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the mercuky.
(vs second- class mattor at the Sanders-
Euterou^io i> 09 toffice, April 27, 1880,
Sandersvillc, Washington County, Ga,
fUBLISuKD BT
A. J. JERNICAN,
PnosniETon and Pubushuu
Snbeoriptlon «L80 per Tew.
THE MERCURY.
A. J. JERNIQAN, Pbopiubtor.
DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
81.50 PER ANNUM.
VOL. II.
SANDERSVILLE, GA., AUGUST 23, 1881.
NO. 21.
THE MERCURY.
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY.
NOTICE.
OT-AU comrannioatlona intended for thto po-
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tho writer, not necosnarlly for publication, but
as a guarantee ot good faith.
We are in no way responsible for the yiewa 01
tndolons of correspondents.
Watches, Clocks
and jewelry
hepaiukd i<y
JEHNIGAN
BUY YOUR
Spectacles, Spectacles
FROM
JERNICAN.
Margery Hair.
I’m in love, but I’ve novor told hor,
Novor told tho maiden I lovo;
I lie in tho long green grass and bohold-hor,
As she swings all day in tho bougliH above.
I’m a stndont with toil o’orladon,
And a student ovor should books profor.
But sho’s such a darling dainty maldou,
My thoughts go swinging away with her.
Nono gonuino without our Trade Mark.
On hand and for sale,
Seo saw!
Margery Dawl
Up in tho apple troo Margery swings;
And I, lying undor,
Watch hor, and wonder
What is tho ditty that Margery sings.
And sho goes swinging, and I go slaving,
Turning tho leaves of a musty hook,
But surely that was hor wlitto hand waving,
And snroly that was my darling’s look,
porfeet fortross of books I sit in,
Ethics, economy, politics, law,
But all tho pagos I vow woro written
By that littlo philosopher, Margery Daw.
SneetaclEg, Hose tees, Etc
Lliisis! Music
JERNIQAN
BOWS, STRINGS,
Beo saw!
Margery Dawl
Up in tho apple troo Margery Bwings;
And I, lying undor,
Watch hor, and wonder
What is tho ditty that Margory sings.
Tho light is fading, tho day grown older,
And now tho westering sun is gono,
And Margory I no moro behold hor;
In tho doep cool grass I lio alono.
For Margory bIio was a sunbeam only,
And I was a fool for all my pains,
Butwhonovor I’m Bad and whonovor I’m lonoly,
Back comoB Margory, baok again.
See saw I
Margery Dawl
Up in tho applo troo Margory swings;
For “ Llfo’s a dream,
And love’s a shadow 1”
And that is tho ditty that Margory sings.
—F. K. Weatherly, in Temple Bar,
«OSIN BOXES,&c
Machine Needles
Oil and Shuttles
FOll ALL KINDS OF MACHINES, for sals
I will also onlor parts of Machines that
got broken, for which new
pieeos aro wanted.
X. .T. JERNIQAN.
G. W. H. WHITAKER,
DENTIST,
SANDlillSVILLE, GA.
Tubus Cash.
0/llco at ids Residence, on Harris Stroet.
April 3, 1830.
B. D. EVANS,
Attorney at Law,
SANDERSVILLE, GA.
April 3, 1880.
DR. WM. RAWLINGS,
Physician & Surgeon,
SANDERSVILLE, GA.
Offico at Sandersvillo Hotel.
April 10, 1880.
E. A. SULLIVAN,
NOTARY PUBLIC,
SANDERSVILLE, GA.
Special attention given to tho collodion oi
laiins.
Oflieo in tho Court-houso.
0. H. ROGERS,
-Attorney at Law,
Snndorsvillo, Ga.
Vompt attention givon to all business.
Oliieo in northwest wing of Court-lions.
May 4, 1380.
C. C. BROWN,
-Attorney at Law,
Sandersvillo, Ga.
Mill practico in tho State and Unitod Staten
■eei'is. Oilico in Court-houso.
INTO THE SUNLIGHT.
B. N. H0LLIFIELD,
iiysician and Surgeon,
Sandersvillo, Ga.
f )i,iee next door to Mrs.
" i n Harris Street.
Bayne’s millinery
' 1,6 sl’urest anil Rest Medicine ever Mado.
,il C si ,lhll ' l P lon of Hops, Buchu, Man-
(Irakto ami Dandelion, with all tmAioat and
k uratlvo pro]>ertio8 of all other Hitters,
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U l\a tor, and i*ifo and Health llebtoriug
mit unvBHSBfSEEBBflB earth,
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suable,without Intox-
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The room was poor and plain enough
though exquisitely neat and clean. A
faded earpot covered tho floor; one or
two cheap engravings in walnut frames
hung upon tho walls; the ourtains woro
beginning to wear at the edges, and tho
oottago bod which occupied one corner
was covered with a thin white spread
darned in many places.
Tho two windows looked down upon a
narrow, paved stroot in Boston; so nar
row that tho rows of dingy, high, brick
buildings on either side shut out every
tiny ray of sunlight, and ouo could not
soo tho blue of God’s heavons; or at the
very host, only a narrow strip away up
above tho tiled roofs.
In tho bed a woman was lying; a
woman whoso palo, thin face, hollow
temples and bloodloss lips spoke of an
illness which had well-nigh drifted her
over Death’s dark rivor.
Her features were delicate and ro-
flned; and woro roproduoed in tho face
of tlio girl who sat in a low rocker by
one window with some needlework in
hor hands, eager to catch tho last fading
gleam ofdaylight.
A pretty, palo, delicate-looking girl
was Olytio Frazier, with largo sorrowful
dark oyos and a month whoso firm com
pression gave token of a resolute will
which rose above mere physical woak-
ness.
Only two years ago Olytio had boon
happy enough despite tho faot that she
and her mother were quite poor. But
now Clytio’s heart was filled with sor
row which no one could bear for her.
Two years ago she had boon engaged
to llossiter Kinnicutt, a young mer
chant on one of Boston’s principal
streets. Sho hold tho position of cashier
in his store, and ho had fallen in love
with hor. Clytio had never cared for
any man before—she was only twenty
—and when Rossiter asked her to be
come bis wife sho felt as if she had been
crowned quoen among women.
The marriage was appointed to take
place six months later. Olytio s white
forefinger wore a gleaming blooded
ruby set in chased gold, and Olytio
was the blushing, happy recipient o
moro than one costly present from her
lover, though at times she protested
against his lavish generosity, and then
he would say, laughingly:
“Aro you not to be my very own?
What is yours will be mine then, sweet
heart; so I am not so generous as you
may think.”
Three months later important busi
ness called him West. His partner
took charge of the store, and Clytie
still kept her place at the desk—for a
time. After one or two letters Rossiter
wrote no more to Clytie, until in very
desperation she sent him a little plead
ing note of inquiry. His answer was as
cold and brief as possible:
“lam trying to forget you. Good-
by p 0 or Clytie! Not one word of ex
planation or tenderness-nothing
break through the clouds which gath
ered so swiftly about her, or to soften
the blow which took all the hope and
happiness out of her young heart.
It was finally understood among the
employes of the store that Mr. Krnni-
entt would not return from the West
and then curious glances were cast upon
Clytie, and many surmises were made
concerning the probability of a broken
The head cloakmaker—a distant rela
tive of Rossiter’s—eyed the girl mali
ciously whenever she met her, and said
nothing. Miss Kirby had never liked
Clytie,
Clytie herself, proud and sensitive,
gave up her situation, and procured
sewing which she could do at homo with
her mother’s assistance.
Some dark days followed. Work was
not always plenty; fuel and food were
high. They were obliged to give up
their little tenement, and take instead
an upper room on the north side of the
house. One by one their little house
hold goods wore sacrificed to satisfy the
demands of necessity.
Then, saddest of all, Mrs. Frazier,
always rather delicate, was taken down
with pneumonia, and all the burden
came upon the young shoulders.
Clytie boro it bravely. Wliatevei
tears woro shed fell in silence and in tho
darkness of night. Her slender fingers
grew whiter and more slender overy day.
Thoro were long nights of weary watch
ing by her mother’s bedside, and long
days of stitching when sho was siok and
dizzy with drowsiness and fatiguo.
It was during Mrs. Frazier’s illness
that Clytio decided to sell hor jewelry,
which hod been tho gifts of Rossiter
Kinnicntt.
She had heard nothing from him in
all this time, and she took tho pretty,
dainty trifles from their resting-place
with a sorrowful heart. Their price
wont to buy modicino. wines and jollios
for her mother—delicacies which wore
pronounced absolutely necessary by tho
physician, who did not interest himself
to know if they were possibilities.
Clytio procured them, howovor, and
had the satisfaction of scoing her mother
gain a little ovory day.
Tho crisis past sho began to feel hor
own weakness and weariness moro plain
ly than before, yet tho work with which
sho was glad to bo furnished must be
completed that night, and so sho worked
on with a nervous lmsto.
Mind and body were both ill at ease,
for on that morning she bad received
noto from Rossiter Kinnicutt, inclosing
a little cornelian heart with a gold sot
ting—a charm which sho had worn on
the ribbon about hor throat until, in
those happy days, he had bogged it from
hor. Inclosing this I say, and request
ing her to return the ring which ho had
pat upon hpr flngor in token of their be
trothal.
That ring Clytie had disposed of with
tho other keepsakes. It seemed to her
that sho must dio of pain and mortitlca-
ion. Could sho confess to her old lover
the strait to which sho had boon reduced
through poverty ?
Evidently there was no other course
to pursue except the one of falsehood
and deceit, from which hor honorable
nature instinctively recoiled. There
fore, sho answered his noto bravely and
simply, making a plain statement of
facts, expressing regret that she was un
able to comply with his request, and
breathing not ouo word of reproach for
his desertion. This message sho de
livered into tho hands of the boy who
had brought Kinnicutt’s note—a little
fellow who had beon cush-boy when she
had been employed iu Kinnicutt’s store.
This boy informed lior that tho gentle
man had returned homo for good, he
guessed, and Clytie went back to her
wearisomo sewing, littlo thinking that
every hour speeding so swiftly away
was shortening the time which only
separated her from her great joy.
Tho gray October twilight shut down
at last relentlessly, and Clytie arose
with a little sigh to replenish tho fire
and light the lamp. She was putting
tho shade upon tho latter, when there
came the sound of a footstep along the
passage, and then a rap at tho door.
Come in,” called Clytie, quietly,
supposing it to be the physician.
A startled exclamation from Mrs.
Frazier caused hor to turn suddenly.
There, in the open doorway, stood
Rossiter Kinnicutt, his gray eyes
sweeping Clytie’s face eagerly and
wistfully.
Just for a moment Olytio thought she
should faint, but that feeling passed
away, and she collected herself and
stepped forward with gentle dignity to
receive her unexpected guest.
Instead of'taking tho little white hand
which she held out to him he caught
her in both arms and showered swift
kisses upon her cheeks and lips, laugh
ing joyously all the time, although his
eyes were filled with tears.
“ Clytie, my own darling, how they
have lied to me about you; and what an
idiot I have been to believe augbt
against yon! Can you forgive me and
take me back ?”
The girl looked at him with solemn
questioning eyes. He closed the door
and drew her forward to the bedsido of
her mother.
« Dear Mrs. Frazier,” he said, kneel
ing beside her, “ after I went away
from Boston I was led to believe that
Clytie was false to me. I received
anonymous letters stating that she was
carrying on a flirtation with one of the
clerks in my employ; that she was seen
in company with another—an elderly
man of reputed wealth—who had made
her many valuable presents; and finally
this mysterious correspondent forward
ed to me a letter which he or she had
gained possession of—a letter in Clytie'
handwriting, addressed to my clerk, ex
cusing herself from attending an enter
tainment with him, as sho had . a en
gagement to meet this elderly admirer,
whom sho could not afford to disap
point. That letter seemed proof posi
tive that Clytie was false to me—and
worse, was not tho womanly little girl
that I had deemed her. Shortly after
that my cousin wrote me to know if I
were awaro of the manner in which my
betrothed wife was conducting herself.
Directly upon thnt followed Clytie’s let
ter begging for an explanation. Then,
hurt and angry and jealous, I sent tho
answer which Olytio no doubt remem
bers.
I had received the impression that the
girl whom I loved above all else was
living in tho luxury which this old man’s
money afforded her. But to-day, on
reading her answor to my message, I
was determined to see for myself
whether she was deceiving me.
“ My cousin, Miss Kirby, on learning
my determination, confessed that slie
had written those anonymous letters,
and' had forged the one purporting to
bo from Clytio to Harry Matthews. Hor
reason was that she—she loved mo her
self, and hoped to win me by breaking
np my betrothal with your daughter.’
Thoro was a half minute’s silence,
broken only by Clytio’s half repressed
sobs; then Rossiter added as ho took
tho sick woman's hand in his:
“Dear friend, speak for me ! Tell her
how unhappy my life has been without
her—my little ono—”
And then Clytie’s arm stolo shyly
abont her lover’s nock and her moist
cheek prossed his own as sho whispered,
tremulously:
" Oh, Rossiter, how good God is to
me!"
And Mrs. Frazier smiled through
happy tears at the two so long estranged
whoso lips now mot in the seal of a new
betrothal.
So patient Clytie came again into the
sunlight.
Til AIX IIODHERIES.
Home afthr Exploits ortho Notorious J nine.
Ill-others.
I’etti'f* of Thouyht.
gang raided Corinth, Miss., and escaped
into the guerilla stronghold of West-
MOM EKTOVS MATTERS.
Ambition is tho avarice of power.
To know is ono thing, to do is an
other.
Fools rush in where angels fear to
tread.
it is far bolter to borrow experience
than to buy it.
It is much safer to think what wo say
than to say what wo think.
Quarrels would be short lived if tho
wrong were only on ono side.
Tho universal heart of a nmn blesses
flowors. Ho has wreathed them around
the cradle, the marriage altar and tho
tomb.
No man can purchase liis virtue too
dear, for it is the only thing whoso
nine must ever increase with tho prico
has cost.
Those are mock gentlefolk who mask
their faults to others and to themselves;
tho true know them perfectly and ac
knowledge them.
Good temper is liko a sunny day ; it
sheds a brightness over everything ; it
is tho sweetener of toil and the soother
of disquietude.
More hearts pine away in secret an
guish from tho want of kindness from
those who should bo their comfort than
for any other calamities in life.
Durdette’o Weather Predictions.
The Burlington llawkeye says that it
is easy enough to predict the weather if
you only follow tho right rules. Hero
are some of them: An intensely bluo
sky indioates a temporary absence of
clouds. Undor other circumstances,
again, an intensely blue sky indioates a
tornado. When the sun rises behind a
bank of clouds, and the clouds hang low
*11 around the horizon and all over the
sky, and the air feels damp, and there is
a fine drizzling mist blowing, the indi
cations are there will be a rain some
where in the United States or Canada.
When it begins to thunder look out for
l ; ghtning. To see tho head of the
family feeling in his right hand pocket,
then in the left hand pocket, then in all
his vest pockets, then in his hip pocket,
then in his coat pookets, and then at
his ceiling, indicates “ no change." If
he suddenly stops whistling at the ceil
ing and expands his face into a broad
grimace of delight, it means “unex
pected change.” If the corn husks are
very thick, the winter will be colder
than the summer. If the corn husks are
very thin, the summer will bo warmer
than tho winter. If tho corn husks are
neither too thin nor too thick, the sum
mer will be warm and the winter will be
cold. If tho weather prophet predicts
a rainy season and it happens to rain
away out in Calaveras county, and is
dry as a bone all over the rest
America, this rain must be set down to
the credit of the weather breeder, and
all the dry time counts for nothing.
A new grove of mammoth trees, nine
ty-three in number and many over one
hundred feet in circumference, has been
discovered in California. These mon
sters are some eighty miles north of the
big trees usually visited by travelers in
the Yosemite route.
Europe consumes 2,000,000 of matches
daily-
Tho railroad robbery at Winston bears
the marks of the famous -Tames and
Younger " boys" workmanship, though
it has been the fashion of Into years to
lay all suoh crimes to their account
when tho perpetrators wore unknown,
and loss distinguished desporadoos have
traded on tho terror of their name. Tho
Jameses and Youngers wero graduated
from guerilla service in Western Mis
souri, and to dosperato courage added n
perfeot acquaintance with tho West
from Iowa to the Indian Territory. They
had the further advantage of a wide
circle of relatives and acquaintances
moro or less admiring and sympathetic,
aud finally worked up their coups skill
fully undor innumerable disguises and
aliases, appearing by turns as wild ridors
and as peaceful drovers and cattle
traders. They raroly acted in full force;
one, two or throe of them, probably
under assumed names, would recruit n
small bat sufficient band from among
the desperadoes of the frontier; the
blow would be struok hundreds of miles
from tho post at whioh they had last
appeared, then retreating rapidly
southward or westward tho plunder
would bo divided and the band would
break up, while pursuit would bo dis
tracted by the discovery that tho other
three or four “ boys," who had boen
positively identified," bad been at
home in tho vioinitv of Kansas City all
tho time. Their history for the general
public opens with tho descent on Rus-
sollvillo, Ky., March 20, 1808, whon a
dozen mounted men ontored the town,
and galloping up and down with cooked
pistols kopt tho townsmen within doors
while two of their numbor entored the
bank, “covered” the cashior, emptied
tho safe and rodo away, being chased
across tho Mississippi and well up into
Northern Missouri, but finally escaping.
This was a “ boneflt ” excursion to ob
tain funds to send a sick membor of the
band to sea. In December, 1809, a
similar exploit was repeated at Gal
latin, Mo., with one additional detail—
one of the robbers blew out the brains
of Oasbior John W. Streets. Thoy
wero traced to Olay county, Mo., whore,
as usual, the trail was lost. The
Jameses, who have a penchant for cor
respondence, wrote to tho governor of
fering to stand tboir trial if guaranteed
fnir play, proving an alibi, bnt ho de
clared that such notion was needless.
The next raid was on Columbus, Ky.,
April, 28, 1871, when tlio “boys’’got
away in safety to Missouri, killing an
other cashier. Juno 3, 1872, six of
them struck Corydon, la., robbed the
bank and escaped, boating off the
pursuing sheriff, who came up with
them. In October of tho samo yoar, at.
sunset, there was made a successful raid
on tho cashier’s office of tlio Kansas
City exposition while somo 20.000 pooplo
were on tho grounds. May 20, 1873,
Sto. Goneviove, Mo., was attacked and
plundered, and the money having beon
divided in tho woods near St. Louis,
tho band rodo away. July 21 thoy
ditched a Rock Island and Paoifio train
near Council Bluffs, and while two of
thorn held the terrified passengers in
ohock tho others robbed tho express car.
Again tho freebooters got away, though
chased to tho vicinity of Monegaw
Springs, the homo of the Youngers. In
November they “flagged" an Iron
Mountain train at Gad’s Hill, sixty miles
from St. Louis, terrorized tlio pas: an
gers and “ hands,” robbed the express
car, sent a telegrum to the St. Louis
press reporting the occurrence and rodo
away to tho southward. At Malvern,
Ark., in December and at El Paso, Tox„
in the following April, they overhauled
express safes on the stage routes. Aftor
the last exploit the first of tho gang
came to grief—“Jim” Reed, who was
mortally wounded by a Texas sboriff in
a quarrel, and who^died admitting bis
share in the robberies but refusing to
divulge the names of bis associates. At
this time, too, occurred several tragical
episodes. A posse under ex-Gaptain
Louis Lull, of the Chicago police, went
to besiege the Youngers at Monegaw
Springs and met “Jim" and John
Younger on the road. The lat
ter was killed but Lull was
shot. Whicher, another Chicago de
tective, spent a long time in working
up a case against the James boys, and
just as it was completed was made a
prisoner, carried away several miles and
shot to death on the highway. Another
attempt was made by throwing a bomb
or fire-ball into tlie bandits’ bouse at
night, the officers being in wait to shoot
them down as they escaped, but the
only result was the killing of a child
and the maiming of a woman, while as
soon as the detectives had retreated the
farmer suspected of giving them infor
mation was killed. The next train rob
bery was at Muncie, Kan., in December,
1875, when some 830,000 worth of cur
rency, coin and gold dust rewarded the
brigands. Soon afterward a Kansas City
rough, by name Billy McDaniels, was
arrested for drunkenness, and some of
the property was found on him. He was
mortally wounded while endeavoring to
escape, but died aud made no sign.
Simultaneously another section of the
Those who settled themselves back
ern Missouri. In the following spring wMl R foeling of relief Rfter the planets
four of them role into Huntington, W,
Va., and robbed the bonk, bnt their
horses broke down during their pursuit
and Thomson McDaniols was killed,
while John Kean was sent to tho peni
tentiary,remaining impervious to threats
or rewards whon approached on the
subject of his companions. At Otter-
ville, Mo., soon afterward, they robbed
tho Missouri Pacific express, sweeping
borne 818,000 into their historic “ old
wheat-sack.” The man who had held
their horses, Hobbs Kerry, wasoaptured
and convicted, but denied knowing who
they wore. In September for tho first
time they met courageous folk and
ound thomselvos in a straugo country.
Thoy attacked the bank at Northfleld,
Minn., and shot the cashier, but the
townspeople began skirmishing and in
throe minutes tho bandits wore in full
retreat, leaving “Clel” Miller and Wil
liam Chadwoll dead. Tho six survivors
wero hotly pursued and turned to fight.
Charley Pitts was killed; one of the
Youngers waB terribly wounded and the
other brothers refusing to leave him fell
into tho hands of tho officers, and all
woro sent to tho Minnesota peniten
tiary, whero thoy now are; while Fronk
and Jesse James, ono hit in the leg and
ono shot through tho breast, escaped
to Nebraska and thence home, finally
going to New Mexico. But in Ootoboi',
1879, another and a suecessfnl raid was
made on Glendale, Mo. Thereafter
there was nothing hoard of the Jameses
till Josse and two companion?, In a
mirthful mood, took possession of a
dining-room carat Kansas City,ordered
and ato their dinner with their rovol
vers on the tables, and left the oar at
Odessa, bidding tho waitors “charge
throe dinners to the government.” In
April last there was a report that the
Jamesos had boen traokod to Adairs-
villo, Ky., and wero besioged there, but
nothing moro camo of it.—New Yoi'k
If arid.
had passed perihelion, need not think
thoy have quite escaped. The end of
tho world receives another "boom.” In
the fourteenth century Leonardo Are-
mi no, an Italian author, fixed the exaet
date for the end of all things November
15, 1881. Acordlng to this authority
the destruction of the earth and its in
habitants will occupy fifteen days. The
cataclysm will begin by an uprising of
the waters. Tho human race, before
parting, will lose the power of sp
All will bo dead before the final d
It it
An exhibition or a singular char
iB to be held in Berlin next year,
tojbe an illustration of heraldry in all its
phases, and the emperor is to be its
patron. In the display of helmets,
weapons, seals, letters and patents of
nolfilily, banuers, gold and silver work
and gems, many ourions and valuable
historical and artistio relios will doubt
less be included. The London Echo cyn
ically observes: Upon the whole, how
ever, the result must be a most mon
strous and incomparably wild assem
blage of absurdities, sinoe, of all the
fantastics exaggerations over invented
by the German genius, its heraldry has
beon abont the worst, that even of Eng
land not excepted. There is, however,
something hopeful in tho faot of the
forthcoming exhibition. When snoh
things are collected together for men to
admire, or wonder or smile at, as they
please, there is pretty clear proof that
thoy aro very near being classed among
tho bygones.
What to Drink In Hot Weather.
“What is tho best drink in warm
weather ?" said a Tribune reporter to an
official at the Chambers Street hospital
tho other day.
“Cold water,” ho replied, “but not
ice-cold. Ice water chills the stomach
and so ultimately injures tho power of
digestion. Ono of the host drinks in
tho world for hot weather is buttermilk
with a little ginger in it. I know poo-
ple don’t liko it oxoossivoly, but it is
valuable for all that. If some of our
high livors who suffor so severely at
timos would live on nothing for a week
but brown bread and buttermilk tlioy
would feel liko lighting-cooks. Anoth
er excellent drink, ai’.d one whioh brick
layers uso a great deal, is the old-
fashioned drink which tho farmers uso
in tho hayflold—water with ginger and
molasses in it. It cools the systom and
opens the pores sufficiently for a com
fortablo porspiration.”
"Is it advisablo to drink much in hot
weather?"
“ Ono must drink more or less ; it is
absolutely necessary in order to produce
perspiration. Without that a mau would
soon burn np."
“Is boer hurtful in hot weather?”
It is ono of tho worst things in the
world, for the reason that by drinking it
you get tho actiou of tho alcohol upon
tho brain at the same time with the heat.
Cases of alcoholic prostration combined
with heut are very numerous in hot
weather. If one drinks boor at all he
generally drinks moro than ono glass,
aud in consequence places himself in a
condition where he is the most suscepti
ble to the effects of heat. Alcoholic
drinks of all kinds should be avoided,
yet vast numbers use them; they drink
beer, wines, whiskey, gin, brandy—any
thing and everything to allay thirst,
without regard to consequences.”
“What classes of people suffer most
from heat and are brought here ?"
“ Well, we have all classes, but brick
layers, painters and roofers suffer
most.”
" What effect does the heat have on
the brain in case of sunstroke ?”
“It seems to stupefy the victim. All
his energies sink away; he loses power
of thought, and lies in a more or less
unconscious state, according to the
severity of the attack. He recovers if
the stroke is not too severe. Sometimes
he dies; sometimes he is injured per
manently,”
“ What is the best way of avoiding
prostration by heat ?”
“ By keeping in the shade, if possible.
If this cannot be done, keep as cool and
collected in mind as possible; don’t
worry, don’t hurry, don’t drink alcoholic
drinks, and if you find it necessary to
drink at all, use water not too cold, or
some of the drinks I have spoken of.”—
New York Tribune. ■
Fatal cases of lockjaw, due to the uae
of toy pistols, have boen reported by the
dozen since tho Fourth of July, seven
teen occurring in the city of Baltimore
alono. Tho toy pistol most in vogue
this summer is about four inches long,
and explodes u blank cartridge with a
pasteboard wad. To insert the cartridge
the breech of the barrel is raised, to do
which tho boy takes the barrel in his
left hand, tho muzzlo resting against the
palm, near tho ball of tho thumb, while
he raises tho hammer with his right
hand. Then, if he is a littlo careless,
the hammer slips, the cartridge is ex
ploded, and the hard wad makes an
ugly wound in the palm of his left hand.
This wound is jagged and irregular,
causing sorious injury to tlio nerves and
blood vessels concentring -there, and
lockjaw is the result. Homo physicians
also suspcct-that a poisonous property
in the powder incites tho deadly com
plaint, and one thinks there is an epi
demic condition in the atmosphere tend
ing to indnoo lockjaw.
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Hunstroko wus in many Cincinnati
oases, during the recent terrible heat,
treated with hot water instead of cold.
The following directions were publish^
by such physicians as favored the plan:
Lay tho patient on his back ; loosen
tho clothing so us to eucourage a free
flow of blood ; expose tho chest, espe
cially ovor the region of tho hoart, and
with a large cloth, towel or sponge free
ly batho the bead, face, neck and chest
with hot salt water, as hot-as can be
handled, continually adding more hot
water and applying it until tho patient
is soft. Use one teaspoonful of salt to
evory quart of hot water. Have the
feet mude bare and rubbed or slapped,
and in extreme cases apply mustard
poultices. Give internally, if a 'temper
ate man, a tablespoonful of whisky in
hot water; if a drinking man, use a
little ammonia or hartshorn in hot
water ; if soon after a meal, put a tea
spoonful of yellow mustard into a glass
of warm water and have the patient
drink it, following up with more until
he vomits freely. As he convalesces
give at first lime’water and milk (one-
fourth lime water and three-fourths
milk), afterward a liquid diet until the
stomach is strong enough for solids.
Griscom’s foat of scientific
bus attracted such slight attention that
it seems almost impertinent to mention
the subject again. It may be worth
while, however, to record the faot that
his long fast left him in a condition of
great physical weakness, though it did
not subdue his powerful will. He has
endeavored, in interviews with Ghioago
reporters, to convey the impression that
his mind was unusually clear, and his
bodily vigor unimpaired at the end of
his fast. In fact he made these direct
;
assertions, but they were flatly contra-
Out of 101 Derbys, a Prince of Wales
has won once, in 1788; a royal duke,
York, in 1816 and 1822; other dukes,
ten times; lords, twenty-two times; a
foreign count once, 1865; a foreign
baron twice, 1871 and 1879 ; a foreign
prince in 1875, and an American sov
ereign in 1881. Other winners have
been English commoners,
dieted by the man’s appearance and by
the physical efforts whioh he was com
pelled to make in the attempt to conceal
his actual condition. His voice was
weak and trembled, and his legs shook
under him when he walked. He in
tends to devote the sunqmer,to the prepa
ration of a leoture, which he will de
liver in the fall, upon “The Birth of
the New Spirit.” Unless the man has
grossly libeled himself in his descrip
tion of the theory upon which his lea-
ture is to be based, a worse mess of
nonsense was never conoooted than that,
to which the attention of the publio
will be invited during the coming
I autumn and winter.
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