 physical resistance to alcohol snfli oient to pn ye it them from showing (py intoxicating effects from any g iianiily, that nit one would ever ecomc an inebriate. It is equally true that if alcohol is drunk, that a tolerance to it can only be acquired mb' buildit g up a physical resistance lo it in this manner and by heredity. I You know that Holland has a I pci-iliar construction of country. * Tin- borders of the land are built up into resisting walls or dykes—the obj 'Ctrid which is to resist the en- croac'ies of the Si-.I. Iftiiexe dy k> s had not been built by tin- penple, Holland would bo under the sea. Al the liegiiming of the invasinii, or Ires pass of the sea, the people began the nsistanee hy building dykes. They managed lo build a* fast as thc- sea encroached, and made a success of the resistance. This dyke con slrucliou givi s the country a peculiar appearnni-o. Anymi-; can see that the constnicliuu inttsl have given modern Holland an appearance ol variation from old llollanil. Yet the country is populous, fertile, heal thy and prosperous. It is all these tilings with the building added. Now, llien, the resistance of (he nerve cells to poison is fully illustra ted by llic dykes of llollanil. Tin- .condition of the cells bccoincx changed under the influence of poison, in order to resist tbc poison, just as the construction of this old country was changed to resist the sea. if (he Hollanders could not have built ibexe dykes this variation of the landscape would not have fol lowed and tiollaud would to night he oovered by the w aters of the sea. II the man who lakes poison- who take* a disease, or eats opium . or drinks w hiskey, cannot create in his tissue cells a variations of strueiiiri enabling him to n sisl the p-iison, then the poi»on will kill bun or the dDe.ise will kill idm. Out of the sterile, rMiuless plains of A meric ‘ the people are buil-litig irrigaliiiLt They d > il to n-sist the r.iiu- |iss condition ami arid soil, ami to make the countrv fertile. Tlu-e Cimtls ehanue the f at tires of the htudsi-.ipe. They proibn-e a tana 1 ion eharacti rixi-d hy pi-o.lm-lit i- < r-ps. busy railroad*, popnlott* cities, an-l the extension of Ibi», lhe inosl p>-i- b et ot all governmentx. It must he clear to yon that tin- phi-noinena and sttni-ture ol thi- •earth are unole tip trom gnat and little filers iieitnj in opposition to i-ai-h other. Nothing that ever was iitarle w as evi r inmle in any other way. The energy ol glaciers, rtsitl ed hy the sun’s heat, ploughed out the valleys and built up the gravell ed hills of the country, covered the land with verdure and so prepared the earth for the home of man. Thu volcanic fires in (lie heart of the cartli lifted tip the primeval rocks into mountains, resisted by the force of gravity, and built the Andes, the Rockies, the Himalayas and the Alps. America was peopled by the op pressed pilgrims of the old world who founded a government by the people, resisted all the time by the aborigines without a' government or religion, and by the religion' and monarchies of the Old World.* At the present time a president of our great Republic can bo scaled by a virtuous and patriotic party, only by successfully resisting the corruption and the political chicanery of the op posing party. The disease of alcoholism is caused by the i>oibou of alcohol, resisted by the vital integrity of the cells. The disease consists of variation of the cells, enabling them to resist the poison. The drunkard’s disease is caused by poison, resisted hy civiliza tion, society, family, morality, religion, and all that goes to make life worth living, a s well a s hy the physiological forces of his heart’s blood and his nerve cells. But this is not all. The niaii so diseased will continue to drink rhythmically. His persistence in drinking is it part of, and the main part of his disease. (Jan wc make it clear and plain to you why a drunk ard will continue to drink in spiteof everybody and every thing good ? 1 think if we examine flic laws of dis ease relating to the actions of poisons and compare them with similar laws in (lie physical and mental vorld, that we can make the question and its answer clearly nnderstood. Why- docs the drunkard continue to drink? Il is true that in it dntnk;ird his dis ease is caused hy algohol; but it is also true that itt this disease, when it is once established/ alcohol is a ne cessity. The drunkard is diseased because he drank whiskey with his friends, or socially, or took it as medicine, or for any reason whatever that caused him to begin drinking: hut he continues to drink because ins disease demands alcohol. Why docs the disease caused by alcohol demand mote alcohol? One of the factors of the great Jaw of evolution relating tovegetahje and animal life, discovered by Charles Darwin, is known us adaptation. The meaning of it is that plants and atti- muls adapt themselves by the law of variation, to their surroundings. Take a plant accustomed to outdoor life, lli.tt has learned to endure the heat and cold of this climate and to Dower in season and put it in a lady’s parlor cr conservatory. In a year’or two the plant may adapt itself, hy' various changes of its constitution, to live in the house and go on Dower ing its lx-fore. But the result will be that if litis plant is put outdoors into a much colder temperature it will freeze to death. The indoor life lias become a necessity to the plant, and though it may be trained to again live outdoors, subject to the natural climate, the change, you can see, would necessitate changes in the plant, enabling it to resist thy weath er, though this would he ditlicnU, for the even temperature of the partor, .artificially though it may be, has become a necessity to the plant. ’ We *11 know very well vvhni home sickness is. Possibly all of ns have suffered from that wretchedness. Il is a disease of early life, midi as measols, whooping cough, scarlatina, and the rest, of ilium t.re. Home sickness fully illustrates thepainful- ness of human adaptation to new con ditions. The hoy or girl is sent away- to school. The hoarding-house is not home. Father, mother and other dear friends are not there. The usual routine of life at home is changed. The child’s emotional nature must change oi'uudergo mental trans formation its great as the Uqtograpliy of Holland in order to adapt itself to the new conditions. Home is a ne cessity to the child in the sense that it is adapted mentally and emotion ally and physically to the home en vironment. The child must under go a variation now, in mind and hotly, in order to live away from home. But the boy and girl succeed in over coming the necessity of home, and tit time they leave the bosirding school and go into business for themselves. though he may know that the poison will ruin him. It is very easy to say that the drunkard could resist the craving or appetite for drink if he would; many often do, but the fact remains that the majority do not, and our business is with the lost sheep of Israel. We must under stand why these diseased persons do not reform themselves and how they can be cured. Labor and business, or mental and physical labor, arc man’s inheritance. If too abrupt a change is m’‘ ' hard worker from work to idl change nitty be disastrous son is in business until tbi and ten,. and is otherwise health should retire fftmtal abstain front all kinds of work, the result might hring on brain diseases. It is better for all people to change their modes of life gradually, just as nature intends, and so adapt them selves by slow stages to their new environment. U is this mode of life and living which perfectly rounds the period of human existence and secures in the cud the great blessing of eu thanasia. This therefore makes it clear to ns that there are reasons why drunken ness is not hereditary, but why it creates hereditary tendencies that give people greater resistance to the poison of alcohol. I think we under stand that alcohol causes a disease by poisoning the tissues, and causing in them a variation of type which eiiables them to resist the poison. In this connection 1 have explained why al cohol is a necessity, to the inebriate. But i wish to speak of and give a reason for the fact that drunkenness is periodical or rhythmical. It is true that in many inebriates the rhythm is so short that the intoxication appears to be constant, but the regular intermission is there just the same as tit the periodical drinker, who en joys an extended interval of absti nence. The constant drinker is partially sober jn l|te morning, and as a rule iq> to the ninth hour of the day. T|te tojters who drink con stantly arc usually comparatively sober until late in the afternoon of each day, or until a late hour of the evening. These men may think dur ing the forenoon of reform, but as the day goes on tile system dtmaiids the poison and by night the poor wretch is us full as the round iii r on with its 'abled resemblance to the home to meet his mail who goes family woes. But I think tint larger, number of drinkers are the socalled periodicals, who have an interval of total abstinence, from a few days to even a year or more. These men al ways reform after each debauch, a debauch which, despite their good resolutions, is sure to be repeated sooner or later. Viewed from the social standpoint, the reason for the lapse of good re solutions and the drunken fit that follows Js not always the same. Dif ferent causes seem to lead to the de bauch. Generally, when the time comes, the debauch begins by social drinking. Sometimes, sonic real or fancied illness is the excuse. These men a r e told repeatedly bv their friends that they can’t take a drink without' follow ing it up until paralyzed, but this is a difficult matter for the toper to believe. “Why can’t I take a drink,” ho will say, “as well as Jones or Johnson?” He may take a drink once or twice, determined that it shall he his last, but his effort is sure to result in the failure mid to end in a spree. I think I he ])hysilogical and anat omical basis for the explanation of periodicity in drunkenness is easily found aud understood. That drunk enness is periodical must be admitted. The inebriates and their friends, - ns well a.s their enemies, all know this fact. If we have a rhythm in the results, or in the phenomena of this world—whether in physical, mental, or biological effects—the natural iin ference will be that the forces which underlie them all must also be rhythmical. I have said that ail things and all phenomena are the products of opiKtsing forces which are unequal. If all election forces were exactly equal no public officer would ever be elected. If gravity and the attraction of the moon were’ equal on the waters of the ocean there would be no tides. If the sun’s heat ami the surface tempiiruturc of the earth were equal there would by no ruin. If the volcanic forces of the earth and the resistance of its crusts had Each has utt avocation, afaptily, and | always been equal Hterc would bo no a new home. KhcIi is intent on muk-! ranges of mountain-, If {the |)oigou ing a living according to the destiny | of tlic microbe and the resistance and purpose of human life. Oceu- of the (issue cells to poison were sionally these people may visit llic j equal there would lie no disease. If old folks aud the old homestead; but the woman is anxious to get back It her family, while the mat), now in business for himself, is as un- eaty as a fish out of water until he is back tinder his own roof-tree ami at his desk or plow. The law of life is, whether vegetable or human life, that a change to new conditions, if more less abrupt, is difficult uttd may a man’s physical or vital resistance to the poison of alcohol were equal to all the alcohol his stomach would hold no man would ever get drunk. He con id not. He could drink his fill uml always he able to find the key-hole at any time of night. The physical substratum or the general factor of expression of phy sicul character from which living be painful, because il requires organic j things derive habit, is the rhythm of changes and anew adaptation, and forces. All physical force'is rlty- thut any adaptation to any sort of I lliatical. A beam’ of light is condition in which a pe’sott can live rhythmical in its intensity. A cur at till necessitates thepresei.ee of rent of electricity is rhythmical. The that condition in order to live the action of the murgnet also shows this most comfortably. This is the rea- variability. Running water, in a position to~eaeh other, and the op position cannot always Ite an equal quantity. But having an understand ing that all forces are rhythmical and that all things are the products of opposing forces acting unequally, let ns look at diseases and see if the law holds good: Yon know that epidemics do not prevail continuously. They occur periodically. You know that in a fever The temperature is not always ; if typhoid, the morning iture is 102 degrees, while citing temperature may be 105 All pain is naturally ical. If the toothache, even, constant.qnantity, it would lionta.- Peopto prevent epi demics by .fighting their rhythmical returns. They combat diseases by iitterposipfliremedies which break up the seated rhythms of the chill and fever. J; Right here is the secret of the cure of inebriety. The chronic inebriates acquires a resistance to alcohol by spree drinking. His family, friends, ItD will and his tissue cells resist it All these make such an impression on his mind that he stops drinking for awhile. But these resisting forces lose their power in time, and then the clamor of tissue cells for alcohol is again predominant and lie goes off on another spree. From this standpoint a drunkard is made up of rhythmical predomi nance of all the forces which prevent him from drinking. If all these forces could remain equal he would naturally be cured, but they remain unequal. My remedy breaks up this rhythm. It puts the inebriate into an entirely new sphere—externally and internally. It is very like, and about as effectual, as giving a man who lias the ague a mtautity of quinine and a change of climate. It breaks up ihe regular swing of the pendulum, which licks against so- brictv at otto extreme and into de bauchery at the other. Society naturally, or necessarily , looks at the drunkard from different standpoints. From the scientific standpoint, society- regards the drunkard as a diseased and [Hjisoned lunatic, and so he is. The larger number of crimes are the work of men Who are under the in- flnence of liquor. The drunkard be comes a social outcast in proportion as the sentiment against drinking is developed in the public mind. The inebriate is held to be morally respon sible . because he voluntarily buys the poison and takes it himself. But in this view of the case society at large is responsible for till the crime that the drunkard commits, and for (he disease of inebriety. Society at large is responsible fur till diseases, even including insanity. All dis eases, including inebriety and insanity could be prevented. In my opinion, drunkenness and the general con sumption of alcohol is due largely to imperfect laws. The time will come when, if a man gets typhoid fever he will fix the responsibility some where, and will sue corporations or communities for damages. To-day a city mast pay damages for a defec tive sidewalk which breaks a man’s legs, hut the city may innoculatea third of its population with typhoid fever through a water supply which is contaminated through public neglect, and no claim for damages will be made. , Alcohol is the instinctive remedy for sickness and injuries. It has no equal among drugs us a heart stimu lant. The people will have it. Ft Dan antidote-more or less to the air, and water and gent poisons. Alcohol will not need to be prohibited after the genu diseases are prohibited. When this time conies Ihe |>eop)cwi)l stop drinking alcohol. Itwillgoont of fashion soon enough and will he no longer sold in gilded saloons or found on polished side-boards. The millctiittm will not reach this world until humanity is emancipated from poisons. It makes no difference whether the poison is that of a disease microbe, or if it is drugs which peo ple consider and use us a remedy. We want no poisons of any kind. If the disease poisons are banished, the antidotes, which are equally imisons, will fall themselves. I believe ;n prevention rather than cure, if it can lie had. But great reforms come slowly. The public consider alcohol a remedy, Thepublic then will have the rem edy. When tyhoid, consumption, malaria and kindred diseases are ban ished from the world the average duration of human life will he length ened twenty-five years, and prevent able diseases, including inebriety, will he tinkiiawii. Exchanging Passwords. Clemson College. For several years pas f , in fact since the beginning of Mr. Tillnmn’s agita tion, we have been told lime and again of an agricultural college. It was ua issue in a campaign or two. Finally came the' Chanson bequest which was accepted hy the, State and the work of completing the college begun. Tlte Board went so far as to elect a full faculty expecting the col lege to open last February. Everyone is well acquainted with these facts, and also the further-fact that upon the expectation that the Legislature would make tlte necessary appropriations, arrangements were made by the Board to open the col lege in February. But the Legisla ture made no appropritions, upon the pitiful plea that campaign speakers had promised tlte people that the col lege should cost them nothing. Work on tlte college had to he sus pended and tlte college is not yet open. We hear nothing any more of Clem son nor of agricultural education by those wit* were its loud defenders only a short time ago. This much by way of introduction. Last week there was a special meeting of tlte Board called, and at which it was stated that the Board had made a thorough examination into the financial condition of the college, which shows that ou Novem ber 1, 1891, there were $3,708.40 on hand. Since then $43,660.11 have been received front the privilege tax, making a total of $47,475.34. The Board had contracted debts amount ing to $30,944.91, leaving a balance of $7,530.40, most of which lias been spent in meeting current expenses, leaving the Board at present practi cally without funds. The Board still owes—for the heating apparatus for dormitories, etc.—about $1,000. The report published as given out hy Mr. Titidul goes on to give de scriptions of the buildings, most or quite all of which, if wc remember correctly, appeared in the minimi re port submitted last December lo the legislature. The question natural ly arises, what was this special meet ing held for? and when will Hie col lege open? What was the use to have a special meeting—hav.e all the Board go there at the expense of the State in extra session just to look over what everybody already knew. Did Mr. Tindal give out all that was done by the Board? The way things look now it is very hard to form an esti mate as to when the college will open, and if wc have another Legislature that takes the same position as the last one, the time may be a good way in the future. A college cannot he built and run without money. The Herald and News gave notice of that some time ago.—Newberry Herald and Net/s. Uafi a Bilious Feeling. son why the disease of alcoholism re quires the presence of alcohol. The absence of alcohol causes a pain which a drunkard will not endure if he can get his drinks, and it docs not follow that such a person, under such conditions, may not drink, natural or artificial sticant, will show a rhythm in its speed and volume. No miichiiic, timepiece, engine or electrical apparatus can run without this exhibition of rhythmical action. The reason is that all motion is the result of other forces acting iu op The Alliance in a certain small town it Weakly county, Teuu., is in the habit of meeting in Hie same hail as the Knightsof Pythias. One night not long ago a member of the Alliance saw a light in the hail, and supposing his order was in session, sauntered up and knocked on tlte door. The door was opened and an inquiring face appeared. “I plough, 1 hoe, I spade” sol- leinttly remarked the Alliance niaii. “The devil you do!” replied the ! the mail on the inside, closing the i door. The Alliance man told the story to his fellows. They were alarmed. “Why, you have given away our pass word!" they exclaimed. “Yes,” eoiiiphiccntly responded the hero of the story, “but 1 found out theirs.” In a restaurant down at McLcans- bro the other night, says the Mount Carmel (111.) Register, a party of young fellows were sitting and stand ing around the stove waiting for the midnight IxtuisvillcA Nashville train to come in. One of the gang had been out the night before with his best girl and was exceedingly sleepy. St.'ctchiug himself iu a chair lie was soon in the land of Nod, the upper half of his head unhinged and thrown back and his mouth so wide open that it resembled entrance to the Patton tunnel. The boys gazed on him a few moments; then one of them slipped out to a drug store, front which he soon returned with a small pill of assafnetida, which he deftly placed upon the sleeper's tongue. The warmth of the mouth dissolved the drug in a few seconds and Hie snorer awoke, stretching, gaping and yawn ing like a Cherry grove darkey with a premonition of a Patpka creek chill. “Boys,” said the victim, “darned if I ain’t as billions as t goat! 1 never in my whole life had such an all-fired mean taste in tit} mouth.” And the shout that went tip drowned the whistle of the approaching train. Il*w lo Freeze a Dog. EFFECTS OF A WAVE. A STEAMER STANDS HIGH AND DRV OVER TWO MILES INLAND. The federal tux on si gallon of whis key Is about five times the cost of man ufacture, and you will find wise people who still talk about taxing the liquor trnfttcout of existence! You remenilter the wise mun who was found one cold night in his night shirt, holding u dog out on the porch in order to freeze him to death.—Voice. Never was there such a closeness in the money world of New York as now, so say the capitalists. , A Tidal Wave That Carried Away Every* thing hut a LighthoiiHo and Destroyed Over 40,000 IJveH—The .Steamer Intact but In in the Midst of a Jungle. Tourists that visit Batavia nowadays aro quite out of the fashion if they fail to make tho passage through Smida strait and sco all that is left of Krakatua and tho vestiges of tho ruin wronght by the terrible eriq^jon of 1882. If they push up the Bay of Lampong, on the Sumatra side of the channel, they are likely to land on the low shores occu pied by the village of Telokh-Betong, and hire carts for a short jaunt into the interior; and when they have gone about two miles they will pause to take iu tho curious scene presented; for here is seen one of tho most interesting results of the great wave of Krakatan. There was just one man amid nil that wild scene of death and devastation who was not overwhelmed in the common rnin. He escaped while 40,000 perished. Ho was tho lighthouse keeper, who lived alone on an isolated rock in tho strait. It was broad daylight when Krakatau burst asunder, but in u few moments tbo heavens were so densely shrouded by dust, mud and smoko that the darkness of midnight covered all the channel. The guardian of the lighthouse was in the lantern 130 feet above the sea level. Here he remained safe and sound in the midst of tho terrible commotion. He felt the trembling of the light house, but it was so dark that he could not see the threatened danger. He did not know that a tremendous wave had almost overwhehuned the lighthouse, and that its crest had nearly touched the base of tho lantern. Ho did not hear it because he was deafened by the awful detonation of Krakatua. In a few moments the wave, over a hundred feet iu height, had swept along a coast line of a hundred miles on both sides of the channel. Scores of populous villages were buried deep beneath tho avalanche of water. Great groves of cocoaimt palms were leveled to the 0ouud. 1‘romontories were carriisl away. New bays were dug out of the yielding littoral. Every work of human bunds except Mint lighthouse was destroyed, and 40,(HHJ [.orsons i>er- ished iu the deluge that mounted from tho sea or beneath tho rain of mud that filled tho heavens. A little sidewhcc! steamboat was borne on tbo top of that wave through forests and jungle, over two miles into tho coun try. and was left as tho wave receded. It will bo remembered that for weeks before tho final cataclysm at Krakatau, tho volcano was in a state of eruption. Plcnaaro parties were made up at Ba tavia to visit tho volcano. Not a few pcoplu landed on the island, little dream ing that in the twinkling of an eyo two- thirds of it was to bo blown into tbo air as though shot from ugun. They wished to get us near as they thought they might safely venture to tho growling, steaming crater. This little steamboat, on the day be fore the explosion, carried one of these parties to the island. There were only twenty on board besides tbc crew. They spent a couple of hours around the is land and then steamed up tho deep and narrow Bay of Lampong, and it is sup posed they anchored for the night in front of tho big town of Telokh-Betong, which was ono of the largest settlements on the south coast of Sumatra. Tho ill fated pleasure party was never beard of again. It is supposed that tho boat was tnrued over and over like an eggshell in the surf. It had every ap pearance of such rough, usage when it was found some months later. Tho ma chinery and furniture were badly broken and were strewn about iu the greatest confusion. But the vessel held together, and was finally set down in good shape, erect on her keel. Only two bodies were found in tho vessel. They were, of course, below deck. As it was morning when she was picked up by the wave it is supposed ttiut nearly everybody was on shore. Not a vestige remains of the villages that lined the water edge. Bat the hulk of this little boat still stands, battered and broken, though us erect as when sbe plowed tbo channel, and she is tho most curious and interesting relic of tho greatest volcanic eruption of modern times.—New York Sun. Women kissing _ each other is something like voting the itnlcpcml- out ticket. It doesn’t do any good. The VeDom of Snakes. As to the venom of serpents, no dis tinct chemical principle has us yet been detected in it, though such there must be, seeing that the effect of Hie saliva of different poisonous snakes is different— the blood coagulating after a fatal cobra bite, though not after that of a rattle snake or a vi[>er. It has also been ascer tained that if tlte blood of a poisoned animal be injected into a healthy one the latter will bo poisoned in tho same way as if it had itself been bitten, al though its flesh may be eaten with im punity. It is a mistake, however, to suppose that a snake's poison can have no effect nnless actually mixed with tho blood. It will act after being absorbed through such delicate skin as that which lines our lips, though its action when thus received is less powerful.—Quarterly Review. All Important Amendment. A bill was introduced into ono of our stale legislatures granting permission that the bighop of the diocese might he buried iu tlte crypt of his cathedral. One of the members who did not admire the bishop greatly, moved an amend ment to tho bill that it take effect im mediately on its passage.—San Francisco Argonaut Tliouaamla In It. •‘How is that little mining schemo of yours getting along? Any money in it?” “Any money in it? Well, I should say so! All of mine, all of my wife's and about $3,000 that I got from my friend.” —Exchange. Tho Oldest ISunluioto. The oldest banknote now in existence is in tho British museum, and was is- st.ed from tho imperial mint of China at t.to beginning of tho reign of tho first Aling emperor. Tho first bank in Eu- ropo was at Barcelona, established iu 1401. Tho Chiucso banknote is supiiosed to date back to 1100.—New York Suu. GOODBY, GOD BLESS YOU 1 like tho Anglo-Saxon speech 1 With its direct reveallngs; j It takes n hold and seems to reach Far down Into your feelings; That some folks deem it rude, I know. And therefore they abuse It; But l have never found K so— il' foro all else I choose IL I don't object that men should atr The Gaelic they have paid few ■ With “An revolr," "Adieu, ma chere." For that's what French was made for: But when a crony takes your hand At parting to address you, lie drops all foreign lingo, and tie says, "lioodby, God bless you!” Tlds seems to be a sacred phruoe With reverence impassioned; A thing come down from righteous days Quaintly hut nobly fashioned. It welt becomes an honest face, A voice that's round and cheerful; It stays the sturdy In his place. And soothes the weak and fearful; Into the porches of the ears It steals with subtle unction. And In your heart of hearts appears To work Its gracious function; And all day long with pleading song It lingers to caress you. I'm sure no human heart goes wrong That's told, “Goodby, God bless you.” —Eugene Field. The Lemonade of Yore. “Wunct upon a time,” recently re cently remarked an aged candy butcher who dispenses peanuts and popcorn Imrs at the Madison Square garden, "they used to make circus lemonade as was circus lemonade, but them times is gone up the centerpole and they ain't never agoin to come back. In them day* all wo fellers needed to clean np twenty or thirty dollars before and after the show was three pounds of sugar, a pint of citric acid, a washin tub and a pump that throw a good stream. We nster put lemons in and let ’em float around, bnt when the crowd went we'd fish em out again, and one dozen lemons ml last us through a whole county. “1 tell you, young feller, a schooner of that there lemonade, after :t had Im-cu a-standin in the sun for an hoiu or s<> with a fly or two doin the Captain Boy ton act in it, was something to lie re membered. Bnt that's all changed now They pnt stuff in it that make* it pink and dndey lookin, they mix it m punch bowls instead of wasblubs an-i instead of savin money they use real lemon* iu stead of acid." Then, with a sigh of regret for the golden past, tho aged man sold llic small boy a short weight bag of |>cumitH. a damaged popcorn bar and gave him two plugged nickels in change.—New York Commercial Advertiser. Didn't Want a Pony. Small Boy—Papa, Willie Winkers' got a pony.” Papa—Has? “Yes, and it’s the bce-utafulist pony I ever saw.” “You don’t say!” “Just as gentle as can lie. 1 rode on it an didn't fall off once. A boy couldn't * get hurt on that pony.” “1 suppose not.” “It eats hardly anything, too. and doesn't cost much to keep.” “It doesn’t?” “Not anything, hardly. Willie said his papa liought it veal cheap.” “No doubt.” “And ho said there was plenty more where that came from.” “linniph! Do yon want me to buy you a pony?” “N-o. 1 was only thinkin what a nice pony Willio Winkers has.” "Ohl” “Yes. Willie’s got a nice papa. too. hasn’t he?”—Good News. Wood In Egyptian Stonework. Probably the oldest timber in the world which has been subjected to the nse of man is that found in the ancient temples of Egypt in connection with the stonework, which is known to be at least 4,000 years old. This, the only wood used in the construction of the temples, is in tho form of ties holding tho end of ono stone to another. When two blocks were laid in place, an ex cavation abont an inch deep was made in each block, in which a tie shaped like an hour glass is driven. It is therefore very difficult to force any stone from its position. Tho ties appear to have been of tho Timarish or Shittim wood.— Yankee Blade. A Venerable (tooHe. The oldest goose on record as now liv ing belonged to John Ray, a respectable resident of Croton Landing, N. Y.. He says lie purchased the goose from Isaao Hill, who made an affidavit at tho time that the faithful fowl was fifty-two years of age then. Tho goose lays fifty eggs a year, and was sold by Mr. Ray at the end of the third year of his posses sion for $100. He says, to the best of his knowledge aud belief, she is now eighty- six years of age.—New York Sun. New England CurcN. A New Hampshire cure for sore throat is to wear abont the neck a stocking, in the toe of which n potato has been tied. According to a Maine belief, n nutmeg pierced aud hung on a string around the neck prevents boils, croup aud neu ralgia. The effect of a Connecticut wooden nutmeg is unknown.—Kansas City Journal. Tho Teacher In a Physician. The teacher's position in tho educa tional world is that of the physician, and not that of the trained nurse; this is a point which is not generally nnderstood, and ono that needs to be insisted on.— Harper’s. In England the broad arrow is the recognized symbol with which tho gov ernment property—including griny wag ons, mules, provision bags, and the gar ments of convicts Is regularly stamped. It is ono of tho “minor morals” that a borrowed book should he carefully need and retnrncd without being defiled by dirty hands, or disfigured by marks and turned down leaves. Tho new bridge over the Tay at Dun dee, Scotland, is seventy-seven feet above the water, has eighty-five piers and is over two miles long. Amusement of Texas Engineer*. Engineers of railroad trains iu Texas and most of the western states carry re volvers aud often rifles in the cab for contingencies that might arise. They amuse themselves by shooting at the telegraph poles or any other Mark while running at full speed, and attain won derful skill in marksmanship,—St. liinis Republic.