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VORiiVllR YOUNG.
Hi* Wild world hastens on its way;
Th« fray-haired rantory nears its dose;
Its sorrow deepens day by day;
The sommer bloah forsakes the toss.
Bat, darlinf, whOs your voice I bear.
And while your darfc-brown eyes I set.
Bad months and tonlem, seasons drear,
Are all the same, all glad to me.
Despair can never reacli me.
While your soft band 1 bold:
While your eyes love and teach me,
I never shall grow old!
They my that love forsakes the old.
That pamion pales and fades away;
That even love's bright locks of gold
Mast kies their charm and change to gray.
Bat, darling, while your heart is mine.
And while I feel that you are true.
For me the skies will over shioe
With summer light and tenderest blue.
Yes. let old age deride me!
-1 scorn his mocking tongue.
Dear love, with yon beside me,
I am fersver young!
—Belgravia.
The Quaker’s Daughter.
A TBUK STORY OF THK REVOLUTION*.
There is no fairer or richer portion of
Orange county, N. Y., than that lvingin
the picturesque vale known a* Smith’s
Clove. It is properly the head of the
Ramapo valley. When the locality was
•till ft wilderness, and the western es
carpment of the Hudson Highlands was
i unknown and undiscovered region, h
neck, end hangel Lmupto abeam. Phebe
Reynolds was less than 13 ycais old, but
she fought this attempt of the gang'to
murder her father with such fury that it
was necessary for two of the men to hold
her before it could be executed. Sup
posing that they had accomplished the
death of Reynolds, the Tories proceeded
to plunder the house. They no sooner
had left the room than Phepe cut the rope
by which her father was suspended, re
moved ths noose from his neck, and car
ried him to a bed. She had succeeded
in restoring him to consciousness, when
one of the gang re-entered the roam and
discovered what she had done. He sum
moned the others. Phebe took her posi
tion in front of the bed, brandished her
knife, and declared she would kill the
fir>t one who attempted to touch her
father. Bcnjam : n Kelly, the leader of
the gang, shouted:
“Get awav. you little rebel , or 111
run my sword through you!”
The undaunted girl refused to move.
“You may kill me.” she replied, “for
if you kill my fath< r I do not want to
Jive!”
Kelley made a lunge at her with his
sword. She knocked it from his hand,
and in trying to catch it before it fell to
the ground he received a wound from it
on the under part of the wrist from which
the blood flowed freely. One of .the
others stabbed Phebe in the breast, and.
seeing that she would be overpowered by
the Tories she threw nerselfupon her
father's body on the bed, and c'aspedhcr
arms about him in order to shield him
from the weapons of his assailants. While
.* of the gang prodded the girl’s arm
d, the fiend Kelley tore her
with his sword,
clothing from her and lashed* her bare
body with the rope with which
family marie their way from Brookhaven.
Long Island, through the trackless arei. .
that lay between the Hudson and the < the y. ,uld liangcd
Romapj, and became the first settlers in ' “'** ' ‘
that part of Orange county. Their name
was Smith, and they gavetbe name to the
clove, which it still bears. Tlic date of
this family’s coming into the county is
unknown, but wheu the Revolutionary
war liegan the head of the family was an
* number of grown-up
■ons. The elder Smith was
unsavory reputation, and his oldest ion,
Claudius, inherited his father’s ignoble
traits. The Smiths were rank Tories.
Claudius Smith became the leader of a
gang of dcsjierate and bloodthirstv out
laws, and his nan
patriotic families
_ lier father.
relating the brutal details of this
assault, even seventy years after
ward, Phebe never attempted to repress
her anger and indignation at the memory
of it. During all the severe punishment
she received at the hands of the Tories,
she never uttered a moan or gave any
sign of the paiu they inflicted. The
blood ran down her arms from the
wounds made by the sword, and the
rope cut great gashes in her flesh,
the scars from which she carried
to her grave. Being unable to force the
brave girl from the protection of her
a terror to th*c ! helpless father by this means, the Tories
scattered i removed her by main force, and hurled
about the then frontier in Orange am! I her, we: ‘k from her superhuman efforts,
Sussex counties. Claudius SmithVi cow- iinto a far corner of the room. Her
boys ami their deeds of blood wereshud- ! m °thcr had regained consciousness by
dcringly recounted by the survivors of ! this time, and was crouching in a corner,
those troublous times and their descend- holding little Caleb, who had also re-
mot* for many years after the war was I vived, in her arms. The assassins again
over, and still'afford subjects fur many a : banged Reynolds from the beam in sight
dramatic talc. Claudius Smith became ! of the moaning woman and her two
known as the Scourge of the Highlands, i children, and, believing that Phebe was
He was finally captured by a band of ! P a,t rendering any further aid to him,
patriotic scouts, and was hanged in j proceeded to the completion of their
Goshen in the public square on the 22d of
January, 1770. He was buried at the
foot of the scaffold, and his remains have
never been disturbed.
In the ancient and lonely burying
pound at Neversink Flats, one of the
isolated mountain villages of Sullivan
county, are two graves, long ago over
grown and now almost forgotten. One
contains the remains of Henry Reynolds,
who died in 1830, aged 90 years. The
other is the grave of his daughter, Phebe
Drake, who died in 1853, aged 83. It is
ft singular fact that the story of Henry
Reynolds and his heroic daughter, the
mo»t intensely thrilling and dramatic, as
it is, of all the recitals that have come
down from the times made perilous bv
Claudius Smith and his murderous band
<rf marauders, finds no place of record in
tbo annals of Orange county, except a
brief legendary chronicle, in which a
“Mr. Riuinclls” is mention as having
been made u victim of cowboys. The
one great story of tho lives of Henrv
Reynolds and his daughter is related as
follows by mi old resident of Neversink
Flats, who is spending his declining days
with a daughter in Goshen. He heard
it mauy a time from the lips of the par
ties themselves sixty years and more ago,
Henry Reynolds was a Quaker, tie
was a native of Westchester county. In threat liaU an hour before. He was still
1769 he married a descendant of Henry I afraid to stir. Phebe’s mother rendered
Fowler, an original owner of the town- ' a little aid in removing her husband from
ship of East Chester. Reynolds was then ! the trunk. He was stiff and pallid, and
in the mercantile business in Poekskill. i apparently dead. Phebe got him upon
In 1777 he was one of the sufferers by , the bed, and was overjoyed to hear him
the burning of that place by the British, groan. She pried his jaws open with a
all his property being consumed. He es- pewter spoon—a rude tablespoon, still in
capcd with hi s wife and five children. ■ the family, with the teeth marks of Henry
and settled in Smith's Clove. Or&rm* ' Reynolds upon its handle—and poured a
few drops of water in his mouth. He be-
scheme of plundering. ' They had
calculated the courage and vitality of the
girl, however, and the last Tory was
barely out of the room before Phebe had
once more cut her father down. She
was attempting to remove him to another
room when he fell heavily to tho floor.
Phebe at once threw herself on his body
and'the Tories found them mingling their
blood together, the father apparently
dead, and the girl shielding his body
with hers. The murderers thrust their
knives and swords several times into the
body of their prostrate victim, and twice
Phebe was stabbed in her efforts to pro
tect her father. The Tories finally
dragged her from her father and threw
him into a chest, shutting the lid down
upon him. They then departed with
what booty they had obtained, first roll
ing a large stone against the door, which
opened outward, to prevent it being
opened. As soon as the murderous
gang was out of the house, Phebe
herself covered with blood from her
wounds, hastened to remove her father’s
body from the chest, hopeful that he was
still alive. Her mother was wandering
from room to room, moaning and weep
ing. The Inmnd boy stood as immovable
as stone against the wall where Edward
Roblin had placed him with the terrible
county, not farfrom the present village of
Monroe. Although a Quaker, he was
an ardent defender of the cause of the
colonies, and even so far trespassed on
the requirements of his religion as to join
the “minute men ’* As one of these brave
citizen soldiers lie participated in the
storming of Stony P,>int. unde: General
Wayne, in 1779. His outspoken senti
ments and active demonstrations in lie-
half of the American cause gained for ..
him the bitter enmity of his Tory neigh-1 I can’t put it out if it burns 'down
Dors, and several attempts were made on i our heads.”
J? 1 * during the war by Claudius: The bound boy still stood motionless
smith and his gang. j by the wall as if he were nailed to the
^ After the execution of Smith at Goshen i spot, and could not be induced to move.
U# ~ n * ’ ■ Phebe was compelled to leave her father,
i the volumes of smoke that began to
gan to revive, and while Phebe was put
ting forth every effort to staunch his
wounds and aid his restoration, her
mother, who had been aimlessly wander
ing about tbc house, tottered into the
room, and dropping to the floor, covered
her eyes with her hands and hysterically
exclaimed:
“Oh. PhMie! Phebe! The house
three places, and
his followers swore to avenge his death
by taking tho lives of a large number of
leading Whigs, one of whom was Henry
Reynolds. It was not until 1782. how
ever, that what was intended to l»e the
decisive blow against him was struck.
Late one uight in July of that year Rey
nolds was awakened by aloud rapping at
hw door. He arose from l>ed and asked
who was there.
“A detachment of American troops
lookin'* for deserters,” was the reply.
Washington’s army was encamped in
the Highlands, » few miles from Rey
nolds’ house. and it was well known that
ft number of deserters were concealed in
the vicinity. Reynolds hastily dressed
himself, and opened the. door to the sup
posed American soldier*. They entered,
and while Reynolds was stooping down
by the fireplace to light a candle, oho of
the Tories stru k hiir. with his sword,
and exclaimed:
“Huny up. you —- old rebel!”
come from an adjoining room warned
her of another impending danger. The
Tories had set fire to some flax and to
two straw bed*. Phebe extinguished
the fire, and then tried to make th*
bound boy ntn and alarm
the neighbors. but he would
not stir. By persistent ef
fort tho brave girl, herself covered with
wounds, and her clothing saturated with
blood, brought her father back to con
sciousness, and then, consigning him to
the care of her mother, who had grown
more composed, she started out to give
the alarm. In her relation of the tern*
ble experiences of that night to her chil
dren and grand children, more than half
a century afterward, she dwelt with par
ticular pride cn the fact that she noted
the crowing of the cocks as she started
after help, and said to herself: “It must
. . . be nearly morning.” This, she thought.
Reynolds knew n! once that he had been indicated how cool and collected she was
dupea by the Tories. He turned quickly
around with a lighted <-audit, in his h ind, l
and recojjn ized. Ben jam in Kc-!lv, who
lived within half a mile of him, and Ed
ward Roblin* Another neighbor, both
mcmlxTs of tlte Claudius Smith gang.
They wen? accompanied by several others.
Reynolds dashed past them and got out
of doors, but stumbled and fell. He
was seized by the Torlas and- dragged
back into the housr. Ho called loudly
to H bound bay who lived in his family
U> run for as istance. As the boy was
hurrying out of the house Edward Roblin
- seized him and stood him against the
wall, and told him that if he turned his
head one way or the other he would cut
it from his body. By this time Mrs.
Reynolds and the oldest, child. Phebe,
entered the room. Mrs. Reynolds was
soon to become again smother. Her
husband was prostrate on the floor, bleed
ing from wounds inflicted by the knives
ana swords of the Tories. The wife fell, in
convulsions, to the floor. One of the
children, named Caleb, had followed her
into the room, and a Tory kicked him
until he became unconscious, and threw
him on his mother’s Insensible body. The
Tories then tied a rope around Reynold’s
after the frightful scene she had just wit
nessed She alarmed the neighbors, and
a doctor was summoned from Goshen. A
party started in pursuit of the
Tories. It was found that Reynolds had
thirty serious wounds, inflicted by swords
and knives, but no one of them had
reached a vital spot. One of his earn was
nearly served from his head, ana it was
bound back as nearly as possible to its
place; but the manner in which it healed
disfigured him for life. One of his arms
badly cut that he never recovered
its use. Phebe had two serious wounds,
one in the breast and one in the head. The
others were painful but not dangerous lac
erations. It was several weeks before Rey
nolds and his daughter were again able to
get abiut,and their escape from the death
that was intended for them was so won
derful that the people for miles around
flocked to see them. The bouna boy
never recovered from the fright he ex
perienced that night. Brain fever fol
lowed, and he died begging that his head
should not be cut off. Mrs. Reynolds
gave birth to her child the day after the
assault of the Tories. It lived, grew to
womanhood, and is well remembered in
Sullivan county as the wife of Dr. Blake
Wales, one of the pic peer physicians of
this part of the Statu, uind the progene- j
tor of a huge and prominent -family. ;
Caleb Reynolds, the child who was j
kicked so brntaily by one of the Tories, j
grew up, and was a soldier under Jack j
at the. battle of New Orleans and !
was killed in that engagement. I
The Whigs who set out in pursuit of |
the Tories overtook them in the raoun- j
tains, and only two of them escaped alive, i
Benjamin Kelley, the leader of the gang, j
shot in the moun tains by a man of j
name of June. There were three or
four of the others secreted in the moan-
tains and the guards were watching for
them. Some persons told June that
they were at a certain spot playing cards.
June skirted to find them, and when he
light they were lying down, but
hearing his approach rose up, and at they
June slot Kelley. They escaped,
and Kelley wandered" down near a cer
tain large sulphur spring, where he was
found dead by John H enl<v and his dog,
partially covered up with leaves and
brush. Near him, tied. up in a bun
dle with dark strings, wa i the wedding
coat of Mr. Runnels, which Kelley
had stolen a long time before. This was
the coat in which Hc:iry Reynolds had
been married thirteen years before. The
returned to Reynolds, but he re
fused to touch it after it had been in pos
session of wTory, and ordered it 1o be
burned. Edward Roblin escaped to
Canada, and years afterward sons of his
returned to'Orange comty to search for
booty that their father and others of the
Smith gang had hidden in the moun
tains.
In 1788 Henry Reynolds removed to
Sullivan county and settled in what was
known as the Mutton hill neighborhood,
being one of the pioneers of the town of
Neversink. ne ws-s the first supervisor
of the town, in 1798. In 1805 he was
elected to the assembly, and was, until
the day of his death, one of the leading
Sullivan county. His wife pre
sented him with six children after leav
ing Orange county. Phebe Reynolds
married Jeremiah Drake soon after the
family came to Sullivan county. Her de
scendants are the most numerous in that
part of the State. The known descend
ants 'of Henry Reynolds, according to
of the family, to-day number over
1,400, as ten of his children reached ma
turity, married, and reared large families.
Few York Sun.
A Miner* Lack.
McKim is an honest Irish miner, who
drifted off from Arizona a few years ago
into Sonora. He had a little money, but
a great deal more faith. Bcnhamsays:
l I should say here that every mine that
as ever been worked in Sonora, or, in
deed, anywhere else in Mexico, has its
early history recorded in the archives in
the "district. Thus, if a claim has lain
idle for half a century, and one wants to
get its record, he has only to go to the
prefect, or local authority of the district,
and he is given access to the huge vol
umes that contain the information.
McKim got hold of a claim that hadn’t
been worked for twenty years, and
studied up its history. He found the
last year that it was worked it took three
shifts of eight men each to pack the
water out of tho mine. He also found
that the water increased so fast on them
that the mine had to be abandoned, and
from that he argued that it was by no
means exhausted.
‘The problem then was to get the
water out. But how? McKim had no
money to put up pumps, but he did have
a good deal of courage and a strong arm.
He went down the mil and resolved to
run a tunnel for the mine to strike the
ledge below the water pocket. Nearly
five years ago McKim began work, . and
for long years he pegged .away at that
tunnel. He had fully 600 hundred feet
to run. For about a year McKim had a
brother Irishman to help him, but the
latter got weary of the hopeless task,
and for the remaining time McKim went
it alone.
“About a year ago he noticed that the
face of his tunnel was in moist, crumbly
ground, and he got fearful that it would
tumble in on him. He didn’t go near
the tunnel for several days, for he was
afraid of it. One morning he went up
and found the water pouring out of the
tunnel like a mill-race. The water pocket
had broken through, and the tunnel was
draining the old mine at the rate of one
thousand barrels a minute. McKim was
beside himself with joy. In a week he
explored the mine through the old work
ings, and he found almost a bed of pure
silver. Actually, he cut out cabinet spec
imens with a chisel. He sacks and ships
the ore, and the little property is turning
out $100,000 a year with no other labor
than that of McKim and two Yaqui In
dians. So much for patient industry and
four years of faith and hard work.”—
Chicago Herald.
The Names of Ocean Steamers.
Tbc New York correspondent of the
Troy Time* thus refers to the rules ob
served by different steamship lines in
naming their vesfete: The Guion ships
are named after States and Territories in
the Northwest, including Wisconsin, Ne
vada, Arizona, Alaska and Oregon. The
last-mentioned vessel, whose aad fate
awakened so much notice, was purchased
by the Cnnard company from the Guion.
The White Star line prefers names end-
s ^g in “ic,” as the Germanic, the Celtic
id the Britanic. The Cunard company
selects names ending in “ia,” such as the
Scythia, the Persia, the Servia and the
Aurania, and the Anchor line pur
sues the ‘same practice. The Na
tional line very properly uses
names of nations, such as
Greece*. Spam and Egypt, while the In
man line honors various distinguished
cities, such- as Chicago and Berlin. The
State line goes for States, and names its
ihips Pennsylvania, Nebraska, etc., but
the Hamburg line dips into authors and
gives us the Wieltnd,. the Gellert and
the Lessing, with other distinguished
names. The French, on the other hand,
love wine more than books, and hence
the Bordeaux line names its vessels after
the best brands, such as Chateau Leon
Ville and Chateau I.afitte. The Bremen
and Hull vessels are named after birds,
and the United States and Brazil line se
lects names ending in “ance,” such as
the Finance, the Advance and the Reli-
The Monarch line, on the other
hand deals, in monarchs, and its list com
prises the Assyrian Monarch, the Lydian
Monarch, the Grecian Monarch, etc. In
this manner a remarkable degree of uni
formity is preserved in the midst of
wide variety of taste.
On a Broncho’s Back.
Dr. Holmes says that “on horseback
a man's system becomes clarified, because
his liver goes up and down like the han
dle of ft churn.” The doctor has evident
ly taken a deck passage upon a Texas
broncho some time during his existence,
but is diffident about telling the whole
truth. Liver, lights, stomach, lungs,
heart, and even feet, go up and down,
-HITTING THE PIPE.
1I1K FASslLt
The Grades of Opium—The Pipe ;
Used by Smokers—Other Arti
cles of the ‘.‘Layout”—Prepar
ing the Drug Tor Use.
Most of the smoking opium which
comes into this port is ready for the pipe,
but little being prepared for smoking in
this country. There are two general
grades of smoking opium—the No. 1.
which is -variously termed “Tai Yet,”
“Fuk Lung,” “Li Yun.” etc., according
to tire name given it by the firm import
ing it. This grade of opium i* considered
the best, and is worth from $16 to $20 a
pound. The No. 2 opium is called “Ghee
Yen,” and is made in this city by mixing
the ashes resulting from smoking “Tai
Yet” and other first-class opium with the
best opium. It-is cheap, aad is smoked
only by those who cannot afford the bet
ter grade. Opium “fiends” in this city
save their ashes ^“Yen She”) and sell it
to Chinese dealers for $4 a pound.
The pipe (yen’ teung). as the main in
strument in the destruction of the use
fulness of the livcaof thousands of young
men and women of this city, is entitled'
to first place in the description of the
layout. Thqi pipe fc usually made of
bamboo. anc£is about two feet long and
four inches in circumference. The stem
is always cut so as to leave a joint of the
wood about six or eiglit inches from the
end of the pipe. . Some smokers prefer
orangewood, sugarcane or lemon wood
for the stem of the pipe, on account of
the sweet taste of such woods and the
peculiar flavor they give the opium.
Others saturate the bamboo stems with
sugar, molasses, nut oil, lemon juice or
orange juice, to get a good flavor. Some
of the lemon p!pes arc made of rings of
lemen peel cemented together, layer
lemon habit,” can use no other kind of
pipe. Many of the stems, especially those
used by rich Chinese, are very ornate.
One was seen which had several gold
bands around it and two diamonds set in
the wood near the bowl. Most good
pipes have mouthpieces marie of ivory or
abalonc shell. At the end ef the stem
a small hole is usually made in the wood,
in which are placed small pieces of soft
cloth, which are used in fitting on the {
bowl of the pipe. This hole when not [
in use is closed with an ivory plug. [
About eight inches from the end of the i
stem a place is hollowed out in the side j
of the pipe which connects with the
longitudinal perforation. A shield of
metal, brass or silver is fitted on the side i
of the stem about this hollow, so that a |
rim of metal will rise above the hole.
The bowl (yen tow) of the pipe is fitted
into this shield, Is usually bell shaped,
and is made of hard, red clay or lemon
peel. Its greatest diameter is from three
to four inches It lias a small neck by
which it is fitted int > the stem. To make
it fit tightly pieces of soft cloth are us
ually wrapped around the neck of the
bowl. The upper surface of the bowl is
semicircular and sloping. A small hole,
about big enough to admit a darning
needle, is in the center of this surface.
The other articles belonging to the lay
out are a small glass lamp (yin tone), in
which Chinese nut oil is burned, as that
oil gives a very steady light. The
lamp has a gloss cover. A long needle
(yen hauck) on which the opium
is cooked ; a , small horn box (yin hop)
to hold the opium; a pair of scissors
(kow ten) for trimming the wick of the
lamp; a straight and a curved knile to
clean the bowl of the ash (yen she); a
'sponge (suey pow) with which to wash
off the surface of the bowl, and lastly a
tray (in pon) on which to place the “lay
out.” “Fiends,” by which term is usu
ally meant only Caucasian smokers, gen
erally refer to the pieces of the layout
by their Cliihcse names. A “layout”
costs from $6 to $100. The pipes, like
meerchaums, are valued according to the
length of time they have been in use.
An old pipe which has become saturated
with opium has a peculiar flavor, dear to
a smoker, and is of a rich cherry color,
deepening and becoming more beautiful
with age. Some pipes are valued at
$100, while an ordinary good pipe is
worth at least $20. A new bamboo pipe
can be bought for $1.50. It is not to be
supposed, however, that every “fiend”
has a “layout.” A piece of zinc or tin
often does service as a tray, a nutshell
as the holder of the opium, and any kind
of a lamp which will give a steady flame
as an opium lamp.
The Chinaman dipped the end of his
cooking needle, the yen hauck, into his
opium pot, and, winding it around a few
seconds, took out a little, pellet of opium,
on the needle. . This pea was then held
over the flame of the lamp to be
“cooked.” As it became heated the pea
swelled to triple Its orig'ml size, and it
was then seen that the true color of the
opium was golden brown, and not black.
During the cooking the opium gave off
a pleasant odor, resembling that of roast
ing peanuts. When it had been heated
a few seconds the smoker rolle 1 the pel
let upon the smooth surface; of the bowl
of the pipe. The pine was held near the
lamp in the left hand. The operation of
cooking or “chying” the opium, was al
ternated until the opium became of a con
sistency necessary for • smoking.' The
needle wa3 then thrust through the hole
in the top of the bowl and immediately
. withdrawn, the bottom of the pen thus
leveled off TTftLI bowl wzs then
heated slightly, and the needle,
being again 'thrust into it, was
again withdrawn, but the opium, in thi
shape of a cone, with a hole throng!) its
center, was left on top of the bowl. The
process of cooking takes frem two to
three minutes. The stem of the pip?
is then grasped more'firmly i:i the left
hand, the smoker’s bod; is half raised
on the elbow, the lmwi is inclined to
ward the flame, the rig! t h»hd holds the
yen hauck ready to keep the opium in
place, the iips close over- the inouthpi< ce
and the smoking begins: As the-flame
strikes the opium the smote is inhaled
by the smoker, who cm i* it in dense
white clouds from his no-trii-. The lips
sire not removed from the pipe until al!
the opium on the bowl is consumed.
The bowl is then sj ouged off and the
smoker passes the pipe to his vis-a-vis,
who goes through the sanre ]K-r forma nee.
The ash or yen she of the opium falls
into a bowl’ Each smoke is called a
“pipe” and an old smoker cau consume
from ten to twenty pipes before his crav
ings are satisfied. After pissing the pipe
to the other smoker, the fiend puffs on a
cigarette or a tobacco pipe until the
opium pipe is handed back to him.—
San Francisco Chronicle.
Relief for Toothache.
For ordinary nervous toothache, which
is caused by tLe nervous system being out
of order or by excessive fatigue, a hot
bath will so soothe the nerves that sleep
will naturally follow, and upon getting
up, the patient will feel very much re
freshed and the toothache gone. For
what is known as “jumping” toothache,
hot, dry, flannel implied to the face and
neck is very iffective. For common
toothache, which is caused by indiges
tion,or by strong, sweet acid or anything
very hot or cold in a decayed tooth, a lit
tle'piece of cotton steeped in strong cam
phor or oil of cloves is a goo i remedy.
Care in the diet, < specially when the bow
els arc disordered, is helpful to mitigate
toothache. If the tooth is much decayed,
nothing is better than its extraction.
Carbuncles and Boils.
Whoever has reflected as to the real
nature of carbuncular inflammation will,
I think, see reison t<. believe that its
causes are to a large extent local ones.
Respecting both boils and caibuncles, it
is the fact that the most efficient measures
are those which appeal to the local con
dition. This is true of all the different
measures in repute, however dissimilar
at first sight they may appear. Some
have’for their object the protection of
the inflamed area from further irritation,
as when we cover 1 up a l»oil or commenc
ing carbuncle with leather piaster, others
the subdual of the inflammation by means
of cold arid the. like, as when we usfe an
ice bladder or a strong spirit lotion. Nor.
do those who adopt a time-honored
practice of an eirly free incision depart
from this principle, for their object- is
still the mitigation of local inflammation
by the relief of tension, and by permitting
tho escape of contaminating matters.
From acne, impetigo, and ecthyma to
boils is in many cases a m itter of degree,
and that there is little or no real dis
tinction between a large boil and a small
carbuncle, all will, I think, admit.
The age of the patient, xnd his special
diathetic condition at the ti ne, their site,
the influence of different modes of local
treatment, are conditions which deter
mine the final result.
If a boil occur in an elderly person, on
the uape of the neck, where it is likely
to be irritated by the shirt collar, and
especially if, instead of being systemati
cally protected from the first, it be
further bullied by premature squeezing
a id the like, it is very likely to pass into
a carbuncle. I claim the strong testi
mony which has been borne by Sir James
Puget and others to the efficiency of ssm-
ply protective measures in preventing
the development of small earbuncles,nnd
obviating the supposed necessity for in
cision, as proof that local spreading is,
in the main, due to local causes, and no
necessary connection with the general
health. In other words, it is not a thing
which is inevitable. On the other hand,
we know of no internal remedy which
possesses any marked power in arresting
carbuncular inflammation.
If we now* ask in what does the pecu
liarity of carbuncular inflammation con
sist? ’ In what does a carbdncular differ
from a boil? I should lie inclined to
reply that it is solely in this tendency to
spread. The spreading is occasioned by
contagion of continuity, and it has cer
tain marked resemblauces to what we
observe in erysipelas. A carbuncle might
almost be defined to be an erysipelatous
boil, with the proviso that the expression
is not intended to imply identity of im-
fiamiriatory type, but only close similar
ity.
Throughout its whole course, and how
ever y:tensive it*m»y be, a carbuncle, in
combination with its erysipelatous
method of spreading, contains the' char
acteristics of the furuncular process. Its
secretions and its core; or slough, are
exactly like those of a boil, excepting
that they are much more abundant,
a general way there appears to be
natural tendency, independently of treat-
meat, to arrest the process, aad this is
not generally observed in erysipelas. In
other words, erysipelatous infiura nation
is more intensely infective than rarbun-
cular. I mustj however, qualify even
this admission of difference by stating
I that- carbuncular inflammation has su
! an injurious influence on health that
all cases in which its spread continues
spite of treatment the patient quickly
dies. Thus many cases occur in which
no proof is given of tendency to arrest.
It- may easily be the fact that in i
states of system, and some types of
buncle, there is as little tendency to ar
rest as there is in phlegmoumiK erysipe
las.—Jonathan Hutchinson. M. D.
BUDGET OF FUK
A Rational Change—Testing His
Love—What He Forgot to Say—
Not Worth it—Two Appre
ciative Sonls, etc.
“Arkansaw,” exclaimed an ardeut
man, “why, it is the best State in the
Union, a State above all others in re
sources and the exactness with which the
criminal laws are enforced.”
“I am astonished to hear you speak
well of the State,” some one replied.
“Why so?”
“Because several years ago, during an
exciting campaign in Indiana, you avow
ed that there was so such thing as justice
iu Arkansaw*, a State where a man < ar-
ried his life in hand.’”
“That is very true, my dear sir,” but
I was a politician then.”
“And what are you now?”
“A land agent.”—Arkansaw Traveler.
Testing His Love.
The other evening as a Detroit.Fit/.-
“It’sthe awful, awful toothache!” sht
sobbed as he asked for an explana
tion.
“Try camphor.”
“But the dentist says I must have twe
of ’em out! Will you go with me?”
“Of course.”
“And will vot
pulled?”
“Certainly.”
“Two of ’em?
i also have a tooth
T
“Before I do?”
“Yes, darling.”
Then she flung the handkerchief from
her face, brushed the tears from her
eyes, and gave him a long, lingering pro
crastinating kiss on the left jaw. She had
simply been testing his love and devo
tion. They will go to Niagara Falls on
their bridal tour.—Detroit Free Press.
What He Forgot to Say.
It was at a K street- residence and the
young man had been going often and
staying late until the girl felt the monot
ony. One night about 11 o’clock the
conversation dragged and for a minute
or two h? sat in a cogitative mood with
his hand to his forehead.
“I had something pleasant to tell you,”
he said finally.
“Yes,”, she responded,. inquiringly,
“what was it?”
“Um—um—let me see,” rubbing his
head, “I can’t just think what it was.”
“May be it was ‘good night,’ ” she
suggested.
' He looked at her for a minute, but she
never flinched; then he went away, and
up to date he has not been back.—Wash
ington Critic.
Not Worth It.
While Judge Walton was at work in
his chamber at Portland one day many
years ago drawing an opinion in a knotty
case a certain "lawyer came in. This
lawyer (he is now deceased) was a thin,
tooth-pickish, dudish sort of man, whom
the judge did not like very well, and
than whom he had rather seen Daniel
Pratt himself walking into his chamber.
“Well. Brother Lightweight, what
can I do for you this morninj*?” asked
Judge Walton, hoping to get rid of the
fellow.
“Nothing,” he replied; “I only came
In to make you a call.”
After a disagreeable silence the judge
looked up again and asked:
“Brother Lightweight, why don’t you
get married?”
•‘Because I can’t afford it. How much
do you suppose it costs me to live now?”
The judge said he wouldn’t guess.
“Well, it costs me $8,000 a year for
just my own living.”
An expression of surprise came on the
judge’s face. ‘ ‘Lightweight, ” said he, ‘ ‘I
wouldn’t pay it. It isn’t worth it!”—
Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
Two Appreciative Souls.
A distinguished Maine gentlemau says
that some years ago he was making's
journey down East when the train became
snowbound. It Was then evening, and
there was no hope of progress until day
light. But near at hand was a little vil
lage which boasted a public hall, ft was
suggested that the passengers adjourn to
the hall and listen to an address by their
distinguished fellow-traveler. He'finally
consented to do his part; the hall was
warmed and lighted, and the lecture took
place. The next day the gentleman was
approached by a sturdy young yoeman,
outside the gold hunting industry. Their
idea was to make the other fellows delve
for the gold, while they appropriated it
afterward. Rollin Daggett, afterward
Nevada’s Congressman, established
ferryboat on a small creek, and named
the place “Death’s Ford,” at tho same
time inventing a musty legend to the ef
fect that it was thus named because so
many lives had been lost in an attempt to
cross it. The stream was not more than
dozen yards wide, and the water
nowhere more than two feet deep, but he
rigged up a flatboat and pulled it bick
and forth by a rope contrivance. When
ever the prospectors crossed he regaled
them with hotrible talcs of the*treachery
of the stream, and the remorseless quick-
sauds which had drawn so many men
and mules to terrible deaths.
In the night whou he ferried people
over he would caution them not to get
too near the edge of the boat, as a fall
overboard was certain death. By letting
the dim old lantern go out, and making
slow time, he frequently impressed the
passengers with the idea that the stream
was half a mile wide. For night trips
he charged $5, but if the wind was high
aud the weather bad he struck sanguine
prospectors for much larger sums. In the
day time $1 was his modest charge. He
went along in this way for several
months, the men who rushed to the hills
looking upon him as a benefactor to his
race by this conquering of so formidable
an obstacle to travel as “Death’s Ford.”
One day Charley Stoddard, the pro- ,
moter, appeared on the kink with a mule
and boarded the flatboat to cross. In
the middle of the stream, just when the
ferryman was telling how dangerous the
place was, the mule grew restive aud
fell overboard. One leg caught on a
rope, and he got his head under water,
and, uuablc to extricate himself, was
drowned. When he was cut looss he
lay there in the middle of “Death's
Ford,” half out of the water, so that all
who came along saw what a miserable
sham the ferry was. and that any four-
footed animal could walk across. Dag
gett tried to get the mule away, but he
was too heavy to budge, and so he lay
there in plain sight for weeks, until Drig
get’s business as a ferryman was ruined.—
Carton Appeal.
nwho made the speech
and if a man’s system is not clarified, a
portion of it is ’generally sacrificed, and
when the operation is concluded he in
variably acknowledges that he in .“well
ofL"—Flatonia (Texas) Argus. ,—
In 1851 there were fifty-one scientific
and art schools in Great Britain. Now
there are 1,927 of these institutions, with
87,777 students in science. The entire
educational establishment is under gov
ernment control __
Presents to the President.
A friend of President Cleveland said
in the course of a conversation with a
correspondent of the Indianapolis Jour
nal : “Talk about the President's ■ refus-
iag gif Us I remember at Albany,. just
after his election, what a time he had.
He refused everything. Why, he actually
had to employ a man especially to work
in repacking the gifts sent him from all
over the country. You Will hardly be
lieve it, but from November to March he
had eighty-nine dogs sent him. Cleve
land is fond of dogs, but he made it a
rule never to see one of the gifts. As
soon as they arrived they were sent to the
stable of the executive mansion, and the
professional packer reshipped them. One
da}* Mr. Cleveland happened to be in the
yard when an express wagon arrived
with a dog. It was a splendid New
foundland, I can tell you. When Cleve
land saw him he looked longingly at the
shaggy, black creature, as if to say:
•Howl would like to keep you,’ but he
passed on and the dog was sent back
whence it came. During that time he
received no les3 than six eagles, splendid j of $15 oU the three-card monte racket,
birds, but they were all sent back. Mr. He was 4 little, old, wilted-up specimen.
Cleveland always sent everything back seeming io be all of seventy-five years
that could be returned, but there was ; old, and he didn’t get the game through
one thing he cou!d not return—they were his head before we jumped the train at a
embroidered hat-bands Why, I do not I small station. The other day I was com-
exaggerate in the least when I say he re- ing to Detroit from the East, and when
ceived as many as a bushel basket full a ; the train stopped at St. Thomas I got out
day. I have often seen, at evening time, ' to stretch'! my legs. I had scarcely
during November or December, 1884; a touched th* platform when somebody
bushel basket full of tbese things in the r grasped mebnd a voice cned out :
library of the executive mansion at AI* J ** *He is-cm maan. He bait me out of
oanv.' Wlrnt did he do with them? He fceftcen dollkire!’
never saw them: they were carried out j “I looked Around to find that same old
by the servants and sold for waste paper Frenchman banging to my arm. I
or rags. I often used to think how many couldn't see that he had changed a par-
hours had been wasted 'by fair hands in tide in looks or grown older by a day.
marking the‘G. C.’ on tho hat-bands. I ‘“I want ihe feefteen dollaire!’- he
was mistaken when' I said he returned shouted as he (lanced around. ‘Dis man
everything. He did keep one gift—canes, he throw one—two—three caard, and he
Mr. Cleveland had the finest set of canes taakeme feefteen dollaire and keep!’
of any man in the world. He had a < “I tried to brass it out, but it was no
cabinet made for them. There were go, and the result was that I had to fork
ninety-six in all, and such beauties Ho over the money. He stood there as the
receives a large number voted to him from train moved off, and shaking his fist at
fairs all over the country. He has over me he shouted:
who said :
“Ycu’i
last night, aint you?” The identity having
been duly established, he went on : “I
want to thank you for it; I don’t know
when I’ve enjoyed myself more than I did
while you were talking.”
The orator experienced the genial glow
which unconventional and unsought praise
is wont to inspire, and he cordially took
the honest fellow’s hand.
“Yes,” the young man continued, “it
was a good thing; you see, my girl is on
the train, and while you were lecturing
she and I had the car to ourselves.”—
Boston Record.
Long-Lived.
‘OnIt of the curious traits about those
FrenchVCanadians,” said a fly man yes
terday, r ‘is the fact that they never d e
of old age. Some seven years ago a
couple co us were working a Great West-
* U and we beat a Frenchman out
twenty-five gold-headed ones, a number
of them very handsome.
“Cleveland hasco pets at the White
House and his well-known trait of return
ing all presents has stopped, to ft certain
extent, his being bothered by receiving
any. If, however, one does stray into
the White House it generally goes hack
the way it came before he see it. His
orders are to tins effect. ....
“ ‘AhM forgot! You doan’t pay me
no inter es’ on zhat feefteen dollaire for
seventeen yaarea! I see you again—meb-
be seventeen yaarea more!’”—Detroit
Free Press. .
Business Rained by ft Male:
Many years ago down in Idaho, during
a gold excitement, a good many men
went into the country to make. money
WORDS OF WISDOM.
s great hearts reso»
When all else is lost, the future re
mains.
Tis an ill thing to be ashamed of one’s
poverty.
Little things console us, because little
things afflict us.
It is the up-stretched hand that meets
the down-stretched hand.
To have what we want is riches, but
to be able to do without is power.
There shall be no success to the man
who is not willing to begin small.
Things are unbearable just until we
have them to bear: their possibility comes
with them.
The yoke a man creates for himself
by wrong-doing will breed hate in the
kindliest nature.
Only in a world of sincere men is unity
possible, and there, in the long run, it is
good as certain.
A set of mortals has risen who believe
that truth is not a printed speculation
but a practical fact.
Silence never shows itself to so great
an advantage as when it is made the re
ply to calumny and defamation.
Scorn not thy fellow creature; there is
some spark of good yet left in every man,,
eveu though he be lyinjgjn the veriest
Bad faith on the part of an individual,
city, or even a State, is a small rice in
comparison with the calamities which
follow bad faith on the part of a sover-
cign government.
Dangers of the Hanging Lamp.
The supremacy of tho toy pistol and
the rabid dog as agents of destruction is
being seriously threatened by a powerful
rival. The rival is the modem hanging
lamp. A few months ago the use of
these illuminators became again so gen
eral as to constitute what might be
called a hanging lump renaissance, aid
although the fashion is not yet worn <jut
the effect of wear seems to be discernible
upon the hangings of some of thise
which were earliest in use. At any mte
the lamps are beginning to fall. An Oc
cident of this kind which occurreq in
this village a few days ago is not {the
only one that has recently been reported
in the newspapers, and in some c^ses
they have caused serious results. Prob
ably no one who has had one of these
lamps hung has not looked forward with
more or less certainty of belief to ft time
when the lamp would come down by it
self ; and the instances in which such
accidents have occurred show the appre
hension to have been not entirely a jierv-
ous one. The succession of improve
ments which have been made lathe
lamps have a ided to their appearance,
but have also added to their weight, and
they often seem provided with insufficient
means for safe suspension. Wheit such
an amount of metal, earthenware, and
glass as some of them are composed of
comes down with a crash it m a good
deal of a loss and a shock in itself, even
if no one or nothing else is injured.
But, of course, the principal danger is
that of fire being caused, and if this sort
of thing continues it may qot be impos
sible to find the ever-vigilant insurance
companies classing houses where these
articles are in use in the “extra hazard
ous risk.” Those who have advice to
give upon domestic affairs may turn their
attention 1o this fresh subject.—Seneca
Falls (N. Y.) TrPrune, j
Like a Yost Prison. I
Russia is like a vast prison, writes an
Odessa correspondent of the New York
World. The prisoner in « dungeon can
walk within certain confines as f reely as
the freest. It is only when he wonld
go further that he encounters the walls
and is stopped. So, in' Rns-ia, as long
as you remain within a narrow limit* you
may possibly forget that you are. in a
prison. It is difficult to forget it,
though, when you would stir. The
walls, the officers, meet you at every turn.
On arriving at a hotel the first thing de
manded is your passptrt, which you must
carry to the police and have registered
and stamped, you, by the way, having
to foot the bill for the registration ana
stamp. When you leave a city the police
must again be notified, and from begin
ning to end it seemed as if every comer
is suspected of being a nihilist or dyna
miter. It is dangerous to converse on
social or political topic's. Each suspects
the other spying. It i* so easy to be de
nounced and so easy to be waltzed off to
Siberia, that the truth of the proverb,
“Silence is golden,” is appreciated in no
other part of the earth as it is in Russia.
Manchester, Vs., has produced the
largest diamond ever found in this coun
try, weighing 33 3-4 carats uncut.