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WHALING.
An Old Sea Captain’s Tale of
its Rise and Fall.
Brisk Days in New England Ports Fol
lowed by Stagnation,
Forty years ago, before gas and min
eral oil bad come into general use, the
pursuit and capture of whales was one of
the most important industries in the coun
try. and New-Lingland was its home.
Every spring a large fleet of whaling ves
grls sailed out of Vineyard and Block Is
land Sounds, to return in two or three
years loaded to their decks with oil and
bone. Their crews were composed of
Americans, men who had been born and
brought up in New-England, either on
the mainland or on Nantucket, Block Is
land, Martha’s Vineyard or some of the
adjacent islands, with now and then a
farmer’s son fresh from the havfield, or
dissipated young men who were sent out
by (9 r friend; in the hope that the voy
age would work a reformation in their
characters and tastes, and a foreigner was
seldom seen among them. The wharves
of New-Bedford, Sag Harbor and New-
London resounded with the songs and
cries of the stevedores as they hoisted
out the barrels of oil and hales of bone
from the holds of returned vessels, teams
rumbled down on the piers laden with
stores of provisions and rigging for out
ward-bound ships, and the ringing sound
of the calking mallet as it struck the iron,
the creaking of blocks and the flapping
sails, all combined in one busy hum
which lasted from morning till night.
Now all is changed. In the spring a
few small vessels and perhaps one or two
large ships, a mere ghost of the former
fleet, creep out of the sounds between
the headlands of Montauk and Cape Cod,
and spreading their patched and worn
sails to the breeze, stand out into the
deep water in search of the “lords of the
ocean.” Their crews are composed of
foreigners, mostly Portuguese from the
Western Islands, and it is as rare to see
au American among them as it was forty
years ago to see a foreigner. The wharves
are deserted and still, and in place of the
many gallant ships which in the good old
days filled the harbors, are a few small
fishermen and coasters, and the arrival of
a whaling vessel causes as great a commo
tion in the town as a visit from a royal
personage. In years past the American
flag was carried by whalers to the utter
most parts of the globe; now it is seldom
seen oil our coast. An old sea captain
said recently:
“Forty years ago we were the greatest
nation on the sea; now we are the great
est on the earth. The first attempt to
capture whales for the purpose of getting
oil which is contained in the blubber or
.outer covering of which we have any rec
ord was made by the French in the latter
part of the fourteenth century. These
shales were a small species, probably
blacktisli, which frequented the Bay of
Biscay, and they were soon driven oft' the
coast by the unceasing war which was
waged on them. From this time until
toward the end of the sixteenth century
we have no record of the industry. About
this time the Dutch founded a small vil
lage on the island of Spitzenherg, and
w haling was carried on by them to some
extent. The whales, however, xvere soon
driven oft and betook themselves to the
coast of Greenland. The Dutch followed
them, and for more than a century the
Dutch oil trade flourished. In 1680 it
reached its height. There were then 260
Dutch ships and 14,000 sailors engaged
in the business, but from that time it be
gan to decline and in the present century
has been given up altogether by that peo
ple. I hen it was taken up by the Eng
lish, but they never made a success of it
ami now they have almost abandoned it.
In 1815 they had 164 ships in the busi
ness, but at present less than twenty.
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“The industry was early taken up by
the New-England colonies, and was at
first carried on in small boats from the
shore. In the first part of this century
the whaleswere driven off the coast and
became scarce, and larger vessels were
fitted out for their capture. The princi
pal whaling ports at this time were New-
Bedford, Holmes’s Roll, Edgartown, Sa-
Harbor, Oreenport and New-London. In
1854 the industry reached its height.
I here were then nearly five hundred ves
sels employed in the trade, and their ag
gregate tonnage was over 200.000 tons
but then it began to decline; and has
never since regained its former magni
tude. Now there are about 100 whalers
hailing from New-England ports and
bout twenty from San Francisco A
large psrtof the New-England whalers
are what is called ‘plum-puddingers, ’that
is, vessels which go out on short cruises
generally for a year. The San Francisco
vessels are mostly large barks. They
cruise both in the South Pacific and Arc
tic oceans, and generally ship their men
for a three years’ cruise. Of late years
many so-called improvements have been
made in the appliances used in the cap
ture of whale, among which are the
bomb gun and bomb-lance, but old
whalers do not believe in these modern
inventions and claim that nothing has
yet been invented which is equal to the
old-fashioned harpoon and lance.
“Whales are getting plentier and plen
tier every year and if there
should ever be a big demand for sperm
oil you and find there’s plenty of whales
left. But I’m afraid that time will not
come in my day. A whaling trip’s not
exactly a pleasure trip, but one gets at
tached to the business, and although I’m
over sixty years old now I believe I could
throw an iron as well as 1 ever could. In
the old days a captain would make enough
money in a few trips to keep him the
rest of his life, but now he’s lucky if he
makes enough to keep him a year. No,
whaling’s not what it used to be.”— New
York Tribune.
Danger of Chloral.
At a recent meeting of the Ciueiunat
Academy of Medicine the uses of “chlor
al” as a remedy were pretty thoroughly
discussed. The experience of the pro
fession seemed to be that “chloral was
an uncertain and treacherous remedy.”
Some persons are more affected by a dose
of four grains than others are by a dose
of twenty grains. Cases were reported
where 200 grains per day had been given,
and one case, reported by Dr. Beck of
the Baden army, where 430 grains were
given in three and a half hours, the pa
tient sleeping for thirty hours and recov
ering. The profession also agreed that
chloral cannot successfully be adminis
tered hypodermically. There were cases
reported also where death was caused by
the administration of ten or twenty grain
doses, and where dangerous symptoms
resulted from a single live grain dose.
Such a remedy cannot be regarded less
than dangerous in any except the most
skillful hands.— Scientific American.
Didn’t Hurt Him.
A hillside farmer, driving a miserable
looking horse, stopped in front of a feed
store and was trying to sell a frost-bitten
rooster when a man rushed up to him
and said:
“Look at your blamed old horse, up
to his eyes in my bale of hay.”
“Is it your hay?”
“Of course, it is. Take your horse
away from here.”
“Of course I will, fur I never like ter
tramp on a man’s rights —”
“Take him away, I tell you!”
“Yes, I will. Ya, back here! Well,”
he added a= he climbed into the wagon
aud started away, “thar’s one consolin’
thing erbout the transackshun. The hoss
don't ’pear ter be hurt much. ’—Arkan
san: Traveler.
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
A Useful Table.
A correspondent of the Housekeeper
give the following table showing the
time re pared to cook different fruits for
canning and the amount of sugar re
quired:
Timefor Quantity
. boiling sugar
Fruits. fruit. to quart.
Cherries. 5 minutes (j ounces
raspberries 6 minutes 4 ounces
Blackberries 6 minutes G ounces
Strawberries 8 minutes 8 ouuces
Flum= 10 minutes 10 ounces
w hortleberries 5 minutes 8 ounces
Pie plant, sliced 10 m nut is 8 ounces
Small, sour pears, whole.3o minutes 4 ounces
Bartlett j>ears, halved.. .20 minutes G oun es
Peaches 8 minutes 4 ounces
Pea?hes, whole 15 minute; 4 oun ?es
Pine apples, sliced 15 minutes 6 ounces
Si*, eriau crab-apple ... .25 minutes 8 ounces
Sour apples, qnartered .10 minutes 5 ounces
Ripe .currants 6 minutes 8 ounces
Wild grapes 10 minutes 8 ouuces
Tomato©-". 20 minutes non?.
Gooseberries 8 minutes 8 ounces
Quinces, sliced 15 minutes 10 ounces
The Baby.
The baby’s second summer? Every
mother knows what that means. The
poor little pilgrim has already found the
earth a place of tears and pain. Those
teeth, coming so fast, and as they come,
occasioning so much disturbance in the
fragile little frame, what a source of
peril and irritation they are to the baby
and of anxiety to his parents! Keep the
Iraby in comfort. Dress him loosely and
simply, with soft, tain woolen garments
next the skin. Give him a sponge hath
when he cries uneasily and fretfully.
See that there is no chafing of the soft
flesh, and that no pins are pricking him
in unsuspected places. Let his food bo
properly cooked and given at regular in
tervals, and attend to it .ei her yourself,
or let it be prepared by a t ustworthy
person. Let the little one be out of
doors much of the t'me, and if he is ill
and a physician is to be hid, send for
one promptly. Frail as the life of an in
fant is, and quickly as the silver thread
may be snapped, yet a young child ral
lies in a way impossible to an adult. A
very sick child, hide and, to-day, maybe
frisk.ng about merrily to-morrow. Never
despair of the recovery of a little one
while life lasts, but do not trifle with the
beginnings of disease Prompt measures
at first are often half the battle.—Chris
tian at Work.
Recipes.
Green Corn Pudding.—Cut the corn
from six cars of corn, add one quart of
milk and three or four eggs. Season
with pepper and salt, bake as custard.
Nice either hot or cold.
Sliced Cucumbers.—Lay the cucum
bers in cold water for an hour or more.
Peel, slice thin and evenly, sprinkle with
pepper and salt, and pour on a small
quantity of vinegar. When serving lay
a small lump of ice on each di h.
Ginger Ale.—Two pounds brown
sugar or one quart molasses, tw r o table
spoonfuls cream of tartar, two of ginger,
two sliced Unions, two gallons boiling
water. Stir well, and when milk-warm
add half pint of yeast. Stir again and
let it settle in a lightly covered vessel
twelve hours. Strain, bottle, and put
in a cold place. It will he lit for use in
two or three days, and wrill only keep a
week.
Cold Meat Pudding.—For cold meat
pudding rub one-half pound of beef
dripping into one and a half pounds of
flour, with a little salt. Moisten the
paste writh water and roll it out one-half
an inch thick. Mince any kind of cold
meat; season it and add a few spoons of
gravy. Spread the minced meat on the
paste and roll it up. Tie it up in a cloth
buttered and floured and boil for au hour
and a half.
Boiled Potatoes.—Peel and put into
boiling water, with a tablespoonful of
salt. Let boil till a fork will pierce them
readily; drain, cover with a towel to ab
sorb the steam and render them meally.
Potitoes are really better if cooked with
their “jackets” on—-simply cutting off an
end or peeling a narrow strip around the
centre. It is perfectly proper to serve
them so, if more (O.ivenient than to peel
them, and they are certainly more pal
atable.
Cabbage Salad.—Shave a hard, white
cabbage into strips; take the yolks of
three well-beaten eggs, a cup and a half
of good cider vinegar, two teaspoonfuls
of thick cream, one teaspoonful mustard
mixed in a little boiling water, salt and
pepper to suit the taste. Mix all but the
eggs together and let it boil; then stir
in the eggs, rapidly turn the cabbage
into the mixture, and stir well. Make
enough for two days at once, as it keeps
perfectly, and is an excellent relish for
all kinds of meat.
Family Apple Pudding.—Make a
biscuit crust with one quart of flour,
three small teaspoonfuls of baking pow
der, butter or lard the size of an egg,
teaspeonful of salt (less if butter is used)
aud milk enough to make a soft dough.
Fill a deep baking-dish with sliced
apples, sweetened with molasses and
flavored with cinnamon, nutmeg and
pounded dried lemon peel. Cover with
the crust and bake in a moderate oven.
The oven door may be left open a few
moments when the pudding is put in,
and closed as soon as the crust rises.
Serve with hard sauce, or if eggs are
plenty, use egg sauce, to make which
rub one small cup of butter and two cups
of sugar to a cream, th:n stir in three
eggs beaten very light, and two table
spoonfuls boiling water and flavor with
lemon.
Chinese Execution Ground.
This is a small, open court about forty
feet long and twenty five wide, writes a
correspondent from Canton. Is is used
as a pottery when not uee led for execu
tions, and as I strolled in the ground,
covered with earthen jars and vessels, it
seemed to give the place an air of peace
ful industry rather than of bloody execu
tions. Stepping carefully among the
pots and jars, Ist olon a spot colored a
deep, and ;rk red by the blcoil of prisoners
recently decap tated. Turning with a
shudder from this spot. I gazed along the
walls of the c urt, anl my ey s res.ed on
a pile of cage-like boxes stacked up on
one side. In each of tbe-e a ghastly
head of a Chinaman showed through the
bars, looking distorted and horrible.
Near these cases were the ero-sed beams
to which persons are tie l for a e capita -
tion. There are two modes for decapita
tion practised. One is to make the pri
soner kneei, and the head is struck from
the be dy while in this position. This is
the usual mode of decapitation. An
other is by tying the prisoner up to a
soit of cross and then striking off the
head. In this position the women are
always executed. One sentence of capital
punishment is to cut into the eyebrows,
cheeks, and fleshy parts of the arms and
breasts in such a way that the flesh will
hang down in strips, and then the head
is struck off. The sentence is usually in
flicted on women committing adultery,
and on parricides.
In the hair of the condemned man is
placed a paper on which is written the
nature of the crime for which he is being
. executed. __
A Mother’s Love.
Maternal love is the embodiment of the
one idea of perfectness, and purity, and
faith under the heavens.
In the hour of resolve and emulation
the valor of the warrior may be overpow
ering: and pathetic fervor and enthusi
asm the orator and poet may thrill us to
glorious exhilaration: but at the final
test, with death closing about us, besides
the heart's trust in God. the mother's
love bears all analysis, becomes stronger,
and truer, and more potent to support as
earth and it# transitory hopes fade farther
and farther away.
To look up to the blue, beautiful
heaven, so wide, so mercifully xvide for
all the erring and repentant; one thought
of all the mother has borne and struggled
for, one fervid realization of her patience
and sublime trust and endeavor seems to
be the second Calvary of our hopes. Her
work in life, our own belief in its fidelity
and acceptance in heaven’s sight, seem to
lessen the wretchedness and failure of
our own weak labors.
Her face may be homely and wrinkled
and old, lier bands faltering and unsteady,
yet those features are aureoled with a
silver crown won through patient suffer
ing, those trembling Angers are magnetic
still to thrill and guide and bless.
What we owe her volumes have told.
How much silently and earnestly we re
pay he>", she never knows this side of the
grave.
For the soul that has wandered, re
turning to its allegiance in latter years,
can never tell in words the emotions it
experiences, can never frame the soulful
thoughts that strive to atone for the re
missnesses of the past.
Amid the bitterness of contrition, and
the longings of hopeless regret, the soul’s
ardent love makes up for all the careless
gone-by years; the influence of a mother’s
example is accepted, and sought for, and
profited by, and cherished.
If the hidden emotions of many a heart,
seemingly hardened and immersed in the
cares of life, were revealed, we would be
surprised to know how many are on the
border line of heavenly faith, only be
cause to them the mystery of a mother’s
love has never yet departed from the
memory.
Juvenile Jokes.
Little Carrie G. said she liked sea
bathing, only her mouth leaked and let in
salt water.
A bad little Milwaukee boy, having
been expelled from school, returned in
girl’s clothes, and the imposture was not
discovered for several months.
Mark Twain has furnished parents
with a valuable recipe for bringing up
boys. “Take ’em by the hair of the
head, ” he says, and you’re pretty sure to
catch ’em.”
“Wiiat is a lake?” asked a teacher. A
bright little Irish boy raised his hand.
“Well, Mickey, what is it?” “Sliure,
it’s a bole in the kittle, mum.” Perhaps
he thought she meant leak.
“How that child does squall!” ex
claimed a girl lo her friend, as sLe nod
ded toward a Chinese baby. “Of
course,” replied her friend, “Every cop
per-colored Chinese baby is sure to be a
little yeller.”
Teacher (to a boy in grammar class)
“John, correct the following sentence:
‘lt are very cold.’ ” (John as he wipes
the perspiration from his forehead with
his shirt-sleeve) —“It are blooming’ot.”
“Tommy,” said a mother to her seven
year-old boy, “you must not interrupt
me when lam talking with ladies. You
must wait till we stop, and then you can
talk.” “But you never stop!” retorted
the boy.
The Mexican Baby Supply.
Everything concerning Mexico is of
interest just now, and it is pleasant to be
assured that among the chief productions
of the country are children. Thus an
observant correspondent in that country
notes the large acquaintance of the people
with multiplication in saying that Mex
ico is the hot-bed of children. The land
is flooded with them, and a small family
is a thing unknown. They greet you, he
says, at every window, at every corner,
on every woman’s back. They fill the
carriages on the plaza, they are like a
swarm of bees around a honeysuckle—one
on every tiny flower and hundreds wait
ing for their chance. A man died the
other day who was followed to the grave
by eighty-seven sons and daughters and
had buried thirteen, so that he was father
to the grand total of 100 children. There
is another man living in Mexico who has
had two wives and who has living forty
five children. Allowing the small aver
age of five to the family, one could see
how numerous the grandchildren would
be. lam acquainted, he adds, with a
gentlemen whose mother is but thirteen
and a half years older than he, and she
had eighteen more of a family. It is a
blessed thing that the natives are able to
live in a cane hut and exist on beans and
rice, else the list of deaths by starvation
would be something dreadful.
He Wanted to Die.
‘‘So you want to die, do you?” asked
a rescuer of a man whom he had just
taken out of the river, the would-be
suicide having thrown himself in to end
his earthly existence.
"Oh, why did you save me?” gasped
the rescued victim from a watery grave.
“Why didn't you let me drown and thus
end my miserable life?”
“Are you determined to die?” asked
he rescuer.
"Nothing would tempt me to prolong
my stay on this earth. I long to be at
peace and sleep the sleep which knows no
waking. Oh, why did you rescue me?”
“Well, if you want to die so darn
bad." continued the misguided rescuer,
“I'll put you in the way of a quicker
death than drowning and a surer one,
too.”
"Tell me what it is and I'll gladly in
vite it.”
"Get the position of a league umpire
and decide all close plays against the
home club. Try it once and see how
long you can live*.
Dr. Gimlet returns empty-handed
from a day’s hunting, and in response to
his wife's inquiries, candidly confesses
that he killed nothing. "Why," retorts
Mrs. G., slowly, “ you could have done
better than that to have stayed at home
and attended to your regular business.”
The doctor never even smiled at her wit.
Important to Merchant Tailors.
M. von Keller* Cos., successors to Keller &
Rubl, at the old Cloth House, corner Ann and
William Sts., New York city, are doing an ex
tensive business by means of furnishing to the
Merchant Tailoring trade throughout the Uni
ted States, complete sample collections of
their Woolens in season, and receiving and
executing orders received through the sam
ples. Whenever a style has been sold out,
they notify their customers to that effect, so
that the parties holding their samples are al
ways properly informed as to wnich styles
they can offer tothe’r patrons. The Merchant
Tailor is thus placed in a position to show a
large variety of styles without encumbering
himself with a large stock. We understand
that any Merchant Tailor desiring such collec
tion of samples can have same sent free of
charge. Address Messrs. M. von Keller & Cos.
ODA ENGINE*.
furious Locomotives Bring Built nt tic
Bnliiniii Work**.
At the Baldwin locomotive works there
ire in course of construction four locomo
rives which arc designed to be run by
ioda. which takes the place of tire under
:he boiler. Soda has much the same •
power as coal without any of the offen
sive gases which that fuel emits. The
sngines tire now nearly finished, and are !
to be shipped within txvo weeks to Min
neapolis. Minn., and are to be run on the
streets of that city, where steam engines
are forbidden.
The engine has much the same appear
ince as a passenger car. It is about six
teen feet long, entirely boxed in, with no
risible smokestacks or pipes, as there is
uo exhaust nor refuse. The boiler is ot
copper, 84 1-2 inches in diameter and 15
r eet long, having tubes running through
it, as in steam boilers. Inside the boiler
will be placed five tuns of soda which,
upon being dampened by a jet of steam,
produces an intense beat. When the soda ;
is thoroughly saturated, which will oecui j
in about six hours, the action ceases, and ;
then it is necessary to restore it to its
original state by forcing through the
boiler a stream of super heated steam j
from a stationary boiler, which drives:
the moisture entirely from the soda, j
when it is again ready for use. The ex
haust steam from the cylinders is used to !
saturate the soda, and by this means all ;
refuse is used.
These engines are the first of their |
kind that have been built in this country j
and are being constructed under the su- !
pervision of George Kuculer, a German
engineer. The engines will have about
the same power as those on the New
York elevated roads, and will readily draw
four light cars Soda engines are now
used in Berlin and other European cities
very successfully, and they also traverse
the St. Gothard tunnel, under the Alps,
where steam engines cannot be used, be
cause the length of the tunnel renders it
impossible to devise a system of ventila
tion which will carry off the foul gases
generated by a locomotive. So over
powering would those gases become that
suffocation would ensue.
Miort Mention.
Storm signals—red eyes.
Fits—the gifts of mothers in law.
A small “nickel” may cause a great
quarrel.
Women’s rights are maintained by
men’s bayonets.
Boot-snakes come with practice.
They are not water snakes.
The anarchists will begin practicing
again at an early day—on a tight rope—
last act.
It is thought an honor to teach boys and
girls letters—a disgrace to teach them to
work. Why?
Steamer men are looking forward to
crossing the Atlantic in palatial steamers
in four days’ time.
Both men and women have a fondness
for glasses; those the men admire usually
hold—“two or three fingers.”
Most young men are reported better
characters because of church going.
They have themselves only to blame if
undeserving.
Nelly Bi.y has lost her hand ! Chorus
of Excited Female Voices—Why, what
do you mean? Why, she has promised it
to Ned Bronson.
At Fort Smith, Arkansas, there have
been eighty-six capital convictions and
forty-six executions since 1871, nearly
all from Indian Territory.
The possession of land enables one to
employ his own labor. The industrious
cultivation of land enables some to sell
labor, others to sell the products of labor.
United Ireland, a Dublin newspa
per, calls the recent victory over Glad
stone in the United Kingdom “the trick
sters, soreheads and mountebanks’ grab
after the emoluments of power.”
Gone —the cashier —books examined—
not a cent wanting, but in a terrible
state—a clear case of suicide because be
couldn’t keep books. Moral —Had he
gone to Canada he could have come back.
A well-fed, well-dressed body of
militia is generally called a crack regi
ment, a fact which reminds us that the
ragged,half-starved battalions of the Con
federacy used to be called cracker regi
ments, and they did a cracking business.
A Pretty Story A bon* Kiss Terry.
At Mr. Irving’s reception the other
night (writes a London correspondent),
there was an American gentleman who
figures in a pretty story about Miss Ellen
Terry. One night in New York a little
deformed man came behind the scenes to
present Miss Terry with a tribute in the
shape of a book. This was a beautifully
bound volume containing cleverly etched
portraits of the actress and a number 01
passages from her various parts, -finely
engrossed. The frontispieces represented
four people sitting in the front row of
the gallary, absorbed in the perf rmance.
and by theM- four people, two brother
and a sister of the little deformed man,
the book had been entirety manufactured.
They were at the theater every night and
used to sjt in the best. " at-: tail as the
expense became serious they gradually
went aloft, like Tom Bowling, till they
settled in the gallery, where they were
to be found nightly with unfailing regu
larity. When Miss Terry took the gift
that'was the product of much loving care
she burst into tears, and the little de
formed man cried too and went away
perfectly happy to fi'-l tne hearts, of in-;
three companions a* full as his own.
A courteous Frenchman, in reply to
a question why ladies were not admitted
into the Chamber of Deputies, said that
to lie a member it was requisite to be
forty yea: > of ape. and it was impossible
to find any lady that had reached that
unseemly age.
A Ilealshy Bssj ami a Clear Head.
If indigestion, con-tipatioi. anti
torment tlic indy. Ike cannot it- clear.
These orders react upon ti e bsa.i. most hurt
felly, and produce a cloudiness .11 the organ of
thought not experienced by a h-. alihy man.
Happily these bram-oppress ng malatl.es rr.ay
be entirely dispel ice by that peeic-s alterative,
Hostetler’s Stomach Bitters, which cheers,
refreshes and invigorates the brain and nerves,
while it regulates the organ? of tiigestit n, as
similation and bilious secretion. It expels the
morbid humors which poison the system
through the bowels and urinary passages, and
exerts a powerful invigorating influence as
well. Its cathartic action is never irritating,
violent or painful, bob even, natural and pro
gressive. As an appetizer and sjeippromcter,
thebiiu-rs is unrivaled; it mitigates the infirm
ities of age, relieves the ailments peculiar to
the setter sex. a r re-t premature decay , and
builds up an enfeebled physique.
The Yassar girl, asked what animal
she liked best, very readily answered—
Man. Va*sar girls antagonize wai be
cause it consumes so many men
For removing dandruff and curing ail scaij
diceac*-!. use Hall's Hair Kenewer.
AyerV Ague Cure is acknowledged to be th
standard remdey for fever and ague.
Stonewall Jackson’s Courtesy.
When Harper’s Ferry surrendered tc
“Stonewall” Jackson, in September,
1862, General Jackson halted his horse
in front of the Ninth Vermont, and tak
ing off his hat, solemnly said: “Boys,
don’t feel bod.; you could not help it:
it was just as God willed it.” One of
Jackson’s staff asked Colonel Stannard.
of the Ninth Vermont, if he “had any
thing to drink.” Stannard courteously
handed his fllak, and the arrogant young
Confederate Captain poured out a horn
and mockingly said: “Colonel, here's
to the health of the Confederacy.” Stan
nard answered, “To ask and accept a
courtesy of a prisoner and then insult
him is au act that an honorable soldier
would scorn.” Jackson turned on his
staff officer and gave him a severe scold
ing, saying the repetition of such an in
sult to a prisoner would cost him
his place. Then turning to Colonel Stan
nard, General Jackson apoligized for the
conduct of his officer, saying that it was
an exceptional act of insolence on the
part of a young and reckless man, aud
bowing gravely, the famous Confeder
ate captain rode away. The fatalism of
Jackson seemed eccentric, but it was a
part of his religion to treat a captive
soldier with high-minded courtesy.
Little Jennie was capsized in a boat
one day, and would probably have been
drowned bad she not had presence oi
mind enough to keep her hands and feel
moving, and thus keep herself afloat un
til help came. When she was retiring
that night her mother told her she must
thank God for having rescued her from a
watery grave, which she did in the fol
lowing way: “Dod, lam oblithed to oo
for helping to thave me from drowning—
and then I had a ’ittle strenth mythelf.
Drainage wanted. Secure the serv
ices of a few bummers; draining is their
business—draining glasses.
“It is as harmless as it is effective,” is wlia’
is said of Red Star Cough Cure by D.-. S. K.
Cox, I). D., Analytical Chemist, Wash ngtoa,
D. C. Price, 25 cents.
\ Fort Worth, Texas, man dropped dead
on entering an eating house to get his dinner.
If the dinner was like most dinners you get at
Texas eating houses the man would have died
anyhow in a very short time, consequently
I there would he no necessity" for an inquest.
The virtues of St. Jacobs Oil, as proclaimed
by millions of restored sufferers, should induce
j every one to supply his household with this
treat specilic. It conquers pain.
A Michigan lawyer lias invented an instru
ment for tho transfusion of blood directly
from one person to another. It is reasonable
to suppose that the inventor’s profession
makes him very proficient in the art of bleed
ing people.
If you have numbness in arms and limbs,heart
skips heats, thumps or flutters, or you are
I nervous and irritable—in danger of shock—
j lir. Kilmer’s Ockan-Weed regulates, relieves,
corrects and cures.
Extraordinary but neveitheless true. Wo
refer to the announcement of B. F. Johnson
& Cos., of Richmond, in which they" propose to
show working and energetic men how to make
from S7OO to *2,500 a j"ear over and above ex
penses.
I Mensman’s Peptonized beef tonic, the only
J preparation of beef containing its entire nutri
| times properties. It contains blood-making
i force,generating and life-sustaining properties;
invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous
prostration, and all forms of general debility;
also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether the
j result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over
work or acute disease, particularly if resulting
from pulmonary complaints. Caswell,Hazard &
Cos., Proprietors, New York. Sold by druggists.
One pair of hoots can he saved every year by
using Lyon’s Patent Metalic Heel Stiffeners.
How fo Secure Health.
I Scovili.’s Sarsaparilla and Stillinoia, or Blood
AKD Liver Syrup will restore perfect health to the
; physical organization It is, indeed, a strengthen
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{ effectually curing Scrofula, Syphilitic disorders,
j Weakness of the Kidneys, Erysipelas, Malaria, all
! Nervous (.borders and Debility, Bilious Complaints.
and all diseases indicating au impure condition of
■ the Blood, Liver, Kidneys, Stomach, etc. It corrects
indigestion, especially wh. n the comp'aint is of an
| exhaustive nature, having a tendency to lessen tho
igor of the brain and nervous system.
j It a cough disturbs your sleep, take Piso’s
• Cure for Consumption and rest well.
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Jpk M °l W,rU Moth, Freckle*, No*, Acd,
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