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tr Brothers and Sisters.
Brothers I have by the score,
A mil'ion, yea, and more!
Men who are striving 'mid sun and rain,
Resolute comrades on hill and plain,
Drawers of water and hewers of wood
Round in a common brotherhood,
With the hearts and bands to dare and do
Life’s fiery furnace passing through,
Ob, Brothers, I pray foryou.
And sisters have I. yea, more
Than sand grains by the shore;
Women who work and who know not peace,
Sighing in vain for the soul’s release;
Sisters of trouble, in poverty’s van.
Toilworn faces I sadly scan;
They come and go and are lost to view,
And death shall linger and fate pursue,
Oh! sisters, I weep for you.
—[Ernest McGaffey.
SISTER DILLY’S BONNET,
BT ZEXAS DANE.
The Ladies’ Society of an active lit¬
tle country church met one Friday af¬
ternoon at the home of Airs. Jonas
Wellman. Every member was pres-
ent, and all were in such a pleasant,
merry mood that Airs. Cyrus Hodge
thought it a good time to mention
something she had had in mind for
several days; 60 , during a momentary
lull in the conversation, she said:
“Sister Dilly’s wearing her oid win¬
ter bonnet again this summer, ain’t
fhe?”
“Yes; I noticed it Sunday, and it
looked awfully old and hot for such a
warm summer day. She’s worn that
one old-fashioned black velvet bonnet
with thorn cheap black ostrich tips for
four years, ami it’s only a cotton vel¬
vet at that. I should think she might
contrive some way to get her another,
even if we don’t pay brother Dilly but
three hundred a year.”
“I get me a new bonnet every sum¬
mer with my egg money, and Sister
Dilly has hen9 a-layin’ right along,”
6aid Mrs. AVclltnan.
“You can get a real neat, black
rough-and-ready straw bonnet in town
now for forty-four ceuts,” 6aid
Mrs. Plutrnn.
“Yes, but I don’t suppose Sister
Dilly feels that she can spend even
that much for a bonnet and buy tbe
triinmin’s too,” said Airs. Hodge*
“You know them three little orphan
gran’ children of hers was sick most
all winter and her and Brother Dilly
had medicine and doctors to pay for,
and Brother Dilly either had to have a
new suit this spring or stop preachin’,
an’ that cost over twenty dollars.
Then they’re paying off that mortgage
of three hundred dollars that’s been on
their place so long.”
“Yes, that ’9 so,” 6aid Airs. Eli
Curry. “Sister Dilly told me the
other day that they’d paid it all off but
fifty dollars and she didn't feel that
she’d a cent to spend for anything hut
home an’ furrin missions till that
mortgage was lifted an’ she’d a ruff of
her own over her head. I’d feel just
so if I was 6ixty years old, and in her
place I doubt if I'd feel called on to
give ten dollars a year to missions of
any kind as Sislcr Dilly does.”
“AYcll, now, sec here,” said Airs.
Hodge, coming at once to the point.
“Sposin’ we club together and make
up a little purse and get Sister Dilly a
bonnet for a birthday gift. She’ll be
sixty a week from Sunday. I know
’cause 1’ni fifty-nine the same day and
we was both born in the same county,
and our namc9 is Matildy, and both
our husbands’ names is Cyrus, and
we’ve often talked about how queer
that was.
“Now our society’s got over fifteen
dollars in the treasury that we’ve no
special use for, nnd I vote that we take
two dollars of that and each member
give ten cent9 extra beside, That’ll
make three dollars and ninety cents,
and we can get a real neat ard tasty
bonnet for that. AVhat do you all
say ?”
The proposition was readily agreed
to, and the next hour was spent in
discussing the style and make of bon-
ncts in general. It was agreed upon
' hat *'f tcr Diily, '' ou ! d be topt in
found ignorance of tbe act,on of
society, and it was further agreed that
the bonnet should be black.
“A black bonnet is like a nice
dress; it’s suitable for almost any
every occasion,” said Airs.
“and nothin’ else is suitable for fun,
f rals, and Sister Dilly, bein’ a
er’s wife, is bound to go to fuu’rals
considerable.”
“I don’t think a woman of
Dilly’s age bad ort to wear flowers in
her bunnit nohow,” said old Grand-
mother Peters, Airs. AA’ellman’s
and the oldest member of the society.
“No, not even wheat or oats drtifishu's,
an’ when it comes to a big, flarin’ red
poppy, a-standin’ straight up an’ a-bob-
bin’ around on top of a body’s head,
like Climeny Cawker that’s only sir
months an’ three days younger’n me
wears, I think it’s perfectly scan’lous,
an I allow to tell Climeny Cawker so
the first chance I git.”
“Now, now, mother,” said Mrs.
Wellman. “It ’3 only a mere matter
of taste, I’m sure I don’t object to a
little bunch of quiet-colored artificials
n even an old ladv’s bonnet.”
“I shall leave all such ideas and
gnch ornaments behind me, mother,”
6aid Airs. Wellman with a little laugh,
“You’d better, for you’ll find y*our-
self in comp’ny that’s above sich van-
ities, Priscilly Wellman,” retorted
Granny Peters, as she shook one of
her shining knitting needles at her
daughter and frowned darkly.
Mrs. Hodge and Airs. Wellman-
were appointed a committee to pur¬
chase the bonnet and attend to the
presentation of it with any message
from the society they might think
appropriate.
“My niece, Alary Carver, doe9 all
the trimming in a millinery store in
Hartford,” said Airs. Hodge. “She
comes out here for her vacation every
summer and knows Sister Dilly, and
I know she’d get the bonnet up for
nothing for us if we’d write and ask
her. I’ll tell her we want something
plain and neat and nice.”
“Without no poppys nor fluhdub-
bcrics, mind you, if you expect ary
dime from me,” put in Airs. Peters.
“It will probably be plain enough to
please you, Grandmother,” replied
Airs. Hodge, with no trace of resent-
ment in her voice, for everybody knew
that Granny Peters was one of the
kindest hearted old ladies in the world,
notwithstanding the sharp tongue that
continua'ly belied her real character,
Airs. Hodge kept summer boarders,
and among them that summer was a
young married man named Hill, who
went to Hartford every Saturday, re-
turning the same day. Ho was very
obliging and frequently executed little
commissions for Airs. Hodge in tbe
city. His wife was in the South with
an invalid mother.
Airs. Ilodgc did not want to go to
Hartford, and wrote her niece in re
gard to the bonnet, determining to ask
Mr. Ilill to call for it when he went
to the city on the following Saturday,
“Certainly, certainly,” said Air.
Hill in his kindly way when Airs.
Hodge mado her request known to-
him. “It won't he the least trouble,
for, as it happens, 1 have to go to that
very milliner’s today to get a bonnet
my ivife has sent for and have it ex-
pressed to her. She’s going to some
kind of a garden party down in
Georgia and had to have a new bonnet
from her own milliner, expressly for
the occasion. I’ll just kill two birds
with one stone by getting your bonnet
at the same time I get my wife’s.”
“You are very kind,” replied Airs,
Ilodge, “and now if you’ll just leave
the bonnet at Pastor Dilly’s house on
your way out here from the train, it
will complete the whole business. I’ll
give you a little note to leave with it.”
The note read as follows:
“Dear Sister Dilly: AVill you please ac-
cept this little gift we send today as a birth'
day remembrance and a slight testimonial of
the esteem and affection of
‘•The Ladies’ Society.”
Air. Hill said he would sec that the
note was left with the bonnet and
good Airs. Hodge felt rejoiced that her
little plan had been carried through so
successfully. Sho felt, too, the satis¬
faction one always feels over the per¬
formance of a kind deed.
The next day was delightfully cool
and balmy for mid-summer and had it
been less fair no doubt every member
0 f the Ladies’ Society would have
g 0ne to church to see the bonnet tow-
ar d which they had all contributed.
As “ "■ as - 11,ey wcre aK ,hcre - Tltt
„rct,y l.tlle church was full, many of
the mmmer boarders in the neighbor*
hood haying come out for .he tat
** me ‘
“! ••' w,ully e ,ai! Si ” ,cr Dill - r
don't have to wear that old bonnet to-
dav,” ' whispered Airs. Ilodge ° to Airs.
church - j
Wellman as they entered the
porch side bv side, “and T I do 1 hope
members , of . 4 the , society* . . will like ...
the
the bonnet; bull hai n’t much doubt
about that. My niece has splendid
taste.”
The other members of the society
had already arrEred, and were sitting
in their pews staring very hard at lis¬
ter Dilly’s bonnet. Mrs. Hodge’s eyes
at once sought out the Dilly pew and
her lips almost gave utterance to a dis¬
tinct “My good land!" when she saw
the bonnet. She felt that the eyes of
all the members of the society were
turned toward her, some in reproach,
some in inquiry and some in keen dis-
pleasure. Among the latter were the
shining, keen black eyes of Grand-
mother Peters. The old lady's pew
was directly behind Mrs. Hodge’s,
and as that lady took her seat Mrs.
Peters leaned forward and said ac-
ridly:
“Xow, you’ve done it, Matildy
Jane Hodge, ain’t you? You shan’t
have any dime of mine to help pay fer
makin’ our paster's wife a disgrace to
the neighborhood! Look at her a-set-
tin’ there with her head hung down as
if she was ’shamed of herself, ez she
no doubt is, and orter be!”
Airs. Dilly’s gray head was indeed
bowed down and on it was a dainty
little white lace bonnet with tics of
pink satin ribbon and white tulle. A
bristling pink pom-pon stood bravely
up in front in a military sort of a
way, and the graceful tail feathers of
a bird of paradise floated jauntily out
behind over Sister Dilly’s meagre little
twist of gray hair. A wreath of pink
and white daises seemed trying to
hide in the meshes of lace and tulle,
but every offending flower was seen
by Granny Peters.
Airs. Dilly looked very uncomfort¬
able. although evidently trying to ap¬
pear calm and self-possessed. She
was a good woman, but one untrav-
eled and unversed in the ways and
fashions of the world. She gave no
heed to the fashions, but when &ho
had taken the bonnet from its box t!e
night before she had held it up on the
fingers of one toil-worn hand and said
to her husband:
“It looks awfully gay for mo, don’t
it, Cyrus? They say old ladies are
wearing colors a good deal now, and I
know they dress gayer’a they used to;
and yet such a bonnet as this don't
seem exactly appropriate for me;
does it, Cyrus?”
Mr. Dilly bad merely glanced from
the 6ermon he was writing and said:
“AVell, well, Alatildy, wear it, wear
it. The dear sisters who sent it likely
know better than we do what the
styles are and what’s becoming to you.
Just wear it, and don’t worry any
about it.”
But Airs. Dilly did worry about it.
“And yet,” she said, “I must wear
it. I can’t offend the sisters by not
weaving it.’’ and so she wove it, to the
amusement of the society and the dis-
may of Airs. Hodge,
“What on earth could Alary Carver
have been thinking of, was Airs.
Hodge’s mental comment. “If she
did it for a joke, 6he’U find out* what I
think of her and her jokes when I see
her.
Early the next day Airs. Ilodge went
away from home for a week and on
her return Air. Hill handed her a letter
with a queer little twinkle in his eye.
The letter was from Airs. Hill and
read:
“AVell, Horace Ilill, what in this
world were you thinking of to have
^ r6, B- send me the horrid old
grandmother’s bonnet that came by
express today. Both you and Airs,
B-must have taken leave of your
senses. Imagine me going to a garden
party wearing a big black silk bonnet
—with a cape to it and a white lace
frill in the front.' Are you crazy, or
trying to play a joke on me? If the
latter, allow me to say that your joke
is in very bad taste and it will cos*
yon the price of two bonnets, for I
went right off and got me another, and
I gave the one you sent to an old col¬
ored aunty who washes for us.”
“And that was Sister Dilly’s bon¬
net,” said Airs. Ilodge.
“Yes. but I had your niece make
Her another just like it today,” raid
Mr , w , he nne wore last
R d . nn .. DilTy^cdTery to GporqrJa „
^Sister ton.
tented and grateful when she appeared
the next Sunday in tl.c bonnet intend-
cd for her and GraDm . Pctc „ eaid .
“That bnnmt looks somethmer like
H, ’...... . but I , should . think Sister Dilly 7
would feel dreadful , to think ... of „ what ,
* show sho made . of „ , herself , last Sun-
Ja - V ’ 1 ^ouldn t be a mite 8 prised if
the whole thing got into the pap<-i&. r
And *0 it hr.s.— [The Housewife.
VIRTUES OF COCAINE.
ITS WONDERFUL PROPERTIES AS
A LOCAL ANESTHETIC.
How It Was Discovered By a Young
Austrian Doctor.
It is probable that to no living man
does humanity owe a greater debt of
gratitude than to Dr. Carl Koller, the
discoverer of the application of hydro-
chloratc of cocaine as a local anaes¬
thetic.
Of this important event one of the
most distinguished American ophthal-
mic surgeons, the late Professor C. If.
Agnew, said he “would rather be the
discoverer of cocaine anaesthesia than
President of the United States.”
In fact, it marks an epoch in surgery
only second to the introduction of
ether and chloroform. It is difficult
for one not in daily contact with those
suffering from injury or disease to
fully comprehend and appreciate the
benefit realized in the prevention of
pain by the employment of this won¬
derful remedy. A few drops of a
weak solution (two to four per cent.)
dropped into the eye robs it of sensibil¬
ity to such an extent that operations
otherwise causing most excruciating
agony are not in Ihe least painful,
The pain caused by the presence of a
foreign body in the eye disappears
under its local use, and the removal of
the foreign substance is greatly facili¬
tated.
The muscles of the eye may be ex¬
posed and divided, as in correcting
squint or “cross-eye,” and the extrac¬
tion of cataract rio longer requires the
employment of general anaesthesia
with ether or chloroform. Cocaine so¬
lution purified by boiling has even been
successfully instilled into the anterior
chamber of the eyeball, in order lo
completely deaden sensibility in the
iris, or curtain which contains the pu¬
pil in its centre.
In painful afllict’ons of the throat,
mouth, nose and larynx, and in all
minor surgical opera;ions upon these
portions of the body, cocaine, properly
applied, produces insensibility and
gives relief from pain. Injected into
and beneath the skin, any small opera¬
tion, such as the amputation of the
fingers or toes, or the removal of small
tumors, etc., may be painlessly per¬
formed with the perfect consciousness,
and even with the assistance of the
patient.
Such is the dread of ether or chloro¬
form that many will bear with or con¬
ceal surgical maladies easily curable
in early development, until, after
months or years of suffering, they
submit too late to a heroic operation.
One of the greatest benefits to be de¬
rived from this wonderful remedy is
the inducement it will offer to early
operative interference.
It may be of interest to know how
near others came to winning the laurels
so justly yielded to Dr. Koller. A re¬
cent surgical winter says: “It is true
that the anaesthetic eiTecrs of cocaine
had been discovered before Roller's re¬
searches secured its wide application.
In 1855 an alkaloid had been extracted
by Gadecke from the leaves of cry-
throxylon coca.
Two years later, and independently,
Dr. Samuel It. Percy', of New York,
exhibited an alkaloid he had isolated;
and as far back as 18GS Schroff had
discovered that cocaine produced in¬
sensibility of the tongue when held in
the mouth; while Morena y Miaz dis¬
covered, by' hypodermic injections of
the acetate, distinct loss of sensibility
over a circumscribed area. And yet
it was left to the brilliant y r oung Aus¬
trian to make the application and win
immortal renown,” for in September,
1884, at the Ophthalmological Congress
in Heidelberg, a y'oung man hitherto
unknown, born in Bohemian Austria
in 1S57, who had finished his
course of study at the
Vienna Gymnasium in 1867, grad¬
uated from Ihe Medical Department of
the University of Vienna in 1882, and
served for two years as interne at the
General Hospital, announced his im¬
portant discovery'. It soon becime
known that in experimenting upon his
own person as to the constitutional
effects of various alkaloids, he noticed
that cocaine taken into the mouth pro¬
duced loss of sensation wherever it
touched the tongue or mucous sur¬
faces. He at once concluded that the
sensory nerves in other parts of the
body would in like manner be aff e , t e i
and within two weeks his resay
which were to be of incalculable be-J
fit to mankind and win for him uixW
ing fame, were given to the world!
[Harper’s Weekly.
Medical Superstitions.
There is a popular supposition J
wide range, based upon I know J
what, that it is very healthful for ehir
dren to play with dogs. A weak ehiJ
it is thought, may gain strength -J J
being with a dog, or, if diseased,
child may be cured by having the jJ
mal “take the disease”—for
inflamed eyes or any disorder of t J
skin. AVitkin a year a college faith,-J <p- a( ]l
ate told me, in perfect good
acquaintances, a Boston doctor and meatl] h3
wife, whose little girl had been
afflicted with some form of eczed
which they all hoped would disappeJ doJ
as the parents had purchased a fine
to play with the child. I
AVhen a dog is teeth’ng, the Engird nppJ
incisors, according to a New
superstition, must be removed as good
as they' become loose, or he mj
“swallow them and have fits.” pJ
haps even more generally received j J
the fancied danger of allowing
child’s milk-tooth after extraction J
fall into the possession of a dog onJ
lest the animal swallow it, and
child have a*dog’s or cat’s tooth grot
in place of the lost one. The Alexicui
and Indians in Texas 6av that even
animal has brains enough to tan ij
own skin; and so the hitter, in the u
of the wolf, panther, wild cat,
some other animals, is mainly p*
pared by rubbing into the flesh sidecj
it the brains of its former wearer.
A somewhat common fancy arnoul
children, perhaps too, among adults J
well, is that “every part strengthens] hear!
part”—that is, that the liver,
brains, and so on of animals, wheJ
eaten, go directly towards nourishiJ
the corresponding organs of the eater] i]
A similar doctrine was worked out
great detail by the American India:,;]
and is, I believe, held by many otha
savage tribes. It seems allowed™
probable that such beliefs, wherevej
found among civilized people, old 01
young, are survivals from remote as]
tiqtiity, and that they are closely ak:i
in their nature and origin to the well]
known doctrine of signatures whici
has played so great a part in the syd
terns of medicine for primitive ped
pies.—[Popular Science Monthly.
AYel! Trained Horses.
Every one knows the gray bond
that pull the Adams Express wagd
through the streets. Magnificent the] an]
inals they are, too, and a \isit to
stables shows how a horse should the] 1]
treated. 1 saw an exhibition of
training yesterday, when a drive] t*]
simply by word of mouth caused
powerful animals, attached to ti] T
heaviest form of express wagon
back up Girard street to Twelfth fro] tl]
half way down the block. Slowly
horses moved step by step in perfect] perfe]
unison, keeping the wagon
straight, the driver simpiy holding effor] tl]
lines and encouraging their
until Twelfth street was reached
when, driving them up to the siud
walk, he got down and gave each la] ]
pat and half an apple. I wa3 too
to find out the driver’s name, for duiflj ]
this age of carelessness about
animals I would certainly publish it] N
let the company know of such a
mane driver.—[Philadelphia Times. |
Growth of a Fine Pearl.
The perfect pearl is found loose ;l
tbe interior of the flesh, and has it
beginning iu an animal germ, T:
oysters annually produce a number rl
eggs which, as soon as they develop
into diminutive animals, are tlirowa,
out by the mother. Occasional.] an
however, an egg proves abortive
remains behind. It is almost nu cr u
scopic in size and is inclosed in a
capsule. This capsule now becom^ foreiCT
to all intents and purposes, a
substance. But it has certain powdj
akin to those of the parent, one li .
1
which is thatof manufacturing, thro*' 1
ing out and gathering around itself 0i 1
ere. The nacre completely envcloff
it, and the germ of an animal is ?0 °!
incased in a beautiful prison u»ua!‘l
spherical in form, but sometimes
shaped. Its size, of course, depe°
on the length of time to which the p'
pearl is e '
cess is continued, as the
larged by constant deposits from !**
to year.