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VOL. XVIII.
THE TRUTH.
Speak thou the truth, let others fence
And trim their work for play ;
In pleasant sunshina of pretense
Let others bask their day.
Show thou the light! If conscience gleam,
Set not tfiy bushel down ;
The smallest spark may send a beam
O'er hamlet, tower and town.
Woe unto him on safety bent,
Who creeps from age to youth,
Failing to grasp his life's intent
Because he fears the truth.
Be true to every inmost thought,
And as thy thought thy speech.
What thou have uot by striving baught
Presume not thou to te. 01.
Then each wild gust the mist shall clear
We tow see darkly through,
And justified at last appear
The truth in all tilings true.
-*£an Francisco Truth.
HOW CLARA WAS SAVED.
A FEMALE ENGINEER'S ADVENTURE
•‘Dow a locomotive engineer see
many adventures? lie does. Does
lie pass through many hardships?
Emphatically yes. If you care to have
a rambling chat with me about the
boys of the throttle, and hear of some
queer and interesting adventures, drop
around to my room at the Grand Pacific
and I’ll tell "you a few over a good
cigar. Here we are, right side up
with care. A way of landing that al
ways pleases me, though I've done a
little of the other style, too. Now, you
needn't ask uny questions, but I’ll just
tell my stories right along as I think of
them. First, let me tell you a little
something about engineers. They are
obliged to be capable, but are not ex- :
amined and given any documents to
show that they are engineers. They
rise up from “horsemen" to “stokers,”
then to firemen out on the road, and
then become engineers. It is custom
ary also for most of them to work in
engine-shops as apprentices for a while.
There engines are variously repaired,
frequently by being made over again
as good asnew. They work on lathes,
forges, machines of all sorts, and the
work on the engine itself teaches j
them all there is to know about the
partsof oneof these locomotives. Then
they learn about firing when stoking
about the round-house, and learn to
keep one as clean as a “ wiper.” ,
gut Is h 1 liil'llli i " which nSsrrr
taking charge off the engine when
brought in off the road. They turn 1
them on the turn-tables and put them j
away in their stalls in the roundhouse j
after “ drawing ” their fires over the
smoking ash pit. Then they get out j
for short trips on the r >ad iis firemen, !
and limilly push along, if smart and
capable, to be engineers—generally
extras at first, but they soon get a
regular engine. They frequently run
on the road as a fireman for only a
year or so before getting an engine, hut
generally it is from three to five years,
and I have known men to go from
eight to fifteen years and then
not get any engine. Why? Well,
sometimes because they can’t become
proficient, from lack of scientific or
mechanical education, and frequently
because they are too excellent firemen
to lose, and they are therefore paid as
much as they would get as engineers
and retained as firemen. Thus you see
it takes time to learn the business." -
• Some.” continued the engineer,
“ are on regular ‘ runs.’ Others go out
on freights in regular turn, or when
needed, and are therefore ’called’ by
some boy employed by the company for
that purpose. lie is given a little book
with ' calls’ in and goes about night
and day at all hours to different parts
of the city, of course generally in the
immediate vicinity of the roundhouse
and shop, and he calls the men up. I
have run steadily, seated in the hot
cal', sharply watching the track ahead,
for fifty-seven hours straight. There
are even instances that beat that.
Where they have a light, easy ‘ run,’
whether night or day, they can make
arrangements to fit the time. When
his engine is in the shop for repairs
the engineer generally gets to ‘ loaf
about tor a brief time. All sorts of
people become engineers. I have seen
the son of a Russian count, with greasy
clothes and leathern trousers, sitting
above thedrivers as cheerily handling
levers as though lie was holding a
golden knife snd fork in the Winter
palace at St. Petersburg. Then X have
seen a minister who became a fireman
to save his life. He was told by his
physician that he would have tc do
manual, outdoor labor of some sort or
die. You bet ‘he dropped’ to the
4 rued,’ and decided upon ‘ life on the
rail.’ He says he won’t go back to
the pulpit again, and lie is well and
hearty as a roebuck. , Then there are
often finely educated' men who adopt
the cab from choice or necessity. A
three days’ stare at grim old poverty
generally sets them hustling. Then 1
know of a case on the Panhandle,
Logansport division, where a woman
successfully ran an engine for nearly
two years before being found out. I’ll
tell vou how it was. Let me see.
“ That was five years ago,” said the
engineer, warming up, “an’ I was
handling 76, an old residenter that
used to whistle so much like a buzz
saw when setting down to a pine-log
matinee that the other boys got to
calling her “ Old Sash-Door-an’-Blind-
Factory.” She would wake up the
Hoosier3 for ten miles each side of the
track when running at night. I re
member a funny thing connected with
Old Pestilence, as I called him. X had
a rollicking fireman named Jack
Flaherty, now on the Burlington, I be
lieve, and he used to be up to all sorts of
deviltry. lie managed to rig up a
sort of a sliding-plug for the whistle
valve and he could play Yankee
Doodle, Home, Sweet Home and lots
of other tunes by working the flue up
and down. You’ve heard these steam
calliopes? Well, it was on the same
principle. We went into a town called
Goodland one night, an l Jack opened
her wide, trying to let off a littlo sur
plus steam anyway, and he gave ’em
Yankee Doodle in the most paralyzing
way you ever heard. Every one
rushed out of their homes, and still we
lay on the side track, me making up
steam and Jack working the plug and
rattling out the national tune in Theo
dore Thomas style. But slack up here.
Throw her over in the corner and let
her pound along. If I ain’t clean tor
getting what 1 was trying to tell you
about this woman that came on the
road as an engineer. ' I was handling
‘Old Pestilence, ’ and was just stepping
up into the cab at the roundhouse in
Logansport, ready to hook on to an
extra bound west. I had knocked the
cut plug out of my pipe—for
I never sm >ke on the engine
—when a young and very hand
some fellow came up to me and says:
‘ Well, old Hoxie, how is the Panhandle.
I want to catch on right away.’ “ En
gineer?” • Well, I should murmur. 1
just came off the “ Punkin’ Vine." ’
Tliat was the way the boys had labeled
tlie old Logansport, Crawfordsville &
Southwestern road in them days. You
see, tfiey used to fall behind on sched
ule time, and keep losing, so the en
gineers got suspended. It was hardly
their fault, though. The track was
fearful. But when the engineer found
out how late he was he used to open
the throttle wide an’ skip across the
cornfields when a big curve occurred,
an’ there were many of them, too.
Thus they used to gain time for a mo
ment. Then when time was made they
would push ahead. That’s the way it
came to be styled the “Punkin' Vine.”
“ llut I’m slipping away from my
story of the young feller again. When
lie told rue he wanted a ' run,' X hap
pened to think I had heard Master Me
chanic (dark speak of needing more
engineers next week, an’ 1 told the
.youth so. Well, he caught on, and got
a regular stock run for awhile.
“ My, X can remember yet how lie
looked as he came down the first day
to take out No. 82, another old-timer.
He had on a fine suit of broadcloth,
hut carried u Russia leather valise,
with trim new overalls and jacket to
put on over his clothes. His smooth
face, black eyes, full red coral lips and
short clipped hair attracted great at
tention. He went at his work of making
ready to take out his engine very de
liberately and calmly. He was the
nine days’ wonder of the road for a
while. This was partly from his al
most feminine beauty and from the
skill with which he handle ! the engine
I given him. Matters went along in this
| shape for several weeks. Bill Schaeffer,
as the new-comer styled himself, was
i out one beautiful June day at the other
end of the line, bringing in a huge
; extra, which had a short handed crew
aboard. A strange engineer had drifted
: into the roundhouse tiiat morning
while Bill was out, and had asked, on
the strength of good references, for
; some work. Mr. Clark at once sent
| hint out on a passenger run, as he
j c laimed to know the road from having
run there two years before. The regu
lar man on the passenger run was sick.
Well, the passenger met Bill’s extra at
1 L—, half way over, and it was nearly
jf) o’clock. There was a regular
! freight in one end of the side
track, and Bill’s train was trying to
p ish its nose in on a lot of
box-cars on the track that seemed
loose. The Intention was to clear for
the passenger. Bill, wanting exercise,
1 suppose from being cooped up all
day in the hot little cab, had gone ;
ahead on the loose cars and was riding 1
on top of the furthest one. He was
apparently not noticing anything, or
attempting to set a brake on the car. ,
The passenger engine with the new
man was on the main track waiting to !
clear. The side track had a bad down
grade, sloping heavily toward the
switch of the main track. Beyo id
this the latter had a terrible heavy
grade west. Anything cut loose and
started down this incline would be
going at a little the liveliest speed yet
;e,'n before many yards hid been
passtd. The grade extended for three
miles straight away, when a curve was !
reached and a trestle-work bridge
broke the monotony of the track.
“ Well, every one was looking back
toward the east end of the switch to
see if everything cleared. The engine
of the regular freight stood in on the
west end of the second side-track ami
parallel with the passenger engine, on
which stood the strange engine si nt
out that day. All at once there was a
wild scream, and every one turned to
see the box-car going at a lively rate
of speed over the switch and out on
the main track. The other cars had
had brakes set by a brakeman, but the
car with Hill on had been uncoupled
and was going straight on. Sehaeffe
had not apparently noticed this until
he saw the car go across the switch,
WASHINGTON, GA, FULDAY, APEIL 13, 1883,
when he sprang to the brake, only to
rind it useless, there being a broken
chain. At the same instant that he
looked up very much scared, he saw
the strange man in the cab of the pas
senger engine. He screamed out,
“ Save me, Charlie, save me,” ami then
sank Sown on the top of the car.
There was an exclamation, and the
strange man had jumped clear off his
engine and ran across to the regular
freight engine on the other track. It
was only the work of a second to pull
the pin of its tender from the car, then
he sprang into the cab, whore only the
fireman stood. Throwing open the
throttle, he started down the side
track, headed toward the fleeting car,
some distance already away. A brake
man, whj had immediately grasped
the situation, ran and threw open
the switch, allowing the engine
to speed on to the main track. The
steam was put on and the fireman or
dered to open her wide and coal up.
Like a meteor she tlew after the runa
way car. On they swept, gaining rap
idly; they were within twenty feet of
the. car when the engineer ordered the
fireman to open her a little wider and
then to hold her steady at that point.
Carefully the strange man, who had
been recognizi and by Bill as Charlie,
crept forward along the fo tboard of
the boiler until the cowcatcher was
reached, when he lifted the long pin
which always rests in the center of
the pilot, and catching a firm hold on
the standard he leaned out, waiting
until the liar slipped into the bumper
of the car, when he dextrously dropped
the pin, that stood partly upright in
the hole of the bumper, and then the
car was fast to the locomotive. Both,
however, were thundering along down
the terrible grade, and fast approach
ing the curve and the bridge. He then
crawled back to the cal). 1 n the mean
time, with great nerve and sense, the
fireman had commenced shutting off
the steam, and giving the track : and.
When the strange engineer clambered
back the brake on the tender was
tightly set. Then the lever
was reversed and thrown over.
This put the engine in a
back action, and gradually the speed
slackened until a final stop was niada
The engineer then sprang out of his
cab and hastily climbed on top of the
box car. There safely lying on the
walk which runs along tho tops of all
freight cars, one hand tightly clenching
the brake-rod, which kept him from
falling off, was Bill. He was in a deuij
faint. Then, pardner, occurred a
queer scefte. The strange engineer!
j commenced tearing open BtM’s dot, i|<t ’
1 and trying to bring him too, right
j there on the car. He worked away
! desperately, and just as he saw signs
of life, he called out passionately,
i “ Clara, my darling wife, speak to me!
' .My God, she’s dead !’’ and the fireman
| saw that Bill Schaeffer was a woman,
|it was all explained then. She was
! l-rave enough to run an engine, and
| Hail been taught by her husband;
but she could not face sudden
- danger, and, woman-llke, had
lain eil. Charlie explained to
the crowd who had followed the
strange race down the track on another
engine about the wonderful affair, it
seems he had dearly loved his wife and
had taken her along for three years on
the engine with him as a fireman until
she became as skilled as any. She al
ways wore men’s clothing when on the
road and passed for his brother. But
at one time he had become crazy jeal
ous of her causelessly, and had deserted
her in Chicago, without any explana
tion. That was two years before’the
i strange meeting, and lie had drifted
and wandered about since trying to
find her and make his atonement. She
had also gone to work as an engineer,
with a view of finding her husband.
The hoys gave the united couple a won
derful reception when Logansport was
reached, but the affair was kept out of
the papers. It is now made public
j through the Herald for the first time—
you can say that. Well, I’ll come and
tell you some more stories some day.
Good-bye.”— Chicago Herald.
Curious Superstition.
Captain Andrew J. Hess died recently
in San Francisco. Mr. Iless, while
a deputy sheriff, ha l been assigned
to the duty of “ death watcher ” ol
Sing Luin, a Chinaman condemned to
death and who committed suicide in
prison. Just before hanging himself
Sing Ltim wrote a letter in < hinese to
one of tlie Chinese priests, in which hf
said that he had been treated so kindly
by Captain Iless, his watcher, that hi
intended to report him favorably ti
“ Poo Sot,” tlie Great Savior, who, hf
believed, would send to earth for Cap
tain Hess also. Tlie fact that Captaix
Hess died suddenly of heart diseasi
soon after tlie suicide of Sing Lure
caused quite a sensation in San Fran
cisco, and the followers of Contuciui
there fully believe that Sing Lum kept
his word, and tiiat, as a result of hii
intercession, the Great Savior actually
sent the Angel of Deatli to call Sing
Lum's American friend from thi?
world.
“ Here, my friend,” said the cashier,
handing the customer a pile of silver
dollars, “ is your money—s3o. Count
it, to be sure it is all right.” The cus
tomer begins to count —one, two, three,
and so on up to seventeen; then he
puts the pile in his pocket, with the
remark: “ Oh, it’s correct as far as I’vf
| gone—the rest must be right also !"-
Parts Witticism.
WISE WORDS.
He Is richly endowed who is cheaply
diverted.
A contented spirit is the sweetness
of existence.
The most dangerous flattery is the
inferiority of those who surround us.
A great noise is often made by a
small stone; loudest talk is not always
the deepest.
Slumber not in the tent in your col
umns. The world is advancing, ad
vance with it.
If wo had no faults ourselves, we
should not tako pleasure In observing
those of others.
Ignorance Is one of those infirmities
that are insensible; and though it be
ever so desperately sick, feels uo pain
or want of health.
It is against human nature to believe
any people will persist in wrong and
cruelty if they are permitted to enjoy
their natural rights.
We ought not to look back, unless it
is to derive useful lessons from past
errors and for the purpose of profiting
by dear-bought experience.
Would you punish the spiteful—
show him you are above his malice.
The dart he throws at you will re
bound and pierce his own heart.
Lot the young girl seek to adorn her
beauty, if she be taught also to adorn
nor mind and heart, that she may have
wisdom to direct her love of ornament
in due moderation.
The pleasures of this world are de
ceitful; they promise more than they
give. They trouble us in seeking
them, they do not satisfy us when pos
sessing them, and they make us despair
in losing them.
A good conscience is better than
two witnesses. It will consume your
grief as the sun dissolves ice. It is a
spring, when you are thirsty; a staff,
when you are w'eary; a screen, when
the sun burns you, and a pillow in
death.
So certain is the crime of listening
to carry its own punishment that
there is no pointed proldbition against
It; we are commanded not to commit
other sins, but this one draws down
its own correction, and woo be to him
who infringes it!
HEALTH HINTS.
A little, powdorodrebin sprinkled on
rh a £ut will prevent itifiaminatlon;
put a soft cloth arouiuifttu. finger and
wet it witli water frequently.
Vr. Foote's Health Monthly advises
people not to “act upon the sup
position that exhausting physical ex
ercise is strengthening; it is debili
tating.”
In case of accidental wounds, if
an artery is cut, compress above tho
wound; If a vein is cut, compress
below; for a burn, instantly apply a
solution of the bicarbonut of soda and
th j re will be no after soreness.
The council of public health, Paris,
after studying into tho question of di
gestive powers of children, report that
cod liver oil and other such fatty
preparations are of disadvantage to
young children; that tiiey impair the
digestive functions and, bring of no
use, are In the way.
One of the English country towns
which appears to have a death-rate
that is rather higli is consoled by tin;
medical officer, who asserts that it
would be still higher were it not for the
smokiness of the town. The evils of
a bail system of drainage, he thinks,
are offset largely by the smoke from
the factories, which acts as a deodor
izer.
How Children Grow.
A table prepared by a French savant
gives tlie following data on the growth
of children; During the first year
after birth tho growtli in stature is
about seven and a half inches; from
twotothrie it is four to five; from
three to four an inch and a half; from
four to six, two and a quarter inches
annually; from seven to right, two
and a half; from eight to twelve, two
inches; from twelve to thirteen, one
and eight-tenths; from thirteen to
fourteen, two and a quarter; fifteen to
sixteen, two; sixteen to seventeen,
nearly two. After this, though growth
continues until twenty-om>anil some
times for years after, its rate dimin
ishes. Increase in strides shows weak
ness of constitution or imperfect
health.
Bad Medicine.
A young physician who had long
worshiped at a distance was one day
suddenly called to attend her. He
found her suffering from no particu
larly dangerous malady, but she want
ed him to prescribe for her neverthe
less; so he took her hand and said, im
pressively:
“ Well, I should—prescribe—l should
prescribe that—you—get—married.”
“ Oh, goodness 1” said tho interest
ing invalid, “ who would murry me, I
wonder?”
“1 would,” snapped tlie doctor, with
all the voracity of a six-foot pickerel.
“ You 1” exclaimed the maiden.
“Yes.”
“ Well, doctor, if tiiat is tlie fearful
alternative, you can go away and let
me die in peace.”
FASHION NOTES. ’
The new linen lawns are printed in
the sateen designs of the season.
The bustle or crinolet is not adopted
by the masses of English women.
Y'ellow corsage bows give the re
quisite dash of warm color to a sober
suit.
Tho chamois underskirt remains the
favorite of English women for full
dress.
Orange, flame, daffodil, wallflower
and all yellow shades are in higli
favor.
The shapes of new bonnets are not
.materially different from those of last
{season.
Gloves of silk and Lisle thread come
in all lengths and colors to match the
new goods.
The new black grenadines show
Spanish iaoe effeo... in the designs on
guipure grounds.
New raglans are given a bouffant
polonaise effect in the back by tlie loop
ing of the drapery.
The costliest embroidered veiling
robes are marvels of open needlework.
They cost |SO a pattern.
Among the designs in the new sat
eens are red and green pepper (capsi
cum) pods, with foliage und steins.
Embroigfcred costumes of black
cashmere will be still more dressy With
trimmings of tho new soutache laces.
Silk skirts that cling like Jersey
webbing will replace the chamois
skirt of the aesthetic woman as spring
advances.
Large pal-..-leaf patterns appear In
involved designs, covering tlie entire
surface of new cashmere broehes of
the finest quality.
Corn flower and royal Frencli blue,
orange, flame and geld yellow, ox
blood and cardinal red crop out in
most of the new fabrics.
The pepper-pod designs on tho new
sateens come in all stages of coloring
assumed by the fruit of tills plant,
from tho green pepper to the full red.
New parasols of black satin, having
one or two black Spanish lace flounces,
are varied with single or double fringes
of gold bullion between the lace falls.
The new silks and satins that come
in broehe patterns show a prevalence
of oriental harmonies of color, bright
ened with flame, orange and mandarin
yellow, in vanishing effects.
Silver braiding and chinchilla fur are
tlie tjimmings for electric blue cloth
snft*. Silver buckles clasp the drapery
of tlie polonaise; there is a neck-band
andr half girdle of silver, and. there
are silver clasps for fastening tlie
front.
Plastrons or vests laid in folds or
gathered in puffs, or made plain, are
on most winter dresses. They are
narrow at the top, widen out on the
bust, and taper to a point below the
waist, where they are trimmed with a
large fiat bunch of loops and ends of
ribbon.
Young ladles wi ll low, well-shaped
foreheads turn the hair back all around
in loose waves, with hero and there a
curl; they may also wear side parting.
If tlie hair grows prettily on the napo
of tho neck it is carried up higli and
wound around in Psyche form and fast
ened by a small ornamental comb of
Rhine stones or of shell.
. An Affection for Statues.
The statue of Roger Williams, in
statuary hall of the capitol at Wash
ington, writes a national capital cor
respondent, lias lost the finger of its
right hand. It has been recently broken
off. Very few persons have noticed
the fracture. Supervising Architect
Clark is aware of tlie fact, but lie pre
serves a discreet silence. A sculptor
in town has a standing agreement to
mend everything that happens to the
statues. He makes a good thing when
ever accidents occur. He was inspect
ing the counterfeit presintment of Wil
liams, recently, and made a mental
note of the missing finger. Shortly af
terward a curious story was afloat. It
related to the affectionate regard which
an elderly lady, of odd habits, who
keeps a curiosity stand in the corridor,
lias for tlie marble fingers of prominent
men. It is said tiiat she goes into
statuary hall after Congress adjourns
for tho night, and bows aud scrapes to
them like a pagan to Ids idols. Abra
ham Lincoln lias a strong attraction
for her. She g"ts a stepladder, and
kisses his marble face with all the
ardor of a Juliet. Asa result of this
osculation, “Old Abe’s” marble nose
and lips have grown black, and require
a dose of soda and sandpaper t > re
store them to their natural purity of
expression. Of lato she lias displayed
an exalted affection for Roger Wil
liams. She has dusted him in and out
of season. In one of her dusting
moods she struck the little finger re
ferred to with the handle of the duster,
and knocked it off. This is said to lie
the true explanation of tlie fact that
Williams now has only four fingers on
his right hand.
During the past year 600 vessels and
5,76f5 men have been employed in
dredging for coral, from February to
September, off the coasts of Sardinia,
Corsica and Sicily, tlie mainland of
Southern Italy and the coast of Bar
bary. The Naples harvest lias'yielded
1,250,000 pounds, wortli # l ,000/100.
NO. 15.
UNDER HER CHUT.
Tying her bonnet under her chin
She tied her raven ringlets in.
But not alone in the silken snare
Did she catch her lovely floating hair,
For tying her bonnet under her ohin
She tied a young man’s hsart within.
—Nora Perry.
And many a time that little chin
He’s heard from since, you bet and win !
And bonnets she's had for her raven hair,
And many a time he’s been called a bear;
And now she is throwing her ringlets baok,
And says she shall have’ a sealskin sack!
— Courier-Journal.
Butt >ning the sealskin up to her ohin,
She gtideth oat and she glideth in,
And the syes of woman with envy are green;
Bat the erst young follow is seldom seen,
For in a dark office he works like sin,
For tlie.fairy who tied and roped him in.
—Chicago World.
Tying her bonnet under her chin
Is not where the harm to that youth come3 in
Nor an office dark ; but a big airy hall,
With green-covered table and cue and ball—
Some friends, a supper, and a little gin—
There’s where the harm to that yonth comes
in.
If a man oin enjoy the good things of life
Why should he growl at the wonts of his wife
And fume and scold, and tsar aud roar,
And lay all the ills of the world at her door
And why should the fairy havo roped him inf
By tying her bonnet under her ohin ?
—One of the Girls,
-”1i.' 1 .;. 111 'i
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
“Yes,” said the landlord, pointing
to his block of new houses, “ they’re
all full, ’cept the one at the end; that’s
last, hut not leased.”— Boston Tran
script.
Tho demand for napkin rings made
of wood grown at Walter Scott’s
home. Abbotsford, is proving a great
drain bn the forests of Maine.— Boston
Post.
San Francisco newspapers make
mentioij of a rat recently captured in
that city in whose stomach a diamond
was found. That rat hail evidently
caught the rage for “decorated iiv
teriors.”
A remarkable parrot, owned by a
lady Id Quebec, used to give this con
undrum and answer: “ Why does a
donkey eat thistles ? Give it up ? Give
it tip ? Because lie’s an ass I Ha-lia
harha-ha-a-a.”
The second hand of a clock must
always feel cheap; not because it Is
not quite as good as tlie others, hut
simply because it is second hand, and
must take an auction-room rank in the
world.— Picayune. >
Some observant genius has calculated
tiiat in the United States there is one
cow to every four people. It is be
lieved that the same ratio exists in
fashionable society, there being a calf
to every four young men.— Free Press,
“ Who are those two men ?” asked
Deacon Gilpin of ’Squire McGill, tlie
other evening. “Oh, those are the
men who come to work in Joralum’s
place. 110 has moved to Bingham
ton.” “To work in Joralum’s place?
Why, he was the laziest man in Mara
thon!” “I know it, and that’s the
reason there’s two of them. It takes
both of them to be as lazy as lie was.”
—Marathon Inch pendent.
VKAItNINUH.
My friend, when I look in your eyes
I read there nn uunttered grief;
Life’s guerdon, n bitter surprise—
Love's largess, a shattered belief!
Deep, fathomless, dark depths of pain;
Unquenchable, hidden soul-fires,
Consuming alike heart and brain
Hore below, whom genius inspires.
Each heart-throb a yearning, a sigh!
My friend, is not this what you feel?
I pause, I await your reply—
“ Ned, I yearn for a good square meal!”
When to Eat Meat.
It is well known that the digestion
of different kinds of meat is the more
easily effected tlie longer tlie time that
transpires after the death of the ani
mal. The explanation given is, that
by keeping, tlie muscular fibers become
gradually dissociated; they soften, be
come less compact and consequently
are more soluble in the gastric juice.
According to physiologists, however, it
is not considered advisable to wait un
til decomposition sets In, because, in
addition to its losing a great part of
itsnutritive qualities, the meat becomes
so nauseous tiiat no amount of cooking
or the addition of condiments will
much improve it. MM. Pasteur anil
Lemaire, in an interesting paper sub
mitted by them to the French Academy
of Sciences, stated that meat too far
a Ivanced, or what is termed “ fnisan
dee,” is most unwholesome, and it is a
mistake committed daily by sportsmen
to wait until the game gets into this
condition, for it is then simply unlit to
be eaten. Tlie above-named biologists
have shown that tainted meat contains
animalcules, which do the work of
transformation arid destruction; and
as it is difficult to ascertain exactly the
extent of putrefaction tiiat the meat
has undeigone, one is liableto consume
it just at the moment when it should
be rejected. M. Pasteur and other
micrographers are of tlie opinion tiiat
these animalcules, of which there are
no less than thirty species, are of tho
same nature as those that are found in
living animals suffering from virulent
maladies, sucli as ebarbon, etc.—Lan
cet.