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SONG OF THE PINES,
Oh, song so strange, oh, song so sad,
The pines keep ever chanting.
Why is it when the world is glad
Seems sorrow to be haunting
These dark old woods in Southern land
Where trees grow tall, unbending,
And solitude becometh grand,
When years have brought no ending?
Is Nature closer to us here?
We think of wise old sages,
Who found her teachings always clear
Far back in those dim ages.
She sympathized with human woe
And set to music willing,
The melody so sad and low
These lonely woods is filling.
—Maellie V. Dudley.
Music and Matrimony.
When a “floating” young man of
thirty years has a sister of eighteen ready
to graduate from the boarding school
which has conveniently swallowed her
up for the last eight years what is he to
do with her? This was the question that
puzzled Frank Curtis. He remembered
his sister as a very pretty little girl,
though he had not seen her for three
years. There was no help for it. Frank
saw that matrimony for him was immi
Bent.
About this time he made a trip with
the Cutler family; they were rich and
telf-made, worshiping their maker, and
the household consisted of father, moth¬
er, and daughter, still under twenty-five.
Joseph Cutler, of Cutler,Sheffield & Co.,
was reputed worth $5,000,000, of which
one at least the golden youth hoped
would be settled on his daughter Lizzie
as a bride. Not very clever, not very
pretty, Bhe at least knew that her money
could buy her whatever she wanted in
the way of a husband, and she was con¬
tent to wait until chance should bring
her the man who most nearly resembled
her ideal. 1
Frank Curtis’ wooing was brief after
he had would once decided provide that Lizzie Cutler's j !
money a luxurious home
for himself and his sister. He had a
small income of his own, and was con
sidered clever in his profession. Con¬
gratulations began to pour in thick and
fast on the pair when a hundred-thou
Band dollar house began to rise at Mr.
Cutler’s expense, to be ready t nr the !
young couple on their return from their I 1
bridal trip.' They were to take in Clara !
Curtis r% .. . eommonoornent. na they . traveled, , , J
and bring her home with them.
Frank was agreeably surprised at his
sister’s appearance when he and his bride
arrived at her school. In a vague, mascu¬
line way he felt that she and Lizzie did
not seem very congenial, but he supposed 1
that would wear off after a little,
“Of course you are coming to-night,”
Baid ( lara. “It’s our concert.” “I play,”
she continued, dimpling and blushing,
‘‘a duet for violin and piano with Mr. j
Heldmann.”
Frank nodded. He was fond of mu
sic, and, to sit through a whole evening
of school-girl playing and singing was a
sacrifice on the altar of fraternal affee
tion and the proprieties. As for Lizzie
she always frankly avowed that good
music sent her to sleep. But she be¬
came suddenly attentive, and so did
Frank, when Clara appeared with the
violin and the professor took the piano,
Frank heard genius in the moaning and
wailing under her hands of that most
perfect instrument. If she had been
pretty before, she became transfigured
now. He wondered how she felt, stand
ing before all those people of whom,
perhaps, not one in ten understood what
«he wasplaying. But the novelty of the
thing, the sweet face lovinglv pressed
against the violin airings, the delicate bought finders "
filing over the do W
•he house. She was the success of the
evening, and had her first taste of that,
intoxicating drink—the applause of the
multitude.
“I congratulate vou ” said her
'
rother. “I was proud of you to-night.”
“Clara, Professor Max wants all in the
tousic-room,” said one of of her com
bullions, and Mr. and Mrs. Curtis were
*ft alone, while Clara and her fellow
Performers pursued their way to the
presence of the professor of music and
German, a fair-haired, powerfully built
man k of one or two and thirty‘years,
nown among his fluttering pupils as
Professor Max, and addressed by them
Mr. Heldmann. He congratulated
1 hem on their success and then dis
blissed ’
all but Clara
“I have told vou many times now al
r «ady, Mis, runis” ’ he said “You have
(renin, tw .J;” 1 H IO " ' f 111 ""' .
\ i. , ^ ’ “ E d ,
’ U 8 ° ” r “ P *'”
study ”
hi,
brother ? zszz, ^ 7
, a v? >
“Talk to hir l t i „ T •„ ^ -ih
eakW m y ° ur r fnends from love; you
vereh b< -
r? t0 ^ p ’ reat ‘ M,lst vou smother
such S,h ” ADd ‘ 0rWh8t? ??
h men make , love to you in a ball
ipom, and you mwtJ M d die like Mkn
Whstfor . career is that for
». 0 ,” 10 ”- “>•'■““<'«
not no loveme. I give you to art.
..
° u must love day, otherwise your
some
wirl what n / I have ,Way done laGk; in then leaving y0U WU1
you
’ove, for I ask nothimr
All that ! can do to help you will
Uo - You must call when you
on me
Be - ' me, an'l when have the world
1 JWr you
feet after your triumph, think
fflie Couinaton Slat
once at home of the man who first set free
the buttering wings of, yourgenius. Re¬
member what I tell you.”
Clara, bewildered and frightened, only
saw the tears dim his bright blue eyes,
only felt two bearded lips on her cold
hands, and she was alone with the
memory of her first love affair, She
went home with her brother and his
wife, was called upon, went to’balls, en¬
tered upon a round ol gayeties appropri¬
ate to a girl upon her first season, und< i
the chnperonage of a sister-in-law whose
prestige of wealth cast a glamour over
her. But she was not altogether a 8uc
cess. Men thought her quiet and trans
cendental; women, shy and uninterest¬
ing. She practiced incessantly, much to
the disgust of Lizzie, who declared to
her husband that the scraping of Clara’s
fiddle drove her crazy. Every day only
proved more conclusively that she and
her sister-in law were made of different
clay.
That conversation with Helpmann in
tbe music-room recurred to Clara again
and again.
Another thing troubled her, and that
was the very evident desire of Frank and
Lizzie to see her married. She had been
at home a year now. She had noticed
thiit Harry Bennett, a friend of her
brother, was beginning to act toward her
very much as poor Professor Max had
behaved before his explanation in the
music room. She liked Harry, but what
he saw in her to care for in that way
puzzled her greatly.
He called one afternoon and found
Clara practicing. “Confess that you
don’t really like that stuff,” he said, as
she laid aside the violin. “You only
play it because you think you ought to.”
“It is the best part of my life,” she
answered gravely; “the only part that I
feel is worth living.”
‘I know,” said Harry. “All young
girls think they ought to live for some
,hin g- That’s part of their boarding
Pcb ° o1 training; bnt I have been hoping
formon, hs that we might try life to
gether. You shall do just as you like—
practice all day long if you want to.”
“Don’t think that 1 am ungrateful,”
sa i d l lara, in a low voice; “but I can t;
indeed 1 c ' an ’ t - Musicians tell me that
1 can > if 1 will > become a great violinist.
1 s ha11 °P on f, ie subject to my brother
.
1 Is %el e * ctnn o
-
“Clara don t do that, I implore you
You „ don't know Hung of that jond
° f hte; yoU d . °“ , 1 , " bat emble
influences will be brought to bear on
you. Give up the fancy; I wish I could ;
move you by saying, 'for my sake.’ Give
it up.”
But ( l ara thought of Professor Max s
words, and nerved herself for an inter
v ' ew "'itl 1 ber brother. It was more
stormy than she had anticipated. From
his standpoint she was absolutely iuex
disable and equally incomprehensible.
But they were obliged to give way before
her determination. The world diseov
ered tpat tbe Curtises had quarieled with
Clara and sent her to huropc, ami hei
name W!iB dro PP ed from lt; s 'Siting
and after while from its mind. ^
books a I
She sent one letter to her relatives, but
Lizzie returned it unopened, without con
sult.ng Frank, and they received no more i
communications. They learned through
an ever-vigilant press that Miss Curtis, a
y 0,in ? American girl had. as Clara An
selmo, made a briliiant debut abroad,
alld after that they lost s '" ht of her
for several years On taking up his
paper one morningFrankdiscovered that j
the celebrated violinist, lime. Clara An- j
selm0 - and the " ,ear l>olish p,auist
composer, Phillippe Noel, who rivaled
Chopin in his delicate tancy and the
strain of French blood that give him his
name, had been engaged for a series of
concerts. j
“It is the wo ret possible taste for her
to come back here,” said Lizzie. “Of
course, you will take no notice.
“Most people have forgotten her ex
istence by this time.” said Frank, depre
“ [ sholdd “;* dreaI “ ° f J 0UI
going, but think I shall go and hear her
P 1 ®?-” ,
went. Across the hall , v he saw
He
Harry Bennett and his pretty fiance, un
conscious of any interest but music on
Harry’s part, for Clara was years before
her day. Harry seemed excited and
nervous, and, in watching him, Iiank
forgot to look for his sister s entrance
until the welcoming applause of the
audience aroused him.
She was the same Clara, simple and
quiet as ever, except that a close oh
server could see added power in her
f head and direct gaze. But
’“'T “^ the .“.tflaed full tide of sound she wemed
with ..eitemeu,
, . ™^ .. , , Max HehlmriTm was rieht.
fie born. The audience was roused
s was piano duet
to furor by the violin and
enmnosedbv Noel and played by him
c0 ™ p " could not but
,‘ Even '„ Harry accord
S? e! „ vm X thv md perfect
tbe He turned to the
between • v t hat she
pi-1 by 113 “ t T w
pretty *">*^ ^ , h , llTh... if h e had
“* 3
“ escaped m ^iirhim,. fr th.~-i.ff>oC"'“it belonged
she playe< e n i nn trer o
When ,
nknown Uzzie Frank went to see
I morninc He met
his *' 8 ! er the . they went
Harry m the hotel pa arlor . aud ^
together to her rooms, annoy 1 « “
it P 1 wM
early as ' 16 *’
already there, apparently on an ^ imimate in urn
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, AUGUST 19, 1885.
footing. But perhaps he had only come
to practice. He rose with Clara as the
two men came-forward.
“Frank, I am very, very glad to see you.
I didn’t hope for this,” she said, giving
him an affectionate kiss, and holding
out her hand to Harry. “This is mv
husband, M. Noel Philippe mv brother ’
Mr. Curtis, and his friend, Mr. Ben¬
nett.”
Frank was startled and Harry dis¬
mayed. Something still stirred in the
depths of his heart for her in spite
of the seven years and the new love.
Noel excused himself on a plea of an en¬
gagement, murmuring in French to
Clara: “You will dobetter without me,”
and departed.
“And you never sent me a word of
the change in your life, Clara,” said
I rank, reproachfully.
“I had no encouragement,” she an
swered, and blushed a little. “When
my first letter was sent back unopened,
naturally I did not make a second at
tempt, considering our parting. ”
“Sent back!” began Frank; then re¬
membering Harry’s presence, and con
jeeturing Lizzie’s work, he said hastily:
“Forgive me; tell me about yourself
now.”
“If you care to hear. Mr. Bennett, you
won’t be bored. No? Well, I studied
hard, night and day, as you may sup
pose. My debut was wonderfully sue
cessful. I may tell you that without
conceit. They said I was a full-fledged
artist, and the house fairly rocked with
applause. You cannot imagine the
triumph, the bliss. To know that you
have the power to express to others what
music says to you, and that you sway
them with your emotions; to feel—feel
to your highest and deepest capacity,
and leave it all here—.” She held out
her hands with a quaint foreign gesture.
“I am happy. Then Philippe”—she
paused a moment and went on—“music
gave us to each other. His first
composition was dedicated to me,
and I never played anything so
well as what he writes. We
were married three years ago, and—he is
half of my soul, as I am of his. Don’t
smile, Harry, You cannot feel the
divineness of music, and I cannot tell
you; but the universe is in it, and when
words are too feeble we play together—
he and I.”
y-cTasi?ea'hanTs*an«l _
witn loose'] fa r-away
eyes. Frank, in his well-fed, placid,
domestic life; Harry, in his struggle for
the almighty dollar and his tranquil en¬
gagement, could not follow her if they
tried, and they did not try. They
vaguely felt that she lived in an atmos
pkere t00 rare f or them; that poets write
^ neyer g nd . Then Noel came back
and they rose to go.
uq 0( j b i egg y 0U| Clara, wherever you
ma y g 0) ” sa jd her brother in farewell.
n(j od Bless you, Clara,” said Harry,
clasping her hands.
But when they were gone she leaned
her head against her husband’s arm, with
tkc fight still in her face, and as she bent
^ face a h ove her hair, in her heart she
blessed Max Heldmann, who had given
her to art and to love.
Earthquake Phenomena.
The 0llly settled facts about earth
quakes are that they are the result of
80me shock imparted to the rocks at a
co , 13 ;iierable distance beneath the sur
face,and that this shock reaches the sm
face in a series of concentric rings, all
poin(s on the Circumference of each ring
receiving the shock at the same moment,
even though they be hundreds of miles
apai . u i n other words, all points at
cqual distances from the center of the
ear thquake receive the shock at the same
momen , A , th0 «gb this is theoretically
the case, according to well-known physi
cal )awSi gt jfi j n practice the facts are
somew hat different; for the shock is re
tarded or accelerated according as the
rock 0pp0 ses or favors the passage of
the waye The severity of the s oc - in
_
a given place is dependent upon a variety
0 f caU ses. Iheseare: 1 . The stren of
the origimdstyclt; J. The distance rom
the earthquake.center;and 8. The K
0 f rock on which one I8 ;‘ a “ dln f ’ °°; e
gravels the shock. greatly d.mmish.ng le 1 a the^ 1 force °
earthquakes depends rather upon the
suddenness of p l '
amount of motion. , ' ,, io Uomba
, t is reported foi ‘
huried across a strea • of one
hundred feet, and lan^donan eh va
, feet htgher than tas ongma
tion of fifty undoubted fact that
j position. It is an
objects are frequently thioun grea i
tauces. I" tl'e valley, dnr
j iug e.r,h,«.lt« twistea «, .8.. and to euta «U. g the
.j tops of Ue.es were
d -
the ground. Rivers are sometimes
checked in their flow, snd. in pas ge -
logical ages, some have been completely
turne d from their course by earth
! 9 qu&k e S .-Po } mlar Science Monthly.
--—77- His Notes.
i Securing
Filzgty appeared on the street-hen
the.h^.meter »„ eight,-..ode =
in .be '! P "
adorning the side of his head. h
«aHello!” said a friend. “What s the
matter? Aren't afraid^of your ears be
ing frostbitten, are you,
“Oh. na a-w; not at all thanks. Men
to the Thomas concert last night. Don t
want anT 0 f the harmony to escape, ye
know .”—Hartford Post.
A Mongolian Legend.
an, " llose interested in folk lore
, may per
apS ®' ad t0 rea< ^ the following le
^ e " d a8 to tbe or >^ n °f the Russians
foun ' ! b y Lol. Prjevalsky to be current
a,norl # tba Mongol inhabitants of Zaidan,
and P u ^^sh.ed in the Buss,an Imalide:
“In former times there lived in a cave,
far away trom all people, a good hermit
lama, or priest, who -passed his life in
praying. A pair of nomads, consisting
of an aged mother and her daughter,
happened to go that way, and the
daughter while tending cattle came upon
t e cave of the holy lama, who was at
that time ill. The compassionate maiden
offered him some some sour milk, but he
1 n0 e to taste it. At last he gave
Way t0 her entreaties and took the sour
nu ^ ever J day until he got well,
the V '-’ lama ntu ‘ ld married y> ou f °f the gratitude maiden. for the cure,
As soon as the czar of that country
, .°* ke
sent tr0 °P s t0 ^ill
the priest who had so flagrantly broken
his vows and committed the sin of mar
riage. W hen the troops approached the
lama gathered a bunch of reeds and stuck
them in the ground round his tent, and
then by force of prayer caused them to
be turned into soldiers, who defeated
tbe t roo P s °f the czar. The latter sent
a second and a third army, but both
were beaten > aa the lama continued to
pray and turn into more fighting men
the reeds broken off by his first created
defenders, so that the holy lama soon
had a great number of troops. After the
defeat of his third army the czar left the
lama alone in peace, but the latter did
not wish to live any longer on the earth,
1 he lama left his wife to rule the people
created from the reeds, and from those
aiose the Russians. They have white
bodies and their hair is often fair, be
cause the stems of the reeds were of a
yellowish color and the tops somewhat
darker. Tendon dimes.
A Land Flowing with Wine, and the People
all Drunkards.
Among the new missionary stations
established bv the American board is
that of Inhambane, on the cast coast of
Africa, about 200 miles northeast of
Dela ff oa bay. The missionary at this
station, the Rev. Dr. Richards, lately I
made an inland tour of 150 miles from
tb6.CQ 8iit f . to he could see. and
Herald is given a very interesting ac¬
count of this journey, from which we
abstract the following:
On the third day out the explorers
came upon the Ainakwakwa tribe, of
whom Mr. Richards says: “They have
no guardians at all. They are so fre¬
quently robbed by Umzila’s impis (sol¬
diers) that they have become quite dis¬
couraged. Another reason is that the
native fruit is capable of sustaining life,
and is abundant; and, again, the
palm wine flows freely all over the
country. This palm tree is usually four | j
or five feet high, seldom ten feet. It
manifests little life, * ave the top, where j
a few leaves appear, looking like a
flower pot on a stump. These leaves are
all cut off, aud from the cut each tree
yields daily about a pint of delicious
juice, but highly intoxicating when al
lowed to stand for a few hours. There
seems to be no limit to these trees, and
we were surrounded on every hand by
drunken men and women, Even little
children were staggering about as in
gloriously as their parents, It was diffi
cult to avoid trouble with these people,
yet our sums were respected, and a ball
fired carelessly at a near tree would
produce quiet for half an hour. They
were coarse, rough drunken fellows,
often plundering, often plundered, and
accustomed to quarrels and fights not al
together bloodless. One could scarce
expect to find pleasure in passing among
them.
^ Q l|eer y hm g S a Naturalist Ate.
Q n0 0 f ( | le mos t curious traits about
^ wag hJs comp j ete mdifference to the
^ sgustlng side of his experiments in the
u8eg of animal Hfe . Thus, when the pan
^ jn the Surrey Zoological gardens
died W insisted on having it disinterred,
^ he raight cook a pan’her chop and
taste it. which hqdid. wi.h the dry «
mark t1aal .. it was not very good ” And
he seldom lost an opportunity of trying
g MW food . however disgusting some
might have thought it. A friend who
found him eating a piece °f dead kelt
(salmon at the time of the Jear when
salmon are unfit to be eateni asked him
how he could taste anything so abomi
nflbIy , mstv; to which he replied, It is
nagty enouRh but how can I say so un
,
less I have tried it?”
'
f,„,, , d ...n, tt .eee.de h- v much
tb , M , for ,,«■ o, .here eapm
Aments, bow the lump fish soup, which
„„— *.
t. rather s( , e( | v ” the next day: how the
horse flesh banquet resulted m a fit ot
.
bad indi „ estioa; bow he boiled elephant
{runk fof many days without producing
particular result on the hardness of
the texture; and so forth. With one
of an ovster the size of
, he ,v.s no more discout
.......
»"» —>'-« »» — •« d “*““
he was discouraged by his dislike
, . d and 1>hv8 i ca l illness from ventur
^ water in s , , r ch of sal
mon eggs—s pursuit ‘ which seems to
^ ^ Mm h g H fe .-We« Spectator.
The rail ,-„ads in Pennsylvania . co>
$471,190,712.
Persian Punishment.
The iil-i-Sultan at Ispahan and the
late Hissam-us-Sultan at Meshed have
been distinguished for the severity of
their punishments. The most common
of the various punishments in Persia is
that of “the sticks.” Persians frequently
menace disobedient slaves with “the
sticks.” The offender is thrown on his
back upon the ground, his bare feet are
passed through leathern loops attached
to six-feet beam of wood, which is
twisted until the loops are painfully
tight about his ankles, and is held in the
strong grasp of two men, so that by no
writhing nor efforts can he rise or re¬
move his feet. The sticks are generally
light quarter-inch green rods four or five
feet in length, and if sentenced to “fifty
sticks,” twenty-five are laid on each
side of him upon the ground. Two exe
cutioners then break stick after stick by
beating them upon the soles of his feet,
with horrible result, of which a month’s
lameness is likely to be the painful con
sequence. Both these governors are
said to have adopted the same punish
ment for the suppression of highway
robbery—they Duilt the captured rubbers
into pillars of masonry. The Koran rec
ommends the cutting off a hand as the
punishment lor theft, and there are men
in Persia who carry about evi
dence that this cruel punishment
i s sometimes practiced, A Persian
governor is alleged to have been success¬
ful in enforcing taxation by a practice of
filling the wide trousers of recalcitrant
subjects with freezing snow. Crimes of
robbery and violence are more frequent
jn the south than in the north of Persia.
Some ascribe this to the large nomad
population, which, according to the sea
son, moves from the shores of the gulf
toward or from Ispahan. Everywhere
j u Persia it is the habit of wayfarers to
gather together for mutual protection,
Peasants passing from town to town
with, perhaps, a bag of silver in their
pockets, feel happy if they can join some
which includes armed men, and
safe if they are in the caTavan
a European ' The most common form
execution is to cut the throats of
and to leave their bodies lying
the public 8, T ,are - The bowstring is
used by skilful “ferashes,”
of whom twist the rope round the
with awful rapidity. If a
is injured, one difficulty at¬
tending complaint is that the Persian
is so easily roused to indis¬
criminate and wholesome vengeance
upon its miserable subjects, There will
certainly be some victims for the knife
or the string or the living death at the
hands of the executioners; the main
evidence may be that the prisoners were
taken near the spot. In Persia there is
but the feeblest and the faintest security
lor the adminstration of justice.—Lum¬
don Graphic.
Obeying Orders.
A friend sends us a bit of pleasantry at
the expense of the gentlemen who served
on Governor Cleveland’s staff in the sura
mer o{ l 888 - H bas been in P rint be '
fore, but will bear repetition. When
Governor Cleveland visited the State
Camp at Newburg in 1883, he was at
tended by his _ stall in fuff ng. It was one
of the few opportunities the governor’s
military family had enjoyed of ap
pearing together in public in full uni
form, and they presented a very hand
some and even brilliant appear,
ance. The governor led the way
through the private entrance to the
camp, closely followed by his secretary,
Colonel Lamont, To the astonishment of
the staff the gate was then quickly
closed and locked. As may be imagined
disgust succeeded, when in reply to vig¬
orous remonstrances the gate keeper
blandly remarked: “It’s accordin’ to
orders, gentlemen. This is the gover¬
nor’s entrance. The band goes in at the
other gate !”—Buffalo Commercial Adver¬
tiser.
Fought to the Last.
A lad of seventeen, who was with the
^ under Hickg Pa8haj was
a e . witnuS3 of his death, and give,
thjg acconIlt; Hicks Pasha and the very
fewKng]i3h officers left with him, seeing
all hope of regtorinf? order gone, spurred
their horses and sprang out of the con
{used ma88 of WO unded,dead and dying.
Thege officcr9 Sred the i r revolvers, clear
iu a space f or themselves, till all their
w „ expended . They killed
They had go t clear outside.
Th „;. the n 'took to their swords and
, '’’T i till thov fell Hicks Pasha a one
w is e (error io the Arabs,
a man niih
■ They
juri -, s l l t killing him
heavy arraed (or t Uck or brawny). He
^f^rist all at bav but he was struck
,
with a sword ami he dropped
0 * He then fell '
__
o(ficer 0 n the summit of
, . ? , . r #
Plkf 3 '
h ,„. . 1 L
‘ etdiood be-an «yi»« -loon
the moun tain.
^ __
1 , of plant9 used by man is
Tfae num er
d to exceed ^ ao 00 Of these about
.
^ ^ , u0 in medicine.
. about35b . ,.employed are «m t in the van
.
VOL. XL NO 40.
THE HOME DOCTOR.
Hew CH'TiM'i firt In the 1.lings.
In the ordinary healthy lungs, perhaps
even in persons who have a consumptive
heredity, the germ which causes the
breakdown of the lungs may not be able
to make an impression: but if the physi¬
cal integrity is destroyed by poor food,
or any debilitating influence, or by a
cold, then the germ is able to get in its
work, and to multiply and produce its
kind, and fill the lungs with tubercles.
— l)r. Curtis.
Red Pepper am? Sail for Cholera.
A Massachusetts correspondent calls
our attention to the publication about
thirty years ago of a very successful
cholera cure, introduced in this way:
The captain ol an emigrant ship coming
from Europe had lost many of his pas¬
sengers by cholera, although freely
dosing all who were sick with the reme¬
dies then usual. At last he made a pre¬
scription of his own—one teaspoonful
of red pepper and a tablespoonful of
salt to a half pint of boiling water; this
to be given as hot as possible to every
patient when first taken. It is said that
this simple remedy acted as a charm,
curing all the cases on board that ship,
and altaining considerable general popu¬
larity during the time of that cholera
visitation. — Seimtific American.
Popular Error* f oncerning- Health
Professor George II. Rohe, of the Bal¬
timore college of Physicians and Sur¬
geons, lectured recently on “Some Pop¬
ular Errors Concerning Health and Its
Preservation.” He discussed first the
saying, “One man’s meat is another’s
” and showed that, while idiosyn¬
crasies with regard to certain articles of
food or medicine do exist, they are far
frequent than is generally believed.
Articles of food which ordinary disagree
may be better borne if differently cooked.
A more serious error is that one should
from the table hungry. The sensa¬
of hunger is a cry of the tissues for
food, and should always be appeased.
Much of the ill-health of brain-workers
due to a lack of sufficient food. It is
Impossible to lay down hard rules as to
the quantity of food one should eat: but
the remarks of the old country doctor
might had lived in uami hauith “I have n < »
be taken as examples:
eaten when I wanted to eat as
as I wantel, and the best food I
get.” Another fallacy is, that all
are due to disturbances of diges¬
Graham bread, oatmeal, cracked
etc., are more difficult of diges¬
tion than pure wheat bread. It is a dan
roils error to withhold cold drinks
persons sick with fever, It is
objectless, and the dangers that
said to follow it are imag
The effects of alcohol
the body were discussed at some
length, and the conclusion drawn that
ffcohol does not supply heat to the body
rather withdraws it. The greatest
to the man who gets drunk in
weather is that he may freeze to
The no’ion that we should
not bathe while overheated is as un¬
reasonable as it is widespread, but per¬
sons should not remain in the bath long
enough to become chilled. The tradi¬
tional axiom that boils are an evidence
of good health is a snare and a delusion.
Prof. Rohe said: “For my own part I
should prefer to be without that sort of
health. Even Job, when suffering from
an abundant cron, could not gain conso
lation from his would-be comforters.”
That vaccination does not prevent small- :
pox is a very dangerous error; but that
it is preventive of Statistics other diseases that is j
squally a fallacy. prove
before the introduction of vaccination
deaths annually from small pox numbered
nearly 3,000 for every million inhabi
iant. Since the practice has become
general the percentage of deaths has
fallen to about one-tenth of the former
number. Without vaccination the
deaths from small-pox in this country
would be 150,000 a year. Vaccination
has not increased other diseases. That
«ny one remedy is a cure for all diseases
that afflict humanity is an absurdity.
Yhile hydropathy and electropathy arc
unquestionably of benefit in some dis
«ases, they cannot be relied upon for the
cure of all. The lecture was Interesting
and practical and contained many amus
ing narratives .—Baltimore Sun.
Baptism W.th . Seen,e _ . Eflec . s
The congregatiou was large, and the
rervices were unusually impressive. Af
ter the discourse thestage setting was
prepared for the candidate-for baptism.
When .he scenery1. front
hack a beautiful signt presented itself.
lorm a charming woodland scene the
I°ol was placed in the center of the
W and was surrounded by; flowers
and rocks, which formed a rustic spot;
the background was so arranged that the
««ect was as pleasing as it was novel
fhe Rev. Mr. Purser, advanced and
bnpti/ed Mrs. 9. C. Moore, Mias More
Slade and Mr. M. P. lewis. When the
ceremony w as finished the choir sang “In
the Sweet Bye and Bye.” iu a manner
that touched the whole congregation.—
Birmingham {Aba.) Age.
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Tea culture in Ceylon is making head
*ay. The crop this year is estimated at
g. 60 0 l0 00.
FUN.
A sliver in the bush is worth two in
the hand.
The silent watches of the night—Those
not wound up.
The mosquito begins to send in His
bill as soon as the plumber leaves off.—
Boston Post.
The woman question—Now, isn’t this
a pretty time of night for you to get
home ?—Philadelphia Call.
“What’s a footlight?” “A landing
after her father has kicked you out of
the front door .”—Boston Budget.
The king of Bavaria pays $40,000 for
an opera seat; but then, as he runs no
chance of sitting behind a woman wear¬
ing a four-story hat, it is probably worth
it.— Boston Post.
A CHANCE ACQUAINTANCE.
As they rolled round the rink together,
Ho asked with a winning smile,
“ W’ill you take my arm, fair maiden?”
And she said, “I am not that style.
I have never made an acquaintance,
And 1 surely wi!l not to-day,
Except That is through an the introduction
made in regular way.”
Just then she falls to the surface,
And a thousand stars she sees,
And site murmurs, demure as a kitten,
“ Oh, sir, pick me up, if you please!”
—Boston Courier.
A Boston millionaire provided in his
will that his wife should be annually
paid a sum in gold equal to her own
weight. And now is the only time in
her life that she ever envied a fat woman
in the side show .—Brooklyn Times.
“Waiter!” cried Fogg, “bring me a
quail on toast.” “Sorry, sir,” replied
the waiter, “but we are all out ot quail.”
“Well, then, bring me the toast. I’m
not the man to make a fuss about such a
little thing as a quail .”—Boston Tran¬
script.
TRUTH AND POETRY.
The delights of early rising
Oft are sung;
B very poet seems to have them
On his tongue.
Still I’ve noticed, and you know I’ve
Often said,
Poets like, as well as you or I, to
Lie abed.
This induces the reflection,
That do By the way, just
poets not always mean
What they say.
Their enthusiasm oft’ is
But a hoax,
And their prettiest maxims just apply to
Other folks.
—Somerville Journal.
To Prevent Fires.
Kuiau compusB a vast amount oi nseitn
information having a iendeucy to prevent
fires, thus wise:
1. Always buy the best quality of oil.
2. Never make a sudden motion with
a lamp, either in lifting or setting it
down.
3. Never put a lamp on the edge of a
table or mantel.
4. Never till a lamp after dark, even if
you should have to go without a light.
6. Bee that the lamp wick is always
clean and thst they work freely in the
tube.
(i. Never blow a lamp out from the
top.
7. Never take a light to a closet where
there are clothes. If necessary to go
to the closet, place the light at a dis¬
tance.
8. Use candles when possible in going
about the house and in bedrooms. These
are cheaper and can’t explode, and for
many purposes are just as good as lamps.
9. Matches should always be kept in
stone or earthern jars or in tin.
10. They should never be left where
rats and mice can get hold of them.
There is nothing more to the taste of a
rat than phosphorous. They will eat it
if they can get at it. A bunch of
matcbes ig a i raos t certain to be set fire to
jj a rat getg at j t
n> Have perfectly good safes in every
place where matc hes are to be used, and
never , et a match be le{t 0 n the floor,
12. Never let a match go out of your
band a(ter fighting it until you are sure
the fire js ou t, and then it is better to
put it in a stove or earthen disb.
13. It is far better to use the safety
j matcbeS) which can only be lighted
upon the box which contains them,
IIave your f urnaces examined
carefu n y in the fa n a n.l at least once
dur j ng ^ tb e winter by a competent per
goQ ^11 the pipes and flues should be
care / u n y looked to.
15. If there are any closets in the
jj 0Uge near chimneys or flues, which
tbcre ougb t no t to be, put nothing of a
com bustible nature into them, Such
closetg w j d go fi silver and crack crock¬
ery and burn bedding. They form a
bad part of any house that contains
them.
16 Ne ver leave any wood near a itxv
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nace> range or st ove to dry.
^ Have your stove looked to fre
,’oa, ently to see that there are no holes for
drop out.
yg Never put anv hot ashes or coals
19 . Be sure there are no curtains or
, shades that can be blown into a gas
^
30 Never examine a gas meter after
.
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The turkey was unknown in England
until the reign of Henry VIII.
Making artificial tails for horses is re
ported to be a successful industry in
Connecticut.
slShl ,
Q f Wffson^nd'
at Plymouth J in 1621.
F t gt Mark> in 8t . Augustine, Fla.,
was finished in 1756 , and is said to have
i been 100 years in building.