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nER ONE GREAT PASSION.
ma .kveloos talents joined to
debasing GREED FOB GOLD.
Rachel Was the Prototype of Bern
hardt In Art—lhe French Woman’s
Experiences In America—Stories of
Her Ingenious Schemes for Extort
ing Money from Her Admirers.
From the Xeie York Press.
Many old theater-goers who have taken
delight in the performances of Mme. Bern
hardt will recall the advent in America of
another great French actress. Mile. Rachel
Felix, commonly known as Rachel. It was
the success of Jenny Lind in this
country that first gave the Felix
family the notion of sending their
prodigy to the United States. The Swedish
nightingale had taken from these shores in
a brief engagement the substantial sum of
1,700,000 francs, and Raphael Felix, the
brother of ltacbel, aud the most rapacious
of an avaricious family, thought to win
e>;ual reward by taking his sister to the
Americans.
Rachel herself made Mammon her god,
and the stories told of her grasping nature
are amusing and a trifle disgusting, but iu
regard to this American tour she seoms to
have had a presentiment. She felt that she
was doing an unwise thing, and her pres
ages proved correot. The American tour
of Rachel not only was less profitable than
the Felix family hoped, but it was the means
of hastening the death of the actress.
Such was the greed of the members
of her family that Alexander Dumas said of
tbe projected tour: “Should Mile. Rachel
luccumb to climate, fatigue or disease, like
Mile. Sontag, they would make the best of
the misfortune by having her embalmed
and exhibiting tbe body of Rachel to tbe
Americans, since they could not exhibit her
alive."
BERNHARDT’S SISTER IN ART.
There are a few points of resemblance be
tween the characters of Bernhardt and
Rachel. They were sisters in art and in
race. Bernhardt is thought to be uncon
ventional in her personal life. Rachel was
also Inclined to tbe same vagaries. There
seems to have been an element of meanness
about the earlier actreis which is happily
lacking in the makeup of the divine
ami errntio Sarah. People will forgive
Bernhardt her moral eccentricity, os critics
deal forgivingly with her attempts at paiut-
Ing and sculpture, while but fow can read of
Rachel’s knavish avarice without a feeling
of contempt. Rachel was ‘ ‘guyed” about
her thin figure, as Bernhardt used to be be
fore she grew tolerably plump. With her
aquiline features, her peculiar head, her
deepest black eyes, her long, lean figure,
she is described by Jules Janin as lookiug
“like a serpent standing: upon its tail.”
There was a constant struggle in her nat
ure between her early habits of parsimony
and the wish to be thought generous and
the love of ostentation. One day she gave
a dinner to some friends and she wanted a
pineapple as the top pleoe of a fruit dish,
rineapples were rather high in Paris then,
and Kaohel, rather than pay 70 francs for
one, rented a specimen of the fruit, which
was to bo for sho w only and was to be re
turned. Unfortunately a mischievous
nobleman who was present and who knew
the circumstances of the rented pineapple,
thruut a knife into the sacred fruit, where
upon Rachel shrieked and nearly fainted.
“Was the heart of Rachel hidden In the
pineapple!” asked a well-known poet.
Although she made enormous sums in
France, thanks to her own genius and the
business sagacity of Papa Felix, she re
sorted to every sort of wile to add to her
stores. On one occasion she found an old
guitar at the residence of a female friend,
and she begged the antique instrument so
ardently that it was given to her. What
does Rachel do with it? She decorates it
with ribbons and haugs it up in her boudoir.
A rich admirer calls upon her.
BAXTER STREET INSTINCTS.
“What is that old guitar, malamoiselle?”
“That guitar? My oldest friend. That is
the instrument which I carried when I was
a Btreet singer in Rouen."
Such a treasure is well-nigh priceless.
The admirer begs for it, and finally offers
50,000 franca for it. With extreme reluo
tauee, imitated with the skill of the actress,
Rachel consents to part with the instrument
for the sum named. The admirer gives his
cheek and departs with hia treasure. He
exhibits it to ail his friends as the identical
guilar which the divine Rachel used when
she was a street singer. It Is admired, and
the possessor is as happy as any collector
exhibiting his gems to envious friends.
Unfortunately one day he shows the guitar
to the very woman woo gave it to Raobel.
She recognizes it, and without malice tells
the truth of it. The chagrin of the possessor
of this base counterfeit of a relio may be
imagined.
Those who did not know Raohel thought
that she would make restitution. Not she!
When the story was told her she only
laughed and said: “How furious he must
be.”
This great genius of the stage had an acute
attack of gold fever. While she was under
age her father took her earnings and kept
her on short commons. When she attained
her majority the first collection she made of
her own earnings consisted of 3,000 francs.
She insisted on being paid in gold pieces,
which were brought to her in a box. She
passed the evening in plunging her hands
into the gold pieces and playing with them.
“I felt,” she confessed to a friend, “like a
wild animal who has the long awaited prey
in his clutohes.”
She taxed her ingenuity to add to her
stock of treasures, Sho Bold her presents
without the least scruple. Once she an
nounced to her friends that she had “a per
fect nassion for emeralds.” Sho bought a
good-sized one and exhibited it to an ad
mirer a the gifts of his rival. He, of course,
gave her a much larger one, as in duty
bound. Other admirers—there were many
of them—followed this example, till R ichel
bad somo forty emeralds, the finest in Paris.
Then ihe cultivated a passion for rubies in
like manner, and when the list of admirers
wa- run through a sapphire craze was be
gun. The stories told of Rachel’s thrift are
legion; these are but a few examples of her
ruling passion.
A VOICE WITHOUT HEART OR SOUL.
W hen eho came to America the yellow
fever was raging in the south, and chari
tably inclined persons were giving goodly
Bums for the benefit of the sufferers.
Rachel was persuaded to part with 5,000
francs on the ground that she would prob
ably make a great amount of money out of
the Americans, and could well afford this
as an advertisement. When business was
less active than the Felix family had ex
pected this donation was the first thing that
Rachel thought of.
“W hat was the use of my giving that?"
she said pathetically. “It was just money
thrown away.”
Rachel differed from Bernhardt in more
respects than she resembled her. Bern
narlt is a woman of fine culture. Raohel’s
c° no was simply intuition and a voice. A
description of her by Mmo. do Oasparin|sums
er up thus: "That little girl has received
irom heaven a great gift,
c. . ®ba has neither heart nor
brains. It is stated os a fact that when
tie studied with Bauson, the retired actor,
ue not only taught her how to speak the
lilies of Racine and Corneille, but actually
aught her tho meaning of most of the
speeches.
The sacred fire with her was a consuming
io, and her vitality was burned out by her
passionate energy in acting. A friend
“Wftor uttering tho terrific
breath for Hßrlf rai mi,l,ltes Hasping for
tiioir- .“ ere 7*f® seemed to withdraw into
heir soeke'a and her l ipß bt , cu[ne violet in
arm,, nti fre iuentiy fell fainting Into the
ste ee Th f motllor when she came from the
of T oxortk,n " brought on delicacy
to consnm, !? “’ a ? d the “ctress succumbed
dnriiur h I^loaa^ter catching a severe cold
d ri h , 8r ©ngagemont i„ Beaton.
C : k ? 6V r m arried. Her two sons
anew g y unl ‘ ke - The elder. Alex
“ i as a marvel of infantile Leauty,
to'rfZ? gick,y “ he *d^And
T^ e Other, Gabriel, was an ugly
fine lookfng
{““T * h *‘ ,Uttll little Gabriel be whe*
he gr- ws up!” asked a friend. “His brother’s
the partial mother, who
was not likely to let maternal tenderness
interfere with her saying a good thing.
A HUNDRED LESS PHR DAY.
Interesting Facta on People Who Lose
Th-ir Legs.
From the .Veto York World.
"One hundred people per dav are maimed
in the United States.’’
The above astonishing statement came
yesterday from the lips of A. A. Marks, one
of New \ ork’s largest and most successful
artificial limb dealers. Mr. Marks ex
plained :
i /l'2 ur private investigations show nearly
I.OUO accidents per day. Hence it is a con
servative estimate to plaoe the daily acci
denta at 100 por day. Asa general state
ment I should say that fully 250,000 people
in the Lotted States are maimed in some
fashion, i have studied this matter a long
tune, and I am convinced of the truth of
this assertion.
“Railroad and machinery, of courte, are
largely responsible for the aggregate of ac
cidents. A year in which there is a great
deal of railroad building is sure to be fruit
ful of accidents."
Mr. Marks was shown the following para
graph:
A dealer in artificial limbs says that an
arm will last a lifetime if properly cared
for, but that after five or six years a leg
gives way to the weight and strain and has
to be re ewed.
“That is not strictlv truehe said. "The
average artificial leg will last ten years;
the average arm a lifetime. Of course, all
depends on use aud care. We have patients
whose arms and legs have lasted over twenty
years, and are still in good condition,
“The ordinary artificial leg is made of
wood and rawhide. Papier-mache has
been tried, but it is not lasting enough.
“The revolution in the method of manu
facturing arms and legs will come, I think,
with the introduction of aluminum, the
lightest and strongest substance known.
“Yes, it takes time to learn bow to wear
an artificial leg or arm. There is a strange
novelty about the new limb that the subject
has to overcome. Some patients walk welt
frem the start; others require long praobee
“Fully 85 per cent, of artitic.al limbs
made vro legs; 15 por cent, are arms. Of
legs 49 per cent, are right, 46 par cent, left,
5 per cent, both right and left. Seventy
eight per cent, of legs amputated are of
males, 129 per cent, are of females. Here is
a table prepared after years of study:
Both
Males. Females. Sexes.
Right 49.9 61.4 49
Left 45.6 46.0 46
Both . 4.6 2.6 6
"An analysis of this table will show that
females are more disposed to lose their right
legs than their left, and the difference is
much greater than that which exists with
males.”
A HANDSOME LEGACY.
Romantic Sequel to the Lathrop Tem
perance Crusades.
Mrs. Anna Brown, formerly Mrs. Anna
Carmichael of Lathrop, Mo., and at present
a nurse in a charitable institution of this
city, is tha central figure in a romance sel
dom equalled, even in fiction, if the informa
tion obtained last night by a Republic re
porter proves true. It was learned yester
day that Mrs. Brown had boon made a
beneficiary recently in the will of one John
Morris, a wealth bachelor of Johnson
county, Missouri, who died and bequeathed
her the handsome sum of $50,000.
About eighteen months ago tbe little
town of Lathrop, Mo., was the scene of a
temperance crusade. Tho women marched
in force on the saloons and wrecked them.
Neighboring hamlets took part in the cru
sade. The saioon forces were completely
routed, the contents of thedramshoos being
utterly cleaned out. Many arrests followed
from time to time, and charges of disturb
ing the peace were preferred in most in
stances against the women who did tho
work. There were trials and the charges
were not sustained. Mrs. J. M. Carmichael,
wife of a minister of the gospel, lead tho
women. Much hostility was aroused
against her, tbe feeling being in
tensely bitter. The final outcome of
this enmity appeared when it was an
nounced that Rev. J. M. Carmichael, the
husband of Mrs. Anna Carmichael, had
come into possession of certain evidence
upon which to base a suit for divorce. The
legal troubles ensuing wore long anil bitter,
and many people at the time considered
Mrs. Brown a much persecuted woman.
However, the divoroe was granted. Mrs.
Carmichaßl filed a petition in oourt asking
that her name bo changed to Mrs. Anna
Brown, as she did not wish to bear the name
of the man who had put her aside. Her re
quest was granted and ever since she has
borne the name of Mis. Anna Brown. She
left Lathrop, and, as stated above, found
employment in St. Louis.
Among the muny who felt that she was a
victim of persecution was John Morris, a
wealthy bachelor, now deceased, and re
ferred to above. He had read the published
accounts of her troubles, and when he died
and his will was opened it was found that
he bad left $50,000 to her, believing, as he
said, that she was an “innocent aud per
secuted woman.” Mr, Morris in his last
testament said that, while he had never met
Mrs. Brown, he knew her family.
AUTOGRAPHS GET CHEAP.
Small Figures Realized at a London
Auction Sale.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
London, Nov. 28.— The autograph mar
ket has been a trifle weak. The prices re
alized yesterday at the great sale in the
rooms of Sotbeby, AVilkinsou & Hodge,
showed a marked depreciation compared
with those of two or three years ago. A
letter of Keats’, which thou realized £55,
was sold yesterday for £ls. Another by
the same poet fetched £7. Three pages of
the magazine in which occurred the sen
tence “Insurrection is a crime whenever
tae w. rk appointed caii br fulfilled through
peaceful agitation” went tor 10 shillings,
while two in the handwriting of Cardinal
Richelieu sold for a shilling a piece.
A curious one from George t'aalrnanazar,
the extremely clever Imposter who invented
a language - which he said was spoken in
Formosa, although he had never been
within 10,000 miles of that island, who, In
his repentantdays,as a friend of Dr. John
son, sold for the comparatively low price of
81 shillings, although it included a seal con
taining a specimen of the language which
he had inventod. , , ,
A long document by Samuel Richardson
fetched £l9 ss; one bv Sterne, £9; one by
Spinola, £lO 10s; one by Lord Nelson, £5;
one by Shelley, the same figure, and a
poem, which wa9 never published, for the
inauguration of the Cornhill Magazine,
with pencil emendations in Thackeray’s
handwriting, £1 Is. while a letter from the
novelist hi ms-If went for £2 2s. Several
autographs of members of the royal family
were also sold, one from her majesty, writ
ten at Windsor castle in 1854, bringing
£4 4s. A short letter from Von Moltke was
sold at what was generally considered the
low figure of a guinea.
A veritable family medicine box, Bekch
am’s Pills.— Ad. _____
$350 OO Trunk of Silver.
Have yon seen
That valuable
Trunk of solid
Silverware in
Sternberg's window?
It, will be given
Away to somebody.
Is It You?— Ad.
Ten Dollar Sultß
At Levy’s are like finding a roll of money
in the street. The biggest bargains ever
seen in this town. Lots left.—Ad.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6,1891-SIXTEEN PAGES.
KILLED BY TBE IRON HORSE.
The Driver's Feelings as the Monster
Does Bis Horrid Work.
FVom he Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette.
“Yes,” said an engin-er who had grown
gray in the service of the company, as he
stood beside his locomotive the other day,
"the suspense attending a run-over accident
when you are on an engine smothers one. I
cau assure you.'' he continued, wiping a
blotch of oil off the side rod with a piece of
waste,“that I am Somewhat of ansuthori’y
on the subject, because 1 have had the mis
fortune to run over about everything from
a chickau to a fire engine.
"You would naturally think that a col
lision where your own life was in imminent
danger would cause you more auxietv than
anything else, but it doesn’t. Usually a
collision occurs before you know where you
era You are sailing along over the rails,
trying to keep as near your sohedule time as
you can, when suddenly something shows
up before you. With me it has always been
the rear of the train, for I have never tried
to past an engine on the same track coming
in an opposite direction. In an iustaut
you slam on the air brakes, reverse
the engine and wait for the crash, and the
engine buries herself in the caboose
or cars of the train you strike. Then you
make the most of a bad lob, and if you are
not at fault for the accident and no one is
injured or kill, you so. n forget all about it
But it is entirely different when you run
over a human being. You are speeding
al >ng and see a man on tho track in front
of you. At first you think he will hear the
train, just as thousands have heard it
before and get off the track in time,
but he goes oa with his back toward
you, and you pull the whistle
string aud the engine shrieks her warning.
He does not hear even that, o you try to
stop the train. The air brakes are put on,
the engine is reversed and the great drivers
begin working backward, sending fire in
showers from the shining steel rails, while
sparks of 1 v coale from the furnace shoot
from the stack high up into tbe sky as the
monster groans and struggles, vainly tryiug
to stop the train behind.
"W bile you draw nearer and nearer the
victim the suspense is absolutely beyond
description. All efforts are useless. You
feel a s.ight jar as the poor devil is struck,
and a cold sweat breaks out all over your
body aud a faint feeling comes over you,
until you fall back on your sent sick at
heart, and wonder what the fate of the man
was, and whether he leaves a family and
what sadness there will be when they learn
the news at home. You think that
you would like to stop railroading and
earn a living at something else. Meantime,
the train has come to a standstill. The en
gine has ceased her struggles and the only
sound you bear is the throbbing of tbe air
brake as it pumps back aud forth, making a
noise like the breathing of some exhausted
beast. Tbe baggagemaster, conductor, aud
brakeman rush out of the cars and take al.
that is left of the victim from under the
wheels.
“Well, you know his fate now. As soon
as you are signalled to go ahead, and as you
touch the throttle, the engine leaps forward
eagerly, as if she w ere a xious to leave the
dreadful place behind, aud in a moment the
thought of the accident is driven by other
work from your busy mind.
“A pig is a dangerous thing to run over,
for he is likely to throw the locomotive off
the track. When the pilot of the engine
bits him it usually knocks him down and
then rolls him for a few yards under it be
fore the trucks strike him, and when they
do there is great danger of them leaving
the rails. The drivers are almost certain to
follow the tracks, and If you don’t go down
the hank you are lucky. So you see what
havoc one pig can make with a railroad.
Another disagreeable thing about a pig is
that he never stops squealing from the time
be is hit until he is stone dead.
"It Is next to Impossible to kill a goat
with an engine. Goats are the most irritat
ing of all animals that wander along a rail
road track. No matter how fast you may
ba running or how quietly you steal down
upon him, he will see you out of the corner
of his eye, and manage to get out of the
way just iu time to miss the cowcatcher ae
the engine rushes by him at lightning speed.
Cows and horses are generally easily dis
posed of, though sometimes they got under
the wheels and cause a bad wreck. But
they are so large that the pilot gets under
them and throws them to one side.
Siieep are the most pitiful of all
animals to run down. They seem to
realize the danger that they are iu and
huddle together in the middle of the rails
and await death. Their innocent eyes stare
at you so mournfully and sadly that they
haunt you for days to come. A locomotive
seems to take savage delight in destroying
sheep. She throws them in every direction,
and will kill a whole 11 ck in an instant. I
struck a flock of geese once. Well, I never
thought there were so many feathers in the
world. I couldn’t see anything but feathers
for ten minutes and wheu we reached the
station my engine looked as if she had re
ceived a coat of tar and feathers."
A BRUSH WITH MEXICAN LIONS.
A Party Go Hunting for One end Dis
cover a Pair of Them.
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Wepullod out from Lampasas at 4 o’clock
in the afternoon, and tho next morning we
moved on until we came to a sheep ranch of
Mr. Uarmiohael, a .Scotchman who was said
to have been the principal sufferer from tho
depredations of the lion, and near
whose house Simpson had seen the
animal. Mr. Carmichael’s head shep
herd reported that two sheep had
been killed and part ially devoured the night
before. We were aroused at daybreak the
next morning by Reed, and after breakfast
we divided into two parties, eaoh one taking
one of the hounds. Simpson, Campbell and
the writer had just returned to camp for
dinner, wheu Duke came dashing in with
the information that the other party bad
“treed” the lion in a cave or cleft in the
rocks about three miles away.
We mounted hurriedly, and, taking a
couple of axes from the wagon, started for
the scene of action. Arrived there, we
found the party in front of a narrow ledge
of rocks, with a small opening on the west
side, in wbioh Reed declared he had seen
the animal disappear. The hound was
dancing around in front of the opening,
ha king frantically, and it was very evi
dent there was some kind of animal inside.
An examination developed the fact that the
ledge of rocks was only about thirty yards
wule, and it was declared by Reed that the
cave extended nearly or quite through. It
was found that one large rock was all that
blocked up the east openiug. Cutting somo
saplings, we stationed men on each side of
the rocks, whiie two of us proceeded to
move the rock. All at once the lion
bounded out with a growl, passing near
Campbell, who, thougn badly frightened,
took a snap shot at him with a Winchester,
and, very much to the surprise of himself,
as well as the rest of us, killed him.
We had just gathered around tho carcass
and were discussing the process of skinning
him when Reed exclaimed: “What’s the
matter with the dogs?” They were barking
and growling at the entrance we had made
by movlDg the rock. * “There must be more
in there,” said Reed, and hurrying to the
opening we were just in time to see the lion
ess, followed by two cubs, emerge from the
rocks. She killed one of the dogs In a
twinkling, and was herself dispatched by a
well directed shot from Wright’s gun. The
cubs started to run, but Heed fell on one
and secured it, after receiving several
scratches, while the ether was captured by
the combined efforts of the remaining dog
and Mr. Duke.
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When ehe became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
Whan she bad Children, she gave them Caatorig
WORK OF A COUNTESS.
WHAT LADY DUFFERIN ACCOM
PLISHED IN INDIA
Helping 400,000 Women and Train
ing Parsee Girls to Give Medical
Aid tn the New Hcspitals and
Medical Colleges for Women.
From the London Strand Uagatine.
For several months there has been a de
mand iu church circles to Chicago for more
definite Information as to tbe work of Lady
Dufferln among the women of ludia. A
writer in our last number gives
tbe following interesting particulars
as to tbe results of the move
ment inaugurated by Lady Dufferin, bring
ing the reoord down to tbe dose of the first
quarter of the present year:
The National Association for Supplying
Female Medical Aid to the Women of India
owes its origin to a wish on the part of her
majesty the queen-empress to ameliorate
the condition of the native women of India;
and when her excellency tbe Countess of
Dufferin and Ava, before her departure for
India, took leavoof her majesty, the matter
was discussed and left in Lady Dufferin’s
bands. To better hands it could uot have
been intrusted, and this noble lady adopted
every means of ascertaining In a hat direc
tion, and by what means, the wishes of her
majesty could most effectually be carried
out.
The universal want of skilled medical aid
for native women, whom male physicians
are not permitted to attend, pre-ented it
self as the desired avenue. The ablest
statesman would have been appalled, and
the most ardent philanthropist would have
hesitated, before an undertaking so vast
as one that had for its object the providing
for the physical wellbeing of 100,000,000
women. Where was the wherewithal to
come from, aud how were the ignorance,
superstition, and the prejudices of caste to
be overcome} Tho “Where’’ and the
"How" were carefully considered, formid
able obstacles overcome, and the experi
ment made: how well it has succeeded I
will try to show.
The National Association for Supplying
Medical Aid to tho Woinon of India was
founded in 1885. Her majesty the queen
empress was its patron, the governors and
lieutenant governors were vice patrons.
Life councillors, life members and ordinary
members were to be enrolled according to
the amount of their donations. The general
affairs of tho association were to be
managed by a central committee, and
efforts were to be made to establish branches
throughout the country. The money sub
scribed to the national association was to be
called the "Countess of Dufferiu’s fund."
Early in the year five and o half lakhs of
rupees were invested as an endowment
funds, and the society was registered. By
permission of the home department of the
government of India, the surg on general
aids the society in the selection of the most
suitable women for medical services, and
they are grouped as follows:
1. Lady doctors registered undor the
medical acts of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, or possessing
such certificates as would entitle them to
such registration.
2. Female assistant surgeons.
3. Female hospital assistants.
The women receive a little more pay
than men in the same grades in the gov
ernment medical services, because they will
have no peusiou, nor a regularly increasing
salary. The lady doctors who are brought
from England receive, in addition to their
passage aud an allowance for outfit, 300 ru
pees per month, with quarters, and they are
allowed to have a private practice as well.
The association was to be misectarian,
catholic and universal. Its aim was— ■
L To provide medical tuition for native
female students.
2. Medical relief, by establishing female
hospitals and dispensaries, and the placing
of lady doctors in different''towns or dis
tricts.
3. Supplying trained nurses and ac
coucheuses for women and children in hos
pitals and private houses.
How nobly—in spits of opposition and
jealousy—tho aasoemtion is steadily advanc
ing will be seen from the following:
There are thirteen lady doctors, twentv
seven assistant surgeons and female medi
cal practitioners, now working in connec
tion with the fund, and 204 pupils studying
at the medical college! and sahools in India
Boarding houses have also been established
for the students, where, under a lady, they
can lie trained in habits of self respect,
gentleness and dignity, and where they can
be safely protected on the r entrance into a
comparatively public life, from one of oon
vent-like seclusion. That the female medi
cal students are doing well is conclusively
proved by the reports. At Hyderabad, Dr.
Lawrie says: “Two of the lady students
beat the whole of iho male students, and
secured the first places in their class at the
half-yearly competitive examination.”
The nizam’s government is sending these
two young ladles —one of whom is a Parsec
—to England to complete their medical
education.
Over twelve lakhs of rupees have been
speut in the erection of buildings especially
adapted for affording medical relief to
native women. The number of women who
received medical old during the year 1890
were 411,000. The princes and chiefs of
India from the first fully recognized the
value of Lady Dufferin’s uoble work and
have warmly supported it. Among the
most munificent donors are the maharaja,
tho Nizam of Hyderabad, and tho Maharaja
of Ulnar. In 1880 the Begum of Bhopal
opened a female dispensary and school, and
the Nizam of Hyderabad founded six
scholarships and fouuded female medical
classes in his state.
In 1888 the Dufferin hospital at Nagpur
was opened, having cost 80,000 rupe s, all
subscribed by Indian nobles; there is also
the Walter hospital at Oodrypore, the Lady
Lyall boarding h use for students attornling
the Lahore Medical College, toward which
tho Maharaja of Ka-hmir gave 60,000 ru
pees; the victoria hospital at Kotah, the
Lady Dufferin hospital at Patiala, the Ma
ternity hospital at Agra, he labwgrl hos
oltal at Benares, and the Lady Dufferin
Zenana hospital at Calcutta.
It is impossible for Englishwomen to real
ize the condition and suffering of their un
happy sisters in India before Lady Dufferin
started her grand crusade on their behalf;
the thousand of lives yearly sacrificed, the
wholesale murder of infants and the life
long injuries Inflicted on the mothers—who
are little more than infants themselves—
through the ignorance and inhuman prac
tices of the dhais (accoucheuses).
Lady Dufferin, when giving me a brief
account of her work, was anxious that I
should mention the earlier effort! of the Ze
nana mission, which, she said, “paved the
way for the national association.” Instead
of weakening and opposing existing chari
ties and societies, the association has been
instrumental in assisting and stimulating
them, and supplying a common center of
reference and communication.
Lady Reay, during her residence in Bom
bay, rendered valuable aid in promoting
the means of giving female medical aid to
the native women; her sympathy and phil
anthropic activity were unceasing, and pro
ductive of good results. Tbo marvelous in
crease of special hospitals for women, of
women’s and of children’s wards, is mostly
due to native liberality. Lady Reay in 1890
laid the foundation-stone of the “Awabai
Bhownaggree Home for Nurses.” This insti
tution—the flrst of its kind in India—was
intended as a home where native nurses
could receive instruction in their duties. It
was erected from a Joint fund set apart by
government and M. M. Bhownaggree, C. I.
E.. in memory of his sister. Miss Awabla
Bhownaggree, a beautiful audaccomplished
Parseo lady, greatly esteemed aod much be
loved in the highest and mo t select circles In
Europe, as well as in her own country.
Her sudden death at the age < f 19 was re
garded as a national loss. Her charming
vivacity and high intellectual gifts made
her a universal favorite. During her last
visit to England, In 1860, she was received
by her majesty the queen. Tbe home,
which coat So.OUU rupees, half of which was
contributed by M. M. Bbownaggree, was
former.y opened by bis exoelleucy Lord
Harris, on Feb. 17, 1891, and contains ac
commodation for twenty nurse*. Tbe sani
tation a: and ventilation are perfect; separata
quarters are provided for Fartees, Hindoos
find Mohammedans. The building it faced
with blue stone, with deaigns and carvings
in Porebuuder stone. The entrance portico
is supports by massive pillars with carved
capitals; the rooms o|i#n out of a spacious
corridor. It will ever remain as a touching
tribute from a sorrowing and affectionate
brother to the memory of a deeply loved
and only sister.
TRIALB OF POOR INVENTOR!.
Specimen of a Col. Sellers Indtvidua
and His Schemes.
TVorn the Washington Star.
There was a he ita'.ing nibble at the door
knob, then the door was slowly opened, and
in he came, looking first at one and then
the other of us, os if iu search of a friendly
or euo uraging glance.
Removing an old slouch hat from bis
head with a spasmodic Jerk, he turned to the
man who was nearest the door and assed:
"Is this the place where tbev patent gal
lusses and braces
When informed that it was he seemed
pleased to think be had found the right
place and asked to soe the chief. Hat
in band, he sauntered up to the chief's desk,
and after a few remarks about the woather,
be reached down In his trousers pocket and
brought up a contrivance which at first
glance looked like an ordinary shoe horn.
With a click and a snap, however, he turned
up from the small and a corkscrew.
We had all seen him before, and knowing
that there was tun ahead, by this time there
was a general suspension of work, and all
were intently watching the proceedings.
With the fire of genius In his eyes and a
tremor iu his voloe he exclaimed, as lie held
the oontnvauoo up to view; “There’s a fort
une iu that for somebody, but they don’t
seem to see it. That little thing fll.s a long
felt void. A man always needsa corkscrew
in tho evening, and after he has drawn tho
corks and imbibed the contents of several
bottles, how would be get his bat on in the
the morning if it were not for this little
hat persuader!
"Both of those little necessarios are here
in a neat an'd compact little device, which,
if it wore only manufactured aud put upon
the market, would sell like hot cakes.”
No one seemed to want to take hold of It.
however, and a good thing is g> in bugging
from the lack of a few dollars u> give it u
start. People dou't know what they are
missing.
"Bee that 1" and he held out a jack-knife
with a patent needle-threading attachment:
“Another good thing! Something which
bachelors have been wauting for a long
time. How many of you oan thread a
needle 1
“You all carry a jackknife; every man
does.
"With one provided with this little at
tachment of mine any man could throod a
lie <l!e as good ns a woman.
“1 tried to interest tho capitalist in this
little scheme, but it shared the same fate as
the other. One man said he would take bold
of it if it had bootjack ami mouth organ ut
toohments, but as it was ho did not want it.
Borne people are hard to please, but,” draw
ing a bundle from his cost tail pocket and
waving it in tho air, “I’ve got it this time,
and no mistake.
“Fur a long time have I chased the frisky
dollar, but hus given me the slip. Thank
heaven 1 have at last fouud the way to
fame and fortune.
“Gentlemen,” he said, as he slowly un
wrapped tho package and held up to our
astonished gaze a combination of strain,
cords, pulleys, buckles and large red sh e ds,
“behold the greutest invention of the age!
This is a combined suspended and adjust
able liver pad. To show you wbat it Is
and how it wor ks I will just slip it on over
my coat. There, now, isn't that a grand
thing!
" You no doubt perceive the great ad van
tage of having tho liver-pad connected with
your suspenders. The pad M adjustable to
fit all livers.
“Any one can woar it, no matter whore
their liver i3 or where they think it is.
How many people know where their liver
isf Not .mny, I warrant you.
“How would a man who supposed his liver
was up under his right arm manage with
the ordinary liver pad? He couldn’t man
age at all; he would die of liver complaint
in a month’s time. This being adjustable
can be shifted to all parts of the body; thus
people oan have their liver pad wherever
they wish it.
“Gentlemen, think of tho people walking
around to-day suffering because they can
not cover the place where they suppose
their liver to be with the ordinary liver
pad. Wby.it is a beautiful thing," and
with a Sellerslike air he exclaimed: “ (here’s
millions iu it I Gentlemen, you all being ex
perts in this line must appreciate its many
advantages and possibilities.
“Do any of you want to get rich? To
any oue who will kindly advance me
enough to pay for my patent I will give a
half interest in this, tho grandest thing of
the l(ind ever dreamed of. It’s a chance of
a lifetime, and you shouldn't miss it."
No one appeared anxious to invest in
liver pads, either through lack of confidence
or of sufficient wealth to do so, or both, aud
sadly takiug it off and wrapping it up care
fully aud stowing it away he shuffled out,
muttering in an undertone to himself some
thing about “greatest iuvoutlon of tbe age
—fortune’s last chance.'
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ferer who will send me their Express and P. O. address.
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few days
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At the well known Novelty Works of T. A.
Ward, where flrst-clas.s work is done in W’heel
wrightlng, Blacksmithing, Horseshoeing, Paint
ing and Trimming. Call up No. 461 and we
will do the rest.
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