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Health Department.
By Jno. Stainback Wilson, M. D,,
Atlanta, Oa.
Who Should \ut Intermarry—Tem
peraments anil Marriage—Marria
ges of • Consanguinity - Examples of
Effects, etc.
In my last article I wrote of the transmission
of mental, moral and bodily peculiarities from
parents to children, concluding with an expres
sion of surprise that a fact so important and one
universally regarded in the rearing of plants
and animals, should be over-looked or disre
garded in matrimonial alliances. But the in*
terests involved being too vital to be dismissed
in this way, I propose now to make such sug
gestions on marriage unions as the peculiar na
ture of the subject and the circumstances under
which I write will admit.
Who Should not Intermarry-—When
two families are predisposed to the same diseases,
such as scrofula or king's evil, cancer, consump
tion, rheumatism or any hereditary affection or
deformity, the members of such families should
not intermarry. Some even contend that per
sons thus predisposed should not marry at all;
but even admitting this to be true, the idea can
never be put in practice; and it is gratifying in
the face of this obvious fact to know that the
evils of hereditary transmission may, to a great
extent, be counteracted or avoided, if, of the
parties forming a matrimonial alliance, one,
though predisposed to certain diseases, finds a
companion who is healthy and free from the
same morbid predisposition. The greatest care
should be taken to avoid the union of the same
predisposition in both father and mother, and
this being true, the question arises, how shall
persons contemplating marriage avoid a diffi
culty which will almost inevitably be followed
by consequences that will cast a dark shadow
over their whole married life? This can be done
only by tracing back the histories of families
and ascertaining of what diseases the members
died. It must be admitted, however, that this
source of information is very falacious; for, to
say nothing ol the motives for deception, so lit
tle attention is paid to ancestry in this demo
cratic country, that 'young America’ can hardly
be expected to know anything concerning any
of the family except the ‘old man’ and the ‘old
woman.’ But should the latter be alive 6he will
generally be found able aDd willing to give the
desired information,and no false delicacy should
prevent the parties interested from seeking and
obtaining information so intimately connected
with their future happiness. There is still an
other source of knowledge on this point and
one more reliable than the traditionary history
of families, which is likely to be perverted ei
ther through ignorance or design. A little
knowledge, however, is prerequisite to obtain
what is desired from this source. This will now
be given. Almost every person w ho makes any
pretentions to education knows or should know
something of the temperaments.
Difference Between
This and That.
BT DELL DARE.
I should think it a very easy thing for people
to serve God and be thankful for His gifts, when
they can have their stomachs full of good things
all the time, plenty of nice clothes to wear, the
ability to pay the wash bill, and can dwell in
peace'and security under their own luxurious
fig tree. No righteous judgment can be pro
nounced upon any body or aDy thing, uniil all
sides of the question have been more thorough
ly and impartially investigated than that of the
Returning Board up to the present writing.
A pure, good man in a patched coat, a darn
ed hat, and no seat to his trousers worth speak
ing of, and who often carries around a stomach
as empty as his pocket, is a very different ob
ject from one who is a Christian with ail the
good things of this life to give an unction to
his devotions, and a vim to his ‘amen.’ Being
a different thing he ought to be looked at in a
different light, and through altogether different
lenses by those who are hunting around after
his righteousness. The one, perhaps, is gold
tried in fire and found to be the pure, precious
metal, and as such the recording angel has writ
ten bis Dame upon the tablets of eternity; while
we can not know whether the other is gold or
simply gilt, until he has been put to the neces
sary test.
I do not say there are no true Christians among
the wealthy or those in easy circumstances,
though the Divine Expositor of all Christianity
said with His own lips: ‘How hard it is fer a
rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven.’
I know some men and women of these classes,
who I believe are conscientious Christians; but
they have never been sorely tried by losing all
their earthly iftore— they have never passed
through the fiery furnace and the deep waters
of continued affliction, great poverty, its varied
sufferings, oppressions and humiliations; they
have not endured wrong, injustice and persecu
tion and felt that they were forsaken by God
and all the world.
Some thoughtful and discriminating person
has said that it was but natural that misery
should bring out one’s bad qualities and on the
other hand it was easy for most people to be
good when they were happy. There is a sort
of goodness evolved by prosperity. As prosper
ous people are apt to be satisfied with their sur
roundings and themselves, they can scarcely
help being good-natured and gracious; they
are bright and amiable from sheer force of
circumstances, and they then imagine they are
obeying the Bible injunctions—‘be content with
whatsoever 6tate you are in.’ So as they are
cheerful and contented under their good-for
tune, they ‘advocate cheerfulness and content
ment as the chief duties and often wonder va
guely why some people are so gloomy and un
thankful,’ and always complaining. If they felt
the Christian love and interest for those ‘other
people’ that they should, they would go with a
sympathetic delicacy and a large, warm heart
and soon find out the why and wherefore. Then
room, breaking furniture into splinters, &Dd
tearing bedding and clothing into threads. He
raved continually in his desire to destroy im
aginary enemies, save when he snatched brief
intervals of sleep on the naked floor. Wild,
haggard, and filthy, he glared through the grat
ing at the doctor, who did not venture nearer
even to make his examinations.
‘His head being entirely bald, it was easy to
observe that no depression existed as a guide
for the proposed operation.
•His keeper joined in the request made by the
wife, on the ground that in no way could he be
made worse, and should he die in the effort to
benefit him, even that would he a blessiog. So
without the shadow of a hope, but to gratify the
wishes of the wife, it was decided to operate on
the following morning.
one of the dancers stumbles and falls dead, with
a dry noise. The thirty-six turns finished, the
survivor remains alone in presence of this mis
erable heap, in which are gathered tbe last
debris of the human race. He throws a last
glance over tbe earth. He saya adieu to the
manes of all, and from his poor burnt eyes falls
a tear—the last tear of humanity. He gathers
it in bis band; he drinks it and dies looking at
the skies.
Pouff ! A little bluish flame rises trembling
ly: then two, theD three, then a thousand. The
entire globe is embraced* burns an instant, is
extinguished. All is ended. The earth is
dead.
Mournful and frozen, it rolls sadly through tbe
silent deserts of the infinite, and of so much
beauty, so much glory, bo many joys, so many
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At the appointed time the Sheriff opened the i tears, so many loves, no more remains than a
Temperaments t|iul Marriage.—With-l they would see the difference between their own
out going inio the minute subdivisions of physi- cheerfulness and gratitude and that of ‘some oth-
ologists.it is sufficient to say that there are three
temperaments, which, when at ail well marked,
can be readily distinguished by any one of or
dinary intelligence. The prominent features
of the nervous temperament are a large head,
great activity of mind, quickness of perception,
and excessive sensibiiity to all kinds of impres
sions whether acting on mind or bocTy. This
temperament is generally known and recog
nized amdug the people as ‘nervousness.
Persons of this temperament are prone to the
various kinds of spasmodic or convulsive dis
eases, and to seme forms of insanity.
The sanguinons or sanguine temperament is
marked by muscular strength and activity and
a full chest and florid complexion and mode
rately active mind with considerable irritability
of temper. Hair flaxen or red. This tempera
ment predisposes to all kinds of inflammatory
affection and to the monactine or raving forms
of insanity.
The lymphatic temperament is distinguished
by the prominent abdomeD, languid circulation,
pale skin, blue eyes, light hair, soft muscles,
pouting lips and dullness of mind and body.
The diseases to which this temperament is most
subject are cancer, scrofula, consumption and
various obstinate chronic skin diseases, tumors,
enlarged glands, etc.
For two persons to intermarry when both have
eitber of these temperments strongly marked, is
nothing less than physiological incest, involving
a contraction of uniform and inflexible natural
laws which will as certainly be followed by a
harvest of disease as effect follows cause. The
children of such a marriage must necssarily in
herit a constitutional feebleness, and proneness
to certain diseases corresponding with the spe
cial predispositions of the different temper
ments, as indicated above. It is not assumed
that in every case the child will have some spe
cific disease; for, escape is barely possible, when
all the hygienio influences are of such a nature
as to counteract the hereditary predispositions;
But the predisposition itself must inevitably exist,
and the chances are a thousand to one that the
child so predisposed will fall early by the hand
of death in the form of some grave disease, or
will linger through a short life of feebleness and
imperfect development a victim to some name
less chronic disorder. If any one will take the
trouble to observe the families where similar
temperaments are united in marriage, the truth
of this will be fully confirmed. The children of
such unions may appear to be healthy, but follow
them through life, and it will be seen that their
inheritance is disease and premature death.
Opposite Temperaments Should
Intermarry.—The conclusion then is, tuat
persons ol opposite temperaments should inter
marry—the sanguineous with the nervous etc.,
caretnlly avoiding the union of two identical or
closely similar temperaments.
Happily there seems to be a wise natural in
stinct which governs this matter in the interest
of humanity, in the absence of all physiological
knowledge, each sex mating with its opposite —
fair skin, light hair, and blue eyes uniting with
dark skin and dark hair, the tall with the short,
the large with the small and so on through all
the grades ot size, hight, and color.
Mloml Relations Should \ol Inter
marry.— Ihe above obvious principles plainly
snow inat the interdict of marriages between
blood relations is founded on physical as well as
moral considerations; lor members of the same
family inheriting the same temperaments and
predispositions, these must be intensified by
union as may be seen by consulting the his
tories ol the royal families of Europe and by the
examples of mental imbecility, physical delorm-
ity and disease which may be seen among us as
the result of such misalliances*
Tbe Mosaic law forbidding marriages of consan
guinity was intended for tbe good ot tbe body as
well as the schI, having promise of the life that
now is as well as tbe life that is to eome. And yet
he most striking examples arising from viola
tions of this law are to be found among those to
whom it was first given. Dr. Elliotson of England
says: ‘The rich Jews in this country have the
same bad custom of marrying first cousins; and I
never saw so many instances of squinting, stam
mering, peculiarities, of manner, imbecility, or
insanity in all their various degrees, intense
nervousness, etc., in an equal number of other
peiBons. ’
In my next I will say something of the inter-
termarriage of persons actually diseased.
door, and seizing the maniac, threw him on the
floor, when by assistance of the surgeon he was
tied, and chloroform administered. Not the
least guidance to the operation could be obtain
ed from the contour of the skull, but tbe tre
phine was applied at the prominence of the
frontal bone, that being the point to which he
occasionally put his hand, as if he suffered pain
there; this point also coincided with the seat of
injury as described by the wife. The skull was
found to be hypertrophied and more dense than
normal, but nothing else was discoverable. The
operation being completed, he was untied.
‘As the effect of tbe aDassthetic passed c ff, he
lay quietly, and as be opened bis eyes they were
observed to have lost their former wild expres
sion. Directions being given to apply cold wa
ter to his head, and place a cot in the cell with
attendants to control him if necessary, he re
marked calmly: ‘I sha’n’t harm them.’ The
instructions were observed and on the following
morning all were surprised to learn that the pa
tient had been continually rational and had
asked for his wife and baby.
‘When the doctor entered his cell, he inquir
ed where he was and why he was there ? When
the matter was explained he expressed the great
est astonishment; and to the inquiry as to what
he knew about it, replied that it seemed to him
be had just awoke, and that yesterday he was
plowing; that his mare and colt got to cutting
up, ran away, and that was all he knew in re
gard to it.
•The doctor asked if he would like to see his 1
wife and child he had inquired after, to which I
he quickly replied: ‘Ob, she can’t come, she!
has just had a baby.’ The wife and baby, tbe
latter now a girl of sixteen years, had been wait
ing in an adjacent room and were now intro
duced to him. He did not know either of them.
The wife had changed in appearance and the
baby become a woman. In utter amazement he
inquired:
seems to me
that I was plowing yesterday.’
The scene that followed can only be imagin
ed. His recovery was complete, the whole six
teen years remaining a blank to him, and ail
knowledge of his injury a mystery.
‘His mental derangement never returned, and
having hired his father-in-law’s farm in Cuya
hoga county, Ohio, he pursued the occupation
of a farmer for seven years, when he died of
pneumonia. A postmortem revealed no per
ceptible trace of brain disease.’
little calcined stone—miserable wanderer across
the luminous spheres of the new worlds.
Adieu, earth ! Adieu, touching souvenirs of
our history, of our genius, of our sorrows, of
our loves ! Adieu, nature ! Thou whose sweet
and serene majesty consoled so well our suffer
ings ! Adieu, cool and shady woods, where du
ring the beautiful summer Digbts by tbe silvery
light of the moon we heard the nightingale
sing ! Adieu, terrible Rud charming creatures
who lead the world with a tear or a smile, and
whom we call by names so sweet ! Ah ! sina,
you are no more! truly all is finished.
The earth is dead.
From a Woman’s Standpoint.
Politics are very unsatisfactory, contradicto
ry and perplexing viewed from a woman’s stand
point. Perhaps, it is because our minds are too
weak and our intellects too feeble to compre
hend this great problem. I don’t know, but I’ll
tell you what I think is the reason; it is hearing
both sides. I’ve heard all my life that one must
hear both sides before forming a conclusion,
but in this instance politics is the exception to
the general rule, for if one’s mind is not made
up before hearing both sides, there is small !
hope that a decision will ever be arrived at. I
Now, just have patience, and I’ll try and ex
plain. When I hear Mr. A enumerate the vir
tues, ability, statesmanship and knowledge of
his candidate for office, I am almost sorry I can’t ;
pay my tribute to so much greatness by casting
a vote for that noble man. But soon after I
hear Mr. B extol his favorite in higher terms (if
possible) than Mr. A. Then I wish I had two
votes— as I always like to give ‘ honor to whom
honor is due’—and feel so sorry that both can
didates can’t be elected to serve their country
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and display their patriotism, for, of course, no
‘My God, what can this mean r it thought of self is in their hearts. I wonder in
* that X have only 06611 asl6£p 8.nd ! own DiiDd h
[ how the matter can ever be settled;
er people.’ It is very easy to give advice to a
drowning man when you are in a safe place your
self, and charity and generosity are but little
worth when they involve no sacrifice. We should
remember the widow’s mite.
The truth is, a great many people don’t wish
tijjjEnow what the sroghle is. J£>tXear their con.
sciences will call upon them for help in the di-!
rection of that trouble. They feel that here ig- j
norance is bliss, and, like the Levite, preferred ,
to pass by on the other side, and then tell their i
consciences they didn't know the man was much
hurt by the thieves.
We can not know that anything is true until
we have seen it tried. If you can put your fin
ger on one man or woman who has had to meet
all these trials and temptations enumerated
above, and he or she still holds fast to strict in
tegrity, evinces no envious or covetous feeling
toward the more prosperous, cherishes no mal
ice and speaketb no evil, but strives to be grate
ful for God’s smallest gifts, and discharges du
ties at home and abroad with a kind, hopeful,
energetic and cheerful spirit, then you have
learned enough wisdom to give an opinion of
the difference between ‘this and that.’ I am
glad I know a few such people. I am glad they
are treasures beyond price to enrich human na
ture and to illustrate the truth that ‘the eternal
reward is not promised to those who find life
easiest or pleasantest, but to him that overcom-
etb.’
The Bible says that God is no respecter of
persons and that if when we do well and suffer
for it, we take it patiently, this is acceptable to
God. That Christian sister over there who re
clines with so much self-complacency in her
comfortable pew, dressed in silks or satins,
thinks, perhaps, that she belongs to another or
der of beings than the one near by in a cheap
print, but with a hopeful, bright and tender
face, though she knows there is not a dollar com
ing into the family purse to keep want from the
household and a roof over her head. And she
does belong to another order of beings—quite
another. And that brother over yonder in that
beautiful suit of clothes, who lays up treasures
on earth or oppresses his employees during the
week, or sells sick chickens ‘ready dressed’—
is he going to heaven on a flowery bed of ease,
or is he not?
The End of the World*
Sixteen Years a Maniac.
The following facts were given by Proctor
Thayer, Professor of Surgery in Cleveland Med
ical College:
•Some years since, a lady called at his office o o
and requested him to oblige her by visiting her ! tie fishes, asphyxiated, turn over upon the sur-
husband then in jail at Cleveland. She gave face. Afterward come the seaweed that the
An Entertaining Description of the De
struction of the Earth by An Emi
nent Fitnt^ Scientist.
Fifty thousancT'jf eJks r ufve"rolled over thTe
earth. Industry has |thrived; the human race
increased with wonderful rapidity until the
world begins to be over-populated, All the
coal-beds have long since been exhausted, the
petroleum wells are dry; the forests cut down.
We begin to use the oxygen of the air and the
hydrogen of the water as fuel. The earth, fully
exposed to the rays of the sun, grows hotter and
hotter.
Flowers wither, leaves grow yellow, parch
ments shrivel, everything dries and breaks to
pieces. Animals grow smaller through the effect
of evaporation. Man in turn becomes meagre
and dries up. All temperaments biend in one
—the bilious, and the last of the lymphatics
offers with tears his daughter, and 100,000 000
of dowry, to the last ot the scrofulous, who has
not a cent of fortune and who refuses through
pride. Tbe heat augments and the springs are
exhausted. The water-carriers rise by degrees
ot the rank of capitalists, then to millionaires.
Finally the great water bearer of the prince
ends by becoming one of the first dignitaries of
the State. All crimes and infamies which are
now done for gold one does then for a glass of
water, and love himself, abandoning bis arrows
and quiver, replaces them by a flask of ice wa
ter. In this torrid atmosphere one pays for a
piece of ice thirty times its weight in diamonds.
The Emperor of Australia, in a fit of mental
aberration, has a tutti frutti made which costs
him a year of his income. A savant maxes a
colossal fortune by obtaining a hectolitre of cool
water in forty-five degrees. The rivers dry up.
Lobsters hustle tumultuously, running after
threads of warm water which leave them upon
the beach changing color and turning to scar
let. Fishes with bursting heart and distended
fins are left by the stream extended stomach
upward. Humankind begins to weaken visi
bly. Strange passions, unheard of rage, vio
lent loves, insensate pleasures, make life a se
ries of furious detonations, or rather a contin-
j uous explosion, which-^ommences at birth and
| finishes by death. In this world, terrified by
I an implacable combustion, all is red, cracking,
| broiled, roasted, and after the water evaporates,
! one feels the air diminish as it rarities. Fright
ful calamity ! The streams and rivers have
i disappeared. The seas begin to grow warm;
j then become heated. Behold them already sim-
: mering as under a gentle fire. At first the lit-
one will be chosen and the other left, and what
a pity so much truth, honor, uprightness and
unselfishness should go unrewarded. But alas!
my perplexities increase on hearing Majors A
and B ‘talk politics’ when they meet. Each one
exalts the leader of his party, and accuses the
opposition of trickery, bribery, dishonesty,
falsehood, Ac, Ac, Ac, Ac, till if half of what
each one says be true, my wonder increases that
the United States has any government at all.
Now, I would believe that each party was
slandering the other, if the newspaper report
ers did not ‘write up’ the doings at the seat
of the ‘best government the world ever saw.’
They teli of lobbying, swindling, forging, thiev
ing and dishonesty in general, until one is
tempted to believe that all the honest men stay
hoine.^ ]1^ may be^iat having sojp.nc^.frfie-
dom in the land, Whenever a man enters the
arena of political strife his character becomes
public property to be defamed or applauded as
each one wills. If so, and the aspirant has no
protection against such malice, I can only say
with the poet:
‘Of :ilI ilie sail words you can write with a peu,
The saddest are these: he's a politician.’
After reading all the pros and cons I can truly
say, I am glad we have no lot or part in such
affairs, for you know, a woman’s strong point
is ‘never being in the wrong,’ and we certainly
would have to acknowlepge to some mighty big
mistakes if we made no better selections than
the ‘lords of creation,’ with their strong intel
lects and comprehensive minds are guilty of
sometimes, for it does really seem that they
very often put the government into the hands
of very incapable men.
Betsey Tbotwocd.
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the following pitiable and interesting history
of tbe case:
‘Sixteen years previously, they were residing
in tbe State of Indiana, engaged in farming.
While plowing, his team became unmanageable
because of a colt getting entangled in the har
ness, and ran away. In his effort to stop them
he was dragged some distance, and was seen to
be thrown violently against a fence, his head
heat has detached. From the depths finally
arise, cooked blue and giving out their fat in
large drops, the shales, the enormous pieuvre,
the shark and the kraken, believed to be fabu
lous; and the sea serpent, so much contested.
With these fat things, herbs and fishes cooked
together, the smoking ocean becomes an im
mense bowl of soup. A penetrating kitchen
offer spreads over all the inhabitable earth. A
striking one of the rails. He was taken up in- | century of this reigns. The ocean is evapora-
sensible and after recovery from the concussion, | ted; no traces of its existence remain save some
was found to be suffering from mania. The j heaps of fishes scattered over the desert plains,
mental disease assumed the acute form .and was j The end commences. Under the triple in-
con tir non-s, at first variable in intensity, but at ; fluence of heat, of asphyxia and of dessioation
times characterized by exhibitions of the most humankind is annihilated little by little. Man
dreadful violence. He bad at various times
been placed in insane asylums and dismissed as
incurable.
‘After a varied experience of confinement in
the aeyinm and the jail owing to these attacks,
he was at last placed in the asylum at Newburg,
near Cleveland. When apparently every other
means had been resorted to without avail, his
wife desired that his head might be trephined,
at the spot as nearly as could be determined
where he had received the injury. This she
bad often requested of others, and now insisted
on with mucc earnestness, whatever the conse
quences might be.
•Thoroughly incredulous, the doctor visited
the patient, and found him a raving maniac',
whose violence had made him a terror. It had
been found necessary to construct an iron cell,
the upper part of which consisted of gratings. No
one ventured into his apartments save npon the
greatest nrgency and with extreme care. He
would not allow a single thing to remain- in his
is exhausted, scaly, and at tbe last shock falls
to pieces. In the place of vegetables nothing
remains to him but some metallic plants which
Mrs. Mary Witter, the subject of this notice,
was a native of Columbia, S. C., anil was born tlie
| 7th ilay of October, 1SU2. She had been a resident
I of Atlanta, Ga., since 1S70. In her girlhood she
! joined the Methodist Church and had been a con-
! sistent member to the day of her death.
! On tlie. v 'tli of May, ls7S, she left Atlanta, in com-
! pany with her son, to visit her daughter, Mrs.
: Maria L. Riley, at Nechesvilie, Texas. "She had a
pleasant visit, and wrote back to her children in
Atlanta very cheerfully; but death came suddenly
and removed from earth the loved one, without
one parting word. She passed away on the 21 th of
June, after a brief illness, and only eigh: months
after the death of her husband, with whom she had
lived for more than fifty-eight years.
Her death was a great shock to her family, who j
had parted with her a few weeks before with ten- j
tier, loving embraces, expecting to meet again; but |
such is the uncertainty of life; the family and many i
loving friends are deeply grieved. Her children |
were devoted to her and had her remains brought j
back to Atlanta, where she sweetly sleeps by the [
side of her late companion, in Oakland Cemetery. !
Mrs. Witter was a true Christian, though modest j j,. jj ew York
ana retiring; full of pure and good intentions, a *
very unassuming woman, but very lovely, .she
kept her lamp trimmed and burning, and her ar
mor bright, and we have the full assurance of her
peace with God. There is no doubt of her hereafter.
“ All is well.” Her loving, Christian example was
acknowledged and felt by all. She was a tender,
loving mother—lived for her children—a devoted,
fond wife, an ornament to society, a pure, noble
woman, and all who knew her will sincerely deplore
her loss. She was ever gentle and kind, and her
heart full of charity and sympathy for other's afflic
tions,
The writer of this notice has lost a good and cher
ished friend. She lias known and loved the de
ceased for many years, always admired her true
and amiable disposition. Her home in Alabama
will long be remembered by the dear old friends
that are passing away. She was ever hospitable and
kind, and it is with sadness we remember the dear
old days, now gone, and that pleasant home,
around which cluster so many fond memories, j
There tire many friends in this community who
deeply mourn her loss.
Mrs. Witter was a woman of most remarkable i
courage anil perseverance, the very sou! of industry; j
her hands were never idle. Her many noble equal- i
ities are embalmed in the hearts of her children
and friends. May the loved oues of the family be
resigned to her death, knowing that our Father in
Heaven doeth all things well, and know that her
I freed soul has entered the rest eternal, all pain
and trouble ended. Another angel in the heaven
ly choir,
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