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THE MONROE ADVERTISER.
VOL XAXVIII.
THHC I THE MEADOW,
who* you through the meadow, May,
At the golden mark of noon,
Low InughtiT echoed all away
Across the fields of June.
The buttercups their amber bowl*
brimmed full of summer sun,
And drank until the thirsty souls
Ver<> tipsy every one,
The blu I Is ran g y mer ry cheer
When vo* > •nru a-nc throuffli through the tin meadow, meadow dear, d«nr
*t hen you came through the meadow, May,
You spoiled the daisies’ naps ;
Beneath their round and gay
They tied their ruffled caps.
And ltoM,ed f|U'*er little downs and ups,
Pretending to |,e shocked
At jetty, tipsy buttereups
That swayed and reeled and rocked.
The liH|>j>) news spread far nn I near
When you ••rtfH" Ginaigh the meadow, dear.
Wh«'n you cnnriAthrough tin* meadow, May,
The fau<*y bobolink.'
Flew first ttin prHimnst hawthorn spray
With wiok«*i| little winks.
The plumy grass'•« nodded, too,
And ta ttled with delight.
4>• think that one as sweet as you
Should jam within ilieir sight.
The dimpled brook laughed silver clear
When you came through the meadow, dear.
Whi n you came through' the meadow, May,
tin* I mm's, with golden spurs.
Went jingling down the flowery way
Among the purple burrs.
A royal, jocund butterfly
Rent low on blazoned wing,
And kissel the beggar-roses shy.
Forgetting It > was king ;
For they and I longed to be near
When vou came through the meadow, dear.
! Florence May Alt, in Outing.
A l m>nk 1* l\ r\I L.\ LlMijlh l?MP A I ’ U ISM VI rj.N PMT 1,
R^'W^sT’kt >M ra pm tv
KliZHlwth M u rry
‘
never understood
\ each other very
y well, and yet they
^ hud been engaged
for a year. They
i&r; Zzm' had known each
;f. ' r
f % % t« o, but although
a man seldom quite
Un,1< ’ r ^ UulH H W °
\\ • UaU J‘»
’ m wftsovei,
r< ‘ ‘ 6,186 111 thlH
men, and , rr" Elizal>eth. Tf
more difficult
*V-Vii?irrr ' ^
unv lusn ' Uf k v-w ^ onK(, 1 oi ,H
. t*H, r U \l"° n i r ‘ , , i0, “ H many
bulnr > b * niih lespert *
• rv
• V 6I ’{ KO<>1 friends, liov -
t N. r, and thought they loved each
..t ter had even said so in strict con
J V 1106 “S l saiB Ut were engaged Mnrray
11 ’ ,! BS
_1 1 ,6!U \ U . e In, ‘ r6y °‘ tlle ,
tll ! ("I , . IU,l 'i ° r H wuvh De-
1 I Tim, T h, ' Wd
'
ding H was set U for the 10th of January.
m night, the diessmakers and mil-I
lm r« in \ i u kiu, \ "a"ed their ■
(bums for a few hours, Mr. Barclay j
called to n h> 1 ,w P rt > S P«'‘'1 1 vo 1 iride. He
was „ j’ * 1 m 11 ’! Y 1,1 k,lmor
.»ugljr.-««tw . ".lj ; j
, r ,; v < ,,h,. .leotint,,
is • c« .is u> walked the few blocks J
from the cable cars to ^riss Murray’s
home, for loin thought too much of
his horses to take them out on such a j
night; a man lmd failed him in an im- I
portant business appointment, and it j
was qm e posst de that ho was a trifle
bilious; at all events, he was about as j
cross ns he ever allowed himself to be¬ ;
come.
Now it happened that Elizabeth « n
nearly worn out " ith the turmoi in
eident to the i„v„„ J* r ,,ti V * , H c tash
‘
iouable si, . “crt ous
nml irritable ’. • nr.,lml,K ‘ tl, 1 * cast "ind
•
... . .
n 11 "'*r. , U “ceded some
eomfo'rHti'■' 'is 1 ” m t!l k fender,
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nut 'ilVlir'wr''Vi'- u or l p V •il'" Vi' |. S , •' 'ti* 16 " oman k,r
. liv • | " U ' ' * lk6 OCCft
sional'pottiu'' '
'v 1 S.M u ’ mas u , *
‘ ’ ' a ' " as no a |
, and
1 » moil'- 1 .in. man. i petting was
<H1 I!" "V " a> he to know,
ts|Him y in us umimm demood, that
u young gu soon to >»■ his wife was ;
1U 1 ''11 ° Ut * 1 1 ' ' U 6t 1 TU P tt rience
t '
**rV ,a l 'i 1 ' f 61 * un ' ... u >ai “ graciously, .
’
, -ihsiiir, . 1 matter
u ii> a ot course, and
« roppi 111 o a 1 oMi this dre^s-
1U!l y’r 1>0, ' n over. I vo
M ' n t ’ u n nu> “th. I
, sMiiakt
non ia\. a . r. i on the place
H * r "j, ‘ ll t ,ual 1 u ’
.
‘ **’. >au ‘ u aot ! uoau *“ything
. iKsMmply
lisspif 1 . it an ebulli
t,a l H1 ' a,u - 1/1 'dli should
ait im 1 ,ls -m 1 • it Muted lier
nunut, tunvcMr to r. tort with:
“Indeed! mtA U ft dress '
luaker in ■ 41 u . l u \ ut ' t H n the i time.
“Iwouidntif I were you.” disa
greeab y , especially against my
‘And 1 should ! she returned, de
fiantly.
••Well then common sense as
sorted itselu and he laughed. “Do
yon know. lhth, we are just ready to
quarrel about iu thing- My wife will
probably do a- s she pleases.
Miss Murray did not smile. She was
morbidly sensitive, and an ugly thought
had lodged in her brain. She said,
quietly: “Tom, 1 don like that
t remark of
yours at all. 1 wonder if it is possible
that after our marriage you would at
tempt to cot rce me in the least ?
Tom was obstinate. It would have
been better not to have asked the qnes
tion. He sail:
“A woman promises to obey when
she marries. tlu word is frequently
“Not always :
left would out be of better the marriage u*;t out 01 service.^ ours. It
“Do you mean that y ou will not
obey? asked he, looking at her curi
onsiy. “just that."
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FORSYTH. MONROE COUNTY. GA, TUESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER (0, 1893.
■ tnan is the head of A family; itis
^ \ ob ‘*y
i >1 have heard. I thought
j of in this never
marriage It light before—a
•om age. Weems to me that a wo
nm»» w miedom is something not to be
given up lightly. I have never l>eeu
u-tatcd to since I left school, and do
not believe I should take it kindly.
Joru > 1 <lon t h el,,,v *’ 1 want to mirry
■'" M ,u, v,),,ll 1 1 y ; why, with mtddeh
I flash ’ . a
of passion. ",f you laid a Com
nian.l upon me after our marriage I
1 * 1 a y believe I should hate you.’
It (rossed tom h mind that it might
l>- as "ell for a nian to curb his tern
I" r MiiUu after the wedding day. He
rose, ualked across the room, pushed
J l,SI ' Vj;- '"' ttv . v enrta * n ai »d looked
! y." “6 sky . ** l" buck ,,H l><‘<*t aud was the not driving pleasing; ( sleet
was
! I ,e He<l rack against to where the plate Miss glass. He
came Murray sat
looking into the fire and apparently
lost in thought.
“Elizabeth, I thought vou loved
me.
m yon. 1 thought so, too,
tough have been told often enough
that ! didn’t ”
< i Who told you so?”
“Mamma, for one. Aunt Clare, for
another. You see, mamma married
papa for love when he was a poor man,
and Aunt Clare’s husband died before
tin: honeymoon was over. She mourns
him y.-t. They always said I didn’t
know the first principles of love ; per
haps they were right.”
Mr. Barclay was never so thoroughly
astonished in his twenty-eight years of
hm. lu* asked, father stiffly;
\\ ill you kindly state why you en
gaged yourself to me?
“\\ ell, Tom, I always liked you.
" vu known each other for years,
(), ir families are intimate. What more
natural than that yon, the only son,
.1, the only daughter, should
i'Zl! 11 the clear voice, ".“'.VT until to-night ' 0 I
thought, you hived me.
lorn pulled his eliair close to Eliz
ubtUh s and drew her head down to Ins
shoulder. He ought to have done that
then he said;
yo " ? ion
Eor an instant the yellow head
rested where he had placed it. Then
Miss Murray drew herself away and
rose to her feet.
“No, Tom. It is too late to make
me believe that. We are not fitted to
Inake eft6h °ther happy. I am quite
j certain of it. Let us break ' off our en
gagement.” '^NBfr'unt ^
' of that
founded speech of mine about a dress
maker!” he exclaimed, savagely.
“Not certainly that. I feel that you
do not love me, and something tells
me that I ought not to be your wife.”
Mr. Barclay, man like, loved the
woman who was slipping away from
him at this moment better than ever
before, and he had loved her always,
in his way; he had made a mistake in
not showing his affection more plainly,
“Beth,” he said, “forgive me. 1
didn’t mean it. I was a brute. As my
wife you will be free as air; 3-011 must
know that. Think a moment; it is
not an unpardonable offence, is it?”
“I tell you it is not because of what
yon die reiterated. “It is be
cause I know you do not love me, and
that I am not* at all sure that I love
you.”
Mr. Barclay’s temper began to rise
again. He remarked:
“This is a nice statement for a man
to hear three weeks before his mar
riage.”
“Much nicer than it would be three
W6oks aftor ’" sho ported. “The in
'J tatl °“ 8 ftr f. 1K> * OUt 5 “°,°“ e ? utside
of oui families knows that the day was
se t \ 1 "ill take lny finery, she added
with . smile, “and Italy. Take
a go to
your ring, Tom, and say- goodby,”
drawing off the diamond.
Mechanically Tom dropped the cir-|
clot■into his pocket. Suddenly-he took j
a step toward her, caught her in his
armR » kissed her once, twice, three;
times, with nil the passion of a man
who loves, then, releasing her, turned
aud left the room, while Miss Murray,
white and trembling, sank into her
chair, hid her face and cried bitterly,
* * * * * *
Much to Elizabeth’s ^ surprise Mr.
Barclay made no attempt to see or |
speak to her again. She explained j
where it was necessary :
“Mr. Barclay and I have changed ;
our minds.
A month later she and Aunt Clare \
were outward bound with Italy for
their goal. The balance of the winter
and the following spring and summer
were spent roaming from place to
place. Then one of those financial
cyclones called a panic swept over the j
Urited States, and Miss Murray And
her aunt ' vt ' re called home. |
Thomas Barclay, though a young j
man, was a large dealer in coffee, teas j
aud spices. His was one of a dozen
lirais that failed that autumn. Dis
honest and unfortunate creditors had j
eost him $100,000. But that cut no
figure in settling up his own affairs.
He cleared his stables, sold every inch
of real estate, and when his own ered
itors were paid dollar for dollar. Mr.
Barclay had a clear eonscienee, a
stainless record aud $5000 in cash.
He went West, and Miss Murray
heard no more of him. Her father,
an importer of silks and foreign fab-I
rics, curtailed expenses, and, aided by
a weathered generous loan from Aunt Clare*,
the storm.
One summer, two yeaas later, Eliza-I
beth and her mother joined a party
who were going to make a tour of the ■
northwest,.penetrating of Alaska even the wilds , ■
before their return.
It was in Portland that Miss Murray
met with an accident, and a trencher- ;
ous banana peeling was to blame for
it. She had gone out alone to make j
some small purchase, and stepping on
the deceitful peel, would have fallen
headlong had not a gentleman just l>e
hind her caught her in his arms. Al-j
most bruised bunting with the pe.m of a badly
ankle Miss Murray looked
into Mr. Barclay’s grav eves.
. “Tom—Mr. Barclay!” she stani- I
; mered, lighting the faintness that
j nearly overcame her, and then rally
.ng enough to understand that Tom 1
Hurt?” was asking anxiously. sprained/* “Are Vbu ‘she
. “Mv ankle is
said-, with white lips.
A ffirowd was gathering. A gentle
man offered his assistance, arid Eliza
beth Was taken to the nearest store,
while Tom called a carriage and then
accompanied her home.
1 In spite of the pain Miss Murray
could not help looking at the man
who was to have been her husband.
That individual met her eyes and
said!
“We]}’”
j . Miss Murray blushed
painfully,
conscious that she had been staring,
“It is so long since I have seen you,
I and we used to be such good friends,”
she replied gently,
“Whose fault is it that you have
not seen me for sd long?' he demand
| ed arid; then, noting, her fading color
and pale lips, he said: “What a brute
[ ttm to question vou so when you are
suffering such pain ! I was never gen
tie enough to win your love, Beth.”
“Did you ever try, Tom !”
“I thought I did.”
“Didn’t you take everything aiid°that for
granted—that vou loved nie
I Cared for you, and that in the course
of human events it was natural and
proper that we should get married?”
“Perhaps so,” he answered quietly ;
and then the carriage stopped, the
driver was at the door, and Elizabeth
was carried up to her room.
It was an obstinate, ugly sprain, and
held its victim a prisoner for six long
weeks. The party went on to Alaska,
leaving Mrs. Murray and her daughter
at the hotel, and, quite as a matter of
T T FT'* 3 ' ^ ° ften ' H *>
was wonderfully gentle toward the
woman who had refused to lie his wife,
Elizabeth did not know that he was
trying to win her love, but Mrs. Mur
ray was well aware of that fact, and
well satisfied too Tom was well
She had always liked him, and
shrewdly this* suspected that his presence
on planet had something to do
with her daughter’s strange indiffer
ence to certain brilliant matrimonial
chances.
As for Elizabeth, she was utterly
content and happy tenntini during IZ the period
of invalidism tha L,
fidu^A YV luitTared she forthe beau
ties of Alaska, of which her friends
wrote such glowing descriptions? Did
she not have long talks with Tom
every other evening? Thouo-h she
took care that he knew-nothing of her
quickening heart beats aud bounding *
pulses whenever he approached.
Elizabeth had been able to walk for
a week. Her friends were due in two
days on their return trip, and she and
her mother were to join them and
start immediately for home.
Mr. Barclay asked the convalescent
to take a ride with him, He was thirtv
one, Elizabeth twenty-five. Mrs.
Murray did not think a chaperon nee
essarv, neither did Tom; they “ went
alone
They were far better acquainted
than in the days when they were en
gaged. Miss Murray admired the
honest courage, the perserving inde
pendence with which her friend was
building his fortune, and Tom loved
her as he always had, and as he always
would, and had learned to show his
affection in many of the thousand
ways that delight a woman’s heart,
accident -They talked and then of the of the scenery, of her j
Suddenly Tom coming part- ;
ing. exclaimed: ,
“Oh, Beth, my darling, give me a 1
word of hope before you go! You
were mistaken in the old days. I
always loved you, and now that we
have met again I cannot let you go out
of my life forever!”
“If you always loved me, why have
you been silent all these years?” in- j
quired Elizabeth. ;
“Because I was stunned that night
when I left you, realizing that by my
own stupid blundering I lost you. !
Then I set myself to do a penance. I
said: ‘I will wait five years; if another
wins her I shall know that she could
never love me; if not, perhaps I will
try again to gain her love; perhaps I
shall better know her. ’ Y’ou know the
rest. The crash came. I had to come
West and begin over. I am not as rich
as I was then, but there is every-pros
peet that I shall be, and I know, Beth,
that money makes no difference. I
can give you everything you want,
even the dressmaker, and indeed,
darling, that speech of mine was only
the outcome of bad temper, and”—
hesitatingly—“perhaps I understand a
woman’s moods a little better now
than then.”
There was a short silence, while Mr.
Barclay, having made his plea, waited
for the verdict. At length
said, softly:
“Perhaps I loved yon then, Tom. I
could never care for anyone else. I
always compared other men with you,
to their disadvantage. If you care to
come, after some time. I will be vour
wife.” *
Out of an inner pocket Tom took a
tiny morocco cose, and opening it,
Miss Murray saw the solitaire that had
been her engagement ring.
“I have always carried it with me,”
ho said, simply-, “because you had
worn it."
Somehow the tears sprang into Eliz
abeth's eyes when he slipped it on her
finger.
Airs. Murray was not at all sur
prised when her daughter announced
with several blushes that she was going
to marry Thomas Barclay.
“I always thought you would,” that
lady replied, calmly.
The next winter Tom went East
after his bride. They- are happier than
they would have been without that
quarrel, a blending of comedy ari l
high tragedy, but if does not follow
that anyone should go and do like
wise. —St. Paul Globe.*
SCIENTIFIC 4N1) INDUSTRIAL.
pm,.*..;,.;** !? ^ ipatesfn m ndxt ««-. * ^ i
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.otter wee s fl^ry anunal , in
«*iiriiiiing. }}\ ***** »S superior to
tkat of mau v tislies -
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It is asserted that the best, strong
est and most fiorous material in the
shape of wood, now used as a pulp for
paper, is made from spruce logs.
A good chill* viewed ill profile*
shows bfeidw a marked depression above it
arid the under lip, aud an
equally marked prominence beneath,
Pish balance themselves in water by
the muscular contraction of the air
bladders. At death the muscles relax
an q air bladder expands, with the
result that the tish is thrown on one
pidc arid rises td the surface.
u . 11 , i UU T u i sa ,, , •,.
’ ° jU ’ KH v .' s ( u f‘
. the he has had ants
many years
umler observation, he has never on
ttn * v °^ as !° U 86611 aa Jtbing like a
quarrel between any two ants belong
,n S to th e Nftroe community,
Coral islands , are never niore thaii
ten or twelve feet above the surface i
that limit being assigned to them by
tIie action of the waves. The vegeta
tion is characterized by its uniformity;
the entire flora consisting of scarcely a
score of species.
A remarkable historical fact, which
has frequently been noted by scientific
writers, but never accounted for satis
factorily, is that Julius Cotsar, Archduke Web
liiigton, Napoleon and the
Charles* Of Austria; ffliir of t^O great
est generals the world has known, were
all subject to epileptic-fits.
The electric light w« invented in
1816, and as late as 1876 was pro
pounced by a high scientific authority
“ ft pretty tov,” and the prediction
maL \e that it would never be anyfching
el se , At present over 200 cities and
thousands upon thousands of offices
^S ngsrtlighWby mean8 ° f
, ' 1K ^ Tf g6 is • proposed ° V6r ^ Mersey to build River an immense in Eug
lftm ’ co “ ne «W the cities of W
^ According to
descriptions m the Livejqiool netvs
the
TT Tl ^ ™ the
bcing P5
^ ImSeffToPISPS [wren#®.
The idea has been suggested.that . in
certain well-known conditions of hys
teria a judiciously administered pinch
of might have a beneficial effect,
Familiar to every one is the perverse
ness with whieh such hysterical at
tacks resist ordinary remedies, and it
seems Mot improbable that some of
them mi gbt be curtailed by a period of
vigorous sneezing.
Analysis of the air* water and soil of
Hpitzbergen has brought to light the
extraordinary poverty of these regions
in bacteria. While the air of the
streets of Paris contains 011 an average
51,000 bacteria, that of the Arctic Sea
contains only three }ier cubic metre.
As to the water of Spitzbergen, not
only is it devoid of any pathogenic
micro-organisms whatever, but all
bacilli are absent.
The Canadian Architect suggests
that in building brick houses where !
they are not protected by surrounding
property, will not greatly°to to forget that hollow
walls add the eonveni
ence of the occupiers. They will render
the house cooler in summer and warmer
in winter, and will assist materially in
keeping the house dry. The cost of
hollow walls is only very little higher '
than that of walls built solid. ;
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t r |U r iai1 u eima.
Henna is the East Indian name foi a
shrub of the genus Lawsonia. The
shrub is from eight to ten feet high
and bears abundantly white and very
fragrant flowers; the leaves are smooth
and oval. It is cultivated in India,
Egypt and other Eastern countries,
where it has been in use as a cosmetic
from very early times, the yellow color
on the nails of the Egyptian mummies
being supposed to be derived from
henna. It is used by the women to
color their fingers and toe nails, the
tips of their fingers, the palms of their
hands and soles of their feet; the men
use it to color their beards, and the
manes and tails of their horses. ;
Women also apply it to their hair. It
produces a reddish-orange color,
which, it is said, the subsequent ap
plication of indigo will turn to black.
The” leaves and young twigs are re
duced to a fine powder, made into a
paste with hot water, and spread upon
the part to be dyed, where it is usually
left over night. The shrub has been
naturalized in the West Indies, and is
called there the Jamaica mignonette.
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Raised His Jmi Salary.
The President of Venezuela enjoys a
comfortable prerogative, which m’anv
of the office holders of this country
would liki very much to have. He
has the right to say how much salary
he shall receive. A few days ago he
issued a decree raising his salary from
$18,000 to $24,000 a year. He also
raised the salaries of his cabinet min
isters to $6000, and to make things
even, reduced the salaries of members
of the federal council and judges of
the supreme and superior courts,
Judges do not count alongside of ex
ecutives in that country. It is sa>d
that Crespo has absorbed the Bank of
Venezuela, so that it is now practically
an administration institution. This
change, s.range to say. has not had a
favorable effect on the standing of the
bank in commercial circles, and the
stock lias fallen off four points.—New
Orleans Picayune.
THE 1AIITATIViS DISEASE.
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A CURIOUS AFFLICTION THAT IS
COMMON AMONG MALAYS.
\ Form of Nervous Excitement Peru
liar to a Single Race— Symptoms
of the
TT I sold dm happens that any forni
I 0 f disease presents an aspect as j
*>■ } ludicrous in its ordinary
niririifestations as to be a fit sub
jeet for lay discussion. Such.- how- [
ever, is the singular and as yet unex i
plained affection known might by be the inferred Malay j
name of “latah. ” As
u'onl its title, it is. although not uu
known amongst other' nationalities, nil 1
almost purely Malay disease; arid has
fiatu rally attracted the attention of
Europeans Residing in the countries es
peopled by the race ill qtte.dmn, B
* s ^ ie sa,ue time questionable, says
the Pall Mall Gazette, whether one
person in ten thousand in Great Britain
has ever heard the word, or known
that such a curious affliction
amongst any portion of the human
race.
How to define latah is somewhat
puzzling. If any short equivalent be
desired, it may tie described as an ir¬
resistible impulse to imitate the words
or actions of those around them, An
Other forni Of thd disease* very often
hot less startling to the onlooker* is
the exhibition of intense nervous ex 1
citement when some particular word
is mentioned—-usually in the form of
most abject fear. A third and less
noticeable form is the exhibition of
alarm at some unusual but not ordin¬
arily- terrifying sight or sound, much
as a child will start at the sound of a
gun, discoferixig or a gi'owii person on suddenly
a corpse.
The tsvd first-named manifestations
are, of course, those which strike the
spectators and auditors as most strange
and inexplicable. The nervous im
pressionability known of the Malays in other
ways is well to all who have
lived among them. A very slight
Cause wilt change ail ordinarily placid
and inoffensive native into a very de
mon of rage, tlie extreme’ illustration
Of such a mental condition being
known as “running amok”—or, as
foreigners usually Call it* “amuck.”
Over and above a readiness to take of "
fense at unjust blame, or what he con¬
siders disrespectful treatment, native
public opiuion considers a Malay dig¬
it O nored who does not avenge a blow
>: e of the party giving
, ....... ass L;i on some
subsequent Occasioi? n j
ed victim is off his giiai'd. It would
be going too far to say that a tendency
to sUlk and take revenge ac¬
counts for the Malay liability
to latah, as many other peo¬
ples among whom the disease is un¬
known develop the same disposition,
while almost destitute of the child¬
like good temper and unaffectedly
good manners of the Malayan tribes.
All that can be asserted is that such
a disease would never exist among a
phlegmatic race. Nor, again, must it
be imagined that latah is of everyday
occurrence. Many people have lived
in the Straits Settlements for over
twenty years without ever seeing a
single case of it.
Let us then describe its peculiar fea
tures. Tlie impulse to imitate the
words or actions of others is some
time evinced in not merely a ludicrous
kut a niost distressing way, In some
cases it should be premised the attack
occurred only patients at long intervals* in
others the are habitually sub
jected to the disease, and can at almost
any time be compelled to exhibit it.
When this results in any unpleasant
consequence the latah (it is customary
to apply the word both to the disease
and to the patient), while quite unable
to resist the strange influence exerted
will keenly resist the practical joke.
An absurd manifestation of the dis
ease was provided by a Malay woman,
who, on seeing her master tear up a
letter and throw it out of the window,
at once followed suit with a basket of
clean clothes she was carrying. No
great harm, of course, resulted in this
case, but tragical affects have more
than once followed practical jokes
with latahs. The following instance,
related by Mr. O’Brien, happened while
the writer was residing at the place
where it occurred.
The ship's cook of one of the local
coasting steamers happened to be a
pronounced sufferer from the disease,
and, as but too commonly happens in
such cases, was continually- victimized
by his shipmates. As a rule the effects
simply ludicrous, and hugely
amused the crew, who shared the fond
ness for horseplay proverbial among
European sailors. On the occasion in
question the cook was dandling his
baby on the forward deck. One of the
men, noticing this, picked up a billet
of wood, and, standing in front of the
latah, commenced nursing it in the
same way as the latter was dandling
the baby! Presently he began tossing
the billet up to the awning, the cook
imitating his motions with the baby,
Suddenly the’billet the sailor opened his arms
an d fell to the deck. The
unfortunate latah did the same, and
H* 6 child, falling on the planking, was
instantly killed.
The second form of latah mentioned
above, in which intense nervous ex
citement is caused by the mention of
some particular word, is scarcely less
curious to onlookers than that already
illustrated. The patient in this case
will exhibit uncontrollable fear, evinced
by running away at full speed or plung
ing into a jungle if on shore, or by
jumping overboard if in a ship or boat,
at the mention of some animal or rep
Some are thus affected if a com
panion shouts Ular! la snake), others
at the words Rimau (tiger), or
crocodile . The strangest fact in this
connection is that such patients seem
to have little or no fear of the animals
themselves, or certainly not more than
any prudent native exhibits when
^
fear at the shout of “crocodile V will
readily stalk, and when it is disabled
approach One of these reptiles. Iho
Malay, it should be: added, is an ex
ceptionally plucky and expert hunter
and woodsman, so that this particular
form of nervous fright is the more re¬
markable.
>VISE WORDS.
A bad habit is a chain.
Birds with bright feathers are not
always fab
Your most deadly sin is the one you
love the most.
Love never has to go to school to
learn how to speak.
If our eyes were better the stars
would give us more light.
The wounds made by a friend are
the ttnes that smart the most.
The trouble with the man who knows
nothing is that it takes lilftt so long to
uull ' tm “
Tlid glory of love is that it delights
in doing for nothin# what nobody else
will do for money.
Tlic't'e are communities in which
Solomon would not have received any
credit for his wisdom.
If sunshine had to be paid for, there
are people who would declare that
Cafidle light could beat it.
Every- sinner reasons that if there is
happiness in the heart there ought to
be some sunshine in the facte
The man has to fight for his life who'
undertakes to tell other men great
truths that they do not know.
The sin that shines has as much
death in it as the one that does not.—
Barn's Horn.
Breathing' lot' Health.
Of all the cures which have emerged
into public notice from time to time,
the simplest aiid the most easy is that
which Major-General Dfayson de- He
scribes in the Nineteenth Century’.
calls it the art of breathing, and he
seems to have hit upon it by mere ae
eident when he was climbing a very
high mountain. The rarefaction of
the air at that altitude rendered it
necessary- for him to breathe twice as*
fast as he would have done at a lower
level. All inconvenience caused by
tlie rarefaction of the air disappeared
when he doubled the rate of his breath¬
ing. Reflecting upon this lie stumbled
upon the great discovery which should
immortalize him if there is anything
JjJii— ■
he pumps fourteen pints of air into
his lungs per minute, containing three
pints of oxygen, with which he can
sufficiently oxygenate his blood. But
on ascending to 7000 feet the pump¬
ing of fourteen pints of air into his
lungs per minute would only take in a
pint and a half of oxygen, arid as it
requires three pints to oxygenate the
blood, he became almost suffocated.
His heart palpitated and he was in
danger of his life, but by suddenly
doubling tlie rate by which he had
been breathing he found instant relief,
He lias tried it under a great many
circumstances. Whenever he was in
a vitiated atmosphere he was able to
get rid of his headache and incipient
palpitation of tlie heart by taking long
breaths twice as rapidly as he would
011 ordinary occasions. He maintains
that in a very great many cases pain,
sleeplessness, headache and many other
ills which flesh is hgir to could be al¬
most instantly relieved by this simple
practice. Moderate exercise in the
open air, upon which all doctors in¬
sist, lie asserts is quite unnecessary.
All that you need to do is to breathe
as rapidly as if you were taking mod
erate exercise,
A Curious Snake.
A curious serpent has been seen on
Mount Hamilton. It is represented to
be twelve or thirteen feet long, with
red eyes that shine like stars in the
night out of a head as long as a man’s
fist. This curious reptile was seen by
a stock ranger named Jack Wandall the
other day when he was out after cattle.
Wandall had only a long rope with a
ring in the end. He was on ahorse,
and when the beast saw the reptile it
stopped and snorted and refused to
proceed that way. The snake was ly
ing almost in the trail, apparently
asleep. Wandall backed his steed,
swung the rope, and let go at the mon
ster, hitting it upon the head, where
upon the reptile rolled down into a
deep gully at the bottom of the moun
tain, where the chase ended.—San
Jose (Cal.) Record,
“Cow’s-Foot-iii-the Milk-Pail.”
One of the curiosities of reflected
light from a curved surface is the
“caustic,” popularly known as “the
cow s-foot-in-the-milk-pail. It is a
well-know property of light that its
rays impinging upon a reflecting sur
f&ce are thrown oft so as to make the
angle between the reflected rays and
the normal equal to that between the
incident rays and the normal. In con
’ of this law, when the of
sequence rays
; a “y light which are practically parallel
are reflected from a curved surface the
intersections of the reflected rays take
upon themselves the form of a cow’s
foot. This shadow, as reflected in the
m ilk pail,is given the name used in the
headline. Prove it by taking off your
| ring aud laying it upon the table so
that its inner surface will reflect the
rays of the lump.—St. Louis Republic.
---- ■*" ----
„ ^he ( reole Horse.
This is a diminutive horse, which
, originated during the war along the
Gulf coast, when many planters allowed
their thoroughbred mares to escape,
The latter bred with the native horses
l the result if a breed that rarelv
reaches thirteen hands. These dimimi
! tive horses are quite spirited, and
their good blood shows in their svin
metry, style and action. Their gait
is a long gallop.—New York World.
NO. 40.
THE WIND’S STORY.
I ffrn sure that the wind is speaking
For each flower is nodding its head,
And the limbs of the trees areereakiug- i
I wish that I knew what it said.
Some story, perhaps, it istelliug
A story of some distant la mV
Rut to me It is like the swelling
Of breakers upon the white sand
The leaves wa*t a moment to listen.
Then shake with a perfect delight,
All the flowers like diamonds glisten
Aud nod first to left, then to right
The wind passes on in its measure.
And long ere the story is through ■,
The forest is dancing with pleasure -
I wish I could understand, too.
—Flavel Scott Mines, in Frank Leslie’s.
HUMOR OK THE DAY.
The general run of men—After the
last street car.—Philadelphia Record.
The man who falls in love very- often
dislocates his common sense.—Puck.
To make bills is human ; to pay them
-—these days—is divine. -- Pittsburg
Bulletin.
Forged notes can always be properly
classed among the gilt-edged paper on
a bank.—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The most popular bird of passage
arriving at the port of New York this
month is the gold eagle. — Baltimore
American.
“That,” said the man who smote n
calamity howler, “is one of the best
financial strokes lever made.”—-Wash¬ . r
ington Star.
The photograph of a boy never looks
like him, because no one ever saw a
boy as clean as be is in a photograph.
-—Atchison Globe.
The clerk who attempts to live be
yond his means will soon be obliged to
live beyond the reach of his friends.—
New Orleans Picayune.
“What sort of a girl is she?
she is a miss with ft mission. “Ah !
“And her mission is seeking ft man
with ft mansion.”—Sketch.
Occasionally you will meet a man
who seems to think just as you do.
What clever ideas lie lias, and what a
pity he is so scarce. — Blizzard.
Jack the Clipper has been arrested
in New York. The girls whose tresses
he cut will be present at his trial to
upbraid him.—Galveston News.
Customer—“Do you suppose you
can take a good picture of me?” Pho
togTapher “I shall have to atswei
yen in the negative, sir. ogue.
—i^' wl evils rarely occur. The
j fact t TIal iimm 1 • ' 1 p i ht.is niio
to have resulted in a good deal of
sober thought.—Baltimore American,
It is uot true that “every man
His price has,” as they say—
I know of one, an honest man,
Who gives himself away.
—Vogue. "*■
A man never looks so helpless and
insignificant, as when standing around
a dry goods store waiting for his wife
to get through trading. — Lewell
Courier.
It is very hard to explain the attrac
tions of country life to a city man who
has just investigated the voltage of a
black-faced bumble-bee. — Baltimore
American.
“And you are poor? “Yes, but we
are happy-.” < 6 Happy in your pov
ertyV” “Yes, for every one around
us is poorer than ourselves.”—New
York Press.
Miss Antique—“How mean these
newspapers are! Here is a column
headed ‘Proposals,’ and it is all about
public improvements and such non
sense.”—The Club.
Mrs. Skidmore (reading) — “Phil
ippa Fawcett, who won such great dis
tinction as senior wrangler at Oxford,
is still unmarried.” Mr. Skidmore—
1 “No wonder.”—Detroit Free Press.
j Watts--“I can’t see what reason
yon have for comparing old man
j Gotrox to a sausage.” Potts — ‘ ‘Re
; cause his stuff is all that makes him of
| l any „ consequence. ”—Indianapolis Jour
nal.
Gaswell — “I'm disgusted withyoung
Air. Van Braam.” Dukane —“Why?”
“He does nothing but flirt with tho
] girls.” 1 “Then you mis* don’t like directed.” to see a
man’s efforts all -
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
“Can’t von settle this bill to-dav,
8 j r v” asked the tailor of the delinquent
p “No Snip it wouldn’t be par
Hamentary. j.' I’ve merely glanced over
- t u now and I can’t pass a bill
j after its third reading.”—Tid
Bits.
He blushed a fiery red; her heart
went pit-a-pat; she gently hung her
head, and looked down on the mat.
He trembled in his spech; lie rose
from where he sat, and shouted with a
screech, “You’re sitting on my hat:” —
Tid-Bits.
“So you only have a week a "vacation
instead of two, this year/ Yes,
they told me I must either give up
half my vacation or lose the situation ;
and I concluded that half a loaf was
much better than no bread. ’ —Brook
lyn Life.
“Men are not to be trusted,” she re
marked to her vounger and more kuc
cessful friend. “Oh, my dear, ’ said
her friend, sweetly, “has it taken all
j these years to teach you that?” Tho
j silence that followed couldn’t bo
i )ro k en w jth a sledgehammer. —De¬
troit Free Press.
, '/ n , n hours
* u o ” 1 “ UA
, v
.° J 1 a< iana J U1 > " 110 1,: c lae
11 ^ 1 ' 1S opponent, a grizzled
0(1 roleH81ona . 'Ookeil sweetly
P b a r°se,
j tae ’ Jllcl S e > antl saui: xour nouor,
i j fMlo’w the example o. my young
1 friend, who has just finished, and sub¬
! case "without argument. I hen
' down, and th«- silence was large
an “ oppressive. Christian at \S 01 k.
There are now seventy lines of ocean
mail steamers. fn 1888 there were
107,137 steam vessels on the high seas.