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A BIG musical hospital.
KIVEBHA HAS ONE IS MUNICH
B XWBVfV STOHIES HIGH.
B ,pn<oble Case. in History Where
1 ' ,c Hni Effected Great and Per
manent Cores - The Kneippists
Driven Crnsy With Je.loo.y-Se..-
ralicia ■*.! ■**“* Cured by
Pln'*nar Wagner n the
"."..no-Sot Hall as Hard to Believe
Hypnotism SVns at First.
Munich. Jan. 1. - The new year
tarlS in with a “cure” boom that, before
f, T is ended, may startle the world, even
a ' the Kneippists startled it in 1896. The
;;„ v ellre is the “music cure." It will be
' ,1 tti after Dr. Paul Riverra, who is the
ia ther of it.
.. not an absolutely new idea, for a
■•music cure” has been talked of for five
and plans for a “music cure” hos
pital ware made three years ago by Archi
| ct Gustave Baab. But the “music oure"
iia.< received anew boom lately from the
u ct that the Empress of Austria was
lUr ed of her long-standing neuralgia by
riain straing of sounds oft repeated,
an(3 nu w such a euro will be carried out
completely in the music-cure hospital
which is already under way.
When seen about it the other day in his
laboratory Dr. Riverra was busy rigging
op a door harp provided with nine srings
in the key of E flat. It was to be fastened
upon a door which, when opened, would
give forth a pleasant ringing sound. The
,-iame harp could a,so be placed upon the
hack of a rocking-chair, in which the af
flicted patient could sit.
When asked to talk about his “cure” the
doctor hesitated. “I am not fully ready
to exploit it yet,” said he, “because I am
afraid it is premature and may expose me
to ridicule.
■•yet,'’ he continued, taking a book down
from a shelf, “1 am encouraged by a leaf
from the diary of one M. Fourcarde writ
ten in Paris fifty years ago. Dr. Four
carde tells how he is advocating the use
of a few drops of medicine to take the
place of bleeding in cases of low fevers.
The ridicule heaped upon him is depicted
in this touching line: ‘1 cannot walk in
the greet without hearing ‘Lunatic!’
founded on every side of me, ‘Quack!’ on
every hand.’
"In those days they did not have cranks,
or he would have been called a crank, as
1 now fear that I shall be.
I am bidden, however, be of good cheer,
for the water cures and hypnotic treat
ments have prepared the way for all kinds
of painless cures.
"This is the age of the painless cure.
Anaesthesia began in the early part of the
present century. From that time to this
the pa.nless treament has gone steadily on.
Laughing gas was a mighty leap forward.
Cocaine was still a greater jump, invented
lor local use in the illness of your Gen.
Ulysses S. Grant, and then came all the
marvelous painless medicines, led by phe
nacetine. Music is the last exponent of
iliem all. It properly be.ongs to the vapor
medicines, like chloroform, as it acts on
the senses.
"The music cure,” continued the doctor,
“began in ihe days when David played to
soothe the soul of Saul. The next record
we have of a musical effort relieving great
distress was when the singer Beliari, in
the sixteenth century, put to sleep Prince
Bellargravia, the Italian patron of sculp
ture. The prince woke after a twelve
hours’ sleep completely relieved of the The
matic pains that had kept him awake two
weeks—for in those days there were no
sleeping potions.
"The singer Raaf, in the eighteenth cen
tury, cured the fever of the Princess Pig
na'elli by singing “The Saxon" to her; and
in beginning of the present century Duree,
of Paris, cured a man of paralysis by
making him sing the “Marseillaise" over
and over again.
"Without quoting more cases, and medi
cine is filled with them,” said the doctor,
“I will pass to our present plan for a musi
cal hospital cure.
“We shall not, as the Kneippists do, ad
vertise a ‘cure for every ill of mind or
body," any more than we would declare
that electricity cures everything, or that
iron is a universal medicine. We will cure
certain troubles and let others alone.
“Our strong point will be the cure of
pain. As every one knows, the power of
music upon pain is great. The lullaby
principle in the nursery is founded upon
it. and the singing to invalids is based
upon the soothing effect of sounds. Head
ing aloud to the sick—and there are so
< ictios banded together for this sick-room
diversion—is only a branch of this same
t are. Acting upon this we will have large
wards rt.,ed with pain patients.
' the philosophy of it all Is that a pain
"hi go away if you give it time enough.
H you could put a patient to sleep for two
"ivks, while his pain is raging, he will
awake well. But you can’t do it.
'The music cure acts by putting him to
,vsl - He hears the sounds and does not
ltd the pain while he is listening. This
” ;| well known fact In every hospital.
I’aiicnts that are groaning with agony be
' uni" quiet for two hours while "Sunday
praim singing Is going on.
"ur music hospital will have a ward
lor l u'in patients where they can hear m
-11 r* sting music. Words, with many verses
I’ hug a narrative, will keep them quiet
and they will hear long tales of old-time
"inis and the present songs of the day.
Another ward will be for nervousness,
t""" this there is nothing like Wagner’s
music. Tins is descriptive music. You
a milkmaid come out of the house and
lr> Hie barn with her pail in her hand,
on hear the first tinkle of the drops in
I - laid, with the maid crooning her song
Illl! fail dlls; the cattle around are moo
ing to her for their turn; and you finally
" Hie milk-maid carry the pail to the
and dry.
Hiis story will first be told In words,
j 1 n the patient will listen to hear it in
innt-lc. This will so interest them that
II ' Will get well under the music’s spell.
* s hall wo abandon drugs ? No, Indeed.
I patients die while, taking medicine.
" "iso they are so ’blue’ in mind that
’ " v cannot get up ambition to rally from
' ’>r Ills. The music will keep up tlicir
II “lest in life.
dome Ills are best treated with low
I ’ "Ms. Others ne, and loud compelling
sii tiins. These we will arrange for In our
1,1 “'ratal.
nils musical hospital Idea.” said the
"" ar, "yoq now think a strange German
m-niMon But remember liow sceptical vou
a few years ago about anything real
v "•'•pnotlsm. Now Bellevue hospital in
, ' ork *" discussing a chair of hvpno
-rn. ana our hospital here lias one In
"“l.v operation. The new hospital will
wentv stories high if we can arrange
■ '■ latbai so that wo may get wiiat Sir
, , ewton called ’vibration of tlm
. ... V “nd what orthodox Christians are
ay to believe Is the heavenly choir.
Us i ’ rk will have a ''hair of music In
'dnkTt w^i h . OSPItaU lleX '- IJut 1 1,0 not
~j Kll wlll un outlie musical hospi-
Wor, h f. ,, ?? M * wl,h D e< >ple In the New
Vo i iHini/ ’ ot thty a,e 100 conservative.
, ‘ V nk >' ou “ro too progressive, but you
AorM tU i!! y th * * loWl ’st people in the
making lit y , our ** •" ,he money
" dicin’" ami the sciences
.... Y> lmiiy. Your genius Edl-
J ' o >' t 0 adopt electrical dls
jou Idiyslc.rais have to lead
I- Chat Is why your rlcli people
come to Germany and France to be cured
of their diseases, because here there is
progress. You follow too slowly.
“But the music cure is going to be an
exception. 1 am in correspondence with
one of your most celebrated physicians,
and he says he has advocated the hiring
of nurses that can sing in cases of fevers
and neuralgia.
“In our music treatment we have often
found that patients can cure themselves.
In cases of sharp headache, earachA. and
in sciatica and pains of the spine the pa
tient helps herself.
"We had a case of a young woman who
had sharp pains in the back at uncertain
hours. We advocated the music cure
When she felt one coming on she would
go to the piano and, twisting with agony
and almost fainting in pain, she would
touch a few notes and would begin to feel
relief at once. Often she would sit
through the attack of fifteen minutes’ du
ration, playing all the time, and at the
close of the attack would declare that she
had not suffered as much as usual.
“Men are cured of indigestion by music
at their meals. Every doctor knows this.
It. drives business worry from the mind
and precludes the possibility of nervous
indigestion.
“In 'ls-17 Ralpierre made a reputation for
himself with his hospital for the insane.
He stationed a band of music in the hall
way and allowed it to play at frequent in
tervals. It kept the brain from using up
its exhausted fund of gray matter and the
fatients got well.
“We have .under treatment now, with
music, one of your most celebrated actors
and a member of the legal profession of
Chicago. Both are getting along well, and
both say the treatment' is more rational
than the mud baths of Marienbad or the
Carlsbad sun bleachlngs.
“Munich, the stopping place of Liszt,
Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelsshon and Ros
s.ni, is the place where musical effect has
been noticed for hundreds of years, and
from Munich comes the great cure of 1897."
Walter Otto Brosche.
STRYCHNINE AS A DRINK.
Development of n New Habit Which
Ik Rapidly Spreading.
From Pearson's Weekly.
Anew kind of patient can shorty be
looked for at the gold cure
the victim of the strychnine habit. We
have had the cocaine fiend, the morphine
fiend, the slave of the hasheesh drug and
the wretched mortals whom only a regular
diet of opium could keep alive.
The strangest victim to drugs of an ex
cessively stimulating nature, however, is
the strychnine fiend. Strychnine is known
to medical science as a deadly poison, but
when under medical direction it acts as a
powerful tonic, greatly stimulating the
heart’s action. So powerful is it in its op
eration that only the most infinitesimal
proportion is allowed in a tonic prescrip
tion. Yet it has been seized upon by the
physical wrecks of civilization as a means
of stimulating the flickering sparks of life,
and a strychnine “jag" can be added to the
hilarious moments that nerve-smashing
drugs afford.
The discovery of the strychnine fiend was
made by a religious worker in a large city,
whose mission takes him nightly into the
society of women to whom excitement of
some kind is essential to the forgetfulness
of life’s dark side. This missionary re
cently found early one morning the form of
a well-dressed woman prostrate on the
pavement. She was taken to one of the
institutions In connection with which the
missionary worked, and a doctor sent for.
It was clearly a case of “jag” of some
kind or other. The usual remedies were
applied; but he death-like pallor of the pa
tient’s face and the queer action of the
heart alarmed the doctor, and he ordered
her clothing to be searched to obtain a
clew to guide him in his efforts to bring
her to consciousness.
In the woman’s pocket was found a
small bottle containing a few pellets,
which, upon investigation, proved to con
tain enough strychnine to kill an elephant.
The woman was suffering from an over
dose of strychnine, and the drug had done
its work well. It was with the greatest
difficulty that her life was saved, and for
days following this she cried pitifully for
the deadly tonic that was withheld from
her. From her own statement, and the
doctor and those present believed it, she
had begun by taking a very small por
tion of strychnine, and, as the craving for
the drug increased, had added to her
dally dose until she found she could take
with impunity a quantity sufficient to kill
ten people who were unused to poison.
A reporter who visited the chemists’
shops in the district gathered some addi
tional particulars regarding the new
"dope.” One chemist stated that the poi
son book in which entries are made of
all deadly drugs sold showed a steady In
crease in the amount of strychnine con
sumed. “It is quite evident that the new
stimulant is gaining in favor," said the
druggist, “and the recklessness of the
'fiends’ is sure to result in some fatality
unless druggists decline to sell strychnine
altogether. Those addicted to its use buy
It In pellets, and the dose they take is reg
ulated by themselves. The seasoned hands
are able to take an enormous quantity
without doing any more than quickening
the beating of their dying hearts and
stimulating their jaded nerves, but those
to whom the drug is anew thing are like
ly to kill themselves with a comparatively
small quantity.
“I have on my books the names of wo
men who are shining ornaments of soci
ety who sent to me for strychnine pellets
with the stereotyped assertion that they
are wanted to kill a dying eat. The wo
men who send for the poison are without
doubt victims of the strychnine habit.
Then I shall show you the names of men
who are regular customers for strychnine,
in their case the poison is taken to coun
teract the evil effects of tobacco smok
ing. A person can derive some benefit
from taking strychnine, as the stimulat
ing action of the one poison counteracts
the sedative effects of the other. In these
cases Ihe poison may be taken with some
benefit, under medical direction, but with
the ordinary ‘fiend,’ who men'v lakes it
for the pleasurable sensation it produces
the after effect is bound to be disastrous.’
HOW GOLF IS PRAYED.
Observations on (lie Game by a Man
up a Tree.
From the Washington Times.
The caddie of the player runs up and
places a lump of wet sand on the earth
to set the little white balls upon. If this
Is not used a small rubber ring is used
for the pedestal. When the ball is in po
sition the player stands to the side of it,
spreads his feet apart and lakes up an
attitude of swinging freedom. He selects
his driving club from the bag that the
caddie holds, and grasping H with both
hands, swings it through the air wiili a
quick trial stroke, just missing ilie ball.
It hisses like a black snake as it cleaves
the air, and is held aloft for a moment
while the player recovers from the tre
mendous swing his body has taken. The
next stroke Is likely to be the telling one,
and the white ball goes sailing aloft and
away to a wonderful distance. Timt Is,
It does if the player does'not fluke and
tap his ball with an excess of nervous
ness.
Someone has sold that playing golf Is
for two people to drive balls as fur across
country as they can. and the one that
finds his first that day has won the game.
That is certainly the way it looks to an
outsider, for the possibility of ever find
ing a hull after such a stroke seems In
credible. The sharp eye of the caddie is
upon It, however, and he Is away like the
wind to follow It up and stand by it until
the player comes up with it again. The
ball is white, and the ground in brown,
and so it is not such a cl IHI tilt matter
after all to locate It.
—“I should be glad,” wrote Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe to some Chicago reformers
the, other day, “to Join in any effort, made
with wisdom and charity, to bettei* this
state of things, lu: the burden of years
begins to weigh me. and my powers,
such as they, 1 cumin, are heavily mort
gaged." 1
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. JANUARY 10. 1807.
Mephisto—You a shepherdess? Why, where's your crook?
Shepherdess—J Aren't you with me?
Miss Bell—Why dees your husband always write to you with the aid of a type
writer?
Mrs. Nell—l presume she thinks he might say something to me that would make her
jealous.
fctil'> , ft
“A FEELING OF SECURITY CAME OVER HIM
HI NT WITH ROMAN CANDLES.
Coons Brought Down Willi the Balls
of Fire.
From the New York Press.
Susquehanna, l’a.—Wllhout any doubt
Sam Wheeler anil Bill Sampson of Gulf
Summit aro the most expert coon hunters
between the Susquehanna and Port Jer
vis. Tho other night they started to try
a now method. The dogs soon raised a
coon, chasing It through a dark and rough
ravine and up a rocky spur. Sam and
Hill had a tiresome walk before they came
up with the dogs, which were barking un
der a large tree. A torch was lighted as
Sam tired at w liat he supposed was a coon,
hut nothing come down. Then Bill trlefl
the new plan. Ram had no faith in It.
As he was ’•idlcullng his partner’s Mill m -
a great bail of fire from a roman candle
space.
Bali after bal! was shot up Into ihe tree.
The third hit a eoon square in the back.
The animal's fur caught tire us the coon
fell down through the branches of the
At the Mawqnerade.
A Cautions Husband.
tree. A second later the flames were
smothered and the coon was killed by the
dogs.
Bi.l caught sight of another coon and
put a bullet through his head. Another
candle was lighted, and the third coon
was sighted. Bill had by this time become
expert, and the coon lost Its hold and fell
among the waiting dogs. The samo night
six more coons were bagged by tho same
process.
—Briggs—Simmcrson, the Inventor, says
his wife doesn't even know what business
he la in. .
Griggs—Why has he concealed it from
her?
“He is afraid that she might get the
impression that he could do odd Jobs
around the house.”—Life.
—They threw the broad mantle of char
ity over her. “This is too much," she fal
tered. There had been grdat changes in
the modes since the mantle of charity
was made, and there was indeed more of
it than was absolutely neocssary.—Deisoit
Journal.
IN A MANIAC’S CLUTCHES.
A LOI'ISIANI A ROMANCE WITH A
terrible ending.
Tale of Unrequited Love—An Or
pliancil Tot of Five Year* la
Adopted liy a I.ad of Ten—They
Grow Ip Tone I lier and When the
Malden lludn Into Womanhood Her
l’roteetor Plead* For Her to lle
eome 111* Wlfe-She Refuses and
the Sad Henonement of the llo
mance Follows.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Rush Valley, La.—The piercing screams
for helf) from a woman held in the clutch
es of a maniac rudely awakened this place
on Thursday night from its quiet slum
bers and threw the inhabitants into a
state of the wildest excitement. The whole
affair, the beginning of which dates back
many years, is the most disastrous and
pathetic ever known In this part of the
state. In the fall of IS7B, among the many
victims of tho yellow fever which raged
here for several weeks, were John and
Mary Hoover, two young married people,
much thought of by everyone. After their
death, and. in fact, tho day of tho fun
eral, their many friends formed a group
and held a consultation as to who should
adopt their child, Mary Hoover, the little
o-year-old maid who stood before them
orphaned, and not only that, but, so far
as known then, having no relatives; no
claim. In fact, upon any one or anything.
The people of this section were then Inti
mate with poverty, and, like all poor folks
the world over, were well supplied with
children. There was not a parent heart
there but went out to the sobbing child,
and one and all were willing to give her a
home temporarily, but for all time, with
so many little ones of their own to care
for. it seemed then impossible to promise.
And while they discussed the matter, each
mother wiping a tear away and wanting
the child for a time at least, a little lad of
not more than 10 years, who had watched
and listened attentively, walked up to the
wee maiden, kissed her tear-stained cheeks
took her by the hand and led her away to
where an old couple stood, just ready to
turn the fork of the path homeward. Much
to their surprise, he announced his inten
tion of taking the child home to his pa
rents, who. he thought, In the kindness
of his tender heart, could easily feed an
other mouth. And in this he was quite
right. His family welcomed heartily the
little stranger and took her unto them
selves as their own.
This boy, Robert Moore, being the only
child, had sorely missed the companion
ship with which most children are bless
ed, so that the coming of tlfe girl was the
brightest thing that could have been ush
ered into his life. Naturally, these two
little people grew Into each other's hearts
as they grew in years. Mary Hoover,
from then until she was Just merging into
womanhood, loved the boy as a brother,
but as time went by it was plain to be
seen that he loved her as something more.
But of this little was said until Mary was
16 and Robert 21. About this time, afler
many weeks of earnest pleading, the girl
allowed herseif to be persuaded Into prom
ising, whep all things suited, to marry
the young man. This, however, was
against her desire, and she had promised
because she did not know what else to
do. -She well knew that she was In
debted more to Robert than to any one
else, that she owed all to him and his
parents, and the only way in which to
show her full appreciation to them, to
half pay the great debt, all of which she
could never pay. would be by giving her
self to their boy, thereby making him
happy, and in so doing creating happiness
also within the hearts of his parents. But
that was a duty to them, and In thinking
of that, for the time being, she forgot the
duty to herself. She looked upon tho boy
as her brother, his father and mother as
hers also. She loved them all as such, so
how could she even think of wedding him?
She turned this over in her mind every
minute In the day and spent sleepless
nights battling with duty. She felt that,
feeling as Bhe did about the matter, she
would be committing a sin to marry her
' foster brother, and she determined then
and there that at any cost it must not
be But of this she had not at first cour
age to tell Robert, but as time passed on
a sad occurrence in the family smoothed
the way. Her foster father died
and less than a week after
wards his brother followed him, leaving
five children without kith or kin save Rob
ert and his mother. So, as It may be Im
agined, the sole support of them all, from
then until they were grown, devolved upon
their cousin Robert. One day, not many
weeks after this, Mary expressed herself
fully and clearly to Mrs. Moore and her
son and when the three said good night,
they each carried to their own room hearts
that were scarcely oppressed. The two
young people avoided each other and the
painful subject was not again touched up
on. This, however, did not In the least
conceal the. young man's great unhappi
ness, the sight of which so grieved Mary
that she concluded to go away and find a
home elsewhere, hoping thereby that Rob
ert would forget her. Both the mother
and son protested ugainst such a step,
but the girl deemed it best and left them.
She was young and pretty, strong and In
dustrious and known all over that part of
the state, so she had no trouble In again
being domiciled among good people. It
was a long while before she visited her
benefactors, and when she did she was
surprised and deeply pained to see the
great change which had come over Rob
ert. After this she concluded It would be
better for him at least if she stayed away
from them altogether, so it was only on
rare occasions that they met. And so
time passed sadly for them both.
About six months ago one more cottage
was added to the group of new buildings
which dotted Rush Valley, and It soon be
came well known that It belonged to one
of the most enterprising rice farmers in
the state, who was at an early date to
bring home as his bride Mary Hoover.
This report was not a surprise, and was.
in reality, glad news, for both these
young people had many friends, one and
all of whom thought these two could not
have anything better than each other.
Three weeks ago the marriage of Frank
f'aylor and Mary Hoover was celebrated
and the happy pair came to dwell in their
new home among the honest, hard tolling
Rush Valley rice farmers.
Efforts were made to prevent the an
nouncement of Mary's wedding from
reaching Robert, but being on tho lips of
everyone It soon reached his ears, and In
less than twenty-four hours afterwards
his mind was completely gone. Up to Wed
nesday he appeared only childish, and en
tirely harmless, but early Thursday even
ing he became violent and before his
mother could summon assistance he dash
ed out of the house, running towards the
river. In less than half an hour a doxen
men were in pursuit, but feeling certain
that he had drowned himself they gave up
tho search at midnight and returned home.
But right then while these people who
believed him lying at the bottom of tho
river were asleep he was hurrying along,
picking his way over the rough path to
Rush Valley. It Is doubtful what his pur
pose was when he star.ed, hut onco there
the demon himself seemed to take |>osst>s
slon of his deranged mind and as quickly
as It could be done he fired three of the
new cottages, and was perhaps In the act
of setting the torch to a fourth when a
door opened and Mary came softly out
from a visit to a sick neighbor, and has-
tened next door to her own home. Just at
that moment a blaze burst up at one side
of the house and she gave the alarm. That
moment she was clutched into a man's
arms, who gave a wild shout of exultation,
and fled with her across the prairie. Mrs.
Cay lor fought tor freedom until her
strength deserted her. and cried in her ter
ror for help until fright overcame her and
she fainted. Bhe had been heard, however,
and the fire seen, so the small settlement
of men divided up, several going on horse
back and on foot in the direction from
which her cries had come, while others
stayed to fight the tire. The madman was,
as are all, shrewd, and he managed to
elude and escape for a long distance the
excited men giving chase.
Exhaustion came to the rescue ere very
long, and, although he seemed determined
not to give up his prize that he screamed
in his frenzy was his "own, own Mary,”
he was overpowered and Mrs. Caylor was
taken out ftf his arms In a swoon. When
Ihe poor raving man saw her white, up
turned face and witnessed their efforts to
bring her kack to consciousness, he wept
pitifully, and. evidently believing he had
killed her, he drew from his pocket a
small knife and cut his throat heforc any
one saw or realized the movement. Robert
Moore was taken home, which was three
miles further up the country, but he died
before medical aid could reach him. In
Brittonville, where lived the Moores, a
conveyance was hired, in which Mrs. Cay
lor was taken back to Rush Valley. There
a sad reception awaited them. Tho home
of Mr. and Mrs. Caylor, in which they'
had lived only three weeks, and all of
their household belongings, were ashes.
And this was tho fate of ten of the cot
tages in the small and but recently set
tled place. Owing to the kindling of the
fire in the dead of night and Its being
fanned into a perfect fury by tho blus
ter.ng wind whirling angrily over the
broad prairie. It is nothing less than a
miracle that no lives were lost.
Brittonville is saddened over the un
happy ending of Robert Moore, and, in
fact, the whole unfortunate affair. But
the gloom over tho little settlement of
Rush Valley cannot be described.
Mrs. Caylor is violently 111 from nerv
ous prostration, and her life is despaired
of.
The homeless ones are. huddled among
their kindly neighbors, grieving in silence
over their great misfortune. To these
people, who know little else except much
toil for small profits, this is a hard blow.
And it will be years before they recover
from their heavy Joss.
MAKING A HORSE JOCKEY.
Much rnlnfill Training to Undergo
Before n Boy I* Filled to Hide.
From the Albany Journal.
Among the many who are interested in
racing, probably but few pay any thought
to the palne and miseries undergone by
that unfortunate although much envied
•lass of men, the Jockeys. Borne men—very
few—are really born Jockeys. They are of
hat small build which is essential for
their work, they are blessed with a con
stitution that does not "run to fat,” and
at the same time they are endowed with
the nerve and resolution necessary to their
calling. Many lads, however, who by their
build" give promise of making good Jock
eys are, as they turn to manhood, cursed
with the tendency to lay on flesh, but hav
ing once tasted the excitement, and also,
it may be, sniffed at the profits of a jock
ey’s life, will not give It up without a
struggle, notwithstanding the warning of
tho scales. To these the life is one of great
misery, almost torture, from training
down, interspersed, no doubt, with pe
riods of gayety which are almost if not
quite as dangerous to health as those dur
ing which the poor fellow has to do pen
ance in sweating oft the effects of his In
discretions. Probably no criminal to
whom hard labor is meted out as a pun
ishment undergoes such labor on such low
diet as the Jockey, who is "wasting” him
self so as to scale with another lucky fel
low whose nature runs less to fat. In the
hottest weather he piles on clothes and
takes sharp walks. He labors hard, and
tho more he sweats the more he feels he
has done his duty. Then comes the puzzle.
After the labor there is appetite; after the
sweating there Is thirst—but the food
must be strictly limited, and the drink
must he for naught. The privation Is hor
rible. Training for condition Is had enough
and has made many a good fellow throw
athleticism to the dogs, but training for
weight Is a far greater Infliction, There
are so many pounds to be got off and so
many days or weeks In which to do It. By
physic, by sweating, by hard labor, and by
starvation It has got to be done, and that
In a certain time.
As an instance of continuous self-denial
there arc few positions which will com
pare with that of a Jockey when he In
working himself down to a scale. A man
In ordinary condition hardly varies in
weight from day to day, whatever he
may eat or drink, and many men leading
fairly Irregular lives keep their weight
almost without change for months and
even years. It Is not so, however, when
training has brought down the weight far
below its natural level. Under such cir
cumstances every cell In the body seems
hungry and athirst, and moisture Is suck
ed up as by blotting paper. Jockeys and
trainers are wont to tell strange tales of
the weight laid on as the result of small
indiscretions In diet, and It is gravely stat
ed that a pint of stout imbibed by a
thirsty “waster” Is computed to put on
three or four pounds! Of course, such
things cannot be, and the laws of nature
are not altered even for Jockeys; never
theless, It is certain that, when trulned
down to a certain pitch, any excess of
fluid over a minimum which has been at
tained Is not excreted, but goes entirely to
the tisßueH, and’thus to the increase of
weight. It Is unnecessary to point out
how injurious to health It must be to
play such pranks with the constitution
over and over again. Health depends
largely upon the maintenance of a due
and orderly rei-tlon between tho asslml
latlvfe and the excretory functions, rela
tions which are entirely perverted in the
life of the Jockey. At one period he de-
rives his nutriment from food like -tho
rest of mankind; at other times, and for
long spells, he subsists largely upon his
own tissues. Many break down under tho
strain, either in consequence of the fluids
drunk being Insufficient to perform their
functions properly, or from the starva
tion telling on the nervous system before
it affecta their flesh, while others throw
up the effort rather than continue the
miserable system of starvation which Is
Involved in keeping the scales on the right
side.
CAUGHT 200 RATTLESNAKES.
Each llaa Ha Folson —s3oo Offered
for the Lot.
From the New York Press.
Susquehanna, Pa.—" Bill” Crandall of
Great Bend township has captured alive
this year the largest collection of rattle
snakes ever brought together In America.
There are nearly 200 specimens in the col
lection, and he has them together In an Im
mense cage. He captured them early
in the spring, and when they were leaving
their dens for the season, and when it is
claimed they are the most deadly, owing
to the long time their poison has lain un
disturbed In the reservoir at the base of
the fangs.
Crandall says that the fangs remain in
every one of the snakes in his cage, yet
he goes In among them and handles the
snakes with Impunity. The din made by
the rattier* when he enters the cage Is
terrifying. Crandall has been offered S3OO
for his collection.
LOVE TURNS AWAY.
Tlie Inrrenae of Bachelorhood nml
Sjtinsterhood.
ILL HEALTH VERSUS MARRIAGE
To the social philosopher, one of the
most discouraging tendencies of the times
is the disposition of young men, and es
pecially city-bred young men, to remain
single and grow up to old bachelorhood.
In tho crowded eastern sections of our
country the percentage of bachelors and
spinsters to the total population is tre
mendous.
A wise old physician in discussing tho
situation said :
"Vou will observe that this tendency is
In the mo in confined to the largo cities and
thickly settled communities. The young
men are by no means blameless, hut Inno
cently Ihe young women are also at fauir.
Tho fact of the matter Is that city and
town-bred girls are too frequently semi
invalids, without fully realizing It.
"One of the saddest things in life is to
watch young women commit slow suicide.
Of course they don’t know what they are
doing. Starting with good health,
strength and good looks, everything ahead
of them seems promising. But they don't
know how to live and take care of their
own health. Their mothers are mainly
at fault. They bring up their daughters
in an atmosphere of false delicacy and in
utter Ignorance of tho anatomy distinctly
feminine and its all Important functions.
"These young women study Latin and
Greek, go in for mathematics
and ethics, but are faulty In
their habits of eating, breathing,
walking, sleeping, dressing and work
ing. Worse than all else, they are as Igno
rant as unborn babies of tho real and
sublime importance of capable mother
hood, and of the graver results that fol
low neglect of the delicate organs that
make It possible. Moreover Health is
Beauty, and Health is Happiness. Where
there Is health there Is always amiability
and some degree of beauty. There may he
a sickly imitation of it, such os we see but
too frequently on the city streets and In
the city drawing-rooms. But tills tran
sient hot-house loveliness of the Invalid Is
such as to excite pity, sympathy and con
sideration, but not to awaken love in the
heart of robust, hard-headed young men.
"And the consequence. Girls grow up to
womanhood and pass on Into unnatural
spmsterhoofl, because of their ignoranea
of the Importance of the health and wel
fare of the womanly organism. They suf
fer In silence from weakness and disease
that rob them of their health, their beauty
and their capability to perform the duties
of wifehood and motherhood. They
Imagine, in their pitiful Ignorance, that
the ills from which they suffer are inhe
rent in all women. They do not under
stand that health is the normal tendency
of nuture, and all illness abnormal.
“From these Innocent sufferers, love
turns aside. The young man who is worth
marrying is ambitious. He looks forward
to making a fortune In business, or a name
In a profession. He understands that he
cannot live always, and dreams of per
petuating that fortune or name In a line
of healthy, capable descendants. He
wants a healthy wife, who will preside
amiably in his home, and be a capable
motherly mother to robust and promising
children.
"That kind of a young man, and it is the
only kind fitted for young husbandhood,
shies at the evanescent beauty of the
semi-invalid. He has seen Invalidism in
the homes of his friends, and if he is a city
bred man has seen little else, and with
modern hard-headedness wants none of it.
While waiting for his Ideal, the habits Of
bachelorhood become fixed, with the re
sult, aa in France, that the government
may soon have to drive men to marriage
by a tax on bachelorhood.”
There is no necessity for this deplorable
stale of affairs. If all young women were
taught by their mothers the supreme im
portance of the perfect health of the or
gans that make wifehood and motherhood
possible, invalidism among women would
soon be a matter of ancient history. There
is hardly a disease, either general or local,
from which women suffer that does not
huve its inception In weakness of the dis
tinctly feminine organism. The suffering
wife and mother, racked with pain, petu
lant, sieltly, and unfitted for the duties of
life, is only at fault in so far as she Is ig
norant of her own physical make-up and
importance of her womanly health. If she
will take the proper care of herself and re
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