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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 Goad Handwriting Without a Teacher. What Home Practice will Do. mm COMPENDIUM! 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. 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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. IN MEMORIAM- New s'j Mr. M. says : “ In the fall of '77 I purchased one of your Compendium^, and began to imitate your style. Your Book of Instructions recommends the muscular move ment. I had previously used the finger. 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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, •‘Your Compendium has been a great help to me. Yon will find enclosed two ol my autographs; one written be fore and the other after nsing it. ’ A. S. Osborn, Grass Lake, Mich. Opinions of tlie Press. 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ESfThe Penman's Gazette, handeome'y illustrated with fac-similes of improvement in penmanship, and por traits of penmen, giving fall particulars, sent free to all v. ho write for it. augio-lam6in .A.Tlij&.ISriUA. Medical College. The Twenty-First Annual Course of Lectures will com mence Oct. 15th, 1878, anil close March 41h, 1879. FACULTY. A. W. Griggs, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Practice. J. G. Westmoreland, M. D., Professor of Materia Med- ica aud Therapeutics. W. F. Westmoreland, M. D., Professor of Surgery. YVm. Abram Love, M.D., Professor of Physiology. V. II. Taliaferro, M.D., Professor oi Obstetrics and Diseases of Women aud Children. Jno. Thad. Johnson, M.D., Professor of Anatomy and Lecturer on Venereal Diseases. A. VV. Calhoun, M.D., Professor of Diseases of the Eye and Ear. J. H. Logan, A.M., M.D., Professor of Chemistry. Jno. T. Banks, M.D., Professor of Practice of Medicihe. C. W. Nutting, M.D., Demonstrator of Anatomy. Send for announcement, giving full information JNO. 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