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ASCENSION-TIDE-1884.
Upward with thee!
Beyond the cold, thick mists of earth
That crush each holy thought ;
Beyo and tic 1 grieN of mortal birth.
With r. stless murmurs fraught;
Beyond the weary days of toil
Whose harvest seems but weeds;
Beyond the nights of heart-turmoil
\V hen hope dies out ia needs.
Upward with thee!
Bearing but meagre, ill-ripe sheaves
As fruit of all our life;
Bearing dry and shriveled leaves,
Parched by human strife;
Bear ng the “talent” hid by s’otli,
Wasted, —dead, —abused;
Hearing "the lamp” our hands were loth
To trim or ligDt,—unused;
Yet upward still with thee!
Thv changeless, perfect love forgives
The ill our years have wrought;
Thv arm uplifts each heart that lives,
To thee by sorrow brought;
Thy mercies are the wings that bear
Our fainting souls to God;
Thy angels calm all tears, all care, —
Prints where thy feet once trod.
Inward with thee!
Above,- —O infinite release?
Thou hid’st us share thy rest;
No earthliness invades that peace.
Thyself, —crowns Heaven blest!
Above.—the lost and loved to greet
Death veiled from mortal sight;
All partings o’er, in thee to meet,
With joy Time cannot blight!
—Boston Advertiser.
HOW IT IS DONE.
Beautiful Complexions Which are Se
cured Through Tortures.
St. I.ouis Post Dispatch.
“The fact is,” said a prominent retail
druggist the other day to a young man
with thin legs and note book, “that these
nostrums for the complexion with which
the market is flooded are worse than hum
bugs. for. far from being beneficial, they
art 1 in most cases positively injurious.
Tuere is plenty of money to be had in that
sort of quackery, for there is always a
sale for any stuff that pretends to possess
curative properties for the skin. Put up
some rose water in bottles, label it
“Bloom of Youth,” or anything else that
sounds well, ami the women will rush to
buv it. There is nothing a woman will
not do, no tortures she will not endure,
to enhance the beauty of her complexion.
Tse women of Brazil rub the juice of a
nut on the face, the skin of which (that
is to say, the epidermis or superficial
skin comes off, leaving the face in a raw
state. After applying the nut-juice, the
patient takes to her bed, and in three
weeks a fresh skin has formed and she
has an entirely new complexion. It is
rather surprising on the whole that some
such idea has not been s.uopted in more
civilized countries, although a method
somewhat nearly approaching it is
actually practiced in Paris by a physi
cian who claims its invention. I under
stand, on goojj authority, that it is very
successful so far as its results are con
conn and. but it must be extremely painful.
A woman who takes this method of re
new ing h*r youth must undergo a fearful
ordeal, -die is placed under the in
fluence of chloroform, and the whole su
pi rli> ia! layer of the cuticle is removed
with the knife; this accomplished, the
face is swathed in bandages, and anew
skin forms w ithin a few days. A physi
cian ot my acquaintance assured me that
h" had seen a person who hail had her com
plexion renewed in this way, and that
her skin was of a delicate creamy tint,
likea child's; she always took the greatest
car* t it, never going out unless thickly
vailed. A complexion obtained at such a
-t was not to lie readily sacrificed.
“The only good cosmetic I know of is
pure water' Any first rate physician will
tell you that face-washes are quite use
less as remedies for skin troubles. And
yet these quack remedies always will
command a large sale, though many of
thYm contain elements very injurious
th to the health and complexion, and
not one of them pretends to attack the
skin trouble through the blood, which is
(tic only way recognized as effective in
tie practice of medicine. People fre
quently apply to me for a remedy for
freckles, but the philosophy of the freckle
is something that no fellow ever could
exactly find out. There arc two theories
in regard to freckles—one is, that they
are small accumulations of the pigment
which colors the skin, and the other that
they are stains produced through the
oxidation by the air of the iron in the
blood. The first of these is doubtless the
true one. No one has ever found out how
to remove freckles.
“Many people are annoyed by eruptions
of the skin of the face, which spring
merely from impurities of the blood, aud
the only remedy is to attack the trouble
through the blood. The practice of taking
arsenic, for the complexion is an exceed
ingly dangerous one. Arsenic, as a
remedy for skin disorders, is well known
in therapeutics, but, too carelessly used,
it undermines the constitution. Reputa
ble druggists will not sell Fowler’s solu
tion of arsenic, which is the form in
which it is usually taken, without a doc
tor’s prescription. These so-called medi
cated soaps for the skin have no particu
larly good effect. There is nothing better
than white eastilo. and the only benefit
that can be derived from external washes
is cleanliness.
“Avery common skin disorder is that
from which young men particularly, be
tween the ages of 15 ami 22 or 23, suffer.
The trouble seems to develop with the
early growth of the beard, and causes an
annoying pustular eruption. Sometimes
this affection, which is called acne, pro
ce Is so tar as to amount to a disease,
but it is usually trifling, and is perfectly
susceptible of treatment. The remedies
ordinarily applied are, however, impera
tive, and the true nature of the disorder
is but little known. The follicle, or sac,
from which the hair grows, is from an
eighth to a quarter of an inch in depth,
and is supplied with moisture by a little
gland at the side of the follicle, which
contains a secretion called sebum. If
through any cause the secretion of sebum
becomes too plentiful, the follicle is likely
to become clotted up, and nature’s way of
removing it is by inflammation, which
forms a pustule. When the growth of
the beard begins to develop the secretion
of the sebaceous matter is stimulated,
and the pustules frequently appear in
great numbers. The only effective treat
ment known for this simple variety of
acne is to thrust a needle into the follicle
as far as possible, and remove the ob
-truction. This is a painless operation,
f>r the needle does not pierce the skin.
The clotting of the sebum in the follicle
can usually lie seen before any’inflamma
tion has taken place, so that the latter
may be avoided. With careful treat
ment of this sort and frequent washing
with warm water, there should be no
difficulty in curing any case where the
difficulty is not constitutional. The use
of grease or oil of any kind is bad for the
skin under such conditions.
“Complexions differ very much with the
climate. The English have, beyond a
doubt, the most beautiful complexions in
the world. American girls possess more
beauty* of feature, perhaps, but their
complexions are not nearly so fine. As
one goes farther south toward the Equa
tor, one sees darker skins aud darker hair
and eyes, for all these physical character
istics have reference to climatic influ
ences. Upon two things Jhe condition of
the skinjdepends—oil ana coloring matter.
Thejskin of a very old manor woman, for
w ant of oil, becomes like wrinkled, dried
up parchment. An Albino has scarce
any coloring matter in his hair, eyes or
complexion. To finish, I will give you a
recipe for beautifying the complexion—
the one used by the dames of ancient
Rome. Probably it is familiar to many,
but there may be others who have never
read of it: These ladies made a stiff paste
of rye flour aud covered their faces with
it on retiring. In the morning they
washed it off with milk (they never used
water >, and applied a little powder, if it
was deemed necessary. This, w e are told,
on good authority, is really the best
method of improving the complexion that
bas ever been used, either in ancient or
modern times. The rye flour is said to
positively draw from the skin any marks
that may have lingered on it. Moreover,
it makes the complexion charmingly soft
—an effect which the milk helps to pro
duce. Several Parisian bells adopted this
plan, and it is rumored that the Empiess
Eugene tried it. At all events the ladies
who are known to have followed the re
cipe of the Romans are also those who
have been celebrated for their lovely skins.
In spite of the opinion of the clever drug
gist, this is doubtless very efficacious in
softening and bleaching the skin.”
In the Siniatic range of mountains there
is a remarkable cone of sandy rocks called
Gebel-Nakus. When a traveler attempts
in fine weather to scale this miniature
peak he hears a sound like that of distant
bells. When there is no wind and the
sand is damp w ith dew’ the sound is not
heard. This phenomenon is attributed to
the friction of the silicious sand on the
declivities of the cone. The atmospheric
vibration which is thus started is sup
posed to be intensified by cavities which
serve as sounding-boxes or resonators.
The fashionable bathing suit this season
worn by the boys who go in swimming along
the wharves will be a stone bruise on the heel.
HOW TO RULE MEN.
A Lecture to Women by a Woman who
Has Studied Mankind.
Chicago Jr’eits.
“I do not entertain much,” said a ladv
who has been an acknowledged leader of
Chicago society for 25 vears, “but I re
ceive a great deal. I do not believe in
entertainment, although I am mindful
that there is very much stress laid upon
‘the sociality of refreshments.’ People
do not call on you for eatables; they
can buy their lunch anywhere. But the
society of a cultivated lady or gentleman
is not so easy of access. People want
mental food; they want to exchange their
ideas for some newer ones; they want to
talk and laugh, and to make you talk
and laugh; they want the society of some
sweet women of sense and vivacity, who
will skilfully draw them into conversa
tion, and for the time being direct their
thoughts from the subjects that have en
grossed them all day. The woman who
has to appeal to her table—who thinks
she must pamper the appetites of her
guests in order to please—openly con
fesses that she is not accustomed to
society, aud not equal to its demands.
“Besides, look at the way women enter
tain no w’-a-days! What does a man care
for ices, cake, frappe and bouillon?
Truly their own observation should teach
them better, I can get more real social
enjoyment and create more conviviality
with a dozen sandwiches and two quarts
of cider or hot coffee than I can with ten
pounds of angels’ food and three gallons
of ice cream. I have been in society for
twenty-five years, and when I have re
ceived my most charming companies all 1
served was tea and wabers. If there
were gentlemen present 1 substituted
coffee, lam a great admirer of card par
ties and musicales with not more than
ten in the group. About 10 o’clock I
invite them in the dining room and refresh
them without ceremony. I have a dish of
salad and some nice bread and butter,
with a pickle or an olive and a cup ol
hot coffee. More often 1 simply put a big
dishful of nice sandwiches in the centre
of the little table, and have half
a dozen bottles of ale brought in right
from the ice-box. That is what men like,
and if you mean to please them that is
one of the means to use.
“You should never feel obligated to
serve refreshments in the morning or
afternoon, for no well-bred person ex
pects it unless invited especially to spend
the day. If you ask him to dine with
you, then serve an elegant dinner.
‘•1 think if women only knew how
sweet and lovely they are and how much
they can do with men they would pay
more attention to their personal cultiva
tion than they do. Why, if a woman only
goes about it right she can do anything
with a man, and make him conform to
her ideas in every particular. She has
tact, skill, talent, beauty, refinement, and,
combine her intuition with her fascinat
ing powers, she can change his politics,
reform his religious ideas, alter the
whole course of his life, and shape his
career to suit herself. But she must not
be a fool, I can teil you, nor must she
forget for an instant tfie art and finesse
by which she rules.
“Man is at best a brusque, selfish, im
pulsive creature, full of conceit and vaga
ries, and anxious to rule aud control.
He has strength and he wants to use it;
he has creative faculties and lives to
execute. But whatever he is he looks to
woman for his pleasures, and the one who
can please him can rule him and do with
him what she will. A woman is youDg
until she is twenty-five, and a man re
tains his youth teu years longer, but
after that there is nothing to live for but
home. Life has lost its zest, aud there is
no charm in the toys and amusements of
yesterday. You must admit that a
woman marries for convenience. She
wants a home, protection, immunity from
labor, and the delights of companionship.
Now, if a man makes this home, if he
stands between her and danger, if he
contributes the best interests of his life
for her maintenance, he certainly is
entitled to his reward. He wants' his
home beautified, tilled with friends and
good cheer; he wants to be petted,
admired, respected, encouraged and loved.
He wants to be king, in short.
“Oh, yes, you may say petting is all
nonsense, but just let me tell you that
yoil are mistaken, and if the husband
cannot get that loving affection at home
he will get it some place else. Caresses
can be bought like every other luxury.
“A wife must be a sweetheart all her
life. She must never get too old to be
cnarming. She must cultivate a sweet
temper and an utt'able manner, and her
only anxiety must lie a dread of offending
her husband. Another thing: sarcasm
wont work; it is an unpardonable offence.
in the family circle, and, no matter how
pertinent it may be, a women cannot
afford ever to say a harsh word to the
mail she loves.
“Beautiful? No woman need be any
thikg else. If she has a poor complexion,
there are powders and cosmetics that
defy detection; she can have beautiful
eyelashes and eyebrows; no matter how
poor and coarse her hair is, it can be re
markably well-kept and so becomingly
arranged as to be admired; the most irregu
lar teeth can be polished like so many
pearls, and clean teeth and a sweet
breath are not so common as to be de
spised; white hands and tapering,polished
nails will atone for a very ill shape of a
hand. What if the feet are large, if they
are well-shod? If the figure is poor, it
can be so clean, so healthy-looking aud so
delicately perfumed that your very pre
sence will be wholesome aud refreshing,
and, 1 tell you, clothes make the refine
ment that belongs to a lady or gentleman.
Indeed, the raiment is typical of much
that is within. If nature has meagerly
bestowed her charms that is the very
reason why a woman should have re
course to art. If she cannot shine in
music, painting, or the sciences, she can
become a pleasaut, if not a brilliant,
talker. She can read and observe and be
an authority on current literature, and if
she will but study the why and wherefore
of things and the very best points in her
friends, she can make for herself a circle
that will be the very envy of her prettiest
competitor.
“For instance, we will suppose she is
invited to a theatre or a concert. Let her
procure a programme in advance aud
make a study ol the play, the actors, the
music, or the artists. Let her have some
interesting matter to talk about. The
gentleman goes to the expense of the
entertainment and has aright to expect
that the lady he has favored will show
her appreciation in some way.
* “Naturally? Oh, I hate natural peo
ple! They are rude, curt, heedless, and
presumptuous. I like people to antici
pate my pleasures. I like to hear them
say pretty things, to use pretty language,
and to acquire pretty manners. One
need not necessarily be a hypocrite, but
if there is any choice I prefer the polite
hypocrisy of the French to the rude
candor of the Britons.”
A Good Well.
Arkansmc Traveler.
Several days ago a Northern gentleman
came to Little Rock and announced his
intention of buying % home. “I am not
so particular with regard to the house
and grounds.” said he, “as*l am about
tLe water. There must be a well of cold
water.”
“Think I’ve got the very place,” re
plied an old fellow whose shirt bosom was
streaked with tobacco juu;e.
“Meet me here to-morrow.”
The next day the old fellow cauie down
and conducted" the Northern gentleman to
his premises.
“House is not very good,” said the
Northern gentleman.
“No, nothin’ extra.”
“Grounds not very pleasing.”
“No great shakes. Let’s try the water.”
He drew a bucket of water from the
well, and when the Northern gentleman
drank his teeth chattered.
“Why, that‘B the coldest water I ever
drank.”
The Northern gentleman was so much
pleased that he bought the place without
further questioning, seeing that the old
fellow was not anxious to sell, and fear
ing that he might change his mind.
Several days afterwards, the Northern
gentleman sought the old fellow and
said:
“I ought to take a gun and shoot you,
you swindling scoundrel.”
**What’s the matter?” looking up in
surprise.
“Matter! why that water is so warm I
can’t drink it. * 1 bought it with the under
standing that it was cold.”
“Was cold when you bought it, pod
ner.”
“But it’s warm now.”
“Y'es, for you see, the ice has melted.
No trouble to make that water cold,
podner. All you have to do is to throw
in a cart load of ice. No well is any ac
count unless you take care of it. I’m in
the ice business. Would like to have
your trade.”
The great attraction at Hooley’s Thea
tre, Chicago, this week is Nat Goodwin’s
imitation of Irving. He portrays the
walk, gestures, voice and eccentricities
of the London actor with almost absolute
fidelity. A parody on the “The Bells”
i furnishes material for the imitatiou.
SIR PETER AND THE COW.
How Sir John Mackenzie was Com
pelled to Pay the Widow Her Due.
Indianapolis Journal.
While in Montreal I heard a good story
of Sir Peter Mitchell, member of the
Parliament from New Brunswick, of
whom I spoke in a recent letter. He was
an opposition member during the lamenta
ble government of Sir John Mackenzie in
the last decade, and was a constant and
most uncomfortable thorn in the side of
that unhappy Premier. Sir John was a
conspicuous railroad magnate, and just
before the opening of Parliament one
winter Sir Peter called on him to induce
him to pay S4O for a widow’s cow that had
been run over by the cars. “I don’t
believe there’s anything in it!” exclaimed
the Premier, peremptorily. “It’s a
trumped up case, but I'll inquire and you
call to-morrow.”
The gentleman from New Brunswick
was not used to being treated so cavalierly,
but he pocketed it and called in the
morning.
“There’s no justice in it. We won’t
pay for the cow,” broke in Sir John.
“lou won’t; won’t you?” rejoined Sir
Peter, with a manner quite as bouncing
as that of the leader of the government.
“Have you been there or sent there and
investigated it?”
“No, I haven’t, but I won’t pay for the
cow. It’s a mere trifle, and she ought to
have kept off the track.”
“Don’t the law say you shall have a
fence?”
“I won’t pay for the cow now; and
that’s all the answer you’ll get.”
“You won’t pay lor the widow’s cow;
won’t you, Sir John Mackenzie? I will
make you pay for it,” exclaimed Sir
Peter, iiow thoroughly aroused.
“You will; you will! How will you?”
growled the Premier’
“I’ll take it out of you during the ses
sion, as sure as you are a living man.
The widow's S4O isn’t anything, isn’t it?
I’ll take it out of you!”
It wa9 an Irishman against a Scotch
man, and both were angry. The sequel
proved that Sir Peter took it out of him
very thoroughly. He is a round-headed
man, a hard worker, a pugnacious aud
redoubtable foe, an unforgiving enemy,
bold and elegant in debate, no dilettante,
but a hard hitter, aud some ol his
onslaughts were furious. If he had not
great tact he had great force, and he
never forgot the cow. In the speeches he
made every day against the measures
and methods of the government, then
under serious suspicion, he told the story
of tlie cow and trotted her out with a
frequency that must have seemed like
cruelty to animals.
Finally the last dffy of the session
dawned, and the consideration of Mac
kenzie’s expense budget was resumed.
It provided the appropriations of the
coming vear.
Sir Peter Mitchell took the floor and
launched into a eulogy of the deceased
cow and the propriety of making an
appropriation lor the widow. He was
greeted with laughter and mocking
applause, and then his auditors waited
uneasily lor him to finish. He told the
story over again with embellishment and
elaborations. He contrasted the stingi
ness of the wealthy ruler with the quiet
endurance of the penniless widow. He
began to read, from the Bible the com
mands to mercy, justice and
charity, when the honorable mem
bers straggled out one by one to
dinner. Sir Peter bit a piece of biscuit,
drank a swallow of water, and continued
impressing upon the empty chairs about
the tender duties aud graces of humanity.
Members straggled iu again. He quoted
the Song of the Shirt. They appealed to
him to draw his remarks to a close. He
retold the storv of the cow\ Meantime,
Sir John Mackenzie w T as perspiring with
wrath and anxiety in the Premier’s
apartment hard by. All his hopes were
bound up in the appropriation budget.
What if it should not come to a vote!
The honorable member from New Bruns
wick could not be stopped, for this was
the only bill in the Canadian Parliament
on which a member could speak as long
as he wished. There was no way of cut
ting short the debate. No motion was in
order while he was speaking, except the
motion to adjourn, and that would be
adjournment sine die.
The government members were in con
sternation, as the orator delivered a
speech on the blessings of vaccination,
gave statistics on the cost of fences in the
United States, passed an elaborate
encomium on the superiority for draft
purposes of Devon cattle, to which class
the deceased domestic friend of the
bereaved widow belonged, and then
began to describe the religious cere
monies in which the sacred cow of Bur
mah takes part, when the bell rang for
vespers. A short time more and the
session would expire by law, aud the
government had passed no appropriation
bill!
At this critical juncture one of the gov
ernment members returned excitedly
from the Premier’s room, rushed to the
orator’s desk, and exclaimed: “In the
name of God, what ails you, Mitchell?
What do you want?”—“still,” said Sir
Peter, finishing the sentence he had on
his lips, “not a cent has ever been paid
for the widow’s cow!” The member
uttered a vehement exclamation about
that animal, and added: “Sir John Mac
kenzie authorizes me to say that he will
pay for the cow, if you’ll let this bill come
to a vote.”
Sir Peter sat down, rather tired, and
the widow got her pay. The government
organs declared that the widow’s cow
had cost $40,000. Her champion is still
known in |Uanada as Bismarck Mitchell,
on account of his boldness and shrewd
ness in outwitting a Cabinet and making
himself long the adviser-in-chief of a
vacillating Governor.
THE BEST BED.
The Old-Fashioned Straw Bed and How
it Can he Made the Best.
Of the eight pounds which a man eats
and drinks in a day, it is thought that not
less than five pounds leave his body
through the skin. Aud of these five
pounds, a considerable percentage escapes
during the night. This, being in great
part gaseous in form, permeates every
part of the bed. Thus all parts of the bed
—mattress, blankets, as well as sheets—
soon become foul, and need purification.
The mattress needs this renovation
quite as much as the sheets.
To allow the sheets to be used without
washing or changing three or six months
would be regarded as bad housekeeping;
but I insist, if a thin sheet can absorb
enough of the poisonous excretions of the
body to make it unfit for use in a few
days, a thick mattress, which can absorb
and retain a thousand times as much of
these poisonous excretions, needs to be
purified as often certainly as once in three
months. A sheet can be washed. A mat
tress can not be renovated in this way.
Indeed, there is no other way ol cleaning
a mattress but by steaming it or picking
it to pieces, and thus in fragments expos
ing it to the direct rays of the sun. As
these processes are scarcely practicable
with any of the ordinary mattresses, 1 am
decidedly of the opinion that the good,
old-fashioned straw bed, which can every
three months be exchanged for fresh
straw, and the tick washed, is the sweet
est of beds.
If in the winter season the porousness
of the straw bed makes it a little uncom
fortable, spread over it two woolen
blankets, which shouid be washed. With
this arrangement, if you wash all the bed
covering often, you " will have a sweet,
healthful bed.
Now, if you leave the bed to air, with
open windows during the day, and not
make it up for the night before evening,
you will have added greatly to the sweet
ness of your rest, and, in consequence, to
the tone of your health.
I heartily wish this good change could
be everywhere introduced. Only those
who have thus attended to this important
matter can judge of its influence on the
general health and spirits.
He First Turned Hot and Then Cold.
And now comes the drawing of the
capital prize of $25,000 in the Louisiana
State Lottery Company, on April Bth,
drawing at New Orleans, of which Isidor
Isaacs, of Modesto, has been awarded
$5,000. Mr. Isaacs was in San Francisco
yesterday, and said that there was a pe
culiar circumstance in relation to his
securing the lucky ticket. “In the first
place,” said he, “1 sent to San Francisco
for a iicket in the Louisiana State Lottery.
I received no answer to my letter, and so
wrote again, requesting him to send an
other or refund my money. He sent the
ticket. No. 58,298, for April 8 drawing—
the lucky one—for it was only a little
while before I received a dispatch that I
had won a $5,000 prize. Well, I guess I
felt about as any poor man does who sud
denly comes into possession of money like
that. I first turned hot and then cold.”
J. Boas cashed the check for the lucky
man, who left the city for Modesto in
high glee. Mr. Isaacs is a clothing-store
keeper in Modesto, aud has seen some
pretty hard struggles.— Francisco,
Cal., Chronicle, April 20.
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1884.
BURNING THE DEAD.
The Methods of Cremation Practiced in
Various Countries.
As much interest is being evinced just
now in the cremation question, says the
Fall Mall Gazette, the iollowing account
of some methods of burning the dead are
apropos:
A CREMATION IN SIAM.
Here is an account of a cremation
ceremony which took place in Siam,
where only those are buried who cannot
pay the fees. To be cremated in Siam
must be a pleasure. YV hen the time for
the funeral arrives the body is laid in a
receptacle on the summit of a stately
pyramid, the form and material of which
indicate the wealth and position of the
deceased. It is thickly gilded, and the
receptacle lined with plates of solid gold
when the body has belonged to one of
royal lineage and well-filled coffers. The
last is quite as essential as the first to a
gorgeous Oriental luneral, since for rank
without money an East Indian has ever
the most profound contempt. Both re
quisites were fortunately united in the
person of the Queen mother of King Pra-
Nang-Klau. At the funeral of this aged
Queen there was such a display of Orien
tal magnificence as rarely falls to the lot
of Western eyes to witness. The em
balmed body lay in state under a golden
canopy for' eight months; the myrth,
frankincense and aromatic oils used in its
preparation cost upward of £I,OOO, and
the golden pyre above £20,000. The
hangings were of the richest silks and
velvets, trimmed with bullion fringe and
costly lace, and the wrappings of the
body of pure white silk, embroidered
with pearls and precious stones. Incredi
ble quantities of massive jewelry decked
the shrunken corpse, anil a diadem of
glittering gems cast its prismatic radi
ance over the withered features. Tiny
golden lamps, fed with perfumed oil,
burned day and night around the pyre,
while every portion of the vast saloon
was decorated with rare and beautiful
flowers, arranged in all the various forms
of crowns, sceptres, temples, angels,
birds, lanterns, wreathes and arches, till
Flora herself might have wondered at the
boundless resources of her domain. Day
and night musical instruments- were
played, dirges wailed lorth, and prostra
tions perpetually performed; while twice
every day the King, attended by his
whole co.urt, made offerings to the
departed spirit, beat his breast, tore his
hair, and declared life “utterly unendura
ble without the beloved one.”
A CREMATION ON THE COLORADO RIVER.
Here is an account of a cremation
among the North American*lndians, the
Cocopa tribe, on the Colorado river: A
short distance from the collection of
thatched huts which composed the vil
lage a shallow ditch had been dug in the
desert, in which were laid logs of the
mesquite (prosopisand strombocarpus),
hard and dense woods, which make, as
all Western campaigners know, a very
hot fire with liftle flame or smoke. After
a short time the body was brought from
the village, surrounded by the family and
other inhabitants, and laid on the logs in
the trench. The relatives, as is usual
with Indians, had their faces disfigured
with black paint, and the females, as is
the custom with other savages, made very
loud exclamations of grief, mingled with
what might be supposed to be funeral
songs. Some smaller fagots were then
placed on top, a few personal effects of
the dead man added, and fire applied.
After a time a dense mass of dark
colored smoke arose, and the burning of
the body, which was much emaciated,
proceeded rapidly. 1 (says the eye-wit
ness) began to be rather tired of the
spectacle, and was about to go away,
when one of the Indians, in a few words
of Spanish, told me to remain, as there
was something yet to be seen. An old
man then advanced from the assemblage,
with a long pointed stick in his hand.
Going near to the burning body, he re
moved the eyes, holding them succes
sively in the direction of the sun, with
his face turned toward that luminary, re
peating at the same time some words
which I understood from our guide were
a prayer for the happiness of the soul of
the deceased. After this more fagots
were heaped on the fire, which was kept
up for perhaps three orjfour hours longer. I
did not remain, as there was nothing more
olfinterest, but I learned on inquiry that
after the fire was burned out it was the
custom to collect the fragments of bone
which remained and put them in a terra
cotta vase, which was kept under the
care of the family.
CURIOSITIES IN BURIAL.
The modes of disposing of the dead are
many and curious. The Hindoos, for in
stance, expose their dead on the banks of
the Ganges and the Hooghlv to be carried
away by alligators. The Parsees expose
their bodies upon high gratings to feed
the birds of prey. Yertz advocates burial
at sea, and pictures the “dead ship daily
departing from the stand with its lifeless
burden, and reverently and prayerfully
committing the bodies to the deep.” The
only people, it appears, who practice sea
burial are the aborigines of the Chatham
Islands. When a fisherman there departs
this life they put a baited rod in his hand,
and, after lashing him fast in a boat, send
him adrift to sea. According to Mr.
Eassie, a method of petrifaction has been
broached, but has met with no success.
The system pursued by the ancient Peru
▼ians was ingenious and apparently effec
tive. It consisted in piling up coffins of
plaster in pyramid fashion. One, care
fully examined, measured over 3,000,000
ot cubic feet, and was one mass of
half-mummified bodies. Of burial in the
earth the most persistent practicers are
the Chinese. Then there is embalmment,
and an analogous process which consists
of drying up the body and then interring
it. A tribe in South Australia place their
deceased in a sitting posture near the top
of the hut, and keep up the fire until it
is dry, when they proceed to bandage it,
eventually hiding it away in the branches
of trees.
THE BRAHMIN BURIAL SERVICE.
The following compilation from a
burial service of the Brahmins, who are
the priests of all the other castes of
Hindoos that burn their dead, may prove
interesting to the reader. It is extracted
from the “Sacred Anthology
0 Earth! to these we commend our
brother; of thee he was formed, by tnee
he was sustained, and unto thee he now
returns,
0 Fire! thou hadst a claim on our brother
during life; he subsisted by thy influence
in nature; to thee we commit his body,
thou emblem of purity; may his spirit be
purified on entering anew state of exis
tence.
O Air! while the breath of life con
tinued our brother respired by thee; his
last breath is now departed; to thee we
yield him.
O Water! thou didst contribute to the
life of our brother; thou wert one o f his
sustaining elements; his remains are now
dispersed ; receive thy share of him who
has now’ taken an everlasting flight.
Electricity In Vineyards.
M. Henri de Parvile, in his Scientific
Review, calls the attention of wine grow
ers to the services electricity might
render them in protecting their vines
from the disastrous effects caused by a
sudden fall in the temperature. For
several years past vines in France have
been protected from the effects of cold
winds or sudden changes in the tempera
ture by artificial clouds of smoke, pro
duced by the burning ot tarred straw and
other combustibles. Vine growers have
learned to appreciate the benefits of this
system; but it has a drawback which M.
de Parville points out —namely, that to
light the fires at the right moment in the
night time, it is indispensable to have a
thoroughly reliable watcher, tQ whom
drowsiness is unknown, and who is ever
ready to consult the thermometer. By the
aid of electricity anew order of things
would, he remarks, be introduced, and the
safety of the vines would no longer depend
on the night w atcher. A vine grower has
only to place in his vineyard one or more
electric batteries similar’ to those used to
fire mines, the wires being connected with
the fires prepared at regular distances.
YYhen the thermometer falls tow r ard zero,
by means of a very simple arrangement it
causes the electric current to pass along
the wires; the fires are lighted, the air be
ing filled with the protecting smoke
clouds. M. de Parville cites one or two
instances in which his system has been
most successfully employed with very
little outlay to the vine-grower. The plan
might be worth a trial.
A gentleman of Goodwater, Alabama,
writes: “My wife was down so long, I do
not know what all she has taken. I had
doctors attending her and they failed to
relieve her; so 1 got a bottle of your Fe
male Regulator, and she used it, and has
been mending ever since. She can now
go about the house and do her work, and
w r e know it to be a very valuable medi
cine.”
Treatise on the Health and Happiness
of Woman mailed free.
PiHADITELD REGULATOR CO.,
Box 28, Atlanta, Ga.
A GREAT OPERATION.
How a Professor Upset All Laws Laid
Down in Medical Books and Saved His
Patient.
Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald.
Prof. Fluhrer, of the visiting surgical
staff of the Bellevue Hospital, New York,
-recently presented to a large gathering of
medical gentlemen in that city, among
whom were Profs. Lewes A. Sayre,
A. Post and Charles Mittendorf, Drs.
Anderson, Putnam, Jacobi and others,
the most remarkable case of successful
surgical operation of the braiu
that ever came under the
observation of a surgeon and
which still remains unexplained from the
fact that the patient recovered and is at
present enjoying the best of health. The
ease has no parallel in the annals of
medical literature, and until it presented
itself the most eclectic surgeon would
have doubted the possibility of introduc
ing the knife into the brain without fatal
results. The patient, Bruno Knorr, who
sat in the amphitheatre of the
hospital, in the centre of a group of in
tensely interested physicians, who care
fully examined his head, which was a
mass ot scars, showing where the bone
was cut out, has a remarkable history.
He is a well-formed young man, and were
it not for his much-chopped-up forehead,
would be quite good looking. He appears
to be of a very affectionate disposition,
which is the cause of his strange wound.
On the evening of January 23d last he
visited his sweetheart and asked her to
marry him, but she declined. He pressed
his suit, but was flatly refused, upon
w hich he pulled out a revolver and fired a
bullet into hjs brain. The ball entered
the forehead, about an inch and a half
above the eyes, directly in the centre. He
fell to the ground with blood gusliiug pro
fusely from the wound. He was supposed
to be dead, but nevertheless he was re
moved to Bellevue Hospital. Upon ar
riving at that place the junior surgeons
were surprised to find that he was still
alive. Through the night they sat by his
bedside, intent upon making observations
as to how long he could really live, ap
plying only such simple remedies as
would ease the last moments of a dying
man. But they miscalculated, for in the
morning they found him still alive, al
though unconscious. Afraid to do any-
their own responsibly, they
telegraphed the visiting surgeon, Prof.
Fluhrer, at daybreak, and he came at
once in response to the summons, hardly
supposing that he could do anything for
tlie patient. From certain peculiar sur
roundings, however, he was led to under
take a most hazardous operation, which
he described to his listeners while stand
ing at the side of the man whose life he
had saved.
Finding the pulsations of the patient
growing weaker and life slow ly ebbing,
he took the most desperate chances, and
resolved to operate at once. Feeling as
sured the brain was wounded, from the
small particles of its substance that oozed
through the hole made by the bullet, he
boldly set to work, and, J thinking that he
could no more than apply the last meas
ures. he dissected off the flesh around
the wound clean to the bone, holding
back the flaps with pins, and then cut out
a disc of the skull about the size of a
dime with a trephine above the bullet
hole, joining the two by chiseling away
the bridge intervening. On attempting
to remove the particles of bone which had
been driven upon the brain matter by the
bullet in its passage and had set up a
dangerous condition by their pressure, he
met with a profuse hemorrhage from one
of the large arteries, w'liich was cut
across its gaffed edges scarcely to be
seen. Two attempts to catch it proved
futile, and realizing that death from loss
of blood under the circumstances was a
matter of moments, he introduced his
fingei into the wound and pressed the
,artery against the bone, and for a time
became master of the situation. The ex
ertion tired him soon, and he instructed
his assistant to relieve him while he
again attempted to catch the end. After
live trials he was successful and placed a
ligature of catgut around it. The little
vessel, however, was tricky, and the
ligature slipped off, leaving matters
worse than before. Again he tried it and
at last overcame the obstacle by tying it
tightly. Next he introduced a large bul
let-tipped probe, which descended by its
own weight, about five inches into the
braiD, when he stopped short and held it
in plfo*Y, Carefully studying the angle in
whicfi.‘'it entered he marked a point at
the back of the head wdiere it would if
further pushed come out, and there cut
off three flaps around it and sawed
through the bone, exposing, the brain
coverings in the rear. There he cut
through and met w T ith a mass of dark,
half-clotted blood mixed with particles of
brain, which floated about. This was
carefully washed out. He passed in a
probe smaller than the first and felt the
bullet lodged as it was in the brain.
With delicate forceps it was pulled out
through the opening behind. The opera
tion occupied four hours. A rubber tube
was drawn into the wound through the
channel cut by the bullet by means ol
which the septic matter was allowed to
flow. It remained there for over a month
until recovery had so far advanced that
the patient was declared out of danger, to
the surprise of all and in conflict with
the established rules in surgery. Prof.
Fluhrer enlightened his hearers with the
treatment after the operation and pre
sented a chart showing the variations of
the pulse, temperature and respirations
which he observed during the progress of
the case. He laid great stress upon the
difficulty he had in drawing out several
horse hairs, which he introduced around
the drainage tube to prevent its adhering
to the walls of the wound. Alter the
most critical stages had passed it was
found that Knorr had lost his memory,
powers of speech and was partially
paralyzed, but he has recovered all his
faculties and pronounced himself as safe
and sound as a dollar when questioned by
the doctors. The nearest approach to
Knorr’s case is one reported by Prof. Det
mold, who about fifty years ago trephined
the skull of a patient suffering from an
abscess of the brain, w hich he located,
and, by trephining the skull, exposed the
brain and opened the abscess by cutting
into it, but tlie patient only survived a
few months, when he died from a recur
rence of the disease.
PAPER PLATES.
An Innovation at Berlin That is to Be
come General.
The latest application of paper is the
adoption of plates by some of the great
restaurants and cafes in Berlin. The in
novation was first introduced during the
summer of last year by the adventurous
landlord of a much-frequented open-air
restaurant. Every customer who ordered
bread anil butter, rolls, cakes, buns, or
similiar articles, had them served to him
on a little paper plate, made of light
papier mache, adorned with a pretty
border in relief, and having, at the first
glance, a great similarity to porcelain.
Guests, waiters and hosts w T ere all pleased
with the novelty. It saved the waiters
many a deduction from their wages on
account of breakages, which the very
deftest and cleverest can scarcely avoid
when he handles hundreds of pieces of
crockery during a single afternoon and
evening. The paper plates were so cheap
that the landlord did not care to assert
his ownership over them, and his custom
ers w T ere allowed to carry them away like
the pretty serviette's of thin paper used in
so many restaurants in Holland. There
was also a considerable saving on the
time lost and the chance of accident in
curred in the cleansing of earthenware
pottery. The success of the experiment
has been so marked that the new species
of plates is likely to be introduced into a
great number of restaurants.
fjoatetter’o glttrro.
_ ■sw.® x Fortify the sys
-1S 2 jS ii tjv tem. All who
Sri experienced and
H V CitJBfIATEO witnessed the ef
“ feet of llostet-
GTOuiru _ there exists a
specific principle
®|fYE”
“ sa H of the trouble
and effects an absolute and .permanent cure.
For sale by all druggists and dealers generally.
Hr* JHaijnuo.
REX MAGNUS,
THE FOOD PRESERVATIVE.
Ilaving bought the Patent, Trade Marks,
etc., we are the Sole Proprietors and Manu
facturers ol Ilex Magnus and all orders
should be addressed to us accordingly.
* THE UUMISTON CO.,
259 and 261 State st., New Haven, Conn.
item ,aiitrrtioeittnto.
“Tint" Rasli flu Imlse Bargains
%
We Expect to Increase this Week.
GUSTAVE ECKSTEIN & CO.
C. ECKSTEIN & CO.
Intend offering much of their valuable and desirable
stock at a
GREATER SACRIFICE THAN EVER.
We are determined to reduce our Immense Choice
Stock and will do so at a SACRIFICE.
New Bargains will be Thrown on Our
) Centre Counters Daily.
50c., *>oc., 50c., 50c. will Huy SILKS and Anything
Else, and much less will buy other Numerous Things.
We invite an examination, and customers will find
it to their interest to call daily and inspect our many
good bargains.
GUSTAVE ECKSTEIN & CO.
P. S. —Store Closes at 6:45 P. M. until further notice.
Pro ©oulo.
DANIEL. HOGAN
Will Offer To-Day
AND
During the Week:
ONE LOT SUMMER SILKS at 30c. a yard.
One lot SUMMER SILKS at 45c., re
duced from 60c.
One lot FOULARD SILKS j. 45c., reduced
from 80c.
One lot Pure SILK GRENADINES at 60c.,
reduced from sl.
One lot Pure SILK GRENADINES at sl,
reduced from $1 60 and $1 75.
Dress Goods!
50 pieces NUNS’ VEILING, in all colors,
and 45 inches wide, at 45c., worth from 65c. to
75c. a yard.
5,000 yards SILK WARP FLORENTINE at
50c., worth 75c. a yard.
100 pieces Plain and Fancy DRESS GOODS
at 2oo C pieccs t PRINTS, fast colors, at 3>£c. a
yard.
200 pieces PRINTED LAWNS at 4c.
100 pieces CHECK NAINSOOK at 6>£c., re
duced from 10c.
100 pieces PRINTED LINEN, yards
wide, at 25c., worth 40c.
120 pieces VICTORIA LAWN, 40 inches
wide, at B'/£c., worth 15c.
150 pieces INDIA LINEN at 10c., reduced
from 15c.
100 pieces INDIA LINEN at worth
at least 20c.
TABLE DAMASK!
One lot BLEACHED DAMASK at 75c., ac
tually worth sl.
One lot BLEACHED DAMASK at $1 50,
worth $2.
One lot BLEACHED DAMASK at $2, re
duced from $2 76.
100 dozen DAMASK TOWELS, 45 inches
long, at $3 00 a dozen.
150 dozen IIUCK TOWELS, 45 inches long,
at 20c. each, worth 30c.
100 dozen % NAPKINS at $1 50 a dozen, re
duced from $2 50.
100 dozen % NAPKINS at $ 1 00 a dozen, re
duced from $1 50.
3,000 yards PILLOW LINEN at 45c., re
duced from 65c.
SPECIALTIES !
200 Boys’**'LANNEL SAILOR SUITS at
•f2 00, worth $2 75.
150 Boys’ FLANNEL SAILOR SUITS at
$3 00, worth from $4 00 to $1 50.
250 Boys’ KNEE PANT SUITS, ranging in
price from $1 50 to $8 00.
CANTON MATTING- !
300 pieces fresh CANTON MATTING, at
prices from 20c. a yard to 60c. a yard.
DANIEL HOGAN
Dootrro, Ctc-
HOSIERY.
WE WILL OFFER THIS WEEK AN EX
CELLENT ASSORTMENT OF
Ladies’ Black and Colored Silk Hose.
Ladies’ Solid Colored and Pin-
Striped Hose.
Misses’ Colored and Black Lisle
Hose.
Gents’ Fancy Striped Half Hose.
Gents’ Balbriggan Half Hose.
Black Camel’s Hair Grenadines.
Black Nun’s Tellings.
We have just received a very hamdsome lot
of BLACK CRAPE VEILS. All prices.
Continued reduction in COLORED DRESS
GOODS and SUMMER SILKS.
I. DASHER & CO.,
Broughton and Whitaker Streets,
g umber, <stc.
Planing Mill and Lumber Yard,
Keep always a full stock of
Rough and Dressed Lumber,
SHINGLES, LATHS, et
Also, VEGETABLE CRATES.
Pro <sooi* >.
B.F. McKenna & Cos,
OUR BARGAINS!
We will offer this week the following lots, not
large, hut
YERY CHOICE
and
Wonderfully Cheap!
IMPORTED WHITE FIGURED PIQUE,
at 10c. per yard, formerly sold at 20c.
Imported WHITE FIGURED PIQUES, at
12J4c. per yard, formerly sold at 25c.
Imported WHITE CHECKED PIQUE, at
10c, per yard, formerly sold at Isc.
Imported WHITE LACE MUSLIN, at
per yard, formerly sold at 25c.
Imported WHITE BROCADED LACE MUS
LIN, at 35c., formerly sold at 60c.
•Children’s Brilliant LISLE THREAD HOSE,
stripes—new colors—at 25c. and 30c. per
pair, formerly sold at 75c. and 85c.
Children’s SPUN SILK HOSE, light colors,
at 75c. per pair, formerly sold at $1 50.
Children’? French Ribbed Brilliant LISLE
THREAD HOSE, light colors, at 35c., 40c.
and 50c. per pair, formerly sold at 85c.,
95c. and fl 00.
FRENCH ZEPHYR GINGHAMS, at 10c. per
yard, formerly sold at 25c.
A lot of SOILED EMBROIDERIES, fine and
wide, at one-half regular prices.
A LOT OF
Gentlemen’s • Fine Bleached
Jean Drawers,
i
Damaged by water, at 40c. per pair, worth,
perfect, from 75c. to fl 00.
We will offer also our usual
Bargains in White Law ns,
India Linens, Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Un
dervests, Table Damasks and Quilts.
jgtUlo.
in o ticel
I take pleasure in announcing to my custom
ers that I have succeeded in procuring
anew supply of the
Black Surah Silk!
That has given such general satisfaction.
Also, •
Black Mourning Silk !
A New Fabric.
LUPIN’S BLACK DELAINES.
BLACK CAMEL’S HAIR GRENADINES.
BLACK SUMMER SERGE,
All Silk and Wool, reduced to 65c.. with a
variety of Light Weight Mourning Goods.
A Full Line of my
Empire State Shirts !
The only f 1 00 Shirt sold with all the latest
improvements.
BOYS’ SHIRTS 75c.
AT
GERMAINE'S NEW STORE,
132 Brouehton street (next to Furber’s).
Praoagr, etc.
' NOTICE.
I HAVE PURCHASED all the Stock, Drays,
Accounts, and all other assets of JAMES
E. MORAN, and will carry on the Drayage
and Hauling business at No. 104 Bay street.
I solicit the patronage of my friends and the
public in general.
E. MORAN.
iletn Jlimerttoettmtto.
WHERE ARE YOU GOING ?
I AM GOING TO CUAS. LOGAN A CO.’S, OF
COURSE, TO GET FITTED OUT. OUR STOCK
OF CLOTHING FOR MEN, YOUTHS, BOYS
AND CHILDREN IS STILL IN GOOD SHAPE.
COME AND LET US FIT YOU OUT AT ONCE
BEFORE ALL OF THE BEST STYLES ARE
GONE. SUITS, PANTS, ETC., FOR ALL.
HATS! HATS! HATS!
e
ALL STYLES, SHAPES AND PRICES.
STRAW HATS IN ABUNDANCE.
FURNISHING GOODS,
“KING OF SHIRTS,”
NOW IS THE TIME. LOWEST PRICES IN
THE CITY. GIVE US A CALL.
*
Okas. Logan & Cos.,
THE SAVANNAH
Clothing & Hat Store,
JUatcr Jtltti’o.
Water Filter & Coder
Blifj •
ACKNOWLEDGED to be the best and only
complete Filter and Cooler in the world.
The lilter is made with the removable Filter
ing Cup, in which is caught all sediment con
tained in the water, which is thus prevented
from passing into the filtering bed. This fil
tering cup, which can be readily removed and.
cleaned, is of immense advantage.
SOLE AGENTS,
JOHN A. DOUGLASS & CO.,
157 Broughton street, Savannah, Ga.
DOCTOKS
AGREE THAT PURE AVATEII IS ESSEN
TIAL TO
HEALTH.
TO PROCURE THIS USE
STEYENS’
UPWARD FILTER!
BY this method the sediment (instead of
settling into and clogging the Filter) is
deposited at the bottom and can be removed
at any time.
Call and see them at the CROCKERY
HOUSE of
JAS. S. SILVA.
iUatrbro attD
Great Reduction in Prices
—OF—
WATCHES and JEWELRY
—AT—
A. L. DESBOUILLONS.
21 Bull Street.
IADIES’ Gold Watches, key-winders, |2O,
j reduced to f 16.
Ladies’ Gold Watches, key winders, f25,
reduced to f2O.
Ladies’ Gold Watches, stem winders, f3B, re
duced to S3O.
Ladies’Gold Watches, stem winders, fSB, re
duced to S4B.
Ladies’ Gold Watch Chains, S3B, reduced to
S3O.
Ladies’ Gold Watch Chains, $35, reduced to
S2B. *
Ladies’ Gold Watch Chains, $55, reduced to
$43.
Gents’ Cameo Rings, $lO and sl2, reduced to
$8 and $3.
Diamond Ear Rings and Diamond Finger
Rings at a bargain.
Silver-Plated Ware reduced 20 per cent.
Gold Pens and Gold Pencils very cheap.
Fine French Clocks very much reduced.
This is a Fine Chance for Buying Fine
Goods at Low Figures.
A. L. DESBOUILLONS.
2i Bull Street.
AT F. H. MEYER’S,
120 Broughton Strset,
You will always find a superior stock of
Mu latches,
“ROCK CRYSTAL”
Eye-Grlasses and Spectacles,
FLORIDA CURIOSITIES.
A BtocK of elegant 80LID GOLD JEWEL
RY and the very lowest prices.
I make it a point to sell the best and most
reliable goods only.
F. 11. MUYFR.
GUSTAVE ECKSTEIN & CO.
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