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tnent & It now returns to Its original formation as a
weekly with renewed vtgofr and thm Intention of ecllpat
ing Its moat promising period In the post.
It shouted aloud and in its glee snorted tons of
ashes and stones through a thousand flaming nos
trils. The harvest fell on many a little sleeping
nearby town, and even on historic Naples, that
lies like a jewel surrounded by the emerald
stretches of the bay.
And where was man’s mastery of nature, of him
self? Gone! Utterly vanished at the first bellow
from the mountain, and the first furious gust of
its murderous breath. Nature, unleashed and
revengeful, brooked no restraint. Absolute mistress
of a huge visible domain, she struck down those
whose mere presence disputed her sovereignity.
Now, weary and spent, the flood is subsiding, and
the peasants are creeping back, unnerved and
mourning, to the hovels and the little white cot
tages that have escaped the jealous appetite of
the awakened monster.
Some day we may conquer Nature. She laughs
at us now, when s will. And often there is death
in the mocking echoes of her merriment.
When Mantis Helpless
m HE wee pigiiiy that struts with vain
glorious aiA calling itself man; that
boasts of itsi ability to shackle the
lightning to Vrains and to dazzling
lamps; that 'makes much of the
fact that by its exploits distance is
conquered and the veriest whisper
goes like a flash from New York
to Chicago; i<hat changes the course
of rivers and, with dykes and
levees, turns back the restless
ocean—cringes, whines, assails the
bending heaven with feeble cries,
when Nature flings off her lethargy
and hurls herself at his life and his
creations. Before her unrolling, mocking tide, his
ingenuity is helpless: the cunning of his hand and
brain fails with a completeness that has some
thing of titanic satire in its involvement; his only
resource is a prayer to the God that fashioned him
and Nature alike in the various molds He saw fit
to employ for the task. That is die thing Vesu
vius taught us when the green and lava clad old
traitor ce _d its rythmic rumbling, and bursi
forth in such a hurricane of fiery energy as claim
ed several hundred lives and laid waste the hut of
peasant and the palace of noble with turbulent im
partiality. Many hundred years ago the big mass
that overlooks the lovely bay of Naples developed
this same sinister freak: and in its mood of deadly
sportiveness gave to history the stories of Pompeii
and Herculaneum, ravished by its flood of fire
and buried beneath the hot, dense ashes that
poured from its crater as some fearful visitation
front the tortured womb of hell.
In the long, long interval that has elapsed since
that dav man has made many strides. In every
direction his intellect has left its marvelous, plas
tic impress on the face of nature and the pages
of science, art. and mechanical invention. In whim
sical reflection, one might think some way would
have been devised to
that moves within the bosom of the earth,
we had the eruption of Pelee, sudden, unwarned.
One day the mountain was decked in tropical
Exercise Valuable Only In
Restraint
OMEONE has remarked, evidently
from a depth of thought and expe-
ence, that men never worry about
their health until that very desira
ble possession has taken its de
parture. The epigram has a cer
tain degree of truth in it, though
it deserves to be qualified, since a
large number of men and women
who feel that strength and energy
are failing or that their modes of
life are antagonistic to health, very
frequently adopt various precau
tions or amendments to their rou
tine calculated to mend matters
materially. There is also another class that con
cerns itself in season and out of season with the
details of health and hygiene. Its members note
feverishly any little variation in their temperatures:
if the liver gets a trifle askew, they drench them
selves with powerful physic; if the stomach re
volts against overfeeding or improper diet, they
post themselves to a physician and take his nos
trums, or swell the list of patrons of patent medi
cines; if they lose a night's rest through nervous
ness, they take no pains to search for the cause,
but straightway imagine themselves in the grip of
some disease, and enter upon a more or less fool
ishly considered course of treatment. These peo
ple are, of course, of morbid disposition, given to
exaggeration of passing and unimportant symp
toms. They form an easy prey to the swarms of
faddists now operating in this and other countries.
And, to a large extent, they have given profit and
vogue to the craze for physical culture, which is
even now broadcast over the United States.
The Baltimore Herald must have had this class
in mind, when it delivered itself of the following
sensible utterance:
Exercise in itself is no doubt excellent, but is it. weli
for a sane man lo make it a fetish? Does it do a busi
ness man any good to swell the muscles of his back by
In the Country.
- (From Puck.)
When the thermometer had dropped far
below zero good Mrs. Rogers was much
disturbed at the recollection that Huldah,
Along' tHe Highway
By FRAfilK L* STJfNTOM
THE WOODLAND CONCERT.
Half a hundred mockin’-birds singin
all day long
Like the worl’ had never heard any
thing like song;
.. ,,, , .. .. ’ Singin’ since the blossoms first twia-
the new kitchen maid, -slept in an un- i
heated room. “Huldah,” she said, remem
bering the good old custom of her girl
hood, "it's going to be pretty cold to
night. I think you had better take a
flatiron to bed with you.”
“Yes, ma'am,” said Huldah, in mild and
expressionless assent.
Mrs. Rogers slept soundly and free from
care, secure in the belief that the maid
was comfortable. In the 'morning she
again visited the kitchen.
“Well, Huldah." she asked, "how did
you get along with the flatiron?”
“Well, ma'am,” she said, “I got it near
ly warm before morning!”
Not for Him.
(From Life.)
First Actor—I thought your next tour
was to have been through South Africa.
Second Actor—It was, but the company
struck. One of them had read that an
ostrich egg often weighs two or three
pounds. •
Mads Him Welcome—Ndt.
(From Punch.)
Joe—I’m afraid Miss Hinton doesn't ap
preciate my company.
Fred—What reason have you for think
ing such is the case?
Joe—Why, every time I call she plays
“Home, IS-weet Home” on the piano be
fore I have been in the parlor ten
minutes
Of Ooursrs She Laughed.
(From Judge.)
He—Wise men hesitate—only fools are
certain.
She—Are you sure?
“I’m quite certain of it!”
Then she laughed.
Experience Makes Us Wise.
(From Judy.)
Teacher—Can any one tell me what a
palmist is?
"I know, teacher. It's a woman who
uses h< r hand instead of a slipper.”
Friendly Comment.
(From Tatler.)
Miss Horsy—Miss Passay is so kittenish!
She wouldn’t go driving with me tin*
other day because she was afraid the
horse would run away with her.
Miss Pepprey—The idia! As if she need
be afraid of a horse! Only a donkey
would run away with her!
Unkind.
(From Tit-Bits.)
He—When' I was small 1 was a most
extremely intelligent child.
She—Yes. How very unfortunate that
you should have grown up!
Daughter’s Retort.
Daughter— I don't want to marry just
yet. I'd rather stay at school.
Mother—You must remember, dear, men
do not wish clever wives.
Daughter—But all men are not like
papa.—Puck.
-singin
kled with the daw;
Havin’ took their task to sing,
they’re seein’ of it through!
Free seats in
The airy hall—
Come an’ hear
The concert—all!
Singin’ of a love that’s old
love that’s new;
Singin’ sunset, sheddin’ gold—morn-
in’ skies o’blue;
Singin’ all earth’s grief an’ gloom—
singin’ day an’ night;
How sun an’ rain make roses bloom
—woven red an’ white!
Enter now
The airy hall—
Come an' hear
The concert&all!
j
• Let ’em sing your soul to rest—give!
bright skies for gray;
All the thorns that wound the breast I
they can sing away!
Ask no praises from the throng— j
They just, sing for love of song!
Welcome! Seek
The flowerldecked hall—
Come an’ hear
The concert—all!
and crystal rivers, and you have to
pelt ’em with fire brands to keep
’em away from the other place.
The wings of Love can hide every
shadow Hate casts on the life-way.
Hate is only a shadow, anyway, and
Love the substance of all things
beautiful.
THE JOY OF LOVE.
I.
On the road so dreay,
Where Life’s sorrows throng,
A little love, my derie,
And Life's a glad, sweet snog!
II.
When the heart grows weary—
Lost in grief and gloom,
A little love, my dearie.
And Life breathes balm and
bloom!
III.
And angel-hands caress you.
And black clouds leave the blue,
A little love to bless you.
And Heaven dwells with you!
PROVERBg OF THE HIGHWAY.
Let’s take the world as we find
it, and if we can’t find it, let’s com
fort ourselves with the reflection—
“There was nothing much in it, any
how! ”
Rolling down from the hilltop is
pleasant, exorcise—when no one is
looking at you; but awfully ttndigni
fied in the light of the whole world.
You’ve got to tempt folks to heav
en with visions of golden streets
THE HELPLESS OCEAN.
“When we get to the seashore,”
said the poet. “I shall write a granu
poem on the ocean."
“Dear,” said his wife I thought we
were going there for rest and peace.
What has the ocean ever done to
you?”
This is the day of the short story,
which enables a grateful public to
love tbe author little, but to love
him long.
SIGH AND SMILE.
When Laura sighs Joy faints and
dies,
And Love looks on with rainy eyes;
But when she smiles—then grift in
flight,—
Love leads his lilies to the light’
Don’t count the tears you shed, bin
keep a bright record of all your
smiles.
Dread “Texas Cattle Fever”
Jind How It Is Combatted
By HELEN HARCOURT.
Written for The SUNNY SOUTH.
15he Busy 'World
RAND DUKE
\LEXIS, heir appar
ent to the Russian
.hrone, is shown in
he drawing, which
s copied from a pic
ture taken recently
-it Tsarskoe-Selo at
lie express wish of
lie Russian empress.
Vlexis will be 2
years old on August
12 next. He appears
Grand Duke Elexis. to be a chubby, heal
thy infant, the picture being in itself a
contradiction of recent reports that h*
■is a puny weakling and that .he was seri
ously ill. The little grand duke has five
sisters, the oldest of whom, Grand
Duch.ess Olga, was born November 15.
1895. His youngest sister is the Grand
Duchess Anastasia, whose fifth birth
day anniversary will be celebrated June
18 next. The empress .was born in June,
1872.
ROM blacksmith to
opera singer, and
:iow engaged to ap
pear in the United
States at $(,600 per
night, is the record
of Charles Rous-
seliei-r. me youngest
tenor on tlie French
stage. Rousseliere
was born in Saint
Nazaire. His father
'was an humble blac k
Chas. Rousseliere. smith, and young
Charles was brought up to follow the
trade. His voice attracted attention, and
■he found patrons to make up a purse to
send him to Paris. He presented himself
for admission to the National conserva
tory, scorning to go through the prepara
tory course. He was accepted on the
spot, and three years later, in 1893. when
lie was only 23, he graduated with the
first prize and was engaged forthwith
as tenor by the Paris Grand Opera. He
made his debut in the same year as
Samson in Saint-Saens' “Samson et De-
Ula.”
A M ES SCHOOL
CRAFT SHERMAN,
who has been elected
chairman of the re
publican c o ngres-
sional committee, is
serving his ninth
term in congress and
represents the twen
ty-seventh New York
district. His home is
at Utica, in which
city he was born in
1855. He is a gradu
ate of Hamilton COI
N'S ign jorly.
A merry party being gathered in a city
not even when it has reached the adult
stage of growth
When the infection gets beyond th-
I permanently polluted district, the roads,
IMP, was. and not so long pastuires. pens, all places, in fact, become
ago, either, when it was j dangerous for nonimmune animals until
supposed to be useless to j freezing w-eatiier. Then the infection
make any attempt to im- | disappears, and will not reappear even
prove southern cattle, be- j ir. summer. The reason is plain. The
cause whenever fine stock j ticks are killed by the cold weather, and
was imported from other j a 'b their eggs perish, too. But while
parts of the country the re- 1 tllls ,s the rule - it does not invariably
suit was almos. invariably | ap, P Iy to sections just outside of the in-
j fected district, if the winters a.re mild.
] The disease was from the first full of
mystery as to its mode of dissemination,
loss. Ihe stumbling block how it was communicated from one aa-
is a specific fever 'Which imal to another was a puzzle, for expo-
Jantes Sherman,
lege, is a lawyer by profession, is at the
head of the Utica Trust and Deposit
e i Company and also president of the Hart-
1 ford Canning Company. Mr. Sherman
was mayor of Utica in 1884, and twice
has been chairman of the New York
state republican eonwention. William B.
McKinley, of tHe nineteenth Illinois dis
trict, is treasurer of the committee.
disease and death, and, in
cidentally, heavy financial 1
wrestling with a rowing machine, or to make his legs i flat made such a racket that the occu-
as hard as railroad ties by galloping about a canvas pant of a neighboring)house sent l»is ser-
track? Is there any advantage, after all, in developing the vant over with a poiite message asking
forestall the wanton spirit' sinews abnormally? Does a man who works with his i if would be possible for the party to
Blit, brain gain anything by trying to imitate a hodcarrier? j make less noise, since, as the servant an-
The notion that the average business man will be bene-' nounced > Mr. Smith says that lie can-
fited by developing the muscles of a stevedore is based
not read.” “I am very sorry for Mr.
t on nothing more tangible than wild theorizing. In 'favor I compUments *t° S your masUm P 'a -
verdure. Lured on by its sleeping calm, the peo-j of it is the allegation that, physical or brute strength that j ani soirv he ca ° not rea'bVnd tea
nle of Martiniaue bad btiilded their cabins almost] spells health. Against it, is the obvious and undoubted. mm j could when i was four years old. "
pic U1 xvidi Liii M V ... . fact that millions of men who take no more exercise than _j u dy.
to the brink of its guileless looking crater. They
had pushed their conquests further, inch by inch,
until, at tbe very base of the slumbering monster,
stretched fertile vineyards and wide-spreading
fruit orchards.
Like death from a smiling sky came the awak
ening of the volcano. It seemed that its long rest
had but stored up .fiery destruction in heaping
measure, and sharpened its temper to a pitch of
devilish fury. When the moment struck, nor man,
nor beast, nor bird, nor serpent had time to es
cape. All perished by the molten lava, the shower
of rocky masses, or the ashes which fell from the
heavens as though the blazing stars had themselves
been lossed from their firm moorings, and plunged
down upon squirming man with a reckless retribu
tion.
Vesuvius was of a kinder nature. Day after
day the black wreath that circles the old beldame
had increased in density and volume. The voices
of the mountain had gradually grown more threat
ening: the genie within had spat forth its rage
through newly formed orifices. The people knew
that danger, perhaps death, portended. Some of
those who were able fled for their lives. Others
more poverty-stricken, could not tear themselves
from the little homes and the tiny vineyards they
had planted in the shadow of the mountain.
When Vesuvius was attuned for its slaughter
ous frolic, it had prepared ammunition for several
days. Tt waxed pyrotechnic, majestic, glorious in
its glaring rage—and the lives of men, and women
and little children were the price of the display.
fact that millions of men who take no more exercise than
their ordinary vocations require live to hale and hearty
old age, and the further fact that the average athlete,
for all his sinew and vigor, is seldom more healthy than
the average desk slave or soft-muscled business man.
We yield to no one in «cur admiration of physical
culture—within proper limits. Time after time we
have expressed the opinion in these columns that
if people took more exercise and less medicine
socitv would reap a vast improvement. There
can be no doubt, however, that certain systems
of physical culture have taken advantage of the
prevalent craze to impose divers foolish notions on
the minds of people whose labor is of the seden
tary sort.
The man who sits at a desk the day long is apt
to fall an easy convert to the doctrine that prom
ises him bounding mental and physical health, if
he will patronize a gymnasium for a few hours
each week. Once in the habit, however, and granted
that his patience and soreness outlast the first
week’s experiment, he is extremely likely to overdo
the thing. It is then that he accumulates the heaps
of muscles so derisively mentioned by our con
temporary; and he uses up more good vitality in
so doing than would be required, sometimes, to
double his income.
The great thing in exercise is moderation—mod
eration and commonsense. The open air is, too,
another essential that is not stressed sufficiently.
This modern age of ours needs to learn the lesson
of care and use of the body and the mind—hut it
needs no less urgently to apply the principle of
restraint in this, as in other chapters of life.
Leaves from an Old *Scrap Book
By A GEORGIA COLONEL.
T
then a draft for the deficiency in said
quota shall be made in said state, or on
HE 'following is a copy of Lincoln’s! the districts of said state, for their due
proportion of said quota, and the said
draft shall commence on the 5th day ol
January, 1864.
“And I further proclaim that nothing in
tills proclamation shall interfere with ex
isting orders, or with those which may
•be issued for tiic present draft in the
states where it is now in progress or
where it lias not yet been commenced.
“The quota of the states and districts
A DEFIANT WOMAN
The following communication from a
Memphis lady was published in several
of the southern newspapers:
“Editor Bulletin: You call attention to
Lincoln’s appointment of a day of thanks
giving for the successes which have
blessed our cause, and you hope the day
will be properly observed. By ‘our cause.’
you mean the union cause.
“I wonder how you think the people of
Memphis can thank God for the successes
of the union abolition cause. You pre-
proclamation Off September, 1863.
in which he called for 300.000
more men:
“A PROCLAMATION.
"Whereas, the term of service of pari
of the volunteer forces of the United
States will expire during the coming
year, and
“Whereas, in addition to the men raised
by the present draft, it is deemed expe
dient to call out 300.000 volunteers to
serve three years or the war—not, how
ever, exceeding three years;
“Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln,
president of the United States and com
mander in chief of the airmy and navy
thereof, and of the militia of the several
states when called into actual service, do
issue this my proclamation, calling upon
the governors of the different states to ^ ,
raise and have enlisted into the United I loyal people thereof, invoking them to Memphis will appoint services in his
States service, for the various companies lend their cheerful, willing and effective church at Lincoln’s dictation? Let one
and regiments in the field from their aid to the measures thus adopted, with .dare to try it, and see liow his congrega-
respeotive elates ,theiy quotas of 300,000 j a view to reinforce our victorious armies j jj 0 |, will stand it. They know better.
will he assigned by the dar department, l ^ en( j lo think that a great union senti-
through the provost marshal general s , nient |,as sprung up in Memphis, because
office, due regard being had for the men [ you say [hat upW ard of ||,000 persons
heretofore furnished, whether by volun- | have taken t he oath of allegiance. Let
leering or drafting; and the recruiting ' ul , yoUf lf they have taken it, they
will l>e conducted in accordance witn , d j d no t d o it of their own free will, and
such instructions as have been or may be i t|iey don ' t feel bound by it; they had to
issued by that department. 'take it under a military despotism, and
“In issuing this proclamation I address I ^on’t feel bound to regard any oath
myself not only to the governors of thejj’ orced up(JI1 them in that way.
, i _.... i.... 'Do y OU believe that any preacher in
She Knev*.
Ann—See what a lovely diamond en
gagement ring Henry gave me?
Jane—Yes, it is; and it’s genuine, too.
Ann—Why, wliat do you mean?
Jane—When Henry gave it to me 1 sent
and had it tested.—Answers.
A Positive Cure.
He—There is a certain young lady deeply
interested in me, and while I like her, you
know, still I never could love her. 1
want to put an end to it without break
ing the poor girl's heart. Can you sug
gest any plan?
She—Do you call there often?
' r Nb, indeed; not any oftener than 1
can possibly help.”
“Cali oftener.”—Illustrated Bits.
Wanted to Know.
Beck (despondently)—I said something
my wife didn’t like, and she hasn't spoken
to me for two days.
Peck (eagerly)—Can you remember what
it was you said?—Puck.
Hard Luck.
Mary—They issued a hundred and fifty
wedding invitations.
Jane—Did they get many valuable pres
ents?
Mary—No—they barely made expenses.
—Modern Society.
Compensation.
“I am sorry,” said the doctor, “but your
little girl will not be able to speak for
several days!”
“Then it will be safe,” said the anx
ious mother, “for me to invite the min
ister to tea, won’t it?”—Sketch.
His Reward.
“What's the matter, Willlkin?” "Mat
ter enough. You know some time ago 1
assigned all my property to my wife to
—to keep it out of the hands of—of peo
ple I owe, you know?” "Yes.” “Well,
she's taken the money and gone off—says
she won’t live with me because I swin
dled my creditors.”—Tit-Bits.
A LITTLE ABOUT FRANKING.
(From The London Chronicle.)
Franking had its birth, honestly enough,
in 1660, in the desire to relieve members
of parliament of the expense Incurred in
the discharge of their national duties;
but tn'e practice rapidly widened until it U’ . .
became possible tor members to trails- . was nj seriously peculiar
attacks animals taken in
to infected district, and It has a most
peculiar characteristic. This It, that the
animals that' give the disease to others
are apparently in good health, while
those which sicken, and even die from
it, do not usually impart the disease to
I others at all. This feature, ns will readi
ly be conceded, is an anornoly among
the diseases that affect the animal
world. The fever is high and is accom
panied by a greatly enlarged s-pleen, de
structive of the red-blood corpuseles by
the escape of the coloring matter of
tlie blood through the kidneys, which
give, a deep red color to the urine, while
the mucous membranes and fat become
yellow, strength is rapidly lost and
finally, in a majority of cases, death en
sues.
This strange and dreaded disease has
many aliases, its title differing in dif
ferent countries and localities. Here are
some of them: Spanish fever, acclima
tion fever, red water, black water dis
temper, murrian, bloody murrian, yel
low rrurrian, dry murrian, Texas fever,
Australian tick fever and, in South
America, tristeza. We first hear of the
disease in America as far back as 1814,
when Dr. James Mease, addressing the
Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agri
culture, stated that the cattle from a
certain district in South Carolina cer
tainly diseased all other with which they
came in contact during the progress of
their journey across country to the
northern markets. This was so generally
known that the state of Virginia had
prohibited their passing tnrough its ter
ritory. These cattle, said Dr. Mease, in
fected others even when they them
selves were In perfect health. Cattle not
only from other of the United States,
but from Europ# or other foreign coun
tries, when taken into this infected dis
trict, were certain to be attacked by
this strange disease anil generally with
fatal results.
THE FEVER LINE.
And Dr. Mease was right. Similar ob
servations have been made in another
southern district, indicated by a quaran
tine line, now known as the "Texas fever
line.” This line determines the boundary
between the non-infected territory above
and the permanently infected districts
below. It is changing yearly as a re
sult of the dissemination or eradication
of the cattle tick along the border, but
is gradually being drawn back, thanks
to the discovery of the true cause of the
infection and of the systematic efforts
made to destroy it.
The specific name of “Texas fever”
■was given the disease because of the se
vere losses that almost invariably fol
lowed the driving of cattle from the in
fected districts of Texas into, or even
across, the other states and territories, j zoa Whl ch belongs to the very lowest
rience showed that infection did not o
cur by the cattle coming in contact, el
even near each other. The infection,
then, was undoubtedly indirect. But
how? Tlie cattle from the infected dis
tricts permanently infect the pastures,
roads, woods and then the outside ani
mals take the virus from them, second
hand. As a usual thing, even a fence
between infected lands and susceptible
cattle is sufficient to keep the latter
from taking the disease. But this rule
does not hold good if there is any drain
age or washings by rains, across the line
of fence. So, taking it altogether in
its earlier days, the spread of Texas
fever was involved in mystery.
CARRIERS OF INFECTION
But when the general government set
its bureau of animal industry on the
track and instructed i! to trace the prob
lem to its beginning, it was not long in
demonstrating that the ticks which ad
here to cattle from the infected districts
are the true and only carriers of the in
fection to the bodies of the outside cat
tle. They may pass from the one to the
other animal by direct contact, or they
may be collected by tlie susceptible cat-
tie from the pastures or roads where
they have dropped from tlie infected cat
tle. Neither the saliva, urine nor manure
of animals sick with the Texas fever
have anything to do with conveying the
fever*or infection. The most careful in
vestigations of the government experts
reveals but tbe one possible source of
its spread, just as medical science has
-proven the mosquito to be the one true
source of the spread of malaria and yel
low fever. When we come to think of
It, both of these distributing agents are
rather humiliating for proud human na
ture to contemplate, since they are but
little bugs, pure and simple. But un
happily there is nothing of the humbug
about them, but rather real and stern
reality.
The tick, the brown gray, shining bag
of blood, with which most cattlemen arc
familiar, is the sole cause of the infec
tion. It is, therefore, plain that if cattle
can be freed from this parasite before
an infected territory there would be no
danger of tlie spread of the malady. The
positive discovery of the intimate connec
tion of the tick with the spread of the
fever has, of course, played an important
part in determining the methods of pre
vention. It at once gave a sure basis
for investigations which have also yield
ed most important results, and are cer
tain to advance yet further, until tlie
Texas fever, hitherto so paralyzing to
Die efforts of stockmen to improve their
cattle, ha-s become a thing of the past.
The fever is caused by an organism
which lives within the red-blood cor
puscles, and breaks them up. It is sim
ply a blood disease, caused by the pres
ence, nto of bacteria, but of the proto-
men.
"I further proclaim that all tlie volun
teers then called out and. duly enlisted,
shall receive advance pay. premium and
bo-unfy, as heretofore communicated lo
the governors of states by the war de
partment. through the provost marshal
general’s office* by special letters.
“I further proclaim that all volunteeis
received- under his call, as well as all
others, not heretofore credited, shall be
duly credited and deducted from tlie
quotas established tVtr the next draft.
“I further proclaim that if any state
shall fail to raise the quota assigned to
tt by the wur department undeir this call,
now -in the field and bring our needful
military operations to a prosperous end,
thus closing forever the fountains of se
dition and civil war.
"In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
“Done at the city of Washington, this
17th day of October, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eigM hundred and
sixty-three, and of the independence of
-file United States tbe eighty-eighth.
"ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
“By the president:
“W. H. SEWARD.
“Secretary of State.”
(
They know full well tiiat the people of
Memphis give thanks over union disasters
with sincere hearts, but don’t rejoice at
union victories, as they call them. The
women of Memphis will stick to the con
federate cause like Ruth clung to her
mother in love, and say to it, ‘where
thou goest I will go, where thou livest
I will live, whore thou difst I will die,
and there will I be buried.’
“But, where are your great successes?
Your own papers say that Lee brought
off a train of captured spoils 12 miles
long, and that Morgan destroyed seven or
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mit their household goods at the public
charge, as the following extract from old
posiorilce records testines: “Fifteen cou
ple of hounds going to the king of Ro
mans with a -tree pass—two maid ser
vants going as laundresses to my Lord
Ambassador Methuen—Dr. Crichton, car
rying with him a cow and divers neces
saries—three suits of clothes for some
nobleman's lady at the court of Portu
gal—two bales of stockings lor tlie use
of the ambassador to the crown of Por
tugal—a deal case, with four flitches of
bacon for Mr. Pennington of Rotterdam.
This form of abuse died when the post-
office stable underwent purification, but
it speedily gave place to another variety.
Members signed packets of letters' whole
sale, gave them away to their friends,
and sometimes paid their servant's wages
in franked envelopes; in fact, they be
came a valuable form of currency sub
ject to the art of the forger, who did a
roaring trade. in 1715, £24,000 ,$120.-
000) worth of free correspondence passed
through the postoffiee.
Fifty years later tin- nation was stag
gered to discover that the amount had
increased to £170.000 ($850,000), and
stringent laws were passed to mitigate
the immoral tendencies of the houses of
parliament. But all was In vain until Sir
Rowland Hill managed in 1839 to abro-'
gat* til* privileges altogether.
-was at that time thought t-hat the
ar was myseriously peculiar to cer
tain .portions of Texas, it is now known
however, that it is not peculiar even to
the United States, but that it exists in
southern Europe, in Central and South
America, Australia, south Africa and
the West Indies.
When cattle from other sections are
imparted into this infected district they
usually take the fever during their first
summer, and it has always been noticed
t-hat t'he adults, and of these -t'he finest
and fattest, either of beef cattle or milch
cows, ate the first to fall victims of
tlie disease and almost invariably die.
i bat is wny t-he southern improvement
in beef cattle stood so ioug in abeyance.
W hat was the use of paying high prices
tor blooded stock, only to see it die al
most -immediately? But, as a rule, if
there was time for salves to be born
they survived, and thus some at least
of the. blue-biooded slock was saved, and
so much was gained on the onwaru
march of improvement. These calves
born o-f blueblooded parents -took the fe
ver lightly, as a ruie, and thereafter
became immune. For here is urio.her
peculiarity of this fever, that it rarely
1 attacks the same animal a second time.
ING FREDERICK
of Saxony is seeking
a divorce from tie
former Crown Prin
cess Louise, whose
elopement last year
caused such a scan
dal in Europe. It is
understood that the
king wishes to mar
ry again. For a time
ihere were substan
tial rumors cf a re
conciliation between
Princess Louise, the two, but it ap-
ipears they were not based on fact. Since
leaving her French tutor-lover, Louis*
has lived in comparative retirement. It is
said she is st-jl] a favorite with the peo
ple- of Saxony.
\XI.M GORKY, the
tussian revolutionist
tnd author, now on
i visit to this coun-
ry, has encountered
nuch trouble in*New
York. It was dis
covered that instead
being accompani
ed by his wife, lie
■vas traveling with
a Russian actress,
and that his wife
. had been left at
X1U1 Gorky ’ home. Immediately
the New York hotels barred the couple,
and they have since been living in re
tirement. Gorky has been a Russian
revolutionist since he attained mafthood,
and has l\een a thorn in the side of the
government. His proper name Is Alexei
Maximovitch Pye.vhkoff, and his pen
name of G-orky means “bitter,” expres.
sive of his feelings in regard to condi
tions in his native country. He was born
at Non, Novgorod in 1868 and in early
boyhood was apprenticed to a cobbler
Next he worked in a baker's shop, then
became a street porter and an apple ped
dler, and lor a time was a scullion on a
m-er steamer, in IS9I he made a tour
of Russia on foot, and the following
jear his first book s-vpeared, depicting
in a wonderful manner the life of thf
lower classes. Since that time h-is novels
and dramatic works have greatly en-
hancod his literary fame.
WOMEN’S VIOLET FARM.
(From The Chicago Daily News)
A violet farm is the latest venture o-f
two enterprising north shore women
Mrs. George c. McReynolds and Miss
Nina 1'. Howard of Glencoe, who have
m a year ouil-t up a business supply?^
the local florists. “PPGing
" W ® Starlt:d our farm last spring iu
the lace ot the most discouraging Dro
Phecies from our friends and the keenes-
eon,petition of violet growers of New
iork said Miss Howard In speaking
of Lie undertaking. -But we believed
we could be successful. \\. : ,
imr Vhl be f l scientiUc methods of grow
mg the plants, had iiiinorteri >w
soil obtainable and burn „ d the best
Uilly adapted to our needs ho “ s “
went ahead, and we have found i^to^e
a paying'proposition.
“Our first experiment was in making
cuttings from the violet farm of\l
Chittenden at Lansing, Mich., a woman
cr'° -ni!e a most successful grow-
ti. These did not thrive and we n, v-
imported oor> _ u ''c n ‘XI
-nod 3,000 cuttings from the Huh
has wJi C ^“ n . tr L’.., wher ? .violet culture
been most successful. it i s not
generally known that John D. Rocke-
Amferlca^at rgest Vio,et fa ™ iu
anTour ( ;mtin-- yt0Wn : f>n - the - Huds011 '
of tlie country.
form of the animal kingdom. These tiny
organisms multiply very rapidly in tlie
body of the animal attacked, and in
acute casts an enormous destruction of
red corpuscles takes place in a few days.
How this organism obtains entrance
into the red corpuscles is stiil a mystery,
but It surely does get there somehow,
and then at once begins to enlarge. The
commencement of the fever is marked,
therefore, by the destruction of the blood
corpuscles, it may be slow, it may be
rapid. It is usually tlie laittr, in tna
fatal type, which is always present in
tbe height of tlie Texas fever season,
or during the latter part of August, and
the early part of September. The slower
destruction of the corpuscles marks a
n\ilder type, that is is not usually fatal,
but this is general only late in the
autumn, and occasionally in July and the
latter part of August. Tlie.se mild type
cases that begin thus early in the sea
son are very apt to become acute later
on, and to end in death.
The fatalities in this dnaded disease ! and vigilance" while «
are due, not so much to the actual | few"**
lobb of blood a,s to the almost impossi-
not it tt,!. ‘hoT 1 ,’ a tlie temperature is
^‘th^do’Te 1 vter-ba^P^!
ranee because most of those that we get
KrOWn in Ncw York and
..... OI fra eiance -in transit
as 'thev U r? 2 ’°°° fl ° Wers * week and
■as t-liej ica-ch our patrons within two
Ume W, rr e cuUffil n tfrist from, the
„ r mi u s tlle, y retain their frag-
, 1 * ) lo y are also lareer anri n»f a
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let growing offi#s
than anything 1
requires infinite cave
. 5 are
er for a woman vio-
greater inducements
can think of. particu
larly to women wh.» , ”• ■—
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