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ate Jtlontgotnarg iflmtitor.
B. C Sutton, Editor and Proprietor.
The development of bituminous c<:•: '
lands in Virginia within the past few
years has been very rapid. Up to within
a few years the coal production of Vir
ginia was comparatively limited, but
estimates are from 3,000,000 to 5,000,000
tons for this year.
The Swiss are a nation of hotel keepers
There are in Switzerland a thousand
hotels, containing 58,000 beds, and em
ploying 16,000 servants. The gross in
come from these hotels is considerably
more than the annual budget of the
confederation.
The War Department has been look
ing tip the militia force on account of
the recent war talk, and it is ascertained
that the na:ion has 7,00 *.OOO men avail
able for military duty, of whom 94,000
are well drilled and armed. Excited
neighbors p ease take the hint.
The artificial honey now made in New
York is so close to the genuine that only
the experts can detect the difference.
It is in racks, the same as the natural
product, and now and then the wings
and legs of a few dead bees arc to be
found to further the deception. It can
be sold at a profit for ten cents per
pound.
Manufacturers are favoring the estab
lishment of relief associations. Several
New England employers have started
them. One in Portland, Me., has a
membership of 139. All persons whose
wages are over $5 a week pay #1 fee and
ten cents per week, which entitles a
member in case of sickness to .$5 per
week until S2OO has been drawn out,
and to $25 in case of death.
Nearly four thousand retail butchers
eater to the demands of New York City
and Brooklyn. The average number of
journeymen employed in each retail
house is three, making a total of twelve
thousand. One hundred and fifty
•wholesale beef butchers, the same num
bor of wholesale dealers in mutton, lamb
and veal, and about twenty-five hog
slaughterers are also adjuncts of the
trade. A capital of nearly fifty millions
is invested by butchers in the two cities.
Some of the wholesale men are triple
millionaires. Many of the retail shop
butchers are worth all the way from ten
to fifty thousand dollars. The weekly
pay of the journeymen ranges from sl2
to $lB.
Quail have multiplied so in California
that they are a nuisance. When the
game law was being discussed in thb>
Assembly the other day Assemblyman
Young said that there “was a revolution”
in his county (San Diego) against quail,
which eome down in swarms upon vine
yards and destroy them. Owners of
vineyards have persons employed to do
nothing else than kill these birds, which
ho declared liavc become an intolerable
nuisance in this county. He recited an
instance where a swarm of these quails
ate up the pasturage that cattle fed upon.
His con tituents demanded that a remedy
be provided. The bill was so amended
that quail maybe killed between March
1 and September 10, while during tho
grape season they may be also trapped.
The Japanese are undoubtedly the
nost progressive people of Asia. The
positiou of this country, lying off the
coast of the continent, is very much the
same as that of the British Isles as re
gards Europe. They are adopting Eu
ropean ideas and methods as no other
people in Asia have ever done. But they
pro now proposing to adopt European
dress, and the London Timex strongly
yet somewhat comically, protests against
this, as their own dress is so much more
convenient and becoming. This, says
the Cultivator , is a poor showing for
Europeans if the Timex is correct. It re
mains for our civilization to overcome
some of the absurdities of fashionable
costume, or a semi-civilized and even
barbarian people will lose confidence in
our boasted superiority.
Mrs. T. J. Hammond, of Brunswick,
Mo., owns what she is please i to term a
very knowing cat and the feline certain
ly exhibits very rare intelligence. It is
a large and beautiful Maltese, less than
a year old, and has been taught to per
form a number of tricks very unusual for
a cat, one of which is to ring a chestnut
bell, and it frequently turns the laugh
on Mrs. Hammond by making the bell
t nkle while she is recounting some freak
of its intelligence. When the cat feels
that a mou c e would be an addition to its
bill of fare it brings the trap to Mrs.
Hammond to be set and then goes fre
quently to see if the desired mouse has
been ca ght. When such is the case the
trap Is again taken to some one by Buss,
who will remove the mouse irom it. It
makes no effort to catch mice in the or
dinary way, preferring, apparently, the
invention of man as an easier way to ob
tain a sweet morsel.
REV. I)R. TALMAGE.
TilK BROOKLYN DIVIXK'S SUN
DAY SKRMON.
Subject: “Stinging Annoyances."
Text: “ The Lord thij God will send tho
hornet." —Deuteronomy vii., 26.
It seems ns it the jnseet world were deter
mined to war against the human race. It is
?vriy year attacking the grain fields and the
orchards and the vineyards. The Colorado
beetle, the Nebraska grasshopper, the New
Jersey locust, the universal potato destroyer,
seem to cany on the work which was begun
ages ago when the insects buzzed out. of Noah's
ark as the door was opened.
In my text the hornet flies out on its mis
sion. it is a s|H>ri.)s of wnsp, swift in its
motion and violent, in its sting, its touch is
torture to man or beast. We have all
seen the cattle run bellowing from the cut of
its lancet. In boyhood we used to stand
cautiously looking at the globular nest
hung from the tree branch, and while We
were looking at the Wonderful paste-board
covering we wete struck With something that
seat us shrieking away. The hornet goes in
swaritts. It. has captains over hundreds, and
twehty of them attacking one man will
produce certain death. The Persians
attempted to conquer a Christian
city, but the elephants and the beasts on
which the Persians rode were assaulted by the
hornet, so that the whole army was broken
up and the besieged city was rescued. This
burning and noxious insect stung out tho
Hittites and Canaanites from their country.
What the gleaming sword and chariot of war
could not accomplish was done by the punc
ture of an insect. The Lord sent the hornet.
My friends, when We are assaulted by be
hemoths of trouhle —great behemoths of
trouble—we become cliivalric, and we assault
them; we get on the high-mettled steed of
Our Courage, and make a cavalry charge at
them, and, if Coil be with us, we come out
stronger and better than when we went in.
But, alas for these insectile annoyances of
life—these fix's too small to shoot —these
tilings without any avoirdupois weight—the
gnats, and the midges, anil tho flies, and the
wasps, and the hornets! In other words, it is
the small stinging annoyances of our life
which drive us out and use us up. Into the
best conditioned lift', for some grand and
glorious purpose, God sends the hornet.
I remark in the first place, that these small
stinging annoyances may come in the shape
of a sensitive nervous organization. People
who are prostrated nnder typhoid fevers or
with broken bones get plenty of sympathy,
but who pities anybody that is nervous t The
doctors say, and the family says, and every
body says: “Oh! she’s only a little nervous;
that’s all.” The sound of a heavy foot, the
harsh clearing of a throat, a discord in music,
a want of harmony between the shawl anil
the glove on the same person, a curt answer,
a passing slight, the wind from the east, any
one of ten thousand annoyances, opens the
door for the hornet. The fact is,
that the vast majority of the people in
this country are overworked, and their
nerves are the first to give out. A great mul
titude are under the strain of who,
when he was told by his physician that if lie
did not stop working while he was in such
pool 1 physical health he would die, responded:
“Doctor, whether I live or die the wheel must
keep going around.” These persons of whom
I speak have a bleeding sensitiveness. The
flies love to light on anything raw, and these
people are like the Canaanites spoken of in
the text or in the context —they have a very
thin covering anil are vulnerable at all points.
And the Lord sent the hornet.
Again, these small insect annoyances may
come to us in the shape of friends and ac
quaintances who are always saying disagree
able things. There are some people you can
not be with for half an hour but you feel
cheered and comforted. Then there are
other people .you cannot be with for five
minutes before you feel miserable. They do
not mean to disturb you, but they sting you
to the bone. They gather up all the yarn
which the gossips spin, and peddle it. They
gather up all the adverse criticisms about
your person, about your business, about your
home, about your church, and they make your
ear the funnel into which they pour it. They
laugh heartily when they tell you, as though it
wore a gtxxi joke, and you laugh too—outside.
These people' are brought to our attention in
the Bible, in the Book of Ruth: Naomi went
forth beautiful and with the finest of worldly
prospects into another land, but after awhile
she came back widowed, and sick, and poor.
What did her friends do when she came back
to the city? They all went out, and, instead
of giving her common-sense consolation, what
did they do? Read the book of Ruth and find
out. They threw up their hands and said,
“Is this Naomi?” as much as to say, “How
very had you look!” When I entered the
Ministry I looked very pale for years,
and every year, for four or five years, a
hundred times a year, I was asked if I was
not in a consumption. And passing through
the room I would sometimes hear people sigh
and cry: “A-ah! not long for this world!”
I resolved in those times that I never, in any
conversation, would say anything depressing,
and by the help of God I have kept the reso
lution! These people of whom I speak reap
and bind in the great harvest field of dis
couragement. Some days you greet them
with a hilarious “good-morning,” anil they
come buzzing at you with some depressing
information. The Lord sent the hor
net. It is astonishing how some people
prefer to write and to say disagreeable
things. That was the case when, years ago,
Henry M. Stanley returned after his magnifi
cent expoit of finding Doctor David Living
ston, and when Mr. Stanley stood tiefore the
savants of Europe, and many of the small
critics of the day, under pretense of getting
geographical information, put to him most
insolent questions, he folded his arms ami re
fused to answer. At the very time when you
would have supposed all decent men would
have applauded the heroism of the man,there
were those to hiss. The Lord sent the hornet.
When that man sat down on the western
coast of Africa, sick and worn, perhaps,in the
grandest achievement of the age in the way of
geograpical discovery,there were small critics
all over the world to buzz and buzz, and
caricature and deride him; and when a few
weeks after that he got the London papers, as
he opened them, out flew the hornet. When
1 see that there are so many people in the
world who like to say disagreeable things,and
write disagreeable things, I come almost in
my weaker moments to believe what a man
-aid to me in Philadelphia one Monday morn
ing. I went to get the horse that was at the
livery, and the hostler, a plain man. said to
me: -Mr. Talmage, I saw that you preached
to the young men yesterday.” I said: “Yes.”
He said: “No use, no use; man's a failure. '
The small insect annoyances of life some
times come in the shajs- of a local physical
trouhle, which does not amount to a positive
prostration, but which bothers you when
you want to feel the best. Perhaps it is a
-ick headache which has been the plague of
your life, and you appoint some occasion of
mirth, or sociality, or usefulness, and when
the clock strikes the hour you cannot make
your appearance. Perhaps the trouble is be
tween the ear and the fore I lead, in the shape
of a neuralgic twinge Nobody can see it or
-vmpathize with you: hut just at the time
when you want your intellect clearest, and
vour disposition brightest, you feel a sharp,
Le‘-n. disconcerting thrust. The Lord sent
the hornet.
MT. VERNON. MONTGOMERY CO., OA., WEDNESDAY,
i crimps these small insis-t annoyances will
Iconic in the shape of a domestic irritation.
\ The parlor and the kitchen do not always
harmonize. To get good service and to keep
; it u one of the great questions of the country,
j Sometimes it may tri the arrogftney and in
ronsiderutene.ss of employers; But Whatever
j he the fact, we will admit there are these in
, sect annoyances winging their way
I out from tho culinary department. If
the grace of God lie not in tho heart
!of the housekeeper, she cannot maintain
1 her equilibrium. The men como home at
1 night and hear the story of these annoyances,
j anil say: “O! these homo troubles are very
little things.'' They are small, small as
wasps, but they sting. Martha's nerves were
all unstrung nnen she rushed in asking Christ
to reprove Mary, and there are tens of t hou
sands of women who are dying, stung to death
ov these jiostlferous domestic annoyances.
Tho Lord sent the hornet.
These small iils*vt disturbances may also
eome in the shape rtf business irritations.
There an men here who went through 1857
ami Sept. 24, lstitt, without losing their bal
ance, who are every day unhorsed by littlij
annoyances—a clerk’s ill manners, or a blot
of ink on a bill of lading, or the extravagance
of a partner who overdraws his account, or
the underselling by a business rival, or
the ivhis|K'i ing o! husinesss confidences in
the street, or the making of some lit
tle bad debt which was against your
judgment, just to please somebody else, it is
not the panics that kill the merchants. Panics
come only once in tint or twenty years, it is
the constant din of these every day nnnoy
ances which is sending so many of our best
merchants into nervous dyspepsia and paraly
sis and the grave. When our national com
merce fell flat on its face, these men stood up
and felt almost defiant; but their life is giving
way non under the Sivann of these pestifer
ous annoyances. Tho Lord selit the hornet.
1 have noticed in the history of some Os my
congregation that llieir annoyances are mul
tiplying, and that they have a hundred where
they used to have ten. The naturalist bills
‘ us that a wasp sometimes has a family of
: twenty thousand wasps, and it does seem as
if every annoyance of your life bred a
million. By the help of Goil to-day I want
to show you the other side. The hornet is of
no use? O, yes! The naturalists toll us
they are very important in the world’s
economy; they kill spiders and they clear
| the atmosphere; and I really believe God
j sends the annoyances of our life upon
us to kill tho spiders ol the soul and to clear
tho atmosphere of our skies. These annoy
ances are sent on us, I think, to ivako us up
from our lethargy. There is nothing that
makes a man so lively as a nest of “yellow
jackets,” and 1 think that these annoyances
are intended to jxirsuade us of the fact that
this is not a world for us to stop in. If we
had a bed of everything that was attractive
and soft and easy, what would we want of
heaven? You liiink that the hollow tree
sends the hornet , or you think the devil sends
the hornet. 1 want to correct your opinion.
The Lord sent the hornet.
Then I also think these annoyances come
upon us to culture our patience. In the
gymnasium you find upright parallel bars—
bars with holes over each other for pegs to be
put in. Then the gymnast takes a peg in
each hand and he begins to climb, one inch at
a time, or two inches, and, getting his strength
cultured, reaches after awhile the ceiling.
And it seems to me that these annoy
ances in life are a moral gymnasium, each
worry a peg by which we are to
climb higher and higher in Christian
attainments. We all love to see patience,
but it cannot be cultured in fair weather. It
is a child of the storm. If you had everything
desirable anil there was nothing more to get,
what would you want with patience? Tho
only lime to culture it is when you aro slan
dered and cheated, and sick and half dead.
"Oh,” you say, “if 1 only hml the cireum-
I stances of some ivell-to-do man 1 would lie
' patient too.” You might as well say: “If it
were not for this water I would swim;" or,
I “I eoul l shoot this gun if it were not for tho
I caps.” When you stand chin deep in annoy
! ances is the time for you to swim out toward
the great headlands of I 'hristian attainment,
and when your life is loaded to the muzzle
| with repulsive annoyances—that is the time
| to draw the trigger. Nothing but the furnace
i will ever burn out of us the clinker and the
] slag. I have formed this theory in regard to
| small annoyances and vexations. It takes
j just so much trouble to fit us for usefulness
and for heaven. The only question is,
I whether we shall take it in the lmlk, or pul
verized and granulated. Here is one man
j who takes it in the bulk. His back is
broken, or his eyesight put out, or some
I other awful calamity befalls him; while
the vast majority of people take the thing
: piecemeal. Which way would you rather
nave it? Os course in piecemeal. Better have
five aching teeth than one broken jaw. Better
ten fly-blisters than an amputation. Better
twenty squalls than one cyclone. There may
be a difference of opinion as to allopathy and
homeopathy; but in this matter of trouble
I like homeopathic doses small lie I lets of
annoyance rather than some knock-down dose
of calamity. Instead of the thunderbolt give
us the hornet. I f you have a hank you would
a great deal rather that fifty men should come
in with checks less than a hundred dollars
than to have two depositors come in the same
day each want ing his ten thousand dollars.
In this latter ease, you cough and look down
at the floor and up at the ceiling Before you
look into the safe. Now, my friends,
would you not rather have these small
drafts of annoyance on your hank of faith
than some all staggering demand upon your
endurance'? I want to make you so strong,
that you will not surrender to small annoy
ances. In the village of Hainelin, tradition
I says, there was an invasion of rats, arid these
I small creatures almost devoured the town
and threatened the lives fit the population,
! and the story is that a piper came out one
; day and played a very sweet turn;, and all
the vermin followed him—followed him to
1 the banks of the Weser, and then he blew a
! blast and they dropped in and disappeared
forever. Os course this is a fable, but I wish
[ could, on the sweet flute of the Gospel, draw
forth all the nibbling and burrowing annoy
ance of your life, and play them down into
: depths forever. How many touches did the
artist give to his picture of “Cotopaxi,” or his
“Heart of the Andes?” I suppose about 50,-
000 touehes. I hear the canvas saying:
“Why do you k«-p me trembling with
. that pencil so long? why don’t you put it on
j in one dash?” “No.” says the artist’ “I know
how to make a painting: it will take fifty
’ thousand of these touches.” And I want you,
my friends, to understand f hat it is these ten
: thousand annoyances which, under God, are
making up the picture of your life, to be hung
at last in the galleries of heaven, fit for angels
to look at. God knows how to make a picture.
I go into a sculptor s studio, and see him
shaping a statue. He has a chisel in one
hand and a mallet in the other, and he gives
a very gentle stroke —click, click, click! I
say: “Why don’t you strike harder?” “Oh!”
he replies, “that would shatter the statue I
can't do it that way: I must do it this way.”
So he works on. and after awhile the feat
ures come out, and everybody that en
ter; the studio is charmed and fascinated.
Well, God has your soul under process of de
velopment, and it is the little annoyances and
vexations of life tliat are chiseling out your
immortal nature It is click, click„click! I
wonder why some great providence does not
come, and with one stroke prepare you for
; heaven. Ah, no: God says that is not the
way. And so he keeps on oy strokes of little
vexations, until at last you shall be a glad
spectacle for angels and for men. You know
that a large fortune may be spent in
small change, and a vast amount of moral
“BUB DEO FACIO FORTITER-"
character may go away in small depletion.
It is the little troubles of life that are having j
more etTis't upon you than great ones. A
sivarm of locusts will kill a grain field sooner i
than the incursion of three or four cattle.
You say: “Since l lost my child, since l lost,
tiiy property; I have l>een a different man.” |
But you do not recognize tlte arehitee
tore of little annoyances that, aro hewing,dig’
ging, cutting, shaping, splitting and in ,
terjoiniug your moral qualities. One tncifef j
match may send destruction through a block |
of storehouses. Catharine do Medicis got her
death from smelling a poisonous ruse. Colum
bus, bv stopping and asking for a piece of
bread and a drink of water at a Franciscan
convent, was Itsl to the discovery of a new
world. And there is an intimate connection
between trifles anil immensities, Between
nothings and evnrythings.
Now, be careful to let none of those annoy
ances go through your soul unarraigned.
Compel them to administer to your spiritual
wealth. The scratch of a sixpenny-nail some
times produces lock-jaw, and the clip of a
most inlhiitesimal annoyance may damage yuw
forever. l)n licit let ally annoyance or per
plexity eonie across your soul without its
making von bettor.
Our National Government docs not thlnl
it belittling to put a tax on pins, tuul a tax «
buckles, and a tax on shoes. The individual
taxes do not amount to much, but in tho ag
gregato to millions and millions of dollars
Anu I would have you, Oh Christian man
put a high tariff on every annoyance and
vexation that comes through your soul. Tht
might not amount to much in single cases,bu
in the aggregate it won Id lie a great revenue at
spiritual strength and satisfaction. A bex
can suck honey oven out of a nettle; and 0
you lmvc tho grace of God in your hoart,yotl
can got sweetness out of that which would
otherwise irritate and annoy. A returned
missionary told me that ii company of ad
venturers rowing up the Ganges were stuns
to death hv flies that infest, that regioii ftl
certain seasons. I have seen the oarth strewed
with the carcasses of men slain by insect on
noyancos. The only way to get prepared foi
the great troubles rif life is to conquer flaw
small troubles. Wlmt would you say of a
soldier who refused to load his gun, or to g«
into the conflict liecauso it was only a skir
mish, saying: “I am not going to ex
pend niy ammunition on a skirmish:
wait until there comes a general
engagement, and then you will se»
how courageous I am, and what Battling 1
will do?” The General would say to such »
man: “If you are not faithful in a skirmish,
you would lie nothing in a general engage
ment.” And I have to toll you, O Christian
men, if you cannot apply tho principles ol
Christ’s religion on a small scale, you will
never ho able to apply thorn on a large
scale.
If I had my way with you 1 would have
you posses; all possible worldly prosperity. I
would have you each one a garden a river
flowing through it, geraniums and shrubs on
the sides, and the grass and flowers as iieauti
till as though the rninlsiiv had fallen. I would
have you a house, a splendid mansion, and the
lied should lie covered with upholstery dipped
in the setting sun. I would have every
haR in your house set with statues and
Statuettes, and then I would have tho four
qua tors of the globe pour in all their luxuries
on • ’ur tabte, and you should have forks of
i’ll'' and knives of gold, inlaid with
diamonds and amethysts. Then you should
each one of you have the finest horses, and
your pick of the equipages of the world.
Then I would have you live a hundred
and fifty years, and you should not
have a pain or oeho until the last breath.
“Not each one of us?” you say. Yes
each ono of you. “Not, to your enemies?”
Yes; the only difference I would make with
♦ hem would lie that I would put a lit tle extra
gilt on their walls, and a little extra embroid
ery on their slippers. But you say: “Why
does not God give us all these things?” Ah!
I bethink myself. He is wiser. It would
make fools and sluggards of us if wo had our
way. No man puts his best picture in the
portico or vestibule of his house. God meant
this world to lie only tho vestibule of heaven,
that groat gallery of the universe toward
which we are aspiring. We must not have
it too good in this world, or we would want
no heaven.
I’olyearp was condemned to lie burnt to
deat h. The stake was planted. Hewas fast
ened to it. The faggots wore placed around
liirn, the fires kindled, hut history tells us that
the flames bent outward like the canvas of a
ship in a stout Breeze, so that the flames, in
stem! of destroying Polycarp, were only a
wall between him and his enemies. They laid
actually to destroy him with the poniard; the
flames would not touch him. Well, my hearer,
I want you to understand that by God’s
grace the flames of trial, instead of eonsiun
ing your soul, are only going to Iks a wail of
defense, and a canopy of blessing. God is
going to fulfill to you tho blowing and the
promise, as He did to Folyearp. “ When thou
walkest through the flro thou shalt not be
burned." Now you do not understand; you
shall know hereafter. In heaven you will
bless God even for the hornet.
Not t lie Same.
Some of tht children whom the Fresh
Air Fund sends to the country are less
noted for their good manners than for
their well-developed faculty of observa
tion.
A lady in the western part of New
York State the wife of a minister on
tertained a youngster from the Fourth
Ward during his stay in the country.
One evening after the “Fresh Air”
boy had been with her about a week,
the lady invited a number of people to
tea.
The guests had seated themselves at
the table, and the blessing had been
asked, when the member from the Fourth
Ward picked up his shining Diver tea
knife, eyed it keenly, and remarked:
“We ain’t never had dese knives on
before.”
“Hush, James, ’’ said the hostess,
blushing slightly.
“Hush, me eye!” retorted James; “you
can’t play no snide racket on me”—then,
glancing around the table —“5 oti got
3ese silver knives jis because dese udder
b okes is here to supper!”
The mortified hostess was obliged to
»dmit the truth of the statement, and
the Fourth Warder ate his meal in dis
gusted silence. —Drake • 'lrave.Uerx' Ma
gazine. _
A loquacious little fellow who residei
in this city rather unceremoniously re
moved the veil from the secrecy thal
surrounds the missives of St. Valentine
The young gentleman who is credited
with a regard for that little fellow i
Bister, and whose regard is not unrecip
| rocated, called the other evening, and,
! meeting the little boy, very naturally
! inquired:
“Johnny, did you get a valentine ?”
“No, I didn’t, and you wouldu’l
either if Barah hadn t stolied the money
out o’ my bank to buy one for you!
Bottom Budget.
MARCH :«), 1887.
A PECULIAR AFFLICTION.!
A CASE THAT NO DOCTOR SEEMS
TO UNDERSTAND
t\ Man xvbo to Apparently Healthy,
hut has Peculiar Mental Sciisa
tiotts— -Suffering Fifteen Near*.
“1 wish yoii would make a” inquiry
for mo through the columns of the Sou,
said a stout, heulthy-looking man to a
ren irter. The in pm or wits about .» feet
6 ‘inches high, weighed probably l.u
pounds, and looked the picture of
physical and mental comfort.
••Yes, l took healthy enough, sald
“but the truth is that 1 have U°t ,| L '“
well a mo,i cut for fifteen years. 1 "<■
worst of it is that no doctor seem# '«■'
understand tho case. There wak U, J 1
article in tho Son sotn; time :ig<> about
strange mental disease, and ono of them,
called neurophobia, where the victim
had a horror of going pa- t certain places,
seemed to be the nearest to my case I
ever heard of, but it did not tit inc ex
actly. I have tried allopathy, home
opathy, water cure, mind cure, taitli
cure, dieting, recreation, and no doctor
ing at nil, but the result is always the
same. It started with a general break
down from intellectual overwork, with
all its accompaniments of dyspepsia,
nervous prostration, and tht* like. But
now I sleep well, catlike a pig, have no
dyspepsia, and can stand a good deal of
mental and physical work, loss of sleep,
etc., will out inconvenience. At tho
same time I am in a continual stale of
torment.
“1 will be feeling good for a while,
when all of a sudden there is a jemalion
that something is goin , to happen. ’! hen
I grow restless, frightened, and finally
fall into a regular panic, just, as one
would if he were in a front scat in a the
atre and somebody should cry tire and the
audience start to rush out. This merges
into a sort of spasm of the stomach, a.
compunied By a dimness ol vision, a
quaking of the knees, complete physical
prostration, trembling, palpitation ol
the heart, deafness, and a complete col
lapse. The only thing that will stop it
i is a tremendous effort of tho will to
throw it off, but in many cases the will
itself appears to be weak and sick, and
not within my control. Opium, cocaine,
bromide of pota.sium, valerian, ignatia,
j and liqrrors have been tried for relief.
The quickest is liquor, the stimulus of
which overcomes temporarily the attack,
but in an hour there is a reacting de
pression that catt only be overcome by
sleep. • pirtm seems to be a specific also,
but its action is less rapid, and for fear
of the habit growing I uo not like to take
that.
“Another peculiar phase of the trouble
is a monomania against going far away
from home and in certain places, wherein
it is like the disease called neurophobia
by the one who wrote up the Sun article
some tune ago. I cannot go to New
York without some strong person with
ino to take care of me. I never want
any care, but it- appears as if I had not
tho confidence in my ability to take care
of myself. I cannot walk through the
streets of a city alone on (lag stones or
brick pavements. The symptoms are
tho same day or night. But, strange to
say, as soon as I reach tiro country,
where there are broad fields and no side
walks, I am as brave as anyone and have
no unpleasant symptoms, and have equal
self-reliance and confidence day or night.
If I persist, making up my mind to
tight the feeling down, as soon as
I get a few block distant from
hoiiso or oliicc, the panics come
on and I seek to fly anywhere,
anywhere out of myself for relief. An
| other singular feature of the disease is
i that while I cannot go awav anywhere
j alone where I have to walk, 1 can go on
j wheels. If I h ive a hack to the cars and
j step from the cars to another hack, I
! have none of these unpleasant symptoms.
J This feature is of recent origin. For
! merly I could not go away alone even on
wheels. Riding on the cars is restful
| to rriy nerves. A ride of fifty miles will
make me quite myself again, but a rail
| on a steamboat has a contrary effect. One
of the most horrible experiences is to go
out in a small boat fishing, for fear of
obeying an impulse to jump overboard.
This is not from fear, through unfamil
i jarity, for I was almost brought up in a
\ rowboat.
“Theinability to walk around town in
terferes greatly with busines-. it being
1 sometimes necessary to get a hack to go
a distance of two block*-. On some
! days the nervousness is worse than on
; others. At times lam afraid to get into
I a barber’s chair. Ido not know what I
an: afraid of. I cannot fathom it, but I
am terror-stricken. lam not physically
a coward. I could look into the muzzle
\ of a cocked pistol without flinching
(arid I have, often felt tempted to look
into one with my own finger on the
trigger;, but I am at raid of some intan
j gible thing or state of things that I can
not describe, because I do not know
what they are.
“I have, as I said before, tried all
j sorts of doctors and all sorts of remedies
in vain. I have spirit, a fortune to re
cover my health, and am still almost
where I started. In the course of ray
experience I have met several persons
somewhat similarly afflicted.
The sufferer added that lie was regu
lar in his habits, did not smoke or chew,
used no coffee, ate only plain, substan
tial foods, and only touched liquor as a
j remedial agent to relieve the horrible
attack. —A ’em York Son.
The eider duck, like most arctic
species, is common to both hemispheres.
It breeds in great numbers in Labrador.
In Ice'and the down of the eider duck is
so valuable that the rest ng places are
carefully guarded and the eggs and d eks
are not destroyed. An ounce of down
from a nest is considered a good produc
tion.
VOL 11. NO. i.
A MIRROR.
Llfo’* protty much what we make ft,
It’s only a looking glass true,
And reflects back shadow for shadow.
The very image of you.
The good deeds will always be smiling,
The bad will look vicious and vile,
he face you behold in the mirror
Is only yourself all the while.
And the longer the shadow's reflected.
The deeper the impress will be.
shows for good or for evil,
As it sends back the featsires you see.
You're only to take the world easy,
Mingle alone with the good to be had.
And the face you see in the mirror
Will always lie happy and glad.
Norn F Biggin.
IU MOR OF THE HAY.
The ragman’* bW'inesa is picking up.
It only takes half a 2>og to make ita
forequarters. — UoodafVe
If tlie barber stands at the head of
his profession, the chiropodist Btn " dß at
the foot of his profession. — Carl l retxel.
“Where is the ideal wife?” asks a
prominent lecturer. In the cellar B P“*'
ting kindling,most likely.— PMtadelphv*
Call.
The man who Was born with a silver
spoon in his mouth is now looking about
for something to eat with the spoon.
Lowell Gitwen.
If nny dime museum wants to coin
money it should exhibit a wife who can
make as good pics as mother used to.
New Horen News.
Only one thing is needed to make the
toboggan an enormous success, and that
is, a [iatent arrangement that will eauaa
it to gravitate up hill. — Life.
Ham Jones refused to address a gather
ing of newspaper men at lloston. Hu
work appears to bo exclusively among
the sinners.— Pittsburg Gimmick.
Why women kiss each other is
An undetermined qi.estion,
Unless the dai lings would by this
(live man a sweet suggestion.
— SiJ lings.
There are two things in the world that
I can't understand; one is, that you catch
a cold without trying; that if you let it
run on, it stays witii you, and if you stop
it, it goes away. Burdette.
Henry Ward Beecher says money is not
necessary to happiness. Os course not.
Neither is lemon juice necessary to a raw
oyster, but it. adds mightily to its succu
lence. — Baltimore Amiri on.
As life is,Lull of ups and downs, this thought
* * >Mint ■ oinfort all:
Who’reon the ladder’s lowest rung: they ve
not
Got far to fall.
Host on Courier.
“There is no business in the world,”
says the Bulletin , “which can be carried
on successfully in the faceof a loss of 50
percent.” How about driving a water
cart, old man ? Son Frunruco News Ijtb
ter.
In the opinion of scientists there will
come a period when the eartli will cease
to revolve on its axis. To the man, how
ever, who, on going home at night, has
to wait for an opportunity to catch his
bed as it passes him, it will continue to
go round. — New York Newt.
Canvasbnek Ducks.
Though many per.-ons annually enjoy
the sport of shooting < anvnaback ducks,
the joy of Maryland sportsmen and the
pride of Baltimore epicures, few have
probably tho ight of the summer house*
of the ducks, wbe;c the vacancies in
their numbers < aimed by the industry of
winter fowlers are Idled by young birds.
The ducks are found along the Atlantio
coast as far north as Canada. but they
migrate iq, the g,cutest numbers in the
fall to the Chesapeake Bay and its trib
utaries, where they find their favorite
food, the valuncnaor wild celery, a fresh
water plant, whose roots they feed u on,
and which gives them the juiciness and
peculiar flavor which distinguishes them
from other duck - and atones for their
comparative lack of bright plumage.
They follow winter down the Atlantio
coast and remain in the Chesapeake
waters during the winter months. \V lien
the spring opening occurs I hey wing
their way aero - the country in a north
westward direction and spend the sum
mer months breeding and raising their
young in the neighborhood of the cool
waters of the I pper Hocky Mountain
system and in the far north of the fiftieth
degree north latitude. I here alone can
their eggs be obtained. A well known
restaurateur of this city conceived the
idea of raising i anva«back duc ks in Bal
timore. He procured two crippled bird*
a male and female —but his experi
ments were unsuccessful, as the bird
pined for the cool air of the British
American forests.— Baltimore Sun.
Gunning for Sea Lions.
William Arnold lias been gunning for
sea lions of late at Tillamook, and with
good success, having already 216. The
bodies of the e huge beasts blown ashore
lined the beach for miles. While other*
have been writing letter abo .t fish
wheels, traps, and pound-nets, Mr. Ar
nold has taken his little gun and done
good, practical work for the preservation
of our salmom interests and salmon nets.
The sea lion was doubtless created for
some useful purpose, probably to prevent
salmon from becoming too numerous.
Vast numbers of them congregate at
Tillamook rock and at Seal rocks, a few
miles south and near the shore, where
they live at their ease and prey upon the
shoals of salmon entering the Columbia.
It is estimated that half the salmon
which come into the Columbia in the
early part of the season are captured by
sea lions, which also damages nets to the
amount of ten thousands of dollars—
Portland Oregonian.